Page 4, The Herald, Tuesday, January 13, 1981 See's a { ‘ TRE WE-ADLIW A daily herald General Office - 435-4357 Published by Circulation - 635-4357 Sterling Publishers Publisher — Garry Husak Editor — Pete Nadeau CLASS. ADS. TERRACE . 615.4000 CIRCULATION - TERRACE . 435-6357 Published every weekday af 3010 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. Authorited as second class mail. Registration number 120! Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published in the ~ Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written \. Permission of the Publisher. , The food for — anxious thought state secretary in charge of foreign policy by President-elect Ronald Reagan, has made clear his belief that there are times when direct “destabilizing’’ Interference in another country may be justified by U.S. interests. He has suggested that relations with other governments and foreign aid should be governed by the degree of their compliance with a U.S. policy whose paramount concern should be “the management of Soviet power.” . - While stating that all-out nuclear war would be ‘‘a ME TAASANDS! . : Banned in Tv troduce legislation to enact the first fun- I WASHINGTON (CP) — The ideas of Alexander . Melgs Haig on war, peuce and relations with other Ontarin Be damental refarm of our electoral system since | governments offer food for anxious thought to a ee ee ee] we adopted our present, British-style one of friends and foes alike of the United States. , " . . ange ; Confederation. Haig, 56, the former army general designated Starring A SAGA OF THE OILED WEST. Co-starring The possibilities for electoral reform almost ! JHELD OVER INDEFINITELY PETRO LOUGHEED as PUMPEYE Financed bs The Heritage Rust Fund ELIZABETH (NICK) TAYLOR JOE CLARK as WIMPY CREATED BY REGINALD ISPARATY * CARY GRANT (NOTLEY) ® MISS IT — IT'S A REAL GAS! AILEEN NATION ay CRUDE OYL eo PIERRE ELLIOTT BIL TTO osPETRO KHAN eee MARC LALONDE as ET TU BRUTUS eve ALLAN MACEACHEN as the OLD SEA HAGGIS ese and BILL DAVIS as the WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST Guest appearance by BO DERRICK — Produced by O. PECK ene Directed by SHELLOUT. ENGULF & IMPALE “You're A Big Oil Now" and “Roll Out The Barrels™ sang by THE MALTY NATIONALS {LIGHTNING) ROD SYKES by RICHARD GWYN \.. OTTAWA -- Would we or would we not be. better off, even at the cost of paying the salaries, offices and secretaries of some extra MPs, If crowded ontothe floor of the Commons there were a half-dozen Liberals from Alberta and a dozen Conservatives from Quebec. The case for proportional representation -- or PR as It is known In Its misleading shor- thand form -- Is really as simple as that: lH gives us more MPs than we really need, but It gives us extra MPs In the places where we really need them. Early In the spring, a special Parllamentary Committee will be set up to study proportional representation. If it keeps to Its schedule, the government could, as early as next fall, In- are Infinite. We could go all the way to proportional representation, abandoning entirely our present, constituency-based, system of direct representation (unilkely); we could add a limited measure of PR fo our existing system (probable); we could replace the appointed Senate with an elected one, Ilke that in the U.S. (possible); or, as the least likely alternative, we could go exactly as we now do. disaster," he has declined to rule out so-called Until a few years ago, proportional limited nuclear war as policy,-He says in that - ROBIN tthe Wes blind) WILLIAMS and MERV LEITCH (spelled Leech East of Manitoba) a. SWEE" PC representation Interested only a few context that “there are things worth fighting for. ... Specialists, like Wlillam irvine, Queen's We must structure our policy under that credible and justified premise." Haig’s opinions, delivered during hearings before the Senate foreign relations committee, signal in formal terms an already-developing shift In U.S. foreign policy towards cold-warrior attitudes away from emphasis on detente with the Soviet Union, arms control and relations based on promotion of human rights rather than EastWest power align- ments. = - The committee has been questioning the former NATO commander and senior aide to former - president Richard Nixon about his record and his opinions as part of the constitutional process which requires Senate approval of top government ap- e HEAR — Separatists speak without a French accent @ WATCH — MORK {and WINDY) LALONDE pour Mexican ail on troubkd waters _? SEE — Hordes of lemming-like drilling rigs in search of profits scurry south or plunge into the Narth Sea @SEE — Prairie beasts of burden saddied with tariffs, freight rates, and convitutianal overnights _ ¢WATCH — The Canadian economy Sink while PETER and PEERRE try to see which ong can walk on water ‘A case of sour grapes _ TORONTO (CP) — A “These people will Meanwhile, Rey. Ken- condemned by both gays University political scientist, and Tony Westell,a journalist and professor at Carleton University. The subject edged into the realm of political reallty In 1979, when the Task Force on Canadian Unity, co-chaired by Jean-Luc Pepin, now a cabinet minister, and John Robarts, the former Ontario Premier, added It to their coltection of proposals for keeping the country stitched together, Late that year, Pierre Trudeau, in his one public speech asa - retired politician, mused that PR perhaps was . an Idea whose time had come. Back In power, Trudeau, In the April, 1980, Throne Speech ee ime te wee eee nett = ogy tee ee aeetee Eee pointments. CBC-TV documentary on probablyconveyto Mr. and . neth Campbell, founder of and anti-gays. During hours of testimony, Haig declined, for homosexuality aired Mrs.JonesinSwiftCurrent the antigay evangelical “Extremists on both plenged te Fetabish a a entory Com. example, to rule out the possibility of U.S. “covert ‘that gay people really are movement Renaissance sides are not going lo be mittee fo tell the government what to do. : operations to stabilize or overthrow a cam _.. ’ gtitutionally elected government’ — a ‘question: <. raised by Democrats Gary Hart of Colorado and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts in reference to the 1970 plotting against the elected Marxist gov- ernment of Salvador Allende in Chile, Haig acknowledged that such plots, including bribery of Chilean congressmen, violated at least the spirit of U.S. treaty obligations in the | Organization of American States. But he said such action ‘‘has got to be viewed in the context of a host of countervailing pressures and other coun- tervailing imperatives.” Peter Maloney, But Kastner said he and =: presentation was in of. the right-wing nean- have any governments been as unbalanced as ’ In such conflicts between treaty obligations and spokesman for the his mother, Rose Kastner, xeeping with the objective derthal and the stereotype those of Joe Clark and of Trudeau fhe Second. ‘ U.S. goals, he contended that nobody “would want a Coalition far Gay Rights in who cowrote the show, of militant homosexuals ‘conservatives have of The country, though, Isn’t nearly as im- a rigid, legalistic preoccupation which dees not Ontario, said in an in- deliberately excluded thathomosexualitybeseen — child-molesting perverts. balanced as Its government. More Con- a assess the exigencies of the moment, or particular terview Monday that many “vocal gay militants’ in as a viable alternative.” “We tried to be as servative voters exist, even if unseen and { events which represent American interests.” gays were unhappy with ordertoconcentrateonthe . ‘The prime object of balanced as possible.” unheard, in Quebec than in Manitob n At another point, however, Haig said that similar the show, which portrayed individuals whom he militant homosexuals is While audience ratings ‘ anitoba and destabilizing actions by Cuba probably rule out improved U.S.-Cuba relations. “It would be very, very difficult for me to support efforts towards the normalization of relations with Cuba just 50 long as they are spawning, instigating, manning and conducting terrorist activities in the hemisphere designed to change by force legitimate governments,’ he said, And he attacked the outgoing government's at- tempts to base relations with other governments on the way they treat people, saying that adherence to human rights should be approached "in the broader sense of whatis in the best interests of the American people as well." Haig took up a theme developed by Jeane Kirk- patrick, designated U.S, ambassador to the United Nations, that Washington should balance morality owe ee escy we Sunday night has been at- * ‘tacked by Toronto gay organizations, but John Kastner, the show's director, says the response is a case of sour grapes. Spokesmen for the gay community in Toronto said Monday the portrayal of homosexuality in Sharing The Secret: Selected Gay Stories, was negative and cliched. six individual homo- sexuals, because ‘“‘it had just about every cliche about homosexuality that one could imagine could be put inte a 90-minute show.” He said the individuals portrayed in the documentary were Caricatures and not representative of the average homosexual. weird," said Maloney, one - of several speakers Who condemned the program following its airing al a. Teronto gay church. Robert Trow, a reporter for Body Politic, a Toronto- based gay newspaper, said the show was negative toward homosexuals and portrayed them as de- serving of sympathy. described as part of the “gay silent majority.” “There’s a historical term for their reaction and it’s sour grapes,” said Kastner, who won an Emmy award for Fighting Back, a documentary on four leukemia victims. “The gay militant establishment feel they were betrayed.” Taternational, said the program attempted to show viewers “how to creatively accep! _ Something that’s destruc: tive,”* Campbell, whose’ organization has been active in opposing Toronto municipal candidates who supported gay rights, said the "thrust of the acceptance a5 a normal, legitimate minority .. .. that this (homosexuality) is inevitable and ought to be encouraged, . “That was the whole message of the presen- tation.” Kastner said he was not surprised the documen- tary, which took 18 months to preduce, had been satisfied withtheshow,"ha = ~ said. “It was a balanced show with positive things to say about homosexuality and things which homo sexuals would not like. “Our purpose was to get both extremes talking again by getting away from the stereotypes they have of each other — the stereotype that gays have won't be known for a few weeks, telephone calls to CBC stations across the country ran more than 3-to- 1 against .the 90-minute show. CBC spokesman Cec Smith said 201 callers were unfavorable to the . program, which contained same graphic scenes and _ dialogue. In the past quarter-century, our “nationat government has only twice been national In character as well as in title: in 1956-62 when John Dilefenbaker elected 50 MPs from Quebec, and in 1968-72 when ihe mood of Expo and the person of Trudeau combined to inspire the West to elect 7? Liberals, inciuding four from Alberta. Progressively, our national government has beoometess national. Not since Confederation Saskatchewan combined. More Liberal voters survive, even If harried and harassed, In the West than In Montreal, and more of them, yet more astonishingly, In B.C. and Alberta than in Toronto. ; Proportional representation would provide a voice at the center for these hardy souls, and also to New Democrat voters in Ontario and the Atlantic Provinces. The new government that resulted wouldn't be truly national (the Liberals are weak In the West, as are the Conservatives in Quebec}, but It would no longer be deflantly and blatanly un-national. Concocting PR formula has become what Irvine calls “a cottage industry”. All the techniques proposed (by the Pepin-Robarts " The cause of the concernis evident enough. _ ——— RECOGNIZED THE EXI wl 2 ANAZING THING!.... Commission, by the Canada West Foundation, by the NDP, which has the most to gain) would preserve our present, single-constituency, in foreign relations with realism and distinguish between degrees of tyranny when deallng with autocratic governments that deny their people basic human rights. The distinction should be made between ‘traditional autocrats’ who are repressive but friendly to the United States and Marxist autocrats bent on incorporating a country into the Soviet bloc, Kirkpatrick says. Haig echoes that ‘‘the assurance of basic human liderties will not be enhanced by replacing friendly governments, which incompletely satisfy our sland- ards of democracy, with hostile anes, which are even leas benign." Advocating so-talled linkage of relations to behavior, Haig says that policy towards other governments is related to what he describea as “perhaps the central strategic phenomenon of the post-World War Two era: The transformation of Soviet military power from a continental and largely land army to a global offensive army, navy and air force, fully capable of supporting an im- perial foreign policy.” Haig was asked directly by Howard Baker, Republican Senate majority leader, whether he believes that ‘the avoidance of nuclear war bet- weéen the United States and the Soviet Union — or the United States and any other country — is the paramount item of foreign policy and the cor- nérstona oi which we must built that policy for the future.” a Haig replied that the mainlenance of peace alone is likely to work against peace. A OS (Galo CF. direct representation system and then add to it 50 or so non-constituency MPs to be ap. pointed by each party in proportion. The Pepin-Robarts formula, for example, would add 40 appainied MPs fo the present, 28-seat Commons. One dozen of these would be Conservative from Quebec, compared to just one today, Conversely, Trudeau's western caucus would expand from twa to 22. These benefits would come at a price. Most governments at Ottawa would be reduced to the status of a minority, although by a mathematical fluke the Pepin-Robarts for. mula would leave the Liberals with a bare, flve-seat, majority, The new “at large” MPs would lack the legitimacy of their elected colleagues, particularly if they had originally Stood as constituency candidates and had been defeated. . . The unknowns, though, couldn't be worse than the knowns. Proportional representation wouldn't stop the West from getting mad at Trudeay. It would, though, provide Trudeau with some western ministers and MPs to get mad at him on behalf of the west. Its the difference between, as with Quebec during Clark's term, a votce at the centre,