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prompts critics

Opposition critics called for . everything from a new budget ta a federal election Tuesday following official estimates showing a record pl.oo persons out of work in

lanuary.

_ , But federal ministers de- fended current economic policies, noting the aeasonally-adjusted jobless

- gate, which takea into ac-

count over-all trends, had

declined for the first time ince last May.

The seasonal rate, which takes into account variations in the work force over ve year, fell to 8.3 per cent January, down from 8.6 per cent in December. It still was well above the 7.5-per- cent rate for January, 1977.

The actual jobless total, which was the closest ever to one million, compared with 882,-000 in. December and $09,000 in January, 1977.

The apparent con- iradiction between the higher jobless total and the lower seasonally-adjust rate resulted because unemployment between December and January did not inereage as much as it

does, a Statistics Canada, spokesman ex-

Opposition and govern- ment spokesmen, gto the figures, selected numbers best suiting tnae

Purposts, ’ James McGrath, Progressive Conservative

social affairs critic, called

the unemployment totals “one of the greatest social iragedies ever to face Can-

The government should bring down a new budget designed to create jobs through the private sector and to promote regional development, he said.

“We need income and

-federal sales tax cuts to

stimulate consumer demand, an investment tax credit to stimulate in- vestment and tax rebates to encourage Investment In research and development to make Canadian firms more competitive, he said, - LaSalle (PC— Jattette) and other MPs called for regional incentives to promote growth in ‘high unemployment areas. Ed Broadbent, the New Democratic Party leader, was blunter,

' “The government has

Clearly los its capacity to govern,” Broadbent said. “Weneed an election as soon

ed as possible."

Broadbent set the true wiemployment total at 1.6 million, ‘saying Statistics abou Canada estimates did not’

include hundreds of thousands whohave given up looking for jobs.

It is time to initiate policies to create jobs and restore confidence, he said.

But the NDP leader added that a new budget would not be relevant. The government has anid it would not change its flecal stance.

.

Clark would

cut

TORONTO ic) “= position Leader Joe cen eaid Tuesday that a Con- servative government would ently cut personal me taxes by at: “least |)

hillion a year.

Clark aida Toronto Junior

Board of Trade meeting the - most —

_ cute would give working Canadians $00 a ine and would be achieved!

rgely ‘by’ reducin 8

alii be -

20,00 employees a’ year during the next three years but military personnel,

and RCMP

officers would not be af- fected, he said. -

.The remalnoder- of the thoney needed to finance tax m cuts would come from reduced spending on con- “sultant, "Government in- formation and advertising programs and the dis- Mantling private ownership of Crown corporations that are not essential, he said.

Clark ‘criticized ‘Liberal economic policies saying ~- that the government plans no “economic initiatives for at least the next three months, “,. and then a federal budget, if it comes, will probably be @ potitical docu- _ Ment and not an economic

heart

, iment con: “ atetit cine cms : States: has brought fresh

~hopo for pertons suffering -

heart attac

The New England Medical .

Journal, which . this week ed the results re experiment, says dea ply sons who ha ‘Migs wero peste ate ost were th the drug

aatinpararon The drug: had been used in the treatement of gout for 20 yeara ‘and has

‘the subject of ,{ontinuie @ su research since oatiae

first realized in

ihe bt ae it by a Toranto hospital

‘The rep, which’ ‘included

Dr. Fra dean of:

health sclence at McMaster.

University in Hamilton

‘for ‘treatment: te Po React: disease was

* Canucks’ ‘goalie, Kirk Ridley, ‘and. team “cap- ‘tain: -Don? Lever, recipients of the ‘Molson’s Cup segment awarded for ‘December 1978, Gach ‘donated their $500 share..

“Awards

taxes

one.”

He said’ unemployment is at a record high level and industries are not running at capacity because of in- vestment which has left the country.

Investors have lost con- fidence in the economy, he

Clark said he thinks there is a greater probability that

pid ® than” ueiee, sea eae aA pring fella pond “from

He' said ‘sate Coibiaa foels ‘less commitment to Canada than Quebec, partly because of inequities in the © federal system

Clark also said that a specieed byes’ party on

y on

ronal servicea leans toward

ore involvement’ by the pubile sector.

went is the direction we

looking at very seriously,” he sald during a queation-and-answer

or turning over to seasion.

The report on ways to im- prove the post office will be discussed in Parliament “or on the election trail,” he said.

“The post office is a symbol of what is wrong with this country,” he added. .

“T have a revolutionary . view of the post office. I think it. should deliver the

New hope for -

victims

pon are pongo) in the on sunderwent changes aie patients treated’ with yFaZone. i...

medical ‘¢

ad America, oe My

- Halt: te nen a _ women, whose ages . rang from ‘45 to 70, were given.

: sulfinpyrazone | pilla while

‘the remainder .recelyed

been . cuctive ' pills, . the . annual

death raie was 9.5 per cent - while the death: rate for the group - recdiving - sulfin-. bo pyrazene was 4.0 per cent , a ‘reduction .of 48.5 per ‘Cente. .."The journal says the drug - a ppesred . most effective daring: the first six months ‘after an altack: when th

death rate usually ia ies \

, . age. o _

a inow eachother by virtue

“the thelr visite."” “.. '

: ‘Renett said “the real stron | , ‘group”” of the. 13: held. Ma, : ier’

at. 3: ‘p.m. on “aes, February ard.’ Accépting ‘donations from” them: on - behalfj fof: the March. sponsorg was Len Fraser, -President of. the Kinsmen Rehabilitation ” Foun-

: ty.the Kinsmen Mothers’ dation

‘March for the disabled of B. . The: players were” presented with their cheques at the Colosseunti

© physically

oo The “award - goes ‘to players - most ‘often ‘aminated one. of - ‘the stars: -of * the game, of Hockey. on

Nurse held — at knifepoint

A tiny, 23-year-old nurse held captive ‘Tor nearly an hour Tuesday by a -man wielding a butcher knife in an aborted bid for drugs at’ Vancouver General Hospital said she fears reprisals ‘om. the. man.

The four-foot-eleve practical nurse said her oa or gobbled 222 pills from

tle and swung between euppressed anger and during the ordeal. wre oat have to kill you 80 the ‘police will finish meoff,” she sald, refusing to be identified because she fears reprisals. ©

Wayne Scott, $0, of Van- couver, has been charged with possession of a dangerous weapon, unlawful

eae ety and assault ~

causing bodily harm... The woman v aid the man

raised her hands ai the sight: : of the knife.

She also said he told her that the hospital. ad- minstration . should be criticized for allowing an . tmauthorized such ag hiraself t the wandering

Five charged with

“J was just leaving the washroom when I heard: sound of shoes shuffling In the hall outside and someone kept trying the door,” she said. “I thought it was funny because our shoed don sound like that, I thought it might be a confused

She said she tried to get the pudgy man, dreaged in a rugby sweater, and an army-style jacket to go to the emergency ward, but the mon refused.

“He asked me if I was married and 1 said no but I had a boyfriend. He said I was lucky and that he'd just had ‘his thirtieth ‘birthday and had no-one.” .

Hospital staff at first did not notice her distress during

_the 6 -routine but eventually ¢ one nurse asked her if she was all right.

“T paid yes, but kind of shook my head and she went

‘downstairs ar and told an or: . derly to call police,” she:

said.

She said the police put on some doctors gowns, “and © walked up to him-and kw was

attempted murder

Five prisoners who took 13 hostages after an un- succussful breakout at the British Columbia ‘Peniten- tlary have been charged with muiernpyred murder, at:

escape an unlawful confinement. Insector Ed Cadenhead of the Nee Westroinster city polise sald Tuesday the five hoetage-takers Andrew visitors Bruce, 28, Steven. Albert

Hall, 2, Ralph Lee Saumer, W

27, and Richard Clarence Wright, $8 are to appear in court today or Th

- Two of the hostages Gay

visiting her son Raplh, sald | and Dennis Lavaliee

the boyfriend of 3. Saumer who is divorced or

ated. *Pcaumer’ "s girlfriend was WILDGRUBE,“

“She also -visits

Wright and another inmate.” Reynett sald prisoners aren allowed only one time, so Miss Wildgribe had "aslied ito see

Recnatt and Bruce were boyhood friends,"he ex- plined.

They went to school

Hoon, 31 and Beaty Wood, rf together

were charged Monday with attempted 1 murder, and and being held withove bail unttl

their next scheduled court

appearance Feb.13..-

The appemted : ‘piurder - chargés weve laidad aresult 5.4, “tt the near af eabbing. ol Rasuda, -

prison guard

32, who was abe four times as the weeklong in- cident began Jan.28. °

Yasuda had his juglar vein severed and now has only limited use of his right. arm, sald Jack Stewart, - spokesman for the Cansidan

tentlary Service...

Penltentit said damage to a nerve shield in Yasuda’s heck may require ad- didtional surgery.

“1 don't know what the success tate is for such an operation,” he'seld.

Stewart also said in

‘into the hostage-. taking will be held under the federal In Act with

either the CPS or the.

solicitor-general's. depart- ment naming the inquiry’s

Two other howtages Laur England and Joy Atkinson are aisters who were visiting

priso: Robert Desjariais, visitors on “Bauer and ‘Patty

ee, We read at the es Sapekt are ange for ta and doses of Demerol The final four were released

the final surrender

during

last Saturday after hostage- talers and police negotiatora had ved. an 18-polnt’ eure t agreement,

That agreement includes transfer of the hostage- takers to Millhaven In- stitution at Bath, . Ont., a point that CPS officials said was. not a concession because CPS- regulations

chariman ond its terms of tbat

8. Prison director ‘Herb Renett sald the side likely examine “what led Up _tolt mya what we cen cos 50.

n er 100 years

be

than y vision He said there, were ° 0

ne. : eee ThEy can set wtage if “hte ee lo .

. The second factor ‘ig the

nature of ‘the’ tes eet mae cousidered. - , equally. ° a dangerous”. ‘as: the: five

epee that group to ‘be in there at the game time- it’s not) uncommon,” "said

ato of

ch’ -con-

B®, said the visitors taken “certain ‘to

Noon, Mra. wood and ughter Sandra . Meadiey They “vinited® different prisoners at various times, ‘A prison: visiting-aréa list’ shows that.on sant Me Ma;

Woe

all bo : he sent to the

this = the first time’ this has

created Peto omera oh foal -

Br Bruce: reported. to’ be me ee Saumer wae _

taro pein,

Justice: Minister Basford pledged Tuesday to introduce tough new laws ‘outlawing child sex ex- ploitation. - But he said the govern- »ment will depend on stricter enforcement of existing Criminal Code prohibitions to put clamps on other ‘ex- cesses cn the burgeoning obscenity industry. Rasford’s plans, nounced as the Commons justice committee met to grapple with 10 anti-por-

an-

nography bills ye rward by individual were Immediately attacked as too

little, too late.

“Ron -

“It's a cop-out,” com- plained James McGrath (ec st. John’s East),

nfor of one of the bills. By ain ngling out only child pormography as abscene, the government was opening the floodgates for other forms of sexual exploitation.

Bkt Basford replied that specific restrictions against the production and distribution: of material containing child sex. would do nothing to relax existing awa against other forms of obscenity.

Basford sald any definition

of obscenity is “a slippery - and elusive ideal,” involving

‘Kiddi -Porn crackdown planned by Basford

a a range of tasles and stan-

While it was im.

prin to protect people

om any bombardment of

obscene material, it was

equally important {o protect freedom of expression.

He added that provincial altorey-general were working with legitimate magazine distributors to reduce the flow of so-called hard-core porn sold at community outlets.

And customs officials were intensifing efforts lo stop obscene material at the border.

Basford said the govern- ment plans to move ahead

“Ads not part of . guarentee

Klaus Decker, ‘in charge of enforcing Canadian laws against misleading ad- ‘vertising, says that if

‘television commercials show

a watch up under

” pounding from a 10-ton pile

driver, the buyer of the Umepiece is not necessarily enlitied to expect it to keep on ticking even after such ‘abuse in real life. ° Asked if the commercials are as much a part of the “warranty as ine uritten quarantee go 8 product, Docker, a federal consumer affairs. lawyer and pend when it comes ie arges un misleading and fraudulent advertising section of the

Crossed lines bigs a ministry work

‘{thhad inatelled less than two weeks carlie: in front of an edementary schoo) becawe oa mix-up in the super- r’s affice, a spokeaman

for the office said Tuesday. Council sent a letter to the saying

crosswalk.

be removed at the end of June.

The school wanted the crosswalk left until the eud

: supervigo didn't read down the letter far enough, " the spokesman

cee ordered the higwwny -to take the crosswalk imammediately.” The spokesman said crews would oul as sarily ar posable wo repaint the lines.

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Combines Inveatigation Act, gave a qualified maybe. Decker was commenting in a_ telephone interview Tuesday on a United States court ruling that a Ford commercial showing a truck soaring and bouncing over rocky terrain ' part of the

A “a iy in ty in Hibbing, Minn ley. led that Ford should

par eta Steven Lastovitch fender repalra on his four-wheel drive truck after

said the significance of that case was that it was a civil, not criminal, action.

He said his’ department

- has yet to launch a criminal action over televizlon torture

test claims because of the need to prove beyond

‘reasonable doubt that the

test was misleading or fraudulent.

In general, commercials are written carefully enough to make it almost impossible to prove the case beyond

reasonable doubt, he said. “Where there is any doubt -

about the meaning of the commercial message, there

must. be an acquittal,’’ - Decker sald. oe

" Civil cases: are different, ° he said, because con-

sideration can be given to probability and to the over- all impact of a commercial.

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Decker said the Combines

Investigation Act provides for cevil action for damages by a consumer misled by a commercial, Harry .ddifon, trade liaison officer in the British Columbia consumer and corporate affairs depart: ment, said Ford would be vulnerable under B.C.’s Trade Practices Act only if it could be proven that the truck wasn’t capable of the stunts shown in the com- mercial,

Under the provincial Sale of Goods Act, Addison said, Lastovitch would have won only if he could prove thal Ford guaranteed in writing that the truck would stand up to his version of the torture test.

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with strict new laws against child pornography because it has "no redeeming value.” Maximum penalties against producing or distributing obscene material involving children would be boosted to 10 from two yearsin jail. The changes would be included in amendments to the Criminal Code which Basford said he hopes to introduce during the current parlimentary session.

It was important to deal with child pornography on its own, since the production of obscene material involving xoungsters was ‘obviously degrading” and damaging to the children used,

Basford said most child |

pornography material is imported. It was difficult to contain because of the “pervasive influence ol organized crime in this

He said the Criminal Code changes will algo deal with

_ the proliferation of “adult

physieal culture establish- ments" and ==s ‘adult Télaxation centres’— whore houses. They would make soliciting by men for the ses of prostitution a Fimilar offence to soliciting

‘by women, already. on the

law books. .

_Committee consideration of the pornography. issue follows a move last November by major chur- ches and MPs to campaign Pee hard-core por: nograp!

Most committee members appeared to aeeaat that soft- core pornographic magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse should be allowed for sale. But Simma Holt (L—Vancouver- Kingsway) disagreed. All forms of pornography, she said, “make me want to upchuck."

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