6 - Friday, January 18, 1991 - North Shore News SN \ fi cacerorscasterseees surtid ; Joe: weuttt . if dCtrttstdl fy ‘3 Wide welll *rsasrerscesesitssstldl INSIGHTS NEWS VIEWPOINT Education AIDS come out of last Saturday’s AIDS conference held on the North Shore is the need for more public education. It is a need, not only for public educa- tion on matters of AIDS and other sex- ually-transmitted diseases, but also a need for increased public education in matters of sexual realities and sexual relationships. Because what the sexual revolution of past decades has unleashed is far more than just sex. It has unleased a flood of misconceptions about sex, about the repercussions of engaging in sex and about the roles of men and women in relation- ships and in society. In short, it has spawned the sexual- confusion revolution. And it is around AIDS that perhaps the most public confusion swirls. T HE MOST important message to Its origins, its transmission and _ its treatments are unclear in the public mind. But there is one area where there is no confusion: AIDS is a fatal and incurable disease. It is also preventable. On the North Shore, the numbers of reported AIDS cases continue to increase. In 1987 there were seven reported cases of AIDS on the North Shore; in 1990 there were 35 reported cases, the third highest total in B.C. AIDS is not a disease of high-risk groups, it is a disease of high-risk behaviors. Public education can help illuminate what those behaviors are, and public education can help reduce the spread of one of the most serious diseases facing humanity. LETTER OF THE DAY War is not about democracy Dear Editor: As Canadians risk death and in- jury in the Persian Gulf the facts should be plainly stated. This war is not about democracy — Kuwait is an ab- solute monarchy guilty of human rights violations and its own form of apartheid. Nor is it about ag- gression — neither Canada nor the U.S. protested the invasion of Iran by Iraq, the invasion of East Timor by Indonesia, the invasion of Lebanon by Israel nor many other acts of aggression. It is about U.S.-based multi- Publisher Associate Editor suburban welcome Peter Speck Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Advertising Director .Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in, 1969 as an independer t newspaper and qualified under Scnedute 311, Paragraph It! of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Frutay and Sunday by Nortn Snore Free Press Lid. and aisiributed to every door on the North Shore. Secone Class Mait Registrawon Number 3885 Subscriptions North ana Wes! Vancouve. $25 per year Mailing rates availavie on request Sum-wssions are but we cannot accept responsibilty for national control of world cil reserves, a U.S. foreign policy ob- jective since 1946. A plank of that policy is U.S. bases in the Middle East. Such bases were considered impossible during the cold war and U.S. support for Israel. If sanctions worked, Saddam and his army would remain in place. U.S. policy requires that Sad- dam and his army be destroyed. Sanctions are working — Iraqi exports are down 97 per cent, im- ports 90 per cent. No country can survive this for long. TOME VONCE OF NONTHS AND WEST WANCOUVER north shore cnn 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 59,170 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) unsolcited material including, manuscripts and pictures s which should be accompanied by a slamped. addressed envelope. SDA DIVISION Display Advertising Classitied Advertising Newsroom : Distribution Subscriptions Fax So in order to pre-empt effec- tive sanctions the U.S. must force a war. The result wili be that Saddam and his army will be destroyed, the U.S. will have permanent bases in the ‘Middle East, U.S. multi-nationals will regain strategic control of vital oil reserves, and the world price of oil will skyrocket. And many Canadians will be killed and maimed out of what they think is patriotism. Colin Smith North Vancouver 980-0511 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 986-1337 985-3227 MEMBER —————=—~ sx. #@ North Shore owned and managed Entire contents © 1991 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Howling ‘peace’ hordes no way to win peace! MEET THE guarilians of the True North Strong and Free, commanded by Generals Jean Chzetien, Audrey McLaughlin and Svend Rebinson. A ragtail army of sincere if muddled idealists, professional rabble-rousers, jittery Joes and school kids playing hookey —- the anti-war demonstrators chanting mindless slogans as they march to their safe downtown battlefields. They’re a strange contrast to those hundreds of other young Canadians now in the Gulf, calm- ly and courageously going about what has to be done there — and whose lives they may be threaten- ing. These latter, too, know all about blister gas and body bags. And more of them could fall vic- tims to both every day Saddam Hussein is encouraged to continue his promised bloodbath by the screaming street mobs back home. I’m in total agreement with the anti-war warriors on just one point. War IS hell. Five years in the army fighting Hitler taught me that —- unforgettably. So can war EVER be justified? If you believe in armed police and SWAT teams to protect life and property in your community, the answer is YES. On the global community level that’s now exact- ly what’s happening in the Gulf. However loudly the peaceniks wail about Vietnam, Grenada and Panama — which were entirely different situations — this is NOT a U.S. war against Iraq. It is a UN police SWAT operation — actively involving 28 nations and backed by world opinion — against a dangerous, heavily arm- ed international criminal. Inevitably, the U.S. is the big- gest single contributor. But to argue that this is a personal power trip by George Bush is lunacy. Will mountains of body bags help return him to the White House in next year’s presidential election? The deadline for the criminal was set by the UN. Authority for the U.S. to respend to the UN call ‘for armed force, if needed, came not from Bush but from Congress — after a highly responsible debate. A similar process has ap- plied with Canada and the other UN allies. Why not simply starve the crim- inal out? Because sanctions alone have never worked. If they failed with relatively democratic Rhodesia and South Africa, what hope with the Beast of Baghdad, who unflinchingly gassed his own people? But half a world away, it’s none of Canada’s business? More luna- cy! Any major international crim- inal today is a GLOBAL threat. Aside froin his promise of im- mediate worldwide terrorism, GEORGE Bush ... don't win any elections. body begs Noel Wright HITHER AND YON Saddam, if leit in peace, will have the Bomb in a few short years. Even perhaps — being a missile buff already — the capacity to deliver it to other continents. Hitler almost achieved just that. And many of the miltions killed in his war might have lived, if 1991 UN-type action to stop him had been taken in time. Pray for peace, as everyone does. But all the howling ‘‘peace’’ hordes can do is protong the agony of guaranteeing it the only sure way — by the rule of law. Practising massed choir singing of “O Canada” would help their cause more! . TAILPIECES: Only.a slim: chance that Willy and Martha Brueckel can still fit you in at their virtually sold-out Symphony Dinner, 6:30 p.m. this Sunday, Jan. 20, in the Ambleside Inn — where VSO members conducted by Pfaestro Kazuyoshi Akiyama will regale diners with the works of Mozart. Tempted? Then stop reading now and dial 922-0101. You COULD be lucky! ... Last calls tonight and tomorrow night (Jan. 18-19) for Moodyville Theatre’s production of “‘Ghosts’? — 8 p.m. at the Centennial Theatre with tickets at the door or cat] 987-PLAY ... And for a fun celebration of Robbie Burns with haggis, bagpipes and Scottish dancing, drop by at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at West Van Memorial Library. WRIGHT OR WRONG: The only things that defy the law of gravity are taxes. What goes up does NOT come down. AUDREY McLaughlin ... let her troops try the anthem.