Dear Editor: _
In- the issue:

publication | since: .

1980,” you have i

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this. is so, -as other

stories .appeaf:- to . “be” “rans ae

domly distributed

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read 2 with) utter

amazement Prime Minister.

Trudeau's recent an-
nouncement' that’ the
government intends to ‘in-
crease Canada's foreign aid
budget to .7 percent of our
GNP from the present .43
percent. That would work

out to well over $2.5 billion.

That's more than $400. per
family!

This huge increase. “is:
planned to begin at 3 time’

when our federal govern-
ment is sinking into debt‘at

the rate of $14 billion a year. .

Soaring interest rates are
causing many Canadian

farmers to lose their farms-°

and homeowners to. lose.
their homes. ..

It’s not just that we can't
afford to increase our aid

Praise for

Dear Editor:

I happened to witness the
two-alarm fire which strack
Aug. 11, 1981 in the fifteen
hundred block Marine
Drive, West Vancouver.

I was most impressed with
the skill and efficiency
displayed by our local fire
department.

The manner in which the
fire was isolated was
something to behold.

We can all feel justly
proud of the local fire
department, truly the un-

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, ‘budget, but much of the aid
;money we spend: is. wasted,
T've just read a new book
“that. exposes the shocking
waste of Canadian foreign
‘aid dallars. Down the Drain?
by Paul Fromm. and James

“

_ Hull: reveals that much

Canadian aid goes to Marxist
States -or. countries that
trample on the rights of their
citizens?
_ Perhaps most frightening,
. Down the Drain? shows that
one of the main. proposals of
the North-South dialogue. is
an international income tax

to be levied by. the UN on
our trade, air travel and
energy use. If our govern-
ment agrees to this, well be
“ dled white. :

Trevor Haws
- - Brin, Ontario

firemen

sung heroes of our

municipality. Congratulat-
ons!

Howard P. Brown
West Vancouver

Roben fulton, Centre

Cceneral  Pdospital and

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* consider it odd fora regular length and usually of
*; mewspaper feature—say, for somewhat less direct con-

: Girl” to -@ppear on the aumber of readers than.’
‘same page every time. This stories carried on AlI-A4..':
i normal neéwspaper Because of its regular layout, *
practice. Butfor non-regular page AS normally ‘happens *:
stories to have their own {to be one of the few pages:
‘assigned page is, Ithink you suitable for a selection of.
i agree, either an_ sShort-length “hard” news
‘astonishing coincidence or stories as distinct from the

an editor-publisher's policy.

But what could be the appropriate to the Com-
motive for such a policy?

(There is-no deliberate to defy the laws of
’ The type of story probability!—-ED.)

“one would not referred to is usually short in

“the “Sunshine cern to the maximum -:

different type of news story °

munity News pages from A9
onward. This is the sole =
reason why the placement of «
occasional (11 in one year):
rape incident stories appears

Dan Riley
West Vancouver

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