Two floats brought a serious message to the usual fanfare and
ceremony of the annual PNE parade. Top photo shows the entry by the
B.C. Peace Council with its call to ‘join hands and work for peace.”’
Bottom photo shows the float built by the United Fishermenand Allied
Workers Union which was largely ignored by the media because of its
slogans ‘‘Teeth for the Prices Review Board” and “Stop Profiteering.”

aby he

ouis XIV of France who arrogantly proclaimed to

L the French people clamoring for a measure of

democracy, ‘‘L’etate’est moi’’ (Iam the state) had nothing on
‘“King’’ Richard Milhouse Nixon of the United States.

In his most recent speech to the American people, and to
the world, Nixon not only gave out with a heavy dose of **L’etat
c’est moi”’ gibberish, but added a hefty dash of the ‘‘divine
right of kings’’, ‘‘national security’’ and all the rest of it,
primarily to shut off the Watergate Senate Investigation
hearings, muzzle thecritical voice of the Americanpeople,
bury the whole sorry mess inthe courts, and get on with the
business of running the nation— Nixonstyle. Even hard-boiled
ultra-rightists of the Barry Goldwater vintage couldn’t
stomach the latest Nixon spew.

On the assumption that ‘‘the king can do no wrong’’. . . or
even if that monarch becomes one of the nation’s greatest
criminals onthe loose, his ‘‘divine’’ right to the protective
coverage of confidentiality is made to serve as a handy cover-
up for criminality in high places. That confidentiality king
Nixon belaboured as his excuse for notreleasing important
taped conversations between king Richard and his numerous
appointed satraps, now inundated by the Watergate flood.
These tapes would establish what every sane citizen in the U.S.
and elsewhere now knows: that king Richard knew all about
the burglaries, conspiracies and corruption that brought on
the deluge of Watergate, prior to the occurrence of each
incident.

Tocomplete its job of getting at the truth of Watergate,
Chairman Sam Ervin and his Watergate Committee need
those tapes. They are the ‘‘missing link’’, so to speak,
necessary to separate lies and falsehoods from truth. But the

STANLEY PARK ENTRANCE

TEAM pushing Dawson
Developments project

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Weseem to be back at square
one with the property at the
eritrance to Stanley Park, just
where we were two years ago
when Mayor Tom Campbell and
the NPA-dominated' City
Council were supporting the
Four Seasons developers.

The only difference now is that
Dawson Developments has
acquired the property and we
now have a TEAM majority on
Council pushing the project,
trying to brainwash the public
into accepting the new scheme.
The TEAM— dominated Parks
Board also is backing the
Dawson developers.

For 10 years the people of Van-
couver have adamantly opposed
any private development on this
site. We want it developedasa
public amenity, under public
ownership and control, andasa
part of Stanley Park. Dawson De-
velopments proposes a_ $50
million development on the site
which willincludea hotel, office
tower and four high rise apart-
ments. Basically it is no
different and no better than what
the Four Seasons developers
proposed. Team Aldermen have
apparently- learned nothing
from the tremendous campaign
of citizen opposition that
developed at the time, which
TEAM Aldermen supported or
pretended to support.

The recommendation of Coun-
cil’s Waterfront Committee
headed by Alderman Pendakur
that the city acquire the four
acresimmediately adjacentto
Stanley Park and let Dawson De-
velopments go ahead with their
project on the other 10.5 acres

doesn’t change matters— itis
the thin edge of the wedge to
push the Dawson project
through Council.

TEAM is.now considering the

idea of submitting a proposal to
buy the property to a public
referendum this fall, just as the
NPA did two years ago. Mayor
Campbell, in his campaign to
defeat any public purchase of the
property, placed an inflated
price of $9 million on the
property. In spite of that 51
percent of taxpayers voted to
buy it.

Now TEAM proposes to go

Campbell one better. They are
considering placing a com-
pletely unrealistic value of up to
$14.5 million on the property. It

is presently assessed for $4
million on the city’s assessment
roll. Dawson Developments is
reported to have paid $6 million
for it. Yet TEAM wants to place
a vastly exaggerated value onit.

The reason behind this is not diffi-

cult to see through. If citizens
turn it down, as they might well
do because the price -is out-
rageous, Dawson developers
could go ahead. If citizens voted
to buy, Dawson developers
make a financial killing of
millions without having spent a
nickel to develop the property.

In preparation for such a re-
ferendum and = such an
exaggerated price on the pro-
perty, City Council is now going
through the motions of arranging
to have the property appraised.
The question is— on what basis
will the appraisal be made?
Depending on that you can get
any figure you want. Will it be
appraised on the basis of com-

confidentiality of l-am-the-state king Richardsaysnoinanew

outpouring of empty rhetoric.

Back in April this same king made another speech on

Watergate, whichinessence said: if thenumerouscrooksl
have appointed to high positions in the White House, have done
wrong, then like other criminals, they must be punished. But as
your choice in the high office of president, I accept full
responsibility for these crimes. Now this responsibility is slid
over to the shelf marked confidentiality, with the ‘‘divine
right of kings’ invoked to keep it there!

To take the eyes and ears off Watergate, the primeaim
and purpose of all suchkingly dithyrambs, a new adventure of
desperation is being mooted by the Nixon administration and
the Pentagon— the renewed bombing of North Vietnam, for
its alleged ‘‘aggression”’ of South Vietnam.

While such news make the U.S. warconspiratorsand their
monopoly Merchants of Deathintensely happyinboththeU:S.
and Canada, the growing peace forces in both countries are not
asleep at the switch. Moreover such forces will grow. The
revelations of Watergate have spurred, and will continue to
spur that growth, just as the enforced halting of Nixon’s
wanton bombing of the peoples and hamlets of Cambodia
provide great encouragement towards such growth, And,
contrary to the old adage that ‘‘kings can do no wrong”’, history
is daily providing new evidence that all such parasitic power
wielders can seldom, if ever, do what is right. King Richard
would have made more political yardageif he hadkepthis trap
shut and handed over thosecriminal tapes tothe Watergate
Senate Committee to confirm the truth, and thus narrow the
credibility gap between the rulers and the ruled.

“‘Let’s get on with the job I was elected to do”’ pontificates
king Richard. Butin the mountainous volume that emerges
from Watergate, the question may yet be asked, — wasking
Richard Millhous Nixon ever really elected (in the real sense
of the word) for a second term? At this point in time, (a
popular expression of those caught in the Watergate deluge),
the answer to that one has still to be determined, just as the
dignity, credibility and morality of existing bourgeois govern-
ment needs to be reaffirmed and restored. A big job fora
social system in crisis, but essential for what may follow.

Meanwhile, as all would-be dicataors would say who are
tired with the curbs of democracy, “‘L’ etat c’est moi”.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1973—PAGE 2

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was originally zoned? OF
comprehensive as it }8 1M
zoned? Or how? as
My position is that the cn
must acquire this 14.
property and keep it for P
use, developing it under PY
control asa suitable entram
Stanley Park. This couldbe
by the city rezoning the prope
for public use. lam assures y
Corporation Counsel that,
City of Vancouver has the!
to rezone properties for the
of the community.
Let me quote fro
Plan for the City of Vane
British Columbia, 1928, Pae®
paragraphs 1 and 2.
‘In the final devett
the public shores of
Inlet and the Bay, itisP
that the following genera
should be followed:

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cleaned up. Anefforts t
made to secure a comP
construction of the |
frontage along Georg!4
from Cardero or We
section of Georgia ane”
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structures which sone
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