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iran relations

get close look

OTTAWA (CP — Canada will move to restore
formal relations with Iran.as soon as possible after
the release of the 52 U.S. hostages, Prime Minister
Trudeau said Monday,

But External Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan
indicated later the government would take a close
look at several issues before resuming normal
embasgy activities in the Iranian capital.

And inthe Commons, MacGuigan said if there are
“outstanding problems relating to our economic’
relations with Iran,” the government will consider
them before repealing trade and economic sanc-
ions imposed last year after lhe hostages were
seized by Lranlan student militants.

Foreign affairs dominated the daily question
period as Trudeau, just back from a twoweek five-
country tour, faced opposition criticism of Canada’s
foreign aid efforts and queries on subjects ranging
from the civil war in El Salvador to fishing treaties
with the U.S.

‘Trudeau also said he would like to meet with
incoming U.S. President Ronald Reagen as Soon a8
possible after today’s inauguration in Washington.
Indications were the meeting could come before

. Easter.

_ But the hostage crisis grabbed the most attention

"ag the 14:month drama appeared to be playing its

final act in Tehran. -

MPs started the day by unanimously approving 4
motion by Opposition Leader Joe Clark to
congratulate the U.S. and Algerian governments for
what appears to be a successful conclusion ta the
crisis.

Clark, prime minister when the hostages were

"seized Nov. 4, 1978, then asked Trudeau about

* ‘Canada’s future relations with Iran.

Trudeau replied that Canadian sanctions against
Iran were initially imposed by Clark's short-lived

’ Progressive Conservative government and

maintained by Trudeau's administration to apply
pressure to win release of the hostages.

After their release, Canada “should move toward
a normalization of relations,” Trudeau said. °

AS a result of the sanctions, trade between the two
countries stopped. So did diplomatic relations when
Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor and embassy

. Staff helped spirit six U.S. diplomats out of Tehran
in January, 1979, -

MacGuigan told reporters the government would
want assurances of protection for diplomats and

* staff before reopening the embassy in Tehran.

A spokesman for the Export Development Corp.
said iran has been making payments on loans from
the Crown Corporation for Canadian projects in
Iran.

Canadian firms with cancelled projects in Jran

- Canada’ s Iran role recalled. again .

By Dolores A . Burcly
Associated Press Wriler
When angry Iranian
militants (thundered past

- U.S, Marine guards into the
-U.S. Embassy in Tehran,

six Americans crept away

‘in the storm of confusion
‘and fear,

Three months later, their
cloak-and-dagger estape'
from Iran provided one of
the lew happy endings in
the hostage affair —- with a
group of Canadian
diplomats earning the joy-
ful thanks of Americans as
daring allies in an hour of
need,

It, was an operation
cloaked in secrecy, built

upon the shared con- ©

victions of international
neighbors with a long,
friendiy. tradition and
engineered by Canadian
Embassy officials and the
US. Central Intelligence
Agency.

When the six Americans
finally made it home, it

“was a moment for all

Americans to cheer, at a
time when the cheering had
stopped. ‘

“Thank You, Canada,’

_ Signs popped up along the

border and thousands of
callers jammed Canadian
consulate switchboards to
say thanks. In Detroit,

billboards blinkéd mes- ’

sages of gratitude. ©

Congress
resolutions of thanks, and
President Carter’ ex-
pressed appreciation for ‘‘a
tremendous exhibition of
friendship and support.’

But the joy was tempered
by the knowledge that 53
Americans .remained
captive in Iran. “We must
not and will ‘not forget
them,” the freed U.S.

diplomats said after their -

return.

passed

For the six, the ex.
perience began Nav. 4,_

1979, when they slipped
-away from the consular
section at the rear of the
embassy compound, some
distance from the chancery
where the main attack was

* centred.

They managed to reach
unnoticed a: number of
friendly’ embassies. Soon,
all were in the care of the

Canadians and were hidden
away at various residences
in Tehran.

“Most of our days were
spent following events in
the world," they said. “We
avidly read newspapers
and listened te overseas
radio broadcasts,"

“Also during thé course
of the three months, we
played Scrabble to the
‘point where some of us
could identify the letter on
the front by the shape of the

“pals, on ihe back of the |
tile.” :

While. hiding, consular
officer Mark Lijek, his
wife, consular assistant
Cora Amburn  Liljek,
consular olficer Rogert
Anders, agricultural at-
fache Henry Schatz,
consular officer Joseph
Stafford, and his wife,
fonsular assistant
Kathleen Stafford, had no
contact with Washington
except to report they were
alive and well. .

Their plight was known
to | several news

organizations, bul State .

Secretary Cyrus Vance and
the Canadian external af-

fairs ministry pleaded with
editors and reporters to sit -
on the story, All complied,
The Canadian -govern-
ment and the CIA even-
tually decided it was time
for Canada to close its
embassy in Tehran. That

—lt’ S ODD,

isn’t it?-

must decide whether they will (ry te get com-
pensation from the Iranian government, he added.

Trudeau also told Flora MacDonald, the former
Conservative external affairs minister, Canada
wants to improve relalions with the U.S. but can’t
do that by taking a rigid stand on any of the major
oulstanding issues involving the two countries.

MacDonald, MP for Kingston ‘and The Islands,
called on the government to stand firm on the East
Coast fisheries agreement negolialed with
Washington two years ago but held up by reluctant -
U.S. senators since then.

She said Senator Charles Percy, new chairman of
the U.S, Senate's foreign relations commitiee, has
said Canada will have to make concessions ta get
the agreement changed.

MacGuigun and Fisheries Minister Romeo
LeBlanc refused to say whether Canada would
renegotiate, saying they want to see whal (he new
administration olfers.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — When Idoaa and °.

Blaine Christensen Walked into their suburban Salt
Lake City home, they thought they'd been robbed.

The place was & mess,

A lamp Jay on the floor and ceramic figurines
were Scattered, A garge window was smashed,

The Christensens saw other signs of vandalism in
two rooms before entering ihe kitchen, where they
came faceto-face with the culprit in the Sunday
night incident; A 75-centimetre-long pheasant
rooster, sitting on the stove.

The bird was stunned, but its only injury was a’
little blood on its beak. .

"tt locked kind of sleepy,” Christensen sald.

CLEVELAND (AP) — While Washington society
celebrates the inauguration of Ronald Reagan at

eight balls tonight, college students: here will be
having their own celebration — of sorts,

Students at Cleveland State University have -
planned a Counter-Inaugural Ball to be held in the .

basement of an old mansion.

Instead of champagne, they'll drink beer. Several
hundred are expected to attend, many drawn by the.

* music of four bands playing folk, rock and reggae
music,

One of ihe highlights ofthe ball will be a Most
Conservatively Dressed award, said David Hoover,
20, head of the university's chapter of the Com-
mittee Against Registration and the Draft, which
organized the party.

The prizes for that competition will be campaign
buttons used by Richard Nixon in 1972 that say
“Nixon Now,”

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meant il- was time io put
into action a plan to spirit
the Americans out of Iran.

Canada began’ wilh-
drawing diplomats from its
stall, saying it was doing 50
to protest the continued
holding of American
hostages by the Iranian
militants, Canadian em-
bassy personne) began
making frequent trips ‘in
and out of the country to
establish a pattern.

Meanwhile, false
Canadian passporls were
supplied for the
Americans.

Qne account said they
were doctored by U.S.
intelligence agencies and
taken into Iran in Canada’s
diplomatic pouch.

by | Zot the passports,""
said Kenneth Taylor,
Canada's ambassador to
Iran, ‘I think the rest is
what you would call .. a

_ trade secret.”

When Canada announced’
it had decided to shut dewn

its embassy and evdcuate

all personnel, the
Americans — divided into
at least two groups — were
the first out. Taylor and
three aides were the last to
leave. .
‘The United States: and
Canada originally wanted
tokeep the escape a secret,
for fear disclosure would
upset the hostage situation. .
But the stery became
public once the slx
diplomats were safely in
West Germany. —
“That's illegal, that’s
illegal," one. of the
militants cried to a
Western reperter'. .
Bui Marge Schatz of Post
Falls, Idaho, mother of
Henry Schatz, echoed the
sentiments of Americans
everywhere: "I’m going to

_be indebted ta Canada for. -
the rest of my life.”

Women’s. centre

Since last summer, the
Terrace Women's Centre
has cut back on its services

. due to lack of funds but
officials are optimistic
things will get back to

* pormal in 1961.

They have applied to the
Secretary of State for
funding and were told nat
to be pessimistic about it
sald Frances Birdsell of the
centre. The grant, will

_ Supply sustaining funds for
the centre to do Status af
Women activities such as
promoting women's books
and talking. to high school
‘Btudents about — the
changing roles of the sexes.

However when the
Secretary of State says
sustaining funds, they
mean fust that, they will
@rant money to pay the
rent and keep the centre
open but not for salaries.

Birdsell says this is
somewhat of a , problem
because workers there
have to eat too.

But the women have also
applied to the Solicitor
General's ‘department
asking for funds. To justify

. their request they claim

thata Women's Centrecan |

reduce the number of in-
cidents of family violence
through education and self-
assertiveness programs.

Word on that grant is
expected next apring but
Birdsel] says they are
positive about it.

looks forward
to busier time

In the meantime the

centre bas had to use -

money fram a savings
account to keep. It
operating since the sum-
mer when their source of
funding ended. Instead of
being open all day with

support group meetings,

such as Women's + Night
Out, held at night, they are
now only open from noon to
4 pm. with no evening
group sessions.

“We have had to rely
mainly on volunteer help to
keep the place open,” said
Birdsell. ‘'In 1981 we hope

to:get-it back -te-a’ teal |

centre for

In their fight to keep the
centre open, she says they
found a lot of support in the
community,

*

“We've got lots of sup-

port but not money.”

Despite the uncertainty
over their future, the
women have to continue to
go mi with other projects
for this year. For example
th:y are promoting a
‘women’s studies course In
sociplogy that will examite
women in a Muslim,
Russian and third work
country. There is atill room
to sign up for the course
which is taught at the
centre, :

They also hope to set upa
display for International
Women’s Day on, March 8,

_ in the Terrace Public

Library.

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