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politically Independent acd 4 member of the Britith
Columbis Press Council,

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“Letters to
the Editor

’ To the Editor,
After reading D.H. . Webster's
letter of March 27th, .it would
appear that an explanation or
apology for the omission of
quotation marks around the word
“Mayor” in my response to P.
Weeber's letter is not necessary,
My concern about the error
evaporated when I read the same.
_ political distortions which were In
P. Weeber’s letter some weeks
ago, and -Webster gave
his. ption of Terrace Council's
position on Industrial
Development, These distortions
amd errors prompted my original.
reply toP, Weeber. I have heard
them repeatedly from Mr. Weeber
and a few other self-appointed
economic gurus of the area.

Strangely, when one reaponda to
such false conclusions P. Weeber
considers it protesting too much,
and Mr, Webster considers it

both thatit is neither. The} should
also expect to be corrected when
they make mistakes, It didn’t
surprae me coming from P,
Weeber, but it was surprising
coming from Mayor Webater,

Repetition is no substitute for
truth and I make the same
challenge io both Weeber and
Webster. Support your statements
with documents and motions from

“Subject.

ned an incredible dack:of. vatilty

and are: not supported by the
record,

If Mayor Webster would like to
check the Terrace record, I would
be only too happy to supply him
with any information he wants,

My position is still that before
outside politicians _ criticize
Terrace Council they should AT
THE VERY LEAST get the facts. -
Truth should last longer than a
mere 85 miles to New Hazelton,

Yours truly,
_ Helmut Gieabrecht
Mayor

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Page 2, The Herald, Tuesday, April Py 1964...

dallyherald ” Canada to le

WASHINGTON (CP) - ~ External.
Aftairs Minister. Allan MacEachen
headed for Central America today
fo find out’ whether Canada can
jend a hand. to regional peace
efforts and help prevent the spread
of civil strife and border fighting. .

His 10-day tour of four Latin
American capitals. follows two-
days of closed talks in Washington,
where he publicly maintained his -

- distance from 0.8, involvement in
- Central America and avoided any

hint of accepting U.S. direction.
The Canadian minister tuned
down a request from U.S. State
Secretary George Shultz to add El
- Salvador to his itinerary, a move
that would have demonstrated
Canada’s support for U.S.-backed
political forces conducting an
election amid opposition from
insurgent leftist factions. ..
MacEachen and Shultz, in thelr
seventh quarterly meeting in 19
months, also signed a treaty |
setiling an old argument about -
water. power on the British
Columbia border, agreed: to
disagree again on cross-boundary

“Hopssot progress taingled West

. Coast salmon ‘fisheries: vdispute,

and talked about @ wide range of
bilateral and international issues,
A: senior American official;
scawering questions -on- condition
he not be :identified, expressed
disappointment” that . MacBacheti
had rejected & written appeal from

~Shultd, delivered last Saturday, to

‘add Bi Salvadér to bis tour of three
Cenjral American countries . and
neighboring Colombia, a sponsor, of
a regional peace plan. =.
A.GooD. EXERCISE? ., .

“I think it would have been’ a

good exercise to show-Canadian

support for free- elections,” the
U.S, official said. - .

’ MacEachen- ‘anid | ata’ news
conference he. favors. free ‘and

_ proper electlons. ‘But* "Canadian

‘authoritles: indicated it ‘would have

. been difficult to ‘accept the Shultz
’ suggestion without appearing to be

‘acting at Washington’s beheat, ::
Further, it would have bean hard

: for MacEachen to avoid meeting
. Salvadoran: election candidates
“and thus. appear. ‘to be meddling,
acid rain pollution, expressed .

Altogether, the visit: ‘tae El

i)
any future Canadian role aa part of

a neutral body overseeing a peace

settlement, authorities argued. .
Macachen told: reporters. he

belleveg his “present: ‘itinerary. —

Costa Rica, : ‘Colombia, : Honduras
and Nicaragua — ~ will give him’ “a.

balanced. perspective.” : :

The. El -Balvador presidential

elections — the inconclusive first

round. held: March 23-23 and a.

runoff due early next month — are
opposed: by: leftist insurgents
seeking | control. of “the “country.

“They want. a negotiated . political —

settlement in advance: -of elections,
MacHachen: said he’ had
reiterated. to Shultz the Canadian

‘ opposition to . any military.
intervention by: outsiders’ — “the .
first thing that is necessary is the '

demilitarization of the' region” —

. and support for a negotiated peace

advocated by the Contadora group
of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and

. Venezuela;

- He said Shultz ‘also supports the

” Contadora initiative and observed !
’ that Preaident Reagan hasanid the
. United States is ready to withdraw”

sig) tn from the region if others
“do likewise, Washington says the
Salvaderan revolutions backed by

- Cuba and’ the Soviels through

‘Ni a.
See assed by Mackachen

WOR a ‘proposal for Canada to
provide observers to the next stage
~ sf elections in E] Salvador. He said
‘that “if, we're asked, I would be
thetic.”
ae coatien team observed the
first stage and reported that
‘conduct of the polling was inept but
a peared to be free of coercion.
vricet stop on the MacEachen
‘tour to confer with government
‘officials is Costa Rica, where one
group of Nicaragua rebels is based
for operations across the border.

He is to move Colombia on
Thursday for talks on. the
Contadora peace plan. He goes to
‘Nicaragua on Sunday for a
meeting with Daniel Ortega,
leader of the Sandinista junta that
_Belzed power in 1979.

MacEachen is scheduled to fly
April 11 for a two-day visit to
Honduras, where the main
Nicaragua rebel group is based

~ and where the United States. has

been conducting | military

exercises.
‘MacEachen . and Shultz, “who

each described thelr. talks ax an
example of working welll together,
formally signed an a0-year; paict-on-
the Skagit River Valley that staves
off proposed U.S. flooding * of

Canadian lands in exchange fora

Canadian guarantee te 6 tia
electrical power to Seattle. : .
American officials described the’
acid rain talks as “very frank’ rid
very direct,” reiterating that: nidte-
research must precede further
U.S. action and adding that Canada
has not done as much: as
Washington to reduce industrial
and automotive emissions: to curb
the cross-border pollution, -*.-.
They reported no firm progress
toward resumption of West Coast
salmon negotiations, although
MacEachen said he and Shultz
agreed to inject “a greater
political impulse” Into the ‘Maue.

Negotiations aver the. salnjon -

catch broke down in January: ‘and

officials are seeking an ftaite:

agreement.

Saskatchewan. accepts. youth offenders act.

- OLTAWA (CP) —

funding agreement with Ottawa to
implement the federal] Young
Offenders Act which came :into
force Monday, Solicitor General
Robert Kaplan sald,
Ontario Justice Secretary

‘Saskatchewan ,
ig the only. province to accept a

Walker’ ‘eatimates Orlario's

. annual bill for juvenile justice, will

Gordon Walker. released a -

_ Statement saying his province
~ would put the act into effect, which
it is legally required ‘to do, but has
not yet signed a funding
agreement,

“Despite persistent efforts to try

and achieve” an" equitable coat: -

sharing agreement, Ontario today
finds itself with the responsibility
to implement and administer the
act without such an agreement in
place,” Walker said in a Statement
released in Toronto.

“It must be recognized nthat the
Young Offenders Act imposes
substantial new costs on every
province's justice system.”

Kaplan told a news conference
he’s confident the provinces will

sign funding agreements by July 1-

_ when the first payments are

‘scheduled to bemadé#:

Delinquents . Act, which
repealed, ended on Sunday. .

“There's no legal oblikation
Tight now to make any payment to
the provinces,” Kaplan said,

“i assume, the : provinces.
recognize “that They're going to
want to get agreements settled
within three montlis.”

SIGNS DEAL —

Kaplan said he signed and sent
an agreement-in-principle to the
Saskatchewan government
Thursday and has been told it was

signed by the province during the.

weekend,

The Young Offenders Act was
passed by Parliament almost two
years ago, but proclamation wag
twice -delayed by the provinces

' which aay It will. cost millions of

increase by.as much 88 $77 million

to a‘ total of $163 million. The
province will also have: to spend
another $65 million in capital coats
to build: additional” court -and
custody facilities, he said.
Kaplan has offered to share the

cost of keeping young ,people in.

prigons, but will not contribute any
money towards building ‘new
juvenile prisons.

Instead, he's offering to share
the costs of diversion programs —
to keep juveniles out of the formal
criminal justice system — — and of

. alternative sentencing programs,

AEE nasty,

pa a wala sversions.
Funding for the 1908 Juvenile ;

Federation

Ottawa's latest effort to reform
competition policy in Canada was
greeted with applause by business
and with reservations by consumer
spokesmen, all for the same reason
— the legislation appears to be
watered down from earlier:

“Our consultations (with: the
ministers invelved) have. produced
a very practical piece of legislation |
that will hopefully go through,”
asid Jim ‘Bennett,. executive
director of the Canadian
‘of Independent
Business. “We think they ,
gone out of their. way.to come tip
with practical solutions.”.

But. Ted English; ‘economic

of the 85-year-old | Combines

‘Investigation Act is watered di
from earlier

_ Versions the
government has ‘tabled then
withdrawn after a round of

complaints from business.

The association is pleased that

_ Adjudication of mergers and ant}-

dollars to put its new measures into .

effect.

competitive practices would be™

turned over to civil courts rather

- around such things.” .

As well, tice $25 million worth |

of implementation grants ‘on ‘the

table to beshared by the provinces. ©
“Ontario is most concerned that:

an, inadequate
agreement will undermine the
very reforms that the Young
Offendera Act is . supposed to
produce," Walker said.
SETS AGE AT 18

The most controversial provision

"Of the legislation is establishment

of a uniform maximum juvenile
age of.18, ..

Only Quebec and Manitoba now
treat young people under juvenile
laws rather than the Criminal Code
until their 18th Birthdays. British

Mixed reactions to.

than the criminal court division, .

English apid, But he added that the
new civil powers of. the legislation
must still be tested in’ the courts,
and “lawyers are paid to get

EXPECTS RETREAT i

Sam. Hughes,. president ofthe
Canadian Chamber of. Commerce,
expressed concerns — about

proposed. new measures to.

adjudicate joint ventures between
companiés to bid for contracts, a
situation common in the resource

indusiry.-The business community |

has maintained, hesaid, there is no
legal reazon why companies should

. . not be able to’ bid .jointly for

projects that would’ not be

“policy’ spokesman’ ‘for ‘the commercially viable on thelr own.
Consumers’. Association bf “But the government isn’t
Canada, said the propised refoi ‘prepared lo leave the door as ajar

as we would would iike,"”

But Hughes was optimistic that
the government will “step back a
bit on thig issue.”

And he said he was glad to see
adjudication of mergera and other

areas dealing with competition:

removed from criminal law...

A spokesman for the National.
Council on Business Issues, ‘the ©

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| Weapons
- ‘Apparently successfully diverted”

_ commodities
VAX computer” were found {1 Ihe

Columbia and Newfoundland use

_ 17 as the legal dividing age where

all the other provinces and

_ territories use 16.
cost-sharing .”

The uniform maximum age must
be in place in each province by
April 1985 when sections of the
Charter of Rights prohibiting
discrimination cn the basis of age
come into force,

The minimum age at which
someone can be ‘charged and held
responsible for a crime is raised to
12 from seven.

‘The new laws also abolish the
catch-all offence of juvenile
delinquency and: require young

"people be charged with a rede

affence.
Kaplan said the old law treated

young offenders as If they were
sick and not responsible ‘for their

conduct.
“The new law asks the coins to
recognize the level: — of

responsibility of youngsters; to
recognize any immaturity. or
dependency on adults, but subject
lo these, to hold them responsible
for their acts,” he said: ' .
The act gives young . people a
wide range of new legal rights,
including the right -to” be
represented in court by a lawyer
and to appeal court judgments.

competition policy

powerful Ottawa-based business

lobby, said its officials were still

- studying the legislation. But he

said: “We expect to be able to
support. the thruat, ot _the

Web

Guild, complained that while the
new act’s civil powers might sound
good on paper, 4 loophole in the
amendments would neutralize

. scrutiny of mergers.

The measure he was referring is
arequirement that federal officials
be notified in advance of mergers if
the. offspring of the corporate
marriage would have assets or
sales in excess of $500 million,
FECKLESS CHANGE

“That's ridiculous,” Sack said,

_ “Advance notice (of mergers) is
_ the most important part of the

Whole legislation. What's the point
of putting an advance-notice
requirement so high? [t will have
no effect.”

He said that without advance
notice it would take years to

1 ow iteluding. those. OF |

Toronto lawyer

; win *omnpetttie™ ‘law’ and™
general counsel for the Newspaper

unravel a corporate mérger to s6e
whether it fulfils. all the legal

" requirements.

Extension of the combines act to

encompass Cron eatporations
Provinces = =

and: ‘won praise *t

‘business spokestiea ee

“We are still checking “which
{crown corporations) -are covered
by the proposals,” Hughes said,
“but It looks as though the vast
bulk that compete with the private
sector will be affected.'’

Meantime, Jim Conrad,
executive director of the Canadian
Federation of Independent
Petroleum Marketers Association,
said the consumer will benefit
from the new ¢lvil ‘court powers
over mergers, criminal
conspiracies and anti-competitive
practices,

He said the service station
operators he represents will have
better luck in the courts trying: to
stop the big oil companies from
dictating prices at the gas punip
while acting as both supplier and
competitor to the independents.

be

Technology theft.

' WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight

.. containers of U.S.-made high

technology equipment critical to
systems “were

to the Soviet Union, Saysa top U.S,

customs investigator.

* William Rudman, director of the

; ‘strategic investigations division of
' dhe Customs Service, told the

Senate banking committee
Monday that he is not sure where

equipment is, but assumes it to
be in an East bloc country.

The equipment, most of it
manufactured by Digital
Equipment Corp. of’ Maynard,
Mass., is used to make semi.
conductors crucial in misglle
technology,

Seven other contalners,
including a highly sophisticated
Digital Equipment vax 11-782
computer, were recovered by the
West German Customs Service on
board a ship bound for 8 freight
forwarder In Sweden, A. warrant
allowing the’ selzure wag issued
only seven minutes before the ‘thip
‘Was tet to sail,

The forwarding company was
operated by Richard Mueller,
described by Rudman as "a
custome fugitive long known to be
reaeed in illegal Us, -origin
tec ology transfers to
Soviets. the

Rudman said

“‘agnifi
quantities of Eniicant

In addition to the

feven selzed containers,
If the eight other containers did

strategic’ Dee

reach the Soviet Union, . “tthe
Soviets may have gained five years
in terms of research and. other
savings in resource development in
computer technology, data
communication, computer
software and integrated circuit
technology,” said Dr. Stephen
Bryen, deputy assistant secretary
of defence,

He told the commiitee

“successful illegal exports could
be saving the Soviets more than a
$1 billion a year in research and
development.”

Bryen said the VAX case alone
could save the Soviets $80 million a
year for the next decade, He did
not say how the estimates were
arrived at.

Rudman also testified that. a
subsequent trace of: all VAX
systems led customs to recently
develop “reliable information that
one of the VAX 11-782 systems was
snccseilly diverted to the Soviet

ion,’

He said that matter was alll

under Investigation and he could

Bay only. that. the Mueller
organization was involved: in

ba

tt

diverting the equipinent through .

Western Europe.

Meanwhile, William Archey,
acting - aaslatant commerce
secretary for trade administratlon,

told the committes that ‘his

department and the

Treasur
cents which’ ?

administers

Customs Service, have’ récenily ©

vont an
enforcing
Adminiairation -

agreement ‘on
the _ Export
. Act, forbes