pomee Page ¢, The Herald, Wednesday, October 4, 1978 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General OHice - 635-6357 Published by Circulation - 635-6357 Sterling Publishers PUBLISHER . Laurie Mallett GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middietori CIRCULATION - TERRACE - Andy Wightman 635-6357 KITIMAT - Pat Zelinski 692-2747 KITIMAT OFFICE - 632-2747 . Publisned avery weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second class mali, Registration number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In — any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or. photographic content published In the Herald. , Reproduction is not permitted without the written, permission of the Publisher. _ “OTTAWA OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON Ottawa,- In case you missed it ....Jackie O seems to be casting a shadow on the romantic | future of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. And while it may be an exceedingly thin and 2s" decidedly uncertain shadow, it reaches far enough to tinge the not exactly lily-white gossip pages of the international fashion-fixing newspaper, Women’s Wear Daily, which trendity cails itself ‘WWD,’ and the talk-ofthe-town columns of London’s chatty national dailies like The Mirror, Sun, Mail, and the Daily Express. This is the sort of rumor -- based on nothing mere substantial than innuendo, but not ab- solutely beyond the outer baunds of possipility either -- that keeps the Prime Minister in the peekaboo, tattle-tale pages of the international media. To’WWD‘ he is one of the ‘Beautiful People.’ - To the Londen dailies and the notorious Ger- man and French slick photo-journals, he remains still, at 58 the good-looking VIP Playboy Preem.’ And apparently, fair game. The fantasy of PET and Jackie remarrying is raised by Stephen Birmingham, avthor of ‘Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis,’ one of his serles of ‘psycho-histories' of the world’s ‘super- rich.’ Interviewed by the gossipsmiths working the Manhattan-Mayfair grapevine, he muses: ‘Jackie O was married to two of the most diffiBult meni the world and survived. And isn‘{ that sayingesomething! . ‘She Is alone now a lot of the time ... (and) while she is definitely not ithe kind of a girl you could call up casually and invite to a movie ... she gives signs that she would like to remarry. ‘Who is to respond to the signals? ‘We've lost King Hussein.‘ remarried.) ‘Is there anybody available in England? ‘Perhaps Plerre Trudeau in Canada?’ {He lunched wlih her once.) “At the mention of Bill Paley ... Paley? ‘Yes.' (He's the Gadfather of CBS radio-TV empire and very eligible.} ‘A very lively and extremely interesting possibility.‘ But Pierre In Ottawa when he isn‘t in Manhattan, London, Bonn, Paris mixing business and pleasure, or playing sand, wind and water games In Cozumel, Morocco, Nassau, and on the Med? The New ‘York-London chatterboxes leave it hanging on a question mark. But taking a Jook around here at home, and remembering much of Plerre Trudeau's life -- not always an open book -- has had Its elament of fantasy, the cautious answer has to bethat with this remarkable man nothing, really, is im. possible -- improbable, unlikely, yes, but im- possible, no; nothing Is. The still ‘private Trudeau.’ he, as always, makes a fetish of insisting - and making if stick - - that when he's not working as Prime Minister, he is very much his own man. Which |s nobody’s business, least of all that of the press or public. The only time that bullet-proof mirror of privacy has cracked was when it got around that he had dated Sandra O'Neill, former cabaret performer now in Toronto. Margaret Trudeau? What odds reconciliation after her utter humiliation of him in standing him up when She failed to show -- following her fantastic Rolling Stones adventure -- at Harrington Lake as his hostess at an officla! dinner tor British Prime Minister James Callaghan and Mrs. Callaghan? The black eye? And the garter belt of the same hue? So speaking of the fantastic, why not Jackie O for a man-of-the-world whose intimates Insist is ‘58 golng on 407’ (Recently Letters welcomed The Herala welcomes its readers com- ments. All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right fo refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libe! or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to be considered for { letters be typed and double spaced. publication must be signed. We ask that ‘ a WASHINGTON (CP) — President Carter, buoyed by the prospect of one Middle East peace suc- cess, now turns his al- tention to another trouble spot in the area, lhe dispute between Mcsiems and Christians in Lebanon. Carter has in mind a peace conference in- volving Lebanon, Syria, United States, Isreal, France, Egypt and other interested countries, NEST meeting under the aegis of the United Nations. The conference would seek more than another c easefire: it would be aimed al developing a new framework for power-sharing between the Christians and the : Moslems. : bk Carter's proposal has won some prise, both. at... home and abroad but _observers wonder how he plans to gather and re- P Carter looks at Lebanon... convile the immensely divergent factions in- volved. Since Carter proposed the conference, a new round of fighting between Syrian peacekeeping forces in Beirut and Christian militia has killed more than 180 _:-@ivilians in one of the worst outbreaks of vic: -» Jenee since :the civil. war came to an uneasy halt two years ago. Observers suggest that ence proposal . ciple, but said it-would be '- a lg ae the violence of the fighting may refelet the diametrically-opposed reactions in the country to Carter's Middle East in- itiatives. Camille Chamoun, former Lebanese president and a leader of the Christians, welcomed the Carter peace confer- - iy :prin-. > unnecessary unless it helped end the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, ' report. RESTLESS AND RESENTFUL Quebec condition natural VANCOUVER (CP) — Restlessness and resentment among French-Canadians will always be a natural condition in Quebec because their lifestyle was drastically changed by the conquering English, a University of British Columbia {UBC) professor Says. Prof, Cole Harris of UBC’s geography department told a meeting of the Vancouver Institute Saturday that the French developed a one- elass agrarian society in Quebec before the English arrived in the late 18th century. He said 25 per cent of the French population lived in Montreal and Quebec City at the time while the rest lived on farmland along the St. Lawrence River. “Their standard of living rose in comparison to the peasant situation in Fran- ce,” Harris said, ‘The land was free and while no one became very rich, no one was really poor elther.’’ He said a widening gap of power and wealth emerged when the English squeezed the French out of the fur trade by 1780. The French then left the city for the farms bul a limited amount of land and a. larger birthrate led more poverty, Harris said. As @ result, many French tried to establish farms on jand in the Canadian Shield with disastrous results, he said, adding that eventually they had to become laborers for the English. “The wages were ex- tremely low since there were Bo many people afler these jobs,” Harris sald. ‘'There's no dowbt that much of the English wealth in Quebec can be attributed to cheap French labor." He said that this led to deeply-ingrained feelings of inferiority and resentment in the French, feelings which have surfaced in the last 20 years. “As a resuit, we Can ex- pect alot of status secking by the French, beth politically and economically, as they try to make up for what has happended in the past.” Harris said that Canadians have run out of land all across ‘the country and that these limitations have divided Canadians. “There has never been one common Canadian ex- perience with the land, there have been several,” he said. “This has led to regionalism: that has drawn us apart,’ one Campagnolo, M.P. Canada does not need a west coast oil pori. This conclusion, confirmed last week by the National Energy Board, echoes wre" | have publicly stated since a speech in Kitimat in November, 1977, and closely parallels a federa! cabinet announcement last February. In its report on Canadian oil supply and requirements — requested by Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie.in response to proposals like the one from Kitimat Pipelines Ltd. — the NEB conctudes that we have greater supplies of domestic crude oi! than was thought possible a couple of years ago; Canadians are doing a better job of conserving energy than had been predicted; and a range of alternatives to oil — ‘renewable energy sources in particular — are coming on stream earlier than projected. Together, these successes mean that further imports on the west or east coasts, to meet Canadian needs, would not be required until the turn of the century — if then. The NEB report puts firmly to rest the argument that the security of Canada’s energy future depends on a west coast port. © That might still leave open the question of whether or not we want such a port — were it not for overwhelming evidence, collected during forums Ilke the recent government funded West Coast O}l Port Inquiry, indicating staggering environmental and social risks in exchange for few beneflis to people in Skeena. We.have better reason than ever now for saying: ‘We don’t want inl’ Technically, the Kitimat proposal remains alive. As the Kitimat Pipelines Ltd. apptication is still before the board, a hearing will proceed if the company Insists. However, it is quite clear — in light of this report — that approval would not _be forthcoming. i" Consequently, the companies involved in » transporting Alaskan crude oil to the continental U.S. will now redouble the search for alter- natives. A pipeline from Port Angeles, in Washington State, remains a possibility, but it now appears that a pipeline following the route of the Yukon Natural Gas Pipeline is a more likely possibility, A number of possible variations of this route have been proposed — and | will outline them for you at greater length In a future “<4 can assure you that | will continue my etforts “4a ensure that, whatever alternate route is chosen for the transport of Alaska oil, it does not pose a threat to our vulnerable coastal en- vironment. In addition to its affirmation on the govern- ment's policy not to allow a west coast oil port, the NEB report. also contained other items of interest about Canadian oll supply and demand. Discussing the demand for oil products, the board said it expects demand for gasoline to peak in 1980 and decline after that; mainty because of improved fue! economies, a trend to smaller cars, consumer response to price in- creases and the substitution of diesel fuel for gasoline in new automobiles and trucks. The demand for tight fuel oil, kerosene and _ stove oll is also expected te decline primarily as a-result of higher energy prices, conservation programs, improved efficiency of home oll heating equipment, and increased use of natural gas and electricity. : For further information on this important National Energy Board repori, or on possible future developments in the transportation of Alaska crude oil, please do not hesitate to write ta me care of the House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario KIA 0X2. No postage is required. HALIFAX (CP) — After the stunning defeat of Nova Scotia's eight- year-old Liberal adminis- tration last month, party strategists in the federal riding of Halifax-East Hants hope the electorate is satisfied with one kick at the government. The Progressive Con- servatives, benefactors of the Nova Scotia elec- torate's apparent = ill feellng toward the gov- ernment, say one good kick deserves another. “The people have had a pretty good kick now,” says an organizer in the Liberal campaign headquarters. ‘They may have got it oul of thelr system." ' In any case the Liberals are working on the safe assumption that they are the underdog in the Oct. 16 byelection campaign of lawyer Ken MacInnis, 35, trying to wrest the seal from the Conservatives and become Nova Scotia’s third Liberal MP in Ottawa, Conservatives hold seven federal seats in the province and the FURTHER BACKLASH New Democrats the other one. . MacInnis, who spent three years in Otlawa as legal counsel to Deputy Prime Minister Allan MacEachen, is not play- ing up his party con- nections but presenting himself instead as the “fighting counsel” for the Bedford Service Com- mission who fought big government and won, Last year he led a successful fight against the provincial Liberal government's plans to lo- cate a dump in suburban Bedford, Howard Crosby, a 44- year-old lawyer and the province's former legal aid director campaigning to hold the seat for the Conservatives, saya he Senses 4 strong anti- government, antiTrudeau mood here which, com- bined with the party's 20- year hold on the riding, worries him a little. He thinks if encourages complacency. Crosby characterizes the farflung constituency which contains a good Halifax Liberals worried cross-section of voters a3 the “seat of small business.” As a lawyer in a two- man firm, Crosby says he understands the bur- densome crush of government regulations on small businesses but is wary of promising specific remedies. He says the electorate has learned to be cautious about “wolves offering complicated cookies.” - Small businessmen as the province’s main employers were singled out for special attention by all parties inthe recent provincial election, all promising to cut red tape and free them from the load of paperwork which now occupies much of their time. To maintain voter in- terest after the lackluster provincial campaign, national party leader Joe Clark appeared in the constituency last week promising a more sympathetic approach to the problems of the Atlantic region if his party is elected. He was followed by NDP leader Ed Broad- bent who attended a nominating meeting whereunion leader Edgar Doull became the party’s eandidate, Broadbent advocated an infusion of federal funds into the economy as a short-Lerm measure to create jobs. The NDP:has had only marginal support in the riding. Whoever wins the byelection, called after former deputy Commons speaker Robert MeCleave was appointed a pro- vincial court judge, is assured of areturnto the — hustings in less than a year in a vastly altered constituency. Halifax-East Hants straddies the province, stretching from the edge of Halifax's northern suburbs to Cobequid Bay and south to -the headlands outside Halifax harbor on the Atlantic coast. It will be replaced by the new federal con- stituency of Halifax West in the next federal general election, ex- pecled inthe spring. |. TORONTO (CP) — The big men on campus are no longer football players, “They are the people of finance, who watch budgets as large as $1 million pass through their eager hands on the way to making student councils a viable part of big business, mushroomed into a considerable service industry, with its own battery of legal and financial wizardry and its own _ federal and provincial lobby. ‘‘] guess you could say there's an emerging technocracy in student - governments as they be. come more service-orl- ented,"says Brian Hill, student administrative council (SAC) president at University of Toronto. There certainly seems to be, especially when one looks at SAC’s list of ventures. It publishes a newspaper, a literary journal, a handbook and ils own telephone directory. ILruns a riding stable, a ski tour and film service, occasional pubs and a sex education centre. SAC Student enterprise has: University students financially oriented also financlally supports a community health service, a campus legal assistance centre, a concert promotion company, many coun’ selling and referral services, and numerous Clubs and organizations, Furthermore, it owns 50 acres on the Bruce Trail as a hedge against in- flation. The result is a cash flow estimated at more than $1 Million this school year and, as big business, SAC Is working on a deficit. Most student councils at major Canadian universities are in- corporated or plan to be. ‘Elected student officials want protection from liability while they work. The result is a legion of eager commerce students lining up for jobs that, often as not, go to the most qualified person— who ‘t always a student, . Hill, at approximtely $10,000 a year, earns slightly more than David McCuaig, student union president at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, who earns $9,000. 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