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NEWS VIEWPOINT

Dangerous diving

QO-HOO YAHOOS! It’s time to prevent diving injuries by taking

smart risks.

As regular as rain around here, young people flock to the icy waters of Lynn Creek for a spot of risky cliff diving to escape the sunny summer heai.

With equal regularity some thrill-seeker is either injured or killed.

Those who do find themselves in trouble often choose to mix a disregard for danger

with alcoholic intake. The people inciined to such behavior

seem bent on living out the beer commer- cial creed, the implied message being the natural life is much wilder and wetter with golden elixir at hand.

The truth of the matter is that nature

must be respected and met on its own terms. And the machismo inherent in the act of jumping into a rocky patch of water can dissipate in the split second it takes to susiain an injury that lasts a lifetime.

Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program speaker Joan Beck will be at Lynn Canyon Park 1:30 p.m., Sunday, July 21 to talk about how to take smart risks by learning four ways to prevent diving injuries. Beck herself sustained a spinal cord injury while diving. She knows of what she speaks.

Lynn Canyon Park has already this year been the site of three diving-related rescues and ore death.

Please listen to her before you find yourself in the creek.

NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“It’s hard on our resources. We train for it and we do it but it doesn’t mean that we should have to be doing it every week.’’

North Vancouver District Fire Department Chief Rick Grant on rescuing people who get themselves into trouble in’ the waters of Lynn Canyon Creek. “It’s like giving a member of your family another chance at life. 1 think more people should do that.”’

Royal Bank of Canada North Shore area manager Garry Bader

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‘How to’ book needed for new baby’s mother

WHEN GEORGE BUSH fathered the New World Order in the middle of the Gulf War, he forgot about the

‘*Baby’s-First-Months”’ book.

As a result, the United Nations — like a rookie mother with no copy of Dr. Spack on her kitchen bookshelf — is scrambling to learn as it goes along how to nourish and care for the NWO.

The most significant feature of the NWO is that it abandons, in certain situations, that hitherto sacred cow in internationaal rela- tions — the rule that even the UN must not interfere in the internal affairs of a sovercign state, how- ever ruthless or inhumane.

The first test came within days of the Desert Storm victory, when Saddain Hussein started beating hell out of his Kurds, forcing over a million of them to flee to the cruel, barren mountains near Turkey.

Ut forces were forbidden to help the pitiable refugees. Their job of throwing the Iraqis out of Kuwait was done and Saddam’s genocide against the Kurds was a purely internal matter — so hands off,

Happily, outraged world oni- nion finally compelled the UN to allow Allied troops into northern Iraq to establish protected zones for the desperate, starving aiass of humanity. The world body had started to learn the NWO by trial and error.

Hot on the heels of the first test the UN now faces {wo more — both involving possible interven- tion in a nation’s ‘‘internal af- fairs’? in order to safeguard future peace and security.

One is Saddam’s refusal to allow UN teams to monitor suspected chemi«s! and nuclear arms plants. If tire fraqi dictator persists, Stormin’ !’orman ob- viously ought to be sent back to do the job he should by rights have been permitted to finish off in February.

The latest test, of course, is Yugoslavia — long the powder keg of the Balkans. The potential threat there is not just Serbs, Slovenes and Croatians killing each other but peace and stability in the whole of southeastern Europe, from the Adriatic to the Black Sea.

These are tough bullets for tradition-steeped UN bureaucrats to bite and there’ll be plenty more to come. Someone had better get on writing that ‘‘How To Care

DESERT STORM’S unfinished business? General

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For Your NWO" manual quickly. Because the New World Order born in Arabian sands is the UN’s

child as well as George's.

eee COOL JAZZ On A Hot Sum- mer’s Night — now added to the Thursday, Friday and Saturday menu at Peppi’s, West Van, by new cwner Klaus Fuerniss — had a distinctly political launch Thursday evening. Not least with the graind entrance of Grace McCarthy and husband Ray from the distant boondocks of Shaughnessy, the former being serenaded by the combo with a stirring rendition of “The Amazing Grace’’ te loud applause from the packed-in diners at Tiddlycove’s venerable eatery. Shortly afterwards Forests Minister Claude Richmond and Jimmy Pattison, playing their own kazoos, joined the band. Enter- taining a big family party were Mayor Mark and Kathryn Sager. Well-known local pol-watchers — among them John Pozer and fetiow media sleuths Gary Ban- nerman, Denny Boyd and Ian Haysom — were out in force. Peppi’s new traffic-builder un- doubtedly built more than a little North Shore traffic, too, for the lady who hopes to dominate the Socreds’ hot summer nights start- ing July 18 at Vancouver’s Con- vention Centre.

eos WRIGHT OR WRONG: The trouble with opportunity is that it always looks bigger going chan coming.

Norman

Schwarzkopf (left), nuclear cheat Saddam Hussein.