Last week's question concerned
North Vancouver City's 6-1 deci-
sion against an alcohol-free teen
club on Marine Drive. One hun-
dred per cent of the callers to the
Zap TalkBack line believed the
council had made the wrong deci-
sion. Here's a sampling of their
comments...

('M DISAPPOINTED to hear
that the council rejected the idea
of the peiition 6-1. Teenagers are
too old to piay with GI Joes and
Barbies and too young tc go pub-
bing. Movies every Tuesday get
monotonous and the sun doesn’t
shine in Vancouver every day.
With a teen club. esnecially
alcohol free, it emphasizes a fun,
safe place to go. Gangs and kids
who want to swarm will realize
that dancing and a social gather-
ing with music will be more entic-
ing than harassing innocent citi-
zens or hanging out at the local
7-Eleven. To the council | say:
you were once a kid — take that
into consideration.
— Maryanne, 17

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1 THINK it would be really good
if there was an under-age club on
Marine Drive as long as other
people didnt spoil it for the
teenagers, like gangs coming over
and fights and stuff. It would be
fun for everyone if everyone just
got along and partied.

— Jade, 15

1 SUPPORT idea of the
location.

— Peter

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MAYBE IF there was somewhere
to go, there wouldn't be so much
damage... Not all kids are bad
apples. Id rather sit with a bunch
of kids these days; they've got
more to say than a bunch of
adults. Because sometimes the
adults can’t see the forest for the
trees.

— Cindy, 36

1 DON'T see why they ruled it
out... if they don’t want them
hanging around stores and causing
trouble, give them something to
do...(The club) was the best idea
and they’ve just thrown { out the
door.**

— Jan, 16

1 THINK it's an excellent idea, as
long as it’s drug and alcohol-
free.""

— Pam

THE SUMMER'S leaving soon,
and school will be starting. but in
the meantime there's nothing else
to do in Vancouver.... Whoever it
was who voted for us teenagers
will probably continue on in
council.

— Josie, 18

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This week's question:

Have you ever been
discriminated against
because of your age?

Winners and

losers In
the Arms Race

THE ARMS Race is over and the results are in. So who is to

receive our spirited applause?

Every race has a winner, but far
more losers trailing behind. Near-
sighted individuals are quick to
identify the triumphant com-
petitor, or should we say, non-
participant.

Contemporary commentators on
the state of the world assert that
there is a clear winner of the arms
race.

As Carter Findley puts it in his
book, Tiwentieth Century World:
“The one affluent nation most
dependent on others for raw ma-
terials and markets, Japan, has
proven most dynamic econormi-
cally and — by staying out of it —
has emerged the real winner of the
superpower arms race.”

Well, there you have it, Japan
wins again. Wrong.

There is little doubt that Japan
has chosen the most productive
path towards the 21st century, by
simply refusing to partake in the
nuclear arms race.

Globally, military expenditures
(brought to you in vivid color on
CNN’s coverage of the recent Gulf
War) total about $1 trillion a year.

Japan only spends 1% of its
Gross National Product (GNP) on
arms. In absolute figures, this 1%,
i'm happy to say, is still more than
Canada’s expenditures.

In unshakably realistic terms,
military spending preempts
resources that might be used more
productively in developing ap-
propriate defence to such threats
as environmental conflict and
widespread poverty.

It appears that the superpowers
have finally realized that the de-
velopment of potentially planet-
destroying weapon systems is utter
lunacy. The summit conference in
London of mid-July seems to have
made some progress.

Deliverable nuclear
are to be reduced to 9,000,
distributed among the great
powers. This is a significant reduc-
tion in arms, from the near 55,000
warheads in existence.

It is still, nevertheless, enough to
wipe out fife on this planet a few
times over.

So who then, if not Japan, has
won the arms race? Doesn’t every
race have 4 winner? Not this one.
Mast of today’s policy makers will
be dead before they feel the

warheads

BY ROD

heavier effects of such irresponsi-
ble management of the global
economy:

The problems of tomorrow —
caused by decision-makers of to-
day — will be encountered by
future generations.

The money spent on these
weapons that will never be used
(let’s only hope) has left an inter-
minable vacuum of human suf-
fering and inequality.

The environmental resource ac-
count has been withdrawn from
too heavily. There is definitely
something wrong when govern-
ments begin to deliver NSF che-
ques.

Bankruptcy is unescapable, if
the industria! nations of the world
continue to squeeze from a
sponge that will sprout forth no
water.

In October 1987, The World
Commission on Environment and
Development (a United Nations
body) delivered its report titled
Our Common Future.

The authors of the report pres-
ented this passage relating to the
predicament that is faced by the
youth of today.

They may damn us for our
spendthrift, ways, but they can
never collect on our debt to them.
We act as we do because we can
get away with it: future genera-
tions do not vote; they have no
political or financial power; they
cannot challenge our decisions.

In this particular race the win-
ners will fade into history. The
losers will simply have to live with
it.

Top 10 Music Videos

TOP 10 music videos for the week ending Friday, Aug. 2.

1, Bryan Adams: Everything | Do (| Do It For You}
2. Lenny Kravitz: It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over

3. Glass Tiger: Rhythm of Your Love

4. Roxette: Fading Like a Flower

5. Crowded House: Chocolate Cake

6. Bonnie Raitt: Something To Talk About
7. Guns n’ Roses: You Could Be Mine

8. The KLF: 3 a.m. Eternal
9. Chris Rea: Looking for Summer
10. REM: Shiny Happy People

- courtesy of The Nation's Music Station