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Who pays for
abortions?

By GARRY FAIRBAIRN
WASHINGTON (CP) — Despite five months of
intensive effort, Congress has been unable to resolve

its battle over government fu of abortions.
While low-income women in the U.S. turn to illegal
abortionists and a $60-billion appropriations bill

remains unpassed, the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives are deadlocked in the controversy.

The House, whose 435 members are facing re-
election campaigns in 1978, is stubbornly insisting that
the bill re-affirm current law banning use of federal
funds for abortions unless the woman's life is in
danger from the pregnancy. Since August, the U.S.
government has enforced that law, refusing to pay for
abortions under medical programs for low-income
persons.

The Senate has voted with equal consistency and
larger margins for provisions that would allow such
abortions on additional grounds. Despite the larger
margins and the fact only one-third of the 100 senators
face 1978 elections, the Senate has been grudgingly
yielding ground in its efforts to reach a compromise.

It began by proposing that abortions be funded in
cases of rape, incest or possible ‘serious health
damage.” When the Hause rejected that as too loose,
the Senate changed the last condition to ‘‘severe and
jong anne physical health damage.”’ That too was
rejected.

REQUIRE REPORTS
The latest Senate compromise proposal suggested
that federally-funded abortions be allowed in cases of
rape or incest that has been reported to a police or
health agency, a condition designed to deter
fraudulent claims of rape or incest. That passed the
Senate 44 to 21, but was rejected in two hours by the

House, 205 to 183.

Meanwhile, federal .health-and welfare programs
‘have been hampered by the failure -to ‘pass: -their
verdue- appropriations bill.- Although temporary-
funding resolutions have been passed, several
ograms have been curtailed and state programs
ve been affected by restraints on federal funding.

Welfare workers went without pay for a time in New
York, 612 persons were laid off in Texas and there was
no money for programs for the aged in Idaho.

More seriously, there have been reports that women
prevented from getting federallyfunded abortions

ve turned to illegal abortionists and been injured. In
one controversial case, pro-abortion groups say a
Texas woman died because she was forced to go to an
illegal abortionist.
ey predict that if the current restrictive law
continues, deaths from illegal abortions will be far
more than the four recorded in 1975, when laws were
more relaxed.

The anti-abortionists, however, point to government
Statistics showing 855,000 legal abortions - in their
view, killings - in the United States in 1975. That year.
there was one abortion for every four live births an
total abortions were up 343 percent from 1970.

President Carter and others supporting the House
stand argue that the choice should be up to the states
whether tofund abortions with their own money. Most
observers say that policy would Jead to restricted
abortions in the majority of states and geographic
inequities.

Another forcus of controversy is the Supreme Court
ruling that abortion is a “legal right” which cannot be
denied but for which governments are not required to

Ppro-aborti
abortion groups attack that approach as
morally contradictory, while their foes depict it as
eminently reasonable and similar to allowing people
to buy luxuries - but only with their own money.
Whatever the result of the congressional struggle,
the bitter abortion controversy is certain to go on for
many years, with vehement groups on each side ex-
polting the emotions of a divided public.

HERMAN

OFF Ynivarot Prey Syndicate

“When are you gonna understand? We're not
. jat-set’ we're ‘train-set."

- Canadians convinced —

of energy shortage |

VANCOUVER (CP) —
The biggest problem of
the energy crisis is
convincing Canadians
that no matter how well
they manage their af-
fairs, there is going to be
an energy shortage in 10
years, G. M. MacNabb,
federal deputy minister
of energy, mines and
resources said Tuesday.

MacNabb was here to
speak on Canada’s
energy strategy in a
series of addresses on
energy issues at Simon
Fraser University.
'“We have about 10
years lead time to bring
into production the
equivalent of between
nine and 21 Syncrude tar
sand developments, or 18
to 42 Pickering (Ont.)
nuclear power stations,”’

MacNabb said in an in-
terview. “And that’s in
addition to the new
energy projects now
under way.”

The Pickering nuclear
power station 20 miles
east of Toronto produces
more than two million
kilowatts of electricity.
. Consumption of energy
in the western world has
been increasing at 7.5 per
cent a year for the past
few years, which means
consumption has been
doubling every 10 years,
MacNabb said.

Canada and some other
‘countries now are using
less oil because of con-
servation meassres,
motor vehicles that go

farther on a gallon of

asoline, and more and
etter insulation of

houses, to reduce this 7.5
per cent yearly increase.
LOOK AHEAD

"Despite these savings,
we must look ahead 10
and ‘more years to
Canada’s growing de-
pendency on imported
oil,’ MacNahb said. ‘It's
obvious that Saudi
Arabia, with the world’s
bi est oil reserves, is
going ay a er
part in filling eaees
‘oil requirements. But we
do not know how Saudi
Arabia, and other
Mideast oil producers,
‘will react to our growing

dependency on oil im-

ris.

MacNabb said
Canada's oil supply ‘is
limited even considering
the established reserves
of conventional oil and

_ going

the commitments to all
the oil sands.

In 1990 all automobiles
made in Canada must
average 24 miles a gallon
in mixed city and high:
way driving, and 33 miles
a gallon in 1945. ;

“But even with better
gas mileage for motor
vehicles, better and more
widespread use of in-
sulation for homes, and
other . conservation
measures, we're still
to have a con-
tinuing energy gap.
‘We're not going to.
independent of imports,”

he said.
“But this three per cent
is significant,” he added:

' “it-is equivalent to the

heating needs of half of
all the single-family
dwellings in. Canada.”

“Your shot’s improving — you shot the moose call:right out of his mouth,” |

Competitive policy legislation

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Warren Allmand, federal
minister of consumer and
corporate affairs, said
Tuesday he hopes to have

Canada’s new  com-
petition policy legislated
into law by next May.
Allmand, who in
troduced the revised bill
for first reading in the
Commons last week, told
a seminar sponsored b
the University of Britis
Columbia's faculty ol
commerce and business
administration he would
like to have the bill before

the Commons commitiee
by Christmas. |

“But even if we get it
through the House, it still
has to face the Senate
finance committee,
where we seem to have
fewer supporters,”’ he
said. ©

Asked what op-
portunity there would be
ior further representa-
tions on the revised bill,
Allmand said there likely
would not be any changes
in the basic principles of
the law.

Allmand said in: a

_ luncheon speech, that the
_ federal government isnot .
opp ‘to greater

concentration in par-
ticular Canadian = in-
dustries. ;

“On the contrary, the
provisions relating to
mergers and
specialization
agreements would make
it possible for increased
concentration to come
about,’” he said, “We do
not believe that ‘big’ is by
itself necessarily good or
bad, It depends on the
circumstances of any

Economies languishing _

WINNIPEG (CP) —
World economies appear
to be languishing under
increasing government
control, H. Ronald’
Fraser, chairman of
Hudson Bay Mining and
Smelting Co., Ltd., said
Wednesday.

Fraser told the Win-
nipeg Rotary Club there
are many institutions,
such as bar societies and,
medical councils, which
still govern themselves

on a democratic basis.

But most of these
bodies are under
pressure from central
governments “‘to subject
them to external controls,
regulate them or cir-
cumscribe their powers.”

Many professional
bodies function as
statistical, informational
or educational groups. He
said they seldom have
any policy and, at most,
“constitute a lobby
reflecting common de-
nominator views of their
industry to the various
branches of govern-
ment."

Fraser said groups
such as chambers of
commerce carry more

clout because of their
large membership and
because they tend to

involve themselves more
in major “political ques-
tions.

However, the informal
entente bipween industry
and go ment which
marked the decades

immediately after the
Second World War
“appears to have broken
down and the world
economies appear to be
languishing under in-
creasin, bureaucratic
control.”

A majer problem, he
said, is that “we have
failed to develop in-
stitutions through which
the processes of
democracy can operate
in the type of economic
society which we have
developed.”’

He referred to London
during the last half of the
17th century which had
its own crafts and guilds
that regulated trade
trained journeymen an
dealt with qualification of
workers and quality of
products.

“A citizen of that time
accepied that he had

many roles in society,”
Fraser said. ;
“What f am urging is
that when issues come u
we should all take a har

look at what we believe .

needs to be done and can
be done in our particular
areas of activity. ;
“And if there is any
structuring to be done, it
is done from the grass
roots so that ideas can he
developed and decisions

taken where they he-.

Jong—where the
knowledge is. and where
the action is.”

Text of his speech was
released prior to
delivery.

senior depu

given industry whether or .

not greater concentration
offers the - potential for
significantly : increasing
efficiency and increasing
our. international com-
petitiveness.”’

GREATER POTENTIAL
‘He added, however,

that industries which are
highly concentrated also

have a greater potential
to engage in practices of
monopali E

be highly restrictive, to

the detriment of the .

economy as a whole.
: Roy. M. Davidson,

the bureau of competition
policy, tald the seminar
that the area of civil
review of ‘business
practices has been
considerably expanded in
the competition bill, and
this will become the
principal responsibility of
the competition board.
The present Restrictive
Trade Practices Com-
mission will cease to
exist.

“The existing criminal
provision is deleted and
mergers are to be treated
as a matter of civil Jaw,”’
he said. The criteria are
such that only a small
minority of alk mergers
will ever be challenged
by the advocate.’”

Footwear limited

OTTAWA (CP) — The
federal government
today announced a three-
year program to limit im-

ports of footwear. The |

program is designed to
protect jobs in omestic
industry.

Imports will be limited
to approximately 32.5
million pairs annually,
the average of imports
between 1974 and 1976,
the department of in-

dustry trade and com-
merce said in a release.
The new quotas for the
next three years amount
to about a one-third.
rollback from import
levels in 1977, a depart-
ment official said.
Finance Minister Jean
Chretien sald in the
release the governmient
will monitor prices to
ensure the new limits on
imported footwear do not
drive. up prices unduly.

4 minal. main:

wind was sweeping through

tion that can.

director of .

Civil war threat

in fiction
by RICHARD JACKSON

Ottawa - Written in 1969, two years before the Oc-
tober Crisis of the FLQ terror, Bruce Powe's “Killing
Ground” is now on the paperback book racks with an
impact of undeclared war. ;

The reprinting comes at a time of new crisis when it
no longer is unacceptable to speak of civil war
erupting out of threatened Quebec se aration.

Nor is it now unspeakable to speculate - as man
Canadians do - whether the federal government will
use force, if necessary, to hold. Canada together.

Bruce Powe wrote long before Rene Levesque’s
separatists came to power, but he writes in the context
of t . :

A weak and indecisive government vacillates In
Ottawa. In Quebec, the moderates lose control of the
separation-bound government to revolutionaries-of-
the-left. ’

Reluctantly, Ottawa assigns a senior Army field
officer to recruit and train an Airborn Anti-Terrorist
Strike Force. oo.

But the separatists - a deadly combination of
mutinous Queber-based units of the Canadian Armed
Forces, hot-headed provisional guerillas and the
provincial and Montreal police - move first. And
swiftly.

They overrun the St. Hubert base of Mobile Com-
mand, and to eliminate Ottawa’s claim to any part of
Montreal, send their guerilla and terror squads into
the streets and homes of the city's midtown and west
end to sweep the English from the island.

Still reluctantly, the dithering Ottawa government
orders it special Airborne Strike Force to secure
Dorval Airport. - ; oo,

The Strike Force commander, choppering in with
his commandos, tells it like it was... or, if the worst
comes to the worst ... may be.

‘A giant foot hadkicked the anthill of Montreal.

“T looked down through the haze at tiny car's bulgin
the highways like blocked blood vessels. In the rai

ards long lines of box cars burned. On the aprons of
rval, several planes, one a big jet, sprawled,
broken-winged infernos of flame and greasy smoke.

“We had arrived too late.

“A glance from the flight deck told me the story.
The six-lane highway had solidified into the ultimate
traffic jam. The side streets and even lawns of homes
were a mosaic of stranded abandoned cars.
“Clusters of refugees at around campfires, in-
deserted suburban yards. Others, mostly with
children, trudged along the blocked roadsides in
wavering lines with suitcases, packs and youngsters
on their shoulders, on the way ta Dorval.

“No trains were in sight, derailed coaches straddled

the rails.
“In the airport parking lots, the refugees were

gathered in thelr thousands, crouching or prone by

eir cars. On the roof of the occupied terminal
provinionals were prancing and running up and down
aug inte the crowd. My imagination heard their
ese are not complete quotes of entire excerpts,
but a quick swimming of the action line.
Down go the Airborne choppers, in charge the
commandos from an underground level to the ter-

Aen

_{In the silence following the short fire-fight with the
provisionals, there was a rising sound, as if a gigantic
the shattered windows.

“The floor was covered with people, stretched flat,
toe-to-toe, head-to-head. They were all jammed

lau

4 together amid broken glass, strewn baggage and
4 upturned furniture. e agene

_ “The wind-like sound was a long, low moan the rose
in a mournful chorale.
“There was a rip of machine gun fire and then
silence.
“You there. You solders, there,’ came a voice.
‘Come on out with your hands up, or we let them have
it. All of them.” . ;
wats was the grizzly beginning of the Canadian civil
It continues for 286 chilling pages.
ofore in_the next two colums; but you'll have to get
Killing Ground” to learn how: it ends ... and be
prepared for surprise and shock.

OAP payments
rise

OTTAWA (CP) — The ‘The increases are the
basic old-age pension will 14th since the pensions
rise to $153.44 monthly in were linked to increases
January, an increase of in the cost of living and
$3.01 over cheques now — are provided by law.
issued, the federal Olage msions are
welfare department paid to all those 65 years
announced Wednesday, or older—regardless . of

The new monthly total income.
for single persons Guaranteed income
receiving both the old-age supplements are based on
security pension and the need and the amount paid
maximum guaranteed in- vaties in accordance with
come supplement will be income.
$26)..06 The maximum spouse's
allowance, paid to per-
sons between 60 and 65

For « married couple,
‘both pensioners, the
combination of the basic

nsion and the max-
mum. supplement will
Mean cheques totalling
$498 a month.

old-ag. security pen-
sioners, will increase to
$249 monthly, up from the
present $244.12,

Baby bonus
increase

OTTAWA (CP) —
Family allowances or
baby bonuses will rise to
$25.68 starting in January
cheques, an increase of
$1.79 for each child under
the age of 16, the welfare
department announced
Wednesday.

However the amount
may differ in Quebec and
Alberta which vary the ‘he government in 1977
rates payable according Paid more than $173
to the age or number of ‘million in family allow-
children in a family, But ances each month to 3.6
payments in these two Million families. The
provinces must average Cheques covered 7.2
$25.68, million children. —

Special allowances
payable to foster parents,
welfare agencies, |
government departments
and institutions main:
taining children also will
increase to $25.68 from
$23.89, ,

The department said

years oc! sge married to,