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THINKS |
by
Thomas Atrill

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“Forecast for today, ‘Cloudy with occasional
showers.” . De |

And so It goes, thme after time. Our highly-
paid forecaster repeats his . all-foo-cbvioys
predictions day after day. Perhaps It is a tape
clip that gives the gloomy message, while our

man enoys a vacation in a sunny location. How .
else could one explain the clear and sunny skies

on a day that was to be cloudy with showers, as
ysual? .

Selsmologists:- have a better way of handling |

thelr predictions. They pompously announce

¢ buildup
quite ‘a

that Mount Big Bertha Is elther gging$o blow or-
It is not. The lava dome Is. eltHet golng:to con-
as

_ Second battle is und

taln the blast or It will allow a fa
of pressure which should pro
blowout, If or when It comes.’ J"

ae

Making predictions becomes icky.only when - |

there are several alternatives’ Navtces apd
Incompetents should stick to the -elfher-or
decisions. | knew a politician who, when shown
anew baby, asked ‘Its’ name. A more seasoned
glad-hander would have asked ‘his’ name or.
‘her’ name, resulting in belng right fifty percent
of the time, instead of appearing to regard the
child as something less than human: In this age
of Unisex, It Is comforting to know that there are
males and females with a very few oddball
inbetween types which few of us ever encounter.
So, regardless of the hair, beads, bangles and
flowing garmets,.we can safely assume that
basically we are dealing with men and women.
Years ago our Indians had an enviable
reputation for accurately ‘predicting, the
weather, often six.months In advance. All this
disintegrated however, when it became com,
mon’ knowledge that almanacs, radio. and the
size of whiteman’s woodpllé,, prgvided the
necessary Information. © © jay fo”
More adventuresome seers, however, enter

‘where angels fear to tread”, trying to catculate ©

in advance the positions of the’ fetters: th:
alphabet soup or trying to guess the social
impact of industrial projects. {do not envy
them; they are almost always wrong. - For
example: planners In Ontarlo forecast 4: long-
range thinning of Toronto’s core. The people
would keep moving outward, they sald, and
planned accordingly.
usual; apartments are springing up alongside
office bulldings or even In the same building
because people now prefer to live close to thelr
jabs. ae ;

When all is sald and done, It Is good to know
that we can elther be wrong or right, giving all
of us a 50-50 chance of doing the right thing or.
making the correct prediction. .

Towers of technology

herald

ATRILL |

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OTTAWA It waah’t eaay to fell whose bile”

73:year-old ‘ex-MP. who. has. [ust -aware
_ “Straight A” to ite go! ernment’s Freedom of
Information bill, or that. of Fra
minister resporisible,. who after doing his own
stint before, the cameras, had settled Into. the |
_ back of the press theatre to hear what Baldwin
would say. 0080000 ae

‘For. Baldwin, the Veteran’ Conservative: who Tes
retired:-tbst. February after 22 years ‘in the — .
1 ..Commons, ‘and: who* [s_

“formation, reform, as Is. Plerre Trudeau
“constitutional reform, its. ghuru and Godfather,
_-being-able: to praise Liberal. teg! neant,.
as he sald later, “This place actually does work:
things Happén, If you just stick ‘around: long

‘enaugh.!”

et]

Tee e Secretary of State Fox, Baldwin's ac:

waa the brosder ong; that of Ged Baldwin, the:
| ald -has.,justsawarded. a

to Freedom of In: '
Trudeau to.

colade. was the political equivalent ofswinning .

the dally double at the races. His iegislation now .
is shielded from: criticism,: even of the: most

niggling: kind: His‘éwn political career, stalled _ :

since he resigned from the cabinet ‘two years”
ago, has begun to miove again. a
“About “Fox’s Freedom of ‘Information |.
legistatlon; there jan’t.a great deal to be sald, -
other than that It is probably the most open of ifs
kind in the world. other than, that-In Sweden,
where théy believe In letting everything hang
out; including the Prime Minister’s personal
mall, and the tax returns of Individual citizens.
No.wonder the Swedes are such a gloomy lot. -
“In our legistation, sinfulness, In the shape of tax:
‘ returns, still witl be allowed. to flourish In the
dark. Also natlonal security, and Infernational
’ yelations, for which exemptions obviously are.
needed, But. Just about everything, else.will be
-“ east out into the white glare of public scrutiny.
Such openness, It doesn‘t.need to’ be. sald, .Is
_ entirely un-Liberal; For a decade, the Trudeau
government.was about as keen to give out In-
formation ‘as it was to give aut: power;: Indeed,

Liberal managerial philosophy was basedon the”

‘presumption that the less people knew, the more

They were wrong, as

By Mary Deptuck
MONTREAL (CP)
Hospitals are towers of

_ technology, cut off from the

real needs of people, the
director general of the World
Health Organization sald
Tuesday. “.

Dr. Halfdari Mahler tdd
' health professtonals they
should play a more active
role in community life
throughout the world.

Mahler was speaking to
delegates of the joint con-
vention of American and
Canadian hospital

_ associations, méeting until

Thursday. .

‘The maln social health
target ... should be the at-
tainment by tha year 2000 of
a level of health that will
permit all the people of the
world to lead a soclally-and
economically-productive
life," Mahler said.

Mahier, a Swedish doctor
internationally known for bis
fight agalnst tuberculosis in
the Third World, said
medical resources should be
evenly distributed

throughout the world so .

people can function without

a

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_—)

By Marlene Orton’.

Tyre hoe

‘gone virtually unnoticed
OTTAWA (CP) — Walter until the boy approached his
Dinsdale vividly remembers teens = - ;

the day doctors-said his pre- A benign
téenage son probably would blocked: the duct
not survive bécaue-of a draing fluid from the

brain tumor had -
which -
brain. .

birth defect that hadlefthim The resulting. condition,

with a condition known as. hydrocephal
‘water on the brain. ,

“They wanted’ us: to’-put

him away in an institution — —

the huinan warehouses, 1
call them,” recalls Dinsdale,
30-year veteran Progressive
Conservative MP from
Brandon-Souris riding in
Manitoba. =~ oe

He .and his wife Lenore
then began a fierce struggle
to save the child and a.
passionate public crusade to
knock down the legal and
social barriefs disabled:
persons face in trying to liv

/ normal lives, — oo

"They won the firat battle —

their son Gunnar, now 31, is a
university graduate who
teaches handicapped
children — and. over the

-years Dinsdale has amassed |

an army

second, -

It was just. after com-
pleting his three-year term
as northern affairs minister |
in the 1958-63 John Diefen: .
baker government that
tragedy struck the Dinsdale
family. His eldest son’s:
unstable health began to
deteriorate rapidly. ©

to help fight the

A: congenital defect had

the fear of disease and poor
health. .

A major step in this
direction, he said, | is
educating people to accept
responsibility for their.
health, while respecting
different countries’ in-
dividual needs.

Mahler also said the
existing functions of. the
hospital and its technology
must be reappralsed to meet

. the: demands of the pop-

ulation.

“Will hospitals continue to
become more sophisticated,
more costly, more alienated
irom the people they are
meant toserve? =:

“Or will they devote their.
energies to supporting the
care of people in a ‘way
people can understand ... 2”

Earlier. Tuesday,
economist John Kenneth
Galbraith told the dufegates
that Canada and !he U.S, are
relying on

‘monetary policies bd fight

in-
flation. .,

ys, created an;

enlarged head ‘and possible ; i
braindamage.Surgeonysald - Dinsdale added. ,

it was 9 hopeless situation.

But at that time the brain

surgery: was only, partially. -

successful, leaving the boy
with: vocal paralysis, some
uncontrolled . movement,
visual problems and no sefise
of _ balance. -

only several ‘years’ ago,
“Now Difsdale and Liberal

er way

Gunnar.
discarded kis wheelchair

But the-family wat deter- MP David “Smith ° of ‘Don
mined to find. help and got Valley East riding in Toronto

specialists ‘from . Montreal
who operated in consultation

- with’ the late Dr. Wilder.
.Penfield, a:world-renowned facing the handicapped. :
a ~ has

neurologist. :
’ Dinsdale notes thal.such. heat
abnormalities can now be the fail and plans to present

‘easily detected
. because of modern: brain

and repaired

scanners, ~° * |

head a’ special. parliamen-:
tary committee set, up’ in”
May to investigate problems .

The committee
scheduled public hearings in

before Christmas .recom-
mendations aimed at ending
discriminatory jaws .which

have prevented handicapped
dependent lives.

The. committee's

. overriding goal is to see the
Human Rights Act amended

to ‘prohibit any kind of
discrimination against the
physically and mentally dis-
abled, . Currently, . the
physically handicapped are
protected only against job
discrimination under the act.

“Members of the parlia-

"mentary committee are in

Washingtén. this week and
are .schéduled. to leave for
Europe this fall te talk with
_ officials in various countries
about how, they handle. the
situation. |

persons from leading in-.

easily they would be impressed and the more
grateful they. would be. oe
- Ayear ago; as you. just reir
Canadians got so ungrateful that they, actually
. heaved. out, ‘the. Liberals. The shock was

salutory;:|t.turns opt,:

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“Is important for the credibility of democratic
instutions,”” Fox says now. Important also for
the Image of the. Liberals. | re

Fox's bill Is almost a carbon. copy of the
legislation brought down by the Conservatives

- during their brief term In office. The key to Its

_ credibility ‘Is that, unlike earller draft Liberal

legislation, It allows.citizens to appeal, first to

‘an Information Commissioner. and subsequently

‘may remember, . -

‘reedom of, Information - 7

"| (RICHARD Gwy N-): 7

or that.of Francis Fox, the

Fal legislation meant, - |

to the Federal Court, In instances where -

ministers refuse to hand over. files.
| Where Roxte Glitis different; Hisbetter:: Third:
parties affected by Information collected about.
others now will be able to make a case for. its .
release; -in those Instances. where the govern —

Sear hae

‘ment refuses to give up Information, the In- ~

formation Commissioner will be able to —
represent claimants before the Federal Court, —
and so to spare them legal costs. | ;
_- Except for the odd jot or tittle here and there, .
‘the letter of the law really couldn't be improved.
‘The spirit with which if will be applied may be

, “rah

legislation is too vague or

HALIFAX (CP) — The

federal transport |

department is aware that.
abuses of air safely oc-
but. controlling .

too weak to stop the
continuing problem,’ the. -

- Dubin ‘commission into’

aviation safety was told
Tuesday. oO

'* The inquiry, here for

"Laws said too weak
_in air safety abuse _

DC-#s touched wing tips

‘on the runway at Saint, |

John; N.B;, and 4 similar

incident: took place at

Deer Lake, Nfld. The

incidents Speiran' meti- -
tioned took place before.
1977. oe

He said much of the-
information he had

collected came directly

from ‘pilots, but most

“escapist |].

“Inches away.”
‘Vernon Speiran, the
’ department’s regional
for instrument
ateandards, told the
inquiry that certain
airlines pressure their
pilots to fly in weather
‘ermment: to be unsuitable
‘fox commercial aviation.
" Speiran eaid he outlined
sonie of the cases af near-
‘- gaeeidentd in a memo to
‘his superiors three years
_ago, but it was, unclear
what action, lf any, was
taken in response to: his
complaints. 7
He said a DC-6 landed
’ at Halifax International

the runway. If that air-
craft had travelled ano-
ther 40 metres “everyone,
would have been killed,”
Speifan suid. |

fn another case, two

been in situations where &._.
catastophe was only |

; Airport, only to overshoot

the secondleg of itscross- pilots decline to say
Canada bearings, heard anything ' to authorities
| ¢rom Transport Canada. until after they have
_aficials who said planes © changed jobs or are fired,
have touched wingtips, When challenged
overshot runways and whetherhe cared to name

specific airlines involved
in the weather and other
safety abuses, Speiran re-
plied, “I didn’t specify -
EPA and ‘Air Canada.”

’” “In any case, such heart-
stopping misses will

continue because federal’ «

law doesn’t have the teeth -
.to stop them, both -
Speirans and Howard
Carter of the transport ©
department told the
inquiry.

_ Carter, an enforcement
_ specialist for the
department, said an

irresponsible pilot could

take a planeload of thrill-
seeking passengers over
and under bridges on the
.Niagara River Gorge and
only get fined $5,000.
Even licence suspe-
sions can't control the
problem, ‘Carter sild
there was no point in
Transport. Canada
levying longterm
suspensions which: cosi”

pilots sizeable amounts of
income when the courts
themselves can’ only
impose fines to a max- -

‘imum of $5,000. .

‘: Ralph -Lord, the. °
department's regional air
regulations supervisor, .
also defénded the fourday
suspensions: handed two

” Air Canada pilots | who

_ flew at 600 metres over a |

. live-firing practice at:
‘Canadian Forces Base
Gagetown, N.B. -

“The . suspensions
colncided with the pilots’

‘ days off, and Lord ad-
mitted calling the airline

_ to find out what days the

- men had off, In that cage,

“socalled proximity shells
were sailing over: the
aircraft and the shelling
had to be stopped to allow

~ the ight safe passage
over the clearly-marked
restricted area,” -
Lord was also asked if
such ‘suspensions had |
much effect in the’ in-
dustry when it comes to
’ hiring pilots. He replied
that the reports of ‘sich
suspensions . are kept
confidential by the trans-
port department. ;

‘He said even if the -

‘suspensions are not niade
public, industry insiders
genéraily know about
them.

Mr. Justice Charles
Dubin of the Ontario
Court of Appeal ‘is
presiding over - the
heartngs, which continue
today.

something else. . eth
: - From now on it. willbe “automatic” to release .
“cabinet discussion. papers,” or the factual
analyses of situations. prepared by civil servants
to brief ministers before they make decisions,
sald Fox. As proof, he released the discussion
per used by ministers to make up thelr minds
about his Freedom of Information legislation.
_ This document, though, was. bland, legalistic.
_stuff. The discussion paper that cons matters,
~“ Because the topic Is controversial, Is the of-
ficials’ study of the pros and cons of the gas
~ export decision approved by cabinet fast week. —
It hasn’t appeared. ‘yet: Until It does, and in
unedited form, don't get. carried away Into ©
‘belleving that the new. Liberals are all that
different trom the old Liberals, ©.
~ ‘Two reasons for hopefulness exist though. Fox
. does sound as though he me&ns what he says:
_ He has already begun briefing civil servants.on
how to fulfill the new legistation, and although It.
probably won't be passed by Parliament unill
next winter, he e ministers and clvil.
servants to “live up to'its general spirit’ from
‘September. onwards. a ne
Also, Baldwin. still will. be around. His |
delighted discovery that the polltical process ,
does, In the end, work, has given him the en-
couragement to go after his next target. reform
of the Official Secrets Act. 3

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managing editor. Greg
Middleton of drug trafficking ".
in the stairway behind the
Lakelse Hotel. The
‘statement was in flo way.
intended to imply that the
-hétel or its, staff was con- ;
nected witli the alléged drug. from the statement, other

‘to single out: the Lakelsé
Hotel, ‘as therf. are other
firms. adjacent -to the
atalrway. The . Herald
apologizes for any inference
that may have been taken

dealings in uny manner: It ‘than that which was" in-

was miade as a thalter of tended.

—Epitor’s ff
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made In’ a column by . recognizes that it was unfair

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