8 - Friday, June 6, 1986 ~ North Shore News Boodram From Page 4 Boodram, who said she recognized Gill as one of the masked men because he was her landlord, also testified to having a denies conspiracy patched up and divorce action was Another Vancouver man, Terry never completed. Singh, has been charged jointly Gill, a former policeman, has with Gill. He will be tried separat- pleaded not guilty to seven crimi- ely. nal Gill’s trial continues. Doug Collins @ get this straight @ WHO IS Murray Pezim? Who is Bud Smith? Who is Peter Brown? And what the hell goes on here? Pardon the hyperbole, but it seems that someone needs to take some Socreds by the ear and tell them what not to do. It is true that the poor things wére taken by surprise when Bill Bennett revealed he was stepping down, and that they are casting around for a Jeader in much the same way that a gaggle of lost geese look for Momma Goose. But there are limits. Or should be. Front-page headlines an- nounce:. ‘“‘Two Social Credit Hopefuls Woo Pezim For His Support."’ We are then informed: that leadership ‘‘hopefuls” Bud Smith and Peter Brown had both been up to ‘‘woo” Pasha Pezim. By which, one assumes, they weren’t actually kissing the guy on the -butiocks but asking for bucks so they could become premier. The great man’s decision would be known by today, it was stated * further.-: . ; What -1- say is that Socreds should avoid Pezim’s. choice as if . it were the Botch of Egypt. ; Not being .a member of the Social Credit Party or of any other party, I will have no say in. who becomes leader. But if.I had,” I would cast Brown and Smith by _ the wayside. coe ' The same applies to the ‘North Shore’ 's very. own John Reynolds,’ the first, to come oui’ of the gate, ‘panting for power. Lo . j..-Being a-bit of a Puritan, you -see, I do not like it when people go to. mining: promoters for help in becoming the boss of B.C. Nor do I: like it when such bucks help to parachute.a candidate into West Vancouver-Howe Sound, which is what was supposed to have hap- | pened in the Reynolds’ case in the last election. It is not that lam against min- ing promoters, you understand, even though none of my. best friends have’ been mining pro- moters and those of my acquain- tance who have been fess than best friends haven’t done me a hell of a lot of good. No, it is just that I don’t think they should have any more say in picking the boss of B.C. than you should. Not only that, but mining promoters always want something for their money, and I find it hard to believe that Pasha Pezim wouldn’t want something for his money. ‘The question is, what? Nice deals for mining pro- moters, perhaps? Do not write me off as being too naive. I agree that politics is a game of put and take, and that when the BCTF supports the NDP, it wants sweet deals for teachers; and that when the BCGEU supports the NDP, it] wants sweet deals for government workers. And so on. / If the Pasha were to state precisely why he is interviewing prospects for premier, 1 might reconsider my harsh stance. And then again I might, not. For I do _ nat think that what is good for - mining promoters is necessarily good for B.C. Doesn’t it say in the -good book that man cannot’ live by bread alone? . ‘Pezim:--is “sometimes "down, sometimes up; sometimes. ‘in, sometimes out. That's the way with gamblers, even when they are -Pashas. But who wants a roulette - artist to pick a premier for the rest: of us? Bud Smith, Peter Brown and John Reynolds do, apparently. So I say a pox on the three of them. It is also bad for the tastebuds when Biil Bennett tries to choose his successor, which is what he is up to in annointing .hne thrice- unknown Bud Smith. That Smith was Bennett's fet- cher and carrier. no more makes him premier material than eating relationship with Shakuntla Chauhan. Ranabal Chauhan told the court that Boodram's claims of an affair with his mother were far-fetched. He said he believed she may have had an affair with his father. Under earlier cross-examination from 'Gill’s lawyer, Boodram also denied’ having conspired with Shakuntla Chauhan to have the family jewels stolen. Chauhan testified Wednesday that her marital problems had been hay qualifies.a horse to run af -§. stable. So there! RELA TIVES UPSE T Flowers stolen from cemetery MORBID. THIEVES’ are afoot in ‘West Vancouver’s Capilano View Cemetery. 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