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PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1966.

Focus On Lagos

On the eve of the opening of the | Lagos conference on the Rhodesian |

crisis yesterday, Prime Minister. Wil- son expressed hope that from it the

Commonwealth: “can emerge with ©

greater strength.” There was little in the intransigent, attitude of the spokesmen for Sierra Leone and Zam-

. ‘bia,‘in the proceedings which follow- ef; to warrant this assumption. The’ former is said to have~‘castigated”

- Britain’s refusal to use military force ~—to-end-the- crisis;~and-the-latter--to- re. “demanded” that it do so im- iediately. Apart from these erup-

ns, however, the first-day speeches

the conference were “mild in tone.” Mt. Wilson, in an hour-long explan- |

n of Britain’s position, stressed

t there is no ‘need for military

ion, that sanctions are ‘becoming

Ver more effective, and that time

d patience will bring about the de- overthrow.-of the Ian Smith re-

e. ; : £ No. doubtshe also informed the

os leaders of some of the “con- th gency planning” that is going wad, for the moment when a more cooperative government takes over in’ Rhodesia. This planning: will in- clude an immediate end to sanctions, new educational opportunities for the: African majority, and a program for gradual evolution to majority gov- ernment. : ~~ Tt is said that Mr. Wilson would riot have decided to go to Lagos at ajt, had the African atmosphere prom- ised anything like the walkout which occurred during his speech to the Un- ited Nations in New York. But Lon- don believed the atmosphere had in- deed changed to some degree. To- day’s closing sessions will determine - this point. Mr. Wilson will be able to promise a further tightening of ; ards

Britain retaining control of the situ- tion. .

. The Lagos conference is unique in Commonwealth : history, it being the first to be held outside London, with .a non-British prime minister in the

chair. For the first time the new | drive passed

Commonwealth. Secretariat’ run by Arnold Smith, a Canadian, has help- ed with conference arrangements. Canada, indeed, is playing an import- ant part in the-proceedings, and it is a responsibility which Prime Minister ‘Pearson, by. his experience and -pres- tige in the diplomatic field, is well qualified to discharge.

Invasions Of Privacy

It: was a fine touch of irony, says the Toronto s that the proviticial attorneys-general should be closeted in super-secret’ discussions in Ottawa

last-week behind panels displaying —

sophisticated and sensitive evesdrop» ping equipment. No doubt there © would be a storm of indignation from the ‘nations’ chief lawmen if such list- - ening devices were used to overhear - their.private deliberations during the ‘» Conference; but legally, it seems, there would be nothing they could do about such invasions of their privacy —just as there is nothing thousands of private citizens can do to protect thenfiselves. against electronic, snoop- ing. oe) \ It seems. that there is no law on _ our statutes which prohibits a sales- man, business rival, thrill-seeker, po ailer ‘or. a policeman from

“hugging” a private conversation. One“

is not supposed to “trespass” on pri- vate. property to plant a listening de- vice, but this is scant deterrent for an unscrupulous person. Besides, some | devices are so sensitive that it is not necessary to get inside.

It is known that police depart- ments’ have wire-tap equipment— equipment so sophisticated that, ac-

_ cording to the Ontario Police Com- mission, it doesn’t have to be attached ~~ $6 telephone wires oF sets to intercept” ene It is known also that

one

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____.sanctions, particularly as regards | consumer goods, but he will insist on _

organized crime uses such devices,-, ‘and it would be folly to suggest that- the police should be hobbled by strip- ping law enforcement of modern elec- | tronic tools. However, without clear- |

against abuses, no citizen can feel secure. |. ,

The Toronto paper makes a good point when it says that wire-tapping should be prohibited by the criminal code.. So should all other forms . of electronic ‘snooping. Exceptions should be made in the case of police who may get a formal order from a

_superior court judge satisfied that the . crime: being investigated .would re- sult at least in a penitentiary term, or. is serious because it,involves a large number of people.

should be valid for one month, and renewable only.if there is evidence “that an arrest will be made in the near future. This would: enable po- | lice to investigate bookmaking, which often bankrolls organized crime, and narcotics trafficking: But it would | prevent them from listening on in- | | definitely in the hope that something incriminating might -be overheard. Also it is suggested that as a-fur- ther safeguard to the public, there should be severe punishment to po- lice who disclose any private conver- ' sation obtained this way, except to their superiors and other authorized persons,

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Penalties should also be provided |

for citizens who surreptitiously spy- on individuals, and intercept or re- cord private conversations with any of the clever devices now being turn- ed out in profusion. Punishment should be severe where blackmail or obtaining business secrets is intended. Perhaps the lawmen took up this matter at their closed conference at Ottawa last week. How are we to know? In any case, it is maintained that they should recommend meas- ures that could control this fantastic ability to probe uninvited into our | lives, and should move to safeguard | our privacy as assiduously as they pro- | tect their own. . An intriguing dispatch from Wash- ington in yesterday’s Guardian quoted . a White House spokesman as saying that there had- been direct contact ~with Hanoi on the Vietnamese situa- tion. There was no information on ‘how the contact was made, who made it or what it was about. But it was the first announcement of any. con- tact. with the North Viet Nam gov- ernmen since President Johnson be- gan his peace“ offensive Christmas Eve. Since then the U.S. government has looked for some indication that Hanoi, in response, might be ready to |_taper off the fighting and begin talks. | Up. to last weekend, none had come. _ On the contrary, there was strong - rejection of the peace initiative by the. Communists. Hanoi, Peking and Moscow all denounced it asa fraud designed as a smoke-screen for fur-_ ther escalation of the war. The ‘its peak during last

week.

Out of allt the diplomatic exchan- ges, the principal sticking point in Viet Nam seemed to -be Hanoi’s demand that the Liberation Front be promised a voice and role not merely in the-negotiations, -but in the future; administrative control of South Viet | ‘Nam itself. Washington has reject- ed any such commitment on the-. ground that it opened the way to pos- sible Communist domination in Sai- gon before elections and thus would reward the resort to force by Hanoi | and the Viet Cong. Before any set- tlement was possible it would be ‘necessary to find some compromise between what appeared to be Hanoi’s bedrock insistence on this point and

- Washington’s flat opposition.

As of last week, such negotiations Seemed remote. What hope existed was in the possibility of an exchange of tacit arrangements to hold down the pace of the war. Even this would

view of the‘ fluid nature of the fight- ing and the difficulties of policing a tru¢e in a war with fio front lines. Conceivably it was the subject of dis- cussion. in the “direct contact” re- ported with Hanoi on Monday; but -at the time of writing*there was no indication of what this. latest’ move | ‘represents. ‘

EDITORIAL NOTE Danish archaeologists are current- ly uncovering the ruins of a church | in Brattahlid, Greenland, said to be | built under the direction of eif | Ericson’s mother about A.D. 1000. It | is thought to be the_ oldest,..Viking , Christian church found*in modern j= ' times, and is one of the few buildings | +-nenttoned-in—Viking-sagas-tirat-have oa |. been located. Mod

cut legislation, and without safeguards |

The court order, it is suggested, | \

e joufnalists the world over.

_sides, a little action

be something of an achievement, in |

will

+ _ SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME - OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson )

Stiff Price

The role of foreign correspon- dent for a \arge-circulation news- paper is the plum sought by It

of

_land's ‘‘Daily Express’’, and Er-

nest Hemingway, the Toronto ‘ . glamorous people in exotic ci- ties and enjoying expepse-ac- count living. . f

Some members of the Ottawa

ay of *, meeting

Press Gallery enjoy. occasional . testes—of-this,--when their. news.

papers want on-the-spot cover- age of a distant conference i which top Canadians are part- icipating. Round-the-world with Prime Minister St. Laurent, to Cyprus with Defence Minister Paul Hellyer and reporting the NATO conference in Paris and Place Pigalle. are . examples which leap ‘to ‘mind. = - One such. occasion is obvious- ly this week’s emergency con- ference at Lagos, Nigeria, at which Commonwealth Prime Ministers are discussing the Rho- desian: crisis-

MANY SOUGHT TO GO

With snow in Ottawa's air and the mercury hitting: five below, Nigeria seemed lush and wel- comely warm, even if that west coast of Africa was once known

weed. be welcome. Parliament — not been sitting since June, and Par- liament Hill has been like a ghost town. True, there have been- some Federal-Provincial con ferences, but this new-style go- vernment under Co-operative

~ Federalism is as secret as the

Kremlin: «the doors are locked against the press, and the only unsealed lips are those which treacherously . want to grind their own axe.

The Prime Minister was char-_

tering an Air Canada DC air- liner for the return trip. to Ni- geria, it was announced. But the Press Gallery’s clamour for its many empty seats diminished

alittle when_it.became..known.|._

that the price of.such seats was $825. This is equivalent to the cost of the economy class round trip- by’ schediled commercial flights, and everyone knows that a filled charter flight should re- duce that price considerably; the. government ought to make a profit on that trip.

PUBLIC FORUM

chers, but to the matter of sup- plements. :

‘As I understand, this is a practice which developed in the one-room school districts, where-

_by_ districts bid against each oth-_ supplements to

er. by ' offering

attract a desired teacher. Now that we are building consolidat- ed schools it seems unwise to continue such a practice. Salar- ies should be so increased as to absorb these supplement ary payments. ‘Thus cach teacher would be paid ‘in’ accordance with his. or -her rating or educa- tional certificate, and all

have the same benefits a consolidated school, affords. If.

| this is done and accepted in all

districts it wou nove the un-.

desirable practice of one district

seeking to outbid another.

case 5 eam: Sir; ew a LINCOLN SION ZE

RA. 1, Cardigan.

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long celebration of the

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SEZEE leat

The world’s longest subterran- ean; highway will revolutionize the flow of traffic in the Mont Blanc region this winter. °

Previously, huge drifts of snow and ice made alpine passes im- penetrable. The motorist trav-

‘|eling between Rome and Paris

often had to make a time- con- suming ‘‘end run’’ as far south as the French Riviera. It is es- timated that the savings in win- ter driving time between the two points may reach 20 hours.

Opened in. July, 1965, the Mont Blanc tunnel provides a 7.2-mile link between Chamonix, France, and Courmayeur Italy. The great passageway bored through | Ww. >

lestern Europe's is about 4,300 feet above sea lev-

nearly a mile and a half of rock abéve their heads at one point-

LETHAL GASES BANISHED Danger of poisonous -carbon monoxide gases in a shaft that is four and a half times longer than New York’s Holland Tun- nel concerned planners. Nearly 600 vehicles an hour may use the tunnel during peak periods. To assure motorists’ safety, 5,- 900 cubic feet of fresh air per- second is forced through ducts beneath the roadbed: ee The two-way underground highway cost almost $70 million. and it contains every conven- ience for~—motoring comfort. There are bays for emergency repairs, service stations and washrooms, and telephones . on alternate sides of the tunnel at 1,000- foot intervals. pare - $Six years of grue'ing construc-. tion work and sacrifice were re-

quired to buijd the tunnel throu- gh “the monarch of mountains” as. Mont Blane was called. by Lord Byron. Death toll of work- ers-reached“17, and 800 mem-

bers of the 995-man work force injuries. ‘

o

For Press Seats To Lagos. -

peak |. el. at its center. Motorists have |

~~ . o-

aic for an anti-vaccine shot.” Shortly after, another notice

was posted:

“Thanks to improved arrange- ments, it will not be necessary to accommodate correspondents in tents at Lagos: Accommoda- - tion has been arranged at Koko

eight miles from Lagos. The health clinic is holding for distri- bution a supply of sleeping pills, as native dances often last well into the night.’* ccs Brave fforeign correspondents!

| Bleeding from many needles,

and kept ‘sleepless by the tom- toms! Then suddenly the qua- Ims of those Lagos-bound en- vied few were set at rest. - The two notices were not bona fide memos from the Prime Minis-

ter’s office: they were leg-pulls

lists who were to be left behind.

king Lot

Oregonian

the Abbey was damaged by air raids. _A° clean-up

During icy water shot.in on the workers. There ‘was.an avalanche outside the tunnel. Heavy stress on the granite ejected razor- sharp sliv- ers of stone. Frequent slides for- ced the men to claw at rock much in the manner of their Ro-

alpine aqueducts centuries be- fore .

Work on the tunnel began in 1959 under an agreement signed by France, Italy, and -the. city

Swiss naturalist who was t first man to scale the 15,771-foot ‘mountain. Said Sauccure: ‘The day will come when a. carriage road will be dug under Mont Blanc.’’ - ; ;

DIRECTS SINATRA FILM LONDON (AP) — Sidney J.

Frank Sinatra's first British-

on the novel “by British writer Francis ‘Clifford he pub- lished in Britain month.

Mann, formerly of Toronto, who wrote the script forthe movie The Collector.

CATTLE DIE IN FIRE CLARENCE CREEK, Ont. (CP)—Seventy head of regis- tered cattle perished in a fire which destroyed the barn of dairy farmer Raoul Pilon near hhere Tuesday. Mr. Pilon -esti- mated. his loss at between $40,- 000 and $50,000 .in*the . blaze. Clarence Creek is about 25 miles east of Ottawa, , .

Oe:

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sa a eT

Ete

‘| while they can.

roko, a ‘native village situated |

from, mischievous fellow-journa- |

- |. thing as a cold in. the intestines? REPLY

| TODAY’S- HEALTH * HINT—.

‘man predecessors who tuneied Our Yesterdays

Furie of Toronto will direct |

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Appetite In Overweights

By Dr. Theodore R. V: ‘an Delien

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besar gree g

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Only one succeeded in approa-

we sale Ge cement ae more ‘this morning.” Pa- tient: ‘I should be, I practised all night.”—Windsor Star

middle life are too old for

9 year old boy who was puffing on a long, black cigar. to cover his. amazement, the

~ching his ideal weight. The pro- portion who lost more than 20 pounds after 24 months was 14 per cent. The men were no more successful at -weight reduction | than were the women. The autb- | ors concluded that ‘‘obesity’’' at present is incurable.” : Perhaps we medicos are

Americatis realize that excess flesh comes from eating ton

energy and to replace wornout tissues. Thé temaindér is stored as fat. ’ There is no way for a portly individual to eat everything he wants and still lose weight, Per- haps we should . stop writing about weight and let the millions who are too heavy enjoy life

They can forget calories and hope that in the future a large | bay- window will have the same status as greater height, etrength, and: dexterity. The majority are doing this’ now, so why not be_realistic.

‘ MAY BE NONE

Mrs. T. writes: What are the

REPLY .

gion have. no symptoms. Others. complain -of headache, flushing of the face, ér- visual disorders. Heart and kidney symptoms also may occur. ; Many physi- _cians- have patients who never had symptoms -until they learned they had high blood pressure.

, SPLEEN CAN GO :

Mrs. H. writes: My seven- year-old boy fell from a tree. and ruptured his spleen, which had to_be_removed._Can he lead a aorma! life without the spleen?

- REPLY...

Yes. This organ is important yet nothing seems to happen af- ter its removal. To the best of our know! . its functions are taken_ovér by other organs.

__ INTESTINAL INFECTION

Yes, if you-refer to such infec- tions as ‘intestinal flu. The cau- sative virus invades the intes- tinal tract ices cramp- |-ing, nausea, vomiting, and diar- rhea. ‘

ULCERS _.

I. U. writes: Is there any dif- ference. between , stomach and. duodenal ulcer besides the loca,’ REPLY

ulcers mimic cancer and’ are viewed with suspicion until proved innocent. - 5; Equip heavy casters.

(NOTE: Alf correspondence te Dr. Van Delien should be addressed to: Dr, Theodore

_Van-_Dellen,’ co Chicago Trib- une, Chicago, Illinois.)

furniture Ww ith.

(From The Guardian )

of the mountain of Tepel- eni,, which the * Greeke said it a ‘ break of the

man Co , Christmas sales con-

symptoms of high blood pres- |. sure? : "i

Most persons with hyperten- |.

test would leave on January 15 |- ‘| for an all-expense- paid visit to

salesman said: ‘‘Good morning, sonny. Is your mother in?” The boy removed the cigar from his mouth, flicked off its ashes, and replied, ‘“‘What do YOU think?" Vilas County News-Review

NOTES BY THE WAY -

it move easily.--Guelph Mercury

There's nothing like a first- rate city emergency to bring out the resourcefulness. of the

blackout have given proof of the: New Yorker's ability to adjust to a trying situation and take it with high good humor. A typical citizen-was the late Mayor Fior- ello LaGuardia who read. the “funnies” to children on. the tadio during a newspaper shut-

all.

The eleventh was published in 1910 and by present-day’ stand- ards is sadly weak on scientific subjects. It ‘-had no truck or trade with such upstart topics as nuclear physics.

But in fundamental. and un- changing verities the edition is as sound today as it was 55 years ago. The beautiful, hand- tooled English of the articles is etill a joy for anyone with a re- epect for language.

“enrless. Hére is an excerpt!”

“The effects of intoxicants are ‘variously modified by the tem- perament of the individual and . the nature of the ine bri ant. When that is alcohol, its action on the average individual is first to fill him with a serene and per- fect self-complacency. .

“His feelings and faculties are exalted into a state of great ac- tivity and buoyancy, eo that his latiguage becomes enthusiastic, and his conversation vivacicus —if not brilliant.

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