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The Citizen, 1990-01-03, Page 23THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1990. PAGE 23, Looking back at the year 1989 in review Fair Queen Margaret Cronyn was named Queen of the Brussels Fall Fair in \ September. — Continued from page 22 annual deer hunt in the county. Brussels Bulls were on top of the Jr. C league in their first year of competition after moving up from Jr. D. Santa visited Brussels in the annual Santa Claus parade held in cold, blustery weather. Joan Van den Broek was named the new chair of the Huron County Board of Soil and crop annual meeting January 23 The Huron Soil and Water Conservation District is holding its Annual Meeting Tuesday, January 23, 1990 at 1:30 p.m. at the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Au­ thority boardroom. An amendment to the constitu­ tion will be addressed at this meeting. The District’s activities involve a variety of tasks all directly tied to sustaining and improving our agri­ cultural resources. The District co-ordinates and provides guidance to the various County agencies involved in conservation. Noriega sleezy but U.S. supported him Continued from page 4 with the goal. There’s no doubt that Noriega was a sleezy despot but he is exactly the kind of leader the U.S. has been prepared to support if the alternative was a government that might not support the interests of U.S. military security and Ameri­ can-owned big business. The U.S. government had supported him ’ust as they supported many other dictators but only recently had decided he was a man that could no longer be controlled and with the Panama Canal scheduled to be turned back to Panama in a few years, Noriega was a threat to U.S. interests President George Bush just couldn’t tolerate. Suddenly, the fact that he was a drug trafficker became important. Sud­ denly the mood was being built up in the United States media and public opinion that something must be done about Noriega. Noriega helped the cause by ridiculously declaring war on the U.S. His henchmen made things worse by attacking some Ameri­ cans in the huge American popula­ tion in the country. George Bush said he had no greater responsibil­ ity as leader of the most powerful nation on earth and protecting American lives. The invasion took place. More Americans were killed, and oh, yes, some Panamanian civilians too but then that is the price of democracy. If this was the only time this kind of American action had taken place it might be easier to sympathize with American claims of just want­ ing to restore Democracy. But this was, at last count, the 42nd time American troops had invaded a Latin American country in the past 90 years. That’s about once every two years. (If you’re living in some other Latin American country the year 1991 might have new signifi­ cance to you.) And that doesn’t include the number of times like Chile where the U.S. has engineer­ ed government change without having to take direct action or support for rebels as in Nicaragua. It’s somewhat natural Americans may feel they have extra rights in Panama. After all, it was Ameri­ cans who built the Panama Canal and have run it for most of the century. That, of course, came after the U.S. engineered the breaking away of Panama from Colombia in return for the rights to build the canal. That was in an era when the term Banana Republic came into the language for a government set up to support the needs of American companies that wanted to grow bananas without government interference. The fact is that the U.S. has acted like Latin America is its schoolyard for a century. It will set the rules. It reserves the right to pick on any little kid that is doing something it doesn’t approve of. Canada, through its sycophantic government, is one of the guys who goes along assuring the bully he’s really a great guy. I guess it’s better than being one of the little guys who gets picked on but the problem is you never really know that the bully won’t turn on you one day and decide you too aren’t living up to the rules of hi& school yard. PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA Up to ywur nock Ln paperwork I , Q«t help through th* Cl***lfl*df THURS., FBI., SAT. 5P.M.-12A.M. [Lloyd & Vera Weber] January 7th BLYTH INN EAT IN OR TAKE OUT 523-9381 Love Patsy, Bruce, Jo-Anne, John, Bill & our families Education. Huron County secon­ dary school teachers ratified a new two year contract with a 5.3 per cent raise in the first year. Morris township announced plans to put new sidewalks in Belgrave on the east side of Highway 4 as part of Highway 4 reconstruction. The historic arch in Blyth that once carried the CN railway over the CP line was reduced to a pile of rubble by CP work crews. A disastrous fire at the farm of Peter DeGraaf destroyed a dairy barn and 25-35 head of cattle. Santa paid his annual visit to Blyth. The Blyth Festival’s annual meeting learned that despite re­ cord attendance, the Festival faced a $75,000 accumulated deficit. Blyth truck driver Robert Brak was praised for quick action when he jack-knifed his truck on a highway near Elmira to try to avoid hitting a Mennonite buggy and those in it. Lionel Wilder was named the new Warden of Huron County. Klaus Henschel pleaded guilty in provincial court in Goderich to one count of theft and one count of fraud over the bankruptcy of Brus­ sels Stockyards in October 1988. He will be sentenced Feb. 5, 1990. 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