Those warnings about the dangers of holidaying -

in Hawaii shouldn’t be ignored.

During the years 1976 and = men or Mafia.
1977, I flew to the islands Of course the docks are a
half a dozen times and spent constant battleground
a couple of months working between smugglers and
with a volunteer group, cops, and what did it matter

Now I suffer as much as
everyone else in our
peaceable kingdom from the
Canadian Fearlessness

It means that we go
traipsing off
countries and make the
totally unrealistic assiimp-
tion that we are as safe there
as we are at home.

Ain’t so.

Honolulu struck me as
quite a menacing place from
the first time I laid eyes on it,
which was from the deck of a

We were entering the

docking facilities near the .

military base at Peari
Harbour, an area of echomg
concrete warchouses,
barbed wire and steel mesh
fences, silent police cars,
tough looking men in
Hawaiian shirts, with mirror
sunglasses ~ impoSible to
tell if they were ; undercover

right
shoulders. So we went
wherever we wanted, in--
cluding some low-life
Honoluin bars which were
frequented by

Absolutely nothing
happened to us except a fun
time, but I gathered later,
when I stayed in the islands
for weeks at a time, that we
had been damned lucky.

Friends who were per-
manent residents there were

by Bob Hunter
se lost?

_quick to warn us to avoid the
beaches at night, to avoid
the parks, to avoid most

streets, and, above all, to4

avoid the public camping
grounds used by tourists

It wasn't just a question of
getting mugged of robbed,
either. The incidence of cars
being vandalized, tires
slashed, windshields
ssmashed, had been in-
creasing steadily for years.

There was no doubt about
where the attacks were
coming from or what
motivated them. It was the
young native Hawaiians

In an article on positive
parénting courses offered by
North Shore Family Services
which was published on
Sunday, a line of type was
inadvertently missed
regarding a program for
parents of teens. The correct
times and places should

POLICE CALL IN EXTRA MANPOWER

WV parties defused

Just one week after an
uncontrollable house party
in which 24 people were
arrested and two police
officers were injured, West
Vancouver Police were out
again last weekend, calling
on cxtra manpower to deal
with complaints of noisy

They visited 10 homes
over the weekend as a result
of complaints from
neighbors about partics that
were disturbing them - four

’ Friday night and a further six
Saturday.

A road block was sct up to
prevent further pcoplc going
to a party in the Dundarave
arca and there were several
liquor scizures over the

without confrontation

weekend as a result of the
parties.

However, there were 00
confrontations between
police and partygoers and no
arrests were made. In all but
one case police found onc
visit sufficicnt for people at
the party to keep the notse
down

A West Vancouver Police
spokesman attributed this
situation to cxtra police
being called in anticipation
of probicm partics as a result
of the situation building up
over recent weckends.

“With cxira people on wo
were able to get around to
these things and defuse them
before they got too large or
out of hand,” he said.

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“Luckily, we were able to
avoid confrontations. Part of
the key ts to step on these
things and curtail them when
they are just budding as it
avoids problems = for
everyonc .~

taking their frustration out
on the gringo invaders,
tourists being the casiest
target.

And, of course, the reality
behind that is that the native
people have been exploited
and almost driven to ex-
tinction. Mostly, they're

poor.

In fact, about the only
‘‘gringo cause’’ the
Hawaiians ever supported
was the anti-whaling
movement, because there is
a Hawaiian myth that says
that when the whales
disappear, the Hawaiians
will vanish too.

They felt themselves, as
well as the whales, perilously
close to extinction.

In a situation like that, it’s
easy for the .mindlessness of
race hatred to take over.
Innocent Canadian visitors
are sitting ducks.

Don’t let your lack of
paranoia be your judge.

Time change for
Positive Parenting

re These will be covered
together with much of the
Positive Parenting material,
at Argyle School on
Thursdays beginning Oc-
tover 2 and at Windsor
School on Wednesday,
October 15.

Girl injured
on bike needs
witness

Would the 2 gentlemen
operating a blue car that
assisted a 10 yr. old girl
who injured herself on her
bicycle near London
Drugs on August the
26th, 1980, _ kindly
contact -

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