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Public is confident
in Parti Quebecois

Montreal La Presse: The results of a survey on Quebecers’
voting intentions made by a Montreal-based polling company
and La Presse a few days after the start of the election
campaign indicate that the Parti Quebecois still has the
public’s confidence and that the Levesque government could

win by a solid majority.

But it would be presumptious to bet on a PQ victory on the
basis of these results because the choice of 21 per cent of the
respondents, undecided (12 per cent) or secretive (9 per

cent), is not known.

The fact that they were mainly made up of ethnic voters,

people aged over 55 years and pensioners suggests that the

Liberals will win these unknown voters because a large
number of Liberal supporters belong to those sub-groups.
So could the Union Nationale, in theory ... but 1 think this
party has lost its attraction for voters. ...
According to the poll, 50 per cent of Quebecers believe thal
the PQ government has temporarily put aside sovereignty-
association and 27 per cent believe the opposite. We'may con:

elude that the referendum polarization plays a much smaller '

role than was expected a few months ago and that many fed-
eralist voters will judge the two main parties by the same
criteria as in 1976, when it was a matter of choosing a good

provincial government. ...
bec

The poll also confirms a fact that will favor the Parti Que-

is — Premier Levesque's great popularity. ... Ordinarily a

popular figure who heads a government the population finds

generally satisfactory

acts

as ai trump card.

Knowing this, the Liberal leader will try to play on the
polarization phenomenon by arguing that the referendum re-
sults logically call for the election of a federalist party which
better reflects Quebecers’ constitutional desires and will thus
be better than the PQ at speaking ‘elfectively for Quebec cn

constitutional matters. ..

Thia won't be easy bécausé people don't seem to be-par.

ticularly preoccupied by thé conatititional’ problem -.

: and

they don’t appear te be upset with the Levesque govern:
ment’s stance on the issue. — Marcel Adam (March 28)

America disgusted
byits flying bullets

NEW YORK (Reuter) -—
“It’s never ending,” said a
student as he stood in the

.. drizzle and the darkness
outside the hospital where
President Reagan lay shot.

Across the country,
Americans reacted with
disgust but a sort of
resignation to the fact that
once again their lives and
their history had been
distorted by an assassin's
bullet.

The assassination attempt

halted the annual Academy .

Awards, closed the stock ex-
change and brought a wave
of new demands for the gun
controls Reagan has opposed
80 vehemently.

"It’s just tragic,’ said the
student, Tom Chandler, as
he stood vigil with the crowd
early today at Washington's
George Washington
University Hospital,

: But in Washington, New
. York, Chicago and other
. sities, there was little of the
outpouring of grief that
- followed the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy
in 1963 or that of his brother
_ Robert in 1968.
: Instead, Americans
‘seemed resigned to yet
another bruising  self-
gxamination of the violence
that mars their political life,
-“I expected it," New York
secretary Renata Johnson
‘gald. “t thought it was a
‘ matter of time.”’
* “When we. heard about

i

“Kennedy, we didn’t believe -

.it,"" said one Chicago
woman. ‘Now we just accept
: i aa .
‘Hollywood, home to
: Ronald Reagan's first career
‘as an actor, put off Monday
‘night's Academy Award
' peremonies AB s00n as news
‘af the shooting reached the
West Const.
_ Reagan recorded a brief
igpeasage for the presen-
tations and the White House
was deciding today whether

_it should be shown when the

delayed ceremony «takes
place tonight.

Frank Sinatra, a close
friend of the President who
arranged -his inauguration
ball Jan, 20, cancelled his
show at Caesar’s Palace in
Las Vegas Monday night,
along with shows due tonight
and Wednesday night.

Bob Hope, another close
friend, said Reagan had
worn a bullet-proofjacket
during last year's
presidential race and “I wish
Mr.

Edward Kennedy, last
brother of a family wasted
by assassination; led
Washington in condemning
the murder attempt.

Listing his brothers and
other victims of political
viclence, the Massachusetts
senator called for prayers

for the wounded and an end —

to violence and hatred.

The U.S. Senate ad-
journed, halting debate on
Reagan's budget cuts, as
soon a8 news of the shooting
came in, ‘

Reagan had been
. wearing that jackel today.”

Purchasing agency may be boon

TORONTO (CP) — Setting

up a joint purchasing agency.

for the federal, provincial
and municipal governments
could be a boon for Canadian
manufacturers and sup-
pliers, federal. Supply
Minister Jean-Jacques Blais
said Monday.

Noting that the three levels
of government now import
“vast amounts’ of equip-

ment, he said that pooling

their demand could’ justify
setting up Canadian industry
to provide the goods. .
Government spending at
all levels last year was more
than $30 billion, Blais told a
group = of Canadian
manufacturers... ae
He conceded ‘that. Bhs’
notion of co-operative
government buying sets
some nerves tingling with
fears of a federal takeover of
power and a loss of control

igus chasing agelieggitias ‘tb

for the two other govern-
ments,
But he added; J
“There is no intent on the
part of the federal gavern-
ment to take over the

procurement activities of

other levels of government.

“I believe that any
national co-operative pur-
chasing agency must
operate on a voluntary basis,
and that the agency’ should
respond only to requests for
action. [ believe we can
identify areas where we can

encourage the development.

of new Canadian sources.”
The idea of a joint pur.

mentioned bpferg:
and most reeently by’ “In-
dustry Minister Larry
Grossman of Ontario earlier
this year.

Grossman, who with Blais —

areas before we set into
34 formal Sy emen

toured a display of manufac-
tured products bought by the
government, said he thinks
theconcept is important, and
he has received positive

“responses to the idea from

other provinces.

: Blais said he will discuss
the proposal at a meeting of —

provincial industry
ministers in Winnipeg next
September, and hopes to see
action being taken as soon as
possible. .

“We're - looking now at
identifying areas where we
can work with the provin-
ces,” he said. “It could get
Started in perhaps one or two

Blais sthithqcanitied px
chasing “could support
national and regional”
development. .

“tf, for instance, we could.
put together a bid package

* Canadian

cavering the combined needs
of several governments for a
given period for equipment
which must be imported,
entrepreneurs
would have the incentive to

* design, develop and build the

product in Canada.”

Blais said the: list of
government purchases
which now are imported is a
huge one, ranging from word
processors to diesel engines
and medical supplies.

They all- were areas for
potential replacement of.
imports by Canadian-made

“The demand by - the
federal government may not

be guffleient to. warrants
ylp a Canadian source! “ao

settif
of supply. But if we and the
Provinces and the major
municipalities pooled our
demands, then that would be
a different silry.”

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Reagan « opposed

“to gun: control

WASHINGTON (CP)
Ronald Reagan, the seventh
: U.S. president this century to
‘bea target of ‘assassination
attempts, has long opposed
‘Tegal controls on possession
of guns.

In his election campaign
“fast year, he announced he
was a member of the

. National Rifle Associalion —

a lobby group against gun
control — and had been for
many years.

After. his’ election,
following the fatal shooting
of singer: John Lennon in
New York City 16 weeks ago,
he agaln rejected proposals

, fora federal gur-contral law.

“T have never believed
that,” he said. “I believe in
the kind of handgun
legislation we had in
California: If somebody

’ commits a crime and carries

a gun when he’s doing it, ‘you
add five to 15 years to the
prison sentence.”
‘In the same December
. week, the president-elect’s
wife Nancy caused a stir by
disclosing ion an inlerview
that she had kept “a tiny
little gun” beside her bed, a
gun her husband had taught
ber how to use.

On Monday, a3 Reagan lay |
" wounded in a Washington
hospital, presidential aide

Lyn Nofziger was asked bya
reporter if the shooting was
likely to change Reagan's
mind about gun control.

“The president can speak
for himself about’ that,”’
replied Nofziger. |

Reagan’s daughter
Maureen told an interviewer
later that something must be
done to stop the violenée that
has killed two presidents his
century, William ‘McKinley
and John F. Kennedy. But
she was mt specific.

John W. Hinckley, 25, was
reported after his arrest
Monday for the shooting of
Reagan and three others to
have been picked up before
with handguns... A
congressman sald Hinckley
had been picked up by police
last Oct, 9 for carrying
handguns in Nashville,
Tenn., when. former

president Jimmy Carter ‘Was

in town.

Records show Hinekley
bought two .22-calibre pistols
four days’ later in ‘a. pawn
shop in Dallas, Tex. * ~~

But presidents. and
prominent people are not the
oaly.victlms of gunfire ln the
United States, where guns
are legally available in
every ‘state. Some states
require permits, many do
not. “A .

Reagan's humour
was not wounded

WASHINGTON (AP)
Only Ronald Reagan, of all
the U.S. presidents who have

been shot at, reacted witha

quip.

While being wheeled into
the operating room, Reagan
told the doctors: “Please tell
me you're all Republicans.”

And when be came out of
anesthesia, - tubes. in his :

‘surgeons: ‘All
in all, I'd rather be in
Philadelphia.”

There is something wholly
characteristic of Ronald
Reagan in those scenes from
America's brush with
tragedy Monday.

He is the eternal optimist,
aw-shucks movie
cowboy.

_He was raised poor, in the
‘factory: owns of the Ilincis.

’ prairie, but didn’t know he
3 was poor. His mother would

2

beg the butcher for some
calves’ liver — “for the cat”
— and make supper.of it.

His father was an
alcoholic, Reagan revered
him nonetheless.

He couldn't afford to gota’
an expensive college. He
enrolled at Eureka College

pal torte’ “2

near Peoria, Hl.

it. ” ao)

All his life, Reagan has
embodied . the homespun
ideals of small-town
America. He wears a streak
of good Rotarian cheer, he is
delighted with small
Pleasures and at age 70, he
ins capable of blusping.
gan: couldn't “lat 28
‘Bepression job in “Chigago
radio, so he went to Des
Moines, Jowa, and in his
head created a football game

so convincingly that he was .

hired 4g a sporta announcer.

He followed the Chicago
Cubs to spring training on
the West Coast and took a
screen. - test.

In Kaute Rockne, All
American, he played a role
he loved. He was the dying
halfback, George Gipp, who
implored the coach to tell the
team to “win oné for .the
Gipper.” Later he played a
young man whose lega were
needlessly amputated by a
sadistic doctor. Coming out
of ether, he looks down and
asks his girlfriend, pitifully:

“Where's the rest of me?”

Broker warns not
to get. cold feet

Investors should not
liquidate their Canadian oil
and gas holdings despite the
industry's unsettling -near-
term outlook, says a Toronto
brokerage house.

In a recent report, Moss,
Lawson and Co. Ltd,’ con-
ceded that the dispute bet-
ween Ottawa and Alberta
over the national energy
policy doesn't. create a
comforting environment for
inveators in the petroleum
' sector.

But the investment firm

A ‘ \4e
he

Maryn ried wae

mill

Te. WESTERN
WORLDS SECRETS MA
HAVE BEEN BETRAYED f

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said investors should retain
their interests in companies

that have strong enough -
to .
weather the dispute or thoae .

financlal positions

in a position to capitalize on

the Canadianization features _

of the policy.

For the last decade, the

firm said, the petroleum

industry has been caught in -
_ several crossfires between .

the federal and provincial
governments, . |

Each time, however, “the
industry las been able to
adapt ta the new format and

- the more contentious issues

between thé warring parties
were resoived to provide a
more accommodating. en-
vironinent for the industry,

In fact, the firm #aid, the

; federal government has
made some modest -

‘concessions. in the area of

Canadian ownership of oil |

and gas companies.

It said the dispute over do-
mestic oil and gaa pricing “Is
likely to be‘ resolved simply
because failure (o achieve a

pricing agreement is so.

obviously disastrous for the
country. ”

Without a pricing
agreement, exploration and
other Industry expenditures
will probably be curtailed.

“ond ten
‘head over heels in love with