PAGE 6, THE HERALD,

Thursday,

May 19, 1977

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NIXON NOT SORRY
ABOUT VIETNAM WAR

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Former president Richard
Nixon says ihe has no
apology for the way he
conducted the war in
Southeast Asia, regretting
only that he did not step up
the military drive earlier to
bring the North Vietnamese
to the bargaining table.

In the third segment of
Nixon’s interviews with
David Frost, to be shown
tonight, a source on the
Frost staff says the former
president credits the
stepped-up bombings, the
mining of Haiphong harbor
in 1972, and his refusal to
bow to domestic dissent with
finally persuading Hanoi to

‘worth

The source says Nixon he-
lieves that American in-
volvement in Vietnam was
the sacrifices,
although it would have been
more popular politically to
pull out of the war.

The United States opened
a new phase of the In-
dochina war on May 9, 1972,
mining Haiphong Harbor
and six other North Viet-
namese ports and in-
tensifying its air offensive
against rail and other
supply lines in the north.

that had been done in
1970, about the time of the
Cambodian invasion, Nixon
maintains, the war might
have been ended earlier, the
source said.

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Postal talks start again

OTTAWA (CP) — Post
office controversy erupted
Wednesday in the Commons
and at union headquarters
on the eve of a new round of
formal contract talks bet-
ween the government and
the Canadian Union of
Postal Workers (CUPW).

Progressive Conservative
Walter Dinsdale (Brandon-
Souris) opened a Commons
debate on the post office
with a suggestion that a
special §Commons-Senate
committee be appointed to
investigate the post office
because of “the govern-
ment’s continuing inabilit:
to provide Canadians wit
an efficient postal service.”

Earlier, CUPW president
Joe Davidson called for a
royal commission of inquiry
into administration of the

t office because it ‘is
qundering like a cap-
tainless ship without sail or
rudder and something must
be done to correct this
situation.”

Postmaster-General
Jean-Jacques Blais

Canada

_

OTTAWA (CP)
Canada's population
reached 22,992,604 last June
1 according to the 1976
census, up 6.6 per cent or
1,424,693 from the previous
census in 1971, Statistics
Canada reported Wed-
nesday. .

The 1976 census also
showed that while the
country’s largest
metropolitan areas con-
tinued to show rapid growth,
urban dweilers were moving
from the core of cities to
suburbs.

The census showed that
Alberta and British
Columbia population grew
fastest among the provin-

AMID CONTROVERSY

acknowledged there have
been continuing problems in
the’ post office because of
technological change and
said he would consider the
suggestion for a royal
commission if the union
would agree to suspend
negotiations during the
commission’s hearings.

Blais indicated that he
knew the union would not
agree to suspend talks while

‘a commission went to work

and commented as he left
his news conference: “It is
all academic anyway.”

Dinsdale said he found it

distressing that the post
office and CUPW are in a
head-on confrontation

beforeserious contract talks
have started. The current
agreement expires June 30.

He said the problems in
the post office started nine
years ago ‘when there was
a headlong rush towards
mechanization ... and the
whole thing was presented
to the union as a fait ac-
compli.”

SACCHARIN BAN

- Tests for cancer
said inconclusive

WASHINGTON (AP) —

supportive data for their

.Spokesmen for the diet soft view

drink industry and the
American Diabetes
Association appealed to the
U.S. Food and Drug Ad-
ministration (FDA) Wed-
nesday to withdraw its plan
to ban saccharin from food
and beverages.

Bernard Oser, testifyin
for the Calorie Contro.
Council, an industry group,
said scientific studies
showing saccharin causes
bladder cancer in _labo-
ratory rats are inconclusive.
The FDA should await
further tests before banning
the artifical sweetener as a
food additive, he said.

Two Kansas City, Mo.,
pediatricians and a parent
of a diabetic teen-ager
testified that children with
diabetes depend heavily on
diet sodas, foods and
chewing gum and taking
awa their - saccharin

roducts . would be

ngerous.

e FDA has proposed re-
moving saccharin from the
food supply in July but
allowing its continued sale
in powder form as 4 non-
prescription drug.

Supporters of the FDA's
action included Ralph
Nader's Health Research
Group, which said scientific
evidence indicates sac-
charin does not help people
lose weight and may make
dieting more difficult.

Marcia Fine of the En-
vironmental Defence Fund
said the proposed ban does
not go far enough. She urged
the FDA to order a recall of
saccharin food products and
a stronger warning label on
saccharin when it is sold as
an over-the-counter drug.

The plan to order removal
of the sugar substitute from
diet soft drinks, foods,
chewing gum, tooth paste
mouthwashes an
prescription drugs followed
a findin by. Canadian
scientists that high doses of
saccharin caused bladder
cancer in laboratory rats.

Dr. Sidney Wolfe, cirector
of the Nader group, testified
that no scientific evidence
exists to show saccharin is
im riant for weight con-

‘ol,

“Some diabetes doctors
have resented grim
testimonials of diebetics’
life without saccharin," said
Wolfe. ‘These doctors have
presented absolutely no

He said that what little
evidence is available in-
dicates that saccharin does
not help dieters controt their
weight and may even in-
crease their appetite.

James Turner,
representing the Federation
of American Homemakers,
supported the FDA action,
He said, ‘there has not been
a positive showing of safety
for this additive, and that is
the legal test for regulating
the food supply.” .

Testifying on her own
behalf, Norma Cucci of
Cockeysville, Md., said
saccharin helps her stay
slim on a sugar-free diet,
and the FDA should con-
tinue to allow it on the
market perhaps with a
warning label if you feel it’s
necessary.”

“T feel my basic freedom
of choice as a consumer is
being infringed,” she, said.

Verbal
clash

MAPUTO, Mozambique
(Reuter) — China and the
Soviet Union traded insults
at a special United Nations
conference Wednesday
when the Chinese delegate
accused Moscow of “sinister
designs” in Africa.

Chao Yuan, representing
China at the conference,
who called to mobilize in-
ternational support for
black majority rule in
southern Africa, charged
that the Kremlin was the
“behindthe-scenes boss” of
rebels invading southern
Zaire.

Soviet delegate P.N.
Evsiukov accused China of
aliying itself ‘‘with the
forces of imperialism and
reaction against the inter-
ests of the people of Africa,”

The clash between the
Communist powers
enlivened the third day of
the conference attended by
black nationalist
movements and nearly 90
UN members discussing the
problems of ending white
rule in Rhodesia and South
West Africa, the South

African-governed territory
which also
Namibia.

is called

The union president said
CUPW has presented its de-
mands to the t office
“and real bargaining starts
this week.”

The union says it wants a

arantee that workers will

nefit from technological
changes.

Davidson said CUPW is
not opposed to changes that
will improve pest office
efficiency but workers
should be protected from
adverse effects and because
“the post office has violated
the current contract with
impunity, the new contract
should have some penalty
clauses in it.”

The current contract was~

signed in December, 1975,
following a seven-week
strike, The union said it
thought it had won a
guarantee that its members
would be protected from ad-
verse effects of changes, but
the post office has continued
to implement changes
without agreement between
both parties on how to
eliminate adverse effects.

The contract requires the
government to give the
union 120 day’s notice of
proposed technological
change, but it does not
extend the consultation
period if agreement is not
reached within that time.

John Rodriguez (NDP—
Nickel Belt) said in the

ces, each experiencing
owth of 12.9 per cent in
ive years.

Saskatchewan was the
only province in which the
population declined, with a
drop of one-half of one per
cent. :
_Ontario’s growth over the
five-year period was 7.3 per
cent, while Quebec and
Manitoba both experienced
the relatively low growth of
3.4 per cent. ;

Metropolitan Toronto

ew over the five years to

ecome the country’s
largest community with a
population of 2,803,-101, an
increase of 7.7 per cent.

Metropolitan Montreal

Commons he endorsed the
union call for a royal
commission, but rejected
Dinsdale’s suggestion that
the matter be referred to a

rliamentary. committee

ause that would make it
a political football,

As Davidson watched.
from the gallery, Blais said |

in the Commons that his
goal is to promote peaceful
relations in the post office.
The postmaster-general
.went on to say that. the
CUPW leaders ‘have
adopted a combative stance,
an intransigent stance ..
that is counter-preductive,”
Davidson said later he did
ot oat eoch comment on
BS 5 .
Davidson said the post

office is attempting to —

sidestep the leadership of
the union and go directly to
the members a

oup in the public affairs
ranch known as the
Comteam. ‘
The Comteam has been

met by information picket °

lines of CUPW members in
its travels across the
country because CUPW
national policy is to get
guarantees in the contract
rather than § informal
promises.
Davidson said the
negotiating table is the
place where problems of
postal workers should be
resolved.

was second in 1976 by a
narrow margin, with a total
population of 2,802,485. The
city grew by only 2.7 per
cent in the fiveyear period.

Metropolitan Vancouver,
Canada’s third-largest city,
grew by 7.4 per cent to
1,166,348 but metropolitan
Calgary registered the
fastest growth among major
cities with a 16.5-per-cent in-
crease to 469,917.

But while metropolitan ©

areas—including suburbs—
of the country’s major cities
grew, the cities proper
shrank.
The City of Toronto, with a
population of 712,786 in 1971,
da population decline of

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BRITISH.
SCANDAL

LONDON (AP) — The
stateowned auto giant
British Leyland was ac-
cused by a newspaper today
of bribery and iraud “on a
massive scale’? to win
overseas orders. .

The Daily Mail devoted
four of its 44 tabloid pages to
an investigation by a team
of reporters charging Lord
Ryder, chairman of the
government's national
enterprise board, with a
proving a “‘slush fund”

pay bribes and undercover —

commissions,

An alleged letter from
Ryder to Leyland chief
executive Alex Park,
reproduced in the news-
paper, said the
arrangement was approved
by Secretary for Trade

und Dell.

The Daily Mail said the
fund amounted to more than
$18.7 million last year and
could run to $42.5 million in
1977-73.

Two hours after the report
appeared, Leyland issued a

. statement saying it would
investigate the allegations

urgently, It made no further
comment and Park was not
available immediately.

tate-run Bank of.

Northwest College serves the region from Queen Charlotte Islands to
Houson. The major physical facilities are in Terrace, but there are
substantial programs in the other communities in the College region.

Total full

and part-time enrolment

is about

1500 students. .

The college has vacancies in the following positions:

Co-ordinator of Vocational and Trades Training Programs

Duties: This is a new position. The appointee will be expected to
develop and co-ordinate vocationa! and trades programs
in the various communities served by the College. Con-
siderable travel in the College region will be necessary.

Qualifications: Preference will be given to persons with experience in
industry or business as well as teaching and ad-
ministrative experience in the vocational area.

Salary:
according to

training and experience.

Appointment Date: July ¥, 1977.

Counsellor

The appointee will be placed on the vocational salary scale

Duties: This is a new position. the Appointee will be the only full-
time Counsellor at the College, and will be responsible to
the Director of Student Services. Duties will involve
program.and job ‘and career counselling, as well as ad-

vising students regarding financial aid. Most of the duties

will involve working with Vocational and Trades Training

students.

Qualifications: Preference will be given to persons with experience in
counselling vocational and trades training students. -

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Appointment Date: July 1, 1977 , :

Psychology Instructor.

‘Duties:

Teaching first and second year psychology courses in

various communities served by the College. Considerable
travel and evening teaching may be required.

Qualifications: M.A.

Salary:

‘in psychology. ;
According to scale fo be-negotlated with Faculty.

Appointment Date: August 15, 1977.

, Apply with curriculum vitae and names of three referees to;

Dr. D.V, George
Principal

Northwest Community College .

Terrace, B.C,

11.1 per cent to 633,318.

B.C.-UP BY 12.9 PERCENT
grows to 23 mill

Vancouver, increased its

The City of Montreal, with Population by 40.6 per cent.
1,-214,352 persons in 1871, he fastest growing
shrank to 1,080,543, adrop of municipality with more than
11 per cent. $0,000 population was

Vancouver proper Gloucester Township near
declined by 3.8 per cent to Ottawa, which increased by
410,188. : .’ + §6.2 per cent to a population

Suburban centres around of 56,516.

the major citles grew.
Mississauga, Ont., just
outside Toronto, grew by
45.3 per cent,

Longueuil, Que., near
Montreal grew b
cent and

White-haired crooks

BOSTON (AP) — Twenty-

with

25.5 per

elta, B.C., near

Population figures for the
provinces and territories,
1971
brackets, follow:

Ontario
(7,703,106); Quebec 6,234,445
(6,027,764);

figures in
8,264,465 -

British

ion

Columbia 2,466,603
(2,184,621);. Alberta
1,838 ,037 (1,627,874) ;
Manitoba 1,021,506
(988,247); Saskatchewan
921,323 (926,242); Nova.
Scotia 828,571 (788,960) ;,

New Brunswick 677,-250
(634,557); Newfoundland
577,725 (522,104); Prince
Edward Island 118,228
(111,641); Northwest
Terriroties 42,600 (34,607);
and the Yukon Territory
21,836 (18,988).

admit to old heist |

history. These two-and three

seven years after it hap- cther participants get a
pened, two white-haired percentage the k's
crooks returned tothe scene profits.

of the crime Wednesday and _ Richardson, 70, and Costa,

admitted their role in the
$2.7-million Brink’s rob-
bery. They confessed for the
same reason they com-
mitted the

Through their trials and
in
(Sandy), Richardson and
Vincent Costa kept their
mouths shut, never ad-
mitting

ears

they'd pull
job. But finally they stood in
a circle
photographers, scribbling

relation

had done it.
Their
was a pu
book and movie about their
crime—the first million-
dollar cash robbery in U.S.

sand
3 men to say they

crime: money.

prison, Francis

ed off the

money

of flashing é
suppor

smiling public

bliec confession
icity stunt for a

1977 Northwest CA
Summer School of the Arts.

July1i to August12

Sponsored by: Terrace and District ArtsCouncil © 0 wna,

Northwest Community College

prison. But
ever recovered..

The first question was
vious. Where did
o? “Gambling and

a family for six
years prior to our arrest,”
replied Richardson.

Despite the cash, though;
both men say they wish they
had never gotten involved in
the heist.

“T was a sucker,” said
Costa, a slight, balding

62, were among 11 men who
robbed the vault at Brink’s
headquarters in Boston's
North End of $2.7 million. Of
that, $1.2 million was cash.

It took the FBI six years to
solve the case, and even-
tually nine men went to
only $57,000 was

red.

ob-
all the

working beside

watch repairman. 7
On Jan. 17, 1950, Costa
stood on a nearby
and acted as a lookout.
watched as seven holdup
men dressed in pea coats
and Halloween masks .
moved into the Brink's
building. One of those men
was Richardson.

The robbers opened three
locked doors and rised
five Brink’s employees

the second-
floor vault. ;

Two men died before the
case went to trial. One
Specs O'Keefe, confessed
and got a five-year sen-
tence. The other eight, in-
cluding Richardson and
Costa, got life plus two
years.
atin’ men who were still

ve got .ou
between 1967 and i aaa

+

School District No. 88(Terrace)  — . oy
Northwest Regional Arts Council

Varying length workshops in the arts for all ages.
Daytime and Evening Programs

Vicki Parviainen

Childrens Art Weaving

Donna Bannister Helen Mardiste

July 11 - Aug. 12 (5 sessions) duly 11, 12,13

Minimum Age 5 Minimum Age 17

Fee: $16.00 Fee: $25,00

Film Series Recreational Singing

Artistic Films Joan Spencer

N.W. Community College - Aug. 1 - 12 (6 sessions}
Fee: $20.00 ,

Recreational Dante :

(Hawaiian and Belly) Quilting

Pauline Whyte

/

Singing: Au

Fee; $35.00

.1-5
Plano - Students of Suzuki Piano
‘Singing Ages-9tol4
Fees: Participating studentand

additional child in family $20.00
observing student and parent

Teacher or auditor

porent $35.00

$25.00
$75.00

Creative Wr

July 11 - 22 (Tuesday, 10-3 hr. Sessions starting -
Wednesday & Thursday) jaye Age 17
Minimum Age 12 (Hawaiian) | ge

v4 (Belly) Fee: $30.00
Fee: $15.00 single course Silk Se i
$25.00 combined courses. Chery! Rochane

Life Drawing & Painting July 18 - 21

Maureen Bastock ballot nee V2

July 11 - Aug. 8 ee: $20.

Minimum age 18 Senior Plano

Fee: $35.00 To be arranged
Puppetry Children's Theat
_Eila George |S Ineatre
‘July 25 - 29 (5-2 hr. sessions) hint ae Theatre
A908 0,00 Ages 10-16

hha Fee: $10.00 per 2 waak
Suzuki Plano and ; session.
; nging Institute

Terrace Tatent Educators. Adult Drama

Marylin Davies ‘ July | Aug. 2

sue Course will culminate with

Piano: July 25 - 30 production of "Macbeth"

Minimum age 16

Must tagistar before June 10th

iting

AMaurean Bostock

July 11 - Aug.
Wednesday)

12 (Monday and

Minimum Age 18

Fee: $20.00

Registration: Pre-registration by mail or register in person June 25 or July?
at Terrace Mall ot

_ Accommodation: Some accommodation will be available at very reasonable
rates at Northwest College for out-of-town participants

For Further information Contact:
‘Terrace & District Arts Council, Box 35, Terrace, B.C.

Kan Morton

Uplands School, Terrace

or Phone

or

635-2721 or 635-7507

Vol George

Northwest College, Terrace
‘ 635-6511 or 635-4731

Early registration is advised since enrelments may have to be limited.

Courses are subject ta cancellation due to insullicient enrolment or alhercause,