us workers from Union tyranny, J am nol against Unions, they are a must to ‘Management tyranny, but lhey should not becume a “pulitical Communistic power block, ready to Page 4, The Harald, Tuesday, October 24. 1978 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Office - 635-6357 Published by Circulation - 635-6357 Sterling Publishers PUBLISHER - Laurie Mailett GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION - TERRACE - Andy Wightman 695-6357 KITIMAT - Pat Zelinsk! 632-2747 KITEMAT OF FICE - 632-2747 Published every weekday af 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Varifled Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 1201. Postage paid In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sale copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorlal or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR People talk about the right Capilalism, Fascism and to strike, totally disregar- Communism are all wrong ding the rights uf uthers, In andhaveall brough! disaster Russia and China a strike tothe nations. I dv believe wouldbeanexonomiccrime, jin true freedum and requiring death penalty, democracy. Thal is why I We workers have a ubey my Government and democratic right to work. A went back tu work in the Right to Work Law should be = Terrace Post Office. initiated which will protect we cannot take the law in uur uwn hands. Romans 13, in my Bible, is clear on thal. So far only one persen phoned me up and called me “seab”, She hung up and I did nut have time to tell her “Jesus loves you and su do I". That there may be peace on earth. Bill Homburg prolect us from overlhruw the Government chosen by the peuple. I am against revulution and anarchy in any form. Dear Sir: The Order of the Royal Purple in Terrace extends a sincere thank you to the peuple and businesses of Terrace and district fur helping us lo reach our ub- jective of $4,000 in the recent Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Suciety campaign. C.A.R.S. sends an woc- cupalional van to Terrace basis, and can alsu be referred to the occupational therapist and . rheumatologist who visit Terrace with the van. Thanks 1 the Terrace Herald, the. News Ad- vertiser, and CFTK Radio and TV for their coverage and a special thanks to the many canvassers who gave so much of their time and efforts to this worthy cause. twice a year. Upun referral Yours sincerely, from their ductor, arthritic Juyce Martel patients can receive (Campaign Chairman) (reatment by a well qualified dna Fisher physiotherapist on a regular (Secretary 0.0.R.P.) Dear Sirs: Thank you for the publicity Because of your efforts, the venture was a success! you provided for Tamahnous Yours very truly Thealre’s production of Joan Spencer “Liquid Gould" which we Secretary spunsured. Terrace & Dist. Aris Council BAKER'S BATTER BY NIXON BAKER AERAAIT 91078 Unvenol Prem Syrdiccte “I'm well aware you're only 28 years old. That's why I'm telling you to take better care of yourself.” THOMAS ATRILL THINKS: Derivations ¥ias an interesting The word ‘assasg quote fram The derivation. Let { ip Dominion Educat “Assassins, an 4 ; atic order or society ‘which in the tw&ifth century became powerful in Persla@find Asia Minor and terrorized the couggry by the systematic murder of all who were opposed to the society. Upon a select band fell the work of assassination, to which they were stimulated by the intoxicating Influence of hashish. From the epithet ‘hashishim’ (hampeaters), which was applied to the order, the European word ‘assassin’ has been derived.....’' Hashish, as you know, is now known as ‘hash’, or cannabis, or marijuana, or ‘pot’, which are not all alike but similar in fascinating chemical makeup and, presumably, In action. a it seers to me that the violent aspect of drug-taking has been suppressed, perhaps deliberately, by the so-called media. If a crime can be blamed on guns or alcohol, this fact is well publicized. But drug- | induced crimes are played down, usually explained on psycological grouhds::;Why?). Who is profitting from the lucrative drug traffic? Perhaps you too, have wondered about all those senseless killings and fits of violence, + In the news. Cauld hemp-related drugs be a . factor? A few years ago, my _ sister, three chiidren, her husband and a nelghbour were brutally murdered by a drug-crazed young man. Women are running for BUT HOW MANY WIN More women running now WASHINGTON (CP) — _—_ defeated in the primary. Two women have son Analysts predict that many lIsck funds for only about six are likely polling or other to ‘win their take-over professional campaign bids. services. The conspicuous lack of But women are making women in high offices demunstrates the fact thal women candidates offices. gains in state and local Women will likely win MUSCOW: {AP) — Anastas Mikoyan, former Suviel president and the first of the old Bulsheviks te retire with honvr, is dead al age 82, il was an- nounced Sunday. The Soviet Cummunist party and government annuunced the death of the durable Kremlin veleran ‘with © deep serrow.”” The news agency Tass said he died Saturday after a prolonged illness. The brief an- nouncement gave nv lecalion of nis death or wher circumstances. A dour-looking — Ar- menian with a cual-black moustache, Mikeyan in a 40-year career survived in guud graces the purges af dictatur Jusef Stalin job thd fall uf Premier Nikila Khrushchev. Afier his retirement wfrom the presidency in 1965 at the age vf 70, Mikuyan continued to ap- pear occasionally in public with other Soviet leaders. He managed to stay in the first rank of the Kremlin: hierarchy largely because he never tried tu take vver as lop man. As his health declined in recent years, Mikuyan was seen less and less in public. Even as rumors of ‘his death circulated before the Tass an- nouncement, Suviel of- ficials said they did not know whether he was dead or alive. Mikoyan was one of the must familiar Suviet vfficials to the uutside world during the Stalin and Khrushchev years, . when he acted as trade emissary, . international cunciliator and Kremlin (rouble-shuvter, Urbane and witty, he seemed more acceptable in the West than many of his Moscow colleagues. Throughout his career Mikoyan seemed pusses an uncanny ability ty back the right man al the right time, Early in the Bolshevik muvement he backed Stalin against Leon Trotsky. He then backed Khrushchev in a’ su-called ‘‘antiparty"”’ power play in 1957 and was at the side uf the “callective challengers when Khrushchey was forced to step duwn in 1964. Burn Noy. 25, 1895, the sun uf a carpenter, Mikuyan, like Stalin, studied for the Orthodox priesthvod before joining the Bolshevik party at the age of 20. When the revulution came iwu years ialer he was already a jop Communist parly member in the Caspian seaport city uf Soviet veteran still honored ‘ qumneentraled on the i. Way. His wife, ,Agchen, Huxley predicted it in Brave New World — first double digit inflation co-existing with high unemployment, followed by disregard for the rule of law, followed by a break-down in law and order, followed by chaos and thence by dic- tatorship. The American coal miners set an example recently when they flatly refused to go back to work as directed by President Carter. Canada’s. postal workers are following thelr example. ‘We are not worried about punishment,” the headlines read. The rationale seems to be that if a law is a bad law; 4 person or a group of persons is allowed to flaunt the law. Terrific! (in that word's classic sense, that Is terrifying). How many teenagers out there believe the laws pertaining to certain drugs (soft) are “bad laws’. been set for you. The example has now Whether or nof a member of a democrafic state agrees with a particular law is surely irrelevant. The principle of law must take precedent and In our country parliament relgns supreme. The bill has been passed and is now the law of the Jand. If one group is entitled to break this law with impunity, then {t follows that any fine assessed against anyone else for breaking another law [s nothing shorf of malicious persecution. This argument may sound specious on the surface but the principle is sound, and all the circumlocution about who negotiated with whom in geod faith is to beg the maln question. Having taught law ta young people over the past ten years 1 know the questions which fhe young people will ask. “If they can get away with It, why can't we?” The answer my friend, is that ne polltician has the intestinal fortitude to enforce the law. Perhaps a good case could be made for charging these politicians with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Under our system of government we have available to us the means of changing flaw — by electing persons commited to a change in the law. This system might take a fittle longer but it works. If it doesn’t, then why not say so right now, chuck the whole damn governmental system and start over again. weekend, took over their men died in office. Neither will be back in the 96th Congress, which starts next year. Min- nesota Democrat Muriel Humphrey, widow of for- mer vice-president Hubert Humphrey, has resigned while Alabama Democrat Maryon Allen, widow of former senator James = Allen, was husbands’ seats when the office in ever larger Senate primary numbers in the U.S., but nominations in Tennessee their chances of winning and Kansas, but they face electiontoCongressinthe — uphill fighls and the odds Nov. 7 balloting are still now are that the next slim. Senate will be all male. In the Senate, it ap- Women fare slightly pears thatthe easiesl way better in the House of fora woman toholdoffice Representatives, where is through widowhood--a — they held about four per sorry situationfor women —_ cent of the 435 seats in the who wanttobeelected un 95th Congress, In Canada, their merits, women hold about 3.5 per Bothwomensenatorsin cent of seats in the 95th Congress, which — Parliament. ended during the Fifteen of the 18 women representatives are seeking re-election in November, but three face extremely tough challenges from men uppunents. The three women representatives who have not soughl reelection will be replaced by men. And .° for the 37 olher women trying to take over seats now held by men, the prospects are pour. suffer a number of about 10 per cent of slate disadvantages. legislature seats to be Perhaps the must contested next month, the conspicuous is that highest number ever, and gender becomes an elec. _—‘ they are expected to wina tion issue. Polls show that _—slightly higher proportion of local seats. 10 per cent of volers say they would not vole for a woman under any cir- cumstances. Many women politicians suspect that prejudice against their sex is much higher, although unacknowledged. Women candidates alse tend Lo suffer from muney problems. Their contacts with the network of businesses-connected campaign donors are generally poor = and surveys have shawn Increased participation in politics by women is shuwn by the 20 per cenl ° rise in the number of women nominated for stale races since 1974. The gains are stow in coming, however, and even the most oprtimistic supporters of women candidates agree that it will be along time before women come anywhere close to winning a number of seats approximating their proportion of the general population. Baku. When the Baku com- mune cullapsed in 1938, Mikoyan was turned over Brilish furces and the cuunter-revulutionary White Guards, whu sentenced him tu be shut along with 25 uther Baku cummissars. He was the unly one tu escape exe- culion, suppuspedly because his name was mistakenly left uff the execution list. Released frum jail five months later he travelled iv Muscow and met the three leaders vf the revolutlun: = Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, In 1935, = Mikoyan became a-full member uf AS JOBS DECREASE the ~—- Politburo and remained a member until his retirement. While heavy industry was being stressed during the Stalin years, Mikuyan growth of agriculture and light industries. He was credited with bringing ice cream— now a favorite ireat—to the Soviet Union after one of his many yisits tv the United States in the 1930s, Mikvyan negotialed the irade treaty with Ger- many in 1939 that led to he shurt-lived Stalin- Hitler, nun-aggression pact. He became a depuly mier in 1937 and held the title until 1955, when he was made first depuly premier under Khrush- ev. He had a close personal relgtionship wilh Khrush- chevy, and at the Soviet party Congress of 1956 he made the first majur at- lack un Stalin, vpening ihe dour for Khrushchev's famous secret speech denouncing the lale dic- tator’s Iron rule. Mikuyan was elected president of the Supreme Soviet, the national parliament, in July, 1964, making him the numinal head uf slate. Three munths lJaler his boss, Khrushchev, was wusiead, and although Mikvyan did not work for his downfall he voted with the majurity. It was Mikvyan the mediator whu escurted his old friend back to Moscow from the Black Sea resurt where Khrush- chevy was vacationing when he heard the news of his ouster. Although the new ruling triumvirate uf Leonid Brezhnev, Alexei Kusygin and Nikelai Pudgorny shuwed respect for the aging veteran, Mikoyan stepped . down. as president less than two years later, In December, 1965, citing ill health, Lite is knuwa abut his persunal life. He had five suns, one of whum was tepurted killed during the Secund World died in [he early 1960s, In 1957 Mikuyan told a Western writer he had contemplated. suicide during the Stalin purge years of the 1930s and that he was positive he ‘was abuut to be executed" shortly befure Stalin's death. Enver Hoxha, the hard- line Communist buss uf Albania, bas insisted that beth Mikuyan and Khrushchev admitted to him they plotled to kill Stalin. Mikuyan’s death leaves unly Vyacheslav Mulolov, 88, and Lazar Kaganuvich, 84, still alive uf the ad Bolsheviks who served Stalin. . Molotoy, the last of these whe worked clusely with Lenin, retired in 1961 ip live aut his days in vblivion after being branded an accumplice in Stalin's crimes, , Kaganovich, = knewn under Stalin as the tough “Iron Cummissar,” was ousted frum the Politburu in 1957, accused of being a member of the “‘antiparly Broup." He was believed to have been seni to run a cement faclury-in the Ural Mountains and has not been heard from since. Temporary workers are on the increase JORONTO iCP) — Hannon Bell is a young actur wh» has appeared un stage in New York and al Turunto's Royal Alexandra Theatre, but on any given day yuu may find him in a warehouse slogging barrels of herring for $3 an hour. Bell belungs iv a growing community of lempurary laborers and is une of mure than 100,000 Canadians who make a living from jobs that may last ne longer than une or two days, Employment agencies say the number of Canadians like Bell who bald temporary jubs is increasing as per- manent jobs become sear- cer. “Whenever there are ecu- numic preblems, cur business flourishes,” says Verna Primaiera of Peggy Dean and Assuciates, a lemporary employment agency in Turente, A study by Lawrence Fric, an economist wilh the University uf Western On- tariv in London, Ont., shows thal the umber af Canadians with iempourary jobs increased (to 115,000 frum 69,000 between 1971 and 1976, During thal time, the number «uf temporary em- ployment agencies increased 10 nearly 600 frem 200. Employmemn agency spokesmen say they have mure job orders than they can fill, Bul Tim Cruckford, 20, of Toronty says he is unhappy with jobs he has obtained recently through a private agency. “Assembly line work is the pils,”’ he says, “You feel like a machine, But you get ju try sv many jobs you see the ones you don't want to du. The thing I jike about it is Mit work for three days and I have a lwo- day hutiday.” Crockford says temporary work is always available tv him. . Canada Manpower has an office tv deal with temporary jubs but some employers say they would rather hire Ihroegh private agencies. “We dun't hire vur tem- porary staff from Manpower at all," a Turontu insurance execulive says. “The privale companies fen have to deal with very farginal types who are woking for grivelity, but (hey are betler than the ones whu cume from Manpower-—I find them — unskilled, unlearning and un- compramising.” The federal government! uses private firms as well as Manpower tu hire temporary employees, says Norman Gauthreau of the public service commission. “We went through Man- power and we wert only Belling @ certain amuunt of qualified peuple, su we were using both (public and private) agencies," he said, Manpower spukesman Ron Bull says Manpower cannul discriminate against ap: Plicants and that hampers ils cumpetitiveness with private agencies. Battered wives, no alternatives WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) — beaten regularly by their The executive director of a” husbands. house of refuge for abused “It becomes for mest a wives and theirchildrensays matter af circumstance one of the biggest my without alternative," she around is that sadists and said. masochists find each other “You have to understand and that battered wives take that for some women the some pleasure in their thought of making it on their situation, own is worse than the Donna Miller of Hiatus thought of a beating. House in Windsor said inan “At least with a beating a interview there are reasons woman lives within a known why women stay in a situation. She has learned situation where they are what to-expect. And by the time she thinks of leaving, her self-image is pretty low, She doesn't have someone telling her she's OK and she can make it." Ms. Miller said most battered wives don’t publicize their plight or complain to the authorities because of fear of increased physical abuse and soclal 8 . “I's & pattern you see very often caused by the self. image problem,” she said. “There is a lack of asser- tiveness.” Ms. Miller said many women lack the strength to go through with a court case. “The husband tella the wife she hasn't a leg to stand on; that she can't go to court and get custody of her children or demand he support them. “He threatens her and she belleves him when in fact she can go to court, demand her right’ and very likely win.”