Page 4, The Herald, Monday, June 11, 1978 FRERRACE/KITIM AT daily herald General Ciflce - 435-6957 - Published by Clreutation - 633-6357 Storling Publishers GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland , EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION. TERRACE. KITIMAT OF FICE - 632-2747. Published avery weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, . Terrace, B:C. A mamber of Verified Circulation. Authorized as second class mall, Registration number | 1201. Postage.pald In cash, return postage gueranterd. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT — 635-6157 © The Herald retalas full, complete and sole copyright [n any advertisement produced and-or any editarlal or photographic content published In the - Herald. Reproduction Is not permitied, EDITORIAL Saturday was a proud day for the Nishga people who assembled In New Alyansh to see 33 students graduate tn the only natlve-controlled school district in the province. - It was a happy day for both the native and the several non-native. students and thelr families, but it should also be a day to note for. all Canadians. : The, Nishga..are,.Jn, organizing their own ‘School district and taking over control of fhe education of thelr children, ‘doing a great‘deal to esfablish and.af- firm the Canadian identify and thie unity of this country. .;.° In his speech | to ‘the graduates, B.C. Supreme Court: Jusilce’ Tom Berger called this country non-homogenous. That this country. isa place where It therdil a vériet¥of'Cultire and tradition is both the difficulty of defining what is pers Canadian antt“the gr@atness that. is‘ 3 Canadian. - Berger pointed out that the history of this country is not just that of the European settlers and their ancestors, but also that of the aboriginal peoples who knew and lived here for generations before the nee ans imposed d thelr way Oe APTN ane Vial age a meaning of what it Is to be Canadian will be ‘shaped by these students who graduate from schools like the one in New Alyansh, where there is both a reaffirming of native culture and values as well as those of the newer and now dominant Western European system. They will, with their exposure to both cultures, be wiser than any of-us. COMMENT by Greg Middleton I understand that Richard Parker, a supervisor of special services for the Terrace schoo] district, or should I say the former supervisor of special services for the Terrace school district as he has resigned, thinks someone at the Herald has an axe to grind with. the schoo] board. ; Since someone here is supposed to have an axe all sharpened up, perhaps I'll take this opportunity to wield it and clear away a little underbrush around the school system. While I don’t-have any particular grudge against the school board here, I do have some strongly held views on the subject of education. Tcome from a pretty typical middle class family of the 1950's, where the ambition was to have a son or daughter graduate from university and become a professional. My father worked very hard to provide the money for me to go to college. When I went to university, after spending a couple of years trying out various jobs and lifestyles before I made the decision that further education was what 1 wanted, I discovered an unpleasant fact. The education I received in the public school system didn't really prepare me very well. Oh, I was about on par with the other students in my classes, and better able to learn than some for having had eome correspondence courses which demanded more discipline than the regular school system. Where I began to notice the Inadequacey was when I came - Into contact with students and faculty who had their education in Europe. Many of my teachers in university had no more than a Bachelor of Arts degree from an English univeralty. Their background and command of their subject was far greater than that of the graduate students who took their degrees at Canadian univeraities. What was more telling waa that the opinion held by those with a European education of the quality of university - atudents, undergraduates, at Canadian univeralties, was very low. The impression J got was that they felt a second or third year student here would have trouble competing againat the equivalent of a grade 12 student from the English system. It was rather depressing. I've heard nothing but complaints from univeralty faculty that the high schools are graduating students in an academic program who do not have the knowledge they should have. Employera continually complain that students aren't given the basic academic , skilla to go to work with. The most disheartening complaints come from the students, however. And that is the next column. Stark contrasts are part of this still rugged country . WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second time jn five years, a disastrous . crash of a DC-10 jetliner | Is: prompting questions. — ~ States government monitors the design and construction of com- mercial jets, Critics say the American Airlines crash near Chicago has again exposed defects in the Federal Aviation Ad- ministration’s cer- tification of new rar ip a = a8, i fe ga pay ad outside Paris. Some FAA engineers privately concede the agency is short on manpower, must rely often on: company- supplied reports, must extensively use in- spectors on the manufacturer's payroll and — in the case of the DC-10 may have allowed critical design flaws to get through. A Houseof Representatives sub- committee is to oper hearings today on the Chicago crash, in which about how the United . LATE BUT. an’ i’ étigine broke off the. plane shortly after takeoff, causing North America’ 8 worst aviation ~ accident with 275 deaths. The witnesses will include FAA Ad- ministrator Langhorne Bond, who last week grounded ‘all 138 U.S.- registered DC-10s and ordered the plane’s design certificate suspended, pending further tests, because of possible: design propems. in ‘the engine mounts. ;. Altbaugh Bond's o: did not apply to foreign- owned DC-10s, the FAA . said all foreign operators of the aircraft have taken their ‘planes out of ser- vice, The - Canadian government’ followed the FAA lead and grounded the oniy two Canadian- registered DC-10s, both awned by Wardair, a charter airline. It will not be the first > kd U.S. congressional in- . , vesigation of the FAA’s handling of the DC-16. A similar one occurred after the Turkish Airlines . DC-i0 crashed outside ve failing. to. uncover the Crash causing questions | Paris in March 1974, kililng 348 in the world’s worst commercial air accident. involving one plane, ° oo Investigators | ‘then blamed the design of a cargo door which blew ’ open, decompressing the cargo area, collapsing a _ floor - and causing hydraulic cables inside | the plane to sever. A congressional repart chastized the FAA for door; during! 9C-10's early development, noting a McDonnell Douglas subcentractor wartied against just ‘such a ‘problem two years before the plane was approved by the FAA, The first DC-10. rolled out ofthe hanger at the - MeDonnel) Douglas plant - in Long Beach, Calif., in July, 1970, and went through its first test flight - the following month. ‘About a year later, on ~ July 31, 1971, it received its FAA “type cert: cate’ which gives .the plane's design the FAA’s _ stamp of approval. = Lockheed, which was eye - that pattern involves too On the same day, two of the big planes ‘alfeady were being delivered: 10 sonth thee withia: ee mon ere the planes, casting amis million each, in the hands af the airlines, McDonnell Douglas records show. Critics, including U:S. consumer activist Ralph ° Nader, charge the plane was hastily built because McDonnell Douglas at the time was in a race with its own wide- the L-1011, Although. the DC-10 was begun a year after’ Lockheed's, its type certificate was issued several weeks before the L-i0t1’s. The FAA's role in the development of a jetliner follows an established pattern, agency officials say, Some critics claim great a dependence on the manufacturer for technical data and manpower and not enough independent criticism. OTTAWA (CP) — Flora MacDonald may find a top- level economic meeting in Paris this week a relief after her first hectic days as ex- ternal affairs minister — a time spiced by the Je- rusalem uproar.. She leaves tonight for Paris and a two-day session of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ex- pecting energy issues to dominate talks. The OECD conference wil] lay the groundwork for the Tokyo economic aummit later this month and Miss MacDonald says these two meetings may “set the tone”’ for - the forelge pou government's foreign policy. But preparation for the OECD session has not been the only preoccupation of the alim, redhaired minister in ~ hor first week directing one af the most preatigious and powerful government departments. las MacDonald struggled all week with questions and angry Arab reaction to the Conservative election promise move tha nadian embusay In Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. She has a reputation for belng determined and strong. minted, quate phe pe may ne or explosive. emotional issues ke’ ths ; atatus of Jerusalem, a nie pity fer for Arabs, Christians Private ashe is sald to be ainat Prime Minister i's proposal to move the ‘embassy to Jerusalem at this time, but she would not Conservailve. - ECONOMICS EASIER MacDonald § in the middle By BOB DOUGLAS confirm this in an Interview jast week, Instead, she defends the plan in public while indicating the embassy shift won't happen for a long time. - Miss MacDonald, her blue dreas contrasting vividly with her red hair, laughed in an interview late in the week when a reporter noted she was getting a baptlsm of fire. . “That's the un- derstatement of the week,” she said, ahe Although acknowledges she has much to learn, the new minister hag some ‘ideas about a Conservative foreign policy and the role of the external affaira department. At this stage, they sound much like those of the previous Liberal government. . She sald she plans to stress cloae links between Canada's economic interests and foreign policy, “That will ly ba a high jPricrity. “I’m pleased, for instance, that my first visit abroad is te the OECD, and the next one to the Tokyo summit, Perhaps that will set the tone tor tome of the things we She eald she sees op- portunities for stronger de ties with Central and south America ‘where we may not have been ae active as we might have.” Miss MacDonald sald she expects the most urgent issue in Paris and again in Tokyo Will be “energy prices andenergy needs and energy suppiles."” Canada la better ? off than most Western in- dustrialized states in energy resources, but oil shortages and rising prices affect all Western economies, She also sees external affairs playing a key role within the government. The view sits well with her deputy minister, Allan Gotlieb, who has long pushed for a central place for ex- ternal in the government. The department — is responsible for presenting the Canadian stand on atl facets of Canadian life to those outalde the country, Miss MacDonald suggested. . "Algo it la responsible far bringing the external iasues to bear on the domestic policy that we take. "Tt ls very much a central: agency of gavernment In our declalons here domestically because they will be largely Influenced by external matters "The ‘way in which they are co-ordinated has to be the responstbility of the de artment of external affairs,’ : There were few economic decisions in other parta of the world which did not have an impact on Canada, “I-we don't take that into con- sideration we aren't going to be able to operate very well In this terribly In- terdependent world,” Miss MacDonald does not know yet whether she will go to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Lusaka, Zambla In August, The Commonwealth meetings are generally for prime ministers but the external affairs minister said it would be a good chance ‘to get to know ' OTTAWA OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON | Ottawa,-Perhaps because It has become a wired world of instant electronic comminication, never: before in, Canadian federal politics -has the spotlight: shifted so Hehtening {att as if with the: filek' ‘of Li 8 witch. Joe Clark is everything now, with’ this small universe of thé National Capital centred in and on him;, with the hopes of established friends and allies so higit* as.to be out of sight, and the fears of former thy; declared foes and behind-the-back detractors as deep -and dark as the ocean. — oe It’s open season on Liberals still bellying upito, the: trough and in mortal danger of being trampled: to” death in the stampede of impatient Canservatives who have waited for 16 long years. | Actually, it has been 39 of the last 44 years except for: _ the tiny Tory handful who came to their reward in the. five .yeara when Prime Minister Diefenbaker, . practising rigid non-patronage, allowed the Liberals: to retain possession of the fedral pork barrel.i: Pat what —s of Pierre crudoauy : He's never had to endure the sneers, the laughs, the “scorn, and the put-downs Joe Clark has survived in the last four’ years. He’s known only trilumph-and save for short . aberrations in 1972 and again in these last nine months. a when he became the object of paranoia and hatred=... adulation has been: his .-aweet -- fortune, Now he goes from the centre stage not only:: nationally but, internationally, if not exactly tot the 3 sidelines, then to a supporting - Perhaps it says something of the man and of | he countrymen that his stock always sesmed at more of a: premium * . abroad than, at °. ‘home:- And now for the first time since he came ‘in at of the top of the Liberal power structure 14 years ago, he. will not be sitting on the government side of the. Commons. 22 i, +53: ' Seven yearn: ago. when two seats saved ‘him from defeat in the:1972 election he was quoted as saying: “T'm that particular kind of person who doesn't like: 1 to be kicked out. : wot ction tnind Jeaving of my own tree will and ace, ut’ I object to being thrown out.’ and. you can easily understand why-in almost any | ‘gituation~put - particularly in the special -cir- cumstances of _ parliamentary leadership,: Now no longer’ number One with the Party serfs kissing _—itthe hem = —s off Ssh toga. No longer the Magic Leader with the carrot of perks:: and appointments to keep the troops on their obedient ~ best behavior. No longer the stick of demotion, banishment and: worse his at hand to punish the argumentative. and: | Febeltious. aL . Sot uate. ; low-! Geen hei take: acl. Ma alle patedh gee nd wih nv so recently was peiitedait paradise. In his previous careers and endeavors he! has shown” anunrelenting ambition to be first, to be Uno Numero. | And in his fields, until this personal disaster, tha that’s... ‘what he has been, Els Supremo..-: Now how long will he be able to take the ‘relative: obscurity and total lack of real power of Joe Clark's 7 former role as leader of Her Majresty’s Loyal. Op- ; position? Just the phrase Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition,” feeling as he so many times has made painfully clear | . about the British connection, and the Crown, is bound : leaders in other, countries. . The Lusaka meeting may be tense as the Com- monwealth approach to the new government of Zim- babwe Rhodesia is a major issue, Miss MacDonald sald Canada won’l. decide whether or not it will recognize the new regime until after the meeting. Once the dust settles, Miss MacDonald hopes te better divide her time between her ministeria! duties and her constituency, Kingeton and The Islands, She has represented the riding since Her tles with Kingston go back to the days in the late 1880s after she was fired from her job in the Con- servative party national office by thenConservative leader John Diefenbaker's chief aide, She was accused . of supporting moves to oust Diefenbaker. She lectured at Queen’s University in Kingston and was the iirat woman to at- tend the National Defence College there. The heavy work load lest week ep pt her trom her regular jo routine, bu! it did nor step her from tele honing friends — and ng some late-night calls rom them. “T have had a bad habit of calling them inthe mlddle of the night," she laughed. ne y¥ are getting back at me to grate. How will this proud, hyper-intelligent, super: sen- 7 sitive man be able tolive~and like it-without the daily “power fix” of. the Prime Minister? - ‘He'll need a lot of help, moral-support and more from the Liberal Parliamentary Caucus and from the ‘ party’s power structure. ; : With their will-to-rule, their bellef in their diving right, will they be generous or begin a talent hunt? . TODAY IN HISTORY June it, 1979 The Conscription Act waa introduced in Parliament 62 years ago today — in 1917 — and the election that - followed Its passing was one of the most divislye in Canadian history. Sir Robert Borden's coalition govern- ment was returned with 85 Conservatives .and 69 pro- conscription Liberals. against 82 anti-conscriptlon Liberals, all but 20 Quebec, Borden thought conscription was easentlal for the war effort, but Que- * bee, who considered it an "4847 = Arctic € English war, saw it as an attemot te anglicize French-. : Canadians. lover Sir John Franklin di . 1844 — Composer Richard Straugs was born. 1935 — The Soviet Union ‘ announced its constitution. 1940 — Princess Juliana of. ‘the Netherlands arrived in. Canada to stay during the: Second World War. oO 1965 — The Bsatles were. made members of the Order of the British Empire. vod “| just can’t believe I'm gonna look like you When I'm 35,” bit 01970 Univers) Prose Hyndicane | ——— a