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: LEVATION alert. It used to be lonely been pretty, as observers of the: Caulfeild |

Burned
over car :

Dear Editor:

For anyone who wants to
listen, Tam a single 49-year-old
woman trying to five and sup-
port myself as best }can,

[ had a 1983 white and
black Ford Mustang convert-°
ible in excellent condition. i
always took care of it. Had just
filled the gas tank and washed ,
i, The same — evening,
Thursday, June 20, at 3:30 a
at McGuire and Marine Driv
across from the International:

. Plaza complex where a lot o
the residents park, sonve mean,
evil, uncaring persons smashed
the back window and torched’
my car. PSs

It's a total write-off... 7:

1 am truly heartbroken an
deeply hurt. Why. would. any.
one in their right mind want to.”
do such a terrible ‘thing, to:

var

1 just don’t understand this.
. The car ‘was my first: an
_ only one and paid for. and was)
to. last me. the rest‘of my life.»
PH never be able to replace it, It;
will be years béfore I can afford
“another vehicle, and | needed it
for work. Everyone knows how-
_ much ICBC will want to pay.
I just don't understand peo.
ple anymore... , : -
Ellen Whiddon

at the top, but West Vancouver is fook-

ing further up its remaining hillsides -

for development possibilities.
- If current development tactics in some
areas of West Vancouver ar? any indication,

‘the results could be disturbing.

Up until now, West Vancouver has held
firm at the 1,200-foot elevation mark as being
the highest level at which it will provide

‘municipal services to developments.

‘Beyond any environmenta!. considerations,
the 1,200-foot mark has some practical appli-

“cations. For example, providing adequate
water pressure to buildings at levels higher .

than 1,200 feet becomes a challenge.
And that’s water pressure for fighting fires,
house end other, not just water pressure for

plateau blast-and-build approach will readily
attest. : :

it would make sense to develop the few fiatter
-areas above 1,200 feet rather than steeper
‘remaining lots below the elevation that would
“be harder to build on and more difficult to
service. His approach makes some sense.

But the 1,200-foot level has traditionally

provided North Shore residents some comfort . -

in knowing that at ‘least a portion of North
Shore mountains are off-limits to ‘clear-cut
development. ,

Development higher on local hills, if any is

‘to be approved, must be made to adhere to a

design standard that is far more sensitive to
that which has been allowed in other hillside
areas of West Vancouver or it should not be

Coun. Rod Day has been quoted.as saying

North Vancouver.’ :

Fifty « year, so‘claims ICBC:

_ RCMP and. the’ provincial

lark i;

fers will be $700 imiltion'sho!
if-it is not implemented...

government. Now. M4

frets that his governm

and the’; provincial - govert
ment is ‘counting on it in theirs;
1996-97 budget... | :

- Douglas Wilson:
-.North Vancouver ©

running dishwashers.

THE collective sigh of
relief could be heard
Jast Thursday all the |
way from Sofia to San

‘Francisco. Communism

in Russia was at last
dead.

President Boris Yeltsin's sur-
prising!y comfortable 54%-40%
victory over Communist leader
Gennady Zyuganov in the July
3 runoff election surely meant |
an end to any threat of a revived, totalitarian
Soviet Union, didn't it? Henceforth Russia and

‘the industrialized West would live together as
one great big happy family. Right?

Hall right, maybe — but don’t count your
Moscow chickens just yet.

That old-style communism has suffered its
final defeat is hardly in doubt. Zyuganov’s sup-
porters were largely the diminishing middle-
aged and elderly, nostalgic for the drab but
dependable security they had known during 70
years under the commissars. The up-and-coming
younger generation -— who'd tasted Big Macs,
rocked to heavy metal and glimpsed atleast the
promise of future western-style Yuppydom —
backed Yeltsin, ;

But how long will 65-year-old Yeltsin — sur-

Mountain-side development has not always

allowed at all.

vivor of two heart attacks and.’
already eight years beyond =“
the average 57-year life
expectancy of the Russian
male — be calling the shots?
And who will call them

should he fail to complete his
term to the year 2000? -

Make no mistake. The
odds are on the man who
saved his bacon a week ago,
ex-general Alexander Lebed,
who threw his support behind
Yeltsin after coming a strong
third in the initial June 16
election. And for the West that might be no fun
at all,

Yeltsin had swiftly brought Lebed onside by
naming him head of security, responsible for the
armed forces and law and order. Within a week
Lebed had consolidated his grip on that office
by purging his immediate rivals. Even before the
runoff he was openly hinting at his interest in
being named vice-president — a post that does
not yet exist,

Should anything happen to Yeltsin, the offi-
cial interim president until new elections were
held would presently be his reappointed prime
minister Viktor Cherndmyrdin.

hither

But judging from Lebed’s first three weeks in
office, the gruff, tough-acting 46-year-old
Afghan war hero shows every sign of having his

own cye on the gold. In any showdown. hi
would undoubtedly be a formidable challenger.
to Chernomyrdin. oe Be
The former puratrooper professes no great.
enthusiasm for democvacy or foreigners (he's
already banned the Mormon church). His own
election campaign contained many of the ele- °
ments — a powerful army, revival of Russia's -,
great-power status, and all-out war.on crime and
corruption — promoted by “Mad Vlad" :
Zhirinovsky, the ultranationalist bad bey of. -.
Russian politics who once had the West shiver-
ing over his threats to'use nuclear-tipped mis-:
siles and take back Alaska from the U.S.) ©:
However history unfolds over the next four |
years, Alexander Lebed holds a lot of cards,.He
supervises both army and police. Ambitious, «
unafraid of risks, used.to taking command, he
in the prime of life — with enough charisma to"
make up for political inexperience, ;
In a Russia still very much at the crossroads
he’s the man for the West to watch as closely as
‘eltsia himself — and even more cautiously. :

Mono

A 91-CANDLE salute tomorrow, July 11, to’
sprightly Woodereft birthday fady. Kathleen ... :

Clough.

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- WRIGHT OR WRONG: The best way to teach

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