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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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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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RIVERSIDE, IOWA (AP) — They're baking a cake and revving up the starship En terprise for Capt. James Kirk's birthday party — even though the ship doesn't exist and Kirk won't be born for another 242 years.

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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.

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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

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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 workers of middle age or older who had never looked for a

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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 his latest I Wished on fhe 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

tinuing with the Moe Koffman Quintet and Rob McConnell's Boss Brass.)

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Bickert's lack of competi. tive spirit partly explains his refusal to move to New York or Los Angeles even though the Toronto jazz scene has deteriorated. But he pays a price artistically.

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“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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Selkirk Weavers and Spin- 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

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