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THE CORD WEEKLY Volume 29, Number 25 Thursday Mar. 23,1989 Wilfrid Laurier University Abandon all hope ye who enter here Cord Photo: Liza Sardi The Cord Weekly 2 Thursday, March 23,1989 THE CORD WEEKLY |1 keliv/f!rent-a-car ; SAVE $5.00 ! March 23,1989 Volume 29, Number 25 ■ ON ANY CAR RENTAL ■ I Editor-in-Chief Cori Ferguson ■ NEWS Editor Bryan C. Leblanc Associate Jonathan Stover Contributors Tim Sullivan Frances McAneney COMMENT ■ ■ Contributors 205 WEBER ST. N. Steve Giustizia l 886-9190 l FEATURES Free Customer Pick-up Delivery ■ Editor vacant and Contributors Elizabeth Chen ENTERTAINMENT Editor Neville J. Blair Contributors Dave Lackie Cori Cusak Jonathan Stover Kathy O'Grady Brad Driver Todd Bird SPORTS Editor Brad Lyon Contributors Brian Owen Sam Syfie Serge Grenier Lucien Boivin Raoul Treadway Wayne Riley Oscar Madison Fidel Treadway Kenneth J. 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The Cord Weekly is a member of the Canadian Uni- (-416)962 18-41 ('lbrontoarea ) versity Press. / I•H(XMK"M>73'S (outside'lbronto) ( -416)962 Copyright © 1989 by WLU Student Publications, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5. No part of V Telefax: 8900 this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the Editor-in-Chief. The Cord Weekly NEWS 3 Thursday, March 23,1989 Arms race creates hidden losses TORONTO (CUP) -- A mother buries the for military purposes. emaciated body of her infant son under the hot Third World arms rccipicnts must pay for their Ethiopian sky. He died from diarrhea, and could weapons in hard currency. To do this, governments have been saved with five dollars' worth of mineral often use fertile, prime land to grow cash crops, salts. land that is often taken away from the hungry. A But Ethiopia is at war, and the government has net flow of about $38 billion per year from poor no time or money for emaciated children. countries to the rich ensures that Third World na- Halfway around the world, on the edge of a tions remain impoverished and exploited. lake in Labrador, a native family is disrupted by a low-flying jet fighter flying at near supersonic Military spending in the poorest countries speed from the Canadian Forces Base at Goose doubled between 1974 and 1984, and military ex- Bay. The noise and danger from these jets wouldn't penditures of developed countries are 30 times be tolerated in other parts of Canada, and endangers larger than their aid budgets for the developing the health of natives living outside the mainstream. countries. Around the world, every minute of every day, The upper class of Third World countries have tragedies occur because the world's resources are much to gain through maintaining a strong army. being funneled into expensive, high-powered kill- Soldiers represent power, authority, stability and ing machines, says Major-General Leonard technical progress. Johnston, former commandant of National Defence "Armies are also, and not coincidentally, the College and chair of Project Ploughshares, a non- means of maintaining power to enrich the leaders governmental peace organization. and a cadre of rich and corrupt supporters," said Johnston, who spoke to about 60 people last Johnston. week at the University of Toronto, said 30 children "Military expansion in the Third World helps to die every minute of every day while the world's na- maintain an environment favorable to capitalist tions spend almost $2 million a minute on arms. business interests." The world invests a trillion dollars on arms a year. But the real winners of the arms race are arms- Fourteen million children die of hunger and pre- producing countries like the United States, the ventable disease during that same time. Soviet Union, Canada and neutral nations like "The most obvious consequences of militariza- Sweden, Switzerland, Argentina and Brazil. tion is the misuse of resources, the lost opportunity "Arms sales are profitable; exports lengthen to meet human needs with the approximately $1 production runs, making domestic arms production trillion being spent on arms each year," he said. economic; they use surplus industrial capacity, and "Military spending contributes to inflation, un- they improve the balance of payments for the ex- employment, and public debt, sapping the strength porting countries." of the richest nations. But nowhere are the con- And the poor? "Just seven months' worth of sequences as severe as in the underdeveloped na- world military spending would pay for supplying tions of the Third World, some of which have be- clean water and adequate sanitation to the two bil- come economic basket cases." lion people who now lack these bare essentials of Johnston said the arms race absorbs highly health," said Johnston. qualified people who could otherwise contribute to "A single ballistic-missile submarine costs as solving the problems. About 45 million people much as the annual education budgets of 23 devel- make up the world-wide military work force, and oping countries with 160 million school-age chil- 25 per cent of global research and development is dren." When the money got tight, York went shopping TORONTO (CUP) - When cash lions director Will Sayers. "If you the thrust to make sure that the maintain an open and informed As well, a confidential memo was tight, York University de- get a tax credit of 100 per cent, Ontario economy is international- dialogue with the provincial written by Queen's University ad- cided to operate a shopping mall people would be more generous." ly competitive." government... This dialogue has ministrators and circulated to on campus. The COU represents university The COU doesn't agree. It been fundamentally one-sided, as presidents recommended 44 per Ontario's ailing university presidents across the province. says Ontario universities are sig- our council's research and reports cent tuition fee hikes over five system desperately needs an in- The university administrators nificantly under financed by U.S. have gone largely without years, and that government grants jection of cash which must proba- also urged the government to standards. And, the 7.5 increase response," said the COU's latest increase by $375 million over the bly come from corporations and seek more transfer funds from Ot- actually represents a 4 per cent report, released March 13. next nine years. individual donors, say the pro- tawa and increase the number of increase after supplementary The same day, the COU told vince's university presidents. provincial loans and grants to stu- funding is taken into account. the Ontario government standing And the government should dents. Tuition fee increases were MCU's advisory committee committee on finance and eco- Most universities have taken restructure the lax system to en- also discussed. And the adminis- recommended that universities nomic affairs that the province's fundraising matters into their own courage more public and private trators urged the treasury ministry get a 10 per cent increase in oper- universities must get more money hands, embarking on huge donations, school presidents and to take a serious look at un- ating grants. and are prepared to raise tuition fundraising campaigns. Council of Ontario Universities derfunding. "The universities of Ontario fees and limit enrolment to get it.