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OTTAWA -
OFFBEAT

BY RICHARD JACKSON |
Ottawa - After doing a very convincing imitation of.

rolling over and playing dead foll their ‘recent

defeat, the Liberela Ld Aner signa of coming hack
e.

Making reorganizational plans, changing

philosophical direction, searching out an
their mistakes, confessing to their failures, looking
around for likely candidates, forming their shadow
cabinet, closing ranks behind Pierre Trudeau and
acting for all the world like they are expecting to win
the next campaign and soon. oe
In fact, they're doing almost all the things they
didn't do when they had the chance, or shrugged off
doing because they thought they held the mortgage on

federal power. . .
Which they did, through all but five of the last 44

years, an
So they grew sloppy and worse, arrogant, and they

thought the glory would go on forever.
Now it’s all changed.
Not Just the government in changing Liberals for
atives, -
But in attitudes.

going Tory sn tho Goumervatives tarsi Gee
g Tory an conservatives | t,
Fact is — and a hard one it ls — that the Con-
servatives are finding themselves captive of the same
economic forces, domestic and international, as were
the Liberals, . ‘

And thelr responses are the same.

Like the explanation Conservative Finance Minister
John Crosbie has given for raising the central bank
rate to a record 11.75 per cent.

It's the same one — almost word for word — as that

ven by former Liberal Finance Minister Jean

Hen last ime he raised ft. : ;

And you should have heard what John Crosbie and
the Tories said about it then.

They said that the Liberals had made us “economic

ers” of the Americans marching us in the same
‘step — one pace ahead — of thelr bank rate in-
crease,

Now they are saying the same thing, but this ime,
because the Conservatives are doing it they can
rationalize it in the name of economic self-defence.
ant 6. different now that they have the respon-

What in Opposition was unnecessary, now in
government becomes necessity,

The Conservatives are so new to
uncertain how to use it. Or keep it. .
pant the Liberals. They know power and they want it

So what are they doing?

Holding two conferences eo far in which the thinking
emerged that while the Conservatives had been
veering left while out of the right side of their
’ mouth, the Liberala would edge over to the right while
sounding off on the left.

Or as Duncan Johnston, Liberal MP for Westmount,
put It, the Conservatives have been moving left away

om “classical Toryism'’ and towards the NDP, so
they, the Liberals, reading the public mind more
accurately, should be shifting right.

Figures, when you look at Prime Minister Joe.
Clark's ‘Red Tory" inner cabinet.

Further, says Johnston, with ‘“Super-Liberal”
Robert Andras’ support, the Liberals still have the
copyright on the one BIG issue, national unity,

They feel that in trying to court Quebec where they
are 80 weak, the Conservatives are “fuzzy” on unity
which will dominate all other issues as the Quebec
separatist referendum draws closer.

Meanwhile, playing up national unity and.
establishing their monopoly of the issue, the power-
wise Liberals will be taking it very, very quietly with
bilingualism.

Out of power they can play it their way.

In power, the vatives must play it the way

power they're

circumstances, largely beyond their control, dictate.

HERMAL

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"Repeat after me: ‘Hypnotherapy is worth

an hour.’

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GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland iF

There were lots of hors

- WASHINGTON (AP) ~- A
congressional economic
committee said Sunday the
United States cannot depend
on a series of mild recessio ¢
in the 1080s to wipe out the
inflation that threatens the
country’s standard of living.

But the joint economic
committee of the House of
Representatives and Senate,
ln a Unanimous mid-year
report, said the U.S, can
pd pearly stanly em-

oyment and re-
duced inflation in the next
decade by increasing
erwin the nile ak im:
pro skills e
disadvantaged and cutting
American dependence on
imported ol, -

The committee, while not
calling outright for across-
theboard tax cuts next year,
indicated support for such
action to ‘offset effects of
inflation.

The committee's

economists, .,under . ad- .

et

es in Saturday.'s parade

‘U.S. REPORT SAYS .

mittedly pessimistic
nasumptions that include
continued sharp increases in
oll prices during the next 10
ars, figured that unless .

flation is checked, the
price cf an average home
will be blaated to $161,200 by
1968, a gallon of. gasoline to
$5.80 and-a loaf of bread to
$2.08...

~!

"The median household in-

8, now $15,200, would
rise to $36,000. ;
Al " traditionally a
downturn In the economy has
been considered a potent
weapon against inflation,
deliberate slow growth In the
1980s would be accompanted
by rapid increases in the cost
of living, the report said.
What the economy sorely
needs, the committee sald, Is
increased productivity —
ralsing the amount of goods
and -services produced for
each dollar spent. That
would allow employers to

wht tes

increase wages ‘without
raising prices; - . :
The first of the report
reviewed the state: of the
economy, forecas little
improvement in inflatlon in
the remainder of 1979 and
blaming the ‘‘stagflation'’
mainly on the declining
productivity. rate, It said
rising taxes have sapped the ,
consumer buying power that
kept the economy moving a

é .

_ Year ago,

The second part was
prepared by the committee's
sah ia i aoe
project w ppen
to inflation and unem-
ployment in the. 19608 using
certain assumptions, ‘

In its middle-f-theroad
case, the report assumed
that productivity will In-
ereace significantly in the
1900s, that energy supplies
will continue without inter.
ruption, that personal in-
come taxes
J! ql

will be cut cluded.

icmat Economic solutions needed

periodically to offset -in-
flation..and that Social
Security taxes will continue

’ to rise on schedule.

’ Such assumptons- would
result in inflation, which now
is running more than 13 per
cent on an annual basis, of
6.2 per cent a year in the
1980s — considerably: better
fhan the 6.9 per cent of the
19708, an
‘The economy would grow
by 3.5 per cent a year and
unemployment, now 5.7. per
cent of the labor force, would
decline steadily after the .
current recession to 6.7 per |
cent in 1080-84 and to ‘an:
average of 6.7 per cent in the
last half of the decade.
But a change in the
assumptions — including
increases in

continued sharp
oll, prices, sluggish
vity and far higher

prices for food — would

being drastically different

resulta, the economists con-
iW Pod atid t

Divorce insurance needed —

MONTREAL (CP) — Want
to buy some divorce in-
mthough it might b

m a

difficult thing to sell to a

starryeyed young couple

fresh from the alfar, It's

.bomething insurance
companies are going to have

to consider if they want to

keep in step with changes in

society, says Claude Garcia,

Garela, vice-president of
Hebert, Le Houillier et
conmalting Ine an actuarial
COL , 18 preparing
a study on the changing
structure of the family,

His work so far has shown
that either divorce or a
woman's decision to raise a
child alone, rather than the
death of a spouse, are the
malin factors behind the
emergence of single-parent
families. ;

But, he adds, insurance
companies have yet to
recognize that a divorced
woman can have a8 many

financial needs as a widow.

w

‘CALGARY (CP) ~ Some
_of the most important cancer
research work in the world is
being done at the University
of Calgary's Medical Centre,
‘and biochemist Dr. Chris
Tan is one of of the
physicians doing that work, .

The blochemisit is even
manufacturing one of the
four kinds of Interferon, one
of the most promising
Weapons in the battle agalnst
the modern scourge.

"Interferon has a kind of
notoriety right now," says
Dr. Martin Jerry, the head of
cancer research at the
university’s Oncology
Research Unit.

“It looks promising but we
have got 28 production
problem that stands in the
way of testing,” says Jerry.

But notoriety may be an
understatement for the
attention Interferon is
recelying throughout the
world,

One type, leukocyte Inter-

J feron, has had demonstrated

And he says his study
shows women are often
unable to participate in
company pension plans
because they occupy the
lower rungs on the corporate
ladder, °

“The emergence of the
singleparent family and the
working woman's desire to
be guaranteed a certain
standard of living at her
retirement should Incite life
inaurance companies to
adapt themselves better to
the new reality and offer
products orlented towards
the financial security of
today's woman,” says

Garcia,

Back in the days when the
husband was usually a
family's sole bread-winner,
insurance policies were
tailored to give the wife a
steady income in the event of
her husband's death.

But, says Garcla, “the life
‘insurance needs of a family

in which both partners have -
a stable job are not the same ,

as those of a family that
counts almost entirely on the
husband for its . financial
security,

._ "The increasing par-
ticipation of wamen In the
work force changes the role
life insurance can play."

* About iwo cent of all
family heads In Canada new
are divorced, and Garcia
says that represents a fourt-

- fold increase in 10 years,

Also, the nurriber of out-of:
wediock births now varies
between eight and. 10 per
cent In the different regiona
of Canada, and 90 per ceat of
all unwed mothers are

choosing to bring up their:

children themselves,
Garcia says that between
1073 and 1978:the number of
Jamilles headed by a single
parent and recelving social
assistance nearly doubled,
reaching 19 per cent of all
families receiving ald, —
"Up till now, we haven't
been able to find equivalent

Cancer research important

effects on non-malignant
growths, But it is diffiewlt
and extremely expensive to
produce with one pound
eatimated to cost billions of

The -human leukocyte
Interferon ow used In
research comes from
Finland and Is measured in
picograms — triliionths of a

m

oat Tan is producing

human fibroblast Interferon.
from connective tasue cells
rather than white blood ceils
as is leukocyte Interferon.
And more importantly, he Is

cing it in relatively

quantites — milligram.

amrerry says it's algnificaut
erry says it's crt
but It isn’t the kind that is
being tested so widely
throughout the world now
and is receiving so much
attention.

‘It's a different entity,” he
says, “But one of the con-
tributions that could be
made is to look at a different

kinil than the standard kind
like leukocyte, Fibroblast
Interferon might be more

effective with connecting .
* call

cancer,"

Eleven Albertans and a
Swede were the first persons
In the world to be given
buman fibroblast Interferon
produced in the University of
Calgary laboratories last
year.

The treatments, part of ex-
perimentation to determine
whether the drug was
tolerable, did nat produce
magical results. Some of the
patients suffered a little
fever and the supply of In-
terferon Was exhausted.

But the notoriety of In-
terferon has overshadowed
other significant cancer
research work at the
university,

“Prior to 18 months ago,
there waa some but very
little organized cancer
research here ‘in Calgary,"
says Jerry. “All we had then
basically was radiation

mechanisms to guarantee a
secure income for single-
parent families headed. by a

- divorced or unmarried

person. The wamen coo:
cerned have had to fall back
on the government as so0n as
they found they couldn't
meet their through
thelr own means.”
But Garcla acknowledges:
“Insurers hesitate to offer
income protection in case of
divorce, It would lead to an
increase In premiums at a
time when the market is
already: very competitive.

He suggests that one
solution could be selling
group divorce insurance,

us
necessity of selling policies
to individual

“Unless the private sector
comes up With a formula to
guarantee income security
for families whose head is’
divorced or. unmarried, .we

" will have to expect increased

government intervention,"
he warns.

therapy at
Cancer Clinic,
Then permission was
granted to build a com:
prehensive cancer centre
through an affiliation with
the provincial- cancer hos-
pital board. The provincial
government funds the centre
at annual cost of about $12
million, .
The cancer research
centre at the university has
facilities for alx major
research groups, but three
are operational a nt.
‘We think the Iculty
with cancer cella bs the way
they grow and mature,’ says
Jerry who heads the centre's
immunology research group,
“The genes are expressed

the Calgary

’ juappropriately, It's like a

computer which haa its
program messed up but its
data bank Is OK,

“THat is the basic defect.
The cel] has loat its ability to
regulate its gene material.
We're looking at how a cell
matures because we don't
Jtow what a cancer ceil is.”

_ POINTE-AU-PIC, Que.
(CP) — Canada’s 10

- provinelal premiers will

8 four-day training
camp this eek ae
, ‘or . .
Skirmish with Prim
Minister Joe Clark. .-
closed-door,
Elaves-off” dscussiooa ‘in

the firat . ministers’
conference pro by
Clark for late November
ee early December,

Host Premier. Rene °
Levesque sald shared-
coat health programa, the
constitution, de-,
regulation, lotteries,
overlapping govern-
mental services and
interprovincial trucking:
also will. be conside:
during the .conference
which W

> | British Columbia

-Premier Bill Bennett, in

_ bis capacity as chairman
of the western premiers,

‘is expected to seek sup-
“port, for aggressive
negollation to improve
market © access -for
weatern’ goods and ser-
vices under the General
Agreement on Tariffs and .
Trade (GATT).

The western premiers
want the Canadian~
government to negotiate
codes of conduct in-
cluding subsidies . and
countervailing duty,
government = pro-
‘curement, - custome
valuation and safeguards
. governing emergency
action on a

Bennett sald. in an in:
. terview that, if B.C. and
Canada are to achieve |
- real access to markets,

they. will have to
bilateral | agreements
dirtetly with ra.

’* Hevaaid the problem
facing federal GATT
negotiators is ‘that
they've got so many
things on the table from

; region and com-
modlty, it’a like having a
poker game with about
2,000 , different color

ps. oo,
- Bennett is expected to
continue his puah for the
return of: Petro-Canada,
the national ail: company, - :
t» the private sector as
promised by Clark during
the May 22 federal
election campaign.

Federal Energy
Minlsater Ramon
Hnatyshyn now says the
firm will not be

private interests, though
some of its assets might
‘be disposed of, such as the
33 per cent of Westcoaat
‘Tranamiasion Co. Ltd, of
Vancouver it bought when
it zed Pacific Pet-
eums Ltd, of Cal .
The British Colum
premler has expressed
concern about the
takeover of “one of the
teola of economic
development within a

pro *

Bennett noted that
Westcoast is a com
wholly situated in 3.C,
which buys, transmits
- and sella gas, and whose
markets include the
United States.

He said the federal

NEW STRATEGIE

B.C, gas be sold to the |
‘or Northweat Territories |

‘Peratie, result in
. Of jo ,
- change the economic |.

-econmomy and energy — .
topics which will headline

_and in the Elmyworth deep

province, ; -

. resources, the others = 7

make that the provinces, as.

meeting in

- support their request for [.:

dismantled and sold to -

- mers and prospective

government, through ita F
control of Westcoast,
could designate that no
S., only Yukon, Alberta

gas. .
This would affect ex-

the
‘jobs and “really

emphasis we have put cn,
the northeastern part of
the province.” .

Bennett sald he also is |
concerned becauss
Pacific Petroleums
of tie promcing gan ia |”
a gas :
B,C, “and with that, the }..
largest amount recently [°
of the exploration in B.C,
through many cf its
subsidiaries.” = - f-

Pacific Petroleums has | *
3.2 trillion: cubic’ feet of 7°
natural ‘gas!-{n:'proven |
reserves and‘ 169 ‘million 1°
barrels of proven oll re-

serves,
- It has extensive land:
holdings in the west and is
a major partner in the.
new West Pembina oll

a discovery areas of
i Sys .
Hing them
where to sell it or how t

re Tce fe
“The resources belong.
to the -provincial
governments ‘and: the
provinces should have the |.
control and ‘taxation |
powers over them. If we |.
give up one of our

become vulnerable,
B.C, wants to ensure -

owners of the energy
reaources, have a formal
decisions

role in any oa
resource allocation in the
event of a national
emergency.

The western premiers,
Toronto

on
Tuesday to map out their
strategy for the con-
ference, are ex: to
ask their colleagues to

more... consultation, by:
Ottawa ;,.and: for, a ahi
reduction of duplication
of services and

support '
provincial input into Bank
of Canada decisions. .

They have ex
concern about in-
terest rates, aaying that
rates hurt citizens, par-.
tleularly small
businesses, small far-

home-buyers,

Equalization ents
to seven of the 10
provinces, to ensure that
regionally disadvantaged
provinces have enough
money to offer their
residents tha same ger-
vices offered in B.C.,
Alberta and Ontario, may
also. be considered.

The constitutional
question ia expec to
fake.a back seat at the.
conference and moat
ministers involved are
not scheduled to attend.

JERUSALEM (AP) —
Prime Minister
Menachem Begin

; down on his
cabinet Sunday in the
face of increasing
criticlam and ordered his
miniaters publ stop

ickering c

’ But he declared in a

statement to reporters he

‘will not respond to calls

for @ cabinet reshuffle or
for early elections,

The Israeli govern-
Us. policy iy aniling
; ey
toward the Palestinians,
- also decided to send Dep-
uty Prime Minister
Vigeel ve aethee
or r
talke with the Carter
administration,

Begin told his 16
miniaters he will no
longer tolerate news
leaks on inter-cabinet
disputes or public
disagreement over
cabinet decisions.

“From now on, a new
page will be turned in the
relations between the
ministers and the running
of the government,’’
‘Begin wae quoted as

BEGIN CLAMPS
DOWN CABINET

saying in an ofilcial
statement read by
cablnet Secretary Aryeh
Naor. °
- Begin’s-action followed
criticlam by Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan.
In Interviews with
Israel's ‘two largest
newspapers last. week,
Dayan said the govern: -
ment's inability to control
inflation and its economic
weakness were affecting
foreign policy by inviting
reassure from

tough words at other
ministers who have.
disagreed with cabinet
decisions over the last
two_ yest;

be. dise around this
table, not maitera of
dispute between
quoted as sayings was
quoted as g
Naor said Begin told his
ministers to work out
thelr disagreements
privately and Lf disputes
cannot be resolved they
will be submitted to the
cabinet for a majority
decision. ;