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vmw Thursday Dec 1979 CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 Regional airport the examiner serwng borne ond samcoe county Puoiisned by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Boyfield Street Barrie Ontario UM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 DVERIISING 7266537 takes step ahead Its encouraging to see concrete steps being taken for the creation of Barrie regional airport An airport feasibility study released this week to Barrie general committee recommends the airport be located in ro Township about 10 miles from Barrie The site satisfies the guidelines that the airport be located within 12 miles of downtown Barrie but outside five miles of the CKVRTV studios and its antenna The site would seem to be satisfactory on two other major levels First as rural site it is least likely to pose noise problems for nearby residents Oro Reeve Howard Campbell has already voic ed support for the location as the most suitable in the township Second the site is towards Orillia which satisfies the need for regional facility Indeed Orillia council should look again to con sider their involvement in the air port Certainly if the location is ap proved that city stands to benefit Not everyone however is convic ed Don Fish Barrie airport manager says the site is not the seawt This onet mily dwelling at 95 Toronto byarrie landmaks most central one that could have been chosen Certainly his com ments deserve consideration perhaps as early as Thursday night when Barrie general committee meets with the airport advisory committee to study the matter The distance of the airport from Barrie should not be major pro blem As Barrie grows and pro viding there is proper highway con nection the location is only short drive from Barrie or even Orillia Huronia Airport serving the MidlandPenetanguishene area is similar distance from those centres and its location has worked well The airport itself is projected to cost about $2 million with govern ment funding up to 80 per cent With 5200 foot runway the airport would almost certainly be large enough for Barrie to hook into commuter service which ultimately will serve the region between Toron to and Parry Sound For years the question has been whatever happened to Barrie air port With the releaseof the air port site study that question at last is beginning to be answered treet was built about I880 tor aM Theosy Shortreed It was Victorian style house although clapboard and fake stone now cover the brick of the front section and the front veran dah has been removed Some elements of the original design are still clearly visible such as the gingerbread trim rectangular dormers and gables and tinials on some dormers Examiner Photo Information courtesy the Barrie Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee Slaughter of Cambodians may be largest on record By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst The appalling and unparalleled genocide of the Cambodian nation by Pol Pot its former Khmer Rouge Communist leader makes us wonder again if we have come very far from the barbarism of the past which fills our history books From the time he seized power in the spring of 1975 with Vietnam finally conquered by the Communists and his overthrow of the pro Westem Lhon Nol regime in Phnom Penh Pol Pot has systematically looted and broken down the edifices of his country He virtually destroyed Phnom Penh the capital city of his country by destroying every Visible vestige of modem civilization This meant the mass destruction of telephones radios typewriters book bur nings looting of drugstores food marts and the expulsion on foot of the entire citys population The deaths among the old the sick patients forcibly removed from the citys hospitals were large in themselves but only beginning for what was to come The Khmer Rouge then ordered the entire population ilito the countryside for forced labor iii the fields causing thousands more deaths among those who could not face the hard rural life Cambodians who could escape this nightmare made it to nearby Thailand there to be joined by hundreds of thousands more when Pol Pots hideous rule was ended by the Vietnamese invasion of last January we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it on original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let tors but if y0u wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to letters to the Editor Tho Ixolninor Post Office Box 370 NRIIE Ont MM LARGEST GENOCIDE The result in total has been the killing and deaths of perhaps three million of eight mil lion Cambodians with further 400000 in grim and inadequate refugee camps mainly in Thailand Today Cambodia or as the Pol Pot regime renamed the country Kampuchea is graveyard and chamel house The few outsiders permitted in by the puppet proVietnamese government report fields strewn with the bones and skulls of those forced on to the fields five years ago The country is virtually destitute of any kind of modern transport other than the mili tary vehicles operated by the estimated 200000 Vietnamese troops inside the country and their Kampuchean allies The efforts at mass aid by Western agencies like the Red Cross are hampered not only by the refusal of the present regime to let them enter but by the fact there is no way of getting food and medicines to the people Compounding this terrible human plight is the fact Pol Pots government holds on to corner of Kampuchea and the new pro Vietnamese regime accuses some of the foreign aidsuppliers of supporting his remnant army Then there are the nearly half million Kampucheans or Cambodians in the newest of South East Asias many refugee camps Where will they go Who will want to take them in mass exodus of Cambodiam into the West like the recent one of the Viet namese boat people is out of the question NO MORE HERE Western societies have reached saturation point of negative public opinion where more Asian immigrants are con cemed bible thought Lord if it be thou bid me come unto three on the water and Peter walked on the water to go to Jesus Matthew 1428 29 When we step out on faith the Lord will give us something to stand on Faith is the victory that overcomes the world Only believe BUSINESS 7266537 EDITORS ADVERTISING Craig Elson managing editor Stan Didzbals city editor SALES Bill McFarlane wire editor Aden Smith REPORTERS Wayne Hay Steve Skinner Marion Hearty Calvin Felepchuk Peter Clark CLASSIFIED Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthier Nancyfigueroa Lori Cohen Tony Panacci Richard Thomas Sue Bowen camera operator Freda Shinner THEY Flew Janice Morton 53 Heather lan MacMurchY Mary Delaney Peter Roberts Alison Merkel FEOPAlWANllRAN lo KNOW THE TO FREE THE HOSTAGES ILLw 4N Yearend st Len Sevick manager PeggY Chapell supervisor RIGHT CHIEF ILL HAVE OUR AMBASSADOR DELIVER memos£1 THE MESSAGE ALONGWITH TlIATWE SUPPWT THE WHEAT CONFIRMATION All TIIE AMERICAN EFFORTS ORDERS AND CHRISTMAS ck ll ousmess COMPOSING ROOM Published daily except Marian Gough accountant Jack Kerney foreman Sunday and Delve Mms Glenn Kwan asst foreman statutory holidays VikkiGrant Wsaum menu by carrier Connie Hart Wm wa 95 cents John Shunk Wilt Codogan Stan way YEARLYby carrier CIRCULATION BIHRWMF Bill Halkesmanager Renew BVMNL Bame Andy Haughton assmtant manager Ed meeal Doug Boni by Alva LaPlanle me SIMCOE COUNTY Lisa Warry Swan CM $3900 Elaine Burton YV°°S°°5 OF PRESSROOM MOTOR THROW Cheryl Aiken 508 AI Hanson foreman Don Near asst foreman Fred Prince Kim Pattenden GOODlE BAGS slow to materialize By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The yearend rally in the stock market one of the most dependable of all the trading patterns has been slow to materialize this year Marketwatchers place much faith in the demonstrated tendency of stock prices to move in certain ways in certain cir cumstances And nothing has been more reliable than the way that those prices as measured by the Dow Jones average of 30 leading New York Stock Exchange industrials have advanced from low point in November to peak in January Its possible that history will repeat itself this year But its starting to appear just as likely that events in the real world will have an influence over stock prices thats even geater than the undoubted strength of seasonal forces Those who put their trust in the adage Buy at Thanksgiving and sell at New Years to pay for your Christmas bills may be on the point of learning that theres an exception toevery rule At the session following the US Thanksgiving holiday of Nov 22 the DJIA closed at 81177 By the end of the first trading session of this month the average stood at 81962 net gain of less than percentage point CONSISTENCY yearend rally is defined as rise of five per cent or more in the DJIA from the low of November or December to the sub sequent high of December or anuary Out of the 34 years from 1945 to 1978 Wall Street staged rally at the end of 31 years The average increase in the DJ IA was nine per cent over the 34 years and 11 per cent in the 10 years 1969 to 1978 Even if you set an arbitrary cutoff at Dec 31 rather than the highest point on the DJIA in December or January the results of the past are still encouraging On that basis the advance has averaged 586 per cent over the past 34 years and 633 YOUR BUSINESS per cent in the latest decade Obviously the usefulness of this in formation has certain limits in actual practice In the first place an investor cant buy the average Its necessary to select specific stocks which is more difficult Second place the percentage gains on the DJIA hardly warrant buying and selling program on the part of the individual in vestor when brokerage commissions are taken into account But history does support the view that the latter part of the year is likely to be better time to buy than most other seasons BIG SPENDERS The reason has nothing to do with astrology or the phases of the moon but quite bit to do with the way that financial institutions handle their investment portfolios Insurance companies pension funds and the like whose importance in the market already great is constantly growing tend to restructure their portfolios just before the end of the year This is known as window dressing and one purpose of the restructuring is to build up big cash position at Dec 31 the date of the balance sheet that will be presented to share holders policyholders and trustees anc then to invest that cash fairly heavily in stock purchases at the beginning of the new year This year however may turn out to bl different Theres no doubt that investot confidence has been shaken by the tensr international situation and the relater pressures on North American economies Relative to Wall Street however Canadiai stocks have been holding up well That coulr be an indication that the pacesetting Nev York market will in the end hold true ti form and stage rally after all UKs Thatcher struggles with thorny EEC question By BRUCE LEVETT LONDON CP In the convoluted patois of politics you may not always win but you must never be seen to lose And so it is with Maggie $7hatcher became Britains first woman prime minister seven months ago against background rumble of concern over how she would shape up in debate against such heavyweights as Valery Giscard dEstaing of France and Hel mut Schmidt of West Germany She got her chance when she went up to the European Economic Community summit with alasbillion demand in one hand and thinly veiled threat in the other Her demand was rebuffed and her threat remained unuttered as the big boys called her bluff They made her an offer she couldnt accept and she came back emptyhanded POSES QUESTION But did she lose It depends on your philosophy The prime minister herself doesnt accept it as defeat pointing out that it was she who turned down her partners when they offered her only onethird of what she had asked In addition she forgave them and said she was willing if they were to seek com promise But all that was after the summit She had had time to cool down and assess the situ ation During the Dublin meetings she was ac cused of lecturing the French and West German leaders and other world figures like schoolmistress and treating them in the words of former prime minister James Callaghan like boys with the mental age of seven Callaghan the smooth avuncular leader of the opposition Labor party asks of his Conservative successor Could you not have gone to Dublin with some levers in your hand instead of going there and returning entirely emptyhanded DEFENDS METHODS Mrs Thatcher defends her methods of dealing with the moreexperienced EEC leaders and says she believes she is fighting an electorally papular cause and that she is making progress Anthony Wedgwood Benn from the farleft benches of Labor says she is not the Iron Maiden the Russians dubbed her but Paper Tigress and calls for her to lead Britain out of the EEC To this she replies Britain is better in the community and the community is better with Britain in it Its uncertain whether Mrs Thatchers contentions regarding continued EEC membership are as electorally popular as she believes The most recent poll in national British newspaper says that 50 per cent of the British people consider membership bad for the country 341 006 year tisement The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau of Circulation ABC Only the Canadian Press may republish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF ThtI Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Press and local news stories published in The Summer The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper Copyright registration number 703315 register at National advertising ottices 65 Queen St Toronto U64 mo 640 Cathcnrt The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages orls log out at errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space ac tually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error 00 curred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servants or other wise and there shall be no liability for non insertion of any advertisement LSEWHE lN CANADA beyond the amount paid for such advertisement The Publisher reserves the right to edit revise classify or reject an adver Big Mac Turner lead CCo Liberal leadership race By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Former Liberal health minister Monique Begin is obviously speaking for good many of her colleagues when she says that MPs feel cutoff from the forthcoming leadership race They are being left on the sidelines watching the battle of the boardrooms Although neither man has announced his candidacy former finance ministers John Turner and Donald Macdonald seem to have the field pretty well to themselves as the party begins the long process of selecting successor to Pierre Trudeau There may be many others in the running but you would never know it from the conversations being heard around Ottawa The talk is all about Iumer and MaDonald Will majority of the 3000 Liberal delegates who select new leader next March be willing to forgive Mr Turner for walking away from the finance portfolio in times of economic hardshi Will they remember those critical news etters he wrote later Will Macdonald be rewarded for his faithful service his dignified departure Or will he seem bit too abraisive generally less at tractive than the handsome Mr Turner Who can best maintain party unity Who can win the next election The questions go on and on always about the same two men OTHERSTRAIL All the other names which we alluded to earlier are mentioned only in relation to the delegates they could deliver to either Turner or Macdonald The question is not whether Jean Chretien could win but whether he could deliver his delegates to Macdonald Or how many delegates could Marc Lalonde con trol Will JeanLuc Pepin have any influence on the Quebec caucus Its an entirely new experience for the elected Liberals who in all prqvious lead ership conventions were the featured per formers Only once in its history has the Liberal party gone outside caucus to select leader that was in 1919 when Mackenzie King was recruited and even then events were largely controlled by the elected representatives The Conservatives went outside caucus on three occasions to select leaders Arthur Meighen in 1941 George Drew in 1948 and Robert Stanfield in 1967 but again there were always serious caucus candidates and intense caucus involvement There has been no other campaign in which the two clearcut favorites were plotting their strategies from two Toronto law offices while most caucus members were sitting silently on the sidelines At least twofifths of the caucus have never even seen these two guys says Monique Begin Theyve never heard their voices Turner resigned from the cabinet in 1975 and left Ottawa year later Macdonald resigned in 1977 DIRECT APPEALS As Ms Begin points out both men are capable of launching milliondollar cam paigns from their Toronto bases and re cruiting grassroot supporters without working through normal caucus channels Both Turner and Macdonald know there are no MP5 with the exception of Trudeau who can deliver any large bloc of votes to them says one veteran MP Anyway they both have pretty good idea who their friends are in caucus As result its more important for them to concentrate their efforts outside caucus particularly on influential people in riding associations As Ms Begin points out this type of ac tivity can give rise to the formation of cliques and factions And with Turner and Mac donald appearing to have the field to themselves it isnt easy for other candidates to come in with any degree of credibility But if its any consolation to frustrated caucus members at this stage of the 1968 Liberal leadership race all the betting was on Paul Martin and Paul Hellyer Pierre Trudeau was rank outsider Soviet atomic blast puzzler of the century By Nicholas Moore LONDON Reuter It promises to remain the nuclear puzzle of the century The evidence publicly available in the West now suggests that in late 1957 or early 1958 nuclear accident occurred in the Soviet Union contaminating an area in the Ural Mountains close to the city of Kyshtym Western experts however cannot agree on just what might have happened or how bad it was and the Soviets are not saying anything The clues come from variety of sources including heavily censored file made pub lic in 1977 by the US Central Intelligence Agency We crossed strange uninhabited and untamed area the report quotes an in formant who travelled in the Kyshtym region in 1961 Highway signs along the way warned drivers not to stop for the next 20 to 30 kilometres because of radiation The land was empty There were no villages no towns no people no cultivated land only the chimneys of destroyed houses remained Zhores Medvedev dissident Soviet scientist who now is in exile in Britain in 1976 made the story into headline news He said hundreds of people were killed in nuclear disaster near Kyshtym which con taminated an area of hundreds of square kilometres Medvedev has just published book in support of his contention distinguished biologist he heard the rumors about nuclear accident when he was working in the Soviet Union If he reasoned radioactivity had indeed contaminated large area fellow Soviet scientists would have lost no time in carrying out studies there scounizo LITERATURE So he scoured Soviet scientific literature to find series of articles which did seem to have used large contaminated zone for research Medvedev found that research was done on two lakes and on land area con taminated with high levels of strontium 90 and cesium 137 From the biological species dealt with in the Soviet writings he placed the area east of Kyshtym and measured it in hundreds of square kilometres Having conclfied that contamination did occur Medvedev went on to interpret his evidence and to suggest how it might have happened His theory is that waste from early Soviet military plutonium reactors near Kyshtym was buried or leaked into the ground plutonium chain reaction occurred and in some sort of explosion or volcanolike eruption highly radioactive material was vaporized and dispersed by westerly winds At this point the controversy really begins between biologist Medvedev and Western nuclear physicists Sir John Hill chairman of the British Atomic Energy Authority says Maivedevs book was an excellent piece of scientific investigation to prove that something very unpleasant happened in the Urals about 20 years ago But he adds that it cannot be recom mended as reliable analysis of what did in fact take place Sir John writing in Britains New Scientist says the evidence was too sparse to speculate confidently but the disaster could have involved not buried waste but an accident at primitive nuclear plant itself Ontario second fiddle to oilrich Alberta By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Just where heading As the province takes pasting on the oil price situation and generally has to swallow hard on the national scene compared to its former position of preeminence it is logical to wonderjust what is the future Particularly is Ontario now in per manent decline within the provinces of Canazx gradually to have less and less im portance To realist there is one fact that is now clear That Ontario never again will attain the dominant political position it held in the Englishspeaking section of Canada in its firstcentury The combination of growing economic muscle parallel political muscle in the other provinces ensures this Alberta now of course has reached powerful maturity Saskatchewan is coming on fast British Columbia is increasingly potent and the Atlantic provinces to be on the verge of key breakthrou they already have litical maturity It is co ition in which no one province should dominate at least for long GROWING EQUAL Today Alberta does appear to be moving into that position and there arhould not be so at least for long One of these facts is that Canada is now getting to be an equal country across its Ineadth is Ontario In the count first ce dominate ntury Ontario DID But aside from the fact that it was centrally located and thus had some natural geogra hic advantages this was principally an arti icial domination Artificial in that it was the basic national licy at least since the late 19th century to ild this province as the industrial arid commercial centre through tariffs and other artificial means of steering growth But this is now being corrected by nature through its allocation of resources They are an equalizer that is developing right across the country And in the new nation that Is emerging Ontario is going to continue to be strong and leader But leader not THE leader on more prosaic felled Ferta is already making mistake which should emure that it doesnt have long rei at the pinnacle Out of its largesse the moment host of wealth with which it is somewhat perplexed at the moment on just how to hoard or spend it has started to lend to the other provinces process which any shrewd humanist will tell you is eventually bound to be fatal Uni