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- Biculturalism Is Opposed By Four Ethnic Groups
By JOHN LEBLANC TORONTO ‘CP: —Four ethnic groups appearmz before the royal commission on. bilingual- ism and biculturashsm Monday
apposed the English-French bi culturalism concept Another approved it
All approved of efforts of one
kind or another to spread the use of the two major ,anguages and ai! Ought some conces-
sions. for their own languages as the commission began three day of public sittings here The Trans-Canada Alliance of German - Canadians. from the largest language group behind the English and French, favored the promotion of both bilingual-
ism and the bicultura! idea But biculturalism |~ ran nto trouble with the Ukrauman Na- thona Federation of Canada (from the next largest body after the Germans},! the Cana-
dian Polish Congress. the Cana-
dian Slovak League and in a joint submission {ram the Este mian Central Council ..n «anada
and the Estonian Federation in Canada A general complaint was that
the idea of biculturalism™’ can- notes a downgrading of the smaller race groups In addi- tion, the Ukrainians said they cant figure out what it means FEAR DISCRIMINATION
The Ukrainian group's brief said that the majority of those
not of B of British ar French extrac-
tion, belheve they can see in the expression biculturalism an- other means of applying a dis- criminatory policy towards them
Instead. it said. the concept
should be replaced by another, that a common civilization for Canada as a whole. to which all ethnic groups would contri bute as equa! partner: ” Dealing with lamguaze alone, it said the federation accepts of- ficial bilingualism. so long as it is not imposed The teaching of the mothet-tongues of ail ethnic groups .should® he offically en couraged The
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German-Canadian bedy said welcomes and supports all steps leading to the fullest development of bilingualism at all levels of public life’ and added that a special effort will have to be made to make Can ada = beicultural as well.”
In the interest of stronger Nationa initv.” t said. “the ICA ~recommends that every Canadian be expected and helped to acquire the culture of his own language as well as that of the ‘other’ language.” Study of the cultures should be extended to the ‘mother coun- {nes of England and France
The bref added that Canadian schools should trv to acquaint all students with the cultures of the minority >thnic group and that, where the density of such a gtevp warrants the teaching of its language in high schools.
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provision made for ts in- struction as an additiona! lan-
guage to French and English
HAS RESERVATIONS
The Canadian Polish Congress said it views With strong res- ervations the name and terms ‘of reference of the roval com- mission which, by limiting its task to a study of the two main languages and cultures of Can- ada, unfortunately underesti- mates the value of the many other languages and cultures existing in this country.”
Smallwood Criticized For Tantrum
ST “JOHN'S. Nfld. ‘CP Opposition Leader James Greene criticized Premier Smallwood in the legislature Monday for an “unfortunate display of bad tem- per’ in not giving Rex Renouf PC-St John’s South) an op portunity to explain his propos- als for a non-partisan commit- tee of members to meet with Quebec to discuss the Hamilton
Falls project
“The Hous did not get an opportunity to hear the whole story.’ Mr Greene said. ‘as
the premier interjected to brand the proposai aS madness. in- idiocy.
Handful Of Survivors Sob Fateful Stories
By JOSEPH L_ BENHAM
EL CABRE, Chile ‘AP A handful of survivors sobbed their fateful stories Monday in
this mining village hit by a sea of mud and rubble in Chile's worst earthquake .n five years Two hundred and fourth-six per- sons were killed _ The wails of survivors and roar of earth-moving machinery broke an eerie silence in El- ecobre as rescue workers dug into a sea of mud- and rock that roared down Sunday Only a few of the 400 inhabl- tants escaped after the quake burst a 230-foot-high dam and unleashed 2.000.000 tons of rub-
ble
Officials feared the others were buried in a matter of sec- onds
Many new earth tremors have been felt in Chile since the quake, but there were no new reports of casualties or damage
FOUND MASS OF MUD
One -muiner in this community, 8 miles north of Santiago. found only a mass of mud where his wife and eight of their nine chil- dren were buried. A ninth child escaped
Fifteen bedies have brought out on blanket-covered stretchers so far
Elsewhere in Chile, at least 3 others were reported dead, hun- dreds injured and thousands homeless.
President: Eduardo Frei tqured the stricken area and then went
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into an emergency session with his cabinet to map out a relief program
More than 12 towns and cites across populous centra) Chile, north of Santiago. the capital, felt the strongest effects of the upheaval Sunday. Panic-stricken residents fled into the streets as buildings buckled and fires erupted
The epicentre of the quake
was near the ratlwas~and high- |
way junction of Liay-Liay, 30 miles north of the capital. Seven persons were reported dead there and nearly every building was either destroyed or dam- aged
CITY DAMAGED
Extensive damage also was reported in Valparaiso, Chile's leading port and second-largest city. 80 miles northwest of San- tiago. A curfew was ‘imposed ‘te | prevent looting Four persons | were killed in the Pacific Coast city
More than 300 members ot Chile's armed forces began a search for the dead in El Cobre. Progress was slow. The lage was described as almost | destroyed “The situation in El Cobre is terrible.” Preside: pt Frei said. “But it was fortunate it was con- fined to this small area." «
Only a few hundred yards be- low El Cobre’s dam,
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and Illapel, all north of San tiago
| The quake. Chile's most seri-
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the vil- | which measured the disastrous lage’s inhabitants had little 1906 ea |warning when the dam shat. | tered from the effects of the | ‘scale has 90 upper limit
quake Between # and houses in the copper town were swept away ‘It was like a gigantic wave more than 100 feet high. made of sand, mud and water.” said one survivor, Carlos Munchel
RAN TO HILL
“It came on top of us. but | managed to run to a nearby hill When | looked over my shoulder the avalanche has passed al ready and then | could pot sec the houses any more.’
In Santiago, business went on as usua! but tension filled the air One person was reported killed there and about 4 per sons felled by debris from swaying buildings, were injured Telephone and electric power lines were temporarily dis rupted
Rescue crews also wpre at work in the town of San’ Fel
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ous since more than 5,000 had died in an earthquake in May, 1960. The Chilean quake was felt 700 miles away in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. Seismograph stations around the world recorded it. Estimates of its strength varied between 65 and 75, and some even |higher on the Richter scale,
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in San Fran jciseo at 8.
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Prison Guard Towers Empty During scape
JOHN S tid cr ro men. ane now facinze the |death wentence cut their «Sv jout of the’ cel! they shared and lused blankets to scale a pent- jtentiary wa here when no guards were the towers. At- }tornes- Genera! Leslie R_ Curtis Icharged Monday | The attArney-zeneral tnid the jlegislature ne has asked the of- fice of the commissioner of penl- | teotiar es investizate the Dec 17 escape which led to the slaying an RCMP constable
One of the scapees. Melvin Peter Younz. 19. of St. Georzés, Nfld has heen sentenced to
dein te chootinc -of ROMP
constable Rohert Weston
Mr. ¢: said towers at the penitentiary are not manned after midni; zht 1 s9 the prisoners
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Murder Trial | Of Youth, 17 Opens In Nfld
ST Police day at the capital murder trial om Kevin (Neill. 17. said the heaten. partly-nude body of Mrs in her
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officers
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Edith Parsons was found hieod-stained home Sept. 19
» Set Rehert Humphries of the RCMP ideotification section said articles were found scattered on the floor in the reom, where Mrs,
Parsons’ bed- lay There were large blood stains on, the floor and walls
Cst| Thomas Fraise of the Newfoundland cons tabulary criminal inmyestization division testified that the body of Mrs, Parsons. a 67-year-old widow.
was nude except for the upper part which was covered by a sweater The face and head were badly beaten
Cst. Fraise said no weapes was found
The body was found after neighbors reported not seeing Mrs Parsons for two » days
Federal Aid To Education
had little “dif th mbing the aalls with two blankets ted to zether and hanked in the harhed wire gurroundinzg the wal The four had heen lncked in the same ce! after tne, were captured on a previous break from _ the Minimun security prison at Salmonier. Nfld Not on) was this in itself unwise. but 'n make matters worse reguiar nspections vf the cel! were aot made ax they should have heen . The = attorner Zenera. said they cut’ !hrough the’ wooden floor of their cell into fhe hase-
ment and crawled intn an office throuzh #@ hatch frat-—srhould- have heen bolted Then they zot
outside and went for the wal!
Mr Curtis said the RCMP and the Newfoundland Constab- ~ ulary are of the opinion that had the guards heen alert. they would have realized there was unusua) activity in the cel! and
wivestigated Mr. Curtis said the. public has
a right to expect .that prisoners who have been tmed and con- victed will be securely guarded
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DEPUTY US Ambassador
l Alexis Johnson, ahove, re- ported that he was ‘all right
after beinc reached inside the
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Saigon Monday
He is repofted to have received a fgw cuts T will need some medical as-
he declared (AP Wirephoto).
sistance,”’
Turkish Troop Rotation
Termed ‘Typical Foul-Up’ .
FAMAGUSTA ‘CP. — A total of 337 Turkish troops arrived in troubled Cyprus Monday and > from start to fimish it was. in the words of one exasperated Canadian Army officer, a typi- cal fotil-up
The occasion breught out every twist of Mediterranean temperament officiousness, anger. pride. theatricality. pat- riotiasm. irony—and played vari- ations on them al!
As though that didnt produce enough confusion, there was a question of what al! those United Nations people were do- ing on the docks of Famagusta when officially the UN was not even involved.
‘Said Under Consideration
OTTAWA ‘CP Increased federa! aid to education is un- der “active consideration,” Prime Minister Pearson said Monday
He was replying in the Com- mons to NDP Leader Douglas, who said there should be addi- tional grants to universities for the express purpose of elimi- mating recently - announced in- creases in student fees
Mr. Pearson said education 1s a matter of prowicial jurisdic- tion but extra federal assistance is berfig considered
Liovd R, Crouse «(PC — Queens Lunenburg) said the present program of capital
grants to universities discrimi-
nates against those in Nova Scotia. The province had the lowest per - capital grant in Canada.
Mr. Pearson said he is aware o complaints about how the
grants are made under the pro- gram, now six years old
Robert C Coates ‘PC—Cum- berland' suggested the matter be referred to the Atlantic De- velopment Board but the prime minister said it wouldn't be a practical step
Tom Bell (PC—Saint John-Al- bert) claimed certain Nova Sco- tia universities, particularly the Dalhousie medical school, dis-
criminate against students from New Brunswick.
The Turkish aught im as
troops were replacements for half of the Turkish national con- tingent which is stationed in Cy- prus under terms of the treaty signed when Cyprus became in- dependent from Britain in°1960.
The Creek Cypnot govern- ment has Since denounced the treaty and demanded that the Turkish troops leave, but Tur- kev has insisted on keeping the contingent here and, just, as firmly. insisted on rotating “part
of the treops every.-six months,
Monday's rotation had been in preparation since January $0 both the Greek-Cypriots and {he Turkish government had_ pleaty of time to prepare fora smooth change-over. Instead, everyone seemed to have worked on ways of complicating what should have heen a simple operation.
UN OVERWORKED Officially the rotation was a matter only for the respective
governments
Officially. the UN is in Cyprus to try te keep the majority Greek - Cypriots and minority
Turkish-Cypriots from getting at each others throats
But almost the entire %5-man squadron of Lord strathcona’s horse from Calgary—a_ reron- maissance group equipped with armored scout cars—was used to escort the convoys of Turkis soldiers and cargo from the Turkish ship in Famagusta to the Turkish contingent base out- side Nicosia, the capital of Cy- prus, 30 miles away.
In addition, a smal) group of Canadian officers from UN headquarters in Nocisia was in-
volved in planning the whole operation.
The Turkish ship bearing the troops and supplies arrived in the harbor of this east-coast city shortly after dawn Monday after a quick trip from the Turkish port of Iskenderun under escort of two Turkish torpedo boats, two minesweepers and 11 Turk- ish Air Force jet fighters.
Lobster Dragging Studied
24 Are Dead, |
SAIGON (AP) A powerful bomb exploded at the US Em. bassy in South Viet Nam's cap-
ital today. causing deaths and destruction inside the building and among passersby vin the street
According to first reports, one of the casualties was a ranking member of the embassy, but it
was not known how many oth- ers were woundeti. The blast was heard throughout the city.
It was believed that Deputy US. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson was inside the building at the time. Ambassador Max-
well Taylor is currently in ++ Washington. Several hundred embassy o-
ficials and employees work in the five-storey concrete bilid-
jing
| Quake Recorded
| In Aleutians
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) —Dr. Charles Richter of the Califor- nia Institute of Technology said his instruments recorded - major earthquake.”’ probably in the vicinity of the Aleutian Is- ,lands, Monday at 6:35 p.m. | (10:35 p.m. AST).
Richter said the quake, cen- tred about 3,500 miles, from |Pasadena, was comparable in | magnitude with the one that \teek a heavy toll in life and property Sunday in central Chile.
na rated the quake at ‘7.1 on:
Richter scale, a method of | calculating the magnitode _of quakes. Sunday's Chilean quake registered 7.
Socreds Refuse Reconciliation With Caovette
QUEBEC (CP) Dr. Guy! Marcoux, member of Parlia- | ment for Quebec-Montmorency,
_|said Monday Social Credit aas—
flatly refused a recéfciliation™ with Real Gaouette’s Ralliement
des Creditistes. Dr. Marcoux said in’a state- ment Social Credit members
from Quebec met here during the weekend to discuss over-
tures by former federal member | Bernard Du-)
for Bellechasse, mont, ‘‘who begged us to rejoin the ranks to stap the total col- lapse of their party.”
OTTAWA ‘CP)—The fisheries
department will
study the effects on dragging operations in areas near Prince Edward Island, !| Fisheries Minister Robichaud said Monday.
In reply to a written Com-| mons question by J. Angus Mac- Lean (‘PC — Queens), . the
h Minister said he had received a} a
resolution from the P.E.I. Fish- | Dr eries Federation asking for an investigation and asking prohi- bition of dragging operations during it.
Investigations have heen car- ried out, the reply stated, but there had been no evidence of ill effects. Investigation would be continued
The reply also noted P.E.I. has been established as a - district for inspection purpose |under a senior officer who ~
Mr. Dumont was described as an important Caouette follower. |
continue to Mr. Caouette’s Ralliement also | lobster met here during the woteas, | |
and
who remained with Soe Social Credit in a split two years ago. “Could it have been ae
' categorical refusal that leashed the i
. Marcoux.
Russian's Space Trip Described In Detail |
(AP)—Aexei_ Leo-
ports through a district officer joy ea to pass through two |at Shediac, N.B. doors for his historic walk in space and the whole system ! * , |was eontrolied by pressing but- * “"Itons, Pravda said Monday. i‘ The Soviety Communist party { ‘ [newspaper . and return to in giving the — of an Ven == Leonov and bited the earth two weeks azo Belyayev, mander, sat ' Leonov on the left system, which i transition stage pressurized vam of space, was on Leonov OTTAWA_(CP) — The Canada . left. Pension Plan was approved by, The airlock the Commons 159 to 12 Monday | built inte the night after 26 days of debate.| three-man spaceship Voting in favor of the con-/jgst October. tributery scheme wefe % Liber-! als, 47 Conservatives, 13 New| GOT INTO AIR LOCK Democrats,” twe Social Credit | Leonov moved. into the air MPs, H. A. Olson of Menicine lock. Belyayey a button Hat and Marcel Lessard of Lac-|which closed inside door St. Jean, and independent Remi|ané created -a: vacuum inside Paul (Berthier - Maskinonge-|the lock chamber. ef Delanaudiere). o bie: At the: prescribed a Opposed to were |Belyayev pressed a second | seven Creditistes and five Con- | ton = opened the hatch be- setvatives trom the Prairies. jtween airlock and space, ab
soempushenditie of Mr. Caouette?” asked |
Counted njured
The street outside bassy was a bloody broken bodies
Among them were at least 17 Vietnamese. some of them
the Em- mess of
dead, many badly wounded SEVEN WOUNDED At least seven Americans
were carried hadly from the Embassy Windows and shutters on two sides of the corner building were shattered At least seven vehicles on the street outside were smashed and burning The bomb appeared to have -been placed in a vehicle in the ‘street. This was -the cause of the number of Viet- namese killed and wounded by the blast The U.S. Consulate on the “ ground floor of the building was wrecked. tt was a scene of chaos; Seven ambulances arrived within five minutes of the explo- sion Bloody footprints were left by the injured who had run “away ' from the area There were no immediate estimates of the number of Americans wounded or killed, It was believed that at least a score. were casualties. Three Americans were seen being carried off, bleeding heavily Large crowds pressed in close to the Embassy in the contu- sion. Assassination attempts were jmade in 1961 and 1962 against two former U.S. ambassadors. Both failed | In recent months, police have intercepted several loads of ex- plosives apparently destined for the bassy. *
| Parliament At A Glance
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONDAY, March 2, 1965 The Commons c study of the Canada Pension Plan bill at third reading stage. Revenue Minister Bensem said Conservatives and New Democrats are filibustering the bill. The statement followed an amendment by Robert Prittie (NDP Burnaby Rich- mond) that the bill go back to the committee stage. His aim would be to have
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