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Whitby Free Press, 23 Jan 1991, p. 7

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wff PE!DR RMnYJMYADV2jOO 4,R PAGESEE jIn the WarAction room ANCHOR: Hello eveiyone. out there in TVw land. Welcome t e jour new War Action room, WAR for short, here on, Channel 3.t How do you like our set, whipped. up for the occasi*on by our'Z engineers out'of styrofoam. COLOR COhMNTATOR: Yeahi, we have it ail dressed Up in bright fluorescent orange, sort of like a waterfront Bordeilo. f We're proud of it. But first: The War. ANCHOR: ight, C.C. For. thoee who went te bed early iast night, The War in the Middle East continues. Western allies under the leadership of the United States continue te, bomb selected targets in Iraq. COLOR: Now here te analyze the seventh straight day of- bombing is Retired General Hunxpfn Puxnpf. General, exactly whatis goingon out there? GENERAL: Weli, you heard the President, or was that the Prime Minister, say that the surgical bombing continues, that the bombers are encountering only token resistance. ANCHOR: And how heavy is this bombing attack? GENERAL: Weil, let me put it this way.. If Iraq was a cat on the fence and we was ail the neighbours throwing botties at 'em te shut 'em up, the darned4 cat would have had enough sense te skedaddie out of there pretty fat. COLOR: That gives us a good picture. And how accurate is this bombing? GENERAL: Well, as we said, surgical. See, given technology that a satellite can read the headlines on the newspaper at your doorstep,, things get pretty technical. The U.S., sa, te speak, can Sshoot the. six-shooters right out of Saddatns hands. ANCHOR: Gosh, thats great. You mean -no bystanders are in danger of getting hurt? ' GENEA: That's right. And they're not dropping bombs, remember, they're dropping ordinances. ANCHOR: And no women and children are getting hurt or GENERAL: Saints preserve us, no! I said surgical precision and that's what we've got. Why, you've seen th.ose Nintendo shots of bombs going around the bouse ooinfor a am oke stack or an open- window. te walk through. Ites a technical triumnph._ ANCI-iUi: Thanks, General, Fm sure we ail feel a lot botter now. To those viewers who woke up late or early or whatever, 1 want te welcome you te dy eight of The War. COLOR: Right, Ank. Fast night, wasn't it? Er, first, though, we should point out that during the last station break we redesigned tVhe whole set, brought in a whole new outlook. ANCHOR: It's part of our whole new effort to give you more MYRTLE PUBLIC SCHO04 C(. 1945 on The War than any other station. More colour, More, This freine school bouse was built at Myrtle in, 1880 and demolished in 1978. It stood on Generals, More Words. the south sie of the 9th concession, west of Highway 12. A basement was built under the COLOR:, We'd even go so far as to give you facts -- if we had, school in 1940. any. But since no other station has any facts we ail have te Whdiy Arddve photo compote with what we have. those Iraqis. *Wl lintoa rsdn of Ktinsmen Clubs of Canada, will be guest speaker at LIVING GENERAL: But were still gonna pound 'em te the Whitby's Kinsmen Civic Night on January 25. ground, were gonna keep dropping those bombe even though we ca't ais what were ulnltw. were gonna smash lem.. ANCHOR: You heae it 'flrst here on Channel 3: Blind 75 YEARlS AWO surgcal bombing continues. from the Thursday, January 20, 1916 edition of the LIVING GENERAL: About the coet of this war. If cost were wHrmy GAZEIT AND cHRtoNICL . reaily a concern, we would have sold the network rights; fiTat- e Col. J.E. Farewell of Whitby has been elected President of the Ontario Bar Association. would have covered the whole thing. As it is, we are working on e Fred Charlton is the first wounded Whitby soldier te, return from the world war in Europe. this great deal with Nintendo. e The recter and wardens of Ail Saints' Anglican Church have donated the Sunday School COLOR. A deal with Saddam, we would have 58wfl it u>. As for nulitary lectures for soldiers of the ll6th Battalion. it is, we have great styrofoam sets.* A ministerial association for South Ontario County was formed at the WhIMty Methodist Se that~s it for Day Nine._ Stay tuned tomorrw, when wel'l àbernacle on January 17. have a bright bine set with raîibw dae.Rmm ,mr colourbere on Channel3. - dae.R ebemr ý.m

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