Jericho Issue 3
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-- ER NO. 3 Fora call to J. G. vanPutten 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.