Dear Editor:

If Mr. Herbert Grubel, Ph.D. and Professor of . Economics at Simon Fraser University, had visited Berlin to have his meeting of monetarist economists in 1943 — instead of Santiago, Chile, in 1983 (see ‘‘Another View of Chile’, Sunday News of January 1 and 8) — he would have found very prosperous Germans driving the latest model cars. He would have found also no evidence of Dachau, Ausschwitz, the SS with their torture chambers and the Gestapo slowly taking the life of the French, Dutch,

Hungarians, Czechs, Norwegians and Russians. But the reality is very dif- ferent, Herr Grubel. Concen- tration camps existed in Ger- many and Nazi-occupied Europe, and they do exist in Chile, plentifully. Did you visit, Herr Doktor Grubel, the notorious torture in-

stitute, Villa Grimaldi in San- ©

tiago, where electric torture is applied to the genitals of both women and men?

The situation in Chile is a very clear-cut one. The government General Agurto Pinochet since September 1973, which assassinated the constitu-

headed by

tionally elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, has been condemned five con- secutive times for violations of human rights by the UN Assembly, with the great defender of democracy, liber- ty and freedom, the U.S. of A., abstaining its vote (why?)

There are some aillion Chileans in exile (i.e., 10% of the population). Dead, accor- ding to Anmesty Interna- tional, are 30,000 (Spectrum Magazine, a U.S. publication of Oct. 1982, gives 80,000 — figures that are closer to reality are 100,000). Disap- peared or missing, 1,716 cases documented by Amnes-

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probably closer to 10,000 it reality. The official figures of umemployment are 35%, with 500,000 alone unemployed in Santiago (pop. 2.2 million). Skilled workers, technicians and university graduates are digg- ing trenches for sewers, cleaning streets, etc. for US$33 a month.

There is an exponential growth in prostitution, drugs, sale of children and

‘babies, etc. All this paradise

has been devised to defend the Chileans from ‘‘marxism and communism’’ — policies of which brilliant economists like Milton Friedman, Nobel

Gas bar no service to customers

Dear Editor:

Congratulations are in order to the Mayor and Aldermen Brokenshire, Blackburn, Finlay and Hut- chinson on turning down the application of Chevron and Southland 7/11 for a self- serve gas bar and conve- nience store at {t6th and Marine Drive.

Had this application been allowed to go through, it would be the start of a rash of applications for similar operations at every service station in the municipality, which is not in the interest of

jocal residents, but more to the advantage of corpora- tions such as Chev- ron/Southland groups, who have but one interest and ob- jective and that.is profitabili- ty and to hell with the little guy!

One such example can be taken from this encounter, whereby the Chevron lessee/dealer who has served the residents of West Van for many years was not even con- sidered in the new venture that was supposedly to im- prove customer convenience and efficiency. Pray tell how

Plenty of snow!

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I was extremely upset to see your photograph of the young boy (copy enclosed) in the January 11! edition of the North Shore News. We have recently spend $1,931.86 in advertising in your news- paper to try to encourage people to go skiing and take ski lessons and comments regarding the disappearance of snow is the last thing we need.

Certainly we did have tor- rential rains on Seymour but our base has never dropped below 100 cm. and presently stands at 110 cm. and the ski- ing is excellent. | would like to invite you up to Seymour

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I should also note here that the dealer/lessee was put into a position whereby he had to relocate to North Vancouver with Petro-Canada; to the many customers of that dealer and Chevron the loss to West Vancouver is North Vancouver’s gain.

And what of Chevron’s

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Thanks from victims of apt. fire

Dear Editor: From fire victims at the

tual authors, Pinochet is the implementer and the U.S. of A. the financier. —

I am disgusted that a paper like the North Shore and Sunday News not only publishes articles that openly lie over the Chilean reality,

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Not only is your newspaper pro Social Credit, pro Con- servative, but now is pro Pinochet.

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