From soldier to chairman, :
| CNR head wants to aid unity

_ By BOB DOUGLAS
MONTREAL (CP)-.J.A.
S Dextraze, who considers

= Quebec Premier Rene
1 Levesque a personal friend,
says he would tike to ‘‘Help
unit In the country” in his
new role as chairman of
Canadian National
Railways CNR.
7 6a fervent federalist, the
recently-retired chief of
defence staff admits he is a
layman on railway matters
and says he is searching for
a clear place for himself in
the publicly-owned cor-

poration.

- “] would like to be closely
‘associated. with

biculturalism, bilingualism,

see what I can do to help the

company and the

interview.

Dextraze, 58, a former
career soldier, took over his
new $65,000 a year job Sept.
1 from Pierre Taschereau,
who now is chairman of Air
Canada.

During the interview, he
used military terms like
strategy, tactics and bat-
talion commander as he
described his
responsibilides.

Operating power at CNR
rests in the hantis of
president Robert Bandeen,
who is chief executive of-
ficer. Some observers were
intrigued by the general's
| appointment, expecting a

future ©

collision between him and
Bandeen.

But Dextraze was anxious
to dispel such thoughts. He
said he is ready to help but
not take over command of
the corporation. .

“I know what the chain of
command is. Nothing can
be worse than having ill-
timed interference.’’

Taschereau is a lawyer
and the CNR legal division
reported to him but Dex-
some other area of interest,
perhaps passenger
operations and national

unity.

Asked what he can do to
promote national unity in
his new job, Dextraze would
not be specific, but
suggested he might help
those who are furthering
bilin in CNR.

Dextraze wrote the
bilingualism policy for the
armed forces that was
eventually adopted several
years ago. - :

The CNR. chairman said
he believes CNR
headquarters should remain
in Quebec despite the
separatist scare. He said he

‘would be prepared to. move

parts of the corporation for
business reasons, but not
simply because of the in-
dependence issue.

-_Dextraze sald he an-
ticipates no difficulty in
talking with the. Levesque
government. since the
premier “si a persona
friend of mine.” ;

He first met ‘Levesque
when the then-journalist
visited Dextraze and
Canadian troops. at the
battlefront during the
Korean .War. . The
relationship was renewed
when Dextraze was an
armed forces commander in
Quebec City and Levesque
was a minister in the
Quebec Liberal government
of the early 1960s. .

Born of an English-
Canadian mother and a
French-Canadian _ father,
Dextraze has roots in
Quebec that go.back to the
16008. His.family alsohas a
long. military tradition,
continuing among his own
sons. One son is a captainin
the Canadian Forces and
another son died in Vietnam
while serving with U.S.
forces:

Dextraze said there. have
been some obvious wrongs
in Canada, such as the

overwhelming dominance of
English-speaking people in
business, even in Quebec.

But that problem was as
much the fualt, of French

Canada as it was of English
Canada.
He said © French-

Canadians concentrated on
producing priests and
lawyers in the past. and
neglected the business
world. ‘ But that now is

changing with more
qualified .Quebecers en-
tering business.

~ Quebec, Ottawa, compete
~ for French envoy’s favour

"By PAUL GESSELL

OTTAWA CP - The
delicate balance of the
Canada-Quebec-France
triangle has again been set
aquiver, this time because
of the visit of French Justice
Minister Alain Petrefitte to
Canada.

The competition between
the federal and Quebec
governments ‘for .
fections of .Petrefitte, who
was to arrive in Montreal
late Thursday, is the latest
incident to jangle the nerves
of — protocol-conscious
government officials.

Although Quebec-France
relations have often
troubled federal officials
since the cry of “vive le
Quebec libre’ by former
French president Charles.de
Gaulle in 1967, the election

the ‘af-:

last November of a
secessionist government in
Quebec has given rise to a
new .round of protocol
questions.

When Peyrefitte’s visit to

Quebec was announced. a-

few weeks ago, no mention
was made of a trip to. Ot-
tawa. It.was announced as
an “official'’ visit to Quebec

* and touted as an example of

harmonious relations
between Quebec City and
Paris.

‘The Canadian embassy in
Paris responded Wednesday
by announcing that
Peyrefitte also planned to
visit Ottawa after the
Quebec stay.

An external affairs of-
ficial] said the stop in Ot-
tawa, Monday and Tuesday,
was. planned from the

beginning but that the
federal govenrment had
been tardy in announcing
the visit. .

Justice department of-
ficials, however, were hard
pressed to provide many
details. on the planned
discussions between the two
ministers except to say talks
will centre on ‘wide
issues,”

The Canadian embassy in
Paris had.also announced
that Peyrefitte would meet

‘Prime Minister Trudeau.

Neither Trudeau's office nor
the justice department were
sure the meeting would take
place. ‘

A spokesman for. Trudeau
'g office had recieved in-
formation on the visit only
Wednesday.

- Chilean gets status

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C,

(CP)- Landed immigrant
status has been granted to
Alfonso Miranda, 25, a
native of Chile who .was
denied status as a political
refugee five months ago.
. Miranda, a resident of this
eentral British Columbia
city,. claimed to be a
political refugee because of
his support for Chilean
Premier .Salyador Alende
whose Socialist govenrment
was overthrown by 4a
military junta.

‘It's been like a bad
dream, just terrible,”
Miranda said during a
telephone interview from
Hong Kong today.

“When I left Canada in
April I had a hope of
returning in two or three
weeks and had to leave my
wife.in the U.S.”

Miranda said he and his
wife Myriam moved here in
1975 to. escape .political
persecution in Chile.

When informed -by im-

migration authorities that

they were living here:

illegally, the two applied for
polltical refugee status and
were turned down, They
then left for San Francisco
where they were again

refused political refugee

status after making the
required application...

Miranda then left for
Hong Kong where he ob-
tained a visa and even-
tually, his landed im-
migrant status.

He said he expected to
return. here in two weeks
following ‘completion of a
medical examination. He
will return with his wife,
now in Seattle, and hopes to
bring his two children who
are living with his parents in

Chile.

Miranda is the second
Chilean to leave Prince
George under similar cir-
cumstances,

Ricardo Leiva and his
family were forced to leave
the country to make their

Rail workers ©
set demands

MONTREAL (CP)- Of:
ficials of. 17 unions
representing 100,000
Canadian railway workers
met here Thursday to begin
drafting contract demands
as a prelude to the country’s
largest single round of
collective bargaining.

The current two year
agreement expires. Dec. 31.
The demands which come
out of the current meetings
will be presented during the
first week of October to
Canadian National
Railways and Canadian
Pacific, which also
bargainfor the country’s 11

smaller railways at the

table. ;

Union officials say
traditional issues ‘such as
wages, job security and
pension improvements are
almost certain to be key
items.

The 12 union officials
meeting here are delegates
from the Associated
Railway Unions ARU, an
organization representing
tie 17 unions.

The 5,000 # member
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, which bargained
separately during. the last
contract negotiations, has
rejoined the ARU.

. campaign.

immigration application
and were allowed entry to
Canada as legal immigrants
on Jan. 18, 1977, after six
months in Spain.

Children’s rights campaign set

By JULIET O'NEILL
- OTTAWA (CP)-.A group
of Canadian organizations is
planning a campaign to
convince adults that
children have basic rights.

About 20 representatives
‘of almost .70 organizations
began tossing ideas around
Thursday for a national
Target dateis
1979 which has been
declared the International
Year of the Child by the
United. Nations.

The cost, the programs,
the public relations
messages and whether
many children will get in-
volved.still is undecided.

But it is not only help for
starving children = in
developing countries that
the campaign will be almed

- at, said Edward Marks, UN

associate director of the
campaign.

“Even in
dustrialized world, there are
so many children who are
not properly. immunized,
who are illiterate, han-
dicapped, prey to violence
and abuse or malnutrition,”
he said in an interview.

Even the parameters of
childhood differ. among
various organizations,
countries and provinces.
The. question of when life
begins and the age that
childhood ends is part of the
debate.

the in-

‘of Editorial Writers.

Quebecois was elected

spoken in Winnipeg

Vancouver.

“Levesque coming
- to Calgary

. QUEBEC (CP)- Premier Rene Levesque is to make his
first visit to Western Canada
last year when he visits Calgary next Wednesday.

Levesque’s office said today the premier will address a
luncheon meeting during the annual National Conference

Levesque has addressed ‘students at the University of
Prince Edward Island and given a speech to the
Economic Coub in New York City since the Parti

Although the premier has not been to Western Canada,
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Claude Morin has
and Economic Development
Minister Bernard Landry ‘has visited Winnipeg and

since becoming premier

THE HERALD, Friday, September 9, 1977, PAGE 9

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Amin in coma
after surgery

NAIROBI Kenya (AP)-
President Idi Amin of
Uganda was reported by one
in a coma after undergoing
surgery in a Kampala
hospital for an undisclosed

ment.

Robert. Astles, British-
born confidant of the 51 year
old president, said ina
telephone interview in
Mairobi that he has no
further details.

Asked for reason for
Amin's operation, he

replied: “We don't exactly
know, But he’s in a coma.
We believe he'll pull out of
it. I'm going over to the
hospital right now to see
what's happening.”

Astles was speaking from
office in Kampala. He is a
white Ugandan citizen
married to a black Ugan-
dan, Mary Astles, who is
Ugandan culture minister.

Earlier today, Radio
Uganda announced Amin
underwent the operation by

Moluccans vandalize schools

ASSEN, Netherlands
(AP)- Armed gangs of South
Moluecans set fire to two
schools and wounded a

with gunfire

their compatriots are on
trial for hijacking a train’
and seizing a school last

May.

“Armed with gasoline
bombs, the Moluccans set
fir eto two schools and
destroyed one of them.
They. also. attacked other
bulldings including a hall
belonging to the Dutch Red
Cross and then took shots at
firemen called in to fight the

ze,
A 3% year old policeman
was hit in the stomach by a
Moluccan sniper during the
eight hour. confrontation.
His condition was described
as satisfactory following an.

operation.
Children from Assen’s 55
elementary and primary

- Pop tunes soothe
Rhodesia’s race tension

SALISBURY Reuter - To
the jingle of a pop tune,
white Rhodesian
businessmen have begun an
advertising campaign today
to improve relations het-
ween the country’s warring
black and white.populations.

Its key word is harmony.
Its slogan: ‘You don’t
suddenly have to love your
neighbor - just understand

m

_ Campaign organizers told
a news conference it is not
too late.to bolster race
relations.in Rhodesia, whose
white minority government
isunder attack by guerrillas
of the black majority.

The jingle.goes: ‘‘Har-
mony, harmony, let’s all
Hve together in harmony
and sing away the hurt and

fear - a great new day will

schools were sent home and
municipal authorities said
the schools will remain
closed until Monday.

When the Moluccans
eventually broke up, they
returned to the Moluccan
district and barricaded
themselves with large
pieces of wood spread
across the roads. Police
made no immediate attempt
to remove the barricades.

Hundreds of extra police
with armored vehicles were
called into Assen at. the

of the week for

«the start of the trial which is

expected.to end today.

Moluccans . have
denounced the trial as a
“farce,”

Dutch marines smashed
the. twin sieges June 11,
killing six of the nine gun-

- men who held about 50

hostages on the train. The
school seige involving more

soon be here,’’

The. campaign is
organized by chambers of
ecommerce and mines, in-
dustrial and farming
associations under the
umbrella of the . Private
Sector Co-ordinating
Committee. _

Committee chairman
Milk Daffy said Rhodesia’s
economic future depends on
‘the interaction between
people’ of the white com-
munity and its black neigh-
bors who outnumber them
2% to one. .

In coming weeks black .

and white Rhodesians will
be bombarded on felevision
and radio, in cinemas, in
newspapers and through
posters in public places with
the campaign message. .
An advertising executive

NATIONAL GROUPS.

Patricia MacKay, Toronto
president of the Canadian
Council on Children and
Youth, said the righta of a
child begin with pre-natal
nutrition.

She said children are
taught about a democratic
society. in schools that are
run like dictatorships, and
often are_not permitted to
make decisions in situations
that affect them,

In rural communities,:
children often get self-
esteem with work respon-
sibilities essential to the
family well-being. But city
children often are relegated
“to take out the garbage and
that's it.” .

Organizations involved in

the campaign represent |

children, women, parents,
social service . agents,
teachers, nutritionists,
churches, unions, foreign
aid ‘experts, Indians,
universities and govern-
ment,

They include Girl Guides,
Boy Scouts, Naitonal
Farmers Union, National
{ndian. Brotherhood,
Canadian Teachers
Federation, Canadian
Mental Health Association
and Canadian Hunger
Foundation, among others.

The chief organizer is
UNICEF, the UN chidlren's
‘und, set up to collect and

provide aid for the more
than one billion children in
developing countries.
Thechildren’s year marks
‘he 20th anniversary of the
UN declaration of the rights
xf the child which include
the right to special
for .a healthy,

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than 100 children and their
teachers was brought to a
bloodless end and the four
Moluccans were arrested. -
Two hostages aboard the
train also died In the resuce
operation.

Another, Moluccan was
subsequently arrested and
charged with helping plan
the raids and he is also on
trial with the seven sur-
viving gunmen. They face
up. to 10 years im-
prisonment.

‘tnere have been several
involving
Moluccans in the
Netherlands since the end of
the sieges, but the latest
outbreak in Assen was the
worst. °

. About. 40,000 Moluccans
live in the Netherlands in 60
scattered communities. -
Militants among them
demand an independent
homeland on their native

who helped prepare the
campaign said: “Our ob-
jectives are to Increase
harmony and decrease
racial tension.”’. .

The prime target of the
campaign will . be
Rhodesia’s 270,000 whites.
“We believe the white
community must make the
initial move to capitalize on

‘the latent good will in our [|

community,” hte ad
executive said.

The organizers haope the
theme tune will make the
Rhodesian hit parade,

All the advertisements
stress black and white
harmony at all age levels, at
work and at home.

Radio messages are also
being. broadcast in the
Rhodesian languages of
English, Shonah and
Ndebele.

‘ree and difnified life, the
‘ight to. social security,
meluding adequate
1utrition, housing,
‘ecreation and medical
wrvices. and the right to
srotection from neglect,
wuelty, exploitation and
Jiscrimination.

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islands in Indonesia, once a
Dutch colony. They have
used violence in recent.
years to try to force the
Dutch government to back
their demands.

Molucean extremists
hijacked another train and
took over the. Indonesian
consultate in Amsterdam in
December, 1975, and in
April of the same year
police foiled a Moluccan plot
to kidnap Queen Juliana.

a Soviet surgeon in Kam-
pala’s Nulago Hospital... The

broadcast said the president

was accompanied to the
hospital Wednesday by the
Soviet ambassador |

Uganda. Dr. Feodor Senkof

was identified as the .

surgeon. .

Amin, self-declared field
marshal and president for
e to power in Uganda in
January, 1971, when he
toppled President Milton
Obote in a coup backed by

junior army officers.

His rule has been marked
by violence and bl ed
as he allegedly ted

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scents to differentiate their
products from the com-
peting ‘brands. Consumers
like fragrance because they
associate good smell with a
job well done, specialists
say.

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