* - AGE 4, THE HERALD, Thursday, July 14, 1977

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Phantom
~ pollutants

The pollution problems of the 1960's were visible
and relatively straight-forward—murky rivers and
lakes lined with rotting fish and clouds of eye-
stinging smog hovering over industrial cities were
hard to ignore.

Easier to ignore, because their effects are more
subtle, are the phantom. pollutants troubling
experts in the 1970’s—the iong-lasting toxic
chemicals which are a legacy of the industrial
boom of the last 30 years, a boom based on better
living through chemistry.

The effects on human health of these chemicals
which drift invisibly through air and water,
disregarding international boundaries, is the
subject of hot debate. What price Canadians are
willing to pay to clean up such pollution problems
and prevent future ones, both in terms of dollars
and standard of living, has yet to be widely
discussed.

The onus is on allsectors of society. Industry has
never made a convincing case that anti-pollution
improvements wipe out jobs.

But even with tough restrictions today on
industry, there are many problems posed in
tackling the chemicals dumped into the
environment from the days when industries used
large water hodies as garbage disposal units. Not
only do we have to prevent the creation of more
dangerous chemicals, we must also go about

catching some.of the.genies that have come out of -

their bottles.

Thus, non-essential uses of fluorocarbon
propellant in spray cans - because research
indicates they may damage the ozone layer which
‘shields the earth from the ultraviolet rays of the
sun — is probably the first of a series of
convenience products this country will have to
sacrifice to preserve the environment, and in the
long term our health.

Scientists believe that over three-quarters of all
cancers can be traced to substances in the
environment. There is an additional worry that the
heavy use of chemicals in the early 1960's may have
sown the seeds for a whole new crop of
environmentally-linked diseases, particularly
cancer, a deadly harvest to be reaped 10 to 20 years

om now.

To start with convenience products is an
intelligent move, one that can be made with the

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minimum of disruption to the individual. Canada .

survived at a time when we didn’t have spray
deodorants. We either tolerated each other better
or we used other things.

Certainly we can halt this trend towards a day
when every possible human scent, be it originating
in the underarms, feet, or mouth, is wiped out of
existence, If the legacy of the 60’s is a_clean-
smelling, carcinogenic humanity, let 70's Canada
fight the phantom pollutants, even if the risk is ring
around the coilar.

HERMAN

8197? Universal Press Synddaie

“Is this your first blind date?”

No OPEC oil price increase in 1978

By GARRY FAIRBAIRN

WASHINGTON (CP) —
The slowness. of world
economic recovery was
underlined when spokesmen
for the two biggest oil-
exporting countries recently
called for an oil price freeze
in 1978. .

Sheik Ahmed Zaki
Yamani, Saudi Arabia oil
minister, and
Interior Minister Jamshid
Amouzegar. have stated a
1978 price increase on top of
the 10-per-cent 1977 rise
might well cripple the effort
of Western industrial
nations to escape from
recession.

Despite Saudi Arabia's

Iranian -

t

huge oil reserves, the .most
significant statements came
from the Iranian minister.
While Saudi Arabia
opposed large price boosts
in the past, Iran has until
‘now been a leading advocate
of higher prices.

Amouzegar, however,
sald “there are 15 million
unemployed in the
industrial countries today
and we as member of the
earth cannot overlook that.”

Their comments drew
quick objection from other
nations in the 13-member
Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries
(OPEC). Libyan and
Algerian officials said it will
be necessary to raise the
current oil price of $12.70 a
barrel,

has

Interpreting the news”

But if Iran and Saudi
Arabia stick to their
positions, they should be
able to hold other OPEC
states to a minimal in-

crease,
FEAR\SOCIALISM

Behind the concern over
the Western economy is
fear,
part of Saudi, Arabia, that
continued economic
troubles may
cialists or Commudists into
Weatern European govern-

ments.

The statements of
Amouzegar and Yamani
may also indicate a feeling
that the time has come to
offer the U.S, government a
reward for its Middle East
policy.

Yamani praised President

By PAULSESSELL

OTTAWA CP - Liberal
Senator J.J. Greene brushes
aside criticism of the poor
attendance in the Senate by
saying quality rather than

rficularly on the:

fying So--

Carter's efforts for a Middle
East settlement and said
Saudi success in preventing
a price: increase would be

ed with progress in that

area,

Such statements, comin,
shortly before Israel
Premier Menachem Be
is to arrive in Washington
for talks with Carter, may
have been a deliberately-
timed reminder that Saudi
Arabia wants the United
States to continue its
pressure on Esrael to
negotiate. .

The statements, however,
could have been justified
solely on economic
considerations since recent
statistics offer little room
for great optimism that the
recession will soon end.

| SENATOR GREENE: Se
Attendance not imperative in senate

When: Churchill rebuilt
Westminster after the
German bombings of the

quantity is what counts.
The value of the 104-seat

Senate should not be.

measured by the number in
attendance but by the
quality of the performance

University reaps
a healthy profit

VICTORIA (CP) — A
minor policy change at the
University of Victoria has
resulted in an operating
surplus for fiscal year 197¢-
Ti of more than $800,00—
the biggest surplus in the
school’s history. ;

During the last fiscal
year, which ended March 31
a memo went to all
university departments
saying that any money
saved in the 1976-77 budget

could be used in the 1977-78
budget year for purchase of
non-recurring items such as
equipment, * 2

In the past any money
carried over from the
previous year was placed in
a general contingency fund
for all departments.

The $800,000- operating

surplus represents about 2.4

per cent of the entire 1976-77
udget of $32.5 million.

‘Yi

philosoph,
minds a:
Mackenzie Valley.

The
from

Toronto and Vancouver.

capturing the hearts and
the native peoples of the

live astride an ener ey corridor

m the Arctic to the south

to be ivtal to the interests - the very life

and safety - of the whole continent, of

Americans and Canadians alike.
These people have been the

band of white radicals based in Ottawa,

For the moment, unless the federal
overnment has the brains and guts to,

cy

by those present, the
Ontario senator said this
week during the chamber’s
national unity debate.

The debate opened Feb. 2
with about two-thirds of the
senators absent, A larger
attendance has rarely
occurred since.

The public galleries
usually contain no more
than a dozen spectators and
frequently no journalists
bother to cover Senate
Gebates.

Senator Greene said the
lack of importance of
attendance was understood
by the late Sir Winston

urchill,a former British
prime minister ‘“‘who
perhaps knew and
understood Parliament
better than any other
statesman of our century.”

’

Second World War, “he
deliberately built the
Commons of such size as to
accommodate only a small
proportion of the total
number of members. of
Parliament eligible to sit,”
Senator Greene said.

EXPLAINS REASONS

“He did this no that on a
preat occasion when there
was need for immediate and
important parliamentary

-action there would be in the

“House a sense of crisis,

urgency, immediacy and
‘Important occasion’ just as
in any forum where there
are more people wanting to
get in than there are tickets
available.”

Senator Greene, speaking
on press criticism of

[OTTAWA OFFBEAT

LEAD WAY
U.S. strategy is to lead the
way out o international

recession by stimulating the

US. economy and accepting
a larger trade deficit as the
price for helping other
countries by buying more of
their goods, U.S. officials
ho

follow with expansionary
economic policies and that
general prosperity will
return,

But U.S. consumer
spending has declined

uring the last three
months.

Although other indicators,
notab business
investment! offset that brief
trend, U.S. consumer
spending is still a cause for
concern,

at other states will -

Some international econo-
mists suggest.the United
States should do more and
that Carter made a mistake
in cancelling his planned $50
income tax rebate. Other
economists say the United
States may be going too fast
since the full effect of ex-

ansionary policies,
including the inflationary
effect, has yet to come,

Such isagreements
create uncertainty and
confusion among financiers
and other _ potential
investors, lessening the new
investment that is needed
for economic recovery.

If the Saudi and Iranian
remarks do nothing else,
they will have been
beneficial for giving some.

additional Hope to investors, -

Business spotlight

Program

VICTORIA (CP) — A new
Vancouver Island company
has put a computer on the
market which it hopes will
end up in most kitchens in
this city.

Victoria Personal
Computer Co. is selling, for
about $2,000 each, a system

that can help with the.

cooking, organize the
budget and tell you where
the kids are.

“The possibilities are end-
less,” says Dr. Bill Bowie,
University of Victoria
assistant professor of
computer sciences, one of
three partners in the
com

cake or making a fancy
meal, she could get the

recipe instantly from the

computer. ;

’ “And it is ideal for family
messages, Everyone could
check in with the computer

Fgura

Parliament, quoted another
former British prime
minister Stanley Baldwin,
who said:

“I note the barons of the
press are after me. They
seek ower without
responsibility which has
been the prerogative of
harlots
ages.”

Senator Greene said
senators often feel they are
in the opposite position,
possessing —_ responsibility
without power “which, in
the eyes of the little-
informed, at times appears
to render us some species of
a political eunuch,’

Senators debating
national unity, as with other
topics discussed in the
senate, should not feel

bound to reach definite.

conclusions, he said.
But the Senate did have a
duty to lead public opinion.

Pe n . . ;
“Hf the wife is baking a

throughout the.

when they come in or out. It
acts like a family notice

It could also make family
calendars obsolete, he said.
Someone can program all
the dental appointments and
birthday parties at the
beginning of the month and
a push of a button will give
the information on each day.
“No one should forget a
wedding anniversary with a
computer in the home,’’ said
Bowie. ;
WORTH THE COST

He said the home
computer is well worth the
steep cost and proves itself
in connection with famil
budgets and keeping trac
of bank balances. At income

tax time, it is a real gem,

Bowie said.

Bowie said he got the idea,
of going into the unique °

business after hearing about
the minicomputers.al a.San

“Francisco conference: Sales

of computers for the home
began in the United States in
1975 and they have recently
gone on sale in Vancouver.

The Inasi and
Polymorphic
microcomputer systems are
manufactured in the US.
and are designed for small
offices or homes. ~ ‘

Bowie said do-it-yourself
fans can get the computer
for as cheaply as $900 if they
want to assemble it
themselves.

“For most: _ people,
however, the price tag is

4 te be iT
going 0 be $2,-000 and uP ;

e said, ‘‘We don’t expec
be flooded with orders right
away.

“Phis is a brand new field

‘ and the potential for growth

is almost unlimited.’

aap
i

Bowie, 33, resigned his -

position on the university
staff to help with the new
business, but he continues to

be associated with the

university on a contract
basis.

His partners are both in
the university department

of administration services..

They are Patrick Wise, 33,
and Bob Burgis, 32,

It all goes back some 10 or more years
to former Prime Minister Pearson's

By RICHARD JACKSON government.
A bewildered Canada, perilously late, is
_ beginning to awaken to the dire danger of . darlings,
a radical socialist - even Marxist - Canadians.

the Company of Young

In self-defence, after the Company
made trouble-making its business -

flirting even with the terrorists of the

uehec
tis going a
But in its

wns of a = governme

natives of

off the taxpayers with ‘
as they were called, from the

Liberation Front -

government shut it down.

revolutionary day it lived high

cultural grants,”
earson
nt, while radicalizing the
the north.

The RCMP know the names of the

the others

West Coast, and of

ringleaders, one of them from North Bay,

from Ottawa, Toronto and the
the native if well-

Fanore their uniquely powerful, if small, «

lobby, they are on the way to shutting
down further development of Canada’s
Arctic resources,

The hilariously lamentable thing about
It all is that this “coup” againat Canada’s
energy future was financed by the federal

- meaning churchmen who gave them aid
-in the name of

‘good towards our

Indian brothers.”
Mest of them were exiles from the New
Democratic Party, banned because they
went far beyond the leftward extreme

the .

even of the Waffle Wing of the NDP.
And although the Company is deadif not
forgotten, they as individuals live and

- work on.

Inthe North they found a situation ideal
for Marxist indoctrination, anti-American
trouble-making, and the creation of the
micro state at World Socialism. b

ey found a le no longer living by
dshing, but existing on
welfare initiated by the Pearson

government, its younger and more
radical members ancarlng uneducated
0

hunting and

and resentful of the kind

The brot:

life for which

p

filed caveats on ibd ono" aural pands
§

Arctic Canada. quare mca ©

They were using a legal instrument to

of financing |

Socialist hordes stake Arctic territory

So they organized new “brotherhoods”
and “cultural bands” and other “g
works,” and in the name of ‘saving’? the
glorious native life-style, conned grants -
now exceeding an annual $1 million- from
the federal government, even business
and industry.

It was.a case
government nor business first realized it -
lans to hold them hostage.

ood

- though neither

urpose.
cannot be

they weren't willing to work. = _—sserve a radical politica
intil they arrived the natives lived in . The law says Crown Jan
peace, undisturbed and undistrubing. subject to caveat,

They came with the exploration for oil
and gas in the Arctic and the realization
that with the help of the natives they could

awash

But still the natives and their bi
radical leaders have the Mackenzie basin :
flood of so-called “land

city

cut themselves a big piece of ‘the action.
That vast land that had been of no
particular value before the energy
discoveries now was priceless as a
roadblock across the corridor from the
Arctic to the markets of the South.

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f.

Meanwhile, it's nothing but the best of
the good life for the Marxists as.with the
slickest publicity machine ever fashioned,
they conspire with continuing success to
lock up the Arctic. |