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25*	Tuesday. March 4. 1980 Vol. 24; No. 44 ' Prince George, British Columbia
OTTAWA (CP) — The government announced today that the 32nd Parliament will nit starting April 14.
 Yvon Pinard, president of the Privy Council, told reporter* after the first Liberal cabinet meeting following the Feb, 18 federal election that the length of the parliamentary session has not been determined.
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by CHARLES LYNCH Southam political columnist
OTTAWA — At first glance, the new cabinet of Pierre Trudeau looks stronger than his last one, which isn't saying much if you agree that his last one was the weakest anybody could remember.
 Whether the new cabinet is better than the one headed by Joe Clark remains to be seen. The cabinet includes two women. two Jews and not a single Arab.
 "Same old bunch,” cracked a smiling Trudeau, gazing out at his new ministers, assembled as in church, their Bibles and Torahs clutched in hand.
 A nervous titter ran through the crowd—there might st ill be time for The Man to change his mind, though everything was locked into the press release.
Like John Diefenbaker, it was clear that Pierre Trudeau has his little blacklist — out went Judd Buchanan for suggesting
 Trudeau should have stuck to his retirement schedule; out went John Reid for admitting that under the Liberals, gasoline might be as expensive as under the Tories. Out went old hands Warren Allmand and Bud Cullen, left to warm the backbench along with Bryce Mackasey.
 There were poignant moments a-plenty at the swearing-in ceremony.
 Senator Hazen Argue, of Ormiston. Sask. became the first man to make the federal cabinet after having served in the House of Commons as leader of the CCF-NDP.
 Argue defected to the Liberals after losing the NDP leadership to Tommy Douglas and eventually wound up in the Senate. where he grew a big black beard and lumbered around Ottawa in his farm clothes. Yesterday the beard was gone and
 he had on a grey flannel suit, and for sheer improbability, it would be hard to top the sight of his pausing to chat with Governor-General Ed Schreyer, the former NDP premier of Manitoba.
   Senator Keith Davey. who had as much todo with Trudeau’s election victory as any man. arrived late, but seemed unruffled as he took his side pew beside his fellow members of the Liberal backroom team — Senator Al Graham. Jim Coutts and Tom Axworthy.
   The only real buzz in the room came when Judy Erola stepped in as minister of state for mines. The newly elected member for Nickel Belt won her place by defeating John Rodriguez, Trudeau’s old NDP tormentor in the Commons, and by making a fine speech when Trudeau campaigned in her riding.
  Like the well-remembered Iona Campagnolo, Mrs. Erola is a veteran broadcaster and has a deep rich voice to go with her distinguished record of com munity service, not to mention her tumed-up nose and Ingrid Bergman hairdo.
  There was general surprise at the appointment of Mark MacGuigan to the prestige portfolio of external affairs, the more so since it gives the Windsor area three senior ministers
—	MacGuigan, Tradeand Commerce Minister Herb Gray and Agriculture Minister Gene Whelan. Gray ranks seventh in the cabinet. Whelan eighth and MacGuigan twenty-second. The betting is that Trudeau will do most of the international heavy hitting himself
  Trudeau said in his press release that he had gone out of his way to ensure representation from the Western provinces, where his candidates were wiped out in the election. It was no big deal — the whole vast West in fact got less than than the Windsor comer of Ontario in terms of cabinet clout.
  Aside from Argue. Lloyd Axworthy of Winnipeg was named to employment and immigration, with status of women on the side; Senator Bud Olson, the former Social Crediter from Iddesleigh, Alta., became minister of state for economic development and Senate House leader, while Ray Perrault of Vancouver resumed his old post of government leader in the Senate.
  Not much beside the 24 Quebecers and Ontarians in the cabinet, but that’s the way the Grit cookies crumbled in the West.
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BCRIC launches shopping spree
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VANCOUVER - Less than 24 hours after it announced plans to purchase more than 14 per cent of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.’s common shares, British Columbia Resources Investment Corp. said it has been granted an option to buy a substantial minority position in B.C.-based Kaiser Resources Ltd.
BCRIC president David Helliwell said in a news release the
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City crews te;pr up asphalt as they search for break in water line under Third Avenue today.
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  A ruptured water main dumped thousands of gallons of water on Third Avenue early today, in the second major water line break in the city in two weeks.
   A 12-inch cast-iron main near the Provincial Building burst about 2 a.m.
  Water poured through downtown streets as far as Brunswick Street before draining away into storm sewers. The cold weather froze a sheet of ice across Victoria Street and along Fourth, Third and Second Avenues.
    Assistant city engineer Colin Wright said the main was at least 25 years old, similar to a cast-iron main on George Street that burst last year near Sixth Avenue.
    The break is the second in as many weeks. A major line on North Nechako Road broke Feb. 18 leaving residents there without water for a day.
OUTBREAK AT HARIf SCHOOL
eria clinic starts
 "The referendum is coming.
 to the : school Thursday evening for thijir booster shots.
   Sea red and angry parents crowded into the school gym Mond ay night to hear a local healtln official discuss a diphtheria outbreak at the school.
   So far, one Grade 1 boy, six-year-old Cory Harris, is in hospital. five other Grade 1 children and their teacher Rosemary Mallory, have been diagnosed as diphtheria carriers and are being treated at home.
   School principal Tom Pid-
   Pidcock today refused permission for a Citizen photographer to take pictures of the immunization process. He said “under the circumstances” he wouldn’t allow it.
   Pidcock said today's program wasthe administering of a regular booster shot, merely put ahead one month from the normal schedule.
   Dr. Andrew Ross, head of the Northern Interior Health Unit, tried to allay the fears of more than 80 parents Monday night, telling them all Grade 1 children had been tested by public health nurses and “so far, the outbreak of diphtheria was confined to that class."
   But Larry Langille spoke for many parents when he said “I think they should shut the school down.”
   “The kids who are carriers all travel on the same school bus as mine — I’m scared. The man (Ross) is “being a politician rather than a doctor,” Langille said.
   Langille has three children, two of them at Hart Highway, and he is keeping them all at home today and taking them to
 cock said he was not asking the Grade 1 children to stay home, and “we haven’t worked out a way to keep them separate” from the rest of the school.
   But some frightened parents are keeping their children home, and say they will continue to do so until the diphtheria threat is over.
   Of the 287 pupils at the school, 48 were absent this morning.
   There is only one other case of diphtheria in B.C. and that is in Fort St. John.
by HAZEL ALLAN Citizen Staff Reporter
   A special clinic was under way today at Hart Highway School to immunize pupils against diphtheria following several reported cases of the disease and a heated meeting Monday between parents and health officials.
   Children who have missed shots and older children requiring booster shots will be immunized today, while their parents and teachers may go
FEATURED INSIDE
 'Bugging' probe urged
  Jim Nielsen, consumer and corporate affairs minister, wants a special'committee of the B.C. legislature to investigate the bugging of his telephones. Page 2.
 'Won't be blackmailed'
 Vancouver Whitecaps president John Best says the team “will not be blackmailed by anyone,” referring to what he considers unreasonable contract demands. Phil Parkes, last year’s top NASL goalie has been sold and top defender John Craven is rumored to be on the tradingblock. Page 13.
Dental fee battle looms
 His 'instant family'
 Kenneth Parnell, the lonely ex-convict who police say created an instant family for himself by kidnapping children, was being arraigned today in Ukiah, Calif. Page 5.
 Court for damages against the college, which represents the province's 1,400 dentists.
  The writ seeks damages against the college for allegedly “agreeing, arranging and conspiring to injure the plaintiff by prohibiting or restricting competition and to increase the price of the defendants' products.”
   The association’s action followed a recent announcement that the cost of dental work will increase 12 per cent this year.
 the bureau of competition in Ottawa, confirmed that the complaint had been received ag.ainst the B.C. College of Dent al Surgeons for the method of setting its dental fee guidelines.
   The director said it was too early to say how long the investigation will take and that it “must be kept confidential.”
  Vancouver lawyer Harry ftankin filed on behalf of CU and C a writ in B.C. Supreme
  VANCOUVER (CP) - A nonprofit society providing health and dental coverage has launched a fight on three fronts against rising dental costs.
   Dr. David Schreck, manager of CU and C Health Services Society, said Monday that a complaint was Hied with the federal combines branch, a damage action launched in B.C. Supreme Court and a letter sent to provincial Health Minister Rate Mair.
   Robert Bertrand, director of
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lelephone soliciting: Fight back
  A Prince George man has found a system to beat telephone soliciting.
   “I find the practice annoying and an invasion of privacy," the man said, fuming over a call at home from a vacuum cleaner company.
   “The last time this happened, it was a photo studio offering some special deal. I got mad and called the owner at his home and told him I didn't think much of his advertising campaign.”
   The owner’s reaction was ironic, the man said.
   “What do you mean phoning me at home?” the company owner asked.
   The man says he plans to call the owners of any company sol-iciting over the phone and complain.
   “Sometimes finding out who is behind a company isn’t easy, but the licensing department at city hall should know.”
   Failing that, the provincial registrar of companies in Victoria can give trie officers of any provineially-registered company.
  The man asked not to be identified, probably not wanting any more calls at home.
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           MUGABE WINS MAJORITY IN ZIMBABWE
Ballots more powerful than bullets
THE WEATHER
   The forecast for tonight and Wednesday calls for clear skies and continuing cold.
   The expected high today was -12, the low tonight -25. Wednesday's forecast high is -10. The high Monday was -9, the low -23. On this date last year the high was 7, the low 2.
   Sunset today is 5:52 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday is 6:53 a.m. and sunset 5:54 p.m.
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   Meanwhile, Smith told a television interviewer Tuesday that the Marxist image of Mugabe and Nkomo was exaggerated.
   “Rhodesians are pragmatists and will learn to get along with the situation. There won’t be any white exodus,” said the man who rebelled from British rule in 1965.
   By mid-day Monday, there were few signs of any exodus in Salisbury or the principle western city, Bulawayo. Circling helicopter gun-ships and patrolling armored vehicles emphasized administration vows to put down any violence “swiftly and severely.”
   Mugabe had already moved late Monday to reinforce law and order by calling on supreme military
by PETER CALAMAI Southam News
   SALISBURY - The weapon of the democratic ballot proved mightier in seven weeks here than seven years of bullets and 14 years of global condemnation.
   That was the real message behind the street chanting of peaceful black crowds Tuesday and the unanimous reconciliation talk among politicians, black and white.
   A landslide election victory Monday had catapulted proMarxist Robert Mugabe from guerrilla leader to the designated first prime minister of the newest African state, Zimbabwe.
Britain’s interim governor, Lord Soames, formally invited Mugabe to
 commander Lt.Gen. Peter Walls to remain in charge of Rhodesia’s security forces, swollen to more than 100,000 men under arms by general mobilization for last week’s election.
   The victorious leader also held out an olive branch to his former guerrilla ally, the veteran nationalist Nkomo, repeating his vow to form a governing coalition with Nkomo’s 20 seats.
   Welcoming the offer, Nkomo told a news conference Monday that independence should not be delayed one minute by political rivalry among black parties.
   “We all have to see the Zimbabwe becomes a stable state. Everybody in the country must accept the election results,” he said.
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 form a government with his 57-seat majority in the 100-seat parliament when the two men met for 90 minutes Tuesday. Both agreed on the urgent need for "stability, peace and reconciliation,” according to a British spokesman.
   "We are not going to victimize anyone,” Mugabe told reporters early Tuesday. "Our commitment to peace is total."
   The 55-year-old missionary-edu-cated intellectual is expected to stress the healing of wounds in a broadcast address to the nation Tuesday evening. Already backroom moves were under way to forge a coalition government including fellow-guerrilla leader Joshua Nkomo and possibly even rebel white premier Ian Smith.
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