EVER SINCE. “THEY INSTALLED THE CONDOM MACHINES , I'VE. MET My BABY AFTER SCHOOL.

SIGH But, IT Guess THE PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL WAS RIGHT. ”A GRAIA OF PROTECTION [S WORTH A KILO-TON OF CURE.”

LI MEAN.

.. I DION'T REALLY WANT HIM EXPOSED TO THOSE THINGS

“Ti HE WAS AN ADULT... AROUND 3o.

..BUY ANYTHING “DIFFERENT” AT SCHOOL TODAY , DEAR ?

NEWS VIEWPOINT |

The feeling man

elcome to a special Sunday. it’s another Hallmark Father’s Day, or is it?

Your father is likely confused.

Family soles are not what they were once. thought to be. The omnipotent +>‘ compassionate father, the mover aud the shaker out in the world, the protector and provider, can no longer define himself ia terms once adopted witheut question.

It'is no longer good enough to smply bring home the bacon to a doting wife and adoring children.

It is the time of the feeling man. In 2

uals. mental.

life.

society in which family structure is limited only by the possible combinations of gender and the compatibility of species, the onus is on each of us to live in a siate of self-awareness as fully realized individ-

The challenge is physical, spiritual and

To settle for less is to sleepwalk through:

To accept less is to sell your. family short, whatever the configuration.

Childrea and mothers: hug that guy. He needs to feel.

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“Holy cow, what are we going to ancee on the national U.S. televi-

do now?”’

North Vancouver District Mayor Murray Dykeman, after looking at the dropping water level figures at local reservoirs during a Greater Vancouver Regional District water committee meeting.

“ET never watch her (Oprah Win- frey). I don’t particularly fike watching those types of shows.”’ North Vancouver’s Jonas Granander, on the Oprah Winfrey show, after he proposed to his fi-

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sion talk show.

“Mike Harcourt is a two-faced iar, and Schreck: should resign for the lousy job he has done. We've given our life to this shipyard, and all we get is a pittance. I’m getting So angry that I just might spend the whole summer sitting on the steps of the legislature.’’

Joe Brown, spokesman for the Versatile Displaced Workers’

Committee, on Versatile Pacific.

Shipyards’ severance offer to un- employed shipyard workers.

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“i'm not a typing error, I always tell peopie.”’

Writer Jancis Andrews, on the frequent misspelling of her first name,

“My legs are worth more than a mere two-year driving prohibi- tion.”

Amputee David Gallson, after a B.C. Supreme Court judge pro- hibited his ex-fiancee from driving for two years in connection with a bizarre accident in North Van- couver in which Gallson lost his legs.

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Don’t forget where rituals like Rio lead

THE RIO Earth Summit, which ended last week, got a gloomy press for making little solid headway in its 12 short days against the massive global pollution built ap over two centuries. But the gloom — as Mark Twain said about reports of his death — may be greatly exaggerated.

There were modest achieve- ments and numerous disappoint- ments — the key problem being the need for huge economic help to the Third World for en- vironment-friendly development. Industrialized countries agreed to contribute the equivalent of 0.7% of their gross national product — but would not commit themselves to the year 2000 target date sought by Third World countries for reaching that level.

Japan donned a halo by pledg- ing $1.5 billion a year until 1997 —~ twice as much as the U.S. Meanwhile, Canada sweetened the Third World pot with $214 million in cash and forgiven loans.

. The U.S., as expected, was the bad boy at the party. it condemr- ed a biodiversity treaty signed by every other major industria! na- tion to protect the world’s flora and fauna. And it refused to set any timetable for reducing the 25% of global carbon dioxide emissions that America belches forth annually into the at- mosphere.

Immediate achievement, howev- er, is not the way to measure Rio.

Its primary importance is simply that the official and unofficial conferences brought together for the first time — at the biggest such international gathering ever — some 100 world leaders and over 50,060 government, business, environmental and media types from all corners of Mother Earth to talk about the steps needed for her survival.

Cynics who disniiss it as a ritual forget where such rituals — the only way we know of tackling vast worldwide problems — can lead.

The heartening example is SALT I, the first hesitant Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty in 1972 between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

The next 18 years of Cold War brought eight further nuclear arms control deals between the two superpowers, followed by five more with Gorbachev and the lat- est pact conciuded last week be- tween George Bush and Boris Yeltsin — signalling the effective end of three decades of nuclear terror. But it was SALT I that set the focus. :

Such is the REAL hope for the planet born at the Rio ritual.

é a? HITHER AND YON

TAULPIECES: Next Friday, June

26, at Swangard Stadium they'll honor the memory of Daaay Possee — the tragic, innocent vic- tim of a police drug raid last month — at a Memocial Soc- cerfest from 5:30 p.m. onward with barbecue, beer garden and a soccer skills contest. Highlight is the 7:30 p.m. Whitecaps Select Team vs. NASL All Stars game with celebrity players Kevie Hee-

Jobasion. For tickets ($10) cail Linda, 926-2132; all proceeds to go to the Danny Possee Memorial Fund for young people who want to help others, as did Danny ... Movement, dance and rhythm characterize the paintings of : globetrotting West Van artist For- rest Johasen, whose oil/acrylic works —- on exhibit at North Van City Hail until July 15 — alse reveal her strong interest in Nor- thwest Indian art and in Nature’s changing effects on landscape ... Many happy returas to Mt. Seymour Birthday Lions Joc

, 72 tomorrow, and Bob Griffis, 78 Tuesday ... And again on Tuesday, June 23, a very hap- py birthcay to North Van’s Margit Holicza.

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