izers of the. - + REGINA (CP) Saud By late Sinday’ ore “pra “World Assembly of First Nations were " "predicting thelr big gamble — to stage f s largest: arp ioe of Andigenous peoples i oa niet ‘the. “day. hundreds: of. eaaiaies. gtreamed intg Regina trom all pointy on the globe for. ‘a week of cultiral ‘celebration ‘and toinite in thelr |: ‘Pubtiates every, weekday at. 010. Kolum. Street. a Terrace, B.C. by) Sterling : ‘Publishers: Lid. a Authorized as second ‘class: malt. ‘Regis ration: / Number: j201, Postage paid in cath, return: posiag: guaranteed.” ways | of life.» . -Braced for a ‘centererite crowd estimated at ‘20, 000 : 7 or inore, some residents in this city of 160,000 aren’t : sure if this high profile assembly is a boon or a bane. . Regina’ Mayor Larry Schineider. said Sunday he's” ‘fielded several calls from residents concemed about a - “Terrace; : a essia57 - “Pibister Garey Husak aa oe ‘Editor: ecw Succ -.. the. sizeof the conference... a Brian Gregg. mo “*"_ "think the general concern most. people have. is Pe, et ; the fear of the unknown,” he said, : _ Advertising Sales: - _ + Regina’s native population is estimated at between Terrace — David Hamilton. 15,000 and 35,000. The perception of an. Indian _ Staff Writers-Photogr aphers: Sports: ™“ native people when trouble brews, he sald. a Mike Howlett Don Schaffer _ Schneider’s hope that some day there will be : Greater understanding and respect for Regina’s Reception-Classified: _ cultaral mix isa wish conference organizers share on a World s¢caie, Carolyn Gibson : Business sessions Tuesday and Wednesday, on such tion: topica ‘as. native health, politics and law, and “rey . ton ~ economics, underline a concern not only for a betier ira taylor standard of living but also for protection ‘from NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT assimilation and genocide. . The Herald retains full. complete and sole,copyright “Indian ssembly. wins gamble. Reporters and photographers are banned from. two. . | i - deadly” serious: ‘fleht, to’ pteerve their: Shreatened . : problem stems from a tendency to unfairly single cut -. Bamis land to tarry offshore gas south to Germany. ~ segments, of the politics and law conference. for fear: .. delegates from some central and south Arherican : countries may face harsh reprisals when’ they: return home, said Dal’ Anaquod, chief ¢ mecutive alficer. for .: the conference,” ~ “Other delegates: are fighting for their. clture d - elf determination mn ; ; “Ande Sombi,'a dyear-old Samis from a remote 4 . “outpost on the border of Norway | and Finland, tellsa. “story filled with haunting parallels tothe concerns sof. a . Canada’s 1.3-million. native people, Me ee ae Samis lands. were carved ‘up during’ the 17066, ’ making them ‘involuntary, heavily-taxed residents of. Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Denmark... “Standing: on a sunny Reging street corner in+ - brilliant green-and-red native costume, Sombi toldof ~ his people’s fight to keep their music, language and | their hunting and. fishing culture alive, co, Now, as in the Canadian arctic, they’ worry’ about | - the effects of oil and gas developments on the land and the wildlife. — . Sombi is fighting a. pipeline that will slice through ” The Western society, the technological society, is a sick’ coclety,'- ; he paid, repeating a theme that’ wilt oO be heard often'this week, , “Not only is (It disturbing the indigenous peoples, but it ts disturbing the earth.” The conference continues until July 25, In any advertisemeht produced and-or any editorial ; . _ or photographic ‘content published. in the Herald. : : Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. ‘ ee University of Toronto is just one of many custom-made to ~ + ' . + be fat, prediabetic and virginal: ; .. _ The rat is part of the revolution in the breeding of - LNG is tricky taboralory animals which allows researchers to pre-order VANCOUVER (CP) — The .processing, storage and some diseases and conditions as if they were a custom shipping of liquefied natural gas ‘is a tricky. business in- tailored suit. Epilepsy, leukemia, blindness, cataracis, muscular volving billions of dollars, tonnes of raw material, plenty of high-technology equipment but few people. dystrophy, deafness, failing kidneys, dwarfism, diabetes, club-footedness and cancers are just some of the conditions For a little less thaih $2 billion in.1982 dollars, the Western LNG Project ‘will bulld a coastal terminal — probably at bred into the ‘more than 126 varieties of the laboratory Port Simpson, about 900 kilometres north of Vancouver — Mouse: |, The intricacies of breeding 3 an animal born to be sick or and link it to gas fields in northern B.C. and Alberta with 890 kilometres of pipeline. — “deformed and the tremendous advantages they: offér for As many as 10,000 people may be employed j in the con-— understanding human diseases is shown by studies at the university. struction of the liquefaction, storage and shipping facilities and the pipeline, say officials of Dome Petroleum Ltd., the ‘For about a year, the university’ 8 laboratory animal division under the direction of Norman Track has been. company which heads the consortium set up for the project. The peak work force at Grassy Point, across-a narrow breeding overweight Zucker rats for experiments on" inlet from Port Simpson, will number about 1,300. obesity and diabetes, To breed for obesity, a young obese male is mated with a lean female which carries a complement of ‘‘fat genes.” Once construction is completed, however, the maximum operating workforce would total 312: 60in the LNG plant, 32 in tugboat crews at the terminal, 20 0n the Pipeline and up to levels. While it would have, heen, possible. to steate fat, rats, by. cutting some pf the nerves, which signal:the-bedy to step eating, Track said, it’s, “just not natural.” Track said the fat rats are helping him‘ to pioneer an 200 crewing. the LNG: carriers. But there is no guarantee Canadiang: x will rerew ‘those. carriers, 86 the project itself can be counted on for only about 100. jobs, "Besides, humans usually don't get far by operating | on Dome. estimates. the ptant and terminal ‘will inject ‘an - ‘hem. Using the Zuckers we get a natural occurring fat annual payroll of $5 million into the Prince Rupert area and animal. TS a $1 million into Port Simpson itself. moe Bm The pipeline wilt carry 63 billion cubic metres of gas from ; Alberta and B.C, to the liquefaction plant over 20 years. The pipeline includes a new link with the Nova Corp. E pipeline in Alberta. From the provincial border southeast of U ro can ac an Dawson Creek, B.C., it will run to Willaw Flats, north of McLeod Lake, where it joins the existing "Westcoast - TORONTO (CP) — While high Interest rates continue to Transmission Co. system. . devastate small Canadian businesses, an“elite group of The line then winds southwest until it joins the Pacific Canada's most credit-worthy corporations are getting an Northern Gas Co. Ltd. pipeline right-of-way just north of \ interest rate break in something. called the Eurocanadian Burns Lake. It follows the PNG route past Telkwa and dollar market, Terrace to Prince Rupert on B.C.’s north coast. The pipeline additions will cost an estimated $600 million” is invartably below prime,” gald- P.C, Godsoe, executive to $800 million. . . vice-president of the Bank of Nova Scotia, “It almost seems To become liquid, methane - — the main component of to be.a fact of life,” natural gas — must be chilled to 162 degrees Celsius so . Usually the difference is only three-quarters of a | per- Impurities such as water, carbon dioxide and hydrogen centage point, but that meats big savings.on large Jdans, sulphide must-he-removed because they would freeze. This is how it works. Blue chip businesses borrow Dome is contemplating-a petrochemical development on--- Canadian funds on deposit in Europe or U.S. dollars. that the North Const, and if this goes ahead ethane may be ex- have been converted into: ‘Canadian currency. For these’ tracted from the gas stream’ before export. financial high: rollers, such funds go by the name af Each LNG carrier will be about 300 metres long, with 4 _ Eurocanadian dollars, .- gapacity of 125,000 cubic metres of LNG. In the first.five months of 1922, domestic companies ' Aceorditg to.Dome figures, delivery of the contracted: raised $810- million in this market through 15 separate quantities will require 38 carrier-loads 4 year — one every . issues. In the corresponding period Inst year, no issues were six days or 60. Pumping.the LNG aboard a carrier from tWo. floated at call, _ Btorage tanks at once through a 90-centimetre loading line, While all companies- would like to save on borrowing it will take about 12 hours to to Hil a carrier. costs, Euromarket lending is restricted to an exclusive ; graup. Those with funds to lend are usually interested only Ja 1 to al. _ in top names, ‘borrowers with ratings in the A range. ; - - POKYO - (AP). — Japan’ may “appeal to- the. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade if Canada continues im- posing obstacles to the importing of #épanese cars, a senior official of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry said today, Makoto Kureda, deputy director general of the ministry's NEW YORK (AP) — If recent signals emanating from: the stock market prove correct, better times are in Prospect for the battered U.S, auto industry. * Stocks of auto manufacturing companies have lately been international Trade Policy Bureau, said the two countries .. Moving upward steadily, despite continuing gloomy news - ~ when compared to the heyday of the late 1970s, but welcome made little progress in bilateral auto talks in Ottawa last | o” car sales. week, ministry officials reported. Japanese delegates stressed. that. full-scale auto ‘con | , témove the obstacles, while Canadian negotiators. main- tained the import restrictions were part of the issue, . Kuroda was quoted as saying. | . per-cent drop. the second-quarter performance of the automobile stocks’ ranked amang the top 10 of the 115 industry groups it tracks, - Merrill, Lynch said the auto issues posted an aggregate, ~ gain of 10.4. per cent in the April-June period, while Stan: a % Japan has rejected Canada’s ‘request that it restrict voluntarily its: passenger car exports to. 146,000 unita for ‘ fiscal 1962, ‘down from the previous: year's. 174 000, units, 1: . “The officials spid Canada’ began delaying clearance: of ‘per cen rm Japanese vehicles In’ Vancouver after-the two countries ~ General Motors,’ whieh H closed: out 1981 at wiK, stood at : failed to reach an accord on the number of of Japanese car 46% by mid-July. Ford Motor rose from 16% to 23% over the shipments: to Canada. ; same period, despite ‘the company’s failure to pay a _ dividend for the last three ‘quarters. - ~ And what of Chrysler, whose woes have made it a symbol of the problems facing many of the North American basic industries? Chrysler stock more than doubled from $35 al the. end of 1981 to a two-year high of $3.last week. ‘country like Canada has engaged ins such action. ” of. the. slock market “is, considered as a kind_of votlng : Kuroda ‘34d, however. Japan is titi seeking an amicable ' settlement to the auto dispute with Canada, and that ap- pealing to GATT is the last. step Japan, will, take, the of- - filcials + reported: be! machine through which investors expresd ‘their: feelings - about the fulure, their collective view of the auto Industry's _ prospects has clearly brightenéd. And some analysts think : . Fecen! n buyers of the stocks may:be vist . , ated OE TORONTO (CP) — A mottled, biack-and-white rat atthe . understanding of how to control human obesity and insulin | “"T have a graph on my desk showing that the Eurodollar - - Last Tuesday, the U.S. Commerce Department reported ° .._ American auto salés dropped 6.9 per cent in June, offsetting - a 6.5-per-cent increase the month before. A day later, in- . sultatlons canbe carried out.on condlilod that Canada "dustry sales reporta | for the first 10 days of July showed a’ 1. ‘ Nevertheless, the Merrill Lynch Market Letter reported _ dard and Poor’ 8 500-stock composite index WAS. declining a1 ~ retrenchment will mean a major,” permanent, reduction tr : : American ‘demand: for new.cars, | * ee a consumers thas in: ‘die past, ~ Virgin rats prove useful: The breeding of the heart-attack hamaters posi different problems, ‘but offer good research possibilities for car- -diologist Michael Sole. -_ The laboratory is involved in a complicated. “back: - breeding” program -to. restore. vigor to the hamsters, genetically programmed. to have heart attacks, Sole values the genetically-defectlve hamsters because they allow him to study-heart disease without attempting . tricky, and sometimes fatal, surgical creations of the same - “problem. — ‘ - Using the heart attack hamsters, Sole and: C. C.Liew of _the Banting Iristitute have already demonstrated a genetic “similarity with muscular subaortic stenosis, a beriditary - human heart condition. Other work with the - hamsters | has "auagested heart failures may be linked in some cases to an oversupply of, or. : oversensitivity to, the natural secretions of adrenalin which ‘stimutale heart action. Track explains again the benefit of the hamsters is the process is natural, “With the hamsters we not only have a natural model of heart. disease, we can follow it from birth until-death. In humans, most of our knowledge of heart disease only comes after jt is underway.” The knowledge doesn't come cheap. A fat rat costs $65 (U.S.) whilé a simple white rat costs $7.50: Thirty hybrid Hamstéisthathe tabsrataly muist/Obtats Troeh! the: alte: — “States will cost $9,000 (U.S.). Once it has stabilized its breeds, the university ‘will’ ty io. recoup some‘ of its expenses by selling the specialized ; animals to other universities, ~ market helps A second, way that blue ‘chip companies. approach the _ Market. is through the commercial banks... - How much money is involved in these transactions i hard to estimate, but once agai, a corporate treasurer haa the © ‘chance to shave interest payments through deft. financial - manoeuvring, For example, if. the prime is 17.75 per cent biisinesses.. must’ pay this rate plus:a risk premium,. However, -one-_ month borrowings on the Euromarket start at ‘about: 17. 3 per cent, meaning a saving of half a point, © 43... - For much of the past six months it would have. been - worthwhile for companies to borrow Eurodollars rather ‘than commit themselves to loans based | on the Canadian prime rate. _ Although there are benefits in the Eurocanadian dollar market, there are also drawbacks. Eurodollar loans are. for . fixed terms, Starting at one month, and therein les the risk: ~STf the Canadian prime rate falls, the borrower is locked into a contract and can't get put until it matures, "paid - William Brack, executive vice-president of the Tordnto- Dominion Bank. “So if rates are rising, then there are advantages In borrowing Rurocanadian. But you're inviting alot of unhappy: ‘clients if rates come down.” . . ‘Economic times: soon: better?” ' When all the figures are in for GM, Ford, Chrysler. ‘and’ American Motors‘ for 1982, according to Standard ard: : Poor's Industry Surveys, the automakers: are expected to show a net profil. of more than $800 million US. , ‘That is, Standard and Poor's acknowledged, “modest” relief to an industry that suffered losses of fl. 3 billion in. 196} and $4.2 billion-in 1990,"" ™ BY. riext year, the firm. said, all four automakeis could : show profits; adding up to better. than $4 bilflon:: ‘in ay favorable economy." ~ Codt-cutting has been an importani. plus { for the industry. ‘For example, Chrysler now needs to sell ‘only half as many. ma ‘ cars. to break even as it did- three {years agoe The-Value Line Investment Survey, in.a report published. early. this month; took a similar upbeat view. ‘The: year slump In auto sales ‘may be ending,” the largest U, investment advisory service declared, “Higher volume‘and: + costeutting should put ‘earnings on an upward ‘trend thro wae “The ‘multiple ‘forces ‘behind ‘the :U.S.. car ‘Industey's oe . problema have been well publicized - = ‘Among them a surge ° 1983 and strengthen finances'aa well.” in fuel-prices, stiff import competition, and interest rates.*: that put car. Joans beyond the reach of: many, ‘people's > budgets.. Suddenly, drivers ‘were “driving their. cars less ‘and® “Th keeping them longer. But the question: remains whether thi: - “Wedon'tthink so," sald Value Line. nt does appear that . the glamor of new cars holds less: exeitement for many Fah Lee y! Reagan was to. confer, today with ihe National Seely - ” ‘} . Council. . Liberation Organization ‘guerrillas: trapped in West INGTON (AP) = for a forraula 19 defuse the widening crisis inthe --- - Middle B i is beeking advice from ‘Henry Kissinger ie fat “consulting with Arab and Israel) ambassadors and foreign «2 ‘ministers... " President Resgan and State Secretaty George Shultz will :- : : : éet Tuesday with Prince Sand al: Fazal; foreign minister. . : 1s Saudi . ‘Arabia, ‘and. “Abdul Halim haddam, foreign: wilnister. of. Syria. ‘the ‘administration has turned to the Arab world for inetp = ; in ‘findlng a ‘haven for the estimated 8,000 or ba _ by Israel's invasion force. ; While Reagan haa offered to send American forces to Lebanon to aid in the evacuation of PLO fighters, no Arab country has offered the PLO refuge. In letters to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria, Reagan has asked’ for constructive ideas about the resettlement issue. a lebanon radio said the Lebanese government expects _] .. Reagan to try to persuade Syria to take the guerrillasona - - temporary basis, despite Syria’s public insistence the PLO should remain in Lebanon. - Dutch radio. quoted .Khaddam, during a stopover” in “Amsterdam, as saying his country is willing to admit the PLO's leaders but won't shelter the rank-and-file fighters. ~Kijaddam reiterated Syria's pouition that it. was not inthe | PLO’s best interest to leave Lebanon and sald he would hit - Reagan to “exert real pressure” on Israel to withdraw ite. - troops, Dutch radio said. . Reagan said Sunday the administration had turned : ‘to Kissinger and other outside experts for their advice about the Middle East, which also is inflamed by the Irandrag war. Shultz held a lengthy meeting Saturday with" Kissinger. Reagan said Shultz and William Ciark, national security adviser, had “asked a few people like that to come indnd have a meeting ‘and get their thoughts on what's going on,” Shultz, who was sworn in to office Friday, also-met with Israeli Ambassador Moshe Arens and Egyptian Ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal on Saturday. Reagan also sald the administration is studying Israel’s response to repeated U.S. questions about the-alleged usd of Americari-made cluster bombs in the Lebanon Invasion.. . Israel is ‘allowed to use U.S.-supplied weapons, such as the cluster bombs, only for defensive purposes, Children suffer™ _ GHAZIYE, Israeli-held Lebanon (AP) — Zahar is a ‘Shy 15-year-old Palestinian with moist eyes and ond dirty. dress. ’ who knows about life ‘and death in southern Lebanon... The advancing Israclis arrested five of her brothers. as Suspected guerrillas, The sixth was killed last month when artillery and air strikes silenced resistance at the Ein Hilwe refugee camp near Sidon, levelling it. : hee, -She |s one of more than 100,000 Palestinians who : squat ‘in Schools, ‘unguarded warehouses, burned-out being and orange groves, waiti for, iy Thane hat port fe) nd th ea ara re te no 4a fa Oa ia’ eda ao on, J Ye EY. ey. ‘ousted a ait. “No doctors around,” * she said, holding: up her festeritig Jett arm, ‘and we are afraid to leave here to get help.” ° “Zaher’s family and the others live on the savings. and - Beant provisions they escaped from Ein Hilwe with. Two of “the refugees: ‘are reported to have dled from hunger and “exposure. at the schol. ‘The rest are nearing desperation. - “Lam here, I'sit,” said Abu Nidal, his eyed rimmed in ‘red, brushing flies away from the infant in his lap. Abu Nidal, now 34, was taken from Israel — Palestine, to him — when he was.a baby. He worked aa a welder in Sidon ~ and may or may not have trained as a ‘guerrilla. ."“Thave ane of the smallest familles — six kids,” he sald. “We have enough to live on for a little while ,. . But soon we will nat, and 1 don’t know-what wilt happen, " The United-Nations Works and Rellef Agency, which has housed, fed and educated Palestinians since 1950,: is _ Struggling “to help 113,000 refugees registered with it in - South Lebanon. : ~But UNWRA is habitually short oF funds and now is _ swamped with work. “We haverea reached 40,000 people around Sidon, and we are. irying to get into other ‘areas,” said Bernard Mossez, a regional officer. “Food .. . is likely to be more and more of ; a problem. Other ‘services, like education — ‘forget it. “The most serious, most colossal and most frightening problem is housing: where, which is a political problem, arid how, which is a question of means.” : The Ein Hilwe camp, which housed 30,000 registered refugees and a ‘number of others, was flattened. So was another major camp in Sidon and Rashidiye, near Tyre and ‘about half ag big ag Ein Hilwe, An estimated. 5,000 Lebanese homes were destroyed in . Sidon and Tyre, along with public ard commercial buildings. ‘Lebanese and Palestinians ‘sought shelter where they - "could find .it,- competing for space -with about 200,000-.- Lebanese who came South from Beirut — or returned from. abroad — - when the fighting stopped. ; Private relief agencies are trying to help the Lebanese refugees and scores of thousands of Palestinians not‘on UNWRA’s rolis. Some officials are optimistic, elting ton. nages of supplies and numbers of teams, but ‘many refugees . remain unaided, : ; “I'm sorry — I don‘t have any cream." |}. wri: ‘The ‘teagan’ administration,"