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1 I rn IN MOSCOW FOR MORE TALKS West German foreign minister Walter Scheel -is in the USSR again for high level talks -with Soviet officials. Here he chats with Soviet foreign minister Andrei A. Gromyko today at the Foreign Office in Moscow. (AP-Journol Wire photo) WOULD BE FIRST TAKEN ALIVE Aquarium Seeks Narwhal VANCOUVER (CP) Dr. Murray a modern-day Captain Ahab, leaves July 31 for waters 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle to try to capture five narwhals, but the energetic director of the Vancouver Aquarium' isn't even sure whether the rare grey whale can be taken alive.

Dr. Newman says there are only about 10,000 -to 12,000 of. milllllllllllllil Hoppe's Barbs TV'sNightly Nixon Show iiiiiiiiiwuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiinitiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiin By tSAN FRANCISCO The beginning of the eod of television as we know it was the Iaunchin In September, 1970, of the nightly "Nixon at Nine" show. For some time, whenver the president was in trouble with Congress or the had reacted by taking to the airwaves. As his troubles, mounted that summer, so did his television appearances.

Finally, it" was decided the president should take half an Vi ni it o1i ttvninft rn oil tkroA networks to explain to his fellow Americans what he had done that day. Nor could any of the networks bring them- selves to deny the president of the United States whatever free prime time he wanted. So the "Nixon at Nine" show was launched. It was kind of audi-visual education, the president being equipped Things Went From there things went steadily downhill. Every politician whoMmagined himself maligned by either nightly show demanded, and got, equal time.

A typical daily television log might show "Gabbing with Goldwater." "McGovern at Mid morning," "Happy Hubert's Half a Comedy Hour" and "Neve Say Die" with Harold Stassen. The crisis came when an angry George Wallace insisted on a' nightly'8 o'clock slot for hs- "Wallace in Wonderland" snow. As expected, the Court ruled under 'the Fair Play Doctrine that not only. Wallacq's American Independent Party, but every political party, -must be given equal-time. By the following June, all television stations in the land were broadcasting nothing politicians explaining things around the clock.

The Vegetarian Party's show, "You Are What You Eat Be a Veg THE PICK -w it mm if iU if Ill' i 1 1 1 the sea mammals with spiralling, unicorn-like tusks left in the world, but no one has ever tried to land one. And no one knows whether they will live in captivity. The male narwhal grows up to 18 feet in length 'and can weigh a ton. Jts tusk is actually an outgrowth of the upper left canine tooth, grow-; ing to about eight feet, iiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiifliiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiin Arthur Hoppe iwniiiiiiiiin with map9, graphs, point and film clips. All over the nation, several people While there were the usual complaints from those who missed their regular programs like "Guts 'n Blood" or "Alice and Arnold" (the story of a mischievous aardvark and the boy she loved), televi sion would surely have survived it hadn't been for the Democrats.

The Democrats naturally demanded not only equal time, but equal prime time. Thus the show, "Larry O'Brien and His Friends," was given the 8.30 p.m. slot so that the loyal opposition could explain away the president's' explanations even before he explained them himself. It proved the most popular show in its time slot it being the only show in its time slot. Downhill etable," attracted a small following.

But otherwise, television viewing became a thingof the past. The effect on the American culture was startling. Children once again played outdoors with other children, learning to get along in the real world. Grown ups once again went out to movies and plays with all the excitement such activities entail. The art of conversation, long thought dead, wa revived.

People went for walks, even -T-thev-lived their-own lives stead of those of shadowy images on a little glass screen. Unfortunately, in the 1972 campaign an unknown named Mervyn Murdhead ran for president on the single pledge that, if elected, he would nev-er-ever appear oh television. Needless to say, he won in a landslide. VGiits Blood," "Alice and Arnold" and the other favorites retured to the air. And the country returned to normal.

OF Punch Tbe woncr this place becomes a hoit (own (he be Iter Dr. Newman already has ar souvenir nine-foot tusk, but scientists are still puzzled about its use. Some say it may simply be a secondary sex characteristic analogous with a man's beard or a deer's antlers, The female narwhal is smaller, jn i size and has no unicorn spiral. CAUGHT KILLER WHALE I Dr. Newman said even one narwhal would make the aquarium famous and "he remembers the world-wide publicity he and his associates attracted in 1964 when they captured the first killer whale, Moby Dolf.

This summer's expedition comes two years after Dr. Newman led a team to Pond Inlet on the narwhal's annual "migration route. It was a fact-finding trip on a limited $14,000 budget and no serious effort was made to capture an adult. James Graham, a Vancouver foundry owner who saw the' sea mammals while on vacation in the high Arctic last year, is underwriting the expedition and Dr. Newman is budgeting $25,000 'for the trip.

The nine members of the expedition will work out of Milne Inlet with Eskimo crews, a schooner, whaleboats and canoes, linked by an RCMP radio network. If they are lucky enough to capture a narwhal with seine nets or snares, it must be transported through miles of dangerous ice floes to an inflatable 'portable swimming pool on shore. CAPTURED BABY DIED Then it must be kept alive. Specialfy-bullt slings will help the scientists wrestle their catch into an aircraft and it will change 'planes twice before returning to Vancouver. Scores, of questions remain unanswered about the elusive mammals.

Will they feed out of their, natural habitat Can stand climatic differences? Last year, a tiny wounded suckling narwhal was found in Pond Inlet and sold to the New York Aquarium. It soon died of pneumonia. Dr. Newman, (however, believes an -adult narwhal will, adapt tolirt aquarium environ- ment as easily as its cousin, the beluga whale. Now all he has to "do is capture one or five.

lltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllM Munich: By LAWRENCE FELLOWS (c) New York Times Service MUNICH, West Germany Munich is growing as it never never did before. There are 1,300,000 people here, and last year the new arrivals outnum- those departing by nearly 5Q.000. They are attracted by the glittering, incredible mixture of pop, Rococo and Baroque the opera, the ballet, the four symphony orchestras, the thriving new centres of jazz, the museums. Nearly 140,000 people are foreigners one out of every 10. There are job seekers, students, exiles from half a dozen frustrated libera i movements.

Sometimes they are a bit too chaotic for the Municheners, especially when their wars withinwars get'out of control. Occasionally a Serbian is shot in the street or a. Slovak, disappears mysteriously. Recently Dr. Norbert Burger walkedjnto a court here to face charges ofpreparing and-dispatching bombs to South Tyrol in the cause of the move-.

Reassuring Performance After Three Bourassa Gov By RICHARD PURSER Journal Quebec Bureau QUEBEC Premier Robert Bourassa was elected less than three months ago after a campaign promising competent, businesslike gov eminent and economic uplift. At the end of his government's first session of parliament, it has indeed shown itself competent and businesslike. And while the grand lines of its economic, policy cannot be expected to develop until parliament resumes at the end of October, the performance to date has been reassuring. Jusf by being competent, unemotional and pro Canadian, the government has done much to improve the economic climate. And it managed, early in the game, to chip away at enough of the previous National Union' government's extravagances bring down a no-tax-in-trrase budget.

The government's low-key By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH ALGIERS (AP) Eight years after the end of French rule, Algeria finally to have found its feet. Some diplomats foresee a spectacular economic boom. New cars, mostly made in France, Jam the streets. businessmen crowd ho- tels and-air services. Customers jostle for attention luxury stores along Rue Di- douche-Mourad, once called Michelet.

Algeria's ambitious four-year industrial development plan calls -for a annual rise in gross national product through 1973. Factories- are going lip with foreign aid and 'beggars nave virtually disappeared from the streets. Algeria has overcome its post-independence' turmoil. The end of French rule was a grim disappointment for many hopes. The cheering people who surged through the streets in 1962 thought independence day was the start of an era of happiness and prosperity following 130.

years of. colonial rule and a bitter "war of I i a i on" that lasted eight years. In fact, it was the beginning of chaos, more bloodshed and of near-starvation. More than 1,000,000 French settlers who had dominate the Algerian economy and administration fled in a panicky exodus. Many of those who stayed behind were expelled or found their property expropriated.

For want of Algerian technicians, the administration all but collapsed. The economy dropped to 1912 levels. Ahmed Ben Bella, then president, sought to encourage the millions of unemployed with fiery speeches and flamboyant but unrealistic projects. RESOURCES DEPLETED The young nation depleted its human and material resources in an uprising by local military groups estimated to have cost more than 10,000 lives. Its weakened army was decisively defeated in a week-long border war iiimimiiimmiiiiiimiiiiiumuiimiim 140,000 FOREIGNERS style freewheeling use of luxuriously equipped limousines by ministers is frowned upon contributes to improved tone, as does -the premier's own lifestyle.

He stays at the same(cheap hotel and eats at the same little restaurant he used when in the capital before he became premier, and is seldom observed to dip into the wealth he attained through marriage-Improved as things may be, the above suggests that this admittedly pragmatic government is prosaic and unninspir-cd in its goals, lacking any philosophy beyond that of-the ledger sheet. Certainly it abstains from the pompous rhetoric on which National Union 'governments have floated for so long that it became assumed to be the stuff of French Canadian politics. But signs are that It Is going to become something mod. Mr. Bourassa i not at with Morocco in 1963.

Ben Bella abolished embryonic democratic institutions and set up a leftist One-man regime which virtually brought Algeria into the Soviet sphere. In 1965 he was swept awayjn a military coup led by an austere Arab nationalist, Houari chief of staff during the war of independence. Boumedienne believes in action rather, than speeches. It taken years for him to achieve any kind of popularity. A gradual improvement in living conditions has finally earned him widespread approval.

Boumedienne has promised to" return to some form of parliamentary rule next year. The ruling National Liberation Front will remain the only party, but voters' will UllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIlllllllllllllllin The Ottawa Journal After 8 Years of Independence Algeria economic ooonm Mondgy, Jufyi 27, 1970 Expects Little Youthful Inspiration At World Youth Assembly By KATHLEEN TELTSCH (c) New York Times Service UNITED NATIONS, NY Not since Nikita S. Khrushchev banged his shoe had the decorous halls of the United Nations -reverberated to such goings on. The table --pounders and hecklers this time were the participants of the World Youth Assembly, but they often sounded tiresomely like their elders, parroting this same political slogans, although in more strident tones and less diplomatic 1terms. Many were impatient young people pleased with the chance to sound off at the establishment.

Others were the not-so-young professionals who had learned their tactics at youth festivals in various Communist The noisy disruptive distractions of th.e professionals A City in ment for independence from Italy. Greeks in Bavaria announced that they would hold a rally to commemorate the third anniversary of the military junta's 'take-over in Athens. The place chosen was the Burgerbrau Keller, where Hitler got his organization off to a rather boisterous start and from which he marched into a wall of police bullets during his abortive coup in November, 1923. Several student organizations then announced that they would -march on the Greeks and break up their meeting. That was too much for the aii- thorities, who asked the Greeks to meet someplace else.

Every year there comes a more or less chaotic time with the arrival of the Fohn, that warm, unsettling breeze that rolls dow'n the Alpine slopes into Muniqh. The traffic through Stachus, as ParlpIatz, the main square, Iscommpnly khowniS'nldfe" snarled and the drivers are more quick tempered thafl 't Competent, ROBERT BOURASSA all purely the technocrat he is, supposed to be devouring sets of figures as others may devour He has a strong social philosophy which aims at far more than seeing Quebec better run and more prosperous. This has shown itself in his' expressed concern with three things not directly measur BEN BELLA almost obscured the prevailing mood of the assembly: that this was a conference in which almost all Americans, Europeans, non-aligned and the left were united in opposing the United States role in the Vietnam War. Almost lost also, were the proposals on education and environment coming from those participants who applied themselves to working away from the politicking. The assembly began as one of those well-meaning ideas that since youth represents half the world, youth should be heard on the urgent problems of the day.

It" was hoped that they might infuse new vigor into the dispirited United Nations and a their nine-day assembly from July 9 to last Friday the high point of. the United Turmoil usual. The police find they have to intervene in more arguments than when the wind blows the other way in this crowded but comfortable city. Men find refuge from argumentative wives -in beer hall on the banks of the Isar, where they stare idly at the sun's flickering reflections on green surface of the river. "I certainly do sellmibre aspirins these days," said a druggist on S6nnenstrasse, "but the Fohn is not all bad.

Look at the Alps. Look how clearly they stand out. You can see every wrinkle." Even without the Fohn "the Municheners had cause to upset this year. The whole town, so nicely rebuilt after the" devastation of the Second World War, has been' torn apart again this time to prepare for the 1972 Olympics. A subway is being funneled through the city and an elevated railway is being put a'Bove it.

Another airport is built. Almost every street that has a part of a labyrinthean system of dctoiirs. able in dollars and cents: 1. The Frenchness Quebec. 2.

The reconciliation of the "old" and "new" Quebec. 3. The need for a more viable relationship between the provinces and the' federal government. Bourassa, exactly two months after he was elected, met with Montreal business leaders to press upon them the need to make French the working language of the province. To a large extent, it already is.

But in one, vital, sector, this is not so often the case: the management of large national or international companies. FEW UNDERSTAND Few outside Quebec understand how urgent rectification of this matter is to French Canadians, who too often find that they must work in their second language if, they are to. work in the top m.ilieu of Quebec's largest economic have a choice among several candidates for, a constitutional assembly. The president has moved sharply away from heavy dependence on Soviet upport. "Revolutionary socialism' is still the official philosophy, but when a foreign enterprise inf nationalized the owners are allowed to negotiate for months for adequate compensation.

AVOIDS INVOLVEMENT The government ba'cks the of the Pales-. tine i 1 1 a but has 'avoided direct involvement in the Middle East conflict. It has recognized the Viet Cong and the exile regime of Norodom Sihanouk as the legitimate governments of South Vietnam and Cambodia and it has no diplomatic relations Nations 25th anniversary year. What went wrong? There was the obvious naivete of expecting that kall governments would heed the admonition to allow youths groups to select, without interference, five 'participants under 25 years of age who would come as individuals. The word was ALWAYS CORRECT Would the 36 year old Ukrainian philologist be uncomfortable in a student dor, mitory? Not at all.

Did the girlish Russian linguist ever find reason to oppose Mos-cow'-s No. Because they were correct, always. The 15 participants from the Soviet Union, the Ukraine and Byelorussia, one voice, laid down the familiar policy line even before the assembly opened. They called for the explusion of the Chin-' ese Nationalists, the South Koreans and the South Vietnamese. They pledged "ardent" support for Arab brothers and black nationalist fighters and opposition to American imperialism and Capitalist oppression.

Beside the Soviet groups the five participants from the United States seemed novices. All were students 18 to 23 years old, One was black-They had -been selected by youth groups from a disap pointingly scant list of 226 candidates who had replied to the 30,000 applications that had been distributed. The five projected an image o( individualism. They sought no offices -t so. positions went Ur usually leftists.

They went in for a practice unstylish in this assembly self-criticism. They opposed American policy but also suggested that any catalogue of oppression or imperialism should not be exclusively American. They mentioned the Soviet Tactk in 1968tin in Hungary; the Soviet treatment of Jews and the increasing Soviet involvement in the Middle East RULES IGNORED In an aTseni'bTywTiere rules were ignored and decisions tossed aside, leftist-led groups; Months Businesslike' Premier Bourassa's show of determination, already backed up by action, has won viarm approval from every-finfe but Rene Levesque, who thinks the anglicjzation of Montreal has crept too far to be cured by anything but independence, i Cultural identity matters to Mr. Bourassa. So does the evolution of Quebec society.

In a recent interview with two Canadian Press 'reporters, one of whom writes in each language, he dwelt on the need for reconciliation during the transition from- Quebec's old, rural-dominated society to its new, urban-dominated society. The now-shattered National Union party-was butf-p-by Maurice Duplessis on fh basis of a rural, uneducated pre-industrial. ultra-conservative and priest dominated Quebec. The Liberals under Jean Lr-snge brought the madern urban, university-educated elite with the United States. Trade relations with th U.S.

are on the upswing, however. American, British, French, German, Italian and Japanese companies- are helping Algeria's development program, Boumedienne has settled old border disputes with Tunisia and Morocco and has established arelationshipof friendly confidence with France. Hard bargaining is likely for higher prices tor Algerian oil. More than two-thirds of Algeria's annual output- of 45.000,000 tons is exploited by French companies. But Boumedienne has assured France the argument, will not be allowed to disrupt good relations between the two countries.

packed "We meeting room of; the peace commission, keeping' it in almost constant uproar with heckling demonstrations that denied the Chinese Nationalises and others a chance to speak. Majority votes were rolled up-by the easy device of pulling in supporters from other meetings. "Never have I seen such an atmosphere of injustice, hatred and prejudices," lamented" a young Austrian. From the sidelines, those familiar with youth movements felt the assembly was being maniupulated by professionals from the two leftist youthgroups -based in Budapest and Prague the World Federation of Democ a i Youth and the International Union of Students. Both were trying to recover the status after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw members, which neither, organization denounced, i ADnmi cn -rr nnnr There were scores of proposals that the young members supported with enthusiasm.

The use of multinational teacher training teams in developing countries was one. They wanted a day set aside for meditation on environmental problems. They appealed to the Pope to re: view the objections to artificial methods of birth control. Contrary to the elders' fears that the membership would take a permissive view on drugs, they came out against legalizing marijuana and even proposed cigarette advertising. There were other Jess tangible results mentioned by the participants, such as the opening of channels for exchanging ideas among youth.

The Americans and Russian had even managed to get alone for hours intellectual he ideological conflicts were predictable, said Lars Thalen, the 26-year-old Swedish chairman of the young participants were peflecting "the grave division of this world." he said- "The participants were unable to disregard the conditions of the world have 'been into which they born." to power in I960, but it moved too fast for the bewildered and the left-bchind, who restored, power to the National Union in 1966. Now Mr. Bourassa is clearly committed to a smoother transition from the old to the new. (Rural education of course, one of the keys.) And anyone who thought that Quebec would finally lay quiet on the national scene should by now be disabused by Mr. Bourassa's various utterances.

He will push hard for constitutional reform, but without the vituperation or impatience of his predecessors-It is on these things the role of French, the structure of Quebec society, and the status of Quebec within Canada that Mr. Bourassa' eyes are set and on which he hopes to make his name, not just the bread and butter needs of Quebec with which he has been generally atcd. to talk--tfBout jjisseht..