Page 4, The Herald, Friday, August 3. 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Office - 635-4357 Circutation - 635-6357 Published by Sterling Publishers GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland . EDITOR - Greg Middleton ' CIRCULATION. TERRACE - 935-6357 KITIMAT OFFICE . 632-2747 Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Verifled Circulation. Authorized as second class mall, Registration number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed, NOTE OF COPYRIGHT © The Heratd retains full. complete and sale copyright in. any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or Photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted. QUID RIDES? with Greg Middleton Iw balloo: fat. There was no arguing about that. My g belly bulged over the belt, I hung over on the sides as well as in front and in the morning. My doctor poked at the paunch and told me the extra weight‘ was carrying would see me carted off to an earlier grave, thatis if anyone could carry meat all by then. It’s diet or die, he told me, and he looked at me as though I reminded him of suet puddings an aunt . used to make, and was gagging visibly at the thought. I was ‘not always as ‘substantial as I have been in recent years I can remember being a slight and agile youth, frolicing at the beach among bikinied bathing beauties. That memory, however, is seen through a frothy fog of beer foam and is clouded in whipping cream. I put on the extra pounds while working in a bar at college. We weren’t paid well for serving our fellow students the golden inspiration, but an advantage of working in the pub was stock options. No, we couldn't buy into the operation of the place, but we had the option of buying up the imported stout and ale at the ‘same price as beer, a considerable saving. Now we've all heard the saying that Guinness is good for you. What we haven’t heard as often is how much more of you there wil] be if you drink a lot of Guinness. With the dark and fullsome brew flowing freely and almost out of my ears some nights, I added littlete my education but much to my physique. In the one term I spent slinging beer, I put on about 40 pounds. I packed it on in front until [ looked lke I carried two and three cases of beer under. my shirt. Now comes the question of how did I take it off again. I was referred to the dietician here. ‘weighed me, clicking her tongue as she added balance weight after balance weight to determine mine.” A’: slight little thing herself, I began to wonder if she subsisted on bird seed as she made me out a diet. Tlooked at the diet sheet she handed me and figured I could live with it, As a meal it did’nt look too bad. Then I asked why it was divided up into four sections. You can imagine my horror when I found out that what I took to be planned turned out to allowance for the day. Isearchedin vain on the sheet for even a taste of ice cream. There was not a Danish or a sweet roll to be seen. I finally had to face that cruel question, is life all? The dietician, at least, had the good grace to admit she couldn’t live with that diet, a total of1,500 calories, which was about what I would frequently comsume for breakfast, or after dinner in liquid form. Thave, for the most part kept to it though. The slab of bacon I’ve manoevered in and out of such things ag smailer cara with difficulty has decreased. My feet reappeared into view after an absence of some years. without Black Forest cake life at Inow go toa tailor instead of a tentmaker. And there, my friends comes the rub. As I have lest quite a few pounds, about 20 of the 35 1 am to shed, I havea dilema. As my shirts flap a little in the breeze, there being a bit more cloth than I need now and my trousers threaten to simply drop to the ground of their own accord and without warning, I am finding I have to buy a whole new wardrobe. Now I have a question for you. Since I lost the weight on medical advice, as it was my doctor who told me to skinny up, or cost the taxpayers money in hospital services required to keep my obese carcass functloning, would it not seem reasonable to assume’ that I could charge a new atire to my medical card? Trial She be my total food CANADA OTTAWA (CP) —- Canada will have a non- elected French-Canadian politician as prime min- ister next week, Senator Jacques Flynn, whose plana for semi- retirement were in- terrupted by his ap- polntment as justice WHO’S RUNNING TODAY? May 22 federal election, serves as acting prime minister because of Joe Clark’s African travels. Walter Baker, government House leader, normally is Clark's stand-in, but he is golng on vacation next week, an alficial in his minister following the office sald Thursday, matinee Letters welcome The Herald welcomes its readers comments. All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for atyle and length. Ail letters to be considered for publication must be signed. gong . OTTAWA (CP) — Federal and provincial officials are atill trying to figure-out how to implement a Jaw passed by Parliament more than a year ago giving accused the right to trials in French or So far, only New Brun- swick has proclaimed the legislation, although cltizens of that province — the only one officially bilingual — already had the right to a trial in either. official language. Discussions are continuing with other provinces “to try to hit: upon a solution,” a spokesman for Justice Minister Jacques Fiynn said in an anna hia perk ‘Eve 8 of good- will," he said. “Everybody wants it, but they're asking: “Darn it, how do we provide dla Among the _ stickiest problems, says an official in the Ontario attorney- general’s department, is finding judges. and other court officlals who can work in French, Although Ontario has many French-Canadian judges, most have been trained in English and do not feel comfortable working in French “because they do not have the legal vocabulary in French,” the Ontario government official said. Interprovincial politics algo appear to be retarding acceptance of the legislation MPs claimed would help national unity. . "Quebec is waiting for On- taric, Alberta and Manitoba to move,” said Michel Drapeau, a lawyer in the federal justice department, English-speaking Quebecers have traditionally been granted trials in English. But the Quebec government, fatigued with the traditional reticence of the other provinces to extend French-Canadian language minority rights, wants the provinces to show gome initiative before guaran- teeing the right to English trials, , “Great news! I’m no longer unemployed — Pve been seasonally adjusted! ” FRENCH AND ENGLISH. by language a problem - Implementation of the legislation would have the most impact in Ontario. The 1871 census sjpwe' that 737,000 of the 1.4 million French-Canadians living outside Quebec resided in Ontarto. “We were. hoping for Ontario this summer or fall but so far we have not received an answer to a letter sent by the new (jus- tice} minister to the (On- tario) attorney-general,’’ Drapeau said, He denied there wera. breakdowns in negotlations with Ontario or other provinces. ‘ “Under the old (Liberal) government, we were under the impression: things -were ‘moving quite rapidly in Ontario, There was a time mentioned of Sept. 1 but we have heard nothing yet.” A spokesman for Ontario Attorney-General Roy McMurtry said French- language cour! services are being expanded - in designated areas but no date Ee has been set for extending the right to French-language trials across the province... . The lack of French-' language trials, particularly in Ontario, has long been a sore point ‘with -Quebec: nationallsts and French- Canadian rights groupe When the “law: Wass before Parliament, some’. Franco-Ontarian MPs, such : a8 Jean-Robert Gauthier (L pressed Toned Va econ ex- fears that provinces would dilly-dally. The law hktpulates that ‘each = province = must proclaim the! legislation but no clause states when the: proclamation must occur. The fine .print‘‘merely states that when negdétlations break down between the federal and respective provincial gavernments, a period of tw years’ grace lapses before the province must adept the law. . Former justice minister Ron Basford had. conceded those negotiations could theoretically go on forever. Scientists leave Canada — TORONTO (CP) — Jim O'Mara hopes to be joining thousands of Canada's brightest researchers, scientists and scholars leaving the country to find work in thelr fields, . It took nine years and $64,000 — most of it tax- payers’ money — {for O'Mara to achieve his PhD in urban geography from York University In Toronto, But the best job he can Ilne up here pays $3,000 a yedr, Although he hates to leave, the part-time teaching job is not much of a lure to keep O'Mara in Canada when a U.S, university may offer him a full-time position. Faced with reduced finances for research, dwindling. student numbers to support teaching staff (an eight-per-cent drop in two years}, scarce jobs in a tenure-laden system, fewer PLO NEW YORK (CP) — There seems to. be a concerted international effort under way to bring a new respectability to the Palestine Liberation Organ- lzation. The recent visit of PLO Leader Yasser Arafat to Vienna at the invitation of Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kriesky is an example of hew European leaders are seek & permanent so- lution to the Middle East problem, There are also indications that Arafat may be invited again to address the United: Natlons Genera] Assembly, Washington, too, seems to be moving toward more legitimacy to the PLO.. President Carter recently com ‘movement in the U.S, . . Both Kriesky's talks with _ back iden pared the Palestinian peoblem with the civil rights, men and women are taking postgraduate work. There are about 10,500. Professors teaching in On- tario, with about 80 per cent virtually guaranteed jobs for life through tenure. In 1975, there‘ were 17,062 full-time post-graduate students, but the number had declined ta 15,417 last year. Those who do complete their PhDs and find: them- selves unemployed usually go to the United States for permanent employment or to Third World countries, Australia or Britain. A Statistics Canada survey of the 66,400 studenta who graduated from universities in 1976 showed that 3,300 left the country to find work. The average age of a university professor Is about 45, Few jobs will be available for the next 20 years until they _ retire. Who will replace ‘those retiring professors: if can- didates are not attracted to PhD programs in the in- tervening years? A PhD is awarded for course work aa well as in- dependent research. It is the loss of this research that will most heavily affect Canada during the next generation, says David Inman, president of the Ontaric Council of University Faculty Associ- ations, Ss , The decision to leave Canada for a research job at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., has been an upsetting one for Dr. Barry Smith and his family. “J'm Canadian-born and raised,” Smith said. “It's a major decision to go lo Harvard. But 1 really think it is the right thing for me to do. because the op- Fortunities are greater,” Smith has spent the last four years studying lung development in new-born children under a scholarship from the M Research Council, which pays him a salary of $25,00ba year. He is on staff at - Queen’s University in Kingston. When the scholarship ends next ‘July thé university cannot afford to keep him on srimarite ce he works primarily in research does little teaching. ‘Harvard has given him a 10-per-cent raise and promised research su for 11 years. - a Canadian universities are making a mistake letting their researchers go, Smith said. “We need top-quality re- searchers or else the teaching won't be worth a damn.” seeks respectability | Arafat and Carter's civil rights analogy drew angry reaction. The Austrian leader was criticized by Israel and the president's comments were denounced by American Jewish groups. But the latest moves seem to spring from a growing acceptance of the idea that there can be no long-term solution in the Middle east without taking the Palestinians into account. ’ What is needed is for the Palestinians and Israel to down from hard-line ‘positions and find some compromise both sides can live with. One way might be for the PLO to recognize the Tight of Israel to exist in return for Israeli agreement on the principle of Palestinian self- determination. There is a draft resolution before the Security Council that would tacitly recognize both principles, but Israel has refused to accept self-. determination, claiming that means a Palestinian state,: which is. completely unac- ceptable to Jerusalem. ‘ There are indications, though, that the PLO js ready to accept Israel's existence. For example, when it appeared that the UN debate might end prematurely, ‘the PLO, Kuwalt and the U.S. - an unlikely trio — agreed to postpone further Security Council discussion until later this month. One problem is that the PLO {s an umbrella organization covring a wide spectrum of splinter groups and Arafat's authority is not absolute, For example, he’ condemned the recent terrorist attack on tha Egyptian embasey in Turkey carried out by a group called Eagles of the Palestinian Revolution, While the four captured’ terrorists are to be tried on charges that might result in the death penalty, the PLO and Turkey are discussing the opening of d PLO office, The PLO has long tarred with the terrorist brush and it will take a long time to shake that label, Arafat himself has time and again been. condemned by the Israelis as a terrorist - and a common murderer, but pragmatic politics have, overcome such epithets in; the past, ‘ . sruantonn de ‘Valera of land was once sentenced to death as a tebel a British tribunal, ‘Ha ved to jead his country, to be hailed | as a siateemen ‘and to be mourne uckingha: Palace on hia Heath " | OTTAWA OFFBEAT been | Y RICHARD JACKSON . . Ottawa,-It’s always a little on the sad side when the- time arrives to go. . Tt wag that way when Mackenzie King said his farewells after all those yeara of power and died of 7 _ boredom and a broken heart, alone in his Kingsmere retrest in'the Gatingau only months later. _’ It was the same way when kind and courtly Louis Stephen St. Laurent took his departure, always the gentleman, with good grace, and withered away in his © Private world of his Grande Allee residence in Quebec . It wasn't exactly that way when John Dieienbaker’ was pushed and went out fighting, to go on into still living legend, frequently eclipsing in the public eye his. — successgora in the leadership, . .. And it wasn't quite that way when Lester Pearson, all affability, agreed to step down and then was shoved Tudely just before he could celebrate an anniversary . , in power. He like King, but from a far different cause, . died soon after, Now the bell ia tolling for Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau. The Liberals are back in town, in full sight and in full ery for a new Messiah. They love power so much, convinced they were born . tit, claim a divineright to its exercise that they can’t abide life without it. They must have their power fix. And even before their defeat in the last election -- which they and Pierre Trudeau alike saw coming ° when they were only three weeks into their campaign - -there was some talking about a failure in leadership. + Trudeau knew the old rock-solid loyalties were crumbling among Liberals all across English Canada, 80 gave the campaign his best shot ever to show the faithless that. he could go down fighting. In the nearly two months now since the election the Liberals have been ‘all but invisible. . ; ’ They tried the explanation that they were simply: laying back and giving the new young Clark team time for a honeymoon, They were‘ laying back alright, but not for the altruistic reasons they would have you believe, ._ For all the time they were busy in the backrooms — with the most intense activity centred in Toronto — ' planning on succession of leadership. i. This signalled their acceptance of the inevitable. _.Yesignation of Pierre Trudeau which they took for -' Some of them expected it even before Christmas, with a leadership convention in February and another election - this time a winner - early next spring. Senator Keith Davey, the Liberal “rainmaker," but ~ m0 longer party miracle man, tried to smother the flames of rebellion against the failing Trudeau leadership and got burned for his efforts. Three already are in the running to take up the Of course there’s “Old Blue Eyes,” the handsome, ever personable former Finance Minister John ‘Turner, the Liberal party's very own Lon Chaney, man with a thousand faces. . : Then there’s former Treasury Board boss and cabinet trouble-shooter Robert Andras, ‘Super Liberal,” as they call him. Enormously able, multi-talented but lacking star quality. He is being pushed, but himself is not pushing, Finally there is the powerful Quebec wing of the party which historically has provided the Liberal _ power base and holds the power. ; ' They want former Solicitor General Francis Fox who left the Trudeau cabinet under a cloud shadowing his personal conduct. They want him becuase he is French but ‘has an English name and they are pain-’ fully aware thatthe centre of power gravity in the new and larger House of Commons has shifted west from Who will it be? , The Tories hope not Turner. MERA “That car you told me is onty getting about "six miles to @ gallon of gas.”