4 £ tt “ . al te le - : ee \ , an vanceven ce on ‘of Canada Lid.” and - yon ‘a cha rae BC. ", “Tn 1980, the apartment: took the com Alcan ‘ refused” t “comply with'a government order to divert. . more water from: the: reservoir. into ‘the’ "river to. protect: spawning’ salmon. ? -} Juitice Thomas. Berger} of the’ 8 “ Bupreme Court ruled that Alcan must . ~ -fomply- with the-departmeft” order ‘and Issued, a temporary injunction, & The Fajmetions was extended in 981 by “pany. ‘court’, alter: oo “elder: statesmen = and religious dignitaries. “" may, be: requifed : protect migrating . for several-hours after an artillery ‘and rocket ex- change Wednesday that lasted until about. midnight. total evacuation of all the terrorists from Beirut and Lebanon,” a cabinet ‘communique said. . “Statements slammed “TORONTO (CR) oT. Canadian Jmperial, Bank of mmercy,, SAYA \ALaMNANte,, -by ;,8 fopmaee, BAe cabinet Apiniater, that: tye. bank Je.:in, financial’ difficulty. are ponsible and completely false: George Soteroff, vice-president of pubic relations, said a today that the statements “are not only. absurd but categorically irresponsible.” , “The Commerce remains a ‘ viable, stable and successful bank . . . Our customer's deposits ae completely safe.” i Gary Lauk, former B.C. economic development minister. . and NDP member for Vancouver Centre, told that . province's legislature. Wednesday that the Commerce, the _ Second largest bank in the country, will be in virtual if not actual receivership by October because it has made some bad loans, ‘He said the bank has shareholders’ equity of $2.4 billion but also has-a $1.7-billion loan to Dome Petroleum Ltd. of - ‘Calgary on which he said the debt-ridden oil company isn't paying interest. ” “This is the most ‘dangerous attack on the economy one can conceive of,” Lauk said during debate on 4 bili that will give the B.C. goyernment permission to spend $1.4 billion. Soteroff disputed Lauk’s figures, saying the Commerce has $3.2. billion in shareholder's equity and the $1.7-billion figure is “way high.”” He also said Dome is paying its in- terest as scheduled. He said all loans to.major corporations are fully secured by a pledge of assets “and even in the worst-case scenario, ‘we'd get back most.of what welent.” 5, .- "These (Lauk's statements) are very irresponsible ~ comments to make in these difficult economic times,” he said, ’ ~The bank made a’ 1981. ‘profit of $310 million. and has earned $112 million in the first six months ofthis year. Wide Rich, “Aledn’s Vige-president for. B.C:, said the: new agreement. would provide ah appropriate atmosphere forthe "continuation of technical discussions - aimed at a long-term solution. - Israel. wants PLO out ‘Israel on Wednesday ~ ‘Prime—-Minister_ Menachem = Begin’s spokesman, Uri Porat, sald” § the- cabinet reiterated its - refusal to allow the Palestinians to leave a polltical bureau in Belrut or station two small fighting units with’ the Lebanese . army. However, Israeli officials, who askéd not to be named, said’ that once the PLO leaves and: a Lebanese. central govern- ment is established, could not prevent the Palestinians from applying for permission to open of- fices ‘on Lebanese soil. . “Our position is that they _ have to get out, and we are -not negotiating terms,” said... one official. ‘“‘We are negotiating only on the manner in which they will leave.” — Israel Radio said a nine- point plan suggested by Habib and Lebanese negotiators provides for French forces and the U.S,. offered . by. marines — President Reagan ito supervise evaétiation of the - Palastinians to-Latakia, a Syrian port. north of Lebanon, on boats flying the International Red Cross ‘flag. The radio said that if disagreements’ Bre’ ‘troned out;' ‘at dea" évacuation cod: begin’ Friday.” “However, . former Lebanese prime. minister Saeb Salam, a key in- termediary between Habib and Arafat, said problems’ remain over. how many Palestinians will leave West - Beirut, where they will go, and how they will get there. -Satam told reporters the PLO wants “to go by land to the Bekaa Valley.” “Qo the Americans, this is like staying in. Beirut.” The valley in eastern Lebanon is where most of Syria’s 36,000-man Lebanese force has ‘regrouped after fighting Israel in the early stages of - the invasion. The Syrians ‘are in Lebanon under ah Arab League mandate’ to police the . armistice that- ended: the 1975-76 Mostem- Christian civil war, but they clashed repeatedly with Israel's Lebanese Christian allies. _ strong» Israel]. VANCOUVER ( (cB) Get “Jo 10 years) gays Suncor. fac. execulive Ross Hennigar. a Le nae “>The risk of éxeciitive burn-out ari tnoititing day : are: Incréasinigly fesponsible * ‘for, bad * business: . * decisions and: poor foverument, Policies, ‘Henniger. = said Wednesday. ' *. “The preagurea at the. top are havitg a very. serious . “impact ‘on the quality: of ‘decision-making Ini this . country,” he told the annual conference of the Soclety .. of Management. Accountants. - . -Hennigar said chief executive officers in: receng, . years have been required to’ consider not only com- ’ pasiy profit arid operations, but also a myriad of other. factors: government regulations, economic con- ditions, laws, public attitudes,-pressure groups, ond- , political developments. ’ : -. "The same pressures ‘are being.” exerted ‘on ‘politicians; ‘top civil servants and heads of volunteer - organizations,” he said. “Those members of cabinet that I now pertonally - ; ‘simply cannot keep up. I don't think there is any way ’ they can,.no matter how skilled. The demands are simply too great. "T believe that the person whe apends more ethan 60 hours a week at his work loses touch with every-day reality. " ” Hennigar’ Buggested seven years, “certainly no “more than 10,'". a8 te maximum -time a ‘cabinet ‘minister or chief executive should hold a job.’.” He also advised therm to cultivate ‘‘vision enhan- cers,” people who have good common sense and don't ’ Jose it when talking to someone with an impressive _ tide, ; - Senior decision makers should learn how to make the best use of their time, he said, and others should. - “learn to demand less of the people in charge (because) the leas we demand, the more we will get." Corporate recruiter Robert Half of Vancouver * spoke about “time theft” by employees, “Time theft, the deliberate waste, abuse and - misappropriation of on-the-job time,” will cost the Canadian economy at least $15 billion this year,”’ Half ’ said. ° Eighty per cent of the country’s 10.7 million | workers each steal . An average of three hours, 42 minutes_of company. time a week at an average hourly wage of $9.55, he said. . Half, while arguing that time theft can do “in . credible damage” to companies; said Canada ‘is better off than the U:S., where his firm found that “the average time thief was guilty of stealing four hours and 18 minutes per week,” His examples of lime theft included arriving at work late, leaving early, extended lunch hours and ~ coffee breaks, working slowly to create the need for overtime, ‘reading on company. time, socializing with _ co-workers, making personal phone calls, handling personal chores or running ‘another business on company time, taking unwarranted sick - days, daydreaming ‘and inattention to work. va J We're all entitled to a reasonable amount of © cabal from; the stresses and strains of the job," Half +; sald, “Almost ail of us are SOHiE Wa guuE OM onte ina * ” while, however, premeditated and habitual theft! of time saps the nation’s economy. .. : lifted Ban to be lifte VANCOUVER (CP) —-Federal Fisheries Department officials have .convineed ‘New Zealand to lift its ban on . Canadian canned-salmon. “Tests of Canadian canned salmon have led? to it being. cleared for public consumption, said field service director ‘Don Wilson in a communique released last week. by. the Canadian High Commission and the New Zealand Depart- ment of Health. New Zealand, Britain and Australia. banned Canadian’ salmon after after.a scare over the safety of canned salmon arose in February following the death of a.Belgian man . after he ate some American salmon pate. An unrelated death of a woman in Manchester, Great Britain, was initially linked to Canadian canned salmon but an autopsy foundno sign of botulin, a toxin that can grow in, cans thal are not properly sealed. Representatives of companies whose salmon was af- fected conducted visual tests which were monitored by the Canadian Fisheries Department. and New ~ Zealand Department of Health officials, Wilson said. Canadian Fisheries Department. officials have visited Britain and are now in Australia to-get the bans-lifled in both countries. Neither have agreed ta do. that yet. gorporate. chief exécutives should rate ater seven, + to-day pressure on Savernment and corporate leaders: fF government the ~Bodklingtan,- “algal, e who recently admitted he would like to be’ * prime minister, said he 1s. coricerned ‘about... the fate ‘of the: country, -aind ‘outlined: his’ personal économic: recovery’. ‘plan: ‘which ‘includes tax reform, reducing the federal, — - eivil service and a seling off all the Crown * gorporatlona..~ : However, he Is coy ‘abut whether he will’ seek the Tory leadership 5 ‘moment he supports ( Joe Clark. .“But if the party, or Mr. Clark, décides / to hold a leadership convention, that’s a possibility,” Pocklington said in an’ in-- ; _terview. : . “] guess I'm 80 concerned about what is - happening to my country, if it goes on the © ‘oway it’s going, the odds are 50-50 (in favor ; of: peeking the leadership).”” Pocklington’ accused the federal. Liberal government of directing the’ country “toward a socialist abyss of economic ruin,” and called for an end to “this reign "of terror.” | “1 believe that we, as a nation, are * courting ‘disaster — ‘and economic and Social upheaval are a probable reallty,’” he told the’ Vietoria Chamber ‘of Commerce. OTTAWA (CP) — Just hours before Finance ‘Minister Allan MacEachen . “annotinced wage restraints. wfor- public servants last week, increases of up to 11 " per cent were approved for 1,400 federa] employees, ‘officials acknowledged Wednesday. A Treasury. Board spokesman said the timing of the increases ‘is purely coincidental. _ Under guides announced: by MacEachen in. the budget June. 28, about 500,000 public servants are limited to six per cent pay increages. starting July 1 and five per cent the following year, — Tim McShane; director” a “gollective™ ‘pgréements for Treasury Board, said’ that on budget day, an 11-per- cent. pay increase was approved for .437 Justice Department lawyers, 8.5 ’ per cent for 262 agricultural workers, 9.97 per cent for 26 occupational and physical therapists and 10 per cent. for 678 physical scientists. But Treasury. Board President Donald Johnston thas said repeatedly that those who received in- creases in excess of the guides before the budget will be subject to the limits when their pay or contract period expires. Opposition MPs argue that those who received recent increases above the. guides have a “cushion” in “not being ‘subject to the - Buides for a year. “The lawyers’ salary has been up for review since _ April 1 andit was merely an ” attempt to keep their pay in line with. their. brothers. in . private. sector,’ aoe : e gave ev ying that at the position Leader | ‘sald: in the year _ dealerships.” “and: | ehergy-oriented. - businesses and has extensive real estate we -. holdings,’ ‘galled for an’ end to taxation of oe * the poor and-tax loopholes. >" _ ‘The genuinely poor who cannot ‘afford ~ * any of life’s basic necessities" should not . have to pay. any taxes at all, he anid, said. “As for the corporations, be’ would remove “the art of searching for legal loopholes,"". and they would neither be punished for succeeding or given an in- ducement to pretend they are failing. The personal and corporate tax rate would be the same — 2 per cent for all, he | Pocklington called for a reduction int the bureaucracy, comparing it to sludge: “Tf _You offer it any.kind of hole, it will fill it." And the government should get out: of business such as Air Canada, the Canadian - National Railways, Petro Canada and even the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Pocklington praised President Reagan saying he has “a lot of clags and a lot of ' style, and he's doing a great job.” McShane said. ; “The increase had ab- solutely nothing to do with Allan MacEachen's budget, it was purely coincidental . and it would be sleazy to suggest otherwise.” -, The agriculture workers’ contract expired July 6, the theraplsts’ April 21 and the _. . Scientists’ April 27. . When asked how the four Settlements were all signed just hours before the budget was presented, McShane “Well, with the’ the unions, you | know, negotiations break up and then they came. back to the table and eventually agreements were: reached. Meanwhile,: senior TG “But I wonder if one man can ewing 225 - million people onto a proper course in two year. He’s doing some of the right things, _ and my bet i is he's going to win.” Federal wages increased _ A committee of public , sector unions has developed " & seven-point plan to fight ‘the cdntfols; with they say includes an illegal general ‘strike. But they refused to give details. - Prime Minister Trudeau is to meet with some labor lenders Friday. Trudeau: told the Com- _mons Wednesday that his remark Tuesday | that legislation «may - be necessary if. people don't ca- operate with Ottawa's anti- inflation program had been mistakenly taken to mean he was threatening wage and price controls. He, said. he- bad only: hesin Treasufy “Board Sttict ‘Gagede DEER" ed ie ie a «toler. to she possibility federal public service wait without a contract June 26 can continue to bargain collectively and can legally strike over working - con- ditions. Legislation to make the wage restraints Law, ex- -pected togetsecondreading | in the Commons this week, also prohibits workers from “striking against the wage ~ controls. ‘Orser also said those unions can’ get pay in-. creases of up to nine per cent for one. year before they fall under the wage controls. About 1,600 federal em- ployees maintaining Canada’s East- Coast naval ‘fleet in Halifax ratified an agreement June 30 giving. them a id-per-cent. raise. But Treasury Board of- ficials said. that agreement is exempt from the limits | . because the memorandum of agreement was reached June 1%. 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