‘a2 Castlegar News June 10, 1990 LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS VICTORIA (CP) — Government aircraft flight logs detailing cabinet ‘ministers’ travel will not be made { public because the political clitnate is itoo “‘volatile,"” Carol Gran, minister fof government management services, *s a time before an election and 's pretty volatile,” she said. She also said the media cannot be the information While she agreed the public has a right to know how the government ‘aircraft are used and which ministers fly the most, she said it will just have to trust her that government air ser- } Vices are not being abused. “*| just think you have to assume Trucking companies refuse to negotiate. , * VANCOUVER (CP) — Indepen- , dent B.C. truckers failed Friday to }megotiate an industry-wide shipping rate, but a strike leader said he will ‘ask his colleagues to try to win new } contracts on their own. ? “*If they want to cut a deal with {them (employers), fine,’’ said Don }Tofsrud, president of the Western ; Owner Operators Association. **But don’t go back to work for less jthan what you were already working for.” $ Negotiations in the 12-day strike abruptly broke down Friday when fepresentatives from about 60 trucking companies meeting at a Re-Conditioned ELECTROLUX 169 $199 $249 $289 $319 $399 Model 88 Model 89 Mode! AP100 Model AP200 Model AP280 Model E2000 -. Model 2100 $449 System 90 499 WE ALSO CARRY ELECTROLUX SUPPLIES that we weren't abusing those air- planes,"’ Gran told reporters. The flight logs were last released in December 1986 after being withheld by the government for several years before that. Gran said to release them now would not be politically wise. She said if such information is released, the media will use it to em- barrass the government. “All I'm saying to you is that I'm not giving you that story,’ she told reporters. ‘‘You've got a different story now, you've got a minister that is saying no.”” Gran said the first priority of the airplanes is ambulance use. The second use of the airplanes is ensuring downtown hotel refused to negotiate as a group with the independent truckers. An estimated 2,000 independent truckers in British Columbia have taken part in the strike. But an in- dustry representative has said that about 15 per cent of the strikers have already returned to work. During. the strike, some truckers blocked traffic at several border crossings and created some shortages of produce and industrial supplies. The blockades came down aftér an industry association was granted a court injunction. Tofsrud appeared dejected Friday ne yer 1 YEAR GUARANTEE PARTS & LABOR INTERIOR VACUUM CENTER ‘Saturday and Sunday Ph. 365-2512 TRAIL OPTICAL. See Into CARRIERS REQ’D. The Castlegar News is updating its’ list of boys/girls who would like to be replacement carriers for the summer months. If you're interested in earning extra money over the summer months Call 365-7266 FE ci Prices in effect until Sat., June 30'90. 2181 Columbia Ave., Castlegar, B.C. Castlegar News SUMMER RELIEF 8:30-5 p.m. Mon. to Fri. Ask for Circulation FRAMES WITH PRESCRIPTION 50: OFF SELECTED ) SERENGETIS ‘$100 ministers can get around the province quickly so they can do their jobs better. Gran said she would make the flight logs public if ordered to do so by Premier Bill Vander Zaim, who ran on a campaign y b nment”’ in 1986, Shortly after the Vander Zalm made from 1984 to March to the media. Those logs showed. that cabinet ministers used the planes as a service between their homes and their offices. Some ministers flew as the only passenger on the plane and were sometimes accompanied only by their spouses. fol Slocan purchased land in the ded logging y that has the continued from front pege as he told reporters the strike was not a failure. He said the public is more aware of trucking issues and indepen- dent truckers now realize they have an organization that will stand up for them. ~ The truckers have said they want meeting plans but he refused, Geller said. The commission asked Weed for a to discuss the company’s Proposals to log the watershed, commonly known as Smokey Creek, have come up before and the com- munity has its own plan for how the ‘d and the blocked. moving the machinery onto its si he acquired property. Blockade are ‘‘severely limited”’ in what action the ministry can take on private land, Geller said. As well, the commission is waiting to find out if the Ministry of High- ways has granted L and W the permits it has requested to access the com- pany’s land from village roads, he said. $40 an hour, as well as a commission of inquiry into the B.C. trucking in- dustry. work should be done, he Ministry of Environment officials have seen the site but they said they id are posed to the ministry granting the permits which coulid allow heavy equipment on community roads and endanger people, he said. The situation in South Slocan is not unique, Peppard pointed out, referring to a clash that broke out recently between residents and a logging company working on private land on Saltspring Island, off the B.C. coast. No provincial legislation exists to regulate what a logging company does on its own property, he added. BRIEFLY By CasNews Staff Trail Optical «:<*:¢° 364-2911 Schmidt said Friday. union and the Cominco negotiators month. stages. Man sentenced Nelson court. degree murder. Talks progressing, USWA says Cominco and the United Steelworkers of America have reached agreement on some of the contract language issues their bargaining committees discussed last week, USWA Local 480 chief i However, the company is saying no to other proposals from the others, Schmidt said in a telephone interview from Kimberley where master contract talks were held last week. Talks are set to continue in Trail this week and Schmidt said the two sides may begin discussing money issués thé last two weeks of the Meanwhile, progress was also made in separate talks between Cominco and the union over the closure earlier this year of the Sullivan mine in Kimberley, Schmidt said. Those talks, which are being held in Kimberley, are to resume Thursday, he said. Schmidt said he is confident when the master agreement talks are concluded the Sullivan issue will be resolved and the mine will reopen in A Winnipeg man will serve seven years in prison for the stabbing death of a Nakusp man after pleading guilty to manslaughter ina Sean Benoit, 20, pleaded guilty to the charge in connection with the death in February of Jason Christian Ambrock, 19, a Nelson court registry spokesman said. Benoit was originally charged with second- Ron Dubas files suit over his firing VICTORIA (CP) — Stan Dubas, fired as deputy health minister, filed a says they are “‘wrestling’’ with to seven years Benoit was wanted for being prison when he was arrested by Nakusp police. He had been serving time for breaking and entering and theft. Highway contract announced A $358,000 contract for reconstruction work on Highway 3A near Nelson has been awarded to Cantex Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. of Penticton, a Ministry of Highways news release says. The project, located approximately 15 kilometres northeast of atlarge froma Nelson, involves says. of nearly one and will improve alignment, sight distance and road width, the release of the highway The project is for by mid. suit Thursday all in unfair, unreasonable and malicious conduct by government of- ficials who helped end his civil service career. The action came a week after Dubas’s lawyer asked the government to settle his claim out of court. Dubas was fired after a com- ptroller-general’s report alleged a health equipment supplier paid hotel and meal bills for Dubas, then-health minister Peter Dueck and their wives — and Dubas then billed the gover- nment for his expenses. The report, which the government has refused to release, also accuses Dubas of using airline bonus points from government travel to pay his wife’s airfare, says NDP finance critic Glen Clark. Dubas’s statement of claim to the courts alleges government officials have used ‘‘continued innuendo and implication’’ to justify the decision to fire him after a 10-year career. It says Dubas was led to believe the review of his expenses was routine but the report ‘thas now been charac- terized by the (government) as being a secret report intending to. and in fact suggesting, through the widespread media reporting thereof, that a special inquiry was conducted against the af- fairs of (Dubas)."” Dubas also says two internal audit officials from the Finance Ministry triggered an RCMP investigation into his travel expenses, but withheld in- formation that might clear him of wrongdoing. The two officials told the RCMP that Dubas claimed expenses for the trip to Europe in 1988 when the ex- penses had been paid for by Siemens Electric, the equipment supplier, but failed to mention that Dubas had already told them he had repaid Siemens from his personal funds. Heritage continued from front page backgrounds of the languages, Ev- dokimoff said. The ministry plans to pilot six heritage-language programs around the province next year and ministry officials are looking for direction in setting up the programs, Mehat said, adding he looked at Alberta and On- Chamber continued from front pege The chamber president said the financial support received so far “shows that businesses in Castlegar and area are clearly united in support of the modernization/expansion, and government and Celgar solicited con- cerns from the general public with the bulk of the responses taking issue with various items from transpor- tation to air emissions. Craig says the fact that the bulk of response to the initial impact report Celgar prepared on that we are both finan- cially and philosophically to this Project.”* “The economic future of Castlegar and area hangs in the balance,’’ con- tinued Craig, adding that the chamber and those supporting the fund-raising effort are determined to show the public, government and the review committee “that the Celgar program is in the community's best interest.”” In the first round the provincial the project were either negative or perceived as such ‘‘was not sur- prising.” However, in the second round the chamber and those suppor- ting the project ‘‘want to demonstrate to the public, politicians, and the panel selected by the government the enormous economic impact to the local economy and the considerable support for the project that exists locally.” tario’s heritage-language classes last year to gather data for the commit- tee’s report. The report should be finished in July, Mehat said. Evdokimoff said he is pleased the programs in Castlegar will ‘more than likely’? serve-as a model for similar programs around the provin- ce. “The committee obtained many relevant facts and impressions from the Castlegar school district that can in turn be translated into policy for the province,” he said. Castlegar is ‘‘on the cutting edge”’ of_ heritage-language instriction in B.C., he added. Russian as a second language is taught at Tarry elementary school, Stanley Humphries secondary school and Kinnaird elementary school, while the Russian bilingual classes are in the Twin Rivers elemen- tary/Castlegar Primary schools com- plex. Grand Forks and Nelson also have Russian-as-a-second-language classes, Evdokimoff noted. LOTTERIES KAMLOOPS (CP) — The winning numbers drawn Friday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 7, 11, 12, 18, 19, 43, 48, 54. The winning numbers drawn Thur- sday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 6, 7,9, 12, 14, 20, 28, $5 The winning numbers drawn Wed- 2 "DRIVING. “ st / % headed “You only learn to drive once... » .. ~ Learn it right! KDS KOOTENAY DRIVING SCHOOL LID. 364-2674 cosnaest RESIDENTS SOLLECT . © Wren nwo vehicies 1539-4TH AVE. TRAIL, B.C. eavipe be carried in your vehicle? Wot ore the sotest habits to develop betore Sreoging the vorion of your cor GOVERNMENT APPROVED LICENSED & BONDED DAY OR EVENING LESSONS nesday in the Lotto 6/49 draw were 2, 9, 16, 22, 34 and 40. The bonus num- ber was 14 The jackpot of $4,292,138 was divided into two prizes of $2,146,069. The four Extra winning numbers for British Columbia on Wednesday were 32, 56, 57 and 80. The winning numbers drawn Wed- nesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 4,7, 11, 20, 26, 36, 51 and 52. These numbers provided by The Canadian Press must be considered unofficial. 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June 10,1990 Castlegar News a3 LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS Dioxin level claim denied VICTORIA (CP) — Minister John Reynolds has denied claims that dioxin levels from the Western Pulp mill in Howe Sound have quadrupled in recent months. “I can assure the member (NDP environrgent critic John Cashore) that the statements are false,"’ Reynolds said in the legislature. “In the first-couple of months of this year there were no detection levels of dioxins from that mill,"’ he said. “The results from testing the last couple of months are higher than they were in the previous months, but still at least less than half of what they were last year."” Reynolds’ comments came a day after Mak Ito, of Environment Promise NANAIMO (CP) — Opposition Leader Mike Harcourt reconfirmed his support for trade unions on Friday by promising to abolish the Social Credit government's labor law if the NDP wins the next provincial elec- tion, ‘*We're committed to restoring the integrity, the pride and the morale that should and will again charac- terize B.C.’s public servi court told the annual meeting of B.C. members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. In return for Harcourt’s pledge of support, delegates passed a motion urging union members to join the New Democratic Party. **We should be voting in our in- that the federal agency learned about the quadrupled dioxin levels from an the-contaminantto_the public last September but didn't share higher dioxin mew based on sam- group. Last September, Western Pulp issued a news release to declare it was pleased to announce a 90-per-cent ion in dioxin in its liquid wastes. The company’s—failure—to—report- quadrupled dioxin levels to environ- mental agencies ‘‘shows there's a serious problem when government leaves monitoring to the polluter,’’ said John Cashore, the NDP en- vironment critic. Cashore-noted the pulp-company. reported the 90-per-cent decrease in ples from its mill this spri “Why the fanfare then and non- announcement now?" Cashore said in an interview. “It indicates we really can’t trust the polluter to be forthcoming with the vital information that is needed ‘both by governmentandthe public.”" Mill manager Jack Dosenberg said Western Pulp received its company- commissioned dioxin test results in late April or early May. “We have not released anything on aie levels because nobody has as! for—them,"’ Dosenberg said. ur (internal) environmental com- made to unions terest and providing the politicat-fun- ds to ensure our interests are en- shrined in legislature,’’ said delegate Jack Hughesman. ‘“‘I believe every dollar spent getting the likes of Mike Harcourt elected will yield 10 dollars in our (provincial) treasury." On June 1, 1987, organized labor held a one-day general strike to Protest against the Socreds labor law, Bill 19. The controversial Bill 19 allowing-unions to appear before the council on some issues. i on V: Island, mittee was aware we had elevated levies. It’s not something we're sitting on.” B.C. deputy environment minister Richard Dalon confirmed Thursday that 14 of B.C.’s 23 pulp mills are not complying with their provincial pollution permits. He commented after the West Coast Environmental Law Association distributed a one-page environment ministry document’ if received from Reynolds. Drew Kilback, the environmental control coordinator for the Mac- Millan Bloedel pulp mill at Powell River, said he was not surprised to see his mill on the list of companies that are out of compliance. Kilback said the disclosure “doesn’t make us too happy’’ but the information should be made public. He said the pulp mill has been out of compliance since 1985 for par- ticulate emissions into the air. Kilback said the company has spent of Where environmentalists and forestry workers have recently clashed over the preservation of trees in the Car- manah and Tsitika Valleys, Harcourt said an NDP government would find a compromise between forestry jobs and wilderness preservation. He also criticized Premier Bill Van- der Zalm for introducing conflict of interest instead of the Labor Code and the Labor Relations Board, replacing it with the Industrial Relations Council. The B.C. Federation of Labor officially boycotts the council, but often exem- pts its members from the policy, legislation, for members of the legislature. “As premier, I will bring in the toughest conflict of interest laws in the country to protect the public from dishonest politicians,’’ Harcourt said. of dollars trying to correct problems with equipment that is supposed to trap __patticles before they are released into the air, but the forest resolved the problems. He said MacMillan Bloedel cannot commit itself to a date when the mill will comply with its pollution permit “without knowing what the solution is.’” Most of Howe Sound, west of Van- couver, remains closed to commercial crab, prawn ‘and shrimp fishing because of. dioxin contamination from effluents dumped into the ocean by two’ pulp mills. iant still hasn’t David Bell, 9; (lett) and Kyle Plotnikoft, 8, share a skateboard and afew laughs ot Kinnaird Park. -CosNews photo by Ed Mutts NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS BRIEFLY From Wire Service South African prisoners freed JOHANNESBURG — South African President F.W. de Klerk freed 48 political prisoners in a goodwill gesture aimed at improving the climate for black-white negotiations, the Prisons Service said. Those released included activists convicted in some of the country’s most highly publicized terrorism and treason trials in recent years, said lawyer Ramesh Vassen On Thursday, de Klerk announced the end of the national state of emergency for thrée of South Africa’s four provinces and said he would release 48 prisoners as a ‘‘goodwill gesture.’’ One of the men released, Stephen Nkosi, said he thought the 48 were freed as a publicity move to ‘‘undercut’’ the current international tour by Nelson Mandela, a leader of the African National Congress. Mandela is on a six-week tour of Europe, North America and Africa and is urging foreign governments to maintain economic sanctions against South Africa to protest apartheid. Order issued against inventor DETROIT — A judge ordered the inventor of a suicide device on Friday not to help anyone else take their own life until prosecutors determine whether he broke the law by helping a 54-year-old woman kill herself. Judge Alice Gilbert issued a temporary restraining order that “prevents Dr. Jack Kevorkian from using the device or any other means to assist in a suicide. Kevorkian had asked the judge to allow him to form a committee to establish an international ‘planned death policy.”” Kevorkian told Gilbert he wanted to form a committee with members from all sectors of society that would study his device — which involves injection of coma- and death-inducing drugs — and the circumstances under which it could be used. Oakland County prosecutor Richard Thompson took Kevorkian to court, seeking an injunction barring use of the device that killed Janet Adkins of Portland, Ore. Saudi Arabia called opponent GENEVA — Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, has emerged as a formidable opponent of early action to arrest the effect, say The Saudis, who would stand to lose in the short term if the world cut oil consumption to try to slow global warming, raised repeated objections at UN negotiations in Geneva this week on the greenhouse effect, the ecologists said. “They are raising objections.at every single point,” said one British environmentalist observing a working group meeting, which was asked to recommend a plan of action to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The environmentalists said Saudi Arabia, which in previous meetings had not put up obstacles, has effectively formed an unlikely alliance with the United States, China and the Soviet Union in resisting early reduction goals for greenhouse gases Chinese protest dismissed BEIJING — Chinese government spokesman Yuan Mu dismissed as marginal a student protest at Beijing University and other campuses to mark the first anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. “Though a small-number of students in a few schools have committed same impermissible behavior in violation of school discipline, they have not caused much trouble,’” television network. The text of his interview, conducted Tuesday, was released Friday by the official Xinhua news agency. It was the only time that a senior Chinese official has spoken to the foreign news media on the first anniversary of the crackdown Several hundred students broke bottles and sang the socialist anthem Internationale at Beijing University to mark the army’s bloody ofr racy unrest in T! Square on June 3- Yuan told a Japanese last year Bourassa sits one out as Meech talks continue OTTAWA (CP) — Ten of the 11 first ministers met Saturday to discuss the constitutional future of Canada. Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa went for a swim. Then he ordered lunch up to his hotel suite. Finally, seven hours after the talks began, Bourassa left his.hotel room and travelled the 20 metres across Wellington Street to take part in the discussion. Bourassa refused to sit in on the negotiations because the subject was the clause in the Meech Lake accord recognizing Quebec as a distinct society The Quebec premier kept his promise of refusing to participate in any talks on the clause, considered the most sacred section of the accord in his home province. So for most of the day, Quebec’s chair in the fifth floor boardroom sat empty while the other first ministers debated a legal clarification of the clause Quebec holds most dear Bourassa was unrepentant about his absence. He didn’t want to take part, but he understood why the other premiers had to examine the issue closely ‘Editing a legal text is not easy,"” he said after arriving at the confernce centre about 4:30 p.m. EDT. ‘*‘You have to proceed with.care. It can takes hours."" Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon and Newfoundiand’s Clyde Wells asked for the clarification because they fear the distinct society clause will give Quebec the power to pass laws that could restrict minority rights. After refusing to even consider the idea of a clarification, Quebec agreed to allow legal experts to write a brief saying the distinct society clause does not impinge on the Charter of Rights, but works with it None of the first ministers would sign the document and Quebec is claiming it would have no legal effect on the distinct society clause. The drafting of the text was said to haye held up resolution of the talks. Bberaisa was kept informed con- stantly by aides who were shown draf- ts of the legal text. After receiving a call from Prime Minister Brian Mulroney assuring him the issue was settled, Bourassa left the Chateau Laurier to rejoin the talks. He appeared confident as he headed back into the conference that the distinct society clause was still in- tact. “1 haven’t changed my position on the distinct society for three years,"" he said. ‘‘The text that will be adop- ted will completely respect Quebec's Position."” Earlier in the day, there were fears the meeting would collapse. Quebec Interngovernmental Affairs Minister Gil Remillard emerged from a mor. ning session with officials and said the talks had reached an impasse. “It's blocked,"’ Remillard “It’s not going well.”” The meeting was expected to merely rubber-stamp the agreement in prin- ciple reached Friday, but by mid- morning Saturday, Quebec officials were discussing the possibility of spending another night in their hotel said. Angry about a clause missing from a tentative deal previously agreed to, Clyde Wells and’ Filmon_ indicated Newfoundland's Manitoba's Gary Saturday they were unhappy with the compromises they had made. And the two premiers seemed intent on demending further constitutiqnal concessions before agreeing to ratify the accord. They left closed-door meetings with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and fellow premiers to eat lunch together and escape ‘‘the pressure at- mosphere,"* Wells said. They apparently had second thoughts about a deal agreed to in principle Friday that would have en- sured passage of Meech Lake by its June 23 ratification deadline. The 11-ministers said when they emerged late Friday night they had an agreement in principle. But Wells blew up when he saw the written text and complained Saturday that he had compromised against his Principles and been victimized by an objectionable process Mulroney told reporters on Satur- day that the clause was omitted ac- cidentally by a senior federal official who was negotiating with several , groups at the same time Gorbachev faces more challenges MOSCOW (CP) Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev faced twin challenges this weekend from a defiant Russian Federation, heartland of the Soviet Union, and_ political conflict in Soviet Central Asia The parliament of the Russian Republic, under newly elected President Boris Yeltsin, Gorbachev's threw down a gauntlet by region's laws have chief critic, declaring the precedence stitution The move put more pressure on Gorbachev, already facing growing rebellion in fringe republics and ethnic conflict on the strategic southern rim In the republic of Kirghizia at least 102 people have been killed in six days of fighting between Kirghizians and ethnic Uzbeks. Soviet television said over the Soviet con- the situation was tense Uzbekistan President — Islam Karimov said the fighting was spilling over into his republic and declared a state of emergency in several regions The Supreme Soviet (parliament) in Moscow appealed for calm The fighting in the south of the country broke out Monday in a dispute over the division of fallow land between Kirghizians and Uzbeks Ng sent to Supreme Court OTTAWA (CP) The extradition case against accused mass murderer Charles Ng will go directly to the Supreme Court of Canada, Justice Minister Kim Campbell announced Friday Exercising a seldom-used federal power to refer cases directly to the high court, Campbell said a quick decision is needed ‘to avoid delays in the extradition process that may seriously impair the effective enfor cement of the criminal law.”” Ng — pronounced Ing — is a native of Hong Kong and a one-time U.S Marine. He is nearing completion of a four-year prison term for shooting a department store security guard in the hand during a bungled shoplifting at tempt in Calgary He is wanted by L face 13 murder charges in a string of grisly sex-torture slayings in northern California S. authorities to Families of his alleged victims, California politicians and Conser vatives backbenchers in the Commons have been clamoring for extradition for two years. But his expulsion has been delayed by a series of court challenges in which Ng contended deportation to face a possible death sentence would violate the Canadian Charter of Rights. Canada abolished capital punish. ment in 1976. The last hanging took place in Canada in 1962 In referring the case to the Supreme Court, Campbell asked for a decision on whether extradition would violate the -charter and whether her predecessor, Doug Lewis, made any legal errors in ordering extradition last October. The high court's current term ends this month and the judges normally do not sit during the summer. The earliest date for a hearing would likely be this fall The Supreme Court has already rejected one challenge by Ng and upheld an extradition order issued by an Alberta judge But after that ruling last August, Ng carried his case to the federal justice minister, as permitted by law Lewis rejected the appeal in Oc tober, saying Canada must not be a safe haven for accused murderers He expressed U.S. judicial system and its respect for the rights of the accused. He confidence in refused to ask California to forego the death penalty as condition of Ne’s return, Campbell's decision to send the matter back to the Supreme Court will, in effect, put an end ot the com plicated process. Under Canadian law, the high court's ruling this time will be final but soon escalated into demands by Uzbeks for more autonomy within Kirghiaia Gorbachev sought to play down the $44 to 271 vote in Moscow by the parliament of the Russian Federation, biggest of the 15 Soviet republics, set ting its constitution above Soviet federal law, and hinted he was ready to bury his differences with Yeltsin The move, by an assembly representing 160 million of the coun- try’s total population of 280 million, was seen as a largely symbolic challenge to the central authority of Gorbachev, To achieve force in law, it would have to be put to a separate vote and receive a two-thirds majority The deputies instructed their of- ficials to prepare a final version of the Proclamation for what's expected to be routine approval this week. “But with more than $00 voting in favor today it is very serious indeed,"” radical delegate Yuri Lebedev said “It is) sufficient that the parliament of Russia has expressed its will to opt for sovereignty.” Gorbachev appeared calm in public comments about the declaration, part of a whole complex of legislation on Russian sovereignty expected to be passed by parliament this week “The Russian parliament has not taken any steps that contradict the constitution of the Soviet Union,”’ Gorbachev told a news conference given jointly with visiting British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher