AB - Friday, November 16, 1984 - North Shore News cotch for Ethiopia? Not me! ORRY. YOUR MAN DOUG won’t be sen- ding any money to help the poor httle starv- ing kids in Ethiopia. He knows a hopeless task when he sees one, and will be leaving that yob to the profes- sional world-savers, who won't be able to do anything erther With all the fuss that’s go img on, vou'd think that tamine in Ethiopia fs something new. But the only thing that’s new about it 1s that afew TV people happen- ed to drop in My old buddys Michael Valpy of the Globe & Mail, who aw in’ Addis Ababa and is a bleeding heart ioever there was one, has reported that the frest major recorded tamine there took place in the ninth century Between 1840 and 1742 there were fen. ‘Fat black commie cats gobbling high- class nosh ...’’ Thus tune the aid agencies are faving a big bonanda, and Western povernments are falling over themselyses to prove what pood puys thies are Ottawa leads the pack Well, | don’t like watching starving little kids any more than you do But here are a few morsels of fact to chew on That news chip of Joe Clark in Addis Ababa, tor in- stance Joe was being wined and dined by the Ethiopian government, which knows a soft touch when it sees one The shot was symbohe = It showed fat black commie cats gobbling high class nosh at the dinner they put on tor him No famine there Joe had the decency to blush OK Nobody's vorng to live on hard-tack simply to show sympathy with the masses But In October, just when the big news about the famine broke, Ethiopia's Marxist rulers were taking delivers trom Britain of nearly half a million bottles of Scotch A month betore that, the S State Department reported that the same goonies had spent about $1 $0 math oan tenth ecdebrating othe anniversary oof ther glorious revolution lt was also 10 thes 'd Haile Selassie’s head into a pillow, Veals stutted old SING binperct thereby Caustne tim been pire from shortage of breath 4 Behesang that man odie hive BS Bread alone. the Rus srans have sent them bthio BB mibo hima: Thanks for the help Dear bditor 1 have mor fived im West Nancouver vers lone and am not aware we need ao secure ambulatic¢ Powant ote thank thre aim bulance drivers and the tire department who reached us TY NSC I AMON on Saturday minutes NM oun tour They Couldm t have been more helptul or kinder too all of us oon our cmenpen LY Many thanks’ Shirley Whittaker West Vancouver 7 UN get this straight Doug Collins billion The weapons are used. naturally. to shoot people who are rebelling aginst ther mice kind rulers Moscow's taming releb pro Pram. meanwhile has bec very thin indeed The Red- Know where ther priorities pian comrades $3 worth of arms hie Yes, drought is the marr ve thhaitn Bur vou des Subs drocahe ty drives forertypce rtpba Sebatbdtpuid harms Atticat Pace food strortaues Thirty six COULTER LCS anid thie worst ott are thas whit fikKe ob thie pia SLL peyy socialism’ Mozambique is 4 prime example Western liberals will ot course roll them eves in pleasure when South Affica tall, to the Reds, that being the only country on that benighted continent that knows how to manage its economi, attains properly Then they can send tood aid to Johannesburg, too But, you may say tn reference to Ethiopia, ele , one can't deny the starving a meal just because their governments are stupid And callous Apreed But will the people vet the tood? During the fanune of the eatly 70's, C andda sent huge quantities of gran to Ethiopia) Most of it rotted in warehouses And most ot what didn't rot was sold by the soldiers In 1976, there was a bie flap over the Bangladesh famine About 600,000 tons of international tood aid was sent A report to the Saience Count of Canada showed That ony TO oper cent oof out No odato owas smuvebed inte india and sold Ottawa pours $2 2 billion a Vedat down the That mylyn © anata wives S352 reached the poor foremen aid che att Mme dis CNCEN + en ee Tro fory, hore byy Soot Sor cagtwone. Pd Tike rr te be Tyr The Pevitie Or even toothee Burt Nd dis mot for the goonies un \Vbaba Announcing DUNDARAVE ORTHOPEDIC & SPORTS PHYSIOTHERAPY CLINIC BARRY G. 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