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| REFUSE
To RATIFY
ANY TREATIES
THAT DO NOT
: SATISFY
LIBERAL
QRINCIPLES.

t ERE. WE go again: Our judicial sys-
tem, bought and paid” for by us,’ is:
telling us that Justice i is better served if

not seen to be served. -

Jat ‘the core. of -which: stand

tH eal

two, North’
Vancouver men charged with the brutal slay-. .
4 ing ofa Bellevue; Washington, family. :

scot extradition proceedings are successful i in L
oe lenging such bans are expensive.' The bigger :

otis 1g pee,

wats an

PRINCIPLES,
yur LET You
{KNOW WHAT

“On Monday, as the “extradition hearing
resumed, defence counsel convinced the judge

to impose a temporary order banning publi-
cation of new evidence entered. :

With ‘alarming frequency. ‘Crown. ‘and ”
_ defeace lawyers have been able to use bans as ..

a means of preventing public scrutiny ‘of  judi-

~ chal proceedings.

There are costs here. Media lawyers chal-

straps talc row sesame SPARE ENE NE LTR AS PLETEAS NEN CHAN CUI,

Make the
‘province
a Priority

Dear Editor: :

‘Re: Highway 99° Proposal
— an original Socred vision. :

After. reading the , News
article. about) Mr.. .(David)-.
Mitchell's proposal on the ~
Sea-to-Sky Highway, 1 had”
planned to drop you a line to”

_ remind you and your readers .:
that Mr.: Mitchell “awas’: just
bringing back the past.”

On Sunday night I opened
your paper, Only -this ume 1/:
saw Mr. Nebbeling trying ‘to
capitalize as’ well on this pro-
posal. But I ask . you; who i
hijacking whom’: on’ the ‘pro?!
- posal? Both ‘are plagiarizi
_ the’-whole. thing. Come. on
- guys — Jet’s tell the truth here,

' If you refer to-your histo:
cal files, you will find that the:
highway proposal was first put’
. forth .by: Social : Credit» MLA
_John Reynolds’ se in| 1990

_.comes to ‘crossing party lines:
‘all parties are, grasping at the
"_ Socred vision of B C. bui none

‘their priority.
“This * highway ©

m! price is this: the public’s faith in the system is: pis i:

minished with each such case,’ :”

Canadians should: not’ have to ‘turn: to,
“, American. news’ sources to find Gut what is
: going on in, their so-called public courts...
- Bans have a place to ensure fair j jury trials :
: and protect'the identity of victims in specific
“crimes such as sexual assault. °. ®
But in the case of this extradition hearing, ;

ay the lawyers seem 3 to be out of order.

EVEN A 10-DAY, “nike

: visit to Japan gives aminter-:—

ested observer. some insight’.
into that country’s split iden. ;
tity.” -

The auto > assembly. lines produe-
ing twin versions of the same
model are, in a way, symbolic. The :
~ world’s biggest exporters of cars to i”

- countries that drive on the right,
~ they themselves drive on the left.

Visually, Western influences are
all-pervasive in the downtown’ /
areas. With their smart hotels ‘and

- office blocks; elegant department -

stores and restaurants, and blazing

areas of Tokyo and other’ cities \ we
- visited (Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe) .
. the scene day and night is one of -
. teeming throngs, predominantly -
younger people, happily engaged i in

: rampant consumerism — the stores :

bulging with merchandise of every
kind, the endless restaurants and
bars crowded. Equally well patron-
ized —- so our hosts assured us,
’ nudge-wink — are the downtown
. “love hotels.” Slightly more
respectable than brothels, they sim-
ply rent out BYOG (bring-your-.
“own-girl) rooms by the hour.’ :
From all these outward signs
you, night well conclude that post-
war Japan has not only successfully

hither
and yon

_ Signs remind you that you're not in
a typical North American city.
Hiroshima has been most attrac-.
tively rebuilt around the huge, open
Memorial Park, site’ of the very
:worst devastation. The core of
: Tokyo — with the famous Ginza’:
and other majestic tree-lined boule-
vards, spectacular public buildings,
restful parks and the Imperial
Palace in its immense manicured
grounds — was among my pleas: ™

antest surpri ses. e

i

The sprawling conciete jungle

of metropolitan Tokyo, population’
‘more than 27 million, is another

thing again:

A web of expressways anda
. complex network of subways link .
the outer suburbs to downtown.
Almost everyone uses the latter —
a return car journcy similar to that
from Coquitlam to the Hotel.
Vancouver costs the equivalent of
"$36 in expressway tolls. Narita’ ”

.. Airport i is 70 minutes away by fast a

train,
In the shopping and nightlife.

Sedan d

challenged the western world in

‘terms of industrial production and

exports, but has also embraced.
westem materialism with both |
anns.

You'd be at least haif-wrong. Z
= With a proud culture as old as that
“ of Europe, the Japanese remain

very :much their own people.

- Gracious to visitors and accepting a
‘growing number of overseas busi-

ness types now working in their |

* ‘midst, there is still a mental.
. “Fortress Japan” whose moat no.

a

“gaijin foreignes) can'ever Cross,
Hints of this. national split i id
“tity. behind the. bows. and smiles
gradually accumulate: Like‘our:
_ lady. guide in Hiroshima who to
>us: “Japanese try to be’ good loser:
‘If we'd had The Bomb ‘first, we'd
certainly have.used-it.on YOU!").:

Or our dinner Kost;
ed, widely travelled, Fasiiess'man
with his bitter 2749-22 S/A¥ dia-
tribe: The AmeriGuns bullied Japa
-, before the! 1941-48. war, he”
“charged, and were now at it again
in a trade war because ‘they ¢ didn’t
- know how to make cars to compe
~ with Japan's.

* And then, those groups of;

: schoolboys in Prussian-type. high

‘collar military uniforms which we

‘> constantly encountered, They, too,

we learned, tell 'a significant story
about post-war Japan.” :

_- More about the enigma of this:
‘fascinating land i in another columt

* WRIG SHT OR ‘WRONG: ‘The fine

enn a are
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