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Sue Nelson NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald ratains full, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editortal| 9 ~~ or photographic content published In the Herald. - Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. . . . yt The Terrace-Kitimat Daily Herald Newspaper. is’ | politically indepandent and a member of the British Columbia Press Council. - ; Reagan vulnerable WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan opened his election campaign Sunday with the political script: loaking like the juiciest- part he’s ever been offered: a: steadil improving economy and a likely opponent particularly | - _ vulnerable to his big-spender rhetoric. . Yet Reagan also starts out with unique vulnerabilities that could trip up his dream of four more years in the White - |.” House. : No president has so polarized the American people since’. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Reagan re-election campaign opened with the near : certainty that his Democratic opponent would receive more than 90 per cent of the voles of blacks and a clear majority: of baliots cast by women. ; Se The Democrats are targeting voter registration drives at a black vote that has grown sharply the last two elections... Women now. comprise a majority of voters, and some estimates have them reaching 54 per cent of the electorate. when Americans vote in November. Polls, including those done. for the Republican party, show Reagan's rating about 10 per cent lower among’. women than among men, The front-runner in the race for the Democratic , presidential nominationhis . Walter Mondale, . whose-, fackground in.the liberal.wing of his party. could make him: particularly vulnerable: toReagan’s” attacks on «big ry jgernment and big. spending... 32! he... In his announcement speech, the president said that when . he took office'the United States .was “onthe brigk ofc. economic ‘collapse from years of government: over: indulgence and abusive over-taxation.” a USES REMINDERS. . ‘Reagan's brief speech also was laced with reminders of the high inflation and interest rates of the final year of the president. Jimmy Carter presidency, when Mandale served as vice- - released last week, said 37 per. cent of. the Reagan a favorable job rating, up from porary, : of 3.2 per cent, and commentaries said. 88 per cent of the jeald Walrweather . production increase was due to improved labor discipline, ,. ‘ were going: unrepre ’ Agriculture also reported an increase, with labor’ productivity up six per cent and overall production up five: per cent. . . Energy, the key to developing remote areas with valuable natural resources, also performed well. Natural gas .: : means ended Soviet economic problems, i A western diplomat who asked not to be identified saidthe ~ figures confirmed modest growth in. 1963, but noted that | 1992 had been one of the worat years since the Second World War and that 1983 flgurea represent an increase merely over the previous year's-dismal showing. — . Comparative 1983 figures on labor productivity, the key ” area emphasized by Andropov, also suggested his cam- paign to get workers tolling harder wore off ag the year went on, Endustrial labor productivity rose 4.1 per cent.in the firat half of the year, but only 3.5 per cent onal2month average. : . vos Western analysts suggested workers responded -to. the initial shock of Andropoy's crackdown on, loafing and ab- senteelsm, bul relaxed as his long absence from public sight raised doubts about his ability to overcome inertia in . the Soviet syatém. His last public appearance was Aug. 18,. when Andropov met a group of U.S. senators in Moscow; + py gee (CP) — Railway freight fales:have, auied eadaches for federal paliticiang; spd Agritulture-..' bele th Eugene Whelan” and: ‘Transport “Minister :Woyd'*-*" But OTTAWA: (CP) ', + «Minister Eug in a r Meiniater -, Axworthy are searching for.a cure for.a crushing: ~.?Theissue ‘seems mild’ — the’ freight ‘rate: for Prair! ~ ’ canola (rapeseed) oil and canola shipped by-rail to Ontario.“ Prairle provinces, the wheat pools _. “ eanolda the Cro . But it pits the three es, the and western oilseed ¢rushers against the On _ ment and that province’s crushing industry a ides say the fate of their industry-ig ia backing the western contention kept:low.to help the Prairie ‘industry, whi . Whelan fayors a higher rate to help. the Gntario industy naj rushing mill. in Whelan’s i tario: govern: « ‘thirds of the Prairie can vest:4 ‘through the east," ".; sOPPOSE INCREASE () oreo ae _ The Canadian Transport Comiilssjon raised: th There’s.a major oilseed c rgely because :there “a0 per cent lnst:year, largely: “baig-of Windsor. far two" years..‘The: three. Prairie ministers asked Ottawa to cancel fhé incr > cancel fie increase’because they: ‘feared it could put:many of thelr ~nine: b " : a head with changes to Prairie Br 1Be be oilseed Fushing *-. ght rates following passage. last year of: the bill: .» the hiatoric Crowsnest Pass freight rate, “ : That bill put canola oil snd meal under the ¢ “-Don‘Mazankowskl, Progressive Conservative ‘transpatt ae "the domestic market, said Mazankowski, ‘brings us.a atep “the dark world: McClelland : announced that ab os danger of! tish Columbia's compressor station, near ights Commission would have had.a serious im-: pact on Canada’s image abroad. °° ‘Any-bill which attempts to roll back the.h _, Noval: created: by an act of th gislature and. +. protection: which Canadians: haye’ enshrined “in. their, Primed'with orders to be'a business leader, rebuilt the” tion! is, in effect, an-attempt'to rewrite the social 75 “PLANTREBUILT © uman rights. _~ Novaj:created: by an act of the Alberta Jegislature’and. ~-Piincess operation. — and doubled its size,: 45. an example of the - . ». Four-yearp after thé fire, subsidiary Noval Entery Ml wrote, oe de Mesh ag pees 7, dtd. cultivates. Giree. hectares: of ‘crops. in apraw -?:He sald that while he was glad the Socreds have agreed to: ows ault oh:cimendments to strengthen and'improve the bill; . - ights branch “remains with skeleton staff, and’ . that’s an‘understatément., 8 gt " {Fairweather said Orwell was ironic. that the adjective Orw y reflect the man; Orwellian eedom ‘loving. If: Candida. i Thope that it would be in "If itwere to accuratel mean democratic, ‘or fr. 3 ? An Orwellian society, “. §etdeot the word.” . oH va eye . , 5 eek rad wos lost its clout? _ "Soviet percéptions are char, . line’ by President: Reagan, -, Caribbean, be said. "That's conmission’s-report,