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Days gt Christmas iter Yur No 276 oucoao rnniiian Daniel Johnson right confers his justice minister dober traud left at the start at tiie Confederation of Tomorrow conference at Toronto today Also in the group is Cart 601 it orrtr mitToClueSnitflng Barrio OntarioCInada Nanday Novonibtrjzh i967 dcnberg Montreal rcoaoma ist who is attending the con ferencc as an observer Wirephoio 0N TORONTO CPI Two so paratist leaders and number of Quebecunivflsity students failed to convince several hun dred persons attoudinga semi nar at York Universitys Glenn don College that Ontario would soon have sovereign nation on its eastern border Mnst were as skeptical as Claude Ryan editor and publish or at Montreals Lo Devoir who wasnt convinced that the Es tates General of FrenchCanada reflected Quebec thinking when it adopted separatist attitude SOVEREIGN STATE Leaders Students Fail To Convince Seminar at weekend meeting in illontl real in three days the students lis cd andpuizzed Quebec sea tistsftene Levesque and Gilles Gregoire and nine moder ates including Mr Ryan who said he was an avowed federal When the smoke cleared Sun day night the majority of the students agreed Quebec had grounds for complaint But they refused to believe no solutions exist They couldnt Had solution Startling Changes ildvocated By Quebec Separatist Group MONTREAL CF The Es tates General of French Canada emerged Sunday from four day debate on the FrenchCa nadian nation with program oi resolutions as startling as anything ever advocated by Quebecs separatist parties Arid organizers of Rene Les vesques sovereign Quebec movement declared that the Es tates General resolutions will be studied as basic material for the former wclfare ministers proposed independent party Mn Levesque the independ cut him for Laurier who left the Liberal party when it reject ed his sovereign Quebec propos at received thunderous no plause when he made briei appearance before delegates to the privatelyorganized ionim assembled to plug for constitu tional change At press eontercncc held in room containing at least as many Levesque supporters as reporters the iormer minister said We arent very far away from becoming at country enn sidcc this inevitable and or the first time in our historyhpossi ble One gets the impression theres mass which is ready to embark on the road to free and independent Quebec WVmZAAWW $22 CAPSULE NEWS DeGaulle Raps Canadian Govt rPARiS ReutersiFrench President de Gaulle today accused the Canadian federal government oi being partial in its treat meat of Frenchspeaking Canadians May ettle walkout Beloreyiyreezeup Monramp CPlMany shipping company officials believe the mammoth eargoliandhng tieup in theport of Montreal may not be settled before freezeeup said Sunday shipping company spokesman GongReiects Peace Proposal VHONG KONG tReuterslThe Viet Cong denounced the South Vietnamese proposal for peacetalkswith North Vietnam as replica of the 155 reported today One Dead SHurt peace hoax the North Vietnam news agency litiérGunBaiiie nines Ohio tltPlOne man wasshot to death and iiVe oth ers including four policemen were wounded early today in gun battle between police and three men who used British business ex eoullve as shielp Gold Demand Drops on Iiiarket LONDON heuterslDcmand for gold and result as tressure on the US dollar dropped oii today in international markets after iasiweeks hectic gold rush all reported gold shares falling London Zurichand Johannesburg however and didnt really ex pect to Thirtyfive university students irom Quebec tool part in the seminar andrnost appeared convinced theirprovince would split from the rest of Canada Mr Levesque an independent member of thc Quebeclegisia ture said the break would come within five years Mr Gregoire independent MP for Lapointe and Rallicnient National set the date at no later than 1970 Mr Ryan said in closedcir cuit television broadcast from Montreal that if the Estates General does mirror Quebec thinking Canada shoidd pre pare ior vcry sudden changes But he said he wasnt con vinced Estates delegates did ex press the true feeling of Quebec If they did he said Mr De vesque may succeed in uniting large bodies or opinion and other separatist groups behind him Qucbecs Liberal and Union Nationzde parties may tlien be forced to form coali tion in an attempt to meet the threat Breadi Poison Kills v77 EOGOTA Reuters Health teams appeared to have won an aroundtheclock battle to check mass poisoning tlom contami nated bread that killed 71 per sons in the north Colombian toer of Chinquinquira during the weekend Ileailil Minister Antonio Dido nez Playa said Sunday night 147 persons still are in hospital aftereating the broad but the situation appeareduuder con trol He said the outbreak resulted from the accidental mixing of the white insecticide parathion with flour on truck mking deliveries to local bakery Mcdical teams hurried to the city 125 miles north of here after adults and children began dying in the streets Unofficial reports said as many as 500 persons might have suffered some effects otthe 1elt thal pest killer which was blamed for the deaths of 17 ehil dren in Tijuana Mexico in Sep tember when it was mixed in pastry by accident ray minnuos Supplies oi antibiotics were rushed by air from the United States Panama Venezuela and Vest ermany to Chiuqulnqulra to treat the poison victims licalth authorities said the urns our Someoi ynu pedestrians walk about as if you owned ftiic streets Yes and some otiyou motor ists drivetaround as though you owned your cars ixaminrr Not Man Than ACCEPT REFORMS SEE PAGE TWO VWEAlHEt Variable sardines with um fiurries Low tooiiht to ion Tuesday Sanitary on 13 iii For Copy id Pager ROBARTS RGE GOld Stdndard Mair Return de Gaulle PARIS AP President do Guulie said todn the storm mated by the evaluation oi the British pound may provoke return Olthtt international monetary system to the gold standard it is possible that the storm unleashed by tho devaluation of the pound will lead to the rees tablishmnnt oi the international monetary system founded on the immutability and impartiali ty which are the privileges oi gold dc Gauilo said at nnews conference De Gaulle led up to this rca mark by saying There is an American take over of our businesses butthis doesnt come as muchfrom the structural superiority oi the United States as it does from the exportation of monies dolV lars PM Dampens fiumms OHWM Retirement rounon tori Prime inn ister Pearson said today he does not plan to resign at this stage lle described rumors about his impending resignation and retirement as pure specular tion audgmundless Pearson it was asked for comment on reports circulating in Canada that he planned to announce his redgnation from office immediately on returning to Ottawa later today Earlier his press secretary Jim Wightman said such my more are complete nonsense Reports concerning Pearsons future have been circulating in Canada for some time How ever during his sixday visit herethc Canadian leader has given no indication of early re tirement Persons victims suffered irorn three symptomsvomiting blond fail igg kidneys and stomach ulcera Ofl OTTAWA OP IAs Finance Minister Shar would have it bewlli begving the country just wee thing next Thursday financial messa But as the opp ition would have it the government is com ing through with the years real budget gt Conservative House Leader Michael Starr suggests the oili cial letflca budget of last June The Examiner TODAY Ann Lenders6 cuy News23 cuisinesu iii Comicsdz Dcathrlt District1 Editoriala Sporlsloll Theatre5 frvJ Linings12 Weatherla it is curious to note that the total balance at payments deii cit oi the United States in he last eight years is equal to the total of American investment in western Europe Die In LISBON iari Grievlng Portuguese buried their dead and dug away todayat the nnrokarid mire left by heavy weekend rains and floods that killed more titan 250 persons and destroyed thousands of dwellings in heavypopulated Lisbon and surrounding vil lager and many are missing undcr tons ofdcbris and mud Mud caked bodies were still being rc covered in slums of Llsbons suburbs and nearby villages The poor living in fiimsily constructed dwellings suffered most As the downpour col WASHINGTON lib Sena tor Robert Flennedy says the United States has undermined its moral position because it changed its reasons for fighting in Vietnam haslnflicted thou sands of eivili an casualties there and think were going to have difficult time explain ing this to ourselves but VicePresident Hubert Humphrey corneaids the Johnson administrations Vietnam policy is designed to prevent nuclear wtir We are taking stands now for limited objectives in the war in battlefields farawayrso that we may nothave to take stand later on too greater con flagrntion Humphrey id In other words ldont think the people want Armageddon on the instalment pia Sharps Budget Tainted It Tinancial Message was brought down just to mark time When Mri Sharp wasasked PCBow River about his in messaga will be accompanied ments to the taxing statutes If the honorable gentleman would like to call that budget have no objection should fare to call it financial mes sage which is morein accord with my feelings but he has his eholcer Health Minister MacEacbeu the governments House leader has asked in private discussions with opposition representatives days They believe they are rnaklng hay with their fiscal mtsmsnngement charges ngainst the government taxincrease alone would make Mr Sharps presentation ndnister is expected todeal sub stantially with both medical care and tax reform at the same time twooi the hottest natiooalflasues in sight In tisnon tiltiili More Than Thursday by Eldon Wonlliams tendons he said his financial by resolutions proposuig nmend France wants to put on end to thlis abuse in the interest the world and even in the intern est of the United States which must get rid of this deplorable deliclL FloOds lapsed house after house there were relatively few casualties in betterbuilt buildings Most oi tire dead and iidurcd were in the lowlying Lisbon suburb of 0divclas where more than 60 bodies had been counted by sundown Sunday and in the village of Quintus about no miles north of Lisbon where more than an werercppcmd Interior Minister Aliredo Rod rigues dos Santos suid approxi mately 50 were dead but indi cated the final toll was expected to be much higher He directed municipal officials to bury the dead quickly because of the danger of disease and infection SenatoryKéunediyy Says Has ChangedViews On Vietnam The two spoke in television in terviews Suday in another televisionappearl ance Canadianborn economist John Kenneth Galbraith said that as long as Dean Rusk is secretary at state in nonmili tary solution to the war is not likely He said Rusk is commit ted to the mystique oi anti communismof the early Tru man years and this doesnot Iéud itself to flexibility in the Vietnam situation 250 TwoBigIssuesEacecanadians Premier says lit Conlercnce TORONIO CPJT Ontario Premier John Robarais said today the object of the Contcd oration of Tomorrow conference should be to determine the measure of our consensus and the range of dilicrenccs Welcoming delegations from all 10 provinces Mr Roberta siggosted they leave detailed discussion at speciiie issues to future corderonces But first we most take stock oi our views and assess the priorities of our future meet lussJ The Ontario premier suggest cd that Canadians are confront ed by tho two great and press ing issues One is the placaon French Canada in Canadian society and by French Canada mean Fraich speaking Canadians across the country and not only those at Quebec The other is the nature of the relationship between the federal government and the provincial governments NOT NUISANCE Mr Roberts said Canadians should cost aside once and for all any idea that the provinces fliers some way nukance and an rnpcdlment fTomy mind thorncanybc no more tragicrnisrending ot the nature of Canada Our triumph our singular achievement is that we exiflin spite of our differences However he stressed that On tario hasuo intention of under mining tho placeof primacy of the iederal government He said Canadians must come to grips with the fact they are living in time of unprece dentedchangei To young maturing coun try such as ours coping with change is crucial itr Roburts said Canadians must avoid the oftportrayed stance of the ostrichL and must be prepared to note needed reform MUST BE FLEXIBLE Canada must accommodate and be enriched by the exist enee oitwo main streams of our heritage and Mr Robarts suggested that under the cir cumstances Canadian federal ism must be flexible To achieve this flexibility all it so without lurilicrpdo lli hand the chair over to Madam Fifi governments federal as wfll provincial must agree on what coriatitutcspnnada and then at tempt to work out system oi inter governmental relations which best tits tho rewirasients and obligations oi each workingnut such system Car nadians should remember that theconccpt oispceiat status isas old as confederation Cong Sinkes Critical ilreas In Vietnam SAIGON AP Communist iorces striking boldly in three of the most critical areas of South Vietnam Sbiiday and today slammed hundreds of mortars into American positions 1and held off ILS marines in two liorce ground battles us lossu were 25 dead and 154 wounded while as Commu nists were killed the 115 com mand said It announced the loss oftwo more tighterbombers over NorthVietaam Four flyers are missing This brought to 757 the an nounced number of Us planes downed in combat oier tha North in the nearly threeyear long bombing campaign for oneday limtton the budg ct debate The Conservatives will dcj mad the toll allotment of six mayor budget But the finance dose haloBedoett left Unit ed Nations diplomat talks with the president of CyprusArch bishop Makafloa in Nicosia Supday hblzIBepnett to Cyprus aftertalkawitb otfi cials in Athens on the threat of warbctween Greece and CRISIS Turkey oier them terracenp islan plomats were hnpo liir Robarts said that in ful or asettlemeat in the crisis AP erophoto by from Nicosia table