6 - Friday, April 4, 1986 - North Shore News THE VOICE OF NOWTH AND WEST VANCOUVER . meu a ao: le . . N WwW. V Wy, : Display Advertising 980-0511 Publisher, 20.0.0... 00.-00.. Peter Speck me id s fe point Classified Advertising 968-6222 Editor-in-Chief ...-........... Noel Wright Newsroom 985-21 Managing Editer....... Nancy Weatherley Circulation 986-1337 ; ar 1 Stewart Subscriptions 986-1337 Advertising Director........ .Linda —_ or - North Shore News; founded m 1969 a8 an independent suburban newspaper and Qualtied under Schedule It], Paragraph til of the SUNDAY + WEDNESDAY « FRIDAY Evcae Tax Act, is puolished each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Store Free Press Lid. and dstrduted § every door on 1139 Lonsdale Ave. tte North Snote Second Class Mart Ragistiation Number 3685 SubBCrplONS Nomh and West vancouver, $25 pay year. Mailing rates n e * avarable on request Submisnons are weicome but we Cannot acces tesponitatity lor uemobcued Material including manuscrts North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 ane Daclutes efach should be accerbaned by a sianned, addressed envelope : _ Entire “contents © 1986 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All Soren erent tows wut tights reserved,” Death no promise T he tragedy that has been wrought by Darren Kelly 56,893 (average, Wednesday - a Friday & Sunday) SDA DIVISION would not be dispatched with the return of the desth penalty, as some would believe. His heinous actions on Dec. 13 have plunged a fami- ly into unspeakable horror, left a community, numb, and sickened all who have watched the tragedy unfold. Broken lives and the black at the bottom of one man’s past are all thal remain. But the solution to - preventing another mindless murder eludes society. Citizens for justice will turn up the volume on death penalty. demands; politicians will alternately nod and ' shake their heads depending on ‘the mood of the times; _ and the silent majority will wring ils hands in private, then move onto the next horror. | But mandatory executions do not prevent madness; electric chairs do not short-circuit spasms of. hate. ‘They are only the amputation to the festering limbs of our-society. Limbs whose personal hells have been left untended, to boil over in sudden torrents of rage tat come with increasing frequency and decreasing expla- nation. rs ‘AS, with any’ ‘cancer, ‘solution surely must lic in preventative medicine and astute diagnosis rather than hasty surgery and quick disposal. .- The Darren. Kellys and the Clifford Olsons are not born; : they. are forged in the fires of hatred and fear; theirs isi an illness that defies the promise of death. © asphalt, ready-mixed concrete and 7 “Al of this comes ‘at a time when: : _ prefabricated building. materials in the deterioration of roads, sewers, . homeowners -at''a time when they municipalities: -the, 1986 budget.” This will cost. sidewalks and water systems is are already hard pressed. os That _ ‘municipalities one: billion: dollars ‘becoming. a: major-national pro- .: Instead of pouring: hundreds’ of : 7 af *~ blem.: Add: to this the sharp reduc- millions of,’ ‘dollars: into . dubious ° « pi «With the.one’ per. cent increase in tions ‘in’ ' provincial. grants : to the: Projects : such as Northeast Coal federal sales ‘axes,. also: ‘announced .. D f h: the >and its: * So-called ° Partners in. ¥ th ry icipal “ dast.. Pl he’: in- “ Enterprise schemes, which will cost. * * 3 s r. . the taxpayers millions and produce. ' - nothing, (Mictoria ‘should « have: j Dove Collins e get this: straight . “have been in the British interest to ners. . Nevertheless, I trembling: i ily put a ‘couple of points to him. 1 told him that in 1945 I had: read ° ‘the. plans fe “Operation - Sea: ‘Lion’"' (the: invasion: of. Britain), '- ‘And. in. addition ‘to. being a. : ‘coward, a hypocrite, and a drunk; and invaded: Poland:after. claim- ‘ ing he had.‘‘no more territcrial ’ claims in:Europe’’. Or was ‘it his double who said. that? Los age: an Iv is‘also Irving’s view that the “was culty of insulting membe an “cares? Whoever ‘the | payers ‘were +- -.. war-aim: of. “saving ‘Poland ‘and , the German-armed forces Vgay. ee eo Trving.. identified - some: of them: other countries: from” Nazi con-. a be subject to the death penalty; all. on ‘Adolf*‘s orders. Many of ‘them "It is true that history belongs to _and says they were a group calling quest was nothing but hypocrisy, males between:17.and 41 years 0 died: saluting’ their, killer’ in ‘the the’ victors, as Napoleon said.’All_ themselves ‘‘Focus’” -- they didus ~ and that if. we wanted to-save . age not. employed in war industry ‘belief that they Were the victims of ©: uccessful: liars; Oh’ “well, -there’s “no doubt that the old boy. liked his : :. | the same, Irving will-have to;talk a favor. those states from the Germans, we _. (Hitler was already thinking} lof the~ an anti-Nazi plot, Which i ina way” i. T-to kingdom-come| ts persuade me. “- "That ‘startling. things are said .. could:in honor.do no less than | . attack on Russia) were to be" sent ~ they were...’ . 4 y ’ that Hitler was really Uncle Adolf : does hot- necessarily: make them -- -save them fronmi the Russians, too. | to labor camps in Poland. ; voy The big publishers, British and ie ao, "where the British were concerned, :- wrong (or for that. niatter right). How that was to be done he didn’t ‘Did that show that ‘Adolf. had 7 “American, have refused to handle‘. ; ; p his. designs: being in ‘lother -. - But Irving is right when*he says © explain. cons “the warmest feelings” ~ Irving’ s.‘Irving’s lew book on Churchill. “ - directions. | ani that neither, the U.S. -nor the - The British lost everything, said ' «words -- for Britain?” £ But published..it will:be:;So the fo. U.S.S.R. wanted, the British Em- Irving, ‘‘purely for the benefit of His’ retort was, that shortiterm _ World will be able to make i its own Te Churchill,’ said Irving in pro-. _ pire to survive. Churchill's own prestige and am-, ‘policies “ were’ not long-term assessment. But I'will still vote for o ducing some evidence to Support | He may be right; too, in saying ‘ bitions’’. -- and obsessions about: - policies: He hadn't read those Churchill, who May have liked his © .. - -f his case, was scandalously i in the that the Americans did as muchto ~ Hitler. “documents, he admitted, but it . booze but’ wasn a a loone ey. ‘Adolf, ee . ewish and other financiers - make it disappear as anyone else’. -_ Irving has the re . was fikely that some general had — on r eo did. But his claim’ that. it'would-.. ing ‘rough . with’ ‘critical’ ques: signed them;‘not Hitler. I told him tectotaller., ou ri ie w a \ 3.