PAGE 4, THE HERALD. Friday, May 18, 1978 UNITED NATIONS (CP) - An inscription carved on a wall across the street fro m theUN secretariat building quotes Isaiah: “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into prunign hooks."” Next week, the General Assembly begins a special session on disarmament in hopes of pointing the world toward the goal suggested by the prophet. The special session, in planning for two years, comes at a time when con- cern over such things as the neutron bomb, the Cruise missile and exotic chemical and bacteriological weapons is growing. ; The Stockholm In- ternational Peace Research Institute estimates that current world military spending totals $400 billion annually and predicts the outlay will rise to $1 trillion by the end of the century. By various estimates, the U.S. and the Soviet Union account for well voer o ne- half of all military spending and, aS arms merchants, they are repsonsible for almost three-quarters of sales. The U.S. accounts for 38 percent of sales and the Soviet Union 34 percent. Britain and France have about nine percent each. The institute says more than 50 percent of all these arms imports go to the volatile Middle East. A document prepared by a multi-national UN study group in preparation for the special session says the armaments industry and the world's military machines consume vast quantities of capilal, resources and manpower each year. It says ‘the world’s economies would grow by an additional one or two per- centage points annually if military spending were channelled into civilian pursuits. It also puts the picture into starklyhuman terms, saying that the 1974 World Food | Conference estimated that globai agricultural development needs are §1 billion to $2 billion pehind annual requirements. . “To close this gap, funds equivalent to one percent of the military budgets of the industrialized countries would be sufficient.’” It notes that the World Health Organization's campaign to eradicate smallpox cost $83 million- barely enough for a single modern strategic bomber- and that a similar effort eo eliminate malaria, estimated to cost . $450 million, is faltering because of lack of funds. “Yet its total cost over the years is only half what is spent every day for military purposes,” - War machines also require quantities of natural resources. Experts estimate that military uses account for 3.5 per esnt of the world's scientific manpower 15 engaged in military-related pursuits,” thé study adds. The General Assembly has long been a forum for discussion of disarmament, although most actual arms control agreements have been worked out by bodies such as the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament of which Canada is a member. Such bodies have links with the UN, although they have no formal ties wnd have succeeded in reaching several agreements. They include the nuclear non- proliferation treaty of 1968, the seabed treaty of 1971, prohibiting the emplacement of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor and the bac- teriotogical weapons con- |’ vention of 1972. Now, the committee is slowly negotiating a total ban on nuclear testing and a convention against use of chemical weapons, The existing test ban treaty involves the U.S., the U.N. attempt world peace and disarmament stockpiles of destruction that are burgeoning with each year, The special session is expected to attract a number of government leaders. There have been suggestions that President Carter may attend. The Soviet Union will be represented by Foreign Minister Andrei Gramyko. Prime Minister Trudeau may address the assembly but his participation has no;t been confirmed. Soviet Union and Britain only and while it prohibits atmospheric tests, it allows limited underground testing. THe hope is that a so-called comprehensive test ban treaty can be negotiated, covering all. nuclear powers . and banning even un- derground weapon tests, - The UN has declared the 1970s a disarmament decade’ and the special session is part of a continuing effort to find ways of limiting and even reducing the growing BUSINESS 30 Ton Truck - Hydraulic Cranes - 20 Ton R.T. Singer’s “rights and liberty” cause concern MONTREAL (CP) - Singer Roger Doucet, who changed a line of O Canada when he sang the national anthem before a Stanley Cup hockey fame Tuesday night, is heartbroken about negative reaction thehe change, his wife says, Geraldine Do ucet said Wednesday that her phone has been ringing off the hook since her husband sang “We stand on guard for rights and liberty,’’ instead of the original “we stand on guard for thee.” The anthem preceded a National Hockey League playoff match between Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins. Mrs. Doucet said that “he’s been mulling over these words for more than a year now.” “He's been so involved in Canadian unity and he meant them as an un- derlining of the fact that we must stand together as ‘Canadians for rights and liberty," she said. “He's heartbroken that people have laken them the w: rong way,” The French version uses the phrase “protegera nos foyers et nos droits’’ will Alaska pipeline “in no _ danger of being scrapped” VANCOUVER (CP) - Phillips, president of Westcoast Transmission Co., said Wednesday that the Alaska Highway natural gas pipeline is in no danger of being scrapped. HE was responding in an interview to reports from Washington that the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has told Northwest Alaskan Pipeling Co. that if costs unreasonalby exceed the $10 billion preliminary estimate, the pipeline project might be abandoned. Phillips said Northwest, which will build the U.S. section of the line, has ac- tually never filed its final costs because it has not yet ‘completed its engineering’ cost’ estimates. protect our home and our rights and Doucet thought his translation was the closest to the original, she said. Some people have taken his words as a politida statement “which was not at all how he intended it,”’ Mrs. Doucet said, *Tt seems that westerners especially have taken of- fence.” - “They don't know how involved he is with unity.” The anthem was originally written in French by Sir Adolphe Routhier in 1880 to music by Calixa Lavallee. BOB NEESH - 624.6283 Prince Rupert - SKEENA CRANE - SERVICES LTD. TERRACE 638-1555 | VIA rail postponed MONTREAL (CP) - VIA Rail Canada Inc. will postpone its planned June 1 takeover of the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways’ passenger services until later this summer, President Frank Roberts said Wednesday. 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