PAGE 2. THE HERALD, Monday, Dacember 5, 1977

- Africa’s poore

Sy THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
. Jean-Bedel Bokassa,
the stocky, bearded
dictator of one of Africa's
poorest countries,
crowned himself Em-
peror Bokassa I on
day in a colorful $30-

$30 million crowning

million ceremony in-
spired by his idol,
apoleon Bonaparte.
Tens of thousands of
Central African Empire
subjects cheered
Bokassa, 56, and his No. 1
wife, Empress Catherine,
28, as they drove through

the flag-bedecked streets
of the capital, Bangui, in
horse-drawn carriages.
A handful of foreign
dignitaries witnessed the
ceremonies, but
Bokassa's fellow African
heads of state declined
invitations to attend.

The self-proclaimed
emperor, wearing an
ermine-trimmed red
velvet cloak with a 24-
foot-long train, plaved the
diamond-encrusted
imperial crown on his
own head in Bangul's
indoor sports stadium,

and then crowned the
empress kneeling before
him.
Earlier, he solemnly
swore an oath “before the
people, before the whole
of humanity and before
history’ to uphold the
country's constitution

British troops arrive to stop
Bermuda riots

HAMILTON, Bermuda
(AP) — Camouflage-clad
British troops arrived
Sunday on this tense
British colony where po-
lice reported calm after
three nights of rioting and
fire-bombings sparked b
the hanging of two blac
extremists convicted of
murder.

The first contingent of
airborne forces—62 men
from the British colony of
Belize in Central
America—landed aboard
a Royal Air Force VC-10
troop transport at a
nearby U.S, naval air
station, where they were

U.N.

UNITED NATIONS
(AP) — Despite appeals
from international
human rights groups,
condemnations by the
Commonwealth, church
organizations and others,
and an endless stream of
reports of a six-year
reign of terror, the United
Nations has not spoken
out or acted against the
president of Uganda.

., The UN.Human. Rights _.
Commission has had at
least .-four...formal..op--
portunities to consider
charges against Ide Amin
and has taken none of
them.

__ But some here say they
believe the time may be
approaching.

“It depends on what the
Africans intend to do,”
said Allard Lohenstein,
former U.S. represen-
tative on the commission
and now a deputy envoy
here.

He said nothing has
happened thus far
“because the Africans
weren't prepared to do
more...[ think there is a
moral pressure now
toward doing more.” He
said he hopes for action at
the commission’s next

annual = session in
February.

Some African
diplomats say _ the
Organization of African
Unity may also even-

tually break its silence on
Amin, and some US.
political leaders are
pushing for unilateral

' met by government buses

for the ride to Hamilton.

An additional 186
soldiers from bases in
Britain—most of them
members of the Royal
Regiment of Fusiliers—
were scheduled to touch
down in staggered flights
through the night.

The only major in-
cident reported overnight
in this selfgoverning
Atlantic colony was the
fire-bombing iate
Saturday of a bakery on
Court Street, the focal
point of clashes between
riot police and black
youths.

“T think the steam has
gone out of it,” said
Police Insp. Allan Lister.

Bermudian officials

had asked for the
military back-up.
Although police said

the bakery blaze was the
most damaging attack
Saturday night, gangs of
black youths conducted
several other hit-and-run
fire-bombings in

Hamilton, capital of a
cluster of islands.

DAMAGE IN MILLIONS

Damage from the three
days of disturbances
across Bermuda was

never criticizes
:  Amin’s rule of terror

economic action against
Uganda, such as banning
imports of Ugandan
coffee,

The Amin issue has
been raised anew since
the Security Council
imposed an arms em-
bargo Nov. 4 against
South Africa because of
its racial policies. Some
commentators suggest
the UN is applying a
Gouble standard when it
takes concerted action
against South Africa but
ignores Uganda.

Since Amin _ seized
power ina military coup
in 1971, accounts of ar-
bitrary detention, torture
and mass killings have
become almost com-
monplace:

—The International
Commission of Jurists —
a nongovernmental
lawyers’ group — filed a
30,000 word report witht
eh Human Rights
Commission in May , 1974,
compiling accounts from
Ugandans of bloody
purges in the army,
police and government,
massacres of members of
tribes Amin considers
disloyal, and other
bloodletting.

The jurists taking note
of reports of 25,000 to
260,000 persons killed,
said the number was
“certainly in thousands
and very possibly tens of
thousands.”’

—Former foreign
minister Wanume Kibedi,
who fled Uganda in 1973,

Palestinian leaders
take tougher stand

TRIPOLI (AP)
Palestinian leaders have
declared a new hard line
against negotiations with
Israel and demanded that
the Arab leaders meeting
here end their bickering
and form a “steadfast
front against Egyptian
peace moves.

The tough statement
issued at a news con-
ference in the Libyan
capital Sunday reflected
angry impatience at
delays at the flve-country
summit caused mainly by
discord between
President Hafez Assad of
Syria and an_ Iraqi
delegation headed by
Foreign Minister
Saadoun Hamadi.

“We, the Palestine
Liberation Organization,
in all its factions, demand
formation of a front of
steadfastness and con-
frontation comprising
Algeria, Libya, Syria,
South Yemen and Iraq,”
said the PLO statement,
naming the countries
participating in the
meeting.

‘This front should
confront all surrender
solutions and im-
perialism and Zionism,
as well as their tools in
the Arab world.”

Leaders of the five
countries and PLO chief
Yasser Arafat have been
trying since Thursday to
reach a consensus on
countering Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat’s
trip to Jerusalem and his
drive to start peace talks
with the Israelis.

NO UNANIMITY
Conference sources
said efforts to form a
solid front against Egypt
have dragged on through
18 hours of formal talks
and many more
dividual meetings
because of Iraqi in-
sistence on rejecting
United Nations Security
Council Resolutions 242
and 338. Those resolu-
tions form the basis for
American-led efforts to
resume the Geneva peace
conference, which has
been recessed since
December, 1973.

said the jurists’ reprot is
essentially accurate.
—Amnesty In-
ternationla issued a

report in September, ©

1975, saying political
prisoners were being
tortured and executed
“on a disturbing scale” in
Uganda.
—The jurists filed a
second report with the
UN commission in June,
1976, _ covering the
previous’ two" years.
Former Ugandan -_
education minister E.B.
Rugumayo, who fled in
1973, told the jurists
group he estimated 80,000
to 90,000 persons have
been killed in his
homeland. Kibedi said
that estimate is low.

—Ali Sanji, a former
Ugandan secret police
inspector who fledin 1972,
estimated that in
November, 1976, that
300,000 persons, two per
cent of the population,
had been slain.

—Amnesty In
ternational filed a report
with the UN commission
last January citing
witness accounts of
torture and murder.
—There have been dozens
of similar reports of
individual incidents in
African and Western
newspapers. In fact,
Amin and his government
in some cases directly or
indirectly confirmed
"“dissappearances” and
deaths.

But Secretary-General

Niall MacDermot of the.

jurists commission says
that if his group’s fin-
dings do not show a need
for a UN inquiry, “‘it is
hard to see what kind of
evidence is required.”
The commission last
Mareh rejected a British
bid for an investigation of
the Ugandan situation.
Only Western countries
backed the British.

“Missing”
woman was
never lost

CROFTON, B.C. (CP)
— RCMP said Sunday
that a 32-year-old woman
missing since Thursday
has been located.

Carolyn Gronland was
reported missing after

she failed to keep: an |

appointment with her
husband, The horse she
had-been riding near this
Vancouver Island
community returned
home without her.

An RCMP spokesman
said Sunday Mrs.
Grundland was neither In
the bush nor on Van-
couver Island when she
was located. There were
no other details
available, he said.

estimated at more than $5

million.

Police and troops firing
teargas grenades in
drenching rain Saturday
broke up a crowd of 300
black youths massed in
Court Street, which is in
downtown Hamilton near
Parliament and about
two blocks from the
waterfront. The area is a
kilometre from two of
Hamilton’s luxury hotels,
the Princess and the
Bermudiana.

Sunshine returned
Sunday, bringing out
some tourists toting
cameras and tennis
rackets,

It is the off-peak tourist
season for Bermuda, a
popular vacation spot for

orth Americans. Only
an estmated 2,000 to 3,000
tourists are here, com-

B.C. Tel

pared with 12,000 or more
a week during the high
season of mid-winter.

- On the advice of Ber-
muda Prime Minister
David Gibbons, the
island's British-

‘appointed governor, Sir

Peter Ramsbotham, had
asked London to send
troops to help end the vio-
lence.
CURFEW IN FORCE

Under a government
emergency decree
declared by  Ram-
sbotham, 900 policemen
and members of the
Bermuda Regiment were
placed on alert or
deployed. The governor
also imposed a dusk-to-
dawn curfew that
remains in force.

British troops were last
called to Bermuda in 1968
during racial rioting.

workers

continue picket

CRANBROOK, _ B.C. delivering shipments of
(CP) — Striking British toll tickets from Van-
Columbia Telephone Co. couver to the hotel.
workers Sunday con- ‘This makes it a legal
tinued to picket the Coach place of business which
House Inn in this we can legally picket,”
southeastern B.C. Stoulenburg said.
community. He said the hotel is also

~Gordon. -. Stoulenburg,
spokesman for .the Tele-
communications Workers
Union here, said union
Members began
picketing Friday because
they feel Cc. Tel
supervisory staff is doing
business at the hotel.

He said a_ courier
service has been

Floods kill

TACOMA, Wash. (AP)
— Millions of salmon fry
have been killed and
millions of others en-
dangered by raging
floodwaters, the
Washington state
fisheries department
says.

“The waters act like a
scouring pad, scarping u
gravel, eggs, mud,
everything,'’ said
department spokesman
Dan O'Leary.

Young salmon fry can
have their gills blocked
with silt, and eggs can be
erushed by the torrents.

Giles

VICTORIA (CP)
Brock Giles of Vancouver
Sunda’ earned — the
second berth out of the
Totem men’s bonspiel
into the Pacific Coast
Curling Association
championships.

Giles defeated Brad
Clarke%of Victoria 5-3 in
the final of a sixrink,
double-rink playoff.

Steve Skillings of
Victoria won the first
Totem berth last week by
winning the A everit
championship.

—

housing supervisory staff
flown in from Vanocuver
to help maintain services
druing a strike by the
company’s 10,000 union
employees.

There are about 60
supervisors working in
the East Kootenay area,
he said.

U.S. salmon

A million young salmon
already have died in state
hatcheries and another
1.8 million have been
released five months
prematurely with dismal
prospects for survival, he

said.

Elkomin hatchery in
south-western
Washington was under
water. The Humptulips
hatchery was partially
flooded.

It will be from two to
five years before the fulle
ffects are apparent as the
different species of
salmon return to the
rivers, O'Leary said.

e

Giles led 3-0 after three
ends Sunday and was
never seriously
threatened. He and
Skillings will be joined in
the PCCA playoffs by six
other rinks, two from
each of the other three
PCCA zones.

The winner of that
playoft will meet the
interior champion for the
right to represent B.C. in
the Canadian curling
championship to be hel
in Vancouver next
March.

District of Terrace

st country has _

and safeguard its in-
dependence and
territorial integrity.

Bokassa, a former
French colonial army
sergeant, seized power in
an army coup Dec. 31,
1965, and has been the
country’s one-man ruler
ever since. He

roclaimed himself

ereditary emperor of his
two million subjects
exactly a year ago.

FRENCH MANAGED

French sculptor Olivier
Brice desi the two-
ton gold-plated throne:
shaped like an eagle with
outspread wings—as well
as the crowns,
ceremonial sword and
other trappings © en:
crusted with locally-
mined andeut diamonds.

Brice stage-managed
the entire hour-long
ceremony, following
orders from Bokassa to
copy the historic details
of Napoleon's coronation
on Dec. 2, 1804.

Bokassa likes to
describe Napoleon—
another former non:
commissioned officer
who crowned himself
emperor—as his ‘guide
and inspiration.”

Bokassa had invited the
chiefs of state of France
and nearly all African
countries to attend the

ceremony, but none
came. Most foreign
countries were

represented by their am-

_ bassadors in Bangui.

The handful of high
foreign dignitaries who
did attend included the
prime ministers of

auritius and Cameroon,
the foreign minister of
Chad and the wife of the
president of Mauritania.

France, the former
colonial power, was
represente at the
coronation by Overseas
Technical. Assistance
Minister Robert. Galley
and two other officials.

ILLITERATE PEOPLE

The landlocked country
exports diamonds, coffee
and cotton, but about 90
per cent of its inhabitants
are illiterate and live in a
primitive subsistence
economy.

Several former
ministers and other
citizens have been held in
Bokassa's prisons for the
last year because they
opposed the proclamation
of the empire.

The coronation
ceremony was followed
by a gala reception given
by the emperor. A seven-
foot-high coronation cake
made by a master pastry
chef in France, hundreds
of pounds of caviar and
24,000 bottles of cham:

e were flown by spe-
Maly plane from Paris for
the reception.

Another chartered
plane brought tulips,
roses and other non-
African flowers from the

Netherlands and France.

More than 250 luxury
automobiles were im-
ported from Europe for
use by the coronation
guests.

Bokassa spent an
estimated $30 million on
the ceremony, about one-
fourth of the country’s
entire annual national in-
come, Business firms
operating in the Central
African Empire ' and
many of the inhabitants

“generously and

voluntarily complied”
with official requests for
contributions
Bokassa’s coronation
fund, a government
spokesman said.

. 1, Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on proposed Land Use |
Contract By-law Project No. ADP-02-7619, The proposed contract Is concerned with

the following areas:

ne Street)

- 41) Lot 1, Block 4, D.L. 360, R.5, C.0., Plan 3265 (Keith Avenue and Tefrault

.+2, The general intent of the proposed Land Use Contract between the District of
Tefrace and YOMO Management Gormerly All West Glass) Is to allow for a muffler
shop, 8 warehousing outlet, the cutting, installation and sale af giass and related
products, and the assembly and safe of overhead doors on the north half of the
property, and C2 Neighbourhood Commercial activities inthe south half. |

..3, The proposed Land Use Contract may be viewed by any and all parsons requiring
more specific information, during regular business hours at the Municipal Hall.

.-4 The Public Hearing will be held in the Municipal Council Chambars on Moriday,
Decmeber 12th, 1977, af 7:09 p.m.
..5, Any and all persons having an interest in the proposed Land Use Contract By-

Law Praject No, ADP-02-7619 shall take notlce and be governed accordingly.

E.R. Hallsor
Clerk-Administrator

Voice of the readers

Personally I’m tired of
hearing and reading that
the recent municipal
election was free of any
pertinent issues.

If Terrace can absorb a
further annual loss of $3
million without some
form of dissatisfaction,
then we must be on the
road to a speedy
economic recovery and I
honestly find that ex-
tremely hard to believe.

Itis quite apparent that
the Skeenaview Lodge for
senior citizens will not be
given the “three to five
year phasing out period”
recommended by Vic-
torla. The Skeeenaview
resident count is to be
reduced to 115 by the end
of the year — down 23 per

cent from 150. Fifteen of
these residents are to be
moved to other in-

’ giitutions elsewhere in

B.C. within the next

week.

On-tall staff will no
longer be required
because of the lower
resident council and
those Skeenaview em-
ployees with Jess than two

ears service are algo in

eopardy,

; urely this is an
“issue’’ for Terrace City
council and the com-
munity as a whole.

Furthermore, am I the
only resident of Terrace
who is offended by all the
goings and the secrecy? I

loubt it.

John MacCormac

Victoria Report

by MLA Cyril Shelford

I’ve just retumed from the Social Credit Con-
vention which was attended by over 2000 people from

allover the Province. Many
every year, partly to visit
take part in the discussio

ple go to conventions
old friends but mainly to

ns on Resolutions. There

was 89 in total. The Resolution sent in from Smithers
received a lot of comment around the Convention and
was passed by the delegates as it was felt it is better

to have peop

on the land than have them hang around In ci
create social and economic porblems. For the

le that love the land and the county live
es

to
in-

terest of the people of the area, I will reprint the full
Resolution so that those interested can look it over
and send me their comments if they have ideas for
improvments. It was also announced last week that
the Government will be selling a large block of land
int he Peace River for those wish to go farming,
details will be announced later. —

Resolution B-1 reads as follows:

Whereas for many

ears homesteading was a

means by which Canadians of limited means could
acquire land for a homesite, a farm, or a retreat
from the rigors of city life; and

whereas costs in dollars were low and few
restrictions were imposed: and

whereas people of pioneering spirit settled and

developed

unused areas of the province; and

whereas that by using and developing thier allotted
acreage, homesteaders would benefit not only
themselves but the Province as well;

be it resolved that the Government of British
Columbia implement a Homestead Act:

1, Homestead to be granted once in a person’s

lifetime.

2, Minimum age of homesteader to be eighteen

years,
3. The homesteader must be a Canadian citizen or

in the process. of becoming. lia
Canadian citizenship to be ‘inalized before title is

issued.

a Canadian citizen;

4, A home or principal residence must be
established within a reasonable time (perhaps one
year), and must be maintained until all titles are
B5u

5. A homestead would be forty acres or less and
would carry a ten year lease-to-purchase agreement.
The applicant would need to demonstrate beneficial

use 0
qualify as a homesite.

6. A nearby or adjoining

at least five acres of the land in order for it to

reel of land of one

hundred and twenty acres or less would be reserved
and made available to applicant. This additional
acreage could be acquired when clearing and other
homestead requirements are met.
7. An additional two sections of land, nearby or
adjoining the homestead would be made available to
the applicnat when homestead requrements are met.
Ten years would be allowed for development.
Keeping in mind that the value of land stems
largely from the uses to which it is put and unused
land generates no tax revenue the following acreage
fees are suggested: homestead forty, $10.00 per
acre; 120 acre supplement, $20.00 per acre; ad-
ditional acreage up to 1240 acres, $30.00 per acre.

ee

couvers LIll Fiore,

Mation, Parksville.

children.

[a

Winners in the 1977 lattery, sponsored by the
British Columbia Lions Society far Crippled
Children were:

$100,000 - Boris Bloomileld, Victoria.

$7,500 - A.B. Neufeld, Delta.

$2,500 - Audrey Erhardt, Comox.

$100 consolation prizes - Julle Forth, Van-

Prette, Victoria: Vera Curchin, North
Vancouver; R.M. Paterson, Langley: Alice
Lindstram, Prince Geerge; Douglas H, Jones,
Vancouver; Mrs. K.B. Smith, Vancouver)
S.W. Baxter, West Vancouver: Mrs. Florence

“The real winners In ihe (lottery are the
handicapped children of British Columbia,”
said Provincial Secretary Grace McCarthy
when sha made the draw at the G.F, Strong
Rehabilitation Centra on November 25. The
lottery raised $150,000 for the Society and
$60,000 went to Lions Clubs from commissions
on tickets sales. The four Lucky Leo lotteries
have netted more than $700,000 for crippled

Palnt Roberts; Dick

Thanks, everyone.

see you next year!

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