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Important test today

The Liberal party is nothing if not optimistic. Today, with its leader’s future dangling on the collective wisdom of 300,000 volers in six separate ridings, government-makers are protraying Pierre Elliot Trudeau, once again, In the role of saviour.

This is the same Trudeau whose inef- fectiveness at the top has helped generate the growth of separatism in his home province of Quebec. This is the same Trudeau whose inef- fectiveness as prime minister has brought the . unemployment rate to record helghts. As over 900,000 Canadians go without work, Trudeau appeals tothem as the prophet of our future.

Haven’t we heard that message before?

‘ Yet here we are, almost ten years after Trudeau was first foisted before us as our hope for tomorrow, and the theme remains constant. Surely, the election of fhe Part! Quebecois government has discredited the prime minister’s federaiist tactics in voters’ eyes. Surely, Quebec voters will not once again reach out for Trudeau as their only answer, simply because Progressive Conservative and New Democrat leaders were born west of the Ottawa River.

Surely we have seen enough Inaction at the top to warrant a change. .

...Dangerous © ... and dirty

Unquestionably the area surrounding Terrace is as dramatically beautiful as any part of . British Columbia or for that matter Canada. It is wild and shows few of the scars of human ex ploitation. It is clean.

Terrace on the other hand, Is as dirty a tawn as youl] find inthe country. Debris, in the form of papers, boxes, cigarette packages and pop cans litter every street in the downtown portion of town. ;

Worst of all, many of the streets and most of the parking lots literally glitter with broken glass - mostly from shattered beer bottles ‘1 This stupid carelessness produces an effect that is not only unpleasant to look at but dangerous as well.

The broken glass and litter are the first things that attract a visitor's eye and are what creates - a lasting impression in the mind of the tourist.

1t would seem worthwhile then’ for the town to - - hire students this summer to clean up the streets. Furthermore stricter anil-littering laws should be enacted and enforced.

Consideration _ for smokers

It was Inevitable and fitting. that non-smokers would sooner or later begin to express with in- creasing confidence their feelings about ‘‘the habit’. They have suffered in silence, afterall, for so many years.

In asserting their rights, however, the non- smokers should perhaps try to sympathize with the addicted ones. for it is the latter who are the real underdogs:

Smokers we should remember are a part of a dwindting minority of people chained to a repulsive habit that Is not only soclally un- popular~ but self-destructive and expensive as well.

That they should force others to endure the side-effects of their mistakes is, of course, in- sensitive and unacceptable, but like most ad” dicts, they place the pursuit of thelr particular indulgence above the comfort of others. Anyone with the sensitivity and will power to place consideration for others above his own pleasure, probably has the strength of character to quit smoking anyway

When a non smoker Is offended by a smoker’s thoughtless Indulgence In a confined publi: place he should try to view him as an un fortunate person unable to control himself.

* He might be asked to smoke elsewhere but he should be asked with sympathy not contempt.

Remember If he could possibly get out from under that insidious habit, he would:

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WASHINGTON (CP) — The Carter administration is combining tough traditional diplomacy with unorthodox — international politics as it escalates its

uman rights offensive against the white rulers of South Africa and Rhodesia.

In recent meetings in Austria with South African Premier Vorster, Vice- President Walter Mondale emphasized U.S. insistence on an end to repression of blacks and warned that there would be no U.S. help if whitesupremacist policies provoke race war.

Those meetings were barely over before Andrew Young, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, entered, South Africa on an unor-

thodox and highlypublicized .

mission that amounted to. official U.S. subversion of apartheid,

All but ignoring the white South African government, Young met black leaders, urged them to use boycotts to topple apartheid, joined in singing a _ black nationalist anthem and was mobbed by cheering blacks.

Young's foray into South Africa was an unusual but highly effective departure from diplomati¢ practice.

At the time Mondale and Youn were abroad, President Carter reinforced his lieutenants’ activities by telling a Notre Dame University audience that the United States is committed toa “rapid and progressive transformation of southern African society.”

The continuing U.S. effort appears to be producing some results.

After meeting Vorster— ~

whom U.S. officials believe

WINNIPES (CP) — The

esident of the Investment

ealers Association of Canada predicts a sub- Stantial improvement in relations between management and organized labor. -

Andrew G. Kniewasser of Toronto gays talks with businessmen during recent trips across Canada have made him optimistic about relations between these two traditional adversaries.

“I've heard responsible business people say they are Betting on much better with abor. And some of them have said they don't expect massive wage demands when the anti-infltion board controls are removed.”

Kniewasser said the ex-

rience of business and abor with inflation and later with government- imposed controls seems to have had a sobering effect on both parties.

“Tt think we're on the threshhold in Canada of seeing substantial im- provement in business-labor relations,” he said. '‘I think more and more you'll see business and labor in Can- ada working together. to discuss the future of a firm or an industry.”

“Business and labor shouldn't just talk about labor contracts. One of the best things we can do in this country is to bring business

and labor together on a

regular basis in forums.”

Kniewasser is an economist and former senior assistant deputy minister in the federal department of industry, trade and commerce. He is the first full-time president of the association, whose 85 members account for about

is the key to a Rhodesian settlement because of Rhodesian economic dependence on South Africa— Mondale said the South African leader agreed to support an Anglo- American initiative to make

‘Rmodesia an independent

and majority-ruled state

next year,

“That is the clearest statement of support that we've had and it is un- conditional,” Mondale said.

The U.S. vice-president was also optmistic about prospects of getting South

Africa to comply with

United Nations orders to abandon its control of Nam- ibia, or South-West Africa, which South Africa originally took over as a United Nations mandate.

Mondale was less op-

‘ timistic about the chances of

progress in the third major

US. objective-~disman ng

South Africa’s aparthei system.

But he made it clear the United States is also com- mitted to that goal and suggested that unlike previous administrations, the Carter administration would not go ahead on apartheid in hopes of buying South African help in Rhodesia. - . .

Young’s visit to South African black leaders in: dicated that the United States may pursue its third goa} through extra-diplo- matic means if Vorster continues to be intransigent.

Young hinted at what

‘could happen without

progress, saying it would be

“hypocritical” of the United —

States to condemn all use of violence to end apartheid

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“I do it because I can be my own boss.”

| Business spotlight Investors’ president sees

improved industrial climate

% per cent of the securities business in Canada.

Association officials were in Winnipeg last week for separate meetings with their loca] members, city business leaders and Manitoba Finance Minister Saul Miller.

One of the messages

Kniewasser had for the

- province's New Democratic

Party government is the need for improving business confidence.

“J don’t think business is locking for handouts, but business is looking for an.

atmosphere in which it an -

operate successfully,” he

LAW OF THE SEA

told a reporters.

The proposed plan would have allowed any company which invests in the equity shares of an approved venture corporations a déduction against Ontario taxable income equal to 250 per cent of its investment,

Mad rush for riches _ if no controls set

UNITED NATIONS (Reuter) — UN Secretary- General Kurt Waldheim said Monday that failure to reach agreement on a code of law for the sea would lead to a dangerous scramble for control of the oceans and se- riously undermine the credibility of the United Nations.

He was addressing the opening of the sixth session of the UN Law of the Sea Conference, which has been trying since December, 1973, to draft a legal code regulating virtually ali maritime activities. -

The new round = of negotiations is scheduled to last seven or eight weeks, and will almost certainly have to be followed by at least.one more session.

“If a new and broadly-ac- cepted law of the sea does not emerge through in- ternational agreement, we face the prospect of each state determining its own view, with ever-widenin claims to ocean space an

resources,” Waldheim said in his prepared address to approximately 150 delegations seated in the UN General Assembly hall.

“The acceptance of such a situation, favoring as it would power at the expense of justice, and risking un- foreseeable possibilities of conflict, is unthinkable."

The secretary-general said it is no exaggeration to say that failure to arrive at a convention on the law of the sea after such an ar- duous process ‘will se- riously undermine the credibility of the United Nations” as a forum for international negotiations.

“We must not permit this to happen. Too much is at stake, and I want to appeal to you and your govern- ments to act now,'? he ad- ded, referring to the unre- solved issues which so far have prevented the con- clusion of a treaty and

‘deadlocked session of the,

conference last summer, While there is a broad

consensus on such key issues as the establishment of a 12-mile territorial sea and a 20-mile exclusive economic zone, nothing is final until agreement has been reached on all points.

A major point of con- tention is who should control the mining of millions of tons of mineralrich rocks, or nodules, scattered over the deepest parts of the ocean.

is area, outside any country’s jurisdiction, was declared by the General Assembly in 1970 to be the “common heritage of mankind.”

Industrialized countries, led by the United States, insist that governments and private enterprise must be assured a role in deep sea- bed mining operations, on an equal footing with a pro- posed international sea-bed authority.

A number of developing countries say government and business participation should be permitted only at the discretion of such an international body.

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since the United States achieved ‘its independence

- through violence.

Behind the. U.S. deter- mination to end white supremacy in southern Africa is a realization that there are high stakes in- volved in the aréa. The biggest threat is race war, the United States, is also concerned that its own telations with black africa may deteriorate if it does not give strong support to majority rule.

The danger of Soviet in- fluence still looms over Africa, even as the Cuban soldiers who fought in Angola trickle back home, leaving behind a pro-Soviet government.

In the tonger term, the credibility of U.S. concern for human rights may be

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determined by how great ah effort the United States makes in southern Africa.

If the people of the Third World decide that Carter's yocal concern with human rights Is little more than just another weapon to be used against the Soviet Union, the United States will make few

gains among the Developing — countries.

But if the’ U.S. concern is seen to- be genuine, the cause of the’ Western democracies may gain many allies. One way for Carter to prove that his concern is genuine is to’ demonstrate his willingness to apply pressure even to such countries as South Africa which in the past used strategic and economic value to the United States as a shield against change.

An MLA’s report | Wood hewers our best role?

The North Central Municipal Association ‘Annual Convention is over and no doubt those attending gained a great deal of knowledge, especially talking to their neighbours on mutual problems af- fecting all Northern local governments. I think this is always true of Conventions; you learn more exchaning ideas over coffee or dinner than from the planned

ogram, 7 Oe Peter __ Pierse, Department of Economics from U.B.C. and author of the latest Forest study, gave an excellent talk on future development. He pointed out clearly we must do those things that we can do best, which is resource ex- traction, especially logging, but not manufacturing, with our high costs. He and others pointed out the three strikes. against secondary industry dn. B.C., they, are: High Labour Costs; a lack of assembly line workers, and distance from major markets. He also cast a new light on the old saying “If we fail to get Secondary In- dustry we will be a Province of Drawers of Water and Hewers of Wood". He said we should examine this for what its worth, what is

wrong with harvesting our:

timber which is only a crop and have the highest standard of living rather than encourage and sub- with its dirty conditions and substan would be a must in order to compete with low paid foreign workers as our home markets are to small, which would mean you have jo export to live...

This is a new approach that I must admit ] hadn’t heard before but, worth thinking about. I would doubt many of our Forest workers would trade working conditions in B.C. for a textile factory job in Ontario. Most people think that manufacturing is more stable to base the economy of a town than primary industry, a study of this does not establish this is true and we only need look at all the Textile and Appliance factories closed this year in Ontario and Quebec,

A great deal has been said about the Kitimat Pipe line lobby on board the Princess Patricia. If this was in- tended then I would say they

did a poor job as I know [

wasn’t contacted on the subject and I only know. of three that discussed the

. issue with any of the of-

ficials. I thought Kitimat deserved credit for organizing the convention and received more criticism than they deserved along with the protests which, in my opinion, were aimed in the wrong direction as this Municipal group will have no say in the final decisions which will be made in Ot- tawa and not even one Federal member present. It is the same as protesting to the North West Loggers or IW.A. convention on a decision to be reached on the C.N.R. Hearings are to be held where various opinions will be considered and a decision reached in a democratic fashion. ll

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CYRIL SHELFORD MLA, SKEENA r, so why the protest fore they know whether they won or lost. Protests of this sort are the steppin stones io lawlessness an total anarchy where groups that don’t like’ the Democratic process can disrupt shipping, air lines, rail and road because the cargo happens to come from South Africa, Chile or

‘Israel, or onthe other side

by. thloste ‘that? protest shipments from Cuba, US.S.R. or China. Hf this is not controlled then those with the largest force have their way, which is one step away from a Police State. In my opinion all of us as Canadians should look at ourselves and think for a moment and ask “Am I

doing anything tohelp inthe -

destruction of my country

‘and freedom in the best

country in the world?”

We should all do this before -we follow mainly non-Canadian professional rotestors. So many people

d the mistaken belief that all those at the Convention were Pro-pipeline; in my observation, this is totally untrue and around 50 per- were against. However, after the protests, many changed position away from the protesters, which appears to show a large number still believe there is still a Democratic method to present ob- jections without abusing others. I’ve made: my position clear on many occasions. I want to see, during the hearings called for this purpose, what benefits we get for taking the risks, whether it be a through-put charge of around forty million a year ora percentage of the oil to heat our homes, run our cars or even run the

protesters boats. Even the .

Green Peace wouldn't go far without oil. We just have to he living inthe most affluent society in the world where some people can sper.d full time protesting and others can take a bus on a 250 mile return trip to protest against & group that won't be making the decisions.

I noted with interest the objections raised by the Terrace Herald to m questionnaire, without of- fering a better method, It shows it's still true that if a Politician doesn’t want to

get criticized by politically.

motivated news reporting, then he should stay in bed and do nothing. However, it’s not surprising when you know the writer, Andrew Petter, was the Executive Assistant to Housing Minister Lorne Nicolson in the N.D.P. Government, who got into difficulties more than any other Minister, —

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