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thump and challenged his neighborhood to
volleyball.

his Ilmousine, cheering back at thousands of well-
wishers. :

bolised prayers for his safe return. :

who returned home Wednesday, many to
tumultuous welcomes, others to more private

The people; all these people,” Billy Gallegos, 24,
sald over and over during hamecoeiing festivities in

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Hatred:
—. the tie
that binds?

OTTAWA (CP) — The moat characteristic
Canadian passion and the only one that binds
Canada from.coast to coast is hatred, says author
and commentator Peter Desbarats in his new book

Canada Lost Canada Found.

; And the only thing that can save Canada, he
implies, is patriation of the constitutlon, no matter
bow flawed ar incochplete.

Otherwise, Canada will be swapt over the brink.
Into what, he doesn’t say, but certainly something
disastrous.

But patriation, he argues, would spark a surge of
energy that would bo Canada’s salvation, and
maybe even improve the birth rate. *

“Pm pot saying patriation is the panacea,” he
said in an interview, but, in fact, be comes close to
that conclusion In the book. .

Done up in a red, white and blue dustjacket, with
a blurb stating “this is a book no Canadian can
afford to ignore,” {t runs 125-pagea and is published
by McClelland and Stewart at 90.55.

Desbarats, @yearold CRC television com-
Mentator and author of several books on Canada,
calls if a polemic, written in the style of the Con-
federation-era phamphieteera in search of a new
nation.

In the interview, and twice in the book, he ex-
presecs the uncomfortable feeling he is saying
nothing new.

"T have tLe feeling that 1 am simply siating what
is in all our hea!

statement of the obvious.’”

One of his overriding convictions is that Canada is
bound coast to coast mainly by hatred, that ‘we are
in a constant state of suppressed fury with one
another.”

Indeed, be is tough on his countrymen In many
sapecis, blaming them for a fat-ceat bureaucracy,
duggish government and the near-fatal Canadian
capacity for procrastination. But in the end he
proclaims a love of country, a bunger for sym-
bolism, old-fashlaned patriotlam, flag and anthem.

In a phapre mm ‘the failure of Canadian
democracy” he saya’ the vision and vigor of the
Fathers of Confederation has faded. Government
has broken down under the weight of a masalve, top-
heavy’ bureaucracy dominated by over-paid and
elitist. mandarins.

“Asa nation, we have lost control,” be says. “One
rymptdto «oof this is cur government by
bureaucracy.”

Elsewhere, Canadians have bo understanding of
each other cutalde their regiocs.

For example, be says, Prime Minister Trudeau
“bas spent 15 years in Ottawa listening to western
Canadians, some of them in his own party, and be
fives no Indication of having heard a word that they
- have said.”

Canadians, he says, never tire of enumerating
thelr disasters.

“We have become an introverted peuple,
frustrated and depressed by our constafit faitures,"’
be says. ‘We sit in a room that seems to grow
emailer and darker, more and more fearful of the
nolse and bustle on the street cutalde."

But all this could change, he says, if Canada could
overcome its national tendency to pause, to
procrastinate.

Patriation, he argues, would have a tremendous
paychological effect, making Canadians appreciate
their wealth, their diversity and potentlal and “the
grand vision of our ancestors.”

“Perhapa we even can expect larger Canadian
families,” he says, adding that the decline in the
birth rate ln recent decades may be a barometer of
political depression.

7

Hostage ‘

st missed being free

Gary Lee gave his old Mercedes an affectionate
Rodney Sickmann stood on the running board of

Michael Metrinko blew out a candle that sym-
. The three were among the freed U.S. hostages

Pueblo, Colo.
‘As be drove past about $0,000 people in a yellow
Hmousine, a woman pushed a yellow teddy bear into
his arma. After ceremonies at City Hall, the marine
sald he wanted a family vacation, quiet and alone.

‘After a throng of nelghborhogd children riding
bicycles and motorbikes escorted Gary Lee to his
house in Falls Church, Va., Lee allpped bebind the
wheel of bis old Mercedes, then got out and gave it a
pat on the fender.

“Hey, It looka great," be seld, ‘You took good
care of it, honey,” be told his wife.

Sickmann, 33, told a welcoming crowd in St.
Louis: “I want to thank everyone. It's unbellev-
eable, Everyone was beautiful. I love you all?’

Alter the marine sergeant was escorted to his
family's bomein Krakow, Mo., be said be wanted to
“eat a homecuoked moal fixed by my mother."

“tAnd then I want to go dancing. I missed going
out. I just missed being free.”- |

As Meirinko rode home to Olyphant, Pa., in a f-

Rolls-Royce, he leaned out the window shaking
bands and kissing teenagers who jogged along with
the motorcade, .

Richard Morefietd tmiched down in San Diego in a
cloud of 10,000 yellow balloons and waved from an

open car that took him past 100,000 cheering people
to his home in the residential area of Tierra Santa,
“This la the beginning of the fun phase for me

| vow,” paid the 35-year foreign service veteran.

Other freed hostages alipped more quietly into
their hometowns, to rest or to sort out their thoughts
of to get reacquainted with wives and children.

"T would like.some dme to rest and get my

‘thoughts in order," David Roeder sald Wednesday

after pasaing banners saying ‘Welcome Home,
Dave" and “Geo, it’s Great To Have You Home”

that festooned the route to his. Alexandria; Va.,

. home.

The youngest of the former hostages, H-year-cld —

Kevin Hermening, got a rousing welcome from Oak
Creek (Wis.) High School, where a 50-minute pro-

”” he writes, “that within afew  ..:
years this book willbe regarded: simply as a =

Strike rights

face scrutiny

OTTAWA (CP) The federal government may ask

__ the courts to decide, whether. the right to strike +
“Should be stripped trot 1,800 air traffic
a labor relations 2-45

trollers across the county" aft
board said no. ;
Top officials at treasury board, the government's
bargaining agent, were considering a court appeal
Wednesday after their attempt to have all 1,782

_ operational air traffic controllers barred from”

striking was rejected by the Public Service Staff
Relations Board.

The dispute could shape up into a major teat of the
staif relations board’s authority if the government
does decide to challenge the ruling in the Federal
Court of Canada.

‘The board said {t is not compelled under any law
to bow to a government edict which says that full

threntened to hold a strike vote Lf current contract
negotiations do not produce the collective

Treasury board president Don Johnaton said ina
letter to the union quoted in the ruling that he was

the government, ‘that the commercial air system
must be maintained.”

‘The ruling ls expected to have an impact on other
government employee unlons. The goveroment is
seeking larger-thanusual designations atnong other
employees,

Holy Allah! ‘

Thick of the |
overtime!l!

NEW YORK (AP) — The
owner of one of New York's
ritziest restaurants has

apologized to the city’s .

secretaries following a flap
over down coats.
An aricle in The Times

I TOLD HER THAT
I LOVED HER...

THE REST OF MYLIFE
WITH HER,

SAY, CAP?

WHAT DID SHE

SHE FIGURED T’D Live
TOO LONG TO BE OF ANY
“INTEREST TO HER:

-eatlier this month
discussed the problems
restaurant cloakrooms
were having in coping with
crowding caused by the
bulky garments.

Tom Margittai, co-owner

-ODD, isn’t i

of The Four Sensei, was
quoted as aaying that his
establishment didn't have

‘much problem with down

coats because they were
geterally worn - ‘by
secretaries

That prompted a flurry
of outraged letters to the
newspaper by secretaries.

Margittal apologized for
the remark in a letter
today. .

“Te is wholly inaccurate
and [ am mortified at the ill
feeling it may bave
caused,” he said.

He also said he
sometimes wore a down
coat.

wut
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‘NEW YORK (AP) —
Mayor Edward Koch would’:
surely acknowledge that | -
the costs of running fae:
public office can be’ steep,”
bit he didn't expect that”
runnisg for his health?!
would put a dent -in* hia. -
wallet = ; 3

Tire mayor enid Toenday.
that, his locker at a lowek.”
Marhattan health club hat.
been broken into twice and’
his sneakers stolen on both:

“That's a lot of money}...
I've now spent #0 in two
years on running shows," a
the mayor. - . e

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