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Dear - Sir: - 5

” of taxpayer’s ‘money in the

I was: most ‘pleased that retention of Cyril. Shelford,
Mayor. George Thom. of ..as'a consultant, has served ,
Kitimat has taken notice of .only ta underscore the.

J. Muller's ‘A Look: at.

Planning from inside a
Flood’, 1 eet een,
Contrary to. Thom’s.

opinion, the paper: is ‘an-.

excellent , digcuggion. of the.
problem of flogding and well-.
documented, analysis: of: the.
interests that ‘control: the -
municipal . councils .in both
Kitimat and Terrace as well
as the regional district.

I can’t say! that I'm in.
complete agreement with
Mr. Muller, but the paper is
a good beginning. I believe
that he’ has understated the
influence of Alean, the major.
forest companies and the
Social Credit Party at'these
political levels. It . would
serve the interests. of the
electorate of this district if
the paper was published, in
its entirety, ih the general
media. Cot

The politics of the regional
district are clearer after
each meeting. Its failure to
demand taxation of the
Kemano industria! townsite,
its unqualified backing of
Alcan, and its ‘development
at any cost’ mentality, all re-
inforce portions of Muller's.

argument. Theplatant waste, °

regional district’ poaltion.
‘Hiring a past MLA who was -

unable when, in government. .

to. secure a, ferry, service is
unbelievable. This, par-.
ticularly.in light of. the’ fact
that our. current MLA is,
using .gvery opportunity to
press the Northwest's case ©
certainly smacks of the old
‘pork, barrel.’" "
I'm certain that Muller's ¢

paper will not be the last ©

critique of local and regional _,
government produced by -
concerned citizens. It
deserves proper attention
and debate. Thanks to Mayor
Thom, it may. receive it. The.
news media has-had coples
for at least a month and only

‘now .has: its existence”

become widely. known. =

age. .
_ British Coluinbians’ have
sat mesmeérised ‘by the
bumbling, stumbling
provincial government.
Perlaps we should have kept —
acloser eye on.natters.close
to home.-Thanks Jake for
reminding us of Shis and
Riving'us‘a starting point to
begin. oo

(BAGKaRO

UND

By WESLEY G. PIPPERT
WASHINGTON (UPI) — It
was the White House Qval
Office, June 23, 1972, six days
after the break-in at the
Democratic’ Party
headquarters in the,
Watergate complex:
Haldeman: That the way
to handle this now is for us to
have Walters call (Acting

-

ee ER at rg eT A
sons at a time. The Archives
provided eight listening.
posts in its East Search
Room. gud, , in. an” ironic

’ touch, - ‘directad : that* no.

FBI Director).Pat Gray and .

just say, “Stay: the hell out of
this ... this is, ah, business
here we don’t want you to go
any further on-it.” That's not
an unusual development.

President: Um huh ....
Good, Gaod deal. Play it
tough, That’s the way they
play it and thatis the way we
are going to play it.

-Sept. 15, 1972, the day that
four minor figures were
indicted for the Watergate
burglary, again the Oval
Office: ‘ _
President: ... And, uh, the,
uh, but the, but the way. you,
you've handled it, it seems to
me, has been very skillful,
because you — putting your
fingers in the dikes every
time that leaks have sprung
here and sprung there.
(Unintelligible) having
people straighten ‘the
(unintelligible). The grand
jury is dismissed now?
Dean: That is correct.

-The Oval Office, March 21,

recording devices could be
taken into the room...

: The tapes, about 4 % hours
in length, were the ones used.

_THE EDITOR. J

: oe _ The Dead:in. the Square Te, -
Ido not come to'weep here where they fell,
Icome to speak to you who are still living

In the name’ of these our dead.

Edemand punishment ~) 7. f°” .
For those who spattered, ctir-Fathertand with blood -
TI demand punishment... ~- -~ 7

For the traitor who clambered to power over those °

bodies
I demand punishment

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For those forgiving ones who exeused this act -

Idemand punishment —

‘(Extracts from a, poem’ by’ Pablo ‘Neruda after a
massacre of trade unionists fn Santiaga; Chile in‘'1946)

_. | >. By;PAUL JOHNSTON ~

Pablo Neruda was a leadirig Chilean poet and in-.
_tellectual. His'1946.words:échoes through:Chile'and.the
rest of the world after the bloody-triumph of Pinochet
and his henchmen in September of.1973. In the coup,
more . than 100,000. of. Neruda’s countrymen were
tortured, raped and murdered. It was shameful and
inhuman devastation. =. |: |, toa!
~ International outrage was voiced by world leaders,
‘churches; labour organisations ‘and’ hundreds of
thousands. of ‘individual citizens. The Canadian
response revéaled duplicity as a result. of the Sub-

cians aguas acon’ of quavleganal govgenment.
se si net Peale D teat ecthe initial
ated, Ottiwa hfioufieed thal*the Mnbw Chileal

junta’ was being exteridetf‘a $5 million line of credit.
This assistance was to come through the crown-owned
Export Developmept- Corporation (EDC). It was to be
used to purchase six’ Canadian-built Twin Otter Air-

craft . with. spare,, pans, - and +. telecommunications

‘equipment."The déontracts:‘wére awarded to De
Haviland Aireraft of Canada Ltd. and GTE Lenkurt
Electric (Canada) Ltd. Upott delivery, the aircraft
were used to ferry Chilean military personnel around
-the country. on their réptessiye missions. : .

It was not the last deal arranged by the EDC with

w

the junta. Two forest firms,-E and B Cowan of Mon- .
s

fiidugtries of Surrey received
the EDC and a

treal and Kock
funding in 1978..On.this occasion,

as. evidence. in. the various - consortium. of Canadian financial institutions led by

Watergate -trials in 1974.
There are many other hours
of tapes yet to be released for
public listening,
What the public heard was.
but
poor

not of stereo quality,
rather; somewhat
quality ‘recor tings:
cluded: the, ¢latter™“of coffee
-cups aod, /buzgi of overhead:
flights while principals
talked about the Watergate
scandal. ;

Here are the tapes that are
being released:

1. March 23, .1971, a.con-
versation between Nixon and
then Treasury Secretary
John Connally Jr. about an
increase In the federal price
support for raw milk,
Connaily later was acquitted
on charges he took a bribe in
exchange for his help in

getting the increase, “39,
f aoe C .

minutes.

2-3-4. Three tapes from

June 23, 1972, when Nixon
met with his top aides in
what the Watergate
prosecutors say was the
beginning of the cover-up

1973, as the Watergate cover: sehéme, In :the...60-called

you, your judgmen ay
where it slands, and where
we go now —

Dean: I think, I think thal,
uh, there's no doubt about
the seriousness ‘of the
problem we're, we've got.
We have a cancer — within,
close ty the presidency,
that's growing. It's growing
daily.

-For the first dime, the public
had a chance teday te hear
President Hichard Nixon,

White House chief of staff ¥

HR. Haldeman, While
House counsel John Dean
and others as they spoke in
the While Hause on recorded
tapes that included the in-
(famous “smoking gun” and
“cuncer on the presidency"
quotes. *

‘The National Archives,
complying with u
congressional mandale
adopled in 1974, opened nine
Watergate lapes tog par

" Dee aii pues 'T ta te
ee
sHitation th; August ‘1974,

that ted:

Haldeman suggested to
.Nixon that Deputy CIA
Director Vernon Walters
instruct Acting FBI Director
L. Patrick Gray [ll not to
investigate ¢he break-in.
Eight, four, ahd six minutes.

5. Sept. 15, 1972, when
Nixon complimented Dean

’ far keeping the investigation

frum reaching -top-level
vides. 34 minutes; * :

. 6 Jan. 1973, a -con--
versation between Nixon and

F former White House political

* operative Charles W. Colson.
seven minutes.

7. March 17, ip73, about the
time the covegup began to
unravel. Watergate burglar
James McCord had written
U.S. District Judge John J.
Siriea thal perjucy had been
committed at the first trial

and former White House alde . -
Jeb Stuart Magruder began”

to =, -cooperate with

prosecutors,

the Bank of Montreal granted a full $22 million in
loans. This was closely followed by an announcement
by the B.C. provincial government that two other
firms, Ardiem Indystrial.Corporation and Patrick
Equipment Ltd.; wei'e also arranging federal finari-
cing for operations in Chile, The B.C. public was made

that .in. ‘aware.of this in the\November 1979 edition of “B.C. .

‘Market; News’, a Publteation of the ministry of
sconomic: develupriénticApparently, Don Phillips, the
Socred minister, who could not place Granduc Mine in
ir, had better luck locating opportunities in facist
ile. : . ee
One of the first recipients of EDC money, GTE,
Lenkurt, is a subsidiary of the same firm that owns
controt of B.C. Tel. -It.has shown its gratitude to
Canada recently by substantially cutting jobs and then
applying for major increases in rates charged to B.C.
telephone subscribers, Federal financing of Chilean
forest products expansion has come at a time of mass
layoffs in B.C. Canadian money, including these EDC
funds, have assisted the Pinochet regime. in
strengthening its grip gn Chile; a grip that has led to
oe “ 4 yi we i ane -

-* attacked on many counts. Many observers have noted:
- that it has shown little sensitivity, ta the political ‘and...

--these apparent contradictions in a rather cynical

:,. The Cerro-Colorado Project, with billions wort af

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2 CANADIAN AID + eos yiey meta

dire poverty ia addition to the 'welldocumentd
repression, ~~ 1. to. Me wel-cocumentsd

. The Export. Development ‘Corpiration. ‘has’ been”

human consequences of its loans; much of its finan: .
cing has been solely oriented to assisting major multi- .::

‘national firms in their economic penetration of the. “employees were underpaid

Third World; and that it- promotes,-over.the longer :
term, flight of capital and jobs from,Canada. — ~~~
Another of its questionable involvements became a

~ campaign issue in Northwest B.C. the May, : 1979

federal election. Granduc, a copper mine north of |
Stewart had closed, throwing hundreds of people quiof
work, At the same time, the EDC had announced -,
possible financing for the development of the Cerro-
Colorado copper deposit in Panama, The arrangement
was made with Texas Gulf, a major mining firm that
is 20 per cent owned by.a government Crown_cor- :
poration, the Canadian Development Corporation, The
CDC had originally been conceived.as a vehicle by. .
which Canada could develop its own natural resour- .
ces. rr . oS
Iona Campagnolo, then Skeena MP, had defended

manner, After dismissing possible state ownership of
Granduc; she claimed ‘that Canadians might as‘well
take profit from competition from other countries! if -
we could not have the jabs at home. Her reasoning was.
of little solace to the unemployed miners, It also failed
to differentiate between benefits to Canadians: and
profits to corporations, - - Le ree
‘Canadian govertimentlodns, has not been welcomed "
-by'a great-many_of the Panamaians that it purpotis to’
help. It threatens cultural genocide of the 50-70,000
Guaymi Indians in Panama. Its economic impact has
been assessed as disastrous for the country: Many.are
concerned that environmental destruction will destroy .

much of the ability of Panama to feed its people, The —:

chief beneficiaries will be Texas Gulf and possibly ‘

- another Canadian mining: transnational, Noranda.

Another corporation that has:a history of similar
wonton exploitation has also recently received. EDC
backing. Alcan’s record both in Canada and overseas
has received much attention in the Northwest of late.
It has attracted $30 ‘million dollars.in EDC funds for
expansion in Ireland. Perhaps this deal more than any
other raises questions about the EDC’s workings.

Anginish Alumina Ltd. has plans for. an 800 million
dollar plant near Limerick on the River Shannon.
Auginish is 40 per cent owned by Alcan. The EbC
funds that it has been guaranteed will go in large part

’ to the purchase of engineering from Alcan in Mon- -

‘treal,
Significantly, the current Chairman of the EDC is

“Parliament took up th n tin aq ls
“Down through. the ‘generations — and 32. =

. getting ever better so there-was

"creasing breakdown of marriage. -

‘ the court. -

= JACKSON | J

immunity. of the. Mona
ned:to

didn’t have fo pay. |
- The vast majority always honored their debts. But -

enough have dodged that it has been a sore point with ~~
businessmen: left holding, the bag ‘ever since the «-
country wascreated.;)°
issuefromtimetotime. ©"

Parliaments — bills have been introduced'toputa stop, . -
to public. service debt-dodging, ©. 0 tee oy
. For one reason or another — in earlier years it was. -
because of public service, protests that government

rpaid ‘and couldn’t afford to ~.
make good Gn all their bills — the legislation. died on’

‘ fhe Commons’ Order Paper or was voted down:

It was possible that some parliamentarians ‘killed ~~
the bills out of self-interest; .
ause of necessity — until ‘the early. 1950'g they
were paid only $6,000 a year and no expenses — Some
of them might have found it awkward, even im-
possible to find the money to keep straight their ac-
counts. |r

-. But parliamentary pay. and public service salaries
havé been more'than adequate for over 30 years — and |
notevenithat “can’t”

ford “itt WMafts Geiea on dibw whe
Until Women’s Lib was born, .__ ao

_ And the Liberals — always acutely aware of where

- the votes are — made “the rights of women’? one of ©;

their.causes: .. a f

What-has all.this.to do with the public service,: 28
prosecution for debts? - _— aot
Chalk it up to the “new morality,” to the current and
growing -life-styles of some Canadians to the in-

B
" Deserthil bo spi ndoft with the;kids to .
sippert, w vate pa tS etre or:
ders fpr.centributions to cover the necessities of-life ~-
from their missing and-wandering husbands. __ woe
It was all very well to get the order for support from
~- But ‘to: collect, if the errant husband and father’ om
- ‘The public service itself frowned on the practice —" - *
and there may have been measures taken inthe form .
of. internal’ departmental discipline to make the
missing man of.the house make good his obligations. . :

RICHARD.» 4 i

ret

servants of, the. Crown, being free and clear of."

happened to be a public servant, was another.matter.

| Still, there..were some who didn’t care. what the...
depantmersbbaid, or how:fellow public servants felt, or...

what damage the welchers were doing to the-federal .. -

. establishment's reputation.

The Royal Prerogative said they didn’t have to pay.
So pay they didn’t. o
Then the militants of Women’s Lib turned the heat
on those upright Liberals who espouse the ‘Rights of
Women.” uo
A little lobbying. Pressure here. Pressure there. All _
reinforced by business interests, short-changed over .

Paul Leman, a former Alcan senier vice-president. In - pj)

other words, the Canadian taxpayer is'underwriting a
loan to a partially-owned Alcan subsidiary to purchase +

. skills from Alcan. To top it off, the Crown corporation

involved is chaired by a former Alcan official, The
whole deal certainly raises some ‘interesting
questions. ee

It is apparent that the entire operations of the
publicly-owned. Export. Development Corporation
should be investigated. Foreign aid is not the
question; the question is why'is Canada. engaged .
financially in so many undesirable projects? Are we
Canadians, as owners of the EDC,. accomplices in
repression, exploitation and corporate in-dealing? The
pattern of events suggests an answer that many of us
would not find comfort with or agree to support. '

Oe) er rae

tah
ee ed

soe

.

- aware of the terms of any offer accepted.

ae , , :
_ Then‘lo' and behold, a -bill appears on the House ~
Order Paper — again — but this. time it was.”

“government’s,-, , \guarantee- of = passage.
"So the free rides are over for those who liked to
laugh atthe lawinthenameoftheQueen, 5s

__ COMMENT
By CONSUMER AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS CANADA |

Some people like it, some don't, and others are indifferent,
but just about ail of -us receive junk mail at one time or -
another, whether it's advertisements, couporis, samples, or
contest materials. co a .

Unsolicited mail, or direct mail advertising, is yours *
without obligation. You have the choice of keeping it, sending -—
it back, refusing to accept it or throwing it away. Ifitisa
sample, you are under no obligation to pay for it,ortosendit =~

‘ back. ‘Requests’ for charitable donations may also be en-

closed with sample. mailings, and for some familiar
organizations, thishas become 4 generally accepted method
of fund raising. vo
In other ‘instatices however, you may wish to learn more
about the organization before deciding to send payments or —
donations. If you-are billed for unsolicited goods, you may
ignore thé bills, for by law, unordered merchandise cannot be.”

sent C.0.D.

If ordering merchandise from any of the brochures, always
read the offers carefully and keep a copy of the original
advertisement. In, some cases, buying a membership. or .
ordering goods may obligate you to make future purchases.
In these instatices, it is the consumer's responsibility to be

How.do.companies find your name? Mailing lists may be
compiled from magazine subscription lisis, club mem-.
bership lists or from directories, and may be sold by one-
company to andther as a means-of reaching proven direct
mail purchasers. 4 .

Consumers wishing to
mailing lists can do so by writing to the. Canadian Direct
Mail-Marketing Association at 130 Merton SL. Toronto,
Ontario MAS 1A4, ot fo ;

While vou cannot ask your letter carrier to stop delivering
junk mail, sinee mail addressed to you must be deliteted to. 4:
vou, Post Office regulations do prohibit the use of the trail’
service tur auything ofiseene or indecent, tur fraudulent
advertising, or for schemes to defraud the public. ou,

Misteading advertising laws also apply to. direct mail
advertising, and complaiits can be made tes au locabatfice
of Consnmer and) Corporate Affairs | Cami.

the years by ‘public service deadbeats laughing at ~

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