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wHMm FM pp£SsWEDNESDAy, MR 7, M, PAGE 7 PAGE SEVEN DE IWIE NOIE F SWl -E VORECA5TW ITU 131G CILWLY SEPERAT[LST 'McAI V I ERY1lMING pNLL WARM ANbFU ZZY A week ago, the Nicauraguan people went te the poils in the Most carefully 'observed and documented election the r4il «îe1 world has lever seen., By ail accounts, interference was minimal, the ballots were cou nted fairly and the Sandanistas u lost. A victory for freedom? for dernocracy? pJ RID It.18somewhat questionable as to who won, other than to O' state the simple fact that a coalition known as LINO wbich encompasses everything from the far right tq the far left won the most votes. Whether they can govern reniains Wo be seen. Will the the Americans now *allow the Nicaraguan people Wo get back Wo running their own affairs or will they continue Wo interfere? The Contras and their Ameican paymasters ?LEASANTNESS have mnade it clear that they view the vote as a.vcWry for PýNb D RoDFELING \~ Anierican foreign policy. If, however, the Contras are given -AoNeF -- any significant rôle in running the counhtry, especially the EoRciI army or the police, you can be alniost certain that the bMC~C Sandanistas would be driven back underground and the1l FRCS revolution.would start ail over. In spite of the results,'the. Sandanistas are stili by far the largest and best organized political party and clearly they have the hearts of the people. The people, however, didn't vote with their hearts, they voted with their pocketbooks. Nicaragua is a distant, poor, third world country and the circumstances were (hopefully) unique, but in order to assess those circumstances, let's bring them closer to home and see how we might have reacted: Let's say the Russians (the enemy) don't like t/w way bas told t/w Russians it's none of t/wir business lis irrelevant - they've made it t/wir busines.) Thzey've spent tens af billions of dollars (Canada bas about ten times the population of Nicaraugua so Ive. nade ail the numbers proportionately higher) flnancing ex-patriotes to wage a gueril war acrass the arctic tundra. T/w Indians and Inuit bave been innocent inflation is out of control, taxes are high, goods are scareand stili t/w Russians are keeping t/w pressure on. We tried to be a free country; we /wld elections flue years ago but the Russian-backed Contras refused ta run any candidates because they said t/we election was fixecL We tried to have a free press top, but the KGB bought euery editor in t/w country. Sa in order ta get t/w government view across, Mulroney had to impose same censorship and state controt Our neighbours, the Americans, w/w are also a poor country, tried ta mewdiate, but even w/wn we agreed ta some middle gmound t/w Russians kept shifting lit. We even took them ta the World Court which ruled that their support of t/w Contras violated t/w U.N. charter. They owe us a $120 billion in war reparations ($12.2, billion Wo Nicaragua) but of course they1re. not paying. T/wylve blockaded the St. Lawrence, t/wylve mined Halifax harbor and theylve got nuclear subs throughaut aur . arctic frontier. T/w only thing we hadgoiWfor us was t/t t/w Russian parliament didn't like t/w expense and t/wy periodically cut offaid to the 'Contras but Garbachev always found a way 116111 BATIALION FLAG RAISIG PARADE,, MARCH 'a,1916 around lit. Tee odedesdi iiayge taemrhn ato udsSre fo Needless ta say t/w situation was pulling us a part - on twTeeslirdesiinltahe g eateatte Amrhines then Duntreet froni one bond we wère mad as hell at their -interference but on Byron Street Wo Brock Street They aseembleatheAmrsweeteTont-ninn t/wat/r hnd e sw n wa -o - oter1hanta o .i1t/.rBank is now, to participate ini a flag raising ceremony. WyAdw ht T/wy needed a leader - soineane wtlwut tzks ta any faction Mrn ok ttehro -preferably someone who could be Portrayed as a victim af :Hp eolessi htb aerahd$ ilo orth. first tme some maybe a womainn (thatave always $1 illikaf good) e soesort, m Trudewoau- ta t laky perhs, but seBoburely ewas guest speaker at a Scout and Cub father and son banquet at Voilà, Margaret Tuéu-abtfaypras u ueyGenod they cauld rally 'round fior a few mont ha. A high-proflle photo session with Maggie embracing Gorby and t/w race was on. 125 ZAIRS AGO Well, what were we supposed ta think. T/w Russians wvere iron the Thurýsay, March 2, 1865 edfition of the staking aloonMgi winning- what wvould happen if s/we didn't? ... Wbat wauld happen if s/w did? a A miasquerade on skates will b. held at the Victoria Bink, with the Whffitby Brass Band Well, enough of 'us- /wld aur nases and voted for her that MVilg the. musie. > she got elected - w we vted tave ail thboskae taf *9 o Lynes, the. town bell ringer, is paid $60 a year. sanctions and war - 'evtdt aealtoeb~diens OfaAeander Caineron, Whitby's Chief Constable, is paid $80 a year. Russian rubles building aur economy instead of flghting it. e The. town couneil is responsible for learing snow from sidewaflks leading to Whitby's We just hope that some of those billions wil filter through schools and churehes. ail t/w UNO fingers and get down to us. instead of liming Swiss bank accounts. No s owsthe lection free? ... or was it bought? _______________________