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cl a ims Tt seems that the present administration in Victoria is intent on following that maxim of the

first Bennett government: don’t ruin a good promise by keeping it.

This time the issue is the Indian land claim and, for a change, a government has decided that its election stand need not bear any resemblance to its performance as government.

Labor minister Allan Williams, the minister

responsible for Indian Affairs, says his ministry is |

not involved in negotiations with the Nishga people.

They're keeping in touch, he told the regional district in a letter, but it would be wrong to describe their involvement as negotiations,

‘Thus, said Williams, the provincial government cannot assess the possible economic effects of a land claims settlement.

It always seems depressingly cynical when the two senior governments play the game of “jurisdiction”. When the stakes are positive - for the govenrment involved - then the attitude is:

touch that, it’s mine.

But when it may cost them money, votes, or bothersome effort, the attitude is all too often: That’s. the other side's

; So does the province justify its non-existent position on the Kitimat oil port and other local

it is unfair to continue this charade with the native land claim - an important concern that has gone on unresolved for far too long.

We believe the claim to be legitimate. And, according to the Social Credit party during the 1975 election, so do they. But when it comes to the specifics of bargaining, they now say they are not

t negotiators.

Weask: Why not? If as,ttlement is reached, it will surely involve the deposition of some provincial crown land and possibly a number of resources that are presently administered by the province, ,

Eventually then, Victoria will have to assert its role. If they await an agreement between the Nishga people, or any other group, and the federal government, then they will bring only more delays.

Now they say it is a federal jurisdiction. But when the time comes to actually set aside land, fish and wildlife, or other resources, you can be certain that Victoria will want a greater role than just that of an interested party.

So let them get involved right away, No more of this petty gamesmanship that is just continuing to divert energy and attention from the ultimate goal.

PQ smart in ear!

Most of what can be said about the first phase of the PQ government concerns the language legislation.

Note:

This article, assessing the first nine months of Parti Quebecois government in Quebec, was written for The Canadian Press by Evelyn Dumas, editor-in-chief of the separatist Montreal weekly Le Jour.

The effects of this legislation are most visible in the English-speaking of Quebec. This is not negligible, It is a matter-if

one does not ponder about a A hdr ead who was born where, but oneal Le Jour only about the group each

person identifiea with - of

_ MONTREAL CP - Nine ahout one million people all,

months of a- government, nine months since Nov. 15, is Cllldren ena ol ' eople, long enough to make an ™ore ortivoe ueee b e assessment. The Parti poor an Quebec Quebecois government, in 2ecoming an essentially any case, plunged In ts first French-speaking society, as months headlong into ver the Charter of the French controversial subjects with Language would have it, a courage that may sometimes have looked like Anglophone reaction, foolhardiness. It will not vivid, worrisome, like a seem unusual to the splinter in Quebec's flesh, ernment that we seek fo would probably have been fudge it and that its days of just as intense without Bills grace are over. 1 and 11.

EDMONTON (CP) — Oil sands, heavy oil, coal—what next?

vincial officials hope a 150,000 study, to be com- leted next month, will find hat Alberta can make extensive commercial use of, its reserves of wood—in this case, poplar.

The study, a joint federal- neial effort, is financed the Energy Resources

-Research F

Alberta not only has large deposits of crude oil, natu ga8, oil sands, heavy oil and coal, but also an enormous quantity of poplar. The yearly growth alone is the wivalent of 477 million cubic feet, but little or nothing is being done with it.

However, that potential has not escapé tention of F. W. McDougall, head of the provincial forest

service and assistant deputy

minister of energy and natural resources.

‘the at- -

Methanol or wood alcohol; which can be mixed with.

gasoline to power

‘ automobiles; furfural, a

liquid that can be used as a petrochemical base for plastics and nylon; arid thermal energy ~simply by burning terest plan: e possible uses of poplar. The estimated amount of standing poplar in Alberta is foot being the equivalent of 00 e@ valent o 23 pounds of dry wood and a ton of poplar being the

HERMAN

“If you don’t learn a trade, how are you going to know what kind of work

you're out of”

©1977 Universol Press Symdicate Shoo.

jurisdiction, -

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Business Spotlight.

equivalent of 18 million British thermal units (BTUs). 0 HARDLY USED

Most of it is in west - central northern Alberta, as close as 50 miles from . Edmonton, but very little of it is being :

McDougall said it has not been economical to until now, but the rise in oil and gas prices may make ‘wood and wood derivatives a commercially-viable proposition. -

There used to be two

do so.

plywood plants in Edmonton . gr

using poplar, he said, but only nighquality logs were us harvesting is commercially successful, an integrated industrial complex could be established.

High quality logs could them be separated from the rest, and the development itself could be fueled by wood or wood byproducts, McDougall said.

Harvesting would en- courage and increase poplar

ed. However, if poplar’

~=83,; Thermal energy from poplar source -

é

owth in Alberta, he said. McDougall said. cattle feed can also be developed from poplar, after a

smashing and ‘steaming )

ocess, but while poplar bas a high thermal value, its

protein value is rather low.

va private consulting fie a private cons

by fe primarily concemed with reviewing existing wood-use technology and its application to Alberta, as well as with the necessary capital and operating costs of any suggested use.

Interpreting The News aN

i Military recruitment

‘not meeting demands

“WASHINGTON (CP) —

The United States may face

the _ politically-difficult

t of bringing back the draft or opening military service to more women if it decides to boost the strength of its armed forces.

The head of the army’s re- cruiting command admits that the military has been scrambling for recruits since 1973, when compulsory military service for men was ended.

The problem was brought into focus recently when a scheme at a New York state recruiting office to inflate enlistment records with

phantom recruits was made public. . The army now is

examining records across the United States to see whether other recruiting offices padded enlistment rells with non-existent re- cruits.

Although President Carter is committed to reducing military spending,

congressional and special interest - groups have stepped up a campaign recently to improve what they see as the weakness of

U.S. forces in Europe. Pentagon figures tend to support the claims of the interest groups: A recent report showed that Soviet tary manpower totals illion, compared with

2.1 million ‘in

United States military.

If the United States decides that the present all- volunteer army is not suf- ficient to meet its com- mitments to NATO and other allies, compulsory military service is sure to be considered, And without an equal rights amendment to the Constitution, such a plan likely would apply only to men,

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DISLIKE ARMY Recruiting Problems indicate that most young

Americans do not want to

PUIG ead eee eps rey are

Nazi’s escape irks Italian public

i ROME (AP) — The escape of

. Four West German-owned

manded Kappler's extradition. A

that after 30 years have failed yet

ascension of a French Quebec and particularly the: coming to power of the in- dependence ldspossesse deprived of its homeland, condemned almost

land, Only time can soften the feelings of rage and the reaction of des tha great Quebecers, generally been favorable to e ‘La

have voiced objections recognize the need to ensure

e French. It is on methods

rather than on aims.

smart in presenting the language legislation at the

This issue, controversial by

Nazi war criminal Herbert Kap- pler from a Rome military hos- pital has released a wave of anti- German sentiment among Italian leftists and has revived old national rivalries. os Italians have staged anti-Ger- man demonstrations almost daily since Kappler’s wife spirited the cancer-wasted former Gestapo officer out of the hospital in a suitease a week ago and took him to West Germany. Anneliese Kappler said she wanted to let her 70-year-old husband die in his native land. “ Dok, A dozen West German cars have been painted with anti-

German slogans at two Italian,

Riviera resorts, and police sources said the Kappler affair may have prompted two youths to shoot a West an couple at Orvieto, néar Rome, on Monday. The Germans were not seriously wounded,

A SEPARA TIST’S VIEW — y introduction o

group which, facing the

party, feels » . almost,

to ee Btatus in its own

pair t time will certainly be a healer.

for French-speaking they have

As

Charter of the French nguage. Even those who

predominance of there were reservations,

The FQ government was

ng of its mandate.

nature, will be largely forgotten when the comes for he referendum or for the next election.

Another bone of con- tention since Noy. 15 was the budget of Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau. has been said about how conservative it was. for one thing, this approach is currently popular amon western governments, U.S. Presiden the new | 45th parallel, sought a balanced budget, a horizon. we thought Keynes had rid ws of forever.

The Parizeau budget. has the advantage of bringing back sane finances to Quebec after the orgies of Olympic and other spen- ding. I talso gives Quebec a

' measure of freedom from leaders who could have choked it.

A tax on children’s clothes was certainly not popular,. but for years various ad-

asoline stations have been mbed in the Calabria region of

' southern Italy, and an anonymous

caller said the attacks were the work of an antiNazi “partisan movement.” .

Italian authorities said the 105- pound Kappler, serving 4 life sentence for the wartime execution of 335 civilians from Rome, was placed in a large suitcase by his wife, who wheeled it out of the hospital. He is in hiding in West Germany, and Bonn officials have made clear they will not extradite or prosecute him.

WELCOMED ESCAPE -

. West Germany had requested Kappler’s release several times on humanitarian grounds, and many Germans welcomed his escape, saying‘he had paid ‘suf- ficiently for his crimes.

But many Italians ‘were in- censed by the escape and de-

time children of

Much But,

Jimmy Carter, t south of the

avoided.

- genio Scalfati attac

been counselling finance ministers to do it. problem was not so much different sizes and adults of children’s size . as it was clothing stores which, under the cover of thelr children's depart- ments, passed off all’ of merchandise without paying taxes, It is foreseen. that returns from the new tax will be considerable, ; The Levesque govern- ‘ment chose to go directly into difficult and unplessant issues. It was good strates and it-was also necessary. Sometimes it is said that the language debate drags -on, but how could it be other- wise, given a society as complex as Quebec's, and how could the question be

The general satisfaction of the population seems to mea bit higher than usual toward a government, The satisfaction members is a different

meeting between Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti and West Ger- man Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was cancelled—the reason was reported to be because Schmidt used to condemn Kappler’s escape. .

The two police guards who were

on duty when he éscaped were .

arrested, and a general and three officers were reassigned. The ‘Republican party, part of An- dreotti’s ruling coalition, asked for the resignation of Defence Minister Vito Lattanzio.

Most of the anti-German com- mentary in Italy -has come from the left. In a typical comment, former: Socialist ‘legislator Eu- d what he called the “foul joy” of many Germans over Kappler’s escape.

Writing in Rome’s La Re- pubblica newspaper, he referred

the Germans as “‘the people

The than a

extent das

members din

Amo!

dreams tieulated

of party

nt, , 6 PQ had known only opposition, with just a few the national assembly during the horrors of October 1970, the Brinks affair when English money was ready to flee in Brinks trucks at the 1972 elections, y the constant fight against discouragement, - or one tnt it was easy to Imagine that power would suddenly bring the implementation of so many patiently in 80 many con- ventions and so many meetings at night and on Sunday. Power is victory, but also, sometimes e weight of a reality much less easy to manipulate than one imagines when one talks

to understand their tragedy, their schizophrenia, their dishumanity

Only Italy’s tiny neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano came openly to Kappler's defence, and moderate papers and politicians generally avoided any harsh note, eaving the anti-German furor mostly to the left,

Milan’s financial daily Il Sole-24 Ore urged moderation, reminding Italy that “we more than the

- Germans: urgently need mutual

co-operation’? not only com-

‘mercially and financially, but

also for the sake of 600,000 Italians who work in West Ger- many.

. Italso noted that a quarter of an estimated 16 million tourists

Visiting Italy this year are ex- pected to be West Germans.

oo

along with a wi

chance, an not happe muc

ether, or rather Levesque, ’

vigor af leadership. looking

change: camps an ar-

‘ independence or of relationships

Canadian provinces.

andhe and he is able to lis

about it. Among activists, é ngness (o give the government every ere. is sometimes underlying disap- pointment that eve: ng is faster. What holds everything e one . who helds. everything

together, is Premier Rene

Some commentators have raised questions about the | Levesque’s They are not too closely at . reality. Levesque manages to reconcile the radicals and the moderates people can labels according to the issues, be it on language or onsabortlon, on the pace of the pursuit of e nature to be established with other

Levesque is a unique

politician. He hag feelings en

belong to the army, even in peacetime. .

The cheapest alternative to compulsory military service would be to open the military to women. Studies have found that women tend to have fewer dependents lower absentee rates an fewer discipline problems than men, thus offering potential savings on per- sonnel costs, which make up more than half the defence department budget.

- The U.S. has made son. signifivant steps resently toward restrictions . on women. in the military.

The navy wants to change a law prohibiting women from serving at sea and the Senate has tay to aha) de- ‘ence secre a a tule change. that . would make it easier for women to serve on air force planes.

THANKS

Editor, Terrace Herald, "Our? ax’: week: project’ ended on Friday, August 19, with the performance of a play entitled - ‘‘One Da

in the Life of Mildred,

This was an. im-

provisational play, created by the children of the workshop. - As the project manager for the last session, I feel the workshop was -suc- cessful.

Thanks to all the kids who came and joined the 3 sessions - also thanks to Garaett Doel], Arlene Doell, David Thomson and Molly Nattress - all of whom worked on the project. Trust.and com- munication created the basis of this program - and I feel this summer has built the foundation for next year. To

There is a real interest and need for. children’s theatre in this community - and I would personally to see it happen again next summer, a

es

”

Pat Scott.

maiter. The PQ channelled much more intensely

thing Quebec had ‘geen before. The Liberals also carried hopes in 1960,

but that did not involve party members to the same

them, which is a nice change from the zombies one sees too much of in blic places. He does not itate to voice publicly his doubts, setting an example of critical thinking, a ‘very ‘useful habit in a democracy. Those who prefer authoritarian ways will see this as a weakness; those who believe the world can only survive if it is ted by real human beings than than by plaster artifacts will, on the contrary rejoice, Above all, a crucial element to consider {n pxamining -Levesque's leadership ia that everyone = or almost - in the party sees him as the: ‘historical , leader,” the only one who- can harmonize the various. trends, the orily “ one’ everybody can love. It is 4. good thing that, with such’ power, he remains a person ‘capable of questlonitg himself and not including to take himself: too seriously. .