Viikkosanomat, November 17, 1986

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The idea came from a young violinist in
Australia who was listening to a radio
account of the United Nations' annual one
minute of silence and one moment of
sound which has been observed at noon on
Sept 16 the International Day of Peace
since 1981 The musician thought it would
be lovely if ali Australians would silently
think about peace and he went to work to
promote the idea Others heard of his effort
and expanded it to include other countries
The rest was a mere matterof organizing a
Worldwide campaign in a very few months
vvithout funds
Canada's distinguished George Ignatieff
former ambassador to the United Nations
and former chancellor of the University of
Toronto is a tough dove and readily agreed
to head the effort in Canada Requests
went out to about 200 notables moJToT
vvhom were profoiindly unimpresseiLat the
idea of lending their prestige to something
as fuzzy-minde- d as asking people to think
about peace pspifeJLheJactjhat interna-tional
patrons included Archbishop Des-mond
Tutu Jack Lemmon the Dalai Lama
and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Adolfo Pe-rez
Esquivel response in Canada was slow
The organizers treasure those patrons who
were among the first to make a leap of
faith: singer Bruce Cockburn pianist
Oscar Peterson comedians Johnny Wayne
and Frank Shuster country singer Tommy
Hunter native leader George Erasmus
"I strongly believe that in striving for
Worldwide peace no contribution is too lit-tl- e"
wrote Jean Chretien when he gave his
name to the venture
A 24-year--
old Toronto geophysicist
George Barnett worked for six months to
help co-ordin-ate the Million Minutes for
Peace effort in this country He's one of
Canadian Press
VANCOUVER
British Columbia is home to
more than 50 food banks — more
than ali the rest of Canada a
study says "It's a disgrace" Sylvia Rus-sell
director of the Vancouver
Food Bank said
British Columbia is regarded
as a disaster by approximately
300 social workers politicians
Government officials teachers
and relieious leaders meeting at
the the
Claque
shape" the research
Draft sppech by Minister
Puhakka the occasing
signing the agreement concern-in- g
Social Security between
Canada and
tradition has
been favoured country
Finnish emigrants may
due fact that the and
other conditions Canada
very
result the of
and
in Canada
is From
view of Security
the situation inevitable
problems and order to
problems
Security is
ry
that breed of shy determined idealists who
illuminate the landscape 'Tm
engaged in exploration" he ex-plai- ns
"and I like to augment that with
community
He made a link with a like-mind--ed
man Eric Hellman who was work-in- g
with the group A Peal for Peace to
widen participation in in the UN's
minute of silence and of
sound on Sept 16 took on the
task of single-handed- ly bringing Vancouv-er
Expo to a hait that moment
his own and with leave of ab-sen-ce
supportive a
computer company spent month in
Vancouver
He with the daunting task" of-obtaini-ng the support of 65 pavilions
each of which autonomous and repre-sente- d
a different province state or narjpn-Tha- t
done endorsement o£
Reid
who agreed with only 10 days to!
spare That Eric to
the operators of concessions Re-staurants
and amusement rides
noon on Sept 16 MV
upon an estimated 65000 on the
Expo site A minute later a choir made up
of representatives of almost every pavijion-san- g
on earth " and then-th- el
exquisite Pachelbel canon was heard over
loudspeakers and church bells rang
have been contemplating peace
over this past month either in such a
as that transcending minute a(
Expo or simply in They have Seerr
reflecting on how the world longs to raise
A silence as profound
as that cannot go Nothing is lost-i-n
the
handing out
bags of food a month when it
opened about three years ago
Now it routinely distributes 3000
food hampers month
are of
in this country going to
school who unable to
unable to learn because they
have no food their stomachs"
said Graham Riches Universi-ty
of sociology professor
who the problem
Figures from June by
the Social Planning and Research
the three-da- y conference in To- - of BC show more than
ronto 70000 people in the province
"And when from the handouts to ensure food
Maritimes with ali the problems was on the table at end of
they have are shocked by what week
they hear about BC you realize Michael executive
were in really bad director of
Russell said said a grovving number of people
She said her organization have lost their jobs exhausted
would probably turn people away their savings and unemployment
this Winter "It looks like a insurance and are unable to exist
bleak Winter a lot of people on welfare
especially if it is cold one" "It's a tragedy" he
The Vancouver Food Bank said
CANADA AND FINLAND SIGN
AGREEMENT ON
SOCIAL SECURITY
on of
Finland
By Canada
a for
This be
to climatic
in are
similar to those in Finland
As a number Fin-nish
citizens persons of
Finnish origin living
quite cosiderable the
point of Social
involves
in solve
these an agreement
concerning Social
human
mineral
work"
natural
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Canada
annual moment
Mr Hellman
86 for At
expense a
from his employer
he a
started
ali
was
he needed the
Patrick at-Exp- o
allowed Hellman ap--
proach
At a hushed silence
people
"Peace
Millions
mov-in- g
setting
solitude
its children in safety
unheard
universe
started several hun-dred
a
"There a number chil-dren
are study
in
a
Regina
studied
a report
Council
people needed
Ms council
pretty
for
a human
necessary
Now such an agreement has
been completed itdoes notonly
solve the problems of Social
Security for the Finnish immig-rant- s
in Canada but it also
guarantees Finnish Social Se-curity
rights to Canadians re-sidi- ng
in Finland Moreover it
implies a notevvorthy impro- -
Security
Security in the Finnish
in Canada and
naturally the same applies to the
Security of Canadian
enterprises operating in Fin-land
Novv there vvill no more be
problems conce: ning pay-me- nt
of Security con-tributions
in both countries
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CALUVOOD
commissioner-general- t
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$C Premier criticized för agreeing
to meet South African ambassador
Canadian Press
VICTORIA
Premier William Vander Zalm
has arranged a meeting Nov 7 with
South African Ambassador Glenn
Babb a meeting New Democratic
Party Leader Robert Skelly is call-in- g
"totally inappropriate"
William Bachop Mr Vander
Zalm's press said the
meeting is a "courtesy call" that
was initiated by Mr Babb
Bachop said has no idea what
they will discuss
Mr said it is inappropriate
for Mr Vander Zalm to meet Mr
Babb
troops m
Haiti
it
from
"It is a fact though that this
province is the only in Canada
which has held in terms of
against South Africa and this
reinforces the unfortunate
reputation which BC has through-ou- t
the rest of the country and in-de- ed around the world"
Opposition said
A local anti-aparthe- id group is
also angry
Zayed Gamiet spokesman for the
Southern Action Coalition
said that by to meet Mr
Babb Mr Vander Zalm "is imply-in- g that thinks Babb has a right
to the African
"We have never interfered the
internal government of a country and
and have no intention of doing so
never have had any thought of that kind"
Ronald Reagan
Monroe Doctrine signed US Lätin America as
area of influence
US intervene in Nicaragua
1835: US troops intervene in Peru
1854: San Juan-de- i Norte Nicaragua destroyed to avenge
insult to the US minister
1856: US invades Panama afler incident
1858: US troops intervene in Uruguay
1865: US troops intervene in Panama
US troops intervene in Uruguay
1868: US troops intervene in Colombia
US troops intervene in Colombia
1885: US intervene in Panama
1888: US intervene in Haiti
1891: US troops intervene in Chile
1894: US troops intervene in Nicaragua
1895: US intervene in Colombia
1896: US troops inteiveno in Honduras
1898: US troops intervene in Nicaragua
Battleship Maine sunk US initiates Spanish-America- n war
1098: US troops invade Puerto Rico to 'liberate it' from Spain
DEAR READERS: 1899: US troops intervene in Nicaragua
May wc suggest that 1901: us- - trooPs intervene in Colombia
savc English section pagcs 1902: us- - trooPs intervene in Colombial
truly
Pcrhaps old
advertisements
Canadian
arrangements
determine
Secretary
289-8- 2
19U3: us troops intervene m honauras
1903: US troops intervene in Dominican Republic
1903: US troops intervene in Panama
US troops intervene in Dominican Republic
1904: US troops intervene in Panama
1907: US troops intervene in Honduras
1910: US troops intorvene in Nicaragua
US troops intervene in Honduras
1912: US troops in
tographs pionecrs of iaJ: ub intervene Mexico
vhich print copies 1914: US troops inteivene
of the
are
the
Social Security
Federal very
of
vvith
persons
he
Skelly
sanc-tion- s
agreeing
he
represent South
in
troops
an
troops
troops
troops
1904:
1911:
intervene
1915: Marines land in Haili and occupy it until 1934
1919: US troops intervene in Honduras
1920: US troops intervene in Guatemala
1924: US tioops intervene in Honduras
1925: US tioops intervene in Honduras
1925: US troops intervene in Panama
US troops intervene in Nicamqua
19?0: Danana woikors strike in Colombia against United Fruit
Company 1000 killed
1932: 3 US and 2 Canadian vvaiships arrive in El Salvador
1932: peasants begin mass insurrection Military
retaliation: 30000 massacred
1954: CIA ovetthrovvs Arbenz government in Guatemala
1958: Panama declares state of seiqe afler 6 killed in anti- -
1961:
1962:
1964:
US riots
just
leader
Africa
1823:
1833:
1868:
1873:
1898:
Cuba
CIA defealecl in Bay of invasion of Cuba
US blockade of Cuba initiated
US troops kili student in Panama Canal
zone
the Social Security systems of ig65 y s mva(j(?s Dominican nopijbic
the Provinces Canada The i0co Cnhf n„nn nnnf„„n„ nnrwnnn
the of
the
the
of
of one of
Mr
one
out
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are
of ukn i 9U9 uui ii i i uoici aiuvuo u iui i llm ioiucicuiui i
be to elimination of Fidel Castro"
the Federal Government also 1973 us sponsored coup ln Chile overthrovvs Popular
defines the pnnciplcs according Unjy govemment Allende murdored
to vvhich the arrangements of 1975 40 students kied at University of El Salvador
the agreements the
the
moving
the area party
to another various
the
claims
1920:
Salvadnran
Pigs
naval
protesters
uuiici "in„unuyii
aiven the
demonstrating against US intervention
1983: US invades Grenada to install new pro-Americ- an
regime
Contributed by Dr Sofia Vuorinen
Bcamsville Ontario
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