apt oer Se oe Te ER TT Tce Page ‘4, The Herald, Monday, Jure 9, 1980 TERR ACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Office - 635-6357 ' Circulation - 635-4357 Sterling Publishers PUBLISHER - Calvin McCarthy EDITOR - Greg Middletan CIRCULATION TERRACE & KITIMAT ; . 635-6357 | _ Published every weekday af 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace. B.C. A member of Verlfled Circulation. Authorized as second: class mail. Registration number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retalns full, complete and sole copyrighl in any advertisement produced and-or any editorlal or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted without the written | Srmesee of the Publisher. : —_, (| EDITORIAL | It could be a hotter summer here than anyone bargains for if we are not very careful. The low snowfall over the winter, combined with very little rain this spring, means the woods here are going to be tinder dry soon. The blaze in Kitimat over the weekend just serves to warn us how quickly grass and then the trees and bushes can catch an fire. We hope that nothing serious happens here this year. It is, however, better to be safe than sorry. We would all be well advised to not only be especially careful “with campfires but also be sure that cigarettes are not flicked from cars. It takes very little to get a large blaze going quickly, as Kitimat residents saw Published by - Saturday. We would also be advised to take heed of the fire department’s warning and conserve water, just in case. 4 vO ~ LETTERS WELCOME The Herald welcomes its readers comments. ~ AN letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do. however, retain the right _ to refuse lo print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste, We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to be considered for publication. must be signed. ———— — OTHER VIEWS . Fromthe ABBOTSFORD NEWS The cataclysmic event known as Mt. St. Helens has shaken the world and has shattered an American myth. Mother Nature has proven to the American people -, thal she is a lady to be reckoned with, and a lady not to - be scorned. Women's liberation ... St. Helens has said it all. It is amazing that many, many people viewed the ‘pending eruptions of the mountain as nothing more than a curiousity. In fact, even after the initial. eruption which has been described by scientists to have been 2,500 times more powerful than the atomic blast which leveled Hiroshima, hikers ignored war- _nings-to stay off the mountain, and some may have died in subsequent eruptions. cannot ignore the might of nature, and its absolute decision to do whatever it wishes, However, the famed ‘‘American ingenuity" and that nation’s ability to turn almost anything it touches into a profil may just discover that St. Helens, a bain to agriculture is a boon to a nation short on energy. The possibilities of geo-thermal power generated by such a mighty cauldron boggles the mind. St. Helens could provide, cone it settles down a mite, a veritable gold mine of power. , ‘And, it is within a virtual’ stone’s throw of the largest, most industrialized cities in the northwest quarter of the United States - Seattle and Portland. To be sure, already some businessmen and government officials are looking to capitalize on the eruption. ‘Harnessing of geo-thermal power is not new the to United States. Though it is currently involved only in a small way, the State of Hawaii is tapping its more predictable volcanos as a power source. You can be sure that if technology exists, as it does, that it will not be long after the mountain settles that someone will begin utilizing the resource. And since a major U.S. railroad just happens lo own a large chunk of real estate right on the crater rim, the first stum- bling block in acquisition of government land is already bypassed. it will be interesting to watch, in ensuing years, just how the most dramatic natural event in modern times develops. + Remember, even Jimmy Carter, while flying over the massive crater and its surrounding devastation, saw the financial rewards of St. Helens as a tourist atifaction. If he noticed that, you can be sure the real power tycoons in American have seen the potential profit in géo-thermal power generation at St. Helens. re ee er aa > By KEVIN DOUGHERTY QUEBEC (CP). — Rene Levesque hoped he would be laying down the cards and calling the bets in the newest round of constitutional talks , but his plan for a “new deal" fell through when the referendum turned out to be a bust. Now the Quebec premier says he is waiting for Prime Minister Trudeau to put his cards on the table at the meeting this Monday with Levesque and the other nine premiers. ; Gambling terms come _ easily to Levesque who is a . blackjack player from way back. He used to play with Senate Speaker Jean Marchand when the two future politicians were college students in Quebec City. For Levesque the deck i stacked against Quebec in Confederation because the federal government is dealer. and banker and Quebec is. just one of 11 players. He hoped the May 20. es * referendum would change the rules of the game, giving Quebec a mandate to take on the rest of Canada one-on- one in negotiations. ‘In blackjack the players have one om more cards showing and one face down ‘which they only turn over once the betting finishes. The point is to beat the dealer. Levesque thought that by going directly to the. people in the referendum he had a card that was so high and wild he could beat the dealer and force a completely new game with two dealers. sharing the same deck. Quebec would then sit down with the rest of Canada to draw up rules for this new game which would recognize the French-English duality. During the referendum campaign he said a no vole would make it seem Quebec was bluffing in its persistent demands for constitutional -ehange. The rest of the country would think Quebec was “nll talk and no action.” ‘ _ Levesque looks for new Trudeau assured Quebecers that.a no vote would mean yes to change and he would negotiate - renewed federalism with the - provinces soon afterwards. Levesque objected that win. or lose, he was not ‘prepared to sit down atthe conference table until the end of August. But the day after the - referendum Trudeau seized the initiative . and set the constitutional process in motion, forcing. Quebec to put up once again. Levesque and his Parti Quebecois government don't have too many options going into this new round of talks. ° They were forced to go along’ with Trudeau's plans or look like spoilers, giving am- munition to the opposition Liberals under Claude Ryan, Being a gambler, Levesque hopes to keep. his lasses to a minimum but he is also banking on 4 Con-, stitutional deadlock that will ' support his argument that Confederation doesn't: work. Levesque said at a-news | conference last week that the * government has fulfilled - most of its © legislative program and will go the voters either this fall or in ‘the spring of 1981. He needs new proof that his position Is correct to hold on to his supporters who still - believe in, sovereignty- association, if not outright independence, while at- tracting enough voters to return him to power, — While insisting that he will negotiate “in good faith,” Levesque says the federal government, Quebec and the other provinces have con- flicting . interests, and renewing the federal pact to the satisfaction of. all is impossible. . Instead of following the scenario he planned to use - Levesque must sit down - again with Trudeau, . who ‘hopes to trade. off con- cessions to the provinces in exchange for an agreement embodying his vision of a bilingual, multicultural and united Canada. AL TEIAPH SAT OP LED IAAL TEP CITOOTLOAE GS SMOKE RENE'S BRAND PER PL ween, if DONATE TO T-SHIRTS THE LEVES UE 1 GET YOUR NEW oe LICENED ENTE Q pe a ae RAIDS STAGED Tensions rise in S. Africa By CYNTHIA STEVENS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Guerrillas of the African National Congress have launched their ‘first strike against South African in- dustry, and the raid poses the biggest threat yet to the last white-minority govern- ment on the African con- tinent. It also is expected to in- crease support for the tens of thousands of non-white ‘ pupils who have boycotted schools for six weeks to protest the government’s policy of inferior education . . * for non-whites under laws of Perhaps this latest event has shown people you . apartheid, or racial segrega- tion. . The explosions late Sunday at three South African ail refineries set ablaze millions of dollars worth of petroleum products. The attack was the most sophisticated act af sabotage undertaken since Unequal education students with gunfire, leaving young demonstrators dead and wounded. government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha, which has responded to viack unrest with a . By JOHN WARD NEW YORK (CP) — Events in South Africa seem to be moving towards another bloody racial confrontation, which could be as serious as the terrible Soweto riots of 1976 in which some 600 blacks were killed. There is something of an in- exorable momentum in the situation that may make a violent conclusion inevitable, the African National Congress was banned two decades ago. In claiming responsibility for the raid, ANC spokesman Francis Meli said Monday in London “these attacks are part and parcel of our: general offensive against the enemy (South Africa's white rulers)."" He said the strategy will continue. The African National Con- ‘gress was banned in 1960 after leading a protest against carrying identity cards which led to a riot in which police killed 69 blacks. After nationwide riots in 1976, In which more than 600 blacks were killed, the group began to make some headway in its guerrilla struggle. . An estimated 4,000 black studerits fled the country for military training abroad. . have been Records of security trials during the last few years include evidence of guerrilla training in African National Congress camps in the Soviet ‘Union, Tanzania and Angola. The government, alarmed by the increasing numbers of guerrillas slipping across the borders, apparently via Mozambique and Swaziland, is training black. regional battalions to keep them out, and is expected. to step up arrests of guerrilla suspects at home following Sunday's attack. The spectacular blasts at facilities of Sasol, the South’ African coal, oil and gas corporation, follow a series of guerrilla assaults in the last year. At least 70 blacks tried since January in connection .with attacks on police stations, attempting to blow ‘up SOUTH AFRICA The series of largely | white activism, One factor is the escalation of the protests by colored — or mix —~ students against what they see as diserimination . education. The government spends several times as much money on each white child as on each nonwhite economic pupil. ” What began as a sporadic protest by schoolchildren has ballooned into a full-fledged boycott of the schools, coupled with strikes, mass marches and demonstrations by students and adults alike. . Predictably, the white minority regime's police have responded race ininimal natural few oil-producing substitutes. But the guerrillas of the banned African National Congress, who damaged {wo of the synthetic fuel and concessions, : pressure from ‘conservative white ~ groups to crack down on the non- That pressure is likely to become even stronger in the aftermath of the in guerrilla raids this week on the country’s vital synthetic fuel plants. If South Africa’s white regime has an Achilles heel, if is in energy. With has turnéd to its abundant coal reserves to provide petroleum cosmetic reforms now is ‘under railway lines and other sabo- tage. Surveys here say the guerrilla actions in- creasingly are winning ~- sympathy from the country’s 19 million black majority. Three guerillas killed by police after they took 25 hostages in a suburban Pretoria bank siege last January are widely revered as heroes in ‘black :com- munities, as are dozens of black youths brought to trial each year on charges of terrorism. Prime Minister P.W. Botha has urged the governing Nationalist party of Dutch-descended Afrikaners to allow improve- ments In black status to avoid a revolution against the 4.4 milllon white minority, He has met severe resistance from con servatives. - - facilities with bombs, have shown that these critical plants are vulnerable. The siege mentalitly of South’. Afriea’s whites intensified with the election of Robert Mugabe in neigh- ‘ boring Zimbabwe, The end of white rule in what used to be Rhodesia and the arrival of Mugabe — a a black nationalist and Marxist have left the - only white-minority government on- the continent all but isolated. The student demonstrations. and oll resources and friends willing to up Pp the sabotage of the oll plants are likely to whip the apartheid zealots into a reallatory frency. Any moves to grant non-whites better educa- tional and political status are likely to be shelved, oO All these factors combine to build tessure in a society already sell fuel to South Africa, the country under considerable stress. The fourth anniversary of the start of the 1976 Soweto troubles is June 16, a time of tension even under the best of circumstances; This year, the could be explosive. commemoration 2 + Ferry Corporation, _ and Highways, who had been my OFSBEAT | BY RICHARD — | Ottawa,- From the cradle to the grave, ‘special in- terest. proups .are increasingly pressuring the fovernment. — os ne Lobbying for the cradle-set, among - others,. are ‘interes{s promoting or participating in daycare, family and mothers’ allowances: and others striving ta offload some of their financial responsibilities on the _ ‘taxpayers. Pensions: are national | wnions to the corporate world. They're all well-organized most of them with specialists -- well-meaning and frequently’ skilful amateurs all the way up the scale of expertise to ‘consultants who learned how to deal with govern- ‘ments by working for them. Pressuring the govenrment for an almost limitless © variety of special causes ‘has become a growth in- dustry. ; ; a ‘How to do it? Rasy. ' Ask a friend or acquaintance in the business of lobbying. . Shouldn't be difficult for. there now must be con- sultants in every town and city in the land; In Ottawa alone, there are literally hundreds. _ They range all the way from one-man shops to the big establishments some of the corporate giants. maintain to be sure their point of view is not lost in the ” erush or their voice unheard in the babble. - They make no secret of the basic ground rules in the fiercely competitive game of winning the govern- ment’s ear. : a . Governments and their public services mave slowly, sometimes almost gilacially and frequently find it impossible to screen their legislative intentions from the eyes. and ears of trained observers. - Election campaigns -- if promises are to be only half-believed -- Throne Speeches opening sessions of Parliament and provincial legislatures, and white papers, task force reports, and special studies usually give early warning signals of the action to come. That is the ideal time for special interest groups with axes to grind, favors to petition, concessions to seek and propositions to propound to make their opening moves. See your MP, the deputy minister in charge of the JACKSON... | A the preoccupation of those at the. ’ wrong end of the life-span. ; ; re In between the two extremes, almost everyone from ? department concerning your special interest, and if . possible the minister himself. Prepare a brief. And make it brief, whether it is for the cabinet, one’ cabinet minister, a deputy, or a senior bureaucrat. Keep your statistics to the very basics. | Avoid technical detail’ | ; *. @echnicalities, statistics and wordiness are— guaranteed attention-losers. They bore. | And youare working to first win the attention, then the interest, and if possible the sympathy and support of whatever agency of government, from the senior _ bureaucrat to the cabinet itself, you are addressing. Circulate your brief to the media, you can use the exposure, good or bad. Publicity is publicity and it guarantees at least some public attention. Governments are sensitive to’ public interest. If possible, even if you've kept your brief to a lean ten pages. simple, direct and easy to understand, don't read it. oo . Have your representative do it off-the-top first and then leave them with your printed brief. Finally, no matter what the reaction to your case, be reasonable, and if possible, convincing.y amiable. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Legislature and give any explanation, He say as silent. as a wart on a toad. Third, Mr. Kempf states that the Chairman of the B.C. Ferry Corporation Board | of Directors suggested an alternative date to the May 8th or May 15th dates originally agreed to unanimously by the Crown Corporations Committee. The important point to make here, and one which Mr. Kempf -- out of ignorance or design-- fails to make, is that the alternative date put forward by the Chairman of the Board of B.C. Ferries, was put forward after ] had Dear Sir: - In the Victoria Colonist of - May 23, 1980 there appeared a-letter over the name of Jack J. Kempf, MLA Omineca. That letter, with - slight alterations, appeared also in the Daily Herald. That letter attributes to me something ‘which is simply not true. . First Mr. Kempf's letter quotes me, as having: said the following in the Legislature: ‘to the fact that - I did not call a meeting of the committee for May 8, 1980." What I did ask Mr. Kempf was whether he could “...tell the House why he so readily accepted the statement of the chairman of the B.C. the Minister of Transportation Legislature. make truthful quotation from Hansard for the date in question; you refused to answer six particular questions put to you in the Legislature on May 8th; and you carefully, or carelegsly, misrepresent the situation with respect to alternative dates which might be agreeable to the B.C. Ferry Corporation chairman. - Remember, Mr. Kempf, three strikes and you're out. invited to attend at a meeting of the Committee on either May 8 or May 15, that such dates were not: ac- ceptable to the Minister?’ Mr. Kempf didn’t bother to reply to that question when it was asked of him. As Hansard will show I then asked him “...why he took itupon himself to cancel the meeting of the com- mittee scheduled for May 8 without first consulting the Management sub-committee of that conimittee?” Mr. Kempf didn’t bother to reply to that question either, In fact, as Hansard clearly shows, I asked six questions on May 8th of Mr. Kempf regarding his actions with respect to a meeting which he scheduled for that day and which he cancelled. Mr. mine who are Social Creditors that Mr. Kempf has been assigned by Social Credit to be my watch dog -- don’t mind that, in fact, if it weren't for the in- I'd be flattered. Kempf, please get the facts Kempf, as Hansard also straight. .. dlearly shows, refused to - - . Sineerely, answer the questions; Frank Howard, MLA refused even to get up in the (Skéena) poe mee eacath eile Migile insi a Pah eek Oe eas ee But, for your own sake Mr.* raised the matter in the . -Mr. Kempf, you did not - I am told by friends of’ that is to monitor what I say: and do and report thereon. I. competency of the watchdog, .