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. What ipsanity is prevailing over the city? As I walk down William Street, towards the centre of town, I see houses falling, wreckage everyâ€" where, to what will become moré of the Herbert Street parking area, and what was aiready a very pleasant horticultural area (at Wilâ€" liam and King Streets) demolished in order to create another sort of parkâ€"like setting. _ * * _ * in Waterioo"? During the summer, we have experienced a lack of communicaâ€" tion with some of the media in the ‘area. It was very refreshing to read Pat‘s article and find that. there were no misquotes or statements taken out of context. What seemed already charming â€" bold lilacs, rock gardens, tidy peâ€" rennials and grass â€" is being saâ€" crificed to new and unconvincing schemes. Interlocking pavement paths, tubs of petunias, railway tie outlines.© The expense, does not seem convincing when a bench here or there would have done as well. The houses being razed are anâ€" other sort of casualty. Waterioo Square is already devoted to cars; they have become the expression of Waterloo. This encroachment now on residences must signal finally an infinite lack of aesthetic taste by a city that says it craves improveâ€" ment. I feel old and crotchety at 31, angry that decisions like these are so undoable, and will not even feel pleased when the city asks itself why it hasn‘t worked. Chronicle â€" article praised On Wednesday, July 21, a member of your staff, Pat Arbuckle, wrote an article regarding our grant project, Workability. The article was very well written and our sponsors were immensely pleased. I would like to thank the Chronâ€" icle, especially Pat Arbuckle, for a job well done. Jim Delisynder Workability Staff _ Ontario March of Dimes 141 Weber St. S. Ambassador Ken Taylor and the U.S. hostage incident in Iran caught our attention. The lives of Canadian Mission staff in Guatemala were threatened in the last year, and diplomats were evacuated as the Guatemalan government could not guaranteeâ€"their safety ... The drop in the value of the Canadian dollar, and inflation at the 50 to 100 per cent rate in many countries have removed the financial attractiveness of the career. In conversation with university and community college students around Waâ€" terloo Riding, I am often asked my opinion about a career in Canada‘s Foreign Service. The question is one which is very dear to me. This is because 1 have served this country in different capacities for ;most of my life, and because five of those :â€"years were spent away from Canada. _‘ I am always encouraged by those hardy spirits who think they would embark upon an important career of representing our ~nation abroad. The conditions of Canada‘s Foreign Service have been the cause of concern recently. This culminated in the appoinâ€" mient of Ms. Pamela McDougall to head a Royal Comniission to examine the morale In years gone by, the diplomatic life was one with a measure of prestige and personal satisfaction. But in recent years, it has become often a life of uncertainty and insecurity. recently. This culmina #ient of Ms. Pamela M Royal Comniission to: e in our :Foreign Service. WALTER McLEAN Gayle Johannesen 34A Willow St. Waterioo UN isn‘t * answer to world peace, security Waterloo North MP Waiter McLean spent five days /at the United Nations where the members of the UN were discussing the arms buildup. According to recent media reports, he said that "the standstill® situation achieved by UN members could still be considered encouragâ€" ing. Not to my way of thinking. It was a foregone conclusion that no agreeâ€" ment would beâ€" reached by this satanic organization because many of its members are in the armsâ€" selling business. Also, from one of its publications, The Courier, dated April 1979, we are informed that the world‘s expenditure on armaments is ‘"not far off $1 million a minute," and that 75 per cent of this is spent by the Third World nations where starvation exists and untold thouâ€" sands die daily. Recently, the mayor of New York City was asked to give his opinion of this satanic organization. He replied by saying the UN reminded him of the "Tower of Babel," where God confused the languages of the buildâ€" ers so that no one knew what was being said. Like its predecessor, the League of Nations, the UN has not been able to keep the peace and security which man longs for. L The buildup of armaments has proven such is not the way to peace and security. â€" â€" So the question that faces us today is: where can we find peace and seâ€" curity? o o The answer is found in Matthew 6:9â€"10 and Psalms 46:9. The Chronicle welâ€" comes letters to the ediâ€" tor. Writers must identify themselves through their name, address and teleâ€" phone number. We reâ€" serve the right to edit. 65 Westmount Rd. N., Apt. 403 Waterioo Her recommendations and conclusions were tabled in the House of Commons on Dec. 15, 1981. This spring, the Committee on External Affairs and National Defence has concerned itself with ensuring that corrective measures be found to rectify sofxine of the problems Ms. McDougall idenâ€" tified. One of Ms. â€"McDougall‘s principal recâ€" ommendations was that the Trade Comâ€" missioner Service (Dept. of Industry, Trade and Commerce) be incorporated into a consolidated foreign service. On Jan. 12, 1982, a major reâ€"organization of External Affairs was announced by the Prime Minister. The Foreign Service was giv;n full responsibility for international trade. Over a longer period of time, the Foreign Service has also come to include Canada‘s Immigration Offices abroad. These three "streams" â€" diplomatic, trade and social services â€" now provide separate career definitions on which prospective applicants can focus their service goals. I usually warn potential applicants that of some 4,000 hopefuis in 1981, only 120 were called to Otta®wa for interviews and just 80 were eventually asked to join the Department of Ext@rnal Affairs. This should certainly not deter anyone from "sitting‘‘ the annual Foreign Service Examinations. °> [ The tests of international affairs appreâ€" LETTERS POLICY Canada‘s Foreign Service W.D. Pope Everybody has heard the stories. Radar clocks trees; radar clocks churches; radar clocks stationary trucks; radar clocks vehicles that aren‘t even there. If radar clocks all these things then why is it accepted in court? What is radar in the first place? The internal operations and the physics involved are quite complicated and reâ€" quire a fully qualified electronics expert to explain. What follows is a grossly simpliâ€" fied version of that explanation. The initials r.a.d.a.r. stand for Radio Detecting and Ranging. Stephen F. Gehl is a Waterioo lawyer who specializes in criminal law. Radar operates on the Doppler Theory which is a theory of physics dealing with the effect and measurement of the length of waves in relation to a stationary object. This means that the radar unit sends out a radio wave signal that hits an object and bounces back to the receiver. This beam is almost continuous as waves strike the approaching vehicle every half inch. The beam shortens because the object gets closer and this changes the frequency. The change in frequency is measured by the radar unit and converted to speed. The police employ two types of radar. Stationary radar is the famous gun. The officer holds a device that resembles a Star Trek Phaser, points it at oncoming traffic, pulls the trigger, and a digital readout appears on the screen. If the readout indicates. that the vehicle is speeding, the officer radios this informaâ€" tion to ar::hher officer further down the road who pulis the speeder over and issues the ticket. Moving radar measures the rate of return of radio waves from an approachâ€" ing vehicle relative to a stationary object â€" Police employ two types of radar What is radar? ciation, and of one‘s potential to carry out policy, and broaden Canada‘s interests in the world, are really designed to measure a candidate‘s suitability and commitment to serve their country. They are not, as is eommonly supposed, a memory test on the international atlas. It is far more desirable that future Foreign Service Officers (FSO‘S) be able to identify the human and national currents behind the present situation in international affairs. ‘ As Ms. McDougall carefully points out, the life of the Foreign Service Officer is often far removed from the "social swirl" of the Embassy Balls we read about on the society page. Another fact is that spouses of FSOs frequently must sacrifice careers when they are posted abroad. They serve â€" particularly spouses of Heads of Missions â€" as unpaid hosts or hostesses of the Canadian government. Spouses must often shoulder heavy administrative and repreâ€" sentational responsibilities. Radar: myths versus the facts In a particularly innovative recommenâ€" dation, Ms. McDougall suggested that the government pay an incentive prenmtium to spouses to accept service.overseas based on the wage paid to the FSO. The idea would be both to compensate for lost inetme and "to reinforce the spouse‘s independence and freedom aof choice." The Foreign Service Examinations are traditionally held each yearsin October. While the majority are carried out by the Public Service Commission in Ottawa, WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY , AUGUST 4, 1982 â€" PAGE 7 â€" Those readings come from a Florida case. In that case the defence used the tests to show that radar readings were unreliable. What happened was that the machine took readings from reflective sources: in the case of the trees from zinc coated leaves rustling in the wind, in the case of the church from the ringing bell in the tower, in the case of the truck (which was idling) from the fan. Stephen F. Gehi What about those false readings from trees and the like? The so called ghost readings, readings on vehicles that aren‘t there, are peculiar to moving radar. Police officers are trained to screen these out. the road. It measures these simultanâ€" eously and calculates the speed of the approaching vehicle. Stationary radar only measures the speed of vehicles going away from it. The radar unit itself is mounted on the dash of the patrol car and looks something like a digital clock radio. What about false ~ _ readings from things like trees? Radar readings have been accepted by courts throughout this land. The fact that the radar units used in Florida gave false readings has not been of any use to people charged with speeding in this province. Our police forces use different and suppoâ€" sedly better radar units than the Florida police were using at the time of the Florida case. Not only that, police officers here are trained and apparently qualified to screen out erroneous readings. â€" The end result of all this: it is unlikely that you can challenge the radar reading by saying that radar doesn‘t work. arrangements are always available to bring the exams to the candidate â€" even outside the country. C e Successful candidates are given a full year of training at External Affairs Headquarters in Ottawa, as well as in Immigration and Trade Offices across the country. They are then given a twoâ€"year posting abroad, serving in one of the three ‘"streams." This is usually followed by another year in Canada, then they go on to more senior foreign postings... With the alarming increase in internaâ€" tional terrorism and the growing threat to national governments and world order, a career in the Foreign Service has a whole list of social strains and individual stresses. Nevertheless, the opportunity of serving one‘s country has never been more challenging or potentially rewarding. career in Canada‘s Foreign Service. Just contact my Constituency Office in Waterâ€" loo Square (885â€"4900), or write to me at the House of Commons. Radar readings have been accepted by â€" the courts _ Earlier this year, the Subâ€"Committee on Canada‘s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean was briefed by Brian Dare (a native of Kitchener). He has responsibility, based, in Barbados, for Canada‘s development assistance to the Eastern Caribbean‘s small islands. I was very impressed with his knowledge and I‘m pleased to help those interested in a