A
Western
Perspective
By
Stephen
A.
Lawrence,
B.A.
After
a
rather
tumultuous
and
bloody
decade,
we
are
all
looking
forward
to
a
decade
of
peace
and
genuine
personal
and
worldly
advancement.
Welcome
in
the
1990's!
!
The
following
is
medley
of
predictions
and
thoughts
collected
from
the
local
and
international
arenas.
While
Eastern
European
countries
(minus
Albania)
have
now
quite
handily
ripped
off
the
shackles
of
dreaded
communism,
they
face
an
even
bigger
challenge
this
decade:
they
must
gather
enough
economic
know-how
and
financing
so
that
they
may
get
their
economies
out
of
the
stagnant
state
they
are
in.
Otherwise,
survival
might
not
be
a
certainty.
The
Soviet
Union
is
broke
after
several
decades
of
playing
war
games
with
the
U.S.A.
Now
they
have
1
5
eager
fracture
states
who
would
like
to
get
out
of
the
Pact
before
things
get
from
"bad"
to
"impos-
Politics
Anyone
By
Patricia
Davis
staff
reporter
The
reporter
from
CKPG
turned
to
me
after
pressing
the
elevator
button
and
said,
"Well,
that
was
a
nothing
meeting!"
I
had
taken
the
bus
to
attend
a
Saturday
afternoon
meeting
at
City
Hall,
after
having
been
told
that
statements
would
be
made
to
the
press
by
Bruce
Strachen
and
Stan
Hagen
regarding
the
new
University.
Supposedly,
they
were
to
have
been
more
definitive
than
those
made
by
Mr.
Strachen
on
Jan.9th
at
the
Inn
of
the
North.
Wishful
thinking.
After
waiting
half
an
hour
past
the
stated
time,
we
were
ushered
into
the
council
chambers
and
announced
to
those
there.
The
meeting
dissolved
into
an
ordinary
press
release.
Pictures
were
snapped
of
our
own
dear
Principal
Charles
McCaffray
(representing
the
Prince
GeorgeRegion
Development
Corporation)
accepting
a
cheque
for
$65,000
from
M.L.A.
Bruce
Strachen.
Mr
McCaffray
also
posed
with
the
Interior
University
Society
board
for
a
group
picture.
Did
you
know
he
wasontheexecutiveboardofthel.U.S.?
Indeed,
he
is
one
of
its
founding
members.
Somehow
that
rankles:
the
principal
of
a
college
initiating
a
move
to
put
a
large
number
of
his
employees
out
of
work
but
back
to
the
meeting.
StanHagengothis
television
time
and
Bruce
Strachen
was
interviewed
by
Prince
George
Radio
where
he
reiterated
what
he
had
said
about
the
new
University
before.
It
was
all
over
in
fifteen
minutes.
A
waste
of
time?
If
any
of
you
are
interested
in
the
art
of
political
propaganda,
manipulation,
and
the
display
of
ego
trips
-you
should
have
been
there.
sible."
We
wish
them
well.
In
the
decades
to
come,
I
think
we
will
look
back
and
see
just
how
close
we
were
to
economic
and
worldly
collapse.
This
decade
will
come
to
be
known
as
the
decade
of
World
Famine
and
World
Depression
2.
Already,
at
time
of
writing,
we
have
seriously
depleted
much
of
our
food
reserves,
including
wheat
and
beans.
As
more
of
our
available
land
falls
prey
to
encroaching
desert
and
salty
pesticides,
there
are
increases
in
our
world
population.
A
vicious
divergence...
We
can
expect
to
see
another
serious
recession,
one
that
might
lead
to
a
depression.
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Our
first
depression
in
the
'30's
will
look
good
beside
this
one.
One
out
of
the
two
people
in
North
America
own
at
least
one
gun.
Our
sense
of
morality
and
brotherly
(sisterly)
charity
have
been
eaten
away
by
the
selfishness
of
the
'70's
and
'80's.
Several
small
crises
have
clearly
demonstrated
the
extent
to
which
we
have
succumbed
to
purely
selfish
and
primitives
thinking.
Remember
the
New
York
subway
incident
ofthe'70's?
Fighting
in
the
Middle
East
is
going
to
continue.
It
is
in
this
area
that
we
face
our
biggest
threat
to
world
stability.
We
must
put
an
end
to
the
serious
fighting
before
it
YEAR.
reaches
global
proportions.
Science
will
continue
to
make
new
strides
in
the
health,
space,
and
animal
research.
AIDS
will
cease
to
be
major
threat
within
the
next
dozen
years.
Water
shortages
are
a
different
story.
Food
simulation
will
become
a
necessary
evil.
Nuclear
power
will
make
a
comeback.
The
biggest
issue
of
the
'90's
(and
one
that
should
have
been
in
the
'
80'
s
as
well)
is
the
environment.
It
may
be
too
late
already,
but
we
must
all
make
a
personal
attempt
to
do
our
bit.
If
we
all
sit
back,
nothing
will
change
and
we
will
pay
the
ultimate
price.
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to
the
1990's!
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