5 Bot end with: it. ° ' Serving the . Progressive ' ~ Northwest 1 “TEGISLATIVE LIBRARY , PARLIMENT BULLDINGS ‘Victoria, 1 BC. . iva 1d” “on council : _ pga with the cud, eb undoubtedly wil wt! oat the very first meeling at this: new meron in evember. : the traditional syste: of staff ‘consultation; ree The biggest single issue contained in Soutar’ ‘Friday, May 13, 1983 extensive clean-up stage.. -hectare fire Is Ilsted as under .control. employees put out a fire that began In the Nass Valley "This one hectare forest fire along Highway 161s now In the At Cranberry Junction a 2.5 BC Timber - a Predicted ty ‘half-time. positions. ‘That. Wa ; same as Listy year, but the ansesemer eventually reversed. when. the: province increased its venue sharing-{o the city. instead of reducing. it as ‘Souta . town’ s business would have ground te to 8 hall. garbage dump. The fire hazard near Terrace’ Is “high”, but It borders on extreme’ in the Nass valley. Hillert. Photo) - oa {Dan | | Syria rejects draft on Israeli withdrawal NETANYA, Israel} (cP) — and U.S. ‘negotiators faited to completa work 2 today on the texts of an agreement to withars | Israeli’ troops © “from” Lebanon, after” S - pejected th draft: accord: that: ‘Would : “be a ‘first step toward removing | all foreign troops, from : I - ‘Lebanon: ls An: Teraelt epokesmian ‘aundl that’ ‘Israeli, 7 | Lebanese and U.S. negotiators will mest agaln , ‘Sunday to work on‘ the’ texts. He sald the ° problem was lack: of Hime; not any’ ‘uriexpected ; ‘difficulties, The spokesman. Avi Pamer of the. Foreign a Minisiry, refused to cominent on Syria’ s new. ‘ ?. pejection of-the accord. “We are dealing today with an agreement with Lebanon, and that Ls all aa ~ that was ‘discussed, ” tie sald. - ; The Israeli spokesman said it is necessary to* ' study the ‘texts: very ‘carefully “to ‘avold _ surprise in.the future.” “Today's meeting had been expected to he the : ‘final -one- in. the negotations that began last. — December. But the wrinkle over the text and 7 po “MONTREAL . > ‘Transit, (CP) -— system - maintenance workers were . sb. today, back on the - ending an illegal-strike that shut ‘down. the bus. and Israeli, Lebanese > accord: one, ~ respect the. “4 am. ‘EDT deadline fox a. return to. work bet by the Quebec ‘government, , which. . ‘just after midnight passed a law placing the * union, under trusteeship wid atrippiiig ita subway system” ‘for two executive, of. all powers. . * About. 600. members’. “attended the meeting vand : the Syrian position ralsed new doubt about the, on 7 Jsraclhas said it will not pull its 25,000 troops ; out of Lebanon untess Syria ‘and the Palestine _ Libefation . Organization also withdraw thelr - troops: Syria has an estimated $5,000 troops in ” ‘Lebanon and the PLO 10,000. : 2 _ | News of the Syrian rejection came: from ‘Damascus. where: Foreign” Minister Abdel- - ‘Halim Khaddam. said the draft: accord to be: signed by the ‘U. S., Israel and Lebancn isabad (We have rejected itin form andubsiance,” he added... me Syrian officials and the official media have oo ey been’ criticizing the: draft accord. for several days, but .Khaddam's comment, after seeing... - the draft . brought by Lebanese Foreign ~*~ Minister Elie Salem, was seen as. ‘the: first - - formal Syrian rejection. The [Israeli-Lebanese-U.S, meeting in a’ veaside hotel in Netanya, 2 = Kiemelnss north of opted 13 per cent in favor of ‘the return to work: © : Union president Jacques Morissette and five other men, Ancluding at least three other executive members, commiszdlon. ; ‘Leaving the : meeting ~early today, Morissette sald _. the union will insist that all - six be reinstated and that - the 17 men suspended since e- start. of ‘the. strike - Wednesday get full pay. - ' - “if nothing happens we'll be having a meeting next | week to decide what to do,” he said, “Even thoyah I'm |” not the president,-I’m still 2 Thember of the union and [ will be at that meeting.” Trusteeship may only “-reatore calm temporarily, 1 - were” fired... Thuriday by ‘the transit i: Tel avive was attended’ by, David: Kimche of israel, ‘Antoine Fattal of Lebanon and U.S. today’ "-speeial envoy Morris Draper and their, aides.. : “We' stand today: on the’ threshold of a new ‘, eva between Lebanon and Israel,’ Kimche told. “the session, “‘an-era during which the. state of war will no longer exist and in which there will ' *"be-mutual respect. for the iridependence, - territorial . integrity and sovereignty ‘of both - ~ Lebanon and Israel.” |” «Israel agreed in principle to the terms of the -withdrawal accord last Friday, but asked: for “gome clarifications, - ‘Reagan's special Mideast envoy, Philip Habib, . travelled between Beirut and Jerusalem to negotiate the Jast details which were ‘discussed | ard 1,5. Président - -Lebanesé spokesman Daoud. Sayegh quoted . *. Fattal as saying the agreement is “balanced and reasonable.” Sayegh had said he’ hoped _ -«Eebanon* would get Syria's . agreement. to ‘said “ Mortsette, “People are not | very happy that” ‘ somebody ‘else: is. ‘putting ‘their nose in‘ our bus! — Sooner or later som: “wil happen.” manne : ‘mechanic | sald bine? “We'll get back at them “during | the. | néxt - contract negotatiors. n Labor. Minister Reynald Frechette said in Quebec City three trustees: will be named today . or. Monday. _ ‘The law: includes fines of up: to.. $10,000' for ‘union leaders and $50,000 for the union... for every. day of defiance. Individuals who’ remained on strike face the loas of two days’: pay for every-day: they did not report: to work. - ‘ - Premier -Rene Levesque sald the émergency law Is withdraw, and sald the pact does. not harm the’ interests of the Arab states, Montreal transit workers back on: -job “Intended to “glean up that “inion arid get the general - _ memibership to take control ‘ ‘of a union that doesn’t — belong to.them any more.” Transit _ commission , chairman | Lawrence Hanigen saidthe law “could. be the turning point in labor - relatiofis"’” at the: stele: plagued commission. Rat -. trusteeship. changes the _ - because - the people in: charge of ‘the - inion, and alsé because we. have made internal changes ourselves,” Hanigan, sald.‘ ‘The ‘atrike was the 34th . _stoppage, legal. or illegal, since 1965 of the bus and subway, system, which handJes 600,000 riders a day. The maintenance workers picketed their garages Thursday . : : ‘Terrace residents Nolume 77 No. 93 alive and well By KEITH ALFORD _ Herald Staff Writer . TERRACE — Alderman Chub Down has dubbed it “the soup kitchen affair'’ . and says it has. done a . considerable amount of damage to Terrace. Others . . call it-simply election. TV-- reports done by. BCTV and CHC. Local ‘engineer _John Morgan opened . the last council meeting. by “telling ~Mayor Helmut Giesbrecht, a | have noted with. great - ae the lack of response. “networks: -to get’ them. ‘to return “and do shail we say”, a fair two-sided story of this: “ community.” Morgan’s view is *'this is a lovely little. community . the business community - is out there. struggling, "holding ¢ on by its fingernails ” and succeeding r might add.” * ~The mayor, who doesn’t : have. cablevision, asked. «.-~ : Morgan if he had:seen, the- shew shown’ the second evening, a followup done as the result of complaints by local merchants on the original coverage. “Tm » told,” said the mayor, ‘the ‘second one just reaffirmed | whatthey said on thefirst, BO provincial élection; he - added, “I'm not dbout to be manipulated into making some statement for one side or the other.” : Down suggested the city take ‘out ads, in | the’ Vancouver newspapers - saying that “businesses are not going bankrupt; ‘people - are not starving | to death’ in . Terrace." \” Alderman Alan Soutar: : told Giesbrecht, “] think what the publie is beginning to: believe is that you are ° condoning the action of, this had. done ‘resulting - in _negative ‘publicity. for. the .. town, .and said if they were. really ‘concerned ‘you should do something to . Clean up.your ‘act ... taking | pleasure: in. childish .anties. If the four of you had . exercised” some bdusiness- like approach we wouldn't have: had haif the * negative “unemployed: a: “-Yepresentation and those . diocese. of “summed up his feellngs.at __ the public question period at, nd “Btop . press we're had. in the. last : eight months,"’ the mayor told his opponents. : ‘According ‘to. Hallsor, had -esimell “gone | Beyond: t the: wis - _ deadline that was only three’ days away, the city: would not” °.- - legally have been able to write'a single. cheque ‘and. the: ree up. think we owe the. tair’ that are devastated: by the economy possibly. more than the person who is doing quite ail right, " Glesbreckt - “paid,” BiXBaldwin, education cy ordinator for the Anglican house. refer'to the work that is Caledonia, . Baldwin ‘said, "to. being done in our ‘church. -hall as being the basement was a little derogatory both «td our chureh and the people ‘ who come there through no. fault of their own.” BCTV ‘empties cup me - Herald Staff Writer . TERRACE — It could be billed as the “five minutes that rocked Terrace” — or at least ame. of It. And: the blast i iB... still echoing: It. was BCTV's. & "Riding Report” aired. on. ‘the evening . ‘anybody that thought they news.on April 25. Although used aa a report on the entire were winning any” points basically blew it:on the second night. The end result -was we got.a double dose of the’ “negative . . you're referring to,” Giesbrecht . told Morgan, — | a ' Giesbrecht said he had no specific details at the last - cominittee of the whole -meeling of the effects of the broadcasts, but received no-answer. “ALE “have ia people saying that they haye had credit cut off ... 80 far we ‘have no evidence of -that,”’ : Giesbrecht said. -Morgan ’ told the mayor he would. get - him some specific items. ° ” Myhen you complain about,” something the press covers, ‘they do a number on you the. “second, time around, so you better get your’ facts straight or you are risking _ something.” Recalling a similar story ‘that appeared “in a national publication in... * $978,-Gieabrecht noted that © in print.one can at Jeast get | a letier to the editor printed in reply, but TV was more : difficult to ded] with. - -Giesbrecht - said “4 took © dome -excéptions | to the ‘suggestion. that somehow those unemployed ‘people were supposed to be. swept under thé rug in favor af the fact’ that maybe ebody sold five more -cars-than he did last fall.” Noting thatthe reports were done in the midst of a ‘their. ( “area, it centred on Terrace. The report described Terrace\"'as. one “of the hardest hit ‘areas in B.C.”. by. the ‘recession with | “40° per cent unemployment, ‘bankruptcies widespread,’ " and poverty plainly visible." *~- “At a small village near Terrace” BCTV: found ‘Doug, Holberg who says he-was the one who threw the’ eggs .at Premier Bill Bennett out of frustration at being unable: to find work, Terrace was described as lying to the southwest of Prince: Rupert, and having trduble with its main industry of forest area for a year and that B.C. Timber had a monopoly on the: -mills here: Two boarded up store fronts were shown. The first v was insurance cut off-and their... the old Gardenside store. The second was. the former SYWIP site next to Gus’ pool hall. The arcade was said to be “one business that did manage to stay open” by the Owner: working 16 hours a day, sevendays a week;” From the video-games, the camera spun to: “the soup : kitcheri. “which feeds up to 300 people per day.” At the- Giesbrecht is concerned kitchen three people were interviewed: a woman sf ‘or the cellar of the town...” had products, It was reported that no trees had been‘ cut inthe _ uégling with little money, one man who said the kitchen provided . - his only'meal of the day, and another man who sald he had lost everything including his family due to the hard times, Frank Howard was interviewed for 32 seconds in front of a sawmill, Joanne Monaghan was shown In her Kitimat ; ‘shop. and interviewed in her Terrace campaign headquarters for a total 2 seconds of coverage. ‘The piece cloted back.at the soup kitchen with another. interview, The final shot was 2 maf furning over his coffee cup onhis knee while the reporter sald, “this iscup empty ae ane quallty used parts tram . 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