Smiling and spritely, Thursday, January 29,1981, page 4

EDITORIAL

Huron County is the epitome of small—tam Ontario, v or probably small-town PEI, [or small—town anywhere for that matter. The people who live there are de— scendants of families who settled the area one hun- dred years ago or more. Families still live on the farms cleared by the back-breaking labour of their ancestors - land that has become of the best farm—

_ land in Canada.

From this one can gather the sense of "roots" that pervades the atmosphere; not the Old World sense of centuries of history, but New World roots, where there are still old-timers who remember the toil of their parents and grandparents to create a new life

in the wilderness.

Into all of this, five or so years ago, the ri— sing price ‘of land. It became almost impossible for

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While we normally await the arrival of spring to endure the nasties of potholes and bumps which char— acteristically grace our Island highways, it appears the Univ— ersity administration, and primarily those in maintenance, wish to give us a head start. The turn at Blanchard Hall going to the student park- ing lot was barely passable last week. While I recognize ‘

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The hocola which acc - nied the return of the hos— tages may have had for its purpose the silencing of . those who suspect the hos-~ tages were used to enable the American banks to re- cover the loans made to the deposed Shah's regime. When a government is overthrown by revolution it is not customary for the succeeding government to honor the ob- ligations incurred by the deposed regime: the Soviet Union has not paid the ob— ligations incurred abroad by the Czar‘s government, « nor has Fidel Castro honored the obligations incurred by the Batista government.

Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller, the owner of the Chase Manhattan bank, saw an opportunity. There was no reason why a medical team could not. have travelled to Mexico City, as'it did to Cairo to treat the Shah. No interest of the United States was served by admitting the Shah to the United States-L- such was the hatred of the Shah and the hatred of the United States among the young revolutionaries in rIiehran that the American ambassador there had warned Mr. Carter

that if the Shah were admitted six billion dollars for Amer—‘

to the United States, the em— bassy might be seized and oc—

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that delays became of inclement weather may occur, it is tot—' ally inexcusable that the situation whould still exist one week later.

While the work of those keeping our build—, ings clean is most admirable, it is sit— uations such as this which happened last WEEK which tries the students' patience 3, and sympathy towards the University ad— ministration .

Signed,

“East in the Ice.

a young. person just starting‘put to buy a farm. The Older farmers had no market“ for their farms because

the land was too good for even university professors to use as an escape from hectic pace of city life.

Enter large European corporations. Ontario's slack foreign ownership of land laws left southern Huron. County and many other counties wide open for a mass onslaught by these huge German corporations. They bought up the excellent farmland, rented it out to local farmers or left it sit for a few years, and returned to Europe to sit back and reap the profits. While .the provincial government was struggling to pull the wool aside from its eyes, these fOreign owners milked Ontario's best farmland for all its , worth. Within one mile and -a quarter stretch of road running through 1000 acres of prime farmland, over 600 acres is owned by one of those German corpor- ations. Prices are much cheaper than in Europe, but still range in the $4000 an acre or more prices‘lot.

During the Christmas holidays, a furour arose in South Cayuga Township over the Ontario government's proposition to build a chemical waste dump site in that area. South Cayuga forms part of the rich . Niagara Peninsula, an area noted for years for it's fruit-growing land. This is also an area close to the Notorious Love Canal dump site, received' ' so much publicity a few years back. .‘

That in itself is not very surprising in light of our increasing dependence on chemical and nuclear — technology. What does get one's goat is that the Ontario goVernment had to buy the land from one of those large German corporations.

Naturally residnets of South Cayuga complained and planned to storm tl‘e bastions of the Davis regime. If repeated protestations have managed to convince Davis and the boys that Cayuga is not the most suitable spot for the dump site, the waste

dump will most definitely be moved to southern

Huron County .

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When a crowned head or a head of state goes to a fo—‘ reign country for medical treatment, it is customary for them to travel incognito. If this custom had been fol—, lowed, the students would not have had formal notice of the prescence of. the hated Shah in the United States.

To make sure that they would know, Mr. Carter announced the Shah's entry to the Uni- ted States. It is to be noted that he saw no reason for announcing the entry of King Khalid of Saudi Arabia who received medical treatment at a mid-western hospital.

The stratagem worked: the embassy was seized and its occupants held hostage to secure the return of the Shah and his wealth. This gave Mr. Carter an excuse to seize Iranian funds in American banks both at home and abroad. The hostages stayed in Tehran until the Shah had died and the haggling went on until Mr. Carter obtained the bar-'- gain he wanted — the return of the hostages in exchange for the return of the smaller portion of Iran's assets. \ Their captivity earned roughly

ican interests .

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