i a 977 a eat ee PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Wednesday May 25, tebariteltiitamtatlets ‘ eters! atetstetetetoneseceterstosete heancaLeetaace Heeat taeatetalet the heral Terrace - 635-6357 = GN Kitimat 632-5706 been partly discredited this Published by, % week, but the furore has i i i & thrust the British govern- Sterling Publishers Ltd. ment into a top-level in- vestigation of this country’s trade practices. The accusations, ublished in The Daily Mail, Fost much of their force REE ohare Be ‘v nse ig LONDON (CP) — Allegations that British Leyland has used bribery to secure export sales have volished every weekday at 1212 Kalum St., Terrace, B.C. A member of Varitied Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration nember 1201. Postage paid In cash, return postage guarantead. Seer ar sie DVERTISING MANAGER PUBLISHER Es when a Leyland executive & admittedhe faked at leas AYE EHSES GORDON W. HAMILTON 2 one of the key documents MANAGING EDITOR KITIMAT MANAGER used as sence hy the ALLAN KRASNICK W.S. ‘KIM’ KIMBLE Police have since charged ss: = him with forgery. . NOTE OF COPYRIGHT % . But the state-owned car The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any & manufacturing company, advertisement produced and-or editorial or photographic = and the agency that monitors its operations, content published in the Herald. Reproduction is not n have both launched in- permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. SRS er ' Choosing policy |. (25 words or less) What does the government do when it is faced with a serious environmental problem like that of Eurasian milfoil in Okanagan Lake? Does it call in a bevy of botanists to prepare a report? Does it consult other jurisdictions about how they have handled similar problems? - Does it send scientists to seek out a solution? Of course not. Such methods are simplistic and archaic compared to the one being used by En- vironment Minister Jim Nielsen. He knows that Eurasian milfoil is a weed that is spreading to such an extent that it seriously threatens the iuture of the Okanagan basin. So what does he do? He holds a contest. That’s right, a contest — like you might have for “Why I like Rover Dog Food” (25 words or less) — with grand prizes, runners-up and the whole bit. A recent news release from the Environment Ministry states that the government ‘‘will offer prizes of $10,000, $5,000, and $2,500 in a competition for conceptual drawings and engineering specifics of a device designed to cure the problem, The second stage of the competition will permit the Ministry of the Environment to award an ad- ditional amount up to $50,000 for the contestant who, upon request, fabricates equipment and demonstrates its performance. ‘Here we have a government minister who for one-and-a-half years has headed a department soly ~ Global busin quiries into its practices, al- leged by The Mail to include both bribes and extravagant commissions to foreign agents. in the Middle East and elsewhere. And this week Prime Minister James Callaghan ordered Trade Secretary Edmund Dell to report on the commercial practices— or malpractices—éf ‘British industry generally. Prime Minister Trudeau, with Callaghan, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and other industrial leaders, condemned corruption. in international business during their summit meeting here earlier this month. Their joint communique said: ‘We consider that irregular practices and ee: sapbpsbon™ Improper conduct should be eliminated from inter- national trade, banking and commerce, and we welcome the work being done toward international agreements prohibiting illicit payments.” In Canada, a Commons committee has been in- vestigating agents fees on sales of Candu nuclear reactors in South Korea and Argentina, and charges that Crown-owned Polymar Corp. provided kickbacks to foreign customers enabling them to avoid local taxes. In the United States, authorities are investigating similar charges involving the Lockheed and Boeing aircraft companies. And at the United Nations, a committee is looking for Interpreting the news ess moves on bribes ways to enforce an’ in- ternational ban .on matpractice. | Imposing a single inter- national ethic of business behavior is no simple matter. ; As Callaghan told the Commons, part of the onus lies with the. customer countries to stop un- derhanded deals. Itis nosecret thatin many countries, including some in the Middie East, payments that appear to be bribes are accepled as normal prac- ice. Under British law, in fact, bribes paid abroad to secure contracts can be deducted as a& business expense against taxes. . The Guardian reports that Callaghan “‘is not in favor of concerned with the environment, who has access to the top scientific minds and environmental experts in the world, whose job it is to provide direction and leadership, and the best he can come up with to solve a menace which threatens the very life of Okanagan Lake is to hold a contest. What can we look for next? A contest on the provincial budget (25 pages or less) ? A contest on ® when to hold the next election (25 months or less) ? Is this government? When Mr. Nielsen was appointed Environment Minister he frankly admitted that he knew nothing about the environment. Apparently, nothing has changed. If not, watch out - changes to Jand commission act are upcoming and Nielsen is the Minister in charge. Given his present record, perhaps the provincial government would be well advised to hold a contest on who should be the next minister of the en- vironment, | Thought for food Although the purpose of schools is to educate, not only in straight academic subjects but in other matters as well, they have been remiss in the field of nutrition. Sure, all schools have health classes in which students are taught the dry facts about proteins, vitamins, enzimes and so on, but at the same time, school cafeterias are full of sweet junk foods, overcooked vegetables and white “simulated” bread. In addition most school functions are provided with potato chips (some brands don’t have any potato in them), pop and doughnuts. Regardless of what is being taught in formal health classes, students are bieng encouraged to eat food that not only lacks nutrition, but, in some cases, is downright harmful. ‘The problem lies in the fact that teachers, principals, school board trustees and parnets alike are, themselves, ignorant of what goes into the food that goes into their mouths. Indeed, even doctors are regrettably uninformed about the effects of certain foods and chemicals on the human body. To compound the felony, doctors _ Often make a point of discrediting legitimate nutritionists simply because they don’t have , 5, ‘ : Even so, improvements can be made simply by using common sense. Without knowing anything about nutrition, most people are aware that pop and potato chips, except in very moderate quan- tities, are dangerous to health. We know, without being told, that processed, packaged desserts are sugar and little more. If parents would stop indulging and schools stop providing, the diets of today’s children could not help but improve. JOHANNESBURG (Reuter) — Prime Minister John Vorster’s assertion to reporters after his recent meeting in Vienna with U.S. Vice-President Walter Mondale that “my con- science is clear” is taken by political analysts here as a clear indication of the enormous ideological gulf between the white South African administration and other Western governments, For the fact remains that South Africa’s black majority population con- tinues to face a life of humiliation, degradation and blatant discrimination. There. have been some minor changes, especially in the big cities. Blacks now share public parks with whites, there have been moves to integrate the races in sports and many of the petty apartheid signs on public buildings have been removed. But observers here are unaware of any change that has fundamentally altered the status of even the most brilliant and highly qualified black person. From the moment a black child becomes aware of his surroundings he is told by his parents that the white man is his boss or master. If he gets to school—and there is no compulsory education for blacks—his own culture is swamped in a sea of propaganda aimed at convincing him that the white man made South Africa a dynamic and wealthy country. Blacks make up 70 per cent of South Africa’s 22 million population. Yet the state spends about $650 a year educating a white child and $40 on a black child. If he has completed a secondary education, the black youth is then con- fronted with the inability to move freely around the job, the inability to express country in search of the best . Q “Frankly, J don’t know what he sees in her.” Behind the news his. talents because of preferential job treatment for whites, and the inability toearn the same money asa white for doing the same job. In the gold mines, a white foreman may make $800 a month; a black with similar responsibilities would be lucky to earn $320 a month. Government officials maintain that the reasonn- for the wage gap is that the country does not have the money. In addition to the problems of job inequality, the black worker is also confronted by a apartheid laws connected with. his , work. For a start, there are the influx control regulations, especially significant for the \ mine worker in the Tran- svaal gold reef who is allowed to leave his homeland on a specific con- tract, normally not jess than six months. pote In effect, influx control makes it illegal for a man to live with his wife'and family during the tefm of his contract. The mitiers live in company compdéynds. Most political. analysts, especially those to the left of the South African, centzé, rest their hopes on the demise of the republic’s British-style government and its replacement with a tiered system unique in Af- rica. - A cabinet committee has been meeting for several months to discuss ways of JUBILEE YEAR Puzzle of S.African whites ‘moving away from the British system. Sources said the changes will involve a switch to an executive. presidency and greatly expanded powers for the present multi-racial cabinet council. The plan is also said to in- clude a system of local government in which the urban black would, for the first time, have a real measure of control over problems such as housing and education. The. build-up of in- ternational pressure against the Vorster regime is seen by observers here as a erucial factor in bringing about an early change in discriminatory domestic policies. Elizabeth as queen LONDON (CP) — As British author Elizabeth Longford puts it, the Queen and television have come a long way together. Author Longford, who wrote The Royal House of Windsor, in a profile of the Queen recalls the monarch telling of her first television appearance, at Christmas 1957. The Queen recalled her surprise at the makeup of those early days—her face inted with . yellow blobs ike a clown— and the discomfort at Christmas luncheon with holes bored through walls, television cables running into the rooms and icy draughts running in with the cables. And her family thought she was shivering with ‘nerves! During a more recent Christmas broadcast. the ween ‘made a calm and authoritative appeal for tolerance and hope to the people of the Com- monwealth in their present anxieties. Queen Elizabeth II was born on April 26, 1926. She was an ideally “wanted” baby of whom her father, the future King George V1, said: ‘We always wanted a child to make our happiness com- plete.” Miss Langford describes her marriage to Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey on Nov, 20, 1947 as a love match. But only those in the Abbey saw the Princess’s face in all its se- riousness and radiance, for there was as yet no television. Nevertheless her characteristic impact of “grave and ‘gay’’ had already been made on the radio during the Second World War as eaily as 1940. © ¢ This was in the period known as the ‘‘Phoney War.’ But the Princess’s message to other children was not phoney. Her promise of self-dedication was so obviously sincere that a woman writer who frard her predicted: ‘If ere are still queens innthe world a generation hence, this child will be a good queen,” Not only the British but people in most parts of the world were able to hear Princess Elizabeth give a second pledge of service— on her 2ist birthday, when the war was over. This time she knew much more’ about the strenuous job to which she had been born. “I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone,” she said, “unless you join in it with me, as I now invite you to 0." something resembling ‘unilateral disarmament’ by British exporters while other countries continue to em ploy disreputable metheds,’’ . -The Financial Times confirms that British offc- cials.‘‘see no reason why Britain should handicap her own companies against the widely accepted practices in many overseas markets. There is also dispute about the application by one government of its own laws or ethics in other countries. .In Canada, for example, authorities are resisting attempts by the US, government to secure company records dealing with the uranium industry's price and supply policies. The Canadian govern- ment has tried in this and other cases to prevent the extraterritorial application of U.S. laws when they differ from Canadian laws, especially when they con- flict with accepted Canadian practice—in anti-trust suits, for example. Voice of the readers WW II's tankers unlike today’s Dear Sir: I have read Cyril Shelford’s letter, in your paper of April 6th, in reply to a letter fram T.D. Peatse re: the oil pipe line and tanker route to Kitimat. Mr, Shelford now has a questionnaire in the paper which he is asking readers to fill in and return to him stating whether we are for or against the projects. One statement in his letter which he has repeated several times is that during the war, more oil tankers were ‘ torpedoed or bombed than would be lost by accident in fifty years, with no apparent harm to world fisheries, — I heard this statement refuted by an apparently knowledgable person on a news broadcast. He ex- lained that there wasn’t the - arge number of tankers at that time carrying heavy erude oil, that most of the tankers sunk were carrying ‘refined products, airplane gas, jet fuel and the like which caught fire and burned, or evaporated, thus causing no damage. Also, a tanker carrying heaving crude, which was torpedoed and sank before much of the crude 95a eds th valeiy git ay would likely: carry ‘it depth where the pressure is great enough that nothing, no matter how light, will come to the surface, and at these depths, there is very little or no sea life. Not so the tanker which ends up a rocky shoal. . It was reported over C.B.C, news just over a week ago that the rocky shores around Chedabucto Bay, in Nova Scotia, are still covered with oil, and the Shellfish in the area stil] affected, seven years after the oil spill which occurred, and which was supposedly satisfactorily cleaned up. The Captain of the Torre Canyon, a relatively small tanker wrecked off the south coast of England some years ago, saw the rocks when still a mile and a half ahead of his ship and im- mediately signaled the engine room to change course. But in that distance the ship did not respond enough to miss the rocks. How jong then, would it take some of the monsters afloat today to respond to a change in course? _ No, Mr. Shelford, SPEC and other such organizations did not stop the proposed steel mill. ‘The promoters were prepared to uild @ mill that would have polluted the air in our valle to the point that it would, under conditions, have almost impossible to require a clean operation, with added costs, certain weather been live ferent levels of government there, and when pollution will have sold out to the oil standards were raised to for price increases. If natural gas is now in short supply, why are the owners of the new gas fields in ‘Alberta and the area west of Dawson Creek so anxious to sign up 20-year contracts with buyers? Why is the Alberta government con- sidering the building of huge trohemical plants costing undreds of millions of dollars? What about the Mexican oil reserves rated at some fifty billion barrels? These reserves equal any in the Arab fields. A committee in the U.S.A. just recently stated we will be in trouble from fuel shortages in four years. But an _ in- dependent United Nations committee on fossil fuels stated a few months ago that we have oil reserves to last the world for another hundred years. Who are we to believe? Much of the business community says, ‘Build the pipeline, it will provide much needed work and stimulate business”. True, for about one year while the line is being constructed in the a kee Ge area ©, wil, be a : Ot 5. clivity wi th. ha eer, parlors and liquor stores oing a rushing business. But if camps are established, the catering for these camps will be con- tracted out of Vancouver, with not too much benefit to local stores. Qnce completed, Kitimat . and Terrace will share possibly 30 permanent jobs, not much when a tanker oil spill might jeopardize the livelih of hundreds of fishermen, fish plant workers, and Native villages. Mr. Shelford asks, “If we don’t allow the steel mill or pipeline, what alternatives to boost cur economy do you suggest?”’ Personally, I don’t think we should be in any great rush to bring in industries which may run a few years then fold. Look what happened in Newfoundland. The distress after the industries closed down was worse than before they were established. Let's make the best of what we have and fill in the gaps as they show up. It. isn't absolutely essential that the town keeps mushrooming. Before the war we were a community of about a thousand people, and we were just as busy and just as happy as we are now, maybe more so. It will be interesting to see how many of our elected representatives from dif- lobby, or feel obligated to support Mr. Cressy after the being wined and dined, and promoterslostinterest. You subjected to a steady. should be aware of that. We don't need an oil refinery on the barrage of propaganda by ozen or more dil the north coast, and none representatives on that are in the present plans. We week of Pleasure cruising. are being well supplied from the south and east, third its capacity. _ This can be hooked into a just system at Port Angeles and to o The pipeline from Edmonton to Vancouver is running at one After drinking oil com- pany liquor and _par- cipating in oil company hospitality for a week there be those who feel they couldn't be so mean as ose the Kitimat oil the flow reversed to carry pipe line and tanker route. Alaskan ail to Edmonton and then south to the U:S.A. with a new investment about one quarter the cost of the heaven rom Kitimat, and no danger to either our North representatives to line Whether. it was all arranged beforehand or not, that pleasure cruise was a “sent opportunity for the oil company present Coast or the inner Strait of their point of view, with all Juan De Fuca. I very much doubt the oj] and gas shortages are as the trimmings. Well, this--is how hig business operates, and the critical as we are made to ordinary concerned citizen believe, The scare tactics being used are justification has no. way of competing a F. FRANK