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plane was off course because it was ona spy mis

sion for the CIA,

» What happeted next?

You amean you don't
kinuw'? Well, ynise excused,
1odidn’t: know either, It
wiht a ostory that made
headtines dn the Norch
Americans media, Uf: it) was
govered-at alt it wan plvan a
quick mention “and then
forgetten. . 7 -

© What“ happendd “next,

friends, was that the KAL
people ayad: an obsoure
Veltish magazine called
Defence Attache iw whieh the
Ho firs}-appeared, And they
‘won -vhands down, The
magazlng had to apologize,

pay damages, aod run an ape
cle explaining how the story
oriplinated.

The above is an example of

how we don't get alt the news
that's (ito prin, and it's a
pity you couldn't have been
Wothe Vancouver. Hatel the
other day to hear Charles
Wiley give us other Instances
af what we don't get to
know, aad of the slants that
obscure what we do get to
know, Especlatly where lel.
wing dictatorships ure

concemed,
Mr, Wiley is an American
tnd a world-class journalist

who how works Jet AIM
(Accuracy diy Media), whose
dint it is to cortect those
onnissions and shints, aad he
wis here on Delalf of David
Levy's Saklurov  fastinue,
which Is trying to alert people

get this straight

Collins

to the fet that che men in the
Kremlin, ant their janissaries
everywhere, are not reafly a
Punch oof Sunday  sehool
teachets,

It isn’t that there's some
whle-reaching plot to brain-
wash you fata thlaking that
the communists are OK. fs
more a matter of milnd-set,
Weatern lotellectuals wart to
belleve that the Kremlinites
ure reasonable, and that they
will therefore renet to reason,

ta tit respect, Canada is
as goeatoun offender as any,
That ositly ass Trudeau
criticised the Amerieans

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dozens of times, But he never
ance had a tarsh word to say
ahout the Russkis. On one
Occasion, he even saw fit to
damn the Yanks while on
shive-labor soil,

The media —- and especial-
ly the big-liine Western
inedia --- suffer from the
same kind of brain damage.
As Ive pointed out before,
that's why we hear oothing

good about South Africa,
while we heat practically

nothing bad about African
teplines that are ten times
worse, [tis ale the reason
Ronald Reagan cames in Car
so nsuch flak,

There was al kinds of fuss
when Reagan stited that the
Soviet Union was an ‘evil
empire"? You would have
thought he tad been certified
insane, or had declared was,
The man was cidiculed., But
its Wiley stated:

"HP the Soviet Union isn't
an evil empire, what is? From
Stettin in dhe Baltic to Trieste
on the Adriatle, look at the
walls, the barbed wire, the
machine guns, the guard
towers, the guard dogs. What
is thac if it isn't an evil em-
pire?" Yet, he stated, people
like Carl Sagan can refer to it
gently asa place where there
is “a greater intolerance of
stiversity”’.

He was devastating on the
U.S. networks and Dan
Rather, whose critics are
written off by the big-time
American press (and by guys
like Allan Fotheringham) as a
right-wing lunatics. Mr.
Rather, he reminded us, was
known as ‘“‘the terrer of the
White House" when he was a
network correspondent there.

Lunch Mon-Sat.
Brunch Sunday :
Dinner from 5:00 p.m. daily

11:30-2:30
11:00-2:30

Bul sor too Jong age, Rather
tuok a files crew ta Cuba.
And then it was a different
story, ‘
Cuba came out as a pro-
gressive country, Hippy peo-
ple No seeret police in
evidence, gle, (As if there
would be when Castro had
given Rather the green light!)
And the lion of the White

' some news stories end

aw remember, of course, the shooting down
by the Russians of Korean Airlines blight
707, with the loss of 242 lives, You may alse
remember the subsequent stories that said that the

House became the lamb of
Havana. Obsequiously,
Rather called Castro Com-
mandanic. “Fell us, Com-
mandante, is the CIA bad?”
sost of thing.

Pity [can't give you more
of Wiley's stuff. Meanwhile
support the Sakharov In-
stitute. You can get them at
733-1724, :

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