am Inflation will have

~The. newly -
Oe National: - ‘Commission™ .on
: greater
«powers than the. Anti-

-s Inflation - Board. -which.
_ replaces, in that it will be —

able. to seek out information

_.,over ‘prices and report’
‘directly to the public if

_ necessary.

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at

for failing to.
gouging.

NDP members |
unhappy. in that the new

Commission will not have the |
price

power to order
rolibacks.

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But finance minister Jean _ |

Chretien doesn’t expect. the
new powers to be used
extensively and has been

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Invasion threatens |
to overthrow Amin

the government doeés not
have the power to order
price reductions or rollbacks
in the economy except in the

Foreign support for rebel forces

Ugandan President Idi
‘Amin has launched a
_ Counter attack .against an
invasion that threatens to
bring down his regime.

The dictator has called
upon his army to fight to the
last man against the Tan-
zanian offensive, as
foreigners:in Uganda scurry
to leave the country.

. The Tanzanians have
seized control of a large
section of southwest
Uganda, backed up by
Ugandan exiles loyal to
former Ugandan president
Milton Obote.

The war threatens to pull
in several other African
nations. At least 1,000 Arab
soldiers have been flown in
from Morocco and Libya,
along with Palestinians, to
support Amin.

~ ‘This Arab intervention has

been matched with offers of

support of Tanzania from

Zambia, Angola,

Mozambique and Botswana.
t

°

bite for NDP_
‘criticised in the Commons

institute -
safeguards against ‘price ;

_case. of an emergency. And -
he. made it clear he does not.

‘consider
“national circumstances as an
a, emergency.
are |

the current

~ -

The new commission sees
a cutback in staff numbers
on the total employed by the
Centre for Inflation and

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“More 2-4D |
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B.C lakes.

‘The ministry of- ‘en-
vironment will abandon its

‘ plans to spray the Okanagan
Lake with the controversial
_ pesticide 2-4D this year as
“the :spread of Eurasian -

- Milifoil there: is. corisidered
But. ‘the —

beyond. control.
herbicide will be used

“nearby at Kalamalka Lake
and Wood Lake. .

ministry has.

‘And the
received an application for
the spraying of an area on
northern Vancouver Island

with 2-4D, along with the

pg eager emteete ater meer an ak eR ROP Pett gt

Trade figures released for
January show. trade. looking
three times-as good as it did
for December,

surplus.

The figures, released by
Statistics Canada, mean that

for the month Canada ex- |

ported far more than was
imported, patticularly in
finished products, which. are
considered desirable

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