Page 4, The Herald,

Friday,

Suly 20, 1970

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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Sir,

The once magnificent
run of chinook salmon are
on the decline as are
those of the steelhead and
other salmonid species,
And while not the. sole
cause of this tragic trend,
the sportfisherman must
accept his share of the
blame.

The time for
enlightened angling
‘practise is now. Such
measures as catch and
release or at least
drastically reduced
limits are imperative.

Given this state of
affairs, the action of
some local merchants
and this paper in spon:
soring a fishing derby is
incomprehensible. A.

killing contest of this sort
will serve only to in-.
tensify the already
severe angling pressure
upon. the chinook. Fur-
thermore ‘the lure of
merchandise and

“exotic” trips will in-
.crease the chance of
‘unethical

practise among the
participants. -

We of the steelhead
society, Northwest
chapter, would like to see
the energies of the derby
sponsors, notably
Herald, devoted to the
preservation of this
salmon rather than to
their demise.

Sincerely,

Robert Brown

Ditector B.C. Steelhead
Society N.W. Chapter.

angling.

COMMENT .__

by Greg. Middleton

wie De AG

There is talk in Victoria about legalized government-
run gambling for the province.

It should be noted, however, that even aside from
the government run ‘lotteries, there is already legal
gambling in this province, In almost every town there
are gambling rooms, unadvertised, but there and
quite legal nonetheless. They usually operate with
only a faded sign on the deor announcing them as a
Social Club. They, are card rooms where all the
ee are provided and an hourly rate charged the

ayers

The suggestion being made by some of our MLA’s is
that there could be casinos, probably in Vancouver or
Victoria.

There are already casinos there. In Chinatown in

both cities there is an hourly lottery, essentially a .

numbers game, as well as games of chance and skill.
These are also unadvertised, run by the Chinese
benevolent societies and licenced by the Attorney
General's department.

You have to be somewhat of an intitiate to find and

gamble in these places, but they are there and legal all
e same.

The key to what the government wants is that it will
be government run. In the large, fancy, open Las
Vegas-style casinos now being touted for us, the odds
will be carefully set up for the house, the government

Government-run gambling centres would be, like
the lotteries, another way of filling government cof-
fers. [¢t would be B.C.’s answer to the Alberta Heritage
fund A tremendous slush fund of every increasing
capital.

Ihave always thought the lotteries were justa way
of taxing the last thing the government could think of
to tax, your dreams of every getting rich. Gavern-
ment-run gambling houses would be just another
heavily promoted way of doing the same thing.
beret ’d leave the gambling in the back streets where it

jongs.

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IN POR TUGAL

Woman forms government

LISBON (AP) — Por-

tugal’s president asked a 49- -

year-old woman Thursday to
form the country’s next
government. Active as a
Roman Catholic, a diplomat
and an advocate for women,
Maria de Lourdes ‘Pin-
tassilgo would. become
Portugal's first woman
prime minister.

After Britain’s Margaret
Thatcher, she would be Eu-
rope's second.

Miss Pintassilgo has.most
recently been Portugal's
ambassador to the United
Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural
Organization based in Paris.

Her views are close to
thase of the moderate
Scclalist party, although she
is not a member of any
party. The Socialists,. along
with the Comminists,
welcomed her appointment

PRETORIA (CP) — The
architects of foreign policy
in the palatial old Union
Building on a_ hill,
overlooking Pretoria are de-
signing a radical new ap-
proach to the oulside world:
A plan to shake the country
free of 30 years of growing
isolation.

They face daunting ob-
stacles inthe distaste abroad
for South Africa's race-
separation policies and
conservative suspicions at
home,

But if Prime Minister
Pleter Botha and his
namesake foreign minister
Roelof (Pik) Botha, manage
to break down the barriers,

as prime minister-designate, she became, director of the
If the two parties support giant firm’s documentation
her, she would have a centre and was handed
majority in Parliament. responsibility for the group's

She would not be forming a technical journal, Industria,

government as: a party
leader. Her task would be to
form an interini government
to prepare for. autumn
elections.

Miss Pintassilgo’s govern-
ment would be Portugal’s
fifth constitutional govern-
ment and its 11th cabinet
since @ coup in 1974,

Born in thenorthern city of
Abrantes in 1990, Miss
Pintassilgo earned a degree
in chemical engineering
from Lisbon’s elite Higher
Technical Institute, went
into a graduate scholarship
program. with the national
Nuclear Energy Board at the
age of 23,

By 1954 she was chief engi-
neer of the studies and
projects division at Com-
panhia Uniao Fabril. Soon

é

a position she held for seyen

years.

From 1952 to 1954, she was
also president of the
women’s group at Lisban's
Catholic’ University, and ‘in
1986 she bécame in-

‘temational president of: Pax

Romana, a movement of
Catholic students.

In 1961 Miss. Pintassilgo
joined Graal, a Catholic
order for lay persons whose
members are said to take
celibacy vows, Ilve in amall
communities and share their
salaries. Two years later,
she héaded an international
group working to reform the
movement, and in 1664 she
was elected international
vice-president.

Her goverment job in
those years was to run

IN PRETORIA
Isolation is a big problem

they promise a future of
stabiilty and prosperity
southern Africa that now
seems a hopeless dream.

The program, launched by
the Bothas this spring and
still being developed, is a
two-folé campaign. It
proposes a vaguely-defined
economic association with
neighboring countries — a
constellation of southern
African States — along with
@ promised liberalization of
race laws at home,

The initiatives so far have
been met with stolid
suspicion abroad and
reactions ranging from fear
to skepticism at home, in-
cluding opposition in the 10-

month-old Botha cabinet and
his own National party.

But advocates of the palicy
shift, whether sincere
reformisis or cynical

_Yeallats, say South Africa

otherwise faces certain
economic ruin and de-
structive racial turmoll,

The pressure for change —

voluntary or enforced — has -

increased swiftly in the last
four years.

Since 1975, black Marxist
governments have taken
over in nelghboring ths back
and Meeanoiqs, Th The b
majprities
Namibia a ey on ae verge ant
power, Botswana, Swaziland
and Lesotho are reluctantly

TO MEET CLARK

Portugal's program for

development - and social
change — & post she
until 1969, She also found
time to serve as. women’s
liaison, appointed by the
Vatican, between the Roman
Catholic Church and the
World Council of Churches,
In 1970, she presided over
government working groups

om women’s affairs, and was.

a member of the Portuguese
delegation to the United
Nations in 1971-1972.

After the 1074 revolution,
she was appointed secretary
of state for social welfare in
the firat provisional
government, before movin
up to cabinet rank aa
minister of social affaira in
the second and third
governments through early

1985,

She was made Portugal’s
- permanent ambassador to
UNESCO headquarters in

Auguat, 1976.

dependent, offlelally hostile.
th Africa’s ot black
homelands semi-autono-

‘mous black states formed

under & rthedd policies, are
trouble spots,
ar the explosive Soweto
race riots on the edge of
Johannesburg in 1976 shook
the Aree of white
cy. cy. Emigration of
wate rofeasionals ‘and
ed Diack refugees has
a manpower
podem, Partial trade and
tment sanctions by the
outside world further
threaten economic stability.
The visitor absorbs an
inkling of South African
anxiety slmply by reading a
dally newspaper,

Indian march ends today

OTTAWA (CP) ~— Indian
women and children who
walked 160 kilometres from
Oka, Que, to the steps of
Parliament. Hill will meet
Prime Minister Clark today
to press home their com:
plaint that a section of the
Indian Act is sexist,

4s 200 women and children
had hamburgers and soft
drinks after a noon-hour
march around the centennial
flame’ Thursday, Indian
Affaira Minister Jake Epp
told them Health Minister
David Crombie and David
MacDonald, responsible for
the status of women, will
also participate in the
discussion.

“The government is
sympathetic with your

. By DAVE ROONEY

cause,’’ Epp said. “The
conference is going to be
extremely vital not only in
terms of information but

the present

The Indians cheered when
he also told them that
although she could not be
there to tell them herself,
External Affairs Minister
Flora MacDonald supports
their cause. Miss MacDonald
las in Geneva for an in-
ternational conference on

C8.
About 63 of the orderly
demonstrators had begun

their march Saturday to tell

“the government they want
the section changed to allow

Indian women to retain their

~. Blatus as official Indians if

they marry white men.
During a brief, informal
meeting with the marchers
at Rockland, Ont,, Tuesday,
Epp told them he would
move promptly te change the
section, which now allows
Indian men who marry white
women to retain their status,
before a general revision of
the act ia made in 1980,
But, the MP for Proven-
cher, Man,, cautioned them
against expecting too much
too soon because he would
have to meet Indian leaders

before undertaking elther
revision.

Some. of the women
marchers eaid band councils
that govern reserves and
some of the major Indian
organizations are opposed to
changing the sectlon on
Blatus,

After Thursday's cabinet
meeting, David MacDonald
accompanied Epp to the
moeting with the protesters
and talked briefly with some
he knew from his days a:
Opposition critic on the
status of women.

“This is tremendous," said

Shirley Joseph when she

Epp announce the
meeting with Clark.

OTTAWA OFFBEAT |

“BY RICHARD JACKSON

Ottawa,-Heard a new word the other day.

“Targeting.”
Not new, really, in its . basic meaning.
But new in its particular application.

It's the deliberate “setting up’’ of a politician as a
“target,” and concentrating fire on him.

It's an increasing practice of some s*ctors of the.

media, especially radio and TV. .

It initially surfaced back in the days. of former -
Conservative Fhe hehe roy er when his,
government, 8 bac! .disloynt alpine
shaken by Dief’s growing unease and uncertainty rhea
under mounting Liberal pressure, was beginning to
show signs of crumbling.

it was on such a night in the Parliamentary Press”
Gallery that a CBC National TV News reporter sprang
to his feet and yelled:

“To work men, we have a government to destroy!”

Up until that moment~a watershed in media posture
and conduct-it was taken for granted that within the
reasonable limits.of human weaknesses, the press,
radio and TV told it like it was supposed to tell it:
straight,

But from’ that point, parllamentary reportage
became more and more partisan.

The ‘rise of “commentators” on the air and the
spread of “opinion” in the news pages contributed to.
it,’

But it wasn’t organized,

It was more or less off the cuff. “opinion” in
columns and “slanting” of news reports.

Nothing really deliberate or planned to inflict

. ‘personal damage.

Since then with the passing years, it has become
more and more accepted practice, and few except the
victim or the odd writer of letters to the editors seem
to object.

Now ithas matured to the full flower of ‘targeting.”

How is it done?

A media “marksman,” expert ‘in the skill of

“targeting,” explained:

His case involved a local politician, an alderman.

But the same technique could be wed on a Member
of Parliament.

_ The attack, the “targeting” of the politician is based

: onthe relatively new public acceptance of the creed of

what Auditor General James Macdonnell calls “ac-
countability,” or of “value for dollar.”
This particular alderman, for four or five years had

* been promising to fix up ‘the street on which the

“targeting” newsman lived.

The street was in rough shape.

Each year a little of this and a bit of that was done
unt) the surface looked like a patchwork quilt.

A really poor show,

So the newsman called up the alderman and said
that unless a new surface was put down within a
month, he could call ‘in the TV cameras.
_ He happened to he a good friend-and news source,
being a government “information” type-of the TV
news program producer.

“T'll stand at the edge of my Jawn,’’ he told the.
alderman, ‘point to the street, repeat the promises

you have made over four years, and ask what the hell.
you are dolng to justify the salary the taxpayers pay

you.

“You can epme out and defend yourself if you wish '
before the same cameras at the same time. We'll have
an accountability session and see how you come out of
that.

“I don't have to tell you that politicians these days
are legitimate targets. The public distrusts and
dislikes them. The taxpayers think they're being
ripped off.”

The same “targeting” canbe done onan MP.

He gets paid an annual $39,900 with all sorts of juicy
fringe benefits.

What's he doing ta justify his cost to the taxpayer?,

Set up the cameras and fire away with questions of

“aecountability" and of “dollar value,” and-see how.”

the politician plays it back,