By DOUG SMALL

OTTAWA (CP) By
accident or design, Canadian
aid to Cuba being
eliminated at-a time when
Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau’s government ls
under heavy pressure to
repudiate the Castro regime
for its military activity in
Africa.

Reports that Cubans may
have helped train rebels {n-
volved in recent white
killings in Zaire have drawn
howls of outrage. from op-
position critics, Some have
demanded an end to
Canadian-Cuban diplomatic
relations.

Trudeau has emphasized
he regards the presence of
Cuban troops in Africa as
“indefengible,” but in the
past he has argued that
Canada separates ald from
other considerations in Its
dealing with Cuba and other
countries in order to help the
needy.

PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Friday, May 2, 1978

Cuba relations cause. concern

_ with Trudeany..

Since then, Trudeau ap-
pears, on the surface at
least, to have shifted ground,

This week, he said Canada
has ''no present plans’’ for
future aid projects to
Communistled Cuba.

‘Current projects ‘‘are
either terminated or on the
verge of being terminated,”
he sald, referring to a $10-
miillon line of credit Canada
granted Cuba two years ago
to cover health and animal
health services and an ad-
ditional $2.7 million in
technical assistance.

But the line of credit,
granted at a three-per-cent
interest rate for 30 years,
will be used up this year in
any event. And Trudeau's
statement leaves open the
possibility of future aid
should conditions change.
NEW COOL PHASE

His comments appear to
herald a new cool phase in
Canada’s on-again, off-again
relationship with the island

Carter ‘package’
tax exempt

WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Carter's long-
delayed energy package is
heading down the home
stretch, but it may arrive at
the finish line without the
crude-oll tax the president
calls the centrepiece of the
program.

With agreement on a
naturalgaq pricing com-
promise, a conference
committee of the’ House of
Representatives and Senate
has reached basic accord on
all parts of the five-section
program except taxes.

And there have been in-
creasing expressions of
doubt among lawmakers
that the tax portion can be
enacted this year~espe-
cially as congressional
elections approach.

The crude-oil tax—the
: mosteontroversial part of
the energy-tax section—ia
designed to make U.5. oil as
expensive as foreign oll
during a threeyear period,

Senate negotiators
reached an accord on the
natural-gas portion of the

vag late Wednesday; -voting - |

7 to accept a proposed

“price
controls from ° bars ri found
gas in 1985.

APPROVED BY HOUSE
House negotiators broke a

‘Chase fatalities

HOPE, B.C. (CP)
RCMP said that two persons
were killed today in a high-
speed car chase on the Hope-
Princeton section of the
southern TransCanada
Highway.

The two were not iden-
tified.

Police said the chase
started in Hope and headed
east along the highway.
Princeton RCMP set up a
roadblock in the Manning
Park area, about halfway
between the two com-
munities.

The car being chased tried
to avoid the roadblock, left
the road and crashed. Its two
occupants were killed.

RCMP have not given any
reason for the chase,
Double drowning

KAMLOOPS, B.C, (CP) —
Two persona were believed
to have drowned early today
when a car carrying three
people went off Highway. 97
at Monte Lake, about 40
kilometres southeast of here,
and plunged into the water.

The accident was reported
after one man managed to
get out of the car and reach
shore.

There were no further
details.

PWA possible

CRANBROOK, B.C, (CP)
RCMP In this
southeastern British
Columbia city are in-
vestigating a bomb threat
that foreed a Pacific
Western Airlines plane to
return to Cranbrook Wed-
nesday night after taking off
on a flight to Vancouver,

RCMP said today that
airport officials recelved a
telephone call about 9:30
P.M. MDT in which a caller

- said there was a bomb
aboard PWA flight 376, a
Boeing 737 that had just de-
parted for Vancouver. The
flight was ordered to return
to Cranbrook 18 minutes
after takeoff.

Passengers were taken off
the plane and boarded
another jet for the filght to
Vancouver.:

RCMP conducted a three-

. how search of flight 376 but
no bomb was found, There
were no further details.

sixmonth deadlock Tuesday
when they approved the
natural-gas measure on a 13
to-12 vote.

Carter and the House
wanted to keep price con-
trols on gas, but the Senate
had voted for deregulation
after two years.

The compromise is a
middle ground which
nongress:2nal analysts say
will cost U.S. consumers
about $9 billion between now
and 1985 in higher heating
costs.

The deal was framed in
lengthy informal
negotiations among key
member's of the conference
committee and Energy
Secretary James
Schlesinger.

The negotiators will meet
again June 6 to take up 33
relatively minor but
unresolved issues on the gas
legislation.

Lawmakers hope to get the
gas compromise to the
Senate floor—where it goes
firsi—as 000 as possible,

+ And there is also the possi-
bility the gas proposal will be

blocked when it*reaches the’.

Senate—by liberais who
oppose deregulation, con-
servatlves who don't think

the compromise goes far.

enough, or by both at the
same time.

CALGARY (CP) — Ap
proval of an application to
impo. rt Alberta natural gas
into the United States as the
first stage of the $10-billion
Alaska Highway natural | gas
pipeline project has been
delayed one week due to a
technicality, a U.S. govern-
meat spokesman said today.

‘Ina telephone interview
from Washington, John
Adger, pipeline advisor to
the federal energy
regulatory commission said
the commission’s decision
Wednesday to remove the
item from the agenda was
based on “‘poor drafting” in

the application by Northwest
Pipeline Corp. of Salt Lake
City, Utah, toimport the gas.

Northwest Pipeline is the
sponsor of the U.S, section of
the pipeline to transport
Alaska natural gas through
Canada to the lower
states.

Pan-Alberta Gas Ltd. of
Calgary is to file ap-
plications to the National
Energy Board—the .

Canadian equivalent to the
energy commission—and Al-
berta’s energy resources
conservation board to export
1,04 million cubic feet of gas
daily for six years to the U.S.

The gas would be shipped
in pipelines that would form
the first Canadian sections of
the Alaska Highway project.

Adger said the commission
will consider the application
next Wednesday at its

regular meeting and that no
problems were expected,

Pipeline ‘held’ |

country he once,
younger years, attempted to
reach. by canoe from the
United States
But despite the publicly
tougher attitude, past ex-
perience suggests that the
relationship is unlikely to
suffer for long. Little
damage is expected “in
dian-Cuban trade ties,
hich have remained secure
through periodic tiffs in the

past.

Last year, Canada sold
Cuba about $182 million
worth of goods—80 per cent
grain, 20 per cent
manufactured goods, Cuba
sald Canada about $45
million worth, malnly sugar
and shellfish,

Instead, the latest con-
troveray appears to be just
one of a number of incidents
that has nettled the
relatlonship between the two
countries since Castro
overthrew the Batista die-
tatorship in 1958.

Various Canadian govern-

ments have bogged down ©

with problems. either

directly aasociated with.

or indirectly in
rec controversies over
U.S. interference in
Canadian trade with the
Caribbean country.

‘Liberal governments such
as Trudeau's have been
periodically under the gun
for their Cuban policies from
the major Progressive
Conservative opposition
party. Yet. it was a Con-
servative prime
John Diefenbaker, who first
decided Canada would
raintain normal relations
with Castro’s Cuba and
ignore most U.S, trade em-

bargoes.

Trudeau's stiffened atance
toward aid to Cuba is clearly
a bargaining position. Last
month External Affairs
Minister Don Jamieson
indicated that aid to Cuba
would be used as a lever to
help force withdrawal of Cu-
ban troops from Africa.
Trudeau's ‘no new projects”
position is regarded by most °
observers as the lever in

“yha,

action.

EFFECT NOT FATAL

It is not expected to have a
fatal. effect on Canadian-
Cuban relations. .

For one thing, Trudeau has

UNITED NATIONS (AP}
— President Valery Giscard
d’Estaing of France presents,
new proposals to the special

UN disarmament session

today after the Unite.‘ ;tates
offered to provide—early-
warning systems to head off
conflicts and be the “eyes
and ears of peace,”

France for years has boy-
cotted the 31-nation Geneva
disarmament committee out

of dislike for the Soviet-U.S.

co-chairmanship, and is
calling for a new body of 30 to
40members with a chairman
elected for two yeara from
among all the members
except the big powers,

The Geneva disarmament
committee, established by
the United States and the
Soviet Union, is linked only
informally with the United
Nations, But France says the
body it wants established
should be responsible to the
main political committee of
the General Assembly,
sitting as a disarmament
commission.

Giscard d’Estaing, who
apeaks on the second day of
General Assembly debate,
also is calling for a European
conference on disarmament
which would consider
problems relating - to
disarmament “from the
Atlantic to the Urals,”

U.S. Vice-President
Walter Mondale told the
General Assembly Wed-
nesday that the United
States is ready to be the
“eyes and ears of peace’’ in
areas of possible conflict hy

| broviding the countrias

Pretty Baby
denies porn

LONDON (AP) — Brooke
Shields, the 13-year-old star
of Pretty Baby, said Wed-
nesday she hopes the film
about a child growing up ina
New Orleans brothel will not
be banned in Britain.

"It ig not pornographic or
lewd,” she said of the film by
Frenth director Louis Malle.
Tt has been banned in parts
of Canada, and there are
reports it may not be given a

British certificate for public
showing because it deals
with child prostitution.

“It is not pornographic or
lewd," she Said of the flim by
French director Louis Malle.
It has been banned in parts
of Canada, and there are
reports It may not be given a
British certificate for public
showlng because it deals .
with child prostitution.

links with Fidel Castro.

They were cemented
during a 1976 Trudeau visit
to Cuba where the prime
minister shouted, in Spanish,
at a mass rally: “Long live
Cuba and the Cuban people.
Long liva Prime Minister
Commander Fidel Castro.
Long live Cuban-Canadian
friendghip.”’

aor troopa were fighting

in Angoja at the time,

backing leftlat forces against

troops pe sup plied by @ bizarre

tween the U.S.

emai Intelligence Agency

(CIA) and the Chinese
Communists.

In private talks with
Castro, Trudeau is said to
have taken a strong line
against Cuba’s ‘African in-
terventions.

But the public display of
friendship provoked a
domestic storm in Canada,
where oppositlon parties
demanded a new hard line
against Cuba.

Trudeau defended his

publicly friendly position hy

aiying Canada had a
gathiaia peaceful:
anges with the ialantcat a
time when U.S. relations
‘with Cuba, strained and
eventually severed after the
1959 Communist takeover,
were thawing. There was a
chance the Y.S. would

resume trade with Cuba ata |

cost to Canadian exports.
Still, the warmth of the ex-
change came to embarrass
the Canadian government a
year later when, in January,
1977, 1t discovered that Cuba
had been using its consultate

in Montreal as a spy school |

for agents destined to work
in southern Africat
BOMB EXPLODED

The discovery was ap-
parently the result of an
investigation that startec
during another period of cool
Telations between the two
countries in 1972, when a
bomb blew a large plece out

of the 12th floor of the Cuban .

trade mission.

Then, police charged six .

Cubans with carrying

. “weapons; including machine

guns. But the charges were
dopped and Canada
apologized for the police
action against persons and
pwemises that had
Tiplomatic immunity...

Disarmament a
failure, French |
president says

involved with monitoring
services. like the aerial

photography and ground |
now |

detection devices
working between Egyptian
and Israeli forces in Sinai.
OFFERS HELP

Mondale sald countries

wanting such help should.

submit joint requests,
preferably through regional
organizations or the United
Nations.

He algo proposed creation

of a UN peacekeeping -

reserve force ‘of national

. contingents trained for UN

duty that Secretary-General
Kurt Waldheim could use
whenever the Security
Council established a new
UN force as it did for
southern Lebanon last
March.

He also sald that the
Warsaw pact countries have
built up an almost 3-to-1
advantage in tanks in

Europe over the North
Atlantic Treaty
Organization.

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Within months, there were
reports, of increased
Cana tour’ to Cuba
and trade officials picked
that year to launch a Cuban
export drive

Two years earller, in 1970,
the two countries had gone
through what was possibly
the closest period of their
relationship when Cuban
accepted terrorist kid-
nappers of James Croas—
then British trade com-
missioner to Canada—to end
a crisis in Quebec

In the early days of the
Castro government, Canada
was concerned about
Canadian Rothan Catholic
missionaries and what the
then Diefenbaker gov-
ernment described as a
possible’ Communist
bridgehead in the western,
hemisphere.

But Canada to
follow a U.S, tead and cut off
trade, a move that earned
Cuban gratitude.

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