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Mayor Helmut Giesbrecht gets a pat on the back from the

Colonel's favorite chicken at the.
restaurant's expansion Saturday. Standing at right Is
Scott Hickin, district manager and at left of the mayor Is

-opening of the

Greg Saunders,
superviser for the area, is unseen except for his hand’
-holding the balloons. The restaurant has seating for 44.
people Inside. A finger licking good ides. “

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ZURICH, ' Switzerland,

(cP)’ — Prime’ Minister

" ‘Trudeau said today shortly

before leaving’ for :: East

. Berlin to'continue his wardd
; peace initiative’ that

hopes for a Tesinption of

the. ‘Geneva nuclear arma

tallies: belween the Soviet |

Union and. the-. United
States. ;
The Canadian leader, due

io meet with East’ German
President Erich, H necker

as part of His: perionak - “In “ Zorich,~”

’ jnitiative to bring East and.

* Aubert
‘ Switzerland.

Foreign . Minister Pierre
"before _ Teaving.

In. advance of. Trudeau’ a

East Berlin ‘visit,: the East

German - Communist ‘party:
hewspaper Neues °. . Deut-

re

. Bchiand, played “up ’ East

Germany’ s “good

relations” with Canada, and
noted that the prime.
minister ‘ig for a resump-

Hon of political’ diitogue
. between East and West”?
Canadian’ toh of the East-West Vienna -

Ambassador Michel’ de.

stressed the “heed
‘politicians. to, take: ‘a en
". sonal initiative in,the: ‘Peace.
. process, .

The fact that’ foreign *

ministers. took. part in the
opening - sessions » of the,
European ‘digarmatnént
talks in Stockholm earlier.
_ this month’ was 4step'in the’
right sireetion, Trudeau
told Aulért,
“Referring to
scheduled ‘ March ‘resump-

talks’ on ‘reducing cori-

West back to thenegotiating  Goumols, said Trudeau, in ventional forces in Europe, |

table, held talks with

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his discussions with ‘Aubert,

“in Deve

. Trodeat expressed the wish -

- that ‘the conferences. in ‘

+ Geneva on. nuclear arms
can begin again betwéen, the
U.S.A’ and the U,S.S:R.".
The Soviets walked out of ~
the two seta. of: Geneva
“nuclear talks’ after. NATO |
_ began. deploying - aiew U.S.
‘medium-range ~ — miclear
. missiles In Western Europe
imber. 5.
Trudeau: ~ : visited
Czechoslovakia’ last‘ week,

and after East Germany

‘the’

conciudes his’ three-country
East. European tour. with.a

, Visit to ‘Romania,

Soviet Foreign . Minister
Andrei Gromyko © arrived
‘today «in. the - ‘Romanian
capital of Bucharesl, where

Trudeau is due on Wed--

-nesday. It Was not .im-
‘mediately known, however,

Whether. the visits.i would

overlap, thus providing an
‘opportunity. for, them: to
“meet. as ‘the. first. atep
toward Trudeau's taking his
initiailve to Moscow,. °

- Trudeau -altendy has
visited US. ‘President

- Reagan ‘in Washington | to
seek

Support for his
initiative, but. the. ailing
Soviet: President. Yuri

' Andropov has asked -him to

pul -6ff-a trip to: Moscow

_, wnt Andropov. could nieet
with him: :

othe ‘rime “< Htinister

; resiuitid his Eaat European
"trip: today. ‘afler’ a con-
troversial weekend break in
the Swiss’ ski Pesert of

Europe. ” :
eG ‘think ‘it's ‘the most |

‘Management
wasti’tture a U.S. president -

Davos : ‘during which . he’

questioned: the . U.S; and
‘French atance over NATC

nuclent strategy. ;

. The opposition in, Canada
was fast to ‘react. Sinclair
Stevens, - -» Progresgsiv
Conservative... external.
affairs. . --eritic,. - claimed
Trudeau: .: : Serlously: ‘
‘challenged. NATO's

credibility by casting doubt:

on . whether’ Washington —
would usé-nuclear weapons
if Moscow attacked Western.

serioig mistake he's made

_aince he: started his peace

effort, ” Stevens said in a
Toronto telephote interview

. Trudeau tdld

Saturday al the European
Forum | he

would tigk nuclear war to

save Western Europe from a

‘Sunday, “I dai’t see why he. |
shad: to .be critical of the’.
NATO alliance,” oo
in- ;
- ternational business leaders

Employees Union.

‘The . proposal is.-baged on eoulvacts wt
already ratified by Hydro’s two locals ‘of
. the International Brotherhood of Electrical _
Workers, the utility: said in a news' release

today. ::

theoast divislon,.

: VANCOUVER ACP)
“Stricken. ‘by high® interest

+ even Ughter restrictions on
-eatchés, - West <2 Coast

: course for’ MPs ; -offices in.
- Ottawa i in séarch of support.’

~\ About. 125 fishermen + one
of the largest lobby groups
ever to travel from the’ West
Coast, are knocking on

doors * “ next’. week, . ‘deter:
‘mined: ‘to convince | the. -

" ‘They, Bay: th only: way. the.”
industry can
othe.’ ‘federal :

‘in: trouble’: “bee,
“aye caught tod many. fish
-in, the past."

. ‘Coalition — cai roe
“Organizations ‘represenling.-
4 Majority’ of 'B.C."fisher-:

“mien and shoreworkers.~ is +

- an outgrowth of a desperate
facing. tm-~

industry:
" precendented problems.
Many of those problems,
including. high . unem-
ployment... among
shoreworkers, crippling

fuel costs, dwindling salmon .

stocks. and. the . federal
government’s -, plan’ to

reduce the size of the fishing
fleet, will be ‘discussed al -
the United Fishermen's and,
Allied - “Workers | Union an-

couver this wee! ‘
But union: spokesman Geoff
Meggs says ‘much of the
delegates’ energy” will go.
* toward finding ways to keep
up the momentum: ‘crealed
_ by the” coalitién’s strip’ to
’ Ottawa. = oe
' “This “(the .éoalition’s
Ottawa trip) is not a one-
shot thing,” Meggs said in

_ - Trudeau hopes for resumption of arms” talks

Soviet © “attack by
ventional weapons.

The option: ‘of first-use of
nuclear weapons, or flexible
response, Is the cornerstone
of NATO strategy toward
the Watsaw - Pact’s

con-

Superiority in conventional :

forces.

aa don’t. know the answer
“of ‘the president, but one can
specilaté as to whether he
would .want to start. World
War IU," . Trudeau. said.

IN BAD'SHAPE -
“If there is a credibility:

“VANCOUVER: (CP) — _ British Columbia“
Hydro, has delivered a “final contract of: :
fer" to the striking Office and Technical .

‘The 2,900. electrical and natural. ‘gas...
workers are being kept-off the job hy
: pickets set up. by: the 3,300. office and
technical: employees as’ they: continue a ;
‘strike begun nine weeks ago. , :

. The contract proposed by Hydro" would

* caver three years expiring March 31, 1986;

_ and. would provide a 4.5-per-cent pay in-
crease, effective riext ‘December,’ plus a.

- ratificdtion bonus of $1,165 for each worker,

_ The ulility said layoff provisions from the"
" previous contract would be preserved, with’,
additional rights for laid-off employees. to.
’ take the jobs of workers with less seniority.
elsewhere in the Crown corporation.

Hydro said the Offi¢e and Technical.
Employees Union must accept the contract *-
proposal by Feb. 28 or it will be withdrawn.

In the Terrace’ area, B.C. Hydro tiasn’t
faced any problems -it hasn't. been able to’
handle, and, according to John Carmichael,
divisional manager, the operation isirun-"."*
ning smoothly in ‘most, areas of: the | nor

, employees thai'ate :
en most of the work,.

ermen lobby Ottawa

rates, poor fish prices and' the

. fishermen are | sétting © ‘a.

“men,

_ peor
never recovered and. were.

: at the moment, is , being done by super:
visors and engineers,” says Carmichael,
“and probably the only thing: the customer

_ Rotices of the strike is that thére might be

Aulin.

B.C, wide).

- Dec. 1, 1984. :

an interview Sunday. We'll
be looking at ways of taking
issues to different |
“communities.”

Union members know the ,

problems well. The average
B.C. fisherman earned less
than $5,500 after expenses in”
‘1982; Federal Fisheries

estimates that 1983 figures,

when tabulated, ‘wili show
they earned. about 60 per:
cent of 1982 earnings. . «
While interest rates have |
» dropped since, disastrous’
198i levels, - many fisher- -
hit- by the relatively —
fishing seasons Since,

‘and: tripled” in ‘the last five,

“ years;. lower :prices. for’ fish
-and-the intense competition ”

‘for fewer ‘fish’ resulting: in
part, they say,
.progréssively | shorter
fishing seasons imposed by .
the. federal - Fisheries
Department..

The federal government, |
“drawing from the | con-

troversial Pearse Com-
mission, sees what it calls.
“fleet- rationalization” “~~
cutting the 4,700-boat fleet:
by 50 per cent during the
next 10 years — asa major
solution to the industry's
woes and plans to “have a
draft proposal ready by the
end of March, .

However, the: coalition says
the plan if. implemented in
isolation — is short-sighted
at best. and, at worst, a

devious. plot to destroy the
in-

commercial -
dustry. oe

Peter. Pearse, -
economist at the University
of British = uty
recommended in his-study,
‘released in the fall of 1982 |

fishing:

- after 20 months of inquiry, |

gap then Europe i isina avery

_ bad shape,” Barre said.

“Let me ask you about

your credibility Mr. Barre,"

Trudeau responded,
“Do you think the
president of the United
States, in answer to an

. overrunning of Europe by

conventional Soviet forces,
will want to start World War
ili — an atomic war?”
Barre said to even con-
sider asking such a queslion
would be a sign of doubt,”

Stevens said he thought -
Barre's reply was well put.

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-alighily: Jonger ‘delays in restoring -power
after storms or equipment failure.”

_ The northeoast division covers an area
. ranging from’ Houston to the Queen
‘Charlotte Islands and from Bella Coola to

Most of the work involves maintenance
’ duty on'the 11 diesel power plants thai are
in operation throughout the area..

The diesel plants in Sandspit and Massel
_ ate being run under 24 hour supervision
with staff from Vancouver, Prince Rupert

. and Terrace manning the controls. *
4s well, B.C, Hydro has four contract -
agents running plants in the northern areas

-Of the region,

; Carmichael says that- ‘although the last
two months" have been very busy for them,
“most of the work has involved: ‘normal
service calls “such _as. broken meters,
. dowtied. limes, and equipment failure. |

» The -two unions that: have’ reachéd an
agreement with “B.C. Hydro. ‘are the
International Brotherhood of ‘Electrical
‘Workers, local 213° (gas: workers inthe
Fraser Valley) and local 258 (electricians

They have settled for Fr) three year con-
tract with a $1,400 signing bonus-and a four
‘and one half per cent wage increase ‘as of

ONS n

that there be a drastic
reduction in the size-of the
fleet to-save the troubled
.Pacific fishery. At the time,
fishermen “rejected — the.
report's’ main — recom-.
mendations fora. buy-back
‘the ‘excess "fishing
royalties .
catches ‘and “a” licence |
bidding scheme for. those
who- continued to fish.” ,
Union . president "Jack

- Nichol says the union is not’
against, the. $100-million
fleet” Fationalization ‘plan
but -:wants° ‘major
“modifications, inghiding an

fied «. ‘salmon -
: * program,

‘gapacity should be reduced,

*but- we demdnd. that it be

voluntary," Nichol. said in‘:
ari interview Sunday at. the.
convention, .Nicko! ‘said |
commercial, fishermen are
concerned that. the. federal
Fisheries Department. will
use stticker regulations to
‘make it uneconomic as
‘survive, -

Those Tegulations include
" proposajs to finance what is...
called... the “fleet
rationalization _ program”,
by. setting royalties: and.
higher -feés on: those.
fishermen who manage to.
survive financial ‘ hardship.
and continue fishing...

“We need to take some.
capacity out of the industry
hut we don't need to couple
-it with stringent regulations
that are golng to siarve.the,
remaining fishermen to.
death,"’ said Nichol.

The coalition’ also is.
_ demanding a’. - substantial -
commitment
enhancement, including a
$200-million, - five-year

‘on

to -salmon -

federal program to rebuild.

the fish stocks.
Arnie Thomlinson,
union’s environmental co-

never been greater.
“We've got the
cumulative effect of a half a
century or more of logging
and now that they've
cleaned off the prime

the

“ordinator, said Sunday the ©
threat to the indusiry has

timber -off the lowland —
and that’s been damaging —

enough to the fish habitat —
now they're going up to the
steep slopes where the in-
cidence of slides ig even
greater’.”’

Adding to that problem
are proposed projects such
as Alcan's Kemano project;
‘a “power project which
would reduce water flow
and increase temperatures’
in major spawning riverg in .
northern B.C, and. the
Canadian National -
Railway's plan to
doubletrack through | the
Fraser Canyon. .
The latter project could

dwarf. the impact of thé. .

famous slides in the
canyon’s Hell's Gate in 1913
and 1914, which historians
say is the worst biow-ever
dealt -to the industry,

Thomlinson said.

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