—— 4 NB I werge: ore, QED. _ AMERICAN HOSTAGES ABE NOW WORTH 15 TANED ARAB COMMANDOS... _HELBOLAH CLERICS ARE TRADING FOR SIX ISRAEL! POW... BRITISH JOURNALISTS ARE UNCHANGED AT.. Asan SS SSSA zz NEWS VIEWPOINT Convenience or congestion? nal issue pits convenience 2gainst T HE HORSESHOE Bay ferry termi- congestion. Convenience proponents argue convinc- ingly that it is asking much of North Shore residents to travel! all the way to Tsawwassen to catch a ferry to Nanaimo when they could instead stay on the North Shore and catch a ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo. But the realities of con- gestion are increasingly dictating the limitations of Horseshoe Bay as a major vehicle ferry terminal. The B.C. Ferry Cery., as mest ferry patrons know, has this year added no extra summer sailings on the Horseshoe Eay to Nanaimo run. Extra ferries have instead been added to the new Mid-Island express route from Tsawwassen to Nanaimo. The reasoning behind the move: draw Van- couver ‘sland traffic away from already congested Horseshoe Bay and away from North Shore streets. According to ferry corporation figures for the first two weeks of July this year, the reallocation of ferries has done just that: vehicle traffic was down 36.6% on the Horseshoe Bay run and up 104% on the Mid-Island Express rua compared with the same time fast year. Of course, at the same time fast year Horseshoe Bay had more ferries and the Mid-Island express had fewer ferries. But the figures still underscore a basic reality: ferry traffic has moved away from Horse- shoe Bay. And with the current congestion in that smail harbor, the dearth of local parking, and the wear and tear on local streets, ferry traffic should be moved away from Horseshoe Bay. , LETTER OF THE DAY Senior citizens paved the way Dear Editor: 1 deplore your recent Letter of the Day by Mr. Sarfield. Mr. Sarfield has admitted that for years North Vancouver home- owners have paid the highest taxes in the province. That in its entire- ty has answered his statement. Who are the people who have had to pay the highest taxes? The seniors of today who had to fight for everything. You now have just to turn on the tap or flick a switch, walk on cement sidewalks, Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor Advertising Director Comptroller Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Linda Stewart Doug Foot drive on asphalt roads without a thought for the people who were instrumental in getting things done. Yes, taxes have some part in it. We dug our own post holes to get electricity. We packed water from creeks in a yoke with buckets on each end. Walked miles to get kerosene for the lamps. These selfish, screaming seniors, as you so called them, should not have to pay school taxes. Their children and grandchildren have Display Advertsing 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Distribution Subscriptions Fax Administration graduated from the schools and they should not have to pay for their great-grandchildren. We have hung on to our homes through the depression, wars and should now be able to sit back and enjoy what we have strived so hard to attain. Soon it will be your turn, Mr. Sariield. Don't ever forget who paved the way for you. Margaret Sloan North Vancouver cna forth Snore Mare managed steady rot 1093 986-1337 986-1337 985-3227 985-2131 North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an dependent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 113. Paragraph Il! of the Excise Tax Act. 1s published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Prass Ltd and distributed to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mat Reqistrauon Number 3885 Subscriptions North and West Vancouver. $25 per year. Mating rates available on request Submissions are welcome bul we cannot accept responsibilty for urccuicited matenal including manuscmpts and piciures which should be accompanied by a stamped. addressed envelope V7M 2H4 Te OAC B08 ONT Aint Int LT MACOUYT SUNDRY + WEONKEOAY + eMIOAY 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C MEMBER oe ey S's SDA OIVISION 61,582 (average citculation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents ©: 1991 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All nights reserved The message of the conspiracy that collapsed IF THE 60-HOUR COUP in the Soviet Union finally teaches the West the lesson it must learn — but hadn’t up to now — it may be the best thing that’s happened since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985, The lesson is simply this: after 74 years of Communist tyranny and its stultifying state-run economy the Russian people CANNOT make the giant leap to a free-market democracy on their own. Thanks to Gorbachev's glasnost they're doing amazingly well so far on the democracy side. How else to explain 200,000 Moscow citizens defying the tanks in order to defend the Russian parliames' building and courageous Boris Yeltsin, their first freely elected political leader in history. But that’s the easy part. Filling empty food store shelves and staving off a looming winter famine is another thing again. So is the task of guiding new-fangled private enterprise to create jobs with living wages, decent housing and opportunities for millions to prosper by their own efforts. The ruins of Hitler’s Reich con- fronted the victorious Allies with the same kind of challenge in 1945, Their self-interest was to br- ing Germany back into the com- munity of civilized nations. That called for massive aid and, led by the U.S. Marshall Plan, they were smart enough to provide it. To- day’s Germany proves how right they were. The U.S.S.R., however, has one even greater handicap than 1945 Germany: a vast, entrenched and widely corrupt bureaucracy whose officials have prospered personally under rigidly centralized state con- trol — along with members of the huge military-industrial complex. For these tens of thousands of privileged apparatchiks a market economy spells game over. They've every personal reason to remain hard-line Communists, working to keep things the way they were. Happily, the pathetic plotters who relied on them in this week’s - “Pink Panther’’-style coup proved even more incompetent than Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau. But for Gorbachev the threat of a repeat attempt wil! remain until he, Yeltsin and their fellow reformers can drag the Soviet econcmy into the twentieth cen- tury. For that he needs much more than encouraging pats on the head from the West which owes him so SKY DEFENDER... North Van's newly ‘‘winged" Lieut. Andre Gioumeau. much. He needs immediate mate- tial and financial aid — on a scale sufficient to give his suffering people a foretaste of the better life that reform, as opposed to totali- tarian Communism, will bring them. It will cost us less than reverting to a Cold War world. On Tuesday’s CNN News a U.S. intelligence analyst was asked what lay behind the coup. Among other conjectures, he said, was whether Gorbachev himself might have enginecred the whole thing to send a warning message to his penny-pinching Western admirers. Highly unlikely, no doubt, Nevertheless, many details about the actual mechanics of the coup’s lightning collapse — and the rapid reappearance of its seemingly unruffled victim — are still unclear. Truth HAS been known to be stranger than fiction. WRAP-UP: Live it up again in the Middle Ages from | to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, at Waterfront Park. No, Harry, we’re not talk- ing about your mid-life crisis — it’s the show being put on there by the Society for Creative Anachronism whose medieval knights and their fair ladies, me- dieval costumes, dancing, exhib- itions and displays are entertain- ment quite literally out of this world... Congrats to North Van’s Lieutenant Andre Gloumeau who earlier this month graduated from Canadian Forces Air Navigation School in Winnipeg with his navi- gator’s wings. He’s now flying on maritime patrol aircraft from CFB Comox... Ten-year reunions com- ing up fast are Hillside’s Class of *81 celebrations — Sept. 6-7, call Libhy McMullin, 926-4428 — and Carson Graham’s dinner dance for its ’8l-ers on Sept. 14, where the RSVP contacts are Mark Whitworth, 984-9660, or Kelly Lee, 291-9708... And meanwhile, many happy returns of yesterday, Aug. 22, to Gleneagles birthday lady Monica Orane, WRIGHT OR WRONG: The slowesi to make a promise are often the surest to keep it. SENN PE 2