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I don’t think that too many
people were surprised at the
outcome of the first Canada Cup
tournament, but you can be sure
that there were about eight million
- sighs of relief when Darry] Sittler
pushed the puck past Czech goalie
Viadimir Dzurilla after 11 minutes
of overtime last week to give Team
Canada a narrow’5-4 win, and the
Canada Cup trophy.

Sure, it wasn’t really a surprise,
but neither was the Team Canada
victory the sure thing that it was
supposed to be.

That is not meant to take
anything away from the play of”
Team Canada in the recent tour-
nament, who probably had to make
the biggest adjustment of all to
‘play up to the standard which they
reached during the two week
tournament. Team Canada, unlike

the European teams, was weaned .

on the concept of the ‘‘superstar”’
leading his team from the wilds on
to victory. That style of play would
not have brought them anything
during the tournament, and to their
credit, the Canadians did their best:
to try and check that idea and
attempted to meld together to form
a cohesive team unit. .
To some extent they were suc-
cessful in reaching that goal, and
that extent of success was
probably the margin of victory in
this particular tournament.
Whether or not they can repeat
their success is a matter open for
debate at this point, as is the
question of how successful the
Canadians would be on the larger

European ice surfaces without the |

added advantage of a wildly
partisan home crowd behind them.

But, leaving the hockey in this
tournament aside, there are a
couple of other points which should
be questioned at least, if not totally
answered. :

For one, what in the hell is Alan
Eagleson doing being associated in
any way with international ice
hockey competitions? After his
performance in Moscow four years
ago wherehe made his now famous

_ fore-finger salute to an unbelieving
world wide television audience in
his grand parade across the ice

surface, he should have been’

forced to spend the next ten years
of life refereeing roller derby.
Instead, he is hailed as the guru
of international hockey matches,
‘and resident expert on world
politics. Let’s face it, Alan

Eagleson is simply a Tory lawyer .

who sees international hockey as
| nothing more than an opportunity.

to amass huge sums of money for
himself and his associates in the
broadcasting business.

And, without exception, his
“analysis’’ will include some
particularly ridiculous anti-Soviet
smear in the vein that he per-
sonally was saving the Canada Cup
from bankruptcy by putting a $43
per day ceiling on the Soviet
team’s meal expense allowance
because the Soviets “had shown no
restraint” in what they ate during
the tournament.

But Alan never got around to
explaining how it was that such an
advantageous schedule, at least
from Team Canada’s point of view,
was arrived at where the Canadian

team gradually eased into the

competition by playing the weaker

teams like Finland and the United’

States first while the other two pre
tournament favorites,
Czechoslovakia and the Soviet
Union found themselves playing
each other in the first game and
then moved on to play the Swedish
team, another .particularly strong
team. :

Another point that Alan never
quite got around to explaining is
how it is that Carling O’Keefe
received so much favorable
publicity around the tournament.

But what they don’t know is that
Carlings O’Keefe is owned by
Canadian Breweries, which in turn
is directly controlled by a sub-
sidiary of Rothman’s or Pall Mall,
a giant South African -multi-
national, which bought Canadian

Breweries from the Argus Cor-

poration in 1968. So, in the face of
wide spread public condemnation
of the racist policies of South
Africa, Carlings is busy making:
friends with the Canadian public
by appearing as the savior of the
Canada Cup tournament. Soon,
Canadian. hockey fans, most of
whom are absolutely opposed to
apartheid, are going to have to
stand up and tell Carlings that
their sponsorship is not wanted in
tournaments carrying the name of
this country, just as they will have
to tell Alan Eagleson that his
presence never was, and still is not
required in these tournaments.
Anyhow, the Canada Cup is over

for this year, and despite the |

presence and antics of Alan
Eagleson, it had to rate as.a suc-
cess. Now, it’s over to you Clarence
Campbell and another season of
mediocrity liberally spiced with
violence and blood until the world
Hockey Championships next April
in Austrai.

‘Compelling African play’

Boesman and Lena, written by
South African Athol Fugard, is
currently playing at Vancouver’s
new Flamingo theatre on East
Hastings. Directed by John Stark,
Fugard has put together a story of
a South African couple, Lena, a
hard drinking coloured woman
who is knocked about by her man,

Boesman. Together, they eke outa .

miserable existence on the barren
mud flats of the Cape, a province of
South Africa, where they are
reduced by the system to vent their
frustrations on each other.

The play compellingly reflects
an aspect of South African life, that
of two downtrodden, demoralized
people who accept their lot and
whose only solution to their
problems is in the bottle.

Fugard’s reputation as_a

playwright of note was established
with the Blood Knot in 1961. At the
time he represented a_ liberal
movement amongst white writers
in South Africa who rejected
racism, promoting the freedom of
the individual. Fugard even went
so far as to use black actors in his
plays.

For this, he did not escape police
attention, and in 1967 the govern-
ment withdrew his passport. Four
years later they were persuaded to
return it after receiving a petition
of more than 4,000 whites’
‘signatures so that he could travel
to London to direct Boesman and
Lena.

Fugard had by this time aban-
doned his support for the cultural
boycott, and it should be noted that

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them are fraught with even greater

dangers for they may become a
precedent for some other countries
where the military-industrial
complexes are seeking their own
atomic bombs or already have

them and are now bent on building -

up their nuclear potential.

In this connection there were
protests, particularly in Africa,
against a nuclear deal between
France and South Africa which
may enable the racist Vorster
regime to manufacture nuclear
weapons.

The need to stem _ the
dissemination of nuclear weapons

is emphasized in the major.

documents adopted by the political
consultative committee of the
Warsaw treaty member-countries,
among which only the Soviet Union
has a nuclear potential. Six years
ago. when the non-proliferation
treaty was enforced after it was
ratified by the Soviet Union, the
USA and Britain, Leonid Brezhnev,
general secretary of the CPSU

central committee, called for such -

an atmosphere in the world which
would allow the states that have
not yet fully joined the treaty to
abide by its provisions.

A follow-up conference in
Geneva in May 1975 confirmed the
tremendous importance of the
treaty. Seventy-five out of the 110

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Powell St., and march to the

Courthouse on Georgia St...

Sponsored by the Leonard
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Sept. 25 at which time rallies and
protest demonstrations will be held
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signed the treaty said in Geneva
that they fully approved of its basic
provisions. The call to close all the
loopholes leading to _ the

proliferation of nuclear weapons is
increasingly urgent today.

SEAN ‘GRIFFIN, Tribune
assistant editor, is in Helsinki,
Finland, attending a conference of
the International Organization of
Journalists. He visited Prague and
Moscow enroute and will be back
at his post in the latter part of
September. The 1OJ is an interna-
tional democratic organization of
progressive journalists. :

this production received an official
South African subsidy and was
acclaimed in the nationalist
newspaper ‘‘Die Burger’’.

_ Essentially, Boesman and Lena
pose no threat to the South African
way of life. They are poor, har-
mless creatures—though Lena is
not without*her dignity. She riles
her husband for his subserience to
the white ‘‘baas’’, she gives up a
bottle of wine and her blanket for a
sick African who joins their fire at
her request.

But, the old man dies—and for all
of her talk and good intentions she
too. loses heart and follows
Boesman. A-note from Fugard’s
diary at the time of his writing of
Boesman and Lena ponders the
Zen philosophical axiom: ‘‘the
harder you try, the more it eludes
you”.

The play itself is only half the
truth about the oppressed people in
South Africa. It totally ignores the
struggles of the African people and
the dignity and courage required to
wage those struggles.

Fugard exploits the tragedy of
the situation and leaves it at that.
Anything further would be un-
comfortable. He describes himself
a ‘‘élassic example of the guilt-
ridden, impotent, white liberal of
South Africa’’ and his play reflects
that. But, for all that the play is a
reflection of the white liberal
conscience of South Africa, it is
still worth seeing. The production
and acting are excellent
throughout, with a true South
African flavor, and the play cer-

_ tainly adds to one’s understanding
_ of the oppressive white system in

that country.

As Ben Metcalfe said on his CBC
review of cultural events in
Vancouver, it’s the best thing on at
themoment. Apart from which, the
Sepia Players are attempting to
provide honest and progressive
theatre, and need all the support
they can get.

An added treat is the playing of
taped South African freedom songs
during the intermission, and the
availability of literature on and

“about Southern Africa courtesy of
Action —

the Southern Africa
Coalition.
—Anne Nicholson

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