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Israelis lured

ARIEL, Occupied West Hank (Reuter) — — New cars and

. cheap government loans are being used to lure Israelis Into

- in more than 80 West Bank settlements. will double this
- summer, when .10,000-néew ‘housing units: are completed: ©
, Israeli officials have'said they hope to increase the number
, of Jewith settlers to 100,000 by 1985. The area, along the.
. west bank of the Jordan. River, now is home to: 800,000

“ buying homes in the occupied West Bank,

Bulldozers and tractora ‘carving “up the hillsides.

* demonstrate Israel's determination to settle the territories
. dt conquered {n 1967, despite widespread international
; condemnation. .

Settlement: officials predict the population of $5, p00 Jewst:

- Palestinians and many others regard it as their homeland.
The Israeli movement into the area- has met legal ob:
- Jections from ‘local. Arabs and international complaints’

. - from'the United States, Canada and: Europe.’

Presiden| Reagan haa asked Israel to freeze the sets
Uements-in hopes that would persuade- moderate Arabs to
‘discuss peace. Reagan has advocated limited Palestinian
‘self-rule on the West Bank, :

- After 1967 when the territory was seized during the Six. .
Day War, troops were sent in and lived in tents in, stark
outposts, -

Under Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Israelis atarted
_to settle the West Bank which they call by its anclent
biblical names of Judea and Samaria.

.Now the veteran settlers are building two-and three-
torey homes, Contractora are putting the finishing touches
on apartment buildings and earth-moving machines are |
preparing land for new towns. :

New settlers are being attracted by lower house prices on
the West Bank and by government loans, A young couple
buying an apartment in Te] Aviv recelve & $10,000 govern-
ment loan. They will Receive twice as much [f they buy on
the Weat Bank. ;

One company offers a free car to those who buy a home in:

_lts 900-unit development where villas start at $108,000...

‘Meron Benvinisti; a former deputy. mayor of Jerusalem’
who now heads a team studying the occupation, says Israel
has.selzed about one-third of the land on the:-Weat Bank —
almost 190,000 hectares —and under an obsolete law passed
by the Ottoman Empire in. 1889 is poised to pelze another

- third,

Since the Israelis captured the West Bank they have used .
security as the justification for taking over land. Moat of the
first Jewl#h settlements were built on land expropriated
from its Arab owners. Many Israeli settlements started as
army-camps and were later handed over to civilians, ~

in 1979 the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the desire to -

" eatabliah a Jewish settlement did not justify seizing private.

land. It ordered the government to move the Ellon Moreh .
settlement near Nablus and to return the expropriated land
to Ite Arab owners,

Officials guiding American Jews on tours of the West:
Bank always atress that the settlements-are built on state:
~ lands which were never legally owned by Palestinians.

But Ellas Khoury, a- Palestinian lawyer who has
frequently represented Arab villagers in legal actions
against Israeli land seizures, said that some of the land
being takenover has been tilled by: Palestinian villagers for
generations.

Relations between Arabs ‘and Jews have been strained.
" More than 600 West Bankers, almost all Palestinian high
school girls, went to hospital’ recently complaining of
nausea and dizziness.

When no organic reasons could be found for the illnesses,
"Israeli doctors suggested it was a mass paychosis
heightened by Arab-Jewish tenslon.

The girls apparently believed rumors that cars emitting

; foul smelling substances had heen seen in the villages.

American ‘bork: Shifra Blass, spokeaman for the Council
of Jewish Cities and Settlements in Judea, Samaria and the
Gaza Strip, said that during her settlement’s first two years
the settlers enjoyed ‘non-political, basic human relations’’
with their Palestinian neighbors,

The Jews of Ofra, 15 kilometres northeast od Jerusalem,

made a'special effort to learn Arable, she sald, “because if -
. ‘we want to integrate into an area, we have te learn the

language.”

- But the settlers: decided against employing Palestinians
in their factories. ‘‘We didn't want our children to say: 'The
. Arabs are the workers and we are the managers,” Blass
said.

But in Ofra as elsehwere, Arabs, many of them farmers .

forced off their land, provide the labor to build. ‘the new:
houses, factories and workshops.
“Our ideal fa to plant roots in this part of israel. and.

., Gevelopit,” said Yehuda Felix,a social worker who tives in: .

Neve Tsouf. .
- “I don’t think about leaving here. I intend to stay here,
even under Jordanian or Palestinian rule.” -

Opposition to the settlements exiats even within Israel, At
a Tel Aviv fair promotirig the new towns, the leftist Peace
Now movement displayed a cartoon poster showing a.
settler armed with an M-16 assault rifle. “A matter of
neighborly relations,’’ the caption said.

Another poster showed a bullet-proof jacket which, ‘tt
suggested, was part of the school unlform for children on
the West Bank.

| “Cireutation: :

Sat ay

| eporl on, the last:re,

» correctly reported: that A moto

_ operations and requesting a its
: any dissenting votes,
‘directir’( e): ‘wit!

onal district meeting
n critisizing

; from the lable during the vote and

discussion of this “notion, . ‘on the. advice: af © the)” :
-. administrator, who felt 1 might have:a. conflict of interest.

Had I been at the table; there most certainly would have -
a been a dissenting vote and discussion. Since It was deemed
‘: inappropriate for me tospeak o on- the motion at that time, 1
 weald like tptal take thi opportunity. to vole my feelings on

* the matter::

“Some :years . Ago | I ives. at a codstal village during the.
“height: of: the: ooligan. season; Barly one. ig A.
crowd, gathered on’ the main 'rodd, ‘to catch a: cyide: to ‘the -

” of an ancient horse hitched toa very large sleigh. lt was

_, obvious from the looks of the horse that no one had bothered

to groom. or feed it for ‘quite some time,” ‘indeed, ‘judging

._ from the schrubbery, the beast had survived, the winter on

poplar: bark- and -willow-limbs,
Some two dozen eager fishermen piled on the aleigh and

“ithe owner of the horse. started making the. appropriate
_ noises and motions with a switch, to get the show moving.

‘The poor horse gavea mighty heave, but the sleigh, on bare ~

‘ground and loaded with some two tons Of fishermen: .

‘wouldn't budge. More noises were made and ‘some
threatening gestures with the switch, but.to’ no-avail. The

went on for’ some time with the impatient fishermen onthe |

~ sleigh joining inwith much advice and opinions ag ‘to how to
getthe horse moving. After six or seven minutes of this the

horse was becoming much the worse for the: ‘wear but -
‘nobody got any closer to the fish. Then'it otcurred to .
rotten to get off the sleigh and help the owner mistreat
the horse. Soon more of the fishermien got aff to help berate

- thé horse and offer advice to. the owner, until most of the ©

fishermen were gathered around the horse. . The: horse,
sensing the siddenly lightened load, gave'a final tug and

took off with the sleigh. Once he got to the ice all-the -

fishermen were able to get back on, and everyone. got. their
ride to the ooligans. As they rode away to the: ‘fishing

BC\Timber's *
le ‘inquiry, passed without 7
‘What you falled to report wag that one

"starting to strut-a bit, lice the fishermen, quite convinced i

-. fishing grounds, some five miles away;: The. ice onthe river
>was still.thick and there was: ‘Snow on: the’ ground: in: most,
“. places, but the yillage roads were already bare of snow..

pet businessmen will open the mills, not Mr.-Culp’s mation or”
_ Soon the local bus to the fishing grounds arrived Intheform — me 4

" , poor beast just wasn't up to it in the shape he was.in: This °

grounds it was obvious from the conversation most ‘people ;

on the sleigh took personal credit for getting the horse going
with their‘ particular bit of nastiness or advice,’ on

In recent months I was reminded of that littlé scene many
times as the area politicians went to work on BC’ Timber’.
"No one offered tax breaks (seven million for Prince Rupert

’ politicians falling all over themselves heaping abiise or BC.
Timber, no doubt hoping to’gain a few votes and counting on
‘taking credit for .an-- inevitable improvement, In the. ~

‘economy. - : : a

15 months, providing one more Indication that. ecoriomic
recovery is setting in.

“The preliminary estimate of the seasonally adjusted —
industrial composite index of employment in January was

based on employment In /1961 equalling 100.

It was the first monthly increase since September, 1981, ,

-when the Index peaked at 155.9.

Meanwhile, the agency also reported there was a healihy 7

‘rise in March in the number of help-wanted ads in

. Hewspapers, which can be seen asa “very rough” gouge of

‘demand for workers;

andone million for Terrace dueand payable as usual thank: ;

Canadian employment increases

Statistics Canada reported Thuraday the level of em-
‘ployment in industry in January ahowed Ita first increase in _

- 140.4, 0.8 percent higher than In December. The: index is fests

. - = The Bank of Canada rate fell silghtly. to 9.49 per cent
. from 9.54 last week, signalling that no’ major changes In

. Earlier this week, "Statistics ‘Conada. reported. the’

“unemployment rate rose in March io. a Tecord: 1,688,000, °-.
with the seasonally adjusted jobless rate at 12.4 per cent, up’
. from. 12.8 per cent.a month earlier, However, the agency -
Said the increase could be. attributed to large numbers of
‘people entering or re-entering the work force. :

» Elsewhere Thursday, federal Energy Minister “Jean .
Chretien said Canada will have a new energy pricing policy:
by July 1 but wouldn't specify whether it will be a product of ;

pried adjustments or 8 radical Separture: ftom current
policy.
He told reporters followinga apeech to the Expire Club in

problems for Canada but he relused to be pinned down on

whether Ottawa plans toscrap the price cap holding moat of

the country’s oll to 75 per cent of world prices.’ ~
Chretien did drop hins. Alberta's way, however, saying

terpretation of the somonth-old seloing agreement with

CE STATION CESAR (CP) =
” most northerly fish ever caught,” says Nick Prouse,

sounding more like a boastful fisherman then a marine _
ecologist from Nova Scotia's

Oceanography.
timetre-long brown body. And like almost everything

else on this Arctic Ocean ice flow, it’s frozen solid.

‘Bedford Institute of |

* members’ car sales in the January-March period inched

the province’ has a legitimate argument over Ite in- |
now working two weeks on and two weeks off,

- Scientists catch rat fish

“It's probably one ot the ,

i .@n answer by the fall,

It certainly is one of the ugliest, with its teeth and 48- ;,

— "You'll need. several: things pointing in one direction. "

Prouse, one of about 40 scientists and technicians par-
ticipating in CESAR, the Canadian expedition to explore the -

Alpha Ridges, nagged what he believes to be a rat fish,
The two-month expedition, mounted by the Department

ofEnergy, Mines and Resources, is exploring all aspécts of

the ridge, an underwater mountain range about the siza of

the Alps and situated between Ellesmere Island and -

Siberia.

. frigid ‘water, ‘Tt may happen 20-more times," she says.

The camp is currently drifting over the ridge more than _
350 Kilometres off the coast of Ellesmere Island just 460 ©

kilometres from the North Pole. |
It's science in’ slow: motion here. Bundled against 40

degree C temperatures, scientists struggle to keep sensitive :

equipment operating inside drafty tents heated with diesel-
fuelled stoves,

_Eachjmeoatpliying apart sing tho hugs puzzle of ©

~ Alpha Ridge, says Ruth Jackson, geophysiclst slo with searching for further samples of Cadsium, which he found - | No ‘one around ¥ou' feck like you're (yea) ‘on’ top of the

“in water near the Pole uring an expedition four years ago...

- the Bedford institute.
The work of her team will play a major role. in deter-
mining if the ridge is part of Canada’s continental ahelf, a

"entered the ocsans In past decades through: the atinornheric |

find that would allow Canada to stake a claim to part of the -

ridge and any resourcera it may contaln..

Through holes in the ica they have already: hauled core

samples up to seven metres Hong from the ocean floor 2,000
mest comprehensible of the tents full of equipment and

metres down.

She and others are also exploding dynamite charges and
firing air guns underwater, learning the characteristics and
type of rock in the ridge by the way sound travels through it.

The firidings will held determine if the ridge is formed of

buckled ocean floor, volcanic action or, if Canada is for-

" Broblems. The sad fact Is that there are many gullible ahead of Smithers and Terrace’s. He lives across the bay at
- people in: our province who will believe the NDP is the old Alice Arm.
solution toeconomic difficulties. ‘It'snol!! We don’t have a ewe arg blooming and the leavea are coming out, "
sa

‘,assoctation said last month's sales of imported. cars.
‘! declined slightly to ‘20,807 from 20,542 while domestic

“= Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd: confirmed. plans to

“Toronto the surprise drop in world oll prices have produced expand. its St, Thomas, Ont., plant to manufacture the

a co

A great many people rade arpiind, vith the old beat; ‘BC. people.af Skeena, make no ‘mistake’ about tha

. Timber for many years, and have had some pretty. good.. Unlike Mr: ‘Howard, who makes his home h
fishing trips; When. the old horsehita lean season and some * profits hit politically, Joanne has. fe
tough|sledding, It deserved 4 litle better than dead weight : «dedicated and popular citizen of our ‘area f or 2
and abuse.as far as.I- ain concerned.’ Now that things a8 lived and worked in Smithers, ‘Kitwanga Mo
appear to be'slowly starting to move, I-sea locat politicians <4 Kitimat, owns her-own me ker

was their. particular brand of abuse that got things moving, ..
_. Poor’ market conditions: and business: problems: close:
“nile, Improving: ‘markets | ‘and ‘ ptoblem_ solving...

seems to,do othing but ‘sit on the _ ah
i Hal be he thinks are Penang hat

_ theregional district board.. Pérhapsat the next meeting the
board could pass a motion’ ‘condemning the: late arrival: of:
summer,’ They could: then. take credit for any surimer :
sunshine just in time. for the fall electional |.

a to the ‘Nass was the
” made to the government: The facts of
: * that a committee’. comprised * af .
‘ ‘ representatives from the Nishga Tribal Council, BC-Timber
ministry: of forests andthe ministry. of. highways worked
“hard to setup the priorities for work to be done in the Nase
area and credit should be given to them... fay
Mr: Howard's statement that Joanrie Monaghad ita ply
“afront for Bill Benriett has absolutely no basis in, fack and is
typical of the way Mr. Howard spreads his propagatida,
“Ie there is-a “straw.man” running for the next: ‘lection in
"Sheena it is fot Joanne Monaghan.

“To the Bator, rey get ’ ee
We are’ small business owners ‘and ‘employ. 10: aploy eB.

ond full and part time basis. We would like ta expand our.”
business and would ipdk ‘forward ‘to ‘employing: Possibly.
eight to 10-more people.” - The: ‘director: ‘of: the: B.C. -

’ Development Corporation in this) area has ‘shown | us how the
present government can help us ‘with our expansion: ‘plana. .
, The biggest problem ‘for’ns at. this ‘time is. the: political: -
instability. Should.the; NDP gain. political power in:B.C.,
-our expansion plans will come toa halt. Dave Barrett, ona’: --Youts trully
April 11 radio talk. stiow, demonstrated a ‘complete. lack Oe . . ‘i en na c ¥
economic competence. He talks of building a steel mill at “"- . 1 “oper
taxpayers’ expense for B c. ‘when presently, ‘the ‘world’s

' steel producers are prodticing at only, 60 per cent andless
“capacity. He speaks of ship building in B.C. “where the same.
ships-cost a fraction of the price when built offshore, We
cannot compete with Asia's labour ra tes, The NDP believe.
by using taxpayers’ money, we can create labour utopia. -
_ Dave Barrétt-and his NDP economic theories scare Us to

_ the point of not ‘wanting to risk future. expansion
development in B.C. The unfortunate part of this problem -
is that the NDP prey upon the people who hurt the most,

:. The NDP’ make it sound. that they have solutions to all-our

~ "Pam Whitaker's
Skeena Sketches |

will Watson said that their spring at Kitsoul secins tobe.

"membership in-any political party, 50 we don't have any
axe to grind, The’ solution to. the recovery of the B.C;
economy is what we have now - good leadership and hard -
‘work from our wark | force, -

If you. look closely in Terrace you will find crocus ‘and
primrose blooming and the trees taking on that misty look,
The weather has been pleasant but bracing, : No doubt with
one or two really warm days abundant greenery will apring

Yours truly,
forth. Welcome back to the robins and’ all Dindsong.

{ Mrs: ) Marjorie Twyford

Teeth - how horing— But perhaps not as borings aB haying B
no teeth at all: Not belng able to eat tender sweet corn‘on .
the cob, -for instance;: ‘or ‘to to chomp into a Canadian apple In.
_ late ‘aummer.

“And evendentures have caused a furor from time ta ime.
an ; racall one pair that were ‘recovered from a beach in
_ Northern Vancouver Island after travelling: some distance
through a sewer ee ey had. been expelled from from the

_ Mouth of thelr owner a
“loa ids Thal hPa doit ft fede fb edited a a

“At RCAF Base Puntei Mountain (mountain of many
: strawberries) in the Chilcotin in.1966.a Tire chief-once: lost
‘ns teeth at a.gala celebration at the Corporals Club. . He
- was unable to recover bis missing choppers until the end of
‘the evening. when they were found at ‘the bottom of .the
punch bowl ..°.

- Bonspielers like-to’ play practical jokes, especially at out

_of town ‘splels and often on those straggling teams that are
- last-to arrive home from the. “tale draw"; .One.vislting
women's team to C.f'.B. Holberg wearily dragged: itself
back tothe Rayonier: Guest House to be greeted by polygrip
ona toilet.seat.-

~ Don't fail asleep in the dentists chair, elthar, without
being aware of the tools he js planning to use in your mouth.
‘Ia your insurance paid up?...Those tools. may Include
(though’ minly hatchets, scalers, excavators, earners, or
picks, °.

Kt is: ‘National Dental Health inonth | and the “dental
students of Northwest Community College put ona display
at the Skeena MallonAprilgand9. a

A dentist's chair was set Up with a placque light #0 that
you could see your “‘yukky" teath. There wereslides, a film
for children on how tobrush and floss; posters given ¢ out end
a tooth: brish exchange. Also a chart was on the wall
showing “'hidden" sugar in common foods,

“Because people are becoming better: informed on dental
‘care and nutrition, the rate of tooth decay Is actually
~ declining In North America,” said Dr. Dean Burtch, of the
-Park-Avenue Dental Clinte, “and believe it or not we. are

. happy about it in, plte of our profession!" -.

_He sald that the use of fluoride is probably also a factor,

-; Fluoridated water is used i in practically all food Processing,
a. point that, people might not consider. > ;

“Today' 8 ‘equipment is much faster and more efficient. X
Taya cover’ a smaller localized . areg,.and the bedm is
shielded so that. there: is very little scatter, ~. .

“Christine Timmerman of Terrace, who will complete her
10° month' dental assistant course:in. July, aaid: that the
- college will nat be offering the course Int ‘Terrace Wext term
because. of government cutbacks, 0.

Twelve students have been taking the course pery -eislon
“and receive certification at its completion, Most: of those

. twelve take their “practicum” at focal dentists offices,

- Ottawa.

Alberta is opposed to any cut in the prieeo of all and would
effectively freere prices, Chretien said this is an option that
_ should be discussed and consumers would still see some «.
lower gasoline prices because some federal taxes would
irewe tombe towered. a Us: Sy deade Psat Shaye weir orartt™
faly oy Ep og at
The governiient must come up » ith a enn plan. ‘by
July 1, when it will be due to set another price increment on
: oil. under the agreement,

mad Me ae aes

“an other business news Thursday; | ~

~other Interest rates are likely for the eighth consecutive -
* week. Analysts ald the cetral bankis trying to keep rates
in Canada steady. until there isa algnificant decline in Uy 4.
rates,

_ ‘= The Automobile Importers. of Canada’ reported its

ahead to 47,586 from 47,397 In the 1982 perlod deapite strong
competition from domestic automakers.. But the -

automakers’ sales jumped by. almost one-third of their
March, 1982, total.

- larger-model Crown Victoria and Mereury Grand Marquis i
along with the compact Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx
‘front-wheel-drive ‘models now being built there. - The
‘company said the $77-million expansion’ and: retooling
- program will stabilize employment for the 3,000 employees -

tuna, that it is part of the continental shell.

“Jackson says she'll have. the evidence by ‘the time the’ -
camp breaks up about the end of May and she should have

“One plece (of evidence). won't be enough, she pays:

At one ‘polnt last “week, the.air gun milsfired, sending a
geyser through the lee hole, flooding-the tent with knee-deep

" While the polar ice cap sits in splendid Isolation at the top
of the world, scientiats here have found evidence the waters *
of thé Arctic Ocean include a mixtine of currents from the
Atlantie, Pacific and possible other oceans of the world. ;

Four: ‘mare ‘days. ti, Man’ ola: Staiy. A: ‘New ‘Sang” is
‘featured at tha Oddieliows all-in. Terrace. April. 19, 7:30
Rebs; 635-4361, Atshould bean interesting lea.

Two groups of scientists have found extremely low-level
radioactive cofitaminants from other parts of the world and -
ere using them as a tracer to identify whee. the: cure
come from.

: Valery” Lee, a chemical oceanographer_ with » ine
University of Miami, is tracing samples of tritium; whieh”

sleeping | Beauly: ‘Mountain;. oh BO peaceful and beautiful
~ ona clear. winter. day. How I have longed tdawoop | ‘down her
+, slopes. - but even eagles dont’ seem ‘lo fly that far.
But gore, dai. ‘Not owning a television, 1 did nat see the
Skeena Journal, section on helicopler skiing. with CFTK's
2 Kate Matheson:
+ as What was it LIKE up there?” I asked Dorothy Stautfer,
lars’ whip, ‘participated. - Pe nu,
‘was great," she bréhthed, Sicha feeling othe

att iy

wh qo

; eating of atomic bombs.’

vat ine

- Robert Moore of Dalhousie Univesity in Nova Scots is.

«world, lis’ just fantastic t. The view i} indesaribable.?! i”

- “Wd can just-overcome my, fear. of walking 0 on now I'm

‘going to. try. tt? 1 thought. f ;
Staulfer daid it was her first tine up. ‘out ity won! t ‘be her

“last. “She disclosed that Mathean did some skiing up there

“as. well, NEXT WEEK :;. Moré about, helicopter skiing and

“An. interview: with Kate Matheson (Mathesin willing),

“He is ‘reasonably certain’”: the: source. of material, is |
- discharge from Britain's Windacale ing’ plant. . .
where uranium is extracted from the épent fuel rods of. -
‘nuclear reactors: :

‘Te the layman, Nick Provse's ice-fishing is probably the

sophisticated experimentation... ok
In addition to his rat fish, he’ gathered dozens of brilliant ,
red crustaceans about the size of a small shtimp by wiri-
ching an open can of sariines in 8 malniaoww trap to the
seafloor, ;

, Social Items of interest to.the general public wand birth
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