Page 2, The Herald, Friday, May 11, 1984 a a a To daliyherald Published every y! at $16 Kat Street, Terrace, ed by Sterling Publishers Ltd. Authorised as second clas mali. Raegleivatlen Number 1201. Powrags paid In canh, retorts portend quareneed . Terrace: 433-4357 Publisher - David Hamilton’ Edltor:- Advertising Sales: Brion Gregg Nick Walton Staft Writers. Photographer Sports, Ralph Reschke Hoily Olson ~ Receptlan-Classified: Cireutation: Claire Wadley , Sue Booten NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT ‘Tha Herald retales full, complete and sole copyright In any advertise ment produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published in the barald, Reproduction Is not pereilited without the weiter permititon of the Publisher, ‘the Terrace-Xitimat Dally Herald Newipaper la politically incapandent and ® mamber of the British Colurnbta Press Council. a6: Letters to the Editor Carpenters denounce labor laws The B.C. Northwest District Council of Carpenters, at their meeting on Wednesday, May 9, unanimously denounced and rejected the proposed changes to the Provincial Labour Code as laid out by Bennett. The un- warranted and continuous attack by the government on organized labor must cease. We oppose the central attack of the government against the social, economic, and democratic fibre of this province and demand the immediate withdrawal of this anti-people, pro-business legislation, that can only harm any economic recovery if and when it may occur. It’s obvious the Bennett regime is not prepared to carry out its mandate to create jobs. Instead the Socreds are union-busting and lowering the living standards of the majority. In Bennett’s new reality, unemployment has risen 100 per’ cent since 1992, The Council consequently has not option but to clal for a general strike unless the legislation is withdrawn. B.C. Northwest District Council of Carpenters -Wiretaps~~ os OTTAWA (CP) Solicitor General Robert Kaplan last year authorized 545 electronic sur- veillance warrants for - national security purposes, he reported Thursday. His one-page annual report to Gov. Gen. Ed Schreyer said that wiretaps and bugs were “indispensable in- vestigative aids" in cases involving subversion, terrorist activity aimed at “accomplishing governmental change in Canada or elsewhere.” Duarte leads official returns SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Cen- tralist Jose Napoleon Duarte held a solid lead today in partial official returns from the presidential election, and a top military com- mander urged ultra-rightist Roberto d’Aubuisson to respect the results, | With 72 per ¢ent of the vote counted, Duarte had 533,771 votes, or 55.9 per cent, to 423,380 votes, or 44.2 per. cent, for d’Aubuisson, election officials said. Ernesto Belloso, a member of the Central Election Council, said the council expects to finish counting today. Both candidates, citing counts by their own party workers, have claimed victory in last Sunday’s election, in which an estimated 15 million Salvadorans voted. Col, Adolfo Blandon, chief of staff of the armed forces, said of d’Aubuisson: “If he’s really a nationalist, as he said in his cam- paign, he must respect the will of the people,” Duarte is a Christian Democrat and d’Aubuisson is the candidate of Donald Johnston Circulation: 635-4000 ‘a LIBYAN TYPEWRITER. Olympic chief asks to meet Chernenko Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee and a former Spanish ambassador to the Soviet Union, is awaiting an answer on his request to meet with Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko in an effort to _ reverse a growing Eastern bloc boycott of the Los Angeles Olym- pics. Samaranch has asked Marat Gramov, head of the Soviet Olympic Committee, to arrange the meeting “within the next few days.” : Samaranch has a copy of the letter President Reagan sent to the Soviets emphasizing that every athlete is welcome in Los Angeles. The Olympics chief asked for the letter during a visit to the White House on Tuesday, the day the Soviets an- nounced their withdrawal. +~Meanwhile,'-.: Peter: «-Ueberroth;: ‘president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, =. said he also is willing to. go to Moscow to appeal for a non- boycotted Olympics. But he added the organizing committee — an- ticipates it will continue to receive ‘a one-a-day bitter pill from country after country” in the Eastern bloc. The bitter pill Thursday came from East Germany, which ranks with the Soviets and. the United States as the top amateur sporting countries in terms of medals won. ~s the rightist Republican Nationalist Alliance. In Panama, meanwhile, an aide to presidential candidate Arnulfo Arias accused officials counting the ballots from Sunday’s election there of fraud and said the opposition will not recognize the results if they go against Arias. "If they want a civil war, they will have it.” said aide Enrique Rogers. Nicolas Ardito-Barletta is the candidate backed by the military, which threw Arias, 62, out of office three times after he won previous presidential elections. Panama’s election board an- nounced Thursday a count of eight of the country’s 40 electoral districts showed Ardito-Barletia with 64,670 ballots to 59,647 for Arias. The board estimated 630,000 eligible voters cast ballots. In Nicaragua, Foreign Minister Miguel D’Escoto said the United “States will be an- international . outlaw if it refuses to accept jurisdiction of the World Court, which has ordered an end to Us. This story on Donald Johnston is another in an Intermittent series on the major candidates for the Liberal leadership, to be Ottawa June 14-17. By Kirk Lapointe OTTAWA (CP) Donald ‘Johnston was firat to declare his candidacy for the Liberal leadership race, eight days after Prime. Minister-. Trudeau's resignation decision. Johnston was filled with enough optimlem and adrenalln to practically walk on water. The. economic: development minister's cause for jubilance was twofold — a weekend of shaking hands at a. provincial party gathering in Halifax had gone well, and a handful of phone calls had mustered strong sup- " appeal mie decided at a party convention in The East Germans joined, the’ Soviet Union and Bulgaria in pulling its athletes out of the Los Angeles - Olympics, with the announcements ° coming on succeeding days since Tuesday. Jesse Jackson, a candidate for the U.S, Democratic presidential nomination, also joined the cam- ’ paign to get the Soviets back, going - to their embassy in Washington to to Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. But a spokesman for the embassy said Dobrynin told Jackson there is little chance the decision will be changed and that the ambassador has “no reason to expect 2 rever- sa W EDMONTON (CP) - _ Members of the Canadian Federation of Labor _ have’. committed "themselves "to . te investment: corporation financed by. unten * pension funds, 14": creation of a real More. than’ 42 million has been committed. to get the: corporation -— started; said. Jim MeCambly, federation president. ,’ - But the ccrporation could: -evén> tually tap into a pool of private Canadian pension funds now worth about $90 billion, he said in an in- terview Thursday. . The corporation, modelled. on similar ventures in the United States and ready to go into operation late next month, is intended to’ provide good returns to pension funds while funtielling money .into unjon-only construction projects. Delegates to the federation's biennial. convention’ also voted Thursday . to set. up: union dental clinics. : Officials ‘said ” the clinics | could chop as much as 40 per cent off members’ dental costs, The decisions ‘reinforced the energetic mage McCambly and. other leaders of the 214,000-member federation have been trying to - project since leaving the Canadian Labor Congréss two years ago... The federation’s affiliates are 10 - an - construction - unions but estimated 40 per cent of their members work in‘ non-construction: areas like mining and hospitals. There have been several signs of growth. The organization has set up an education program with the help of a $1-million grant from the federal Labor Department. The approximately 350 delegates expanded their executive Thursday by electing Austin Thorne of St. John’s, Nfld. a member ‘of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, as the ‘federation’s first permanent secretary-treasurer. oS Interest rates climb. upward There appeared ‘to be no end in sight for the latest round of interest rate increases Thursday as the Bank of Canada once again bumped its lending rate sharply. higher. Opposition MPs decried the bank | per,.cent front “It was not a snap decision,” sald’ he ares thinisay: dina igh interest - embassy ‘spokesman? Viadimir 7 Mikoyan. “it*was' ‘taken ‘altering * deliberations both in the Soviet Union and after discussions in ihe International Olympic Committee which brought no positive results in the host country. " The Soviets say they are staying away from the Games for security reasons and because of what they call the cavalier attitude of U.S, officials towards the Olympic charter, mining of Nicaraguan waters, ae Nicaragua claimed moral victory Thursday after the World Court issued its interim order against the mining and other military activity. Managua had filed a complaint with the court that the United States is waging “armed attacks” to topple the leftist Sandinsta government. “The World Court, the judicial arm of the United Nations, has no en- . forcement powers. ' The U.S. State Department, which earlier had rejected the court’s jurisdiction in any matter involving, Central America, said Thursday it will accept the court’s ruling. U.S. sources, as well as Nicaragua, have said the ClA- directed mining of Nicaraguan harbors was discontinued a month ago. Nicaragua filed its complaint with the World Court on April 9. More than a month before that date, the CIA had directed the tebel mining of Nicaraguan ports. Mine explosions damaged seven ships of various nations. port from party pollcy workers, They were the type of people he wanted along on his ideas-based campaign. Johnston glided into a news coriference {fo announce his candidacy, barely concealing his glee, and urged a “fresh start and a fresh agenda” for the party. He said he was in the race to win, but. he knew fellow- candidates John Turner and Jean Chretien would place ahead of him on the first ballot at the June “1417 leadership convention in Ottawa, His strategy was simple: place third on the first vote and bulld toward 'a final-ballot yie-. tory. More than halfway through the race, . however, Johnston's campaign for a fresh agenda apparently needs fresh support. His candidacy has been best known for two things — his well- close businesses and co lapse the” housing market. The bank rate, set by the central bank each week at one-quarter » percentage point above the average . yield on three-month government. * treasury bills, is used by the char- . tered banks as a guide for. setting interest rates. The central bank rate has been on a steady upward climb in the last three months after hovering around 10 per cent at the beginning, of February.. Prime Minister ‘Trudeau | reiterated comments made earlier. this week by Finance Minister Mare Lalonde that Canadian banks have: to follow the lead set Tuesday by ‘ U.S, banks or risk a massive outflow. of capital from Canada. _ Major U.S. banks increased their prime rate, the interest charged to top corporate customers, to 12.5 per cent from 12 per cent and Canadian, chartered banks responded by raising their primes half a per- centage point to 12 per cent. PREDICTS RISE Economists predict Thursday's increase in the bank rate will prompt the chartered banks to raise their rates again, although they may |. delay any increase until next week, The Bank of Canada hag also been under pressure to raise its trend- setting rate to prop up the Canadian dollar which has been. sagging badly against its U.S. counterpart and has traded at close-to record lows this week. The dollar slid to 77.09 cents U.S, at the: close Wednesday but on Thursday closed up 1-25 to 77.19. cents, . Mortgage rates haye been edging © explained ideas and ‘his mysterious black eye. Johnston has discussed his differences of opinion with: current government policy, - in- cluding his proposal to sell Petro- Canada service stations, get out of the sports lottery pool business and compensate Japanese- Canadians interned in the Second World War. . Such splita with policy prompted ..calls for his resignation, dissipated. Johnston says he never thought about stepping down. : “Tthink the campaign is a good opportunity to discuss issues, to prove that we are the party of ideas," he says. Johnston says publicly and privately he ijan’t in the race just to capture a powerful job In cabinet. His well-articulated monetary policy, ” budgetary. ’. but these. have - “ls eceptance ‘speech - em- “phatieed the body’s moderate ap- . . pronch to labor issues: “We have too | much In this country for the union movement -to operate on class: hatred and negativity.” + vothe give-andtake attitude which McCambly said has made the. federation.a credible voice in the Thursday. “All current practices should be open to study. and change,” the paper gald, . labor movement was reflected in’ an. - eegnomic ‘policy paper “approved “Social and economic. negotiation . ata national level is a possibility ‘ that we need to consider. “Included in. the items subject to review should be: fiscal and the rele and structure of the Bank af Canada, the ‘process, federal- provincial. ‘relations, . marketing boards and government-regulated industries, Crown corporations, labor-management relations and roles, industrial strategy,: income _ levels" and. income distribution, social support, education and training, international ‘trade policy and energy policy.'’ A good start would be appointment of union members te the boards of Crown corporations, McCambly sald. . - Finance Minister Marc Lalonde had a shorter list, however, when he told the convention that govern- ment, business and labor’ can not afford to return to a “scapegoat style of policy making.” The federal: government. has emphasized “the need to open the door to labor to ensure that It has an | ‘equal voice in the resolution of major issues such as technological change and a fair share of the benefits of economic recovery,” he said.’ ‘The delegates stood up to applaud when Lalonde finished Thursday but : there were Hngering doubts about . Tailing. the U.S. “up along with the bank rate in recent weeks with the average one-year rate now pegged at 12 per cent, the average three-year rate at 19.25 per cent and the five-year at 14 per cent, . Congumer ,Joans, have. follawed a an similar pattern: Herre robe set “ rates wall fore ers off the land i:é'"In: Edmonton, Lalonde ‘said: he's es sh force Jarmpe aff unhappy with the rising ‘bank rale * standing ovation,” one delegate said _ it to give unions a bigger say In ‘ienTbe ministatisaidi he will tneeti it With imorezthanr 20: otherfihariée ot but added there is little Ottawa can - do in the face of rising U.S. rates. “As long as United States rates are going up it’s going to be difficult for Canada to keep the rates down,” he said following a speech to the - More Canadians - back on .the job. OTTAWA (CP) _ The number of _ unemployed people dropped by 73,000 last month to 1,468,000, but the jobless rate remained at 11.4 per cent for the second consecutive month, Statistics Canada reported today. It is the first halt in what has been a steady upward climb in the rate since the beginning of the year. The seasonal variations, held at 11.1 per cent for the final three months of 1933, then inched to 11.2 per cent in January, 11:3 per cent in February and 11.4 rate, adjusted for per, cent in- March. ‘While the government might take _ some comfort in the fact the unemployment rate has not in- creased again, there’s virtually. no chance opposition MPs will- find anything in the latest figures to cheer about. - Progressive "Conservative and voicing renewed concerns about sharply higher: interest ‘rates, have _ been . action ‘which will both protect existing jobs New... Democrat MPs, demanding government positions may preclude him from assuming the job in finance, for: example, because they differ ‘markedly from: elther of the two acknowledged front-runners. * His team's own polling shows he Is strongly in third place, well behind Turner and Chretien. But Independent surveys show him. locked with two other conteriders, Employment Minister - Jotin Roberts and Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan, in a struggle to keep out of fifth spot. Who is correct? What is going wrong? Campaign manager Rick Anderson insists the next few: weeks will bear out his findings, when delegates start-looking at " the substance, not just the image of the candidates. “We knsw we have the best thinker in the race," Anderson - BAYS. sO . decrease of 16,000 for Women. ~ . cent for women, . The ‘search for a Liberal leader: Donald Johnston +, Johnston often seems stiff and - political speech into a technical _ challenge. He is best’ in small _ Will decide whether he can be the ‘gaid the federation should oppose the be shared and how long plana get up . when business was finished ahepd of ‘Bank of Canada rate Thursday. to _ ages of 15 and 25. James McCambly the government’s record. j “We should have minimized’ the: as the hall emptied The federation also passed . a resolution criticizing the British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario governments for “ising the present economic situation to weaken our free collective: bargaining system.” , And there were concerns about federal pension reform and a profit- sharing plan Lalonde announced in his last budget. A resolution approved Thursday plan unless the government changes matters like how much profit should by individual employers should last. The convention wags to have concluded today but ended Thursday schedule. annual meeting of the Canadian ; Federation of Labor. “What we're trying to do is keep the rates as low as we can, bearing in mind interest rates in the United » States have been going up how. for a few -months.” ~ bs! reo ng ministers next week at the annual meeting of the Organization for Economic | Co-operation and Development and expects a lively debate over possible individual .or collective steps industrial conntries can take to control interest rates, and add new ones to the economy. Another. jump in the trend-setting 11,72 per centfrom 11.17 per cent has raised fears that rates on mor- (gages, business and consumer loans will continue to rise, thrawing more people inte bankruptcy and more people aut of work. Statistics Canada said full time employment, adjusted for seasonal variations, increased by 11,000 in April, reflecting an increase of 27,000 jobs held by men and a The increase was limited-to men over the age of 25 years, which means the jobless scene for :young people continues to look grim, with many graduating and returning students facing the prospect | of not . finding work. The agency said unemployment increased by an estimated 13,000 to 587,000 among those between the ‘This pushed the’ youth | rate up by 0.J-to 18.5 per cent, with the rate at 20,7 per cent for men and 16.1 per But . getting those thoughts across has been a big problem. In front of -large crowds, © dry: He sometimes swamps hia ideas in jargon and turns a gatherings, Pp rtleularly when he fields.” queatloris ‘from the . audiences; © ycr-14 But, Anderson,;..and ‘. other Johnston | canipaign workers know there isn't tlme to convirice a majority of the convention delegates two or three at a time, Apart from the weekend policy sessions, Johnston will try his hand increasingly , at large gatherings in the second half of the campaign. How well he does dark horse candidate his sup- Porters hoped he would be or among the also-rans.