Appointed by the Attorney General, representatives of the legal aid task force were at the Skeena Health Unit on Friday, Feb. 17 to listen to presentations made by local groups and organizations concerning legal ald In B.C. The fask force Is attempting to get feedback from the public regarding legal ald services and who can uiilize them. [ From left to right Is John Hail, .a practicing lawyer, Ted. Horsey, past president of the B:C, branch of the Canadian . Bar. Assoclatin, and Steven Owen, executive director of the: Legal. Aid Services 6 Socket. 7 South. Africa supporters. watched? — OTTAWA. (CP) " could be spied upon by the Canadians who support the proposed civilian security government of South Africa agency, New Democrat MP _ Battle waged 1a spirited ‘‘ideological battle” against neo-conservative economic thinking to save the country from disaster, says the president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. | Jeff Rose told about 70 unionists attending a meeting in - London during the weekend that labor must counter the “neo-conservative onslaught” by forming coalitions with human rights, religious and women’s groups. “We have, to.be able to debunk and counteract right-wing myths,” sald Rose, who became leader of the 235,000- member union in October. “We have to show our members, and all Canadians, ‘that .vnservatism is not their salvation, — that on the . contrary, it is leading to economic, social and political disaster.” _ Rose said Jabor must communicate its concerns within union ranks and to other Canadians — who seem to have accepted conservative “propaganda” about government spending restraint and balanced budgets. “They've persuaded many Canadians, including many of our members, that the answer to our economic problems is for wages to go down, profits to go up and for government . services to be reduced,” he said. Conservative thinkers who base their philosophy on monetarist theories currently popular in Britain and the United States seem to have won the hearts of Canadians, Rose said, while labor has been portrayed as “greedy, irresponsible and strike-happy.” Rose said Canada’s constitution doesn’t even guarantee labor rights, which are set-out in federal and provincial | laber codes that can be overturned by other legislation. “Unions are the target for government interference and restraint precisely because we stand in the way of this neo- conservative retreat from the path to social and economic justice,” be said. Anchors pulled ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) — The ail rig John Shaw pulled — anchors today and began moving away from an ap- proaching ice pack, but its 88 crew members are in no-:’ danger, a spokesman for the Newfoundland Petroleum _ Directorate said. The nearest point of the main pack, longer than Prince : Edward Island, was about 18 nautical miles from the rig and drifting southward at about a quarter-knot, said John . : Fitzgerald. The John Shaw, a self-propelled rig operated by @ con- sortium of Husky Oil and Bow- Valley Industries, stopped © drilling on Saturday when the ice was about 30 nautical miles north of the drill site, about 200 miles east of St. John’s. Advancing ice packs are a normal occurrenceat this time of year off Newfoundland as the Labrador Current pushes them from the Arctic to the Atlantic; where they melt i in warmer waters, Al Cobb, director-general of the Canada Oil and Gas Lands Administration, said the slow-moving ice ‘pack, about 320 kilometres acrass, is nol expected to move much. closer to the drilling site within the next couple of days. Seven members of the crew were flown ashore Saturday night, not for safety reasons but because their work was done, Cobb said, Others might also be sent, ashore ds the task of drawing in the rig’s eight anchors is completed. “No point in having them sitling around iwiddling their thumbs," Cobb said. The consortium hag not yel made a decision to move the. rig from the well site. It costs $250,000 a day t to operate the rig. COULD BREAK UP Cobb said southerly winds and moderating temperatures 7 forecaat for Tuesday could stabilize the ice pack. The strips of ice were not thick and could break up in warmer tem- peratures. The nearesl iceberg is 150 nautical miles north of the John Shaw. Icebergs are considered a greater hazard to the rigs than the sheet-like pack ice. Cobb said the main ice pack is 50 naulical niles north of Sedco 706, which arrived at Husky Oil-Bow Valley's Archer , K-19 site Saturday morning bul has not started drilling. The ice pack is the same distance from the West Venture, which has continued to drill for Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. at the C-96 Hibernia well. Cobb said Mobil Oil has increased its ice surveillance. The Canada Oil and Gas Lands Administration oversees - offshore drilling for the federal government. Cobb said so far everything has gone according to the ice contingency : plan the companies have filed with this organization. Dan Heap said today. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service ‘would, have the power ‘to place under surveillance anyone whose activities support the threat or use of violence to achieve a “political. ob- . jective’ in a foreign state, Heap told the Commons. The South government uses violence to suppress blacks in that country,’ he charged, so - supporters would fall under _ the agency's mandate, - Heap, MP for the Toronto. riding of Spadina, said he - doubts businessmen ‘atid bankers who support ‘the : South African government - would infact be prosecuted under . the - Jaw, - ‘bul . ‘Canadians who support ’ activites of South African blacks might he. African ° ‘~ second royal commission to , “In that nase, t the ‘ape V ‘also have access ta cabinet . plication of the law: would be ; documents, excluded under» rankly biased, he gaid?*-; 7 Heap urged” the ‘g'verm: ment fo. ' withdraw “its legislation,- which will be referred lo a Commons” committee for ;, detailed study after- receiving ap -proval i in principte. - the current. bill; he said. usiness “y when it renews. its campaign: ‘dgainst ‘the northern acne Columbia welt. ‘all next © Enivironméentallat Paul Watson ‘ald about’ ems. — “that’s hampered Project’ Wolf during the first + -, Btage. oF’: ‘the ‘campaign -in the remote .Kechika. Area; Watson said. big game-. : “hunting, interests - chad put. pressure on. «dealers. to boycott Project Wolf. “The. government's wolf kill. project ‘will _move early.next month from the Kechika 100° people. at a Saturday rally that .the- . area, where 60 of a targeted 90 wolves have - campaign. will spend the next two weeks - already. been killed, to the “leas remote raising money, making, arrangements for | ao: Muskwa ‘valley, 5 kilometres" ‘southweat of - long-term presence in’ the north-and. con-. tinuing work on-a tourist ‘boycott of-B,C.!" Watson said two aki-equipped Cessna 150. -aireraft have been donated: ‘tothe project by. | an uriidentified © ‘private, owner? in, the. - Vaneouver ‘ area, and he ‘expects’ 40! ‘have parachutes and camping: gear’ 2 " before long... : “The tail. draggere (aircraft). have... ‘Fott Nelgon. The target in the: Muskwa is ‘400: wolves, — “2 “We've got a two-week’ period to érganize ‘our - finances and crew,” said Watson, adding that Project Wolf has already raised about $15, 000 through donations and spent chand ‘. - $8,000. of it in the Kechika campaign. ae “This time we'll go up there with aircraft _ “from. southern B.C, and they won't be’ able Wheel at the tail; father than on ‘the nose, -“to"atop us.”” -and that makes: Jt ‘easier to land, "paid ‘*. . Watson, -_ ‘He ‘said fuel will be: 19, problem; since ” Project Wolf has. already established ‘its. right to purchase fuel in.the north ~ — even: from unsympathetic dealer's. - It was the inability to hire an faleraft = “He said the ‘potentially biggest: ‘weapon the’ ‘campaign has is the tourist boycott, * With 100 Seattle-area travel agents already agtecing to discourage travel !o B.C., and -plans . afoot to picket ‘the Princess " Marguerite steamship from. Seattle to Victoria’ and the ferry from Anacortes, several, ‘operators ‘Said. they were having ‘Wash. oo - . - Get yourhands on, . Western Expres — Ti aT YOUR tom ERY TICKET RETAI LEA. CK KETS NOW ON SAL [avec He said the legislation is vaguely worded -and. does « not live up to. the, 3 recom- mendations . ° of . the: McDonald commission on RCMP wrongdoing, thé. urge that’ .the RCMP. security service bereplaced by: a tivilian agency. oo “Heap said MPS" “should ba allowed. to review: the agency's operations, rather . than giving that“ task toa, - proposed: external ~ review committee to bé- made up of former , politicians: Any - review committee should * homosexual scout leaders. matters. trust thef Boot leaders? - A Sterling News Service Faatura| , Victory for... agay scout. According toa U.S. appellate court in Los Angeles, - . the Boy Scouts of America cannot diseriminate‘against [~~ “This decision was widely hailed as a. victory for ; ‘ civil rights by homosexual groups, by so called human : rights associations — and by the gay scout leader in |: question. Sald the assistant scoutmaster, one Timothy ‘| © “I’m very surprised and pleased with this: courtd decision. I think the Boy Scouts will have a very hard time proving I'm Immoral in a trial.” Mr. Curran, 21 years of age, is a senior majoring in English Ilterature .at the University of California at Berkeley. He was the assistant scoutmaster of Troop _ 97, of the Mount Diablo coimell. But he was dismissed . from his post when the council learned of bis sexual _ preferences. In the view of the Boy Scout leaders In |; .. charge, even though Curran had attained the highest . |... rank of eagle scout, and was one of the most highly- |! motivated scouts in the entire organization, a -[.- : homosexual was not considered a good role model for - : ‘the young boys.in the scout tropp. ~. Now there are two school of thought on ‘the question of discrimination. According to one, that which is | - beloved of thé so-called human rights assoclations of | a Canada, discrimination is always and ever wrong, [| - pure and simple. In this view, the U.S. court was quite” | - ‘@orrect in upholding the right of the homosexual Timothy Curran to maintain his position as assistant © - Scoutmaster. Troop 37 had discriminated against him, “and must be stopped from this eggregious practice.: '. ‘There- is a logical difficulty with this view, [9D ° however. For Curran himself discriminates. As aprac- |: i. tising homosexual, Curran discriminates against all “women, a5 romantic attachments, focussing his com- ‘plete attention on men. The human rights movement is logically inconsistent here. It cannot, in the name of ' |. supporting anti-discrimination, take the part of a |. homosexual, a self-confessed discriminator if ever |. there was one. Rather, if it wished to be logically con- eistent, this movement should confine itself to cham- ploning the rights of bisexuals, people who will form romantic relationships with members of elther sex, Only they are the true nor-discriminators in sexual + But we all discriminate on some grounds. We do s0 on the basis of honesty or béauty, or tatent, or common interests, or what have you. Even bisexuals are gullty [' of these practtees. 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