Next week the Students' Union Peace, Disarmament and Social Issue committee plans to hold it's[sic] annual Nuclear Disarmament Week. From Jan. 25-29 Langara campus will be the site of speakers, films and presentations on the various issues sorrounding[sic] peace and nuclear disarmament. In the spirit of this event, the Gleaner offers a special issue for your peace of mind.*

Turn to page 6 of this issue for more on disarming propositions and peaceful ideas.

(text of text accompanying headline, drawing, and particulars of January 20, 1988 [Vancouver Community College student newspaper] the gleaner front-page)

*-IF YOU CAN 'BUY' THAT SATISFYING YOUR "PEACE OF MIND" MAY BE CONSIDERED SYNONAMOUS WITH ACHIEVING AN "INTERIOR PEACE," CONSIDER THE RELEVANT COMPONENT OF WHAT YOU FIND IF YOU TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE.

Canadian Press

EDMONTON-International law¹ has not solved the problem of terrorism any more than the Criminal Code has solved crime in Canada, an external affairs department lawyer said Tuesday.

Peter McRae said comments by politicians and others who say they will declare war on international terrorists are simply giving the perpetrators what they want--publicity.²

"To declare war on terrorism is to speak the language of the terrorist," Mr. McRae said. "As espoused by governments, this presents a problem because governments individually cannot deliver on their anti-terrorist rhetoric.

McRae was among panelists tackling terrorism in a 2½-hour, wide-ranging debate at the Canadian Bar Association convention.

McRae, external's deputy director of legal operations, said troubled countries see Western attempts to fight terrorism as a pretext to stop their struggle for liberation, and terrorist acts in the West are their reaction.

Leslie Green, a terrorism expert who teaches at the University of Alberta, urged the United Nations be abandoned as a forum for stopping terrorism because there can be no universal law and terrorism can only be fought by like-minded states.

McRae and John Murphy, a Villanova University professor and the only American on the panel, said the multilateral approach of the UN, while often ineffective, has has[sic] resulted in agreements among many countries to ensure terrorists are extradited.

(text of August 20, 1986 Vancouver Sun article)

¹-THIS COMMENTARY ON INTERNATIONAL LAW BY MR. McRAE OF THE MULRONEY GOVERNMENT EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTRY (HEADED BY THEN-MINISTER JOE CLARK) WAS, OF COURSE, IN ADVANCE OF WHAT IS SUBSTANTIATED BY WHAT YOU FIND IF YOU TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE.

²-ON THE SUBJECT OF "PUBLICITY," CONSIDER WHAT YOU FIND (IN PARAGRAPH 3, SUBPARAGRAPH 2 ON THAT PAGE) IF YOU TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE .

TO CONSIDER A 21ST CENTURY REPORT ON TERRORISM--JUST TO SHOW US HOW CIVILIZATION HAS PROGRESSED SINCE AUGUST, 1989--THIS WOULD, OF COURSE, RELATE TO THIS ISSUE OF "PEACE OF MIND"...--TAKE YOUR NEXT FOOTSTEP HERE.