8 - Friday, May 16, 1986 - North Shore News

Doug Coliins

© get this straight ©

-Dr. Oscar Peterson,
Amnesty [nternational,
- No 1, Concern Avenue,
-Goodtown, Canada.
‘Dear Dr. Peterson:

‘was a bit put out when I got your begging letter. You ad-

| dressed me as ‘‘Dear.Friend.’’ But I am not your friend,
--dear or otherwise. (For a minute there I thought you might
be Oscar Peterson the piano player. But he’s dead. And he

was not a doctor.)

Are you a doctor, a real one,

‘that is? Doctors can cure pain, but
| you sound like one of those PhD.
[chaps who call themselves doctors
‘and only: cause pain. ,

- You cause me pain.

“You write about the horrors of
‘South Africa.

“This last’ year,’’ you’ say,
‘“there has..been, a-dramatic:in-
; {crease in “reports:.of: political. im-

} prisonment, ,. detention without
“trial, banning: and.: banishment,

torture: ‘and ‘ill-treatment, deaths.

“detention, abduction, : murder -

is, ‘and te constant carping:

Then ‘there’s :the USSR, bes !

Oh, | know -you’ve. had. a ‘few
things to say. about. the insane’

axes 5 will be included’ in’ the next
‘issué.” of. the. North |. Vancouver

- “School District’ s publication,’ Your
’*) Schools,
North Vancouver School | Board *

and. ‘the Sakharovs, etc; But-

there’s been no’ ‘‘major cam-
paign,’’ has there. And when did
you last roam the steppes looking
for injustices to report, doc?.

[lt tell you something else. The
blacks in South-Africa have a

’ damn sight: more rights than the

serfs.in.the USSR. Not only that,
but in Russia they don’t even tell
you you’re going to be knocked

‘out by radiation until it’s too late.

“Everything’s’ OK: folks,’’’ they’

say. “We lords of the’ manor have

things in hand, as always.’?

’ Citizens, for: Poca Aid Reform):
and you might even Bet some
_ education: os . .

; Winnie was
reals’ the

voted Tuesday to draft: the expla-

‘nation -rather than use “a. format

‘suggested by

Trustees Association (BCSTA).. °
The explanation -will advise

North Vancouver residents of sup-~

plementary taxes required’ for
educational ‘costs beyond the: pro-

vincial. sharing formula, and. ex- :

the. B.C. School - &

plain: the purposes for levying resi-..

dential taxes.

“‘children’’ to liberate the country
by means of the necklace, by
which she means placing a burn-

ing tire around the necks of those

who don't agree with her.

It, sometimes takes several

necklaces to complete the opera-. }
tion, I hear. But let’s not be too -{

technical, eh?
Mr. Glenn Babb,

ed up the situation very well in a
recent debate. ‘South African
whites,’’ he said, ‘‘used to think

of themselves as ‘The West: in.

Africa’.’? But, he said, if some
people get their way (and he could
have had you in mind, doc), the
Western’ inheritance ‘in South
Africa will disappear and the
country will simply be ‘Africa in
Africa’.

lt would then need a lot of
foreign aid handouts, like the rest

’ of them, and your numbers would.

go up’ even more. .

tere’ sa, bit. ‘of news. for you,

the am--
bassador for South Africa, summ-

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