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‘ easily available.

sensation of pleasure,

VANCOUVER (CP). — Animals, lke-some °°. y
_ duimans, enjoy the use of: drugs such as cocaine, ©
: gmphetamines and berein when. the drugs “are

.. Gut when certain brain celle are ‘removed, ihe
animals stop taking the drugs, ‘and this finding by’ TC
- University of B.C, researchers may. lead. to" ad: Soa
vances in the treatment of. depreaslon, .
> Br. Chris Fibiger said his research work indicates
“> that the lack of the chemleat dopamine is involved.
“./- in depression. Dopamine, one of several substances

7. present in the brain known as neurctransmittera,ia |.
fe released by certain brain cell and is involved in the os

Depressed people donot enjoy their ‘achlevertients a

or what should be pleasurable moments. are ‘

‘centres, :

: group: began tl _
aa joowinastinthen etodes irtcol eae
a known as pleasure centres of the brains af. research :
*-. animals, ‘the animals Fill press levers that-allow.- -
ven “gurrent : into’ the electrodes : and. tire: the

- “The UBC tear attached rats to catheters which

: ‘Bipplled' thee" with rig. puch, as ‘cocaine :and -

a _ amphetamines: Toreceive the drugs, the rats would
~ lingly. have to press’a lever. -.

But'when ‘brain cells that release dopamine were,

* removed; he ‘rats lost interest/id-the drugs...
- 90. 4It'sas if these drugs were bo longer lasirable ©
"for these animals,” Fitiger: sald. ae

Western Canada federation says

MINNEDOSA, Man.
(CP) — The independence
movement
gaining support in the
West, the president of the
Western Canada
Federation said Monday,
adding
Canada could get along
quite well withaut the rest
of the country.

‘There are a niillion
people in Western Canada
who agree with us,” sald

. Elmer Kouteon, an Ed-
monten businessman who
founded the organization
last May, “By spring, we'll
have two million.”

Speaking to about 200
people at a public meeting
in this farming community
40 kilometres north of
Brandon, he sald such a
country ‘would be .. . of

. Teapectable size, both in
area and in populatiod”
and ‘‘would be . self-
sufficient in energy.”

Knutson said he is not a
separatist because, for a

is steadily ©

that Western =

‘a million agree with split’

” peared to strike a cord.

combination of legal and
historical reasons, the 10
provinces are in fact all
“geparate, sovereign and
independent,"

“How can we separate
something that never was
put together?” he asked,

In opening a series of
Manitoba. meetings,
Koutson = sald =~ his
organization plans a #4
nolilion
campaign,

The crowd, made up
mostly of middle-aged
farmers and their wives,
gave Knutson loud ap-
Plause when he labelled
Prime Minister Trudeau a

dictator and attacked “‘the.

march of socialism” across

Canada,
Knutson’s litany of
economic accusations

against Ontario and
Quebec, ranging from high
freight rates to tariffs
protecting the Industries of
Central Canada against
foreign competition ap-

advertising.

Walter Kreutzer, 53, a
Plumas, Man., farmer,

“ gald “the East has been

robbing us all along and I
could get along without a
robber.” oy
Kreutzer, who drove 70
kilometres to join the

crowd that filled the
Minnedosa Ukrainian Hall,

_ fald he believed Canada .

has no future as long as
Trudeau is in power.

“We've been making the
honey and these drones are
lying in there and they're
taking the honey away
from ws.”

Kreutzer sald he agreed
with Knutaon’s analysis
that the four Westem
provinces could get along

“without the rest of Canada.

“We could survive,” he
sald. “We could go our own
way."

G.A.
Progressive Conservative

member of the legislature

for Minnedosa in the 1950s,

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said be sympathized with
Weat-fed’a grievances but
did not know what direction
the organization would
take ;

“I've been fed up with
Ontario and Quebec for
years,” said Hutton, 72, a
retired electrician who
lives in Minnedosa.
got nothing to do with poli-
ties,"

Hutton said West-fed
might follow the pattern set

“in Alberta in the 1930s by
the Social Credit

‘Ht's"

movement,. which went
icom 4 protest organization
fo a fullfledged politica
party.

“If you remember the
Social Crediters,’ the:,
didn’t want to be a political
party but they ended up
becoming one,'’ Hutton
said, “I can see this group
going the same way.”

Knutson’s - four-day
Manitoba tour continues
with stops set for tonight in

Winkler, Wednesday night .

in La Riviere and Thursday
night in Steinbach,

1,000 missing

JAKARTA (AP) —
‘Almost 1,-000 people were
reported missing after a
fireravaged Indonesian
passenger ferry sank today
In the Java Sea.

A spokesman for the
search and.
operation said only 175 of

the 1,137 people aboard.

reicus:

were known to have been
rescued from the 2,420-ton
Tampomas If which
burned for 12 hours before
it sank,

The spokesman said none
of the ships sent to help the
stricken vessel could get
near it. because of rough
seas.

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-Glark carrying
his message.
_to the people

WINNIPEG (CP) ~— Joe
Ciark ts carrying his bid to
retain the leadeship of the
Progressive Conservative
party directly to the people
and away from reporters

him for comments
on polls showing his sup-
port may be shrinking.

‘He dodged reporters
after a question-and-
answer session with

, students at the University

of Manitoba on Monday -
and agaln after a luncheon
speech to the Canadian
Club.

When asked. by . the -
university students about a

recent poll whiclf showed

he has limited support as
party leader, Clark
denounced it as fiction.
“Tye read that report,”
be told about 200 political
science students. "I don’t
make it a practice to

‘comment on fiction.”’.

The reference waa to a

report in the Montreal -:
Gazette which sald Clark
aupporters destroyed a =~

copy of a ‘poll showing
about half the party caucus
supports a leadership
review.

The party is holding its
annual national convention
next moath amd there has
been discussion of whether

‘the meeting should become

a leadership convention.

Questions about Clark's
leadership were raised
after the party’s 1980
election defeat, which
came after jess than a year
in office. John Gamble, MP
for tha Toronto-area riding
of North York, has led the
movement for # leadership
review.

The question will be put
ta a vote at the convention

and Clark bas spent the last.

several months stomping

the country to shore up ’

eee oo wea

re gy AE PAS NRES P Eee AA DY ne he
r

One place the. Con-
servative leader: appears
certain of support is his
home province of Alberta.

Interviews with several:
. Alberta

convention
delegates indicate near-

unanimous support for
’ Clark.

With the posaible ex-

ception of Bill Yurko, the ©
-.MP for Edmonton East,

and a few other delegates;
Alberta MPs and Con-

servative members of the’

Alberta legislature in-
cluding Premier Peter
Lougheed, said in in-

- terviews last week with the

Edmonton Journal that
they support Clark.

But that doesn’t mean his
problems are over,

“There's a lot of people
who aren't happy, in

:- Alberta. and elsewhere,”
‘said Don Marinkowski,

fact that the Republican
party was able, through
Some long, hard advance
work and preparation, to
win a bunch of seats that
they normally would have
no business winning,” the
Conservative leader sald.

“We hope to do what we

canto emulate it.’

” Polish

leaders
to:
talk

WARSAW (Reuter) —
Poland's ruling Comruunist
party Politburo, faced with
crippling new strikes by
farm ard _ industrial
workers, has declared it-
self ready to negotiate a
settiement.

The Politburo .met
Monday night to discuss
union demands for an end
to ‘Saturday working and
decided that the Issue
should be discussed by a
group of experts from both

’ sides.

An official Politburo
statement carried by the
PAP news agency said the
dispute should be settled

.around the negotiating

table, but no date for any
meeting with union of-
ficlals was announced,

. .Milltant farmers had-
earlier announced plans for
sirikes. across Poland -

Wednesday to - press
demands for the formation

of their Rural Solidarity’
‘free trade. union, but the

seared (non of the action dp-
'
meet Te ee
the trede unica movement
Solidarity, said lt wants the
farmers’ action to. be
delayed to Feb. 8, when
- Warsaw workers have
acheduled their own
general strike to force
authorities to make good

_ their prominea made to

strikers last summer.

A Solidarity official said
In Warsaw on Monday
nigat:
breaking out all over that
would give us more time to
coordinate this action,”

Tt was unclear whether

other Solidarity branches
in the country have agreed

Solidarity,

week is-also campaigning
for relaxation of
and the right to have its

- own voice among the mass

provinces - unless
authorities met the union's -
demands . '

media, last week brought
more @han five million

“werkers‘oub on strike of

boycotting-work. -
Union officials have

declared their readiness to

negotiate a settlement, but

preparations for industrial
action are being made. all
over the country today.
Workers in the souihera
city of Bielsko-Biala, near
the . border with
Czechoslovakia, are
preparing to stage a
general strike today unless
a government commission
started talks about owting

A one-hour warming
trike took place in several
factories Monday.

In Jelenia Gora, western
Poland, Solldarity' is

plaradig a four-hour strike
“Wednesday and-warned of

a: general in the
fain and we nie

Solidarity sources in the
southern city of Rzeszow
said they are awaiting the
arrival of a union

delegation headed by Lech |

Walesa as workets in at
least eight major ares
factories planned an in-
definite strike. Wednesday
te support farmers,

“With strikes —

which in |
addition to the fiveday.—

the ~