“0, ni, i { nie) ai » Sh | Mos) ; : Mo "portant enterprises in North Vietnam have been | evacuated to Unt : 7 - s ; Sin regions. Photo shows a radio station operating in a cave. EDITOR IN VIETNAM ‘Hanoi lives on despite bombs’ (Below ; Rae “i emt S the first dispatch from ‘erin, who is now’ in Xeeg ‘ nam. His eye-witness "clusiver, Will be carried Bo) Y by the Pacific Tribune B ha BME MURPHY With th ~ The Red River, swollen MMosing £221 Monsoon, is an POsing ¢: ta Liss Sight as we cross from Re stan’ Mto Hanoi proper. A Shang ie and concrete bridge ¥ the lit "Ver at this point — here te Nort cline between Hanoi and Stroyad The bridge was largely Dut back er August 11th but was Slember ® Service at the end of Obinatio by that indescribable iter n of engineering magic, Rothe, con and ‘sheer louded sit toil that has Tate i © American military hut pus Bwen bridge, which was Yang ee beginning of the hgeetch a Tiginally named after e rob Vernor, Paul Douner, HgtYPoay's always been reno It S first impression of ‘lbvay 4 two lane road and a "ide, ae Tunning down the ve Passed over it last "phy, editor of the the Vj Sts Sine ; ie € they first a thamese y ttacked night, I was part of an endless convoy moving in each direction. It now appears to be hung together - with wooden planks, wire, and all shapes of nuts and bolts. Although the bridge creaks and groans with every passing vehicle, it functions and it has proved indestructable. North Vietnam is a land of bridges that cannot be destroyed. Because the Vietnamese refuse to see their country severed, there are suspension bridges that allow heavy trucks to pass and are then rolled up and put away during the daylight hours, and there are pontoon bridges. When all else gives way, there are barges but the goods are delivered. - This night, as our car made its way along the darkened streets approaching the bridge, I could see the hollow structures that were once apartments. I also saw the locomotive repair shops which are now completely destroyed. In North Vietnam today there is not one factory or workshop that has not been at least partially destroyed. There is a lot of rubble here that represents the dreams and See VIETNAM, pg. 16 Stop giveaway of gas to U.S. U.S. demands for a deal on B.C.’s natural gas which will see most of this valuable resource go the U.S. at fire-sale prices and on American terms, was branded this week as a Sellout of the interests of the Canadian people. Appearing before the hearings of the National Energy Board in Vancouver, Nigel Morgan, B.C. ‘leader of the Communist Party, called on the National Energy Board to reject the deal between Wescoast Transmission and E] Paso Natural Gas Company. The Bennett government has called on the Board to approve the sellout arrangement. Under terms of the deal, Westcoast is seeking approval from Canada’s National Energy Board to increase gas exports to the U.S. up to 1,000 million cubic feet daily when all options are taken advantage of. In addition, Westcoast is asking that the price set by the U.S. government’s Federal Power Commission for the gas be approved. In an earlier agreement, the price for the gas was to be set at a higher rate, but the Federal Power Commission vetoed the agreement and dictated the new price at which Canada must sell its gas to the U.S. company, El Paso Natural Gas. Under these terms the 20-year average price would be 29.6 cents compared to the average price to B.C. Hydro of 30.02 cents. : This situation brought charges in Parliament last week that the U.S. wants to control the whole regulatory system of prices in North America and that the U.S. wants to “unilaterally take over running this continent.’’ MP’s said Canada is being forced to subsidize U.S. prices and called on the Federal government to reject Wescoast’s application. Since 1954 B.C. gas has been selling to El Paso for 22 cents per thousand cubic feet, which is considerably below the rate paid by the B.C. public, who own the resource. It was revealed at the hearing this week that since 1954, when the first deal was signed, B.C. has subsidized the low U.S. rate by $44 million. An interesting feature of the proposed deal between Wescoast’s and the El Paso company is that a substantial share of Wescoast is owned by the U.S. monopoly. Is it any wonder the B.C. government and Wescoast are supporting the deal? - Nigel Morgan branded the U.S. terms as “‘blackmail’’ and the kind of terms which a conquering country extracts from a colony. He called on the NEB to reject the deal, disallow further exports, and urged utilization of the gas for Canadian development by bringing it under public ownership. No surrender to U.S. on twelve-mile limit “Canada must take a firm, stand on the issue of territorial waters otherwise the U.S. will continue to exploit Canadian fishery resources,’ said Homer Stevens, secretary-treasurer of the United Fisherm Allied Workers Union this week. The UFAWU has advocated a 12- mile limit fixed by drawing of a headland to headland baseline in order to close off bodies of coastal waters. ‘‘Our territorial waters should extend twelve miles outside this baseline,’ Stevens said. “Jt is heartening to hear the Hon. Paul Martin -stating Canada will proceed with the baselines despite U.S. objections. Fishermen on both coasts favor strong and determined action. There should be no further delay in drawing all the other baselines. The full 12-mile limit should be declared outside the baseline and enforced against all foreign fishing vessels. HOMER STEVENS . ‘When Iceland fought this issue out with Great Britain world public opinion backed Iceland’s claim». She won her sovereignty over the twelve miles around her coast _ despite the strength of the British Navy. Canada has just as strong a * case and, in our opinion, would be just as strongly supported against ‘any intimidation attempted by the USS The UFAWU has advocated ‘unilateral action by Canada to establish the baselines and to extend Canada’s exclusive claim to . fishing to twelve miles. Stevens said the ‘obstacles placed by the: U.S. during the past three years of negotiation, culminating in their refusal to recognize the Canadian baselines on the Atlantic Coast clearly point to the futility of such negotiations.”