Prolifers buoyed by decisio VANCOUVER (CP) ~~ Anti-abortionists protested with renewed vigor Tuesday at a Vancouver clinic, en: couraged by Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling lightening access to abortion About $0 men and women of all ages appeared at the Everywoman’s Health Centre an hour before the non profit clinic was to open, singing hymns and chanting: “Savethe unborn." The protest was spurred by the U.S. ruling, said organizerArin Stack of Rescue Canada, warning that protests and blockades will continue as long as abortions are performed. Eight people defied a B.C, Supreme Court injunction and_risked possible jail iérms by blocking the entrance to the sinall, windowless building in the city’s working-class East Side Police arrested six women and two men, including a man and woman whose necks were chained to a con block with bicycle locks. Welders using acetylene torches rete delicately cut the locks while the crowd chanted: “Don't burn them! Don't burn them! As supporters said prayers, the eight were carried to a paddy wagon to be taken before a fudge at B.C. Supreme Court — an oft-repeated scene since the clinic opened last November **We have come to a time in Canadian history when we need a law that will solidly proteet the unborn child,’ Stack said. ADDS ENERGY Spokesmen on both sides of the question agreed that the U.S. Suprenie Court ruling that individual states have the right to restrict access to abortions sparked this protest and others. “I think it’s absolutely clear that that disastrous decision in the United States gives encouragement to this kind of thing,” said clinic official Hilda Thomas. ‘The hostility and the extreme tactics that were used today, I think, are a direct response to that signal from the United States. But it's also clear that they (anti-abor tionists) are not able to muster large numbers of people who are prepared to engage in this kind of thing.”” Thomas said clinic patients were well protected during the protest, which lasted less than two hours. No abortions were cancelled or delayed. The Vancouver clinic has been the target of numerous blockades and demonstrations since it opened as the only private abortion clinic in British Columbia. More than 100 people have been convicted of criminal contempt defying an injunction against blockades, with penalties ranging from suspended sentences to four months in jail STEPPING UP In Toronto, Dr, Henry Morgentaler said the U.S decision will spur anti-abortionists to step up lobbying ef forts in Canada The Supreme Court of Canada struck down Canada’s abortion law in January 1988 on the grounds it was uncon stitutional, More thana year later, the high court refused to for rule on the rights of a fetus in a second abortion challenge. ¢ Minister Doug Lewis said Tuesday no decision has been taken on whether Conservative will introduce a new abortion law in Canada. Lewis hinted, however, that the government may chose to bring in notaw at all He also said the U.S. ruling mirrors what has hap- pened quietly in Canada, highlighting *‘a’shift in the impor tance of the issue from the ‘federal leyel to the provincial level B.C. Pre Bill Vander Zalm, an outspoken anti abortionist, said he hadn't read the U.S. decision fully and. was unwilling to comment In February 1988 Vander Zalm’s Social Credit gover nment refused to fund virtually all abortions performed in the province. But B.C. Supreme Court later ruled against that policy. British Columbia has the highest num- at more than 11,000 the ber of abortions per capita in Canada ayear 42, No. 54 60 Cents w Ei STO Castlégat CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY JULY 5, 1989 WEATHERCAST Tonight: Clear skies Thursday showers the afternoon. Highs The outlook tor Friday is more isolated showers but learing up with a warm and dry weekend 3 Sections (A, B & C) Light work 17th St. eel ae. » “¢ v and Columbia Ave. trafic lights Walter Popotf, an electrician with Castle Electric, goes over some of the wiring at the he lights are being switched over to an automatic vehicle- and pedestrian actuated system. Deal opposition applauded VANCOUVER (CP) — Hundreds of Lower Mainland nurses gave stan. ding ovations Tuesday night to the organizers of a campaign opposing a tentative agreement with British Columbia hospitals. **A lot of our members are unhappy with this deal because it doesn’t achieve the goals t bargaining with,” organizer MacPherson said before speaking at two nurses’ meetings in Vancouver “The ratification vote will be close. But even if it is ratified the nurses in B.C. are a whole lot stronger and a whole lot smarter than they were going into this.”” NDP calls for VICTORIA (CP) — The New Democrat Party wants a review of how public lands are sold in British Colum bia after charging Tuesay that a developer made a 500-per-cent profit ‘on Crown land in two years. But the president of the company that purchased the 1.4 hectares of riverfront in 1986 said the allegations made by NDP Crown lands critic Bob Williams were wrong. ‘Frankly we didn’s make any money,”’ said Robin Cordwell, the president of Laing Property Corp. of Vancouver The government did very well on the deal. They made a million dollars and we sure didn’t Williams, a vocal critic of how the Social Credit government is disposing of its land holdings, presented repor ters with documents ind MacPherson and Bernadette Stringer, nurses at Vancouver General Hospital, are leading a campaign to pursuade the province's 17,500 nurses to reject a tentative contract reached last. week with the Health Labor Relations Association Voting an the tentative agreerhent, giving nurses a 29.5 per cent increase in wages over three years, is set for July 12 Nurses have returned to work but are refusing to work overtime and do fon-nursing duties until the tentative ¢ontract is ratified. At the same time, the B.C. Nurses’ Union has mounted a drive to explain Property Corp. — a subsidiary of the London-based Laing Properties PLC bought a package of land for $1.5 million in 1986 and sold it two years later for $9 million. “Not only did British Columbians never see any of that profit, but they lost half of their construction invest ment because of this scam,’ Williams said Williams said he will ask the provin. cial auditor general to review the government’s land sales, which are part of a $3-billion privatization plan brought in by Premier Bill Vander Zalm. Auditor General George Morfitt said Tuesday he will _meet_with Williams this week to discuss the possibility of reviewing the sale of the Crown lands. “It’s a little premature to say what to its'members why its bargaining committee is recommending the ten tative deal Outside the closed-door meetings, nurse Evelyn Blakey asked colleagues to sign that will be sent to Premier Bill Vander Zaim and Health Minister Peter Dueck this week urging them to pay nurses more letters not militant, I'm deter mined,” said Blakey, a 31-year veteran. “I can’t be the nice nurse in the ward anyrior€ but instead a nurse trying to get what she feels she deser- ves “Pm Most nurses leaving the meetings continued to voice their opposition to the tentative deal However, one nurse, who refused to give her name, accept the package said she would vote to “I'm uncomfortable with the con tract, but I think we all have to fully support our bargaining committee,” she said The ‘‘No Campaign’’ takes its message to nurses on Vancouver Island today and Thursday. Meetings will also be held in the Fraser Valley, the Okanagan and Kootenays before the July 12 vote land review I will do about it, if anything,” he said Cordwell said in an interview from Vancouver that Williams’s infor mation was misleading concerning the sale of the prime riverfront land located in the Vancouver suburb of New Westminster The company, Cordwell said, had a 50-per-cent interest in developing a public market on the property with the province, It also had the option of buying out the government's share. When Laing decided to do so in 1986, they reimbursed the gover nment for all its development costs plus an extra $1 million. The company, Cordwell said, invested about $10 million_in_the property before il was sold two years later “I think we just about broke even,"" hesaid When presented with the company’s assertion that it made no money on the land deal, Williams said he had not talked about the deal with the com pany But Williams said he found no records backing up the company's position in the land registry office. I'll get back to you on this,” bh said In the legislature, Williams has repeatedly charged that the gover- nment sold Crown land in the New Westminster area too cheaply Government Management Services Minister Cliff, Michael has accused Williams of selectively using details of land deals to prove that contention and mislead the public “Pm sure there will be a very reasoned story told by the staff (about this deal),"’ Michael the legislature. said in Surplus allocated By GUY BERTRAND Staff Writer The Selkirk College board of gover nors reviewed the $181,954 general operating during its session at the Castlegar cam: pus last night The surplus, college’s year-end auditors will be divided among five allotment of a surplus described. in the report, different areas, according to college president Leo Perra, The general operating fund for the 1989-90 year will receive $108,000, The library book purchase account will receive $9,931 to keep up with the rising costs of books. The cateteria will also see a change as it receives $10,000 for environment protection The funding will enable the cafeteria to change over to china dishes from the present polystyrene and plastic. A task force reviewed the options of making the change and concluded that the con tinued use of non-china products con tributes to the escalating increase in garbage Ten thousand dollars will go to an employee-matching endowment. The money would match on a dollar basis all the en dowment fund by the employees of the college. And the $42,2 goes to the president's contingency for expenditures that arise throughout the contriubtions made to remaining Elizabeth Fleet gave a brief the delegation’s recent trip to Japan and visit to man review of college Sister institute Aoyama Technical College which has campuses in Tokyo and Sapporo board that the trip proved to be highly educational as The. trip Roland Music School and Aka Recor ding) Studios. The the visits was to pick up information Fleet told the well as productive included visit he main’ purpose « Missing girl welcomed home GRAND FORKS (CP) Savitskoff was welcomed home from hospital Tuesday by puppy credited with keeping her for three days in rugged bush The five-year-old girl, who survived three days in rough bush with only a six-month-old Springer puppy for company, talk about her ordeal, Anna Fletcher “She doesn't want to go anywhere there are trees, and she thinks camping isa dirty word,’ Fletcher said Cassie is regaining health after being found Sunday with her puppy by searchers in Conkle Lake provincial park, about 290 kilometres east of Vancouver B.C Washington border But her parents, Sharon and Barry, are concerned about state, the aunt said She hasn't talked about it at all sin ce the first-day. They're planning to take her to a doctor in Trail who will help her talk about it.” Cassie ‘was smiling from ear to ear’’ when she arrived at her Grand Forks home, Fletcher said Cassie alive spaniel-cross is still unable to said an aunt, her physical near the her emotional which might be helpful in choosing equipment for the new music program to be offered at the Nelson campus in September, Fleet said. Next month 43 students and three teachers from Japan will be visiting the college and Castlegar area for a one- month stay from July 19 to Aug. 10. The board also heard a report on the progress of the new music program. Twenty-five applicants have already been. received for the 40 available spaces. The hiring of instructors has begun and the formation of a curriculum is now in progress, the board was told Also reported from the Nelson cam- was a response to the student executive's request for access to the cafeteria and bookstore for summer students. The bookstore will be open three days a week while concessions will be run by the student executive Rounding out the meeting, board members gave reports on the various graduation ceremonies they attended throughout the area. INSIDE Local art pus page A6é Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn Tuesday in The B.C. Keno lottery were 7, 10, 17, 24, 27, 41, 42 and 56. Slopitch champs page B1 Asian immigrants page Cl