PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, April 19,1978" False alarm election scare OTTAWA = (CP)-MPs went inte a flurry of bill passing Monday after Prime Minister Trudeau gave them an election scare, The prime minister had stormed oul of the Commons after the daily uestion period threatening to call. the expected June election immediately. It turned out to be a false alarm but MPs were confused. From then until late Monday _—onight—-sitting overtime—they approved. four pieces of legislation considered priarity bills needing passage before Parliament is dissolved. The Commons was to return to the budget debate today. Tonight MPs were to vote on a Conservative motion of non-confidence. The’ budget debate continues until Thursday, unless the government interrupts it with something—such an election call. Some op- position observers say Prime Minister Trudeau will call the election after the budget is approved Thursday night. The budget debate was interrupted Monday to allow the Commons to deal with the legislation outlawing postal strikes. The bill was given bill third and final reading with the New Democrats opposing but = not speaking. STILL OPPOSE BILL Ed Broadbent, NDP leader, said in an in- terview later: ‘“We made it very clear we oppose the bill but it would have been totally gratuitous to have held it up.” The bill is the most important outstanding piece of legislation on the government's pre-elec- tion priority list. It was expected to receive quick passage from the Senate tonight. Loe Next on the govern- ment’s:. tist ... was legislation to set prices for oi! produced in the Athabasea oil sands by Synerude, ‘the oil con- sortium set up by federal government, Alberta and Ontario governments and private companies, at international levels. Opposition parties voted in favor of the petroleum — bill with reluctance. During the debate, John Crosbie (PCSt. John’s West) cailed Bnet gy Minister Alastair Gillespie "a bionic windbag who should resign.” Crosbie said the minister deceived the country by promising at the federal-provincial first ministers’ con- ference in February that resource development would provide Canadians with thousands of new jobs. GET OFF HIS DUFF “What a con game, what a shell game. We have a minister who is nol going to get off his duff to do anything,” Crosbie charged. Cyril Symes (NDP- Saull Ste Marie) said the bill is a discriminatory piece of legislation that favors one. oil company and sets a bad precedent, Members sat past the usual 10 p.m, ad- journment to deal with two more pieces of legislation. Almost without debate, a bill setting up a national ‘ centre for occupational health and safety was rushed through = the House. The centre, financed by the federal government, will be a $- million meeting place for representatives of labor, government and the educational and scientific communities to study ways of improving safety standards in the coun- try’s workplaces. The House then move at whirlwind pace to approve legislation to crack down on income tax rebate gougers. PROTECT TAXPAYERS Introduced only last week by Consumer Af- fairs Minister Warren Ailmand, it protects tax- payers from storefront income tax services, which take as much as 50 per cent of a client’s tax rebate as payment for services. The only legislation left- the government thinks important are bills allowing the Export Development Cor- poration (EDC) an ex-. tension of its financial authority and which allows the mint to strike’ ‘gold coins without seeking parliamentary approval each time. Neither bill is likely to ‘come up before Friday. The mood in the House all day was tense. Speaker James Jerome said "we all feel the ‘ strain of the uncertainty under which we are ‘operating. I hope some certainty is injected into the situation in the next day or so.”’. Opposition members were less restrained. “Call. the bloody election,’’ one back- bencher shouted at Trudeau. Both language ads suggested OTTAWA (LP) — ‘The federal government should publish bilingual advertisements’ in Eng- lish-language daily newspapers when there are no French-language ones in the community, Liberal MP Jean-Robert Gauthier said Monday. ‘Tt would foster national unity and give a feeling of federal presence, said Gauthier, MP for Ottawa- Vanier and an ardent advecate of Franco-Onta- rian language rights. In Toronto, for example, there are 90,000 French-Canadians but no French-language _—_ daily serves the area, Gauthier told a Commons com- mittee studying the ex- penditures of the office of Mae Yalden, official languages commissioner. Yalden said he agreed in principle with the suggestion. In his annual report, tabled in the Commons and the Senate last month, Yalden said the federal government was ignoring French- speaking communities outside Quebec by not publishing more ads and declarations in the French-language press. “As a result, Fran- cophone communities are very often not informed in their own language of programs and projects +} planned by federal in- stitutions or of federal services available across Canada or even in their particular region,” the report said. P. Western ‘back on job Pacific Western Airlines’ #round workers returned to work today after their. union and the Alberta government-owned airline reached a ten- tative agreement. The ground support personnel, members of the Canadian Airline Employees Association, returned to work at 2:01 a.m., - an airline spokesman said. , Brian Johnson said the tentalive agreement is subject to ratification. Details and terms are being withheld until that time. The agreement was reached Monday with federal mediator Don Crabbe of Vancouver, The 550 workers in 50 centres in British Columbia, Alberta and the Northwest Territories had been without a contract since Aug. 31. Rotating strikes began in March 20 but the airline said it had been able to maintain normal schedules. - A large group of Canadian business executives well attend the sth in- ternational Consumer Goods Fair in Brno, Czechoslovakia between April 2 and 28. More than 900 participants from 46 countries will be offering a wide ' range of products. Canadian and Quebec information centre will be set up in the huge Z Pavillion (above). : al mm ‘Commons We carried Media gang up on pay TV Michael Hind-Smith, president of the Canadian Cable Television Associ- ation, said today the media are apparently trying to gang up on the association's pay-TV pro- posal to block it. _ “As marketers of this potential new service, we - have faced a very hostile media reception,” Hind- Smith said at a meeting of the American Mar- keting Association. Text of his speech was released in advance. “Self-appointed -defenders of the con- sumer interest - have combined with the cultural nationalists in what seems like a con- spiracy of the media to stifle this infant at birth.” Hind-Smith said ‘the entrenched and = suc- cessful’? radid and conventional television media are also trying to discredit the cable in- dustry. Conventional broad- casters, among others, have criticized proposals for pay-TV. saying it would further _ split. already badlty- fragmented Canadian TV audiences, would bring more U.S. shows into Canadian ‘living rooms already swamped by U.S, culture and make it more difficult for Canadian- ‘made shows to compete. in a special report in March, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission concluded for the second time: in three years that there should not be any national pay-TV system for the time being. It said there is no compelling demand for pay-TV. But the report, initiated at the request of Com- munications Minister Jeanne Sauve, said it is paramount that the federal government establish a pay-TV policy. However, Hind-Smith, whose group has been ‘lobbying to set up pay- TV. said it may soon be too late to control it, “Indeed, unlicensed entrepreneurs in the Toronto area have already made substantial inroads into the market: through offerings to condominiums and apartment dwellings, thereby removing ‘them from the licensed broadcasting system . The cable association's proposals calli for a system of predominantly” first-run U,S.-made movies delivered by cable for an extra monthly charge of about Canadian-made programs would also be shown, but the association, representing about 90. per cent of cable TV operators, says its pay-TV should be exernpt from Canadian content ‘quotas now imposed on radio and conventional TV broadcasters. Canada subsidizing Cuban military, PC’s_ Progressive Con- servative MPs charged today . that:: Canada | is. subsidizing ‘ Cuban military efforts in Africa. Lloyd Crouse (South Shore) and. Dan McKenzie (Winnipeg South Centre) said aid to Cuban fisheries and agriculture frees Cuba to use its money to send troops to fight in Africa. Cuban troops have helped leftist regimes-in Angola and Ethiopia. Defence Minister Barney Danson told: the defence committee that the Con- servative MPs were ‘‘in- accurate and unfair’’ in. their questioning. Canada has tried to separate foreign aid from the political views of a particular country, he said. Aid was given for humanitarian reasons. But “when you see distorted priorities in that country you may want to $12 mill More than $12 million in free coupons with no bottom limit provided a shopping bonanza for hundreds of Vancouver residents who redeemed them at Simpson-Sears’ downtown store Satur- day. The coupons ran in two weekly newspapers last week and there is not a copy of either to be found on a newsstand today. They have a combined circulation of 70,000. Each copy carried $173 in coupons ranging from $25 down. Some people had collected more than 100 copies of the newspapers before they set out for their shop of a lifetime. “My own guess is that Sears forgot one essential thing—bottom — limits,” said Denis GrayGrant of the Western News. “I didn’t argue abovt it, I was too busy. I was more concerned with getting the ad in properly.” OBEYED IN- STRUCTIONS Gray-Grant said he has not heard from Sears. “There is not tao much they could complain of. out In- charge look to your aid program differently,” he said. External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson hinted last week that the government may use aid to Cuba as a lever to. attempt to force ‘with- drawal of the Cuban troops. Canada granted Cuba $10 million in credit two years ago for health and animal health services and a further $2.7 million for technical assistance. The credit was at three- per-cent interest for 30 years, Jamieson said the aid ends this year but some | new development projects are ‘up for dis- cussi¢n. = 5 TROOPS SAID THREAT Crouse said Cuban troops now in Africa are a- threat to countries like South Africa,. Rhodesia and Zambia. The - United States Bovernment has spree structions to the limit," Most of the smaller coupons were cashed in the clothing and china departments where items could be purchased for under the $5 value of the coupon. Only the five-per- cent sales tax had to be paid. * Radios .marked at $14.95 and $24.95 were snapped up with the $25 coupons. Some shoppers © said they obtained estimated there now are about 6,000 Cuban troops. |. in Ethiopia. The troops helped Ethiopia fight Somali troops = iin Ethiopia's Ogaden region until Somalia withdrew its troops recently, They now are reported being used against Eritrean guerrillas in another area of Ethiopia. . McKenzie said the government talks about arms control and at the same time supplies “‘low- interest loans country that’s involved in war.” ; The government should have a policy against supplying aidto a country is involved in war, he said, He referred to Prime Minister Trudeau's cry of “Viva Castro” in Cuba‘ two years ago and sug- gested the prime minister is friendly to Cuban teader Fidel Castro ion shopping enough clothing to dress their children for several years. Sears officials were not admitting any blunders. “We looked at the | situation and said fine,’’ - said spokesman Lyle Winter. “We have noidea how many coupons were turned in bul it was no where near the $12 million they had.in face value.”” ‘ Helicopter searches. for downed plane » VICTORIA (CP) — A Canadian Forces helicopter waited today for a break in the clouds to land a ground party at the site:ein mountains north of Vancouver where a;plane crashed with two Ottawa men aboard March 27. . The plane was sighted Saturday 70 kilometres northeast of Vancouver by a Canadian Forces helicopter which let down acre member to examine it, however, because it was snowing heavily and the plane was in deep snow, unable to see inside the downed _ single-engine craft. ; An attempt to land a pround party at the site was blocked Monday b bad weather and a sear ‘and rescue’ spokesman said another attempt would be made today if the weather cleared. Aboard the plane were Abou Ammo, 2, and Douglas Craig. 23, who © “rented the plane on a job- seeking trip. to a- the man was. —_ 20 ye ars in jail ! for Chilliwack killer. The father of one of four teen-agers oslain last summer said Monday he doesn't feel any vengence towards their killer, Walter Murray Madsen, 24, who was convicted by a British Columbia Supreme ‘Court jury of first-degree murder. John Guliker = said outside the courtroom following the life sen- lence imposed on Madsen by Justice J.G. Gould that he is glad the Chilliwack, B.C. man won't be roaming the streets anymore. Madsen must serve at least 25 years-in jail. Madsen was convicted on four counts of first- degree murder in the July 18 slayings of Miss Guliker, 6, Evert Den Hertog, 19, his brother? Jan, 16, and Bert Menger. 9..The four were shot while drinking beer beside the Fraser River at Rosedale in the Fraser Valley. . - The bodies of the three youths were recovered from the river. The girl's body was never found. “This has been a long, tragic and dramatic case,” Justice Gould told the jury before dis- missing them. SPEAKS SOFTLY Following the verdict, the tall, stoop-shouldered Madsen was asked by the judge if he had anything to say, “No,”? Madsen replied ently. Madsen’‘s lawyer Gerry Young said outside the courtroom that he would appeal the verdict reached after 1 days of lestimony and argument. The jury reached its verdict in 90 minutes _ following, a day of final summations from prose- cution and defence lawyers. Young told the jury of 10 men and two women that the Crown called evidence that proves be- yond any doubt that Madsen shot the teen- Bers. ; He said the key issue in the case was whether Madsen was sane al the time of the shootings. He recalled evidence _that Madsen planned a $2 million _kidnap-ransom scheme in which he in- tended to seize a member of a prominent Van- couver family. KIDNAP PLANNED The jury was reminded of evidence in which Madsen ‘said he intended to kidnap, not kill, the driver of a truck he selected for his kidnap plan, adding the accused fired the fatal shots only when he realized the driver was not alone. Young suggested that any normal person, on hearing of Madsen’s plans, would say: “That guy must be a nut.” Young reminded the jurors that they must vonclude that Madsen was “unable to appre- ciate the nature and qualily of his acl’ in order for them to find him nol guilty by reason of ; insanity. ; . ‘He urged the jurors lo accept the evidence of defence psychiatrist Dr. James Tyhurst, who said Madsen was schizoph- renic and legally insane. Young said — the evidence of the defence psychiatrist outweighed the findings of three Crown psychiatrists wha decided Madsen was sane. : Prosecutor Doug Hogarth said there was ample evidence that the killings were “planned and deliberate”. . Hogarth pointed to evidence that Madsen’ told his brother shortly after the shooting that he. had done ‘something erazy”. 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