Doug Collins

® get this straight ®

IN A world in which fools and freaks reach high office, it is
sometimes difficult to decide which delightful bit should be
chosen for this here column. But Joe Clark wins pride of
place today for his bold expedition to Nicaragua.

Not content with filling Canada
with strange people from ail over,
he now has the bright idea of
moving the ‘‘Contras’’ here en
masse. Yes, babbles Joe, it is
“conceivable”? that they could
move to the True North as part of
his great five-nation peace plan
for Central America.

far places. The other day, for in-
stance, I had a letter from Zim-
babwe, Brian Baloney’s favorite
dumping ground for your foreign
aid dollars and the place where he
upped his nerd quotient by em-
bracing the Marxist boss, Com-
rade Robert Mugabe.

Wrote my correspondent: “I |

“If South Africa caves in, states my
correspondent, it will go the same way as
all the other A frican states. Maggie
Thatcher, he says, is a heroine for not
following Canada and the Commonwealth
mob down the sanctions path.’’

Say hello to the Contras and
whoever else wants to join the big
parade, no doubt. A genius, is
Joe. Full of brainwaves for im-
proving our lot and bringing
blessings to the world.

It’s a wonder he hasn’t endors-
ed General Don Blenkarn’s plan
for a “pincer movement’’ against
Souiit Africa via Mozambique
and Angola, Blenkarn being the
Tory MP for Mississagua.

Perhaps Joe is even now plot-
ting the details of the Contras’
move, despite Immigration
Minister Claude Bouchard's rejec-
tion of such folly. (Bouchard had
a big bag of complaints from all
us rednecks, you know.)

Remind me to include Clark’s
great effort for peace in my next
Mary Collins Golden Turkey

| Awards.
tk *

One of the j joys about writing a

column is that I get mail from the

Pitch-in

have never known a country that
has received so much aid in cash,
vehicles, machinery and technical
and scientific equipment as Zim-
babwe has, But where is all this
money going?

‘“‘Large numbers of our
8,000,000 blacks are out of work
and there are hundreds of
thousands dying of
malnutrition...

“I wonder whether the Interna-
tional Monetary Furid is aware of
where all the aid is going? Zim-
babwe is not benefiting from it. In
fact we are deteriorating fast...1f
old Smithy (former Prime
Minister Ian Smith) had had this
financial assistance in the good
old wicked colonial days, we
would have had a heaven here
now.

“Efficiency and common sense
are non-existent. Of the fleet of
320 buses in Harare, 188 are off
the road for want of spare

BARRY MORTELL

The staff of A.N.A.F.
#45 wish to welcome
“Our Sunshine Boy”
to our staff.
CONGRATULATIONS
from the staff
and table #4

GOTICHA.

parts...And yet we can buy 49 new
Mercedes for the (government)
ministers at huge cost.

“The aid is going in the wrong
direction and corruption involv-
ing hundreds of millions is beyond
description.’’

If South Africa caves in, states
my correspondent, it will go the
same way as all the other African
states. Maggie Thatcher, he says,
is a heroine for not following
Canada and the Commonwealth
mob down the sanctions path.

I do not identify this writer
because it is not safe for people in
Zimbabwe to speak their minds.

kk o*

Here is a follow-up to the
Remembrance Day piece in which
I gave some names in the West
Van Library’s Memorial Book
and wondered what their story
was.

One was W.0.2 FRY, Thomas
William, and in his case the
answer has been provided by Joan
Fry of North Van, his sister-in-
law.

“Tom was a navigator in either
a Halifax or a Wellington aircraft.
They were returning from a mis-
sion and the craft was probably
damaged, because the landing was
a mess-up.

“All crew members survived ex-
cept Tom. He was buried in
England at the age of 21, leaving a
young pregnant wife in Canada.

“Yes, Mr. Collins,’’ writes
Joan, “it is a bit too soon to
forget.”

xk k *
Was interviewed this past week

for a “‘profile’’? by a CBC Pacific |

Report chap sporting a gold ring
in his ear. The item is to be shown
tomorrow at 7 p.m. Was told that
Harry Rankin describes me as a
future Dr. Goebbels. [t’s nice to
be noticed.

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