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Hart gains.
western

momentum

Senalor Gary Hart overwhelmed ,

_ Walter Mondale to win the Nebraska
’ Democratic primary Tuesday night
* and moved to an early lead in

Oregon, gaining western momentum
to fuel a late surge for the party’s
presidential nomination.

CBS News projected Hart would
be the ‘‘winner by far’’ in Oregon,
‘ With ballots counted from 66 per
cent of Nebraska's precincts, Hart
was winning 57 per cent of the vate,

_ compared with 28 for Mondale.

In Oregon, with results counted in
four of the state’s 2,452 precinta,
Hart was ahead, 61 per cent to
Mondale’s 31 per cent.

Jesse Jackson was a distant third

"in the two states with small black

populations.

Inthe competition for Nebraska 24
delegates to the Democratic
national convention, Hart led for 16,

. Mondale for eight.

Oregon voters were apportioning
43 delegates and Hart was likely to
claim a broad majority. CBS News’
exit poll of voters showed Hart was
drawing well throughout the state.

Mondale began the day with
1,577.05 delegates to 934.75 for Hart
and 295.2 for Jackson.

4 Sterling News Service Feature,
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Canada.

over the place, into the black.

DOLLARS

SENSE

Hospital profits

A profit-making hospital is almost as rare these
_days as a sympathetic bureaucrat from Revenue

That is why great interest has developed in the
Hawkesbury District, General Hospital in .
Hawkesbury Ontario, right near the Quebec border.

For there, American Medical International Canada
Inc. of Beverly Hills, Calif, has managed to pull -
Hawkesbury Hospital, formerly dripping red ink; all ws

In elght short months- of Its management, AMI
has taken an operation with perennial yearly
deficits of $500,000 and made it into a money earner :
to the tune of $400,000 annually. This Is.a tum-
around of almost $i million on an annual basis.

How has AMI performed this minor financial
miracle? Part of lts success was due to streamlin- “°°

‘ care.

- For example, federal NDP health critic Bob
Bialkte epposes making profts in health care, no
matter what the results. Says this NDP MP from
Winnipeg-Birds Hill, “Hawkesbury is the way into
the market for private companies, If they get 4
larger, share of market over tlme, there will. be a
deterioration in health care.”

'. Tak about keeping an open mind! AMI and other
experiments of this sort, it would appear, will be

_ damned no matter how good a jeb they do. And |
what, furthermore, is.wrong with making profits -
out. of health care? Are profits a dirty word inour -
society, :which owes its magnificent standard of live, a
ing to the [ret enterprise system? . i
- It profit making enterprises can ‘perform better
than hidebound, bureaucratic pubile agencies —
and they. can,: they can — then we ought to be - -

. ’ gfatefal, not griping and whining. Foritisonlyin |.
this way that we can get more ‘bang for the buck — ‘°

more medical services out of a given dollar. of ex: .

: penditures, a -

ing a ‘preitously inept and wasteful ‘management i.
system. Then, too, it was able to avail itself of
_ pumerotis volume discounts. As well, budget plann-"
_ ing, better money management And an.improved
accounting -system, saved thousands of dollars
_* more. Fer its expart-seryices, AMI ‘receives a
$300,000 management fee, plus a s0-per-cent share
of any profits above $750,000
Now this sounds like a development that would be
applauded by every responsible commentator. But
if you thought’ so, you’ reckoned. without some
idealogical opponents of private efforts in health

bon

. i

Of politics and “enake oil

“Kgad! ”
There was a ring of horror to the
“exclamation as Fatuous J. Hustings

 swivelled toward his television set.

“Did that man say what J think he
just said?”

Indeed that man had. He had been
quoting a United States advertising
executive on the subject of truth in
advertising.

The expert had suggested that just
as truth-in-advertising laws apply to

manufacturers and purveyors of .

products, so should they apply to
politicians.

This, in effect, would place those
after your vote on an equal footing
with the snake-oil salesman out for
your dollar.

“Should -the snake-cil | salesman
state that his elixer.-will cure
everything from jaundice to ingrown

_ toenails, said snake-oil, salesman.

Letters to

the Editor

Dear Editars 2 Ci

das kA EA eo autod

issue of Steelworkers Local 480
newsletter featured a quarter
page article entitled The Bottom
Line. This piece claimed to be a
comparison of government policy
and action in British ‘Columbia
and Manitoba, but was filled with
distortions and inaccuracies.
Some of these are so blatant
that I felt that I had to point them
out. The B.C. Government is
accused of ‘encouraging’
doctors to engage in extra billing
and to opt out of the Medical
Services Plan. This is nonsense!
There has been no change at all in
the opting-out provision; in the
sixteen and a half years the plan

doctors have chosen to opt out,
and for the last five years, only
one doctor in all of British
Columbia has taken advantage of
this option... That’s not much
encouragement. Nor is it
possible for doctors to extra-bill
and remain in the plan. This rule
was put in place by the Social
Credit Government in 1981.
Thearticle states that user fees
have been increased by “11 per
cent to 150 per cent”: this is a
deceptive use of percentage
figures to hide the fact that the
largest increase in user fees was
from $4.00 to $10.00! All other
increases were a mere one

cent of the Health Budget is
funded from general: tax
revenues; that Health was the
only Ministry to receive a budget
increase this year; and that 37
per cent of total budgeted ex:
penditures for the province were
devoted to Health spending in
1994. This is proportionately the
largest commitment to Health in
Canada, and a much larger
Proportion of the total than was
spent on health in any year of the
NDP administration of this
province.

User fees represent a tiny
fractlon of the real cost of Health
care in B.C,, and B.C,'s Social
Credit Government has always
been firmly committed to the
principle that no one will be
refused admission or necessary
treatment because they are
unable to pay.

The Bottom Line asserts that
the B.C. Government allows the
eviction of tenants without cause;
this ia more bunk! The
Honourable Jim Hewltt, Minister
of Consumer and Corporate
Affairs, han stated publicly that
forthcoming legislation affecting
The Landlord and Tenant Act will
notinclude such a provision. It is
also alleged that this government
“pemoved corporate Habiilty for
wages in case of bankruptcy’.
This ia complete fabrication. The
Employment Standards

Report inaccurate, writer says»
‘ems ce 3, Apetdiment Act, Sectiom ayers |

The front page of the February’

_ involved in social’ services,

has been in -place only three.

dollar! The facts are: that 97 per’

unnecessary bureaucracy, far

states! + Unpaid wages si" eon-:
stitute a lien, charge and secured
debt ... agalnst all the real and
personal property of the em-
ployers.” The only change af-
fecting liability for wages is that
in the event of receivership or
bankruptey, the directors and
officers of a corporation are not
personally responsible for
severance pay. That's hardly the
same as removing corporate
liability for wages! |

The article also accuses the
provincial government of
eliminating a whole list of groups

human rights enforcement and
labour relations. While itis true
that some very. specialized.
services have been discontinued,
this has been part of a far-
reaching reorganization designed
to preserve essential. services
and control costs. In the case of
the Child Abuse Teams, two
supervisors and twelve soclal
workers ina program that served
only Victoria, and Vancouver
were laid: off; more than 1,000
employees throughout the
province continue to provide
assistance to families and
children. In the case of the
Employment Standards Board, a
cumbersome. body with judicial
powers was replaced by a more
efficient administration headed
by a director whose decisions
may be appealed directly to the
courts. This: sort -of
reorganization and elimination of

from being a sign of concern, is
indicative of the govenrment's
commitment to improving ser-
vices in the province while
putting a lid on costs.

There ig little reason to go on;
I'm sure the point has been made. -

The claims about life in
Manitoba's Socialist heaven are
as exaggerated as the ac-
cusations levelled at the.
government of British Columbla.
I'm forced to ask why, if life
under the NDP administration is
so wonderful, two sitting
Members of the Manitoba
Leglalature, both elected as NDP
candidates, have quit the party in
disgust? The most recent
defector, Russ Doern, describes
the ‘present Manitoba govern-
ment as “dismal and dangerous”
and predicted that if Howard
Pawley remained Premier, “the
NDP would suffer a crushing
defeat” in the next election.
Debate and criticlam are
essential to democracy, but let's
focus qur discussions on what the
government ia actually doing
rather than on arguments based
on half truths, distortions and.

outright Iles.
Yours sincerely,

Terry Segarty, M.L.A.
Kootenay

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bids fair to end up in the crowbar
hotel,” the young man said,
“All this expert is sayihg is — ‘so
let it be with politicians,” ;
Fatuous J. huffed. An eye glazed.
“But that’s.- ridiculous," he
protested. ‘He is lumping: us in'with
such things as breakfast cereal”,
“Do you mean to say that, In
future, any politician whose
promises might contain one or.two
fewer raisins than listed on the box
might, upon winning election, be
calied to account? ut

“Why, it's un-Canadian to ‘hold
politicians responsible for
everything they say.”

The young man sighed. old Fatty
was certainly set in his ways. .

. “The theory seems to be that if
you suggest — before winning office
— that you have a plan te cut the
national deficit by half, then, upon
assuming the mantle, yout had better
be able to come through with the
goods,” he said, ‘

“Otherwise, people might . be
forced to the conclusion that you
were just saying that in order to get
the job. Put another way, should you
advertise that + you are 99 and 44-

wwe. 4

te alee on

100ths per cent pure, and you assay

_ out toonly $8 per cent, you could end

up with the aforementioned snake-
oil salesman for a roommate.”
Sweat beaded the noble brow.
“But, if they hold us to the truth of
our. pronouncements, the only thing
we'll be able to run for. is cover!"
There was a great deal at stake
here. -
“Politics is an inexact science at
best,” Fatuols J. growled, “Think
how much mere. inexact it would

’ become if we po icans were to be

limited to the truth...
to do?”

The young man smiled — he en-
joyed stumping the Hustings (heh-
heh — little ballot-box humor there)

. What are we

but old F.J. wasn't a bad old sort,

really,

“Well, you might ‘consider the
statement of a certain U.S..office-
holder who, caught in 2 fib,
proclaimed that his “previous
statement .. was “no
operative.’”-

“Did he get away with it?”

“Sure — for awhile.”

‘The acolyte smiled once more.

- “Trust: me. Have ft ever lied to
you?” :

Ca
:

to:'make’ “

“French official —

FORT SMITH, 'N.W.T. (CP) — .

The Janguage rights: of the tiny
French-speaking minority of the
Northwest Territories ‘cannot be
dismissed because some native
groups are equally as small, says
the head of the territorial govern-
ment.

“we can’t afford to get into: ‘a
numbers game in-
language rights,"
Leader Richard Nerysoo said in an’
interview Tuesday following the
introduction of legislation to make
French — spoken by about two per
cent of the 45,000 population —
official language in the. Northvest
Territories.

“Some of the Dene (Indian)
groups also are very small — my

‘discussing -
Government:

own Loucheux people only number
between 2,500 and 3,000. We can't
afford to start getting into a debate

-on-the basis of numbers-by saying

the majorily rules.”

The proposed language

: legislation, given unanimous sup-

port in the legislative assembly upon
first reading Tuesday, will provide
government services in French and
also legally. recognize the .seven
native languages spoken by most of
the Northwest Territories’ people.

The legislation. is the first in
Canada to legally recognize native
languages.

Most of the 24 members said they
would support the legislation, at
least at the outset, to push Ottawa to
provide more money for native
languages.

‘Duarte win official |

SAN SALVADOR (AP) — The:
Central Election Council rejectéd a.
challenge by the far-right candidate
and said moderate Jose Napoleon
Duarte would be accredited today as

official winner of El Salvador’s ©

bitter presidential election,
The council] announced its decision
Tuesday night after a two-hour:

meeting. to consider a request that ©

Duarte’s victory in the May 6 runoff

be nullified because of alleged ©

improper vote counting. — -
Roberto d’Aubuisson, candidate of
the far-right Republican Nationalist

- Alliance, said on television’ Tuesday

night, “We still have time to rescue
the victory they are trying to steal
from us.” At the time of his
remarks, he was apparently
unaware ofthe council’s decision.

D'Aubuisson has been linked with
E] Salvador’s rightist death squads,
but he had denied the charges.

- longer.

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. ‘Trendicator' stable

Is. energy: gone

; The Royal Bank of Canada on.
Tuesday added its name to the

growing list of those who fear the .

economic recovery is lapsing 45 it
reported its Trendicator index of
seven leading indicators was Un-

" changed in the first three months of.

1984.

The Trendicator stood at 100.7 for
the quarter, marking the third
successive quarter the index has
shown little movement and lending
credence to fears of a slump. -

-An exception to the generally-flat '

performance of the indices was the ~

_ratio of new orders to inventory. for,

“export industries that rose ILS: per.
" gent.”

On-the downside, the Toronto
Stock Exchange price-earnings ratio

slid 6.4:per cent,

. The : bank: credited the continued

: expansion. of the U.S. economy, a8
| *.well as -impfovements in’ the
European and Japanese economies

for the stronger performance of
export industries.

While the Toronto Stock Exchange
reading: was. down again: for! .the >.
quarter, stack prices “still ‘averaged ©

19 times earnings, well above the .

loriger-term historical average,
WORK WEEK LONGER .
The average length of the.

. manufacturing work week, was up
9.9 per cent at 33.7 hours, close to the

pre-recession- level. Wilh -- ., the

_ recovery last year this index grew
quickly in 1983, but now appears to.
have stabilized.

The money supply. index declined .
2.5 per cent in the quarter, while

primary steel production was off 1.7
per cent and the ratio of new orders -
to inventory. in consumer durables
was down 1.5 per cent. _

Residential construction was up
an imperceptible 0.1 per cent.

In another development, Paul
Tellier, deputy minister for the
federal energy department, said
Ottawa’s controversial 26-per-cent -
stake of. any oil: or gas field .on -
federal lands is not‘an essential part.
of the national energy program.

Tellier defended the so-called
back-in provision of the program
which has been attacked by the oll.
industry, and the U.S. government.
But ‘he-tald the Senate energy
committee that there might.be other.
ways of * achieving | increased
Canadian ownership and hinted that”
changes may x made,
fare

Liara ead Unk Re

tliament, ‘has’ oe id the gove fe
‘ ment back-in was one element: of the
program that would never’ be
compromised. _
REVIEWS PROGRAM

But the department has been

reviewing the program to see what
changes might be made in light of

changing circumstances. When the -

iter SiaRard take:
iagh 82 WOULD: CONSULT *

| from the recovery?

program was introduced in 1980, it
was expected that oil prices-would
continue to soar, They haven't.

Maurice Taschereau, chief of the
Canada ..Oll. and Gas Lands
Administration, testified earlier in
(heday and told reporters afterward
that East Coast oil and gas fields
could begin commercial production

‘-before the end of the decade.

In addition to the Hibernia field aff
the Newfoundland coast and others
discovered nearby, more oil is likely
- to be found on the Grand BANKS, E

SAID. “It's elephant country a
_. you never, find. an elephant, all. by
"itself." Sans
oil from: Hibernia: ‘could’ “start
coming ashore as early as. 1987,
- Taschereau said, and gas production
from the Venture ‘field off". Nova
Scotia could begin in 1989,

No. breaks
efor U.S.

” OTTAWA (CP) — Canada won't
make special concessions to the
United States in any negotiations for
free-trade agreements, —Inter-
national Trade Minister . Gerald
Regan said Tuesday..

And Canada shouldn't he’ ‘afraid of
pursuing more trade with the. United
States even though more than 70 per
cent of Canadian exports already go
south of the border, he told the
Commons external affairs: com-
mittee.

‘Regan rejected the idea that
Canada allow a

free-trade .

agreement in a strong U.S. in- .

dustrial sector to win concessions in

a sector in which Canada has the
advantage.

“There must be mutual advantage
within each sector before we
proceed,” he told the committee.

Both Canada and the U.S. have
expressed an interest in the
possibility of free-trade agreements
in certain sectors. Regan said they
could ‘include steel, agricultural
equipment, mass urban ‘transit,
telecammunications and
petrochemicals.

Regan has said that agreements
for specialty ‘steel and agricultural
equipment could be in place as early

. as this fall, But at the committee he
---was more cautious about how Jong it

4 VaR

Before Canada enfers” “into. any
talks, Ottawa would consult the
provinces - and the affected. in-
dustries, he said. But Regan. said he
doesn't want to spend too much time
studying sectoral free trade.

- “There are those in the world who

- would study something to death and .

nothing would ever happen.”

Israeli forces storm
Palestinian camp

SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli
occupation forees surrounded a
Palestinian refugee camp. with
armored vehicles, then stormed the
camp early today, blowing off doors
‘of ‘houses with explosives .and
arresting about 150 people, . wit:
nesses said.

At least 20 people were injured in

the five-hour operation at the Ein el-
Hilweh camp, hospital sources said.
An Israeli military spokesman in
Tel Aviv said he had no information
on such an incident,
Residents of the camp on the edge
of Sidon, a port city 40. kilometres

south of Beirut, told reporters the .
Israeli force blew up houses before it .
“Palestinian -

withdrew at dawn:
refugees pointed to debris which

they said were 20 houses destroyed 1

by dynamite. :

About 300 refugees protested the ..

operation this morning by ‘setting

-car tires ablaze and demonstrating
inside the camp, chanting slogans in
favor of ‘Palestine Liberation
Organization chairman Yasser
Arafat and.denouncing Israel.

Camp residents said there would

_ bea three-day strike in protest of the
incident. Schools and shops closed in
the camp, which holds more than

26,000 Palestinian refugees

registered with the United Nations.

The incident came the day after a
demonstration at the camp, the

-issuance of an anti-Israel statement,

and reports of fighting between rival

' factions in the camp.
BATTLES IN CAMP
Radio stations in Beirut said the

Tsraeli action was related to the

gunbattles in the camp Tuesday.

*

. The .independent newspaper An-

Nahar, said unknown gunmen had_

attacked a post of an Israeli-backed
"home Buard unit in Ein el-Hilweh.

Leadership candidates take sides

Two cabinet ministers running for |
the Liberal leadership have disputed
John Turner's claim that he did not

get enough support from Prime —

Minister Trudeau to -introduce
voluntary wage controls in 1975.
Agriculture Minister Eugene
Whelan and Indian Affairs Minister
John Munro were both in the cabinet
in 1975 when Turner was finance
minister and waa trying to negotiate
voluntary wage restraints with
unton leaders in an attempt to fight
high inflation. :
“As far aa I am concerned there

was complete backing.(for Turner's _
attempts), Munro sald Tuesday in:

Ottawa.

Turner, considered to be the
frontrunner in the Liberal leader- :

ship race, claims he was close to

agreement with labor Jeaders on the '

controls issue but Trudeau did not
give him sufficient support.

Turner resigned his cabinet post in
September 1875 and a month later
Trudeau introduced compulsory
wage and price controls. °

Whelan sald ‘cabinet was
“nowhere near getting that kind of
an agreement” with labor leaders,

“Anybody who

would have

Jean Chretien )

brought a presentation through the —

cabinet which was going to have the
voluntary type of program thal we
wanted, they would have had
backing. from everybody and-
anybody,” Whelan said in Ottawa.

Meanwhile, Turner. won a
potentially important endorsement

‘Tuesday from Senator Louls
Robichaud, a former New Brun-
swick premier.

Turner has “the physical - and.
intellectual. attributea" needed by
the Liberals for a return to power in
the next Federal election, Robichaud

said in a statement released in :

Ottawa. Some

New Brunswick has a huge bloc of
still uncommitted delegates to. send . .
to the leadership convention Jume 13. -
16 in Ottawa.

It is difficult to asdess nainde 104, alow alle
Robichaud’s endofsement will cause outer tis
many of those delegatea'th thove: byt’ Ey
Turner. However, some delegatad' ™: °

are known to be waiting for another
prominent . New — Brunswick
politician, Romeo LeBlanc —~
federal public works minister, to say

who he will support before making .

‘up their own minis.

Energy Minister Jean Chretten,
who is expected to win many New
Brunswick delegates, was cam-
palgning Tuesday in Newfoundiand,
a province where he has snagged the
majority of delegates.

Negotiations Involve give. and
‘take, Chretien said in Corner Brook,

but _Newfoundiand Premier, Blan

Pecktord can only focus on taking.
'Peckford’s inability to accept
compromise has been the main
obstacle to an agreement on offshore
resources, Chretien told about 60
supporters,

Some of the candidates’ campaign
organizations are upset with
Chretien ‘following the Liberals’
weekend policy forum In Montreal.
/ STAGED DISPLAYS

Groups of Chretien supporters

Staged overt Slsplays of support
arididates had agreed
5 frobibiting various

ie! of hore “iB expected’ to be
‘debated Thursday when the can-
didates’ campaign organizations

"hold their weekly meeting’ with

Liberal party officials.

Justice Minister Mark MacGulgan
was campaigning In Montreal on
Tuesday and sald future con-
sintisional diseussions could result
in the return of a veto Quebec, once

\ ehjoyed.

‘Under the constitutional amen-
ding formula adopted.two years ago
by the federal government and the
other. nine“ provinces, no one

 proxince. was given a veto. °

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