~; {the heraid) Published by General Office - 635-6357 Sterling Publishers Circulation (Terrace) - 635-6357 (Kitimat) - 632-6207 PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE MANAGING EDITOR... STU DUCKLOW Published avery weekday at 3212 Kalum St. Terrace B.C, A member of Varitied Circulation. Authorized rs second class mall, Registration number 1201. Postage pal. «cash, return postage guaranteed. : : NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full-complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any: ediforlal or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction. ls not permitted without the written Publither perm|asian of the y _, Interpreting the News Little promise for peace UNITED NATIONS CP- The opening phases of the new Middle East peace offensive have produced little promise of actual movement toward a peace conference in Genva this year. Emissaries from Egypt and Israel vistied President Carter this weel to talk about possible resumption of the Geneva conference, which has been standing adjourned since just after the 1973 Yon Kippur War. Carter later is to Syria and Jordon. His initial talks with Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy of Egypt and Moshe Dayan af Israel were descri as itive, useful and helpful in Washington but diplomats ere saw no hint of progress on the insurmountable obstacle of Palestinian representation inthe Geneva talks. “Prom the public image, we see no grounds for optimisn and no hope of success,”’ said one diplomat who keeps close tab on the Middle East negotiations. ‘From all ap- pearances, the Arab and the Israelis would seem to be on a collision course.” This velwpoint contrasted sharply with that expressed in Washington, where Dayan said an agreed formula for resumed Geneva talks might be found mefore the year-end and Fahmy also expressed hope the conference could meet is year. The aim of Carter’s separate negotiations with Dayn and FAHMY, AND HIS TALKS NEXT WEEK WITH Foreign Minister Adbel Halium Khaddan of Syrai and an envoy from Jordon, is to find a way around Israel's refusal to permit representatives of the Palestine Liberational Organization PLO to attend the Genva meeting. Israelis regard the PLO, an umbrella organization representing various proups of Palestinian refugees made homeless when Israel came into being 30 years ago, as a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of modern Israel. Only Israel, Fovet, Syria and Jordon- the four countries involved in the Yom Kilur War-were invited to the original 1973 confernece when it was convened under the auspices of the United States and the Soviet Union. It was adjourned after a few brief sessions. Dayan tried to indicate some Israeli flexebility by saying Israel would accept at Geneva mayors of Palestinian towns on the occupied West Bank of the Jordon River or other Palenstinians known publicly to the PLO sympathizers. Fahmy ridiculed that idea, and observers her suggested that the West Bank mayors would have neither the stature nor the authority to represent the Palestinian population as a whole and could speak only for their own local areas. If Washington could nail down Arab-Israeli agreement onnew Geneva talks, it would at the same time be able to head off a potentially embarrassing debate in the UN General Assembly over Israel’s continued establishments of illegal Jewish settlements in Arab lands occupied in the 1967 war. Egypt has served notice that it plans to seek sucha debate and can be expected to push the issue if the Washington negotiations fall. This would put the U.S. in a spot because it joined the Arab nations last year in condemni the Israeli settlements program and could not avoid being caught up in a new debate in the General Assembly. RUINS FOUND COMMISSIONER SHOT AMMAN (Reuter) — The BUENOS AIRES talk with envoys of the two other Middle East belligernets, ruins of a town dating to 4000 EC have been uncovered in the village of Sahab, 20 kilometres (13 miles) south of Amman, archaeology department director Adnan Hadidi said Wednesday. ERMATT (Reuter) — Police Com- missioner Eduardo Ubaldo Saleme was seriously wounded Wednesday when unidentified gunmen am- hushed him near his office, a police spokesman said. Stuffy, pompous, long-winded business executives submit to ego-pounding HERTFORD,ENGLAN DCP-Five top business executives volunteered for a two-day assault on their egos in which they were called stuffy, slouchy, pompous and long-winded. Each paid $560 for the course which is aimed at teaching executives how to behave and their look best when dealing with television, radio and press and how improve their communication with prople generally. “All who have taken the course say they benefited from it,” said Derrick Scott- Job, a former radio executive who devised this weekend school. ‘It is largely geared to the media but is also concered with socail and business relations and the best choice of words. “The right facial ex- pressions are also im- portant, whether you are dealing with business associates, with clients or with members of your staff.’ Clive Jacobs, a TV and radio broadcaster who also gives instruction to executives, said most people talk at the rate of two or three words a second and much of this is ‘Waffle’. “Husbands waffle away to their wives and the wives waffle back. It’s mostly stiff-up per-lip stuff for, aa our course show’s through video-tape recodring most of us deal in euphemisms: and evasions. There are more waffles in polities than anywhere else.’ Seoot-Job said a United Nations official flew over from Geneva to take the cours because he felt his public speeches lacked eloquence and the ability to put his points acrss. Blessed are the poor — and he means it BURNLEY, ENGLAND CP-The vicar who attended a service in his onw church disguised as a drunken bum reallys started something in this industrial Lancashire town. He was turned away by two of his own chur- chwardens. “We didn;t object to his shabby cloths or hairy facr,”” said. one of the wardens. “But he was staggering and fooked very ree ought he i drink and we thou e@ mught upse other prople in the church. - The vicar, Rev. Roger Hale,removed his false wiskers and re-entered, still wearing his shabby clothes. Unhindered, he walked straight up the aisle and climbed into the pulpit. “Never judge anyone by their appearance,’ he told the congregation. ‘“Provety ignosin but the wardens did tight to turn me away when they thought 1 was drunk and might cause a. distur: bance in God’s house.” The vicar then preached -- on the text “Blessed are the poor.” _ After the service he said; “Tf had no idea my disgiuse was so good. Perhaps I overdid it bit, grunting and wheezing as I staggered up the aise], But at least.t got my message across,” “t showed hiw what was wrong with his delivery and why hs voice lacked con- y viction,” Scott-Job said. ‘I tell mu clients to use- their voice as they would a violin-to get the fullest variety of tone and ex- pression out of it.’ The voice is still the mst sensitive instrument of all.” Sue Lawley, another TV personality who lectures at the weekend school, said: "Most people think they have to use Jong. words when speaking in public or on TV and radio. They talk about “meanigful negotiations” when they mean “friendly discussion” and “at this point in time” when they mean “‘now’’. ; "Simple direct speech is much more effective.” Miss Lawley teil exectives to beware of over- rehearsing their speeches so that they sound wooden. “Keep it simple and above all be sincere,” She says. “few point well dilivered ar worth many said badly. And remember, TV is revealing. If you are not sincreer, it will show up on: the screen.” el reece Educatio MONTREAL .CP-A group of MOntreal businessmen and educationists, who feel an uninformed public can be dangerous, has unveiled plans to take economic education out of the university classroom and ut it into the home and factory. “; " think that as businessmen it is our duty to make sure the people un- derstand the system they live in,” said Rene Frovost, vice-chairman of Provigo Inc., and a founding member of the Quebec Foundation for Economic Education. The national body is concentrating on subsidizing courses in economic for primary and —DONNA VALLIERES Business spotlight secondary school teachers. Also high on the national body's list of priorities are publications aimed at the secondary school level and a series of films designed to teach the principles of economics to children between the ages of nine and 11. The Qeubec fondation also is interested in promoting the use of films in the classrooms , but interim president Michel Lecours said material originating in the United States and English Canada will have to be adapted for the Qeubec school system. And Lecours said an education program for elementary and high scool teachers is a high priority for his group, especially since no Quebec university offers the courses. - He envisions the foun- dation offerin correspondence course for people of all ages, regula economics publications and courses on the facotry floor subsidized by a company and carried out, by a foun- dation officer. He also would like to see regular conferences bet- ween business leaders and teachers, and the establishement of a resource centre thatwould include a film library for the use of schools and the general public. n takes to the streets. nis to start this month to raise $100,000 from Quebec companies for the foundation. No government funding will be sought. Another foundation of- ficial said the organization is not a tool for business to sell the current economic system to the public. “We have to be ver careful about this or we’ lose our credibility im- mediatley,”’ Louis Mercier, executive vice-presidnet of Imperial Tobbacco Ltd. "T £ getting the public to understand economics better means, they un- derstand business, then. so much much the better.” PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday, September 26, 1977 Ottawa Offbeat Trudeau arms for -¢ says Jean- Quebec conflict - BY RICHARD JACKSON . | + separatist Quebec Premier Rene Levesque. q id be the same kind of apprehended in- easures Act 0 th ds of armed troops by ai carrier. into Quebec ngtunst the terrorists of the Quebec A sca -_ Perhaps. except that the MP is Allan McKinnon, the Op- position Conservative Defence Critic in Parliament, a quiet, r Armed Forces. ; The “aprehended insurrection” that exploded into the “October Crisis” seven years ago had a long fuse that burned with the spark of “independence” that is smouldering in today’s separatist ambitions of Rene Levesque, — . . The Prime Minister’s reaction to terrorism and the feared uprising, while slow, was sudden and furious, In went the troops, and some 300 arrests made. Then things cooled out until last Novemeber 15 when Rene Levesque’s separatists turned the rest of Canada by winning power and proclaiming that a referendum for “sovereignty and independence” of Quebec would be held within two years. ; What has alerted Allan McKinnon has been the sudden ending by the federal government of $127 million for new defence equipement, gas masks, and, oddest of all, 950 additional pairs of handcuffs. ; Whatinitially aroused him that “something extracdinar is up” was the transfer from Edmontonof the cra Canadian Airborne Regiment to Defence Base Petawawa, just 10 miles from the Quebec border and 159 from Mon-- treal. “You could look at any one of these things and suspect that some extraordinary measures are beingtaken,” says Allan McKinnon. “But put these five separate things together and you've got a high defence priority of quelling civil disorder.” . He wrote tof ederal Defence Minister Barney Danson asking for an explanation. . Danson replied that the 350 armoured cars costing $125 million wre to “fill out our options, to the widest choice for responding to unforeseen developments.” @ armoured suits, standard equipment for bomb disposal squads, priced at $2000,000, went on Danson were oat part of the Forces” continual involovement in helping vilian policecope with explosive devices.” The 17,000 gas masks, worth $1.5 million were to help the military “handle nuclear, biclogical and chemical emergencies.” And the 950 pairs of handcuffs, at a cost of $12.5000, bringing the Froces’ total to more than 2,500 sets, were “‘to bring e stock up to current requirements.” an McKinnon is suspicious of Minister Danson's ex- _planations. “It’s obvious,he says, that this equipment better meetes - the neds of an unstable’ banana republic and not those of : Canada as a member of NATO.” Lo ee va He says the armoured cars are of a type used by police in West Germany, Chile and the Argentine. And as for the gas masks,he says, ‘“‘the first thing that comes to any damn fool's mind is that sonebody’s going to be using a lot of teargas.” Seven years ago Prime Mlnister Trudeau sent in the troops to smash terrorism. They called it an “a prehehnded insurrection”, that is “an uprising not only teared but foreseen.” bet run its course, such as “insurrection could become a civil war. _ And there is a book titled “Killing Ground’’ written by a former member of the Princess Patrisit and of the Ed- monton Regiment some years ago, soon coming out in paperback.nrJd it and wonder. Support for gay rights urged The B.C. Federation of Labour has released thecontents of a telegram sent this morning to the B.C. Minister of Labour, Allan Williams: ‘ ‘We are deeply concerned that your Minisiry has not yet agreed to appeal to the SUPREME Court of Canada the decision of the B.C. Court of Appeals respecting discrimination by the Vancouver Sun against the Gay Alliance Toward Equality. We believe the government has a moral obligation to uphold its legislation beofre the courts. The Vanouver Sun decision seriously jeopardizes the human rights of all British Columbians by allowing all thypes of discrimination is serious on itw own merit, but for the government to wash its hands of its responsibilities would be an equal evil. We therefore urge immediate action to appeal this decision which will demonstarte the governments’ commitment to the Human Rights Code.” Len Guy Secretary-Treasurer. Almost a great scoop but our source was wrong a DOP Unieacys! Press Epndicote Ode “Hospital regulations, You gotta wear the straps while ! read the bill." Rumors are funny things to Bomeone who works at a newspaper. Almost as interesting as gossip and sometimes more engrossing than channeled information, rumor's have the function of leading you to a really big story. That’s why last week when I was having coffee with my friend Jane and another friend Erica dropped over to say how bugged she was that that the oil port was going to go into Kitlmat after all, I grabbed her by throat and demanded she fell me everything. (I lose alot of friends that way.) Erica insisted she didn't really know anything and wasn’t sure of her facts and I should instead get in touch with another person for the details. Which I did the next morning. This person (who said if I attributed anything fo him, he would deny having said it¢, tol me the same story, that the an- nouncement would be made in about three weeks, long before the Andrew Thompson inquiry had completed their hearings. y this time I was really excited with visions of being the first reporter in the entire country to break this story. The fist thing I did was phone Inoa’s office in Ottawa, She wasn’t in, bu a return return ealll from her assistance informed me that our local MP hadn’t herad a word. Neither had anybody in at the National Energy Board offices who said they wouldn’t know anyway because they, were out of it now that they had no application before them. A call to t he Minister of Mines, energy and resources Alistar Gillespie. didn’t get me any further. His assistant told me they didn’t know. anything about an an- nouncement and in any case, weren’t planning on making one themselves. I was getting no where fast. Getting desparate now, I finally tracked down tony Pearse. a locally environmentalist in Vanoucer for the hearings. Ton disappointed me by saying he hadn't heard the rumor and explained its possible origin. The Washington state government is expected to make an ap- pointinent that they support Kitimat as e site, he said, but nobody is expecting the same from the Canadian government. At least as long as the hearings are still ‘going one. So there went my rumor, and along with it went my aspirations of a big scoop, a couple of hours of my time and lord knows how much in telephone bills. Maybe I'll go back to listening to gossip. Staring this weekend you and me and everybody else in this province are going to have wear seatbelts by decree of the government who does so much to protect us from ourselves. “B.C. Buckles Up," the ads are Bcreaming at us, while giving us the facta and figures on how much is going to be saved in dollars, and what they term human misery" . ow, I’m not upset about buck m sealy belt when [ get into my care it's something 1 usually do automatically I've been inenough fender benders to be aware of what happens on the road and aim even a litde a fatalisitc maybe the next one could be serious crash. But I don’t like being told this is something I have to do and is I don't take the precaution Iam going to be breaking the Law. It’s a pretty paternalistic move on part of the government who should be occupying themselves with more im- portant issues that need legislating rather an telling us they are going to save our - lives whether we like it not,