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"Confidence returns _ OTTAWA (CP) — Consumers are more confident about + the economy than they have been in 2% years, but they're : not likely to go out on a spending spree just yet, says the : Conference Board of Canady. ‘A survey of consumer attitudes and buying intentions in the first quarter of the year revealed confidence in the economy increased for the third consecutive three-month period, the board saya in a report released today. ° Of consumers surveyed, 35 per cent said now isa good . tinié to make major purchases, a increase from. 22 per cent x who felt that way when questioned in the last quarter of : 1982., i in ‘other areas; consumers said job opportunities are ., {ntreasing, 16 per: cent up from 13 per cent last year; their — vo : own finandal positions will improve, 23 per cent up from 19 "percent and they are better off now than six months ago, 14. - per cent up from 12 per cent. 5; The latest improvement in consumer attitudes points to” an upturn In: consumer spending. But .the board cautions that ‘the economy in general and households in particular, © have been battered by 18 monthe of severe recession. - _ Any increase in consumer spending. will also be dampened by the Joss of income caused by high : nemployment and the slow grawth In incomes since the . onset of the recession. Real or Inflation-adjusted incomes dedined by one per “: * cent last year, Carole FitzGerald, board tesearch ansociate, ” -gaid in an interview. | “FitzGerald also sald any strong. growth In. consumer "spending will have to’ be preceded by ai lipedverient in the.- . employment picture; ‘Something most econbinié forecasters | - >" say -Won't happen for a long time. ‘Consumer epending, which accounts for about 50 per cent “of all economic activity in the country, is ‘considered an “ essential ingredient of any recovery: . ‘The’ index of consumer attitudes — -based on the level “recorded in 1981 equalling 100 — is 96, up from 71 per cent in- * the fourth quarter of last year and the record-low of 56 per * cent recorded in the second quartet of 1982, ‘ The index, a kind of gauge measuring consumer -" confidence, is also ‘at its highest since the third quarter of _. 1980 when it was 97, It is also in line with a similar monthly survey. inthe US. * which shows consumer confidence in the economy there is increasing. t matches another board survey which reveals “-* increasing optimism among businessmen. - But the latest survey also shows consumers are. realistic ‘about job opportunities, and with 1.6 milion people out of is: work, only one per cent felt jobs were plentiful in their . community, That proportion remains. unchanged from the all-time low recorded in the final quarter of last year. Expectations -about inflation showed a marked improvement with a record dow 5 per cent expecting it to ‘=, worsen. £ Meanwhile, a record high 24 per cent expect overall economle conditions to improve during the next six months — & percentage which says a lot about the pessimism of - Canadians. Slightly more — 26 per cent — enpedt e condittons : to deteriorate. Cruise passed by EDMONTON (CP) — In an unusual. display of submission, the Alberta government is leaving thé issue of “whether to test cruise missiles over the province entirely i in ” the hands of the federal government. _-:. . “It is quite rlear that this matter is a federal ; Tesponstbility,” Jim Horsman, minister of federal and * intergovernmental affairs, ‘sald | in the-. legislature : Wednesday, But the province’ has asked federal officials to make sure no people or buildings are hurt if cruise misailes from the United States are tested in the province, Horaman told Ray Martin (NDP—Edmonten. Norwood) In question perlod. He also assured Martin an existing agreement means io , Huclear weapon would be aboard any cruise missile tested at the federal government's air weapons range near the northeastern Alberta town of Cold Lake. . Asked later why the province is fully respecting federal . jurisdiction over missile testing when it has offered advice ; freely and regularly In areas such as transportation, : Horseman told reporters: that’ transportation is a shared "responsibility and the coniparison ‘is invalid. LARA e COCDONK as Mie OS fea pCO SE OU a cence rv ‘ The argument’ has been different ‘wherever; Afberta - officials have tried to push the federal governifieht into . spending more on the upgrading of transportation tacilit “Where does..the responsibility ‘-és./In- termi’: of(7 transportation?” © Premier: Peter’: ‘Loughieed sake the - legislature Oct. 14, 1981. J. : as “ 25, we “It’s a federal responsibility clear and’ ‘urgquiyad - “It's so.clear at times that they won't let us- become involved in some of the areas in which we're only trying to play a supportive and assistant role.” ; ; Horsman also told Martin the provincial government has. not considered allowing muntcipdlitles to hold a plebiscite | on the issue of missile testing in Alberta. ~ ; : - The government's legal advice ia that municipalities are ‘ “tot empowered. to hold plebiscites‘on such issues, sald | "Municipal Affairs Minister Julian. Kozlak.’ ‘ Sgeneentasani OO PEARSON ENURESIS J. 7 aan, econoniic if ams leapt 1.8 per (tn Jan fi \years: and. the: ‘third consecutive. monthly. increase ‘, . significant. and: follows, other. indications: of.’ econo ¢. the: recession hag ended. Gross, domestic product. : : product measures production by. Can _ missiles deployed. in Europe. wary, wary, the Jargest one-month rize in more The latest Increase waa Lolstered by a 50-per-cent ‘industries but dampened abit by. strikes in Quebec ‘and hospitals, ‘the: agency. ‘Said, | : While the: fF increase : in er ‘domestic product recovery, an: ‘agency analyst said it’s ‘atill-too earl or ‘outside. the’ Sountry. ot B: risen (vo per _Ameney figures; show economic activity Moscow ‘(Reuter)’ — Soviet Defence: Minister: Dmitry ° Ustinov: has ‘warned the United States that Moscow: ‘will .. strike directly ‘at- American territory -if. ‘altacked by-U.S Ustinov's. ‘warning came in a} haidhitiing speech - Wednesday to. East German ‘and Soviet treops in tho Ea Eat German town, of Erfurt. ; He-aleo attacked President Reagan's 3 so-called in rim, solution offer on medium-range missiles andthe presidént's ~ plans for mene ‘into space age, ‘anit-ballistie missile . * systems. _Ustinev' 8 attack on the planned deployment of U. S. Guise and Pershing 2 missiles in Europe was the latest in a serles of tough statements the Kremlin has’ timed at Washington. He said Western governments should remember. that if the missiles were launched, the Soviet retaliatory strike , Might turn out to be. the final one for most of the Western . European countries where the missiles would be deployed. ‘He accused the United States of planntig: the misaile deployment to offer its alliés as hostages for retaliation and enhance {ts own chances of surviving a nuclear conflict. Ustinov said if the missiles were launched, ‘the United States would not go unpunished. — - “If in ‘Washington they think that we will retaliate only against targets in Western: Europe if Pershings and cruise missiles are used, they ‘badly ‘elude: ‘themselves. Retaliation against the United States will be {neluctable.” Western: "dlblomats said Ustinov . appeared. to. be a ows: \ cent | nce October: . " of the repeasion, in Jul ih \ ‘auto, production and: gains in other. ‘manufacturing 7 s .- Of consumers. surveyed, 35: per cent. sald, 4 is: a: ood ai | _.timie to make major purchasés, up from.2 per cent who felt insie e . that way when questioned in the Jast quarter of 1962," -. Meanwhile,.a “record-high” 24 per cent: expect. overall. . ' economic conditions to improve during thie next six ‘month re — © Massey -Fergusdh Ltd.of Toronto hae asked halders of * * 3,6 inlllion. preferred A-arid-B shares to exchange. their | " goviets vou. nuclear strike nf da reported: further wood news, saying coneumers: BPS re: “confident about: the economy ‘than they have been ‘in 2i¢ “The board says lts survey of consumer. altitudes : “and buying intentions in. the. first quater of thé. year shows confidence in ‘the. economy increased . for the: third <, consecutive three-month’period. "However, the report adds that consumers ‘aren't likely go out.on a ‘spending’ spree’ just ‘yet: rer rer new. its strategic: forces. _ Western diplomats said by sp ‘spelling out the link between : Western‘ Europe and the. United States, Ustinov’ was’ ‘in effect backing up the. logic of NATO's ‘deployment: ‘plans.’ : NATO -experts say. one: -of the aims. of the “planned deployment of 572 missiles, due! to begin in December, is to. couple. the’ ‘security. of the. United, States with’ that’ of dts. Western European’allies, - - “ a ‘ ailing farm equipment: ‘manufacturer says would 8 ve */mililon cash, Shareholders will vote on the propos! atthe reiterating a Soviet position’ rather than, saying anything ~atanual meeting later’ this, month. The Soviet Union. has. always sald there. can: abe no such” thing as a nudear war. limited’ to Europe, implying that if : attacked by European-based 1 missiles, it will lt back with However ; fi 4 aTh ‘ oniumer ‘spending ‘will be ‘danipened for awhile by 'th of income’ ‘caused, by high ansinployment . ‘andthe n growth hale the onset. seu the Pegeselon. business : news a veh fp loss e {glow Gatiadas “Ine: and: Chrysler’: Canada - : edly ereasés ‘fpr March passenger car. ‘gales: ‘over the” sime 7 nouth of 1982 All-together, ‘passenger ctr saléa, by - domestic manufacturers jurhped 60,033,-up- one-third from 48; 252 last year. “Only Ford Motor. Co; of Canada Ltd. repirted 8 a sales = deell e far, the month compared with inst a . dividend paying. atock. for; common “shares, a tov on "= The federal government said a three-year a, for exploratory drilllng:of two wells off Prince. ‘Edward “Island at an estitnated cost of $28 million have been'signed ‘with Chevron, Canada Resources Ltd.,. Irving all itd., ; Texaco Canada Resources Ltd. and RST Industries itd. ° -i- The’ Bank of Montreal sald it plans to transfer 64 ‘employees from {ts international banking, audit ® “and fnanclal control divisions to Téronto. from Montreal ‘this --Suminer. The bank's four other. operating divisiong . = domestic banking, commercial banking, corparate banking : and the Aveasury - = are already based in Toronto. «| Ustinov said Reagan's proposal of’ ‘an interim agreement : - tollmit the number of Soviet and'U.8. land-based, medium-_ _ Fange misailes in Europe was: designed | to’ disarm the Soviet Union unilaterally. He.said Moscow -was ready ‘to withdraw. all nuclear _ weapons almed at European targets if the West did the | same. He accused the Weat of. being ‘deat to. the Warsaw. - Pact's January offer-of a non-aggression treaty. ° “ Ustinov sald Reagan’s anti-allistic missile project ‘would - be an offensive measure intended to equip the United States for a first‘strike,.- “It is designed to deprive the Soviet, Union of the capacity . tli ot, - to carry out a retaliatory strike and to disarm the U.S.S.R. ._ “Sabbath have half the death rate from heatt disease of those who: do not. take a day of rest. in the face of the American nuclear threat,” Ustinov, said: He pledged that the ‘Soviet Union would’ not back down and give up its own ‘security or ‘that, of its Warsaw Pact allies o - Quiet people | join protests ~ CALGARY (CP) - Brenda Weaver, a. 66-year-old, ‘Calgary teacher and grandmother, didn’t onsider herself.a Plitical person until she became involved in the anti. nuclear movement. _ Weaver, president of the Calgary chapter of Operation ““Dismanile, joined the organization a few. years ago after she heard its founder, Toronto seciologist Jim Stark, talk about the need for a UN-supervised global referendum on the issue of, multilateral disarmament. : up m not a political animal," she: says. “But the’ More. h, thought about it, the more I came to belieye it was the right °," ‘thing to do . a . the right approach to the problem. advocates) is mobilization of public opinion.” Weaver has seen and heen repelled. by the face.of war. ‘She Ilved through the terror of the Blitz in London and after the Second World War came to Calgary with her husband . . George. “The last ‘war Was awful. But the next one will be terribly different — not just in degree but in kind, We don t have the right to wage that kind of war.” : She favors a disarmament plebiscite in Calgary but an, Operation Dismantle proposal to hold a referendum on the * issue during the fall's municipal election has . met considerable nppoeiion at city’ council. rank as “The human race “may have reached a turning point . a _ watershed" regarding nuclear. weapons, slie saya. “It's... almost as though there is something in the alr — something federal, not ‘municipal, jurtadiction.. It hag’ alsa - been suggested the’ referendum. would cost _alty taxpayers $20,000, Weaver said. “They are Wrong on ‘both counts," she says. An Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre. study says: Buch, -a.: referendum . is within .municipal Jurisdiction. $4,500 struggling: agalnat what :; misconceptions, _dhey -. feel _ ,, Too many people believe Operation. Dismantle and all “The last and perhaps the best tool left (to disarmament other antiwar organizations are tools of the Soviet Union. “That. bothers me because - ‘it's not true. Nuclear’ disarmament Isa moral issue — a common-sense issue — “not a political. issue.1 don’t think we're really going to get _ anywhere until we overcome {hat attitude." ~ Weaver says the last two decades of this century could @ most important in history. different. I’m not sure what it means. Villages become elderly’ Ss dorms TORONTO (CP) — Ontario's villages are turning, into dormitories for the elderly which lack the services that . Sustain old people in cities,’ says: a University of Toronto. behavioral scientist. “In our small towns, we have the old looking after the old,” says Elizabeth Cape, who is studying the rural elderly in a Southern Ontario township. - : ’ The exodus of young and middle-aged people” from the." “villages ‘and rural areas has’ left the elderly to support... themselves, she sald. . Country people are quick to offer help in emergencies, but the support system breaks down when elderly neighbors need long-term-care, said Cape. — - Her study of-senfor citizens in a township. in rural: Northumberland Couty, between Belleville and Oshawa, -. found that 77 per. cent thought they would get help in an . emergency. But she was startled to discover that only 15. per cent thought they knew someone they could call on regularly, “We're. all 30 brainwashed into thinking that country” ‘people do, indeed, look after their own,” Cape said, — Churches, which in many areas provide chronic cate for - the rural elderly, don't have enough young people lo carry. on the work, Cape found. . “Women who were designated to do the visiting were just . 88 frall as the people they were supposed to visit.” In the township she studied, the population of the largest - ‘village has remained stable in the last 100 years — but the’ number of old people has increased dramatically because’ younger people leave and never return. . One side effect of an aging population is a decline in services. “Now you have a bunch of crumbling stores; most of them shut down,” Cape said. Despite the large number of. elderly, Cape found there ~ ties, weren't many people over the age of 80, Rural areas, she. CB se: ‘sald, can't support.the oldest of the’ old unless they” are ; healthy or have a vigorous. spouse. “You elttier stay shaped up or you ship out. When, people Aet to a certain age of fragility, they simply have to.move. out of the rural areas. You can. scrub all that atult about ‘three gerierations under.one roof,” .. - The obstacles are biggest for elderly women, she said, who tend to outlive their husbands.’ . In her study, 27 per cent of those surveyed didn't know - . What they would do-if their spouse died. An equal number . hadnoidea whether they'd stay in the country for the rest of thelr lives, Those who had considered the ied tended to” have only vague plans. ote le aes * - recommended ‘that ‘hemophiliaes postpone surgery. without harming the patient,” she sald. -sitlet definition of the disease. One of the. nine, is a! . hemaphiliac.” ‘ There have been more than 1,000 AIDS ea édedinih United. - Cape said few rural areas have services to bridge the gap . - between one’s own home and a nursing home. In the township she studied, there areno psysiotherapists, nurses, — ‘ -eccupational therapists or_meals-on-wheels programs, |. "There are a large number of doctors, but no specialists or _ Clinics, even though the health needa of the elderly tend to be complicated combinations of medical and. social problems. : ‘ Local service clubs and municipal councils tend to be all . male and oriented toward practical problems’ and agricultural concerns, rather than abstract problems Buch _ Be: loneliness or chronic health needs, Cape said. Hemopheliacs warned. “OTTAWA (CP) — Hemophiliacs should postpone elective _ Of Non-emergency surgery until: more is known about a - deadly new ‘disease called ‘acquired immune deficiericy syndrome; the Canadian Hemophilia Sodety has: recommended. We just don’t have enough information yet and we have. , -.to be careful," said Dr. Hanna Strawezynaki, chairman of -.. the. society's medical and scientific advisory committee. - - , The baffling disease called AIDS destroys the body's ~ ” natural ability.to fight infection,.Jeaving sufferers open to -somé cancers ‘and viruses. Most‘ vietims die. ‘within two . years of diaghosis. Strawezynski. said ‘the committee. has ‘never ‘before. an ‘esilmaled 2,500“ Canadian ‘. “By elective we ‘mean, something that truly can wait ‘AIDS has struck 22 Canadians and 14 have died. Another nine Canadians show some, but not all, the symptoms in. th States, resulting in about 400 deaths.” : Hemophiliacs have a tendency. to. prolonged bleeding evén from a slight injury: because the. blood fails to clot’ | normally. Herice, sufferers depend on blood transfustons -@nd several blood components to survive and require large ~ ainounts of bigod and blood products in surgery. The society has also recommended that, where possible, hemophiliacs receive liquid or frozen blood products which - : generally come from only ore donor, The.freeze-dried:or’ ‘lyophilized products which may contain: blood from : bund te of donors should be avoided, . Operation Dismantle is certain it would ‘cont ho ‘more than ‘Weaver wind other. serious, peace, activists are | also,. Lane. Popular. “If people realize thie nuclear arms race is an issue of ~ survival, then perhaps we ‘Il be all right. If they de don’t, I fear 7 ’. for our future.” ‘nothing on military hardware and m tain = lorces, the report said. Rest helpful _ - QUEBEC (CP) + ‘The best way to avoid heart, tréuble, says an-Israeli researcher, is-to take long walks in the ; ‘desert and o full day of rest once'a week. ~ | Hillel Blondheim, director of the: metabolic olisile at the: ; " Hadassah ‘Hospitel'near Jerusalem, said Wedriesday that North Americans could learn from the nomadic Bedoulna - and the Orthodox Jews. Speaking at Laval University’s department of nutrition, “Blondheim said Orthodox Jewa:who strictly observe the A full diy of rest once a week appears to relieve tenston enough: to have a measurable effect.on the body, he said. ' Blondhelm also. dttacked the belief that. low cholesterol . diets reduce the’ risk of heart attacks. _: “In Israel, we conform to the ideal diet recominended In the. United States, yet our mortality rate from heart disease “> has-not diminished ’— far from It.” - Lawyers engaged by .the city ‘and ‘the “Alberta: Urban. ; “Municipalities Association have sald. the issue falls within - ~ Rather than diet, atress Is probably the main factor in . making people’ vulnerable to heart disease, he- suggested, cting his studies. of. the. nomadic Bedouins: of the’ Negev. Desert. At one time then péopla never developed heart disease, - even though they did not have low-cholesterol diets, But. since Bedouin family heads began working in cities, settled thelr wives in houses rather than tents, and began buying the same low-cholestero!: foods as us, they have started to * develop heart disease." «Blondhelm blaitied the stress resulting: trom difficulties adapting -tp. Bnew: ldeatyle: for: this) change. Inettre health of “Bedouin. a . ; ~ In aneffort to explain how great an impact stress and rest can have, Blondheim described his. study: of students at a Hebrew collage who observe the Sabbath strictly. They do — nothing but rest -all day: no sports, television, reading, _ Jogging, walking, or other leisure activities are alléwed. By examining blood samples and measuring other. indicators of stress, the researcher found that going to bed regularly at 10 p.m. did not reduca these students’ stress levels, as ‘measured by the amount of adrenaline In-thelr blood. As the week passed, ‘these levels accumulated, but after one day of total rest, Blondheim noticed a “spectacular” arop In stress ragasurements,, tO ‘Arms expensive WASHINGTON {AP) .The world's nations spent an estimated $600 billion on aims in 1980 with the Soviet Union . and the. United States accounting for more than half the total, the US. Arms Contrat -and Disarmament Agency Bays. . Inthat year, the Soviet Union led all countries in military - Spending and arms exports, the agency sald in-an annual : report on global military spending. - - The Soviel.Union spent $188 billion in 1980 on arms and + exported $8 billion in weapons compared to $131 ‘billion in military spending by the U.S. and 86 billion of arms exports. U.9. military. spending has since increased to- $206.0 _ billlan for fiseal 1993 and the Reagan administration has - requested $238.6 billion’ for fiscal 1994. - ‘The study's projections of Soviet military spending for . the reat of the decade indicate its total increasing to more ‘than $300 billion by 1985 or. 1086, ; NATO and Warsaw Pact coimtries accounted for slightly more than 76 per cent of world military spending in 1980, the report said, . y ; ‘The report said that in the decade beginning in 321} Libya . Becourited: for. almost 40 per cent of ‘all African, arms . Amports. Two-thirds of the. arms were purchased from, the n Soviet: Union.. Dr. William Zartman, a member of the faculty: of: the “School of. Advanced International Studies of Johns: Hopkins . “University, said ine. study. published as part of. the report that Libya’s arma buildup has caused a regional arme race by heightening the securily concerns of its.nelghbors, ~He charted increases in Libyan arms spending to about $2 billion a year in 1978,-1979 and 1980 from $60 million in i970. , Zartman said the ‘purchases have given Libya’s: -89,000- man army, about 2,000, main’ battle tanks, 2,300 armored , "yehicles, 1,000 pietes.; of large’ artillery.atid 3,000. anititank jsallea: In: addition:to: 555 combat aircraft... °°. e- heat -thene stocks, are {nr larger than those of Labye' 3 sey ri a mrper cent global ineresse pending. over the decade beginning in 1071... ‘Of“the. 148° ‘cotintries listed, those: leading. in-military |. “ spending. were: the Soviet Union, the U.8., China, West. Germany, France, Britala, Saudi: Arabia, Japan, : and italy. Ty ; China led the world in 1990 in. ‘the size @ a _— 45 million men and women. . oo ys | he Soviet Union was second with 4.3 million, fonlowad by the U.S, with 2.1 million, India with 1. 3 million, North Korea - and Vietnam with °700,000 each, . and. South Koi a and ; - Pakistan with 600,000 each. . 7 ees Iceland,. alone among the: developed coitntries ‘apent