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Carter's ethics
on civil rights

WASHINGTON (CP)- The gravest threat to President
Carter’s prized moral authority may come not from Bert
Lance, his controversial budget director, but rather from
the emotionally charged issue of minority quotas for entry
to key universities.

Despite weeks of newspaper headlines on Lance's
questionable record as a banker and Carter’s adamant
refusal to let his old friend go, a Gallup Poll undertaken for
Newsweek magazine reported that 72 percent of Americans
see. no reason to lower their opinion of the president’s
ethical standards.

Carter, however, may not be so fortunate when he for-
mally opposes the system of minority quotas that has been
one of the most effective legacies of the 1960s civil rights
movement.

Civil rights groups and ethnic organizations contend that
quotas, which guarantee minority groups specific shares of
positions atsuch places as Jaw and medical schools, are the
key to economic equality.

It would take far too long, they argue, for disadvantaged

groups to gain economic equality through gradual im-
’ provements in educational facilities and social attitudes.

The immediate problem is that California courts have
ruled quotas illegal on the grounds that they discriminate
against persons not in the specified minority groups.

The California ruling came in the case of Allan Bakke, a

to a California medical school, who contends he was
rejected because the school’s quota system reserves placed
for blacks and for Spanish and Asian-Americans. Some of
those admitted under the minority quota were less qualified
than he:is, Bakke says.

The lower court rulffig now is being appealed in the U.S.
Supreme Court and government lawyers are preparing to
file a brief, in line with Carter’s wishes, agreeing that any
quota system reserving a specific number of places for
minorities is unconstitutional.

fear such a ruling by the Supreme Court, coupled with
encourage authorities across the country to weaken or halt
efforts to open more educational and employment op-
portunities to minorities.

The issue may already have caused the president serious
political trouble.

The Wahsington Post has reported dissension in Carter’s
cabinet, with opposition to his anti-quota policy coming
from Joseph Califano, secretary of health, education and

welfare; Housing Secretary Patricia Harris and UN Am--

bassador Andrew Young, the last two being the only blacks
of cabinet rank,

Last November, Carter was elected with 90 percent of the
black vote after raising high hopes that he would take
strong action on inner-city problems. That strong support
could easily turn to bitterness and increased frustration.

The quota issue is not the first time Carter’s commitment
to helping the disadvantaged has been questioned.

When welfare funds were denied for abortions, arousing
protests that abortions were in effect being reserved for
wealthier women, Carter told reporters: “There are many
things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can af-
ford and poor not, But I don’t believe that the federal
government should take action to try to make these op-
portunities exactly equal...’

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If he is to avoid having such statements and his quota
policy brand him as insensitive to the problems of the poor,
Carter will have to take some effective initiatives scon.

More important, he will have to give the millions of people
in U.S. slums most of them members of minority «" oups
some reason for hope.

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"Did you say this pizza gave you indigestion?”

- Dodo-dependant Calvaria tree
languishes at 300 years

WASHINGTON ZP-The beautiful
calvaria majot tree tied its fate to
the dodo bird and has almost joined
it in extinction. But turkeys may
come to the resue of the rare tree.

Only 13 dying calvaria trees, each
more than 300 year lod, remain on
Mauritius Island. There is noe
evidence a young tree has sprouted
in the three centuries since the last
dodo died, a University of Wisconsin
ecologist said Tuesday.

The evolutionary drama played
out on the Indian Ocean istand is the
first known example of extinction of
an animal causing the decline of a
plant, he says.

Dr. Stanley Temple says the in-
ident points out the close in-
terrelations in nature and how
man’s intrusion upon one species
ean have long-term ramifications
upon others.

seams

Temple says it may be maxupb to
save the tree species because he has
discovered how to germinate its
seed-with turkeys substituting for
dodos.

In a report in the journal Science,
Temple--said indirect evidence in-
dicates the thick-hulled seeds of the
calyaria had to be worn down in the
dod’s digestive tract -before they
could germinate.

Without this help from the dodo,

the seed embryo could not break
through the shell to grow. So when
the large, fisightless bird became
extinct in 1681, the tree began to die
out, Temple says.

- To test this theory, Temple force-

red fresh calvaria seeds to turkeys
whose gizzards contain sones for
crushing food, much like the dodos.
Three of the seeds germinated agter
being excreted or regurgitated by
turkeys several days later.

water this quiet and it won't be that way for long. Pool completed.

“These may well have been the
first clavaria seeds to germinate in
more than 300 years,” Temple said
in an interview, “It now appears
pissible to save the trees from ex-
tinction if authorities on Mauritius
want to do this.

Temple says the bond between the
dodo and calvaria came from the
species evolving together over tens
of thousands of years. Temple, an
ornithologist, or bird specialists,
said the dodo was a stocky bird that
normally stood three feet tall and
weighed from 25 to 30 pounds.

The dodo died out when settlers
arrived on Mauritius, hunted it
forfood and introduced dogs and
other animals which destroyed the
birds’ eggs.

Fossil evidence indicates dodos
are the seeds of the calvaria, an
attractive tropical hardwood also
ravaged by settlers for its beautiful
lumber.

Aquatic director Bruce Miller doesn’t often see pool opens Monday at 7 a.m. after annual maintenance is

Business spotlight

This week
| from Ottawa
Tona Campagnolo

Criminal Code Amendments-GunControl

our Criminal Code in areas of firearms control,electronic
surveillance and provisions for the custody and release of
inmates was given Royal Assent recently, and it is likely
that mst sections will he proclaimed and put into effect
when Parliament re-opens October 17. The gun control
provisions in the act will, however not be rpoclaimed at that
time. .

Firearms control will.be bought into effect January 1,
1978 and June 1 1978. Gun control uwlibfsxokvhhsiviminal
Code Amendment Act will require consultation with the
provinces, establishement of some administrative systems,
the training of staff, and other preparatory work before
they can be confirmed as law.

Lavw relating to misuse of firearms and aline of offenses
while the Firearms Aquisition Certificate +F.A.C.) system
and business permit provisions will go into effect on the
June 1 deadline.

For the consideration of some of you in northwestern B.C.
I would like to underline that a provision in the F.A.c,
section allows that persons who must use firearms to hunt
or trap for family support will not be obliged to pay the $10
fee for the firearm acquisition certificate.

Overall, I feel the Criminal Code Amendment Act will
allow for a better measure of protection for Canadians.

CANDA‘S FOOD POLICY PROTECTS RESOURCES
CONSUMERS

CAnada,as a nation, has been concerned about food
production throughout its history. Much of the country’s
settlement and developemtn has been based on agricultural
and fishery resources, From early times, Canada has been
one of the few countries inthe world fortunate enough to
produce more food that its popelation consumes, permitting
it to earn important foreign exchange and to provide food
aid inemergency situations and to those countries unable to
meet their basic needs.

In recent years, consumer and producer attention has
focused sharply on adequate nutrition, food additives, food
prices, income stability for farmers and fishermen and
conservation of land and fishery resources. This great
concern has led the federal government to take stock of the
policies affecting the food industry and to outline a food
strategy for Canada. :

The food strategy, as outlined by the Departments
Agriculture, and Consumer and Corporate Affairs, has two
basic aims: to give farmers and fishermen the assurance

_ that they can earn a stable and adequate return on labour

and long-term investments; and to. assure consumers ofa
fair and efficient food market system.

Apart from resource development and protection
programs such as recently announced Salmonid Enhan-
cement Program in our area, the government will review
trade policy with a view to the protection of Canadian
producers, and take steps to maintain a competive en-
vironment for rpoducts a fishermen and farmer must buy..

The government will support,dnd\ “encourage, the, .
evaluation and special training of farniers' and fishermen, ”’
particularly people attarcted to these industries.

Of interest to the consumer, will be programs to provide
food price information and create national food inspection
guielines.,

The government will also strive to enhance productivity,
efficieny and competitiveness inthe area of the “middle
man”.

There are may aspects to Canada's food strategy that I
have not ; outlined here, but htis all-encompassing program
is going to be an “‘insurance policy’ for Canada's food
supply and Canada’s food producers, including those of us
in northwestern B.C. who make our living farming and
fishing.

If you ahve any questions on this or any issue please do
not hesitate to write me, House of Commons, Ottawa K1A
0X2, postage free,

A success story forgets its purpose

VANCOUVER (CP)- British Colum-
bia’s credit unions, which are overtaking
trust companies and challenging banks as
provinder'ss of consumer savings services,
are finding that bigger is not necessarily
better. .

“It has become clear to me _ that
somehow in the credit union movement
we have lost a sense of purpose,” said
Peter Podovinikoff, president of the B.C,
Central Credit Union and of the National
Association of Canadian Credit Unions, in
a recent interview.

“No longer does there appear to be a
fiery spirit and dedication to cone
together to solve problems on a collective

if .
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basis and to live by the principle of being
our brother's keeper.

“(No longer do credit unions appear too
concerned with the welfare of their neigh-
pours. Very often we find credit unions
vigorously competing with .their credit
union neighbors.”

Despite. the philosophical qualms,
credit unions have dramatically out-
stripped the economy ip their growth,
seeing their assets increase $500 million in
1975'tb $2 billion, their loans increase $375
millién to $1.7 billion and their deposits
increase $450 million to $1.7 billion.

Last year, membership jumped 70,000
to a total of 670,000. Of thase, 80,000 are

’ members .of Vancouver City Savings

Credit Union, the nation’s largest with
assets of $415 million.

The growth is continuing. Already this
year 40,000 new members have joined the
ranks of credit union users. B.C. has
more of Canada’s largest 50 credit unions
than any other province and is third, after
Ontario and Quebec, in terms of mem-
bers, assets, savings and loans.

Podovinikoff fears the sudden growth,
however, has cost many credit unions the
close links to members that have been a
major source of strength.

Some large credit unions have a great
deal of difficulty relating to members,”

UT IT ON RECORD

-he said, “and developing in them the
feeling of belonging.” :

Among the future developments May
forsees are deferred profit-sharing plans
for small business, development of
-Mortgages, personal demand loans and
installation of automated teller machines
at off-premises locations in outlying
@TeAS, : : .

Credit unions will also move into in-
vestment counselling, real estate and
insurance, May said. :

“Further into the future, we might see
the credit union not as an end in itself, but
a5 a means to making co-operative en-
terprises.”

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- Fantasy belies Karen’s brain-death

NEW YORK (CP)- Even after Karen
the court right to pull the respirator plug,
her father was withdrawn behind a ‘‘wall
of fantasy,” certain that she would
recover.

“T believed in miracles,” said Joseph
Quinlan, in a new book portraying the
Quinlans’ struggle to dealwith an ordeal
that has captured worldwide interest.

Karen Ann: The Quinlans Tell Their
Story is a poignant behind-the-scenes look
at the Quinlan family as told to Phyllis
Battelle. Itisto be released by Doubleday
Co. on Sept. 23.

Miss Battelle, the only journalist to see
Miss Quinlan, first visited her on May 17,
1976,

“My reaction was not shock but deep
pity - a feeling of Oh, this poor child’,”
she writes,

Quinlan, an Irish Catholic tells how it
was nearly three months after Karen
went into a coma that he was able to
accept what he would came to believe was
God's will.

“T could hear people all around me
saying that Karen might never recover,
and-I knew they were wrong. I thought
what they were saying ‘was obscene. I
couldn’t bear talking to them, and I tried
not to listen to them.”

Miss Quinlan lapsed into a coma April
15, 1975, after taking a combination of
alcohol and tranquilizers. Even though
the New Jersey Supreme Court eventually
granted her right ‘“‘to die with dignity,”
the 23 year old woman remains comatose
in a nursing home. ,

Julia Quinlan tells how her daughte
tried to hold the family together, how even

a routine family meal became nearly
impossible.

“T felt I was walking on eggs. Or
walking a tightrope without a balance
pole,” she said. “I didn’t dare make a
false step or we'd fall apart.”

She said that by the end of June 1975,
everybody in the- family, including her.
son, John, and daughter, Mary Ellen, had
lost weight. :

«. John could never sit through a
whole meal because something about
Karen would inevitably come into the
conversation... dust the mention of her,
and John would e to leave the table.

“But the worst was poor Joe. He had
built up his wall of faritasy, where he was
absolutely certain en would come out
of the coma and he all right, I was so
afraid that if { said the wrong thing - I

really didn’t know what would happen.
He was withdrawn andirritable. It was as
though he was fighting me and the
children, and didn’t care about anyone
except Karen.'’

The doctors - the same ones who would
later fight the Quinlans on legal grounds -

tried to persuade Joe Quinlan to let go of

his fantasy.

But Joe Quinlan did not givein. He had
an idea that if Karen could be weaned
from the respirator the family could move
to Arizona. .

Finally, Quinlan did accept that ‘‘Karen
was never going to be alive again, as I had
known her.

“I had to accept that. Even if she woke -

up, she would not be able to swim or drive

her car or do afything she loves... She has

permanent bre in damage and she ia going
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