0 ont, eA FEM ian, 7 — “Peter, stop prompting!” le ae eae a Ze North, across the He Of the Arctic Ocean 4 ae Pole, Canada and Mhe Union are not divid- th boundaries of’ others. it aM Premier Kosygin lose he added, ‘‘There- oF hola In the Soviet Union h- Canada to be their Neighbor.” th, (Viet premier’s visit to " troy aS made history. It d Rigen much nearer the he Of his wish that “the he ne Our countries be | oa firm handshake.” Te ; that handshake ex- +} " friendliness and in- frest by Canadians et: Kosygin went iy © Cight-day stay in our N hy Tom the standing ova- |, "Be audiences to the ingeetings of families 1 ‘betta a dirt road in north- at and away the great- , } , ) ' ‘\ WILUAM STEWART ‘\ pally happened on Oc- Rh, A Mi, ST those who throw T the ands in despair and | tor vent as a major vic- Mate Pm in Ontario and | b for the further take- Mig, Monopoly, U.S. and ' » Of the province’s as- Pip “© others who accuse sh o Snatching defeat out * Lae ds of victory. Ne ‘ lt represent neither bai teme examples. «the t unvarnished fact is the fies, in conspiracy Media, succeeded in nist leaders : ith Kosygin | AK meeting wos Me Soviet Embassy if S¥ening, Oct. 20, of the Cam- f Canada, com- A. Dew- and B. Mog- ‘and warm ex- anadians warmly est part of his visit, the Soviet premier saw our country in the glory of its autumn colors, blaz- ing in sunshine. That’s the kind of day it was, for example, when he visited the Canadian International Paper plant where Roland Racine, a worker on the giant number six paper-making machine, eX- changed the warmest of greet- ings with Mr. Kosygin. These friendly greetings of large and small groups wher- ever he went—the curé was on his balcony in Gatineau—reach- ed a peak in the standing Ova- tion at the hockey game in Van- couver’s Coliseum. This was the welcome, too, that the audience in Ottawa’s National Art Centre gave him. The guests at the state dinner in Vancouver three’ times stood to applaud him. And how moving it was, as Cont'd on page 6 Vhy Tories captured Ontario on Oct. 21 keeping the issues out of the election campaign and prevent- ed the kind of upswell that was necessary to knock them out of Queen’s Park. Beginning with the Tory lead- ership convention, they set the tone-for the kind of campaign which the Ontario electorate suffered, and unfortunately the NDP took the bait—hook, line and sinker. The NDP had the muscle and funds to defeat the Tory stra- tegy, to force the main issues into the centre of the campaign. They decided instead to safely and carefully woo the Liberal vote and in effect ran 117 con- stituency campaigns and did not provide the kind of anti- monopoly umbrella under which the constituency campaigns could come to life. ; The Communist Party, which concentrated on the main issues of the election, was unable to make the kind of overall impact which was necessary to blow these issues into the debate across the province. Thus the vote’ for the Tories neither represents a blessing of the policies they have pursued over the years, nor a mandate to take this province further to hands of the. right into the eee rialism. monopoly and U.S. impe Cont'd on page 6 Historic visit by Kosygin strengthens cooperation for peace and prosperity By MEL DOIG The visit of Soviet Premier Kosygin has opened for Canadians the great challenge that the growing friendship and cooperation between the peoples of our two countries will increasingly serve the cause of world peace and the building of international co-operation between nations with different econo- mic and social systems. progress.” ty Premier Kosygin chatting with Canadiens’ captain Henri Richard . in Vancouver where over 16,000 hockey fans gave the Soviet leader a standing ovation. VIETNAMESE SPRAYED WITH POISON CHEMICALS HANOI—The Liberation Press Agency has reported the renewed use of toxic chemicals by American and Saigon troops against South Vietnamese villagers. The report says that, between Sept. 14 and 21, enemy aircraft sprayed toxic chemicals daily over the densely populated districts of Camo province. Hundreds of peasants were poisoned and crops ruined in large areas. PANAMA DEMANDS CANAL RIGHTS UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — Panama demanded its sovereignty over the Panama Canal in a memorandum given to UN general secretary U Thant by Juan Antonio Tack, Panama's foreign minister. This act of defiance against the North American colossus is the latest development in the tortuous Panamanian-U.S. relationship. The memorandum denounced the 1903 treaty which gives the U.S. jurisdiction over the Canal Zone. The Soviet Union, as Mr. Kosygin emphasized at a state banquet in Van- couver last Saturday, “regards develop- ment of international cooperation as the paramount condition for further The premier of Canada’s mighty so- cialist neighbor paid tribute to the con- structive approach to international con- tacts that Prime Minister Tru- deau and the Canadian. govern- ment are displaying. The basis of that approach— which resulted in three days of talks in Ottawa between the two heads of government that an of- ficial Canadian spokesman de- scribed as “warm, frank and friendly” — was defined by Federal Minister of Public Works Laing in his Vancouver toast to the government and the peoples of the USSR, “We have a com- mon primary objective: that this world is assured -an endur- ing peace.” He said Premier Kosygin’s visit ‘will greatly. strengthen prospects for a perpetual peace.” It was in this atmosphere of mutual confidence that Prime Minister Trudeau and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Kosygin, last Wednes- day in Ottawa signed the Gener- al Exchanges Agreement (see full text on p. 7). Speaking later that Sdrife“day in.a press confer- ence that attracted world-wide attention, the Soviet premier said the Agreement (covering bi- lateral exchanges in scientific, technical, educational, cultural and other fields) opens up pros- pects of very broad exchanges that ‘‘will enable our two peo- ples to get to know each other much-better . . . It is of very great importance, and will be very useful indeed.” Arms Race “Senseless” Earlier, with Prime Minister Trudeau as his guest at a pre- cedent-shattering luncheon in Ottawa’s Rideau Club, Mr. Ko- sygin had made his first public reference to Soviet-Canadian co- operation in the context of the international division of labor. Exposing the ‘‘senselessness of the arms race” and of war eco- nomies, he declared that only through the lessening of tensions and the development of broad international cooperation can the solution to present international problems be found. “There is,” he stated firmly, ‘no other choice if we are not to head consciously towards war.” In this speech, as he did throughout his visit, Mr. Kosy- gin laid great stress on the im- portance of close cooperation between Canada and the Soviet Union — “especially since we have a common approach to the problems of lessening tensions in the world, disarmament, col- lective security and broad inter- national cooperation.” At the Canadian Manufactur- Cont'd on page 6 ~ OpDcD 70 ) eon 2