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A2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 30, 1981

Stranded trio
may be saved yet

VANCOUVER (CP) —
John Harrison and his two
daughters may see a friend
by Sunday, but they still
don't know about the offer by
Arizona yachtsman Law-
rence Friend to rescue the
three, stranded for more
than three weeks by a tiny
atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

Harrison, 89, a former
Vancouver industrial desig-

ner, and his daughters, boat.

Micki, 20, and Kristen, 13,
failed to make their last
scheduled radio call, so
they're still unaware of
Friend’s offer to take them to
Honolulu.

“There's no reason to wor-
ry," Chief Petty Officer Bob
Baeten of the U.S. Coast
Guard in Honolulu said Tues-

day.

“It could be that the tide
was too high for them to
reach the small boat with the
radio aboard. We expect to
talk to them Wednesday.’

Polish
talks

continued from page’ Al
economic refor.” The state-
run television said the in-
creases “will necessarily
mean a rise in retail prices.”

Earlier this week, the gov-
ernment said meat and but-
ter rations will be cut.

Price increases and food
shortages in the summer of
1980 led to nationwide
strikes that launched Soli-
darity as the first union in
the Soviet bloc free of Com-
munist party control. The
union was suspended when
Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski
imposed martial law Dec. 13,
ending 16 months of reforms.

Reports quoting a member
of Walesa’s family said the
unien chief decided on Christ-
mas Day to-begin talks with
the military regime. ‘The
negotiations were to have
begun Monday, but it could
not be learned whether they
were under way.

Soviets
lash U.S.

continued from page Al
nounced he is banning sales
of high technology, pipeline
parts and other equipment to
the Soviet Union, as well as
delaying U.S.-Soviet grain
talks and commercial airline
flights. Reagan said the mea-
sures are designed to punish
the Soviet Union for what he
called direct responsibility
for the martial law ‘imposed
on Poland on Deg. 13.

In Tokyo, Japanese offi-
cials were reported meeting

to decide on a policy toward:

the sanctions. Japan, a po-
tential supplier of pipeline
parts, might profit by seiling
to the Soviets what they can-
not buy from the United
States.

The United Sates imposed
a grain embargo and other
sanctions against the Soviets
after they invaded Afghan-
istan two years ago.

Most western observers
say the moves had little ef-
fect except to hurt U.S.
farmers.

a»

The Harrisons were
stranded on the atoll Palm-
yra, located 1,600 kilometres
southeast of Honolulu, after s
typhoon demasted their 13.7-
metre trimaran.

Since Dec. 7, they've sur-
vived on a diet of fish,
coconuts and supplies from
Ray Landrum, the self-
described caretaker of the is-
land, who lives on a small

When neither the Cana-
dian nor U.S. governments
could settle on responsibility
or payment of costs for a
rescue, Friend, of Scottsdale,
Ariz., volunteered his ser-
vices and his 10-metre sloop
Friendly.

Friend set out from Christ-
mas Island, 804 kilometres

south of Palmyra, and
planned a four-day layover at
Fanning Island before setting
out for the final 241 kilo-
metres to Palmyra atoll, said
Baeten.

“If he doesn't run into any
bad weather, they can prob-
ably expect him at Palmyra
on Sunday.”

Meanwhile, the Canadian
consulate in San Francisco
said Tuesday the Canadian
external affairs department
is ‘considering chartering a
flight to the atoll to rescue
the Harrisons.

Vice-consul Harold Hick-
man said the operation would
cost $15,000 and involve
flying out materials needed
to repair the Harrison's tri-
maran.

Nerve gas bomb.
base for Britain?

WASHINGTON (REUT-
ER) — Some Pentagon offi-

,,Clals are backing a proposal

to base a new generation of
U.S. nerve gas bombs in
Britain, but the Defence De-
partment says no formal rec-
ommendation has been put
forward.

An army official said the
Pentagon's Defence Science
Board wants the new bomb
deployed in Britain partly
because of concern that West.
Germany would resist de-
ployment of any new chem-
ical weapons on its soil.

“The (board's) preferred
way would be to base them
on Great Britain,” Amoretta
Hoeber, assistant deputy
army secretary, told Reuters
news agency during an inter-
view on U.S. nerve gas re-
search plans.

The Pentagon issued’ a
statement Tuesday denying
the board has recommended
deployment of the bombs in
Britain.

However, a Pentagon of-
ficial who asked not to be id-
entified said the statement
was not necessarily a denial
of Hoeber's remarks and
noted that the text of a
board’s report on chemical
warfare was and

(" 7

TRUDEAU, CLARK, LEVESQUE
Political leaders face challenges

By Roger Smith
OTTAWA (CP) — The face
of Canadian. politics may
change dramatically in 1982
as three longti leaders,

Demands that more be
done to.help Canada’s stum-
bling economy — plagued by
dwindling production, rising

and

leader looking secure is the
NDP's Ed Broadbent but
even he had a scare during
1981. While celegsict toa

facing challenges from friend
and foe, could fade or be
pushed from the scene,

Pierre Trudeau,
Liberal government has been
battered by bad economic
news and tumbling opinion
polls, is expected to retire,
although he has concealed his
intentions with mischievous
hints he might stay on to
fight yet another federal
election.

Another election ‘need not
be held until early 1985 but
one could come much sooner,
depending partly on when
the prime minister steps
down.

If Trudeau retires within
the next few months, as even
some Liberals hope, there is
an outside chance his suc-
cessor would send Canadians
to the polls before the end of
1982 or early in 1983.

Meanwhile, former prime
minister Joe Clark appears to
be steadily losing ground ina
determined but desperate
fight to stifle caucus critics
leading a guerrilla campaign
to pry his grip from the Pro-
gressive Conservative lead-
ership.

In Quebec, Premier Rene
Levesque, under fire from
Parti becois radicals, is

whose _

high Toflation — will continye
to beset the Liberal gov-
ernment.

Clark's future is less clear.

PIERRE TRUDEAU

Having survived a leadership
test at a party convention
last February, he appeared
to win another reprieve in
December when the party's
next general meeting — and
thus next leadership review
— was set for early 1983.
But days later, as whispers
of dissension continued, Gary
Gurbin, a low-profile but
11 d bench

could not be released.

In London, Defence Sec-
retary John Nott said he does
not think the United States
will seek to deploy nerve gas
bombs in Britain.

The Opposition Labor
party and anti-war campaig-
ners pledged strong resis-
tance to any move to deploy
the chemical bombs, which
kill in minutes.

“We are appalled at the
suggestion that the Ameri-
cans wish to stockpile deadly
nerve gas in Britain,” said
Denzil Davies, the Labor
party’s defence spokesman.

He said the party will de-
mand an assurance in Par-
liament from the Conserva-
tive government that it will
reject any such U.S. request.

$1% million taken
in Quebec robbery

TROIS-RIVIERES, QUE.
(CP) — Three gunmen es-
caped with $1,125,000 in cash
Tuesday after forcing an em-
ployee of an armored car firm
to open the company vault
while they held his wife hos-
tage in a neighboring town.

Police in this city of 60,000
located 110 kilometres north-
west of Montreal described
the heist as a “real pro-
fessional job.”

“We believe the gang,
_probably five in all, included
a local criminal who acted as
their spotter, and spent a
month planning the rob-
bery,” said Inspector Nor-
mand Rouette.

The three bandits, wearing
masks and uniforms similar
to those of armored car
guards, met Laurier Joly, as-
sistant manager of Alliance
Blinde Ltd.,-as he left his
house early Tuesday.

They forced him back in-
side, ordering him to wake
his wife, Raymonde, and
have: her get dressed. She
was led into one of two vans

Post-Holiday
¢. , Super Savings.
;, Many Special Xmas Items . . .

waiting outside, while her
husband sat in his own car
with one of the gunmen.

The vehicles set off in a
convoy, with the van contain-
ing Mrs. Joly.

Record
rush on.
adultery

ATHENS (CP) — A record
number of 140 charges of
adultery wore tabled in
Athens courts recently by
persons anxious to have their
spouse charged before adul-
tery ceases to be a criminal

offence in-Greece. The new.

Socialist g an-

threatening to resign unless
the party endorses his prop-
osed route to independence.

LEADERSHIP VITAL

The leadership questions
are vital. Not only is the
party chief a key factor at the
polls, but if the party is in
power he or she puts a stamp
on policies that bear directly
on everything from .govern-
ment help for the poor to the
price of gasoline.

Perhaps more important,
political leaders have a hand
in the future of the country
itself.”

For example, if Trudeau
and Levesque — whose long
rivalry became even more in-
tense during the constitution
debate — were to retire,
relations between Quebec
and‘the rest of the country
might be markedly altered.

Leadership aside, storm
signals ahead belie the sur-
face calm that settled over
Canadian politics in the wake
of settlements to the bitterly
divisive arguments over en-
ergy and a new constitution.

Amid plans for champagne
parties and a visit from the
Queen to celebrate patriation
of the new constitution, prob-
ably in February, the great-
est threat of political turmioil
in 1982 is Quebec's continu-
ing opposition to what will be
the country's foremost law.

On the federal-provincial
scene, the main conflict will
centre on federal plans to re-
duce equalization payments
to the poorest provinces and
to slow increases in funds
paid to all provinces for pro-
grams such as post-second-
ary education.

The haggling over the im-
portant but dull business of
“fiscal arrangements”
started at two meetings dur-
ing the last two months be-
tween Finance Minister Al-

nounced the abolishment of a
law which carries up to one
year's imprisonment for adul-
tery. It will take two or three
months to pass through par-
liament.

lan hen and his pro-
vincial counterparts.

It likely will accelerate at
the first ministers’ confer-
ence on the economy, ten-
tatively planned Feb. 2-3 in
Ottawa.

resigned from caucus be-
cause he wanted the leader-
ship question cleared up
sooner. Some Toronto Tories
formed a national committee
to push for an earlier leader-
ship vote.

The campaign against
Clark has been characterized

party Van-
couver endorsed a leader-
ship, 87 per cent opposed his
support for the Liberal gov-
ernment’s original constitu-

JOECLARK

tional package.

., Levesque's current trou-
bles started at a PQ con-
vention in December where
delegates approved several
resolutions too radical for the

4 } ,
Mu Widely’ eriticized for mas-
sive changes to the tax sys-
tem in“his Nov.712 budget,
MacEachen waited until the
final hour of the final Com-
mons sitting of 1981 to try to
diffuse the political heat by
announcing a retreat on 17
items.

RENE LEVESQUE

That ‘wasn't enough to
spare him opposition wrath.
The New Democrats, while
praising MacEachen's flex-
ibility, want him to ease the

premier, luding one to
drop the party plank of econ-
omic association with the rest
of Canada and push solely for
independence.

The 59-year-old PQ chief
Lr ene to quit unless

the

fight against inflation and
i the The

Tories want the minister's
resignation.

Amidst concern over the
economy, the media spotlight
will continue to flicker on

dership, both because of

Peas decisfons in ia

its importance and because of
the pol-

special
While his stature as share
founder is certain to win him
his way, Levesque has alien-
ated both radicals and some
moderates who feel he has

by
calls to reporters, divulging
details of bickering at private
caucus meetings. Clark sup-
porters, with no public op-
ponents to swing at, argue a
minority within the party is
continuing a gutless, faceless
get-Clark offensive.

But Gurbin's surprise de-
fection ‘suggests the view of
discontent runs deeper than
Clark is willing to admit and
promises that questioning of
Clark's position will continue
in the new year.

Critics fear that despite
polls putting the Tories
ahead of the Liberals for the
time being, Clark cannot win
another election.

WOULD HURT PARTY

But the 42-year-old Al-
bertan, who won praise for
his fight against the govern-
ment’s original constituional
proposals, argues an early
leadership convention would
divide and knock the party
“right off the ice.”

“I firmly believe I'm the
best person the party could
find,” he said in an interview
before his latest setback.

The only federal party

hed the party's demo-
cratic ways.

The two main issues on the
federal political scene during
1981 were energy and the
constitution.

The year-long battle over
energy prices, plaugued by
angry rhetoric, production
cutbacks. and uncertainty
hanging over huge projects
in the West, ended in Sep-
tember with a deal between
Ottawa and Alberta. That
cleared the way for similar
deals with Saskatchewan and
British Columbia.

The constitution fight —
one of the hardest fought,
politically intriguing battles
in Canadian history — will
finally end early in the new
year when Britain gives final
approval and the Queen
comes to Canada for patri-
ation ceremonies.

When Parliament resumes
Jan. 25 after a five-week
Christmas break, the favorite
opposition target is certain to
be Finance Minister Allan
MacEachen, unless a widely
rumored cabinet shuffle puts
him in another spot before
then.

INTEREST RATES

Russian

EDMONTON (CP) — Fore-
casting interest rates for
1982 is a game of chance, and
anyone's guess, say financial
experts.

They say the interest-rate
roller coaster that zoomed
and plunged through this
year may continue its erratic
course. -

“It’s like Russian roulette,”
says Derek Warren, chair-
man of the Alberta Trust
Companies Association. “De-
positors and lenders are say-
ing, ‘no’ to short-term rates.
They're waiting to see if
rates will change.”

Warren refuses to make a
prediction, except to say he
expects rates to stay three or
four percentage points above
inflation. If inflation runs
about 13 per cent, as it has
this year, that would make
the interest rate 17 or 18 per
cent.

Bob Splane, president of
Edmonton's Canadian Com-
merical Bank, says - there
could be wide swings in ie
rates.

“If the government doesn't
react to the recession and
lets the cycle go through its
phase, I can see rates flat-
tening out at 18 or 14 per
cent,” he says.

“But the government could
become frightened, spend

roulette

money and rates could soar
to 25 per cent.”

Splane says the latter case
is less likely than the former.

Warren says the rates de-
pend on Ottawa.

INTEPRET POLICY

“You have to interpret
what Canadian government
policy is likely to be,” he
says. “The answer is: Who
knows?”

William Mulholland, chair-
man and president of the
Bank of Montreal, predicts a
high of about 21 per cent for
next year, with even higher
levels the following year.

Ed Kardosh, a branch
manager for Credit Foncier
Trust, would not be sur-
prised by rates as high as last
summer's 23 per cent.

Don Lyons, president of
North-West Trust Co., says
interest rates could go to 20
per cent by next summer.

Sid Owen, an Edmonton-
based vice-president of Tor-
onto Dominion Bank, says
much depends on the re-
action of the Reagan admin-
istration in the U.S.

If Washington continues
its tough policies, rates could
sink to around 15 per cent, he
says. If the U.S. decides to
stimulate the economy, rates
could rise back to 23 per cent
or higher.

ities that surround it.

Trudeau, 62, prime minis-

Never one to reveal; se-
cre{s, he has given few clues
about when he plans to quit
or what he plans to do, other
than move to a recently
renovated mansion in Mon-
treal, travel and spend more
time with his three sons —
Justin, 10, Sacha, 8, and
Michel, 6.

But it’s a mug’s game to
predict when he will make his
move, unpredictability being
one of Trudeau's most pre-
dictable characteristics.

He came to Ottawa in 1965,
hoping that increased Quebec
representation in the federal
government would combat
growing nationalism in his
province. After the federalist
side won the 1980 referen-
dum on sovereignty-associ-

- ation, he promised Quebecers

a new deal in Confederation.

Yet in the end, Quebec was
odd province out’of the deal
that produced the new con-
stitution. Only time will tell
whether Trudeau's efforts
have done more to split the
country than-pull it together.

Betting on who will suc
ceed Trudeau is as risky as
guessing his departure date.

One early scenario saw
MacEachen taking over, tem-.
porarily at least, to fulfil. the
Liberal tradition of alter.
nating anglophone and fran-
cophone leaders.. But criti-
cism of his budget, even from,

Liberal colleagues, put a.

damper on his aspirations for
the top job.
‘THOUGHT FRONT

RUNNER
Justice Minister Jean
Chretien, fresh from his suc-
cess as the government's
chief ituti

ter since 1968,
tirement plans to lead the
Liberals to their 1980 elec-
tion win after Clark's brief
minority government was

With a new constitution,
his lifelong ambition, soon to
be tucked safely in his poc-
ket, Trudeau may now be
ready to go.

now ,is touted as a front-
runner.

Other likely candidates in-
clude cabinet ministers John
Roberts, Lloyd Axworthy,
Yvon Pinard, Gerald Regan
and Herb Gray; former ecab-
inet ministers Donald Mac-
donald and John Turner; and
lawyer Paul Martin, head of
Canada Steamship Lines.

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Goodbye Christmas ‘81
Hello to 1982.

—sketch by Bob Smith

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