A2 Castlegar News July 17, 1988 Mulroney accused of apathy PRETORIA (CP) — South African Foreign Minister R.F. (Pik) Botha accused Prime Minister Brian Mul- roney on Friday of being “danger- ously close” to aligning himself with violence and terrorism. Botha was reacting to a message sent earlier by Mulroney to mark the 70th birthday on Monday of the jailed African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela, In his birthday message, Mulroney said he hopes Mandela will soon be freed to use his strength and courage Gretzky ties t EDMONTON (CP) — With thou. sands of onlookers cheering wildly, hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky and Hollywood startlet Janet Jones emerged from a downtown church Saturday afternoon as husband and wife. The blonde couple were married in an elaborate ceremony that drew a throng of casually dressed well- wishers, about 650 invited guests and hundreds of reporters, photograph ers and television cameramen. Crowds lined up five or six deep on both sides of Jasper Avenue, the main street in the Alberta capital. Gretzky, who has led the Edmon- ton Oilers to four Stanley Cup titles and holds dozens of National Hockey League records, arrived 30 minutes early for the 4 p.m. MDT ceremony. He was escorted by best man Eddie Mio, a former Oler. Jones, a little-known movie actress best known for a semi-nude photo layout in Playboy magazine, repor. tedly arrived at the church almost two hours early, shunning the trad: itional last-minute grand entrance. About 650 guests and a bridal party of 22 witnessed the pricate ceremony inside St. Joseph's Basil ica, a Roman Catholic church. Although Gretzky is an Anglican and Jones a Methodist, special permission was granted to hold the ceremony in the basilica, which was blessed by Pope John Paul in a visit to Edmonton four years ago. “Wayne is an exceptional person and has made a great contribution to the community,” said the church's pastor, Rev. Mike McCaffrey, in explaining why a non-Catholic cere mony was allowed. “We're not set ting a precedent here. All we're saying is that there are exceptions.” McCfffrey and Rev. John Monroe, a retired minister from an Anglican church in Gretzky's hometown of Brantford, Ont., conducted the 40 minute, ecumenical ceremony Not only did the Catholic church lend its support, so did the City of Edmonton. An unsightly jumble of sewer pipes and construction equip- ment that blocked the street in front of the church earlier in the week was removed by Friday, even though the work wasn't finished “We wouldn't be moving it if it wasn't the Wayne Gretzky wedding,” said Bonnie Kulak, a spokesman in the city’s water and sanitation department. People began lining up outside the church as early as 10 a.m. in hopes of spotting celebrities. The couple maintained most of the invited guests were friends and family from Edmonton, Brantford and Jones's native St. Louis, Mo. The ceremony did not attract a Who's Who of the sports and entertainment worlds, despite wild rumors that cir. culated in recent weeks. to build a peaceful South Africa. Botha said the birthday message has led to Mulroney, “largely dis- crediting himself as a relevant voice in the search for solutions in South Africa. He accused the Canadian leader of e knot But some big names were in attendance, including hockey legends Gordie Howe and Vladislav Tretiak, entertainers Alan Thicke and David Foster, and most of the Oilers. CROWD CHEERS The crowd cheered each time well- known figures arrived. Oilers’ owner Peter Pocklington, team president Glen Sather, international hockey czar Alan Eagleson and NHL pres- ident John Ziegler arrived together in a limousine. Shortly afterward, Howe — Gret. zky’s boyhood idol — and his wife, Colleen, arrived in a beaten-up cab. Dave Semenko, Gretzky's former Oiler teammate, showed up wearing light blue trousers, dark blue jacket and no socks. Kevin Lowe and Mark Messier of the Oilers and Paul Coffey of the Pittsburgh Penguins were among Gretzky's eight groomsmen. Jones's sister, Jeannette, was maid of honor, while heryother attendants include Gretzky's sister, Kim, and former Playboy playmate Tracy Vaccaro. Jones and Gretzky, both 27, first met eight years qo ona television dance show. They were involved with other people at the time and did not cross paths until last summer when they met again at a basketball game. A long-distance love affair blos somed quickly. In January, Gretzky proposed after first asking Jones's mother for permission. Schools cope with AIDS VANCOUVER (CP) — A year after adopting a policy promoting AIDS awareness, Canadian teachers Say they're gaining ground in the struggle for understanding of thi deadly disease. But at the same time, national and provincial teachers’ representatives said Friday, there are still miscon ceptions about AIDS and how it's transmitted. Last July, the 220,000-member Canadian Teachers Federation adop- ted a policy on AIDS urging edu cation about the virus form part of school curriculum. It also said students with AIDS have the right to attend regular classes while teachers who have con: tracted the disease should be able to continue to teach. And it said their identities should be protected. The issue of a teacher's right to stay in the classroom was highlighted by a case in Cape Sable Island, off the southwest coast of Nova Scotia. Michael J. Fox to get married LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael J. Fox, star of NBC's Family Ties, is planning to marry actress Tracy Pollan, his former girlfriend on the show, the actor's agent confirmed Friday. However, the agent, Peter Bene- dek, still refused to say when or where the wedding would take place. A source close to the actor said Fox, a native of Burnaby, would “be married by Sunday night.” Another source said the wedding would be held at a country inn, probably in Vermont, where Fox owns a 40-hectare homestead. Pollan, 27, played the girlfriend of Fox's character, Alex Keaton, on the popular sitcom before going on to film roles. Fox, 26, started dating Pollan last spring after her break-up with actor Kevin Bacon, People magazine re- ported in May. Fox, at 5foot-4 and 120 pounds, has a reputation as the consummate Hollywood nice guy, helping crew members move sets and equipment. Baking entepeneur dies CHICAGO (AP) — Charles Lubin, founder of the Kitchens of Sara Lee, has died after suffering an apparent hear attack while driving, authorities said. He was 84. He died Friday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. In 1949 Lubin named his first special cheesecake after his daugh ter, Sara Lee, who was eight at the time. He created the rich dessert in oen of three small Chicago bakeries he bought with his brother-in-law for the equivalent of $1,800 Cdn in 1935. A Chicago native, Lubin had been apprenticed to a baker at 14 in Decatur and returned’ to his home- town four years later when the company moved to Chicago. MICHAEL J. FOX . + planning to marry He's also one of its hottest actors, earning a reported $17 million last year. He rocketed to fame when he starred in Back to the Future, the top-grossing film of 1985. He was re. cently in Thailand filming Casualties of War with Sean Penn. Parents demanded teacher Eric Smith be removed from his job as a Grade 5 teacher after it was dis- covered in 1987 he had tested positive for the AIDS virus. The provincial goverftment res. ponded by appointing him to a task force to help develop a provincial policy on AIDS. Smith, 30, hasn't yet developed AIDS. ACCEPTS CASE “I think there's much more accep- tance than the vehemence with which that particular case has been treated would lead one, to believe,” Karen Duerdon, head of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union, said in an interview at the federation’s annual convention. Sheena Hanley, president of the federation, used the example of a 16-year-old boy in the U.S. in saying education could have alleviated the situation that occurred on Cape Sable Island. “He's in a school and a community where they welcomed him in as a result of education having- been done,” Hanley said. “He was literally driven out of a previous community as a result of a total lack of under. standing of this disease.” The AIDS policy was put forward by the Ontario Teachers’ Federation. In Ontario, there have been cases of teachers who have contracted AIDS and died. : “People have been empathetic, the students have been sympathetic and understanding, and I think the policy has helped people not panic as they have south of the border,” said Ontario federation president Doug McAndless. Added Elsie McMurphy, president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation: “I think ultimately what the policy is designed to do is use education as our best weapon against AIDS.” Yvonne McGuire graduates Yvonne Kalaine McGuire, daugh- ter of Kel and Lorraine McGuire, former long-time Castlegar residents recently graduated from the Cana- dian Memorial Chiropratic College in Toronto as a Doctor of Chiropractic. She was also the recipient of the, Dr. Ambrosio Memorial Scholarship for academic excellence. Dr. McGuire graduated from Stan- ley Humphries in 1981, attended Sel- kirk College, the University of Vie- toria and the University of British Columbia to complete her pre-chir- opractic requirements. She will begin her practice in Smiths Falls, Ont. in August. YVONNE McGUIRE being silent on the suffering of vic- tims of ANC bombings, “Mr. Mul- roney comes dangerously close to aligning his government with the forces of violence and terrorism in South Africa,” Botha said. MULRONEY SAYS In his message, Mulroney said: “I am greatly pleased to extend to you on your 70th birthday the best wishes of the Canadian People. Our greetings are imbued with sorrow in the knowledge that you are unable to celebrate this otherwise happy oc- easion in freedom. Your suffering is the suffering of all who are victims of apartheid . . . We profoundly hope that you will soon be free and able to apply your strength, commitment and courage to the peaceful contruc- tion of a new non-racial South Africa.” Apartheid is the South African government's official policy in racial separation that denies the black majority a vote in national affairs. External Affairs Minister Joe Clark also issued a statement on Mandela's birthday, urging the South African government to release the AIR INDIA ANC leader and other political pri- soners. . “Nelson Mandela's release would siognal a willingness on the part of the South African government to ac- cept the prospect of a non-racial democratic future for South Africa,” , Clark said. Numerous other governments is- sued messages in honor of Mandela's birthday. CALLS FOR RELEASE Among those also calling for Man- dela’s release were West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe. Foreign ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Swe- den sent a message to Mandela saying they would press for his release. The Italian Embassy in Pretoria said it imported a copy of Bernardo Bertolucci’s film, The Last Emperor, because Mandela wanted to see it. The Prison Service said it had not been informed of any plans to deliver the film to the prison where Mandela is held. Meanwhile, Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, rejected a gov. ernment offer to have a six-hour visit with her husband on his birthday. ‘The family’s lawyer, Ismail Ayob, said Winnie Mandela decided to forgo the visit to focus attention on other prisoners held for anti-apartheid, ac- tivities. The visit would have been the longest reunion with Mandela since he-was jailed in 1962 for leaving South Africa illegally and inciting unrest. While serving a five-year term, Mandela was sentenced to life in prison in 1964 for sabotage and con- spiracy to overthrow the govern- ment. The government has banned a huge charity concert planned for Sunday near Soweto, Johannes- burg’s main black township. Organizers in Cape Town said they will go ahead with a concert on Sunday, planned for an indoor venue to avoid restrictions on outdoor gatherings. But an indoor concert planned in Durban was banned by police. Suspect leaves Canada OTTAWA (CP) — Talwinder Singh Parmar, who has acknowledged that police consider him a prime suspect in the 1985 downing of an Air-India jumbo jet, Pakistan, left Vancouver last month for confirmed Friday. Spokesmen for the RCMP and Security Intelligence Service would not comment on whether they had Parmar under surveillance when he left the country or whether they were aware of his destination. Sources said Canadian authorities were indeed aware that the 44-year-old Sikh militant had left his investigators. sources said Nunziata. the destruction of wiretap tapes that may have helped “[ hope this is not further evidence of bungling,” Parmar is the leader of Babbar Khalsa, a militant the Canadian organization that advocates creation of an independent Sikh homeland in the Punjab region of northern. India. He is wanted in India on a murder charge which he says was trumped up by authorities. India could not produce enough evidence to win his extradition from Vancouver-area home arid knew, at the time, that he was headed for Pakistan. They also passed the information to “appropriate foreign officials,” said one source familiar with the case. Authorities realized Parmar was travelling to a country that has no extradition treaty with Canada, but ext there was no legal reason to stop him from going. West Germany when he was detained in that country and has never asked Canada to extradite him. QUOTES MEMBERS The Toronto Globe and Mail, in a report published Friday, quoted Parmar has denied any ii son, members of the Vancouver Sikh community as saying Parmar had “gone underground” while his friend Inderjit Singh Reyat ition hearing in England. “No one knows where he is,” Parmar's 19-year-old faces an ° 23), july 17,1988 Castlegar News in an explosion that downed an Air-India flight off the coast of Ireland in June 1985 with the loss of 329 lives. The plane was bound from Toronto and Montreal to Bombay, and most of the victims were Canadians of Indian origin. Solicitor General James Kelleher, contacted in his riding in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., said there is nothing to stop Parmar from travelling anywhere he wants. “He's a Canadian citizen, he's the holder of a valid Canadian passport, there are absolutely no charges whatsoever pending against him. He has all the privileges of any Canadian citizen and is free to travel wherever and whenever he wishes.” Singh Parmar, told the Globe and Mail. Others in Vancouver said they had heard reports that Parmar was in Pakistan, the United States, England, or somewhere in Canada. Reyat faces extradition to Canada on two manslaughter and six explosives charges in connection with a bomb that exploded June 23, 1985, at Narita airport in Tokyo. The explosion, which occurred as luggage was being unloaded from a CP Air flight that had just landed from Vancouver, killed two Japanese baggage-handlers. Evidence presented to the London extradition hearing indicates the piece of luggage in which the bomb had been concealed was supposed to be placed on Kelleher would not comment further on the affair. John Nunziata, Liberal critic for police and security issues, agreed that Parmar faces no charges and is free to travel. He noted that there have been widespread reports of problems with the Air-India investigation, including a lack of co-operation between CSIS and the RCMP and a connecting Air-India flight from Tokyo to Bombay. On the same day as the Narita blast, the Air-India flight from Canada went down off the coast of Ireland. An-Indian royal commission later concluded the plane had been bombed, while Canadian investigators said they could find no physical evidence of a bomb but could see no other reason for the disaster. FERRY continued from front page District of Central Kootenay and the Minister of Transportation and Highways.” He is, however, lobbying the provincial govern- ment for more funds for the West saying the project has a more regional impact than the ferry. “That will impact not only on the City of Trail but also on Warfield and so on, it's got more of a larger impact really,” Dirks said. “I'm working with them (Trail) preparing a brief to go to cabinet to see if we can get additional funding for the Ministry of Transporta tion and Highways so that we can move from this phase into the next phase.” comment. Trail Approach, Dirks also said he was unaware of the committee's most recent move fo purchase the ferry and wouldn't The ferry was shut down April 26 because of low water levels on the Columbia River. The ferry service had not re-started when the water levels rose as former Highways Minister Stephen Rogers said the ferry was unsafe because of a small hole in the hull of the vessel. On May 10, the Robson-Raspberry Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee started its occupation of the ferry. The next day the Highways Ministry officially announced it had ceased operation of the service. The committee has maintained its 24-hour vigil on the ferry ever since. Indian artifacts found VANCOUVER (CP) — The Mus. queam and Tsawwassen Indian bands will give emergency funding to continue the recovery of artifacts from a golf course in suburban Tsaw- wassen, Musqueam chief Wendy Grant said Friday. Grant said the bands will be contributing money in an attempt to prevent having a portion of their heritage levelled by bulldozers on Monday. Workers digging a hole for a water hazard on the Beach Grove golf course in late June uncovered substantial deposits of waterlogged basketry and other perishable ar tifaets, including cedar baskets, cedar cords and yew wedges. The deposits are in piles of clay-like mud left over from the excavation. University of British Columbia ar. iT de and vol s are scrambling to save as much of the fragile, waterlogged material as pos sible. Work started July 5 and is scheduled to end Sunday. Kitty Bernick, a university arche- ologist responsible for the work, said the materials deteriorate daily as the mud they are encased in dri She said the artifacts are similar to items found elsewhere that are be- lieved to be about 3,000 years old. The 12-day salvage project will cost $12,000. Grant said the bands expect to spend about $6,000 and will supply student volunteers to help save as much of the material as possible. Fonyo denies allegations VERNON (CP) — One-legged run. ner Steve Fonyo took the stand in provincial court on Friday and denied vomitting in a police station while undergoing a breathalyzer test. “It was just galiva,” said Fonyo who is facing charges of driving while impaired and driving with a blood alcohol level of more than .08 on Oct. 25, 1987. Fonyo, fmous for his run across Canada to raise money for cancer research, also denied he swayed on his feet in the station because of alcohol. Fonyo said he was having trouble with is artificial leg at the time. A jail guard at the Vernon RCMP station testified Fonyo was unsteady while undergoing fingerprinting. “As I started to take his finger- prints I could feel him swaying,” said John Neville., Const: Keith Colwill testified that he noticed that Fonyo's eyes were bloodshot and glassy and detected a moderate odour of liquor. Colwill also said that Fonyo vom- itted between two breathalyzer tests. Fonyo said he had only three drinks of rye at a local night club. He said he was drinking because he was depressed pver splitting up with his girlfriend. Fonyo also disclaimed earlier tes- timony from, Const. Chris Cottrill that he fell on his face in the police station. The trial is adjourned to Sept. 8. Mila Mulroney saves son TRENTON, N.S. (CP) — Mila Mulroney got her feet wet Saturday morning when she leaped into a duck pond in a downtown park to rescue her 2'/-year-old son Nicolas, who had fallen into the water while feeding ducks. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's youngest son was standing on a low bank of the pond when he tumbled head-first into the ankle-deep water. Woman falsifies death SAN FERNANDO, CALIF. (AP) — A woman who tried to fake her own death by using an unclaimed corpse from the morgue has been sentenced to two years in prison for falsely claiming a body. Among the many flaws investigators found in the scheme were the fact the defendant weighed 65 pounds less than the corpse and lacked its tattoos. Sandra Hall, 35, who is halfways through a four-year probation term for welfare fraud, was sentenced Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court for falsely obtaining an unclaimed body. Investigation demanded OTTAWA (CP) — New Democrat defence critic Derek kburn is di ding a parli y i igation into allegations that soldiers are being sent into the field despite objections by military doctors. Blackburn said he will ask Associate Defence Minister Paul Dick on Monday to look into charges raised by several military insiders at the Canadian forces Base in Petawawa, located about, 120 km northwest of Ottawa. Reform Party blitz EDMONTON (CP) — The Reform Party of Canada has embarked on a 15-day political blitz of northern ridings in search of candidates for the next federal election. A special recruiting team has begun flying to various northern communities seeking candidates for eight ridings to form its “team of eight,” the party announced. Among the eight ridings to be visited by the team will be the northern Alberta ridings of Peace River and Athabasca. Popular names change *- TORONTO (CP) — Move over Tom, Dick and Harry. Michael was the most popular male name in Ontario last year for the second year in a row. It was even given to (free newborn girls. But most parents preferred Jessica for their female babies, bumping Ashley from first place in 1986 to third last year. If you didn’t choose Jessica, then maybe Amanda, Sarah, Jennifer or Stephanie, which were the other top names, according to the province's registrar general, which records all births, marriages, deaths, divorces and name changes. Emergency number fails PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman who was raped inside her home by an intruder while police searched outside and left says the city knowingly operated a flawed 911 telephone emergency system that resulted in the attack. Th@ woman and her husband made the charge in a lawsuit filed against the city in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. Their names were not disclosed. The lawsuit contends the city failed to adequately screen and train ploy for its 911 ications centre and failed to correct procedures “so deficient that the continued maintenance of them was outrageous and shocking to the conscience. Equipment sale questioned WINNIPEG (CP) — Two Winnipeg companies sold equipment and technology to the U.S. navy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for use on aircraft capable of carrying atomic weapons and in the controversial Star Wars program. One of the Manitoba firms says it wasn’t aware its products would be employed in a nuclear-capable plane. Unisys Canada Inc. of Winnipeg was awarded a $5 million (U.S.) contract last month to provide the technology and equipment necessary to upgrade computers aboard 36 of the U.S. Navy's S-3 Viking aircraft. Military men drown ROME (AP) — A British brigadier-general and a Danish lieutenant-colonel drowned while attempting to rescue several children who were caught in rough surf off a beach south of Rome, authorities reported today. The children were rescued. A spokesman for the NATO Defence College in Rome, where the two victims were enrolled in a course, identified the officers as Brig.-Gen. Russell Maynard from southern England and Lt.-Col. Niels Erik Thorn of the Danish army. Five die in car crash TOKYO (REUTER) — Five people died and five others were injured in a fiery 11-vehicle pile-up in a highway tunnel in Japan, police said today. Two victims were burned to death in their cars and three others escaped from their blazing vehicles but died later from their injuries. Ten trucks and cars crashed into an overturned truck inside the 457-metre-long tunnel on the Chugoku highway north of Hii " denies Expo bid VANCOUVER (CP) — Saying the media had dragged him into a political cesspool, businessman Peter, Toigo broke a self-imposed silence Friday over his relationships with Premier Bill Vander Zalm, Toigo, speaking out for the first time since he offered to buy the land holdings of the British Columbia Enterprise Corp. for $500 million, said in an interview with the Van- couver Sun that the media had treated him unfairly. Revelations four months ago that Vander Zalm took Toigo's offer to buy the land holdings of the enter- prise corporation — including the former Expo site in downtown Van- couver — to cabinet led to a feud be- tween Vander Zalm and Grace Mc- Carthy. McCarthy, former economic de- velopment minister and responsible for the corporation, resigned from cabinet earlier this month, citing interference from the premier's office. Toigo said Friday he made it clear to the government that he wanted the enterprise corporation, with or without the Expo site. “I've resented the fact that the media has referred literally hundreds of times to Grace McCarthy stating I attempted to interfere in the process, the bidding process,” Toigo said. NO BID MADE “I had no interest in the bidding process. I did not participate in the bidding process and I never sub- mitted an offer at any time for the Expo site. It was very clear that they could remove assets out of that company if they so wished or they could make adjustments.” Toigo said he specifically discussed the removal of the Expo site and told the government if they wanted to take it out, his bid would stand for the remainder of the corporation. He said without the Expo site, his bid was to be worth $160 million less. The Delta, B.C., businessman, who owns the White Spot restaurant chain, said he became interested in buying the corporation because it held some property he wanted to de- velop in Delta. Toigo also said Hong Kong billion- aire Li Ka-shing paid far less than market value for the 84-hectare Expo site. “Taking into account some of the things we know the price could be $90 million,” he said. “It probably works out to $8 a buildable (square) foot. The current price in Vancouver. is $25 to $35 a buildable square foot. Tourist alert VANCOUVER (CP) — Tourist Alert issued Friday by the RCMP. The following persons, believed travelling in British Columbia, are asked to call the person named for an urgent personal message: Philip Innes Fraser of Anchorage, Alaska call your parents. Gregory Brunette of Calgary call Katherine Brunette. Ivan Fair Arthur of Victoria call Don McTavish. Ed and Daphne Sweeny of Van- couver call Murray Phillips. Klaus and Gaby Fehlau of Bonn, Germany call Frank Bailey. Rudolph Duplissey of Florida call Annette Yates. Annie Northwest of Alberta call Wetaskiwin RCMP. Ron Tadesco of Michael Barker. Langley call - Bengt singe agate teh Be te tg ie Gee Ci vs ae ha v SEVEN DAYS OLD . . . A then one-week old goat born in June, and appropriately named June, provides a frisky playmate for two young ladies in the Slocan Valley. Laurel Mooney, 9, left, and 10- year-old Natasha Hall appreciated “mothering” to their cute little friend provide some much CosNews Phote Refugees found TORONTO (CP) — Thirty-two East Indian men — some of whom ate their passports and travelled with phoney documents on a flight to Toronto from Brazil — have applied for refugee status in Canada, an Immigration Department spok Immigration Minister Barbara Me Dougall said Friday the refugee claimants will have to get in line behind the thousands of others hoping to be granted asylum in Canada. said Friday. Immigration officials said they were holding six of them over the weekend because they refused to say why they came to Canada. The 31 Sikhs and one Hindu were among 36 people who stepped off a Varig Brazilian Airlines flight from Rio de Janeiro on Thursday seeking refugee status. The four others — two women and aman from Ghana and a Sri Lankan man — had appropriate s A new refugee-pro cessing system that will make it easier to spot bogus claims has béen approved by MPs and now is before the senate Canada’s refugee policies allow people who get into the country to stay here while their cases are being processed. They aren't allowed to work until they've ‘been granted status in an immigration hearing, meaning some live on welfare for months. The new would allow and were released at the airport, im- migration officials said. They've ap- plied for refugee status. Those released must keep immig- ration.- officials informed about where they're living and must report for hearings to plead their cases in several months, said Gerry Savard, an Immigration Department spokes- man. Because of the “absolutely start- ling number” of refugee claimants pouring into Canada — 2,000 a month — it could take five years before the group's fate is decided, he said. An official of the refugee status board in Ottawa said the government has a backlog of more than 16,500 cases. Although original reports said 42 people had sought refugee status at Toronto airport on Thursday, six had appropriate papers and continued on to Montreal, Savard said. ARRIVES PENNILESS None of the East Indians, who ar. rived with fake documents or no documents at all, had any money, he said. They bought the tickets — with a final destination of Rome — in Brazil at the same time. “When a block of tickets is issued sequentially . . . it's one of the keys that leads us to believe organization is involved,” Savard said, adding that the RCMP are investigating. He said the fact that some of the group destroyed or falsified their identity papers won't be held against them at their hearings. ILLEGAL STRIKE police said. U.S. won't reduce forces SEOUL (REUTER) — The United States will not reduce its military forees in South Korea even if proposals by Seoul for improved ties with North Korea bear fruit, U.S. State Secretary George Shultz said yesterday. Shultz praised a recent six-point proposal by South Korean President Roh Tae-woo on North-South relations as a major move to lesson tension on the i i divided Korean i Olympics will be safe SEOUL (REUTER) — U.S. Stage Secretary George Shultz expressed confidence today that the Seoul Olympics will be safe and successful, saying China and the Soviet Union have given assurances that north Korea will refrain from terrorist acts. “The Soviets have told us flatly that in their view the North Koreans will not mount any effort to disturb the Olympics,” Shultz told reporters aboard his plane before arriving in Seoul for talks with government officials Monday. Tornadoes rip up homes OMAHA, NEB. (AP) — National Guard troops patrolled Couneil Bluffs yesterday after powerful tornadoes ripped through two Missouri River communities, injuring 40 people, damaging more than 100 homes and flipping railway cars. “It’s an absolute miracle no one is dead,” Council Bluffs City Councillor Stanley Grote said Friday. Labor tests VANCOUVER (CP) — The Health Sciences Association is claiming a tactical victory over the provincial Industrial Relations Council after some of the union's members went ahead with a strike that was tech nically illegal. The association, which represents technicians at hospitals and other m I facilities, said Friday that 11 of its members defied the council and picketed Paragon Orthotics Labor. atories Ltd. of Victoria for four days. It’s the latest episode in a year-old game of cat and mouse between the labor movement and the government over legislation that gave the prov- ince more power to intervene in con- tract disputes. The British Columbia Federation of Labor has boycotted the Industrial Relations Council since it was crea- ted a year ago when the Social Credit government replaced the old labor code with the Industrial Relations Act. The law gives the government, through the council, broad powers to order votes on contract offers, limit picketing and ban strikes and lock outs if they threaten the public interest. Seveal unions have conducted strike votes without the required council supervision. Labor experts have been predicting a major test of the new law this year, but all of the disputes so far have either been set- tled without walkouts or unions have put off going on strike. VOTED TO STRIKE Association spokesman Steve Waddell said workers at Paragon, in an unsupervised ballot, voted 100 per cent in favor of a strike after the company, which makes prosthetic officials to reject would-be refugees within three days of landing if their claims are judged to be obviously un founded. Refugee groups claim the bill would also keep out legitimate claimants. A year ago this month 174 Asians wades ashore off the Nova Scotia coast after a harrowing 21-day voy- age from the Netherlands. In 1986, 155 Tamils were rescued off the coast of Newfoundland claim- ing they had been persecuted in their homelands. This week, 17 Chinese people were stopped from boarding a flight to Canada from Beijing when it was discovered -their travel documents were forged. McDougall said the fight from Brazil was part of a “continuing process” and “we've got to stop it.” A Canadian Embassy official in Brasilia said Brazil is a “convenient” throughway for potential refugees. “We know that people are coming through Brazil using false documents and passports,” consul Richard Belli veau said in a telephone interview Friday. Some travel successfully with forged documents because many Brazilian airpot officials “are not too familiar with Canadian papers.” Conference urges nuclear ban WARSAW (AP) — Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu urged the six other Warsaw Pact leaders to press for new talks on banning bat tlefield nuclear weapons from Europe. As Soviet leader Mikhail Gor- bachev and the other eastern Europe Communist party chiefs conurerred on Friday, Gorbachev's wife Raisa visit ed|the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and paid tearful tribute to the four million people who died there during the Second World War. Pact leaders were to finish their two days of talks today and issue a joint communique. Conference host Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski of Poland, speaking at a dinner attended by the leaders Fri. day, said the East bloc countries have launched a “peace offensive.” Pact members have recently put forward “a number of valuable, ori ginal initiatives” in the area of arms IRC Paragon employees began picket ing last Monday but went back to work on Friday after the company agreed to anew, three-year contract with wage increases of five per cent a year, said Waddell. The workers currently earn between $7 and $11 an hour. Paragon manager Ken Anderson said the employees were back at work but that negotiations hadn't yet been completed. He wouldn't com ment on what remained outstanding or whether the company had agreed to a new wage package. Waddell said the flip-flop on wages showed Paragon was‘ using the power of the council to try to pressure a favorable settlement from its employees. devices for people with foot ail demanded wage concessions. Par- agon proposed a 10-per-cent wage rollback in the first year of a new contract, with four percent increases in the second and third year. “The i of the employer was to use the (eouncil) and its ability to declare the strike illegal to intim idate the employees,” said Waddell. “Instead it was his bluff that was called in the end by the employees.” control, he said. “Their active character and importance were un derlined today at this meeting.” PROPOSES TALKS Ceausescu, in a dinner toast pub- lished by the state-run news agency PAP, called for new East-West talks on the subject of tactical nuclear weapons that remain outside the scope of the new U.S.-Soviet treaty to scrap intermediate-range nuclear missiles. The treaty covers missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,000 kilometres. He proposed that “talks on com plete removal of any shorter-range nuclear weapons from the European continent should be started as soon as possible,” along with planned talks this fall on reducing conventional forces. Jaruzelski, whosé toast was dis tributed to reporters, pointed to proposals that Gorbachev made in a speech Monday to the Polish par liament as an example of long-range thinking.” new, Gorbachev urged a renewed effort to break a deadlock with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization over reducing conventional forces in Eur ope He suggested a pan-European con ference and a withdrawal of some Warsaw Pact air forces in exchange for the abandonment of the West's plans to deploy 72 F-16 fighter bombers in Italy. REJECT PROPOSAL The proposals already have been rejected by the United States. The leaders met in the stately Council of Ministers Palace where the Treaty of Warsaw setting up the alliance was signed in 1955. Other leaders taking part in the summit were Erich Honecker of East Germany, Todor Zhivkow of Bulgar. ia, Karoly Grosz of Hungary and Milos Jakes of Czechoslovaki During her visit to the Auschwitz. Birkenau extermination camp in southern Poland, Mrs. Gorbachev grimly stepped through the black- ened crematorium at Auschwitz and laid flowers at the camp's Wall of Death, where the Nazis executed thousands of prisoners.