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Race to decide trade bilFs future
TORONTO — Supporters and
opponents of the U.S.-Canada free
trade agreement combined last-min
uteelectioneering Sunday with a final
advertising blitz on the eve of na
tional elections.
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney,
buoyed by recent polls that showed
his Progressive Conservative Party
back in the lead, toured his native
Quebec while his leading rival, Lib
eral Party leader John Turner, cam
paigned in Vancouver, British Co
lumbia.
Both have focused on the trade
deal - the major issue in Monday’s
race.
Mulroney told a Saturday news
conference in Quebec that he would
call Parliament back into session
quickly to proceed with final passage
of the pact, which Turner has vowed
to reject.
In an interview with this week’s
Maclean’s magazine, Mulroncy was
quoted as saying he would try to pur
sue the trade agreement even if his
party can only form a minority gov
ernment.
“The trade deal is a must for
Canada’s future,” he was quoted as
saying. ‘‘It’s a visionary instrument of
job creation and new wealth and it is
clearly something that is on the right
side of history.”
But Turner has revived his cam
paign by saying the pact threatened to
make Canada a U.S. colony.
Speaking at a Saturday campaign
rally, Turner repeated his call -to
“keep Canada Canadian for Canadi
ans” and cancel the pact with a vote
for his parly.
In this week’s Maclean’s, Turner
was quoted as saying the pact “would
radically change the direction of our
country. It yields the economic levers
of sovereignty: our energy, our in
vestment policy, our capital markets,
supply-management of agriculture.”
The socialist New Democratic
Party also opposes the agreement that
President Reagan and Mulroncy
signed in January, so only a majority
Conservative government ensures
that it will proceed as scheduled.
The 10-year agreement would
start phasing out all remaining tariffs
between Canada and the United
Stales on Jan. 1. It has passed the U.S.
Congress but still needs Canadian
parliamentary approval.
Mulroney spent the campaign’s
last weekend in his native French
speaking Quebec, where he is count
ing on support for the free trade agree
ment to come through with a solid
showing for the province’s 75 seats.
Turner hopes the Liberals will
come through best in the 99 seats of
predominantly English-speaking
Ontario, where opposition to the
agreement is strongest.
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Economic problems crippling
South Africa, report says
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica— Severe economic problems
aggravated by the costs of apart
heid are causing a spread of hun
ger, disease and unemployment in
South Africa, a prominent research
organization reported Sunday.
The South African Institute of
Race Relations, an independent
group with a reputation for impar
tial research, said in its annual
survey that “the effects of eco
nomic decline pervade the picture
of South African society.”
Housing experts estimate that 7
million of the nation’s 26 million
blacks live in shacks, the report
said.
It quoted the National Tubcrcu
losis Association as reporting that
the disease, although preventable,
was killing 10 people a day.
The institute cited a university
study forecasting that South Africa
could have a surplus of 9 million
unskilled workers without jobs by
the year 2000 unless the economy
is revitalized.
Unemployment estimates
among blacks range from 20 per
cent to 50 percent, though reliable
figures are not available.
“Economic problems continue
to be exacerbated by expenditure
on segregated structures, and by
the government’s failure to meet
black political demands,” the re
port said.
It referred to a recent speech by
President P.W. Botha in which he
said the government’s plans to
eliminate inequalities in social
services were being disrupted by
foreign sanctions and embargoes
in protest of apartheid, under
which the black majority has no
voice in national affairs.
Botha said the “campaign of
economic war being wagedagainst
us” could deprive die government
of $400 million for social pro
grams over the next five years and
delay their implementation by 10
to 15 years.
The race relations inslitutecited
estimates that the government
wasted $400 million each year
operating racially segregated
health services.
Government health officials
reported widespread malnutrition
problems, and Operation Hunger, a
private group, said it was feeding
1.2 million South Africans a day,
according to the institute’s report.
The report said economic prob
lems had sidetracked a long
standing government promise to
equalize per-pupil spending at
black and white schools. This ini
tiative has been stalled because the
country’s annual economic growth
rate is now 2.5 percent, instead of
the projected 4.1 percent rate on
which the plan was based, the re
port said.
Of government spending on
education, 41 percent went to
white schools, although only 11
percent of the students were white,
the report said. It said the govern
ment acknowledged that white
school facilities were underutil
ized but was reluctant to let them be
used to alleviate serious over
crowding in black schools.
In addition, the country faces a
foreign debt that is expected to
reach almost $12 billion in 1990
91 and is equivalent to about hall (
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