PAGE 4. THE HERALD, Tuesday, July 12, 1977

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Compulsory |
retirement
_ wasteful, unfair

Compulsory retirement at age 65 is both unfair

and wasteful.
For employers, the result is a loss of valuable
_ human skills and reservoirs of experience. Also
lost are such priceless by-products of longer life as
wisdom and the ability to cope with the whole
gamut of practical situations.

‘It should not be assumed, of course, that ©

everyone reaching the age of 65 wants to go on
working. Others may not be capable of doing an
effective job.

What, then, are the alternatives to total
retirement?

_ Those who have researched this problem are
convinced _that it can often be solved by
redistributing responsibilities to provide enough
work for all age groups. ‘In many cases this may
call for senior employees to step down or sideways
to new positions. Alternatively they may be
assigned to part-time work or serve as consultants,
Thousands of people slated to be axed from their
jobs at the prevailing age limit would gladly settle

’ for lower pay.

However, if there’s no way a person can be
retained by his present employer all is not lost.
Many gray-haired ex-employees have turned to a
second career in a similar or totally different field
that might be less demanding. Yet this road, too,
can berough. So far, few firms are willing to give
even part-time work to a recent retiree.

Because senior workers so obviously deserve
fairer treatment, it is to be hoped that the federal
government's new Human Rights Act (Bill C-25)

.’ will include prohibition of age discrimination, _

Certainly the future will force a change.
‘Statisticians forecase a sharp rise in the number of
senior citizens in Canada over the next 20 years.
Thus the national work load will have to be spread
over a wider age span. : It’s not teo soon to stop
making all 65 year olds walk the plank by offering
them more enlightened and practical alternatives.

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“We can't live with my parents. They’re still
living with their parents!”

Interpreting the news. |

Kennan decries Carter’s

WASHINGTON (CP) —A
former U.S. career diplomat
has struck a _ tough

philosophical blow at the '

oundation of . Jimmy
Carter's foreign policy,
challenging the idea that the
United States should be an
aggressive champion of
freedom of dissent.

In a new book, The Cloud
of Danger: Current
Realities of American
Foreign Policy, George
Kennan says he sees litile
hope of success “in .an
American policy which sets
out to correct and improve
the political habits of large
parts of the world’s
population.”

‘Misgovernment, in the
sense of the rise to power of
the most determined,

decisive and ‘often brutal
natures, has been the
common condition of most
of mankind ‘for centuries
and millennia in the peat.

“It is going to remain that
condition for long ints the
future, no matter how
valiantly Americanz insist
on tilting against the
windmills.”

Kennan, who once was
U.S. ambassador to the
Soviet Union, will by all
accounts find much
agreement for his views
among state department
professionals who for
months .- have been
grumbling about Carter's
moralistic statements and
willingness. to antagonize
foreign governments on
human rights issues.

But his objections go far
beyond a diplomat’s
nervousness about strained
relations; ' Kennan is
implicitly challenging the
view that democracy should
be the universal ideal. .
DEMOCRACY

UNNATURAL?

“] know of no evidence
that ‘democracy,’ or what
we picture to ourselves
under that word, is the
natural state of most of
mankind,”’ Kennan writes.

“4. Democracy has, in
other words, a_ relatively
narrow base both in time
and in space; and the
evidence has yet to be
produced that it is the
natural form of rule for
peoples outside those
narrow perimeters.”

‘The United States, he
says, should concentrate on
areas of international
affairs where the dangers
and opportunities for
effective U.S. action are

eatest and “these, as it

pens, are ones that have
little relation to the cause of
democracy as such.”

The difficulty for Kennan
and his supporters is that
they oppose more than just a
hardnosed president who
has firm views on the role of
morality, ;

What they are fighting is
two centuries of American
tradition
began when a minority of
colonists rejected
conventional military and
economic wisdom and put
their faith in an ideal.

_ “Does it say anything about clothes qualifying?”

BEIRUT (AP) — The
Kuwait hijacking and other
recent Palestinian terror
attacks- contrast with
Yasser Arafat's efforts to

oject a “good guy” image
a his Palestine Liberation
Organization and his claims
of a unified Palestinian
movement.

The contrasts were high-
lighted by Arafat’s denial of
PLO participation in the

Pa hijacking, which ended with

the surrender of the
hijackers in Damascus on

* Sunday, and his support of

the Petah Tiqvah

in Israel last week,
In addition, there has been

a little-noticed outbreak of

ombing

For more information contact Ron Bartlett, kidnapping, bomb attacks

and reprisals in the last two
months that has, in some
cases, sparked major
clashes between rival
guerrilla organizations.
The ‘“unsanctioned’’
terror attacks and the intra-

Palestinian fighting pose a.

new challenge to Arafat's
efforts to establish full
control over the faction-
ridden and turbulent
Palestinian movement.

The 47-year-old guerrilla
chieftain has proved himself
an adept political infighter,
quelling four armed
mutinies and surviving two
assassination attempts
since he was elected
chairman of the PLO in 1967,
replacing the diplomat-
founder Ahmed Shukairi.
MANY SPLINTERS

There is no accurate
estimate of how many
splinter groups there are in

e Palestinian movement,
but about a dozen major

oups have formed under

e umbrella of the PLO. -

Ever since Arafat
appeared before the UN

neral Assembly carrying

. a pistol and urging peace in

November 1974, the PLO has
tried to appear as a truc
liberation movement rather

than a combination of
terrorist bands.

Arafat’s mainstream
guerrillas have condemned
acts of terror outside of
Israel and directed against
non-Israeli targets.

For example, PLO con-
demned Friday’s hijack of a
Kuwaiti jet as an attempt to
drive a wedge between
Syria and the guerrilla
movement. But Arafat's Al
Fatah and. three ; other
factions claimed responsi-
bility for a pipe bomb that
killed one person and
injured 20 in Petah Tiqvah
on Wednesday.

Anti-Arafat coupattempts
were staged by chiefs of

KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) —
Former premier W.A.C.
Bennett says that without
his wife he could not have
bkilt up his chain of
hardware stores or become
a successful politician.

Bennett, 76, who was

remier of British Columbia
‘or 20 years until his Social
Credit party government
was defeated by the New
Democratic Party in
August, 1972, celebrated
Sunday his 50th wedding
anniversary to the former
May Richards.

Shortly after his govern-
ment’s defeat, Bennett
resigned his Okanagan
South seat, where he was
first elected to the legis-
lature in 1941. His son, Bill
Bennett, was elected in a
byelection, and in
December, 1975, led the

Man in the news

staff of the Palestine
Liberation Army (PLA), the
military arm of the gkerrilla
movement, The 6,000-man
PLA has long complained
Arafat favored irregular
guerrillas with money and
arms, : .

POSES A CHALLENGE
The latest challenge to
Arafat came from Brig.
Musbah Budeiry, a. PLA
chief of staff he ousted in
June 1976 during the height
of the guerrillas’ con-
frontation with Syrian

forces who intervened to end
Lebanon’s civil war.
Budeiry, based in

Damascus where most of

the PLA troops are
stationed, called publicly
two weeks ago for the
overthrow of Arafat.

Budeiry’s predecessor as
PLA chief, Col. Osman
Haddad, failed: in attempts
to overthrow Arafat in the
1960s, He has since retired
but still commands a large
following among . PLA

troops.

Arafat has patched up his

“wartime dis ute with an

President Hafez Assad, but
‘Assad retains control over
the proSyrian Saiga
guerrillas led by Zuhair
Mohsen, head of the PLO’s
military department,

50th ANNIVERSARY |
Bennett thanks his wife
- for helping him succeed

Social Credit party back into .

government. co

The former premier said
in an interview Saturday
that marr ial e is the most
importan B a person
does in his life.
NO REGRETS

“We have had a really
good marriage and have no
regrets,” he said. . ;

Bennett first met his wife
al a Young Persons
Movement meeting in
Edmonton in 1924,

“Tt wasn't love at first

sight but there was
recognition,’ he said.
“After the first six months I

knew May was the woman
who was to be my wife.”

They were married in 1927
and three years later they
moved to this Okanagan
Valley city where Bennett

opened a hardware store.

’“T had left the wife and _

children, Russell and Anita,
in Victoria staying with
relatives. I drove through
the area and the roads were
bad and dusty. I went to the
lake and had a swim and
wondered why I hadn't
come to Kelowna earlier.”

Bennett promptly bought
a hardware store in
Kelowna, the first of
several,

The former premier had
some advice on marriage,
for young persons.

WAIT TO MARRY

He said the main thing is’
that they get married
between

21. ON

“That's not too young or
too old and people know
enough about life then to
make thelr marriage. a
success.” ; :

-he can tap :
expressing the country's

a tradition: that .

e ages of 24 and |

philosophy

FORCE REMAINS

The idea] has been
frequently  tarnished—by
the slaughter of Indians,
periodic blatant corruption
and occasional questionable
wars—but it remains aS a
pervasive force in US.

society.
Carter's political strength
lies largely in the fact t t
this force,

hilosophic commitment to
iberty: and promising 4
return to the days when
Americans could feel clear
moral supremacy.

Nor has Carter been
wholly ineffective in his six

months of experiment and
innovation.
A British observer,

writing in The Guardian,

concluded: “If his human
rights crusade has had its
logical hiatuses, it has
also—already—helped set
free a lot of people, in Latin
America, Asia and even
Iran, who would otherwige
still be behind bars.”
Members’ of Congress,
ever alert to the direction of
political winds, have been
quick to give verbal support
to international hume
rights, pressing proposals
that go even further than
Carter wants ta go at the
moment.
Congressmen, perhaps
unlike some former
diplomats, know there are
not votes to be won in
treating the American de-
mocracy as yet. another
historical accident. a

= An MLA’s report

By CYRIL M. SHELFORD
nla, skeena

This week was Highway’s
week with most Members in
the Legislature taking part,
in the discussion describing
their roads, and the
problems involved which
makes it an interesting
discussion for all.

The only disappointing .
. thing that “a happening on

the discussion of all
Departments, is the
increasing repetition by
Members of the Opposition ;
where several members
have used their full time of
thirty minutes three times,

which certainly is a definite |

abuse of free debate and will
destroy the process of
democracy if continued as it
will bring to a stand-still the
operation of Government.

It has always been my
opinion the Government is
elected to govern and the
opposition to oppose and

er dlternative prograris.
Not to resort to personal
attacks or long speeches to
delay, but by hard hitting
speeches as seen in the days
of Harold Winch, Bob

- Arafat’s image is tarnished

Iraqi-based guerrillas led
by Sabri Banna, known b
the code name Abu Nidal,
are another major challenge
to Arafat's leadership
although Nidal has no real
power base in Lebanon’s
refugee. camps.

_ His group, known as the
Black June, claimed
responsibility for last year’
siege of the Semiramis
Hotel in Damascus and a
later attack on the Inter-
continental Hotel = in
Amman. They also claimed
responsibility for an

attempt early this year to .

assassinate Syrian Foreign
Minister Abdul Halim

Khaddam.

“Another thing that would
help would be a lack of
major differences. Hf there
are too many of these, it

- leads to a lofs of confidence

and jealousy.”

Bennett said he is not
alarmed at today’s
permissive society,

“You will always gel
periods in history going way

ck just like this one, It’s
like a pendulum. A swing in
one direction and back
again. I don’t think human
nature has changed in
thousands of years, There
are a lot of good, happy
young married people about
these days like there always
are and always will be.

Bennett's son Russell
(R.J.) is currently head of
the Bennett interests,
His daughter, Anita ‘ozer,
is his personal secretary.

NDP repetitive
-in its speeches

Strachan or Arnold
Webster.

The Legislature has
already sat nearly four
months with still a long time
to po No one likes a limit on
debate but the present dela
tactics cannot go on, as
MLA's regardless of party
should be out in their
Ridings meeting with people
and getting new ideas.

With lengthy sessions
very few new ideas come out
after the first two months -
the rest of the time is "that
repeating something
was said the day before, the
week before, or the month
before. ,

There is no question in my
experience - in the
Legislature for twenty-two
years the higher level af
education has made i
possible for the present
members to speak longer, to
say less, and its time a
committee of all parties be
set up to sit down and lay out

«new rules. whichare 50-years

aut of date and to-resolve“a
very unsatisfactory
situation which has
developed since 1972.

In fairness, not all the

_ blame can be placed on the

present opposition,

Yesterday I asked again
for the completion of the
road to the North whichis an
important link for the future
marine and road
transportation link from the
suppl centres of Vancouver
and the Western U.S. to the
North and Alaska.

Ialso asked for a road link
from Hazelton to the
recreational area of Swan
Lake and on to the Nass
road, also the completion of
the road from Smithers to
Granisle to give our tourists.
and people of Granisle a
second route from Babine
Lake. I requested a day
labour program for sections
of. the Kitwanga-Nags
highway so that we can
compare costs with that of
contracts, The Minister
replied they were spending
over 20 million on Highway
37, and liked my idea of a
section under. day labour.-
He also said the Department
would be moving on fhe
Hazelton-Nass and the
Smithers-Granisle road. —

.My main concern with
highway construction and
maintenance is the terrific
increase in costs to the tax
payer since 1072, mainly due

the stupid contract signed
between the former
Government ‘and the
Government Employees
Union - especially the clause
of portal to portal pay which
ean mean in remote areas
only three hours work
which is .very costly an
inefficient manner to serve
the tax payer: To get three
hours work for an expensive
Cal or Grader is simply not
good enough and this
contract alone will cost the
tax payer millions and even
billions during the years
ahead. ue

We all like to see our
workers paid well, . but
sociely can’t afford to b
expensive machines to wor
three hours a day. If this
clause spreads to the

Resource Industries none of
them will be competative
With foreign countries for
the world market. ‘i