A10-Sunday News, February 3, 1980

Ellsworth
Dickson

Although Joe Clark and the Canadian
government are basking in the glory of
rescuing the American diplomats and
Americans in general are thanking us, many
people believe we should have kept quiet
about the affair because of reprisals.

; This issue _the Inquiring _ Reporter asks:

“Should Canada have
kept quiet about the

_ diplomat rescue?’

Jim Houston
_ North Vancouver

The -reporters waited
about two months until
the diplomats were safe
before telling the story. It
was an impossible story to
keep quiet. I think the
Canadians made the right
decision in smuggling the
Americans out and
reprisal risks are not very

Steve Vakov
Vancouver

I think it would have
been better if everyone
had kept quiet. The other
hostages might be in
greater danger now. It
; would have been smarter
to wait until the hostages
_are home safe _ before
telling the story.

John Crang
Surrey, B.C.

It would have been
better to keep quiet, but

that would have been
impossible. Canada
certainly did the right
thing in aiding the
Americans.
: John Harvey

North Vancouver

I think Canada should
have been silent until the
50 hostages had been
brought home

June Bjarnason
North Vancouver

It would have been
smarter to keep quiet
We can never know all
the facts about this from
reading the newspapers
It is difficult to say what

the promised reprisals
will be

we ewe vue
OPE TEC el as le le Tel!

FEEDING THE FIRE, this shovel operator stacks

another log atop the huge fire that was burning
Thursday in the 5500 Block Nancy Greene Way in
North Vancouver, where new lots are being cleared for

construction. (Terry Peters photo)

Kicked taxi door

after disco fight

A man took a kick at the
door of a taxi that was
carrying another man who
had been involved in a fight
with him in a North Van-
couver disco and told police
he did it “because nobody
hits me - I don't care even if
it’s you guys.”

This evidence was given
by ‘Crown counsel _ Eric
Watson to North Vancouver
Provincial Court last week
when 19-year-old
Christopher Rob Short, of
1086 West 22nd. Street,
North Van, pleaded guilty to
a wilful damage charge.

Crown counsel said police
attended Goofy’s Disco
December 20 at about 2 a.m.
and a taxi driver identified

Short as the man who had
damaged his cab door.

Short was said to have told
the police he had been in-
volved in a fight in the disco
and had been thrown out.
The man with whom he had
been fighting got into the taxi
with a woman and Short
took a kick at the door
“because nobody hits me.”

Damage to the door
amounted to $112.80 and
Judge Nancy Morrison
ordered him to pay
restitution as a condition of
him being placed on
probation for two months.
She also fined him $75.

Short told the court: “I
was just upset.”

Ron

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