* Page — Thursday, May 12, 1088. oe Published every. weekday at. 3010: “Kaluin Street, © + Terrace, BY. ‘by. Sterling | ‘Publishers | Lid.: _. ~ Authorized as -second class’ mall. . “Registration wh Number” 1201; Postage paid incash; feturn n postage: “ ception: Classified: S "Carolyn Gibson Marla Taylor . x? on _ NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT heHeralttr etains full, complete and sole copyright, . Inany advertisement produced and-or any editorial "07 photographic content published 'In the Herald. ” Reproduciton is not permitted without the written: permission of the Publisher, oo e es _power is. hung ‘up in . economy has‘given new zeal to his oppantents.at: home. . Letters to me nil Editor 4 To the Editor, a 1984 hag. artived early, the departnsent ‘of human. - _ resources has acquired the powers of f big brother. In December we were ‘advised of a an allegation of’ child abuse, the allegation being that my husband sexually abused our two: ‘daughters. This occurred just. before. Christmas, andwasa real shock to our family. My hugband - denies the allegations and I believe hint. Our children love their father and they wanted us together at Christmas while the ministry of human resources’ wanted my husband out until they.concluded their investigation. We felt it was like belng presumed guilty. The children wanted their. -dad. " home, and go did I, ep he came home in early January after staying in the James Bay Inn at: the insistance of human. resources for somé time. a When iy husband came home, welfare. took our two daughters away, They assumed he was guilty even. though | - our family doctor and lawyer could find no evidence in. . eivate interviews with the children (with which both me . and my husband co-operated) for any allegations This. was . bad. The worst was yet to come. | . TYRR e get Th ce TsanEte ‘When the: children, were. taken jaway; wicourt BRAIN ,Geatructive, 3571: which still drags on, The children who I am allowed to visit - ~_gceasionally keep telling me they love me and their dad and .. want to come home. , They deny. that he molested them... The following have been rulings af the miniatry of human resources: =~ : 1.) The children’s religion has been changed although we: showed baptismal records, 2h ) The children have not been allowed to telephone me, their mother, Or: their friends, . a, 4.) A former teacher’ was told not to nbone our eldest . Gaughter. We believe this is so our daughter couldn't tell anyone independent that she wants: to come home... 3.) The children have been frightened from telling me - ’ anything and their windows i in the. foster home have been . nailed shut, : s, ) Our children have rot been cut off from me altogether, _ subject: to the discretion of the ministty” of human. ° 6.) When I went to the school to seé the teacher of my” —— daughter, Twas told t-have no righ _ the foster parents do. . 7.) When I ‘complali ‘that 1 want to know how my | daughters are doing, I’m told ’ma trouble-maker and can't haveany more visits by the social worker, unless the social worker ‘is present. fe ’ When I asked taseemy children at Easter, I'm, told by the | social worker it would be inconvenient, - All this is done with only an Interim Order, at which our : children were not allowed to testify. The department of human resources is attempting to-deny the children any‘ right to testify, saying it would be too hard on them. Wey "” want to hear what they have tosay. The miriistry of human resources says “No, only our experts can-say- what’ the — children said,” The children deny the allegations to me, the | family doctor and other professionals, © We are cut off from: family allowance before the court dally herald . ; being corifrontational, ; _ austerity of 1883. ° . The mood of disccntent has boiled over in recent weeks as: " EDMONTON (cP) —Th ( ali the central Alberta town of Eckvillé has grown into a majér public debate over ant-Semitian: in: Alberta... overient that: was never powerful, °°” “TE don't ‘think it’s.a° major outbreak of seni ~ Palmer sald in a telephoné Interview. ~ Premier Peckford frustrated | : ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) — Four years after premier of Newfoundland and a: year after: a - Smashing: mandate to. fight ‘his own ntyle of ‘battle for, - provinctal - rights, “Brian Peckford is a frustrated, . disappointed (Canadian: . ne ’ He has fought Ottawa ‘to: a ‘standoff ‘on ‘oftshore ‘all’ jurisdiction, his battle with: ‘Quebec. over Labrador hydro the courts and a recession-ravaged - But the cocky, battling premier insists he has no regrets, He sees himself as: thé man with a mission to rid | Newfoundland of its historical status as “a helpless cork , - bobbing on the econoirifc sea of North America." ; During a wide-ranging interview in his eight-floor office ~ ‘fn the Confederation Building, Peckford insisted he has no -cholce but to hold the political ground he has staked out for. himself, It is, he says, ‘'the only way I can see to -get '- Newfoundland to a sound economic base | beyond « the ' devastating vagarles.of the world economy.” 1 ’ ‘The premier, punctuating his remarks with atabs of a fat but inéxpensive cigar, said he realizes his rhetorical Ware ‘are having some hard effects on the province's short-term" - economy. Newfoundlanders are still leaving their cruel but. - beloved rock in droves; businesses are floundering. : “TY remain very troubled about our future, There's going. to be. 53,000 Newfoundlandera every three or four. years-. -takdng off to somewhere else and they don’t want to go. But” ‘don't believe in engendering mediocrit. I want to bring the — majority of our people up toa higher base of incomes and. services. --" I remain. frustrated that fn the, four years nines: 1979, ° . were still nét able to see meaningful movement upward of. that base, which can only’ be achieved throvigh hydro and > offshore resources with an. ongoing, fundamental bane of Aiahertes for rural Newfoundland.’ we {Jin Keegstra, a’ tdacher for 4 years and mayor Eckville, a commiuni a0 plus. twas found ined b teaching students about ‘the +; Keegatra Was supported by Tom Exhart and Jim Greea, fellow officials in the federal Social: ‘Credit party, All three *..He was ‘attacked by: Eckville town icouncillors: Peter Mielke: and” George’ Schmidt, - ‘who- sald his “anti-Jewish: bellefs have: affected: his: ob"aa, mayor, aon ‘ ‘Schmidt arid Mielke’ sald they ‘plan. to present a. motion, town council calling: for ‘Keegatra’s: resignation: ‘Koeget ‘conspiracy and: he ‘ha. no “intention “of: a Stephen Stiles ’ legislature, said in‘ éninteryiew. he doubts Jews- were: rounded up and maesacred during. the Second World | War...” behind the appréach tothe issue, to how bloody lmportan it ~ Is to our future:" | “Courts dre Playing an important part in the offshore oll’ and hydro-power disputes, ‘despite ‘Peckford's personal feeling that the: legal system fs net ‘butte bo solve political problems. - . And today, if the federal goverment w was to put in writing the terms of a verbal. agreement apparently reached between energy mirilstera : Jean ‘Chretien: and William. : Marahall in January, ‘Newfoundland. would sign. “Hie Chretien-Marshall verbal agreement can be putin. writing, then we have a deal: ‘No ifs, ands ‘or buts.” To Peckford, it's a constitutional question. “A paramount rule was violated (in the Upper | Churchill . contract), that Newfoundland.has the right to” ‘contro! the ‘water within jte: boundaries, and that takes paramountcy aver any..kind of a contract signed between. two corporations, So we're: trying . to.. re-establish the paramountey of: that. idea . within ‘the legal’ ‘framework of Canada. mo ‘Peckford says he resilixes he is taking chances with his hard line, that the easy-going warmth of Newfoundlanders is being sorely tested by the constant confrontation, . .° “We've got no choice but to play with fire, there's nothing - ‘lett for Newfoundland. If we don’t make some significant - . changes in those deals, then we remain poor for: evermore. "We feel so strongly about these positions because there's . . no alternative but transfer paymesits. You're just working OL eae At h ome, his scrappy atyle comes under x new criticiern for stamps, you become .4 4 soclety of Glorified stamp- - daily, often from people who say they agree with his” purpose but that hla i methods abbicterertielrcresnt tt: a “ ani: Ottawa, Peckford says'separation from-Canada is tigt* 1 bale we . “But Pecknord - says conelllatory spprosch | haa not worked, “There ‘la ‘no government \in Canada that ‘has Bo. laboriously - done. ita homework.. The facts.‘speak for themselves. They are legitimate, valid. positions that can. stand the scrutiny of outaide criticism. The problem is that it gets twisted, it’s vulnerable to people attacking you for “But 1 make no ‘apology for that. 1 ak: people to ook: She: fas | to: taht: “bebaube’ ‘thes ' + eollectors.” . Despite the battles. and: ‘il will between. his fovernment ai... option..;;But -he::strains .withlas - the confines sof. _ Confederation and hopes the Trudeau. coverument will be ousted, “T remain a frustrated, disappointed. Canadian. I don't daid: the two. rien; are’ trying ta’ ‘curry. “favor: ‘with ‘the’. a een : ment ba sect vas been 2 a govern ent bac {the Jew,.ds the parasite tipon and the corruption of every. “a6 ‘from ‘his’ Brogressive. Comservative ut, wh preanire vi member: tor. a Olds-Didgbury, - spologzed * ” ‘Grawtord: read. a statement dissociating thie. ‘government ‘and ie party’ members: from. the views ~~ by - ‘although coverimmeniact comumunlty 9 organisations early In thecentury discriminated against Broun Such a8 blacks, ‘Chinese and ‘Ukrainians. +: What “ia “believed .to : onges ewish movement in Canada developed durin the. itso aoa “Maple Leal.” he ‘Some’. ‘peopte: 7 ‘the Social. Credit. “movement. “were | “influenced bythe anti-Semitic views of Major. Doulas, the British founder of Social: Credit; “By 1988 Dougan Wak: ‘writing to ‘Adott Hider ‘and sayhig -elvilization. in which he has obtained power”? - The Douglasite factlon remained small in Alberta, the pvrh Province with a Social Credit government through the te was purged in 1945 when Prémier Ernest } ’ asked for the. resignations of Denis Byrne,-a top-clyil: servant active on the Social Credit board, and of Rivoation _ Minister Earl Ansley. Two months. later the Dougiasite faction’ revealed m much of the disagreement leading to thé resignations stemmed from a Social Credit board report to cabinet warning about ’ the “deadly menace of Communism, centred in political — Zionism.” ‘ . . None of this cut much ies vith ve voters as as Ansley kept belig _ re-elected inthis Leduc rae Sot south of Edmonton unti] 1963,. | or. + promoted a toegand of racial iiferoaity, Palixer sald. ~ ‘Their antl-Semitlim fitinto a larger frame of mind that . saw history as an international conspiracy. It’s : the - tendency to conspiracy theories rather than: lo anti: - Semitism that still marks Alberta polities today. © “There's kind of a psychological component in that | - conspiracy theories ‘are always attractive in. ‘hinterland regions,” Palmer said. You've’ got essentially a group of people who feel there are outside forces manipulating their lives.” Mi : Thus, the Ontario-baied Canadian League of Rights finds small but receptive audiences in Alberta. ‘Its leaders hold public forums at which they intimate the | federal government has. been infiltrated by” forelgn conspirators and their dupes. : i . Western Canada Concept Leader Gordon Keeler fit {tte the tradition last summer, . He tald delegates to a party convention they were locked in mortal struggle with unnamed forces “in outro! of vast "numbers of mega-corporaitions, banks, ‘media and various _ _ Union factions, a8 well as‘ political movements.”- “ For ttarpart,2 the now Sdridiane WOOK? Mts an dias” populist tradition ‘which*'haa roviditly “fabed* ‘up! alla political: force since the settling of the Canadian and. : American West' The original Populist Party, a power on the western "see how places like Newfoundland and-Labrador are gol Siping of the United States in the 1600s, developed: an ,, to get ahead. But to look at sefiaration theoretically is. one. "thing and. practically it is another. . . “don’t see separation ag an option, | but Ljust keep hoping ’ that Trudeau will go and the Liberals will go and we will Bet someone in there soon with.a different, Vislon of Canada.” ‘Mitterrand faces violent protests — PARIS (Retiter) — Francois ‘Mitterrand. marked the second anniversary of his.election to the French presidency May 10 amid street protests and. with many former: ‘supporters wondering what went wrong with his vision of a. Socialist Frarice. An avalanche of opiniin polls show his popularity - plunging. Political commentators contrast the wave of | _ optimism. that accompanied Mitterrand and the Socialist fi_with the econemic-crisl#_and—in-socisl "doctors, farmers and students have demonstrated or fone. . on strike, prompting come predictions of civil strife and the downfall of.the government or the president. : ‘Aides say Mitterrand ia taking a long-term. view of the '- discontent, convinced he can carry through what he sees as _& Séven-year mission to transform French: society. In a rare recent public’ comment, the SCyearald president denied he was a disappointed man and sald he was proud of his “historic responslbility."" | Opinion polls indicate Mitterrand's personal standing is lower than that of Charles de: Gaulle, Georges Pompidou or ~—Valery: Giscard d'Estaing after two: years in office. ome polls: ‘Indicate support falling moat dramatically among nilddle-class electors who swung left in-1981 and. * opted for Mitterrand and his promise to change soclety, judgment. All this, before there-ia a formal hearing to - But analysts say few Frenchmen would contest his right’ decide what happens, and we have to wait until June or not © call evidence so proceedings can go faster. Ia that justice? In the Soviet Union the state seems to have absolute © authority over children and parents have no rights. In.this. country parents seem to have no rights. The future for us Is The strain on our family Is unbearable, -: Tha € to-view the ministry of human resources as” the minis inhuman resources. The ‘powers they have are immense. "The judges do‘ not protect the rights of citizens, but simply rubber-stamp the department's wishes. , Tam writing in the hope some other people can see that all _ governmént departments, eckication, ministry of human resources, and attorney general can and . frequently odo Grind the citizen like'a bus. Only if people fight for freedom from such tyranny with reason and information, and hdl governments accountable with public ‘outery® ‘tan any” citizen have any fights, ~ We were a happy normal family before the Tiiaistry, at. human resources began their inquisition. So far all they produce is hearsay and the interpretation of their hired experts, Our family is being broken apart 80 they can have. _Mote.jobs administering foster homes . Goverment has 0 much power. to intimidate people and . the press. Iwonder if the truth will ever come out. ’. Yours truly, - Ms, Theresa Haralson ; 2 > Victoria, B. Cc. to stay until the next election due in: 1986 ' ‘ Mitterrand is widely regarded as highly successful in his handling of foreign affairs and has travelled far and wide, seeking to project a new. French voice in the Third World while’ aligning himeelf with Washington In . Bast-Weat issues. But at home he fs still widely seen as the leader of a left" wing party committed to a, “class war” with half of French ’ soclety, commentators aay. . « Forthelast year, he has dropped refevences te sociallem, striving to present himself as the leader of all Frenchmen. » The state of the economy isthe main cause of disillusion . * with, Mitterrand, the Soctalists and their Comniunist allies, - as shown by defection of many left- -wing voters in Country- wide munteipal elections fn. March. « “After implementing. a “hlgh-spending enpinsionsry .. program to - generate - ‘growth in’ its it year, the . _overnment reversed its strategy ‘In June, 1682, imposing restrictive measures to accompany a devaluation of the - frane, din March it decreed a second, more severe austerity - progra.a, trave],:while devaluing the’ frane a third time, Since then, heavy losses by nitionalized companies and a falling franc have further eroded public ‘confidence. - Commentators believe Mitterrand damaged himself in _ Mareh when he hesitated fot nine days over whether to opt - including heavy taxes and limita on foreign ~ ; for austerity ora rac strategy involve protectionist - measures, ; . The Socialist party reluctantly went along” with the austerity ‘plan, officially called “intensified rigor,” bit deputy party Tader Jean Poperen in late ‘April sounded the ' alarm, ~ H@sald the Soclalists may spend the rest of the century ‘in ‘opposition if the government fails to show greater interest’ justice ; | extensige literature denouncing’ “the international gold ang” andthe money. kings of Wall Street.’ |. - The Populists, and-others worried about a variety of alleged. conspiracies since the’ time: of: the French. Revolution, have added Jews when they develop: their: recipe of-fear. — . : “Policy 1 needed. BANFF, Alta, (CP) — Upheaval in the’ natural gas industry in the United ‘States could wreak ‘havoc: with Canadian producers unless Canada adopts a flexible export policy, -gas analyst Andy Paiter. told a petroleum ’ Conference Wednesday, - Potter sald the U.S. market is in “confusion, chaos and * crisis.” Recession,. conseryation and conversion to other _fuels has‘eate: doeply. iito.demand,-he-sald— Poperen also raised a spectre. which ta widely reporied: to oo _ haunt Mitterrand — the possibility of a right-wing takeover ‘of the kind .that-ended. the ‘Tule ‘of: Marxist President . . 'Balvader Allende in Chite in 1973. The idea that the government could be brought down: by -non-constitutional means, recurrent in French history, has been revived by the wave of. Recent Strikes and protests, * The conservative daily Le Figaro predicted an ‘fmauinent , “collapae of the | government and other newspapers drew parallelg with the social explosion.of May, 1968, that : presaged. the departure a year later of de-Gaulle. “on the student barricades .in 1968, has. warned recent protesters agalnst rebellion while ordering concerisions that | , _ended a doctors’ ‘strike. - ‘The ‘government could fece more serious trouble in the. ‘fall when the austerity program begins to bite, eapecially if. - “there 8. unrest among the big’ left-wing unions. . fhe grip of discontent andd: vision created by the Socialists, © But: Chirac added: “The opposition is not behind the present Thovements... . . We want the sconifitets to. be calmed, not. aggravated. wo incompetent surrounded by incompetents,” but added that’ the party had no wish to see the Soclalists Houndéd froni ~affice, : : : ‘The Figaro described the two years since the May r i - 1981, election as a fiasco, Listing the readons, (:iny- i “An. economy in collapse . ‘ purchasing’ power, partial closure of-the: frontiers for < travellers and goods, penal reforms-which liave succeeded ‘In guaranteeing insecurity, radio and television news at the” orders of the government... :"' - However, Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy and pariy officials aay the government is only going through a rough patch caused mainly by the legacy of its predecessors arid the recession aggravated by United States, British. and Weat German policies. cs . Crushing :taxes! falling”: ‘Canadian e: ers, Who supply about five per cent’ of Us 5. requirements, have seen deliveries éeop to less than 50 per cent of contra tragted volimes, me Some U:S, transmission companies have forced Canadian . Suppliers to rénegotiate contracts arid others have invoked ‘foree majeure, 7a ‘olinite Yn‘contracts which in’ certain elreumstances: alldws a’ party’ to not accept'deliveries, . ‘The federal government recently’ authorized a cut in the export price of gas and the Alberta government has tabled a - marketing ‘Program which would give U.S, buyers’a discount’ on volumes: that: are 5) ‘Per’ cent of contract ; ; maximums. -. The president, many of of whose ministers demonstrated 7 ‘Competition: from cheap residual all, coal and domestic ‘US. gas com! with the high border price of Canadian "gas ‘could further erode. Canadians’ share, of the’ US. “market, Potter said, en : _ Buyers | have been’ altering o or suspending contracts but ‘the US. governthent has been studying regulatory options to, deal. with: domestic gas pricing and’ conmumiers ‘have " pushed: Congress into ‘considering legislation, to limit the sale of high-priced domestic or tmparted gan, : AS Unless Canadian gua i compestive, i wit be considered ‘nO. more, than-a’ stand-by source ‘to fil demaid at pak, periods; he. sald: . rents. ’ Potter recoirimended. a flesitte market policy which a * would show 0.8, buyers Canadian gas doesnot necessarily . ; __ Contribute to the problem of high. prites. Ali gas might not “receive peak prices but producers would receivie revenue. ‘The single border at U.S, request, should be scrapped in favor of variable “Some Socialist officials argue ‘that given the fartenching social and economic refornia.of-Mitterrarid’s first year, some difficulty and publi¢ tmirest was inevitable. © “Look, we have already bees in power longer thea ‘any French left-wing government in bistony, " one party official. noted. a: wel 1 factors, said Potter. The system shoild also distinguish bite gas volumes ‘under alréady-authorized contract ‘obligations and > discretionary Purchases made by U.S. buyers under old and “néw contracts. : price, initiated in the late ig70e largely _ Potter sald Canadian expocters can no longer aseunie the ; Chirac's deputy, Bernard Pons, said Mitterrasid waa an” : U8. will inevitab| ably, ‘need Canadian gas at any. price.” ~ Deregulétin, pi spur: domestic. exploration: and if . _ importy dre) net a Mertean aa. in readily | available if the — “ Brice is Fight. —-priceslinked to transportation Aisiaiices and vipelis load”