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Silent times

vividly recall the tone of moral superiority that characterized the anti-Victnam movement,

Nearly everybody [ knew back then, event right-wing uncles, were opposed ta the

_ American involvement in Vietnam, 1 knew one womn, for God's sake, who married a “guy from the States so he could get Cana- dian citizenship to aveld be. ing shipped over to the kill ing ground,

There was a scnse of being on the side of angels, The hawks in the WS, - had General: Westmoreland and

we had Jane, Fonda and | Country Joe. > Sonic of the bligest

demonstrations ever

mounted in Uritish Cotum- . bit Geourred dn those years,

opposing American im-

,’ perisliam In Vietnam, They

were exciting events, by the way. And everybody was so

canicerned and far-seeing it made. you weep, We all CARED, you see, about the suffering of people, far away ‘whom we knew we would never know, We cared, too,

for the poor young draftees who were being turned into butchers, dehumanized...

When stories came back about young Yanks ‘fragg- Ing’ thelr officers, peace freaks cheered.

Hexdy days,

They echo back (oO me now, ft is not a particularly loud echo, It is just that the silence through which the echo clatlers is so compicte, The silence about Afghanistan, I mean,

The horror stories to come out of. Afghanistan in’ the last five years ure enough to make you puke. As many as 740,000 civilians have prob- ably been Killed, That's the population of Winnipeg, murdered, That's not coun- ting the wounded or the four to five million refugees who have fled to Pakistan. That's fearly the population of Western Canada, running for their lives.

What scant American or Western aid there is to the

Pres. House

of grants for community groups approved by North Vancouver City Council Monday. ;

‘By BARRETT FISHER |

:° The. annual. operations * grant was the same. amount - approved: ‘ last-- year, said

Presentation House's Bob ‘Carey, The. funding will go ‘Staff: salaries,

Other...monies’ for - “theatre | hous come’: ‘from

the :

‘top. NV City

A $50,000 grant for Pres- . entation House heads the list

project grants through Canada Council, B.C, Cul- tural. Services, corporate sponsorships ‘and private donations.

Carey said 50 per cent of

Presentation House's reve-

nue is earned through theatre rentals and admis- sions.

* Other grants City council approved ranged from $250 for she John Howard Society to $16,000 for North Shore Family Services.

A proposed $20,140 grant for.North Shore

.Neighbourhood House was _ Sent back tur decision, while all ‘other granis ‘were ‘ap-

proved Monday night.

Afghan tebels is a drop in the bucket compared to the Soviet invasion force of 100,000 men, and aid Is real- ly only being sent because the struggle represents a marvellous chance to gather intelligence on Soviet fighting techniques. “The Russians haven't actually been in a shooting war since the fatl of Hluler.

Do J see anyone protesting against Soviet involvement in Afphanistan? OF course not.

And it makes me wonder.

Did we really care about the Vietnamese back in the ‘60s and '70s? In the 80s, obviously, we don't give a damn about the Afghans, And the Afghans are being done-to every bit as badly as the Viets in their time. Worse,

Thave no way of checking the accuracy of these reports (expecially since no cameras are allowed, unlike Vietnam) but a booby trap that looks like a toy is said to be used to blow up children. Blind men have dynamite strapped

to their backs and ignited. Boys’ throats are methodi- cally slit by Russian soldiers. Men are tied up and run over by tanks in front of their families. Women are tortured by being forced to stand in water with chemi- cali added to make their skin fall off.

Those of us who CARED so much about Vietnam, why aren't we out on the street screaming about the bloody Russians? Why isn't sumebody singing about poor Russian draftees forced to go over to Afghanistan and kill? Why aren't there protest songs about the 5,000 Soviet youngsters who have gone hoine in a box?

I know, TE know, Those of us who were protesting at the time of Vietnam are older now and we're worried about our jobs, or we're into EST or the wolves or Meares ishatd, at isivalved with our families, of maybe we've become Tories and we've jost our sense of outrage. And of course the younger ones coming along are wor- ried about the jobs they don't lutve, and they seem to be utterly indifferent about everything else anyway,

The only movements hap- pening in North America that have any real passion attached to then at the mo-

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L have a bad feeling that a lot of the energy and ex- citement bereabouts at the time of Vietnam was nothing more than traditional Cana- dian sour grapes about the Yanks. | think we were more into America-bashing that

genuine protest against war. Otherwise why would we be so unmoved by Russian atrocities in) Afghanistan? Why would we be so apathetic about Soviet im- perialism? 1 mean, there but for the Arctic ice packs and the American nuclear um- brella goes thee and me.

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