‘the™ herald Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass , VOLUME 71 NO, 130 Price: ' 20 cants MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1977 J _ Nishga council gives government deadline Herald staff Fed up with the slow pace of land claims negotiations, the Nishga Tribal Council has officially invitéd federal and provincial represen: tatives to come to Aiyansh Jan. 12, the second an- niversary of the com- Ce eesti the three- 'y negotiations. James Gosnell, president of the tribal jcouncil, said the jan. 12. date is not an ultimatum or demand. He said newwly-appointed Indian Affairs Mininster Faulkner and Labor Minister Allan Williams ve been mailed “respectful inyitations” to come to the Nass River valley and respond in writing to a confidential, 21- point Nishga position statement submitted at talks in April, 1976. Gosnell refused to sum- marize the position paper which won't be made public until a settlement can be announced. “We want to be part and parcel of all development in this area,’’ he said. Right now, the Nishga people are official: represen y thro the department of Indian and northern affairs. He said the Nishga have held four meetings with federal and provincial representatives in the two years since former Indian Levesque home after France visit By DANIEL DROLET MONTREAL (CP) — An estimated 10,000 en- thusiastic wellwishers jammed Mirabel Inter- national Airport Sunday to welcome Quebec Premier Rene Levesque on his return from an official visit to France. The Premier, also met by membera of his cabinet and Montreal-area national assembly members, was eeted with a variation of ‘Gens du pays” (People of the country), illes Vigneault’s popular song that has become an unof- ficial national anthem in Quebec. . The crowd, carrying -hundreds. of blue and white Quebec flags and dozens of ‘Parti Quebecois posters left over from last year's election, filled the terminal at Mirabel, where the premier arrived on a regularlyscheduled Air France flight. In a short speech to the crowd, Levesque described his four-day. official visit as “unforgettable.” He wore on his lapel a tiny insignia representing the medal he received making him a grand officer of France’s Legion of Honor. Speaking from hand- written notes, the premier ‘gaid the ‘trip showed Quebecers were an adult ple. He was frequently interrupted by the crowd which chanted ‘‘Oui au referendum” (Yes to the referendum). “I think it’s going to help prepare a ‘Yes’ answer to e referendum,” he said, referring to the referendum on Quebec independence. Levesque, flanked by Education Minister Jacques-Yvan Morin and ’ Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Claude Morin, de- scribed his reception in the French capital as “warm and good.’ He had kind words for French President Valery Giscard D'Estaing and Prime Minister Raymond Barre for the reception he received. OTTAWA “PETTY” The premier, - who described as petty the federal government’s at- titude to the trip, also had a tongue-in-cheek word of thanks for the RCMP, for not confiscating his medal. The medal ruffled a few diplomatic feathers in Ot- tawa because Canadians are supposed to check with the fi eral } government before receiving an honor from a foreign ‘cout ys ~ The premier, who spoke in French only, was preceeded on the podium by a number of government. colleagues who spoke before his arrival, Jacques-Yvan Morin and Bernard Landry, minister of economic development, both spoke of a newly-found . pride as a result of the visit, and Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau described the premier’s trip as “an important event on the road - towards independence Jean Alfred, FQ member for Papineau and the only black in the assembly, received a thunderous ovation when he described the premier as ‘‘our present prime minister and: future president.’ Social Affairs Minister Denis Lazure’ said Quebecers had “grown at least six inches in pride” during Levesque’s trip, and called on the crowd to keep up their enthusiasm for the referendum campaign. The reception was organized by the Montreal branch of the nationalist St. Jean Baptiste Society. French defend - Levesque’s invitation . MONTREAL (CP) French Premier Raymond Barre says his government will pay no attention to warnings from Ottawa about the kind of relations France should have with ebec. “Tt was not and is not the intention of the French government to take account of what could be described as warnings,” he said in an interview with the CBC’s French network broadcast late Saturday. Barre said Prime Minister Trudeau has no right telling France how to treat its guests. Commenting on Trudeau’s reaction to the warm reception the French government gave Rene . Levesque when the Quebec’ remier visited France for ree days ending Friday, Barre said he and French President Giscard , d'Estaing had received Mr. Trudeau with pleasure during the prime minister's visit to Paris last June. “But it is not up to Mr.: Trudeau to indicate in what manner France should treat its guests,” Barre said. “I think the French government is well brought up and knows the rules of international courtesy well enough to make its own decisions.” There was no immediate reaction from government officials io the Barre statement, but Trudeau said Thursday the French government was showing a great deal of ignorance about Quebec’s place in Confederation in _ its treatment of Levesque. Trudeau, in answering questions at his weekly news conference, was responding to French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing saying France recognized Quebec's right to self-determination. Trudeau said then that many Frenchmen appeared . to see. Quebec as a minor colony of the rest of Canada, ‘adding ‘if that is due to ignorance, it is up to us to set them straight.” | Affairs Minister Judd Buchanan, and ‘Williams first announced they would negotiate a settlement. t that time, said Gosnell, both governments advised the council to be patient, “but we waited 100 years’’ before negotiations even ‘an. t the fourth and last meeting, held_in October, 1876, the council told the governments it was tired of and asked fer a written response to the 21- point position paper by the ovember, 1977 convention. But last April, a spokesman for Williams' ice seid the provincial government would need more time, Gosnell said. jAt first, the council expected only a two or three-month delay, but it lasted much longer. Late last month, Atlin MLA Frank jCalder, acting for the council, relayed word that Williams | was a response co! ilvered by the convention “We gave the two levels of overnment to the eleventh ur,’’ said Gosnell. He said no action is contemplated if the ministers don’t respond to the invitation. “We don’t want to cross our bridges before we come to them... it Mise be most unwise to prejudge their actions.’ Gosnell said no representative of the council il attend ceremonies in Kispiox _— toda when Faulkner and Skeea MP Tona Campagnolo par- ticipate in ceremonies negotiations’ for Indian barids in that area, because the council will be in caucus. Earlier in the meetin Thursday the council pass a resolution demanding their be no more log drives on the Nass River. The resolution followed discussion on enhancin salmon runs an rehabilitating spawning grounds. @--- land... claims... Not everybody stays indoors in cool, fall weather. Seven-year-old Tammy Gibbs BUMMEr. Re, ternoon playing Tarzan just like it was it was time the thinking about , they suffered in the 1975 ’ and friends had a good time Sunday af- Convicted weapons smuggler released ROME (AP) —_ Israel freed Greek Catholic Ar- chbishop Hilarion Capudji from prison and deported him to Healy on, Sunday owing a plea ) Paul for release “of the convicted weapons smuggler. _The prelate, 55, knelt and. kissed the tarmac at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport in a farewell gesture to the Holy Land-where he had led the Greek Catholic community since 1963. He had served nearly — three years ofa 12-year sentence after being con- victed of running weapons, explosives and ammunition across the Lebanese border in his limousine to Palestin- jan guerrillas in Israel. Apparently weak from hunger strikes staged to protest his imprisonment Capudji was helped aboard an Alitalia jumbo jet by two Israeli security agents who had accompanied him from Tel Aviv’s Ramleh prison. The archbishop was met at Rome's Leonardo da -Vinei Airport by a Palestine Liberation Or (PLO) delegation and Shafiq al Hut, a representa- tive sent by PLO chief Yasser Arafat. . _Arrangements for his release were worked out during three weeks of talks between Prime Minister Menahem Begin’s gov- ernment and the Vatican. The Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern-rite branch of - of the P. rganization: the Roman Catholic, Church and recognizes the primacy ope. In a letter to President Ephraim Katzir received here Thursday and made Mon & few hours before r. Capudji’s release, the Pope said he is deeply concerned at the present serious health conditions of ‘the archbishop. . MET AT AIRPORT _. A representative of the Vatican shook hands with Capudji and kissed his ring, The archbishop was joined on the flight by the papal representative —_ in Jerusalem, Msgr. William rew. Also on hand were the . Lebanese Melchite Patriarch Maximos Hakim and Bishop Lutsi Laham, who served as Melchite archbishop of Jerusalem during Capudji’s im-, prisonment. The Melchites are followers of the Eastern rite in parts of the Middle East andthe U.S. Capudji, who declined to talk to reporters, drove from the airport with Patriach Hakim. Church sources said the prelate will spend about three months recuperating in a Rome clinic. ; Arafat’s envoy told reporters: ‘‘We consider him (Capudji) a hero, a symbol of resistance, a man who really loves his people and his land,” ‘ Renee Mikaloff, QUEBEC (CP) — The ‘|Progressive Conservative party wound up a three-day national convention Sunday: proclaiming that new-found elaimed as an important victory by the conservative wing e party over W they deseribe as the To- ronto-centred progressive party solidarity behind wing strongly policies will carry it to ipower at the federal election expected next year. ‘We have demonstrated we are ready for that election and we have proved Swe have the will to unite behind Joe Clark’s leadership,” said Nova Scotia Robert Coates following his election as party resident, replacing chdel Meighen of Mon- treal. Coates, 49, MP Cumberland-Colchester North for 20 years, defeated lawyer John Gamble, 44, of Markham, Ont., by 678 votes to 108 in elections Sunday for the party’s 13-member ateering committee. The election of Coates, who opposed Clark as party leader last year, was ac- for free-enterprise But the election for other offices on the party’s top administrative body produced a mixed lineup of conservatives and pro- gressives. Melghen, for ex- ample, remains on the national steering committee as past president, a new ition seen as a move to lance the administration. Coates has identified himself as an opponent of such polities as official bilingualism and abortion, an advocate of capital shment and, recently, or some of the pollcies of the white-minority regime in South Africa. ‘In earlier years I have been outspoken in some of ourintraparty disagreements,” Coates told the 1,700 delegates and ob- servers Sunday, ‘‘dis- “We can go forward, not as a collection of trained seals like the Liberals and socialists, but as individuals who—despite strong con victions—are now to blend those convictions into a mosaic of consensus in both the party and the public interest,” Coates sald. Although Coates has voted against bilingualism, he was supported ublicly by MP Roch LaSalle (Jollette), the only French-Canadian MP at the convention, in .a demonstration designed to close party wounds. Delegates earlier gave Clark a strong vote of confidence, Also highlighted at the convention was a policy commitment to reduce the wers and infiuence of the federal government in favor of free enterprise and the country's disparate regions. | Tories leave convention with solidarity “Phe paramount view today on the part of most Canadians is to get the government off our backs, to get it out of our pockets, to give us back some of the rights you’ve taken away from us and let us see if we can’t make the free- enterprise system work because itis the only system that works,’ said Coates, The policy meeting also callef for a shift of powers to the provinces from Ottawa, by reform of the constitution and in administrative practices, But the meeting debated attitudes towards Quebec without a firm conclusion. Quebec delegates called for a policy of distinct but equal French and English com- munities, but there was no clear resolution. Coates said after the con- vention that Clark will make the final decisions on policy. |” Clark declined to talk to reporters after the con- vention. LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY, COMP. 77/78 iaRLIAWEN, sUILBINGS, VICTORIA, u.C., V8V-1X4 By Donna Vallieres Herald Staff Writer Negotiations between Terrace District teachers and the school board con- cluded recently with “amicable” discussions according to Ted Wells, secretary for the district. Negotiations have been going on since September and the agreement reached has ben for salary increases within the six per cent Anti- Inflation Boards guidelines. “{ think both sides are happy with the results,’ Wells said, and all that remains if for both bodies to ratify the agreement. Other issues besides salary were brought up during negotiations, bul Wells declined to release details on specific issues until after ratification. KIMBERLEY, B.C. (CP) — Opposition leader Dave ‘Barrett told an audience of 400 Saturday that the Inco layoffs at Sudbury, Ont. and Thompson, Man. would never have happened under an NDP government. Barrett said the former NDP provincial govern- ments policy of taking over companies that were in danger of closing down saved jobs. “Companies in British Columbia are our Incos,” said Barrett, here as part of an NDP caucus meeting i with community groups. Barrett told party faithful sto e defeat provincial election, and “get up off the floor.” ; “A lot of people got hurt in 1975, and it was a terrible way to learn, but next time things will be different.” He said one of the lessons learned in defeat was that i his followers had been too trusting. “ NEEDS MONEY > Barrett told the audience - t expect soaring property assessments next spring because the Social #61 @-- Teacher salary | talks over “We're very happy with the negotiations went with the board,” stated Audy Barr who negotiated for the teachers. The teachers are not happy with the set of rules laid down by the AIB, Barr said, which “singled out teachers'’ with changes to the regulations last month. Teachers’ salaries will now be Jess than the cost of living increase, Barr stated. However, he stressed that none of this was the fault of the local school board which he said was “very good to otiate with.”’ arr also declined to discuss specifics of the negotiations, but said teachers would vote on contract ratification on Nov. Barrett warns of lay-offs government needs money it would have saved if suc- cession duties had been re- tained. Bill King (NDP— RevelstokeSlocan) told visitors who had prepared submissions that the provincial government was considering anti-union legislation under the name of right-to-work bills. He said he suspected the government would have already introduced the legislation had the political climate been right. A local representative of the steelworkers union said some claims have not been processed by the WCB after more than a year. King said “‘the problems . . . Started right after the election when board members left—the one remaining (WCB) panel has had to handle ail the cases, creating a backlog.” Caucus members at- tending the meeting were King, Lorne Nicolson (Nelson-Creston), Charles ’ Barber (Victoria), Don Lockstead (Mackenzie), Alex Macdonald. (Van- couver East), and Chris D'Arey (RosslandTrail). SPEC to meet with Kitimat council Herald staff A group of _ con- servationists, denied per- mission to set up a public displya in the City Centre Mall Saturday, will ask Kitimat Council who has the right to set policy on these matters. vie- resident of the Canadian cientific Society for Pollutlion and En- vironmental Control, said SPEC will ask council if the district still controls a section of the mall built over a public sidewalk when the centre was constructed, She said some _ councillors believe the district never relinquished control over a sidewalk fronting several stores on the property where the mall now stands, The Kitimat City Centre Merchants Association recently denied SPEC permission to set up a booth in the mall on Community Organization Day, Satur- day, though other societiés were allowed to set up displays. SPEC members and sympathizers picketed’ the mall in protest Satur- y. In a letter to the society, association president Vern Knutson said his group is non-partisan and “the mall is open to charitable and non-political oriented (sic) groups only. All the costs of maintainig the mall are borne by the tenants and the landlord, Lehndorff Property Management Lid., and therefore they have control of the functions that are held in the mall.” In a telephone interview Sunday, Knutson said SPEC was refused permission after he called a special meeting of the association to deal with the request. SPEC, which opposes the proposal to build an oil port at Kitimat, is a group with litical overtones,”’ he said, Knutson said he would not discuss the matter further after he was asked if a local women’s group, which was allowed to set up an in- formation booth on rape, could be considered political in nature. About 10 to 15 people picketed in the mall from 1 pam, to 3 p.m. Saturday in response to the merchant association's decision, said SPEC treasurer Bill Mikaloff. Though several icketers were members of PEC, some non-members joined the protest. Picketers nded out leaflets charging the association with sen- sorship and sicrimination. No material on the pipeline roposal was distributed. PEC had __ originally planned a video presen- tation on oil tankers. Asked if the association's decision denied the group the right to freedom of speech, Knutson said “we want our freedom as well. They could have gone out on the sidewalk (surrounding the mall), The mai] belongs to us.” In the past, said Mrs. Mikaloff, SPEC has received permission to set up displays from Kin Agencies, the hire managers who run the mall. This is the first time jper- mission had to be securted directly from the association. Knutson, however, said the association has always made the decision and t agency has: been acting on their instructions in the past. SPEC recelved __per- mission three times in the past to set up displays said . Mikaloff. She said Knutson told her SPEC may be allowed to set up in the mall in the future. The mall is the only area of town where crowds of pea le congregate, she said. 0 the museum and library are too small. After the group meets with council, if it turns out the merchant’s association has control of the mall, J ess we'll just have to skip it, They’li have the right to discriminate legally.”