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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

CP Air reach their destination
Attention: Mr. Jan Gray, until 4:30 a.m. People
President who aren'tsick before are
_Dear Mr. Gray: often ill by then.

The wait in Prince
Rupert for the bus is often

As MLA for the brea, I
am extremely disturbed

by theservice of CP Airto over an hour with no

_the Terrace-Kitimat coffee shop open or any

‘area, iplace for people with
The service was babies or smal] children
{jgfactory when there to warm a bottle.

Sa i

wetethree flights a day. I
realize that there are less
people travetling in the
winter months and

“therefore three flights a

“day ‘aren’t warranted.
However, the best flight,
which was the afternoon
flight, was cut off —

_rather than one of the
poorer ones, The af-
ternoon flight was par-
ticularly good for older
people, women travelling
with small children, and
the sick or disabled. The |
morning flight,
especially, is seldom able
to land at this time of the
year.

If these people come on
the night flight, it is often
very late when they get
into Terrace-Kitimat.
Last Friday, Nov. 17, we
golto Terrace via Prince
Hupert at3:30 a.m, — this
was the flight which was
due in cree at 8:10

y pm. Now. 16, Those going. . _

on to Kitiadt “aie ol * ©

&

One other complaint I
often hear is that after
paying for the flight to
Vancouver, and. being
bussed to Prince Rupert,
people have to pay three
dollars to cyoss the
harbour,

In my experience with
overseas {flights and
Trans-Canada flights, CP
Air service is normally
satisfactory and — for the
good of the company
name— I urge you to take
a hard look at improving
your service to this area.

1 especially urge you to
bring back the afternoon
flight because, if it has to
be rerouted to Prince
Rupert, the passengers
can still get home at a
reasonable hour.

Trusting you will give
this recommendation
your sincere con-
sideration.

Yours very truly,
Cyril M. Shelford,
°-" MLL.A. Skeena

EDITOR'S JOURNAL

BY GREG MIDDLETON

It’s time. I’ve gotta confess. I’m addicted.
That’s right, I have a habit I can’t kick. I’m a
popeorn head,

I suppose it all started when I first went to
college, All the other kids were experimenting
with illicit substances which altered your state of
consciousness. They were using things like
potato chips and pizza.

We would sit around in smokey, dimly lit
rooms listening to old blues musicians and
drinking beer, In order to continue the imbibing
of the golden brew we started on salted nuts.
From there it was into the more exotic things
like ripple chips and garlic dip. But it wasn’t
until the night we went to the restricted movie
that I discovered that I had hidden desires.

E don’t remember the movie. I’m not even sure
I saw the film. I had my nose buried in a box of
double buttered. Now I know that the pre
popped, cardboard-like stuff they pass off at the
theatres was junk compared to the real thing.

I can still recall the first night we tried it.
Someone brought a bag of the stuff over to my
apartment. We got out a pot to cock it up in. All
those golden kernels held a fatal fascination for
me. The first time we tried to make it I went out
of control, They couldn't make me put the lid on
tne gallon pan until T had watched three batches
explode into the air and cover the floor three-
inches deep.

After going through a pound of popping corn
and half a pound of butter, with enough sprinkles
nf salt ta make a camel drink we lay around on
the living recom rug so parched we could have
been on a desert,

__ The very next day one of my compatriots used
part of his scholarship money and bought a
gallon of extra large white kernels and an
electric corn popper. I was working my way
through school and had to make do with a big
aluminum pot and a pound of yellow popping
corn and butter at a time.

E didn’t know I had a habit until I went on a trip
and stocked up on those individual, foil wrapped,
already buttered outfits,

It was terrible. Now I can afford the exotic
imported stuff. The gourmet popping corn.
There is no more slinking down to the corner
store in the dead of night. It still preys on my
mind though. I wonder how long it will be until
I’m found out. Until someone sees the telltale
husks between my teeth, smells butter on my
breath or notices my cracked lips.

Now that I’ve confessed I do feel better though,
but pass the salt.

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: WASHINGTON (CP) —_.
President Carter has been’

advised by intelligence
sources the

government has mo betier

than a 50-50 chance of sur- .

viging beyond December.
and mass

procedures are

practised for U.S. residents:
there. _
Following the bloody’

events of the past weekend,
US. Intelligence officials are
reported to believe he 1
month struggle by oppoaiti
groups to topple the Shah of
Iran and his military
government are in a crucial

se.
on three straight days of

clashes that started Friday,
observers estimate more
than 300 demonstrators died
in rioting, Official govern-
ment reports claimed only 12
died, but correspondents
discovered the higher totals
by checking burial figures.

New slowdowns started
Monay in Iran’s vital
oilfields and there were
attacks on police stations in
Tehran.

One of the intriguing ques-

' tions is what the United

States, Iran's strongest
foreign backer, will choose
to do as presaure grows
against the shah.

Tran has stragegic signifi-
cance for the United States

TORONTO (CP)
Women started It, They held
up mirrors to themselves
and their place in society and
called
raising.

Men laughed or felt threat-
ened by the sisterhood
sessions of a few years ago,
Some still laugh or feel in-
secure, But some, like Bob
Alexander, have decided
that if you can’t beat them,
join them.

Alexander, 38, founded in
September a men’s
liberation group which
allows men to meet and talk
about themselves in a uon-
competitive way.

“The conventional male
world doesn’t encourage the
expression of feelings, ex-

cept maybe  anger,’’
Alexander said In an in-
terview.

“Tt allows men lo come to-
gether in groups but only in a

A bill that has passed first
reading in the Quebec
national assembly would
raige members’ salaries by
six per cent and freeze
Premier Rene Levesque's
annual income $4,300 above

Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau's,
A survey by The Canadian

Press shows that incomes
and benefits for political
leaders and legislalive
members across the country
vary widely.

Under a complicated new
pay formula in Quebec,
Levesque, Speaker Ciement
Richard, Liberal caucus
leader Gerard Levesque and
Parti Quebecois cabinet
ministers would face a pay
cut. But the bill includes a
provision to freeze their
salaries ut the 1976 level,

Levesque will earn $76,500
before laxes in 1979, us he did
in 1978—compared with
Trudeau's $72,200.

Iranian ~

evacuation “‘Sarently continues to see

being *"Tranian unrest in the context
sof thégisual American con-

it consciousness: .

Iranian gov't may fall

aS a Mideast ally, besides its
economic importance as key

oil supplier and sometimes
moderating influence ‘in oil
pricing.

: So far,

the U.S.
{elligence

service

in-
ap-

cern aver spreading Soviet

> influence.
s/ Weekend reparts
HCarler has been advised the

say

viet Union is financing
‘conservative Moslem ap-
ponents of the shah, fun-

elling money through

rench and Italian Com-
munist parties,

But this analysis ignores
the religious aspect f the
fight the opposition parties
are waging, and the religious
fervor that makes December
such a key month.

This is the Mostem month
of mourning, a religious
ritual culminating in street
processions Dec. 11 to mark
the death of Imam Husain,
Mohammed's grandson, wht
is revered by Iran's Shiite
Moslems, More than 90 per
cent of Iran’s. 25 million
inhabitants belong to the
Shiite sect.

. In an ominous note, the
Parisbased leaders of the
Shiite Moslems called for
“torrents of blood” to flow

Dec. 11. Militants in Iran
have said on that day “elther
the shah will go or one
million pecple will die.”

The Shiite Moslems oppose
the shah's liberalizing
reforms of Iranian society
and have publicly vowed
defiance of a government
ban on customary religious
processions.

Since he took power in
1941, the shah has received
heavy U.S. aid and support.
U.S, military advisers
formed the 240,000 man
military machine that keeps
the shah in power.

But recently the U.S.
embassy in Tehran has
‘started weekly briefings for
staff and members of the
U.S. companies in ‘Iran,

telling them how to get out.

Leaders are in place to alert
groups of companies within
two hours of procedures to
follow in the event of a
decision for total evacuation,

There are about 300 US.,
200 British, 350 West German.
and scores of other
European and Japanese
companies in Iran. In the
past few months, opposition
‘mobs have attacked the
tehran offices of Pan
American Airways, In-
ternational Business
Machines Corp,, as well as
the British embassy, British

| FOR LIBERATION
It’s the man’s turn

competitive, locker-room
way. Men compete over jobs,
salaries, sports and
women."

An ordained but non-prac-
lising United Church
minister, a drug counsellor,
former student radical and
now a husband and father,
Alexander said he never had
trouble being gentle,

His group best can be
labelled sensitivity
expanding. Ils goal is to help
members express their
ambivalent feelings toward
women—their anger, resent-
ment, gentleness and tender:
hess.

Alexander, two separated
men and an unmarried man
are the core members of the
group, which meets weekly
at members’ homes. Other
men have drifted In and out,
but these four remain.

When the men meet, they

usually talk about what is
happening to them that week
and how they feel about it.

Anderson said a recently-
separated man felt bitter
toward his wife and the

group helped him examine ~

whether his resentment truly
was directed at hia wife or
perhaps at his mother,
father or life in general.

Alexander said = the
members appreciate
feminism intellectually but
resent it if it has made an
intrusion in their personal
lives.

The four all have had rela-

tionships with feminist.

women, graduates of
sisterhood sessions who
forced them to examine
themselves as males.

“That was tough for us at
first," Alexander sald, “We
didn't know if we'd formed
the group because we'd been
told to or whether we really

FOR QUEBEC MNA

Salary deal sought

However, federal cabinet
ministers and the prime
minister enjoy a number of
prequisites not available to
all provincial represen-
tatives.

Trudeau gets his official
residence in Ottawa, 24
Sussex Drive, and MPs get
taxpayersubsidized food in
their restauarants, $1-a-clip
haircuts, unlimited-use
railway passes and free
airline travel between Ot-
tawa and thelr  con-
stituencies.

Salaries plus expenses of
provincial premiers range
from Levesque’s $76,500 and
Ontario Premier William
Davis's $64,732 down through
the premiers of Alberta,
British Columbia, Sas-
katchewan, Newfoundland,
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
and Prince Edward Island to
Manitoba, where Premier
Sterling Lyon makes $35,800
a year,

Salary stales — for
provincial government
members follow roughly the
same pattern as shown by
the provincial premiers with
Quebec again topping the list
at $27,800 this year plus a
$7,000 tax-free allowance.

The increase now before
the assembly would raise
that to $29,468 in 1979, plus
$7,500 taxfree allowance.

Federal MPs make $26,900
a year plus tax-free expense
allowances of $12,000.
Senators make the same
basic salary but receive no
allowance.

The lowest rate of pay for
provincial government
members who are not in the
cabinet is in Nova Scotia,
where the basic salary is
$9,600 plus $4,600 tax-free

* expenses, making a total of

$14,400 a year.
Income for members in the
Prairie provinces and

Eastern Canada is. between

Airways and British banks.

Some observers now
question how long the shah
can count on united military
support, The army la made
up largely of draftees, who

spend two years in military ©

service, usually near their
homes where they are
subject te spreading op-
position pressure,

In apparent recognition,
the shah has given the forces
a 23-per-cent pay raise and
promised another 12.5 per

‘eent for the spring. The
officer corps also gets free
medical services, food at
half cost and rents at 10 per
cent aday, compared with as
much as 70 per cent paid by
othe test af this rd

e test this. guard's
loyalty, with its Stocks of
U.S.made armor, artillery
and aircraft, could come as
early as next week.

Meantime, as commu-
nications fail and the United
States prepares to protect its
citizens, unease is growing in
the [ranian middle classes
that have benefitted under
the shah’s rule.

U.S, embassy sources here
say the rate of visa ap-
plications to its embassy in
Tehran has quadrupled this
week to between 700 and 900
a day from Iranians anxious
to get out before the feared
collapse af the government.

now

wanted to do it for our-
selves,"” °
“] think now we know it's
good for us to have close
friends of the same sex,''

Alexander admits there is
a lendency in the group to
liberation  one-upmanship.
They sometimes try to be
more liberated, more gentle
and more tolerant than each

other,

“With men like us, the
competition is seeing how
un-macho we can be,”

Alexander says he knows
his philosophy is unpopular
with most men but is con-
fident- this will change.

When men no longer have
to retaliate against women,
there can be a return to good
manners, he said, meaning
whoever gets to the door first

opens it.
“It's better to charm than
to bully.”

$15,000 and $19,000 including
tax-free expen
while that of- Ontario
members is $26,742 and for
British Columbians $24,000.

Travel allowances in New-
foundland vary between
$6,225 and $10,225 according
to how far a member's
constituency is from St.
John's. .

Ontario has introduced a
bill to give MPPs a four-per-
cent Increase, .

Eariler this year the
federal government boosted
salaries by five per cent and
Prince Edward Island
members had an increase in
July.

One pay difference does
remain fairly constant
across the country~cabinet
ministers and leaders of
official opposition parties
generally make at least
double the salaries of or:
dinary members. —

Be accounts, .

OTTAWA OFFBEAT

BY RICHARD JACKSO N-

" OTTAWA - Old politicians

never die — they just move

to ather constituencies.
Like John Diefenbaker, 83.
And Pierre Trudeau, now

_ $8 (or 60, depending on which

set of hia vital statistics you

. gecept.}
Tt was the other day in the

Commons, and Dief, who
since bas declined a
previously accepted in-
vitation for an official visite
China, was complaining how
the prime roinister had been
gut of touch for so long
his recent jaunt to
Born and then Morocco.

It had seemed longer than
20 days to Dief who was
trying tofind out whether the
prime minister was putting
co or calling off a late fall
election.

Natch, the Old Warrior
wanted to be around if the
naltion was going to the po
vw GF nat, then he would be
free to travel to Peking.

So after what seemed an
interminable wait, he ran
into the PM — or the PM
bumped into him — at a
government function, and
the long-delayed question
was asked.

Hansard, the word by word
record of Parliament, takes

the story:
“lef: “T said to him that I
had wanted to find out, just
between us Privy Coun-
cillors, if he would tell me
whether, if I went to China,
there might be an election at

home,

“And do you know what he
said to me?

“He replied that ‘as far as
I am concerned, you can go
to Peking and go to hell.’

“That was the clearest
answer that ] have ever had
from him.

“And for his edification I
had to point out to him thatin
the Hereafter I expect to be
Up There, so that we would
not be in the same con-
stituency.”’

Suddenly “bale Con-
servative strategy has

Prime Minister Trudeau,
not ralsed, no anger
is to be condemned,

Criticized, mind you, but
politely.

Questioned, of course, but
with decent deference to his
position as prime minister.

Attacked, certainly. — an

Opposition has to maintain -

. heartily
© Turner. +

some credibility of muscle —

but gently, more in sorrow
in anger.

tisecause the last thing —

the very laal desperate

extremity — that in-

creasingly confident Con-

atives want, isto make a
early of the Prime
Minister.

To stir the last vestige of
public sympathy for him
would be disaster.

There’s something ex-
tremely wry in ihe sudden
tumaraund situation.

Only days ago the
Liberals, who for years —
no, decades — have taken

their right,
rT Joe”, as
they called Conservative
Leader Clark, as their
test asset.

Former long-time Tory
and new-come Liberal Trade
Minister Jack Horner was
the last to take a shot at him,
8 tha “poor oe'’
sneering y-schodl dropout
who had never earned a
dime in his life.

Then came the campaign
for those 15 byelections and
the horrified Liberals
learned from knocking on
doors that while they were
thinking all along that “poor
Joe” was their best asset,
thelr own Plerre Trudeau
was their worst liability. °

The Conservatives found
out the same thing.

And the  byelections
confirmed it like neither
pa ever believed they
would, with stunning impact.

Then, came the public

inion polls that 64 percent
o Canadians -believe the
Liberals should “re-assess’”
Pierre Trudeau a8 leader.

So now the once-potent,
super-charismatic PET is
the Great Tory Asset, and
they don't want to lose him.

For to lose him would be to
win John Turner for the
Liberals, And with Ol
Blazin’ Blue Eyes as Liberal

* Jeader ,.. welll

So the word is be nice to
Pierre.

Even stiffen Pierre's
resolve to hang on as Liberal
leader by putting it around
that if he quit, he would:

— Show he was afraid of
being beaten by Joe Clark.
Give the party
leadership to his old and
liked rival, John

_

VIC

PLC. MLA

STEPHENS.

For years the voters of
British Columbia have been
sold a bill of goods that our
only cheice on election day is
between a so-called free
enterprise party and a so-
called socialistic one. And
while this worn out, tired old
theme is stuffed down our
throats we have been
distracted from the true
problem....big government.

We have seen every
political party inthis country
run wild with dollars
stripped from taxpayera
against their will and used
for purposes entirely un-
justified by any social need.

in British Columbia beth
the former N.D.P. govern-
ment and the present Socred
administration have in-
dulged in such an un-
controlled spending spree
that taxation is literally
strangling our economy. The
present government's heavy
tax hand may permit it to
balance its budget but it is,
most surely, preventing you
and me from balancing ours.

The present government,

"In just two years and four

months after coming into
office, brought down a
budget calling for ex-
penditure of over four billion
Gollars. This ig one billion
dollars higher (han the last
budget of the previous
government.

To meet this kind of
spending it is necessary for
the government to extract an

average of $1700 fram every
man, woman and child in
British Columbia. This
compares with an average of
only $600 per capita in the
State of California where
voters have finally rebelled -
against high taxation.
Working men and women
of British Columbia, small
business owners, home
owners and especially our
citizens on fixed and low

- incomes can no longer afford

to carry a huge and inef-
ficient government
bureaucracy. The non-
productive segment of our
society has overburdened
our productive sector. The
results can readily be seen in
lagging productivity, high
unemployment and inflation.
Government is not a victim
of inflation but the prime
cause, |

The Conservative party
believes that to begin to tap
the vast potential of this
great province we must
leave substantially more
money in the hands of those
who earn it. We believe that
the person who works for his
pay isa better judge of how
to spend, save or invest it
than the politician who taxes
it away. We believe that to
require a man to go to his
Rovernment, with hat in
hand, and ask for a grant or
other handout of the very
money that has been taken
from him is destructive to
human dignity.

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