not that the Americans can’t t they can’t win it.” * * N confirmed. * * lot 195), ok “nd rico . fullmas * thd Prof. Louis. Sabourin of Sorry to start this column with something that is neither a quip dr a quirk, but we just had to quote Toronto Star editor-in-chief ter C. Newman’s article from Washington: “The real reason there Such anguish here about Vietnam, the root cause of all the trouble, get out of this nightmare war, but mn x Pea Tee a | | 1 | | af eww * e U.S. Air Force has called off its 21-year-old investigation of saucers,” whose cost ran into millions of dollars, as “no nger justified either on the ground of national security or in the erest of science.” Suggest new subjects for investigation: “flying Wflops” and “disappearing dollars.” * UPI reports from Los Angeles that ‘‘a former fighter pilot has t up for sale one of the more unusual souvenirs of World War Adolf Hitler’s toilet seat.” The rumor that the precious relic S bought by Spiro Agnew as a frame for his portrait has not * ence Oil Co. of Michigan has announced discovery of a size- ve oil reef near Sarnia in Ontario. Are we soon to expect a "cession movement of the township a la Biafra? * F Senior citizens got a generous gift from the city-run Toronto ansit Commission: half-fare transportation on subway, buses and PERCALS The TTC got big-hearted only when it was assured Sses" would be covered (actually it is making a little on the “©, Since the number of older people using the TTC will increase). Our respected grannies and grandpas? Well, they each have to ri, Mugged” (what, not fingerprinted!) to make sure some visiting le ie doesn’t get on a Toronto streetcar for half fare .. . Merry * the University of Ottawa says it is an of tOUunding mistake” for Canada to withdraw from the Internatio- utid ‘ stitutions”, “Nile g f° ™plices to a crime? the! The Tele Latinfrank asst t oPNfesses ¢ sophd C re ' Control Commission in Cambodia because “the United States Us a Canadian presence in South-East Asia and in international - How long are we supposed to run interference for ( Killer”) Sam, professor? And what does the law say about * gram (Toronto) reports its deported correspondent Aaron r S saying he was repeatedly offered “money and women” U.S.S.R. to write nice things about the Soviet Union, and oi hat he himself found that “panty hose, Beatle records € were excellent mediums used in the bribery of Soviets.” dle Over, Herr Goebbels, James Bond, Mickey Spillane et al, ed)". "°om:for a real master of the smear. * rbaenks ‘eal ‘ ; 4 2 ee bteet ® illid A Reuters. despatch from Washington says that “the army has @SPended Toving 1p! ;.xon O ‘leant f hondue a rel as People expendable?) sch’ Edith p, : néorld fa f hiet a jo rm ie és! tests of nerve gas and other deadly chemicals at its Utah frounds near where 6,000 sheep died last year.” Does think that it’s not humane to kill sheep with chemicals or human beings, or does he consider the tests obligingly ted at Suffield, Alta. sufficient? (Are Canadian sheep as * evenyi, a) Hungarian ballerina who once danced with the ™Mous Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow and toured Europe, can’t hatte ae In her line in Canada. She told newsmen how in Hungary nan trained from childhood. joined the Budapest State Opera Y at 14, danced the lead in The Nutcracker at 16, went on “om pol. x here to ever greater heights, had “a lucrative two-year con- ac wevas —s She came to Canada last spring because her husband of Ver poe ealy under pressure as a “political undesirable”—what- : dis meant by that. And here she can’t dance. . . f. SOsh tile oe yhit at she d rug! t can it /Pitalist Cana jhok gti flow 330d rest ye merry, gentlemen . . . ni yn? au? J ‘st before Christmas a let- > tM : pithareg vo" bY John Morley, ap- ll . On the pages of the To- ant'° Daily Star, which we can- ind@~ PUt pass on to our readers. Is, re it is: t MNod rest ye merry, gentle- ie & et nothing you dismay. athe +; en the tragic deaths of 5 Ontiy +, girls found frozen re- s5¢hq $a an unheated shack on oe Lake Indian Re- nak “©: 250 miles north of Ed- frof "ton. . col ne the thousands of Indian i fe who will eat nothing 4 p.. read and potatoes this aoe right here in Canada, ae land of plenty, in this oh Society, — : teeaS sorry, we really are. After the Hungarian people inc much time and substance to train a fine artist at least “ehnada should get some benefit from it, if she’s so ungrateful eprives the Hungarian people of it. (We may be wrong, be Miss Devenyi is learning some political lessons in da that she neglected to learn in socialist Hungary?) And be not dismayed that this Christmas, as in past years, at the Hainey Correctional Insti- tute—a modern minimum secur- ity establishment, at Hainey, B.C. — many young Indians will re- ceive food and shelter in the only way they know how at this time of year. Each winter they com- mit minor infringements of the law in order to receive sentences. This is their only guarantee of food and shelter in conditions of near-starvation and a total lack of job opportunities. Be not dismayed by the sob- bing Ojibway tots up: north who get smartly strapped for speak- . ing their own dialects in the schoolyard. end s If you have stayed with. me thus far, without donning those In hockey’s birthplace (ATE) ETT EE Soviet Nationals play in Canada By BORIS KOROLEV (APN Correspondent) The 10-gallon Russian samo- var and other prizes of the Mos- cow International Hockey Tour- nament held early in December were brought to be presented to the Canadians by a Soviet Na- tional Team which on Dec. 15 arrived by air for Canada to par- ticipate in the traditional De- cember tour. The Soviet team plays as follows: Goalies Vladi- ‘mir Shapovalov and Vladislav Tretyak; defense, Alexander Ba- gulin, Victor Kuzkin, Igor Romi- shevsky, Alexander Gusev, Vi- taly Davydov, Evgeny Poladyev and Yury Lyapkin; forwards, Va- lery Kharlamov, Vladimir Pet- rov, Boris Mikhailov, Victor Po- lupanov, Anatoly Firsov, Alex- ander Maltsev, Vyacheslav Star- shinov, Evgeny Zimin, Vladimir Shadrin, Piotr Andreev, Sergei Solodukhin and Igor Grigoryev. Eight games in all will be played. This won’t be a recon- naissance. The rival teams know each other well -enough. It is very unlikely that McLeod will make cardinal changes for games against the Soviet National. It is one thing to put up a couple of new players, but quite an- other to replace half the team and show up one’s cards at the peak of the championship. The International Tournament in Moscow showed up both strong and weak points of all the: six teams which are to meet in March in Winnipeg and Mon- treal. The tournament was full of surprises and a thorough re- appraisal of values had to be - made. The Moscow. tournament is over. Its importance was _in enabling the participants in the coming World Championships to see themselves and rivals in dead earnest. Coaches can dia- gnose with precision their own and others’ maladies. For the Canadians, according to Jackie McLeod and Charles Hay, this tournament was useful in that they learned a lot of things about | arranging a hockey forum. Jackie told me that he liked very much the way meetings on Moscow ice were thought out. blinkers which so many of us find easier to wear than facing the facts, spare a thought for the many Iroquois children who sleep huddled with their bro- thers and sisters, often eight or 10 to a room, in tiny, damp and chilly unheated shacks. Be not dismayed that many tiny teeth cannot cope with a candy bar due to lack of proper dental care, even if they were fortunate enough to receive these goodies. No, let nothing: you dismay, — gentlemen. It is so.much more _ convenient to pretend that our - team to become a world cham- original people don’t really ex- ist, and that the only children’ who desperately need food and help live in Africa, India or some other faraway under-priv-— ileged nation. ~~ ~~ - available in Moscow, A Canada-USSR game in Moscow in the recent international maaan ment. “Musical and light preludes to the hockey spectacle produced a remarkably solemn mood for playing. Accommodation and board were excellent, and so was transport. The time free from games and training was remark- ably used for visiting the best theatres and seeing Moscow.” The Canadian players also mentioned a well-disposed and intelligent audience: “You are sure that in Moscow no one will throw a bottle or a rubber on the field. Though there is no short- age of bottles and rubbers in Moscow.” They all praised the food—since sportsmen are hard to please, their praise was a compliment for the chef. “Your steaks are excellent,’ said Bayes, “but milk is poor.” I learned at the restaurant where the Canadians -had_ their meals ‘what kind of milk it was. There are 10 varieties of milk and one was offered to the team. What should have been done was to have asked the team’s doctor to taste all the 10. He would have chosen the one with a fat con- tent suitable for the Canadian hockey players. Next time this perhaps ‘should be done.» But interesting though the Moscow Tournament was, the world championships remain cen- tral: It must be admitted that nearly all coaches of the Europ- ean teams are looking across the ocean without their usual doses of optimism. The Moscow tour- nament has already furnished answers to some questions. The Canadians, for instance, do not conceal their satisfaction that the new rules permit body check- ing all over the ice. “Of course, this is in our favor, as we play this way from seven years on.” The Europeans, however, did not like the present. Soviet play- ers have always had a taste for body checking, But seeing what a trump it is becoming in the hands of the Canadian, Arkady Gernyshev said: ““We saw that a jinn was let out of the bottle by allowing body checking all over the ice. I think this novelty bene- fits only the Canadians who have been able to place high in the tournament. The Europeans aré only making their first and not always sure steps in this direc- tion.” “The Swedish coach Sorem- “berg is convinced: “At home the Canadians will play as never before, and for. any European pion it will be necessary: to win »-both matches against the hosts.” The Finn Liitsola considers that the Europeans will be handi- caped by the rinks° which are narrower than in »Europe. It seems to him that body check- ing all over the ice improves hockey and makes it really spec- tacular. The Czech, -Vladimir Kostka asserts that the point is not so much about body check- ing as in the fact that umpires, quite evidently, will permit very tough playing at the champion- ships. “Given this ‘freedom,’ it would be by far harder to com- pete even with those Canadians who played in = Prague and Moscow.” Europeans are clearly afraid that the Canadian national will retain only Hack’s trio, forward Billy Harris and a couple of de- fensemen. The rest of the vacan- cies will be filled with profes- sionals. There are also other reasons for speculation among Europeans. .They were-put in ‘a difficult’ position by a recent statement by Avery . Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, who said that sportsmen who will play with professionals in the World Championships in Canada will not. be admitted. to. the 1972 Olympic. Games., Ahearne com- ments: ‘The situation is a com- plicated one. The question of the participation by professionals will again be discussed at a meeting of the European execu- tive of our League on January 3-4 in Geneva. If we fail to reach an amicable understanding with the Canadians, a congress of the League will be convened to ex- amine this ill-fated problem. I hope things will not go so far.” We know that the Canadians* are preparing a surprise for the Europeans: A team almost en- tirely made up of professionals. It is no secret that the Europ- eans are preparing an equally excellent surprise for the Cand- dians: a full ban on the partici- pation of professionals. Where is the wise king Solomon who can find a compromise to please claimants to the world hockey crown? And now let us return to our samovars. Charles Hay, presi- dent of Hockey Canada, on leav- ing Moscow, said: “We are go- ing away with the only problem: No one has learned how to han- dle the prize samovar. From Russian. literature we know about ceremonies of traditional tea-drinking. I hope the spon- sors of the Hockey Tournament will. send us in Canada recom- mendations and instructions on how to. use the samovar.” It will be interesting to know what prizes await the victors in the World Championships in Canada. Will they be silver kegs of Canada’s beer? ? SBRETFIC TRIBUNE TANUARY 2; 1970 Pade 9