. a OTTAWA (UPC) - Al6-Wednesday, July 30, 1980 - North Shore News AS 32ND PARLIAMENT ENDS By RICHARD DOYON After putting the country through ‘two-géneral elections within nine months, the Liberal government . said in the Throne Speech last April that Canadians ‘“expecs much” from the 32nd Parliament. The Grits, who were ‘returned to power with a big majority last February, said home-owners needed . protection from high interest rates; pensioners required more money to survive, and that: problems within the Post Office would be solved by creating a crown cor- poration. And, because Canadians voted for a®* “made-in- Canada” oil price, con- sumers could expect lower oil prices under a Liberal administration. than what had been promised by the ‘Conservative government. But when MPs _ began heading back to their home ridings last week for the three-month summer recess, the first, 100 days of the new Parliament showed the govérnment had failed to get close to solving the nation's problems. Granted, the government pushed through a total of 26 bills, including a $35-a- month increase in the guaranteed income sup- plement for 1.3 million pensioners; legislation raising loan ceilings for farmers and fishermen and improved benefits for Canada’s war veterans. It also made good on its pledge to introduce a bill creating the Canada Post Corp., which should eliminate a government department by next fall, and it brought in long-awaited freedom of information legislation. And, in an uncharacter- istic bit of patriotism in late. June, it was the 32nd Parliament that made “O Canada” the official national anthem. “The first session of Parliament may not have appeared to be sensational for certain people,” Yvon Pinard, the rookie govern- ment house leader conceded in a speech to Parliament last week. “For sure there has been nothing out- Standing, there has been no scandal. “However ... we must all admit that during the first two months of existence, this Parliament has been very efficient.” ’ But, according to Con- servative leader Joe Clark — still smarting from his tumble from power in the Feb. 18 election — the 32nd Parliament should not have been a mere “housekeeping” session obsessed with passing a backlog of bills left over from the previous two Parliaments. “We have here a majority government, a government that does not have to be preoccupied with the matters that preoccupied my government that ultimately brought us down,” Clark said. “This is a government that has a mandate ... to face directly the major problems and the great potential this nation faces.” In the government's five months in office, Clark maintains, the federal spending deficit grew by $3.7 billion to more than $14 billion; the ranks of the unemployed swelled by 51,000 people and inflation went to double-digit levels for the first time in five years. “What does it (the government) intend to do?” the 41-year-old former prime minister asked. “What is the government's attitude toward inflation? When will we have a budget? “All these questions deal directly with the ability of individual Canadians to to live make their plans, their ‘lives and) since February, the Liberal government has given no indication to any consistent economic plan or program.” Tough questions for an elusive Allan MacEachen, who as the political master of the Commons, managed only non-answers to Clark and his’ colleagues throughout the session. Despite some success with “priority” legislation, a survey of the government's throne speech intentions indicate that numerous measures promised by the Liberals have yet to be in- troduced or have been placed on the back-burner. They include: *a budget, promised by MacEachen last spring for June, was replaced by an April 21 ‘‘economic Statement” that many of the Conservatives’ tax initiatives — including higher levies on alcohol and tobacco; | * a national energy policy, taking into account election pledges of a “made-in- Canada” oil price, was replaced by the govern- ment’s promise it would not re-introduce the Tories’ controversial 18-cents-a-ga- llon increase in the excise tax on gasoline. China to limit leaders to 12 years in office PEKING (UPI) - China's Communist Party soon will adopt a rule limiting its leaders at all levels to a maximum of {2 years in office, an authoritative Chinese source said last week. In effect, prevent a that would repeat of the lifetime rule enjoyed by the late party chairman Mao Tse-tung who headed the party for around 40 years until his death in 1976. It would also protect China from the type of long term leadership enjoyed by the late Josef Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev in the Soviet Union. The Chinese source said the new rule probably will be adopted at a congress of the Chinese Communist Party slated to be held late this year or early in 1981. It would bar any ranking party official from holding a job more than three four- year terms. The terms would be marked off by congresses of the Com- munist Party whose con- stituuion calls forthem to be held at least every years. four 5 year term, interest paid annually. 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Roten said that a clean-cut, well- dressed hitchhiker had disappeared from cars travelling along highways_ near Little Rock. Efforts to find someone who actually saw the “highway apostle” proved fruitless. But Littl Rock apparently 1s full of people who know someone who knows someone who had it happen to them. (UPI) -~ Lowering her voice, one woman told the story thus: “A girl said her parents and another couple were coming from Pine Bluff. They picked up this neatly dressed man _ because he looked like he needed transportation, you know. He discussed current events — He knew about the hostages — and all of a sudden he said “Jesus Christ is coming again’ and disappeared. Roten said he checked with police districts all over the state and found only the two reports in Little Rock. “It’s not a violation of the law and no hazard is in- volved. 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