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Carter's call meets wide opposition

Olympic boycott campaign falls flat

U.S. President Carter’s call for
an Olympic boycott, the latest
maneuver in the U.S. cold war cam-
paign, has met with tough opposi-
tion from national Olympic com-
mittees around the world and has

not €ven gained significant support

from western governments despite
the backing given the campaign by
the Tory government of Joe Clark,
Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, and
Australia’s Malcolm Fraser.
_Every one of the national Olym-
pic committees in Europe have

| stated that they will be sending

teams to Moscow for the Games —

eee the British Olympic Com-
» mittee whose decision was a rebuff

to Thatcher. The British prime
minister has been among the most
strident supporters of Carter’s call
for an alternate site or, failing that,
a boycott of the Games.

The president of the Interna-
tional Olympic Committee, Lord
Killanin, said that Carter’s decision
to call for the boycott was a
“‘tragedy’’ and ‘“‘a hasty decision.”’

Monique Berlioux, IOC director,
added that transfer or postpone-
ment was “‘unrealistic’’ and warned
that if the U.S. boycotted the
Games, it could result in a recon-
sideration of the Los Angeles site
for the 1984 Games.

’ Other governments echoed the

IOC criticism of the U.S. position
and the attempt to mount a
boycott.

Denmark joined France, Finland,
Norway and other European coun-

tries in refusing to back a boycott,

and Spain, in a note delivered by
the Spanish ambassador to the
USSR, stated: “‘The 1980 Olympics
will be held in. Moscow or
nowhere.’’”

In Japan, although the govern-
ment said that it would ‘‘study
public: opinion’”’ on the issue, the
Japanese Olympic -Committee
stated that it would be sending a
team.

In the socialist countries, the

Keep U.S. tankers outside

The ten Communist Party ‘can-
didates in British Columbia have
called on the federal government to
route its
supertankers from Alaska outside
Canada’s 200-mile economic zone
and move any oil port outside the
Strait of Juan de Fura.

The CP candidates’ demand,

)voiced following a special meeting

Saturday, was in response to the
formal support given by U.S. presi-

}dent Carter to the Northern Tier

pipeline plan to bring Alaskan oil
to the U.S.

The Northern Tier - proposal,
which calls for an oil port at Port

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Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula,
poses the danger of greatly increas-
ed supertanker traffic in the Strait
of Juan de Fuca.

The candidates’ statement warn-
ed that the Carter decision indicated
that the U.S. ‘‘is prepared to ride
roughshod over Canadian
interests’? and demanded that the
government ‘‘stand up for
Canada.”’

It emphasized that supertanker
traffice must be kept outside the
200-mile limit and the oil port mov-
ed “‘to protect the British Columbia
coast from a disastrous oil spill.’’

That warning was given dramatic
emphasis by a recent report issued
by the New York-based Tanker Ad-
visory Centre — a firm monitoring
tanker traffic for the oil industry —
which revealed that 1979 was the
worst year ever for tanker ac-
cidents. Be

During the first months of the
year, 585 accidents took place
around the world, resulting in oil
spills totalling 543,000 long tons.

The Communist candidates also
stated that the other two pipeline
proposals — Trans Mountain’s
plan for a Low Point oil port and
pipeline to Edmonton, and
Foothills plan for an_all-land
pipeline from Alaska to Edmonton

— would similarly be contrary to.

Canadian interests.

“‘These lines would not bring a
barrel of oil to Canada as both are
aimed at brining Alaska and world
oil to the central U.S. states,’’ the
statement said. ‘‘They would pro-
vide a U.S. corridor through Cana-
dian territory and would threaten
our sovereignty.’”

Moreover, neither proposal
would remove the threat of tanker
traffic down the coast, it added.

The federal government has voic-
ed opposition to the Northern Tier
route, favoring instead the Foothills
proposal and, more recently, the
Trans Mountain project even
though it also raises the danger of
increased tanker traffic.

The statement by the Communist
Party called on the government to
reject the northern pipeline pro-
posals and concentrate instead on
Canadian energy development.

“Instead of building pipelines
running north and south to serve

00-mile limit, urges CP

interests, the Canadian
Bere should undertake a

. Massive program to build an east-

west oil and natural gas pipeline
running from one end of Canada to
the other,’’ it demanded.

With the news of Carter’s deci-
sion, the Conservatives, Liberals
and the NDP all proclaimed their
support for the Foothills pipeline
and accused each other of being re-
sponsible for Carter’s choice. But
like the Foothills gas pipeline, the

CP pointed out, the oil pipeline:

would trample on Native rights and
give the U.S. a ‘‘Panama Canal’’
through Canada which would
siphon off other northern resources
and lock Canada into a continent-
alist arrangement with the U.S.

The ten candidates signing the
statement. were: Bert Ogden,
Vancouver-Kingsway; Jack
Phillips, Vancouver-Centre; Fred
Wilson, Vancouver-East; Homer
Stevens, Richmond-South Delta;
Rod Doran, New Westminster-
Coquitlam; Viola Swann, Surrey-
White Rock-North Delta; Jim
Beynon, Mission-Port Moody; Sy
Pederson, Comox-Powell River;
Gary Swann, Nanaimo-Alberni;
and Ernie Knott, Cowichan-Mala-
hat-The Islands.

When B.C. Hydro filed its ap-
plication last year with the Na-
tional Energy Board to renew its
export license, it assumed that, as
in the past, the license would be
routinely approved.

But as the NEB hearings into
the application resumed this week
in Vancouver after a six week
delay, Hydro was on the defensive
and the opposition intervenors
were zeroing in on what has
become the decisive question in
the hearings: the charge that
Hydro has purposely overbuilt its
hydro electric generating capacity
in order to step up exports to the
U.S;

B.C. Hydro’s application seeks

Carter maneuver was denounced as
-a further move by the U.S. to in-
crease cold war tensions and to
pressure other countries to get
behind its belligerent campaign.

In the Soviet Union, Novosti
commentator Spartak Beglov,
warned that Carter’s move was a
“threat to international sport.’’

He also pointed to a significant
section of the Olympic Charter
which states: ‘‘National Olympic
Committees must be autonomous
and must resist all pressures of any
kind, whether of a_ political,
religious or economic nature.’’

In his commentary Beglov em-
phasized: ‘‘In a bid to make the

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world Olympic movement an in-
strument of political blackmail, the
U.S. administration may _ turn
American sportsmen into mere
pawns manipulated by ambitious
polticians who are flexing their
muscles before the coming elec-
tions.”’ ‘ae

Carter’s boycott call, which
follows a series of actions aimed at

dismantling detente and increasing

international tension, has been
widely seen as another attempt to
show “‘strength’’ in response to the
powerful campaign mounted by
U.S. hawks, notably national

See CARTER page 7

Giving tangible evidence of the massive intervention by the U.S.
and China in Afghanistan, the Revolutionary Council earlier this
month showed foreign reporters some of the more than 20,000 U.S.
and Chinese made weapons captured from rebel forces. (Statement
on Afghan events, commentary, pages 4, 5.)

Charge of overbuilding has
Hydro on defensive at NEB

-to double hydro electric power ex-

ports to the U.S. over the next five
years to a total of 10 billion
kilowatt hours per year, of which
three billion would be ‘‘firm’’ or
guaranteed.

The opposition, notably the
Communist Party of Canada, the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union, the Union of
B.C. Indian Chiefs, the Society
for Pollution and Environmental
Control, and the NDP provincial
caucus, haye charged that the ex-
port license constituted a shift in
energy policy which would see the
-building of dams and power sta-
tions in B.C. primarily to serve the

export market.

In December, as the NEB hears
ings commenced, the intervenors
were successful in winning an ad-
journment to prepare their
arguments, and they won an im-
portant ruling from the board that
evidence ‘ about MHydro’s
generating capacity and its impact
on domestic prices would be ad-
missible.

This week as Hydro introduced
its application, its attorney and
eur spokesman at the hearings,

Mitchell, spoke first to the
Nene ruling with the assurance
that the export license was based }

See HYDRO page 8