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14 the oxamlner Tuesday Jan 1978 OTTAWA iPi Bilingualism controversy peppered 77 The switch in emphasis to the young and away from the middleaged public servant fired the continuing bilingualism controversy last year while the government also prepared new legislative package on language for presentation in the New Year At the centre was former diplomat Max Yalden commis sioner of official languages who dropped his usual diplomatic terminology in saying the government was stupid in its intention to eliminate language training for public servants by 1983 dont think the government will be able to do it Yalden said in an interview on thejob market DOOR MAY BE SlllT bonuses by 193 servants SHIFTS RESPONSIBILITY Quebecs language country DEFENDS LAW in their mother tongue Quebec nounced troduce legislative AMEND lilAiES AT in the air crises federation since conscription Meanwhile the federal government has promised to iii package minorities this sessmn of Parliament world lost many Although he agrees some reductions are necessary he said the schools will not be producing enough bilingual graduates to fill public service requirements think there will always be requirement in Ottawa for language instmction at government expense Robert Andras treasury board president disagrees say ing he is confident new wave of bilingual youth will soon be The unilingual Andras cautions persons planning career in the public service to become bilingual on their own time or the door will be shut to many jobs Bilingualism will be requirement for any real progress in the public service Andras told news conference this fall when he announced the gradual elimination of the governmentfunded training and the elimination of bilingual ironically it was aldens predecessor the flamboyant Keith Spicer who had helped persuade the government to shift its language training priorities to students from public Il Spicers advice came amid rumblings from public ser vants and other EnglishCanadians that they were being dis criminated against in favor of FrenchCanadians and that French was being shoved down their unilingual throats The new emphasis on teaching second language to chil dren instead of middleaged public servants shifs the re sponsibility for training to the provinces Andras says the provinces must accept this responsibility to strengthen national unity However he was not prepared to guarantee the provinces additional money for education Woven into the problems of secondlanguage training has been that of mothertongue education for minority groups legislation enrolment in English schools sent shock waves across the this year limiting The legislation prevents Frenchuuebecers and new ar rivals to the province from attending English schools Yalden considers the legislation discriminatory federal government agrees but has refused to take any action such as challenging the constitutionality of the law The Quebec has defended its law by pointing out that French Canadians in other provinces often have no access to schools The complaint has been supported by the Federation des lrancophones Hors Quebec which emerged during 1977 as powerful voice for the one million FrenchCanadians outSIde The federation says French will disappear from the nine Englishspeaking provinces unless Frenchlanguage schools are established Following federalprovincial meeting this summer at St Andrews the nine Englishspeaking premiers issued joint communique promising to upgrade their services to FrenchCanadians Major initiatives have still to be an largc numbers of on official language Among the proposed changes announced in the throne speech this fall were amendmets to the Official Languages Act an increase in powers of Yaldens office greater ac cessibility to court trials in French and increased financial support to language minority groups The federal government attempted to defuse another ex plosive language issue this yearthe socalled bilingualism report by special commission into the expansion of French in Quebec airspace recommended limited increases and was endorsed by the government The report served as compromise between FrenchTana dians and Englishspeaking pilots and air traffic controllers who had been at loggerheads last year in what Prime Minis ter Trudeau described as the gravest crisis to hit ion notables in 77 By NORMA GREENAWAY The Canadian Press Bing Crosby and Elvis Pres ley singers generation anart had something in common They began as brash young singers and ended as iii stitutions Crosby who monopolized the top of the music charts in the 19305 and 1940s and Presley the Mississippi boy who reached the top in the 193is with new style of popular music ended their careers by sharing the spotlight in 1977 They were among the promi nent world personalities who died during the year Crosbys renditions of Silent Night and White Christmas still top the holiday bestseller charts The blueeyed native of Ta coma Wash known as Der Bingle Old Dad and The tiroar ner made more than 70 films and won an Oscar in 1944 for his portrayal of priest in Going My Way Crosby 73 died of heart at tack Oct14 in Madrid while playing golf Two months earlier Presley the rock roller with the gy rating hips died of heart at tack in his whitecolumned mansion in Memphis Tenn CAMERAle AlTlOlS When the king of shake rattle and roll appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in the late 19305 fears about his seemingly overt sexuality were so great that television cameras shot him only from the waist up He once asked his mother Momma you think Im vulgah on the stage Elvis said his mother replied Youre not vulgah but youre puttin too much into your singin Keep that up you won live to be 30 Presley died Aug16 at the age of 42 Other topnotch entertainers died inl977 éAmong them was Groucho Marx 86 the cigarsmoking co median who made two gener tions laugh with his leering in and active eyebrows in Angeles Aug 19 Actress Joan Crawford 69 who won an Academy Award in 1915 for her role in Mildred Pierce died in New York May in and Zero Mostel 62 stage and film actor died in Phila delphia Sept Errol Garner 33 jazz pianist and composer Ethel Waters no black singer and actress London Ontborn bandleader iuy Lombardo 73 opera singer Maria Callas 33 and symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski 93 also died during the year YPRIOI LEADER DIES In the world of politics AlLllr bishop Makarios the president of Cyprus who led his country to independence from Britain iii 1960 died Aug at the age of It The ireek Orthodox prclate escaped four assassination at tempts during his long political career lm careful but the tVll deed may happen the thicklybearded archbishop once told supporter concerned about his safety Oher notable political figures who died during the year The Earl of Avon Anthony Eden 79 British prime minis for from 1933 to 1937 and pre Viously foreign secretary in Al vediston England Jan 14 Anthony Crosland 38 British foreign secretary in London Feb 19 Sir Alexander Bustamante first prime minister of Jay maica in Kingston Jamaica on Augit the 15th anniversary of his countrys independence from Britain President Fakhruddin Ali Ah med 71 lndias chief of state in New Delhi Fcbt Kurt von Schuschnigg 79 proannexation chancellor of Austria near lnnsbruck Nov1t1 Ludwig Erhard 80 former chancellorof West Germany in Bonn May3 Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Robert Lowell died in New York Septtz at the age of 60 and British playwright Sir ler rence ltattigan 68 died Nov1ti in Hamilton Bermuda Sen Edward Kennedy DMass and his wife Joan visit the home of liinese peasant family at the Machiao Peoples ouiniune in suburb of Shanghai ln background left is For Britains Royal Family year of pomp splendor LONDON tPt For the Royal Family after glit tering year of jubilee pomp and splendor 1978 may go down in history as time of celebrated betrothal and quiet divorce Although there was no apparl ent royal romance on the hori zon for Prince harlcs as 1977 drew to close the young polo playing bachelor heir to the throne has said 21o would be good age to marry The man in line to become King harles it reaches that age late in 1978 On the other hand the mar riage of Princess Margaret the Queens sister and Lord Snow down her societyiphofographci husband has been on the rocks for some time Palace watchers say that had 1977 not been time of happy jubilee celebration divorcc might already have taken place For Britain 1977 opened Ill bleak prospect lhc pound was Kennedy visits peasant home arolinc Kennedy daughter of the late President John Kennedy An unidentified Iiinesc girl is at background right Sen Kennedy is on 15day visit to hiiia AP Pliotoi at low ebb Inflation was soaring and unemployment was high Workers after two years of pay rest aint were fracr tious BOOSIEDMONALE Britons badly needed some thing to cheer about and the royal Jubilee iiiaikiiig the 23th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Queen lllitltlll ll gave it to them The Queen 111 most cases with Prince Philip at her side travelled thc lciigth itlltl Ireland fastestgrowing nation in common market DtBLIN iltcutcri The few gypsies who still beg 111 lllt streets of Dublin give the 1111 pression theyre maintaining dyiiigtraditioii For life is changing in the fastest growing nation of the Euroixran Economic oiiiiiiii nity and lorwardhmking mood is apparent among its million people its economy is expected to equal or surpass lilltttllLS diir ing the ltttitts giving lrisliiiicii hope that they will at last after mo years achieve tcoiitiiillc llt dependence from England Their economy is expanding by six per cent year com pared with Britains onehalf to one tl cciit liiiiifiituriiiu this year is growing cvcii lzistcr at 10 per cent and exports have increased by 2o per cent in vol nine The republic iiow exports an Impressive 41 per cent of its gross national product In twodecadcs the lrish have transformed backward itflll cultural society ino well equtppcd industrial one with uptodate investment in growth industries MOOIIlSllANiEI There is selfconfidence and purpose in the capitals crowded streets where the girls dress with chic that would pass muster in Paris When was at school we were taught that lrclaiid was small poor country recalled government official Now read that we have the largest zinc mine in Europe Most noticeable is the passing of the old style pooriiiouth backward looking Iiiy lllll man of the depressed years who carried his inferiority coiii plcx likc badge But the most exciting bcii climnrk of the changing scent is the return of thc Irish to the land from hich l11lllttll ttc driven by povcrty lilllllllt tlltl rapacioiis English landlords The population has Iltll above three iiiillioii and paiidiiig hi the ltllt cciitiir litfore lltt giiiit potato faiiiiiics ll was lltttlt itiiiii scwumillioii Ireland lost ptoplc ill the ltlt of Robot year in lltt curl limos but many of iiiiiiiilaiid lilllttllt Mitfooo llll iri ic turning lttltllthliSlLlllllil For this icasoii the republic must create at least Jitttoo iicw pilis year until titttti Based on ll record llltt lotto ll will make competent clloi lltlll of those working Ill lllitll utacturiiig industries are iii jobs that tlltl iiot csist to years Etgo Since lotto more than ioo for cigii firms liavc coinc to lri land In the last five years alone the republic has touiid more than 13ooo iicw Jobs in forciin owned manufacturing and attractcd new capital in tSllttt11lltilttllltltibl 3bilioii ty ltttti only Otlt totkcr 111 scvcii will be on farm com pared with iieiil ii third Ill littitt There is however it siditothcpicture Although factory wages iiow equal Britains overall Irish iviiig standards still lag behind dark and social services are poor Worst of all uiiciiiployiiiiiit at It pcr cent is the highest ill the tomiiion Markct The recent decision by it ltutch iiiiiltiiiiitioiial firm to close down it lciciiki lllitlllllitt tiiiingpliiiitiit llllltlllll1tl cost 11oo pilis was ii setback especially as it followed labor troulilcs tltlAll It IIl lilSl ltiit govtriiiiicnt itiktsllltll lllll tlic lcrciiki libor ltllll llt wcrc not lltt1ltllll that only 1of litlfllttllltlll tttlllplllllt l1itllitl llltiltlllitllltil11kts iii the last fic years bcttcr iicord than most industrial itittttltti lltllll ltulihii lllll Itlt tciitioiis lltlillltl INit littlccoiiii try witlizi colonial past The foreign ministry lo tillttl 111 ll1 elcgiiiit townhouse once lived 111 by llltllllitl ot tliitiiiiniicsslircwiiigtoiiiih Primc Minister liltk Lynch has told friends llt plans to press for 111 official priiiic min 1ltt ltltltlltt This aftci he arrived home one tlllllL to find rclativcsol it man arrested that day sitting in llt lltllL roomcomplainingtohis wife The attitude of ordinary ptoplt iii the ltpllltllt to Brit ish ruled Northern Ireland was summcd up by one llllllll ioui iialist as ncartotal apathy ltubliiicrs are more worried by tistiigcriiiic rate Nevertheless truc and ltlllll independence from tritiiiii would be great ciiiotioiial prize for the Irish Royal skier shows how Dutch rown Princess Beatrix who is spending winter vacation with her family at the Austrian ski resort at Lech breadth of the iiitcd Kingdom including visit to the strife torn province of llstcr All Britain was bedeckid with flags Neighborhoods iiiiitHl with block parties Over the year the Queen and Prince Philip travelled iiciirly ooooo miles throughout the toiniiioiiwialth and Hit people at llttlllt stayed glued to their televisioiiscts She opened Pailiaiiiciit ill it litWil appearing for the first time in public with her spur kliiig tiara offset by pair of half fraiiicspectaclcs liincc builds and Prince Andrew who stole tlic show from his elder brother offici atcd at the algaiy Stiiiiipedc and back home it was all lltIlll ixigciicws tlllilIlilill HY litl The highlight of lllltlltt year titllltlllllllltllt111111ltti oi royal splendor iiot scin llltt the oroiiiition thc ltoyal Fain ily ptlllftlttl to St ltll£1ll1 odriil for it tlitiiiksgiiiiil tl ltt lhc two iiiilc route was of iltttltlfL lllllll11ll When they ltllllllttl to Buck iiigliiini Palace crowd isti lltiflttl it about too ooo tiuchttt dowii llic lill ciowdiiiil iltt railing littlltlt lltt tttl ltt lltlltl iirl iliiiiitiiii 1mm illt tgitccti we tiiit lic tlltt11 As illt arduous ItiT wound down tlic Qtitcii win lttillllilllL ippcdi lllttl 1lttl IllJi11 iii lllt llt Ilitllllt but it ltlltllil ttooliiiictioii ill looilii At ago 1l she llittl pit iii Ill straight 12 lioiii shifts llltttl through Jit foriiiiil liiiicliioio and itltllltil In that iiiic ltt lllitlttl coiiiiiiiiiioiitin ltttlllt planted foiii iiiiiiioiiiii trtcs illltl ltlltlttlttl one tllt lul Iltttltll tttitl ttllttttl 111111 lIstiiiiiitcs are that slin shook ittftttl1iiiils ttii Itl1tlll llt ltl through four pitttu of Llltits As the year ended lllt poiiiid had begun tocliiiili back oith sca oil prospects giiic promise of it rcpivciiatcd cionoiiii at Then on llllltt iiiic govt birth to Itll tl ll11 point fifth Ill lllt ii iiit tliroiic There was ltltllllllt fowl and drawn about the tttlt£ittl ltfl gia1itiiiiotliiiis slic visited lltl first grandson 111 St Mary Hospital laddiiigtoii shows few of her moves for the benefit of photographers during picture session AP Photo isfor SPORTS Every Monday you can read the results from weekend activities in our expanded sports section An in depth look at what hap pened in Simcoe county and coverage of world wide sports events supplied by our Canadian Press wire service gives you everything you want to know and how it happened blow by blow Our sports department is at your disposal too If you want coverage of any sporting event iust call wed be glad to help you and sports hall of fame The Examiner Sports Hall of Fame feature is one of the many contests you can enjoy every day in our newspaper Guess the sports star and you could win free pizza courtesy of Mr 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