\ 7 Page 4, The Herald, Friday, Auguat 24; 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald " General Office - 635-4957 Clreulation - 615-6357 GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION - TERRACE. 635-6157 . KITIMAT OFFICE - 632-2747 ; Publishad every weekday af 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C, A member of Verified Circulation. Authorized as sacond class mall. Registration number 120), Postage paid In cash, raturn postage guaranteed, Published by Sterting Publishers . NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald refains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editarlal or Photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted. DATELINE _ VICTORIA For Stu Leggatt — the universe is unfolding. About 18 months ago there was a ‘secret’ meeting of =” some NDP minds who were called together to discuss the possibility of bringing then federal MP Stu Leggatt into the provincial arena. The explained purpose of }’ having Leggatt make the jump at that.time was that the party needed a backup leader in the event that they didn’t win the anticipated election (which eventually happened on May 10, this year). Shortly after that meeting, Mr. Leggatt's profile in the news began growing larger and larger, and he began to show up more often at small party functions. : fe ‘ \ = i —— Ses, “i tS x ANC \ SN at AN . Ah RAE Ass CARRS “T asked my boss for two weeks’ holidays, but he wouldn't listen to reason and insisted _ I take four weeks,” i On July 29 of last year he announced that he had turned down a seat on the Supreme Court In order to run for a provincial seat in B.C. It has been ar sin made the jump, but Mr. Leggatt’s universe appears to be unfolding ag it On July 31, NDP Leader Dave Barrett made a few comments which shocked pundits, when he stated that he is at the crossroads of his career, and is seriously considering his future. Offera from many private businesses as well.as a lucrative deal with CJOR have. been put to the former premier, and unlike those of: fers made following the 1975 election, Barrett feels these to be acceptable. "I was going. to put it off until next spring,” he stated, “but it wouldn't be fair to have this hanging over the party. There are at least seven members In caucus who are capable of leading this party, and I feel it may be time to let one try.” mitnaged to avo trea aly a orn which has tarnished.the NDP in the past two provincial elections. His youth, his considerable oratory skills, and his apparent en- thusiasm for what he does have led him to be dubbed coronation. Barrett promised to have his mind made up by Labour Day, which is when the party meets for its annual convention. Jt is Ukely that that convention could turn into a leadership’ convention, usually an exciting event within the party of the left. Even for the party faithful, though, there seems to be no queétién as to the outcome of any leadership race — every party member spoken to has ulated that the next time they do electoral battle, their flag-bearer will be Mr, Leggatt. . For some within the NDP caucus Leggatt's sudden ascent to the throne Is a bitter pill toawallow. Many of those MLAs currently sitting were in the cabinet of the. ald Barrett government, and have been eyeing the leadership since 1075, Among those who are no doubt disappointed are Graham Lea, David Stupich, and Gary Lauk, who may run for the position anyway. Speculation also sees Bill King entering into the fray, with the outside possibility of a candidacy by Rosemary Brown. Within the offices of the NDP caucus in Victoria there is a stony silence on this subject the calm before the storm? The legislature adjourned on July 31, following the f° quiciest session in B.C. since party politics was established. Unfortunately for thosk elected members who wished to get home to their loved ones, the government made a slight error in judgement and was forced to call them back to an embarrassing emergency sitting on August 2. we At stake were the assets of Seaboard Life Insurance fompany who were mistakingly dissolved when the legislature passed the Obsolete Statutes Act, which branded for extinction 53 outdated companies and statutes. The mistakes was brought to the attention of the press by Victoria NDP MLA Charles Barber who was “delighted” with his opportunity to embarrass the government. The emergency sitting lasted one hour and 20 minutes, and cost the taxpayers of B.C. about $100,000. Opposition Leader Dave Barrett, in what may be his last dramatic festure as NDP leader, found himself ejected from the House early last week for refusing to } ule: withdraw remarks that had been ruled parliamentary” by the speaker. Accusing Deputy Premier Grace McCarthy of being the “patron ‘of patronage", Barrett attacked the government for continuously hiring “political hacks” to government positions. Tt was the third time in his 19 years as an MLA that Barrett has been “named” and ejected from the legislature. Parting notes: Commenrations must go oul to MLAs Frank Mitehell, Gordon Hanson, and Frank Howard of the NDP and to Socred MLAs Brian Smith, us Ree, and Bilt Ritchie for bringing gentlemanly — attitudes back into the B.C. Legistature. More people on the move: Watch for Economic Development Minister Don Phillips to: take a step: down In the upcoming cabinet shuffle, Expect cabinet recognition for backbenchers Bill Ritchie, and Jack pf. n Uganda needs help now By CARL MOLLINS ENTEBBE, UGANDA (CP)-— More than four months after the fall of Idi Amin's homicidal dic- tatorship, Uganda's new leadera grope for a way. to repair a decade of misrule and mayhem, recover pollticalstabllity and restore A prosperous past. Here in the State House headquarters of sident, London-trained wyer Godfrey Lukongwa Binalsa speaks confidently torla is guarded by heavily armed Tanzanians, He has banned political parties in the face of opposition. A plot to blow up his entire cabinet wes narrowly thwarted. And his restoration plans ; sare balked by an in- ternational impasse. He needs foreign aid urgently to establish stability, but potendal donors — including Canada — are holding back Until stability Is established. Binaisa's success or fallure will be felt far beyond the borders of this pivotal East African country of 13 million _tribally-divided people — and not only In the political impact on their im- mediate neighbors in Tan- tania, Kenya, Ruanda, Zalre and Sudan. the. CANADA .RETICENT Uganda, whose lakes visory national conmiltative water the Nile nations of council Sudan and Egypt to the north, has conducted hot- and-cold trading and political relations with the~ Middle Fast and Europe, Uganda’s once-renowned Makerere’ University haa Provided teachers, doctors, ‘TMTanagers and ideas throughout Africa. In the tiny aouthern African state af Lesotho, for example, bi there is concern because any mass homegoilng by -ex- patriate Ugandans would re- move almost en eenlor hospital staff. In the meantime Binaisa, 8, the son of. a Ugandan Anglican missionary, has banned political parties Saying there is room for a views in the Uganda Ne- tonal Liberation Front, ‘ “The proliferation of political partles would not be considered a fundamental human right,” he says. The stocky, Binaisa, whose takeover from the exiled Yusufu Lule in June provoked rlots, is criticlzed in the country because inflation and scarcity has worsened, And because his government consists almost entirely of returned exiles, leavin experienced district ad-: ministrators and others who endured the Amin years out | in the cold. He is pledged to correct ‘this by expanding the ad: its. balding , But volees are raised agalnat him. And there was the. plot” to” blow were driven into the etal mvcardes but an at- t to detonate them was ed. _ ‘Binaisa says it is essential to the 40,000-strong Tanzanian army in Uganda until a new Uganda army . and police force are organized and trained, Nyerere, Binalsa says, “wouldn't stay, wouldn't leave his army a minute longer if other countries — members of the Com- monwealth - come - forward and help us." The proposal for a Com- monwealth police force was mace at the Lusaka con- ; he says, ‘but there were no offers,” Some foreign diplomats believe Nyerere a has atvong domestic reasona for baing in no hurry to pull out ‘His army of part-time militia soldiers and flood the staggering Tanzanian economy with 40,000 men looking for a greater reward than unemployment at home, ‘Thun beset by political and military pressures, Binaisa and finatice minister, economist Jack Sentongo, jw up his: ‘eabinet and senior civil housed together tailed in believe the solution les in rapid economic repair. “U, nia can't move the mac )' Sentongo ea "We just don’t have resources.” To get the taney ant resources the ¢ mus revive the etlon and export of coffee, cotton and sugar. But it needs help to get those industries working again. And some help already provided in the form of food and essential goods has been landlocked very to. -thia i country beeakdown in rail, road and alr transportation. The small dane acing crt lu o Ca median win Ota yas Uugust for of maintenan Ottawa has discussed ding a minor infusion of 00,000 in eenergency ald, but nothing has materiallzed yet, ; Sentongo says he ts @amayed by Canada’s at- Geoffrey Bruce, the Kenyabased Canadian diplomat accredited to ganda, says he ls planning a visit (6 asseas the situation here sometime in Sep- tember, . I’m not apathetic about national unity ~ it’s just that I don’t give a damn anymore.” the tag end of spring and the summer mon '” outgunn 4 yi, a.., ‘By THE CANADIAN PRESS BY RICHARD JACKSON OTTAWA . Never ones to mope in the political wilderness of Opposition — they've done it once, and briefly, in all the years aince enzle King the Liberals aren t likely fe tney in their vomaibly help, é can . ‘and they are experts in the art of political selfs , They take repudiation by the people at the polls personally. It isa yebuke to them. Almost an insult. ‘ ; - Something they simply can’t abide. . The last time they got the boot, their official move in the House of Commons after their defeat by John Diefenbaker, was to formally move that the newly- . elected Conservatives, inexperienced, unqualified and indeed unfit for office, vacate the power and hand it over to those who knew how to use if. . The then Prime Minister Lester Pearson moved that incredible motion and of course, Dief, the old warrior; . laughed them cut of the House. But they kept after him. - ; ina shade less than five yearatheyhadhim. Now that the Conservatives for only the second time . in going on 50 years have pre-empted the power they’ hadcome to regard as theirs alone, they feel the same . shame and outrage, 2S The same humillation and feeling of. public. udiation. mo, ; while the Conservatives appeared to fritter away aN Liberals, those schemers were already plotting and planning for the takeover they say they see compag. . within the year. Senator William Benidickson, the only Liberal member of the Upper Chamber who was a frontbencher in the Commons when Dief tumbled firs ” Louls St. Laurent and then Lester Pearson, laughs a how easy he save it will-be for them this time to take Joe Clark and his Torles to the woodshed. oe “We did it last time, che recalled the other day, “and we were in pretty bad shape.;..--. “The Tories were towering. They ‘had: those 209 heats, with Dief at-the height of his: powers in com: mands ¢ Pep Me th sy het Tha fet ve «Ae, appeared outmanned and we were — and —~ which we weren't. ©“. Stor “We had Paul Martin, Jack Pickersgill and Lionel] Chevriet with Pearson learning fast, “Each of us bad only one office and one secretary. “Imagine, just one — when everyone on ‘Parliament Hill has a suite and a staff, “But we hammered them. . 7 “We played our own rules and were rough enough that the er was never able to do much about {t, “Small in number, understaffed, squeezed into one office each, we just kept hammering away and soon they-first were on-the rut, then in disctganized: a and finally incomplete collapse.) "00°. -« “This time we're not that badly outmanned, and. we're definitely not outgunned. hoo “we have an experienced bunch of street-ighters, “The Tories are heavy with new recruits who can’t. tell the cafeteria from the dining room and are just learning about committees. uo “Best of all they have their usual Tory tribal fueds. TMijoe Clark is a ‘Red Tory" loading what the voters ‘Joe Clark is a ‘Red Tory’ leading ‘wt a voters elected'as small ‘c’’éonservatives. That's bound to | cause trouble. . “And if that doesn’t stir up enough ill feeling on the fovernment benches, Joe as Prime Minister is hel . talong with his cholce of that crazy ‘inner cabinet’ leftist ‘Red Tories’ and his cutting entirely out of the action the old guard, the veterans who fought and won their elections back into the 50’s and know all the ticks — dirty and otherwise — that a government needs to beat back a bunch of power- hungry Liberals who believe, who even know that they were born to le.” a If you listen to Senator Bill Benidickson, and he has been around a'long time and seen more action than most on Parliament -Hill — being a born “SUR VIVOR" — whatever the coming session in October. turns out to be, it won’t be dull. ° oe TODAY IN | > HISTORY capture Baltimore, Rose's troops re-embarked for attacks at other po nte along: the coast. * 78 — An eruption of Mount Aug. 24, 1979 In retaliation whee the of public qs york eae Toronto, Britiah troops burned the White House in Washington, D.C., 165 years ago today — in 1814 — during the War of 1812. Earlier that month, 8 British fieet entered Chesapeake Bay and landed an army under Gen. Robert Ross, The only opposition the Britlsh troops faced came from 5,000 hastily-gathered militiamen who tried to defend the capital city.. The militiamen were routed and Washington was captured. After an unsuccessful attempt to Vesuvious destroyed the ancient Italian citles. of Pompelt and Herculaneum. 1456 — The Printing of the Gutenberg Bible was com: pleted. ; 1572 — Almost 0,000 French Protestants were killed in the Massacre of St. 1M? — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. of- ly was proclaimed: at Washington. Letters welcome The Herald welcomes its readers comments. All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right ‘to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to be considered for publication must be signed. _