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amount paid for such advertisement 7266537 7266539 7232414 7266537 5° PM 00 year The Publisher reserves the right to edit revise classify or reiect an adver Kim Pattenden ims eucv 7266537 Mass transit way of future With gasoline headed towards $2 gallon the need for improving and extending mass transit systems is becoming increasingly clear The 18 cent gallon gasoline tax is void for now But that wont pre vent gasoline and oil prices from seeking world price levels in the future Thats bound to happen no matter who wins the February federal election In the future commuters will look more and more to mass transit as an alternative to the private automobile It may be less conve nient but its an affordable and energy efficient means of transpor tation Fortunately most of our cities alrcady have mass transit systems as well as intercity transit The challenge is to expand what we have now to meet future needs Developing transit technology and new routes is part of that future nccd But theres opportunity right now to improve our mass transit capability We wonder for instance why bet ter use is not made of the rail line connecting Barrie and Toronto What about the hundreds of Toronto commuters living here They must be seriously wondering about the cost of car commuting but rail ser viceislimited Why dont we have regular com muter rail runs to Toronto from an extended GO train service There would be GO train ridership in Bar rie right now and even more in the future Barrie too should be taking hard look at its mass transit At pre sent the city has three new buses on order The suggestion however is that Barrie Transit needs more buses more often and along more routes to be truly attractive The city with help from the pro vince can do service by advancing as rapidly as possible the mass tran sit systems that will be needed for the future Consumerism will change in the decade to come OTTAWA tPi The 19705 may become the good old days for consumers in the 19805 as they face skyrocketing energy costs the implacablc jaws of inflation and an intense reappraisal of the quality of contemporary Canadian life thrc organizations such as the 150000 strong onsumers Association of Canada oncc pressed for better safety standards and lowcr prices on wider selection of products thcy will soon start pushing for less variety with thc same high standards to cut costs lhc climbing energy costs and inflation ratcs which plagued consumers during the 1970s arc ticrc to stay and it is time to adapt to thc cffccts they have on production and the cost to consumers Consumerism in the 705 was with capital but consumerism lit the 805 will be with small says Yvonne Miles presidcnt of tthJtyearold association This mcans consumerism wont be so much popular movement of people demanding morc but one composed of thoughtful shoppcrs sccking information about the best buys on thc markct Were going to get away from this throwaway society because it is becoming apparent to us that our resources really are dwindling Mrs Milcs said People will want to know that the products or services they biiy will be more durable OB SOLESCENCEOBSOLETE Planncd obsolcsccncc was on its deathbed at the beginning of the decade during which most Wcstcrn economies began to stumblc In the 19805 it will be buried and forgotten Industry in the near future probably will producc goods that are more attuned to con scrvcr socict that places premium on rational highquality lifestyles which dont soak up increasingly scarce resources If it bccomcs reality the new society ca attribute its birth to the l105t of problems and rcvclations that have shaken Canadians who oncc took thc good lifc for granted Aside from the current 74ltpercent unemployment figure and the 93percent inflation rate some of the woes on the con sumers grievance list include High energy costs barrel of imported oil in 1970 cost less than $10 Now the same barrel costs about $23 Gasoline once cost about 60 cents an imperial gallon Now it is about $125 gallon outside of Alberta Higher interest rates In 1970 personal loans and mortgages carried ninepercent in terest rates while rates for the thennovel credit cards ranged around 11 per cent By the eve of 1980 loan and mortgage interest rates had jumped to 15 per cent while credit cards cost their owners about 20 LIST DISTURBING Some of the other problems brought to light during the 19705 especially those associated with such simple pleasures as eating and drinking are enough to cause industrialage nightmares Cancercausing nitrosamines were found in beer and number of popular alcoholic beverages supermarkets adulterated their hamburger with pork giant pop bottles exploded exotic but toxic substances such as polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls were found in feed grains and the pheasants that ate them and even lowly fish could not be trusted because of abnormally high mercury concentrations But the consumer protection scene has generally improved thanks to numerous regulations and pieces of legislation in troduced after the consumer and corporate affairs department was created in 1969 John Turner and his eight Liberal suc cessors in the portfolio created new standards for product safety advertising and number of other areas where consumers had once felt vulnerable and exploited Despite charges that he does not measure up as the new governments Mr Consumer Allan Lawrence contends that consumer protection will be tightened in the 19805 Former Russian president makes surprising return MOSCOW tlicutcri Formcr Russian prcsidcnt Nikolai Podgorny ousted in clear disgrace jnst ovci two years ago has made surprising rcturn to theKremlin sccnc as an apparcntly rcspcctcd elderstatesman The 70yearold Ukrainian who formed part of the countrys thrccman leadership from 1005 until 1977 was prominently on hand for cclcbiutions of the 62nd anniversary of the Bolshcvik Revolution It clearly indicated that Podgorny who during tlic lutc 19605 and 19705 often carried out important diplomatic missions abroad had madc his pcace with Kremlin chief Leonid lirczhncv after some bitterness 21 years ago Wth hc as unccrcmonionst removed from thc Communist partys ruling politbuto on May 24 1071 thcrc was little doubt in Moscow that hc lxud committcd scrious political of fcncc refusing to agrcc to collectivc decision of his collcnguco 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 ters but if you wish pen name will be used include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Becouse 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 HM 4T6 Two months later Podgorny officially retiring due to age was stripped of his presidential post at session of the Supreme Soviet with no word of thanks for his performance in the job for over decade and was replaced by Brezhnev REFUSE DEMOTION It seemed certain at the time that he had refused to step down voluntarily to become first vicepresident ceding the top state post to the party leader when the new constitution came into force in October of the same year His dramatic departure was reminiscent of the 1964 ouster of Nikita Khrushchev as premier and party chief and many Russians predicted he would soon be written out of the historical record When he replaced President Anastas Mikoyan in December 1965 creating the troika of BrczhncvPodgornyKosygyn which lasted for 12 years the Supreme Soviet paid tribute to his predecessor and elected him to its honorary presidium REMOVAL ABRLPT But when he was removed it was certainly the most significant personnel change in the Kremlins top power echelons of the post Khrushchev era Despite his disgrace he appeared in the summer of 1978 at session of the Supreme Soviet But when the parliamentary body was dissolved and new elections were called he was not among listed candidates and seemed likely to drop from sight completely Under Stalin ousted officials were frequently executed or sent to labor camps and under Khrushchev they were consigned to distant and lowly posts like former premier and foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov who became ambassador to Mongolia Khrushchev himself was officially ignored after his ouster and when he died in 1971 He was buried among secondary figures in Moscow cemetery instead of in the more fitting Kremlin wall Annual inflation rate hits 12 per cent figure By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The news that Canadas annual inflation rate had hit 12 per cent in November was al most lost in the uproar over the Clark govemments defeat on its budget Yet the problem of inflation is the central one Its at the bottom of the noisy political war On the one hand are the Liberal and socialist candyfloss economics more and more giveaways tax cuts to favored groups even bigger deficits in the budget 0n the other hand are the Conscrvatives muddled policies the highly inflationary excise tax on gasoline and tax exemption on mortgage interest combined with refreshingly realistic plans to reverse the growth of the deficit that they inherited from the Trudeau government and to encourage savers to invest in Canadian enterprise And on both sides theres bad case of myopia failure to recognize how seriously inflation is hurting millions of Ca nadians when consumer prices rise full percentage point in one month as they did in November or 94 per cent in the latest 12 months N0 SACRIFICE Politicians and federal public servants are c05in insulated against inflation by their in dexed incomes which go up automatically gith every increase in the consumer price in ex To curb inflation would require sacrifice They are not only exempt from personal sac rifice but they have shown that they are unwilling even to take the risk of some slight sacrifice of political popularity in dealing with inflation As the 19805 begins then the outlook is for higher and higher rates of inflation We will go on collectively paying our selves increases of 10 per cent or more each year with little or no increase in produc tivity and the government will go on in creasing thc money supply at an even faster rate YOUR BUSINESS And if those who demand big wage in creases are asked to justify them which of course they are never asked to do any more the explanation would be that prices are up so people need more money Should you press the point that the reason that prices are up is largely because there are so many wage increases the response will be that some other group is making more than the group that is demanding the increase TIIE CYCLE How long is it possible for the inflationary cycle to continue accelerating Theres no clear answer The future of course is hidden Already in the wake of the Crosbie budget and the defeat of the Clark government our dollar has dropped sharply against the US dollar and other foreign currencies That will inflate the prices of virtually everything we import Countries such as Turkey Argentina and Brazil endure much higher rates of inflation than ours and life goes on although with freedoms restricted harshly by Canadian standards But no society can continue indefinitely debasing its currency sinking deeper into debt ignoring realities without eventually suffering some kind of upheaval an economic depression political collapse or worse Between now and the election on Feb 18 Canadians will wait almost certainly in vain for some undertaking to check the past several years downward drift of the economy and to stop the cancerous growth of inflation Emergency debate try spurned by House speaker By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Scrvicc TORONTO Speaker Jack Stokes has rebuffed an NDP attempt here to stage an emergency debate about layoffs in the auto industry The decision was technically correct and reasonable to boot yet one can wish at the same time that he did not have to rule the way he did The legislature really could use debate on the auto industry and related matters with special emphasis on the Auto Pact that brought continentwide free trade in vehicles and auto parts NDP leader Michacl Cassidy has been talking recently about an immediate crisis in the industry business that just happens to be responsible for one in six Outariojobs Cassidy raised four issues that concerned him First was the indefinite layoff of 13000 people in the industry across the province with the suggestion more are to follow Temporary layoffs involve 14000 others AUTO PARTS Second he sees record high trade deficits in our US trade totalling perhaps $3 billion by years end We have surplus in vehicle assembly sales of $1 billion but that is overbalanccd by $4 billion deficit in auto parts sales Third is what Cassidy calls creeping unease that Ontario will not receive fair share of new investment in small cars over the next five years General Motors for example plans to spend $30 billion in the US tooling up for the new generation of cars and based on sales Canada should receive $3 billion worth of investments But GM has promised only $2 billion CHRYSLER TOO Fourth and somewhat ironically Cassidy FROM THE LEGISLATURE complains the Ontario government has opted out of direct negotiations with Chrysler Canada over its request for financial asSistancc The NDP want to hail the company out with taxpayers money Still it is an issue that needs airing and might have received it with fulitscale emergency debate in the House The government which doesnt see crisis Situation yet had valid point when they claimed the NDP could have raised the matter more forcefully at committee meetings GOVERNMENT TOO The kind of giveandtake that can occur at committee is often far more useful than the formal kind of debate that tends to take place in the House itself Still even Industry and Tourism minister Larry Grossman concedes current trends in auto trade are worrisome with some fear present imbalances will become permanant He has set up kind of inhouse monitoring of where the Auto Pact is taking us and is also involved in regular talks with various people connected to the industry But Ontarios clout is limited in what is ssentially federal matter The real need is to bring the auto business and resulting problems to public attention and the best way to do that is through political debate tsement Nonconfidence motion simply got out of hand By STEWART MacLEOD Ottwa Bureau Thomson News Service The final few hours preceding the defeat of Joe Clarks government were unlike any pre vious buildup to confidence crisis in Parliament It was certainly far cry from the 1963 vote that brought down the Die fenbaker government That 1963 vote is difficult to forget it was so inevitable so deliberate so intense The Diefenbaker government was in state of disintegration the Liberal opposition was to the last individual absolutely dedicated to the prospect of an election The Tory MPs des rately wanted to avoid the defeat and sai so There were no phoney smiles The behind the scenes negotiations with the powerbalancing Social Credit MP5 were intense It was so easy to follow so predictable teetering government disunited tired and brittle was making lastgasp effort to hold on to power dislodge it You knew where ev eryone stood as you watched the drama unfold toward its climax TV SIIOW But the defeat of the Clark government had none of this stark simplicity It was sort of fluffy television production with the huge parliamentary cast in apparent confusion gushing out contradictory statements while always blaming the enemy for an election they claimed unconvincingly they welcomed You couldnt get grip on anything It seemed that the MP5 had become studio prisoners of an event that had simply got out ofhand Privately they all appeared to have the view that somehow the nonconfidence motion wouldnt carry that an election would be averted But as veteran Tory Ged Baldwin put it dont have any idea how this can happen God hope we can get out of this mess said another Tory MP who few minutes later was telling listeners he could hardly wait for the campaign The Grits can accept the full respon sibility for this election said Finance Minister John Crosbie They played politics and we called their bluff said Marcel Prudhomme Liberal MP He thought the Canadian people would take out their wrath on the Tories Heward Grafftey Quebec Tory was shouting that the Liberals were contributing to the separatist cause by forcing this election HAPPY FACES Television cameras were everywhere around the Commons entrance and one by one MP5 paraded in front of them to offer their conflicting views There were enormous efforts to appear happy But deep down most werent happy What do you mean by lameduck leader asked John Munroe when someone asked him about Pierre Trudeaus leadership Some lame duck he replied trying to convey the impression he could hardly wait to campaign beside his leader Has anyone talked to the Creditiste in the last hour asked one Tory Dont think so another Tory replied Damn That aside he smiled for the benefit of cameras and cheerfully predicted that his party if forced into an election would win comfortable majority Ive never been so confused said veteran reporter havent the faintest idea how the public will react to this not the faintest idea handful of MP5 staring cn confusion agreed Thats what it was like that night in Parliament no one seemed to know what was happening But the television show in blazing color had to go on The cast had to be up for this one Then came the vote The government was defeated The TV lights flicked off and MP5 were left alone to ponder midwinter campaign An MP who shall remain nameless but who had been bouncing in front of the TV cameras like fight promoter now was sipping coffee in corner dont think can run again hesaid Disease of alcoholism may be number killer By ALEX MANJURIS Use of alcohol in one form or another is almost must in our society and sets the standard for lot of our attitudes and behaviour There ae not very many people who do not take drink That first drink can set into motion the makings of potential alcoholic When you take into consideration that alcoholism is camouflaged by many other related illnesses it could turn out to be the number one killer in this day and age The alcoholic the happy drunk the loaded bum the social drinker or whatever title you want to hang on him is not really given much of an incentive to stop drinking He is socially acceptable he is only having good time and not hurting anyone there is no stigma attached to drinking Our laws are such that he cannot be ar rested unless he is unable to give his name and address or is going to harm himself or others so the only thing left is to ensure that he gets home safely DRINKING DRIVERS Most of the complaints received by our police forces are domestic in nature and 80 per cent of these are alcoholrelated As far as traffic accidents are concerned 50 per cent of them are caused by drinking drivers The professional people who come in con tact with alcoholics are like Pontius Pilot they wash their hand of the whole affair and turn him loose to selfdestruct We can all sympathize with the alcoholic and agree that he suffers an illness but he is not the only one who suffers By TOM TIEDE NEW YORK While much of the worlds attention hs been focused on the welter of outrageous events in Iran these past weeks increasingly concerned United Nations of ficials have also been looking anxiously across that nations border They say Iraq may be the next to detonate in the area And detonate is the appropriate word If Western observers here are at all correct Iraq is spending tremendous amountsof time and treasure to build an atomic bomb No one believes the state is ready for testing right now But not even Iraq itself denies it has nuclear potential One British delegate thinks Iraqi scientists could put warhead together in as little as 12 to 18 mon ths That he warns would mean trouble is only beginning in the Middle East Moreover the trouble could take any direction Western authorities describe Moslem Iraq as one of the most paranoid societies in the world It might use the bomb against Zionists but it also has grudges against capitalists Communists Arab royalists and most of its neighbors The neighbors include Iran to be sure And here is where the immediate worry lies Iraq and Iran are ancient adversaries and the 700milc border they share has long been rife with hitandrun fighting War bet ween the oilrich domains has been con tinusouly predicted throughout the latter 19008 Now that Iraqis may be gearing up for big strike If they are and if they do the conse quences could be woeful Diplomats doubt the war would stop at the Persian Gulf TAKE NOTE What about his family and his loved ones Their mental and physical wellbcing is in jeopardy Where do they go to look for help so they can cope with the situation SOURCE OF HELP AlAnon can help and does It is group which is set up to help the alcoholics family cope with the situations created by alcoholism It suggests steps to be taken by rcns other than the alcoholic if positive pro gram of recovery is to be undertaken If your life is bound up with an alcoholics and you would like to overcome some of your own dcspairs and frustrations contact Al Anon at 7286581 The Barrie area and Simcoe County have very high rate of alcoholism This area also has very high incidence of divorce great number of single parent families and welfare recipients more than the normal number of cases of heart disease cancer liver and stomach disorders Could it be that the underlying cause is alcoholism Are they related Iraq believed close to having nuclear bomb Wherever it stopped UN authorities believe war between Iraq and Iran would likely begin in the town of Iuwaita outside of Baghdad Thats where the Iraqi nuclear facility is located Iraqi envoys say its small installation Israeli intelligence sources describe it in larger terms The plant was set up in the late 19605 with the cooperation of the Soviet Union The Russians provided small research reactor two megawatts and Iraqi nuclear power was born The Israelis believe the only thing that keeps Iraq from bomb now is the absence of source of sufficient fuel Earlier this year it appeared as if that source would be France The French decid ed sometime ago to sell Iraq two more reac tors and 70 kilograms of weaponsgrade uranium But the deal was delayed when Israel complained that 70 kilos of enriched uranium could be used to make 10 to 15 ex plosives The Israelis should know by the way They are reportedly the first nation to use small reactors also from France to build an Abomb stockpile They fuel their system with stolen uranium apparently and may now have the worlds sixth largest arsenal behind the US USSR Britain China and France Given their own experience then the Israelis are particularly sensitive about other nuclear activity in the region Last April Israeli agents allegedly blew up the French plant preparing uranium for ship ment to Baghdad That bit of vandalism was supposed to have cippled Iraqs bomb schedule But France isnt the only atomic supply house in the world MM