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OTTAWA (CP)
Parliament resumes today
following a 14-week summer
recess with many MPs
predicting a stormy session
dominated by economic
concerns.

Measures to deal with
wiemployment, inflation and
a deteriorating dollar appear
the top priority for both
Liberal government
strategisis and opposition
parties.

Prime Minister Trudeau
and his cabinet must decide
how to build on.a series of

economic restraint an-
nouncements made
following the prime

minister's nationally-

televised address Aug. |
when he promised tax cuts—
still unspecified—and
spending restraints,

The government’s in-
tentions are likely to become
clearer Wednesday when it
announces its legislative
plans for the new

* parliamentary session in the

speech from the throne,

The current session of
Parliament will end today
after MPs and Senators pass
a bill allowing an additional
advance polling day for the
15 byelections Oct, 16.

MPs from across the
country, interviewed last
week, said constituents are
worried about the economic

situation.

Finance Minister Jean
Chretien has promised a
federal budget before
Christmas and is expected to
include personal tax cuts as
part of the package.

Leading economic groups
have warned that without the
tax cuts, the government’s
spending restraints program
will only increase current
high levels of inflation and
unemployment in 1979.

The program, announced
during the last eight weeks,
forecasts a stiarply-reduced
deficit, next year—opening
the way for reduced revenue
through tax cuts,

“There's no question about

il, people are lalking abo7t
the economy and we're
hearing less about national
wily," said Liberal Frank
Philbrook (Halton).

The southern Ontario MP
said he is anxious to discuss
the question of government
restraint in the coming
session,

Quebec Liberal Hal
Herbert (Vaudreuil) agreed,
saying most of his 140,000
constiluents—half English
andhalf French—are talking
about the economy.

_ However, Herbert added

thal erilicism of Trudeau's
leadership has grown in
recent months “‘although [
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“These are often good
Liberals saying this and I'm
having trouble coping with
ihe answer,” he said, while
emphasizing personal
support for the prime
minister.

John = Fraser
Vancouver South) said
economic insecurity is
responsible for a general
anti-government mood
among his constituents.

(PC—

“I's gone beyond an anti-
Trudeau sentiment,” he
said,

he business community
made constant complaints
about the lack of economic

decisionmaking by Ottawa,
Fraser said,

Progressive Conservative
Jim McGrath (St. John's
East) said economic
problems in the rest of the
country usually are com-
pounded in Newfoundland.

“The economic question
has to be the priority in this
session,’ McGrath said,
singling out unemployment
as the biggest local concern.

“T’ve never seen so many
young graduates who are
unable to find jobs although
they seem determined to
stay inthe area because of a
feeling of promise in the
future.”

Jack Murta (PC—Lisgar)
said the unsettling effect of
(the economic slowdown has
been evidenced by many
businesses postponing ex-
Pansion plans.

Murta, whose Manitoba

riding is largely
agricultural, said thal
although farmers have hada

good crop year, there is
widespread concern over
future prospects,

Many other MPs said
government proposals to
amend the Constitution have
Started to become a
Brassroots issue, especially
Changes lo lhe Senale and
the role of the monarchy.

he prediction

A pring generai election,
already promised by
Trudeau, also has con-
Iributed to a mood of con-
fruntation among govern-
ment and oppostion MPs.

Walter Baker, Con-
servative House leader, said
in a slatement it is up to the
government whether the
session becomes
acrimonious.

“We want the economic
problems of this country to
be confronted by a strong
government with a strong
mandate, We don’t want a 10-
month eleclion campaign,”
Baker said.

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Nomination of candidates
for the four seats on the
Kitimat Board of Education
up for grabs Nov. 18 will be
held in the municipal offices,
270 City Centre, Tuesday,
October 31 from 10:10 a.m. to
12 noon,

Pulls will be held Satur-
day, Nov. 18 from 6 a.m. to B
pm. in Kitimal General
Hospital, Lahakas Blvd; the
Anglican Church hail,
Kingfisher Ave.; the
Presbyterian Church hall,
Nalabila Blvd,; the Baptist
Church basement, Columbia
Ave.; and the Band Council

Chamber; Kitamaat Village. @

An advance pull will be
_ held in the municipal offices
November 14 to 17 from 12
noon to 9:30 p.m.

Donald Alexander Stewart
has been appointed retur-
ning officer with authurily te
appoint depuly returning
officers and pull clerks.

McGeer

here
today

Dr. Pat MeGeer, Minister

Educationprovincial will be in

Terrace today to discuss
various aspects of education

with the Northwest Com-
. paunity college staff and the
loca] school board, District
8B.

McGeer will hold a press
conference at the college al
5:30 p.m, during which it is
anticipated that he will
ccomment on the recent
resolution by the Union of

British Columbia
Municipalities that the
funding for community

colleges be assumed totally
by the province.

The minister is bringing
the Deputy
minister and associate
deputy minister to an-
swertechnical questions.

Including the visit next
week by Environment
Minister Jim Nielsen, this
will be the fourth visit by a
provincial cabinet minister

with him

to Terrace with the last four

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on fire

required,”

Saturday.

held:

Constant vigilance
fireman’s warning

This is fire prevention week in Terrace.

That does not mean that every other week -
in the year is not fire prevention week, only
that special emphasis is placed on methods
prevention

High on the list of things to watch out for,
is the collection of oily rags which can ignite
spontaneously if left in a cavered container.

Terrace residents have been reasonably
lucky as far as fire's are concerned, says
Fire Chief Cliff Best.

“Most residents are very good regarding
fire prevention but constant vigilance - is
Chief

The fire department at Terrace airport is
planning an open house and demonstration
at the firehall at the airport next Friday and

On Friday local school children will at-
tend, accompanied by thelr teachers, as the
firemen display their methods of handling
an emergency if a plane should crssh.

Saturday a general open house will be

this week.

Best said,

Test tube baby

now doing well

CALCUTTA, India (AP) —
Durga Agarwal, the world's
second known ‘‘test-Lube
baby,” is in good health and
behaving normally, a
spokesman at Calcutta’s
Bellevue nursing home said
Monday.

The infant, born last
Tuesday, contracted a slight
case of jaundice Saturday
but recovered fully and “now
has no complaint what-
saever," the spokesman

said,

Dr. Mani Chettri, chief of
West Bengal state's health
services, said Monday he
was satisfied with a
preliminary report on the
birth given him by the three
researchers responsible for

‘ the laboratory conception.

Dr. Chettri praised their
work and said he feels “they
have made a breakthrough
and applied a novel method
in fertilizing ova outside the

body, successfully (ran-
ferring the embryo and
delivering a normal baby."

“LT have advised them to
submit a detailed scientific
acount to a proper forum,"
Dr. Chettri said “If what
they have achieved stands
proper scientific scrutiny,
their work will be considered
a positive contribution to
science, considering par-
ticularly the inadequate re-
search facilities available in
this country and the odds
they had to overcome.”

The team, Saroj Kanti

AT LEAST FOR NOW

Lebanese truce

ends bloodshed

BEIRUT (AP) A
SyrianChristian ceasefire in
Lebanon generally held in its
second full day Monday,
keeping more blood from
spilling into the streets of
Beirut.

Meanwhile, Lebanese
President Elias Sarkis
headed for Saudi Arabia to
try to drum up Saudi sipport
for a permanent truce after
three days of talks in
Damascus with Syrian
President Hafez Assad that
led to the temporary
ceasefire Saturday. He

—_

‘plannéd trips to Sudan and ..

the United Arab Emirates
before returning to
Damascus.

Assad told reporters that
Sarkis will seek Arab en-
dorsement of the “ideas we
have agreed upon and then
return to Damascus so that
we can put them into final
shape.” ae

Rightist Christian
spokesmen here accused the
Syrian forces of maintaining
a tight food blockade on
Christian enclaves in the
Lebanese capital, routing
supply vehicles from all
directions. But reporters
observed vehicles entering
the Christian sector across
bridges in the north.

The right-wing Voice of
Lebanon radio charged
Syrian troops violated the
truce by shelling the coastal
highway just north of the
Christian sector of Beirut.

The radio gave no casualty
count following the alleged
shelling, but said seven
persons were killed and 17
others wounded Sunday and
early Monday by Syrian
snipers,

Most of the sniping was
said to have been directed
against traffic over the
Qarantina Bridge, on the
northeastern outskirts of the
Christian sector of Beirut.

Beirut police said 68 bodies
of Lebanese civilians have
been dug out of the rubble
from shelled buildings since
the truce, and said Syrian

tlach , Subhash rockets, artillery and
Mukhotjes and. Sunit. machine-guns killed 1,300
Lebanese and wounded more

Mukherjee, said beause they
lacked advanced equipment
they were forced to devise a
lechnique different from the
one that resulted in the birth
in Britain on July 25 of
Louise Brown, believedto be
the world’s first baby con-
ceived oulside the human
body,

than 2,000 in the 10 days of
heavy fighting before the
ceasefire. Syria has uot re-
ported its casualties.
Former Lebanese
President Camille Chamoun,
over-all leader of the right-
wing Christian front, told
reporters as he toured his

stricken neighborhood
Monday that if the Syrian
use the ceasefire to resupply
their units in Lebanon, the
Christian militias will open
fire on the convoys.

The ceasefire followed a
United Nations Security
Council resolution that
appealed for Moslem-
Christian reconciliation in
the Mediterranean country

Carter to open
mid-east talks

WASHINGTON (AP) --
President Carter will. cake
part in the opening of the

Egyptian-Israeli peace talks .

here Thursday, a White
House official announced
Monday.

Carter will participate in
the opening of the conference
of defence and forcign
ministers “to underline the
imporlance that we
(Americans) place on it and
our continuing role in it,” the
official said.

The official, who declined
to be identified, also left open
the possibility that the U.S.
president will meet at the
White House with members
of the Israeli and Egyptian
delegations before (he start
of the session.

Israeli Defence Minister
Ezer Weizman said Monday
that Israel and Egypt have
Jots of detail” to negutiate

before they sign & peace
treaty. :

“Both sides are very ex-
perienced in war, but this is
the first time we are dealing
in peace treaties,” Weizman
lold reporters in Tel Aviv as
he prepared to leave for the
Washington conference. “We
have lots of detail ... a lot on
the essence of good neigh-
borliness."

Although some members
of the Israeli and Egyptian
delegations have said they
expect the peace talks to last
(wo or three weeks, the
White House official said:
“That is not something we
can contro].”

Frameworks for the peace
treaty were announced Sept.
1? by Carter, Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin
and Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat after 13 days of
intense negotiations at Camp
David, Md,

THREATENS VIOLENCE

Radical rabbi

vows resistance

JERUSALEM (AP)
Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder
of the Jewish Defence
League, said Monday he
plans armed resistance lo
counter a Camp David
agreement to sel up an
autonomous Palestinian
zone on the West Bank of the
Jordan River.

“There will not be Arab
autonomy in Eretz [sraei,"’
Kahane told a news con-
ference, referring to the
biblical name and borders of
Israel, which include the
West Bank.

“We intend to use arms to
ensure that the agreement lo
create an autonomous region

Cardinals to vote for new pope Sun

VATICAN CITY (AP) —

will cast their first ballots for
anew pope next Sunday, the
Vatican announced Monday.
The dean of the College of
Cardinals,
widespread sentiment, was
quoted in a newspaper in-
terview as predicting the
election will be brief and

easy.

The congregation of cardi-
nals, running the Roman

reflecting

Catholic Church in the period
belween popes, decided that
the 111 cardinal-electors will
precede the secret conclave
Saturday by Uy
celebrating a mass in St.
Peter's Basilica at 10 a.m.
local time (5 a.m. EDT),
calling on the Holy Spirit to
help them elect a pope.

At 4:30 p.m., the princes of
the church will form a
procession and file into the
Renaissance splendor of the

Sistine Chapel, the door
locking behind them. They.
begin balloting the following
morning.

The conclave procedure
will largely be a rerun of the
one in August that elected
Albino Cardinal Luciani, the
humble son of a bricklayer
from the Dolomite Alps of
northeastern flaly. Pope
John Paul I, the 263rd_ pape
and leader of the world’s 700
million Roman Catholics,
died of a heart altack Sept.

28 after a reign of only 34
days,

On Sunday morning, the
cardinals will celebrate
mass in the three chapels in
the conclave area. Two
rounds of voting are
scheduled later that mor-
ning, followed by two more
in the afternoon. Election of
a pope requires a vole of
twathirds plus one.

The statement by the
college dean, Carlu Cardinal
Confalonieri, in an interview

with the Rome newspaper Il
Tempo, appeared to indicate
that the cardinal-electors
have developed a consensus
uf sorls on the kind of pope
they are seeking. Leo Car-
dinal Suenens of Belgium
has also been quoted as
saying that he expects the
voling to end in two days.
The cardinals have had
ample time to gel to know
each other since the death of
Pope Paul VI on Aug, 6.
Influential cardinals

stressed during the weekend
that consideration of age and
health will be major factors
in the choice of the next
pope. Others like Cardinal
Confalonieri have said the
next pope should have a
knowledge of world affairs
and diplomacy as well as the
fundamental partoral
quality of Pope John Paul.

‘The pastoral card:nals—
ones with long service as
bishops like Pope John
Paul--most frequently

mentioned as possible papal
candidates are Salvatore
Pappalardo of Palermu,
Giuseppe Siri of Genoa and
Corrado Ursi of Naples.
Among the Curia-oriented
names most heard are
Italians Sergio Pignedoli,
Sebastiano Baggio, Pericle
Felice and Paolo Bertoli and
Frenchman Jean Villot.
Another possibility is Giv-
vanni Cardinal Benelli of
Florence, experienced in
hoth pastoral and Curia

fur Arabs will not come into
elfect,”’ he said.

Kahane, who has severed
formal links with the
militant organization he
built in the 1960s, leads a
smali group of Israeli
rightists who favor an-
nexation of the West Bank
and expulsion of the
Palestinians.

He said that under the plan
to dismantle the Israeli
military government on the
West Bank, his settlers will
have a free hand because
they wilt be able to build new
Jewish settlements without
Israeli troops to block them.

ay

affairs.

Cardinal Confalonierl is 85
and is barred along with 15
other octogenarian cardinals
from taking part in the con-
clave,

if the cardinals should
decide to break a 3-year-
old tradition and elect a non-
cardinal as pope, Archbishop
Alberto Ballestrero of Turin,
a former friar, is rated as a
possible choice. He is 65, 4
sespected theologian with a
gift for diplomacy.

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