os _CastleGatNews oor 4,197 Cae) By MARLENE HABIB Canadian Press The full-figured redhead slips on her black Ray Charles sunglasses and downs the last of her | i Perrier an big trends in 1986 royalty and various other things,” says Angus Richardson, owner of two Hasaiitos tire Rares. “People are more conscious bala: ot 4. a Perrier. But before rushing out of her high-rise condo, she flicks off hér Monkees tape and sets the timer on her stereo VCR’so she won't miss the royal event of the summer. % Looking simply marvelous in her tight Spandex racing pants — black, of course — she jumps on her modified mountain bike and cruises through. congested traffic to the nearest automatic banking machine. Quick cash is what she wants. And in 1986, it was quick cash for a fast-paced, consumer-oriented society that relived ‘60s rock 'n’ roll. Not that you had to be long-haired and protest- preoccupied to be fashionably funky. But if you weren't ‘Perrier with a Twist is the soft drink for grown-ups; its Coke with Culture’ on the royal bandwagon, you definitely missed out on the parade of trends and passing fancies that marked the year. STARTED EARLY The extitement for monarchy fans started building early amid the prenuptial gush surrounding Randy Andy and Fergie. Prinee Andrew and Sarah Ferguson look-alike contests popped up everywhere. The flowing tresses of flame-haired Fergie — as she was dubbed by British tabloid papers — were fai copied by fashionable hairdressers. While the well-upholstered bride showed it isn't always de rigueur to be anorexic, no pudgy-and-proud-of- it movement caught on to discourage heavy sales of new exercise workout regimes from d@fobic actress Jane Fonda. The health craze was as crazy as ever with a diet book —Fit for Life — topping the non-fiction best-sellers’ list. ADD A TWIST In all social circles in 1986, Perrier retained its cachet among those cautious about caffeine, averse to alcohol and counting calories. Earth's First Soft Drink, as the pricey mineral water is dubbed, took on the soda pop market under the name Perrier with a Twist — in lemon, lime and orange flavors. “Perrier with a Twist is the soft drink for grown-ups; it's Coke with culture,” a food writer noted in a Toronto magazine. The booze industry fought back by introducing a broad line of low-alcohol coolers — usually concoctions of white wine, mineral water and fruit flavors. To get around, the status-conscious consumer could be seen whizzing by on a mountain bike — heavy-framed, knobby-tired 12-speeds — fully loaded. WITH-IT TIRES Meanwhile, the affluent “in” crowd outfitted their Lamborghinis, Miami Vice Ferraris and BMWs, last year’s favorites, with designer speed-rated tires. The nouveau tires have “really picked up in notoriety as cars became more specialized — turbo, fuel-injected boys” ibe the video cassette pre | those avid here who grabbed you-are-there stereo VCRs. And many customers moved to ct dise players, laser-beam audio systems that deliver sound quality superior to vinyl records. If the American Forecaster 1987, a book that | predicts trends based on the demands of the group, is right on, animated Bible stories. will be a hot seller on video cassette. COLOR PURPLE No longer popular in 1986 was Purple Rain's pop Prince, a musi¢al trendsetter in 1985 who was flooded out of the Top 10 charts. Purple, though, won rave reviews in the fall fashion scene after a blinding summer in neon yellows, oranges and greens, and polka-dots a la Diana, Princess of Wales. “The wild-shoulders look is gone and, with it, Edith Prickley glasses and Miami Vice banana suits,” Toronto magazine writer David Warren wrote in his fall fashion survey. “Liberated people are now out of step and hustle has been‘ discredited. If you practise before mirrors, say to yourself each morning, ‘I am a subdued person, a repressed person; I have been got at, and I don't care any more.’ ” For 1987, European fashion designers have chosen two basic silhouettes for spring-summer: short, ruffled and tarty, or long, loose and romantic. Clothes will also feature ruffles and flounces for the new summer rumba look. SOUND OF "60s The mini-skirt reached new heights of popularity in 1986 — the perfect accessory for the 1960s musical revival that included a 20th-anniversary- tour of three of the four Monkees; the Mamas and Papas minus the late Mama Cass and Michelle Phillips; the Herman's Hermits without Herman; and Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. Canadian folk-singing duo Ian and Sylvia Tyson, whose careers peaked in the 1960s before their marital ‘Liberated people are now out of step and hustle has been discredited' ~ split in 1975, put their personal differences aside for a summer reunion concert in Toronto. “A whole strata of overnight stars of the '60s are now interested in playing smaller clubs, paying the dues they never had to pay in the first place, in order to hone their craft,” says Toronto booking agent Gino Empry. “Those people who did all the protesting against society, they've become today’s society,” Empry says. “Yuppies have become uppies — they're not young any more — and they have money to spend and they want to see the acts they listened to as teenagers.” In the new year, the in-tune yuppies and uppies will begin gardening and buying bifocal contact lenses and stuffed animals. Instant yogurt, diet pet food, Caribbean cuisines and even disposable pots are expected to top a, culinary list. MTV, guns and skiing will definitely out. Woman buried in Brilliant Lucy Nevakshonoff passed away Dec. 31 at the age of 80. Funeral service was held at the Castlegar Funeral Provinetal ticket good f To pick uy FREE tickets, drop into the Castlegar New: For Your Convenience We're OPEN MONDAY WIN TICKETS subscribers names are listed below. H your name appeors, you're the winner of @ jraws for the next five Fridays! 3 office Tuesday or Wed- Chapel Friday and Saturday and with burial in the Brilliant Cemetery. Mrs. Nevakshonoff was “born Dec. 8, 1906 at Yorkton, Sask. and came to Ootis- chenia at the age of 11 with her parents. She married George Nevaksonoff in Ootis- chenia in 1925. They moved to Raspberry in 1928, lived for a short time at Robson and moved to Castlegar in 1937, where she resided until her death. Mrs. Nevakshonoff enjoyed vege- table and flower gardening, cooking and especially her family. 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COLEMAN COUNTRY BOY SERVICE Sump & Septic Tank Pumping PHONE 365-5013 3400 - 4th Avenue Castlegar panuary 4, 1987 KOOTENAY SAVINGS AR: 43 countries i in armed conflict endless causes provoke countries to war. But the “we first” code that slices continents up into contending tribes, is the spirit underlying much of the world's carnage from New Guinea to Namibia. An Associated Press survey counts at least 43 countries at war in 1986, a year the United Nations had hopefully designated the Internaitonal Year of Peace. Five conflicts have been added since the last such AP survey in 1988: major insurrections in Sri Lanka and Sudan, and smaller guerrilla wars in Suriname, Ecuador and Indonesia's Irian Jaya province. Only two conflicts have subsided: the bloody Shona- Ndbele tribal clash in Zimbabwe, anda 20-year separatist uprising in India’s Mizoram territory, where a peace pact was signed Jast.June. ~DAY OF TRUCE The number of armed conflicts wracking the globe actually may total over 100. “You could count 40 in Asia alone,” says Stephen Goose, who researches contemporary wars for the private Centre for Defence Information in Washington. “Burma is fighting about eight different ways. The human cost is difficult to assess. The centre estimates that up to five million people have been killed ‘Some of today's worst wars remain hidden from world view' in the current wars, some of which date back to the 1940s. The bloodiest has been Cambodia's 16 years of civil war, genocide and invasion, which has left an estimated one million to two million dead. SOME HIDDEN Some of today’s worst wars remain hiddeen from world view. In the Iran-Iraq conflict, for example, foreign journalists are only rarely ailowed to the front. The Centre for Defence Information lists the nationalist con- flicts in Northern Ireland and Spain's Basque region among its wars, but the rest are being fought in often-in- accessible corners of the Third World, Reversing a historic trend since the Second World War, guerrilla wars waged by anti-communist insurgents now outnumber the major leftist.insurgencies. Marxist-led “liberation fronts” are fighting for power in El Salvador, Colombia, Peru and the Philippines. At the same time, anti-Marxist guerrillas are trying to oust leftist governments in Nicaragua, Angola, Ethiopia, A i and C: di: The U.S. stake in these wars is growing. “Covert” U.S. aid to the guerrillas in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Angola and Cambodia is believed to total more than $500 million US a year, compared with one estimate — reported by the U.S. Foreign Policy Association — of $200 million a year spent by the Soviet Union on its guerrilla allies. Goose says the East-West competition is often overstated, however, as a factor in small wars. “Quite often religion, economics, territorial problems are more important than ideology,” he said in an interview. Here, region by region, is a look at the hatreds, causes and progress of a world at war: WEST HEMISPHERE In Central America, the governments of El Salvador and Nicaragua hold the upper hand in their mirror-image wars. In El Salvador, where seven years of leftist insur gency and rightist death-squad killings have left 61,000 people dead, Prt for new peace talks collapsed in di army has put but the i the 4,000 on the show. no sign of quitting’ In Nicaragua, the leftist Sandinista government is girding for a rapid escalation in fighting now that the U.S. Congress has approved $100 million in new aid for the estimated 15,000-20,000 Contra rebels. The Soviet Union has supplied the Nicaraguan government with about two dozen helicopters. In nearby Guatemala, a three-decade-old leftist insurgency lingers on, but the insurgents have been réduced to*an estimated: 2,000. Two mini-rebellions have flared in northern South America. In the former Dutch colony Suriname, a rene- gade army private leads a jungle band trying to unseat Lt.-Col. Desi Bouterse’s military government. In Ecuador, the small leftist group Alfara Vive is harassing President Leon Febres Cordero’s conservative govern- ment. Two longer-term guerrilla wars flicker in Colombia and Peru. The Colombian conflict, an on-and-off war over four decades, now involves four leftist guerrilla forces. In Peru, the Maoist group Shing Path last year rejected peace overtures from the new socialist presi- dent, Alan Garcia, and has carried its war of bombings and assassination from the Andes Mountains into the coastal cities. AFRICA A dozen wars trouble Africa, most rooted to some degree in tribal-ethnic clashes. For 11 years, rebels have sought to wrest the former Spanish territory of Western Sahara from Moroccan control and establish an independent nation. But this year “ the Moroccans finally completed their ultimate weapon: a 2,500-kilometre, fortified Great Wall that keeps the desert guerrillas away from populated areas. THE DEATH TOLL By The Associated Press 300,000 or more Here are estimates of East Timor (Indonesia) deaths in some of the — 100,000-250,000 current wars, prepared by Lebanon — 125,000 the Centre for Defence In- Philippines — formation, a privately fi- 100,000 nanced research office in- El Salvador — 50,000 or Washington: - Cambodia — One million- two million Iran-Iraq. — more China-Vietnam —. 47,000 Eritrea (Ethiopia) — 500,000- 45,000 Guatemala - Afghanistan — 200,000- 45,000 30,000- In Africa's landlocked heart, Libyan troops and rebel Chadian forces still hold northern Chad. Their sporadic war against the government of President Hissene Habre, who is backed by the French military, has been quiet for seven months. Across the border the mostly Arab nation of Sudan, the 20,000-man Sudan People's Liberation Army, fighting for more autonomy for the black, Christian south, has taken control of one-third of the countryside in three years of war. In Africa's northeast, the Marxist government of Ethiopia is grappling with four ethnic-based separatist insurgencies — the toughest and longest-lasting the 25-year-old struggled by Arab-supported Eritrean seces- sionists who claim to hold 80 per cent of that province. 50,000- * military ruler Gen. Tito Okello have now struck back from bases in Sudan. Across southern Africa, four wars intertwine. Angola, guerrillas backed by the South African their hit-run op government has solid insurance: at least 20,000 Cuban expeditionary troops. Angola, meanwhile, is the launch pad for the guerrillas of the South-West Africa People’s Organi zation, which for 20 years has fought a bush war to end white South African control of South-West Africa, also known as Namibia. In South Africa itself, black-nationalist guerrillas of the Afriean National Congress wage a terrorist war to loosen the white minority's grip on power. And in neighboring Mozambique, the black Marxist government says South Africa has broken a 1964 accord and is again supplying the guerrilla Mozambique National Resistance. MIDDLE EAST The six-year-old border war between Arab Iraq and Persian Iran — one of the world's few wars between nations — threatens repeatedly to explode into a wider conflict. Iraq's Arab partners now fear that a massive new Iranian offensive, if it comes, could draw them directly into the hostilities. The Centre for Defence Information estimates the number killed so far at 500,000 to 800,000, mostly Iranians. Meanwhile, the ethnic Kurds of Iran, Iraq and Turkey, seeking regional autonomy, wage guerrilla war against those governments. Lebanon, hothouse of sectarian hatreds, continues to bleed. The latest battles pit Shiite Moslem militiamen against Palestinian guerrillas, Christian factions against each other, and the Israeli armed forces against Palestinians and Shiites. ASIA A ‘In Asia's newest war, 2,000 guerrillas of the Hindu Tamil separatist movement are fighting to drive the inated from north- s ern and eastern Sri Lanka. It is a war of remote-con- trolled rebel. bombs and helicopter gunships, and has taken more than 4,500 lives. In nieghboring India, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has achieved peace with the Mizoram separatists, but still must contend with Sikh separatists in the Punjab and Sirebels in the’ Nagaland, Manipur and Tripura territories. ‘Ti the year, combined*SéViet and “Afghan ~ government forces have stepped up attacks on Afghani- stan's anti-communist rebels. Two months ago, the rebels hit back with one of their biggest assaults on Kabul, the capital, in eight years of war. But recent counter-attacks appear to have hit the rebels hard. The Centre For Defence Information estimates the Afghan war's death toll at more than 200,000. Western sources say 5,000 to 10,000 Soviets have been killed or wounded. The war also has made refugees of three million of Afghanistan's 15 million people. In C dia, 15,000 ist and guerrillas are fighting a Vietnamese-sponsored Cam- bodian government backed by 150,000 Vietnamese troops. Last year the Vietnamese overran almost all rebels bases on the Cambodian-Thailand border, and the resistance forces shifted deeper inside Cambodia. The Vietnamese are also still locked in a border shutdown with China's army that periodically erupts into artillery duels and ground thrusts. In Thailand, Malaysia and Burma, nuisance-level insurgencies sputter on. The Burmese When Yoweri i's National Resi: Army took power in Uganda last Jan. 25, it looked like the end of two decades of war and chaos estimated to have cost more than 500,000 lives. But forces loyal to ousted government also must deal with Karen tribesmen and other i A Il-seal ti resis- tance is reported in southern Laos. NO TIME LIKE THE NEW. YEAR “The wave is breaking on the shore; The echo fading from the chime; Again the shadow moveth o'er Te dial-plate of time.” — John Greenleaf Whittier Once again we are come upon that time when our calendars are bursting with event and traditions, while customs soar and jostle like ancient birds of omen over the dying days of the old year and the yet unborn.days of the new. It is a time best symbolized by the two-faced Roman god, Janus, who standing at the doors of heaven, looking back to the past and forward to the future. He was both the god of physical hallways and entrances, and lord of good beginnings which ensure good endings. The Romans, an eminently practical people, saw that beginnings and endings — good and bad — were all a port of the same piece. There is no time like the New Year. We stand in the moment of the present and are at once more acutely aware of both the past the the future. It is a time for the making of resolutions based on the experiences of the past, particularly the immediate past, and our hopes for the future. In many cultures it is a time for cleaning up, for the settling of debts and obligations, for the patching up of old quarrels so that one may step from the old into the new year, clean and unencumbered. This passage is usually marked by much noise, to frighten away any following evil spirits, and with much merry drinking of healths, embracing and kissing and feasting, to insure that such pleasantories may be carried by example into the future. From these general “rites of passage” we can find many specific modifications of tradition, local and national, such as the Hogmanay (New Year) and “first footing” celebrations of Scotland and northern England. Tradition requires that before the New Year's Eve comes around all debts be paid, all obligations be met, borrowed articles be returned, all equipment, utensils and musical instruments be repaired and, if necessary, polished; pictures straightened on walls and the house swept and cleaned throughout. Special Hogmanay food and drink such as oatcake, cheeses, black bun (a rich fruit cake in pastry), short bread, Ankersacks (gingerbreak loaves) and het pint (warm, mild ale spiced with nutmeg and laced with scotch whiskey), is prepared. The first footer — traditionally a tall dark man — arrives just as soon after the stroke of midnight as possible, bearing gifts. Some carry a piece of mistletoe for the mantlepiece and a branch fof the fire (piled high and burning merrily), and receive in return a kiss from all the ladies present, a glass of whiskey and a piece of black bun. In the Royal household, the tallest and darkest footman or page is the first footer and carries a silver salver bearing apotted plant (something living) and pieces of clean coal. The Queen opens the door at his knock and invites him in and in turn is given the plant. Other lady members of the Royal family each receive a piece of coal. In my mother's time the first footer carried bread, salt and a piece of coal sy life, ity and John Charters... Reflections & recollections actors share a Twelfth Night cake made of flour, sugar, honey, ginger, pepper, fruit and 18 eggs. It is provided from a bequest made in 1794 by a famous English comedian and chef, Robert Broddeley. My own childhood memories hint dimly of silver money, a button, various symbolic devices and a pea and“a bean cooked in these confections and Christmastide goodies; but neither time nor space allow for further mental dredgings. Twelfth Night, according to most sources, is the traditional time for packing up decorations, taking down and burning the Christmas tree and generally putting things in order. Failure to do so by Jan. 6 invites bad luck for the rest of the year. In this regard, Jim Waldie, District Commissioner for the scouts; together with Beavers, Cubs, Scouts Guides and Brownies, wisll be combining the festive spirit of this period with a public service this year. They warmth. After he had taken his dram and bite, he would also be given a gift of a bottle of Scotch whiskey. At the end of a busy hight, my mother recalled, the first footer would make his way home “none too steady on his pins (legs) and with whiskey bottles piled in his arms like stovewood.” A broader spectrum of festivities at this time of year is the'“Twelve Days of Christmas.” It begins with the Nativity (Christmas Eve) and goes to Twelfth Night (the Feast of the Epiphany) when the Three Wise Men brought their gifts to the Christ child. It was marked by much feasting and merry-making, and even today, in the Green Room of the Drury Lane Theatre in London, the crenata err — Lh d used Christmas trees Saturday and making a great pile of them at the Recreational Complex. Here, at 6 p.m. Tuesday (Twelfth day) the Castlegar Fire Depart- ment will set the pile on fire. Everyone is invited to come, take a symbolic branch from a large pile supplied by the hosts and throw it into the bonfire while making a wish for the coming year. Since Jan. 7 is a school day, Jim assures me that the celebration will not take long, but they hope to make it an annual event. Get your tree out and ready. In closing I would like to add my personal contribution to this end-of-the-year clean-up time. I'll check my shelves for any borrowed books and return them to friends and library. Please do the same for me. I am missinga history of the Seaforths which I would dearly love back. I'll clean up my study. Promise. I haven't seen my desk since the beginning of the holidays. Once again, I would like to thank my readers for their support and encouragement — it makes all the effort worthwhile. I would particularly like to thank the Kiwanis Club once again for the Citizen of the Year Award and the best party I have ever been to in"my life. I would also like to thank all the many wonderful people who showed, their concern in so many ways during Bunny's illness. I sorrow with the families of Dorothy Tindale, Les Smitten; Granny Sahistrom, Hutch Hutchinson, Bill Easton, Sabina Zanet and all others who didn’t make it through the year. I rejoice that the Castlegar Library has made it over its latest hurdle, at my brother's and sister-in-law’s first granddaughter and with the monks of Westminster Abbey on the construction of the new dormitory for the seminarians. It helps to keep things in balance. On John Munday’s behalf, I would like to thank those who have given him their moral and financial support, and a particular thanks to the anonymous donor of the $50 bill. I converted it to a money order and sent ‘it along with my own. And, finally, I have not forgotten my promies to the railwaymen, Ron and Mary Gemmiill, George McAndrew, my soldier girls Kilmany and Ruth among others. hile, my for the i itable delays, and my warmest wishes to all for a fulfilling and happy 1987.