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BARBARA WARD addressed the phase out Conference Plenary session last evening, delivering a broat! sweep across man's develop111ent to em phasiseher viewthat HaM�t &0lutloas were stillwithin man's grasp. "Can we ,in the iurmoUs ahead show that, as a small species on our fragile planet, we can collectively chooselife and by thatcreative process nacl-aar ofgenerosity among plant thefortunate elites NUCLEAR power and emerged yesterday as a posium, butalso a phasing outof thosenow determined pressure from the centtal issue in the Habitat.debate. developing countries, the emphasis should mass theof people baUa an arerlnour From in operation. placedon renewable -lertcbo,;Beacb came a clear, �vocal A smallvoice in support �� energysources and setpemeats wlik:h @Vetl us some 1 camefrom the IMI limitation deman<\ agnedby theentue trorum, 1 of .hazardous technologies reasonable ftape of living Jn peace that tfny Papua-New Guinea deJegaUoa to the suchas nuclear power. the� sboulc! be not only a global Conference, who tabled an amendment � alHf���� .mora he tn !Jut in. .a statement to the plenary "\O·g:-'5 I lla't� � 3• .r. .. �\I.- aaid.�b to export them. Admitting tlie liioi'i1 dilemma in suchexports, he said: "By and large we thought shouldwe not take a 'dog in the manger' altitude and say it's our technology and it's too risky foryou black people, or you brown people, or you yellow people." The powerful anti-nuclear lobby will brlngifreshpressure to bear tomorrow when Margaret ·Mead opens a three-day discussionat HabitatForum. NGOs · go before the official Conference todayto seekaction on a list of specificgoals they have set f� Habitat, and to propose a newstyle of developmenl As well as their nuclear demand, they want 10 percent of all money now used for military purposes by UN members to be transferred annually to afund for improving human settlements.This should be regarded as a first step toward disarmament, they say. The proposals are incorporated in a statement which will be read to the Con ferenceby J .G.van Putten,Chai�an of the NGO Committeefor HabitaLThe document represents th�ee days of debate on three separate drafts, and an all-nightsession to arrive at a compromise. Top priority in the recommendationsis given to participation. "The opinion of the i elderly, the handicapped, the poor, the newcomers, must be obtained and acted upon, particularly with regard to social \ services, employment opportunities, building design, transportation policies and theprovision of utilities." Endorsing a recommendation in the Draft Declaration ofPrinciples, the NGOs RCAF blankets: theInstant survival kit at theForum. (Continued on nextpage J . INSIDE JrRUDMU B�CKS II-POWER Mother Teresaprofile, Committeereport z CANADIANPrime Minister Pierre Trudeau countries applauded India for making a placed on the use of renewable over non Forum reports 3 said nuclearpower was not onlystill needed bombbased on Canadiannuclear know-how. renewable energy .sources, and the What's wrong with the Declaration, in today's world but may have in recent Even the most enlightened leaders of the limitationof technologies which are known Message from an empty seat, Backchat, times averteda major world war. "If there Third World had told him: "Thank Godan to beh828rdOUS, such as nuclearpower. editorialand cartoon 4 & 5 hadn'tbeen the knowledgeand theability to Indian and a� .Pllinese government have Energy generation, delivery and use Fun with the films & extract energy �cefully from the atom shown that they too can explode a nuclear should be concentrated in small, self Habitatprogramme details 7 perhaps the oil embargo ol 1973 and the bomb." contained units rather than in latger grid Gremlin, Habichat Back page OPEC actionmight have beenmore risky in At the official Conference, thePapua- systems. This would reduce the susce� terms of world war thanit was in fact," he New Guinea delegation suggested that, tability to power failures over very large told a pressconference. where possible, and particularly in areas as a result of disasters, thedelegate He said leaders of less developed ilevel�ing countries, emphasis should be said. JERI CHO, the Habitat newspaper, 2 June 1976 Page2 OF COMMITTEE 1 STORY Pal tine Liberalion ----THE SAD ancestral lands which ABU-LUGHOD, the � . storal tribesman to slay on their representative, complam d OHAZ, the young pa really want to leave. Organisation � arid hinterland, came to none ofthem Committee 1 yesterday that �s from Sudan's problems are not peculiarto bitterly in Vancouveryesterday · on film. Ohaz's were "suffering under brutal Ziomst Sudan.Delegates from mostdeveloping people Delegates discussing the vexed OH}\z occupation." . . recognised theirown Oh!lzes. question of urban drift saw the red, countries He said he represented a people driven in Port Sudan - But the film also seemed toemphasise grassless waste in which O�z m '!5t such settlements Crom their homeland to make room "for an providing new houses (built, usually, - for all governments- the long-term PLO raise his flock and grow has gram. incessant nowof alien settlers.". The with local materials) as well as basic inadvisability of what France called m s pport Increasing numbers ofhis fellows give The drive, delegate was making a statement � amenities and social services. But. as "institutionalising" slums. draft declaration of up and.find what work they can in the said, must be to of amendments to the Mostof the Sudanese delegate who showed the the French delegate by thedelegates of Iraq. cities and ports of their country. the ghettoesand slums into principles proposed live on the fringes of towns, in film of Ohaz pointed out, the besthelp is "reabsorb" Iraq amendments threaten to un them the urban situation, notto treatthem as The Illegal squatter settlements. not enough. There must be, he said, dermine an apparent consensu� on the in the a "specificdwelling sector." In the past five yearsthe Sudanese simultaneous improvement declarations. Most delegates beheve that his kin Ohaz wouldnot want it either way. Government has resettled five of 12 countryside to enable Ohaz and _ with relatively minor changes the present draftis the bestthat can behoped for. In a strong plea for �estraint, Australia's head of delegation, Don McMichaer, reminded c�mmittee mem�rs for its the declaration was 1mporta_nt . universality, andshould not be Jeopardised by statements which some governments might beunable to support. it easy The delegates of Iraq proposed three Making refer to amendments which unmistakably Israel. Among the preamble'� !,ist of "unacceptable circumstancesof life, was a new clause that included "involun�ry migration, politically-motivated relocati�n and expulsion of people from their t homeland." guil snarl the to dump Whether Iraq's amendments on Israel's By JAMES BARBER declaration will depend partly Committee 1 today, but lar�ely THERE'S a special lone the western �edia response in Holm on the reaction of the o�er deleg�tes. .L1ttle uses for interviewing holy persons. es_s ex the press- 1t support for the Arab mtervention 1s is pretty carefully defined for va ue a that you be Catholic, can be pected, because most countries ! is preferable expression as Father or Sister and are not clear consensus and a strong ?f" addressed highly to allow this (shades of Berrigan) political. Rabbis do!)'t the intent of Habitat too the media, to bejeopardized. get too much indulgence from ed if you are called Mother When the Committee was adJour� nor Moslems. But the d laration Teresa you get a very special reverence, yesterday, it seemedlikely � the pressis interviewing would be handed over lo a W(lrkmg group voicesare hushed, will turn its grandmother. today, when thefull committee the world's . . . to the Programmes for 117-ter U�and-coming young r_ebg,ous �(blors attention archly raise an eyebrow < 1t feels hke tea nationalCooperation. with the vicar) and ask Mother Teresa about the propriely of Po� Paul swooping_around India in a fancyCadillac, and she brmgs the COMMITTEE 2 issue back to basics: it was a gift, and h.e gave it to her when he left, and she raffledtt facility for IN Vancouver Hotel Committee 2 began and built a much needed new for national smilesand we all go back studies on recommendations lepers. Everybody action.. Before them are the questions of to beinghushed. .. tie\\\emen\po\\cies and su-ategy,set\\emen\. Y\.<>\heT ��"'51-8. d-\a \n tl\mp\\$\\ca. l ' - -·------c-1'-na"l"dlla,l'�lrlO/dldle""Wlttl planningand institutions,and management. politics" . . . "Christ is on earth in the The Spanish delegation said they had to distressing guies o( lhe poor" ... "If Mr. consider that natural resources had been Trudeau would just eat a little less every damagedin vast areasof fileMedi _terranean day his remarks about love would have lands by deforestationand soil erosion.The more meaning". She also talks about Indian delegation submitted thatnot enough "lepers" when she addresses the Plenary importance was being placed on rural Hall, the front rows of which are han settlements and that people must live in dicapped people, wheelchairs, white canes, harmonywith nature at Jesscost. and she may have forgotten that the biggest problem the handicapped face is not being spoken of as "the handicapped", but as people with problems. Like leprosy. But COMMITTEE 3 first people. On Sunday she was rootingfor Barbara that thebetter class boutiques are not yet The Plenary Hall at Jericho is the Ward and population control, for an end to selling Mother Teresa T-shirts. THE intriguing "informal sector" surfaced emotional centre of Habitat Forum, where romanticism and for a beginningor action. I Okay. So what she does is great. In in CommitteeIII and delegates agreed that the superstarsof thehumanist movement do have seen her equally animated at rallies Calcutta. Here, al Habitat, what she it should be given more support.The phrase, their numbers for TV cameras, tape defending womens' rights to terminate dramaticallypoints outis a specialaspect of by definition, must me,n that official, recorders, simultaneous translation pregnancies. But on Monday she was in the impotence of Habitat Forum, of its governmental (formal, if youlike> efforts at facilities and a highly enthusiastic audience tears. Mother Teresa was talking abouther inability to reach out and touch something house building have failed to accommodate of already converted fans. An atmosphere poor. And the poor included those people more than emotion. Like reason. The people the growing population of, particularly, somewhere between a Unitarian church and whose poverty of imagination forced them at Habitat Forum know exactly what they urban poor. Governments have Jostcontrol. a 1960'sWe Shall Overcome folk festival. to accept the necessity for abortion. believein; they know aboutthe poor and the On the other hand, the Habitat secretariat's Nobody in the PlenaryHall is thereto be Applause, applause. nuclear threats,about mercury in Minimata recommendation says categorically thatthe converted. When Norman Levinson, a Mother Teresa has more than a theory, and cowshit in the streets of Calcutta. And informal sector "has proved its ability to singularly unpleasant, obstreperous, each knows, individually and passionately, meet the needs of the poorin many parts of garrulous, ill-informed but dedicated and she has a way of doing something about poverty.But I don't really understandwhat The Most Important Place To Begin The the world despite the lack of public terribly, terribly serious young man, at Solution. recognition and support." It is another way tempts to air his views he is shouted down, she is doing al a scene like Habitat. A few years ago the governments of the world Mother Teresa collected $4.200 on of saying that the poor have managed to he has his microphone disconnected, and he Monday. Tears on the faces, guilt money in help themselves. is as unpopular as a Black Mass devotee at a decided that she was innocent and non threatening, a nice, kind, domesticated the blanket, just like the Sunday morning Governments, here yesterday, seemed Billy Graham revival. Nobody intends to collection plate, where 25 cents bought to agreethat they should now begiven some listen to him. The kind, pink face of the grey activist, and worthy of o£ficial sanc tification. temporary relief. But the collection plate more recognition and assistance. Apart haired lady is contorted with hate as she churches have not yet come up, in living from a few semantic quibbles, delegates chants "Shut up, Shut up .... "She is such The media picked up on it. Normal memory, with a solution, with a working mostly went along with the secretariat's a kind·faced lady, very soapand water, you poverty on its own is non-story for most ethic,for mankind. seven-point "priority areas for action" know she has a compost heap and buys newspapers, but mix it up with a little Mother Teresa makes it too easy to which included removing legal barriers to Unicef Christmas cards, you notice her saintliness, a litUe humility and some good dump your guilt, without ever addressing security of land tenure, providing sites and regularly, look forward to seeing her. She is pictures of flowing robes and sandals and yourself to the problem. Habitat will get services for the informal sector, en the woman Norman Rockwell would have it's a natural sedond front page. Par nowhere by a self.indulgence in repititious couraging self-help with technical and put on the cover of Saturday Evening Post, ticularly if it is in a foreign country. So pieties. As Barbara Ward said: "Staywithin financial assistance, altering building and had that magazine ever discovered the Mother Teresa becomes the symbol of the boundsof decency and decorumand you licensing codes, helping small businesses, humanist movement. poverty relief in the world. I'm surprised get nothing done." changing the marketing and distribution system of building materials, and even changing the administrative structure of NGOs NUCLEAR DEMAND governments, to help them who help (Continued from previous page) COMMITTEE themselves. call for the removal of obstacles which stand countries the so-called 'deprived areas• are In fact the delegatesseemed to agree so in the way of popular participation, such as not the exception but frequently the rule. PEOPLE much with the secretariat on the whole of lack of access to information, and poor According to World Bank statistics, more l'l@nary: Chairman Jlarnl'y Danson icanada'I. section C { dealing with Shelter, · education. than 900mhave to exist on an annual income (·ommllltt I : Chairman li�g., :\tuhoho 4 K@nya,; Infrastructure and Services} that the The NGOs ask to be involved both in of lessthan$75. \'icl'-('hairm@n: llikmat Al lladiphl
the caste system, originally set up for economic reasons, had become a closed, Above: Mike Webb working ona Forumstatue of Margaret Trudeau. Below: Jens Lyberth. insensitive system that is slowly changing. He said social justice must take legal, political and economic forms to remove imbalance. U.S. HAS DONE A LOT - HILLS "The ends of justice are best served if ' CARLA HILLS, US Secretary of Housing already given $5,000 milllon in foreign people control the system" be said. He and Urban Affairs, held out little hope assistance and added: "We can do more, but explainedthat systems such as monarchies, yesterday that her government would offer we have done a lot." feudal stales and- dictators are slowly any new initiatives at the Conference Asked whether the Third World could changing to democracies. But he said democracies are not truly participatory towards helping the developing world solve expecl Americans to accept more modest its human settlements problems. because they politicians become remote standards or housing, Mrs. Hills said that from the people who elect them. At a press conference in the Forum, she when lhe focus was Of! the less developed was asked by an Asian delegate whether the countries, there was an appreciation oftheir Americans had come prepared to offer any INTERMET, the Toronto-based Inter concern over American levels or ·co� national Association for Metropolitan "goodies" to the developing countries, sumption. especially In the field of housing. research and Development, sponsored its Mrs. Hills said the Uniled States had -On the issue of low-cost housing, she second conference yesterday, devoted to shared its technology and would continue to said it was time the United States looked at rural-urban migration. The aU-day session do so, including housing technology. She more modest housingtor its own low-income discussed rural-urban migration as a said that the American government had groups. systemic response to the challenge of the l technological revolution. , Rajeev's here RAJEEV SETHI, the brllliant Indian designer whose exhibition took the Y oa�re boring as all silly Bucharist population conference by storm, has arrived in Vancouver with one of the THE morning plenary session at The Forum most unusual workshop exhibits lo ·be seen was rudely interrupted by a ca11 for dialogue in the city. - not lectures. Grey Panther This will be set up today in one of the Bernard Winter, a spokesman for the meeting roomsin Hangar Six and should be Grey Panthers of San Diego, an activist open to the public tomorrow. senior citizen's group, startled panel chided the Commonwealth yesterday for Hotel, said indications from the official members talking about Social Justice and failing to submit a strongStatement to the conference were that the new agency would . the Question of Differing Values and conference on Habitat issues. not be localed in either New York or Goin' fishin' Cultures by telling them. they were boring. At a workshop sponsored by the Com Nairobi, home of the UN Environment Program. "I WANT your advice as to whether we go "We are being bored silly. We might as wen monwealth Human Ecology Conference, he be in a college classroom," he said. said Commonwealth countries had made an He urged delegates to start contacting fishing this afternoon," 1',ather Muhoho, the official conferencenow if they wanted to Chairman of Committee One told Com Claiming lo represent "a group of impact on the Lima IndustrialDevelopment people gathered from different parts of the conference, the World J;>opulation Con "get whatever you care about into the mittee members yesterday morning. So few resolutions downtown." He advised delegations had asked to speak that the world," Winter called for the plenary ference and other major international sessions to be open "to the people." He said meetings, but had yet to do so in Vancouver. delegates to first consult the official con chairman was in some doubt as to whether ference document to find out which clauses the long hours -of the afternoon could be the role of the invited panelists should be India's Minister for Housing and cover their particular interest and then to filled profitably. restricted lo an advisory capacity only, Parliamentary Affairs, K. Raghu Ramaiah, restricting their comments to 10 minutes described the problems in his country, seek out sympathetic delegations. each. whose traditional rural economy was upset A. T. calling Panel chairman A. Kielan of the World by rapid industrialisation. THE FORUM was under raps yesterday as ABOUT 100 members of the Forum's Peace Councilwas taken aback, andagreed grateful delegates warmed themselves in Appropriate Technology communitymet on to his request. However the next panel blankets provided by the Canadian army. Monday night to fix their conference cam member to speak, Peter Goering, a Toronto FORUM delegates were told yesterday that Those more conscious of fashion than the paign. A draft resolution on A.T. was ac architect, went on talking well past his 10- any new human settlement agency created cold cut holes in the blankets and made cepted. A wider representation of opinions minute mark, despite a gentle reminder of · by Habitat will probably be located in ponchos. The blankets were apparently from non-industrialised nations is hoped for the time. Mexico City. considered a form of overseas aid: one in futurediscussions. Interested persons are Reporting to the NGO briefing Canadian was turned away when he asked urged to contact the A.T. Desk (near the DR. PAUL MWALUKO, director of the UN yesterday, GrahamSe arle, who is in charge for one, with the explanation thatthey were bookstore) in Hangar 8. 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PIERRE TRUDEAU says it's love. The presenting a series of pictutes of human photographers, and the best are on show at man who buttonholeda "Jericho" stafferal settlements, photographs showing how the Forum. POVERTY the Forum yesterday says it's politics. people live outside the comfortable, At noon tomorrow, Habitat Secretary Declarations and statements speak of protected environment orthe rich, studies of General Enrique Penalosa will present· planning, land use, water, nuclear power, the world that is toooften forgot ten . . • the medals to the six competition prizewinners IS WHAT and many other urgent topics. The official world on our conscience. at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Our three title is the United Nations Conference on Today Wt offer three pictures from an pictures all received an honourable men Human Settlements. But perhaps it was international photographic competition tion. Above left: "The Village Water Sup IT'S ALL Mother Teresa who summed up what called A Better Way to Live, jointly spon ply", by Bob Okanta (Ghana>: above right: Habitat is all about in two words - "the sored by the UN and the International "Pollution", by Vojtech Bartech poor". Because poverty is what it's about. Federation of Photographic Art. There were (Czechoslovakia>: right: "Outskirts of ABOUT To underline the message, "Jericho" is 5,275 entries from more than 1,000 Bombay", by PaulAlmasy ffrance>. HABITAT ON WIRE Carry on talking. AN international pigeonhole system moves into full swing tomorrow in Vancouver - CANADA became the first cowitry to use session planned to use films, although most The Austrian delegate had a par and in Washington, New York, San Farn rilm in the Conference Plenary Session of the films were not closely related to the ticularly bad experience. She described her , cisco, Montreal, Paris, and maybe even yesterday when Allan MacEachen, speeches. The Canadian film was in country's film, Is Inequality Fate., which features an outstanding mime artist, and Bonn and Cairo. Secretary of State for External Affairs, troduced by a brief, two-line reference. The Hotline lnternationa\, a computer introduced the three-minute capsule or USSR speaker merely gave the title. then began to talk about a separate issue. But immediately she-stopped describing the conference orgainzation runby Mildred and Design Innovations. Technical hassles bugged almost every Glen Robbins Leet of New York, will enable The premiere did not go smoothly. The film. The picture quality was lousy. The film (which is good), the projectionist screened it. participating NGO people all over the world film flipped on to the screen then disap USSR film pointed outthe "greenery" of its to followand contribute to Habitat. peared, and then the sound went. There was cities, hut delegates could see only some Enrique Penalosa, the Habitat Secretary-General, sent someone to Computer conferences consist of a a two-minute delay before the CBC bush-shaped_ red blotches. computer, in thiscase and IBM 350 based in technicians got both picture and sowid Delegations and the CBC operations discover what was going on, but Minister and film continued to compete until the the United Stateswith ties in more than 50 working together. centre seemed to have continuous dif centres. Anyone with access to a computer Speakers from Argentina, USA and ficulties in synchronising the speeches and Minister came to the end of her speech. Later, the Austrian delegation would not terminal and a telephone can call the Iran, who had spoken earlier had not taken the films. Delegates are allowed lo ask for computer. The information available is the opportunity to use their country's Cilms up to 15 minutes before starting to comment on the misunderstanding. Few of the delegations seemed angry or indexed, and when an item is called up, the presentations. Carla Hills, US Secretary of speak and several delegates tookadvantage computer prints the text. The caller can Housing and Urban Affairs, talked about of this flexibility. surprised at the mistakes. One member of an English-speaking delegation pointed out comment also, and the computer indexes bringi ng lo the Conference practical The man with outstretched arms in the j that films enliven speeches, especially the comment under the relevant sub ect programmes, stressed the importance of middle of the Habitat symbol, who was matter. jected at all times between films, began speeches in a foreign language, and that the new communication technologies, she did pro Glen Leet said the only costs involved not use her Department's films produced by to look like a drowning Jack-in-the-box as accidents were "part of the game." Several j delegations, however, are believed lo be are the telephone call and computer time. her own Department. the film pro ectionist made him bob up and The computer, which can print four or five Seven of the 16 speakers at the day's down for no apparent reason. thinking again about using films in their presentations. sentences every second, costs$30 an hour t9 Part of the problem is that the President run. of the Conference, Barney Danson, and all Pl-ogrammed so far are all the official Guide to the Best Forum Films the "top table" on the platform, cannot see UN Conference documents, some Forum the screen. Consequently, they do not documents,a list of participating NGO's and - always know when the Habitat symbol has some news items. Hotline Inte rnational has Guide to the film gives their history, policies and way of disappeared and a film is being .shown. an office in Hangar 5. Best Forum Films working. The USA, Iranian, Japanese and other For full list see facing page. 1500- China Programme: The Sun Shines delegations which do have access to ex 119:111-The Long Chain (20 mins.). Hanger 8. Over Lhasa (30 ·mins.). Hanger 8, Theatre 2. perienced film-makers and have produced Theatre 1. A case-study of "corporate im Has striking footageof the capital of Tibet in some substantial films, may have decided perialism" which looks at the activities of pre-Revolution timesand now. not to use them because they prefer to use multinational organisations in Bombay and 15-15 - China Programme: Chengtu Kun the allotted 15 minutes for making political A NEW book on populationby Rafael Salas, shows how they fit into a global network. ming Railway (70 mins.). Hanger 8, Theatre statements. Some governments do not have Executive Director of the UN Fund (or 1:100 - UN 1-'ilms on Natural Disasters and I. New techniquesof bridge-building. that problem. Canada has been able to make Population Activities, gets its pre j their Effects on HousingPolicies. Hanger 3, 1�5 - China Programme: Freedom ma or speeches elsewhere. The USSR was publication launch in Vancouver today. able to "borrow" five minutes of speaking Theatre A. Australian, Greek, Mauritius Railway (45 mins.). Hanger 8, Theatre 2. Entitled People An International Choice it is lime from the Byelorussia SSR delegation. and Nicaraguan films on ways of coping How self-reliance helped to build the Other countries may not want to say very published by Pergamon Press at $6 and is with earthquakes, cyclones,floods, etc. Zambia-Tanzania railway. much. But delegations which have a lot to available at the Pergamon stand in the 15tHI - China Programme: Communes (30 19-15 - Janie's Janie (24 mins.L Hanger 8, say and only 15 minutes to say it may be lobby of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, and at the mins. l. Hanger 8. Theatre 1. More than 80 Theatre 1. A New Jersey woman's struggle reluctant lo use three or four minutes for a book display in Hangar 8 at Jericho Beach. per cent of Chinese live in communes. This againstbein g, poor divorced- and a woman. film. Its appearance in Vancouver coincides with today's address to the Conference plenary session by Salas. Other Habitat books available from (i.0veRtNMrSAYS we l\l(MJ "THFrr«sA � ••• AS LONG- �s CT Pergamon are: Human Settlements, an II)�. WHITT COiH£Y "'[HEY t>ONT CAJJ HELP SaJJEwofU.b t>lSliACrs � F� anotated bibliography prepared for Habitat wANT"YOU TO DO? by IIED $10; Human Settlements National HB&ITRT PROBLEMS MINb WHff I l>o••• NOTIC.ING- lJMAT-n-ce/lcE Reports, summary and reference guide, NOT t)OJNG-. 'TktooGK POPOI.M $10; Gobal Review of Human Settlements, PfVtttctPATION. statistical annex and ECOSOC guide. A more expensive publication, written and published by Gordon Soules, is The Housing Crisis: Causes Effects and Solutions ($75). Also available locally is the Canadian Settlements Sampler, a paper covered guide to innovative programs that make communitiesmore livable ($2.95). JERICHO, the Ha bitat newspaper, 2 June 1976 Page7 OUR CONSCIENCE • THE WORLD ON OUR CONSCIENCE Notice Board Marshall Mcluhan and Jane Jacobs can't come to Habitat, but they are willing and ready totalk from a studioin Toronto about the crisis in transportationpla nningthat has hit that city - namely, the resurection ofthe expressway network that was killed in 1971. An international press conference will be called later this week by Alan Powell at Habitat on behalf of the Citizens Tran sportation Coalition (CTD) of Toronto (of which he is co-chairman). Open-line fa cilities will probably be provided by CBC and it is hoped that the lineswill beopen for at least two hours.Alan Powell will be anchorman at this end; for fu rther inquiries leave a message for him with Ann Rounthwaite at 732 0642. The Environment Liaison Centre is co ordinating communication between NGOs and their delegates on the nuclear power issue. Please contact the ELC booth in Hangar s. Giorgio Nebbia, Professor of Resources, University of Bari, Italy, is the delegate at the Forum forthe NGO Italia Nostra,Rome, an associa lion for the defence of the historical and natural heritage of Italy. Professor Nebbia will lecture on "New SettlementsPolicy in an Old Country,Italy" on Monday 7 June at 18.30 in Hangar 6, Room H. Italia Nostra is collecting signaturesfor a petition asking- for a review of and a moratorium on a crash nuclear programme which allows for thebuilding of 20 reactors, each 1,000megawa tts, in Italy over the next 10-25 years. Professor Nebbia will speak on "The NuclearDebate in Italy" on Saturday 5 June, Hangar 5, Plenary Hall. programme
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