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A disservice

OPPOSITION LEADER Gordon Campbell is
oh-so right in his criticism of the NDP’s pur-
chase of Skeena Cellulose. And he’s also oh-so
completely wrong. _

_ Where the Liberal leader is right is in his state-
ments that a government, in general, has no busi-
hess messing around in private enterprise. He’s

also right in saying that since the NDP. has
tured Skeena Cellulose into a crown corpora-
tion, there’s been a lock-down of any kind of in-
formation to give taxpayers an idea of what the
company has planned in return for the cash and
commitments made on their behalf.

Skeena Cellulose president Bill Steele did make
a brief public tour of the northwest last year but
now prefers to beaver away in secrecy. No other
crown corporation acts like this and Skeena Cel-
lulose should not, either.

Where Mr. Campbell is wrong is to tie the
Skeena Cellylose purchase in with the myriad
failings of the NDP, including it on a lengthy list
as part of a non-confidence motion of the provin-
cial government on the floor of the legislature.

Mr.
SkKeena Cellulose purchase ranks right up there
with the fast ferry fiasco and has even tagged the
enterprise as “‘Skeenagate.”’

But what Mr. Campbell fails to realize is that
the meltdown of Skeena Cellulose had as much
to do with its maltreatment at the hands of its
parent Repap by loading it with a staggering debt
load as it did with depressed market conditions.

_ Mr. Campbell has only to consider the words of
a fellow Liberal, Terrace mayor Jack Talstra,
when he described the company as being part of
the economic fabric of the northwest. Rip that
fabric apart and the damage extends beyond eco-
nomics to the social structure of the northwest.

Cellulose for. his role as opposition leader is to
spread havoc. But to. not at least attempt to un-
derstand the economic and social condition of
the northwest is proof once again that Mr. Camp-

bell is solidly in the camp of the southern politi-
cal elite.

Well done

WHEN THE veterans of the War to End All
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cal party in B.C. whereby veterans strove to turn
into action the ideals for which their comrades
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One of those support organizations was known
‘as the Great War Veterans Association which
has since become the Royal Canadian Legion. It
took root here 80 years ago.

And now Branch 13 has laid out its history in a
publication to note those 80 years of involve-
ment in Terrace. In an editor’s note; Legionnaire

+ Peter Crompton hopes the publication will lead
to a better understanding of the role the Legion

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Campbell would have us believe the.

It’s easy:for :Mr>- -Camapbell. to criticize Skeena }.

port each other. There was even an active politi-..

plays in the community and in the country. It,
does that and more and serves as a valuable addi- -

La ?

ve. GENTLEMAN HERE
BY THE NAME OF
VANDER ZALM
WHO LIKES TO KNOW
ARE THERE ANY MORE
OPENINGS COMING UP
INTHENEAR FUTURE...

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Thumbs We) to NATO action

VICTORIA — J] have to
get this off my chest, and I
hope you will not be too
cross with me if it isn’t yet
another posi-budget analy-
sis.

What is happening in
Kosovo, half a world away
from our safe and beautiful
province, bears horrific
resemblance to another time,
a time I remember well.

The madman then was not
Slobodan Milosevic but
Adolf Hitler; the victims
were not Kosovars but Jews.
That’s where the differences
end.

The script for the
unspeakably murderous eth-
nic cleansing the world has
witnessed in the past few
months, but

Yugoslavia, could have been
written by Hitler.

The systematic removal
by brute force of Kosovars
from their homeland, the
atrocities that appear to
accompany the campaign of
terror by Serb regular, secu-
rity and police forces as well
as para-military thugs, bears
a terrible resemblance to the
Kristallnacht, when Jews all
over Germany were rounded
up and deported to concen-
tration camps.

Then as now, the world

This is really fo

RECENTLY LANGLEY
city council passed a by-law
promising a $2000 fine for
any business establishment
found harboring wild birds —
especially pigeons — along a
revitalized street decora-
tively paved in zigzag
designs with bricks of more
than one shade of red.

The by-law forbids the
perching of pigeons or spar-
tows alop any building, sign,
awning, or lamppost from
which it might deposit its
droppings fouling the pave-
ment ‘below.

In the past, pigeons nest-"
ing under awnings or in roof
corners piled up ridges of
poop on the sidewalks.
below. To combat perching
and nesting, the street’s mer-
chants have © stretched
screens across the under por-
tion of their awnings. to
block out the birds.

Still that no doubt leaves
plenty of inviting ledges and

particularly
since NATO began bombing ©

FROM THE CAPITAL
HUBERT BEYER

had waited too long. A few
hundred well-trained and
determined soldiers could
have prevented Hitler’s
troops from invading the
occupied left bank of the
Rhine, his first unopposed
adventure, ,

The world had another

chance to stop Hitler when |

he invaded the Sudetenland.
The world didn’t. It still
hoped for “Peace in our
time.”

Everything about Milose-
vic is reminiscent of Hitler
and the Germany he wanted
to create. Milosevic is bent
on creating a Greater Serbia,
Like any dictator, he needs a
“villain.”

Hitler singled out the
Jews, Milosevic the Koso-
vars. Not only are they
mostly Muslims, but they

THROUGH BIFOCALS
CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

On! MARTEN! THAT:
WHITE SHIRT SURE
SEIS OFE YOUR

GORGEOUS TAN !!]

knobs.

For any by-law to work, it
must be enforceable. It must
also be supported by the
majority of the public.

Just try to shoo birds,
given thei fanciful flights,
swifl manoeuvres, and per-
sistence. Think of the trou-
ble and expense, noise and
nuisance fruit growers go to
trying to frighten away birds

yer! He Looks
JUST LIKE A
BRAND NEW

*

WALL TENT...

live in a region Serbia con-
siders part of its Christian
heartland. In ideal target for
racial hatred.

At first, it seemed that,
like Hitler, Milosevic. would
get away with his mad
scheme. But at last the world
did step in, albeit late and
with half a heart.

What dismays me at this
point are the armchair critics
who claim NATO should not
had intervened. After all,
Yugoslavia is a sovereign
nation and any squabbles
within its borders are an
internal matter,

All true, but at what point
should the world’s con-
science kick in?

” I'm. a great believer:in-thé :

saying thal evil-.cdn:only? -:

exists when good people
don’t speak out. Well, good
people spoke oul, but that
didn’t seem to make too
much of a difference to the
Serb dictator. The only thing
left was the use of force.
That step might have been
better prepared. Ruling out
the use of ground forces
from the beginning was not
very clever. You can’t fight a
war by air only. Nor can you

fight a war without casual- -

ties.
Yes, for Kosovars the sit-
uation has deteriorated dra-

ste

matically since NATO hegen

its bombing campaign.
Another week or two, and
there will be no more Koso-
vars in Kosovo. Milosevic

will have achieved his aim... ~

It seems to me the only © -
option left is the use of ~
ground troops to drive the -
Serbs out cf Kosovo, over-
see the return of the hun-
dreds of thousands — of.
refugees to their home and
ensure their safety, once
there.

If the world does not live

up to this challenge, it is giv- 2

ing carte blanche to any pre--
sent and future dictator. to
commit crimes
humanity with impunity. *

Rather | than
NATO’s action, giving suc-
cor to the Serb dictator, peo- -

é- of” goodwill” should.
eM ress their ‘support and.
demand that nothing less
than a reversal of the ethnic
cleansing in. Kosovo, “is
acceptable.

Had the world stopped
Hitler when it could, some
40 million people who died
in the Second World War, :
millions of murdered Jews ~

among them, would have...“

lived to tell the tale of a.
lunatic who was stopped .
dead in his tracks.

Beyer can be reached at
— Tel: (250) 920-9300; ‘e-
mail-huber(@cookom.com; web» ea f

hitpyvwwhubertbeyercom/.

the birds

from their berry crops. Suc-
cess is fleeting at best. Does
council expect merchants to
stand guard at their front
doors, broom in hand?

Langley, like Terrace,
probably struggles to curb
roaming dogs and cats, ani-
mals with a limited-ability to
flee and climb, and no abil-
ity to fly. If they had chosen
to ban horses from parades
travelling along this special
street, their by-law would
carry some weight.

Leash by-laws work,
when they work, not because
dogs are persuaded to stay in
their yards but because their
owners make an effort to
confine them.

No one with real estate
owns Langley’s starlings or
crows. Because this by-law
won’t teach sparrows or
pigeons to fly elsewhere
than over the revitalized
street, imposing a hefty fine
on an unwitting host mer-

Wit A RUSTY OLP
STOVE PIPE COMING
OuT THE TOP;

chant is unfair, Also unwork-
able.

Until all surfaces, from
rooftops to lamp standards,
are re-designed in round
shapes and rebuilt of -slip-
pery material birds’ claws
can’t grip, Langley’s by-law
qualifies as bird-brained, ~

For their good intentions,
Langley: council is to be
commended. It’s a treat to
meet an elected body keen to
make the best use of tax dol-
lars. But threatening a mer- -
chant with a $2000. fine
because a starling frequents .
his premises is extreme.

From here, Langley’s by--
law looks like a rash step
hastily taken to satisfy the
Special interests of a few,
similar to Terrace’s self-cen-
tred by-law. . forbidding
snowplowing of schoolyards
between the hours of 11 p.m.
and 6 a.m.

Hedonism leads to goofy.
by-laws.

@ O.vabun Arey.

ANP THUS THE
ALPHA FEMALE
ASSERTS HER

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