EDMONTON (cP) —
United States officials
jumped onto the heavy oil
bandwagon Thursday,
throwing their weight behind
United Nations efforts to
promote global development
of unconventlonal oil
resources,

“We believe that heavy all

Pope prays for peace.

AUSCHWITZ, Poland
(AP) — Pope John Pauh
celebrated mass Thuraday
amid the ruins of Hitler’s
most infamous death camp
and appealed for peace and
justice in the name of all
countries whose righla are
violated.

king from a wooden
alway platform from which
millions were herded to their
deaths, the Pope drew his
jreatest applause when he
juoted his predecessor, Pope
aul VI: “Nomore war, only
veacel”

A crowd of several hun-
dred thousand stood close to
barbed wire, left standing as

‘a grim reminier, near the

ruins of brick barracks
where prisoners of 26
countries were confined. by: :
Poland's ‘Nazi occuplers
during the Second World
War.

Joining the Pape were 200
priests, all former prisoners
in concentration camps, Men
and women who had sur-
vived the camps were also

esent, some dressed in
biue- and-white

prison garb.

“Auschwitz is a place
where everyone should
visit,” the Pope said, “And
during the visit one should
ask, ‘What are the limits of
hatred, what are the limits of
destruction of man by man?’

John Paul, who studied for
the priesthood in secret
while working in a German

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U.S. officials want | to get at oil |

and tar sands are an im-
portant resource for the
world,” Richard Hertzberg
af the U.S. energy depart-
ment declared at a news
conference,

Although .much technical
research is under way to find
efficient ways to extract and

forced-labor project, singled
out the sufferings of Jews,
Riwslans and Poles, who
made up most of the victims
of Auschwitz,

“The very people that re-
ceived from God the com-
mandment ‘Thou shalt not
kill’ itself experienced in a
special measure what is
meant by killing,”’ the Pope
said of the Jews.

Of the Russians, he said:
“We know the role
nation played in World War
Il, They fought for
freedom.”

The Polish-born pontitf
said he is “the son of a nation
that in its history has suf-
fered many afflictions from
others,”’ But he said he was

+“tgpeaking in the name of all

“the nétlons whose rights are .

belng violated and forgot-
ten.

The Pope, who flew to
Auschwitz by helicopter
after.a joyful visit to his
hometown of Wadowice, said
mags on the site of the far.
mer Birkenau camp,

extermination centre where

striped on estimated four million

persons..died, It was the
largest of 36 camps in a
complex known collectively
as ‘Auschwitz.

During the mass, the Pope
spoke af the “righta of

nations” to freedom and.

independence, and of the
horrors of modern war.
Above the pontiff stood a-
large wooden cross
decorated with a symbolic

refine the difficult resource,
Hertzberg said the real chal-
lenge now is co-operation be-
tween governments to
develop the trillions of
barrels of unconventional oil
in the world.

“Our technical ability to .

develop the resource has in

‘my mind really cutatripped

sing of barbed wire. One arm
of the cross supported a
banner of prison gray and
black, I¢ bore the number

_- 16670, the number assigned

to Father Maximilian Kolbe,

a Polish Catholic priest
venerated for volunteering
to die in another Prisoner’ 8
place.

At Birkénau, the pontiff
called the camp “a place

built on hatred and contempt’

for man In the name of a
crazed ideciogy."’

The Pope has been visiting -

his native land since

Saturday, making the first -

papal journey to a Com-

munist country.
On Thursday morning, he

- returned to the yellow stucco

house in which he was born
in Wadowice and prayed at
the font where he was
baptized

After earlier visits to
Warsaw and the shrine city
of Czestochowa, the Pope
arrived Wednesday in
Krakow, where he was ar-
chbishop before he was

-Clevated to the papacy last:

October

The announced reason for
the visit is to mark the 900th
anniversary of the mar-
tyrdom of St. Stanislaw,
Poland's patron saint, On
Sunday, the last day of the
visit, the Pope will celebrate
a pontifical mass and papal
address In Krakow Cath-
edral to mark the an-
niversary.

our political ability to
develop the 1 resource.

“The technology is there
now, It’s a question of can the

world rige to the challenge of -

distributing it."’

Deposits of unconventional
oilin Alberta; Veriezuela and
the Soviet Unlon "are

massive and potentlally
could flow easily acroas
borders,”

He said the glant deposits
could help a world economy
that has been hit by shor-
tages of ‘conventional light
oll, while smaller deposits
could save many developing

CALGARY (CP) —
Regulatory delays af-
fecting conatruction of the
Alaska Highway natural
gas pipeline will force the.
Foothills group of com-
pariles to lay off staff and
reduce its budget for
preliminary work on the

project.

Dianne Narvik, senior
vicepresident of "Alberta
Gas Trunk Line Co.Ltd,,
co-sponsor of the
Foothills group, said
Thursday that up to 30 of
the 225-member staff will
be laid off.

But the move did not
represent a flagging of
the company's Interest in
or commitment to the
$5.8-billion. Canadian,
portion of the $14-billion
project,

Foothills was merely

LAYOFFS SAID
DELAY RESULT

_ Yecognizing the22-month

‘because of regulatory

delay that has occurred

delays in the United
States.

Mra, Narvik said moat
of the personne! lald off
will be offered positions
with Alberta Gas Trunk
Line or the other 50-per-
cent owner of Foothills,
Westcoast Transmission
Co. Ltd., Both were short
of staff.

She would not say how
much the budget had been
cut.

Consultanta’ studies not
needed for the pipeline
until closer to the con-
struction start wilt be
postponed, she said, but
preparations for
regulatory approvals
which stl have to be
obtained were continuing.

Nuclear power
to be studied —

’ KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) —
‘An all-party ‘parliamentary
comroittee will be set up to
study uranium mining and
nuclear power, federal.
Environment Minister John
Fraser said Thursday.

Fraser, one of the fledgling
Progressive Conservative
ministers appointed to
Prime Minister Clark's

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of a two-day federal-provin-
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conference

The question is amatter of
“some urgency,’’ Fraser

said,

But he added that he could
not say yet when the com-
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“world conference —

countries from stiff oil. .
is how :

a ee major challenge

to provide a ievslpin
countries with the advance
technology and massive
amounts of capital needed to

develop hard-tohandie heavy

“The U.S. government
does have an interest In
seeing that developing
nations can respond to thee
own energy needs,

“Qne would like to project
a real rosy future but I think
that very much there are
limitations In the world as to

‘bow much steel can |

produced, how many tra:

people can go out arid:

develop projecta, how much
capital can be amassed and
distributed.”

Although countries by
nature take care of thelr own
Interests first, the U.S.
director of fossil fuel ex:
traction said he hopes world
conferences like this UN
meeting in Edmonton can
help development.

Hertsoerg said American
w ni
UN heavy oil and oll-sands
conference — the flrat on a
have Invited the UN to hold a
follow-up meeting in the
United States.

A prime issue for such a
metting would be to resolve
the “large disparity in the
world estimates of heavy oll
and tar sands," Hertz

Officials of the UN In-

‘ stitute for Training and

Research (UNITAR), prime
sponsers of the conference,
have been promoting heavy

oil and issuing: opilmiatie
statements atout huge
heavy-oll resources they feel
can: be economically devel-

Their optimism, however; .
has been Fuallfied by others ~

who emphasize that the slow-
flowing, «:' ‘mineral:
contaminated’
needa technological ad-
vances and huge amounts of
capita] to be efficiently
developed.

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substance:

WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Carter said
- Thursday he will retain U.S.
economic sanctions against
Zimbabwe Rhodesia because
he does not think: recent’
elections there “were etther
fair or free,”

But he e suggested he might

reconsider position if
‘the southern African
country, and State Secretary
Cyrus Vance said a
representative will be sent
there to observe progress
mace toward true majority

8.

Bishop Abel Muzarewa
Zimbabwe Rhodesia’s
black prime miniater, called
Carter's announcement an
“inhuman decision" which
“seems to. discourage the
democratic way of life which
Ibelleve I learned from your
country." :

Muzorewa, who had five

c years of religious training In

the U.S., also said Andrew
. Young, the U.S. ambassador
:to the United Nations, is
“absolutely out of base, just
intoxica with

emotionaliam.”

Carter acknowledged that
his position probab will be
opposed by a majority in
Congress. Members of the

_ House and Senate have said .

the sanctions should be lifted
sine tho new Zimbabwe

-Rhodesian government took:
. power last week.
political conditions change in |

Carter eald his decision ip

a matter of principle to me. I’
intend to do everything 1 can’
within my power to prevall
on this decision, It means a.
lot to our country to do what:
ia right, what is decent, what

said nelther the best
interesta of the United States
nor af the people of Zim-
babwe Rhodesia would be
gerved by luting the sane-
tions.

Carter sald his position
will help the United States
retain friends in black Africa
and elsewhere and will
“limit the oppportunity of
outside powers to take ad-
vantage of the situation in
south Aifrica at the expense
_ of the United States.”

In it for the money

‘ EDMONTON (CP) — A
senior vice-president of
Husky Oil Ltd, urged
‘representatives of 44
countries Thursday to
remember that “oil com-
panles are in business to
make money.” -

Ina paper presented to the

United Nations conference

on heavy oll and cil sands,
Jamea Williams sald
governments cannot
economically repress pri-
vate enterprise and then
expect it to develop un-
energy
resources for the future.
“Companies such as
Husky will invest in- and
work - towards improving
operations. even with
‘marginal economics if
wconomic rewards can be
een in the future.

there are

“However,

forces oulaide a company's
control which affect com-
pany policies even more than,
early success or failure i inits
operations."

Reviewing Husky's four
decades of effort to exploit
the heavy oil of Alberta,
Saskatchewan and
California, Willlams-sald the
Canadian-owned firm has
frequently been frustrated
by government acts.

Although the economic cli-
mate has improved In
Canada, he sald, Husky's
California operations were
stifled until recent months.

“In the United States, the
government haa a multi-tier
pricing system = which
classifies some of the oil as
old oil and has restricted it
from. being sold_at a price
sufficient to cover direct
operating costs.

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