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.”

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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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