unlike thela last ‘Tory to get:

: which he was ‘chosen’ for ‘the:

: boards —
- Alberta airspace within .
three years — the advanced” -

“Nietéen: didn’t: face’ an,
surprizes'. when’ he: wa

»Belected ‘aa’ Progressive’ “in

nservative interim leader :

- that ‘job, pos ;
’ Nielsen .., walked|

into e

“Wednesday's * ‘Conieryative’ : " ‘When: ft “eame ' in. of

“calicus meeting knowing he “Monday. morning . there

"would “be: ‘hominated ae.

~ Opposition leader::
~ Michael! Starr ‘didn ‘even
“Rnow about ‘the: Theeting at.

Job In. September, 1967, and.
“no one called, him. lt thie
news. -"

“Pepin

CALGARY: (CP) —
a. day-of ‘dodging. angry

After

i

home: in: Oshawa. (No one
even. old: me: ‘about Ate!

were ‘congratulations. Twas
f.

The. Tork

“Stare, " ther’, House Jeader ° ml a
“convention will be called to
confirm: or. -Feplace Joe %

and. former] labor ininiater; «.

after they: ‘ousted: Aohit :
a a Diefenbaker, ,-
“they laid. a: ‘eaucius a

‘Newly’ ‘elected leader -

~. Since the plan is a com-

‘ promise aimed at satisfying

farmers, federal. “‘Trangport

Minister. ‘Jean-Luc “Pepi
defended _ recently. an-

‘ nouiced’ revlaions ; to. the

* Crowsnest Pass freight rate’.
during: a- news conference.
Wednestiay..

‘Pepin ‘said’ that despite
negative reaction from
Quebec and some. farm.
groups In Manitoba. and
Saskatchewan, he is pleased.
- with:the overall reception to
the proposed. Changes.

Stelth cruise missile proposed.

"| WASHINGTON. (cP) — —

TheiUS. cruise missiles

-. expected” to be tested. -in
“Canada under a weapons-

testing agreement are likely

. to include a new, improved |
model known as: the’ stealth -

cruise,
When.it's off the drawing
~\and possibly inte

model‘ will: be a more

. powerful strategic weapon

with“‘a Jongef. range and
better equipped to. avoid.
detection than the: present
“version, - ‘a. Péntagon.

spokesman said in an in- Z

terview: Wednesday. 7
The ‘stealth: designation

"means. the advanced cruise category.
TWIP Ybe “équipbed With! >"yebY onthe sldartn' dirulee
> electronic gear designed to
* . make it'invisible ta enemy’ program is ‘expected to cost -
radar! and defending - anti-

missile missiles. °

. said:

some of the: interesta of all
regions of ‘Canada, Pepin
réaction .

' Bud: Olsen,’ minister for

economi¢ developmient, also’.
spoke at the news ¢on-'

’ ference, called a day after

--federal ::

announced.
-declaion | - on
replacing ’ ‘the, statutory

Pepin;

’ So. “rapid ‘are develop-

ments in the arms race.that

launched ‘cruise — the-one

originally . earmarked for .

target practice in Alberta -
was privately ‘declared
obsolete’ even ‘before it
began .to go into service in

- December . with the US,

Strategic. ‘Air Command.,
The federal budget for the

‘financial: ‘ye ar beginning :
‘Oct:

1, -P resented '
Congresa last Monday, cute

off $3.7 billion in planned.
procurement: ‘funds for. the
Boeing .crulse during the -

next five years, ue,
Funds .. have . heen

reassigned, te ABER!
fige for. ‘a start’ th
‘for the U.S. Air Force. That

_ about $6° billfon ‘and will
_ begin operations In 1986.

Robert.

satrday
43, : wh
telephone

was
“remarkably positive in the |
‘circumstances.” :

Agriculture’: Minister
.. Eugene Whelan andSenator ..
. temporarily.
Pepin's way into a hotel.

the .

_Mmaintain

“Btantield ‘wag .
the: party. from ‘ay

suite ‘of. ‘offices in the
4° Chateau Laurier: Hotel and ‘
Ont:, home. Wednesday, ee
“#4 wasn't: there. ‘Liwas at |

the Tories - “needed a

win’ a ‘byelection.

” But” “Nielsen . inherits . a.
“bitterly divided. and” ins
.. dependent minded group of |
MPs “and ; senators . ae “a

a lingering: uncertain!

* Clark.

- However, start ‘has. a ‘lot 8

airport. The farmers bung.
him: in effigy. _

Th Saskatoon on Tuesday,
about 400 protesters.
chanting “Keep the Crow”
blocked,

Western farmers, who

- now. pay about oné-fifth of

the acutal cost of shipping

their grain to market, would |
see that rate increase to 30

The ‘spokesman said -
hat -despite the “ midstream
_ the. present Boeing air- .

switch, the alr force plans to
its cruise
timetable — . arming its ©

long-range bombers ‘with a °
total of Some 3,000 nuclear-

tipped misalles of a mixture

of current and ‘advanced .
- versions.

Simultaneouaty, ‘the air
force plans to improve the
existing -. cruise -with “the

‘addition | of : electronic
to. counter -
guided missiles : fired ‘at ‘it...
_from enemy planes or the

equipment

ground.
' The alrdaunched erulse is

part.of a.family of such, 5...
“weapons

also.
developed for f
shi

_ being

tactical -nuctear-armed

version to be based in ,
Europe. ' oO

~B. Cc. trucker cautious |

SURREY, B.C. icp) —

Independent

erupted in 36 U.S. states. _
Trouble has been

“truck ‘driver.
‘Bob Burns says he's not frightened ' by in
highway terrorists: “who have -seared |
“hundreds of non-striking truck drivers ‘off
U.S; highways, but he’s not taking - -any ;
“changes,
Being careful means not driving at night
-- when a well lit'rig can “present an easy:
target for a sniper’s bullet — and taking’:
side roads to avoid commercial areas of
U,S. cities where troublemakers lie in-
wait, he said in an interview Wednesday...
The latest violent strike“by the 100, 000.”
member: .
Association, to protest increased road and: |
fuel“ taxes, has been described by some.
officials. as “war.” One driver has’ been
slain, 27 injured and 155 trucks have been’.
hit by” Bunfire since Monday, as violence -

‘reported in.
Washington, Oregon and California

- although it has been worse in the Mid-West
and Eastern ‘states of the U.S.
Some B.C. companies have given their
drivers. the option of driving: only in
Canada but. many truckers said Wed--

nesday it’s business as usual — ‘with the

Truckers _ .

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exception of a few safeguards.

*. “Nobody's driving at night,” said Burns; *
40, a non-union driver with Mozmik
Trucking. “Firat thing. in the morning
there are so many trucks on the road it's as

bad as downtown driving.'”"

AS darkness falla, he said, truckers have

tobe quick to find a place to pull in for the

; “night at “safe” ‘triekstops.- ;
“The big -trucksiops: is where all the
fracas is,” said Burns. "I ‘don't go there

‘and J take sideronds.to avold them.”
Burns came up from . Oregon where
_. Miolence flared Tuesday. night in.a nor-
~ thern suburb of Portland. He said he heard
_ about it on his radio and avoided the area.

- leadership bid in'1967.:
caretaker ‘to. lead: MPs in a
' Parltament for ‘the.:elght .| cellent: job. ‘He knows :

me “weeks ‘It’ took: Stanfield” to."

from’ -
‘and’, from . ground: : *
‘launchers, -'the latter: al:

¢ Turkeys

: “Canada |
a 2.7-4.5.k9 Grade-

“Of, ‘alln in,. ‘the. snew |

‘Qpposition teader, who was:

gmpalen chairman ‘for’.

Starr's ;Unsuéeesstul
"UT think he'll do an :ex:

parliamentary: procedure:

- and he knows the: Polley of of

per cent of cosis by $ #4." -
and 60 per cent by the endot’
the. decade. Organisa

representing most Ptw-tie '
grain farmers. sald they :

oppose thé change, Which:

would increase grain freight -.
rates to five tines, their

; current level.

Western premiers tiptosd : :remarks.:
, around - the - potentlally

divisive issue of the: freight _..
rate at their meeting “in.
Swift Ciirrent, Sask, ‘They
said more time is" needed to

‘The decisions to develop a.
‘stealth version and equip
the. existing cruise with -

counter-missile systems are |.

‘based on a U'S. “railitary
assessment that. present:
versions. “are ‘highly

vulnerable: ‘to the: ‘latest
Soviet anti- alreraft
missiles. - oe

Bide to build the “stealth

spring by competing -
aerospace companies; in-- -
cluding Boeing, ‘Lockheed |
and General Dynamics, all
of which have ‘worked on
various cruise versions.

woe

no upheaval, no rifts: .

“The caucus in. my. ay:
i was agreeable. "They: knew: :
‘what. had. happened -and |
they decepted it, There | was

“Tkept a fairly even keel,

We dla the job in the House

of: Commons that had to be’
done." Shab yet

~~.

, Oppialien lender,

“ fnthrinn
But eau teow whether -°
Nielsen ‘will also, become *

party. leader,‘ a post Clark

"apparently must: Teslgn”
‘before a:  Jeadérahip con

vention can bé. called, '

lin * compared with ie $26,100

analyse what Pepin. is
proposing, *

Pepin said he chose not to.

meet members . of the
» National Farmers. Union in

, Saskatchewan because they

indicated’ they would ‘not
- change their views. ;

The minister’ ‘poked holes

“in. some of -his critics’

He :noted one,
: farmer interviewed: * ‘an
national radio. ‘Tuesday «
“night said his transportation.
: costs under the new ‘system:
would increase $25,000 and’
che would be. bankrupt within

" “five years: Pepin ‘sald’ his'
staff analysed the farmer's:

‘figures and concluded under

‘the formula -his tran- |
“sportation costs would: rise

only $4,000 to"'$5,000

“Pepin . also daid” the
“Quebec government. has
ereated.a- climate of fear”.
among, Quebec: livestock :

" producers who.are worried
increased grain costs will
destroy thelr industry.

. Whelan: said Western
Canada will receive $175
million in. . federal

" cruise are to be enteréd.this* agricultural ‘aésistance as -
part of." changes’ to _ the

freight rate. : .

He said the statutory
Crow rate, which has -kept
thé cost of shipping grain to

~ export points artifielally |

MOVING OUT SALE

Frozen.

“tite ‘over’ the: Oppotition
"Jeader’s offices but not the”
official: ‘realdenee;. Stor- on

-noway:

mo

‘ low pince 897, discouraged
the natural - “diversification
of industry, especially food

“processing, which would
Jhave’ taken ‘place had trye ;

. transportation Soata been
' charged...
“The old rat. encouraged’

western: grain producers: to
Ship the: raw: ‘product out.of
"Western |” ‘Canada.
Brocessing eleewhere.

Whelan sald expansion of
‘the (ransportation system
‘swill- gave money through
Increaved. revenues from

- exports, less dumping of

-grain during’ soft: markets

~apith! ‘resulting income loss,

and ‘lower grain storage
costs due to lack of rail
transportation. -

» Pepin: said he hopes the

media will join’ the govern- ff
ment in’ monitoring’ the -

railways who have pledged
$16.5 million to expand 4 the
Tall system. ©

' But he sald a_ co-
‘ordinating. “agency beirig

established (o administer’ |

the Crow revisions’ will
monitor
performance.as part of ite
mandate, .

“A pystem of rewards and.
punishments*” will even- §

tually -be’ developed based
on’ deliveries ‘of eraln for
export, he said. a

COMPLETE HOUSEH Gi.D

‘lar his new post, Nielsen
will get salary ande: expenses |
- worth :'$105,600 “a year,?

: Oshawa, was. ‘Birst elected to
the: Commons: din-a ‘May, |
1953,"

. former’ “prime minister .
“along Nielsen ie. ie

pleased with. revisions to Crow rate

. freight rate for grain.
Earlier in the day, Pepin.

was confronted by 100

farmers at- the Regina .

°) defeated: ‘by. a ‘handful of”
Teudeauinania sweep of -
_ 1968 to another household
“name. —' New Demtocrat
‘Leader Ed Broadbent.

Was ‘appointed’ presiding

._ Toronto and served a seven-
_ year. term as chairman . of
‘the ;

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