’ dissidents
’ in public, there is little sign

Canadian could

reach Sainthood

VATICAN CITY (AP) —
Pope Paul approved a
decree today by which a
Canadian, Brother Andre,
was declared venerable, the
first step toward his beat-
{Heation and possible
sainthood.

The ceremony took place
In the Pope's private ilbrary
in the presence of the 80
year-old pontiff, Corrado
Cardinal Baffile, head of the
Vatican Congregation for the
Cause of the Saints, four
other cardinals and a num-
ber of Vatican officials,

The decree said Brother
Andre has practised all the
virtues in heroic degree. n

Born Alfredo Bessette at
Saint Gregoire d'Iberville,
Montreal, Aug., 1645, Andre
died at Montreal Jans, 1897,

professed brother of the
Congregation of the Holy

ne next step before
Brother Andre may he
declared a blessed of the
Roman Catholic Church is
the approval by the Pope of
at least one- miracle at-
tributed to the intercession
of the Canadian-born cleric.
APPROVES THREE
OTHERS

Three other decrees were
approved by the Pope in
teday’s ceremony. Also

declared venerable were.

Italians Giuseppe Marello,
who was bishop of Acqui,

Soviets

“was a

Italy; Luigi Scrosoppi,
founder of the Congregation
of the Sistera of Divine
Providence; and Riccardo
Mampuri, a surgeon -who
.member .of the
Congregation of Saint John

Approval of the miracles
may last months and even
years in beatification -or
canonization processes,
Alter the approval of the
miracles by a commission of
experts, beatification in St.
Peter's Basilica in the
presence ‘of the pontiff is
usually fast. It is up to the

Pope to fix the. date forn-
beatification, one of the most -

colorful’ and joyous cere-
monies in Roman
Catholic liturgy.

In today’s ceremony Arch-
bishop Giuseppe Casoria,
secretary ofthe
Congregation for the Causes
of Saints, read the decree
declaring Brother Andre a
venerable, n |

The Pope acknowledged
the decree and approved it.

Present at the ceremony
was the general promoter of
the faith, Franciscan Father
Gaetano Scane. The
vromoter is known as the
devil's advocate. .

He is entrusted with op-
the claims of the
patrons of the cause and
those of the saint’s advocate.

divided

on rights issue

By ROBERT EVANS

MOSCOW. (Reuter) —
Outside a Moacow suburban
courthouse, two middle-aged
Russians glared angrily at
each other in a face-to-face
confrontation.

“What are you consorting
with these foreigners for?”
demanded one, waving at:
Western correspondents a
few yards away. “You're
nothing but a dirty traitor.”
“You don’t understand a
thing,” retorted the other.
‘You were born a slave and
that’s the way you'll die.”
unt allen work a

lo railway wor! of
and a‘bifediinerengiater
how is .an unemployed.
dissident activist. Their brief

” encounter over, both stalked

off to rejoin friends atanding
on opposite sides of the
narrow street,

The scene,
during the recent trial of
Yori Orlov, leader of, the
Helsinkc human rights

observed

‘group, illustrated the gulf

between Soviet dissenters

and the ordinary citizen

whose rights they seek to

promote.

HAVE LITTLE IMPACT
Twelve years after Soviet

began appearing

that they have had more
thanna:marginal impact on
the society around them.

Derlded officially as a
handful of malcontents
ready to slander their
motherland for foreign gold,
many haye been jailed,
exiled or committed to
peychiatric hospitals.

Yet they have become an
enduring presence, with new
leaders emerging as older
ones disappear Into prison or
exile in the West. Even
Soviet leader Leonid
Brezhnev found it necessary
to refer to them in his key-
note speech to the -Com-
munist party’s oath congress
in 1976.

Dissent in ite present form .

emerged publicly a decade
aftet Nikita Khrushchev de-"
nounced the rule of Josef
Stalin in 1956 and ushered in
a thaw in cultural and social
life, Despite many
pointments,. the Soviet
liberals of the late 10506 and
early 1960s lelieved the
trend was toward a more
tolerant society.

But when Khrushchev fell
from power in 1964, there
were inimediate fears of a
return te something
resembling Stalinist rule. n
PROVIDES CONTACTS

These ) apprehensions, were

* abe gthened with the arrest
"af two writers a year later.
Andrei Sinyavsky and poet-
translator Yuli Daniel, were
subsequently jailed: for
spreading anti-Sovie
propaganda in works they
published under pseudonyms
in the West.

Their trial provided the
catalyst that united other.
figures inside the Literary
establishment with a
younger generation of
fisnentere already on the

cast traditional
Russian reluctance to air
problems with forelgners
and. shared their thoughts
with . Western corre-
spondents on the street
outside,

Quickly reports on the trial
were heard on foreign radio
stationf broadcasting in
Russian and the dissenters

realized they had found a

neans of communicating
with fellow countrymen,

' As triala of other
lissidents followed, their
pumbers swelled as

previously isolated groups
made contact with the
leaders whose names they
had heard on Western
broadcasts,

Skylab shifts _

_orbit®

HOUSTON (AP) — — Skylab
has a temporary new lease
on life. It now is up to the
U.S. Congress to decide
whether astronauts should

to save it from a
potentially, dangerous plunge
back to earth

‘Ground controllers added
inoaths to the unmanned

epee station’s life Sunday .

by shifting its position to

minimize the atmospheric

drag that slowly has been
it out of orbit.

. “BEyerything went the way -
we planned it,” said flight
controller’ Bill Petera after
treed 3 nose ba. been

own. 10 degrees 60
te the ship now-is level in
relation to earth.

“We're going back to Con-
gress and tell them we're

successful and that they

should proceed,” said Skylab
coordinator Robert Aller of
the National Aeronautics
and. Space Administration.
- Last montha U.S. House of
Representatives

tions . subcommittee
Tejected a $20.5
NASA request, The NASA
iden was to send aloft a team

\

Bh cine hig hehe me Die teat ea oe

million .

of space shuttle astronauts to
rendezvous with Skylab:and
attach a rocket device either
to raise it to a safer altitude
or to propel it harmlessly out
of orbit over an open area of
the Paclfic Ocean.

But the congressmen said
they did not think Skylab
would atay up long enovgh:
fora shuttle crew to reach it
in time, Subcommittee
members said they might
reconsider if NASA suc-
ceeded in extending the
spaceship’s life. .

That is what Sunday’s ex-
ercise accomplished.
Without the manoeuvre, the
s5-ton station, ‘the ‘world’s
largest manmade satellite,
could have plunged through
the atmosphere as early as
next spring, Space officials
fear that on such an un-
controlled re-entry, there is
a remote’ chance it could
shower chunks of debris on
Inhablted areas.

ff the project to’ save
Skylab .gets,, thé fo-ahead,
NASA plans to make the
-attempt on’the third flight of
the new: pack shuttle in
October, 199, ;

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_ accommodation,

Take a budget-priced Canadian Routes package tour this summer and see the totem poles of British Columbia.

Dream vacations now affordable

Canada’s west coast is a
vacation: dreamland; this
summer you can make it a
reality. See the blue Pacific,
totem poles, towering
mountains and lush forests
and do it economically.

Budget-priced Canadian
Routes package tours are
now available through CP
Air and CP Hotels. Some of

them’ go right out lo Van-

couver Island.
- Take the 11-day Vancouver

‘Island Routes tour for

example,’ At $494 per person
(double sharing), from
Montreal, it includes. return
Charter Class Canada air
fare to Victoria, 10 nights
sight-
seeing, motorcoach tran- -
sprtation and an experienced
escort. . Similar values are
offered frofi “other centres
across. the courttry.

. The tour starts at flower-
bedecked Victoria, the

_ beautiful provincial capital,

where you'll spend your first
night at the stately Empress,
Hotel. The next day you
have to yourself, to explore
in and around Victoria. The
Parliament Buildings, the

British Columbia Provincial .

Museum and Thunderbird
Park are only a few of the
eity’s numerous attractions
while the world-famous
Butchart Gardens are only a
short drive from the city.

Leaving Victoria, on the
third day, toe motorcoach
heads north to Duncan and
the British Columbia Forest
Museum. Then, it's on to
Nanaimo, the island's
second-largest city
Parksville and Courtenay
before reaching Campbell
River, an important base for
salmon fishing.

Atwo-night stop is made at
Gold River, but not before
crossing beautiful Strath
cona Provincial Park with
its numerous clear lakes.

A cruise ship takes -
passengers from Gold River
to the historic Indian village
of Friendly Cove, named by
Captain Cook 200 years ago.
This year British Columbia
ig going all out to celebrate
Captain Cook’s landing in
1773, Wherever you go
during your vacation in B.C.,
you can expect to find
bicentennial celebrations,

Travelling farther north,
on the fifth day, the busgoes
through lush forests before
an overnight stop at Port
Hardy, gateway to Cape
Scott Provincial Park, at the .
northern tip of theisland. On
the way you will tour the ald

Whaling station’ at Coal

Harbour; and the fishing
village, Port Alice. .

From Port McNeill, you
travel by ferry to the villages
of Sointula and Alert Bay,
where you can fee an Indian
Jonghouse and the world's
tallest tatem pole. Sointula
was first seltled in 1910 by
Finng dreaming of utopla.
While they did not attain
taelr goal, the community
tat remains ‘is very in-
terasting.. The eighth day
you continue to Beaver Cove
where you board the ferry to

CI IK He

Kelsey Bay, then travel by
motorcoach south to Camp-
bell River.

Just north of Campbell
River, the Seymour Narrows
Lookout affers a view of the
spot where Ripple Rock,
once a.terrible hazard to
navigations, was blown up in
1958 by the largest non-
nuclear, man-made — eX.
plosica ever known.”

“The bus retufns to Victoria
for another night at the
Empress, followed by a ferry
crossing to Vancouver and
the last night of the trip at
the Sheraton-Landmark ctel.

* The Totem Circle Routes is '

another value-packed tour’.
At $707 per person from
Toronto (double sharing).
for instnace, you can’t de
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includes return alr tran-
sportation to Victoria, .13
nights accommodation,
escorted motorcoach travel,
an ocean. cruise, several
meals and-sightseeing.
. This tour, like the Nor-
* thern Vancouver Island tour,
goés to Victoria for two
nights and then through
Duncan, ‘Nanaimo and
pampbelt River to Kelsey

yoo .
Here, tour members board -

the 430-passenger Queen of
Prince Rupert for the 530 km
(330 miles) overnight cruise
to Prince Rupert, the halibut
capital of the world. From
there you travel-by motor-
coach along the Skeens
River to Terrace,

In the afternoon, aside trip
to Kitimat takes the group on
a tour of the vast Alcan
Aluminium smelter. :

On ‘the fifth day, you'll
have he opportunity to view

the largest collection of ,

original standing totem poles
in the world at Kitwanga

‘and, at nearby Kean, an

X saame oF Fur
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authentic Gitksan Indian
village.

After” overnight stops at
Smithers and Prince George,
the tour follows one of the
most beautiful drives In the
world, along the Fraser
River ‘Valley, past the
_ highest peak in the Canadian
Rockies, Mount Robson, and

‘on to Jasper National Park

or two nights. .

o¥u cruike’ on beautiful
‘Mali ie Lake atid a chance
to explore the Columbia
Icefield before going on th
Banff,

Banff National Park is
famous for its hot mineral
springs, beautiful scenery
and- excellent recreational
facilities.

After two nights at the
town of Banff, the bus heads
weat ‘through Lake Louise,
Kicking Horse Pass, Rogers’
Pass, Revelstoke and
Vernon before stopping
overnight at the “Jewel of
the: ‘Okanagaw’';": Kelowna;
Britiak Columbia. ° .

Then on to Merritt, site of

some.of the world’s largest
cattle spreads.

Emergency rule
still on island

MANILA (Reuter) —
President Ferdinand
Marcos, sworn in today as
the Philippines’ first prime
minister after nearly six
years of martial law, warned
his country the transition

‘from authoritarianism to

liberalism is likely to be
long.

Under ‘constitutional
amendments’ last year,
Marcos, 60, ig both president
and premier to provide a
gradual change from
presidential to’ parliamen-
tary government.

He will initially preside
over the 200-member interim
assembly.

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