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‘SAM WAGAR wants an /apelogy from Mike | Harcourt,

By Douglas Broome Contribnuing Writer

The deposed NDP candidate in Miartsqui has a legitimate bee!’

Wagar. ius everyone must know by how, is a follower of Wicca. 1 halire-worshipper, a witch,

Sounding liky some bush league

*Torquemada of the Spanish

Inquisition, Harcourt said that Wagar should have disclosed his religious beliefs prior to his nomi-

ike: bewitched and bewildered

milion necting.

A nudge was as goad dts a with lo dhe focal riding association. and atthe re-nombndtion aeeting the poor old houschusband- witch Wagar was dumped. Pve seen lots af nomination meetings, but Ive never heard of candidates having to disclase their retigious beliefs,

North Vancouver-Lonsdale MEA Dave Schreck certainty didnt take any theological confessions lo Win his nomination.

The great gods of our secular times ae career, money atnd power, Is Wagiie’s nature-worship any worse than money-worship?

Maybe Harcourt should publish

a fist ol the retigious beliefs he finds objectionable.

When the globe-trotting Harcourt last set out for China. a reporter for a local Chinese-haa- guage paper asked him iPhe would raise human rights issues. "No" was the prentier’s terse caswer

Harcourt should listen to the wards of Pierre Sane, secretary- general of Amnesty International, who ina recent speech said: “hn China, state terror continues five yeurs after the crushing of a anass. peaceful pro- democracy movement. Tlundreds of thousands of people we incarcerated in work camps,

administrative detention centres and

-Tunnel- island plan panne

Dear Editor:

Lam interested to note that your paper, ina leader by Noel Wright and a column by Trevor Lautens, i is supporting the “tunnel-island™

crossing proposal for the First “Narrows. My understanding is that - this proposal involves a submerged.

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rectangular concrete tube being placed in a trench excavated across the entrance to Vanceuver harbor; the excavated material being used to form an islind on which certain chasen peaple will build on either side of the new highway.

Some material will also be

Re ile ‘to. answer a “question ‘for me, To 0 quote previous “girls,”

show ‘do seth ene out to the max,

requited to cover the tunel see- tions to stop it from floating away on the fide. This type of tunnel con- struction is no more safe against earthquake forces than is the exist- ing Massey tunnel.

By the time the necessary geot- echnical and other investigations have been done and the results incorporated into a safe. detailed design that takes into account the harbor teaffic, earthquake aad other forces and also environment con. cerns. | suspect that the proposal’s cost will be at feast double the pre- sent estimated figure.

John B. Milne West Vancouver

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prisons.

“Thotsands are exceuted every year, Yet many governments turia blind eve to such atrocities in their hunger ta explok ecanamic oppor- tunities. The hypocrisy of govern- ments sometimes defies betiels.”

Bliad eye? Hypocrisy? Our pre- imler has an eaele eve Cor witches popping up as NDP candidates, but a blind eye for serious heanian rights violations, Aad Harcourt's blind eye fo the massive human rights violations in China won timake hin any more credible in the eyes of

The. Bc. Loggin Industry up its act

most Asian business people. The premier blew his credibility when, in the First months of his adminis- tration, he went to Hong Kong and promised no new kix increases, He then returned home and promptly introduced a corporation capital tax,

Pranciag about in the nude, as witches are reputed to do, mity be a bit weird, but it’s less strange than Harcourt’s timan rights priorities.

The New Democrats used to have a proud tradition as defenders of human rights, And then along cume f Mikey.

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