EVER SINCE. “THEY INSTALLED
THE CONDOM MACHINES , I'VE.
MET My BABY AFTER SCHOOL.

SIGH But, IT Guess THE
PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL
WAS RIGHT. ”A GRAIA OF
PROTECTION [S WORTH A
KILO-TON OF CURE.”

LI MEAN.

.. I DION'T REALLY WANT
HIM EXPOSED TO THOSE THINGS

“Ti HE WAS AN ADULT...
AROUND 3o.

..BUY ANYTHING “DIFFERENT”
AT SCHOOL TODAY , DEAR ?

NEWS VIEWPOINT |

The feeling man

elcome to a special Sunday.
it’s another Hallmark Father’s
Day, or is it?

Your father is likely confused.

Family soles are not what they were
once. thought to be. The omnipotent +>‘
compassionate father, the mover aud the
shaker out in the world, the protector and
provider, can no longer define himself ia
terms once adopted witheut question.

It'is no longer good enough to smply
bring home the bacon to a doting wife and
adoring children.

It is the time of the feeling man. In 2

uals.
mental.

life.

society in which family structure is limited
only by the possible combinations of
gender and the compatibility of species,
the onus is on each of us to live in a siate
of self-awareness as fully realized individ-

The challenge is physical, spiritual and

To settle for less is to sleepwalk through:

To accept less is to sell your. family
short, whatever the configuration.

Childrea and mothers: hug that guy.
He needs to feel.

NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Holy cow, what are we going to ancee on the national U.S. televi-

do now?”’

North Vancouver District
Mayor Murray Dykeman, after
looking at the dropping water
level figures at local reservoirs
during a Greater Vancouver
Regional District water committee
meeting.

“ET never watch her (Oprah Win-
frey). I don’t particularly fike
watching those types of shows.”’
North Vancouver’s Jonas
Granander, on the Oprah Winfrey
show, after he proposed to his fi-

Publisher

Peter Speck

sion talk show.

“Mike Harcourt is a two-faced
iar, and Schreck: should resign for
the lousy job he has done. We've
given our life to this shipyard, and
all we get is a pittance. I’m getting
So angry that I just might spend
the whole summer sitting on the
steps of the legislature.’’

Joe Brown, spokesman for the
Versatile Displaced Workers’

Committee, on Versatile Pacific.

Shipyards’ severance offer to un-
employed shipyard workers.

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“i'm not a typing error, I always
tell peopie.”’

Writer Jancis Andrews, on the
frequent misspelling of her first
name,

“My legs are worth more than a
mere two-year driving prohibi-
tion.”

Amputee David Gallson, after a
B.C. Supreme Court judge pro-
hibited his ex-fiancee from driving
for two years in connection with a
bizarre accident in North Van-
couver in which Gallson lost his
legs.

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Don’t forget
where rituals
like Rio lead

THE RIO Earth Summit, which ended last week, got a
gloomy press for making little solid headway in its 12 short
days against the massive global pollution built ap over two
centuries. But the gloom — as Mark Twain said about
reports of his death — may be greatly exaggerated.

There were modest achieve-
ments and numerous disappoint-
ments — the key problem being
the need for huge economic help
to the Third World for en-
vironment-friendly development.
Industrialized countries agreed to
contribute the equivalent of 0.7%
of their gross national product —
but would not commit themselves
to the year 2000 target date sought
by Third World countries for
reaching that level.

Japan donned a halo by pledg-
ing $1.5 billion a year until 1997
—~ twice as much as the U.S.
Meanwhile, Canada sweetened the
Third World pot with $214 million
in cash and forgiven loans.

. The U.S., as expected, was the
bad boy at the party. it condemr-
ed a biodiversity treaty signed by
every other major industria! na-
tion to protect the world’s flora
and fauna. And it refused to set
any timetable for reducing the
25% of global carbon dioxide
emissions that America belches
forth annually into the at-
mosphere.

Immediate achievement, howev-
er, is not the way to measure Rio.

Its primary importance is simply
that the official and unofficial
conferences brought together for
the first time — at the biggest
such international gathering ever
— some 100 world leaders and
over 50,060 government, business,
environmental and media types
from all corners of Mother Earth
to talk about the steps needed for
her survival.

Cynics who disniiss it as a ritual
forget where such rituals — the
only way we know of tackling vast
worldwide problems — can lead.

The heartening example is
SALT I, the first hesitant
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
in 1972 between the U.S. and the
U.S.S.R.

The next 18 years of Cold War
brought eight further nuclear arms
control deals between the two
superpowers, followed by five
more with Gorbachev and the lat-
est pact conciuded last week be-
tween George Bush and Boris
Yeltsin — signalling the effective
end of three decades of nuclear
terror. But it was SALT I that set
the focus. :

Such is the REAL hope for the
planet born at the Rio ritual.

é a?
HITHER AND YON

TAULPIECES: Next Friday, June

26, at Swangard Stadium they'll
honor the memory of Daaay
Possee — the tragic, innocent vic-
tim of a police drug raid last
month — at a Memocial Soc-
cerfest from 5:30 p.m. onward
with barbecue, beer garden and a
soccer skills contest. Highlight is
the 7:30 p.m. Whitecaps Select
Team vs. NASL All Stars game
with celebrity players Kevie Hee-

Jobasion. For tickets ($10) cail
Linda, 926-2132; all proceeds to
go to the Danny Possee Memorial
Fund for young people who want
to help others, as did Danny ...
Movement, dance and rhythm
characterize the paintings of :
globetrotting West Van artist For-
rest Johasen, whose oil/acrylic
works —- on exhibit at North Van
City Hail until July 15 — alse
reveal her strong interest in Nor-
thwest Indian art and in Nature’s
changing effects on landscape ...
Many happy returas to Mt.
Seymour Birthday Lions Joc

, 72 tomorrow, and Bob
Griffis, 78 Tuesday ... And again
on Tuesday, June 23, a very hap-
py birthcay to North Van’s
Margit Holicza.

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ADDING FINA stitches to their srnate quilt — one of the many
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