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Country cousin: “You
don't have to live ‘here
year round. ... You have
electricity at home,”
City bay: “I don't have

‘any hens like you do

| grumbling about wor!
in the cow barn::‘What’s -

bucolic. life, and the
disitlusionment that
comes with the discovery
that farm life Is not all
pancakes for breakfast,
jumping in the hay mows,
and .smoking corn allk
wrapped in a leaf from

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Arrows Bx

By Nigel E. Hannaford

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What used to be the telephone office back
In the early fifties, and later became a
sporting goods store and then home for
Tilden Rent-A-Car, the buliding located at
4542 Lakelse Avenue has been torn down to

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make room for a new cement block.
Structure that will be the new office for.
Tilden. The bullding will also have two
service bays located at the back for.
mechanics and carwash facilities.

British drama

irritating, silly —

Saigon: Year of the Cat
is a British drama “about -
love in the afiermath of
war,” says a C3C
publicity release about
the film the network is
carrying Friday.

Unfortunately, the
release is dead on. The
two-hour film set in the
dying days of the
American presence in’
Vietnam does con-
centrate on a love affair
—an irritating Ilttle piece
of silliness that simply
wastes time.

Mercifully, however,
the lovers have a spat
about 45 minutes into the
movie and part company.
With that soap opera out
of the way, the movie has

a fighting chance because —

it now is free to focus on
the human tragedy In a
Saigon ‘under slége in
1975.

The movie, made in
Thailand by Britain’s
Thames Television, has

mere than a passing
resemblance to last
year’s The Year of Living
Dangerously, a movie set
in another war-torn Asian
country, Indonesia. In
that film, too, the love
story — between Mel
Gibson and Sigourney
Weaver merely

marked time until the:

supporting cast, led by

Linda Hunt (who won an
Oscar), were on the
streen,

LOVERS MEET

“In Year of the Cat, the
lovers who meet in the
months leading up to the
fell of Saigon in April
1975, are Barbara (Judi
Dench),.a middle-aged
British bank officer, and
Bob (played by a wooden
Frederic Forrest), a
lough-guy CLA agent.

Barbara, the. movie
would have us believe, is
the only foreigner
worried about what will
happen to the South
Viemamese loyal to the

Aout PEOPLE

It was a tamily affair at
“unofficial” 58th birthday party.

Helping her celebrate

Queen Elizabeth's
at Windsor Castle on

Saturday were Prince Philip, Prince Charles and

Diana and their little son Prince Willam, Andrew .

and Edward, Princess Anne and her two children,
Princess Margaret and her two children, and the

Queen Mother,

The Queen has a second, official birthday, on June
16—- when there is a better chance of sunny weather

than in mid-April — when she attends the annual —

Trooping the Color ceremony in London.

The Queen probably had a few words for Prince
Andrew, who has been hit with compensation claims
from U.S. journalists after he sprayed them with
white paint during a recent visit to Los Angeles,

The Queen might settle the claims, London's
Sunday Express said. “Royal advisers see this as the
best way to smooth over the diplomatic row following
the prince’s disastrous U.S, visit,’* the paper added.

The prince, labelled a “spoiled rich kid” by one
journalist, said the spraying was an accident.

“Although the

Queen has

undoubtably

reprimanded the prince severely, it is unlikely that
she will expect him topay compensation trom his own
limited resources,'' the paper said. .

Andrew receives $28,000 a year from state funds
and $280.a week as a Royal Navy lleutenant.

es

Proving that, as the ad says, Canadian Tire is more
than just tires, employees and a customer helped a
woman deliver a “fighting baby boy” in the store’s

washroom recently.

The unidentified woman was in the washroom of
the automotive and hardware store in Orillia, Ont.,

when Patricia Ryersee, the wife of the store's service |

manager, heard a commotion and investigated.
“She was sitting there with the baby in her arms,"
Ryersee said. “[ guess she was shopping and thought
she had to go to the washroom.”
A male nurse in the store waiting for his truck to be
fixed took charge until an ambulance arrived.

Rock ‘n’ Roller Jerry Lee Lewis will marry a 2-
year-old aspiring singer, his road manager says.

It will be the sixth marriage for the 49-year-old
singer, whose fitth wife died of a drug overdose last

August.

J.W. Whitten said the singer's marriage to Kerrie
McCarver of Memphis, Tenn, would be a private
affair, “restricted to family and friends.”

of Lewis's marriages ended in divorce, and
his fourth wife, Jaren, drowned in a friend's swim-

ming pool in 1982.

Rose Kennedy needed oxygen alter fainting during

a holiday dinner with her family, but responded well
to the treatment, her doctor says.

The 93-year-old mother of Senator Edward Ken-
nedy remains at her home in Palm Beach, Fla, and
was feeling “quite well” Sunday, said a woman who

answered her telephone.

,

However, Mra, Kennedy was unable to go out for
Easter Mass, and a service was celebrated at her

home.

United States now that
the Viet Cong are moving
in and the Americans are
pulling out... -

Her conscience affects
her CIA boyfriend, who
tries to. persuade the
American ambassador to
Bave endangered Viet-
hamese civilians, .

It doesn’t happen. The
Americans — ultimately
betrayed thousands of
their friends,
them behind to face the
wrath of the Viet Cong.

The final minutes show
a sickening spectacle as

‘hundreds ‘of panicking

Vietnamese, who have
been promised they'll be
taken care of, scramble
to get inside the
American compound and

leaving -

on to a helicopter that will’

‘take them to safety.

SEATS RESERVED

But . the few" ‘seats:

available have '- been

reserved for Europeans

and big-wig Vietnamese
officials.

That this happened is
not in question. But the

easier route of finding a
single villain to blame for

the tragedy. The bad guy

here is-the American
ambassador, played by
E.G,  Marshall.. (The
ambassador was Graham
Martin, but he is not
referred to by name.)

. According to the film,
the Americans did not
begin a pullout of
civilians earlier becanse
the ambassador wouldn't
allow it. He did this, the
movie says, because he
didn't believe the Viet
Cong would take Saigon
and also because ‘he
thought Congress would
refuse him aid money If it
believed South Vietnam
was going to fall,

It may well be that the
diplomat believed those
things, But can It possibly
be ‘that’ an ambassador

- was calling the shots an

his own, withotit. ‘any.
direction from “ns

masters in Washington? -

Vietnam, after all,'was °
still the major world fit . .

film's explanation of why spot and ‘the diplomdl’s
it happened stretches the supériors had pe have
imegination— and points more - than. -a. passing
out an inherent danger in interest in what was

docudramas: facts are
oversimplified for the
sake of drama.

In this case, the movie
takes the dramatically

happening there. Might it
not be possible that the
ambassador behaved the
way he did because he
was following orders?

Entertainment -

orts

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar-winning actress
Patricia Neal says she’s afraid that with publicity °
about her medical problems, some people may think>

her acting days are over.

Neal, 58, now lives in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass,
after her divorce last year from British author Roald
Dahl, with whom she lived for 30 years. Dahl helped

nurse her back from a series of crippling strokes she

Suffered in 1965,

“My problem is convincing people that I'm well
again and able to work,” she said on 9 recent visit
here. “Of course, the right side of my body has been a
bit of a mess since my strokes, but otherwise I'm

fine.”

Neal, who won her Academy Award for Hud, has
roles in an ABC-TV‘ pilot, Glitter, and a Walt Disney
cable-TV movie, Love Leads the Way.’ od

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NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran actress Lana Turner.

‘ fell while boarding a jet in Los Angeles and left the |

flight in New York in a wheelchair and suffering
“great pain,” a syndicated TV show host SAYS,

But in the best show-must-go-on tradition, the 64-
year-old Turner was described as determined to.
continue a trip to Cairo, Egypt, to finish a film

segment for a show.

_ Turner was met’ at the plane Saturday by: host
Robin Leach, who had filmed her at her home in
California for his show, Lifestyles of the Rich and
Famous. He planned to complete the episode in

Egypt. .

MONTREAL (CP) — French director Michel
Pamart won first prize Sunday at the third In-
ternational Art Film Festival for his film, Jean Le

Gace et le peintre L.

Initially produced for French television; the film
‘depicted how artist and sereenplay writer Le Gac
was influenced by illustrations he saw in books as a

child

Second prizes went to Swiss cinematographer

Erwin Leiser for his po

rtrait of American ex-

pressioniat painter Willem de Kooning and to Stephen
Dwoskin of Britain for the film Shadows From Light.

In the video section of the festival, honorable
mentions were handed to Quebecers Chantal Dupont, .
for Bon becs de Chine, and Roland Paret, for

Abakanowicz.

The festival, Ihich began last Tuesday, featured 72
films and 15 videos from a dozen countries — all
focusing on artists at work.

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mn)

“All that is left is .
_. thecostto ©
the taxpayer

“OTTAWA (CP) — A'special tax set up four years
ago to fund greater Canadian ownership of the oil in-

‘dustry will be turned into just another tax. The

government has introduced legislation that would
enable Ottawa to use the money for general pur-
poses,” ,
Endofarticle. ~ : . .
There is a precedent for this kind of thing, of-
course. Income tax was 4 special measure to fund

Canada’s participation in the First World War. But
_ doesn’t It just seem so cynical, so typical of this

government? Once they get their teeth into a new

* source of revenue, they won't let It go.

Remember four years ago all the patriotic clap-
trap about how disgusting it was that those awful
Yanks owned so much of our oil and natural gas in-
dustry? What an insult to national honor it was and
for just three cents a litre we could now buy it all

* hack?-

‘Hah! They bought a French company out in
Eastern Canada and Pacific 66 in the west and sud-
denily the people’s gas stalions served the dominion
coast to coast. They never found any new oll but In_
the meantime, we were all paying more for gas:
Other aspects of this foolish nationalistic policy
were to ruin the oil industry in our part of the world
and drive the Canadian-owned service industry into
receivership. ;

Meanwhile, Imperial Oil, Gulf, Texaco and the
other big.U.S. companies: are still out there doing
their thing, which ts prohably just as well. Atleast
one of them (Gulf) is findingell. © - oy

The. damage done, the National Energy Policy is
being allowed to fizzle out, the taxes siphoned off to
some other ‘‘worthy" cause, (Maybe some other
socialist republic needs a $100 million monument to .
Its revolution.) All that is left is the cost to the tax-
payer — and a western Canada that has been whip-
ped back into line, which was probably what It was

~ all about anyway. -

catalogu
behind the-barn; “-°-:

The boy in this case i
Dave McIntosh, an
honorary member of the
‘Parliamentary Press
Gallery Association .and
for more than a quarter-
century one of the moat
incisive of reporters for
The Canadian Press,
covering the senior. beats -
of defence, foreign affairs
and politics in Ottawa.
HIDES GENTLENESS

He’s known’'as a crusty
veteran of the news
reporter's craft. But The
Seasons of My Youth,
MelIntosh's second book,
reveals he Isn't like ‘that
at all. .

The air of a .taciturn
and sometimes — hot-
tempered curmudgeon
hides a gentle, sensitive
nature, grown out of a
boy ‘who was inquisitive,
proud but self-effacing,
wanting acceptance as a
man, .

These reminiscences of
the late 1920s and early
1990s are simply told, in
the direct, uncolored
words of a reporter.

MclIntosh’s S€ASONE
alternated  —_ between
winters in Stanstead, in
Quebec's Eastern
Townships, where his
widowed mother lived
comfortably on a pension
of $1,000 a year, and
summers on her parents’

“farm at Jacksontown,
N.B., near Woodstock,

~ surrounded by uncles and ©
_ aunts and cousins who

could, it seemed, be
numbered in the dozens

like Admiral Sir Joseph -
HMS .

_Porter’a in

Pinafore.

Home in winter was a
relentiess battle against
the cold — wrestling with
a ldzy “furnace and
warding off chimney fires
while playing hockey and
listening to: Foster
Hewitt’s hockey night in
Canada broadcasts and a
diet of what now is called
Golden Age radio — Jack
Benny, the Chase and
Sanborn Hour, Lux Radio
Theatre, Town Hall
Tonight,- and Major
Bowes. Amateur Hour,
FOLLOWS PROTOCOL

Summer meant a boy's
first ride in a truck,
taking a load of potatoes
to market (selling price,
$1.00 for 19 barrels), and
the protecol of the farm
house parlor (boys never
entered, except to be
shown off to visitors).

MclIntosh’s first book
Terror in the Starboard

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Seat, now has. gone-inte
translation and into. hard |
cover’ and ‘paperback
printings in Britain and
the United States..
These memoirs of his
air force days were such
an’ evocation of his
wartime exploits that
they elicited an. angry
comment from an air
force squadron leader
who said McIntosh was a
disgrace to the service,
Melntosh’s rejoinder was
the fellow officer missed
the point of the book: he
certainly was. -_
This second book now
leaves a large gap to be
filled, between ~
MelIntosh's boyhood
years and his wartime
experiences. His
reminiscences of high
school and college days at
the University of Toronto,
where he graduated as an
honors English student,
needs also to be told in his
clear, | unembroidered ©
way.
Top 10
Here are the week's
Top 10 fiction and non-
fiction books as compiled
by Maclean's magazine.
Bracketed figures in-

dicate position last week.
FICTION .
11) The Aquitaine

Progression — Ludlum
2(2) Pet Sematary —
King ;

3(3) Poland — Michener
4(7) Smart Women —
Blume

§(6) The Wicked Day —
Stewart

6(4) Lord of the Dance —
Greeley

7(9) Blueheard’s Egg —

* Atwood ‘
“g(5) The Name of the

Rose — Eco

9(8) Berlin Game
Deighton

10(—) The Leopard Hunte
in Darkness — Smith —
NON-FICTION

1(1) The Game — Dryden
25) In Search of
Excellence — Peters and
Waterman Jr.

3(4) The March of Folly
- Tuchman

4(—) Further Up . the
Organization — ‘Town-
send: co
5(2)' Putiing the One
Minute Manager to Work
— Blanchard and Lorber
6(—) Sex and Destiny —

Greer ot
7(9) Intrepid's Last Case
--- Stevenson -
8(10) Lines and Shadows
— Wambaugh =
(8) The Money Spintiers
— McQueen |

10(6) The Discoverers —
Boorstin

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