rs Some favors by accident | a Page 4, The Herald, Tuesday, March 10, 1981 - . _— ee eae ENTRY. CAPTAINS LOG: Slight Westerly breezes, changing om ai Kavi daily herald General tice: 635-635) Published by Circulation - 635-6357 Sterling Publishers . dministration ‘A (CP) — The Reagan acm . edit al “pert Nadeou to the North st. , may bave done Canada several favors, if only by or — Pete Nadeau . _ tet ison a two-year- dvertence, in its decision to jettison CLASS. ADS. - TERRACE - 635.4000 nd heading 4 + Coast fisheries rather than Course a old agreement on Eas' pact out of a CIRCULATION . TERRACE - 635-6357 Published every weekday af 3010 Kalum Street. : Terrace, B.C. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number. 1201, Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed. . : NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-oar any editorial or phatographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written q permission of the Publisher. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Printed below are three letters to the editor which, by coincidence we assume, arrived at The Daily Herald office on the same day. _ Asa generalrule, it is considered dirty pool to reply to letters since the letters to the editor column is a forum for readers. That, in itself, is a service that no other media provide. However, as a matter of record, maybe we should print out that The Daily Herald, despite whatever Mrs. Sandecki may think, holds no brief nor grudge for any groups or individuals. trying to wrest ratification of the reluctant U.S. Senate. ; The action last Friday alerts Canadians to expect a no-nonsense attitude in Washinglon on A list of bilateral disputes, including energy, trade and envi- ronmental relations — possibly a bumpy ride on the American economic coattails for years tocome, It also means that Canada is released, however a reluctantly at the moment, fram @ perpetual os commitment toshare jurisdiction over its portion of . coastal waters with the United States. This isa dilution of national sovereignty for both countries, a ate fact that fuelled somé American opposition to the - fish treaty though it failed to provoke counterpart doubts in Canada. In comparable arrangements for shared control, such as the 1965 U.S.-Canada automobile trade pact and the 1984 defence production sharing agreement, - Canada customarily winds up with the short end of * the stick as the junior partner, Further, Canadian frustrations over U.S. equivocation on the fisheries pact tends to reinforce ihe Trudeau government's campaign to reduce - pellance on other countries, politically or ‘economically — in conslitutional reform and, notably, in its nationalistic policies for mare Canadian controt of its energy industry and over industrial investment generally. President Reagan really had little choice other on . example, have been Plerre Trudeau and the Liberals. ; ; Mrs. Sandecki’s zeal in her never-ending battle t become aschool-board member is admirable. The fact that she is attempting togain this rather dubious honor by tearing down rather than building is not admirable. The diversity of these three letters, we think speaks for itself. Could it be that truth, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder? Politics, though, Isn't so much a cruel business, as business, not of politics any longer but of tele-politics. The tube Is almost all. He has just made a sep- ° taugenarian B movie actor into the leader of the most powerful country in the world. The screen {liters out the best of Clark and magnifies the worst. In thelr .hames, than to resolve the fisheries stalemate by slicing * through the imot, despite the official expressions of indignation and shock by the Canadian external affairs department. - - ‘The alternatives would either have forced the ’ young Republican administration into a showdown scrap with the Senate — possibiy souring its relations there — or allowed the treaty to languish unratified as a major sore point with Canada, as it Sir: Interior News is a prime Canadians see him n puttin I would like to example of this rule. on the alrs of an aiden Otaveemnany silt has been since it was signed by the two govern- congratulate you on your Mra, Claudette Sandecki , ments two years ago. reasonably balanced Str: gawky, Ill at ease. A juvenile actor playing Canada had insisted that the treaty could not be coverage of local news,” In my humble estimation, your local news coverage with I have just finished reading two copies of the Terrace Herald and found OTTAWA — The best advice Con- servative Leader Joe Clark has recelved In months was provided by the party's new at being a leader, rather than a leader playing himself. Much of this.Image is a caricature. But as indelible. modified. The Senate foreign relations committee, whose approval was required, was equally adamant that it would not be ratified as it stood. your avallable staffhas been mot one but two nit-picking president, Peter Blaikie, at a press con- a caricature, it Is Now, on the advice of Rosanne Ridgway, the U.S. much improved over the letters fram NDP people. ference right aHer his victory. “It’s the beginning of the end. The only stale department's specialist assigned to the past three months andi look First to R. Dekergommeaux, “What do you think Mr. Clark should do question is how long and at what cost to the problem last month, Reagan has effectively forward to continuing im- Frovement in the coming montha. I particularly enjoy the topical, current humour in ‘the GOMER and RAGS comic, strips and your AROUND TOWN colimn on Friday. The AROUND TOWN might be expanded to additional week days as space and local information permits. Sir: ' Congratulations to Paul Johmaton and the Kitimat- Bernie Distel how come it took you two years to get around to do your complaining, because all you have to do is contact the B.C. Telephone company and point out to them the error of their ways in the matter You are complaining about. Certainty we are all aware in more ways than one that Cyril Shelford no longer represents us in Skeena. More's the pity. Mr. Shelford is a very fine and honest man and showed it during the election cam. now?” a reporter asked. “Take a Holiday,’ _Blalkte replied. Ever since he became leader five years ago, Clark has had to perform the political ‘equivalent of a marathon runner lugging along two lead.welghts. .. He's had th: irpato™ Sell hifhedites Canadians, despite the burden of his TV image. He's had to try to sell himself to his awn Conservatives despite their.doubis that he ever truly was, or can be again, a winner. Few political runners have ever been more dogged, more determined, and, In his own unflashy way, more courageous. Early in the 1980 campaign, Clark knew to sa ‘hinkediestes ae ZS cyotat tee Bin-only: ey éessdr Ont! nearer to the next elect pe ‘party,’ one Clark loyalist, a former Con- servative minister now out of politics, commented on the vote against him by a third of the delegates. (One in three marked their ballots against Clark, many more crossed him from. thelr minds, and they oF Toe, Bi“only-to delay Bick a si ’ Already, despite Clark’s disclaimer, some of his most senior MPs are beginning to calculate the cost to the party of his remaining a leader on probation. “it would be wrong to make any precipituous deciston,’’ says former transport minister Don Mazankowshkl. ‘We should wali to see how caucus responds and asym es Om p eH i ‘a é q scrapped the treaty that would have allocated fish catches and provided for joint management in the disputed waters between New England and Nova Meanwhile, the president says the water boun- + dary should be settled by World Court referees, as eprovided in an accompanying 1979 pact. This would eave cach-country to “Management — and the poientlally importahy ~ exploitation of other undersea resources — separately on their respective sides of the bound: ary, The Reagan government’s resolution of the: fisheries impasse is probably a foretaste for Canadians of a more direct manner in American foreign relations. Ottawa may wince, but Canadian diplomats at least will have less occasion to com- Terrace and District Labor from his own polls he hadnt a h et he - id during Ji , paign. Otherwise, who p ope, ¥ plain — as they did during J; regime Council for saying what has jnows? maybe you would never jet on and he never let up. how the constitution debate proceeds, and — about drift ‘and indecision in Washingion needed saying about your not have to be nit-picking. Likewlse, at fhe start of this weekend’s then consider all the options, such as a In seven weeks since taking office, U.S. ad- newspaper for four months. However, [ disagree with Johnston on one point, The Sterling chain is not out to Make profits at the expense of quality. As I see it, Sterling is not interested in profit or quality. If they were interested in profit, they would see to it that they have a homegrown editorial every day dealing with Terrace and its area problems which are distinct to this area alone. As it Is, there have been only two such editorials (if my count is correct) since Middleton resigned at the end of Oc- tober. If they were interested in profits, they would publish all lettera-to-the-editors, regardless of whether those letters criticized the Social Credit party, the school board, or any other Social Credit-dominated in- stitution. A well-written editorial and a crammed letiers-to-the-editor page bs Now to Mr. Howard and his missing newspaper pictures as I understand it the photographers from the Interior News were unable to make it up the hill to the event, | also understand that others, including Mr. Howard's wile, were taking pictures. Why did she not turn in some pictures to the Dewspaper, presumably she would have taken pictures of her husband, maybe not? However, we did see Mr. Howard on CFTK News and heard him too. Of course he had to share the spotlight with Mr. Phillipa, the social credit minister. Maybe it is Important for an aging politiclan who has been around as long as Mr, Howard has to have his picture Im the paper. Anyway, it gave him an excuse to nil-pick at the So Creds, I do not always agree with Mr. Busby but in this case it seems he did the beat be could. What if there had convention, Clark knew as many as a third of the delegates might vote against him, but he worked with a relentless Intensity to trv to reduce thelr number to the margin that would have earned him the right (and the press clippings to prove it) that he'd won a triumph. Right after the vote, Clark was at It again. Along with other MPs, he showed up at 7:30 the next morning to serve scrambled eggs and bacon to party workers at a caucus breakfast. Rather than -avold reporters hunting for him in the corridors of the Chateau Laurler Hotel, he sought them out fo say: “I don’t consider myself on probation. | consider myself reaffirmed as leader.” : Such acts and such answers are braveg But neither resolve the fundamental question, which -is whether Clark just happens to be the right guy In the wrong job. So much about Clark Is so right. His personal decency. His mental quickness. His ability fo get along with people. (He's got Conservative MPs to get along with each other far more effectively than his predecessor, Robert Stanfleld ever did.) And his qulet, often overlooked courage, Canadian politics and the Conservative leadership corivention.” Another former minister, David Crombie, a potential leadership candidate like Mazankowski, also counsels against ‘any hasty decision.” The effects of these doubts soon will become apparent. In thé House of Com- mons, the Conservative attack on Trudeau’s ‘constitutional package, which already has begun to lose its momentum, soon will lose ‘all Its force. To any Conservative criticism of the -constitutional proposals as “divisive”, some Liberal MP will gleefully retort that the constitution hasn't divided Canada as much as ‘Clark’s leadership has his own Conservatives. Outside the Cammons. leadership aspirants such as Mazankowskl and Cromble and John Crosble now will seek to make thelr voices heard for thelr own sakes, as well as [ust as spokesmen for their leader. oo ‘ The question Is, haw long all of this can continue (In the limit, to the end of 1982 before the next general meeting at which Clark's leadership can be reviewed again), and at what cost. On holiday, somewhere In the sun, Clark . could decide the answer for himself. He ministration officials have made it clear little is sacrosanct in domestic or foreign programs, in- acing relations with Canada. @ administration is taking a toughly critical line on the Trudeau government's national energy Program, with its proposals to Canadianize -the American-dominated industry, on the ground that it would discriminate against Americans and possibly reduce the chances of reaching energy self-suffi- ie by 1990. it has served notice it will ease anti- regulations, threatening efforts to cure crows border air pollution. 11 has approved additional funding — though & more modest amount than in previous years — for water Projects such as the Garrison program in North Dakota, which Canada says will pollute bordering Manitoba waterways. ‘Twelve years ago, in a speech to the National Press. Club in Washington, Trudeau remarked on how the U.S. can disturb Canada almost by ac- cident: “Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant: No matler how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.'’ . Two years later, in a policy of direct retaliation - against economic competition abroad, the ad- ministration of Richard Nixon initiated purposeful a than ment-minded action against Canada posing limits on imports and leaking list of economic dema | ‘tem At that time, in 1971, the U.S. complained that - teed dekide' ftir Tonvetias,. fh Ba Ce aratsé the heart of every been no pictures at all? Mr. r Canada was gettin newspaper, and can send party are better off for his having been could decide that although he's run hard SFRene the Best of trade under the subscription lista uphill Do ule thall we say. leader, it’s his ill-luck that the principal enough, the two lead welghtshe has to carry ered ean tnd auto trade pacts. But that ; immediately. The Smithers F. Anderson | beneficiaries of his work, learning from his are [ust too much. in deficit on both joint progratos and t the prone, : ” Gomer {x CONSERVATIVE S BE REPATRIATED, AUT IT SHOULD BE WELL CHANGE IT hy, $ fe an Cee ton ir nt nee hr a ane ca Re raa eh eA RIS pa SA ele tie eatin freee me me = benefits in basic research, innovation and industrial development have failed tp border, materialize north of the Now, economic relations seem to a era of prickliness decade ago — Reaganomics instead of Nixonomics, BELIEVE THAT THE. BROUGHT ACK ; BY MUTUAL Reagan talks about forging a North American CONSTITUTION SHOULD AS {Ss 7 AGREEMENT.., Hella Waltansto men taggin Helghborly support, or at least a sceNCE , ‘hemispheric antl-Communiat crude rinks seems so far at least thatthe U.S, unwilling pay for such political Bupport in coon we. ee: whether in fisheries or trade or in con- an independent C there could be some barpali ere pele But 0 years ago, Trudeau few to Washington got Nixon to assert that the U.S, did not inlet on ‘Mulnlaining 8 perpetual surplus in trade with foe an Unrestricted right to buy Canadian.