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pilill cdll 41Iunday May 17 1979 NIWSIOOM 7266537 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING CLASSIFIEDS 7266537 72824 CIRCULATION 7266539 New direction for Canada Voters have serious task to perform Tuesday when they choose their next government and prime minister fundamental consideration in that choice is which of the three major parties the Liberals the New Democratic Par ty or the Progressive Conservatives is best suited to the mood and needs of the country today In choosing we must look first at the Liberal party and the man who has governed Canada for 11 years Pierre Elliott Trudeau It was back in 1968 that Trudeaumania swept the nation and gave the country its first majority rule in decade We embraced Pierre Trudeau then and his new exciting style of leadership Here was the promise of new Laurier Ihe twentieth century would at last belong to Canada Eleven years later Canadians still believe in the promised greatness of their country But they dont believe in Trudeau at least not in any ab solute sense True he has worked for united Canada and his intellect remains unchallenged He has done much to advance the rights of French Canadians while standing firm against the separatist threat But the dreams of 1968 are not the needs of 1979 What is important today is not dreams but planning ac tion and new initiative What can be done about one million unemployed about in flation and rising prices about the sagging dollar and about destructive federalprovincial bickering These are questions the Liberals have tried and failed to answer After 17 years of Liberal rule the party is tired and the ranks of qualified candidates thin Its time the Liberals mov ed into Opposition in favor of new government In looking at alternatives the New Democratic Party under Mr Broadbent has made credible showing in this election campaign But the NDP is party which cannot hope to form government after May 22 There are also reservations about party which owes so much to powerful trade unions Moreover at time when less government interference is called for the NDP and their expensive socialist programs are an inappropriate choice Which brings us to Mr Clark and the Progressive Conser vative party Like many voters we have reservations about this man and his leadership abilities We are confused about how he would die Quebec and why his government would increase the deficit before reducing it Yet Mr Clark has stated that government far from being oneman show is team of people working together to solve problems We should remember that running country is business like any other business Flamboyant personalities do not necessarily make the best businessmen or leaders It is team work and business approach that counts and Mr Clark pro mises to deliver on both accounts Instead of personality we must look at the record We must consider Mr Clarks success in unifying the Con servative party something Mr Stanfield could not ac complish We can believe Mr Clark will better be able to negotiate with the provinces seven of which are Conservative on the constitution on energy and other important issues We can also believe that the Conservative team of can didates is fresh and full of ideas We remember too that Mr Clark was the only party leader who cared enough to visit our riding during the campaign If there are reservations about Mr Clark there is much to support His priorities jobs for the unemployed an in dustrial policy mortgage deductions for homeowners freedom for business to operate and careful spending to bolster the dollar offer hope for the future In Simcoe South Progressive Conservative candidate Ron Stewart has set forth these and other ideas In election meetings with Gaye Lamb of the New Democratic Party and Ray Ramsay of the Liberals Mr Stewart has demonstrated an ability to discuss the issues in an informed and forceful manner Most important as member of the party likely to form the next government he is the logical candidate to get results for the new riding of Simcoe South For these reasons we find Conservative government the best choice for May 22 If elected the onus will be on the Conservatives to prove they are capable of giving Canada new direction and drive in to the 1980s We feel they deserve that chance the eXaminer serving barrio and simcoe county EDITORS Craig Elsa managing editor Ion Muigrtw city editor SALES om McFarland wire editor Aden Smith Dove Fuller sports editor Bert Stevens Claudio Krause Lifestyle editor Wayne Hov RENnTERS SIQVE Sklan sum Nichons Barb Boulton Danni Lonthler Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephan Gouer entertainment Gory Forbes Betty Armor camera operator Torry Field ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner Dana Homewood Janice Morton 7266537 Dear Sir As regards to the lotteries being run in Ontario Its big business Ontario is one of the richest provinces in Canada It can afford to give away $5 million to the 10 provinces in Canada Thats $50 million and our Ontario govern ment has neglected to do something about our medical health plan Nearly 1000 people have spoken out on petition regarding this issue The public feels our provin cial government should give first riority to this provinces medical ealth plan Also the public feels the provincial lottery would be used for this purpose due to the extra cost of medical health expenses Mrs Elsie Bartholomew RR Oro Station DearSir Congratulations on your fine editorial comment Examiner May 10 Soldiers life dangerous one letters to the editor Thousands of young men and women pass through CFB Borden in pursuit of career in the military Most often these people find themselves away from their parents and friends for the first time in their lives Barrie is often the first city outside of their own home town they find themselves in The reception we give to these young people in our contacts in all walks of life is important it has lasting effect Your editorial in local newspaper widely read at CFB Borden did much to foster goodwill in our area All too often the Armed Forces are viewed as being an easy life taking many hard shots from the public Your editorial laid that falacy to rest Yours truly Gord Mills Barrie qearo before this arms limitation agreement Len SWICK manager Peggy Chapell supervisor Elaine Porter zusnNEis Marian Cough accountant Delve Mills Vikki Grant Brenda Woods CIRCULATION Stan wray alll Halkes manager sill Raynor Steve White assistant manager Ed Allenby Andy Haughton Jame Hamel Alva LaPlante Susan iichen Lisa Worry Ron Gilder Barbara Strigl PRESSROOM Don Saunders Lorne Wass WI Cadogan Cheryl Aiken Don Near foreman COMFOSING ROOM Jack Kernev tareman Glenn Kwan asst loremnn The Examiner IS member at The Canadian Press mm and Audit Bureau at Published dolly except Sunday and statutory holidays WEEKLY by carrier 90mm YEAR LY by carrier Circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in this newspaper credited to C9 The Associated Press Ieuiers or Agence France Prense and local news stories published in The xammer The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising materat created by its employees and published in this newspaper $4680 Copyright registration number 203815 register BY MAIL Barrie National advertising ollices 65 Queen Sl Toronto 864 I7 640 Calhcarl SIMCOE COUNTY M° 95 $3900 MOTOR THROWOFF $050 year The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages ans ing out at errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space lually occupied by that portion oi the advertisement if Wthh the error oc Fred Prince asst loreman ELSEWHERE IN CANADA W06 Wtehtr such error us doc lo inc ncghoencc at us servants or other Harris Blanchard Brian Marr lo annihilate each oThér eelen Times over Parliament Hill By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service If you listen to all the pollstersnot to mention those personinthestreet in terviews you quickly gain the impression that the two most unpopular men in Canada right now are Pierre Trudeau and Joe Clark Ed Broadbent the New Democratic Party leader may be in the running too But since most peo 1e dont give him reasonable chance becoming prime minister you dont hear so much about him But with Trudeau the Liberal leader and From the legislature By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The question still to be an swered in this election campaign is how the antiLiberal vote is going to splinter Even after Pierre Trudeaus confident performance in the May 13 TV debate it is hard to get any feeling other than that the Liberals have lost the election in English Canada What remains to be seen is whether anyone else can win it Media reaction to the muchpublicizcd debate between Trudeau Progressive Con servative Leader Joe Clark and New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent has been mixed Trudeau is generally conceded the edge withj Broadbent close second and Clark thir But studies of US presidential election debates show that winning isnt everything Although it may sway few undccidcd no one switches his vote because of TV debates instead those studies indicate that people thinking of voting for candidate can either waver or become firm in their support because of the debate On that basis Clark didnt conic off too bad since most expectation levels about thc man were so low they couldnt help but improve so long as he didnt fall off the platform Neither Trudeau nor Broadbcnt destroyed him even though they rcscrvcd their main attacks for Clark and waxcd philosophical with each other In the crystalballrcading business which is what election predicting is all about one has to make some assumptions And the one made here is that the majority antiTrudeau sentiment remains just as strong as ever regardless of the debate However the American studies also show press reaction to the debate can hilVC more influence than the debate itself in that area Clark is in worse shape Un SCOOPS MR CALIFANO AS $ECRETARY OF HEALTH EDUCATION COMMITTEE PEOPLES TAX DOLLARS IS OUTRAGEOUSI CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATIONS with Clark the Tory leader its all you hear Ive had bellyfull of that Trudeau was typical comment from Toronto maninthe street But dont think can bring myself to vote for that Joe Clark The Tories scare me to death was another comment But anything is better than another four years of Trudeau Weve all heard that type of comment over and over again History may well show this to be the most negative campaign in the countrys history Never before has prime minister spent eight weeks running around the country trying to prove he hasnt lost all his credibility while the leader of the opposi Some keyridings to watch May 22 decided voters will likely flow to the NDP if they heed the media interpretation badly splintered opposition vote could allow the Liberals to sneak up the middle with plurality of the 282 seats at stake In the last week or so there seems to be growing consensus among reporters backed by some polls that theres been slight movement to the Conservatives If true then the Liberals wont get the minority theyre aiming for its still possible but not probable But strong NDP vote would definitely deny the Tories majority government It depends on whether enough voters overcome their misgivings about Clark to cast ballot for the Conservatives go with the NDP by default or are convinced by the medias love affair with Ed Brondbenl Well find out for sure on election night May 22 But it should be fairly easy to read the trends by following some key ridings in Metro Toronto Beaches and Scar borough West will tell the tale of where the antiTrudeau vote is going The NDP won Beaches in 1974 by slim 100 votes over the Liberal and the Conservative was only 1700 behind that Scarborough West wcnt NDP in1972 and Grit in 1974 but the Tories were ncver far behind If people decide to give Joe Clark chance its likely the Conservatives will win both But if they reject him and remain anti Trudeau both areas will go NDP And the rest of the 23 Mctro seats will likcly follow similar trend In the ethnic seats of western Metro the Liberals expect to hold easily but if they dont look for NDP gains in ridings like York South Etobicokcliakcshore Etobicokc North York Centre and York West utsidc Metro in southern Ontario keep an eye on Petcrborough St Catharincs Hamilton Mountain Ontario London West and EssexKent nears vmvlrr lliAT SHAlEs our END5 ROUGHfl rum HOW YOU WILL $4100 year wise and there shall be no liability lor non insertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement our two super as had the awesomepghlllilq Taking positive viewpoint about federal election result tion is making desperate attempt to prove he has recently acquired some And the overriding goal seems to be to avoid The Big Mistake Like said its all very negative Well as public service offer positive program to those people who wont vote Liberal because of Pierre Trudeau and to those who wont vote Tory because of Joe Clark And if you ignore the fact that have an uncanny knack for being wrong and acce this scenario you can go into the pol ling th next Tuesday feeling like Dale Carnegie honors graduate First you have to take the view that we are going to elect minority government and at the moment this seems rather easy to accept And once you get over this first little hurdle its easy to rationalize the next easy argument that whoever wins this interim battle is virtually certain to lose the long term war Lets say for the sake of argument that Trudeau manages to cling to power with minority govemmenl Do you really think that the Tories would continue to support Joe Clark after he failed to knock off prime minister who is depicted as the most vulnerable in Canadas history No sir The Conservatives talk about party unity until they are Toryblue in the fact but if Clark doesnt win this time he wont get another chance So the party will quickly hold leadership convention new fresh face will emerge Trudeaus minority government will be defeated in Parliament and his party will be defeated in subsequent election We are assuming of course that the Tories will pick leader who is reasonably credible LIBERALS TOO The same rationale can be applied to the Liberals should Clark squeak through to head minority government The Grits like the Tories tell you that the towering inspiration of their glorious leader can never be duplicated but dont you believe it If Trudeau is whomped even marginally by the allegedly incredible Clark he wont be around too long Whether John Turner reemerges from his legal boardroom to regain the affection of the Liberal establishment remains to be seen If not someone else will Former finance minister Donald Macdonald is one inactive Liberal who has an impressive following within the party In any event Clark victory would bring on new Liberal leader and another early election it wouldnt take long for new person to get public su port for vote and we can assume as be ore that fresh face Would easily win majority The way we hear it any other Liberal leader could wipe out Clark just as any other Tory leader could demolish Trudeau am not suggesting this crashcourse in the power of positive voting is foolproof and would rather not get into the possibility of both parties holding simultaneous leadership conventions but at least its something to grasp at until better idea comes along Glad could help ou Normsr REAGAN wow The world today Another Amin in the making By JOHN IIARRRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service With Ugandas ldi Amin Dada overthrown and in apparent exile the worlds spotlight turns to another small country in deep political and economic limbo as its strong man clings to power It is Nicaragua in Central America where beleaguered dictator and president Anastasio Somoza with his still very loyal National Guard is holding out against persistent guerrilla movement One hesitates to compare Somoza to Idi Amin even though the farmers National Guard and secret police have committed the same acts of barbarism and bcstial torture as ldi Amin against fellow citizens Torture and barbarism are the same in terms of human pain and waste no matter who practices them And Nicaraguans are torn by fractious civil war which has split families devastated whole cities and wrecked what could be vibrant economy Somoza and hisfamily in permanent power since 1936 have not been the crude looters of an economy as was Idi Amin But they have built up family fortune by assuming monopoly control of most of the small countrys leading industries This heavy domination of the countrys productive sectors primarily agrarian plus the harsh control over the country by his National Guard has turned even businessmen against him COMMON FRONT FORMED The turn of the tide for Somoza began few years ago when businessmen who abhorred leftwingers and guerrillas publicly joined forces with them in common front to unseat Somoza But this very tough performer who said he would not step down and has meant it was long the strong ally of the United States in Central America concerned as it had been with the spread of Castro Cuba Marxist in fluences around the Caribbean Any American military and economic support for Somoza has long since ter minated But that hasnt affected the dicta tors need for modern weapons while fighting the constant attacks of the Sandinista guerrilla groups in the country In fact Somozas new weapons sources include Argentina Spain and most curiously Israel whose Uzi submachine gun one of the most lethal in the business is standard weapon with the Somoza National Guard Moreover it has expanded rather than been reduced into tough and loyal force of 12000 and graduating battletrained officers from its Basic Infantry Training School set up on the US Army model The lingering irony of Somozas military posture is that both the President himself and many of the senior officers of his National Guard were trained in the US Armed Forces CounterInsurgency School in the Panama Canal Zone And what they have learned is being used against the also growing and increasingly tougher Sandinista guerrillas some of whose leaders were trained in Castro Cubas guer rilla schools Given this parallel military burldup and the resilience of rich dictator who has not fled like many earlier ones to Miami to spend his millions Nicaragua will remain in limbo for some time to come As with other small Third World nations where strongmen reach the end of their era or face stern opposition there is no visible alternative for successor vi ho could lead the country to normalcy and in the case of Nicaragua into democratic process interpreting the news Energy crunch worst to come By GLENN SONIEIHILLE WASHINGTON lCPi While scrambling for measures to ease the gasoline shortage the US government now warns beleaguered consumers to expect even more serious short ages of diesel fuel and home heating oil Already feeling the pinch from diesel shortages are farmers railways some urban mass transit systems and longhaul truckers the energy department says It is preparing in controls system for diesel fuel allocations The difficulties with diesel fuel illustrate the ripple effect energy shortages are starting to have on the US economy and the potential for economic havoc in thc future Agriculture officials warn that food production will drop this year because fucl shortages have delayed spring planting in many regions This means food prices will continue to rise when crops normally coming to market should be cheaper Higher food prices will aggravate the current iiipercent annual inflation rate The energy department has received warnings from some cities that they are having problems getting sufficient fuel to keep mass transit systems going About 40 bus lines across the country say they will have to reduce service This would put more cars on the highways and more motorists seeking scarce supplies of gasoline REDUCE SHIPMENTS Associations for railway and trucking companies have advised the energy depart ment they will havc to reduce freight hauling unless they get priority for fuel supplies Reacting to farmers problems the energy department issued an emergency order that basically requires suppliers to meet all the farmers fuel demands But supplies are so limited other transportation interests may not be able to got the same priority energy officials say Were bumping the danger point now says an official of the American Petroleum institute which represents the oil industry Supplies are down by 168 er cent from year ago to aboutll7 million arrels