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Naowmcmnans EPIC AtiVe IN war of sexes!

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MEN-WOMEN RELATIONS (outside the bedroom at any rate) are at an all-time low, so radical feminists assure us. As a topic for a wet Sunday, it’s at least welcome relief

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NEWS VIEWPOINT

Hot air from the North

Persian Gulf crisis were as rabid as their civilian political leaders at home, we would surely be at war by now.

The political rhetoric in recent days has been as fiery as befits the scorching desert locale.

In uncharacteristic macho bombast last week, External Affairs Minister Joe “RamJoe’’ Clark threatened to take mili- tary action against the “new Hitler’? in Iraq even without the rest of the world’s blessing.

The image c! ‘anada’s pop-gun army tackling the Iraqis alone in a modern-day Arabian duel in the sun could almost be considered laughable if we didn’t already have 15,000 Canadians as close to war as

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this country fas been since Korea.

Less surprising is Margaret Thatcher’s ravings to send in the troops if Saddam Hussein doesn’t do as he’s told.

For his part, U.S President George Bush has a devilish dilemma to deal with. Tak- ing the military offensive would be politi- cally popular at home for the short term, but relying on economic sanctions ard dip- lomatic pressure would take patience. Pa- tience and faith in sanctiens would show wisdom.

But judging by the recent rash of violent rhetoric, it’s doubtful whether world lead- ers have enough of either patience, faith or wisdom to keep the world from plunging into another catastrophic war.

NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“If you’re working in a grungy, grimy environment, you just don't ‘have the same attitude.’’

Compu-Clean Services partner - Sheila Winder , on the need for a .

clean computer and a_ clean workplace.

“I frankly deplore this kind of tactic, and all I ask is for people to review my public record.’’

Mark Sager, on the unsavory side of West Vancouver politics in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 17 municipal election.

“Even though the organized chur- ches are in trouble, the great questions of spirituality and truth

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are on the rise. People are starting to see the limits of secular materi- alism."’

Author and journalist Ron Graham, on religion and spirituality.

**Certainly as the price of oil goes up the economics start to make better sense for a different fuel such as hydrogen or natural gas or methanol. In the fong term, the higher the oii prices stay, the bet- ter for us.”’

Firoz Rasul, president of North Vancouver’s Ballard Power Systems, which is developing a new alternative power source, on the benefits of high oil prices.

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Cypress Ridge Golf Ltd. (CRGL) principal Stephen Hynes, describing the Cypress Ridge golf course referendum in an Oct. 26 fetter to West Vancouver District Council.

‘In order to speak to modernity they (churches) become like it. It’s come out of a passion to be rele- vant. But in order to be relevant we bave abandoned the Christian faith.”

Don Faris, minister of North Lonsdale United Church, on the drop in church membership.

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from the civic elections.

‘Three recent items set me pon- dering the matter. One was Trevor Lautens’ column in The News. 10 days ago about women-beaters — which, say the fems, ALL men are at heart, even if they haven't yet quite got around to it in practice.

But Lautens lays the blame for such *‘socially brain-damaged louts’* squarely on militant wimslibbers themselves and the sexual revolution. Their effect, he argues, has been to strip the male of his true identity by killing his natural instinct to protect and love his chosen mate. Which, in turn, is now killing the ancient concept of the family, the power plant of civilization.

Meanwhile, Capilano MP Mary Collins, Canada’s status-of- women minister, comes up with a potentially alarming economic angle on the great gender rift.

She told a UN group the other week that women who stay home to clean the house, cook the meals and rear the kids should be in- cluded in the Gross National Pro- duct. Their work should be given a dollar value as part of the total goods and services the country produces.

A nice tidy idea, so long as you're only talking statistics. But a few years ago a group of Van- couver women went much further. Their campaign demanded man- datory, twice-monthly “GNP” pay cheques for homemakers. Paid by whom was not quite clear, but in marriages and part- nerships the finger clearly pointed at the male with the outside job. Which meant he would need io DOUBLE his wages while produc- ing no extra GNP in return.

Since the homemakers’ total paper GNP value would obviously amount to many billions a year, it was never explained how the

me wey ; 1 : . ' . : MR. N.G. ... peacemaking new sex symbo! of the nineties?

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Ha EeS bes _ HITHER AND YON Mint’s printing presses would keep pace.

By contrast, the third term was good news for everyone but the love columnist industry —~ which thrives on boy-girl horror stories. Like the invention of the wheel, its proposal for freeing women permanently from male economic and physical bondage is brilliant in its simplicity.

“Women are fed up with men who make themselves miserable and nice guys are tired of being overlooked,’’ says American author Judy Kuriansky who’s just written a new book called How To Love A Nice Guy. She dismisses actor Warren Beatty and his ilk as ‘‘dream lovers’? — the kind guaranteed to give grief to women.

“The Nice Guy is the new sex symbol of the 1990s,’’ Ms. Kuriansky declares.

Hot on her heels (where else but in America?) a Boston PR man, Craig Sutton, has founded Nice Guys Ltd., an image-building organization complete with T- shirts that say: ‘Get A Close Look, This Is What A Nice Guy Looks Like!’’

It could put the Kathy Taits and Dr. Ruths clean out of business. It might even eventually move the fems to give me back the identity they robbed me of. :

I’m thinking of applying for the Canadian franchise!

eee TAILPIECES: Looking for some- thing really different in Christmas cards? Be sure to drop by Bill Oin’s wheelchair this coming week in Park Royal Mall and check his unique, attractive selection — all painted by local handicapped people ... Martha Sturdy talks to West Van Women’s Network, 2 new business and professional women’s club, at its second 7:30 a.m. breakfast meeting Friday, Nov. 30 in the Dundarave Cafe — calf Val Stephenson, 986-6222 (weekdays) ... And ‘‘it seems Capilano College is ahead of Harvard.’? Congrats to Cap English instructor Melanie Fahiman-Reid whose innovative approach to teaching ESL earned that comment from a Harvard fellow delegate at a recent interna- tional conference in San Fran- cisco. She’s now been invited to present i¢ next year to a 5,000- delegate world convention in New York.

eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: What we learn from the past, alas, is that we seldom learn.