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Important
test today

The Liberal party is nothing if not optimistic.
Today, with its leader’s future dangling on the
collective wisdom of 300,000 volers in six
separate ridings, government-makers are
protraying Pierre Elliot Trudeau, once again, In
the role of saviour.

This is the same Trudeau whose inef-
fectiveness at the top has helped generate the
growth of separatism in his home province of
Quebec. This is the same Trudeau whose inef-
fectiveness as prime minister has brought the .
unemployment rate to record helghts. As over
900,000 Canadians go without work, Trudeau
appeals tothem as the prophet of our future.

Haven’t we heard that message before?

‘ Yet here we are, almost ten years after
Trudeau was first foisted before us as our hope
for tomorrow, and the theme remains constant.
Surely, the election of fhe Part! Quebecois
government has discredited the prime minister’s
federaiist tactics in voters’ eyes. Surely, Quebec
voters will not once again reach out for Trudeau
as their only answer, simply because
Progressive Conservative and New Democrat
leaders were born west of the Ottawa River.

Surely we have seen enough Inaction at the top
to warrant a change. .

...Dangerous ©
... and dirty

Unquestionably the area surrounding Terrace
is as dramatically beautiful as any part of .
British Columbia or for that matter Canada. It is
wild and shows few of the scars of human ex
ploitation. It is clean.

Terrace on the other hand, Is as dirty a tawn
as youl] find inthe country. Debris, in the form
of papers, boxes, cigarette packages and pop
cans litter every street in the downtown portion
of town. ;

Worst of all, many of the streets and most of
the parking lots literally glitter with broken
glass - mostly from shattered beer bottles
‘1 This stupid carelessness produces an effect
that is not only unpleasant to look at but
dangerous as well.

The broken glass and litter are the first things
that attract a visitor's eye and are what creates -
a lasting impression in the mind of the tourist.

1t would seem worthwhile then’ for the town to - -
hire students this summer to clean up the
streets. Furthermore stricter anil-littering laws
should be enacted and enforced.

Consideration
_ for smokers

It was Inevitable and fitting. that non-smokers
would sooner or later begin to express with in-
creasing confidence their feelings about ‘‘the
habit’. They have suffered in silence, afterall,
for so many years.

In asserting their rights, however, the non-
smokers should perhaps try to sympathize with
the addicted ones. for it is the latter who are the
real underdogs:

Smokers we should remember are a part of a
dwindting minority of people chained to a
repulsive habit that Is not only soclally un-
popular~ but self-destructive and expensive as
well.

That they should force others to endure the
side-effects of their mistakes is, of course, in-
sensitive and unacceptable, but like most ad”
dicts, they place the pursuit of thelr particular
indulgence above the comfort of others. Anyone
with the sensitivity and will power to place
consideration for others above his own pleasure,
probably has the strength of character to quit
smoking anyway

When a non smoker Is offended by a smoker’s
thoughtless Indulgence In a confined publi:
place he should try to view him as an un
fortunate person unable to control himself.

* He might be asked to smoke elsewhere but he
should be asked with sympathy not contempt.

Remember If he could possibly get out from
under that insidious habit, he would:

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WASHINGTON (CP) —
The Carter administration
is combining tough
traditional diplomacy with
unorthodox — international
politics as it escalates its

uman rights offensive
against the white rulers of
South Africa and Rhodesia.

In recent meetings in
Austria with South African
Premier Vorster, Vice-
President Walter Mondale
emphasized U.S. insistence
on an end to repression of
blacks and warned that
there would be no U.S. help
if whitesupremacist policies
provoke race war.

Those meetings were
barely over before Andrew
Young, U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, entered,
South Africa on an unor-

thodox and highlypublicized .

mission that amounted to.
official U.S. subversion of
apartheid,

All but ignoring the white
South African government,
Young met black leaders,
urged them to use boycotts
to topple apartheid, joined
in singing a _ black
nationalist anthem and was
mobbed by cheering blacks.

Young's foray into South
Africa was an unusual but
highly effective departure
from diplomati¢ practice.

At the time Mondale and
Youn were abroad,
President Carter reinforced
his lieutenants’ activities by
telling a Notre Dame
University audience that the
United States is committed
toa “rapid and progressive
transformation of southern
African society.”

The continuing U.S. effort
appears to be producing
some results.

After meeting Vorster— ~

whom U.S. officials believe

WINNIPES (CP) — The

esident of the Investment

ealers Association of
Canada predicts a sub-
Stantial improvement in
relations between
management and organized
labor. -

Andrew G. Kniewasser of
Toronto gays talks with
businessmen during recent
trips across Canada have
made him optimistic about
relations between these two
traditional adversaries.

“I've heard responsible
business people say they are
Betting on much better with
abor. And some of them
have said they don't expect
massive wage demands
when the anti-infltion board
controls are removed.”

Kniewasser said the ex-

rience of business and
abor with inflation and
later with government-
imposed controls seems to
have had a sobering effect
on both parties.

“Tt think we're on the
threshhold in Canada of
seeing substantial im-
provement in business-labor
relations,” he said. '‘I think
more and more you'll see
business and labor in Can-
ada working together. to
discuss the future of a firm
or an industry.”

“Business and labor
shouldn't just talk about
labor contracts. One of the
best things we can do in this
country is to bring business

and labor together on a

regular basis in forums.”

Kniewasser is an
economist and former
senior assistant deputy
minister in the federal
department of industry,
trade and commerce. He is
the first full-time president
of the association, whose 85
members account for about

is the key to a Rhodesian
settlement because of
Rhodesian economic
dependence on South
Africa— Mondale said the
South African leader agreed
to support an Anglo-
American initiative to make

‘Rmodesia an independent

and majority-ruled state

next year,

“That is the clearest
statement of support that
we've had and it is un-
conditional,” Mondale said.

The U.S. vice-president
was also optmistic about
prospects of getting South

Africa to comply with

United Nations orders to
abandon its control of Nam-
ibia, or South-West Africa,
which South Africa
originally took over as a
United Nations mandate.

Mondale was less op-

‘ timistic about the chances of

progress in the third major

US. objective-~disman ng

South Africa’s aparthei
system.

But he made it clear the
United States is also com-
mitted to that goal and
suggested that unlike
previous administrations,
the Carter administration
would not go ahead on
apartheid in hopes of buying
South African help in
Rhodesia. - . .

Young’s visit to South
African black leaders in:
dicated that the United
States may pursue its third
goa} through extra-diplo-
matic means if Vorster
continues to be intransigent.

Young hinted at what

‘could happen without

progress, saying it would be

“hypocritical” of the United —

States to condemn all use of
violence to end apartheid

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| Business spotlight
Investors’ president sees

improved industrial climate

% per cent of the securities
business in Canada.

Association officials were
in Winnipeg last week for
separate meetings with
their loca] members, city
business leaders and
Manitoba Finance Minister
Saul Miller.

One of the messages

Kniewasser had for the

- province's New Democratic

Party government is the
need for improving business
confidence.

“J don’t think business is
locking for handouts, but
business is looking for an.

atmosphere in which it an -

operate successfully,” he

LAW OF THE SEA

told a reporters.

The proposed plan would
have allowed any company
which invests in the equity
shares of an approved
venture corporations a
déduction against Ontario
taxable income equal to 250
per cent of its investment,

Mad rush for riches _
if no controls set

UNITED NATIONS
(Reuter) — UN Secretary-
General Kurt Waldheim
said Monday that failure to
reach agreement on a code
of law for the sea would lead
to a dangerous scramble for
control of the oceans and se-
riously undermine the
credibility of the United
Nations.

He was addressing the
opening of the sixth session
of the UN Law of the Sea
Conference, which has been
trying since December,
1973, to draft a legal code
regulating virtually ali
maritime activities. -

The new round = of
negotiations is scheduled to
last seven or eight weeks,
and will almost certainly
have to be followed by at
least.one more session.

“If a new and broadly-ac-
cepted law of the sea does
not emerge through in-
ternational agreement, we
face the prospect of each
state determining its own
view, with ever-widenin
claims to ocean space an

resources,” Waldheim said
in his prepared address to
approximately 150
delegations seated in the UN
General Assembly hall.

“The acceptance of such a
situation, favoring as it
would power at the expense
of justice, and risking un-
foreseeable possibilities of
conflict, is unthinkable."

The secretary-general
said it is no exaggeration to
say that failure to arrive at
a convention on the law of
the sea after such an ar-
duous process ‘will se-
riously undermine the
credibility of the United
Nations” as a forum for
international negotiations.

“We must not permit this
to happen. Too much is at
stake, and I want to appeal
to you and your govern-
ments to act now,'? he ad-
ded, referring to the unre-
solved issues which so far
have prevented the con-
clusion of a treaty and

‘deadlocked session of the,

conference last summer,
While there is a broad

consensus on such key
issues as the establishment
of a 12-mile territorial sea
and a 20-mile exclusive
economic zone, nothing is
final until agreement has
been reached on all points.

A major point of con-
tention is who should control
the mining of millions of
tons of mineralrich rocks, or
nodules, scattered over the
deepest parts of the ocean.

is area, outside any
country’s jurisdiction, was
declared by the General
Assembly in 1970 to be the
“common heritage of
mankind.”

Industrialized countries,
led by the United States,
insist that governments and
private enterprise must be
assured a role in deep sea-
bed mining operations, on
an equal footing with a pro-
posed international sea-bed
authority.

A number of developing
countries say government
and business participation
should be permitted only at
the discretion of such an
international body.

' sidize manufacturing

since the United States
achieved ‘its independence

- through violence.

Behind the. U.S. deter-
mination to end white
supremacy in southern
Africa is a realization that
there are high stakes in-
volved in the aréa. The
biggest threat is race war,
the United States, is also
concerned that its own
telations with black africa
may deteriorate if it does
not give strong support to
majority rule.

The danger of Soviet in-
fluence still looms over
Africa, even as the Cuban
soldiers who fought in
Angola trickle back home,
leaving behind a pro-Soviet
government.

In the tonger term, the
credibility of U.S. concern
for human rights may be

g subverts white supremacy

determined by how great ah
effort the United States
makes in southern Africa.

If the people of the Third
World decide that Carter's
yocal concern with human
rights Is little more than just
another weapon to be used
against the Soviet Union, the
United States will make few

gains among the Developing —
countries.

But if the’ U.S. concern is
seen to- be genuine, the
cause of the’ Western
democracies may gain
many allies. One way for
Carter to prove that his
concern is genuine is to’
demonstrate his willingness
to apply pressure even to
such countries as South
Africa which in the past
used strategic and economic
value to the United States as
a shield against change.

An MLA’s report |
Wood hewers
our best role?

The North Central
Municipal Association
‘Annual Convention is over
and no doubt those attending
gained a great deal of
knowledge, especially
talking to their neighbours
on mutual problems af-
fecting all Northern local
governments. I think this is
always true of Conventions;
you learn more exchaning
ideas over coffee or dinner
than from the planned

ogram, 7
Oe Peter __ Pierse,
Department of Economics
from U.B.C. and author of
the latest Forest study, gave
an excellent talk on future
development. He pointed
out clearly we must do those
things that we can do best,
which is resource ex-
traction, especially logging,
but not manufacturing, with
our high costs. He and
others pointed out the three
strikes. against secondary
industry dn. B.C., they, are:
High Labour Costs; a lack of
assembly line workers, and
distance from major
markets. He also cast a new
light on the old saying “If we
fail to get Secondary In-
dustry we will be a Province
of Drawers of Water and
Hewers of Wood". He said
we should examine this for
what its worth, what is

wrong with harvesting our:

timber which is only a crop
and have the highest
standard of living rather
than encourage and sub-
with
its dirty conditions and
substan
would be a must in order to
compete with low paid
foreign workers as our home
markets are to small, which
would mean you have jo
export to live...

This is a new approach
that I must admit ] hadn’t
heard before but, worth
thinking about. I would
doubt many of our Forest
workers would trade
working conditions in B.C.
for a textile factory job in
Ontario. Most people think
that manufacturing is more
stable to base the economy
of a town than primary
industry, a study of this does
not establish this is true and
we only need look at all the
Textile and Appliance
factories closed this year in
Ontario and Quebec,

A great deal has been said
about the Kitimat Pipe line
lobby on board the Princess
Patricia. If this was in-
tended then I would say they

did a poor job as I know [

wasn’t contacted on the
subject and I only know. of
three that discussed the

. issue with any of the of-

ficials. I thought Kitimat
deserved credit for
organizing the convention
and received more criticism
than they deserved along
with the protests which, in
my opinion, were aimed in
the wrong direction as this
Municipal group will have
no say in the final decisions
which will be made in Ot-
tawa and not even one
Federal member present. It
is the same as protesting to
the North West Loggers or
IW.A. convention on a
decision to be reached on the
C.N.R. Hearings are to be
held where various opinions
will be considered and a
decision reached in a
democratic fashion. ll

people have a right to ap-

lard wages, which ~

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CYRIL SHELFORD
MLA, SKEENA
r, so why the protest
fore they know whether
they won or lost. Protests of
this sort are the steppin
stones io lawlessness an
total anarchy where groups
that don’t like’ the
Democratic process can
disrupt shipping, air lines,
rail and road because the
cargo happens to come from
South Africa, Chile or

‘Israel, or onthe other side

by. thloste ‘that? protest
shipments from Cuba,
US.S.R. or China. Hf this is
not controlled then those
with the largest force have
their way, which is one step
away from a Police State.
In my opinion all of us as
Canadians should look at
ourselves and think for a
moment and ask “Am I

doing anything tohelp inthe -

destruction of my country

‘and freedom in the best

country in the world?”

We should all do this
before -we follow mainly
non-Canadian professional
rotestors. So many people

d the mistaken belief that
all those at the Convention
were Pro-pipeline; in my
observation, this is totally
untrue and around 50 per-
were against.
However, after the protests,
many changed position
away from the protesters,
which appears to show a
large number still believe
there is still a Democratic
method to present ob-
jections without abusing
others. I’ve made: my
position clear on many
occasions. I want to see,
during the hearings called
for this purpose, what
benefits we get for taking
the risks, whether it be a
through-put charge of
around forty million a year
ora percentage of the oil to
heat our homes, run our
cars or even run the

protesters boats. Even the .

Green Peace wouldn't go far
without oil. We just have to
he living inthe most affluent
society in the world where
some people can sper.d full
time protesting and others
can take a bus on a 250 mile
return trip to protest against
& group that won't be
making the decisions.

I noted with interest the
objections raised by the
Terrace Herald to m
questionnaire, without of-
fering a better method, It
shows it's still true that if a
Politician doesn’t want to

get criticized by politically.

motivated news reporting,
then he should stay in bed
and do nothing. However,
it’s not surprising when you
know the writer, Andrew
Petter, was the Executive
Assistant to Housing
Minister Lorne Nicolson in
the N.D.P. Government,
who got into difficulties
more than any other
Minister, —

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