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Saturday Dec 1979 CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 the examiner serving borne and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baylield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Making the best of winter season No matter where you lie within Barries city limits you should be close to attractive recreation winter facilities The city this year will operate eight outdoor rinks for your hockey and skating pleasure Scattered throughout the city many of the rinks will stay open late in the even ing where overhead lighting is available This offers us great chance to get outdoors without having to leave the municipality Just think of it chance to don the old skates maybe dig the hockey stick out of the basement and head for the rink family in tow Sir an adult weep with the boys from Midland who were Strapped over the PA System at school as reported in The Ex aminer of Dec It also said that the prin cipal did the strapping to curb the mounting discipline problems The boys were suspected of theft Adults are getting fancy today using PA system where everyone in the school can hear the smack of the strap or listen for the hint of whimper wonder why the Town Square wasnt used complete with wooden stocks or even the old tar and feather game might have been fun This is the year of the child Adults have been heard to say Whats wrong with our teenagers of today Ill tell you whats wrong Adults have forgotten that young people are human need love respect and that they have feelings remember the first time got the strap at school It was very private between the teacher and me congratulate all teenagers and young peo ple for having the courage to put up with the ignorant society that surrounds them today say to them have patience for as you grow physically larger you will gain respect would like to say to all young people in letters to the editor It sounds particularly appealing as weekend activity after spen ding countless hours running from store to store getting your Christmas shopping completed Theres no point in hiding from it or hibernating to escape it because the winter season is here December is still pleasant winter month Temperatures dont dip to the low pook points they reach in January or February and winds dont seem as vicious Weve also got bit of time off what with the holiday season com ing shortly Its no better time to get outdoors and enjoy some of the city facilities your taxes are paying for After all thats why theyre there Simcoe County who feel left out and stepped on by society that at least there is one adult who understands the problem and is not afraid to speak out teenager today may well be leading our country tomorrow Yours truly Ken Keenan Barrie Sir wish to comment on an article which ap peared in your paper short time ago Ex aminer Nov 30 This was in connection with the Mississauga affair which was an upset to many people both young and old who were uprooted from their homes The case am commenting on was the lady who had come to Barrie with her husband for refuge and she died while watching TV The doctors report on the death was she had hardening of the arteries and death was not an unnatural occurrence as she was an old woman have heard many seniors commenting on this remark It must have hurt the husband and family and in this day and age 69 is not an old woman Even old lady would have sounded better Thank you 75 year old woman Heres Canadian version of Christmas Carol By LEONARD NOBLE would like to see Canadian version of Charles Dickens famous tale Christmas Carol based on our political problems of to day Peter Lougheed would of course be the equivalent of Scrooge what with his desire to raise the price of Western oil with callous disregard for the rest of Canada Joe Clark liken to Bob Crachett in that Peter Lougheed has Joe Clark pretty well under his thumb and at times Clark gives me the impression that he is working for Lougheed As for Pierre Trudeau he could play two roles The Ghost of Christmas Past for one and since he is lame duck leader of the opposition the role of Tiny Tim would be appropriate The Ghost of Christmas Present who as you recall as being rather round jolly ghost would just suit Premier William Davis The filial Spirit of events that have not yet occurred would be played by Rene Leve que MODERN DIALOGUE With that cat in mind and with some modern day diaologue you might hear something like this as Peter Lougheed speaks to Joe Clark Well Clark what have you been doing in Ottawa since you were elected Prime Minister Ill tell you what absolutely nothing If your work continues this way not only will stop sending you lump of coal to keep warm with bill Ill take away your mat ches Ill improve youll see Sir replies Clark Im trying hard And suppose with tomorrow being Christmas youll be taking the day off Oh yes Sir but Ill work doubly hard on Boxing Day How about the picture of Clark coming home with Trudeau on his shoulders we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but it you wish pen name will be used lnclude your telephone number and address as we have to verily 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 The Examiner Post Office Box 370 MRRIE Ont MM CAVEAT EMPTOR remember Cratclietl and Tiny Tim He would gently and lovingly put Trudeau on the ground when they got home and in an aside to his wife Maureen he would say The poor little lame duck hardly feel him on my back any more The visit of Marleys ghost which by the way would be played by Jack Horner would indicate to Lougheed what mess Horner made of things by crossing the floor of the House to become Grit rather than Tory which eventually led to his being unsealed Horner would then tell him that Pierre Trudeau Bill Davis and Rene Leveque are going to visit him in the night SHOW THE WAY Trudeau would show Lougheed what Canada was like under his system of spend spend spend and then spend some more until the country was virtually bankrupt Bill Davis would then appear tell few jokes and then show him the mass unemploy ment in Ontario and would explain that III creasing the price of oil would cause Canadianwide depression And of course Rene Leveque would sombcrly poiril to the possible future break up of Canada Of course when Lougheed awakes in the morning we notice that he is changed man Upon Clark attending at his office on the say after Christmas Lougheed is waiting for im Look he says to Clark cant explain to you what happened to me last night but my eyes were really opened Yes says Joe expectantly So give me back my lump of coal and dont pester me any more about keeping the price of oil down found out last night that its more of dog cat dog world than ever realized and dont plan on being eaten bible thought For will restore health unto thee and will heal thee of thy wounds saith the Lord because they called thee an Outcast saying This Zion whom no man seeketh after Jeremiah 3017 Could this be the word that you have been waiting for Read it not only as word of prophecy for Israel but take it by faith as an answer to your particular need Attend the services in your church and pray for Gods servmt The Lord will bless you forit BUSINESS 7266537 EDIIORS ADVERIISING Craig Elson managing editor Stan DIOLDBIISCIIY editor SALES Bill McFarlane wire editor Aden Smith REPORTERS Wayne Hay Steve Skinner Marion Hearty Calvin Felepchuk Peter Clark CLASSIFIED Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Tony Panacci Richard Thomas Sue Bowen camera operator Freda Shinner Terry Field anice Morton Cathy Heather Mary Delaney Peter Roberts Alison Merkel Len Sevick manager Pquy Chapell supervisor ousmess COMPOSING ROOM Published daily extent Marian Gough accountant Jack Kernev foreman Sunday and Delva Mills gain Kwan asst foreman syamiory and Vikki Grant Saunders rr Connie Hart Lorne Wass WEsxtsvcgy John Shunk will Cadogan VEAR er cam CIRCULATION gillnRTxr Lug Bill Halkes manager Ron Gull YMNL Andy Haughton assistant manager syleyreaL Doug Bonn Ed In 549 40 Alva LaPtenle Jame We SIMCOE COUNTY Lisa Warry izzannnzgir 53900 33 g9° message MOTOR THROW OFF ELY en AI Hanson foreman 5° Don Neanasst loreman ELSEWHERE IN CANADA Fred Prince moo year Kim Pattenden YOU WANTED KENNEDY You BEGGED FoR KENNEDY You oomco DRAFT KENNEDY GROUP go KENNEDYé RUNNING 50 NOW WHATS THE MATTER Future of sugar trade promises bitter taste By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The price that Canadian consumers pay for sugar will rise by cent pound next month because the Canadian government wants to make another petty and selfdefeating gesture of hostility toward South Africa Ottawa has confirmed last summers decision to withdraw South Africas Com monwealth preference which has been in effect since 1932 despite some recent in dications that it was thinking of reversing that decision The change taking effect Jan 25 will add about four per cent to the cost of sugar and smaller percentage to the typical familys food budget Sugar is by far the biggest item in trade between the two countries Canada imports about onequarter of its raw sugar from South Africa The annual shipments of 250 million tons represent onequarter of that countrys sugar exports and oneeighth of its production Japan is South Africas largest customer for sugar taking 600 million tons year The United States is third importing 150 million tons OUTLOOK CLOUDY The future of the sugar trade between Canada and South Africa is uncertain now Its unlikely that South African exporters will absorb the extra cost which would be the only way of avoiding retail price increase here But if resistance to the price increase should appear on the Canadian market the producers would probably divert to other markets part of the sugar that would otherwise have been shipped to Canada South African sugar is recognized as high quality commodity for which there is steady demand even at times of surplus production Australia is another major source of Canadas sugar imports and it will continue to enjoy the Commonwealth preference The Canadian governments trade measure is the latest in long series of niggling moves against South Africa including requirement that visitors from that country obtain visas and the closing of Canadian consulates and trade offices in major cities of the republic INTERPRETINQ 1le NEWS YOUR BUSINESS Such moves were initiated under the Trudeau government which enthusiastically joined the international movement largely dominated by Communist and Third World countries to ostracize South Africa and Zimbabwe Rhodesia That policy has continued under the prime ministership of Joe Clark who at news conference earlier this year appeared to confuse South Africa with Zimbabwe Rhodesia Its ironic that Canada should continue to make such hostile gestures to its own economic disadvantage at time when South Africa is moving more rapidly than ever to dismantle its apartheid legislation But the Canadian hostility is all the more incongruous in the context of the political and military realities of Southern Africa where the two most industrially advanced countries South Africa and Zimbabwe Rhodesia are under constant attack along their borders from Angola on the west to Mozambique on the east UNDER ATTACK Those attacks taking heavy toll in death and injuries among their young men are coming from the neighboring dictatorships that are armed and supported openly by Moscow or Peking If Joe Clark and his colleagues should ever find the time to reexamine the Trudeau foreign policies that persist sustained no doubt by bureaucrats of the Trudeau era they would do well to scrap the negative stance toward trade with South Africa and Zimbabwe Rhodesia useful and positive policy would be to provide education assistance scholarships practical business training and capital to enable the black citizens of those countries to take fuller advantage of the business up porlunities that are at last being opened up to them Break in Iran impasse UNITED NATIONS CP The statement by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling the UN Security Council resolution on Iran step forward in dicates that the fourday council debate mayhave created break in the month long Impasse over the American hostages The Iranian leader had initially dismissed the meeting of the UN body as havmg been dictated by the US and refused to allow Iranian diplomats to take part He ignored the resolution passed unanimously Tuesday With Irans constitutional referendum outof the way and his own supreme posrtion confirmed by the electorate the ayatollah may be looking to end the siege at the US Embassy that has lasted more than month The diplomats at the UN worked long hours to come up with resolution that demanded the release of the hostages but did not condemn Iran The resolution also appeared to accept that Iran has legitimate grievances against the deposed shawh The debate in the council chamber made it clear that world opinion sided against the occupation of the embassy but the speakers said Iranian anger over the deeds of the ousted shah should be in vestigated EXERCISE RESTRAINT The resolution called on both sides to exercise the utmost restraint and asked them to settle the remaining issues between them to their mutual satisfac tron Donald McHenry US ambassador to the UN said there are no complaints that Iran nught have that cannot be heard in 4r AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI step forward an appropriate forum And Senator Edward Kennedys recent outburst against the shah which drew heavy fire from the Carter ad ministration may also have been helpful in smoothing things over in Tehran by showing that Americans are not rattling their sabres in defence of the shah but are genuinely angry over the taking of the hostages tisement The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau of circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news staries In this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Apence FrancePros and local news stories published in The Examiner The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper Copyright registration number 2033 register National advertising otlices 65 Queen St Toronto nu I710 640 Cathcart The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arts ing out ol errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space so tually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servants or other wise and there shall be no liability for non insertion ot any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement The Publisher reserves the right to edit revise classily or reiect on cover Iran crisis indicator of perils that lie ahead By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst The Iran crisis is serious enough as an indicator of the even more tumultuous road ahead which we face But the Middle Eastern oilproducing nation to watch most closely is SaudiArabia not only because 40 per cent of the worlds oil comes from this single Islamic state but be cause it is now worried about its stability Before the Iranian Revolution both Iran and SaudiArabia under very toughminded monarchies were considered bedrock nations which would never fall to revolutionary change Iran changed in part because the monarch was not indigenous and because the upper level trappings of Shah Pahlevi had little or no real roots in Iranian society This is not true of the Saudi monarchy based as it is on the royal family of the Hejaz in one of the most ancient parts of historic Arabia Moreover the Saudi royal family is spread generously through out the government ap paratus both at the ministerial and senior department level And where the former Shah of Iran paid religious lipservice in country which is the home of Islams largest dissident sect the Saudi royal family perpetuates conservative Islam Hence monarchy and the Islamic faith are one in SaudiArabia which also contains Mecca the most holy city of Islam SAUDIS NEW FEAR But it is the unheard of mass attack on the Grand Mosque the most sacred place for Moslems which is causing Saudis to shudder and ourselves too at an event so far away and so obscure Who penetrated the very tough Saudi security screen of military and secret police no one outside the country seems to know Were they dissident Moslems from Within what everyone has taken to be an orderly Saudi society Were they militant members of the ShiIte sect of Islam in Iran Wllh its centre in Qum and the Ayatollah Khomeini as their newimam orpope Or were they type of commando unit with mixed political and religious intent from South Yemen the only Marxist state in the Arab world It is situated in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula Along with the antiCom munist North Yemen it is part of the historic British Aden Protectorate The South Yemen bulges with technicians and military aides from the USSR East Germany and Cuba Its military which at tacked North Yemen nine months ago is tolally supplied with Communistbloc weapons from Soviet MiG19 jets to Czech automatic hand weapons After that attack which the Arab League managed to stop the Carter Administration sent about half billion dollars in weapons mainly FSE jets and M60 tanks to North Yemen to bolster its armed forces against the Marxist South Yemenis But now the US State Department has found that North Yemeni President Ali Saleh is also accepting military aircraft from Moscow Is be planning some power struggle in the Arabian Peninsula which means against the nownervous Saudis armed as he now is with both American and Russian equipment RUSSIANS INVOLVED And does he have Russian backing to make play for the worlds largest source of oil Was the Great Mosque attack in fact carried out by an Arabian state which Washington thought was friend of the West The uncertainty in all this is terrifying Churchill soninlaw new Rhodesian governor LONDON AP Lord Soames soninlaw of the late Sir Winston Churchill was selected by the British government today to be the governor of Zimbabwe Rhodesia under peace plan worked out by Britain and warring parties in the breakaway colony in southern Africa He is to arrive in Salisbury next week The 59yearold bank excrufi soldier and former cabinet nnnisirr laces the most daunting task of any British envoy since the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma guided India to independence following the Second World War He will have full legislative and executive power plus responsibility for maintaining ceasefire in the guerrilla war that has taken 20000 lives in the last seven years If he succeeds in holding blacks and whites together during the transition period before majorityrule elections an independent Zimbabwe free of international sanctions will emerge next spring Holder of two knighthoods from the Queen in addition to being made life peer in 1978 entitling him to seat in the House of Lords Soames comes to the job with British establishment pedigree Arthur Christopher Soames born Oct 12 1920 was educated at Eton He went on to Royal Iilitar College atSandliurst and during the in at the battle at Alaniein in Egypt llll he was liaison officer to the French Foreign Legion winning the Croix de Guerre He was Conservative party member of Parliament from 1950 until helost his seat in 1966 During those years his jobs included agriculture minister secretary of state for war and in 195255 parliamentary private secretary to the prime minister who was then Churchill He married the youngest of Churchills three daughters Mary in 1947 They have three sons and two daughters fetid12 PCs should take stock after latest Gallup poll By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service In the wake of that latest Gallup poll the Progressive Conservative government must be undertaking great deal of silent soul searching as it ponders its plunging popularity If not it should be Even allowing for reasonable margin of error the poll taken last month brought dev astating news to the sixmonthold govern ment of Prime Minister Joe Clark At time when the new Tory regime should be still celebrating honeymoon period with the Canadian people Dr Gallup discovered that if an election were held now only mere 28 per cent of the electorate would vote for the Conservatives And at time when most people around Ottawa were assuming that the Liberals were drifting aimlessly with highly unpopular leader it was discovered that 47 per cent of the electorate would vote Grit On the face of it we can conclude that just six months after Pierre Trudeau and his Liberals were unceremoniously turfed from office by an angry electorate they now would be invited back probably to form majority government Perhaps as some Tories suggest this particular poll is an aberration But as some Liberals suggest perhaps not Although the Grits took startling jump in the November poll they have been con sistently leading the Tories in the monthly polls since the election When new government enjoying the inherent lustre and momentum that goes with political change cannot increase its popularity in the first few months of its mandate its time to do some soulsearching And when poll indicates that the lacklustre Liberals discredited by the electorate just six months earlier now have soared to historic heights on the popularity charts its time for the conquerors to do some very serious soulsearchin MANY ANSWERS What has gone wrong Well Ottawa is fairly insular city and dont know how the new Clark government is being perceived and evaluated by an in terested electorate in say Corner Brook Bathurst Windsor Lelhbridge Penticton and Campbell River But around Ottawa think its fair to say that the government is perceived to be still thrashing about in confusion unable to get firm grip on office There is even lack of exciting new per sonalities to take your mind off the mundane issues that seem to envelop Parliament This has nothing to do with the business of governing but Pierre Trudeau still draws bigger crowds on downtown Ottawa streets than the entire Clark cabinet And if this does nothing else it fuels that persistent feeling that the country hasnt darted off in an ex citing new direclion it has merely taken recess In assessing the current apparent un populanly of the ruling Conservatives some of the blame obviously goes beyond the party There is no doubt that the economic situation inherited by the Tories was far from rosy but still this issue has not been well handled by the new government For months prior to the election Tory economic spokesmen were telling us that Canadas economy was worse than the Liberals made out but still they promised $2 billion worth of tax cuts and other financial goodies Now in power these same spokesmen are forced to go back on their promises claiming that they had no idea that the economy was in such bad shape There have been other flipflips as well such as that ridiculous embassy row which indicated at the very least that some of Clarks people simply didnt know what they were talking about So far the government has not undertaken fresh new initiatives to excite the electorate And Clark perhaps to his credit has not tried to propel his personality to the forefront But in any event there has been little diversion from the relentless drone of dreary news over the last few months as we hear about higher Oil prices higher taxes higher interest rates hig er deficits and lower expectations And even some of the bad news has been com pounded by ministerial contradictions Even the governments more proud ac complishments such as freedom of in formation legislation and parliamentary re form have generally fallen below ex pectations And anyway neither subject is likely to elicit chants of excitement As for the promised fresh face on federalism with the new emphasis on federalprovincial co operation we havent yet been treated to any outburst of mutual affection in this area Some might even view the prime minister as mere referee in some of the bouts Perhaps the Clark government can gain consolation from the fact that its downers are occurring now and there is plenty of time to regain the initiative before the Liberals will want another election But the polls certainly convey clear message and it were member of the Clark goyeninient would want to begin charting some clearly defined direction some new positive attitudes and finally stop talking like group of reac tionaries about the horrible Grit govern ment That ceased to be an issue on May 22