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For nearly 18 months, 70 children between the ages of 3 months and 5 years have enjoyed the facilities of a day care center in the married students residence. Now, because of a series of difficulties, the center has been asked to suspend operations, effective april 30. Eleven staff members (9 full time and 2 part time) will not recieve pay for the month of may. It is a strange story. When the center first opened in january of 1971 as an extension of the now defunct campus ceder operation, 16,000 dollars were transfered from a “sight budget” into the renovation of the married community centre. These student renovations were required to meet government operational standards of space distribution, noise level, toys and washroom facilities. Between the opening and august 31 of the same year, operational expenses and rate of growth combined poorly to create 15,000 dollars operational deficit. At this time, the university, footing the bill, had to make a decision on the desirability of continuing the project. Headlam and treasurer Bruce Gelately decided to continue.
From the first, the day care center had attempted to gain official status under the day care act of the province. If the status was granted, the capital cost of the operation could be entirely absorbed by the province and 80 percent of the cost of operation would also be assumed by the government. But there was one catch. The day care center had to be supported by a municipality before it could qualify for grants under the act. The wheels were set in motion and the project continued. Between September 1 and april 30, 1972, the day care center accumulated another 3,772 dollars in operational accounts payable...about 10 per cent of total operational costs. Meanwhile, the city of Waterloo had rejected support of the venture with one alderman commenting that the city had never asked the university to be there. So, the university of Waterloo and Waterloo lutheran university applied to Queens Park for status as a municipality. Although it has not yet been officially announced, the request seems to have been rejected. If you’ve followed us thus far, you realize that the only way to do something is the hard way; the trend continues.
Wednesday of this week, university of Waterloo comptroller Bill Headlam called day care center volunteer Jack Sterken and announced that the project was finished as of april 30,1972. Headlam suggested that the university intends to collect the monies outstanding (they total it at 18,000 dollars) by taking it from married student rent. But the children under care are not all from married students. “To the best of my knowledge,” says Sterken, “a little over half are from the residence...six are sent by city welfare.” Sterken, who from the beginning has operated under the assumption that, “a big debt is an authority to remain open”, is now faced with removing his eleven summer employees (there are 13 in winter) and sending 70 children back to “a tv watching, coke drinking baby-sitter”. In an attempt to cut back expenses, Sterken had earlier been forced to cut the “baby care” aspect of the program. Under provincial regulations, a ratio of three babies to one staffer must be maintained up to the age limit of “toddler”, at about a year and a half. At that time, the ratio relaxes to four to one and, in the age group from two and one half, the ratio is seven to one.
Gela tely and Headlam suggested raising the price of the service from 65 dollars monthly but Sterken felt it was already sufficient for the pockets of married students. The local average is around 75 dollars. And so, a fully equipped day care center complete with qualified and dedicated staff (staffers work for two-thirds government salary scales) is about to close. Sterken is bitter. “I told them (Gelately and Headlam) last august that there was probably no way they could collect the money (then amounting to 14,000 dollars). And they went ahead with it.” Gelately and Headlam are not available for comment. They have gone to a conference in Victoria. It would appear that the university has made substantial attempts to keep the center alive. In the end, a lack of interest by the city and too much Queen’s Park red tape may have killed the project. But as Sterken says, “As a result, 70 kids who have been growing and developing together and who have gotten used to being together are going to be at home all day again. It’s going to be a hard adjustment.” ’
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Tomas Mat Giolla, head of the Official Sinn Fein, told the delegates that the republicans were going to assert their right to free political organization. “We are a political organization dedicated to the task of organising the mass of the Irish people,’ North and South, against British capitalism in Ireland and imperialism in Ireland.” ’ The conference spent four hours debating policy on such questions as the Common Market and the bombing campaign of the Provisionals. Mat Giolla called for the- extension to the northern six counties of the referendum on Ireland’s joining the Common Market, and a resolution calling on the people of the South to vote “No” on the question was adopted. Barr charged that the Provisionals’ bombing campaign “provided the opportunity for the British Army to escalate their terror tactics to the stage where innocent civilians were and are being murdered in the streets. “The main aggressive force has been the British Army. The people’s resistance has, at all times, been defensive and the Republicans have acted with the they face inpeople, although ternment, torture or death.” Barr reiterated the republicans’ demand for total withdrawal of British troops and administration from Ireland. But more important than the actual proceedings at the conference was the fact that it took place at all. This time, at least, Whitelaw decided not to challenge the republicans’ right to conduct an open meeting.
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GONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN ONE LIFE MUST BE DEVOTED TO ONE CAREER. NOW THE TIDE RUNS SO SWIFTLY THAT ONE LIFE CAN HAVE AS MANY FACETS AS IT HAS DECADES. THE WORTHWHILE PROFESSION CAN BE ACQUIRED, THE FAMILY RAISED, THE HOME BUILT AND CARED FOR, AND- STILL THERE IS TIME FOR THE SECRET DREAM - THE ART FORM dR WHATEVER WILL EXPRESS THE INNER SELF. BEST OF ALL, WHEN THIS STAGE IS REACHED, MONEY OR SURVIVAL NEED NO LONGER BE THE GOAL. THE WORK ITSELF IS THE REWARD.
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The Republican Clubs are illegal under the Northern Ireland Special Powers Act. By moving to open political activity, the republicans hope to force Whitelaw either to enact the ban or to recognize them as a legitimate politic al movement. The republicans have functioned only underground since August 1971, when internment without trial was introduced in Northern Ireland. Neither the army nor the police made any attempt to prevent the conference from taking place, Martin Cowley -
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In a challenge to British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw, the Official Irish Republican Clubs held an open conference in Belfast April 23. Attended by 300 people, the meeting was held only yards from the Hastings Street police and army posts. “Today, we start by declaring Republican clubs as being active,” said Ivan Barr, chairman of the Six County Republican Clubs executive, “active in the public eye. We are coming back into the open and we intend to stay there. We are exercising our democratic right and we now wish to see if Mr.
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This week on campus is a free column for the announcement of meetings, special seminars or speakers, social events and other happenings on campus-student, faculty of staff. See the chevron secretary or call extension 233 1. Deadline is tuesday afternoons by 3 pm. .
White Water Canoe Club. There will be a cruise down the Grand River (Elora Gorge) with.the OVKC. All those interested in going please contact Dave Rees-Thomas ext 3886 or Bill Byars ext 2667.
increasing Israeli aggression. Presents TV interviewer and commentator Mr. Ned- Kelleher lecturing on Arab and Jew: A Canadian View 8pm M&C 2065.
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Behavioural scientists of various met with token disciplines representatives of minority groups to discuss the problem of social injustice at a symposium sponsored by the division of social psychology last weekend. Lawyer J.D. Morton, Q.C. of Toronto, sociologist Dr. Amitai Etzioni of Columbia university,
scientists economist Dr. Kenneth Boulding of the university of Colorado, anthropologist Dr. Laura Nadar of Berkley and Dr. Morton Deutsch of Columbia , each presented a position paper friday night. “Justice is not the business of lawyers”, said Morton, who teaches law. He complained that people tend to view lawyers as “magicians, capable of pulling the blindfolded rabbit of justice out of a hat”, when in fact society is responsible for the corruption
The current level of rip-offs at the university bookstore is so high that book store manager Elsie Fischer, has hired a floorwalker to reduce the amount of theft. Last year, bookstore “shrinkage” (a general term which covers theft, misplaced books and accounting errors) was $36,000 or 2.99 percent of total sales. The bookstore operates on a break-even basis, which means cost, plus eighteen percent to cover administrative costs. This break-even philosophy was introduced in 1966 after a mass student protest and sit-in. Since that time other universities have followed suit-but some still exist as profit-making entities. To provide its essential service \ to the university community, the bookstore employs a two-price structure. Essential items like required course texts and supplies are sold at a slight loss of cost plus fifteen percent mark-up while non-essentials sell at competitive retail prices. Elsie Fischer has taken the drastic step of hiring a floorwalker because she finds a shrinkage factor of $36,000 annually totally unacceptable. Since march the bookstore has been under the watchful eye of a female floor-walker. Bookstore policy is to apprehend shoplifters and turn them over to university security. They are charged under the criminal code and summonsed to appear in court. A criminal record inevitably befalls shoplifters apprehended at the bookstore. Security handles the matter as tactfully as possible,by sending the sum-
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with in the judicial system. He concluded by saying “the law is not meant to be obeyed, it is meant to be observed.” Etzioni presented the problem of social injustice as one of alienation. “Alienation has existed for at least three hundred years,” he said. “What may be new is the false, manipulated answer to the demand for participation.” The answer of society to these demands is a change from exclusion to a form of invitation, “By
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mons to the address specified by the shoplifter. Only people with inadequate identification are taken downtown to the Waterloo police department. A criminal record is a very negative stigma which can cause a lot of hassles when it comes to obtaining a job or passport. The official position of bookstore management is that they have no interest in prosecuting anyone, they only want to reduce the level of rip-off to some acceptable figure (hopefully zero). Elsie Fischer can not understand the students who steal from the bookstore because they are really stealing from their peers. She plans to launch a publicity campaign in the fall to make people more aware of the bookstore, its services and its policies. She aspires to deter potential thieves in this manner. The bookstore on this campus is not big business. It trys to perform an essential service on a break-even basis. Losses due to theft are reflected in higher book prices which are borne by all students. Store management has decided the current level of shrinkage is intolerable. Over the past several years there has been approximately a three percent annual increase in the level of shrinkage which probably is explained in part by the increasing student population and partially by a greater social acceptance of dishonest behaviour. So, to all you rip-off artists, consider yourselves adequately warned that the bookstore has hired a very capable girl whose principal function is to apprehend shoplifters. She has been very successfulfrom one to several arrests each week since early march, so, DON’T DO IT.
all means come in, sit on some powerless committee, write a triplicate memo.. .” He criticized those in field work who do not perform their function as social animators. Speaking of social scientists he commented, “often we end up being part of the hand which manipulates us.” Laura Nadar made a cross cultural comparison of laws, courts, and justices. In Algeria there are three different judicial systems, and a man goes whichever court will give him the most satisfaction. In contrast she cited the example of a southern negro in an american courtroom, where three different languages are spoken, (legal jargon, english, and the negro dialect. > Thus there is little communication and gross injustice. Boulding talked about the “identity of the group”, and the illusion of the “real me”. He stated that, “the powerful have the power and keep it”, and pointed out the difficulty of protecting any given minority group. “Should there be an apartheid society for security?” he asked. He was referring to some african societies that “have to live at the intersection of five time machines,” Workshops were held all day Saturday, where the representatives of the minority groupsFrench Canadians, Indians, exconvicts, welfare groups-met with the academics for discussion of specific problems and possible solutions. One such group included Desmond Morton, Dr. Rowan (sot. psych.) Sally Lerner (human relations), Leo Johnson (hist.), a minister who has served a sentence.in jail, a member of the Parti Quebecois, two Indian women who
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said not a word, a woman on welfare who is presently enrolled in a degree course at Ryerson, and two newspaper reporters. The discussion was scattered, and of ten irrelevent . Differences between Quebec and complacent Ontario were pointed out by the frenchmen, who gave examples of how to integrate outside aid into society. Take a small community, such as a parish, he said, and trainpeople in specific aspects. In his opinion Ontario is a society that is not going anywhere. Desmond Morton agreed, and said that people in Ontario are too pampered. They say that they care about social injustice, but are distracted by their snowmobiles and other toys. He said, “This society has not thrown up people who want to get into this area. The difference between ,Quebec and Toronto is that in Toronto it is inconceivable that someone should wreck Yongest., because it has not happened.” Morton stressed that before any major social change is brought about first there has to be pressure that brings the situation to the point of explosion. Presently there is no polarization within Ontario, whereas in Quebec the language unites all french groups against the rest of Canada. Contributions to a Just Society: A Behavioural Science Approach, was the official title of the symposium. For those who attended, it was a truly enjoyable, and in some cases enlightening experience. As for any “contribution” to society, just or otherwise, there was none to be seen. This was an excellent academic excercise, held within the sanctuary of multimillion dollar university complex with a handful of outsiders as example specimens of victims within society.
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The highest moment of the USSoviet summit talks came Friday, May 26,’ as the two countries agreed to limit their stockpiles of both offensive and defensive nuclear missles. Amidst toasting with champagne and grandiose allusions to the historical significance of th,e moment, , Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev put their signatures on two accords. The six-minute , - ceremony was the result of two and a half years of negotiations that > were alternately held in Helinsky and Vienna, The signing itself took place -. . -- in the Kremlin. Both accords are to. restrict the size of the superpower nuclear arsenals. One is a treaty Of to limit unlimited duration ~defensive missiles. The second is an executive agreement to affect offensive land-and-sea-based .” rockets, which is to be effective for -five years.. / --
radar installations. Each ssuperpower will be allowed a maximum of two hundred ABM’s (antiballistic missiles) to be placed in two sites. One site in each country will have one hundred missiles for the purpose of gaurding the capital city. The second site, also having one hundred missiles, will be to protect a segment of the country’s retaliatory capabilities. - -- -
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Burt leaned out of his plush office for a morning breath of smot only to find a peculiar smell tantalizing his nostrils. Smoke was curling from the arts lecture building ,and wafting across the pale Se_Y sky_ “Jesus; Jesus, where there’s smoke there’s . . . ,. ” Without really thinking he immediately phoned the firemen. One minute, two minutes, sweat drip drop, falling, falling .. . . .. Clang! Clang !
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Roaring around the ringroad, up the inner campus road, past the social science building smash right into _--. the tree blocking the access, “Too much” burt muttered. The second truck manoevered close to the smouldering wreckage, the I poignant driver deciding on a rash alternative. Driving smoothly he whipped his truck around the corner by the library only to smash quite abruptly into four little stone men. Yes-sir, four little stone..-- men. -. These “four little stone men” are actually barriers set up by _ someone in PP&P to prevent the flow of traffic on inner campus roads. There has been trouble in b the last few months with an excess of vehicles congesting areas around the campus centre and the library. Although these obstructions -
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A joint commission will be set-up -_ -to oversee inspection. T he accords provide for no on-site inspection. Verification of compliance is to ,be ‘accomplished be satellite surveillance. ’
The soviet site to shield Moscow is already in place.. Its second site will be situated at least eight hundred miles from Moscow and is yet to be constructed. The United While the accords have , been States has neither presently in hailed as the first of their kind, place, work having been begun on they are much less than pomp and one site in Grand Forks in North Dakota to protect Minuteman intercontinental ballistic {missiles. Construction of the Washington site_ .has ___--not yet.- started. .F. . -..’
The treaty places restrictions on radar facilities, Installations for space and satellite tracking along with early warning systems are not included under the accord. , Operation of anti-ballistic missile The treaty is a more formal requires a substantial document and will require con- systems radar network. Restrictions upon firmation by the US Senate. of radar facilities Amendment of the treaty would be the scale either nation from more difficult than with the precludes developing a larger agreement. The ”secretly executive rationale behind putting the defensive _ .___ - - missile_ system. -.. restrictions on the defensive The executive agreement on missiles in treaty form is that this area of weapons technology is less offensive missiles affects both the intercontinental affected by technical advances and land-based innovation. The controls. on of-: ballistic missiles (ICBM) and the. ballis tic fensive systems have not been so submarine-launched (SLBM) . The ICBM informalized so as to leave the missiles are to be frozen at their superpowers a freer hand to take ventories advantage of likely advances, the present levels. The United States offensive missiles involving less has presently 1,054 ICBM’s and the stable technological factors. ____-_ -- - _ __ Soviet Union 1,600. For the Soviet -- Union, the agreement will prevent further installation of the SS-9 Under the treaty the defensive systems will be affected. This rockets with their %-megaton possibly the only real includes anti-ballistic missles and warheads,
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concession made. T he/vastness of the ICBM arsenals as they already are makes the agreement no basis for any but a false sense of security security. That is unless you base your sense of security upon’ how much of the world we can obliterate.
circumstance would lead us to believe. The agreements in no way affect strategic bombers of which the US has 530 and the Soviet Union 190.
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The facade and the inadequacy of the-accords is more exemplified as regards SLBM’s and their launchers. The executive agreement grants the United States only 44 nuclear submarines. This is no sacrifice, l towards reducing the chances of world holocaust, on the part of the US since it now has 42. Meaning the agreement gives the US the right to increase its fleet. The Soviet Union is permitted a fleet of no
While the accords freeze the size of the 1CB.M arsenals they do not prevent modification of the -missiles to take advantage of technical Linnovations. such as MIRVing (replacement of single warheads with several, each capable of striking, a separate target).
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“Should this organization be aunion or a federation ‘of students grouped provincially? How should, this organization be financed? Should a referendum be necessary to become a member or to leave this organization? These are some of the questions that ‘students all over Canada must ask themselves to be able to take their future into their own hands, to make national ,‘student organiza tion their any organization.” Such can be said to be the conclusion of the National. Student’s Conference held from may 26 to may 28, 1972 at the university of Windsor to discuss the problems involved in the founding of a national student organization. The idea of such a conference evolved when student delegates got together at the AUCC Conference last fall. The university of Windsor. student council, _.. _ _ -._----responsible for the organization of the conference, first meant to study student finances, but on their initiative, it was finally held on student organization. Twenty-seven universities and colleges were present, including Memorial university, Newfoundland, and three english speaking universities from Quebec, McGill, Bishop’s and Loyola, the latter two being members of the Quebec student organization (FEQ). Delegates for Waterloo were Terry Moore, student president, and Luke Aujame, science rep. Shirley Moore and Bill Semple, Arts rep, were also present as observors. The conference was opened friday night by Dr. Tarnapolski, now dehn of law at the university of Windsor, and former president of CUS in the fifties. Dr. Tarnapolski gave a short history of xCanadian serve to keep paths relatively clear student unionism from its initial stages in 1926 to the for cyclists and pedestrians, they disbanding of CUS in 1969, emphasizing the role that provide a hazard for mailmen, - truckdrivers, both NFCUS and CUS played in the international and the audio visual student movement. crew. These- people were not inNo questions were ask,ed. It appeared already that formed-that the barriers would be the discussion’was only to be of a limited extent, that erected. no definite conclusion would be reached at the conThe first indication most people ference. had was about three weeks ago. Ed This was proved once more the following morning Knorr, from PP and P, said that he when a motion was put forward by the delegate from Simon Fraser suggesting that a straw vote be taken hoped this move would motivate more people to use the loading “to see how many delegates were in favour of the docks located in food services and reforming of CUS’“. The motion was voted down 17 to the campus centre. He felt that the 13 with 16 abstentions, each delegate having two inconvenience felt by a few would votes. The discussion had been opened by the be beneficial to many. Not Federation. delegation, explaining the position everybody was ,-pleased by this adopted by’ the executive at its last meeting : action., _ - -a) formation of a national union at this time would be premature; Bob Muntgomery, a mailman b) a national union should develop out of a employed by the university, is widespread desire among students for such a union; quite upset at the move. “They set c) that a national- union should have as part of its them up on all sidewalks and now I \regulations a compulsory- referendum to get in and have to carry my mail the full out; length of@he&.$lding.“__ _ d) a steering committee should be struck at the Windsor conference to facilitate exchange of inAl Foster, who works for audio and ideas betw.een interested student visuai, felt that it was a hassle to formation organizations across Canada as a preliminary step to gain direct access to such buildings as arts lecture and the the creation of a national organization; e) that serious consideration be given to the campus centre. He wondered -how f‘regional” model that CUS was centered around; the fire department would manage and that the regional unions would act as locals to reach certain strategic toward the national organization. buildings. _ ’ To facilitate further discussion, the conference to discuss student Burt mathews was not aware of moved into small committees the move but felt it was a good unionism and present their conclusions to the conference. Out of the six committees came basically idea. “I would have liked to have seen this university turned into a three positions: the first, that a national organization was not necessary and that a central information pedestrian campus, but this should the second, that a student union cut down on the’overload of cars. I office was sufficient; wouldn’t mind walking the extra was a good thing but that its organization was to be period, provincial distance every day,” __ _ \ _ pushed back for an indefinite
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organizations having to be reinforced first; the last that a national student union had to be rebuilt and thatsteps must be taken in that direction. Saturday evening five position papers were presehted to the conference on 1) A National Student’s Organization (Carleton) ; 2) A Financially Viable Association (OISE) 3) A Central Information Bureau (Lakehead) 4) A Suggested Outline for, a National student organization (Saskatoon) ; 5) Why a National Student’s Union? - (Simon Fraser, Regina, Waterloo and other universities) 6nly resolutions one L three and five presented any concrete proposals to the conference and reflected the three positions described above. The adoption of the motion presented some difficulty. Terry Moore’s suggestion that a straw vote be taken was adopted after the five motions were voted on in one vote, the one receiving the least vote being dropped, -was ’ adopted. The resolution -___. “Why _ --_ a National Student’s Union” received-27 votes out of ‘45, eliminatiiig ali the otherposition papers. Undoubtedly, this was a success for those who had defended the reforming of a-national student union. The position papers contained three motions. The first describes the reason for a national student union, the second sets up three committees (steering committee inter-provincial communication con-L mittee, and a finance committee) and describes their perogatives; the third is entitled “to the students of ,, Canada,-.._ for the creation of a .-National. Student’s _-. Union. ” T The debate that followed the vote showed that the differences of opinion among different delegations still persisted. Carleton university presented an amendment to the main motion to the effect that -& provincial organization organizations, mainly the OFS which had just been constituted, should be formed or reinforced first. This amendment was defeated after a strrrilig discussion. The delegate from Regina defending the main motion as it stood declared of Ontario -_-- : “Students should not fight the Wright Report alone. It concerns- _I’ all students in Canada, as it is the firststep of more to come (alluding to the Tchemp Report which foresees students paying 100 percent of the cost of education). We are ready to fight the Wright Report together with students of Ontario. A national students’ union would be the vehicle to implement student policies on the +, national level.” The defeat of the amendment should have led to the ~ approval of the resolution. Nevertheless, it appeared that for a number of Ontario universities this was not to be the case. Some of them, “threatened” to withdraw if some sort of alleged “compromise” was not I reached. The “compromise” presented later, on Sunday, proved to be nothing of a compromise. The main motion was first tabled, the “compromise” presented as a motion, then accepted as an amendment: that the s-man steering committee be replaced by a one- _ man committee, the other two committees contained r in the motion being abandoned. The amendment was voted down. The position - paper “Why a National Students Union? ” was then adopted, 20 for, 4 against with 22 abstentions, most of them coming from+ Ontario universities. Those voting in favour of the motion *were Windsor, Waterloo, OISE and Lakehead. The different committees were later constituted. The steering committee is composed of the following : delegates from Carleton, SFU, Winnipegland Loyola. The Maritimes not being representedatthis time. no member was elected. All the representatives from r-Ontario have to be ratified by the OFS cenvention which will be held in Guelph next week. ..--
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A late look at labour
The only palatible way to deliver a polemic is via humourous satire. The Workingman, presently playing at the Toronto Workshop Productions Theatre is most certainly good satire and even when the humour flattens the attacks remain sharp. The music ofthe play has a dual role, first of all there are the songs the performers sing-all of which are lively and happen to be mostly old Wobbly songs-and secondly for sound effects. The only low point to the music is that there does not seem to be any attempt at original lyrics, which could have dealt with the various themes. The play is a web of themes and sub-themes intricately woven, quickly showing some of the historical and ideological development of labour-owner relationships from Aristotle to the present. Essentially the main story revolves around a strike in a large city with a description of the different moods and phases strikes and strikers often go through. The only character to be himself throughout the play is one Slapshot Ladowski, played by Alan Royal, leader of the union local out on strike. Slapshot is a self-righteous, egoist with an overindulgent tendency towards missionary work, his church being the union. After the initial setting of a contemporary strike scene, Slapshot is unexplicably transported back into the past. Shocked and bewildered, he hears the so called fathers of democracy and contemporary liberalism, such as Plato and Aristotle, actively advocating racism, inequality and slavery.
Rat iona le for poverty When Slapshot protests against their inhumanity, they respond to him by attacking the slavery in his office and the union sell out of the workingman by their promotion of wage-slavery. The next *attack and by far the most sustained is on religion and the church. The work of humanitarians like Benjamin Lay, who fought against the violence and whippings the gentle Quakers often inflicted on their slaves is one sub-theme. The church provided the justification for slavery, and when that form of production became obsolete with the coming of the industrial revolution the church developed a rationale for poverty and the ugly abuse of child labour. Leonard Peterson, the writer of the play, when dealing with the church’s complicity with the bourgeoisie against the common people uses sharp, biting and bitter attacks and skillfully reveals the hypocracy of the church and many of its favourites such as St. Thomas Aquinas. No attack on the church would be complete without following it up by throwing a few jabs at that mean institution that despoils the minds of children. -1- don’t .- -----mean _- schools -. __
(although there is a vicious attack on liberal academics later on in the play however) but rather the organization formed by the well known butcher of the Boer War, Lord BaydenPowell. The overtly neurotic middleclassness of the boy scouts and their tendency to reinforce those qualities required to screw one’s fellow human-beings are the butt of a very well done attack.
Pains of industrialization There is often a tendency to group industrialization and the pains that went with it together. They are not. The pains that came with industrialization were the direct result of the selfishness and cruelty of the owners of the factories and those who alligned with them. Much too often technology was made the blame for the wickedness of certain people by those who had to suffer at the hands of the bosses. This theme is put in the context of the story of the Luddites, who were eventually wiped out, by having the law hang most of the essential leaders, for the crime of smashing machinery. The arguments put forth in this part of --the play has a very contemporary tone, and not just a topic to be relegated to history. Too many people today are feeling alienated from modern industrial civilization and often place the blame for their alienation on technology. Their response is often to go back to a more ‘natural’ way of life. This response is no response at all, for it is not the machines producing the alienation, after all technology without man is nothing, just hunks of metal, with the potential to benefit and reduce man’s alienation. Rather it is those who misuse technology that are the sources of alienation . Where the first act exposed the development of the ideology of oppression, the second act deals mainly with the history of industrial oppression and worker repression in Canada. The prologue opens with a song of Joe Hill’s about the ‘starvation army’ called “you get pie in the sky when you die”. After some renditions of Wobbly folk songs two of the actors get involved in a series of pantomime skits with a chain of anti-capitalist quotes interspersed, such as Balzac’s “behind every great fortunes lies a crime”.
Too - much kipling The play goes on to describe some of the nefarious practices as well as the strike breaking tactics by Canadian industries and the Canadian government. The development of the IWW and the OBU in Canada is discussed, and the famous strikes of Vancouver, Winnipeg and Regina are described,
Ending with a lucid delineation of how the RCMP had a tendency to riot-they were especially good at the use of clubs when women and children were involved. To quote the play, ‘They charged the crowds on horseback like mounties who have readtoo much Kipling’. Our beloved leaders of the past were not allowed to go unscathed and sharp, critical and informative attacks were against John A. MacDonald, Willy Lyon MacKenzie King and other notables. The subtle subversion of labour and the continual repression while mouthing liberal phrases about the country’s best interest were the main themes in this scene. The history of MacKenzie King, that toowell-thought of Prime Minister of Canada, is delved into. Willy it seems cut his teeth working for the Rockefellers at union busting, he then would set up company unions in order that the management could have better control over the employees. He took his experience to Canada where later as prime minister he put his experience to good use by undermining the rights of the common people for the benefit of American cartels.
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Near the end of the play the last important topic to be dealt with is the need for the young and the unions to push and push hard. The call was for a student-worker alliance to push and hit away at the system. This may seem strange to some, especially if one keeps in mind the recent events in the States, where construction workers have not too infrequently attacked demonstrating students. ‘But in Canada historically and especially in the past few years workers and students have gotten together to fight for human rights. The play is most emphatically a good one and well worth seeing. The only quarrel I have is the fact that this play is about Canadian workers, for Canadian workers, subsidised by Canadian workers, and yet the price is so inhibitive Canadian workers cannot go see it. Possibly I am jumping the gun and there are plans to show the play at union halls etc. so that working people can discover a sense of their own history. It would be a shame if this play did not get a chance to be performed for those to whom it was intended. The argument that the working class are not interested in this sort of cultural experience, to my mind is not a valid one. That argument could only be acceptable in a situation where after much exposure to this sort of presentation the working class consistently disliked it. As it stands the past few decades have not allowed working people to attend plays etc. due to high prices. - --mel
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Despite the fact that the play was about women, the female half is overshadowed by her male counterpart, right from the start. Both her voice and personality lack the vigor and stamina the part requires. At times Robin Ward expresses a typical anti-female cynicism which is neither con sistent nor clearly conveyed and for this reason is difficult to interpret. The play was supposed to be a musical comedy. The music was uninspiring and the comedy almost totally lacking. In the past, excellent female satirists, such as Gracie Allen and Mae West are proof that female satire on her relationship to the world, is not only possible, but can be poignant, biting and very much to the point. Other than straight historical information, the play doesn’t say much about the problems that women as a whole face-or even Canadian women. Rather, it tended to deal with the situation faced by women of specifically the upper middle class-with the exception of the scene in the Red River Community. It did not strike out at causes, but rather tended to reinforce the values of those who are most often seen at this sort of performance ; this was especially evident in the Sir John A, MacDonald scene The play as a whole suffers as much from its gross omittances as from its weak acting. Where are the poor women, the Indian women, the women who so bravely fought in the suffrage movement, the earlier women’s rights movement, (which isn’t even mentioned) and the forceful characters of Canadian history such as Nellie McClung? In addition, no mention is made of the notable contribution women made in shaping Canadian history-i .e. the Winnipeg General Strike, or Estovan. It would be impossible of course to include many of these figures in a short revue, however, there does seem to be a bias in -- the ---selection -made. __ _ _ Despite the theme or establishing women’s personhood, the image of women which is most often expounded is based on false argument. Women were called 1 uponto take a more active part in society since thay were inately more humane and civilized. The play leads us to believe that these characteristics are biologically based. The problem with this argument, is that it has possible erroneous conclusions such as the case for woman as the eternal mother. In some semses, the content of the script discloses an anti-woman attitude. For instance, the song The Canadian Girl, published in 1906, treats women as if they are a unique part of the Canadian scenery. Comparative stereotyping of the women of the world, depersonalizes women as a whole and contradicts the theme of the play-the fact that women are ‘persons. The topic is both valuable and an extremely meaningful one. In fact, there is terrific potential in the annals of Canadian history of women for a dynamic production of this kind. Hopefully a further attempt will be mad,e to acknowledge and trace more fully Canadian women’s history. -rona . -
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Today th e pond, tomorrow the box off ice There’s a message here somewhere, you decided, as shots of nature’s creatures living free are contrasted with pictures of oil slicks, drain pipe and effluent pouring into the calm waters fill the wide screen. It’s the opening scenes of The Frogs, just finished playing at the Capitol theatre, but is sure to show up at a drive-in soon. If Alfred Hitchcock had never made a movie called “The Birds”, perhaps “Frogs” would have something to say, however badly. But the heavy-handed and badlyacted effort pales so much in comparison with Hitchcock’s film that there’s very little justification for this movie having been made, except for money-which seems to be the prime moving force behind it. The advertising pushes “Frogs” as another aware, camp 7 creatures-become-giant-somehowand-threaten-human-supremacy shtick, with an ecology message twist. What, in fact, happens in the flick is not so dramatic, not so interesting. All god’s critters stay their original puny size, but somehow gain the intelligence to unite and declare ingenious guerilla (n.p.i.) warfare on Man the Despoiler.
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As hard as it is to make frogs interesting over a full-length movie, the creatures from the swamps still manage to draw more interest than the cliched, wearied characters forced onto the screen by this third-rate screenplay. But the actors prove more than a match for these shallow parts. Ray Milland lives up to his reputation as a former hack TV actor, and the rest of the happily unknown cast drone their tedious way through the all-too-familiar lines. The film does have its moments, since the fear it plays upon is not fictive, but all too real. Who can go to bed at night and worry about being eaten by a giant dinosaur on Mars? But try lying awake in the dark thinking about spiders, snakes and lizards, scorpion and the like. Good stuff. So, while several of the grisly deaths which occur while nature exacts its just revenge on humanity are very powerful scenes, most are merely trite and
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VANCOUVER(LNS)-The Canadian government is deporting a deserter from the Saigon navy. And, because of that, Vu Toan Cong faces five to twenty years in
Saigon’s prison and the possibility of death in a penitentiary unit on the front lines if he is sent back to South Vietnam. Law - 1566, enacted by the Thieu
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laughable; such as when lizards become smart enough to read bottle labels in order to poison a human (get the clever irony of the reversal? 1. If “Frogs” weren’t so boringly serious, it might be able to put its weak parts to use.
rrrrrrrrrrrrrr The makers of “Frogs”, in fact, could well have taken a few lessons from the people who made The Return of Count Yorga, which shares the bill with the reptiles. Like its predecessor, “Count Yorga, Vampire”, this retelling of Bram Stoker’s 19th-century thriller is played mainly for laughs and chuckles. In fact this one is even more relaxed and unabashedly camp than the first Yorga film. Roger Perry is a fine modern-day Dracula retread, wearing easily the arrogant and bored air of disdain which the ages-old undead must carry.
regime, punishes desertion with death if one deserts to the enemy, life and hard labor if one deserts while in battle, and a sentence of 520 years hard labor for desertion at all other times. In the last case the deserter is sent to a penitentiary unit on the front lines. Vu came to the attention of Canadian officials when he applied for a permanent residence in Canada in February, 1971. There was no decision by Immigration officials at that time. Finally, in May of last year, Vu was ordered deported by Vancouver Immigration officials on the grounds that he lacked a valid passport. The local Immigration officials gave him permission to remain and to work pending appeal of the case to Ottawa Immigration.
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Three years ago, Vu enlisted in the South Vietnamese navy, to avoid being drafted into the army. He served six months in a Saigon boot camp. ,Then he was taught English by the Americans for six months, and shipped out with 506 Vietnamese to San Diego and San Francisco for special electronics training. Vu was stationed at the Treasure Island Naval Base in San Francisco Bay when he decided to desert. It was becoming clear that as soon as the Vietnamese had mastered the required skills, they would be returned to Vietnam to replace withdrawing U.S. ground troops. Vu came to Canada legally as a visitor in January, 1971 and applied for residency through normal channels. An invalid passport has been the only reason given for his 1 rejection by Canadian officials. However, now that Vu is to be deported, the Canadian government is quickly arranging for his passport to be validated by the Vietnamese embassy in I South Washington. Once the passport is validated he can be placed on a “one-way” flight out of the country. The Canadian government is prepared to get Vu a passport to deport him. It, is not prepared to get him a passport to stay in Canada, or to let him remain here without a passport. Since the Grape, Vancouver’s alternative paper, broke the story, other media across Canada begun covering the case and Vu is becoming a cause celebre. In spite of this, Vu’s last official hope lies in a final appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, which isn’t likely to be granted. Public pressure is the only force which can still help Vu, who is a classic example of a political refugee fleeing an inhuman government. People can help by writing to the Minister of Manpower and Immigration, Bryce Mackasey in Ottawa, who is the federal minister in charge of Vu’s case, demanding that he be allowed to remain in Canada.
Usually appeals take two years, However, in Vu’s case everything was speeded up. In less than a year on April 22, 1972 a s-man Ottawa immigration appeal board heard the case and gave their verdictdeportation “to be executed as soon as practicable. ” Normally such hearings take three weeks; this one took four days. Everything has been expedited for this Vietnamese who won’t fight for U.S. domination of his homeland. Vu is not self-consciously ideological: “I just want a normal life, a quiet life.” he says, but, “the Americans have no reason to come to my country. We have our own problems we can solve.” Would he like the liberation forces to win? Vu replies, “We are all Vietnamese.”
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He creates a delightful character-at least from the comfortable distance of a theatre seat-snarling esoteric insults at uppity mortals or going into a near-sexual frenzy while watching an old Dracula movie on late-night television in his modern castle. The acting is in the same justserious-enough vein and the camera work is often brilliant and always competent. All in all, “Return” walks the thin line between comedy and drama and succeeds throughout in remaining faithful to the literary legend while revitalizing the familiar story with needed humor. A pair of baffled policemen wandering the halls of the good Count’s castle in the last part of the movie nearly steal the show from the main characters, working so well together that they almost recreate those fantastic “Abbott and Costello in the Haunted House” scenes of years ago. Like the first Yorga, the freezeframed “surprise” ending leaves
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Linda Ronstadt (Capitol SMAS-635) chronicles the budding talent of a young woman who straddles the Folk-Country borderline, at ease with both shit-kicking romanticism and the ‘ more tender sensibilities of the poet-musician. Although her choice of material is quite eclectic, Ronstadt usually manages to find an appropriate idiom and performance style for each different song, and the result is an album which compares favourably with such similar efforts as Buffy Ste. Marie’s I’m
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The country numbers include “I Still Miss Someone,” “Crazy Arms,” and an absolutely superb version of “I Fall to Pieces” - if you can’t get into it, your head probably belongs inside a James Gang column amp. The folk material is also well chosen, especially Niel Young’s “Birds” and Eric Anderson’s “Faithful; ” Jackson Browne’s “Rock Me on the Water” is a bit too Jesus-rocky for my taste, but is more than compensated for by the final “Rescue Me,” a delightfully soulful change of pace. With sturdy support from Sneaky Pete, Buddy Emmons, and numerous other fine Nashville-ites, Linda Ronstadt is a carefully produced and thoroughly enjoyable record deserving your serious consideration. Groups attempting to emulate ChicagoBS & T big-band rock thing seem to be coming out of the woodwork lately, the latest arrival being Aura (Mercury SRMl-620). Despite an excellent brass section and tight arrangements, in which respects
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Stan Wkbb’s vocals and guitar work are nothing but plastic echoes of Plant and Page’s work with Led Zepplin. John Glascock on bass and Paul Hancox on drums provide formula hard-rock backing , for Webb.
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Chicken Shit There just might be something worth paying attention to on Chicken Shack’s Imagination Lady album (London DES 18063) but after two listenings, I couldn’t find it. And I’m not going to keep trying. Chicken Shack, despite the title of the LP, is one of the least imaginative groups. to exploit the rock scene for a long while. This album is destitute of any semblance of originality. Talent the group may have, but talent without any moving spirit behind it is hard to praise when there are so many musicians and groups around now who possess both.
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“Crying won’t help you now”, the leadoff cut, sets the tone of this album with repetitious Zepplin-copy riffs, but neither the vocal nor the frantic guitar come up to Plant and Page’s level of competence or inspiration. But the real back-breaker here is the sixminute-plus version of Tim Hardin’s fine ballad, “If I Were a Carpenter.” If this fragile tune is even capable of being translated into electronic rock, Chicken Shack has neither the sensitivity nor the talent to do it. The best thing I can say about this record is to recommend the latest LPs from Led Zepplin or James Gang instead. Recorded poetry has always had a hard
time selling itself, and never more so than in these days of the Age of Rock. Which makes me wonder what Mercury ever thought of accomplishing by releasing Paul
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(SRM 1 616). Usually, recorded poetry is justified either by being a historical reading by some famous and accepted writer or rides the waves of a popular fadist movement such as the Rod McKuen madness. (But even McKuen usually has the good sense to add some schamltzy orchestration.) Unfortunately for us all, Paul Roche falls into neither of the categories above. No one I know has ever heard of him, and it certainly isn’t a historical recording. Roche’s words are boringly and insultingly trivial, and his talent for overstating the obvious in condescending simple-minded terms seems to be his only real forte. . All I can do is give you a sample. Taste this : “Someone has put a car into the drawing room, someone has swept the moon under the carpet, someone has fed the baby chlorinated hydrocarbon. Pollution is under the floorboards of our feast. Women’s liberation has done away with marriage.”
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For some reason, 3 games were won by default. The Ball Rec’ers, the Architects, the Redneck Feds all defaulted. Their captains should contact the Intramural Office immediately. Fun 11 upended St. Pauls 6-4.
Touch football -\ All three games were played last Monday with some surprising results. The Scrotes upset the B’S 20-0 while the Underdogs became favorites blanking the Maulers 1% 6. In the final encounter the Engineers failed to show against the Mucket Farmers. Would Neil Duke, captain of the Engineers contact the intramural ._ -office. .__
Soccer After one week of play, Math handled 2B Chem by 3-1, with goals by Tsonis, Marmorek and Fruhworth. In game 2 St., Jeromes won by default of 1B Eng. The Professionals on goals by J. Opatrny and R. Gandhi bang gotched the Bang Gotchas 2-O. The Chinese Students defaulted their first game to 4A Mech Eng. 1B Eng Team is out of the league and will be replaced by the Limers. __-_ _ - - -. - -
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The group is growing. Over 70 individuals, faculty, staff and students are active in this new summer fitness program. Pit stop 3 for those that have accumulated 7.0 miles this week is the Prince of Wales in St. Agatha. Just look for other people in good shape. If you have completed week no. 3 you have already accumulated 17 miles of the 100 miles. Anyone, Cyswoginsteiner or not who has already surpassed 106 miles is asked to hand in his stein at the Intramural Office. If you see anyone cycling, or jogging or swimming lengths, please wish him the best with the Cyswoginstein sign. --
game, the slow starting Waterloo Wonders finally got organized in the fourth inning by chalking up seven big runs that allowed them to take over the lead from the Sunshine Company. Final score in that game was 15-9 for the Wonders. Results of this weeks games are not available at this time but Kin 4A is expected to have their hands full when they meet the Wonders. The sharp infield of Davis, Pfaff, and Chopiak should give the Morons plenty of difficulty. Recreational basketball is now underway on monday evenings for all those who might be interested in hitting the court for a pickup game. The girls meet in the main gym at 8:00 pm on monday nights-why not join them.
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Village Stompers remained undefeated in two starts tromping Hymen I 23-15. The Exasperators also continued their hot streak outgasping the 1B Drafters 41-21, while the Scrotes finally got on t3e win sheet downing the- Psych Bulls 44-24.
Coed activities are definitely the in thing this summer with organized leagues in volleyball, inner tube waterpolo and slow pitch. Slow pitch seems to be the surprise popular event with 13 teams and approximately 206 players participating. It is popular with faculty, staff and students representing many areas of the campus community including math, physical resourses, federation of students, physics department, engineering to name a few. All games are played on monday evening between 5:00 and 8: 30 pm. Last week’s results are: Enterprise over Physics I 30-7 Fairballs over Chalkdusters 18-15 Freaks over St. Pauls 24-19 Sunnydale Studs over Psych 26-3 We” Beatchas over 2B Wire Boys
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The games tha il were rained out on tuesday are rescheduled as follows; monday june 5, on the village green team 25 plays 23. At six thirty team 13 plays 16. On diamond two team 2 plays 3 at five and team 17 plays 15, and on diamond four, 27 plays 28 at five and team 8 takes on team 9 at six thirty. On Wednesday june 7, team 26 14-8 over Physics II 20-10 plays 22 at five on the village green Phirebugs Co-ed volleyball has been a busy and team 7 is against 11 at six thirty. On diamond two team 24 league with two weeks of play plays 21 at five and at six thirty 6 already over. At this time not all scores are in from this week’s play takes on 4. however three teams seemed to be fighting it out for first spot. They Jocktalk for women are the 4A Spikers, George’s Giants Team I and the Arkitexs. The women’s slow pitch league Next week George’s Giants I will got into swing last week with two meet both of these teams so some exciting games. The Motor definite ranking will be Morons from Kin 4A pulled off a established. It should make for an last inning victory by hitting in six interesting evening, tuesday big runs in the last inning to defeat between 8:OO-1O:OO pm. Come out cookies ball team 14-8. In the other and see the action.
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of university life and thoughts on disakociating
Four years is a long time-four years is a short interlude, in a lifetime of motion. The effects of four years at university are many, and vary from person to person. However, there is one effect which stands out, at least for me. The university experience is supposedly a period of change, of maturation. That seems true, for many, yet the point of that change is this-it leads to a violent disassociation from pre-university life, or extra university experience.
becomes a target, perhaps an unworthy and small opponent, but an opponent all the same. The university is a “monopoly” While we may all have had a game, complete with it’s own good share of shattered illusions, boardwalk (the Faculty Club), struggles and boredom at railroads and companies,. (the university, the tendency remains Board of governors), and with it’s to idealize the lifestyle, to brood own play money. The basic difover the loss of a comfortable, ference is that the players middle-class “sabbatical from (students) have no chance to life”. In order to dispel, at least for participate in the opportunities of me, this lingering aroma of the game. And the purpose of the comfort, stability and acceptance game is, like all others, to win. The that is the university, and thus to winners are predetermined, and also dispel any sense of dismay at they dole out their winnings in being cut adrift, I suggest, and meagre response to the clamorings at tempt some self-criticism, and of the dispossessed. A rather an awareness of what we were simple and strained analogy, really doing for four years. admittedly, but one that serves very nicely. This is an attempt to place those The “game” becomes at major years, and their arena, in perpoints, very real, and is given new spective. names, names which captured the We are, or should be, aware of hearts of all of us from the moment the structural impact of univerwe arrived at the stadium. sity. We share common experience Football, hockey, basketball, these of bureaucracy, of academic and are games we have all played and social myopia, of grades, essays enjoyed at various levels of and assignments. We differ only in competence. They are games our reactions to these negative which fulfil1 many of our needs, stimuli. The vast majority of exercise, competition, but above students are giving silent consent all, fun. to the malfunctioning of univerThat is until competence sities, simply by “enlisting”. Four becomes. the criterion for the years later, the recruits emerge, games. The university has other sometimes shell-shocked, thoughts in mind for participants, sometimes fatally educated, yet in other thoughts which exclude the main content to clutch degrees, enjoyment for it’s own sake. smile with pride, and fade into the Somewhere in the recesses of the faceless world, joining listless athletic complex sit overaged, veterans in hopeless searches for overweight, and overbearing haslong-promised rewards. beens and never-weres who forprocess, There is a world of blame to mulate a transference changing participants to comattach for a -world of inequalities in a and injustices. There must be a batants. They are immersed peculiar mythology, a mythology starting point, an institutional which engenders cheerleader microcosm of a faulty world. The “tryouts”, trips to florida, plane university is only a part of ‘the excursions to other frantic arenas, problem, granted, and in many ways only a mirror-image of the and athletic banquets at which the combatants pay to prance and “real” world. However, it is the area with which I am most in- parade. The result of that insanity is a campus fraught with people volved, and with which I am most whose greatest tragedy is a losing hostile. Thus the university team. To spend more energy on that topic lends undue credibility to incredible people. Yet these athletic director types, these incompetent, insentitive, and incriticism. sensible relics of a best:forgotten About graduation, when you ethic have their parallels in the come up with a better way, let me laboratories, in the classroom and know. in the student body. Consider the stifling arrogance Aldo Pal&a of the intellectual game played by 2B civil eng. certain members of the self-styled
It often also becomes a denial of the self which existed during and immediately after the high-school and recognition of an period, emergent self through the experience of new situations. Yet year after the three or four “suspension from life” that is the university, we are faced with a second disassociation from the experience we have only just come Outside of the to understand. security, the academic parent, the
Thank you I received your letter and the campus paper and it pleased me very much. I am getting responses by the dozens; you sure have some wonderful people there at the university. I want to thank all of them. It would please me very much to get your paper and I will be looking forward to it. Say, if you want any articles about the prison life here, let me know. I would be more than glad to write and send you a few. Thank you again. Take care. Frank E. Johnson No. 132-254 Box 11 Columbus, Ohio 43216 U.S.A.
framework of comfort, we are faced with the decisions for so long pushed aside.
Hello to the chevron hypocrites Wouldn’t you know and year out, it’s that when the chevron takes stab at the graduation
it, year in time again its annual exercises.
Your last cover attempts to portray a sort of hypocrisy in the whole idea of graduation and yet the irony of it all is that you yourselves are the hypocrites. If you think that working towards a degree is such a farce and waste of time, allow me to ask-what the hell are you doing here? You are supposedly here to get a degree but as you don’t like or appreciate your course, you won’t admit your purpose here. This is a free country, you know, and nobody is “forced” to go to university and get a degree-as you try to give the impression. Of the hundreds that did attend, they did so voluntarily. Such poor and unrepresentative criticism is so indicative of the bitch-bitch attitude of the chevron. You constantly give the impression that everybody is getting “rippedoff” for everything all the time. Yet you don’t offer any solutions. I’m not arguing whether people are or aren’t getting ripped-off, but at least why don’t you back up your mockeries with some constructive
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“Waterloo Poets”, and their simpering child prodigy, who takes upon himself the task of chastising the masses for their nonattendance at a poetry reading, a seance of sentences designed for the reinforcement of elitism in art. Yes, poetry is indeed a sick cow here, and you, Craig, are the in-, fected calf. Continuing in this quixotic quest, I search and find the Charles Reich school of social consciousness, which translates long hair, bellbottoms and dope into revolutionary fervour. Obviously, the media went to that school, thus Waterloo’s reputation as a bastion of depraved radicals. The “conservative” elements of the students and faculty also attended, resulting in their concern over the “mess” of the campus center, the federation as an enclave of radicals, and a certain - student newspaper as a “pinko rag”. Make no mistake (ecchl) Waterloo is cleverly disguised plot to rectify our social problems. Our disguises take such forms as malechauvinists running cheerleader ads, a clever denial of the right to disseminate literature on campus, and the most devious disguise of all, the university president, friend of the students, who, in reality, is a dedicated radical parading as a personification of IT&T. Obviously, the frustration of four years has taken it’s toll. Since I am an applicant for grad school, I don’t wish to jeopardize my position by castigating the academics of our institution-but I will. Our professors, stylists of our future, educators of the nations brain trust. Choose a side, Prof. but be aware of where your interests lie-they are not with the students. There is no corner to the market of incompetent educators, even if we seem to have that corner here. Canadian content, in terms of nationality of professors, will perpetuate the same atrocious methods. In fact the current wave of nationalism is merely a reflection of the mentality of those who subject us to the inequities of tenure, purposeless research, slanted misrepresentation of history, ad infinitum. I couldn’t care less where the talent comes from, what courses they teach, or what their position on Canadian content is. What does concern me is whether they intend
to serve the best interests of the students, and perhaps by doing that they may make contributions to the other matters as well. There are variations on the theme of poor professors. The lack of teaching ability is excusable, the search for security in the form of tenure is understandable. The lack of concern for the people whom the university ostensibly serves is neither understandable nor excusable. That lack of concern will continue, because we will let it. We will allow it because of an apathetic stance, of the students non-position on their environs. That apathy extends to life in general, to life as we should live it, and allow it to be lived. That attitude leads to comments on my fellow students of the past four years, those with whom I have whirled through this senior prom of a lifestyle. The students, all of us, are culpable in all we do and all we allow to be done. The student body has shown a vast capacity for dancing, drinking, shirking, slinging a protective cloak of carefree youth over our collective shoulders. Politics. We indulge in in stereotyped psychodramas, reaction in non-concern or active distrust of those who show concern. What is frightening to see is the spinning dash into the society of today, the acceptance of inanity, of stupidity and meaninglessness. We have succeeded in producing, through the university middleclass, over, (but poorly) educated people with no sensitivity, no depth, no appreciation of each other. Every time we are lifted by contact with extraordinary people, we are dashed in the next moment by hypocrisy, indifference and stupidity. There is a feeling of being cut adrift at this time of the year, a feeling on insecurity, even despair. Four years has meant a great deal of experience, good encounters with good people, in easy circumstances...yet in many ways it is precisely perfect timing that we should leave, that we should see the world as it is, and conjure in the magic of madness, the world as it should be. Sadly enough, I have seen the university as it is for four years, and lost the vision of what it could be. Jon McGill.
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“Vive le Quebec libre!” These four words pronounced by General de Gaulle in 1967 made clear to the world that there was a problem in Quebec. For over 100 years now Quebec has suffered from, frustration and helplessness. (“Cent ans saris se plaindre”, as Robert Charlesbois said.) In Ontario people are rich, half american and most of all, satisfied; they don’t want changes. Who would blame them? In Quebec however, people are not satisfied; they don’t think that they should be glad to have what they have got. They don’t think they should accept everything without saying a word; they are fed ui!
They don’t want to be completely brainwashed. Who would blame want to be inthem? They dependent and they will take the steps to achieve their aim, to reach their ideal. Le Quebecois tried for over one century to live with a confederation and nothing came out; Quebec is still poor, owned by foreigners (english Canadians, americans) . Of course it is easy to accuse the people, les Quebecois, for putting the province in such a state, but it is even easier to accuse the governments. But obviously the people and the government are not integrated in one unit, working together, standing together. The solution: tq make a
government that would be interested in people, that would make people involved, that would rebuild Quebec with the people. But this future government will have to be viable. To be such, Quebec will have to be understood by the rest of North America, by Canadians and mostly by Ontario, It is gone the time when Quebec was a *zoo made for the rest of Canada, existing for the only reason that Canada must be bilingual. Of course, le Parti Quebecois is not the only solution; we could try to fix up the old system, patching it here and unpatc_hing it there, but it is to be over-optimistic to think that we can make gold from rot. Quebecois are optimistic but
they are realistic also. What they need now is some understanding from the other provinces. They want them to realize that independence doesn’t mean anarchy, that independendists are not radicals seeking violence. They want to achieve independence through democracy. Alain
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N.R. Students who are interested in the Parti Quebecois dexelopment and in the alternative it offers, students interested in doing some research about the Quebecois problem and who are willing to tell what the Parti Quebecois does to solve these problems, please contact me at 8846916.
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John Dale destroying radio Waterloo?, It would appear from my visits to radio Waterloo that the only type of structure that is going to exist is one of a bunch of drunk and or stoned individuals who are out to ego-trip in front of a microphone and produce alot of mindfucks. From any communication I have had with persons at the station in the past few weeks there seems to be no visable goal or set direction for the station to work toward. -I convocation. 1, then explained that am not familiar with the new I could only walk with reasonable manager or any of his cohorts but difficulty and that I would really from what I’ve seen of them I appreciate a ride over. He should think that most of them repeated that all the security would be better off in an asylum in personnel on campus were very some remote corner of Siberia. busily involved with convocation Mr. Dale at one point said, “I exercises, He suggested that I try ‘don’t want to have to make any to hitchlhike over there. I walked decisions but, if I am forced to I over to Health Services. Here, staff will.” He also said he would like to were very helpful, and with a try and work with anyone who minimum of bother, had the head wanted to work at the station and nurse drive me down to K-W that no one would be denied a hospital. chance to become -involved: He
A consequence of convocation Dear Sir: On may 25, at two p.m., I arrived at the gate of the campus on University avenue. I had just come from downtown Kitchener and I had to get to Health Services as quickly as possible. I was suffering from extreme pain in my back which was later diagnosed as probable pneumo-thorax, or collapsed lung. . I asked a security officer if he could get me a car to drive me to Health Services. He stated that
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went on and on about the fact that he wasn’t there to create a radio station but rather to “create a viable infra-structure”. It would seem to me that he has a grave misconception of his role at the I was present at the station. federation meetings and to the best of my recollection understood that he was charged to “create a viable infra-structure” and also to get a decent sound on the air. It seems to be very odd that while on one hand he professes to be willing to accept and work with anyone, he tends to want to build, as one person put it, a group of people who will agree with anything and everything he puts forth for them. From that I get thesfeeling that he is creating the very thing that the federation was trying to get away from, namely a clique. If I thought it would do any good to approach Dale on this topic personally I would, but from my experience in
dealing with people the only way to deal with ego-maniacs is to publicly tear them apart. A perfect example of (his not working with.people is that of the case of a fellow I know who has been with the station for two years or more: The person in question is Tom Mcdermott. John and he seem to have some sort a barrier between them that from what I gather Mcdermott has tried to dissolve without any co-operation from John, who has made it very clear to a lot of people that he is not willing to work with Tom. If that is any indication of what he calls a willingness to work with people, what will happen if other people who have the same or similar views about things concerning the station as Mcdermott want to get involved? Will they to be given the cold wall treatment? Tom said the other day that he felt John wanted to get together with him on things but every time they were together John had too many other things to do and consequently they were never able to sit down and talk things out. Also he felt that this was done intentionally. This to me shows a very narrow and selfish attitude on the part of John who_ presently seems to be the most paranoid power tripper that ever showed his face in any group that I had any interest in anywhere. It is time that the students of this university had a good look at things and decided how to correct this failing. I would appreciate it very much if you could publish this letter. Gord Hartford
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CLC: a bureaucracy struggling i to maintain credibility by Bob Mason and Rod Hay chevron labour reporters
Amidst the most blatant attack on organized labour to take place in recent Canadian history, the Canadian labour congress met on the week of May 15. A strike by about 200,000 Quebec public servants starting on April 11 represented the largest strike by any labour group in Canadian history. This brought action by the Quebec government. They ordered strikers back to work under penalty of fines of up to 250 dollars a day for individuals, and 50,000 dollars a day for unions. The bill prohibitsany strike action or slow-down by public service workers until June 30. After passage of this bill, the workers voted to end the strike, and take up the protest in other ways. But then, with the jailing of the leaders of the three unions composing the common front, the workers were back on the bricks again, this time much more militant in their actions. For almost a day the town of Sept lles was taken over by angry workers, while all over the province spontaneous walk-outs occurred in every sector of the economy. Presented with this demand from the Quebec workers for action, the executive of the CLC presented a resolution supporting the legitimate collective bargainning objectives of the workers involved, calling for a general amnesty for the trade unionists being held prisoner. The response from the delegates on the floor of the convention to the resolution
indicated that feeling was running much stronger than expressed by the mildly worded resolution. Every speaker stressed the fact that merely passing resolutions was not enough. “The history of Canadian labour”, pointed out J.F. MacMillan, local 188, Canadian Union of Public Employees, “is filled with jails, marches, and violence. We’ve learned that the only way to get justice in this country is to get off our asses and stop these reactionary goons and dictators.” However, by the third day of the convention it was clear that despite the expressed intentions of the executive to- institute “what ever action necessary to support the Quebec brothers”, they intended to do nothing. Marcel Perreault, from the Montreal Labour Council asked, “What have we done since the passing of the resolution three days ago? We from Quebec expected leadership, not resolutions. We should have the imagination to institute common action. I hope no one will blame us if we go our own way.” And on this note the convention returned to the more pressing business at hand: the raising of dues from thirteen cents to fifteen cents a month, and the raising of the president’s salary from 25,000 to 30,000 dollars a year. The Canadian Labour Congress has never pretended to serve the needs of the rank and file workers it represents. When Yhe Trades and Labour Congress merged
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with the Canadian Congress of Labour in 1956, the constitution and rules of order this group set up for the conducting of business and of conventions guaranteed that the power would never rest in the hands of the rank and file. _ All topics to be’discussed at a convention must be submitted, in the form of resolutions, to a general resolutions committee. This committee then recommends that certain resolutions be passed, others defeated, and often combines several into its own composite resolution. The delegates are then presented with the report of the committee. They are allowed to discuss the resolution which is on the floor, but the only motion accepted at this time is a motion to refer the main motion back to committee. And if the committee _recommends non-concurrence on a particular motion, and that recommendation is defeated, then the motion is not adopted, but simply ignored. No amendment is in order unless acceptable to the committee. And no motion is acceptable except a procedural motion. Thus nothing can pass unless approved by the executive. For example, several motions were submitted recommending that the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union be accepted into the CLC. The committee recommended non-concurrence with these motions, which meant that no matter how the delegates voted, the Fishermen could not get into the CLC. By the end of the convention, they probably didn’t want to, anyway. The action with the fishermen’s union, and similarly with the united electrical workers displayed MacDonald’s rhetoric about unity of the Canadian workers to be nothing more than the same kind of empty words mouthed concerning the Quebec situation. Understandably such autocratic behavior on the part of the CLC bureaucrats can do nothing but breed discontent among the rank and file membership. Besides the obvious opposition from the, Quebec Federation of Labour which had just joined a common front with the teachers union and the CNTU, other opposition came from the Nova Scotia Federation, the BC federation, the CBRandparts of-. the__ UAW. _-. --T&GW,__- CUPE, -._-
These are the organizations which presented proposals for direct action, which opposed the growth of a CLC bureaucracy and favoured the placing of more power in the hands of regional and local organizations, where they can be more responsive to the demands of the rank and file. Frustrated in their initial attempts to change the CLC, they can now begin preparing for the next convention, when together they will be &le to marshall enough votes to take‘ over the congress completely. Or they can withdraw from the CLC and combine fo form their own federation, probably with a structure similar to that of the CNTU. Or they can simply withdraw, refuse to pay their dues and use those funds to institute the programs they feel are more important than supporting the growing bureaucracy of the CLC. In other years and at other conventions dissatisfaction has also been apparent. But other conventions did not occur within the setting of government repression and the questionning of union power and the legitimacy of collective bargainning. Federal minister of labour Martin O’Connell said in a press conference following his speech to the convention, “If the system of collective bargainning breaks down (ie. a strike occurs) in essential services, don’t panic. It’s the recognition of the weakness of the human system. Nothing is absolute. Binding arbitration is simply an interruption in the collective bargainning process, a process which is not meant to be injurious to the society.” The federal minister of labour says hefavours voluntary binding arbitration rather than the right to strike. The Quebec government takes away the right to strike from 200,000 workers. The Ontario government is introducing binding arbitration in the public services, as is the Bennett government in British Columbia. The need for strong action from the labour movement in Canada has never been so apparent, and the repression of labour activities has never been more obvious. Clearly the power of lobbying has broken down, and labour must re-evaluate its tactics if it wants a voice in the running of this country. -
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CCORDING TO SENATOR Keith Davey, who spent two years examining mass media in Canada, “Journalists cannot contribute to their communities by protecting them. They must be responsible to their communities, naturally, but only by responding to their to be truthful, to tell all the facts.” The good Senator expands on this point in an article in the current issue of Maclean’s magazine, How the media withheld
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referring, of course, to the planned destruction of the city hall and farmers market and redevelopment by Eatons and its front man, Oxlea Developments Ltd. Nice try, Keith, but you’re about eight months too late. Sure, the chevron forced the story out into the open, and helped generate biggest public debate in the history of this community, but it’s still difficult to fight the combined efforts of KitchenerWaterloo’s bourgeois media who fought subtly, but hard, to ensure that the development would go through. The media claim they opened their microphones and news pages to both
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A power elite gets its way sides, and they did, but not without a certain insidious bias which they often try to pretend does not exist. But it’s there, perhaps a major part of “the price of being a good corporate citizen”. And it’s sometimes downright sneaky. About three weeks after the issue became public, according . to a chronology of the whole affair published in Maclean’s, K-W Record editor-in-chief C.B. Schmidt ordered an editorial writer to compose a letter to the editor attacking people who are criticizing the redevelopment. The letter was written, but with no date or address of sender on it, and given back to Schmidt who signed it John A. Schmidt . Four days later, 23 july 1971, the phony letter to the editor appeared in
the Record as the main letter, under the heading, Kitchener’s phony tears. It read in part:
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In a ‘democracy a majority. is supposed to rule, and usually it does. But let any community get into a project that involves tearing down unsightly old buildings and it’s the leather-lunged minority that rules.. . I suppose the same people are crying about any plans to improve the downtown areas in many of the cities in the United States. And what are those cities like today? Many of them look as if they had just been bombed. Do we want the same thing to happen in Kitchener?
* Schmidt’s wife Margaret also wrote a letter to the editor supporting the Oxlea development, but the Record later denied it, both in -print and at a staff meeting. Said assistant publisher Sandy Baird, “It has been charged that we wrote our own letters to the editor. I want to tell you here and now that we never did and never will. That is a complete falsehood.” What it all comes down to is that the people of Kitchener and Waterloo are being lied to. These lies are being told by the people who control what we read in our (their 1 newspapers, what we see on television, and what we hear on the radio. These people in control are an elite, one upper class with their own best interests at heart. Record publisher John Motz, explaining the Record’s motivation in keeping the development story quiet, has said that the paper was acting as a “good corporate citizen”. And they were. That’s a point to remember, because the people in control of our community, the owners and the managers and developers, have the same interests. They think the same kinds of things are good. They see things the same way. And when we- try to examine the’ ideals that motivate these “good corporate citizens”, it usually comes down to one thing-money. In his criticisms of the Kitchener media in Maclean’s Senator Davey
Fortunately, we council-nine out of the courage of its hope they are not
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tears (of the redevelopment and that they will get on with as quickly as possible. .Iohn A. Schmidt
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tried to find a profit motive for the Record’s actions through John Motz’s fkn~0/jtj0n for the Oxlea development has a/ready begun. City officials say these old corporate connections. Oxlea’s parent hlriltling:, just east of city hall will be down by the end of this month, to be followed by company, Oxford Leaseholds Ltd. is lh~ city ha// and the farmers’ market. As they say in the board rooms, “That’s progress, ten percent owned b-j, Canada Trust, of hf~11 hflh /If& . . . ” which Motz is a director. And, as the “. .’ “.” Senator observed, the connection was relatively minor. But the Senator overlooked a couple of important points. First, Eaton’s had apparently threatened to move out of Kitchener should the development not be approved. And that would have meant a loss of many thousands of dollars to the Record in advertising, as well as lost revenue in radio and television advertising. The second point is a bit more interesting. The Record is presently building a new office and printing plant on Fairway Road in the east end of Kitchener, which means they’ll be selling their old building on Queen Street, a block away from the Oxlea . development. Were the development not going ahead, the building would have been a “white elephant”, worth only about a third of what the Record s will probably get for it when they do move. The media would like to have us believe they acted in the best interests of the community at heart-, but like most “good corporate citizens”, that all too often means business first, people second. As long as the media in Kitchener-Waterloo and Canada is controlled by the corporate elite, freedom of the press will remain a member: Canadian university press (CUP) and meaningless mystification of the real liberation news service (LNS), Last Post News situation.
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Dis veek ve vere: handy rannigan, len greenner, christa tomory, deanna kaufman, george kautman, max rideout, mike rohatynsky, brute Steele, shane roberts, mart roberts, luke aujame, rona achilles, melving rotman, paul stuewe, gary robins, chuck stoody, ellen tolmie, gord moore, Scott gray, heather Webster, peter warrian, david cubberley, mary holmes, roddy hay, bob mason, Steve izma, trudy chippier, Winnie lang, jon mcgill, terry moore, brute hahn, carol czako, maria, renzo bernardini, ron smith who we missed last week, dennis as a write in, dave peltz. Who will take it upqn himself/herself to write anything in coherent fashion at this time on this type of morning and under these conditions, which doesn’t tell you much does it ??? but then we never claimed brilliance, only diligence: “write on, said melving” and george i know if you’re listening your hating us for the absolute stupidity of everything we’ve written, but then it is seven the next morning isn’t it??? and of course we all know what that means, hello to mumsy, dads and all the goils at the shirt factory; send in your cereal box tops and we will send all of those who read the Macleans article on kitchener-Waterloo media, and liked it, a copy of another year old story from the “Canadian” magazine of your choice. speaking of pubs, come to the camp Columbia pub tonite at eight-thirty pee-ems and get the wondorous once in a lifetime chance to boogie with george....this is absolutely no time to talk about anything, so good morning although we are still hearing questions of “where is the head for this page.”
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Honeywell kills ’ Honeywell Incorporated ranked fifty-third on the 1971 Fortune list of the 500 largest industrial corporations with total sales of almost 2 billion dollars. It does a whopping business in the manufacture, sales, leasing, and servicing of computers and related equipment. The company is no slouch in the defense arena. Honeywell ranked twenty-second on the list of the top 100 military contractors of 1971. Its government contracts for military research and production intended for use against military totalled 236.6 million dollars last personnel (The U.S. Air Force year and accounted for I2 per cent Manual “Fundamentals of of its total sales. Systems” says, “A General Westmoreland in a - Weapons military target is any person, thing, speech before the association of idea, entity, or location selected the army on October 4, 1969, for destruction, inactivation, or spoke glowingly of “a battlefield of rendering with the future where forces will be non-usable weapons which will reduce or located, tracked, and targetted destroy the will of the enemy to almost instantaneously through resist.“) the use of data links, computer To supplement its electronic assisted intelligence evaluation, battlefield, Honeywell has a whole and automated fire control.” host of miniaturized antipersonnel It’s now the “automated batdevices. Their purpose, as the army tlef ield”, a complex electronic so tersely puts it, is “area denial.” system capable of inflicting inThere are guava bomblets, gravel credible damage to people and mines, WAAPM (wide area perland without the loss of American sonnel mines), fuzes, SWIP fighting men. (special purpose individual The U.S. swears that this weapons), and gas bombs. \
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All Honeywell products are aimed at, and have been used for terrorizing the civilian populace. This fact is contrary to board chairman Binger’s claim that “Honeywell does not manufacture a weapon to be used against civilians.” Take for instance the Honeywell “Guava bomb”. It has a hollow soft shell and a spherical casing about three inches in diameter which contains from 300 to 600 steel pellets. Hundreds of these bomblets are packed into a dispensing unit the size of a 750 pound bomb. One aircraft can release twenty to twenty-five of these dispensing units at once. Guavas explode in mid-air and by the time the speeding steel balls have hit the ground, they are travelling at the speed of bullets. One plane load can cover an area larger than several football fields. The steel balls have no effect on military structures. They cannot pierce cement, and they penetrate earthen or sandbag bunkers to a depth of only two or three inches. Antipersonnel devices manufactured by Honeywell cannot destroy a home, fell a tree, or puncture a tire. They are designed primarily to penetrate . human flesh. A
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