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By ROBERT
MONTREAL (CP) — Gwynne Dyer is the first to
admit he’s a one-man cottage industry dealing in foreign
affairs.

But the problem is that business has gotien out of

“It's ” says the
born ist and “Tve been
out on the road two-thirds of the time in the past year
It's stupid.”

The solution?

“Stop making movies,” he said in an interview in
Montreal shortly before leaving for London. “Or at least.
stop making them for a while.

SERIES ENDS

So with the broadcast in March of his three part
series, Defence of Canada, Dyer made his last prime-time
appearance on CBC television — for a while, at least

The series showed Dyer at his best, abusing military
decorum in his Levi's and leather jackets, and casting
fresh light on topics that TV usually relegates to stuffy
academics in antiseptic studios — international! relations
and the ever-present threat of nuclear war.

With his television work behind him, Dyer will spend
more time at home in London, phoning his journalistic
contacts around the world to research his twice weekly
column, which he privately syndicates to nearly 200
newspapers in 50 countries and in a variety of languages

He'll also focus more attention on exclusive political

h whieh he prod for a

ial group of international organizations.
GETS ROYALSIES
And Dyer will pick up some royalties from the

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BUSY DYER
HEADS HOME
TO LONDON

ongoing sales of War, a book based on a seven-part TV

series shown on CBC in 1983 and sold to 45 foreign

countries — making it one of the most-viewed National
productions

London newspapers, such as The Times and the Daily
Telegraph.

When the Arab-Israeli war broke out, stimulating his
interest in contemporary Middle East history, he became
prolific.

“What happened was, I got a couple of my articles
rejected (on Fleet Street), which was quite a shock. That
had never happened before, but I was just writing too
much now.

“So I said, ‘What the hell do I do with these?’ and I
thought, “Well, there are other newspapers in the world.’
I get a list of about 10 — the Toronto Star, Canberra
Times, this, that and the other thing — and I mailed them

out, not even knowing t fact was something
other people did. hab thle te

“T've never missed a week since,” Dyer says. Today,
that sometimes means bashing out the 1,000-word
columns on a lap-sized portable computer during his
frequent trips out of London.

The two TV series, which evolved from a CBC Radio
series on warfare, reflect Dyer's argument that powerful
military alliances — such as NATO and the Warsaw Pact
— ean lead to war.

The argument for Canada pulling its NATO forces
out of Europe, which figures highly in Defence of Canada,
was so blunt that CBC disassociated itself from Dyer's
opinions at the start of each show.

“Apart from the superpowers, the Americans and
the Russians, the only foreign troops in Europe are
Canadians,” Dyer says. “And we don't regard this as
odd.”

The Norad air defence pact with the United States
would be more difficult to break, he says.

“You couldn't disarm in this country. What you'd
have to do is give the Americans guarantees comparable
to what they've got now — that nothing (Soviet) is going
to come across Canada after them without us trying to
stop it.

“I think you could do that. I think it would cost just
as much as what we do now.”

Dyer admits he probably would have had a more
conventional opinion had he been born elsewhere, rather
than Newfoundland — a fact which, he says, gives him a
different perspective on the issues.

“If I'd been born in southern Ontario,
unlikely I'd be thinking like this.”

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revving up the starship En
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though the ship doesn't exist
and Kirk won't be born for
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faint hopes for employment and bleak, often humiliating
future on the dole.

markets had an abrupt and long-lasting impact in British
Columbia.

With nearly 200,000 people jobless, the 13-per-cent

by the traditionally

gling but finding things a bit better than a year ago, disagree
on the pace of the improvement and the outlook for the
future.

“I feel we're coming out of it,” said Gord Dyck, who runs
the auction store in Campbell River, a quiet pulp mill and
sport fishing town on Vancouver Island, where the official
unemployment rate has stayed around 17 per cent.

For many of those who hung on to their businesses or
jobs, the sacrifices and retrenchment of recent years have

“if you've got a job,
things are good; if you
haven't, there's nothing.”

“If you've got a job, things are good; if you haven't,
there's nothing,” said Rev. John Wood of the Campbell River
United Chureh.

LIKE GRIEVING

Someone who loses a job is deprived of more than just a
paycheque. There is also a loss of pride, confidence and
self-esteem. Wood compared it with the grieving process
that comes with a death in the family, although it is often not

as such.

Mental health officer Ron Cameron, whose caseload in

unemployment are frequently delayed.

“People get laid off and there can be an immediate sense
of a burden being lifted. There is no pressure of going to
work each day.

“But gradually it begins to sink in. . . that this is a
longer term thing. They lose their UIC, they're forced on to

were coming to me for a job pumping gas. It was
depressing.”

Joanne Pastor, coordinator of the Duncan unemploy-
ment committee, said the area has plenty of unemployed
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TORONTO (GP) — Sitting
in his living room chair with
his legs crossed and a cigar-
ette dangling from his mani-
cured right hand, Ed Bickert
pondered his stature in the
jazz world.

“Edward gets letters from
Romania — that’s astonish
ing,” his wife Madeline in
terjected from downstairs.

“I got one,” Canada's pre-

The exchange speaks vol
umes about the taciturn Bic
kert's reluctance to trumpet
his achievements, despite a
30-year career that includes a
stint as Toronto's first-class
session guitarist in the ‘60s,
and acclaimed work with the
late artists Paul Desmond
and Zoot Sims.

His unique harmonic sense,
mellow tone and relaxed
treatments of jazz d:

Lofsky, who teamed with his
mentor on one of seven re-
cent albums that include
Bickert’s playing.

His steadily growing pop-
ularity — rather like the
man, unhurried and without
pretension — is due in large
part to his last three LPs
with the California label
Concord Records, including
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Moon.

In his Toronto split-level
home, Bickert, 53, says the
flurry of records doesn't sig
nal a new push against what
he calls his “retiring nature.”

“It’s just a coincidence the
records were released at the
same time because they were
recorded over a long period.”

But why, considering his
popularity, doesn't he per
form solo more often and
pursue his own projects more
agressively? (He has con

and swing tunes. have in
fluenced many young guitar
ists and earned him the res-
pect of fellow jazz greats.
“He is one of the better, if
not the best, in the world for
that style of jazz guitar,”
says Toronto guitarist Lorne

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probably do more of that.
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that you have to be more of
an entertainer, which I am
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Bickert's lack of competi.
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refusal to move to New York
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Toronto, the demand for his
services has dropped. Bickert
says he hasn't been able to
play “the way I'd really like
to” recently, but that’s the lot
of many jazz players

“You have to be prepared
to put up with some lean
times if you want to pursue
something like jazz,” he said.
“I wouldn't want to get into
more compromising types of
music just for the sake of
getting busier.”

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ners Guild held its regular
monthly meeting March 19 at
the Resker Hall in Robson
with 29 of the 40 members in
attendance.

The guild is beginning to
receive entries for the Expo
86 fashion show. Recent in-
formation indicates that the
show will run for five full
days — not just two, as pre-
viously understood. Entry
fee of $10 per person is up

three articles,

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fashion show and a sampling

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sheets, with draft, all rele-
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Weaving classes for begin-
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what this area will contri. | on rates and details of
bute. advertising in the
The Nelson Spinners and Business Directory
Weavers reported that their
fashion show scheduled for
April 19 is set to go. Entry

deadline is Monday.

A workshop on felting
techniques will be held in
Nelson at 1017 Gore St. May
3 and 4. Mousi Tchir will
instruet. Entry deadline is
April 21.

Two Selkirk guild mem-
bers will travel to Spokane
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