. Terrace Review — Wednesday, January.30, 1991 “AT

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ilton Jovial was a little
disappointed. Entering
the construction phase

of his mill was somewhat
anticlimactic compared to the
earlier challenge of getting the
project off the ground. Woodsap
Bros. Construction had sublet site
preparation, and with that work
under way there was little Jovial
could do but get in the way. It was
best to leave them alone.

Woodsap had the final drawings,
and in about a year and half
Jovial’s mill should be spitting out
lumber. And, Jovial hoped, a half
decent profit.

Profit, That was something Jovial
could work on. "Got to do some-
thing about those chip exports," he
half muttered to himself. B.C.
forest minister Bugs Weevil had
denied Jovial the right to export
pulp chips and premier Woody
Waffle had turned a deaf car. It
was nothing to do with him,
Waffle had said. It was Weevil’s
decision.

"’ve got a year and a half to
work them... And by Jovial I’m

going to do it." It occurred to

Jovial that he was talking to his
desk. "A year and a half... A long
time to wait. Maybe I should have
managed this project myself."
Jovial retumed to pacing the
confines of his New York office.
His mind wandered: to another
phase of the project. Herby Squish
had lots to do. While Jovial paced,
wearing new paths in very expen-
sive carpet, Squish was lilting over
hill and dale, Plotting new paths
through virgin forest. It was unfair.
What was it Squish had said?
"Pye got to do a five year
Management Working Plan and a
Development Plan for each of your
forest licences, and lay out all of
your roads, bridges and cutblocks
for the first three years. It’s going
to cost you $2.75 a meter for each

"of those first three years... That's a

total of $495,000 and the work
will take about a year to com-
plete.” It went something like that.

Jovial tried to remember... A
Management Working Plan. That
had something to do with philo-
sophy. How they would follow
guidelines and respect, other

“resources: how, when and where

they would access timber; brush-
ing, weeding and tree planting; the
treatment of insects and disease;
the visual impact of his logging
operations to others... And the
Development Plan, that was just a
plan of how they would implement
the first plan... the Management
Working Plan. “It’s not fair,” he
said aloud. "I’m paying these
people good money to keep busy
and all I’ve go to do is worry,
wonder and wait.”

Jovial picked up the phone.

"Squish?" he announced. "I’m
coming to Terrace for a few days."
Once again, he was starting to feel
the energy that comes with a new
challenge. "These plans you're
working on. | want to go over
them with you, Maybe I can... You
know... Help a little.”

These weren’t words Squish
wanted to hear. He had a lot of
work to do and he didn’t need
Jovial hanging around telling him
how to do it. "It’s not fair," Squish
said after he hung up the phone.
"This guy’s paying me good
money. Why doesn’t he just sit
back, relax and let me do my job?"

Next week, in spite of Jovial’s
interference, Squish will put a
Management Working Plan

by Tod Strachan, in consultation with Rod Arnold and Doug Davies

together for Jovial’s interior forest
licence. One thing that will help .
him, Squish will be happy to hear,
is that Jovial is going to get side-
tracked by a challenge he hadn’t
really counted on. Phil Woodsap
has a little surprise for him. Build-
ing a sawmill is never an easy
thing to do. -

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To The Editor;

U.S. President George Bush’s
comments at his inaugeration
struck me for their hypocrisy
—‘'T want America to show a
kinder, gentler face’? when
coupled to the headlines...“*Lar-
gest Air Strike In History’.

After reading the historical
account of Steve Ramzi in the
Terrace Review (Wed. Jan. 23,
1991) if correct, of the way in
which England with the help of
France, fostered a civil war bet-
ween Iraqi families and then
established the kingdom of Ku-
wait after fostering seperatism,
stealing it from the Iraqi people
by superior fire power, I con-
clude that America and its allies
are wrong to be there and Cana-
da is wrong to be in this War.

In April, 1921, Winston Chur-
chill appointed de novo, as if or-
dained by God, a King for Ku-
wait, which was then comprised
of Iraqi peoples, some of Saudi
origin.: ~

This war is basically a western
reaction to a continuation of an

s we shouldnt be m

Isracli-oppressed _ Palestinians,
seemed honourable and is in fact
SO.
By aiding and abetting the
Jews, the US and the UN who
helped set up this new country in
the midst of an enormous Arab
population, effectively hon-
oured a racist land claim two
thousand years old, while ignor-
ing the legitimate claims and

complaints of contemporary

Arabs who subsequently became
oppressed.

The UN has consistently fail-
ed to address the oppression by
Israel of the Arabs being dis-
placed by this UN-created pro-
blem.

Racism can be conducted two
ways, by subtle favouritism of
one group or oppression of
another. The UN and America
are involved here in the more
subtle form of racism, and I
believe that this and the Vietnam
—shattered ego, are what the
war is really about and explains
the false face of Bush.

If the intent of preventing ag-

LO _LILE

Bush to go to war. This decision
meant that much of the available
supply and the delivery infra-
structure would probably be
destroyed in battle for strategic
reasons.

The only one then threatening
it was Bush and his allies, by in-
creasing the risk of strategic
destruction.

While Saddam has blood on
his hands from killing Kurdish
and Jewish women and children,
the USA also has from killing
civilians in Vietnam, Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, and Israel also

Not prepared

To the Editor;

Even though war is not de-
fined or supported by the Bible,
events like the drowning of the
Egyptians while chasing Moses
and his people are recorded
therein. That is the basis for my
views on the Gulf.

Operation Desert Storm has

has for killing nearly one thou-
sand Arab boys for throwing
stones.

1 can reach no other conclu-
sion at this time than that we
should agree to link the Palesti-
nian question and declare a
cease-fire and negotiate.

Further, we should strike a
UN committee to study the
legality of Iraq’s claim to
Kuwait, and await the decision
of that body prior to taking any
other action, including sanc-
tions.

I say let’s get the truth out in

Eaugr. | |
aking war in the Gul

the open and stop the media cen-
sorship that these global police-
men seem to shroud events in.

Clearly, political and military
meddling by the west has caused
many of the recent troubles in
the region and the west has a du-
ty to help resolve these in the in-
terests of humanitarian justice,
world peace and order.

Killing the people doesn’t help
them.

Jorma Jyrkkanen
Terrace, B.C.

to sacrifice Kuwait

am not prepared to sacrifice the

Kuwaiti people to the atrocities -
perpetrated on them since the ;

occupation of Kuwait, When in-
terviewed, the Kuwaitis responded .

that war was an improvement over :
what they had suffered the past §

five and a half months. At last
they’ve hopes of being free!
Special mention should go to

If you don’t

* . " just begun and protest marches ,
unfinished civil war which Iraq gression were the real reason, are flowing everywhere. With so Amnesty International for their know what S
was just finishing. then we would be duty bound to many people supporting Sad- report detailing the atrocities by :

I do now understand why Sad- chase China out of Tibet, and dam Hussein’s actions, it is no the Iraqization of Kuwait. going on,

dam coupled the Gaza strip and
West Bank issue to withdrawal
from Kuwait.

To withdraw from Kuwait was
basically wrong from the histor-
ical perspective of a perfectly
justified reunification of Iraq by
Saddam annexing Kuwait, and
Bush and the UN are simply
wrong.

The Kuwaiti kingdom was a
British fabrication and his-

ble reason for this,.and defense
of fellow Arabs oppressed by
westerners, in this case the

the Russians out of Karelia,
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Clearly, we have no intent of
doing any such thing. China has
even been given favoured trad-
ing status by the US, while sanc-
tions are called for by the
arguments used for going into
Iraq. Our moral justification is
shattered by this inconsistency.
Persian Gulf oil never was
threatened prior to this war.

therefore false.
What did tangibly threaten it,
however, was the decision by

wonder that he feels positive
about the outcome. I, for one,

Irene D. Ness,
New Hazelton.

No Canadian involvement

To the Editor;

The executive committee of
the Kitimat-Terrace & District
Labour Council has on this date
sent the following message to the
Prime Minister:

volved in any war in the Persian
Gulf area and that the Kuwait

crisis be solved through enforce-
ment of United Nations sanc-
tions and diplomacy.

“We urge that Canada sup-
port an international peace con-
ference on the Middle East and

Kitimat-Terrace &
District Labour Council.

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