Page 2 Tha Herald, Thursday, November, 15, 1979

Developers want end to Berger eral news Briers

the floor, Cotteril] said,

By JOE MA

EDMONTON (CP) — A
common theme running
through speeches given at
the first day of the elghth
national northern
development conference
Wednesday was criticism of
the Mackenzie Valley
pipeline inquiry headed by
Mr, Justice Thomas Berger.

Speaker after speaker
called for an end to the
Berger era and the hegin-
ning of a decade of orderly
resource development in the
Canadian North to meet the
national need for energy and
to improve the northern
econamy.

The conference, sponsored
by the Alberta Chamber of
Resources, was dominated
by prodevelopment

Mickey

not the opposite”

- accessible at Mickey Johason Ski Shop
4722 Lazelle Ave. 635-2714

- not afraid to tackle controversial issues (@

- “Council should serve the people,

- wants our recreation facilities to be
Bificient and affordable

delegates —- but conference
chairman John Barry made
no apologies for it.

“We had so many commis-
sions and inquiries telling us
what we couldn't do. It’s
about time we take a positive
approach.” ;

Gordon Harrison,
president of Canmar Drilling
and Exploration Ltd. said
pro-development voices
were “inaudible compared
to those of special interest
groups” during the Berger
inquiry.

Canmar is a subsidiary of
Dome Petroleum Ltd, of Cal-
gary which is spearheading
dilindustry activity in the
Beaufort Sea.

Barry Ashton, a Hay
River, N,W.T,, businessman,
said severe economic

Johnson

recession as a result of the that ‘there ia a great and economic base for the two

Berger inquiry, which
recommended three years
ago a 10-year moratorium on
pipeline development pend-
ing the settlement of native
land claims, is still evident in
the Northwest Terrtitorles.

But time has changed, said
Barry, Harrison, Ashton and
other speakers, quoting
statements made by Nar-
thern Development Minister
Jake Epp to indicate the new
federal government's
support for northern de-
velopment.

Epp is scheduled to speak
to th conference Friday, but
his assistant deputy minister
for northern affairs, Ewan
Cotterill, reaffirmed Wed-
nesday Ottawa's position

urgent need to strengthen
and .broaden the current

northern territories."
Answering a question from,

Lenko takes it.

for dirty

VICTORIA (CP) — A
Social Credit party worker
resigned Wednesday, ac-
cepting full blame for the 50-
called “‘Lettergate” scandal
as Premier Bill Bennett
disappeared on a working
holiday in the sun,

George Lenko, executive
assistant to Deputy Premier.

Grace McCarthy, who is also -

human resources minister,
became the third party

. Worker to quit in the scandal

which involved party
members using false names
in sending letters supporting
Social Credit ta editors of
newspapers before last
May's, provincial election,

Lenko shouldered all the
blame for organizing a
seminar last fall at which
party researchers Jack
Kelly and Ellen MacKay
advocated the political dirty
tricks,

He said he also prepared
tapes of the seminar and dis-
tributed them to con-
stituency presidents.

There was no one else in-
volved, Lenko said Wed-

nesday, — ;
“T was in the best position
to stop these offensive
remarks and as I wasn't
deligent I didn’t catch
them."
.The tapes have Kelly
saying: “Quite honestly, the

r
tricks
was involved in the affair
was rejected by Opposition

Leader Dave Barrett who
said the resignation ralsed

questions about whether.

party higher-ups, such as
Mrs. McCarthy, knew about
. Lenko's involvement.

Kelly and Ron Greig, an
assistant to Dave Hrown,
Bennett's communications
adviser, have resigned, Miss
‘MacKay refused to accept a
ene-menth suspension and
reprimand, arguing her
remarks had been au-
thorized by higher party offi-
cials. She is back at work
after a holiday. |.

Meanwhile, as Lenko was
resigning Wednesday,
Bennett dropped from public
view, his whereabouts said
ta be a mystery even to his
staff,

Bennett had met in Loa
Angeles Tuesday: with
tourism officials but left his
hotel Wednesday and can-
celled plans for the day.
There were reports the
premier might go to Hawail
to plan a cabinet shuffle for
jater this month,

Prime Minister Clark had
hoped to meet with Bennett
in Saskatoon Wednesday to
discuss oil prices but the
B.C, premier did not attend
that meeting.

Bennett’s trip was billed as
a working holiday and his

-but gave a qualifie

northern resource
development should proceed
at the same time Ottawa Is
trying to speed up the set-
tement of native land

kers from the Yukon

said Yukonera have fared
better in the Jast three yeara,
thanks to the government's
choice of the Alaska Bigh-
way pipeline, which runs
through the Yukon, over the
Mackenzie Valley project.
'‘Yukoners now have the
pipeline project in proper
perspectlye,’’ said Rolf
Hougen, a Whitehorse
businessman, “It no longer
implies an all-encompassing
monster as some groups

tried to portray it three

years ago.”

Dr. Lawrence Bliss, an
ecologist at University of
Washington, sald Mr. Justice
Berger sald no to the
Mackenzie Valley Pipeline

yes to
the Alaska Highway project
which was “essentially un-
researched.”

“It is my opinion that

- several of the scenarios

developed by Justice Berger
that’ led him to reject the
Mackenzie Valley proposal
were based upon
correct of inadequ
pretation of much of the
ecological data presented,”
said Bliss, who testified
before the Berger inquiry
while he was with the
University of Alberta.

Hugh Planche, Alberta's
economic development
minister who gave the
opening address, urged
developers to continue to use
Alberta — “the Gateway to

stakes are extremely high
and we do play dirty and we wife, Audrey, did not go with the North” — as the support
really don't worry about that him. - base for northern operations.
too much.” Jane Burnes, the
Miss MacKay tells how Premier's assistant presa
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SASKATOON (CP) —
Prime Minister Joe Clark
and Alberta Premier Peter
Lougheed talked in a motel
for three hours Wednesday
about oil and gasollne prices.

But when they finished
Canadiana were no closer to
learning how much more
they will have to pay for the

ous commodities.

‘Ygeful,” was Clark’s de-
scription of the discussions,
the latest in a sometimes
bitter attempt to reach
agreement on domestic oil
prices.

“T am not prepared to be
specific in any way about the
subjects,’ Lougheed told
reporters who had waited in
a hallway outside the metel
meeting room.

Clark sald a wide range of
matters in addition to price
made up the talks, Lougheed
sald both levels of govern-

ment will have to ponder the
exchange of information. .
The premier. whose
province produces more
than #0 per cent of Canada’s
crude oil was not even able to
say if he and Clark are any
closer to an agreement than
they were two weeks ago, He
said he couldn't even decide
whether the remaining ob-
atacles are minor or major ©
because the aubject matte
is 80 complex "

In Clark's opinion the
meeting ‘esulted in good
progress because both
jeaers got a better idea of
what the other was thinking,
But when asked how long it
will be befere an agreement
can be reached on how
quickly of] prices wil] ih-
crease, the prime minister
said “it will not be done
tomorrow.” .

Five settlements planned |

JERUSALEM (AP) —
Israel will build five set-
tlements in the occupied
West Bank of the Jordan
River in the next year, a
cabinet committee decided
today in a meeting presided
over by Prime Minister
Menachem Begin.

Cabinet Secretary Arieh
Naor said the settlements
will contain 10 “points” over-
all, and that several families
will live in each “point,”

The different seta of
numbers appeared to be an
effort to minimize the im-
pact of the decision, which is
certain to be criticized by
Egypt and the United States.

Washington says IJeraeli
settlements in the West Bank
are illegal under in-
ternational law and are
obstacles to a solution of the
Palestinian issue, ;

Asked what the difference
was between “points” and
settlements, Naor sald;

“J didn’t say 10 set-
tlements. I said 19 points in
five blocks of settlements, If
you talk about 19 set-
tlements, one can have the
impression thal we are
talking about 19 towns, It's
not the case, Nineteen points
— every point will consist of
several families, in five
blocks of settlements for this
year.”

- Dionne quint dad dies

NORTH BAY, Ont. (CP) —.
Oliva Dionne, 74, father of
the Dionne quintuplets, died .:
in hospital early today.

The quints, born May 28, ,.

1834, were the first known
survivors of such a multiple
birth and the instant darlings
of a sensationhungry world
in the midat of the
Depression.

Family members said
Dionne had been in poor
health for several years but
that the death was unex-

A hospital: ‘Spokesman

wouldnot reveal the cause of
-Geath because the family has
; Requested: na‘information bé
given out,

A spakesmah for the
tuner where Dionne
will lie in an open coffin said
the funeral will be held at
Sacred Heart Church in
Dionne's hometown of
Corbeil, about 15 kilometres
southeast of North Bay, *

He said no word has been
received from the three
surviving quintuplets,

The Dionne sisters have
been estranged Irom thelr
parents’ fdr, several’ yearg:

UH pee

Gov't eritp ld yees'to Walk?”

QUEBEC (CP) — Leaders
of the province’s 200,000-
member common front of
public sector’ employees
called Wednesday on their
membership to walk out in
an illegal strike next Monday
in defiance of a special law
temporarily suspending
theie right to strike. ;

ut some, worker ‘
at the province for tuhing’
the legislation through the
national assembly just hours
before an unlimited strike
was set to begin, jumped the
Bun and walked out despite a
union plea to stay on the job
until Monday when the
general walkout begins.

A spokesman for Ste.
Justine children's hospital in
Montreal said today the
1,200-member support staff,
which had earlier voted in

favor of defying the law,
went on strike shortly after
midnight, :
Michel Vezina said 350
patients remained in ‘the
hospital — there usually are
500 — and the emergency
ward was still open, ;
But police were being

, asked to take any cases they

nde her; Montreal
i ck ey ‘

Elsewhere, 250 workers at
the Pierre-Joseph Trieat.
nursing home in Montreal’s
east end walked off the job
on Wednesday.

Management spokesmen
there said essential services
were being ‘‘partially’
respected.

Votes taken at a number ef
other institutions have. run
strongly in favor of illegal
strike action,

Trudeau denies insult

‘ OTTAWA (CP) — Liberal
Leader Pierre Trudeau said
Wednesday that the British
Columbia Liberal caucus is
not insulted by his ap-
pearance at a New York

disco Saturday after he

declined to attend a B.c.
party session the same day.

“Its just the press is
mixing that up,” Trudeau
mumbied when questioned
oo Parllament Hill about the
incident. “1 don’t think

they're upset... oh no,

they're not crazy,"
Trudeau was

photographed at a New York

disco on the weekend after
saying he was too ill to at.

ROME (AP) An
estimated 450 million people
— and probably almost 500
million — suffer from severe
malnutrition, UN food
specialists say,

“They are so severel
undernourished that they are
Brossly underweight,
Practically skin and bones,
and most of the time they
just lie around for lack of

Tanker, frei

ISTANBUL {AP) — 4
150,000-ton Romanian oi)
tanker and a email Greck
coastal freighter collided in
the Bosporus early today,
setting off thunderous ex.
plosions and fire and leaving
ieoaae! crew members
mi » Officials in
Turkish port said. this
They said rescuers found

fee Madan das

tend a meeting of B.C. Lib-
erals,

Some party members are
not taking the incident
lightly, although there was-
some lighthearted comment
on the matter in the Com-
mons, ;

Ed Broadbent, New Demo-
cratic Party leader,
suggested during: the’
Commons question period
that Trudeay had used ‘New
York disco dancing a5 a way
of curing a bad cold’? and
suggested other politicians
Should be able to calculate
costs of similar trips as tax-
deductible medical ex-
penses,

Half-billion starving

stamina,” says Br. Uwe
Kracht, an economist and
nutrition expert with the UN |
World Food Council. ,

More than 500 million*
others don't get enough’ to
eat to go about their daily
activities, he said, .

“They always feet weak,
are underweight and have to’
rest often, and doa't feel any"
urge to do anything :
creative,” he said,

ghter crash *—
oe dead crew member and
picked up three from the
Romanian tanker In-
dependenta, which carried a
crew of 64,
There was no immediate
information on the crew of

the 5,-208-ton Greek coaster
Evria, ‘

The 32-kilometre-tong Bos-
porus Strait Tinie
Sea and the Marmaraia pk