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MPS try
to clear
the slate

OTTAWA (CP) ~— With only 25
working days left befere the Com-
mons summer recess, MPs appear
to be making a concerted effort to
pass some of the 23 government bills
lingering on the order paper.

They have agreed to deal with four
bills today in the hope of giving them
approval in principle and possibly
nudging them through indepth study
by committee of the whole as well.

Six other bills, including a con-
troversial proposal to make Crown
corporations more accountable, will
be given priority next week,
Government House Leader Yvon
Pinard told the Commons on
Thursday.

Proposed amendments to the -
Western Grain Stabilization Act,
which would bring hard-pressed
Prairie farmers one step closer to
the long-promised —$300-million
payout from the stablization fund, is
scheduled to be discussed next
Friday,

Other bills slated for immediate
attention are “administratively
important but not big policy items,"
an official in Pinard's office said.

The parties have yet to reach
agreement on how they will deai
with some of the larger, more
controversial bills before the
Commons adjourns June 29 for the
two-month summer break,

BILLS MAY DIE

Major initiatives still on the order
paper include proposed amend-
ments to the Divorce Act, the
Criminal Code and the Canada
Labor’ Cade" ifthe ext” pile”
minister, selected at the Liberals’
mid-June vonventién, detldes to'call**
a summer election, the legislation
will die.

Bills expected to come before the
Commons today propose the
following: - .
' — Tougher penalties for foreign
fishing ships and fishermen who
enter Canadian waters without
authorization in violation of the
Coastal Fisheries Protection Act.

— An increase in the maximum
advance payment to — grain
producers for threshed grain, damp
or tough grain and unthreshed grain
in accordance with The Prairie
Grain Advance Payments Act.

— Amendments to the Radiation
Emitting Devices Act to regulate the
method of labelling, packaging and
advertising radiation-admitting
devices and clarifying the powers of
inspectors.

— An increase in the amount of
money the Freshwater Fish
Marketing Corporation may borrow
from the Finance Department and
from commercial banks. .
HAVE DEAL

Next week, the Heuse will con-
sider five bills that the Con-
servatives have agreed to pass
quickly in return for consideration of
the Western Grain Stabilization Act
amendments at the end of the week,
Tory House Leader Ray Hnatyshyn
said.

~ vag wary.

1984

lranian
MANAMA,: Bahrain .(CP)) — .
Foreign’ ministers of ‘six Persian’
Gulf states. denounced, “Iranian
aggression’ and decided to seek
help from the Arab League and the
UN Security Council to protect oil
tankers from hazards of the Iran- :

The United States‘ and ‘Japan

* expressed concern Thursday about

attacks on tankers by warplanes of
both Iraq and Iran, and. Iran
renewed threats to block all gulf oil
exports if the sea lanes in the gulf
become unsafe for shipments of its °
own oil,

Iraqi warplanes fired on two large
ships today setting them ablaze
south of Iran's Kharg island oil
terminal close to the Irania coast,
An Iysagi military spokesman‘ said.
in Baghdad two “large. naval
targets” were‘ hit “directly and
effectively” and all attacking air-
craft returned safely to base.

Iraqi warplanes also attacked
Saudi supertankers April 25 and
May 7. Two Kuwaiti-tankers were
atlacked Sunday and Monday
outside Iranian territorial waters,
and a Saudi tanker was attacked in
its own terrilorial waters Wed-
nesday. The gulf ministers blamed
the attacks on Iran.”

The foreign ministers of the Gulf
Co-operation. Council countries —
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United
Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, and
Oman — met Thursday in Riyadh,
the Saudi capital, and agreed to act
collectively against ‘what — the
ministers described as Iranian

"the attacks attributed to Iraq. ::'

Gulf states vow
_.,to act. against

attacks

a

aggression, "They:.did not.

SEEKING FRONT? 2). *: '

take their case to an Arab League
meeting Saturday in Tunis in the

hope of mustering an united. Arab
front. against: Iran, , They: also: -
‘decided to refer the prablem of ‘the “

attacks to the Security Council.
Iran's official Islamic Republic
news agency accused Iraq of “‘ad-

- venturism, which led to an ever-

expanding U.S. military” presence"
in the gulf region. Iran and Iraq
have been at war for 34% years. |

-» U.S. Defence Secretary Caspar
- Weinberger said in Brussels he has

no.plans to raise the alert status of
US. troops in the gulf because of the
attacks. He told reporters attacks on
unarmed ships carrying vital
supplies should be viewed with great
concern. —

In Cairo, Egyptian Foreign |

Minister Kamal ' Hassan Aly
cautioned the ~ attacks could
precipitate intervention by big
powers to protect oil traffic, About
20 per cent of the non-Communist
world's oil is shipped through the
gulf’s Strait of Hormuz, °

A Reagan administration official
said Thursday in Washington the
United States has. discussed with
Saudi Arabia and ‘other Arab gulf
powers lhe possibility of providing

-air cover for oil tankers. But he said

he doubted the countries would
accept the air cover because they
fear that U.S. support might provoke
further attacks.

NATO impatient.
with Dutch delay

deploying

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO
defence ministers announced an
agreement Thursday to tap new
technologies toa enhance con-
ventional arms for the 1990s and
identified 11 arms systems for
immediate consideration.

But the agreement was over-
shadowed by Canadian and Western
European criticism of Dutch in-

missiles

fective meeting,” he told reporters
after the two-day meeting of 14
western defence ministers, among
them Canada’s Jean-Jacques Blais.
Officials said the move to in-
corporate new and emerging
technologies in arms production will
make conventional weapons more
accurate, reducing the alliance’s
dependence on nuclear arms.

decision“ on new ‘HUClest MieRiTe The“ mninistars“aigreed “hight

deployments. .
as kee, ah + ee

ett’ Wee & nk ot oy
U.S. Defence Secretary Caspar

, Weinberger, who first proposed the

agreement last year, called the
decision ‘a very good way to make
use of the advantage the West has
always had in this area.”

The ministers also set national
force goals for the next.five years
and. tentatively agreed to “‘sub-
stantially’’ boost spending on sup-
port facilities in Europe to be used
by U.S. reinforcement troops in time
of war, Weinberger ‘said,

“We had avery useful, very ef-

Dangerous

LONDON (Reuter) — U.S.-Soviet
relations are in theiy worst state
since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis,
with little’ prospect of an early
easing of tension, a top international
Tesearch institute says,

In its annual review. of major
world strategic developments, the
London-based International
Inslitute for Strategic Studies said:

“When tensions between them
(the superpowers) are high and
regional conflicts in which they have
opposing interests abound, the risks
that dangerous posturing and
miscalculation might draw them
into direct conflict increase
significantly.”

developments:coabt be incorporated
in 1 arms*spsteni$**fhese-includé
laser-guided munitions, “friend-or-

foe” electronic detection ‘systems,

and = highly advanced’: com-

“munications jamming gear.

In. a final communique, the
ministers "reaffirmed the.need for a
balanced and enhanced framework
of transatlantic co-operation.” This
was a clear attempt to placate
NATO's European allies who fear
U.S. defence industries may be the
largest beneficiaries of the drive

towards technologically advanced .

weaponry.

posturing

Some improvement in U.S.-Soviet
relations must occur in the coming
year if this risk isto be reduced, said
the authors of the institute's
Strategic Survey 1983-1984.

They said relations were frozen
into their worst state since the
Cuban missile crisis 22 years ago,
and the current situation threatens
to become ‘a deep, enduring,
systematic trough out of which
leaders will have great difficulty in
climbing in the coming years.”

The Cuban missile showdown
between the superpowers was
Shortlived, ending when the Soviets
cancelled plans to put missiles in
Cuba. ,

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«> With WALTER BLOCK

say, this is no big deal.

*) DOLLARS
SENSE

This may not bother most people reading this
article but there is a recurring blood’ shortage in -
western Canada. Of course the vamplres in the com-
munity are apt to be upset, and the Transylvanians
can't be too happy either..But.for most people, as

Well, if, that's your reaction, you are sadly
‘mistaken. I fear you are seriously underestimating
the importance of this problem. The Red Cross
blood transfusion service ‘thinks enough of this
crisis to schedule emergency ‘blood donor clinics.
According to Dr. Terry Stout, medical director of
the Red Cross, these clinics are needed to deal with
the worst shortage of type O-positive blood in 25
years, Responsible for this problem; in the view of
’ Rick O'Brien, another Red Cross spokesman, Is a
combination of too few type-O donors ‘at blood
clinics, and heavy orders {fom hospitals.

What is galing on here? Has the marketplace

failed? According to basic economic theory, If there
is a shortage of something, then the price ought to
rise, as unsatisfied demanders bid more and more,
in an attempt to gain some of the limited amount for
themselves. And, at the higher price,’ more care is.
‘supposed to be taken to preserve the stocks on hand, .
and suppliers are presumably encouraged to pro.
vide more of.the good in: qutstion. Arid if.there
STILL is not enough supplied, then ptice 1s suppos-
ed to rise to such heights so that enough of the item
WILL be supplied. ae
So why isn't this process working? How can we
have a serious blood shortage, with’ the much-
vaultedprice system workinginourbehall?
The answer, of course, is that we have oullawed.,
‘the market system for things Ilke blood tranafu- .
sions. It has been thought that matters such.aé (his
‘are far too important te leave'to the marketplace.
That no one should profit on the misery of others.
That it is somehow dirty, or even obscene, to charge
those who need blood, and to pay a market price to
people who voluntarily donate their life's flulds.
_ And, as a result, we have been burdened by shor-
tages of this vital item.

But what is so wrong with the price system?

Don't we rely ilpon it to provide us with food? Do not
farmers profit because of the misery of those who
are hungry? Ifnot the market system relied upon to
produce shelter? What is so obscene about a process:
of voluntary trade, even in blood, of ali things?-., .
"Nor should we be deterred by the oBjection that
were blood transfusions to be organized on a com-
mercial basis, that suppliers with hepatitis or other
. such allments would spread their illnes and destroy.
the system. The same exact procedures which
guard against such eventialities now, would stitl be
employed were transfusions put on a rational
economic footing. ;

A mouse in the house =

By Bruce -Levett
The Canadian Press

Forget the rat-race — the great

international mause-race is on!

It all began with a recent report
from Washington that mice have
been living in the White House. The
infestation has been traced to the
Eisenhower administration more
than 25 years ago.

Traces, it is said, still remain. At
one point, during the Carter years,
there were 296 mousetraps in the
mansion. At the height of the ex-
termination campaign, the body
count hit 38 in one month.

Well, you can see what's going to
happen now that the word is out,
can't you? Everybody is going to
claim that — just like the president
of the United States — they, too,
have mice. ;

Lal's check up with one or two
phone calls to a few world capitals:

“Hella, Ottawa? You have heard
about the mice in the While House?
We were wondering whether there
arg any traces,at 24 Sussex: Drive. A
‘few, you say? And all of them
bilingual? Thank you very much and
— uh — merci.”

‘Bank news, good

There were signs of temporary
relief Thursday as the Bank of
Canada lowered its trend-setting
lending rate, but it wasn't Jong
before the good news was matched
with bad news of mere, mortgage
rate increases.

The bank rate dropped to 11.63 per
cent from 11.72 per cent last week
but. despite the easing of upward
pressure on other borrowing costs,
money traders and economists were
hesitant to predict where future
rates might go.

The dip in the key rate should
prompt major lending institutions to
keep current rates for business and
consumer loans on hold but even
before it happened some economists
were predicting mortgage - rates
likely wouldn't keep still.

Toronto Dominion Bank jumped
ahead of the other major chartered
banks later in the day, announcing
immediate increases in all it mor-
tgage rates that make them the
highest among major financial
institutions. .

TDsaid rates for one through four-

.0 Hmmmmm: Well, let’s lake a shot
"at Moscow.

“You were expecting our call and

"you have the answers ready? Good.

Now let me gel this down — ‘more in
the. Kremlin than in the White
House?’ I see. ‘And not only that, but

bigger ones?' You call them
‘people’s mice?’ Thank you,
tovarich.”

Let's see, now — what's the area
eode for London?

“Good morning, Buckingham.

Palace. It’s about the mice. ... You
say you have a long tradition of mice
over there?
RECALLS A RHYME
_Yes, I recall the old nursery
rhyme about Pussycat-Pussycat,
She was the one that frightened the
little mouse under Her Majesty's
Chair. Yes, that certainly would
seem to support your contention."
Well, what the heck — we’ve gone
this far. ;
’ “Are you there, Paris? Good.

What can you tell me about mice in-

high place’: You!shave: a‘strain‘of
mouse With. a pedigree reaching
back to the Louis Quatorze ad-
ministration?

‘

year mortgages will increase by half
a percentage point while the five-
year rate goes up a quarter.

That brings the new one-year rate
to 12.75 per cent, while two-year
jumps to 13.5 per cenl, three-year
14.25 per cent and both four and five-
year 14.5 per cent.

PRIME HOLDS STEADY
The prime rate banks charge their

-best corporate customers appears

safe at 12 per cent for now, despite
the fact the U.S. prime stands one-
half point higher at 12.5 per cent.

Weak demand [or loans in Canada,
where economic growth has not
come close to matching the pace in
the United States, is repeatedly cited
as a key reason the domestic rate
has stayed lower than the. U.S.
prime.

“The Bank of Canada is just.

holding tight,” said Alex Thomsen,
senior economist with the Royal
Bank of Canada.

It wants to avoid pushing up in-
terest rates toa much, but still
provide enough protection to keep
the weakened Canadian dollar from

White House, that is |

My, that IS impressive, To what
do you attribute this astonishing
development? Of course, How stupid
of me. The cheese. Yes, you do,

_ indeed, produce a superior brand of
” cheese. Well, bonjour. ...”

Brrrrring! ;
“Tokyo? Where do YOU stand on
the question of mice? You haven't
any? But you will have — just as &
soon as your new robot mouse gges
into production? Thank you, Tckyo,
and sayonara."” ;
Time for just one more call, here.
“Gutten morgen, Bonn. ie
We are doing a survey as a follow-
up to the report of mice in the White
House, Indeed it IS a tribute to the

’ American way of life that mice may

aspire to such heights.

Isee. In recognition of the mouse’s
new-found recognition you plan to §
make it the official mascot of this
year's Oktoberfest? You. - are
featuring moussieren? .You' may
expect me. Auf wiedersehen.”-

And there you have it.—.proof
ipositive.that a mouse in the house
‘ean_be a mark of ‘distinction,..1i"

‘Tl, myself, have a’ few extrd-I-am
sure [ could let you have. .:, °

sliding dramatically, he said.

Meanwhile, although the dollar
showed signs of strengthening this
week beside its American coun-
terpart, it lost 17-100 of a cent &
Thursday to close at 77.21 cents U.S.

Barry Davenport, national
manager of foreign exchange at the
Bank of Montreal, said the currency
came under pressure from a strong
U.S. dollar, which: gained ground
against all major currencies.

The decrease in the bank rate
“certainly didn’t inspire the pur-
chase of Canadian dollars,” he
added. a =

In another development, the
Soviet depuly trade minister told the
Export Club of Toronto that Canada
should knock down trade walls
against Russian merchandise if it
wants to see its own exports to the
Soviet Union expand. ©. | .

V.N. Sushkov, head of a trade
delegation visiting Canada, said |
Russian-made goods come up
against trade barriers that range
from unfair anti-dumping actions to
high duty charges.

STRATFORD, Ont. (CP) —
John Turner had just travelled
two hours by bus to what aides
call “the boonies” to extol the
virtues of the Stratford Festival,
the family farm, free enterprise
and the Canadian way. Then he
was hit with it again.

What, a reporter asked, is his
target for reducing the $30-billion
annual federal deficit?

Turner’s remarks the week
before had implied he was
planning to save a lot more than
just the $15 billion he cited,

But Turner, still smarting from
the day he told reporters he
approved Quebec's French-only
language law “in principle,”
wasn’t having any of it,

“It would depend on how the
economy rebounded and I really
can’t give you a prediction on
that,” he replied, smiling and
turned on his heel to concentrate
on more important matters:
courting delegates ta the June 13-
16 Liberal leadership conventton.

That’s the way It is on the
Turner campaign these days.
TEXTS PREPARED

As he beats the bushes in ‘the
boonies” — where aides admit
his support is weakest — he Is

John Turner

sticking to prepared texts and
previously articulated positions
virtually without exception,
Shooting from the lip is out,
especially since everyone on his
team from the candidate down,
believes the news media have
given him unusually intense

campaign more of a race than it
would have been otherwise.

Indeed, Turner insiders believe
only another major stumble such
as the remark on the Quebec
language bill can pose a
significant threat td the long-
predicted yictory,-

Surveys suggest Turner has the
support of about 50 per cent of
committed delegates — ap-
parently a safe lead over chief
rival Jean Chretien and the five
other candidates.

But the same surveys Indicate
up to one-third of the expected
3,500 delegates are uncommitted.
And that group is the key target
of final campaigning by all
candidates.

Turner's front-runner status
and media attention have the

other leadership hopefuls
‘grumbling. But coalitions that
have occasionally emerged

among some of those candidates

to elect non-Turner delegates are .

not expected to translate into any
serious challenge on the con-
vention floor. ;

“It seems to me {it has ov-
curred in) fairly target areas,
falrly isolated," Turner’s

Campaign director, Heather

Peterson, says in dismissing that
threat. .

Turner’s campaign was
hampered initially by
organizational troybles, which
Peterson attributes to the fact no
campaign team ‘was in place
when Prime Minister Trudeau
announced his retirement Feb.
29. .
_ But, those troubles seem over.

Bill Lee, a veteran of Paul

Hellyer's 1968 leadership bid,

néw handles the day-to-day work

while Peterson has reverted to a
_ “chairman of the board" role.

Turner also will likely be
helped by polls suggesting both
.an astounding resurgence in

Liberal popularity and that

Canadians generally prefer him

to Energy Minister Chretien, the
only other majer leadership

contender, in a contest against

Conservative Leader Brian
“Mulroney.
Meanwhile, Turner's policy

platform — aimed as much at an
election some feel may come as
early as August ag It is at June's
‘leadership vote — continues to
unfold in carefully timed
speeches short on specifics but,
-85 one wag quipped, “very

specific on the generalities.”

On women: Turner promises
equal pay for work of equal value
“must become the rule, not the
exception” and says he will insist
on application of the principle in
all Crown corporations and.
federal agencies. He says he'll
use federal contracts to push the
private sector to do the same. AS
well, women “must hald senior
positions in each government
department,” although not on the
basis of quotas, ;

On the West: Turner vows to
produce “a new conserisus in
Confederation,” © respéct

Front-runner treading cautiously down Main

provincial jurisdictions and in-"

crease the region’s role ii
national affairs, In particular,
Turner oppases the federal
government's emphasis on off-
shere oil exploration at the ex-:
pense of drilling in the West,

On the economy; Businessmen
‘and businesswomen should be
“admired, respected and en-
couraged,” the tax system for
small business should be. sim-
plified, and cumbersome
regulations should be eased.
‘Turner has also called for an
“urgent review" of Ottawa's

direct . intervention in the
economy through Crown cor-

porations to determine which
should be kept and which sold.

Heading into the final weeks of °
the leadership campaign, Turner
is trying to get the message to
that large block of uncommitted
delegates. Al the same lime, he's
striving to persuade them’ to
ignore the Bay Street image
others have hung on him. He
stresses he has walked most
Main Streets in the country, - -

His strategy is and has been to
talk to the media only briefly and
only in controlled situations,

Reporters’ ‘“haven't been -
granted an in-depth interview |
with Turner since the Manitoba |
language controversy exploded ff
around him in late March. %
Neither have they been allowed
into the meetings In basements
and recreation roome across the
country where campaign director

- Peterson says the candidate Is at

his best.

“I suppose it would be very
good television; but I wonder If it
wouldn’t have an inhibiting effect

on the delegates,"* she says. |

scrutiny and perhaps made the