Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press tuesday january 30, 1979 world Lack of restraint could emasculate organization to to boost in United nations up can Ada criticized the in for increasing g its spending As the general As Sembly approved More than Jisoo million in supplementary expenditures monday. The Assembly in approving an additional million in spend ing brought the in s program budget for 1978 and 1979 to billion. William Barton Canada s ambassador to the in complained that the additional expenditures indicate the in s inability to control its spending. This would be a dangerously unhealthy situation in the Best of Barton said. But when Many member states Are experiencing serious economic difficulties at Home and have had to apply severe politically difficult restraints to their own programs it is an intolerable Barton said he Hopes that Secre tary general Kurt Waldheim will be Able to come up with recommendations to curb the growth of the in budget. It was time to set a definite limit for each budget period he said and to ensure that subsequent changes in the program were financed by deferring lower priority projects. Governments have to do this in the conduct of their own affairs and failure to do it Here is eroding Public support for the United nations and ultimately could jeopardize its very Barton said. He warned that if the in does not demonstrate restraint some Mem Ber governments May decide to reduce their contributions. If that happens the end result will be the emasculation of the Assembly s capacity to manage its own Barton also noted that in the administrative and budgetary com Mittee which approved the added spending countries representing More than 50 per cent of the entire in assessment voted against the supplementary expenditures. Canada which paid an assess ment of 3.04 per cent of the in budget in 1978, abstained on the final vote on the supplementary spending. The ., which pays one Quarter of the budget voted against the Resolution. The Secretary general in explaining the need for the extra financing said million of the added expense is needed to compensate for the falling value of the Dollar. While the in budget is framed in american dollars about 40 per cent of it is spent in foreign currencies. This basically does not occur in National Waldheim said noting that Many of the speeches opposing the supplementary estimates cited government restraint at Home. Beirut up eight civilians were killed and 13 wounded monday when lebanese right Wing christians opened fire on a moslem suburb of Beirut the Arab league peacekeeping command said. The two sides blamed each other for provoking the flare up which the peacekeeping command said in a statement had subsided by Nightfall. The statement said seven civilians were killed by a mortar Shell that exploded in Swiyyah a moslem residential District. It was believed to have been fired by rightist gunners in the Christian sector of the City. The eighth victim was shot dead while driving through a Street in downtown Beirut that was exposed to Christian sniper fire the statement said. It added that syrian peacekeepers exchanged fire with rightist militiamen along the Green line that divides Beirut into moslem and Christian sectors. Christian spokesmen accused the Syri ans of opening fire first and provoking the outbreak. No casualties were reported in the Christian sector. Effect Jve from to y Dep Arr a flight Day 7-sunday stops 632-1250 Thompson Man. Cost 0745 0859 b 1350 1504 749 1800 2019 1900 2100 d 129 in the Middle of a Cairo Street during the Rush hour one egyptian Man appears to have All the time in the world. While his horse drawn cart loaded with an old automobile is blocking traffic he leans Back to relax. Washington a the Carter administration abandoned its two tier approach to the israeli egyptian peace treaty monday after a 12-Day Mission to the area by ambassador Alfred Atherton failed to narrow the Gap Between the parties. Atherton had hoped to Bridge differences on some lesser issues to pave the Way for higher level talks on the More difficult aspects of the negotiations. But State department spokesman Hodding Carter said monday that it now appears that All the remaining issues Are of such concern to the parties that it May not be possible to Deal with them in a statement Carter was unable to Point to any Progress made by Atherton but said his talks were useful in clarifying the thinking of the the spokesman refused to say whether ministerial or Summit level talks Are now being consid ered in Light of the impasse. Carter s statement indicated that further Progress can Only be achieved through direct talks which offer a greater Opportunity for bargaining on the issues in conflict. In his talks with israeli and egyptian officials Atherton tried to get the parties to agree on interpretations of two articles in the draft treaty text. One article deals with Security arrangements in the Sinai. Israel objects to egyptian insistence that the arrangements be reviewed after a five year period contend ing that this amounts to a time limit on the treaty. The other article centres on an egyptian demand that the treaty not prevent it from carrying out existing agreements to help other Arab countries that might be at tacked by Israel. The administration had hoped israeli egyptian agreement on those two articles would open the Way for discussion of the More difficult issues. Egypt wants an israeli commit ment at the time the treaty is signed on a target Date for holding elections for palestinian councils in the israeli held West Bank and the Gaza strip. The israelis believe that peace with Egypt should not be Contin gent on any Issue not directly involving the two countries. Extra Pacific a Lesterl Nicosia Cyprus a saudi Arabia which has stepped up crude Oil output to compensate for the loss of iranian exports has decided to charge five per cent More for its extra production an authoritative Oil journal reported Mon Day. The Middle East economic sur vey which has close connections with saudi sources said the saudis Are partly filling a shortage caused by anti government strikes by Oil workers in Iran that have virtually halted Iran s daily Oil production of six million barrels. On Jan. 1, saudi Arabia and the other members of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries raised crude Oil prices by five per cent to For a 42-gallon barrel of saudi Light crude the Type used As the Standard for pric ing. Although reporting saudi production at More than 10 million barrels a Day the economic sur vey said that officially the saudis have Only raised their production ceiling to 9.5 million barrels from 8.5 million. As a result the extra five per cent charge was being levied Only on the one million barrel differ ence and analysts said that should have a negligible effect on prices in North America because it amounts to so Little of Over All consumption. 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Taking up a popular theme of the Palestine liberation organization the students called for establishment of a palestinian state from the Mediterranean sea to the Jordan River in which jews and arabs would live with equal rights. The state would in clude both Israel and the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River the Region populated by palestinians that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War. The students comments made in a news conference were certain to fuel growing outrage among Israel s three million jews Over a snowballing rebellion by the Cotin iry s Arab minority of Israel television said a student from Bir Zeit University in the West Bank was accused of organizing last week s controversial statement by six israeli arabs Olio expressed Solidarity with the Palestine National Cut mail the palestinian parliament in the six students were expelled Ned ordered to remain in their the military also has ordered the six deported bit tha i appealed. The four who held monday s news Confer ence belong to the organization As the six sex rolled students. The students they reject the idea of a zionist state which they consider an occupation of Arab land. Rejects the Plo s demand for statehood even if t were to the West Bank and the pales Gaw. Strip also occupied by Israel ;