atives. must: end ‘decades. of: in- *.

“andsrally around thelr next leader. even If it’s

leadérahip. candidate. David Crombie’ said Wednesday.

The Toronto MP an and former. ‘Toronto mayor. tald Ottawa: ,
area farted inter

. Donald ‘Duck ;if: they're going to win the next. election,

‘Gualifleatton miust be able to. ‘speak.French. 93.)
os “he day when this party can. have a inlvoca! Jeader
‘fintshed.” Pe
Newfoundland, ‘MP Jobn, Crasbie, wildly scent to” be

ir running § in third place so far, speaks only English ‘nd has
‘fo platis ta: ‘become bilingual. ”:

‘do tere if ts ta Sin tine ain

j anld,’“Wa ‘have

- WASHINGTON: (AP) - _ Up a and down t the corridots af the”

. they. hope. will never come:
- aa te 2 months of the B
States embarked ‘on the biggest cetime mall
buildup { in its history. | ; haa pea my

‘The program, heavy with new missiles, subtericies and
bombers for the nuclear. force, would cont $1.5 triltiot over
five years. It has two goals: Moeting ‘what. Is sebH Ba: a
- dangerous Soviet military challenge, and: ‘giving the U.S.
leverage, to use on the Soviet ‘Union at: the arms-control
bargaining table.

‘Some U.S, sttategists contend: their counterparts . in
Moscow believe the Soviet Union can fight and win a
nuclear war, 4.

point of. view, how very powerful their land-based missile
force Is,” Bald Ronald Lehman, a deputy assistant defence
secretary who is among those chiefly responsible: for
American strategic’ policy,

In two decattes of rapid military growth, the Soviet Union
has ‘drawn even with the-United States — and some say
passed It —.in strategic nuclear power. .

The newest Soviet intercontinental ballistic inisailes are

‘devastation —at least five megatons, the equivalent of five-
. million tonnes of TNT,

may be just as intimidating.

based missiles. But the United. States has built a versatile,

launched missiles and long-range bombers...

' ‘The U.S. Air Force has 1,051 intercontinental miseiles,
with up to 2,151 warheads, In silos across mid-America, and:
316 B-2 bombers, with 2,570 warheads. The U.S; Navy has .
34 submarines equipped. with missiles holding . 4,060.
warheads,

land-based missiles capable of delivering 5,678: ‘warheads,
The Soviet Air Force has 145 aged bombers with only 290
-. Warheads, and the navy has u missile subs with 2,818.
warheads.

““supenorlty A ai satyis aoliniieede Storia W ef yloonlutnd <

VANCOUVER (cP) ~~ Shareholders of Crown Zellerbach

‘Canada ‘Ltd. were assured Wednésday thelr new owner

would protect their interests and abide by Canadian law.

h * “We want to become good Canadians, just as we have

i _been good New Zealanders for 125 years,” Ron Trotter,

. chairman of Fletcher Challenge Lid., told the annual
meeting.

The New Zealand company pald $242 million (us.) to’

| Crown Zellerbach Corp. of-San Francisco last year for 4:

* per cent of its Canadian. subsidiary plus Norsk Pacific .

Steamship Co. of San Franciaco.

Trotter, a member of the board for both companies, was
# peppered with questions by shareholders tneertain of thelr
position. under the new regime, =

’He- sald: the company had no inimediate plans to
amalgamate Crown Zellerbach , with ‘its other ~ Canadian
holdings. But if this did-occur, the interests. of ralnority
shareholders would be. protected under Canadian law. ~ :

Trotter sald he could not make any formal: ‘statement on.
dividend policy. A dividend would be paid when earnings
allowed. —

"Crown Zellerbach Canada lost $23, $ rmailllon in. 1983,
compared with a profit of $17.1 million the previous year, In
the quarter ending’ March 31, 1083, it lost. $11.9 million,
compared with a loss of $8.2 million in the corresponding
” 1981 perlod. :

. Company chairman Tom Rust said low lurnber’ demand”
‘was reaponible for the company's poor performance in 1983.
Earnings this year are affected by weak pulp and paper

q

* Pentagon, men and women are’ busy planning for the war’

“People just don’t understand, from a strateglc-targeting °

about as accurate as the beat the Americans have — the |
Minuteman-8, And the 10 warheads on each Soviet SS-18are |
~~packerhwith five times the Minuteman’a nuclear

But to the War'planners in the Kremlin, U, 5. capabilities ‘
,, The Soviets stack most of ‘their nuclear chips-on lands

balanced nuclear arsenal of land-based ICBMs, Aubmarine- .

On the Soviet aide, the strategic rocket. forces field 1,998, ;

we a ape x tary Apri ov we sorter, tat ebrinde Sot age

~ Crown, shareholders assured

However, many spectalinta disagree, ‘naying superiority. .

“is a" ‘meaningless | ‘word when each. side stocks: enough

recy - warheads to annihilate the other several times over.
an ‘presidency, the Unlted .

But those, whose job If is.to ponder such things are con-
cerned about one frailty in the U. 8. armor. The © potential for
a Soviet first strike. - , “

“The Soviet: Union has enough, missiles, with: enctigh

‘warheads, with ‘enough yield; with. enough ‘accuracy,to

destroy: our Miniiteman missiles in thelr silos,"" wan how,
-Lehitian summed ‘up the problem.. _;

- The theory {s that the Soviets preponderance in nnd:
-based. faissiles, w with up to 10 warheads each; mien ther:

- ‘edge.

“Ina pre-emptive. attack, using barely. one-third of. the
warheads from their SS-18s and other : accurate missiles, the -

‘Soviets could’ ‘knock out 90 per cent or more-of the United -

States’ land-based ICBMs in their relatively weak silos.’

U.S, leaders then would be unable to mount an effective
counter-strike against Soviet military targets. Instead, they.
would have to choose between retaliating against. Soviet
cltfes with less accurate submarine missiles, or surren-
dering. ‘Retaliation would bring a further Soviet attack that
would destroy U.S, cities, Surrender would halt the lethal
battle after the first step. :

. Many analysts say the Soviet leadership would never risk ;
. afirat strike. But the theoretical potential remains, and the a
Reagan administration is grappling with the quandary in

two ways, at ‘the: “negotiating fable and in, the military

budget.

While ‘the diplomats talk in. Geaeva, the Pentagon
plannera preas. ahead-with the bulldup — the: new in-.
_tercontinental B-1 bomber, new. nuclear-powered aircraft
carriers and. ‘two new-generation. missiles, the land-based
MX and the submarine-launched: Trident-3.

The MX will: be’ the world’s deadliest IcBM — 10. -

warheads, carrying - the equivalent of the SS-1e's.

Megatonnage but with twice the accuracy. The Trident-a [. -
will ba accurate exiaugh to make it the firat “silo-busting”- f

submarine. misaile,. capable of dead-eye strikes: ‘santast

“enemy missile bases, ;

Such technological leaps have outstripped { the traditional’ _
‘nuclear: strategy of mutual .assured -

stalemate: ‘supposedly achieved. by. each

catastronhe. .

Today's accurate ttuclear “gets” allow strategints to :

Bede cont ‘ean wo sales “counter-force””

markets, interest. expense and depreciation: on a swat
and pulp mill completed Jast year, .
“Moat of the factors which contributed to our ‘ons in 1983

‘remain with us-in 1989,” said-Rust. Certainly, there has- 4

been improvement in housing starts.in the United States

and this-has resulted.in improved lumber prices, par: .
ticularly in the Interior rail market. Lumber moving off: ..

shore to our traditional markets such as Japan, Europe and
Australia has not shown much extra strength, as yet.’’..

- Rust urged shareholders to accept Fletcher. Challenge’s'
offer to purchase all outstandlng Class A shares’ for 3.6 a.
share. .. .

ite said ‘hat price ‘represents a. premium’ of . ap-
proximately 33 per cent above what the shares were trading.
for prior to’ announcement of the offer: The company has

1,373,519 Class A shares outstanding and 7,085,944 ordinary -.
‘common shares. ‘No: dividends can be paid on ordinary:
shares until‘dividends of 25 cenis per ‘sharé per year have
~ been-paidl'on Class’ shares. ‘= :

- Crown Zellerbach, ‘which will be. called Crown Forest
Industries after Oct. 1, employs 6,000 workers in three
western provinces at pulp and paper mills, dawmills and

‘hardware and retail outlets. Tis eal assets. were $700

‘million.

Fletcher Challenge, New Zealand largest publicly traded |
company, has 19,000 employees in forestry, farm supplies,
real estate, energy and automobile assembly. its assets are
estimated at $1.5 billion. : .

_ Right to life remains. unanswered

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — ‘The Washington state “
Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in a right-to-
life case involving a patient who already is dead. The case
rould -decide how. to. trest future Incompetent and
irreversibly comatose r satients who have no families,

The court said that next fall it will hear the case of Joseph
Hamlin, a mentally retarded ward of the siate who died at

“Inthat sullig— the Colyer dectaloa — the high court sald
that when doctors determine a - patient is irreversibly
comatose, a relativé, acting as legal guardian, can make
the decision to withdraw life. support without court in-
tervention. .

‘over the years?’! Lehmi

destruction; the:
were.

me, a os Imowledge that attacking th the, other would d invite reciprocal ‘ :

“On balance, " President Reagen concluded: last yer, 6 a a
“the Soviet Union-.does. have: a. definite margin | Oe,

Harborview Medical Centre in Seattle three months ago.

Hamlin, 43, a pneumonia patient. who lapsed into a deep _
coma, waa in Harborview for seven months in a “persistent
vegetative state.” Though he techni hy lived, all he could
do was occasionally blink his eyes,

“Hospital doctors said he had nd shane’ sof returning even

to his former mentally retarded state — a condifion in
which he was blind, ‘could not conimuntcate and: deeded
help eating and gaing to the tollet, They. ruled It. was In
Harilin’s best interest to allow him to die. °°."

On the other side, Hamlin's legal guardian; the private
Foundation for the Handicapped, refused permission to
withdraw the respirator, Officials cited: the atate’s guar-

, Ganship Jaw, which requires a guardian to'‘care for and -

‘ maintain the incompetent or disabled person.” They asked
how they could consent to Aurning off life support and.
‘maintain’ Hamlin.

‘A King County Superior Court judge had ordered that
Hamlin’s life supports be withdrawn. The foundation ap-
pealed, hoping to get guidance from the Supreme Court. -

Hamlin died of cardiac arrest Feb. 14 before the high

court could hear the arguments. But Janey on both. sides
told the court in April that thereare sllll-unanaw 7
questions, despite a recent, related dectshea in Hfe-and- -

death cases.
vy

oo

Negotiators meet

GENEVA (AP) — U.S.
and Soviet.negotlators met

today to explore 'an offer by-
Soylet

- leader Yurl
Andropov to reduce - the
nufnber of warheads as part
of jan agreement limiting
uM Tange :,;” nuclear
pons, in Europe. .

‘The session, sécord is, the
cutrent round, was Beld at
thé U.S, arms control office.
Soviet. n negotiator | * Yur!
Kvitsinsky ‘turhed-
with a wave of his hand a

reporter's question ‘on .
‘whether the talks were
making progress. ° “

aside -

: “discuss. prospects for. “nj
- accord.’ Thera Was no in-

dication whether: they had
made any headway.
Last summer, during a

. walk in: thé woods, Kvit-

sinsky and.U.5. negotiator
Paul Nitze discussed the

idea of imposing a ceiling on.

intermedinte-range ~. mis-

-siles, It was the only break

in. the deadlock, but the
consideration of a possible
compromises was - later

‘scotched in Washingtoi and

Moscow.”
-The offer by Andropov on

oa -May 3 to deal directly with

It. was. learned, mean-.
while. that, apart from the
formal seasions, | ‘the two. _
' delegations have met. “at
Teast once on the aide. ce

warheads. as well 28

fos{tion ini the negotiations,

now in their 18h month.

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The chess-game that resulta — of ‘ntrleate thoves‘and ”

" counter-moves, revolutionary new weapons systems and
their counter-systems ~— deepens the wniceriainties of: the
“nuclear standoff, =.’

Meanwhile, Reagan's vision of the future speech March - ;
-: 93, calling for. development of an advanced anti-misslle .

‘defence, shows how technology can swiftly” ‘upset global |.
- ‘balances, Deploying such a system would open a new track
” dn the arms race, a defensive competition that arms con-
* trollers have long sought to suppress, :

“Reagan shows little patience for (hose viho- aiivocate
"freezing the’ superpowers’ nuclear arsenals at current |
" Jevels.

“A freeze now would be a very dangerous fraud, he said
“in March, “The reallty is that we must find peace through
strength.” .

“The real issiie As, how do you maintain the deterrent.
fasked. “I'm constantly thinking.

10 years down the road. That’s what you haye to do in this
"business, -you have to be thinking, ‘Where will this all take
we" .

~:At-the inoment, it is taking the United States ‘and its

‘newest class'of weapons to the heart of Europe. And the ©
climax will come notin years, but in months.

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