WASHINGTON (CP) — The new years brings afew...

flickering hopes to a world depresséd by:sconomie slump
and made neryous by tae jangle ot, weapons, although. the
hopes are faint. ©. ~

Optimists say 1088 will be the year of recovery from
a stubborn recession that has put tens of millions out of

work. But: they said the same about 1982. There‘are those _

menaced fod hn oki system and/ threatened

who already equate the 1980s with the Great Depression “

of the 1930s..

The hopeful .find encouragement, in rowing’ Oppe-
sition to the East-West arms race. But the prospects
shaking’ Cold-War..fixations seem dim at the close

a
year marred by‘a half-dozen hot wars around the globe. ~

Inflation slackened in many ‘countries, helped .by

surpluses and.softéening world prices for fuel, food and ,

raw materials’ that are the: lifeblood of resource-rich
countries such as Canada. The cost of credit eased from
the record 1981 rates blamed for’ Sheeting: fndnatry and

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‘By ED SIMON :
‘The Canadian Press

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i poker games, the saying goes, winners tell funny :

stories: while logers:glumly call for the next deal. -

But on the Canadian sports scene this year most-of
the best one-liners were produced. by,.or about, losers:

High on the list was one from Kai Haaskivi,: who
played for the struggling Edmonton Drillers of the North
American Soccer League.

Informed his boss, Peter Pocklington, was being held
hostage by a gunman who wanted $1:million and.a trip
out of Edmonton,’ Haaskivi responded:. “Who. doesn’t?” ,

The annual year-end poll of sports. writers and.
broadcasters conducted by Tha Canadian Press came up
with another gem from coach Joe Faragalli of ; Saskat- >
chewan Roughriders, a team that finished in next-year
territory again in the Canadian Football League siter
showing signs of rejuvenation in 1981.

. “Last year, everybody loved me,” he said, “This-year
TH be lucky if my. wife loves me.”.

A. happier note was. struck ‘by ‘Glande Amann,

marketing director, of Montreal Concorde,.. when 1,000
spectators showed up to watch a team practice. shortly
-after the club arose from the ashes of the defunct
Alouettes. 2

“It was one of the most exciting experiences Tve! had
in the three years I've been associated with the Montreal
football club,” he’said. .

CAHILL HITS BACK

Leo Cahill, no stranger to adversity in two Gigaay
terms as coach of Tpronto Argonauts, was the target of
Edmonton Eskimos’ iron-clad ‘defence again in his new.
‘career as a CFL. television commentator... ..

When general manager Norm Kimball attempted, to
bar him from the Edmonton press box for an unflattering
* appraisal of the Eskimos’ early-season lump, the old

_ coach fired back:

“Td like to buy Norm Kimball tor what he's worth
and sell him for ,what,he thinks he's worth.” -

Cahill may have been waiting for an overdue
paycheque one sunny afternoon when he locked out from
the Taylor Field broadcasting booth and: observed: “Ona
clear day when the postinan delivers the Saturday mall,
you can see him coming on Thursday.”

. Revealing himself as a coach of the old school, Jack
Gotta of Calgary Stampeders belittled quarterback Joe
Paopao of B.C. Lions before the teams clashed in a battle
for the last playoff berth in the CFL's Western Confer-
ence,

“Lknew I didn’t want him,” Gotta: sald, “when I found
out he was seeing a psychiatrist instead of a bartender.”
BLASTS HIS PLAYERS

Harold Ballard probably wishes he had said that. The
“Yong: -suffering owner of Toronto Maple Leafs is the
severest critic, if not always the — friend,‘ of his
players.

“They're a bunch of pansies, cream puffs,” he told a
Maple Leaf Gardens shareholders meeting shortly before
the Leafs stumbled ints !s=¢ place in the National Hockey
League. :

"When ‘an apparently blockaded Soviet submarine

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‘Trad © first'time in nine years late.

: Hopes were raised toward the aiid ‘of 1982
change of leadership i in the Soviet. Union might crack fhe.
back

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teammate .when “he. said. the .Canadi S
European playe rs on. ir roster — -“Mats Naslund, he’s
Swedish, and’ Rejean Houle, he's’ finish.” *-

ger Harry
"Bat Neilso most: "memorable:
unspokon and ‘occurred in Chicago, where he. waved a
t against

‘Black

“When the series eecuried to, Vancouver, the stands
were filled with towel-waving, fans: and: the Canucks,
* inspired by’ Richard

eliminated Chicago before bowiny to New ‘York Islande

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together a
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‘game and‘one of them

You fall down. tonight and Tl give:the puck away.’,”.’
+, In. bis loftier role as “general ’ manager, ’ Neale
returned from ‘the NHL draft mé ting in June and was
asked by an‘ anxious official of the junior. Nanaimo_
Islanders whether he saw any, ‘chahce that: the No.1
choice, defenceman Norm Kluzak, might be returned to
them for. another year by Boston GM Harry Sinden.
Neale was not’ optimistic. ; 3
“If Kiuzak goes back to Nanaimo, S:! ade: will-bé
going with him,” he said... :
Sports writers in Montreal are still: mourning the
departure from the Expos of Bill Lee, a faithful upholder

‘of one of baseball's oldest traditions — left-handed

pitchers dwell in a world of.their own.
Disappearing from public view for a few w:
his rancorous dismissal by the National League club, the
Space Man suddenly emerged with tho announcement he’
had ‘begun a new career as a senator. ;
He liad indeed, playing shortstop in a local.senior
league os the Longueuil Senators. bs

States, took over’ when Leonid Brechin
November after 18 years power.
erican voters ‘delivéred a
gan's Republican administration
‘elections’ that ‘ increased’Democrat

“his costly economic aren against the Soviets.
“Actarthe stening blow to U.S. policy tow:
Soviets came i

‘hydra-headed:* MX intere r v
fought to retain’ the missile ‘program, edly’.
ip” in disarmament talks; but the scheme’ ¥]

jurope, tt
U.S.-led’ plan to start eplorisg ‘shorter-range pilotless
cruise missiles late in 1938. That movement found an.echo

The U.S. Air Foree, ieanwhile, eh its
adron of cruise-armed bombers’ in- December.
vradar-di

Each

cruise ‘warheads ‘at’ targets 2,400 kilometres ‘away — a

combined firepower 3, 000 times as great as the bomb that -
” Hiroshima and 100, 000. People in 21945.

counter. hundreds of Soviet.8S missiles
them. an
-At ‘the United Nations Goheial:
nations voted in ‘Dece: for:
But 17 voted against, ‘theluding®
Western nuclear powers — tho United States, Britain and -
France — on the. ground the!
Sovizts with moro overkill ‘than sy
Amid the rattle forarms, there were hopeful reports *
of some shifting of position by the superpowers in
deadlocked twin’ negotiations’ at Geneva — one: about
slowing th renee ane oe the other: about

“The economic troubles rating East and West alike
Tent hopes tp aftarta Aap Wie arm Fae) It isa drein
on treasuries already’ under. strain, even though the
weapons industry also serves 28 a kind of public-works
program at.a time of high uneinpleyment.: e