6 - Wednesday, November 6, 1985 - North Shore News

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deally, politica! partisan labels should have
no piace in inunicipal elections. But it’s
hard to avoid tiem in this month’s North
“Wan City’ contests for, council and School board:
Seats.
‘ The City’: s six incurnbent aldermen, all bid-
“ding for further two-year terms, are being .
a: _ challenged by furmer alderman Elko Kroon,
_runniaig 6n his personal record, and by five can-
didates. of the mew Community Electors
_ Association. a
-; -The CEA hopefuls describe themselves as a
. ‘ehasically progressive” group which feels most
of the present council lack “‘farsighted vision’
‘and ‘‘energy’’. The still somewhat vague CEA
oals include more services for seniors, the arts:
‘community and other constituents, and better
ommunication with the public. -
. ©: ‘The test for the CEA-will be how far it can
u ‘persuad electors to share ‘its’ dissatisfaction
Wi cil’s record since 1983. The return by
‘acclamation of Mayor Jack Loucks for a fifth
term hardly suggests a groundswell for major
. change. One thing, however, is certain.
CEA contenders make no bones about their
philosphical, links with the NDP. Any seats they
“ “gain: ‘will bring allies for Ald; John Braithwaite _

Quite ‘the “opposite is. ihe school board con-

ere ‘incumbent candidates Roy Dungey,:

Marg va and: ae oe are rated as bacely

win a and ‘oe forces. with North Van

ct’s Ross Regan: and Marg Goodman, the.

ral ‘school board :baiance:will shift firmly
arbed restraint and. Accountability.

- © oe never. repeat such a hassle. ‘Next.
~ year. (they:: Solemnly vow): ‘theyll, start. their

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1S RECYCLABLE

“behind | the.. glitter

‘tions’, ,..
celebrations — an.event
" greeted with widespread scep-
. ticism by. the: international

960-0511. |"

.» BREATHTAKING...
... BEAUTIFUL... AND
NEVER TO BE REPEATED
IN OUR LIFETIME...

and the: guests.

The final farewell to youth,
its ideals and missed oppor-

.{ tunities. Ahead, the so-called -
7 “prime of life”; with new op-

portunities but the: clock tick-

| “ing ever-louder.Can ‘we ‘do.
~. Better. in the time’ that’s left?

Thirteen days’. “ago, - in

-Geneva's" ‘stately: Palais’ des
-Nations,

that. ‘was the
unspoken question everywhere.
‘and
ceremony of the United Na-
40th - anniversary

press.

Even the ‘kindlier media
comments tended to dwell on
the shortcomings and failed
efforts of the organization
born with such bright hopes in

‘1945 amid the ruins. ‘of World
“War. Two. 2:

‘In specific cases, of course,

Yt. ‘the critics are factually correct.
.. But a tour of the UN and its

European. branch plants

‘reveals a considerably more

NOT PART OF AMERICA ... the UN buildings (centre) on
New York’s East River are international | territory, donated to
. the world organization by the U.S... soe

FORTIETH : ‘BIRTHDAY: ‘PARTIES almost’ in-
evitably inspire. mixed feelings both i in. the celebrant

agencies and ‘affiliates.
We talked at length with

dozens of senior UN and”

associated officials, together

_ cil’s

| members :— Bate ‘China;
France,. Russia‘ ‘and ‘the U.S!
Often forgotten are the Coun-
10! Non-permanent

“members, elected for two-year.

“terms. |

focus _

-Canada. has.’ ‘already
served four times on this’ ke
group, ; :

‘Less ‘familiar to the gener:

~ public’ are the UN's four other :
main “components ;

the Trusteeship Council a

OS International Court:6

by Noel Wright

| with top “members: of 8
Canadian, Allied and Russian a
missions. ; :
- Among the many highlights.

were our interviews with ~
‘Stephen Lewis, Canada’s'am- -

positive side to the story than
the usual litany. of disappoint-
ment tells.

-- The 10-day safari, arranged: :

by the External. Affairs
Department, took our group
of eight editors from regional

mediaacross Canada to the’...

UN: headquarters in New
York; to'Amsterdam and the
NATO political and military
set-up in Belgium; and finally
to: the: UN’s Geneva home,

myriad: specialized

‘bassador to. the UN in’ New

York, and twi top negotiators

at'the Geneva strategic arms.

talks — U.S. Ambassador
Warren Zimmerman and his
Russian opposite number,
Ambassador Viktor Karpov.

We were briefed exhauistive-
ly.on every current interna-.
tional issue, from arms control.
and apartheid to Third World |

debt and African’ ‘famine
relief. And we questioned and

‘cross-examined freely, with no’

holds barred.
- So, for starters, what’s the

: immediate broad picture that
. emerges? - ‘ ag

eek
- The most lasting i impression.

one gets from a close-up View: - -
‘of the UN and its satellites is”. °

cians, _
bureaucrats: charged. with the -

S, : wit! _
15,000 members ‘at: 163 duty -

stations worldwide and a $750 a
million budget. _ .

specialized agencies. and af-
filiates; among them the ILO;
the WHO, GATT,:-UNICER;

:. UNESCO, ‘the International

Red Cross and the High Com:

’ missioner for Refugees.

‘Throw in. also the perma-

“nent missions of the’ member-

nations themselves in New
York and Geneva,: and the
total amcunts to one huge in-
ternational army of politi-
‘diplomats and

task of trying to make the

“world a safer, better place.:,

Even if their progress often
seems slow or non-existent,

it’s at least comforting: to.

know there are so many of

them on ‘the job.; But. is the --,
UN, in the end, merely a”

toothless talking shop, at the.

the sheer SIZE of the peace in- -

dustry, as I came to call it.

world problems for two or

‘three months in the General
_ Assembly, vee ,

For most people, however,
the most visible (and frequent-
ly disillusioning) body is the
Security.Council with its five

* powers. :
that. Why else do Reagan ‘and
the Soviet - foreign’ minister

" brining the pressure ofi inter

The UN itself now has 159°

. nation-members .who . meet.
each September to. debate

national opinion on the super:
They . can’t -ignore:

come to. New York?”
: Kwek
“On Friday FOCUS will tak
a look at Belgium — wher
different kind of army is s pu
suing the UN’s goals. . “o