Premier

‘SAM WAGAR wants an
/apelogy from Mike
| Harcourt,

By Douglas Broome
Contribnuing Writer

The deposed NDP candidate in
Miartsqui has a legitimate bee!’

Wagar. ius everyone must know
by how, is a follower of Wicca. 1
halire-worshipper, a witch,

Sounding liky some bush league

*Torquemada of the Spanish

Inquisition, Harcourt said that
Wagar should have disclosed his
religious beliefs prior to his nomi-

ike: bewitched and bewildered

milion necting.

A nudge was as goad dts a with
lo dhe focal riding association. and
atthe re-nombndtion aeeting the
poor old houschusband- witch
Wagar was dumped. Pve seen lots
af nomination meetings, but Ive
never heard of candidates having to
disclase their retigious beliefs,

North Vancouver-Lonsdale
MEA Dave Schreck certainty didnt
take any theological confessions
lo Win his nomination.

The great gods of our secular
times ae career, money atnd power,
Is Wagiie’s nature-worship any
worse than money-worship?

Maybe Harcourt should publish

a fist ol the retigious beliefs he
finds objectionable.

When the globe-trotting
Harcourt last set out for China. a
reporter for a local Chinese-haa-
guage paper asked him iPhe would
raise human rights issues. "No" was
the prentier’s terse caswer

Harcourt should listen to the
wards of Pierre Sane, secretary-
general of Amnesty International,
who ina recent speech said: “hn
China, state terror continues five
yeurs after the crushing of a anass.
peaceful pro- democracy movement.
Tlundreds of thousands of people
we incarcerated in work camps,

administrative detention centres and

-Tunnel- island plan panne

Dear Editor:

Lam interested to note that your
paper, ina leader by Noel Wright
and a column by Trevor Lautens, i is
supporting the “tunnel-island™

crossing proposal for the First
“Narrows. My understanding is that
- this proposal involves a submerged.

aN

rectangular concrete tube being
placed in a trench excavated across
the entrance to Vanceuver harbor;
the excavated material being used
to form an islind on which certain
chasen peaple will build on either
side of the new highway.

Some material will also be

Re ile ‘to. answer a “question ‘for me, To 0 quote previous “girls,”

show ‘do seth ene out to the max,

requited to cover the tunel see-
tions to stop it from floating away
on the fide. This type of tunnel con-
struction is no more safe against
earthquake forces than is the exist-
ing Massey tunnel.

By the time the necessary geot-
echnical and other investigations
have been done and the results
incorporated into a safe. detailed
design that takes into account the
harbor teaffic, earthquake aad other
forces and also environment con.
cerns. | suspect that the proposal’s
cost will be at feast double the pre-
sent estimated figure.

John B. Milne
West Vancouver

Ay

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prisons.

“Thotsands are exceuted every
year, Yet many governments turia
blind eve to such atrocities in their
hunger ta explok ecanamic oppor-
tunities. The hypocrisy of govern-
ments sometimes defies betiels.”

Bliad eye? Hypocrisy? Our pre-
imler has an eaele eve Cor witches
popping up as NDP candidates, but
a blind eye for serious heanian rights
violations, Aad Harcourt's blind
eye fo the massive human rights
violations in China won timake hin
any more credible in the eyes of

The. Bc. Loggin
Industry
up its act

most Asian business people. The
premier blew his credibility when,
in the First months of his adminis-
tration, he went to Hong Kong and
promised no new kix increases, He
then returned home and promptly
introduced a corporation capital tax,

Pranciag about in the nude, as
witches are reputed to do, mity be a
bit weird, but it’s less strange than
Harcourt’s timan rights priorities.

The New Democrats used to
have a proud tradition as defenders
of human rights, And then along
cume f Mikey.

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