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I am referring now to that Last Wonder of the World -- the | Bunker for Big.- Wigs-one of which was unveiled recently ; in Nanaimo, It is true that B. c. is rather close to Bangor, Washington where the Trident first-strike target is located, It is true that the Russian nuclear arsenal dropped on Bangor would. bea top priority payload. Itis true that the immediate and long-standing after-effects of such a blast would penetrate deep into B.C, (And this says nothing of a Russian attack from our northern borders). It is true that tlie fallout would — be so thick that if you were left alive and not blinded, you. would notsee the sun for week. It is true that the implosion of our ecological system due to the destruction of its supplies of oxygen, ozone, water, food, natural climactic. warmth and shelter would spel certain death for whoever , Wag 50 unfortunate as to “survive”. It is true that those smart fellows—our government .leaders-would emérge to< - govern a glowing radioactive ‘dail' pile’ in which the only? ‘movement would be: the: slow, ‘agonized’ writhing. of thee >" “survivors”. in short, the “Nanaimo Bunker" is irrefutable proof that our leaders have a pre-Hiroshima fantasy of what such a. war would be like. The Nanaimo “Bunker” signifies that our leaders have los! contact with reality, that their reason is slipping into denial and repression of the facts, replacing’ them with fantasy. The facts are that each side together now have the nuclear capacity to wipe out the entire planet 40 times over. Now this is 40 times over! Madness is another word for both the existence of such facts and for the denial of these facts, The Bunker, therefore, is an elitist, simple-minded, schizoid 'solution'—about as effective as using a garden watering can to douse a blazing gas station. (Just because the Swiss are doing it, doesn’t necessarily” mean they will live toemerge from their bunkers someday, * They too could be smothered in the deadly winds). ' Finally, I would just like to ask Mr. Bennett and Co:, what about the rest of us? While our leaders might find the children expendable, we, at least, want our kids to live and flourish, What are you doing Mr. Bennet, to prevent the outbreak of a nuclear war? " Sincerely, -J, Hearne. . To the Editor, Nigel B. Hanneford's column, ‘Blood will he on pacifist hands” is so full of generalizations and midconceptions that. it is not really worthy of comment, However I feel E must ask, humbly: if Mr. Hanneford. were outside a pit reputed to contain venemous snakes, - which would he find the more reasonable - a) to take elaborate precaullons against the snakes (fang-proof suit, : etc) it the ‘hope of surviving their attack;~or, b) ‘to da- everything he could to avoid entering the pltatall? : Yours respectfully, : ‘Carol Harrison. Alberta of $1-down. mortgage dealers,” _ two Northein Ontatio, 0, paychia TORONTO (CP) ~ ‘Yban they. encountered in several years of: Praetie. in ‘Toronto, Montréal and Lima, Peru. mee rniinities until Silva-Ruete joined him; says countered more incest‘in the area than in-Ti . children. Or ifit’s been golng on since they were three. year's old, for example, they may not even realize it’s abpormal. “Then, oS adults, telling someone about it may not be the . appropriate thing to do because their parenls are e elderly. or a " EDMONTON cep) — “Lending institutions hope. fo fan ; Dollar-down dealers pay $1:to take over the mortgages of homeowners afraid: they may default. on: Payments: cad | want to. protect their’ credit rating. 7 «Eat, The -new owners, however, generally ‘don “mE payments to the lending institution that originally granted the mortgage. j . It may take the mortgage holder. up to six. imodths ‘to ; foreclose on a property. During that time. -dollar-buyers gollect damage deposits and rent on the homes: {Frequently - " the houses are stripped of; ‘appliances by the time mortgage companies foreclose. ~ - An. example of the profits ° ‘to be made - come’: from -Emmanuel .Mirth, lawyer for: the Mortgage | Loans Association of Alberta; ‘who said one numbered‘ company. bought an ‘apartment building for $1 and collected. $160,000 in rent before-the leader foreclosed. - ‘Ron Hardy, district mortgage manager for the. Royal Bank, said the practice is “immoral but not illegal," and the only. way to eliminate the dollar-dealers is. for: the - provincial government to change the Law of Property Act, Rick Dreja, manager of program ‘operations’ for. Canada _ Mortgage and Housing Corp., said‘ Alberta is the only -province which allows owners to sell their houses without the approval of mortgage holders, Lenders: can sue only to recover the property. | . Dreja said deficiency judgments ¢ can be pursited againit - current and past property owners ‘and four court cases are scheduled for trlalin the next two months in Calgary fl the first legal attempts to curtail the dealers. ! ¥ “On several cases ‘recently. CMHC. lias atithorized: the . lender to pursue a: foreclosure anid a deficiency. judgment against a dollar-down dealer and the person ‘who sold, the home,”’ Dreja said in Calgary. an CAN BE HELD ' Under a ‘deficiency judgment lenders and previous : homeowners can: ‘be held. pestiiane ek Slifferenee,, between’ thou, ralged’ the att date of ‘af forgelosed abo&e Protectionism . “ Beonomié recovery may be alified by creeping protec- tionism unless governments move, to eliminate irade barriers, External Affalrs, ‘Minister Allan MacEachen said - Wednesday. - Speaking in ‘Toronto ata conference « on, global trade, 2 MacEachen said although the economy rebounded strongly something is done about-trade barriers, quotas and tariffs, Ig difficult to establish the number of pedple who have : been abused,” says Duckworth: “It's af item shame’ for fh, iF + an i Alene Rte, hurts” economy “s nevessary to save jobs against competition from low- wage “countries. Opponents say any short-term gains are far “oulweighed by harmful long-term effects on the economy. , “HOME BANKING . : Ii ‘another. business development Wednesday, Canada’ 8 : ~ seventh-largest bank said it will be the first 'to offer home . last year, it could.slide back into recession’ unless.” : f ‘Continental Bank president: David Lewis told the annual He said it is difficult to stop, protectionism: ‘hut Canada has = it ~ sick ‘or + they themselves, ave gitien. over * vihates r - say. they see more cages of abused children in: the orth ° ‘problems: it ‘posed for: then; we ISOLATION: BLAMED | a 7 Both blame ‘the stress of isolation’ of ieing in far-flung © + niorthers | ‘communities, algoholigm, large , families ih, erty and. little. education... one phenomenon,” said filva-Ruete in: ‘ky acseted Bapllsh! -. Canada is a rieh'country and well organiied politically. certainly can ‘compare’: the poverty of Peru :with ‘here, ° +. where “even. the: ‘poorést people enjoy a high matertal - ; -staidard. in: comparison.” “But experts gay rio jatatistics exist tocompare abuse in the r North with the rest of Ontario, and while’ many toncede the stress of living in isolated, economically depressed com- munities can take a toll on family life, they a are Teluctant to. , accept the truth of the claim. Dollar. dealers | unpopular property and the costs associated with the foreclosure. i ““Thisisn' tgoing tobe applied generally. . 7 ‘Dreja said. | “That! 's not-our Policy. :. “We're making an exception to the polley for. the dollar’ . transaction. : We, Bon't believe these are straight and above. “board,” te ue ht The court actions may. stall the dollar-dedlers but. Dreja : has no illusions they ‘will. Stop operating. : . “Lwon’t-be naive and overly optimistic. These people ar are _ very ingenious and might jyst find-another angle." Neil Murphy, agsietant vice-president with Royal Trust in “Calgary, said changing the law could result in: legitimate transactions belng hampered: by red tape. “The danger is the. cure > might be worse than: the. ; disease.” - Although the practice. occurs all over ‘the: province the ; “ dolar-down syndrome Is most prevalent in- Calgary, where the economy has: been mast’ damaged by. the oif-industry slump: '. Hardy said thedealers are costing | the Royal Banka lot of money, but refused -to release exact figures. Dreja sald: the mortgage . corporation handled ) foreclosures i in Calgary last' year, twice as many as the year ; before. One: Edmonton real estate agent, who asked. that his « name not he used, defended the Purchase of morlgages for ’ only $1. “ye put a lot of young couples iw homes at a dollar . down,” said, the agent, He criticized companies that refused to make mocigage payments, but didn’ tsee theneed for legislation barring the practice. ‘ . Dreja said homeowners suffering because of mortgage payments shouldn't be afraid to approach their lender, “We're trying to get a message out to the public that instead of selling to a dollar-down’ dealer you should go in . and talk the situation out with your lender,” he sald. Most lenderg are quite Prepared to sit down and work out a contrite: a ead wad cai) oils dnuyy rte rabies a : H our, banking services to its mainly commercial clients. - meeting in Toronto a portable banking system, to be in- “told its trading partners it won't bring in any new restric: .* traduced this spring.in Toronto and ‘Montreal, will. allow. ‘tive measures and will do its best to rémove ekisting ; barriers, But that doesn't mean Ottawa will sit back and’ accep! said, Canada’s recent éurtax on specialty steel products im- ported from ‘the: United. States demonstrates’ it: will -“vigorously exereise"” its rights under international trade ” agreements... He sald ‘the aurtax will; remain until the Amiericans compensate Canada for measures taken last July to restrict imports of specialty steel from Canada. . _ He said governments sincere about eliminating: ‘harriers could make a symbolic move.in that direction by speeding . up the implementation of tariff reductions negotiated under the General Agreement on Tarifta and Trade. - Protectionism' is a major concerp, for. Canada, which . exports close toa third of Its gross national: product and. has : - been embroiled in disputes with. the; ‘Utiited States; Europe - and Japan over trade in ‘fish, newsprint,cars. and steel, Supporters of protectionist ‘policies - say they are e Women still seek. ordination TORONTO (CP) — Cardinal Carter endorsing the Vatican’s ban on women priests will not set back the movement demanding female, ordination. Sister Diane Bridges, a Loretto nun and chapialn at St. Michael's College in Toronto, sald Wednesday the 62-page pastoral letter appears to focus more on Carter's concern over the shortage of Roman Catholle priests and their part in renewing the church, : “We can't say he has done it in response to the women’s’ movement per se,’’ said Bridges, adding thal the ‘ar: chbishop of Toronto seems to be saying renewal In the church will not come’about unless there are more priests. “T don’t agree with that,” sald Bridges, a supporter of women’s ordination. “I think renewal will come about because of the shortage of priesta when lay men and women will take more responsibility for serving the church, we NO COMPROMISE Carter says in the letter released Tuesday that altidingh” equal dignity of women must be given expression in the life of the church, there ig no room for compromise on the issue of women’s ordination, . But Robert Welch, Ontario's minister for vomen’s issues, said women's groups may be able to use the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to challenge the church's ban on women priests. | - Welch said the equality of opportunity section of the charter, which will go Into effect In 1965, may conflict with the section on religlous. freedom, te A pastoral tetter by Gerald Emmett - eT “y haven't any ‘idea how successful anyone night te” in challenging the-ban, said Welch. He said he supports the ordination of women, but noted that although his own Anglican church. now as woman priests, it was long divided on the fase. ': os Prof. Margaret O'Gara, of St. Michael’ 's faculty of theology, said she believes many Catholic: women will be - frustrated by having their Catholiciem questioned because - they have a different opinion from Carter’ on. the issue of . _ Women becoming priests. ; Almost two years ago,.a report. to ‘Canadian bishops _ “based on letters from women across Canada — ‘Indicated , that worhen are hurt, angry and leaving: the church over the ordination controversy. . In Rome last September, Pope “Jolin Paul, after declaring. - ’ his support for women's right to “every legitimate freedom that is consonant ‘with their..hurhan nature and ‘their 3 womanhood," told 25 U.S. blahops to be firm in rejecting any claim that women could serve -as priests., ve The Pope algo told the bishops all support should be with-. * drawh from individuals or groups promoting the ordination of women, « A spokesman for the Canadian. Council of Catholic Bishops in Ottawa sald because Carter's letter was issued for his own diocese arid-is not a national statement, there . will not likely be a responce from the-conforence. However, an editorial in the Catholic Register, con- sidered the voice of conservative: Cathotictem, : sald: it welcomes Carter's letter. . ae protectionist measures directed at Canadian exports, he a mo: ” anew executive banking system and allows customers to | "check balances, transfer funds from one account to another | “and get up-to-date quotationa for buying. and selling foreign - association. : Ottawa. "customers with access toa personal computer to bank from citheir. offices, homes or wherever they -have ‘access to a: “telephone. “Known as Interaction Banking, ‘the service Will be part of : exchange, among other things.-° -4, Customers with any kind of home computer. will have "access, said. Lewis, who also takes over the role: of. ‘chief executive officer from chairman Stanley Malloy. °. ; Lawis said the bank — -— fighting for.a larger share of the ‘commercial market — will provide executive customers : with a service thal allows securities to be managed by afult - z service or discount broker. In other developments Wednesday” . : : .. :-Mexlean Finance Minister. Jesus: Siiva-Herzog said: m _bankers run the risk of increasing the global. debt problem ‘by charging higher interest rates and commissions when. - renegotiating multibillion-dollar loans. Silva-Herzog said in “Toronto such short-term gains could Jead to serious long- . term. repayment. problems: for Third. World countries... . “Herzog was in Toronto on the second leg of a six-day trip to" four countries aimed. at obtaining $3.8 billion ‘of additlonal credit from private banks this year, Mexico's forelgn debt“ “exceeds $90 billion U.S., second to Brazil's. more than $90 billion,- Canadian banks have about $5 billion in n loans to -each country. . oh ; ‘DONE DISSERVICE ; ‘= A Canadian Bankers ‘Association official said the rate’ * _of farm bankruptcies in 1963 was one-sixth the rate for ather ‘small “businesses’ and that reflects “Canada’s healthy agricultural economy. “I feel there’s been a ‘tremendous " ‘Michelin only had two plants then — Granton: for the ’ disservice done to the agricultural industry by d few people who. have over-dramatized the (bankraptey? ‘situation;!". ~igaid Al Droppo, chief of cammerctal loans a for’ the. -In an. interview, Droppo said there wei “bankrupteles in 1983, a number representing.02' fi * .Caniada’s 300,000: farmers. By comparison, . there « wel 10,260, shall b business failures, 1.3. per cent of: Canada's he 600,000 dimall businesses. “+, Maclean Hunter Ltd, has purchated. 28 per cent of Barden Cablevision Inc. for $230,000 U.S., said Don Barden, -prealdent of the company awarded. the franchise for “Detroit’s $160-million cable TV system. J, B. Gage, vice: ’ - president for Maclean Hunter's cable operations, said the | _tompany, has 230,00 cable subscribers in the U.S. while | * Barden has 470,000 subscribers, “Finance Minister: Mare Lalonde. said the federal government plans to-release a new’ issue of triarketable bonds which will be offered Feb. 7 and dellveted Feb, 2t, ‘Proceeds of the: offering will be used for general govern- ment purposes, There are no government of Canada ‘marketable bonds maturing - Feb, 21, Laloide.. suid in anes teers 7 eh neighboring. northern: Onterio cities: we wl layoffs. at the whim ofa troubled, metals, market, § - recelved reports of 46 cases of of physteally abused children i in @ . ‘than elsewhere In the province. . expressed by-a. few that Michelia workers well enough, . Maritime, provinces and Is creas in. _ employment is largely seasonal, Only tha Sante, plat 1s _ in @ heavily, imionized area; Timea, a x mining town 1883. . CASES. INCREASE 7 ‘Darryl Demers, head of: the ; Poreuipine District Chien 3s Ald Society. in ‘Timmins, says 21 cases of child abuse were reported in 1082. He -atirbutes’ the . eudde - “Ontario legislation. reqiiring ‘profesiionala. “fo report suspected cages of child” abuse. and. greater’. public :, awareness of the need to bring the problem into’ the open. “The doctor's perception ts based on-his contact: with " clients, but the number of cases he suggests [6 not indicated “by statistics with the agency,” Demers said. “Workers | here in the field say the same thing — that their impression is ‘that the problem is not as dramatic aq he ‘suggests,'* Liga Bengtsoon, afield officer with the federal | Secretary _of State’s women's program: in Thunder Bay; Ont. » also has heard ‘child abuse is more common, in Northern Ontario Like other professionals; she jaw ungure, whethar the claim | is truth or myth, but. Bengtsoon ticks off the ‘causes that ‘f ‘might leadto family ylolence: the highest rate of alcholiam in Ontario, no. unemployment opportunities: for .women, “ gabin fever and no way out of isolated communities. ; NOTHING TO-DO, “There's nothing. for women n ond children. to do these . resource-based communties,"” Bengtsoon.. ‘sald;:: adding employers are happy to build ice ririks and suippott hockey teams’ but shy away from other recreational’ projects. . “It's super if you play hockey or skate but: terrible if you don't.” ye Edward Beliry, northern community project ied of the Ontario Ministry of Northern Affairs in Sudbury, :18-skep- tical that Northern. Ontario children are abused more than . other Ontario. youngsters, ri ” Belfry, an. outspoken, ‘aiid fiercely proud’ ‘nit ner, : remarks that distance and travelling time make {t difficult for child care. workers to Investigate cases of child abuse, “ “It's not like in Toronta where all of a worker's clients “might be concentrated in a few blocks and he chai Just hop on an elevator .to visit them,” Belfry, said. “A lot’ of ‘these northern places can't be reached by rail or road and. the airline schedules aren’t exactly Air Canada’s," ‘. 5.2 “There may be only one flight a week and the worker has to go in, get the work done in one day and catch the Plane -out or face being stuck there another week. ' “And before he. goes to the community, he wants 8 inks sure it’s, ry legitlmate complaint and hot a crank eal” ~ Armor: tested” HALIFAX (CP) — — Organized labor is looking: into the _ possibility of piercing the armor around Michelin ‘Tires Canada Ltd., Nova Scotia's. most famous penuinion Work place. Unionization of: Michelin’ 4 “4,000 employees | in “the province would be ‘satisfying. for a labor movemetit: that raged in vain when legislation dashed a certification drive in 1979. - ~ "But while that goal has become something. more. than pre dream for unionists, they still havea long way. tog wipiig:the:amile fom, Bibendum, the rubbery. Migiélln ° - qhapaeténivitio: bdacsjivi bdiized tiie! Freitch’ trie for. 0-years. shar apie, en ck ral frwetlie rage 4 * ‘The-company’s. ‘defences are shored up by a] - law that, applies only to Michelin, without actually naming’ the company. Under the law, a union would have to sign up workers at all three of Michelin's Nova Scotia plants simultaneously, or it would not get in the door. at: all; - “] didn't think we would ever be able to do It,” ahys ' Gerald Yetman, president of the Nova Scatia Federation of io Labor, “However, knowing what’s going on lately and.what they, are doing to people, transferring them around with . some dissatisfaction, I'm suggesting there is a possibility. "don't think Michelin thought there-would ever be a chance to organize again and I’m sure they're upset ni now ‘ and 60 is the government” . a FEELS CONFIDENT The United Rubber Workers 1 recently held a meeting with about 150 of the 1,800 employees. at Bridgewater on’ the . South Shore and has been assessing the mood of work frees: .at Granton in industrial Pictou County and Michelin’s new ‘plant at Waterville in the pastoral Annapolis Valley. ~ But the union is not handing out leaflets and is reluctant to comment on its efforts, preferring a low-key approach that Len Bruder, Canadian ‘director of the union, said could lead ‘toa certification drive, Certification attempts are old hat to the tire ‘maker, : . however, and it says it is confident another one would end in. failure. Michelin: pays $10 to.$11 an hour, comparable to union scale, and says its treatment. of employees is second to none, . Y - “We have our own systems internally where the « em- ployees have every opportunity in the world, quite freely, to . ‘express what they see as difficulties,” said .a company . Spokesman, ‘We respond as best we can. I think our record ‘Speaks for itself.” .LACKS HEAT . The issue so far has lacked the intense heal generated in 1979 when the company and union were locked.in.a tug of war over employees. The province settled the question - _— while touching off a storm of controversy — _ with legistation dubbed the Michelin Bill, “The provincial labor relations board had found. Michelin ’ Builty of unfair labor practices by spreading its anti-union message through the work force dnd. workers’ families. A threat to fall back to the minimum wage as a bargaining position should a union be formed was termed by the board 4 “blunt use of the employer's overwhelming power,”’ "The bill stated that when a manufacturer hag plants in . Nova Scotia that depend on each other to make the. com- pany’s products, a certification must invoive all the plants. proceasing,of ‘tubber and Bridgewater for the construction of wire, with both: turing ‘out the finished tires.” ; Michelin is the only company considered to have in- terdependent i. plints' “inder the bill. The law ‘gave manufavtlirers é ‘yéar to ‘apply for that status and only “Micheliss followed ‘througi with: an application. + Applied retrodetively’ it stopped'a certification vote from being couhted'and set tp thé bbatacle the union faces today. The labor ‘federation, ‘licensed by the law, broke off relations with:the Nova Scola’ goveininent elation tha have not yet beer!' fully’ repaired: © After the drive was étopjied, ‘Michelin construction of its Watérvle plant. LIKED TURNOUT | ° “Union Organizers 1 were encouraged : Bridgewater mebting but in ella p e better off wlih a union: they were Conteonta Michelin’ fs ‘ore of the: ls ards’ foe have: suffered Be