PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Thursday, December 8; 1977

Quebec Hearings On RCMP Raids ~

By GERARD McNEIL
MONTREAL (CP) —
When Donald Cobb, chief
of the RCMP security
service in Quebec,
pleaded guilty last spring
to authorizing an illegal
raid in 1972, he set off a
politic 1 furore that has
resulted in a federal royal
commission and a
Quebec provincial
inquiry into the force.
hief Supt. Cobb, 46, is
expected to testify today
as the first witness called
by the McDonald royal
commission into ‘‘the
extent and prevalence”
of illegal RCMP acts. —
4s formal public
hearings began here
Tuesday, commission
counsel John Howard
said allegations of RCMP
involvement in 3) to 100
illegal acts have been
made since the commis-
sion was established six
months ago.

This week the inquiry is
dwelling on Operation
Bricole (Oddjob) as the
police called the 1972 raid
on a left-wing news
agency.

Documents _tabled
before the Quebec inquiry
under lawyer Jean
Keable indicate that
Cobb, on Oct. 6, 1972, a
few hours before the raid
took place, authorized
RCMP involvement al-
though the raid was made
without warrant.
TESTIFIED IN SECRET

He hasn't appeared in
public before to discuss
the raid, His testimony
last May before Judge
Roger Vincent, who gave
him an unconditional

discharge and said the
raid was carried out with
noble motives, was be-
hind closed doors. He had
been expected to appear
before the Keable inquiry
‘this week, but it has been
caught in a court fight
touched off by federal
efforts to quash it as
unconstitutional.

Federal lawyers
argued before Associ te
Chief Justice James
Hugessen of Quebec Su-
perior Court on Tuesday
that the provincial
inquiry has no business
trying to look into the
i gf nitar
methods of the federal
force.

Quebec justice
department and com-
mission lawyers claim
that the provinces’ con-
stitutional jurisdiction
over the administration
of justice gives the
commission the right to
go as far as necessary in
investigating RCMP
involvement in criminal
acts on Quebec territory.

Michel Robert, a
lawyer for Solicitor-
General Fr nels Fox, told
reporters the case has
never before been raised
as a constitutional issue
and at stake is a question
that “can destroy the
essence of the federal

system.”
ARGUMENTS CON-
TINUE

The argument will

continue today in the
Palais de Justice while a
platoon of lawyers begin
questions about the 1972
raid before the federal
inquiry, being held in a

large room ina downtown
overnment office
uilding.

The raid took place as
the Trudeau government
campaigned for re-
election Oct. 30, 1972. The
government was re-
elected but in a minority
position.

Documents before the
Keable inquiry indicate

that the RCMP at least
c
RCMP involvement quiet
until after the election.
Testimony and
documents before Keable
indicate that RCMP
headquarters in Ottawa
knew’ details of RCMP
involvement by Oct. 10

but recommended Oct. 26

o reply be given to the

hews agency’s demand
for an explanation from
Goyer.Meanwhile,

Jerome Choquette, then
Quebec justice minister,
denied any police in-
volvement although it
turned out later that
Quebec provinci 1 police
and ontreal urban
police had also been
involved. .

NEWSETTES

SAN FRANCISCO
{AP) Like the
swallows’ return to
Capistrano, the elephant
seals giant sea
creatures once thought to
be extinct — are coming

to Point Ano Nuevo.

The Ano Nuervo State |

Reserve, 67 kilometres
south of San Francisco, is
the only place in the
world where the seals,
protected as an en-
dangered species, move
to the mainland to mate
and give birth to their
youn, said chief ranger
Mike Bradeen.

But when the seals
arrive, so do tourists.
Bradeen said human
crowds numbered about
"20,000 last year, which
was impossible to con-

0. a

LONDON (Reuter)
Noel Haynes and his wife
arrived home to find that
garbagemen had
mistakenly taken away
and destroyed all their
furniture and clothes.

“It was all a ghastly
mistake,’ a spokesman

for the sanitation
department said
Tuesday,

it was not known

whether the couple will
get compensation for
their lost television,
chairs, talbes and other
items,

The workmen should
have removed garbage
from a nearby shed.

BERLIN (AP) — The
East German newspaper
Neue Zeit says it’s sen-
ding a reporter to see
what life is like In Dog
Air. While he’s at it, he
may check into things at
Bull Crack and maybe
even Cow Beer.

Huhdeluft, Bulleritz
and Kugbier are among
300 East German com-
munities whose names
have something to. do
with animals.

Neue Zeit, of New
Time, is planning to
publish a series of stories
on the more oddly named
towns when its reporters
return.

Urologist Says Penis Reimplant Success

ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) —
The urologist who headed
a team of surgeons that
reattached the penis of a
Clemson University
student about three
months ago said Tuesday
the operation has been a
success.

Dr. David O’Brien, who

operation last October at
Emory University here,
said the patient “has
undergone minor surge’
since the intial
operation, and essentially
now has full and
Satisfactory function.”
O’Biren said he has
read in medical journals
of other successful, penis

direeted:/the surgtodl ‘teimpldnts’ using’ the

team that:performed the

Microsurgical technizue

that his team employed.
He said the technique was
employed at the Nare
Medical University in
Japan last June, and at
Massachusettes General
Hospital in Boston in
August.

Authorities jgaid the
student. was attacked. in
‘his dormitory. Tan hie
24-year-old laborer who

was under the influence
of alcohol or drugs.
They said the student
has been dating the
laborer’s estranged wife.
ane i laborer nate
pleaded quilty to charges
of breaking and entering,
and assault and battery
with intent to kill, and
was.senfenced to life plus
45 years in prison. by..a
South. Caroline juilge. . .

TAYLORSVILLE, Ga.
(AP) — The incumbents
strolled to victory again
in this town where the
election ballot has blanks
for mayor and aldermen,
“and people just write in
who they want.”

Mayor Edwin Rhodes
got 33 of the 56 votes cast,
which included three for
his brother, Mell.
Alderman Robert Harris
top the vote-gathers
with 40 and Alderman
Harvey Woods received
37 votes.

“We don't run for of-
fice,” explained Woods.
“In the town, everybody
knows everybody and
everyone seems to know
who might accept the job
ang who they want to do
it.””

All three incumbents
have served several
unpaid terms in office of
this north Georgia town
of about 180 residents.

“NEW YORK (AP) —
Bosses, and former
bosses, are the brunts of a
lot of jokes, And it’s no
different when former
state secretary Henry
Kissinger wisecracks
about his ex-boxx, former
president Gerald Ford.

Kissinger, who
presented Ford with the
Chrales Evans Hughes
Award of the National
Conference of Christians
and Jews on Tuesday,
said that President
Carter has dealt in such
details as which staffers
can use the White House
swimming, pool . and
tennis. courts... Va omer ets

Girl Guides Get $75,000

Area Commissioners of the B.C. Council

iw a

of the Girl Guides of Canada

were on hand when Burnaby-Willingdon MLA Elwood Veitch presented a
government cheque for $25,000 toward construction of the new Proyniclal
Headquarters building in Vancouver. Mr. Veitch, seated between Mrs.
R.H. Rogers, Provincial Commissioner, and Mrs. H.M.Q. Brown,
Deputy, Deputy Provincial Commissioner and head of the fund-raising
committee, made the presentation on behalf of Provincial Secretary and
Minister of Travel Industry, Grace McCarthy. The rest of the $75,000
provincial grant will be paid in equal installments. Area Commissioners
are, from left: Mrs. P. Henderson, Burbaby Royal; Mrs. V.C.W.
Lewington, Cheam (Chilliwack); Mrs. D. Schmelzel, New Caledonia
(Prince George); Mrs. R.B. May, Monashee, (Penticton); Mrs. A.M.
Lawson, Lougheed, (Coquitlam); Mrs. B.C. Milnes, Northern Lights,
(Prince Rupert, Queen Charlotte Islands, etc.); Mrs. K.A. Beardsell,
Deputy, Vancouver; and Mrs. T.J. McNeice, Deputy, Thompson Nicola,

(Kamloops).

Oddities
_In the news
‘Toronto has a fine
protected harbor,
roughly two miles long
and one mile wide, that is
sheltered by a string of
offshore islands.
LEGISLATORS SUR-
VEYED

A quarter of the state
legislators in the north-
central region of the U.S.
are from the field of
agriculture.

EQUALS

NOTHING
NOTHING

The decibel is an ar-
bitrary unit of measure of
sound pressure or power

equalling onetenth of a —

bel, a dimensionless unit.
BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATED

On April 8, the day of
the birth of Buddha,
images of the holy figure
are paraded,’ ‘sprinkled
‘with ‘ water -and- deco-

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