Bouey examined

.- By CARL MOLLINS |
ort

‘pesisted the temptation to
le in glass
houses: -shouldn’t throw
satones. ; -

’ ‘The federal bank governor
ls being examinéd in the
Commons finance ‘com-
mittee about his program of
boosting

borrowing ratés to -

historic heights. He says the
high Interest rates are
essential to fight inflation,
and adds that ordinary
people should curb thelr
spendin and temper
“demands for higher maney
incomes,”

But some of the govern-
ment MPs backing Bovey
now were only recently
among the severest critics of
the governor and his coat!
few  glass-walied ba
buil just'a bock away
from Parliament, The
bank's budget and payroll
also have been outstripping
the inflation rate.

Sinclair Stevena,
minister in entrees of
government purses as

dent of the treasury
oard, ance proposnd in
Parliament as an opposition

IN U.S.

WASHINGTON (CP) —
U.S, freedom-ol-information
laws are "a profound and
salutary influence’ on
government  deciston-
‘making and atimulate indi-
vidual and journalistic en-
_ terprise in prying facts from
~bureaucrats' files, U.S.
lawyers Bay,

At a cost of $90 million an-
mally in salaries’ pald to
evil servants"'who™ handle
freedomof-Information “'"*
requests, it stil] stacks up as
one of the ra dre for

xpayera’
who work inside and Outalde
the government say.

The U.S. has had a
Freedom of Information Act
elnce 1968, but itis only since
it was strengthened in 1074
that the law has become
widely used. The Canadian
‘government recently In-

troduced proposala'to eae
public acetsd to governiiéat

‘formation.

’ The U.S. law permits
, anyone in the world to make
a written request for in-
formation fram government
departments or agencies,
tncluding - the ral and
htelligence ency,
Uniess the agency shows the
"request violatea any of nine
specific exemptions ~~ like
interfering. wi inavish 1
privacy or disclosing ira
secrets —~ an answer must be
supplied within 10 days.

Inllally, it was widely
feared the law would have a
chilling effect” ily

the.

MP that the Bank of Canada

should be renamed. “‘In-

flation Factory No. 17" *
And Stevens suggested In

Parllament a year ago that ”

consumers picketing
supermarkets in protest
against prices should
turn Instead on “the Bank of
Canada building thet has
been a-building for five
years at a coat of $83 million.

etek" of the twin-tower
a of. the twin-tawer
‘atrudtture with mirrog walls
flanking the ald stone bank

When Bouey took over as
bank governor in 1972, the
cost. estimate-for the new
bullding was $96 million. The
Iaat official cost figure,
contained in 9 1077
parllamentary response to a

estion from Stevens, gave

@ total ag $68.8 million and
rising,

That tally excluded some
‘major expenses such as
property purchase, but in-
cluded $402,000 for window
blinds and $85,000 for plants
Inside the affices,

Farllamentary questlons
about the bank staff. and
aalaries bring the formula
response from the bans that
“it has not been the practice
to answer detailed questions
concerning the internal

pure wg who woulda tu
put any on paper, says
Tim Ingram, staff director
for the congressional asub-
committee on government
information and individual
rights, ;

But it has not happened,
Studies show lower-level
bureaucrats continue their
long-standing practice of
committing proposals to
paper, and top-level aldes
are ‘wary Hd ever ae writing
anything down that might
leak to the media or com-
petitors,

Not only has the decision-
making process remained
intact, it has been helped,
says David Viadeck, director
of the freedom-of-
information clearing house,
which regularly seeks in-
formation on which to base
test cases.
= TRB qué lity” 6F dtelatia:
‘dee ee substaii tially
improved when you know
someone is looking over your
shoulder or can look over
your shoulder,’ Viadeck

~ Civilservants look at more

options before devising new © Ted!

Policies and it is easier to
detect thelr biases later, he

- of Canada

administration of the Bank

-But it is known that Bouey
is ep of the salary heap in
official Ottawa with §75,000 a
year, just shy of the 976,000

n salary apd expense
allowances paid Prime
Minister Clark.

And while the central
bank’s own budget is omitted
from the yearly federal
program examined by
Parliament, a brief appendix
in- the bank’s annual report
shows that its operating
coats rose last year by more
than 12 per cent.

The bank's payroll and
staff expenses alone went up
last year by more than 16 per
cent to almost $80 million,
The number of employees
expanded by 12.5 per cent to
cinding. thoes” engaged ‘in

0 engaged.
building maintenance,”’

Anotber budget increase
last year was a 19-per-cent
ralse in fees paid to the
benk’s 12 outside directors
fur attending board
‘meetings, a total $43,000.

Bouey observes § ap-
provingly elesehwere in the
same report that wages in
Canada d last year
by a moderate seven per
cent while consumer prices
rose by less than nine per
cent.

Info laws working

director’ of the project on
national: security and civil
liberties, and also a former
deputy assistant defence
secretary,' Jays a study
conducted by. the General
Accounting . Office, the in-
veatigative arm ¢f.Congress;
disproved the FBI's com
tentlon. ,
“They have - ample
authority to repress in-
formation that might ‘reveal
informers, and they in fact
do," Halperin sald. 4 -
Harold Rolyea, senior ataff
member of the congressional

research service, saya the -
laws are alsoa prod for U.S. -

journalists. Top newspapers
like the New York Times and,
the Washington Poat now
regularly assemble in-
vestigative teams to use the
freedom of information laws
for gathering Information,
che pays. 7
' There is alto a whole new
“cottage industry’ in
Washington in the platoons
of lawyers and other
specialints who peddle
directories and offer
on how to file
freedom of information
ueats, so
But interest groups like the
chamber of commerce and

companies are becoming in-

creasingly skilled at

id,
_Agencied like the FAL irequesting. information that
vee CIA’ have’ hae makes. than more com-

Congress for changes to the
freedom of information laws,
clalming they endanger
underworld informers and
hamper law enforcement.

But Morton Halperin,

petitive, Rolyea said. Many
business requests go to
departments fike health
education and welfare an
others involved in product
testing. - *

Blind man in police

TORONTO (CP) — Christ-
opher Chamberlin Is a blidd
23-year-old who stepped
from a job as a library typist
fo a world of mugder, ex-
tortion and orga: crinte,

He’s a special constable
with the Ontario Provincial
Police Ini ence branch,

. the unit-‘that intercepta
conversations with wiretaps,
hiddea bugs and tran-
imi

Th,

“He can pick out atuff on a
tape that to you and I would
be incomprehenstble,"' Insp.
W. Robert Patterson of the
Intelligence branch sald ina
recent Interview,

“We had one police force
bring ina tape that had parts
on it they couldn't make out,
the quality was so poor, It
waa & murder investigation
and he picked out one word
that was critical.’’

“He's doing work not only
for us now, but for police

forces across the province.’

Chamberlin, typing
conversations since last
April and a special constable

since August, is paid $14,800 wire!

a year, thesame as a civilian
dispatcher with the OPP. A
firat-class constable with the
force makes $21,000 a year.

Staff Supt, Bruno Dorigo,
head of the Intelligence
branch, said that as a sworn
policeman, Chamberlin is
qualified under the Criminal
Code to listen in on con-
versations as they are being
recorded,

And because Chamberlin
can hear voices ata distance
and in nolsy and crowded
situations where sighted
people could not, hia work.
may eventually take him out
of the office, .

Dovigo sald the OPP has
had a flood of requeata for
information on Chamberlin,
from police forces across’

Canada, A number of other.

forces, including the RCMP,
are considering hiring blind
people for their ‘own

canoeist.

To get his job as a special
constable, he passed a three-
month trial and a civil
service competition.

“I've taken as long as
three hours to get a
paragraph or even a line out
of a difficult tape,"’ Cham-
berlin said of his tran-
ascribing work.

“Sometimes ita so tring
trying to hear what's being
said [have to stop and take a
break, But when I finally get
what's there I get a sense of
great satisfaction.”

Veteran was stress victim

BARRY RENFREW
‘HUNTINGTON, W.Va,
(AP) — For years, the men
‘sem calm,

Then something sets off
the guns in their heads, the
long silent guns of Vietnam,

back the trauma of
combat and reopening the
featering wounds.

Harold Mann, who was a
‘medic in Vietnam, held 27
persone hostage at gunpoint

a tiny church in St.
Albans, W.Va., nine days
ago. He surrendered after
Making an obscene
statement on the radio in
which he complained of
medical prob ems the
military ha ored,

ign
Clirfical psychologists

believe the Vietnam
veterans who explode so
violently are reacting « to
delayed combat stress, the
haunting return of the
memories and fears of
combat in Vietnam.
“These people are not
crazy," paid Don Crawford,
a Veterans Administration
official, ‘They've been
traumatized war and
need help to adjust.”
Little is known out the
delayed stress .vaction.
Researcher tne just stare
ting to stu problem,
and they warn that Mafin
will not be the last veteran to
explode, .
“They have flashbacks of
injury and death,” said

Malcolm Farmer, head of
counselling at a Veterans
Administration centre, ‘In
one case, a vet kept seelng
decapitated bodies after 10
years of no problems."

“We're golng to have to
live with It for years and
years,” said Crawford. ‘If
we had started doing
something about it 10 years
ago it might have been
better,

In an effort to deal with de-
layed stress and other
chronic problems that
trouble veterans, Congress
this summer authorized the
the Veterans Administration
to aet up Operation Out-
reach.

The Herald, Wednesday, October 31, 1979 Page 7

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