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Dear Sira, rertnTs REGULAR -— Cr Se _
Whe does Bill —_ moo . Toy 7 : ell re ” = " woe]
a Homberg get in TMBABANE, Swaziland ee | .
_$ ay irst’ formation From (AFP aed eimerdey irae
flering tos siatemen the ‘country’ ia first
“taught in Red China’. gular f
b oad asts. by | - the
Every person-from adolescene up-is faced biggest wile ot ed a zy Swad- |.
with a tricky problem. Brieflystateditis-whattol noe ever heard and Jand Television Broad- - :
pay attention to and what to spend time doing.| obviously Mr. Hombergs' casting Corp. i
For some husbands, the choice and decision} sources. are very COUNTRIES AGREE i
; making is not difficult. Most wives (do wa dare unreliable. BANGKOK (Reuter). — - j
_ say) have the equivalent of a “Job Jar” wating Christine Eches Cambodia and Thailand }
“for the husband to.attend to; mow the lawn, take Terrace, B.C. have agreed to normalize
out-‘the dog; shovel the snow, :ix the-toilet, relations and to exch e !
washer, T.V., or other appliance, there's the car B Li f Sea vangten, Upa .
~ to be washed and vacuumed: the sticky drawer rie § —-Pacharivanghun, of bees |

be freed: lea

faucet wasker to be replaced,
take unior to

e hockey game-s

bash; take Betty Anne to the dentist, pick up a
half sack of potatoes from Aunt e, in ex-
change for a pile of True Romance magazines.
-And s0-on and on-life is relativel uncomplicated]
. for many males, when it comes to deciding what
«things ‘to attend to first.

And: still-on the domestic front-thefemale
partner usually resolves the problem of what to:
do‘first by attending to whatever is giving the
pressure. Certain functions-clubs and other
meetings-are dealt with as the meeting date

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: Pr a . Bogota "|

: ‘comes up. Birthdays and anniversaries. are {| manufacture new weap. G08, a the

: paper E] Tiempo

; “pressty routine matters. demanding a regular: oar ernizh the Chinese reported Wednesday. The be

:, lice of our time.~.Church, lodges, social | armed vzing " newspaper said the ab- am |

z engagements-the same... =

%-°- For the families who are sports enthusiasts-the
* demands are almost endless-if they are par-
ticipants-there are the endless trips to the rink,
the pool, the court, ‘the track or the gym for

wimming pool
-hill;drive mother to the senior Citizen's}

TO UPDATE ARMY
TAIPEI (Reuter) —
Taiwan - lans to
r,odernize its 500,000-
strong army and resist
appeasement towards
Communism, the cabinet
said today in its annual
administrative report.
.The executive
(cabinet? said the
government will increase
e strength of Taiwan’ 3

defence and —

LADULTERY OUT OF

M MADRID (AFP) — The ™

Spanish Chamber of.
Deputies voted Wed-

Yvan .

were '~

foreign affairs... said
today. The Cam

government also, has —

agreed to release an
unspecified number ' of
Thai fishermen, arrested
for: violating Cambodian
territorial waters. . < -

eel
‘GOING T0 THE DOGS
BOGOTA . (AP)
Ninetyseven persons
“kidnapped —_ in

—_—

Colombia last year. Now
someone has abducted a

ductors of Ivan, an Irish =.
‘Setter owned by a.

physician, “have ~ de-
manded a ransom of
about ann.

Man angry because

Doctors saved him

practice upon practice. (Any morning at 7:a.m.,
while it is still dark, joggers can be seen in their
track or jogging suits running silently along the

practice and rehearsals, there are the actual
meets, or games-all heavy time consumers, For
-the musicians-the same applies with instrument
“practice, orchestra rehersals and music
“festivals, All well-and good.

But when it comes to social injustices-ah!
There's the rub. .

Eos. nenaaee in hard cms Plcothats
“young: people. ve e police-tha?’
what we pay them for? The high rate of
unemployment; the increasingly worsening]
- economic plight of our community. Leave that to
...the politi that's. what we elected them for?

The dirty,filthy condition of out streets and
sidewalks and some premises-where it is not
; unusual to have to beware of jagged broken
bottles, on the sidewalk; and vomit left on the
sidewalk enrances to hotels-and worse, Leave
the to theCity council-that's what we elect them
to ook after? atinety |

e many § gen ‘poor people who are
finding .it increasingly difficult to survive: on;
welfare-yet” unable for’ honest reasons, to
obtain a subsistence income-who are suffering
_ Terrace and are at their wits end? There must be
appropriate agencies to look after their
problems. A person can always find work if he’s.
not too lazy or too proud, or will take what he can
ge

It’s always easier to sit. back and watch a
hockey game on T.V. than it is to “‘stick our neck

out” and fight for and work for needed changes |
“item sim pler to gripe and complain

smuch s er and com about
erogked poitelans” and the country ‘‘going to

the dogs” o or “going to Hell” than getting in-
volved, and neta taking ona volunteer Job to

help improve ee adaig
of pling

‘Canada is
apart, (Let Quebec go it ine ects to?
better off without those so-and-so’s anyhow?)
Our unemployment figures ‘are a - national
disgrace. (There's nothing can do about it?)
Canada is being swamped n trade from
‘countries prepared to wor! ‘har rder, more ef-
:. ficiently, and for smaller profits, Why should
* we compete with “‘coolie’’ labour’?

No, The way we are dividing our time i is not
‘good enough. Watching is not doing. Viewing a
game is not. playing it. We are going to have to
get involved.

But first-we're going to have to- decide. what] .
the real issues are. Then-to give up some of our

press ORAS ERNE TSUDA SERS ORs AERTS ETT PERPSE RS tI DHS IONE ESO TS

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sidewalks inthe heart of town.) As well as the

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comfort and luxuries to attend to them. .

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“Don't say ‘so what’ when | tell you your
foot's on fire.”

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OTTAWA OFFBEAT

_ by Richard. Jackson.

” Oitay y-Parliament leads, right? © ; a .
Ri

‘Init, “itself, practising what it preaches for
others-including you, Mr. Taxpayer—restraint, .

_ Back ‘in 1950—not = exactly ‘prehistoric. times,
being little more than’ 25 years ago-it was
costing j you a now. incredible annual 8 million
to rum Parliament.” es ;

“Who says?

The: Finance Department's “sthnates—the
well-known authoritative Blue Book of national
eccounts—has it down there on the record.
This same Blue Book, current iésue puts the cont
of Parliament at; $78.7

Up from $3.8 million td$78: $ million,

_ Even the Arabian: Knight of OPEC with their
oil prices are pikers in cost increases against
competition like that, | ~

Back when you were getting basically. the
same parliamentary services for the $3.8 million

pittance; ‘MPs were drawing. an annual $6,000
with a few fringe benefits, and: nothing tax-free,
the d doctors who saved his -

No hardship‘ though.“

It was an “honor” then to serve in Parliament,
not the “Full-time job’-minus two summer
months, three to four weeka at. Christmas and
two weeks at Easter—its Honorable Members
insist on telling you it is, °

From $6,000 to a new current peak of $28,7000,.
$12,0000 of it tax-free, a built-in annual raise,
fringe benefits’ beyond contemporary. com-
parison, and a pension indexed to the cost of
living has made it a way of life, A good life.

But justa bit more of the financial record...

Liberal Prime Minister, Louls St, Laurent. was
in charge when the pay waa §6,000 and the cont of
Parliament only $3.8 million.

‘He held a hard. line and Parllament was,
‘costing just over ($8 million when John
Diefenbaker and his Conservatives took over in
1957. . .

Au MP then shared a single office with another’

MP. Each had a secretary.
Lester Pearson returnedthe Liberals to power in
1963, bumped the pay to $18,000 plus. tax-free
expenses and intruduced these ever-loving perks
and privilleges of office.

Off went the roof,

And when Pierre Trudeau came to ottice, t the
bill, then at $20 million, zoomed inia year to 26
million. . ‘ads

‘Then in two more years, to $35 million.
‘It had touched $40 million by 1975.
And now at $78.7. million in one the iaunch-pad

for the built-in, automatic early increase, ac: :

cepted by the Honorable members with hardly a

7. mmurmor and by the paying: public with ‘ecarely a
"protest. .
‘The automatic inerease~geared to the natinal

-. wage and salary index—-was Parliament's canny
 Tesponse to public uproar two years ago over it
legislated pay rise.

The Hono¢able members. at that time sneaked [a

“ft in when. the ‘Prime Minister and the 10
provincial ‘premiers. were monopolizing the
-headlines . prime TV and radio news time.

’ They rushed it through all three readings in
' the Commons-and cutting the Senate in on a good
thing had not trouble with the Gentlement of the
Upper Chamber;

. Foxily they did all this just a year aiter the last

election and less than four years-from the next, -

hoping with good reason that the public forgets,
if not forgives, ‘quickly,

But try to remember when youvote ‘again
this year...

An-not to forget that Parliament seliom, if

ever shows such speed doing your business, as it
does in watching its own welfare.

.on a field near

han

. the thousands
sprays, deodorants, air

VANCOUVER (cP) —
Two weeks. ago, George
Joseph McFall was
sentenced to 18 months i in

prison for trafficki
jjuana. But in
pet com 1976, MeFall
sentenced himself
life of imprisonment Oe a
different d

With only three months

Fall landed his new plane

ean
brook, B.C., then at-
tem ted a "dangerous
-short: takeoff to clear the

surrounding mountains.”
. He‘didn't make. it. wr

The result—a broken
neck and aot from
the: armpits down ;

’ “This is more ‘painful

being dead,'’said 37-

year-old ‘MeFall who |
ys he will never thank-

life. ts 2, Aegusting
way to exi

a hordes.’ ae
battles. with ; po “4 and.

"But temptin fate wasa
way of life for McFall
who gave this interview
from a prison hospital

“Ninety per cent of the
movies. I watch aren't as
exciting as my life, I just
had more fun ‘and more
action... It: ‘was the

greatest,”

ENJOYED STORIES

As a young man in his
hometown of: Winnipeg, 45,
he was fascinated by
stories. of rong 4

gun:

fast money. i
Ha ‘missed out: on
nae be turned to the.
. modern : -equivalent—
-marijuana smi ig. He
“says -he enley: it im-

mensely.

Waiting on ‘“ ‘deserted
Mexican, road with two

we roi fi atenin

native accomplices for a
plane to fly a d
shi ment to Canada,
cFall was surprised by
United States Treasuy
officers who charged wi
machineguns ona

Although his partners
were killed, McFall said
he esea into the forest .
with only a bullet hole in
his pant Meg.

“I hid out for seven
hours in the jun the

are strai
. it was one it

wh ‘peri sags “

“McFall begin
adventurous life ina most
unlikely way— selling
insurance, and moved on
to .selling funerals, in
advance, to prairie

farmers.
“TOP SALESMAN
' “1 was - the — to

salesman in Western
Canada, ” ‘he. said. “TE.

. pornographi

drove Cadillacs when ‘1
was 22.

“I made it in the.
straight world.”
vaca homer

‘ancouver a
¢ bookstores.
and a restaurant,-but he:
said he craved action and.

nger,

Since his accident,
however, McFall says
thrill is.

in Oakaila
Correctional Cen

ice
mite always been a
He saya his. latest,

scheme is to market a

_ waterbed he's ’
p that makes it vealed

crippled patients to enter
fom thelr Wheelchairs.

~ Sweden leads aerosol ban

By “VINCENT BUIST
. STOCKHOLM (Reuter)
Sweden hag become
the first. country in: the

> world to enact Tegislation

against most aerosol
they ma on the ground tat migh

planet’ 8 may har

The ban, which takes
effect Jan.1, 1970, covers
of hair

fresheners, ‘insecticides, ’
paints, - waxes: an
assorted rays which
use ‘the freon “gaeee
re ar ons) a
@ pro nt, oes no
apply te certain medical
rays, especia ose
thed’ "by Paathane “our
ferers. .

The Swedes, “who

’ operate one of the world’s

most active envi-.
ronmental protection
departments, .are taking |

‘serously ‘warnings by~

some . Sscieritists that.

"continued: release of these | to

chemicals anny even:
tually degrade the earth's :
ozone layer, -

This layer, composed of
ox gen molecules con-
ng three atoms in-

stead of the usual two,

encircles the ‘globe in the |
stratosphere some 20

7 kilometres up, protecting

earth from most of the
gun's - ultraviolet :

There is concern that a
thinnning of this layer
would let through more
radiation and increase
the incidence of “skin
cancer among whites. ‘It

might eventually cause

lnet to warm’ uP

the icecaps and

flooding. coastal cities. .
‘SETTING. EXAMPLE -

Sweden, which. uses
. only one per cent of the
freons made in the world,

‘obviously is not going to

halt he threat Single
handed

believe in. ‘setting an
example.

“We have done it to

ar ‘a lead, to draw we da

tion to the problem

and because we think
start |

someone has
drawing the line 7 an
ecologist sald. “After all,
aerosols are not essential
to man’s comfort, There
are Substitutes.’ Wo

“Sweden ds bang: ‘its
legislation. ~ -data
produced by ‘by the ‘United

tates National Academy
of Sciences. The U.S. has
by far the highest con-
sumption of ‘aerosol
products, . -

It reniains by no means”

clear to what extent these

‘propellants:do react with

ozone, as no one Is sure to

what extent laboratory .

them to keep thelr language within the bounds of ‘
havethempublished. ‘The editor reserves tha right to edit for bal a :
brevity Bod 00d taste, ony and the right to refuse publication of any

radiation. experiments mimic the
] Editor's Note: a
Pulao ter in'the Letters To The Editor colurmne of this
orstell

arty Newspaper nota -
{action if they are tIbetlous, Sanderous or fraudulent, and would ask” [|
if

mechanics of the upper
atmosphere,

The Pian US. firms
manufacturing the

sprays say the dangers

are exaggerated and.

’ further study is
before preducts are
banned,

POWERS EXTENSIVE
Sweden,- with | its
powerful environmental
obby, a national en-
board wit br
with broad
and a tough 1975 ‘act on on
products hazardous to
man, can cance] a
manufacturer's licence to
sell a product on the
merest suspicion of a
nger,

On the freon front, the
year's grace has been
granted to allow

manufacturers to. run.

down supplies.

The freon ‘used as a
coolant in refrigerators
and air conditioners, not
normally . ‘Teleased . ‘into

required offi

protection -

the atmosphere, is not af-
fected.

Sweden has a bilateral
environmental th, ‘the
agreemen Ww .
Soviet Union, but Swedish
elals have received no
information on what
Soviet pol
aerosols is going to be.

"ase curopean Common.
Market has shown some.

interest :-in banning

Sprays, but is awaiting -
“More scientific data,

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TODAY IN HISTORY

By THE CANADIAN
PRESS

Feb, 6, 1078 — .
. 185—Bahe. “Ruth,
baseball peat, WAS. born’ .
ratified the trea congress :

the. Spanishamericad :

Wibil-Ronald Reag n |
US. tselic at

1945~The OB
House. of Lords Brtsh
bill pues ‘the:
f of England

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