Ml | 10C unanimous in backing Moscow Games =P LORD KILL ANIN Games at stake.” Socreds’ ‘policy “ [ . “future of @ GRENADA: Following a familiar pattern, the CiA is seeking to undermine the progressive regime of Maurice Bishop in this tiny country, pages 6, 7. @ ARMS BUDGET: As social services, health care and education go begging for funds, the real election issue is a cut in military spending, page 5. @ LABOR: Jack Phillips comments on the at- tempts to revive the cold war politics of the 1940s and ‘50s in the trade union movement, page 12. The International Olympic Committee, in a long-awaited de- cision Wednesday, voted unani- mously to hold the 1980 Games as scheduled in Moscow — giving a further rebuff to Bk Boys cam- of U.S. president er. pes decision by the 73 IOC members — including the U.S. — rejected the call by the U.S. for a cancellation of, or change in venue for the Games and echoed the stand taken earlier in Mexico by the National Olympic Com- mittees which had urged that the Games proceed as planned. The two U.S. IOC members voted with the final resolution in support of the Games which had been drafted by a West German, a Kenyan and a Canadian, Steve Worrall. energy sham’ The Socred government’s long- awaited ‘‘energy Policy,” an- nounced last week in Victoria by energy minister Bob McClelland, has been attacked by the Com- munist Party and the NDP as “‘a sham” and ‘‘public relations pap.”” “Tt is no energy policy at all,”’ Communist Party provincial leader Maurice Rush said Monday following a meeting of the party’s B.C. executive. ‘It is a sham de- signed to cover up the real energy policy of the government which is one of selling out the energy re- sources of B.C. to U.S. and foreign multinationals.” The NDP’s reaction to the policy was also critical, although weak. NDP caucus energy critic Chris D’Arcy called it ‘‘a classic case of the elephant laboring mightily to bring forward a mouse.”’ D’Arcy criticized the policy for being vague and incomplete, but stopped short of accusing the gov- ernment of covering up a sellout of energy resources. : More than a year in the making, the energy: policy released by Mc- Clelland offers little in the way of specifics. Crucial issues of energy exports, massive power projects and the price of oil and gas are pass- ed over almost without comment. See SOCREDS page 11 IOC president Lord Killanin, who had earlier stated that members ‘‘should not be dictated by governments where to go,” read the resolution, noting that the ‘‘very existence’ of the Games ‘‘and the organization of sport throughout the interna- tional federations is at stake. “The IOC cannot solve the po- litical problems of the world but calls upon the governments of all countries, and in particular those of the major powers, to come to- gether to resolve their differ- ences,’’ he stated. Although one of the U.S. members on the IOC — Julian Roosevelt — has long been out- spoken in opposition to Carter’s boycott demand, the affirmative vote cast by the two USS. repre- TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN sentatives on the IOC was seen as particularly significant because of the enormous pressure exerted by Washington to try to force ath- letes — as well as other countries — to fall into line behind the cold war position. U.S. secretary of state Cyrus Vance had added to that pressure in his speech to the opening of the Lake Placid Winter Games as he sought to drum up further sup- port. However, IOC director Monique Berlioux called a special press conference to criticize Vance for his speech. The U.S. also demonstrated its ‘international bully’’ tactics just as the IOC meeting was beginning when a White House counsel, Jo- seph Onek, said that the IOC would ‘‘be destroyed’’ if it reject- ed the U.S. position. He was later compelled to apologize. But however unofficial it may have been, Onek’s statement re- flected the U.S. position in seek- ing to force other countries to conform in the face of solid oppo- sition from national Olympic committees and sports federa- tions. National Olympic committees are independent of the govern- ments in their respective countries and it is their decision that will de- termine participation in the Games. Only in six countries, including China, Chile and the U.S., have Olympic committees joined with their governments in backing a boycott. Strikers at Vancouver's Cannery Restaurant, on strike for two months in an effort to win a first con- tract, were backed last week by the B.C. Federation of Labor which declared a boycott. The Federation noted that the management had been found guilty of unfair labor practices and the boycott was intend- ed “as a warning to this employer that he is dealing. . . with the entire labor movement.” The owner, Bud Kanke, also owns Mulvaney’s and Viva restaurants as well as Bud’s Good Eats. NPA discards ward majority Arigid, undemocratic NPA ma- jority on Vancouver city council wrote the script for the 1980 civic election Tuesday when it formally discarded the 52 per cent majority which voted for a ward system in the 1978 plebiscite. The recommendations for a par- tial ward system coming from its discredited Eckardt governmental _ review commission received the same short shrift as the NPA block ” decided to take no further action on the ward system. Bearing out charges that the Eckardt commission was appoint- ed only to facilitate anti-demo- ‘cratic measures long sought by the NPA group, council did vote to adopt three of Eckardt’s recom- CP comes out against Kemano Il The B.C. executive of the Com- munist Party has come out against the development of the proposed Kemano II power project near Kiti- mat and has called on the provin- cial government to terminate all ex- isting agreements with the Alum- inum Co. of Canada (Alcan) and bring the Kitimat aluminum smelt- er operations under public owner- ship. Under the terms of a 1950 agree- ment with the provincial govern- ment Alcan holds water rights over the entire Nechako River water- shed and the Nanika and Kidprice lakes. Alcan already owns the Ke- mano power station on the Ke- mano River which powers its smelt- er operations in Kitimat. But now it wants to build a $2.5 billion dollar expansion to the project which would see dams built on the Nanika -River and Kidprice Lake and six new turbines added to the Kemano project. The project, said by Alcan to be of “massive proportions,”’ is sup- posedly to power three new smelter operations in Kitimat and Terrace, but critics have pointed out that large amounts of the power will be for export under an agreement be- tween Alcan and B.C. Hydro. Environmentalists have opposed the project because it will flood seven square miles of land and re- duce water flows in the whole.re- gion, having serious ecological im- pact on fish and wildlife. “The time has come to end ihe special rights this corporation has enjoyed for 30 years,’’ CP leader Maurice Rush said: Monday. “It has virtually colonial rights over a vast area of B.C. The provincial government should take steps to terminate the Alcan agreement and bring the smelter operations under public ownership as a crown cor- poration.” With Alcan at the helm the new expansion of the smelting industry will be almost completely for ex- port, but it should be used instead to help develop secondary in- dustry, he added. mendations. The city will ask the province to amend the charter of the city to extend the term of office from two to three years, require candidates for civic office to put up financial deposits, and to in- crease the powers of the mayor. There were no new arguments presented. NPA alderman George Puil said that the majority wasn’t large enough and that people really weren’t interested in a ward system. Warnett Kennedy said the ward system is a plot by leftwingers to take over the city ‘‘cell by cell.” What was significant about the NPA arguments, however, was how they were unchanged by the Eckardt commission. This council would not have implemented a ward system no matter what the commission had proposed. “‘Majorities won’t go away,” COPE alderman Harry Rankin chastized the NPA in debate. Ran- kin, Mike Harcourt and Darlene Marzari all referred to the majority for wards — a larger majority than that which elected the mayor or any NPA alderman, Rankin pointed out. “This decision will come back to haunt you,”’ he said.