Galway Advertiser 1991/1991_01_10/GA_10011991_E1_019.pdf 

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AN OPEN LETTER TO BEARING CHRISTMAS SALES DIGNITY! SADDAM HUSSEIN WITNESS -THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND! AND GEORGE RUSH
I am writing to you to would be used more slow suggest a solution to your ly over a longer period and current disagreement over thus producer nations the value and ownership of would look to a more stable future. oil in the Gulf Region. I believe crisis means the same as opportunity in some languages; perhaps your conflict could provide a catalyst for creating a new international order, the creation of which would reflect well on both of you. I view oil as a problem, because it creates so much pollution and waste, both in these islands and worldwide If it were more expensive, organic farm ing, local self-reliance, recylcing, the building of energy efficient housing, the creation of cheap and reliable public transport systems, etc., would all become easier. Also the oil The G.S.P.C.A. can make good use of your old Xmas cards. Please leave them at The Book Exchange Lr. Abbeygate St. Thank You
IN TOWN ON SATURDAY?

A global tax on all oil at the site of production, ad ministered by a directly elected world authority or by a restructured United Nations could be a solution to many of these problems. The revenues raised could be used for ecological and humanitarian projects around the world. Tree-planting schemes to improve long term climate and food produc tion in dry countries could be one of the main ways in which revenues from such a tax would be spent. Measures to conserve the world's floral, faunal and cultural diversity (e.g. rainforest peoples, red sea corals and fishermen, and the soils and peoples of the Indian sub-continent) could also be grant aided. Research into energy con servation would be another obvious area for funding. Exactly how such a new international order should operate would, I suggest, be best decided on by heads of state and N.G.O.'s over a period of at least a year, and idally several op tions would be put to a

worldwide preferentail referendum. In the im mediate term, however, I would suggest that the U.N. could administer the tax scheme through a new agency (perhaps headed by a Palestinian) and that it should build by monthly increments of 1%, starting at 1% at the start of the next financial year and reaching 36% at the end of 3 years where it should be stabilised.

Dear Sir, Re: Maire Ni Siochain's letter, "Trouble in the Arus" (Letterbox, Jan 3). Oscar Wilde, in a letter to the Editor of the Scots Observer (13th August 1890) wrote "lam afraid that

writing to newspapers has a deteriorating influence on style. People get violent, and abusive and lose all sense of proportion, when they enter that curious journalistic arena in which the race is always to the noisiest."

Dear Editor, How very appropriate vour front page cartoon week before last! Just when you've bankrupted yourself leading up to Christmas, the shops drop their prices and taunt you with all the things you could buy...if only you had any money left! I have a much better idea. Why not hold the sales be/ore Christmas? People have lots of money and they'd spend it like it was going out of style! It

makes no sense at all to hold them in the aftermath of Christmas. Or, if the shops would not agree to this, why not have a sale on Christmas Day itself? Parents could get up very early and rush down to buy their gifts before the other members get up, dash home, wrap them, and leave them under the tree. Nobody would be the wiser, and the shops would do a roaring trade! Yours, Broke and Disgruntled.

One hundred years later Ms Ni Siochain's vitriolic letter bears witness to the ongoing truth of this statement.

An end to the presence Yours, of Iraqi troops in Kuwait Len Harrow, City and an end to the c/o Porter's Desk, U.C.G. Western blockade of trade with Iraq would be obvious parts of a solution that might go hand in hand with something similar to the ideas above. But again the precise details of such an agreement would obvious ly be up to the two of you (perhaps with the aid of King Hussein or President Gorbachev as mediators) to establish.

Dear Sir, Wouldn't it be wonderful if the corporation had a Martin Luther King type vision on Monday, 14th January. A vision which would produce the most aesthetic caravan park in Ireland. Perhaps something along the lines of brick paving, limestone walls, if walls a r e necessary? Well landscaped green areas, broad leaf trees, appropriate lighting Something that would redeem the dump hardstand to some extent and allow the travellers themselves to live with dignity. Your sincerely
Patsy Callanan Clybaun Road

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In any case I appeal to you both to continue to refrain from full scale war, and to consider any, and all, ideas that you receive, including this one.
Yours sincerely, Malcolm Samuel. 17. Convent Road, K i n vara, Co. Gaiway.

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WHO RUNS FAIRGREEN HOSTEL?
Dear Sir, I wish to refer to some points in a recent arti cle "Homeless Would Welcome a Warm Christmas". The article seems to imply that Gaiway Simon Communi ty staff and fund Fairgreen House Hostel. This Hostel is staffed and funded by Gaiway Social Service. Any dona tions to Simon are not us ed to further services in Fairgreen House. The article also uses words and phrases such as "hot soup", "old over coats" and "destitutes", implying a helplessness on the part of the homeless people where some homeless people suffer from such a mixture of problems such as alcholism and psychiatric problems usually involv ing being reared in in dustrial schools or other such institutions. Most homeless people, however, are more than capable of resettling in the communi ty if there was housing available and proper com munity health care facilities.
Yours sincerely, Ex-resident.

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