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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-01-20, Page 5} !,r Wit a t 1,11x1' tt.your}g Pao ase of u (secondary .The rtlies;ot the'` new Salt enough, and sufficiently modification, to attractriheSe wl`iq. seem.to have sufficient',gray .:mat grasp the : finer" details :.of sport; hockey, football or even+cross skiing. Primarily the skill lies In hen x clever enough to hire „zit'Paki (heirio- sapien. of East' Asian descent) intosome dark corner . or alley -Way, well; away, froth the eyes of others and especially police officers. Successful completion of the game takes place when a team, ranging in size from two or three to six or ten, stomps, kicks, beats and thumps the Paki target. Double :points are awarded for every broken bone and ruptured organ anti the ultimate achievement ' is' to kill` the est thing? let it will' ing Powers ra�.;jii 3,000 70ud�' tri victim. Like most new fads, "Paki-busting" was first developed in the streets et lay da Parity T t atcii'ing on l'in schools across ne' 4soclal ob- n prove to be, the e Beatles. and much stronger �x orQ�l cr 'e:#i�Sen+ diseuss hot s`o they Can be`"busted'` �, for `young people to be Spee; termination is horrifying":—'' The : 150- , aa re�' P ,g Part" s>tys `JTew youngsters are"hardened :Neots" "but there are' many "who' have ' imitated �financed by the ' Se retary of State, suggests that "Paki bunatiag and ^a'cco'mpanying attitudes coild easily 'have occurred in 108 in Nazi ' Germany". The report -is corn- pietely accurate in that observation. The only,real differences are the dates and the' victims, East Asian9 rather ;'than Jews, ,The report goes on to note, that Arabs and people of East Indian origin were the most common focus of racism among those interviewed, most of whom were..in the 12 to 15 Year old age grew. I?as .Indians particularly are the target of "themost overt racism found In .:,Canada today. The situation' of. East -Ons in our society demands lea bi adult prejudice" The prejudice against Arabs,: the report suggests, stems, from "the high media profilegiven Arabs, the equation of Arabs with . international terrorism and the idea that Arabs became responsible for rising prices. by raising the price of our oil". -It is also suggested that students have adopted internationalstereotypes of East Indians as the "wretched" of the earth, unable to feed, clothe,, -or house themselves. Poverty in our society Is 'equated with laziness and sloth, This Indians and Pakistanis are seen to be lazy and slothful." The report alp o claims that students go along with the stereotype that East Indians "are not wanted anywhere". wli�i'ch' t murder. I am°i racism naive eft; the can 'mire,' thePin elve �44 h' somehow imagine thpiatip East Asian's viewpoin Their Shoes" as.itwere;, If thet�could,arr,ange It,ti}ey m*gI a visit td`'the Sudan Two weeks livli a hite in that; country^, would. gtv`e, apretty fair Indication of what 41to be hated for. reason .other than' color and place of birth. I tried it, an...,,,� lessons wall stay with me for a:Iong while. A few days on the receiving;end would quickly calm the passions of the "Paki- hurtarc '#1 )�y it th Star Yachts Ltd. at Huron Park, it crudely, is hitting.thewall. The has been forced to lay off '60 em - es and there fa speculation that the any may have to go into ership. ording to . the Exeter Times ate however, at least two of the employees remain optimistic that ant will re -open. 41in Jackson, chairman of the North ar nit of Local 1620 of the United Auto ers has indicated he is hopeful the , any will re -open. That belief was d by another ,employee Gerry rd, one of about eight employees iuri de ;at ro ice ga re In sl eye ire al s 1 in fis ors lik .pa ral kat mu or A 0 'e r in :a pa •e. a ag ing oin HERE whohaveindicated they would be willing to invest some money in the company to get it back on the tracks. • Sleaford attended a meeting last week with company officials and other em- ployees who had indicated an interest in investing. North Star president Ted Lane said last week that many of the supervisors, management,union and non-union staff were prepared to put up money but he would not say how '' ch was required. The provincial vernment's Ontario Development C . ` ' oratipn (ODC), a major secured.'' editor, has told North Star to raise , `i 1,000 within two weeks INFORMATION, BACKGROUND AND OPINION IN HU for short-term operating expenses or face receivership. Mr. Lane said he had received verbal commitments from some investors to invest one half of the required $100,000 and was trying to interest others to put up more money. ' Robert Nickerson, international representative with the United Auto Workers which represents the production ivorkers saidit appears Mr. Lane is trying to raise $50,000 from the employees. Mr. Nickerson also said he understood that if North Star could come up with the $100,000 the ODC might consider an additional $500.000 loan to the comnanv. ario Health Minister Frank Miller ted in a number of county papers eek as saying that although every al in the province has been given a - nth budget it does not mean the als which were told to close will n open. However, in a London Free story last Thursday, he is reported ve said hospitals inthe province ontinue to feel the `squeeze' of 'al restraint but they should be o provide the necessary level of e without bed or staff cutbacks. Miller made the comment in an ew following release of statistics inistry . fundir3g - for hospitals • showing about a seven percent increase for 1977 over last year. Funding is up by $123.7 million to a total of $1.87 billion. When asked if the province would order bed or staff cutbacks in addition to whatever restraint the hospitals had to impose on their own to keep within the budgets,Miller said ``not that I know of". Clinton Public Hospital administrator Doug Coventry suggests that "it might be another year before •anything hap- pens or nothing might be settled until the -next election". , A government decision to close Clinton hospital ' Was ruled illegal by the Pic na e He e will no doubt be some rather diplomatic= -back -peddling in the ath of Canada's deportation of ubans involved in a Montreal spy ion ; based around Cuba's . con - in that city. he face of some rather strong tion from the UnitedStates'over ears, Canada has maintained y relations on both diplomatic and levels with Cuba since the baker agreements in 1959. Prime er Trudeau visited Cuba'less than ago andgot along well with Fidel. 1 during meetings to solidify those , this special western hemisphere divisionalcourt of the Ontario Supreme Court. The ruling stated that the government could not close the hospitals for financial reasons. The government has appealed the court decision and although no official date has beenset it is rumored the case . could be held in February. That legal battle will .be fought on the question of whether the government has the right to close hospitals but Miller has said he will introduce legislation giving the health minister such power if the government loses. "The hospitals are being squeezed, I CANADA IN relationship has been dealt a severe blow. _ - -. The Cubans, three holding diplomatic status,a man working with their trade mission and a mathematics lecturer at McGill University, weresent packing after the RCMP discovered what External Affairs terms "an intelligence operation". The two non -diplomats were ordered deported "on reasonable grounds for believing they are likely to engage in acts detrimental to Canada". The three holding non -diplomatic status could not .be dealt withunder the immigration regulations applied to the others, so the va P 1 tie al ns e wake of prances cowardly of Palestinian murder- Abu Ilano Romano, widow of is weightlifter, Yosef Romano, oted as saying, "We have nothing - gust for ,litho sell,hlood 'fdr People who v slue justice and out the world iitimelnts, • fight thoitgh thane' of 1. [t}u, ha, frotrt.'fe Y agree*, Ilano. was, . had.-- ore g a de.area.,, as sono? onal d1 cetlthe Cuban ambassador in Ottawa was called irk- by External Affairs officials and asked to withdraw them from Canada. The action was taken following a sweep by RCMP officers who 'Searched an office at McGill Universitry and two homes in Montreal on Sunday night and early Monday morning. No further details ofthe operation were released however., Indications are that those searches were prompted by what is being called the "Rhodesia Connection". A David Bufkin was quoted recently by the Salisbury (Rhodesia) newspaper as saying he h'ad been trained at the ON The ODC will not say how much it has loaned North Star in the past. Nickerson also said though, that the ' union's position is that its members should not buy shares in the company when its major shareholders are not willing to provide the funds. North Star stopped operations on January 4 and asked its creditors to hold off their demands for payments for two weeks while it tried to raise funds required to keep operating. At the same time they told their employees they would be laid off for two weeks while the scramble for funds took place. When the workers went to get their regular pay last Thursday they found a message taped to the locked doors asking them to return on Monday for their money. Telephone and hydro services were cut off to the plant as well. Major shareholders include Joseph Jeffery, chairman of the board of London Life; Larry Agranove, a London business management consultant; Robert Fuller president of Con -Eng Contractors Ltd., of London; Peter Butler, Design Associates of London; and London lawyer William Chizmar, Mr. Jeffery said last week that 'no action' on the company Making an ap- plication for bankruptcy had been taken POINTS think that's fair to say, and have been squeezed for the past two or three years. We've never tried to say that wasn't happening," Miller said. "We're hoping though, and we believe. .and so far from the reaction of the hospitals I think we're right. ...that in fact they can continue to provide the necessary levels of care within the budgets they were given this year." "On the assumption that the hospitals can live with the budgets they were given without reducing services voluntarily on their own side, then there will be no need for us to ask for any cutbacks in service," he said. SEVEN Cuban consulate in Montreal by a man named Rodgrigues before being 'sent to Rhodesia where he turned double -agent and identified two other agents. Bufkin also said he was used by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Montreal to report on the Cubans, but Canadian officials say they have "no knowledge of any CIA in- volvement". Minister for External Affairs Don Jamieson 'said, "I''m satisfied that Canadian security was not jeopardized." Although it is Canadian government policy not to release information on such diplomatic incidents, officials admitted that carefully nurtured Canadian -Cuban LDV.FE:EK economic pe�eessure and fear of terrorist reprisal stands as. a , moral outrage against her NATO partners, her European Economic Community associates, 'all Frenchmen who truly l., believe in life, liberty and justice and the entire; free world: W' e don't want revenge, just simple Justice," Mrs. Romano, said. "What can I tell my child" who points, to the mur- dereir's;Photoin the newspaper and asks me wliyhe isn't in jail?" Perhaps;,. French .,President Valery ' + lscard- d'Estaing would ;like to answer -hat child's:questi.on, ,• solid,., was picked b i p up ^'olice' to assailants. He was travellingas a member pf an official PLO delegation. Both Israel and West Germany -had asked the Frenal to extradite Daoud to stand trial for his part in the massacre of 11' Jewish athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich.—French courts turned down the Israeli request on grounds that the crime was committed in Germany and. refused` Germany's request saying that the Germans had failed to clearly - identify Daoud'as the man they wished to;q'utstion and try:' Fre ch »Justice. Minister Olivier •Guichard said that"there,wais a country Paris after he artived in France to at7 which had the right; to request it• (ex- tend the. funeral' ot, a, Palestine:; tri•q, t on),t1 ., n t onf"tni:this right ' Yl hill a+,..+,, ,yr. Liba`ratiion' , Or anizittio ° isctivist who toots �otttl3 lh�h sy „ife was ttnfite : dowry h u known.1 s � a Y����7.,7,,�$dY.�kS'P Olivier claimed that the court which freed Daoud had no legal alternative. He told a radio interviewer there was nothing mysterious or extraordinary about Daoud's release. West Germany later said the ex- tradition accord with France, stipulated that all relevantdocuments could be provided within 20 day's but the Daoud case had been disposed of by French authorities within two days. One might suspect that the_ courts htalifr-'zed things along in the face of a threat that the contract for 200 Mirages . could be cancelled. almost ^1,000 noisy demonstrators gathered at the" French embassy' in Israel and vilified President d'Estaing with Obsbenrties and chants of "Giscard , • j. y;.:;,A , c•' ray:.,;:2. n n ',"gym? " �e p&''s Instead of imposing a percentage increase for the hospitals to use to calculate the increase in their budgets for submission for ministry approval, this year they were given exact dollar amounts for the funding they would receive. Last year an eight percent allowable increase for salaries and a 10 percent for goods and services increase was set by the ministry. The total increase in budgets wound up at 13.4 percent however. At that time Miller blamed ministry miscalculations and court battles over hospital closings for the shortfall in relations have been dealt a sharp blow regardless of whether the Rhodesian connection is ever confirmed publicly, according to the Toronto -Star: The Star also quotes an external af- fairs source as saying the severity of the diplomatic problem will depend on how the Cubans react. to the expulsion orders by Ottawa. "If they turn around and kick some of our guys out then we could really get into difficulties with them. The source said information about the espionage was handed over to external affairs by the RCMP late last week and "we had no choice about what to do once terrorist". Relatives of the Munich victims demanded that French Ambassador Jean Herly be expelled. "Let him go back to France where h� belongs, among cowards and traitors, said Anka Spitzer, widow of slain fencer Andre Spitzer. Israel's ambassador to Paris, Mor- dechai Gazit, was called home by his governthnent for '"consultations" (one of the stronger moves available in diplomatic circles and just short of severing relations). Later: a free man in Algeria, Daoud told a news conference that the PLO would "continue to improve" relations with France "to the maximum." He. s the result of claimed that his arrest was French police working "in the interests of Zionism". but there couldbe unless a new owner 'steps,in'soon with new ftinds. North Star manufactures Yachts in the $16,000 to $80,000 class and report they -have firm order for about $1.5 million, mostly in the United States. Officials would not say how much was owed to creditors however. A spokesman for the ODC inToronto admitted it was conducting negotiations with North Star but would not elaborate. These are presumably over requests for the company for further ODC loans to keep it afloat. The OD;C spent about $625,000 in constructing a building for North Star. estimated savings in the restraint program. This year hospitals have been receiving budgets earlier than in previous years which the ministry says should help in planning. If a hospital does feel its allocation is unfair, the ministry has mechanisms for checking" to see if there is any -inequality ac- cording to the Health Minister. Hospitals have received budgets for 15 months, covering the first three months of 1977 and the 1977-78 fiscal year to bring them into line with the provincial fiscal year. the RCMP provided the material". Just last month, the government expelled a military attache working at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa because of activities "incompatible with diplomatic status". The move against the Cubans may not be an isolated event, but the first step in a cleanup by the RCMP and External Affairs according to some sources. An unidentified ministry source is reported to have said that the expulsions might not necessarily be the end of the affair but refused -to expand further. The source said "the matter is still under investigation and action". Nothing will ever make amends for France's cowardice but one must' suspect that justice will be done in. the end. Israel has now been provided the opportunity to seek justice by her own means, having been abandoned by the traditional systems of legal recourse. Abu Daoud is a marked man and his days are numbered. The tense days of, wait in& now begin for the PLO terrorist. When die present uproar has settled, and is nearly forgotten,it, is very likely Abu Daoud will die at the hands of ,'unknown assailants" just as did the activist whose. funeral drew Daoud to Paris'irt the fart place. ., 1, If France lacks- the;„ courate to frac international,„lerrorism•>,,,Y` ptOven t 'ten enough tha ihili �¢f a 34,