appa ee eta eg NE CO NN nae me em +s ok - made - Secret s By. JOHN FERGUSON ‘AWA (CP) — Policy directions that set federal police on the trail of suspected Canadian sub- versives, including political partis were stated publicly . Pierre Trudeau in No- vember, 1968, shortly after he became prime minister, His concerns about domestic subversion were clear during a question-and-answer session at Kingston’s Queen's University when he BCR can’t 7 F develop province ’ longer is a tool Tuesday on VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia Railway, with its escalated con- struction. costs and in- creasing annual deficits, no or development in the province, a University of .C. PROFESSOR SAID Tuesday. Dr. Karl Ruppenthal, director of UBC’s Centre of Transportation Studies, told the royal commission into the Crown railway's affairs that “the railway has become little more than a ssive force in economic velopment.” ‘ Ruppenthal said con- struction of the railway's northern extensions -was based on faith hope and charity. He said the Fort Nelson and Dease Lake rail lines were justified on the faith that the railway, once built, would generate business, but now both extensions are charity cases with the B.C. taxpayers obliged to meet $74 on in losses on the Fort Nelson line alone. He added that the railway’s “vulnerability to tical experience”’ cannot expected to disappear. etne public -at- tendance at hearings during the past eight months, while rejecting a bid by BCR for closed hearin gS. “The public has stayed away in droves,” said Justice McKenzie. ‘‘And it's not: rising. With all the difficult recitals of complex matters, it’s not surprising at all.” -Despite the lack of in- terest, he insisted “the door be kept open” to the public. “The fact that they (the public) don’t come doesn't really matter very much,” he said. The public must be free to come in.”’ BCR counsel George Cumming argued that railway must maintain confidentiality with matters relating to costing matters and future financial plan- ning to avoid showing BCR's hand to competitors. The inquiry continues. . IS IT MIRACLE SAND? VILNIUS, Lithuania (CP) — Glass jars of peas, carrots, grated rhubarb, mand jellied turkey la neath the sand of a bea in Lithuania: for 40 years. When found, the food was examined 'by experts who discovered that the fruit in some jars had preserved its flavor, and smell and the turkey \Jooked as though it "had just‘been chilled. pa SS J . — A Red Cross blood donor clinic will be held from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. today in the Terrace Arena banquet room. When the air traffic controllers went on strike three months ago, the Red Cross couldn't come to said that social unrest in Canada and the United States was more serious than any threat from abroad. “On my own scale of yalues, I am less worried about what will happen over the Berlin Wall than about what might happen in Chicago or in our own great cities,’ he said. Last week, after revelations that the RCMP security service's search for Canadian subversives led to the theft of membership lists and financial in- “formation from the Parti. Quebecois, Trud ‘disclaimed any respon- sibility. ; “If you think it is the job of the prime minister to second guess the police in every way .. well you have a different conception of the job than 1 do,” he said at a news conference. AWARE OF PATTERN But he agreed with his questioner that he should be Trudeau’s 1968 speeches pying a stated policy aware of the “pattern that is employed.” That pattern included military surveillance of student unrest on university campuses in 1999-70, sur- veillance of suspected separatists and other left- wing activists in Quebec, the creation of sophisticated computerized filing systems for intelligence analysis, and later, ereation of a special security analysis group in the department of the solicitor-general. During ‘he height of the Quebec crisis October, 1970, during which British trade commissioner James Cross and Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte were kidnapped, Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, the first time it was | used in peacetime. With the aid of expanded powers available to them under the act, police and the military conducted 5,000 raids and made 465 arrests. Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and ihe Nass | the““herald VOLUME 71 NO,fi27 Price: 20 cents 4a Weather A low pressure zone in the Gulf of Alaska will result in an onshore flow bringing cloudy skies wit th showers of mixed rain and snow. Today’s high, 6 degrees, ihe low tonight, 2 degrees. Audience watches Hallowe'en fireworks display put on by | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, w7 Thornhill Volunteer Fire tt Department PEGISLATIVE PEROOkY, > RLIAMEN fui hudiaes, VICTORI“, #.C., V8V-1i4 comp. 77/78 #ol travaganza of Bey An historic pole raising ceremony took language and history combined with the _ place in Aiyansh yesterday atstart off the official opening of Aiyansh school. The day-long celebrations was a visual ex- traditional native dress, hopes of- the fature for the people of the Nass Valley. Tomorrow The Herald will feature photos and stories from this event. :| RCMP fingered in NDP burglary incontrovertible OTTAWA (CP) — The NDP suspects the RCMP may have involved ina 1972 break-in of its national office, party leader Ed Broadbent said Tuesday.. His comments came after a 50-minute Commons question period in which opposition MPs again hammered away at gov: ernment over allegations of wrongdoing by the national: police force. In other developments: —Broadbent said he has evidence that Warren Allmand, as mm solicitorgeneral, was in- SEATTLE (AP) — The United States Steel Corp., the United States’ largest energy consumer, has agreed to acquire a ‘“‘sub- stantial ownership interest’ in the Northern’ Tier Pipeline Co., which proposes an oil pipeline rom Port Angeles to the Midwest. ; In a joint statement Tuesday, Edgar B. Speer, isis, 3 4 | 7 Steel company buys stock | ‘Money backs Port Angeles oil pipeline proposal U.S. Steel chairman, and D, Michael ‘Curran, Northern Tier president, said the proposed pipeline © could ‘serve the energy needs of the Rocky Mountain states, the mid-continent and the Midwest” with ‘almost a million barrels of oil a day.” ‘U.S. Steel would be a pow- erful ally for Northern Tier, which proposes to build a - 1,500-mile crude oil pipeline “ ‘ts ete. ' faa Terrace, 50 they re hoping for an even eater turnout than normal. _ blood are short in other areas of the province as well. Supplies of from Port Angeles to Minnesota, handimg both North Slope and offshore oil. Oil port proposals for Port Angeles, ash., and ‘Kitimat, B.C., have gained steam since Washington stalte’s co delegation recently killed a competing proposal to build an oil superport at Cherry Point, near Bellingham, Wash. - : The Cherry Point plan was favored by the Atlantic Richfield Co., which already . operates a refinery at the SITE. Northern Tier has met , strong resistance in Port Angeles, where a two-berth supertanker oilport is: planned. Clallam County, éavily oriented to imber and fishing, has expressed fears that oil pollution would damage both its com- mercial and sport marine resources. - RETAINS CONTROL The acquisition would be through “an unnamed sub- sidiary” of U.S. Steel, said Robert Marquardt, a spokesman for the steel giant. He declined further information, But one Seattle in- vestment banker speculated that the subsidiary may be ihe Carnegie Natural Gas a0. Curran said the new own- ership agreement still left his company, Curran Oil Co. of Billings, Mont., in control of Northern Tier. Energy officials in Minnesota said U.S. Steel is becoming increasingly concerned about energy to process taconite reserves in Northern Minnesota's Mesahi Range. The process requires temperatures of Monday night, almost 2,000 Fahrenheit, The firm also has steel mills in Dlinois and Indiana as well as headquarters in Pittsburgh. Those operations are fired mostly with natural gas. But, as gas shortages for industrial purposes increase in the Midwest, pressure to convert to another fuel becomes greater. degrees Z that he had taken have committed suicide. term unemployment.’”* He said t per cent. _’ Last resort for jobless OTTAWA (New Democrat And Tuesday despair among the jobless N.S., is such that some are taking their lives. The Cape Breton-East Richmond MP said he has no reason to doubt statements by a Nova Scotia labor leader that four unemployed persons in Cape Breton Hogan said Cape Breton, “Despair has entered in for so long,” he said in an interview after a shouting, arm-waving intervention _in.a debate in the Commons. He quoted Gerard Whetman, president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Labor as sayin persons had killed themselves ‘‘primarily due to long- the jobless , depending on the statistics that are used, unemployment in Cape Breton is as high as 30 There had been hope that unemployment would be eased when the world steel market market was not improving and despair was spreading. mproved. But that formed in late 1972 by the RCMP of a raid on a left- 7 wing news agency in Mon- treal. Allmand, who says he can't recall the letter, has said his first knowledge of the raid came in 1976 when Robert Samson, an RCMP constable on trial in Mon- m@ treal for planting a bomb — near a residence, testified in an illegal RCMP raid on the agency. The testimony | resulted in an investigation that led to guilty pleas by three- police officers, .in- clu RCMP Chief Supt. Donald Cobb, last spring. Facts, but no hunch VANCOUVER (CP) The commissioner of West Coast oil ports inquiry told the authors of a com- plex federal overnment report on petroleum supply - and demand Tuesday That their report is no good if they cannot provide an opinion on Canada’s oil port priorities. Dr. Andrew Thompson's - exasperation was expressed when he pressed the authors of the energy, mines and f . report for their opinion on port priorities. “All this report's statistics, tables and studles are just no damn good, if you can’t come up with even some kind of hunch .. 1 don’t see how this commission can come any closer to this matter than you have,” said Thompson. Oil supply and demand experts iam Matthews and Roland Priddle replied in effect that they un- derstood the commission was to make the decisions, - and that they had simply tried to present some of information on which decisions might be based. Thompson said one of the - basic issues to be decided is whether a forecast shortfall of Canada’s crude oil needa could best be met through a west coast or east coast facility. NEED STUDY Matthews and Priddle agreed, but added that the several east coast possibilities touched upon in their report need “a great deal more study." » The problem in the weat appears simpler, with only ne, Kitimat, pipelit port and propos ipeline Edmonton looming as the strongest of the competing proposals. atthews and Priddle would not commit them- selves to saying whether the continued page § - Parti —Solicitor-General Francis Fox said he has been assured by the RCMP they were not involved in the bugging of Progressive Conservative MP Elmer MacKay’s office. —Finance Minister Jean Chretien pleaded with Speaker James Jerome to carry out a thorough in- vestigation into the bugging incident. —Chretien said a list of separatists mentioned in the spring by Urban Affairs ister Andre Quellet did not come from RCMP break-ins. Broadbent said that at the time of the break-in of his party 8 national office, offi put it down as a routine burglary. SUSPECT RCMP But now, he says “there is good reason to at least suspect the RCMP or the security service was in- volved.” The break-in came only a few weeks before the RCMP broke into a Montreal office to take a copy of lists of members of th ebecois. . Nothing ‘of value was taken d the NDP office break-in, Broadbent said, although locks were smashed and files rifled. The -office contained in- formation on contributors to the NDP coffers. _ Earlier, in the Commons, -— the NDP leader said he had ; ‘been told a letter sent by the - director-general of security : in the RCMP advised the - then solicitor-general . Warren Allmand of the © break-in at the left-wing — news agency, \ He sald the letter was sent in December, 1972, while the | government says it knew . nothing of the break-in until earlier this year. ~ : DOESN'T RECALL But Allmand, now the can- sumer affairs minister, said outside the House he does not recall such a letter anda search by his staff had failed to turn it up. Broadbent says he does not haye a copy, but had been told “by reliable sources” that it had been sent, Broadbent charged Fox with “rhetoric baloney” and with speaking nonsense in a _ hoisy exchange in a cat- House as he pressed the minister on various aspects of the activities of the RCMP. — Fox told the House neither he nor the | ROME ey anything about a g device found Monday in a chair in the office of MacKay, the Conservative ..MP for Central Nova. He called for an inyes ation. Chretien said that s it could affect the rights of all MPs, Speaker James Jerome should insist on a . thorough inquiry into the tter 4 matter. Just before the question period, Fox arose to say a memorandum alleging that top British Columbia labor leaders are under federal surveillance is a fraud. Fox said the memoran- dum, mentioned in the House Monday by Stuart Leggatt (NDP—New Westminster) looks like the work ‘‘of mischief makers,”’ It was written on the wrong load yh depot y ent. tien also denied any estion that removal of Parth Quebecois mem- bership lists by the RCMP was related to claims last continged page 8