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IS THERE anyone left who believes that the B.C. Teachers Federation is anything but a radical political organization? If there is such a dupe, let him take a look at the BCTF’s

B.C. Teacher magazine.

The most recent issue could easily be confused with something put out by the communist-run African National Congress.

Rick Sullivan, president of the Kitimat Teachers Association,

f urges that Canada accept no more white exchange students from South Africa, In his view, such children are dangerous because they could create the impression they are no different from any other kids, and that South Africa isn’t as bad as it is cracked up to be.

‘‘White ruling-class’’ citizens of South Africa, states this typical left-wing humanitarian, ‘‘are

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f our-society.””

South African whites may be bad, even the babies, but blacks from anywhere have to be OK. Thus a teacher from Marxist Mozambique gets a big spread in

the magazine, and we learn that |

| the BCTF is to send education aid to that country. es What is called ‘‘the ‘recent tragic death of Mozambique’s president, Samora Machel’’ is seen as though that. fortunate event was a real loss to mankind. Reading the B.C. Teacher, you s would never guess that Machel ‘was the worst kind of bastard. A former hospital orderly, he seized power, murdered thousands, i turned Mozambique into one of } the world’s worst basket cases, and caused a civil war. Refugees from Mozambique pour into wicked South Africa, but the B.C. Teacher forgets to report any of that. . -’ There is also a depressing piece f ‘in which’ Norman M. Goble tells -the world that teaching’ is a | political activity and always has been. On the same page, blacks F are shown giving the clenched fist salute. In keeping with the BCTF’s ‘anti-Americanism, there’s a story headed . ‘‘No More. Nagasakis’’, ‘plus a re-run of what the effects would be of a nuclear bomb drop- f ped on'Vancouver. |. There are 19 -articles in the magazine, and not one of them is “about education in B.C. There .was also not a critical word about what is’ going on in the USSR, China, Cuba, Afghanistan or any other place over which the ham-

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mer and sickle flies. Villainous right-wing El Salvador and Paraguay figure, however.

I wonder how many ordinary teachers fall for the propaganda in this rotten rag.

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Toa Capilano Progressive Con- servative Women's meeting on immigration. The chairman tells the peasants that questions must be restricted to how the iminigra- tion rules work. I refrain from shouting that they don’t work, and that the populace is fed to the teeth with the whole farce.

Some admissions are made, though. We heard from immigra-

tion department official Joanne |

Hick, for instance, that it is almost impossible to get anyone out of Canada no matter under what pretext they have entered. She also states that a lot of people coming in as -‘‘entrepreneurs’’ don’t pursue the businesses they promised to pursue. And no one can do. anything about'it. .

A lawyer who is in the business of drumming up more ‘‘business immigrants’ said that bribery is tife in overseas immigration of- fices in places like Hong Kong, not because our own people take

_ bribes from would-be immigrants but because locals employed in those offices do.

I may have been a bit premature in congratulating the Tories on clamping down on the refugee racket. Refugees, so-called, are being turned back at the official crossing points pending later hear- ings, ‘but if they sneak in elsewhere they are not turfed out.

Why? Because we are the wimp |

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I must deny the heroic deed at- tributed to me by my old buddy Alex Masterton, a graduate, like myself, of Stalag VIIIB in: <Ger- many in the brave days of old.

I did not bash two German guards’ heads together. If 1 had tried anything like that, 1 would have been Kaputt right away and

would not be here now for letter- |

writers to shoot at. There may have been camp rumors to the ef-

fect that I was that crazy, but they

were not true.

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