Page 2. The Herald, Manray, March 6, 1978. , 7 . .
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Smear Tactics

The radio and T.V, news have been full of the
“Cossitt afair” during the past week. Yards and
yards of teletype are coming off the machines in
the HERALD office, giving the latest happening
and opinions of people from the greenest rookie
in the RCMP, to the tortured explanations. of
Prime Minister Trudeau himself, About the only -
sector of society not yet heard from by Saturday
night seems to be the Church-and no doubt that
will be rectified by pulpit promouncements
acroes the land, over the weekend.

In a nutshell, as far as we can sort it out, the
controversy arises from a 60-page document the
Conservative memeber, Tom Cossitt, from
Leeds, Ontario, has in his possession. It is sup-
posed to be a top-secret paper allegedly stolen
from the RCMP- (Possibly by a member of the
RCMP)-concerning the activities of 14 Russian
members of the USSR embassy in Ottawa whoare
said to be still at large in Canada, The purpose
for “leaking” the documents to MP Cossitt was
said to be concern the spies are allowed to roam
about in Canada without apparent restrictions
Placed on their activities by Canada’s security

orces,

Cossitt has been threatened with arrest if he
fails to turn over the documents and charged
with violation of the Official secrets Act-which
carries a penalty of up to 14 years imprisonment.
Cossitt is in poor health, is known to have suf-
fered two heart attacks, and was absent from the
Commons over a pro-longed period, because of
his health, last year. Out of all the charges and
counter-charges one thing seems strangely
silent.

That is-concern for the topic with which the
document deals, Are the 14 or so Russian spies
still at large in Canada? Is Canadian security too
lax, in such cases?

If there are blank numbers of Russian spies on
the loose, in Canada, posing as members of the
Russian embassy in Ottawa, who are using their
diplomatic immunity status to gather vital in-
formation detrimental to the security of Canada,
the United States and the NATO powers-that
should be the primary matter of concern. The

blem of who leaked the document, and the

portance of getting the document back to
learn the number stamped on it which would
indicate whose copy it was, so he could be
punished should be secondary.
_ It brings to mind an occasion when 1 asked for
a treasurer's report having attended the monthly
mee of a school board for almost a year and
had still to hear one. Instead of complying, the
treasurer accused me of doubting his honesty his
integrity and goodness knows what. However, he
ma no attempt Pen come up with é booquentiy
report then-or a re meetings. Subsequently,
Iwas to learn the school district was some $75,000
or so in the red; there was no money even for
school salaries, and the province had to step in
with a special grant to bail the School Board out.
The treasurer cameout of the whole affair
blameless, whereas the rest of the School Board
never forgave me for “exposing” the whole

It would be ridiculously naive of me to suggest
the leaking of documents dea with state
security is not a serious matter, However, lets
face it- the Russains KNOW they have all these
spies at work in Canada, Yet it seems the
R are coming out of this business com-
pletely blameless, We musn't condemn the
Russians; we might hurt our good relations with
them. Let them go on spying (and doing all the
dirty things spies do) in Canada. Rather let's go
after the ms who are concerned enough
about it to bring it to the attention of the public,

It is we know-deeper than that, There are our .
NATO alhes involved who are even now, we are _
told, considering cutting off Canada from the
sharing of security information, since the leak
might implicate their agents. Ala as that
sounds, this is hardly realistic. Spies and counter
spies are known to haye their covers blown,
occasionally — with unfortunate results to the
spies countries of origin. That is a risk every
power has to assume, in the world of espionage.
The defection, a number of years ayo, by
Russian spy Igor Gouzenko blew the cover of
scores of Russian spies; the discovery that a
famous Englishmman was working for the USSR
and had blown the coever on scores of British
agents came as a blow to Nato only a few years
ago. The Coasitt document hardly seems to fit
into categories of such magnitude.

But, once again, who leaked the document
should not and must not be used as a red herring
to cover the im ce of the information
contained in the ment, Canada is noted for
its laxity in many international matters Im-
migration is one; passports is another. Why
should it not be the Russians spies and the
Russian government who are in the hot seat?

A comparison could be drawn to the way the
Cossitt Affair is being treated to the time in
history when the King’s messenger was
rewarded with a purse of gold, when he brought
good news-and executed by beheading if the
news he delivered to the king, was bad.

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“That’s my boy.” another viewpoint

Letters to the Editor
Voting for Independents May Be Only Hope

Dear Sir; . :
From all across Canada
we are feeling the ground
awell and hearlng the
rumblings of disquieted and
loried people, People
who by the thousands are no
longer to swallow
what's fed to the, as

Canadian polities by the ald .

fine e.The crisis hour
which we must deal with has
come about az result of
by such parties,
The time has long passed
when we can* effectively,

@ a new and viable -

organiz
alternative political party to.
what we have been sadcled
with, all these many years,
What then is the answer to
thia polltical quagmire we

Dear Sir;

The enclosed paper was
sent to me from London
England by my alater-in-law
TP thought bale 2 §

near &t.
Patrick Day-that it would
give some of vour readers a
good laugh: we all need a
goed laugh at times!-

Ido not know where she
copied it from, but ] am sure
it will be ok to use, °
Yours sincerely
Ruby E. McCreight

A LETTER FROM AN
IRISH MOTHER TO HER
S0N ;

5th Confer.
On Status
of Women

The Sth Annual Meeting
and Conference of tha
National Action Committee
on the Status of Women, will
be held at the Skyline Hotel

in Ottawa, from March 17th.
to 20th.

On Friday, March 17th, |

there will be two sessions:
one will be a panel discussion
on Women in Politica, and
the other will be a workshop
on Communications and
Publications, oO

Saturday's programme
wilt examine Violence
Against §$ Women and
Children, and Equal Pay for
Work of Equal Value.

On Sunday morning, there

will be panel discussion on
the future of the women's
movement. in Canada.

On Monday, March 20th,
members of NAC will meet
with the caucuses of the
major political es and
delegates will lobby thelr
MPs on issues of concern to
women, :

The National’ Action
Committee on. the Status of
Women is an_ umbrella
organization of over 100
women’s groups in Canada,

. The President is Kay

Macpherson,

- in? Voting for any of the

A Lighter Letter F

' writing this letter: slowly

with our means and. our
energy, we have better than
a fitty fifty chance of
defeating those forces that
have made auch “hea
step necessary in the
palltie of Canada.

Now as never before,
people are searching for a
way out of our present
dilemma. Well informed and
brave Canadians who
choose from amongst the Cheriah freedom, the future
informed populace an Of Party polities cae and ail
honnurable and articulate orwanise’ locally to tun ine
eenenegzho willrun as 81 dependent candidates in.

now find ourselves engulfed

socialist parties now sitting
‘In the House of Commons
is tantamount to committing
National suiciau.

Although we have not time
to organize & new and
rant pa any name
there is ati’ a glimmer
hope, alim though it really is,
Hope that every riding will

in ch the course ot

history has been, ‘I am a

person created for success

- and I will not accept failure

or defeat as my partion inls
a,

Canada can no longer
afford the luxury of ha
the old line parties choose
the men to rule over ws
(from thier smoke filled

arty headquarters

ckrooms), If our is to
be successful (and for the
sake of our posterity, it
cannot and it must not fall) it

- Ottawa Offbeat |

by Richard Jackson

Ottawa-Slow down,

And the vast muchine of the fi

strong came to stop..
sm. .

said Prime Minister Trudeau.

federal bureaucracy, 500,000

Alma ‘ t
Ing through the automatic motions of getting ou
the wevermmnent may and pension cheques, processing tax

returns and getting on-in

slow motlon--with the routine of

vernment business. ~...:
ere pen4 of that, like the sorting of the mail-when the

1 workers are in the mood-is automated.
ase oat fromthe established routine of the sort_of

that has been conducted by ¢
for being the federal publicser

overnment as its justification
vice is in a state of suspension.

Reason: No new “programs.” .
And no sew programs means no new jobs for the building of

more bureaucratic empires.

Actually it was Treasury Board President Robert Andras

who sign

alled te slow down, but he couldn’t have doneit

ut the Prime Minister’s direction.
“and he didn’t call it a slow down. —
He used the word" restraint.”

It's been used before.

ften it's become a bureaucratic buzzword with'a
anvothly reassuring sound for the taxpayers but meauing

nothing.

That was because the pub
and federal-make up an
percent of the voting population of the country.

ie service-federal, provincial
ealthy and uneconomic seven

d seven percent, voting in a bloc, carries a lot of clout.
So the palltclans féderal, provincial and municipal were

to stike their necks out.
aends might roll in an election If the pols really meant

whay they said when they spoke of “restraint” and that.
seven percent swung the axe.

The public service knew that, and with the

power

that former Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson gave,
they blackmailed the timied pollticans-and bled the tax-
payers~for over-pay, underpwor, over-staff and indexed
pensions

It got sa out of hand that most economists, including the

government's own money-men agreed

that the outlandish

and outrageous public service situation was inflationary and
might even be at the root of inflation. :

Then suddenly, just recently it seemed to dawn on the pols
that sever percent~aven as a bloc-ia only seven percent.

Ardmore important, that mos of the rema:

93 percent

of the vot ulation was sick to death of public service
Ce at eemueratte empire-bullding and the whole tax-

costly mess.

Sicker even of the gutless politicians who stood still for it

out of fear of that seven

percent. a

So the Prime Minister, sensing that he had public opialon

solidly behind him called a halt.
The

jal premiers in
willingly along with him.

the samessqueze went

So now the public service, denied its new /‘programe”’ with
their new jobs and new empires, can just sit and sulk-and

threaten.
Take a walk through any government office building in
Ottawa Hull these daya and you'll find the inactivity

astounding,

No new paper to push, No new “studies” under way. No

new task forces or think tanks. Juat the ordinary, dull, avery-
day routine to do.
the guys are standing around, reading the a, even

paving cards, dolng anything to kill time.And the ladies ere

with the aame time:

task. |

It's there for all to ee, now with the “open concept" of

office space so in vogue.

No place to hide in private offices anymore except for the
topmoet hands, So they jus alt and walt and watch tlme go

a gua mioté by °
aes a every conatituency in... rr . . ang
“it aad when we can have Canada. this could =e Te ee aha Rite aaa oder med ao
independent candidates canada’s groates hour. Thei result in the next election Air Cadet Draw

political office, from mental attitudes of those being Canada's last, Log Houses On
coast to coast and if and minorities who have Francis Cat .
aren oa ee Good Hope Lake sponsored oy the. Roya
nadian Legion (Branch

There was a washing
machine In the new house
when we moved in but it isn’t
working too good. Last week
I put in 4 shirts and pulled
the chain and haven't seen
them since.

Dear Son;
” Just few Ilnes to let you
imow that I’m alive. I’m

because I know you can't
read quickly. You won't

know the house when you

ome home because we've.

moved. _ .
About your father, he has a

lovely job, with 600 men

under him, he's cutting the

fra at the cemetery. Your

Mary, your sister, has had
& baby but I don’t know
whether It isa girl or boy so 1

- ¢an't tell. you JE you're an-

unice or aunt, Your Uncle

drowned last week in a
vat of ‘whiskey in the
brewery, some of his work-

or St, Pat’s Season

It only rained twice last
week, once for three daya
and ones for fow days,
Monday was so windy that
one of the chickens laid the
same egg five times,

We had letter from the
widertaker, he said that if
the last instalment wasn't
paid within _ seven days on
you grandmothers. funeral,
UP SHE COMES,

Your cousin Patrick
‘yesterday made. his own
cider when he went out and

ther Sean is doing well,in mates dived in to save him crushed 50 woodpeckers.
thearm y, hehasoa peenin but he fought them off Your loving mother
the Army as a soldier for two | bravely. We cremated his P.S. Iwas going to send you
Weeks and already they've body and it took four daysto ‘$5 but I've already sealed the
made him court martial. put the fire out, - envelope, © .
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1415 and continued to do 30
until his death in 1460, He

ured several teachers to
Instruct his ship captains
more fully in navigation,
map making, instrument
making, astronomy and
feometry, It appears certain

court waa the centre of
active, useful geographical
study, as well as the source

TODAY IN HISTORY
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

’ Henry lof Portugal, the
Navigator, was born 634
years ago today—in 151.
Known chiefly for hia en-
couragement of exploration,
mapping and navigation,
Henry sent out his firat ship
on an exploratory voyage in

of the best. practical ox-
: ploration of the time, *

1880—The New York Daily

Graphic contained the firat
newspaper photograph.

1923~—Canada and the U.S,
aligned a sherles treaty, the
firat signed by Canada on its
own—previouely Britain had
signed for It. .

Housing conditions in the
remote community of Good
Hope Lake have been greatly
improved with the recent
completion of five new log
houses under the federal
government's Rural and
Native Housing Program.

- This announcement was
made recently by the
Honourable Jona Cam-

lo, MP. for Skeena
and Minister of State for
Fitness and Amateur Sport,
on behalf of Urban Affairs
Minister, the Honourable
Andre Quellett.

The total cost of the
housing units was §203,000 of
which $152,000 was a federal
government loan. Five
single detached log houses
‘were built on land owned by

_ CMHC and eahe unit is to be

sold to residents at a aost of
$40,0600 under the Rural and
Remote Housing Program.

Ms, Campagnolo
congratulated the com:
mumity of Good Hope Lake
and the workers on ;this
Project for the successful
completion of this important
undertaking,

“I am pleased that the
cae in all areas of
Canada have — through the
Rural and Native Ho
Program of CMHC — been
able ‘to aide the people of
Good Hope Lake this way,”

‘sald Ms, Campagnolo.

43) held a Heritage Day

draw this week to ratse funds: .

for cadet activities.
First prize of a Braun,
Kitchen Machine, donated
by the Alr cadets, went to-
Betty Anderson,
W. Godden a $35 from the
Beauty Nook; L, Brown,
dinner for two from the
Slumber Lodge:J.French, a
$25 gift certificate from
Overwaitea; James Duffy,
$50 gift certificate from Al &
Mac; Monique Bague, $15
gift certificate from Gordon
& Anderson; G.J. Curts, $10
gift from Woolworths;

Ted Wyatt $10 gift cere

dificate from Woolworths; E.
‘Hrycyk, $10 from A. Lavole:
Walter McConnell, $10 from
Skeena Hotel; A. Kryzan-
woski, dimer for two from
Lakelse hotel; L.J.Lever, a
battle from the Legion;
F Fisher Jr., a case of suds
from the Legion, Donalda
Preston, a plant from
Central Flowers; Ted
Striker, a case of suds from:
the Legion,; Larry Renshaw,
fi pment from the
Co-op; Bill McNeal $25 gift

certificate from Terrace -

Hote; E.Ellis, 80 minute-
flight from 747 squadron; Art
and Lois Hiushak, safety
lantern from Peerless Pipe;
T.Foster, paint by number
from Shopper Drug Mart;

Kathy Abbety, two pounds of":
thocalates from Lakelse-'

Drugs, B.G.Gee i :
rom Northern Droge. ane

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