LONDON (AP).
Minister Margaret That-
cher’s government has
slipped on too many
“banana skins" in recent
months, says a top Con-
servative adviser -who
urged the leader to take a

. ‘with. ordinary . people.”
An opiriibn poll, published Last. week, ‘thé Con-
Sunday, put the Labor party -servative cAndidate limped ”
ahead: of: Thatcher's: Con- * to. an embarrassing , third "*
servatives and found 44 per f ‘place finish in’ a special”
cent of ‘these ‘surveyed " pairliarnentary: election won |
considered . her -. ‘dis-. by.Tony Benn, “hero of |
ote : Labor's left wing...” 7
Thatcher. said the Daily °

Liberals perk up

HALIFAX (CP) — After a string of sobering election
losses, Nova Scotia Liberals perked up on the weekend at
their annual meeting, thanks in part to. the resignation of
Prime Minister Trudeau. . ~ -

With the lights of national TV networks shining on various :

federat ministers as they unofficially launched campaigns

for the leadership, provincial matters were not on many ‘

minds,
And in the often upbeat imood of the meeting. provincial ;

leader Sandy Cameron almost blossomed while.the would- |
be candidates put on a show that | one prominent Liberal °

likened to the first high-school sock hop of the year. ° \
“They're walking around and people are looking | and
saying ‘that’s kind of cute,’ said John Godfrey, president
of University. of King’s Collegé in Halifax. ...
“They're really strutting thelr stuff and. ‘pretending
they're not."

A record 2,000 delegates showed up — about 900 more |

than had registered before Trudeau announced Wednesday
that he was stepping down. The news did not affect. the

agenda, but it altered the tone and many people called it the,
' Labor to take a 145-seat

most exciting meeting in years.

Nova Scotia Liberals have governed the province for all

but 30 years since Confederation, but have been in weak
opposition since 1978, ;
LEADS TO DEFEAT.

Cameron, 45, not noted for his speaking ti talents, has led
the party to one general election defeat sincé becoming
leader in 1990 and is one of only 12 Liberals in the 52-seat

legislature. Two weeks ago the Liberals came third iri a’

byelection in which Cameron was barely visible. It'was the
second byelection loss in a year.

But if there was any discontent with his leadership, it was | .

not apparent among delegates.

Godfrey'said he doubted there would be any disaffection :

with Cameron before the next election. Like some others, he -

sees Cameron as being cut from the same cloth as Robert
Stanfield, former premier and national Tory leader.
“People don't understand them,” said delegate Eric
Demont.
“They don't make good leaders of the apposition.
“They make gopd premiers."
Cameron, a businessman from rural northeastern Nova

Scotia, said the mood of the meeting was only partly caused

by federal events.

“We have things in Nova Scotia that are going wrong and
we are out to see what we can do to correct that situation.
The enthusiasm is a credit ta the provincial party.”

Bill Belliveau, long active in the Liberal party, saida win -
“ne will depend mainly on how. people see the :

brogressive Conservative government of John Buchanan.
’ Carrying a huge debt and with offshore gas revenues still
several years away, the government is vulnerable, he said.

The legislature session which opened last week, will-be a
real test of Cameron’ 8 ability to expose the government, he
said. ‘

All.
About

PEOPLE

Singer Julian Lennon, son of slain ex-Beatle John Lennon,
says he has formed his own band and hopes to have a record
out by the end of the year.

Lennon, 20, said he will be the lead singer and co-write
songs With guitarist Justin Clayton. Drummer Carlos
Marally makes up the third member of the group, whose
music, Lennon said, ranges “‘from ballad to funk with a bit
of rock.”

Lennon, son of the ex-Beatle's first wife, Cynthia, said it. .

“would certainly be nice to follow in my father’ 's footsteps,
but we'll have to wait and see,”

The new concertmaster of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra says “this job seems almost ideal,” but his most
recent performance in Boston was a bit cramped.

That was last October when Canadian-born Maleolm
Lowe, 30, performed solo in a South Boston police station
office. Detectives had just recovered his stolen $65,000
Nicolas Gagliano violin and $35,000 Francols Tourte bow, -

As an exuberant thank-you for their efforts, Lawe per- -

formed Love's Joy on his recovered violin, which was un-
damage.

“I'm extremely happy and very honored and privileged
to be chosen as the next concertmaster of the BSO,” said
Lowe after his selection was disclosed to the members of
the orchestra last Tuesday by music director Seiji Ozawa,

Indiana state Senator Soneph Corcoran caw first. hand
what happened to Canada, and he’s not going to let it
happen to hia state. Starting In September, English will be
Indiana's officlal state language. .

Corcoran, who once lived in Canada, concedes Indiana
doesn’t have a problem with multiple languages, But the
new bill, which designates English as the mother tongue, is
designed to prevent that poslbility,

John Hammend, the governor's alde who serves as a
Naison with the state legislature, said the law is viewed
more as a policy statement than anything else, |

“Tet have no effect on the atate,” he said.

Bonni,a baboon, hadno interest in advancing thee cause of
medical science. .

Firat he escaped from scientists in Bonn, West Germany,
before they could perform medical experiments on him,
and then he managed to evade his pursuers for three days
by swinging through treea near the West German capital.

Bonni first dashed up a 40-metre tree, where he sat
ignoring animal trainers gent out after him. He. was sill
there the next morning when the fire department came.

Finally, a tranquilizer dart convinced thé baboon te
‘come quietly to the waiting scientists,

The ABC-TV tnovie Why Me? shows the efforts by Dr.
dim Stallings and Leola Mae Harmon to turn a car accident’
in November 1568 into a medical success story.

Most of the lower half of Harmon's face had been torn off *
in an accident in Anchorage, Alaska. It took nearly seven
years and more than 40 operations, four of them new
procedures pioneered by Stallings, to rebuild her face.

Harmon's book abut her experience, Why Me, God?,
published in 1961, was the basis for the movie, which stars
Armand Assante and Glynnis, O'Conner, °

Mirror,’ faces “her biggest -
leadership crisis" since she
came to power in May 1979. -

Edward... du = Cann,

‘chairman of an influential,

Conservative’ committee,
urged Thatcher to take a
“firmer, grip’? on political
strategy as she continues

’ her second term.

“We have’ “made gome

‘mistakes : ‘and..we have

lessons to learn," he said in*
an: intérview ’ Sunday on:

Independent ‘1 Television. _

. Conservative legislators
have: been : ‘grumbling for

some! ‘time that: Thatcher ..
. has:
, direction and become ‘aloof

- apparently lost.
since her landslide -victory.:.
in, Jmes general election.

- that election, - the
Cianservalives . thrashed .

majority in the 650-member. *
House of Commons — one of

__ the biggest margins since «
. the Second’ Werld War.
NO CONSULTATION —

Many Conservatives

skins” ;

-, Group ; of
* cabinet. ‘ministers, without ©
“consulting . the‘ full: ‘cabinet _

OF, , advisers: ‘ins the civil

An: opinion’. poll. dn The

2 Sunday. Times . put..Labor,

under Neil Kipnock, ahead
ofthe Tories ‘for:the first

time «since sBritain’s 4992

victory’ In: the. Falklands
‘conflict. ag, , Argentina.
. The: pall ‘by! ' Market” and

“Opinion Research * Inter- |.
national | of "1,000" véters - f

found that’ Labor had 41'per

_cent. of the support,’ the
- Conservatives had:38 per

cent. and. the ,

“eentriat

- Liberal-Social . Democrat

- Alliance had 18 percent,
‘In June's” ‘election, . the

Conservailyes got. 43. 5 per

cent of the vote, Labor 28. 5

and the. alliance 26,:° -
However, 02 per’ cent of

Conservatives questioned i in

the ‘Times’ “poll: sald That- .
cher. shoiild’ ‘romain ‘as oi
- prime minister
leader for the next: general
- election, which mist take -
. Place by June 1993, Possible

d party

contenders, stich as Defence
’ Secretary ’ Mithaet

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‘Feds restricting |
the flow of ideas”
into the country —

Today's editorial involves a little homework.
After years of proclaiming that freedom of ideas {4 |
‘In danger. In Canada,.it is pertiaps time jor tlie
_readership, as well as the editor, to. Bee just what

:. Here is your task. Write to Liberty Bell Publica-
tions, P.O. Box 21, Reedy, West Virginia, 25270, Ask
them to supply you with copies of The Devil's
Disciples, Satan’s Children and their catalogue -
Books for Patriots. Thensee whathappens.

A Landon, Ontario man did just that. What hap-_
_ pened to him was that he got a letter from Revenue
_ Canada, Customs.and Excise. The following is an

“This office has recelved parcel addressed to.
‘you from Liberty, Bell Publications etc, Descrip-
tion; 3 books, -(As listed). This materia] arrived by
Parcel. Post.,.has been examined and classifted ag
immoral or indecent under the prohtbitory. provi-
sions of tariff item 9201-1 of the Customs Tariff.”

He was advised that the material would be retaing.
ed by customs for 90 days, during which he could ap--
peal, following which it would be forwarded to the _
_postmaster-general for disposal. This gentleman

A. Lachance, Head, printed Importation, ;
~ Tariff Programs, Department of Natlonal Revenue, ;
Customs and Excise replied on Jan. 3, upholding the’ -
customs ruling that the two books and the catalogue’.
‘were cortectly classified as immoral under Tariff
_ Item 99201-1 of Schedule C of the Customs Tariff -

In other ‘words, the federal government is now
restricting the flow of ideas into the country. I have:
not read these two books but bearing in mind the...
origin, would expect them to be of interest to the
- New Fight. Possibly, they have been construed to be -
. anti-semitic as that is the current pliobia in Cana-_

» dian polities, as Mr. Keegstra Is finding.
| Be that as it may,' it seems that the federal. -

government no longer trusts‘the Canadian people to —
continue to exercise the good: judgement ithas exer-
clsed since 1667, For all the years of confedération,
we have rejected political flakes of all kinds, from’:
the Fenians, Louis Riel, the Canadian Nazi Party
(yes, we had one too), the PQ and most recently the’.
WCC. No, Ottawa now feels ‘that our naive minds:
must be protected from scurrilous material from —

our freedom-loving southern neighbours, a

Mind you, if you want tto Import pornography, go
* phead, The only sort of thing that might get stopped:
‘at the border ig so vile that I wouldn’t even describe.
it in print. In fact, if you go to your local corner
store, you can inapect it. You'll find that all the real
rot {s manufactured in the U.S,: :

‘ Frankly, the idea that any polltical treatise canbe:
considered immoral’ or “indecent” fs one I haye
trouble with. In.this country, we are used to having. .
free access to books ranging in tone from The Com-' .
munist Manifesto, through thé Thoughts of Chalr-
man Mao to Mein Kempf. Offensive, yes. Indecent,
no. In either case though, they are and should be

As for banning a catalogue there Is not a shred of
legitimacy for banning a plece of paper with 200
names of books and their authors. There are no |
“Ideas” here, lmmoral, indecent or otherwise. Just

Aa I said, don't take my word for It.
yourself if you are concerned about where the limits
are being set in a country where there were no —

Meanwhile you can also lobby about Bill C-169 so
that you don’t have to join a party to participate in
the next federal election. Your final assignment .
’ will be to watch the Keegstra trial starting Feb. t, to
see whether people are able to argue about history
in this country and if not, whose version we'd better -

‘Then you'll have some idea of the direétion In .

Try it

i “Thatcher's refnel ‘to.
dump. party: chairmen’ Cecil:
Parkinson; : imaatébmind of

‘her’ ‘June election: triumph;
after’ he adinitted jilting hig
‘ foriner secretary following |

a lengthy affair i in which she
“became He

_pebgned he
broke. * -#

Her raluetance to
‘anawer allegations that her

Son,’ Mark,’ ‘was: paid - for |
helping'a British firm: wina .
contract worth hundreds'of .

millions of dollars’ ‘T:Oman

“by exploiting. his. mother's ;

position.

. ‘consulting ‘cabinet, to. ban”
‘labor unions at a top-secret

* Iintelligence-gathering base. .
” Organized

Tabor,

about other laws curbing
“union powers, mounted 4
one-day strike and vowed to
oppose what it ‘pranded a

bitter .

: servatives. ae

=_ ‘Unemployment, now

‘ with more than 3 million, or:

13.4 per. cent, out of work.
- Critics. ‘blame |

“monetarist. policies, in-

‘her’

eluding cuts in government .
spending : ‘that have hit the’

poor and jobless.

. Pregnant. .

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