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LTHOUGH our = previncial ernment’s weak showing in the re-

gcv- = any longer.

The pact, which has yet to be ratified,

cent constitutional negotiations left B.C. short-changed in the constitutional agreement, the package provides at least Gne praiseworthy aspect for British Col- umbians and the rest of Canada: ithe long-awaited proposed recognition of the inherent right of Canada’s aboriginal peo- ples to self-government. it’s the one issue that, throughout the debates and tribunals, ‘‘average Cana- dians’’ have agreed upon. * Most felt that the issue’s time had come and that it would be an injustice to delay it

‘grants natives the right to govern reserves

and other land holdings ‘‘within the jurisdiction of their institutions.’’

instead of relying on government fund- ing ‘and being subjected to programs that conform to bureaucratic rather than native

needs, first nations will be able to take

Although seif-government won't be clearly spelled out for at least five years, mest native groups are pleased to be final- ly recognized as one of this country’s

‘control of their own institutions.

founding peoples.

don’t count George and —

Dan out ye

WHOM ARE you TV addicts betting on in November’ Ss U.S. presidential election? Murphy Brown? Or The

Waltons?

When George Bush confi rmed a couple of months ago that Dan Quayle would again be his run- ning mate, I wondered whether embattled George was truly beginning to lose his marbles. But ‘I may have been wrong.

Mark you, I’ve always felt Dan

‘The Veep has far more between

the ears than his tormentors would ever want you to’ know.

But the fact was that they had reduced him over the past four years to a figure of ridicule who couldn't even spell ‘‘potato.”’

How on earth could George — trailing Democrat hopeful Bill Clintea by a record margin in the polls — risk hanging onto: ‘disposable’? Dan with so many other political liabilities threaten- ing to sink him?

Then came the pro-and-con furore Dan caused when he lashed out at Murphy Brown for having a child out of wedlock in North America's top-rated TV soap. And thus it was Dan the Veep who finally handed George the campaign issue he was floundering

their irresponsible mates and deprived offspring — plus’ downtrodden blacks and slum-

simply victims of a cruelly: mismanaged economy::Fix the economy and all will be fin

That’s the Democratic answer... being pounded out by Bill Clinton; — still rainted for many. with th ‘image of a draft-dodging °. philanderer whiose pushy, f spouse plans to share the Oval”

Office with him:

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economies of the ent

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tion. “ The -Possee family have shown the utmost. respect towards the

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“In this letter we would like to address your readers’ concerns as friends of the Possee family. an

We would like to begin by pointing out that Kelly’s name was on the warrant bec:use her tame was on the lease for the apartment. The police have been

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DAN QUAYLE... saving

George's bacon. to find: FAMILY VALUES.

This time not just ‘‘a kinder,” “

gentler America’’ but a more . moral, God-fearing and law- abiding America. Back to the America of apple pie; Norman’ Rockwell and Father Knows Best.

Back to hard work, duty, Old Glory and wholesome pleasures —- all based on the nuclear family of faithful husband and wife, 2.5 polite obedient children and schools where knives are things used in the cookery class. With Dan, his stay-home wife Marilya and their three neatly dressed teens as the banner-bearers.

But has the idea, realistically, a hope of working in the America of 1992 — its economy in seem- ingly chronic stagnation?

Can the well-heeled Quayle family model help solve inner-city poverty and crime, lawless

- schools, smouldering racism and

Los Angeles-scale riots?

Are these woes REALLY due to the fact that married couples with . kids now make up only 26% of American households — down from 40% just 20 years ago? Or are the legions of pover- ty-stricken, overworked, overtired single moms and their out-of- control kids merely a symptom of the nation’s deep, painful social malaise — not its cause?

No way the cause, cry the foes

highest material ‘living’s

but it wasn’t enough to inoculate them against today’s social. diseases. Was something missin

ing it back? ™: A tough sell, | maybe, Bat do

nitus (maybe y you just call

ing in the ears)? There’s a‘

situs Self Help group over in'the West End, meeting at 7:30

the first Wednesday of th

— that’s tonight; Sept..2 — Andrew’s Wesley Church

.Nelson. Call 266-6187 for info

Current West Van Arts Council ° show, running until Sept. 13-at the Silk Purse, 1570 Argyle, features the works of Lisa. Neilsen-Geddes ... Meanwhile, Fraternal Order of Esgites, 170 West 3rd, urges those interested i a table at its Sept. 13 Flea Marke for the Children’s Fund to book: soonest by phoning 987-8815 And a volanteer fitness instracto# is needéd for senior citizen exer. cise classes, Monday 10-11 a.m.#) Please contact 980-2474.

‘ee0 WRIGHT OR WRONG: Always. talk to your enemies. Unlike yo friends, they’1i tell you, your faults.