Page 2, The Herald, Wednesday, October 3, 1979

Pope speaks for human rights —

NEW YORK (Reuter) — Whether to the high-minded at the United Nations, the lowborn in the South Bronx or the adoring faithful at Yankee Stadium, Pope John Paul had one overriding message on his first day Jn New York.

The message was simple,

RCMP

By KITTY McKINSEY

OTTAWA (CP) — The royal commission In- vestigating RCMP wrongdoing began closed. door hearings Tuesday into the latest in a series of rev- elations of lawbreaking by the force's security service,

Mr. Justice David C. McDonald, chairman of the three-man commission, sald it is looking into tactics used by the service between 1972 and 1974 to disrupt what It considered to be subversive organizations.

direct and spoken from the heart to rapturous crowds — the human being has basic rights that must not be violated.

To diplomats at the United Nations, the Pope declared: “Alb human beings in every nation and country should be able to enjoy effectively

their full rights under any political regime or system."

To the despairing thousands sesembled on a desolate building alte in the South Bronx — the symbol of urban blight in the US. — the Pope said: ‘Brothers and siaters and friends do not give in to despair but work

together. Take the’ steps possible for you in the task of increasing your dignity."

But the people of the South

Bronx could not hear him,

The sound ayatem on his microphone had gone dead and his words were heard only an television atations which had a different andio

inguiry is on again

This waa the firat public disclosure of Operation Checkmate, which Mce- Donald said was intended “to reduce what was regarded as an escalating potential for vlolence.'*

He said only a smal security service unit was Involved and there is no evidence the operation — “which may arguably not be authorized or provided for by law” — continued past 1974,

McDonald gave no ather details, saying the com- mission will hear evidence

SALT treaty is seen as a battle

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.-Soviet strategic arms limitation treaty faces an uphill struggle in the Senate — even if President Carter succeeds in severing the treaty from the furore over Soviet troops in Cuba.

The timing and outcome of the chamber's debate are clouded by procedural delays, parlimentary manotevres, filibustera and stormy debate over Isaues ranging from whether Soviet compliance with the treaty terms can be verified to de- mands for sharp increases in defence spending.

The Senate's Democratic leaders want to begin floor debate this year to avoid

entangling the treaty in the presidential and congressional contesta of 198.

But majority leader Robert Byrd says that timing would hold only if the pact clearly has the 67 votes needed for ratifica‘ion.

On Tuesday, Byrd's Republican counterpart, minority leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, said that at present there are probably fewer than 40 senators prepared to vote for the treaty.

And there are conflicting predictions as to when the treaty will reach the floor.

Baker said [t might be as early a5 late October,

from RCMP officers and former Liberal cabinet ministers in private hearings this month.

The commission will decide later what testimony regarding Checkmate can be made public, McDonald said.

He said some would argue that the service is atill free to use Checkmate-style tactics ko of a broadly-worded

binet directive issued to it in 1976.

That directive, ordering the service to “monitor, deter, prevent, counter in- dividuals and groups’' suspected of eaplonage or subversion, came under at- tack Tuesday by the Canadian Bar Asscclation.

The association told the commisston the directive gives the force almost unlimited discretion in choosing its targets and investigative techniques, and urged tighter govern- ment controls over RCMP operations to protect tational security.

Richard Mongeau, a commission lawyer, told reporters Checkmate was “nat ona grand scale” like the security service's theft of dynamite or barn buming.

“It (Checkmate) falls more in the area of counter- measures,” he said, adding that it was “the same con- cept” as a 1971 fake com- munique issued by the RCMF in the name of a Quebec extremist exhorting

membera of the Front de Liberation du Quebee to violence.

Checkmate took place outside Quebec and Mongeau hinted it could have been directed at groups in Toronto and Vancouver,

Further revelations of

RCMP lawbreaking will - probably surface this fall,”

says commission secretary Johnson. .

The commission has already heard testimony from security service agents who broke into the offices of a left-wing news agency in Montreal, broke into a computer firm to copy Parti Quebecols membership lists and kidnapped suspected terrorists to convince them to become RCMP informers.

These activities all took place In Quebec in the early 19708 ag part of the RCMP's response to FLQ terroriam.

Because of the 1975 cabinet directive, the force has been allowed to follow {ts own judgement on what tactles to

. Use to fight what it perceives as threats to national’

security, the bar association told the commission.

Part of the problem is that Parliament has never defined national security, even though the term ap-

in dozens of federal laws, The association recommended that the term be strictly defined as part of an overhaul of the Official Secrets Act and the War Measures Act.

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link-up and by security men surrounding him.

“At least I saw him," sald one man, “but I wonder what he tried to say to us,”

The Pope arrived in the South Bronx from New York's black diatrict of Harlem where he told black Roman Catholics that he had a message of joy.

“There are those who live without hope because they have never had a brother or a sister who touched thelr hearts to Jesus’... We must - bring to them the message of

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Harlem residents turned out in the hundreds of thousands to see the Polish Pope who rode from the city's St. Patrick's Cathedral in an open car — despite a threat on his life,

After receiving a letter, police searched a home In Elizabeth, New Jersey, about 92 kilometres outside New York, and discovered a semi-automatic rifle and an empty handgun carton, |

They began a hunt for a 37- ar-old man but released wife after queationin:

her; One local report quo her as saying her husband was out of the country.

From the South Bronx Pope went to Yankee Stadium, transformed for the night into an outdoor cathedral and celebrated mass before more than 70,000 persons. .

It was there that the Pope most forcefully expressed his abhorence of the gap between rich and poor,

SUPPORT ADDS YEARS

TORONTO (CP) — A computer service to help children with muscular dystrophy, operated aut .of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, has been extended to 17 new MD clinics across Canada. The computer converts spinal x-ray films into digital data and gives engineers the information they need to build individual, properly sloping support seats for wheelchairs to ease spinal deformities. A spokesman says the: seats allow children previously confined to beds to sit up for up to 12 hours and may add

five years to the child's Ilfe.

“We can not stand idly by si aaa ae are unger,

be said, "You must never be content to leave them (the poor) just the crumbs from the feast.”

Between his speeches, the Pope beamed, touched out- stretched hands and kissed

children,

From a global standpoint, the highpoint of his. vigorous 15-hour schedule Monday wee an address to the UN General Assembly which ended with a standing “ede ledging th

e coe of human Pghts and justice, the Pops singled out two

international issues for ©

attention — the Middle East

and the arma race.

He voiced reservations about the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel, saying an all- encompassing solution is needed which includes, among other things, a just settlement of the Palestinian question. ;

On’ the arms race he ap- peared to voice doubts about the new U.S.-Soviet strategic

ac “tran reports Ghat the warld is not in danger of destruction.

New Yorkers turned out in the hundreds of thousands, to line the Pope's 21-kilometre motorcade route that tqok him from the rich haven of Madison Avenue to the poor South Bronx.

In Central Park, joggers tried but failed to keep pace

with the autemoblle of the:

be 58-year-old pontiff,

Outeide Yankee‘ Stadium, a few Ucket scalpers tried to sell tickets to tha mass for 925 and more.

Inside — in contrast to baseball games — no beer was being sold at the refreshment stands. ‘They won't: let us cell it tonight,” one vendor sald. ‘They even covered my spigots and fixed ‘Tay machine bo we can't sell

Police said 12,000 policemen had been assigned te pai vinit’ Soman for the

visit, So many were on Favatreets that there were no personnel left in offices to compile statistics: on any arrests.

NEWS BRIEFS

CALGARY (CP) — Three touring Parti Quebecois members cf the Quebec national assembly, who set out 10 days ago to expla

er “AS o sory Ganadl, end their odyssey here today.

Jean-Francois. Bertrand, Pierre de Bellefeuille and Gerald Godin started in Winnipeg last week and worked thelr way west through Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver and

Victoria where they met three cabinet ministers and got a rundown on the British ° Columbla economy Tuesday.

Reaction has virtually heen the same everywhere, Bertrand sald Tuesday.

Explanations of Quebec's economic grievances against the federal system prompted businessmen, politicians and others in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C. to argue they too have serious complaints agalnst the federal system.

Leftwingers said target

TORONTC (CP) — The Star saya a left-wing group in Metro Toronto was one of the targets of a secret campaign by the RCMP between 1972 and 1974,

The campaign, cade- named Operation Check- mate, was disclosed in Ot-

wa Tuesday by Mr, Justice

vid) .C, McDonald, chairman of the royal commission examining RCMP wrongdolng.

He sald the campaign was a program of disruptive

tactics aimed at what the RCMP considered sub: verslve groups in. nto, Vancouver and -other Canadian citles. a

Three former solicitors. general serving during the Trudeau administration — Warren Allmand, Francis Fox and JeanJacques Blais — told The Star they had never heard about Operation Checkmate. Solicitor- General, Allan Lawrence said he was first informed on June 20,

Press control the topic

OTTAWA (CP) — Delegates to a United Nations seminar on education through radio and television are wrestling with the problem of government control of the media, seminar chairman John Cairns said Tuesday.

But, he said, while the gen- eral feeling among the dele- gates from 17 induatrialized and developing countries a that “some degree of control

is necessary,’ programmers would retain a great deal of autonomy in practice,

Cairns, director of inter. national programs at the University of Guelph, Ont., said in an interview there are no ideal solutions to the queation of government control of the media, Dif- ferent societies will have to create: their own com- promises between public and private operation of the media.

Bankers claim surprise

BELGRADE (Reuter) — The soaring world price of gold was greeted with sur- prise and dismay by finance ministers and central bankers attending the an- nual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The situation on world bullion markets was described as totally chaotic.

Italian Finance Minister Fillppo Maria Pandolfi called the latest gold rush

“barbarous!’ and one official said: "They have gone mad."

Some delegates aaid anxiety aver the price has reached a level where some countries are sounding out, their partners over co- operation to dampen the price. .

. Gold, which at one point record

Tuesday reached a $440 U.S, an ounce on the

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