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At least two regional districts

. inB. C. are at odds with Minister .
of. Municipal Affairs, : Recrea-'
tion: and. Culture, - Rita John-

‘ston. . The: Regional District of.
isn’t one . of -

_ Kitimat-Stikine-.
them, they don’t seem to take.

the issue seriously, but: it’s a’

matter that hits close to home
and should be of public interest.

by Tod Strachan

: ~ ‘The problem i is with Bill 19 —
“not:‘the one that ruffled the

"feathers of the labor movement .

but another Bill 19 that updates
the Municipal Act with ‘some
legislative changes that are wel-
comed by most if not all region-
al districts in the province. |

The Regional District of Cen- ©
‘tral Kootenay,

for example,’
‘wrote. Johnston and compli-

‘ ~mented her ministry for bringing

in the “‘much needed and long
overdue changes.”

WELONETOPERUT.
COMING SOON To

A who’ S who guide to the destruction of

by Steve Ramzi Ismael

Terrace resident Steve Ramzi

Ismail is a@ general sonographer
and vascular . technologist at
_Milis Memorial Hospital. He
_ grew up in the Middle East, is of
Greek and Iraqi parentage, and
is an occasional contributor to

- the Terrace Review.

A year has gone by and
Lebanon is still without a presi-
dent. Many would say, ‘‘So
what? Lebanon has been leader-
Jess for the past 15 years.”

-A president and leader is
needed for several reasons.
From a legal and constitutional
perspective, the present power

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Death of a chairman —

The problem i is with one word
‘that has been changed i in Bill 19
—: “chairman’’ is out and
“chairperson”? is in — and.this
has been’ cause: for some’. nasty

exchanges, After complimenting .
“Johnston and. her ministry for -

the changes, and: thanking her

for the ‘‘whole process of con-
sultation’’ - that preceded: the -
changes, the head of the Central.
Kootenay board -of directors,.
‘George Cady, (note how. easy it.

is to: get-around the 11 letter

word) described’ the use. of

“chairperson”? as “demeaning

and not representative of the
position ascribed’”.

‘At the risk of appearing
petty, Madam Minister, I feel
compelled to point out one item
that was never considered or
discussed at the five meetings
which I attended during the
process,” writes Cady, who
signed his letter as ‘“Chairman’’

vacuum can only lead to further
entrenchment of the partition in
Lebanon.. It is easy prey for
neighboring Syria and Israel...
anyone opposing them gets
killed somehow. —

_ Another reason for needing a
president is to recreate hope in
the new generations. The new

. president must be young, clean

from any connections with do-
mestic militias or foreign pow-
ers, and have a clear-cut plan to
reform the Lebanese constitu-
tion. Most difficultly, a presi-

dent must have the support of
-the majority of Lebanese peo-—

ple.
The groups that would have

to be placated include Syria,

Pifer =~ continued from page 4

to call the byelection by Aug.
:25 — next Friday (and I bet

~ they willl).

- This scribe believes the delay
is because the Premier is being
advised that the stars are not
right yet! You may recall the .
extraordinary story last year .
about how the Premier admit-
ted he consulted with a.
numierologist, and had a con-
siderable interest in astrology,

as does Miz. Lillian. Methinks
there is much more to it than
what came out at that time.

Quite frankly, as far as the
Cariboo vote is concerned, I
am convinced that our Premier
is ignoring the advice of his
close political and party faith-
ful, and is pinning his hopes
for victory on having the tim-

ing dictated by the stars.

Section 782(1) which calls for
the election of a ‘‘chairperson’’,
The militant feminists of the
world have prevailed once more!

- “One would have thought —
after listening to the debate on.

the resolution at Whistler last
year ‘where the feminists at-
tempted to change alderman to

-alderperson — that you would

have'been ill advised to reintro-
duce this argumentative subject.
At the ‘convention, : - discussions

and feelings on the issue of
neutering all terms, strongly in-.

dicated that it. was.an issue not

_ to be brought back to the floor

again. and was soundly defeated.
_ “Where next then will. the
feminists have us go to. make

‘them feel they are equal. Does
‘the Minister: of Municipal Af-
fairs then become the Ministress:

of Municipal Affairs? Does a
female representing a rural area

Israel, the U.S.A., France, the
Vatican, Druzes, Maronites,
Catholics, Sunii. and Shiite
Muslims, and others.

With wide ‘swings in the
balance of power. and splits in
the state and religion, members

of the younger generation have ©

fled the country and fallen vic-
tim to the warlords from Libya,
Syria, Iraq, Iran and Israel. The
future of any country rests in its
youth, Lebanon cannot lose this
wealth and survive.

Here are some of the reasons
why it is difficult to satisfy
everybody in Lebanon:

@ It is in the interest of the
Israelis to have the fighting,

warfare and corruption continue |

in the region to draw attention
away from their domestic prob-
lems with the Palestinians.

@ The Palestinians, on the
other hand, dream of acquiring
the means to fight Israel.

@ Syria claims Lebanon by his-
toric right — it was once a
province of Syria, and they want
to annex it or at least maintain
political control of it.

© A partial list of the interest
groups within Lebanon speaks

for itself: the Druze, who live in

the mountains; the Egyptian-
backed Nasserians; the Lebanese

‘Male. persons.

Terrace Review. —

now become the Directress of

Area ‘‘A’’? Does the Planning

Manager now become a Plan- -
ning Managress? If carried to-its’. -s

ultimate conclusion, -all:-sorts of

weird changes can take place..

What would happen to terms
like manage, manipulate, manu-
facture or manned flights into
space?’’,

‘To. further prove his point,

and also to prove ‘‘chairman’’ is
technically the correct term any-
way, Cady attached a copy of an

article written by Brian Warren

— head of the- Department of

. Languages at the Swinburne In-
‘stitute of Technology. in Haw-

thorn, Australia. Warren says it
has been assumed by many that
the word “chairperson” formed
the idea of “person” ’ which
referred. to both malé and ‘fe-

ignorance on the part of the

speaker or writer as to the origin.

of the ‘man’’. element”. of

According: to —
Warren, however, this assump- -
tion is wrong and indicates an.

Fe fst gelled 2 itl TE ec at ne a

Wednesday, August 23, 1989 5 -

the language mutates

of the Board. cay am referring to,

“chairman”,
The ‘‘man’’ in “chairman”?

devoid of any male elahon _ a
says Warren, because it comes - |
. from the Latin work “manus”?

which means “hand’’, With this

origin then, according to War-.
‘ren,
means ‘‘the person who handles

the word ‘chairman’?

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the meeting” and has nothing to ©

‘do with gender.

‘Man’ as it relates to the. _

‘male species, on the other hand,

is derived from Germanic —

sources, not Latin, says Warren.

“Man” comes from the-Gothic

*tmennisc’”’ which means “‘man’”

correct,
- So there you have it. Now you
know that the ‘‘man’’ you see is

Not always the ‘‘man’’ you think

or “thinking ‘being’’. ‘On the |
-basis of these points,’’ concludes ;
Warren, “‘I claim that use of the'’
‘term “chairman”? is mandatory,
and use of “chairperson’’ is in-

he is, It’s just another quirk in|

the ‘English language: that will
. plague the western world, :

Letter to the Editor

On brainwashing

To the Editor;

The NDP learned a lot from
the tactics of Adolf Hitler. The
fascists made propaganda by
telling big lies. All over Europe
we could read the slogan ‘“V —
is for Victory. Germany wins on
all fronts’’. The posters were
still up when the capitulation
was signed by Das Reich.

nists keep writing, ‘Bill Vander
Zalm loses on all fronts’’. This is
propaganda the NDP does not
have to pay for! If every naive
reader believes this lie, the
premier wil! lose indeed. It is a
dirty fascist type of brain-
washing, marking the NDP for

communist - party; the Iraqi-
backed Ba’ath party; the Syrian
national social party; The
Lebanese party... then there are
the fanatics: the Al-Amal move-
ment, Shiite Muslims backed by

Syria and Libya; The Islamic

group party in the south; the
Islamic united party in the
north; the suicidal HezboAllah;
the Islamic guard; the Prophet
organization party; the Jranian-
backed Al-Amal A\J-Islami,
specialists in assassination
and kidnapping; Al Husain;
the Faith of God movement;
the Islamic. public move-
ment; the Islamic front
organization; the Islamic army;
Jund Allah; the Islamic
resistance front; the Islamic
united workers party; and Al-
Jehad Al-Eslami, who work in-
ternationally and will probably
be the group that eventually kills
author Salmon Rushdie,

ful of these,

what it really is.

The ‘media do not want t to |

hear the truth, MLA Dave
Parker, Minister of Forests, said
lately, ‘“The NDP should change
its slogan to Sodomy forever.’'
He also said, ‘‘AIDS is a self-
inflicted wound.’’ Thank God
for péople like the premier and

- Dave who have the courage to
The NDP editors and colum-

tell it like it is. If ‘‘public opin-
ion’? ‘is indeed against our
Socred Government, because
some of its members take a
public stand against immorality,

I will pray that God will end this:

rotten world soon. -
Bill Homburg,
Terrace.

Lebanon

The leader of the most power-

spiritual. chief Abdul Karim
Aboaid, has now been kidnap-
ped by the Israelis for his sup-
port of the Palestinian
homeland cause in Israel, One
effect of this action may well be
to provide a unifying motive for
all the Muslim parties to work
together in destroying the
Israeli-backed Lebanese militia

in the south. It will also go hard.

on Christians in Beirut and in-
cense the Palestinians living in
Israel even more,

I suspect it will be a bad year

HezboAliah ~

for the U.S.A. and Israel if this

man is not released.

It is my belief that this land, a
holy land for so many of the
world’s great religions, should
not fall to the control of one
interest group, but it should be
there for everyone.

mitted.

‘The Terrace Review invites letters of thanks for publication
in the Letters to the Editor section; however, references to.
merchants and other. commercial enterprises mentioned in
those letters will be deleted. Under most circumstances,
thanks to individuals, community organizations and govern-
ment bodies and their employees will be published as sub-

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