> narrowing “of MIDDLE EAST "Mejor hurdles on peace: path TAIF, Saudi'Arab bia (AP). kind. of peace: dement ae YU, Ss: “State::8e crater ~ ar et ; i eet A te. miss Cyrus’ Vance." ‘earri¢d his homed ; drive for Middle East p talks’ to. Saudi Aral on Sunday, still. “without any ‘] differences” on the issue of Hussein told; reporters “We are not edd. aroung in in circles as we - Speaking of his talks with Vance, Jordanian King. ‘dr poli cy is to promote: . bet rospective how _ States is 1 Arabia for assis . @ Palestinian homeland. Vance. was met. at. the airport by Foreign Minister Saud a principal. were in -the all: rich m who has made nosecret that he expects the United States to express its gratitude for Saudi Arabian moderation of' oil price increases pressure on Israel. U.S. friendship with Saudi, ‘Arabia has-been on the rise, ‘The Carter administration considers the bulwark against “Soviet -dnroads in. the Middle East and Africa ‘The Saudis are considered * tobe a powerful influence on ‘Syria, Egypt -and the Palestinians; ~ Current Carter administration ween the | Palestinian “homeland” and Jordan rather ‘than to favor statehood for the Palestinians, * : ‘In this res te: ‘Saudi we are aisal, one of: the. by \exerting’ pect the’ Valted . for many years, I don't think - talking vaguely as used to be: the case.” But Hussein declined to ‘comment on -specific progress from the two-days of talks with Vance, sa’ it ‘would not be helpful” for the continued negotiations. The king said -.at last the United States is seeking a comprehensive settlement - to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hussein, who “fo bloody elvil war wit Palestinians in 1970, said their “rights” toa homeland ‘ara a.core issue in the Arab-. Israeli dispute. "I think nobody can stand against the principle: of self- determinat {on which is recognized the world over.” :-Hussein- did riot insist, Organization eva éeace He: said (PLO) in one ons. that “Palestinians. Dust be - involved in the ‘solution.’ Israel has refiised to deal ht a- ever, on participation by the Palestine Liberation. Seturday British Columbia ‘member ’’ of. parliament. : 8 seonteal :0£ - the - Col ’ sensitive and . the Arrow Lakes,” -. ‘Beason At a news: "conference with the PLO, which night in Amman, maintains an official Jordan," Vance said he had calling for the destruc made some progress: on the_ the Jewish state. ; : MP calls BC Hydro “insensitive ” giant NELSON, BC. (CP) A’ ‘boat launching ramps: aha oo Nit um River Treaty should be. : aa its knuckles rapped a transferred rom British times Columbia Hydro ‘to the In- * ternational Join Commission (LIC); : ‘poe Bob - ‘Briseo: Kootena: West) said. in. a3 rview. Sunday. ensen said the action 7 gBuaeo, anid taken by the move would be ‘one-f san corboration on. answer to Hydro’s :‘‘ine’ ae attitude toward ~.the commiunities“ and Hishery jaf to Federal Romeo Leblane, Brisco also ‘Suggested that government make the IJC Com munities third . bilit oftheir tourist trade “this A ty ee -Decause. .° of drastically changing wa levels met have resulted in government, order once. dry beaches and unusable B.C. Hydro ‘was - ‘Tesponsible ‘to the JC ‘and . ‘ew things would go- paler ” Brisco said in an the federal government _ news release Saturday: that. i, impose control over the Environment Minister the © : eesponsible only for main- . on ‘the ‘taining the Arrow Lakes, --- ~ Arrow Lakes have lost much «. ‘pod al was. that the aro to Gail Maroney, det and at booth comminity on 1 Its 50th Anniversary from “POLICE CONTINUE SEARCH | Terrace RCMP say that 32 Panuet “ gld,..Peter “Jos ph Fi of Ll ue tte tito 6° Te. is. presunied owned after -a‘'-boating- accident.on the Cedar River near Rosswood July. Pa uette and his’ | their canoe greriura. ‘ Twinriver Timber had the door. onthe right. hand. passenger, side of one, oe sir trucks .stolen. . The truck was - parked at the.. company’s Lakelse Avenue offices. Police received the © report at 2:30: p.m. on August 55, , “At noon. the next day olden Logging ‘reported that several of their logging trucks: ‘had been broken in Nothing appeared to be missi Terrace’s problem with bears. continues.: On Saturday night at. 8:10 pm two bears were sig ted behind the A & W, vother On Lynette Hehr is Queen of the Totem Saddle Club inthe | She ‘has. shown herself to be a fine Terrace area. OTTAWA (CP) — federal cabinet’ resumes as discussions on a northern pipeline today after. failing . to reach a consensus on the issue in a special five-hour Saturday session, - Government sources sa say the cabinet probably make a decision at a meeting star at.1 p.m. today, or “dur further talks necessary, on Tuesday. ’ Atissueisa propoea the oil induatey to, b pila a $10-billion pipeline from the North across Canada 4 . move Alaskan natural United States marke " ry connecting line into the . Northwest Territories might U: Weather Sunday: “ -High7] na -. bows] ‘| Monday: » Highs Possibility of. few datefe "> showers afternoon. Air traffic almost ” everywhere in Canada came to a halt early Sunda “2,200. controllers. Wi oft M their ‘contract. - the job*in ‘dispute . with . the federal ' government, < Thousands of. travellers were stranded as airlines. scrambled to make arrangements for. iransportin ting th them to cities ted: States for crerseas oF long-distance will introduce legislation ‘ . forcing the controllers’ to work and forcing a canrael them. to ‘meet’ again with one. jour’s notice. They algo said. ty cou be baci. on the job Within’ six hours. of . an: agreement | reached - and would wait. for; _ fatification. - Parliament will | sit ‘Tuesday to study. the. Proposed legislation and planes: were’ bein: dispatched to bring many the MPs back to WA, The government will need. unanimous consent. to pass the legislation in one day and members are non- committal on what they will do until legislation. horsewoman at her early age during the © pass year. This Monday} o to move Canadian The cabinet ah Mecids “whether a is needed | now, which route it should | ‘follow and what conditions it should seek from the U.S. government in negotiations. Which will. -follow. any. tative pipeline approv a etn ool i, the decision will be made early in the week. The lea contender for from tives Ltd of Calgary. vgery which ng the Alaska - protested. both proposed .conditions since’ ‘add to the cost of natural gas pulha U.S. 8 rer, applied eon fo . “through the Effuway yukon British ee "NORTHERN PIPELINE = 10ices: baffle. cabinet be built f needed in the 1980s Columbia and and Alberta to the S, border. | . ¢ - Leaislatie. Libeory, oa Benet Build ings | Reports of special inquiries ordered by the the pel say the route of e should swin ugh the interior o the ¥ Yukon to facilitate con- -- struction of a Canadian con- nection later and that the Yukon should receive $200 million to co te for the social and economic have. the Project will Those are ethe sort of qules- ‘tons that would have to be negotiated. with the U.S., ’ government — sources aay. ashington already has ey would . & US consumers. inelude:. 0 Foothills Alaska ‘Both the Progressive Con- . servatives and the New Democratic Party said in a special Pipeline debate in e Commons last week they support the Alaska-Yuken pro osal, but -feel the tions should be im posed. The government sources say the options now being looked at by the cabinet ne} deferring .a pi Stine sfor several years; proposal; the Foethills proposal with a route change f° Sta oaate toe connecting pipeline Northwest ‘Territories; or e Canadian Arctic Gas Pipelie Ltd. route, LOGGING. FATALITY Marcel Deailets, a 42 year old ‘Terrace resident, | have death by a 4 hile ett ‘chokers 12 miles‘ west Aiyansh on the road to Greenville. However since there were no: witnesses, RCMP are not certain of the cause. Y haps is win we believe bid an pappened,” 8 nh, RCMP ma not attribute blame to elther ateena Salva e or the » They was ‘an “Hccident . Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass _ VOLUME 71 NO. 67, Price: 20 cents MONDAY, AUGUST &, 1997 _ AIR: TRAFFIC CONTROLLE RS. will take 48 hours at the earliest before the controllers can be made to return to. work.. government’s last e eight percent wage seeking ‘total in emse ot of a to crease 12.6 per cent, which would include 4.6 per cent that ‘about 6) percent of . them would receive under a new classification system. Salaries under the last nat ‘sald ‘he’ will riot’ . . Air traffic control also has been withdrawn from all airports in Quebec, despite _ an earlier statement senior official of the Queb: controllers’ organization that the Frenchs eaking — controllers would not support the strike. e Quebec controllers are members of Les Gens de L’Air, which has quarrelled with CATCA during the last - three years, The controllers had ‘said. they felt their dato it told, ” GP. Air High traffic controllers strike. radio controller. - ‘said that all‘'domes a day to and Prince Rupe was hard topu passengers Tttected, bu but he estimated there 300 passengers a day flying in and out of the area now. . at heavy traffic at this time of year, the Herald was contra t, which expired tion would be jie Canadian Ais Trt Bec at ame rage trom ite a confidence in ibe .(CATCA) called the walkout’ series nnmrnennt Eee | 4 iconv Minister Otto Lang’ that: be]. roel By BILL MARLES ‘Herald Staff Writer ts and. Northern Thunderbird Ait fights. . ‘to Terrace have been cancelled as a result of the: alr However, ‘Trans. Provincial Airlines flew out, Sunday Morning from the Terrace airport, according to a local - Jim McKeachie, public relations officer for C. P. Air, ‘ flights for today were cancelled. MeKeachle said that Canadian Pacific was operating on. He said there are two to three flights a day to Terrace rt from faneon th McKexchie said it figure on the number of Terrace: Might be 200 Meanwhile, all domestic flights for Nordair have been suspended except for a daily flight to the Northwest Territories from Montreal, an airline spokesman said. Air ‘Canada, ‘ which normally operates 500 flights a day has reduced the number to 20, said Don Carlisle, an airline spokes- man in Toronto. **We will continue as well as. we can but it is unlikely that we'll be able to expand. hat we're ‘doing | now ause at heavy traffic in trike strands tourists | fe US oe n the limited ra) of some airports to handle big planes, or a high volume of smaller ones,” he said. Passengers scheduled to leave Toronto. for Vancouver ‘on Sunday morning were bused to Niagara Falls, N.Y., for'a flight to Seattle, Wash., where another bus- would take them to Vancouver. . Halifax gers on an t were to be es to Bangor, eee ares oer ingest sorbet or Boa” iE ON 5 TRIKE IN TERRACE Bu THREE AIRLINES CUT SERVICES _ passeng ’ possible to accommodate the | information along as opposed to telling a pilot wha McKeachie said there was nothing C.P, Al could do for ers right now, ' He anticipates a rush of traffic after the strike. "AS soon as it’s over, we will be doing everything © sen ‘ey, ” . . A Northern Thanderbird 3 man said that company’s service would be cancelled for the duration of the strike, Northern ae gerbird Air runs a Twin Otter flight to Terrace every day ans Provincial Airlines could not be reached for comment. wh Bill Mitchell, manager of the Terrace , said: there were no members of the Canadian Air. Traffic Control Association (CATCA) in Terrace, Mitchell explained ‘that Terrace’s radio controllers aly pate a ferent function. -The local controllers m a he said, So there areno strikers in Terrace. However service is affected because the controllers at Prince George and Vancouver are out. ' ‘ me Mitchell expects the smaller planes will operate as . long as the weather is OK. Oo her new role for show. year she is making the competition easler © by appearing $1.5 BILLION » oS Alaska pipeline brought $ waste. state regulatory WASHINGTON ‘(AP) — Investigators Bay $1.5 billion was wasted in building the ka pipeline because of poor management, unsound siness practices and manoeuvres to .win US. congressional approval, e investigation of cost overruns in constructing the 800-mile-' pipeline was ordered by the Alaska Pipeline commission, a seed Sunday, report was released Sunday. ‘erry Lenzner, @ counsel for the state commission, said blame for the h h cost of the. $&billlon — peline should not be attributed to “isolated instances of theft or labor gold-bricking” but to a pattern of inept man- agement. Comment was not available from Alyeska Pipeline service Co., a consortium of eight oil - companies that built the. pi _ ine. ipeline, ' which deliver its first oi] from. Alaska's North Slope to the Alaskan port of-Valdez last week, has been the subject .of ‘a number of investi- 4 gations amid charges. of Management irregularities and excessive costs. In addition to the Alaska state commission, the U.S.: Interstate Commerce. Commission is pi e cost overruns. en .the pipeline was Proposed in 1968 the eatim aera was f about $1 » but the time construction began in 1974 it was $4 billion. and current es are twice that: enznery sald his investigation concluded that a number of decisions made Pesulted’ | in millions of dollars being added to the cost of the project. Extensive losses were in- curred, the report said, because the Al eska consortium decided “not to hire an experienced con- struction management firm © until a few mois lor to Ons on nis aes te on Authorization Act into law on Nov. 16, 1979. The measure had passed in a close vote in the Senate ra en strong op environmen ition groups. .