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Letters to
the Editor

To the Editor,

For the past two years, I have been
researching a book detailing the
experiences of Canadians who served
or worked in Southeast Asia during the
Vietnam Era. .

To date, 1 have confirmed several
hundred Canadians who served with
US., Australian and New Zealand
‘Armed Forces in Vietnam as well a5
Canadian troops who served with the

series of International Controls -

Commissions between 1965 - 78,
Canadian journalists, doctors, nurses
and others whose duties ranged from
covert operations to rescuing orphans.
1 am appealing to your readers, who
may have served or know someone who
did, to contact: Doug Clark, 7 Douglas
Crescent, Fegus, Ontario. N1M 1C1 519-
943-4019, :
Thanking you in advance for your
assistance, I remain.
Yours truly,
Doug Clark

Art Lee new Liberal

RICHMOND, B.C. (CP)
— Seven hundred who

"WASHINGTON (CP) — The United

States-wants Canada to demonstrate - -

support for U.S.-backed political forces

‘in El: Salvador, putting Canadian
External Affaira Minister’: Allan

“MacEachen on the spot in advance ofa’,

visit to the strifetorn region this week. - |"

MacEachen, who is conferring with |
US. State Secretary George Shultz in.”

Washington before heading to Central:
America Tuesday, was understood to
have been asked by Shultz to add El
Salvador to his itinerary.
_. Also’ discussed among MacEachen’s
aldes was a proposal for Canada to
provide observers to help aversee the °
next stage of-elections in El Salvador, .
‘which ‘are being conducted against the
opposition of insurgent leftist forces in
the Central American country. oy
The written request, submitted in
advance. of © MacEachen-Shultz
meetings Sunday night and today, was-

* proposed asa way of displaying support

~ Poland’s :

WARSAW (AP) — Poland's
Communist government ridiculed Lecti
Walesa today as the world’s “most-

» titled citizen,” suggesting sarcastically
that a royal crown might be next in his °
_ array of honors. .

The attack in the Communist. pa
newspaper Trybuna Ludu came a day

after Walesa, a founder of the outlawed ‘-

labor union Solidarity and the 1983
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, denounced

the official campaign to remove —

crucifixes from public buildings.

In a statement issued from his
Gdansk ‘apartment Sunday, Walesa
said Poles will use all means available
to. win the so-called “war of the .
crosses,”

Without mentioning Walesa by name,
Trybuna Ludu scoffed at his latest
honor — becoming an honorary monk of
the Pauline order at the Jasna Gora
Monastery in Czestochowa, site of |
Pojand’s holiest icon. '

Listing Walesa’s awards and honors,
including the Peace Prize and honorary
doctorates from western universities,
the newspaper declared him a “recard- ©

garnered three per cent of

the the popular vote in the.

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fo democratic leaders engaged in a

is ‘enmeshed in civil wai:

preaidential election while the country oh

- The Canadian minister, who.was

“expected to reply to Shultz-today, was. ”
umderstood from informants to ‘have’;

‘received conflicting advice “from

‘diplomatic. aides.

 SEE-DANGERS ae
MacEachen had to weigh the idea of. ©

encouraging an electoral solution to the °
four-year-old strife in El Salvador

- against the appearance of lining up
‘With one side in the struggle at the
. behest of Washington. we

The minister's travel plans origi

iy
excluded El Salvador, with the official

~ Peason’a desire to avoid seeming to

meddle in the country’s affairs."

Aides sald it would. be hard for
MacEachen to avold meeting there
with: the two leaders — Christian .

Democrat Jose Napoleon Duarte and -
"-Hghtist candidate Roberto d'Aubulsson

communists ridicule Walesa

holder” as “the most titled citizen in

the world.”

. ‘STRIKES AT WEAK'

“Why not adding a symbolic
presidential title — suggested not long

_ ago by some. organizations operating

abroad — or even a

Trybuna Ludu said.
On- Sunday, Walesa said student

protests were spreading against the

royal crown?”

" government ban on crosses in public

buildings. He said authorities were «

striking .at'“the weak” by stripping |
crucifixes from the walls of schools.
instead of factories. _

The statement from the 40-year-old

shipyard electrician echoed one from _

Poland's 80 bishops, who sald Sunday
the church is not willing to

_ compromise.

leader

- advertisement on

» Dollars

‘
t

—In a contest due to be completed ina
yun-off poll early next month.

1) Some ‘advisers feared such a
MacEachen visit would tend to

: “Ondermine Canada's official position of

neutrality .and. ita support of a
negotiated settlement of political
struggles in the region, as advacated by
regional governments.
“MacEachen’s. original itinerary
cluded Costa: Rica, Colombia,
duras and Nicaragua,
‘A . Cariadian newspaper
the eve of
MacEachen’s trip, published by a
group including Guillermo Ungo of the

' El Salvador revolutionary front and
_ Colombian Foreign Minister Rodrioga—
Caicedo, urged MacEachen to warn
’ Washington against arming insurgent
, Broups,
’ revolutionaries fighting the Marxist

including rightist
junta in Nicaragua. ©
But MacEachen, ina meeting Sunday

In a pastoral letter read from pulpits
acroas the country, the bishops issued a
_new demand for “crosses in places ...
where the children of this
overwhelmingly Catholic nation are
brought up.”

: ;The government of Gen. Wojciech
Jaruzelski maintains that crucifixes in

" public buildings violate constitutlonal
" principles separating church and state.
. DEPENDS ON PEOPLE

“The church, which claims

*, membership of more than 90 per cent of

the country's 36.7 million people,
argues that ‘the crucifix should be
-allowed'to hang where the majority of
people wants it. -

Government spokesman Jerzy Urban
said last week authorities were
removing crosses from an unspecified

antl

Canadians on

A REGULAR FEATURE PREPARED BY
{EMBERS OF YOUR PROVINCIAL CABINET.

the spot |

ht with Shultz, was reported by a &§
ae eoman to have supported. the §
United States againat criticism from

Ua. . ;

NMinekeachen was said to have told
Shultz that he had advised Nicaragua to
fone down its criticiam of the United
States. At the same time, Canada
opposes outside military interventions.

acEachen said he had told the
Nearaguan forelgn minister, Miguel
D’Escoto Brockman, that he would not
get anywhere in Canada by criticlzing
the Unie NE araguan government
‘The Marx! cari
has been criticizing the United States
for supporting rebels seeking its
hrow. a
FOUND NO COERCION — i
MacEachen also reported to Shultz of
findings of Canadian obaervers at the
Salvadoran elections last month that
there has been no indication of coercion

of voters.

number of factories as well as schools
“elsewhere in Poland” without
incident.

Clandestine communiques sald five
students were detained overnight
March 21 when security agents raided a
high school in Torun, 240 kilometres
northwest of Warsaw. oa,

Walesa also reported trouble between
youngsters and authorities in the Baltic
seaport where he lives. “I know about
arrests, questionings, detentions,
searches and other forms of repression
applied against the youngsters of ‘the
rd Lycee in Gdansk,” he said.

The church-state confrontation | is
centred in a rural area 64 kilometres
south of Warsaw, where hundreds ‘of.
high school students began protests
three weeks ago over the removal of
crucifixes from four schools.

delegates thunderously warmest applause of all
applauding a bright new from a_ standing-room-
leader created a sight for only crowd Sunday.

the sore eyes of British Fiftcen minutes after
Columbia Liberals at the the federal energy
-provincial party's minister finished his
* weellend' cdnvention:-"'~ ‘speech, only about 90
“ Twiee as many people delegates were left to
-— about 700 registered
delegates — turned out
for the convention that
elected former MP Art
Lee leader in this

resolutions.

Few B.C. Liberals
denied that Chretien,
John Turner and the other
Vancouver suburb federal hopefuls brought
Saturday as voted in 1881, out the crowd — but they
when Shirley McLoughlin believe many were also

was chosen to lead the hoping to help rebuild the |

consider provincial policy

May 1983 election, in
which the Socreds won 35
seats and the NDP 22,

. McLoughlin estimated
the federal candidates
drew. 125. additional :

delegates, and sald: the~':

nations], leadership..race: étets' will”

does not fully account for
an increase in. the
provincial party's.
membership by 2,000 in
recent months, to about
5,000. .
“I know for a fact it
Started right after the
Social Credit

dwindling,
Liberals.

Many delegates were
seeking a close look at the
six federal Liberal
leadership candidates,

Caught
politics,

demoralized provincial party, which
: has not had a seat in the
legislature since 1979.

in the
polarization of
the Liberals

government's budget last
July,” .McLoughlin said,
referring to the Bennett
government’s aweeping
package of fiscally -
conservative measures,

B.C.

“You would _ he . eee
surprised by the number HERBERT G. GRUBEL
of teachers that have The Fraser

joined recently," she
said, pointing to school
layoffs and rest¥aint on
education funding.”’
LEE ALTERNATIVE,

The Liberals. hope. the

“find” an

attractive alternative in
Lee, 36, an Alberta-born
Vancouver lawyer and
fourth-generation
descendant of a Chinese
immigrant who came to
Canada to work on ‘the
CPR.

Lee won the heavily
ethnic and working-class _

Vancouver East: federal

riding in an upset in 1974,

but was defeated by the

NDP in 1979 and 1980,

...and go, wein Ottawawill continue to
negotiate as long as the leaves grow on
thé trees, the rivers flow free,etc.
Frankly, if this matter was resolved,
rousands of civil servants here at
would then be thrown

} Indian Affairs

Sense

institute

Should we'discard [i

_ Bank of Canada?

Get rid of the Bank of Canada?
‘Yes, this is the latest conclusion that follows
from the revisionist thinking of conservative

economists. They have concluded that Canada .

would be better off if private enterprise would supp-
_ly allof the country's need for cash balances.
The revisionist thinking has two cornerstones,

One is that econdmic instabillty before the creation .

of central banks was less than afferward, Economic
historians dug deeply into 19th century statistics

_ and calculated the variance of real economic out-
put. For Germany, France, and the United
Kingdom, the instability was less than.in the 20th
century when central banks managed these
economies. Only for the United States was the case
reversed, ——

But even there, a re-examination of the history
of free and wildeat banking should lead to a revision
of textbooks. It is true that there were many private
banks that had issued notes payable on demand
whose ‘address turned out to be a Nebraska lot
where wildcat roamed. But reachers found that
public losses were much smaller than earlier work
had implied. Many of the bank closures of the period
were, in fact, orderly dissolutions of business that
brought no losses to depositors or stockholders.

The second cornerstone of the revisionist think-

. ing on the limit of central banks is the theory of
regulation. According to it, the economic inatability
under central bank management is no fluke: it can-

“not be expected to become better because the
‘ systemiswrong. oe _

The system permite politicians too much in-
' fluence..Through them, special interest groups get

. to use it for their own benefit, The results have been
periods of extess money creation causing booms

and inflation, followed by.painful readjustment to
price stability: Consider the massive cycles of this
century — the Roaring '20s followed by the Great
Depression of the '30a, the Prosperous ‘60s led to the
inflationary '70s and were followed by the stagfla-
tlon of the '80s. Faulty monetary policy caused them
. all. ”

One conservative remedy: for these roller- °

coasters has been the proposal to limit central bank

‘discretionary power. ‘This would’ be achieved ‘by -

mandating money supply growth rates in the ‘con:
‘ stitution. ,

But this approach still leaves the banking tn-.

dustry in the clutches of regulatots, As ‘a result,
there will always be efficiency losses and system
abuse by special interest groups. ;
These kinds of ideas have led Milton Friedman
to propose the abandonment of the Federal Reserve
syatem of the United States. He would have existing
U.S. currency maintained at its current level. Com-
mercial banks’ reserves, which determine the quan-
tity of checking deposits In existence, would also re-
main fixed. Friedman belleves that the ilnancial
system would come up always with more efficient
waya to use the existing money so that there would
be neither inflation nor deflation. ;
Other economists go even further. They see no
néed for government money of anv kind, The
' private sector can be relied upon to select an efti-
cient standard of value-and limit of account, The
modern information industry would assure that
there would be few wildcat banks and low costs of

handling private money. The efficiency and stabili-.

ty of western market economies would be enhanced

atly. ,

Is this all'a pipedream? Don’t bet on It. The U.S,
deregulation of the airline, bus, telephone and much
of the securities industries started with auch {deas.

But don’t try to buy the Bank of Canada building

quiteyet, =‘

With

HUGH CURTIS

Minister. «00:
S ...ofFinaneg .. ,.

Pha. ane

We are now well into a new fiscal year, follow-
ing my Introduction in February of a new provincial
budget,

Tam proud that my ministry, and this govern-
ment, has proven itself able to buck some
seemingly-irreversible trends by calling for budget
Spending lower than that of the previous year.

The last tlme that happened was 31 years ago.
More than half the people of this province were not
even born at that time. Now, at last, history Js
repeating itsell. It took a long time to happen. Butit
is happening this year, just as our Social Credit
government promised during last year’s election
campaign. ; .

I cannot take personal responsibility for this
dramatic reversal in the escalation of public spen-
ding. People in my ministry have worked hard and
long under my direction, to determine how and
where the cuts can best be made. a

But the bottom line is clear. This government
has succeeded in doing what many thought impossi-
ble. We have succeeded in stopping the growth of
government spending, while still preserving essen-
tlal services. ; mo

Many suggested that we should spend more,
even though we couldn't afford it, to “stimulate”
the provincial economy. In other wards, they. sug-
gested that we should buy on credit for the short:
term benefits of the people of this province..

I think this year’s budget clearly demonstrates
the error of such thinking. We are creating jobs, not
by spending but by living within our means, By
reducing spending and the deficit, the government
is avoiding future tax increases that would threaten
the competitiveness of B.C, industries and lead to
fewer jobs. ,

We look to the tulure. ‘This new budget plans
ahead, ensuring that we will be able to remove the
jone-tarm debt burden our children would otherwise

ar.

In all areas of government, except one, ex-
penses are reduced over the last year. Tha one very

_ hecessary exception is quality health care. Health is
a top priority for this government. - mo

And 80 we have upped necessary spending, im-
posing modest tax increases to cover the higher
cost. I hope sincerely that these taxes will be only

twa. We plan to remove them as goon as Ot-

agrees ar its fair s ,
med tervice, alr share of the price ot

e federal government currently has a deficit
In the nelghborhood of $31 billion, That means that
$0 centa of every federal tax dollar You pay goes to
Cree n antereat én préylous debs. It is our govern:

SUES ahd my mi ry’s duty {
does not happen here. ‘ye cu 9.ens are that Aha

..We are accepting the challenge, afid we are uni:
ee facing a problem shared ean the western

This year’s budget reducea eve British Cal-
umblan’s tax debt while ¢ ng
neces cet e continuing to provide all
Tam proud of this government. I am proud of
the People in my malnstry who are willing and able
| ‘ y atid.
nar the ting, velop thia budget, whith Ia
Ut; most of all, 1 would Jike to thet
people of British Columbia who nave wate
myself and my ministerial staff in making a finan:

clal necessity into 4& political realit

Political decisions are not always in thd best lit

tereals of the peaple they serve. Here, in ‘
. British Col-
umbla, we are showing the way. We « bet
Our children wit} thank us tort, a ‘ual benef
i. iE air ore ee vo

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