Have you ever wondered

what happens if you are on a
leisurely car trip through
' Canada or the USA and
something awful happens at
home? One of the pleasures
of travelling by car is that
you aren't locked-in to a
schedule and can stop where
you please, be it hotel, motel
or campground.
. I asked Constable Don
Jette, in charge of Crime
Prevention for the North
Vancouver RCMP. _

“We Have a Tourist Alert
program that works in
conjunction with the USA.
On request, the information
is fed into our computer on a
priority basis.

“This information is given
to all patrol officers in the
area during the daily
briefings. Then, on their
regular rounds, they watch
for the vehicle.”

Everyone who has
travelled in foreign countries
(exception, USA) is usually
appalled when their pass-
ports are taken from them by

A first

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km from Canton, Mandarin

is the language used at
‘university.)

The language is difficult
but fascinating, she says.

“It seems strange from the
outside, but once inside it is

beautiful ... there’s lots of
music.” -Learning -Mandarin

not only enables her to get
by on the streets, but gives
Burstein a better sense of the
problems her students face
in learning and speaking
English, for example
grammatical construction.

She also finds out in
advance that she will have to
answer to “Buh-ch-tine”
instead of Burstein because
the Chinese language cannot
accommodate all our
western sibilants, par-
ticularly ‘“‘r’’ sounds.
“Heavens knows what
Brian’s name will sound
like,” she says.

Burstein is also boning up
on what else she can expect
when she steps off the plane.
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know that most foreign
police departments keep a
daily file of everyone who

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know, and I'm looking
forward to that,” she says.

Other fine points include
not drinking the tap water.
Apparently no one does, she
says, and water intended for
drinking is served. hot.

Burstein still doesn’t know
what to pack in clothes,
although one friend who
taught in western China
wound up wearing light blue
“Mao jackets” and pants all
year.

Another unknown is what
Brian will do for a year. The
Institute appears to have
plans for him, but the
Bursteins don’t know what
they are yet.

In the meantime, Brian
has bought a bicycle to get in
shape for what will certainly
be a trip into Canton every
day from the Institute.

What has the reaction
been to her appointment
from her colleagues at
Capilano? Burstein says they
are pleased, delighted, even
jealous, and she is flooded

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checks into a commercial
lodging? It’s next to im-
possible to check into a
European hotel under an
assumed name! .

If you should be the object
of a search in Europe, you're
a lot easier to find. There is
nothing of this nature in
Canada or the USA.

“We try to educate hotel
operators in proper
registration procedures. It’s
to their advantage to record
car licence numbers, check
personal LD. and keep full.
records of honie addresses,
but many get careless or just
can’t be bothered. Maybe
they consider it an invasion
of privacy. Who knows?”

He added that it would be
an impossible job to canvass
every hotel, motel and
campground in a general
area for one missing person,
unless (I guess) the person
was suspected of a crime.

Even though it is an of-
fence for anyone to register
into a hotel under an
assumed name (Innkeepers’

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by questions about the need
for other “foreign experts”.

The college ad-
ministration has been
particularly supportive, and
even gave her a professional
development grant, Burstein
says.

Her appointment is
certainly a first for Capilano
and possibly for B.C.
community colleges.

One of the things it does
do is show the community
the high calibre of in-
structors at the North
Vancouver college, most of
whom hold PhDs or MAs in
their discipline.

“Yes,” muses Burstein,
“one of the mistakes we
made at the beginning I
suppose was calling our-
selves instructors instead of
breaking down into
professors, assistant
professors and instructors.”
But though the name is
misleading to the com-
munity, the quality of in-
structors at the college is

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North Vancouver RCMP are
currently investigating a
complaint by a local hotel
about a couple who made off
with all the linen from a
room.

Everything about the pair
was phoney - names, ad-
dresses, car licence -. and
nobody at the hotel bothered
to check-out any of it.

“You know who pays for
it?” asked Constable Jette.
“We do. You and me. The
hotels put the rates up to
cover their losses and every
time we travel we pay.”

Back to the subject of
missing persons, I asked
Constable Jette the opposite
question. “What do you do if
you: FIND someone, perhaps
an accident victim, who has
no identification? How easy

is it to secure iden-
tification?”
Not easy at all, it turns

out. The first method is by
fingerprints. Both Ottawa
and Washington keep com-
puter files but they are any-

what counts in the final
analysis.

Thoughout the interview,
Burstein’s almost tangible
anticipation buoys the
conversation. Despite so
many unanswered questions,
her confidence seems big
enough to take on all of
China and win.

in each room.

YN UN ®

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C5 - Wednesday, July 21, 1982 - North Shore News

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thing but complete. Only if
you've been booked on a
criminal charge (more
common these days with so
many impaired driving
offences) will you be in the
master file. Fingerprints
taken for other purposes
such as bonding and armed
services are kept with the
agencies involved.

“Are travellers to Canada
more apt to be the target of
criminals than the average
citizen?” I asked.

“Not at all. In fact, the
tourist if usually picked by
accident although they do
some stupid things like
leaving cameras and purses
in plain view on the seat of a
car while they go on a hike.”

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