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Students plan ways
to protest cutbacks

VANCOUVER (CP) — Representatives of teachers and
school trustees said Friday Education Minister Jack
Heinrich is worsening an already bad situation by blaming
student walkouts at Vancouver high schools on the school
board.

But Education Ministry spokesman Dick Melville said
Heinrich would be delivering a speech to the Vancouver
board of trade Monday that would return some of the
“gunfire” he has taken lately.

While there were only a few students out of classes
Friday, Vancouver secondary students met today to plan

mayor, had pre-signed as. a
witness about 50 voter regis-
tration cards which were
then distributed.

Hromadnik won the elec-
tion by 19 votes over chal-
lenger Joe Conroy.

The ruling came after
council member William Mac-
Donald had petitioned the
court to have the election re-
sult tossed out.

The Invermere council will
be meeting Monday night. At
that time, a new date for a
mayoral election is likely to
be set.

Sunrise: 7:28

Sunset: 4:38

CRANBROOK (CP) — A B.C. among several hockey players Spencer

AGENT
NOT

GUILTY

Supreme Court jury in this south-
eastern B.C. Community has found a
former National Hockey League player
agent not guilty of fraud and forgery.

Peter Spencer, a Nelson resident
who works out of Calgary, was charged
in connection with dealings with
former Edmonton Oilers Pat Price and
Ron Lowe. Price and Lowe were

represented.

Both players testified at the four-day
trial.

Spencer faces similar charges in
Calgary and Edmonton that have yet to
be tried.

Price, a native of Nelson, is now
playing with the Quebec Nordiques,
while Lowe is with the New Jersey
Devils.

ON _ REC COMMISSION
Board not represented

By CasNews Staff
A representative from the Castlegar
school board has not been included on

Metge said that when matters do
arise that are of common interest to the
board and the Commission, a joint

Valley Vista School and another at
Silver Birch School.
After installing these devices, the

ting against the gover 's funding cuts

But rumors of further walkouts Monday or Wednesday

Melville said Heinrich wouldn't comment on the
education situation until his speech Monday, which he said is
the “most major one he has made in seven or eight months.”

Weinstein denied the board has encquraged the student
walkouts, and said that is why it has invited student council

from "s 18 'y schools to
meet today to work out other ways of protesting against the
cuts.

However, fearing the student council representatives
will be placed “under the thumb” of the school board, about
20 students from seven different high schools are f
their own association, Student Alliance for Vancouver's
Education — SAVE.

Mark Cameron, a Grade 11 student at Prince of Wales,
said Friday of his group planned to attend today's

are hanging over their heads, and school board
Chuck Gosbee said “quite frankly, I do expect some activity
Monday.”

Vancouver school board chairman Pauline Weinstein
accused Heinrich of seeking confrontation by having his
officials refuse to meet the board on funding cuts until late
February, after its budget is passed.

‘The board has been trying for more than a month to get
a meeting with Heinrich, who has already met with 50 school
boards, but was told recently it would have to meet his
officials first.

“That says the minister is really trying to confront the
board,” Weinstein said. “If the minister was interested in
negotiations, his officials could meet with us much before
that.”

Bill Lefeaux-Valentine, president of the B.C. School
Trustees Association, said the move by Heinrich to blame
the school board for the the

meeting but would act on their own if the council represen-
tatives decide to abandon the possibility of future walkouts
or “stronger action.”

Only a few students left classes in Vancouver Friday.

INDIANS SAY
THEY'LL TAKE
BACK MEARES

VANCOUVER (CP) — West Coast Indians say they are
determined to take back Meares Island, despite a British

between.jhe minister and the board.

‘Teacher's federation president Pat Clarke, B.C. Home
and School Federation president Gwen Chute and
Vancouver district parént representatives’ chairman Chris
Taulu expressed concern that the government seems to be
ignoring the growing protests.

NOT IMPRESSED

“I don’t see any signal that the government has any
intention of being impressed by anyone or anything that's
being done,” said Clarke.

“I'm really quite pessimistic about the government
making any policy changes that would throw ‘any oil on
troubled waters.”

Chute, also a Coquitlam school board trustee, said that
after months of unsuccessful letter-writing and other efforts
to get the government to change its mind, people are feeling
frustration and despair.

“If you can't’convince your government and your MLAs,
what do you do? People have been trying for the last 2%
months, and it doesn't seem to make any discernable
difference.”

Said Taulu: “You can just feel the frustration at
meetings. People are saying ‘What are we going to do?
When is the minister going to stop pushing us around?’ ”

the new Castlegar and District Com-
plex Recreation Commission.

The new coemmsiogion replaces the
and
the Castlegar and har Community
Complex Commission.

Recreation Director Pat Metge said
in a letter to the board that repre-
sensation from the school board was
not included in the commission only
after a lengthy discussion on the role of
the commission.

“As the majority of joint: planning
and workings between the school board
and Recreation Department is done at
the administrative level, the question
was raised as to the purpose of the
board representative, Metge said.

“As school board are active

committee meeting could be arranged
to discuss the matter.

In other news, school superintendent
Terry Wayling noted in his report to
the board that enrolment figures as of
Dec. 31 showed a decrease of only four
students, from Sept. 30, 1984.

The district had 2,459 students
enrolled in September and as of Dec.
31, had 2,455.

Wayling noted that districts like
Trail and the Arrow Lakes, and parti.
cularly Nelson, are suffering from ser-
ious enrolment decreases.

Meanwhile, the board accepted the
resignation of Heather Scott, to be ef-
fective March 1. Scott was employed as
a secretary at the board

with a number of committee respon-
sibilities, it was felt that it was unfair
to ask a board member to sit on a
commission which may seldom deal
with education-related matters,” he
said.

“This was further enhanced by the
fact that in the past two years, the
board representative has attended only
one meeting of the Commission.”

office.

It was noted that maintenance
supervisor Nick Bonderoff will be re-
tiring on April 30. His resignation was
accepted at an earlier meeting. Bonder-
off has been with the district since
1968.

The board also passed a motion to
purchase and install two different
brands of power saver devices — one at

district will then compare the actual
cost saving over'a period of time to see
if they are worthwhile to utilize in
other schools.

In other news, the board agreed to
write a letter to the Minister of Edue-
ation, requesting special funding to
cover long-term teacher illness costs
from Jan. 1 to June 30.

Wayling said in an interview that the
district has one teacher on a long-term
sick leave and has written a letter to
the minister asking for special aid in
order to hire another teacher until the
end of June.

Wayling declined to name the
teacher and the schools where the
teacher teaches. He did say that if the
teacher is not replaced, programs at
the schools will have to be altered and
students will be affected.

Wayling added that teachers are
allotted 15 paid sick days per year, but
if they are “fairly healthy” they can
accumulate this time over the years.

If a teacher becomes seriously ill, he
can use up to 120 sick days ina year out
of a possible 200 days, or six months.

$15,542 grant refused

GUELPH, ONT. (CP) — If
you're down to your last $51
and the federal government
offers you a $15,542 grant —
what do you do?

You turn it down — if
you're Guelph’s struggling
self-made centre for the

unemployed

The Centre for Employable
Workers, which has given
layoff notices to its two re-

tion photo with the local
member of Parliament and it
won't submit a written
promise to Ottawa that the
centre won't apply for more

funds under the Canada
Works Program.
The amount of the grant

also upset the centre's board
because it is less than one-
third of the $48,945 re
quested for salaries of four

of the large number of un-
employed and the “slap in the
face” was compounded “by
asking us to kneel down for a
photo opportunity.

An Immigration Depart-
ment official in Toronto dif-
fered with Pickersgill's ver.
sion of the facts. Roger White
said the receipt of the grant
did not depend on either con-
dition.

“We don't operate this
way.”

Bill Winegard (PC-Guelph)
offered to drop his request
for the photo even though he
thought the request was “fair
and reasonable.

“I think the people of Can
ada have the right to know
where their money is going.”
he said.

“But if that’s all that's

maining workers, is refusing employees.

Ed Pickersgill, one of the
it doesn't want to centre's directors, said the
offer was an “insult” in view tion,”

to accept the windfall for two
reasons:
pose for a cheque-presenta

SCHOOL DEFICIT

continued trom front pege
back the increase to 1.7 or 1.8 per cent
or even to 3 per cent.”

EXPO BENEFITS

continued from front pege
financial problems. New Orleans had
only $4 million in corporate support,
compared to the more than $100 million
from 13- major corporations at Expo 86,
she said.

Fairweather added that Expo 86
began its marketing campaign in 1983
overseas, while New Orleans began
only four months before its fair opened,
“which is really too late.”

he said.

“That's the first time I've
ever heard of such a condi.

hiding them (the board) from
accepting the money, they
don't have to have their pic-
ture taken with me.”

“The district does not have the
ability to pay the increase through its
fiseal funding,” Wayling noted.

Asked later if Expo shouldn't be

hear a lot about the exposition too
soon, they're going to get tired of
hearing ‘about it.”

She said consumer advertising will
start in June. Until now, the Expo has
been marketing the fair to the travel
industry.

One area the board is thinking of
cutting is in the area of paraprofes-
sionals. He noted that the district has
number of paraprofessionals such as
teacher aides, child care workers and
personal attendants.

Wayling added that lunch hour
supervisors will likely be suspended on
Feb. 1.

He said that over the next week the
board will be going through its list to
see where it can implement some of the
reductions.

The board will meet Monday night in
a budget discussion session to find out
where it can make its cuts. Wayling
said some of the euts will go into effect
as early as Feb. 1.

Investment in
B.C. drops off

VANCOUVER (CP) — Al-
though the Social Credit
government's restraint pro-
gram is aimed at attracting
private investment, the Bank
of Montreal says private in-
vestment dropped in 1984
and probably will decline
again in 1985.

Lloyd Atkinson, the bank's
chief economist, said Friday
private investment in the
province dropped six per
cent in 1984 from 1983 based
on estimates for the final half
of 1984.

The only substantial
amount of private invest-
ment came from a boom in
office tower construction in
downtown Vancouver, the
bank says.

In an interview, Atkinson
said, “1983 was low, 1982 was
awfully low as well. We have
witnessed a substantial de-
terioration in private invest-
ment from the heady days of
the 1970s and even from
1980.”

He predicts a 0.1 per cent
decline in private investment
in 1985.

For the rest of the country,
Atkinson forecasts a modest
inerease in business invest-
ment of about 4.1 per cent
after a 2.4 per cent increase
in 1983.

Late last year, the B.C.
Central Credit Union's econ-
omic analysis showed capital
investment in the province
from all sources dropped 12.9
per ‘cent in 1963 and was
projected to slip another 12.1
per cent to $7.2 billion in

Western

The unofficial winning
numbers for Wednesday's
Western Express $100,000
prize were 1367749, 1278561
and 1404175. The $50,000
prize numbers were 2011337
and 1064948.

The five merchandise prize
numbers were 260A030,
2328046, 213C252,

club number was 9.

No one won the Lotto West
$776,721.24 jackpot in Wed-
nesday’s draw. The eight
numbers drawn were 1, 11,

1984. That is a drop of 43 per
cent in constant dollars from
the 1981 high of $9.1 billion.

The major reason for the
decline in private investment
is the worldwide glut in for-
est products and minerals
that in the past provided
B.C.'s wealth, Atkinson said.

ECONOMISTS AGREE

Other economists ranging
from Richard McAlary at the
credit union to Michael Wal-
ker of the conservative Fra-
ser Institute agree that it is a
problem related to much lar-
ger economic factors than
directly attributable to pro-
vineial or even federal gov-
ernment policies.

The Bank of Montreal ex-
ecutives were in Vancouver
Friday for the last of their
cross-country economic out
look conferences.

“Tm not saying that pro-
vincial policies have had no
impact,” said bank president
Grant Reuber. “But by far
the largest factor has been
the composition of output in
this province where markets

Columbia Sup Court decision Friday clearing the way
for MacMillan Bloedel to log the verdant, 8,000-hectare
island.

“We are not going to let MacMillan Bloedel log Meares
Island,” said George Watts of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Indian
band. “It is stolen land.”

A MacMillan Bloedel spokesman said the giant forest
products company will proceed to log part of the island off
the west coast of Vancouver Island, perehaps getting under
way as early as next week.

MB chief forester Grant Ainscough said he sees no
reason to delay now that the courts have granted an
injunction blocking opponents from interfering in the
logging.

Loggers and surveyors will land on Meares to begin
building roads as soon as crews can be marshalled, he said.

Steve Lawson, spokesman for the group of 15 people
now occupying Meares, said the group now knows where it
stands. The next move is up to MacMillan Bloedel, he said.

“We don't intend to leave the island.”

He said the protesters intend to remain in the woods
should MB begin falling trees, an action that would make
logging dangerous.

Two weeks ago, protesters said they had devised a
master plan to save the island's giant cedars at any cost.

In November, protesters took to boats to prevent
MacMillan Bloedel workers from starting preliminary work,
blocking company loggers as they approached the island by
boat. Eventually, the loggers were able to land the boat but
they were stopped from going inland by a human blockade.
In addition, other unknown protesters have driven
26-centimetre spikes into some of the trees to discourage
cutting, painted non-spike trees after the company marked
spiked trees, and destroyed survey marks and tapes on the
island.

‘FINAL FIGHT

Watts said Meares is “the final fight” for aboriginal
title. That fight will include a legal appeal as well as direct
action, he said.

“We are going to treat the Canadian justice system with
the same respect the Canadian justice system has treated
the Canadian Indians,” Watts said in a telephone interview
from his Port Alberni home. “We are going to go to Meares
Island and take it back.”

The logging of Meares Island over the next 35 years will
create 240 direct and indirect jobs, Ainscough said. The
company intends to log one per cent per year of the island
over the next 10 years.

“The i issue of aboriginal land climes has been dealt with

in the ji e are
pleased and relieved with the judgment that was handed
down this afternoon by Justice Reginald Gibbs.

“The decision recognized the very significant implica-
tions of an unfavorable decision.”

Justice Gibbs did not assign costs, pending a trial over
the aboriginal rights issue.

Lawyer Jack Woodward said he has already been
authorized by the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Indians to launch an
appeal. Watts said the Indians are prepared to spend
$250,000 fighting in the courts.

In his ruling, Justice Gibbs dealt mainly with the
aboriginal issue, the i should
the Indians be granted title.

for those products worldwide
have softened.”

The bank predicts the B.C.
economy will grow by 2.5 per
cent in 1985 compared to the
national average projected at
3.2 per cent.

It also says unemployment
in B.C. may rise and housing
starts will increase by nearly
8,000 to 24,000 because of
falling interest rates.

“We've come through a
mueh tougher period,” Reu-
ber said.

numbers

20, 21, 27, 48, 51 and 54. The
bonus number was 53.

The two winners of the five
correct plus bonus number
‘category take home $6,346.90
apiece, 59 winners of the five

four correct category win
$71.20 apiece and 25,137 win-
ners of the three correct
category were awarded $5

prizes.

The estimated windfall for
the Jan. 30 draw was $1
million.

Westar abandons
Sparwood mine

SPARWOOD (CP) — Fire in a sealed-off area
adjacent to its Panel Six underground coal mine in this
southeastern British Columbia community has forced
Westar Mining to abandon the mine for safety reasons,
the company said Friday.

There is more than $14 million in recoverable coal
still available in the mine.

But Westar, a subsidiary of B.C. Resources
Investment Corp., had planned to shut Panel Six in three
months, spokesman Brant Ducey said, because declining
coal prices had made it less economical than surface
mining.

Ducey said the 60 miners who had been working in
the underground mine will not be affected by the
premature closure because all had been scheduled to shift
to other company operations in the spring.

Smoke and methane gas leaking into the Panel Six
mining area has prevented the company from closing it in
an orderly fashion, Ducey said.

As a result, Westar will report an extraordinary loss
of $14.7 million against 1984 earnings.

Ducey said some equipment had also been
abandoned in the mine but the bulk of the lost assets was
180,000 tonnes of recoverable coal. He said it was possible
Westar would someday reclaim the mine.

Ducey said it was not unusual for deep mines to
burn, and that some pits in the area had been burning for
40 years or more.

Amway goes hi-tech

TORONTO (CP) — A high-technology company
has enlisted Amway of Canada Ltd. to sell software
door-to-door.

More than 1,000 Amway salesmen will hit the
streets soon in Ottawa to peddle computer programs
in addition to rug shampoos and detergents.

The direct-sales company, a unit of Amway Corp.
of Ada, Mich., has an agreement with Nabu Network
Ltd. of Ottawa to market in the city Nabu’s technology
that te home users
through cable television.

Amway — short for the American Way — sells
about 300 products. Its distributors spout the virtues
of patriotism, free enterprise and positive thinking to
prospective Amway converts.

PM uses jet mail

OTTAWA (CP) — A,,spokesman for Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney has strongly defended the
use of two government jets at a cost of almost $24,000
to hand-deliver copies of Finance Minister Michael
Welson's to six
governments.

“We intend to do it again,” deputy press secretary
Michel Gratton said in a telephone interview after the
release of the figures, which helped push the govern-
ment's cost of flying since it took office Sept. 17 close
to the $1-million mark.

“You know, it’s a courtesty gesture, it’s going to
be continued. It was to make sure that the premiers of
the 10 provinces would have this document in their
hands when Michael Wilson stood up in the House to
speak about it and wouldn't have to read it in the
newspapers.”

Springsteen honored

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Rock star Bruce
Springsteen can count the United of

LADY. My instructor Sophie
adds sound effects to routine during

America among his most appreciative fans.

Springsteen, on a national tour, has donated more
than $50,000 to steelworkers’ food banks in
Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Washington and
Arizona. So the USW decided to honor him with a
special presentation during the intermission of
Springsteen's concert at the Carrier Dome.

Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. album “cele-
brates working people and those who are thrown out
of work,” said Lou Thomas, director of USW District 4
in New York State.

Thomas said the presentation was meant as a
“thank you for his putting into song the feelings and
conditions of working people everywhere.”

Star in hospital

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. (REUTER) — Frankie
Laine, whose hit songs sold more than 45 million
records, is in stable condition after undergoing a
quadruple heart-lung bypass operation, a hospital
spokesman said Saturday.

Laine, 71, who still performs regularly, entered
Mercy Hospital in San Diego on Wednesday complain-
ing of chest pains and underwent the operation
Friday, the spokesman said.

Laine, one of the biggest popular music singers of
the 1940s and 1950s, recorded such hits as Mule Train,
Lucky OF Sun and That's My Desire.

Ringo’s son marries

LONDON (AP) — Zak Starkey, 19-year-old son of
former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, married the
26-year-old daughter of a hairdresser in a secret
ceremony in a London suburb, the bride's mother said.
Starkey and Sarah Menikides were married in a
civil ceremony Thursday in Bracknell, 50 kilometres
west of London, the bride's mother, Bunty Menikides,
told the British news agency Press Association.
She said there were only three witnesses at the
ceremony, which was kept secret on instructions from
Starr, 44, whose real name is Richard Starkey.

Residents evacuated

BAYTOWN, TEX. (AP) — A pipeline leak sent a
cloud of flammable gas drifting over this south Texas
city Saturday, foreing the evacuation of more than 600
residents for almost nine hours, authorities said.

The evacuees were allowed to return to their
homes at about 2:30 a.m. after the pipeline apparently
sealed itself and winds helped push the cloud over the
Gulf of Mexico, removing the threat, police said.

“All the people in Baytown are being allowed to
return to their homes,” said police communications
Sgt. Dale Schimming. “About 400 to 450 are returning
home to an apartment complex and residential area
along Cedar Bayou.”

6 die in earthquake

MENDOZA (AP) — Six people were killed and at
least 150 injured early Saturday after a strong earth-
quake shook parts of western Argentina, the Civil
Defence Authority said.

The quake, registering seven on the Mercalli
seale, toppled buildings in Godoy Cruz, including the
100-year-old Del Carmen Hospital from which patients
were evacuated. Some of the patients were reported
injured.

The authority said the epicentre was in Godoy
Cruz, south of the Argentine provincial capital of
Mendoza and 1,100 kilometres west of Buenos Aires.

The tremor was felt in Mendoza but no casualties
were reported there.

The Mercalli scale gauges the intensity of an
earthquake as felt in a specific location. The scale runs
from one to 12, with a 12 reading causing serious
damage.

bellydancing demonstration held during Recreation

Rendezvous Thursday night at Castlegar Community

Complex. CosNews Photo by Doug Harvey

Talks to begin in March

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new round of negotiations on
nuclear and space arms will begin in Geneva, Switzerland,
on March 12, ending a 13-month suspension of arms control
talks, the United States and the Soviet Union

president will convene the National Security Council “at
various times” to make decisions based on the group's work.
The U.S. delegation, nnounced Jan. 18, will be headed

Saturday.

Simultaneous announcements by the White House and
the Kremlin said the Soviet negotiating team will be headed
by V.P. Karpov, a 55-year-old career diplomat who also
headed the Soviet delegation at the previous round of talks
aimed by curbing long-range nuclear missiles. Those talks
broke down in late 1983.

Also on the Soviet team will be Yuri A. Kvitsinsky, the
chief Soviet negotiator for medium-range missiles in the
previous talks and one of the architects of a tentative accord,
known as the “walk in the woods” agreement, which failed to
reach fruition.

The other Soviet negotiator will be Alexei Obujhov,
deputy chief of the U.S. desk at the Soviet Foreign Ministry,
who also took part in the previous long-range missile
negotiations.

In an interview with radio reporters shortly after the
announcements in Washington and Moscow, Reagan said he
is “certainly going to try” to conclude an agreement with the
Soviets during his second term.

But he added: “I certainly would not want to confine it
to four years, because I know how long some negotiations
have taken.”

“I tend to be optimistic, not euphoric,” Reagan

added. “We intend to stay there at the table with the hope
that this time we can arrive at an actual reduction of
weapons.”

Reagan said he did not know whether the reported
illness of Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko would
affect the talks, but the fact that the Soviets have named
their negotiators “would indicate that they plan to go
forward.”

He said an inter-agency group, headed by National
Security adviser Robert McFarlane, will meet regularly
between now and March 12 to prepare for the talks and the

Miller wins
Tory crown

TORONTO (CP) — In
dustry Minister Frank Miller
won the Ontario Conser-

on the first ballot.

Miller had led on the first
two ballots, but by much less
vative leadership Saturday, than expected, and Grossman
scoring a dramatic third- grew steadily as first Mc.
ballot vietory over Treasurer Murtry, then Timbrell, join
Larry Grossman to succeed ed his camp after falling off
Premier William Davis and the ballot.
inherit the reins of a 42-year
Tory dynasty.

Miller, at 57 the oldest and
most ideologically conserv
ative of the four candidates,
was the first man in the race
after Davis announced his
retirement last October and,
according to most polls, led

Miller said it was the
matchup he had hoped for
after a disappointing first
ballot showing because he
had a much greater chance,
for ideological reasons, of
picking up Timbrell dele-
a gates in a fight against
from wire to wire. Grossman than making gains

The Miller victory — by a from Grossman if he went up
count of 869-792 on the final against Timbrell on the last
ballot — capped a 10-hour ballot

endurance test which saw
Grossman jump from third As expected, Miller had
spot on the first ballot to gone ahead on the first ballot,
edge Agriculture Minister but at 591 votes was far short
Dennis Timbrell by six votes of the 714 he had publicly
on the second. Timbrell de- mused about or the 650 his
manded a recount, but the handlers were hoping for.
results were upheld. At- Timbrell was second at 421,
Grossman third with 378 and

torney General Roy Me
Murtry had been eliminated MeMurtry last with 300.

by Max K: lawyer who has most recently been
President Reagan's representative in talks aimed at
reducing East-West tensions.

Other members are John Tower, former chairman of
the .Senate armed services committee, who will be
responsible for dealing with long-range missiles; and
Maynard Glitman, a career diplomat who was on the U.S.

in the inter missile talks. Reagan
met with the three men last week to discuss the U.S. posture
for the forthcoming talks.

“mystery man?’
Britain asks

Nsretkes Oe tae Uekabvege becxthe capeiaelii
dignitary’s desire, said, Thateher cooled his
ardor by saying: “Quite right. You have very good taste
but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.”
Fairbairn, 51, said the incident took place while he
was in office and accompanying the prime minister who
was a palace guest of the lord high commissioner of the
Church of Scotland.
“Who is the mystery man?” was the question the

After the session in Parliament, where MPs were
debating a bill to stop motorists from soliciting women,
Fairbairn declined to elaborate.
Fearing that he had already been indiscreet, he said
with a smile: “Just imagine it was me.”
He said it highlighted a flaw in the Sexual Offences
Bill, which would make it an offence for a man to solicit a
‘woman for sexual ends in a way “likely to cause her fear.”
DESIGNS CLOTHES

Fairbairn, who designs his own clothes once gave
love” as one of his hobbies in Who's Who.
The Prime Minister's office said the story seemed
highly unlikely.

Thatcher, 59, was not in Parliament to hear the
Fairbairn disclosure.
Trying to illustrate his point further Fairbairn said
of its sponsor, Janet Fookes: “I have always been
attracted to her and I have never actually dared ask her if
she would go to bed with me.
“After all this, I would have to ask myself how am I
going to put it to her so that it's not likely to cause her
fear?”

Fairbairn's latest Who's Who entry gives as a hobby
being “blunt and sharp at the same time.”

He refused to quit his post in 1981 when a woman
secretary admitted trying to commit suicide outside his
Lendon home. He resigned shortly afterward following a
controversial decision not to prosecute three rapists in
Glasgow, Scotland.

Today's newspapers also speculated on how the
information would affect Thatcher's reputation as the
so-called Iron Lady.

Fairbairn was not the only one to shed a softer light
on the prime minister.

More evidence of the lure of her charm came from
her former defence secretary, Sir John Nott.

Leprosy cases
grow in Canada

MONTREAL (CP) — The number of known cases of
leprosy in Canada appears to be growing and there may
be a substantial increase in the incidences of the disease
in years to come, a research: scientist at the Armand
Frappier Institute says.

In 1976 there were 93 reported cases of leprosy in
Canada, Dr. Muhammad Ishaque said in an interview. In
1982 the number increased to 185 — including 98 in
Ontario and 23 in Quebec — and, to be realistic, there are
likely thousands of people with the disease in Canada.

“The phenomenon is explained by_the large waves of
immigration in the last few years,” Ishaque says. Of all
the known cases in Canada only one, however, involved a
Canadian born in this country.

“Contrary to what most people persist in believing,
leprosy is not as contagious as many other infectious
diseases. Nine out of 10 people can resist it naturally,”
Ishaque says.

Despite that, he says, there is no doubt leprosy is one
of the most serious diseases in the world — worse than
cancer.

“People with cancer die in two or three years. Those
with leprosy last 15 to 20 years.

“Leprosy deforms, dries up, mutilates and destroys
its victim little by little, feature by feature, member by
member, one joint after another, until there's nothing
left.”

LEFT TO AGONIZE

Scientists estimate there are 15 to 20 million lepers
thorughout the world, Ishaque says. Most are in India,
ia — areas where, for lack of
adequate treatment or the money to pay for it, people are
banished and left to agonize for years.

In Canada, where treatment is available and
affordable, lepers can continue to work and function in
society.

Ishaque says scientists are still looking for an
effective vaccine and he is confident the bacillus that
causes the disease will be cultivated.

A report published last week in an American
seientifie journal gave some hope for an advance in
finding such a vaceine

After decades of work, research scientists at Tulane
University in Louisiana and the Armed Forces Institute
of Pathology in Washington, D.C., reported they had
infected three species of monkeys with the Mycobacter.
ium that causes leprosy and have successful reproduced
the disease in less time than it takes to develop in
humans.

Previously, the only animal to consistently develop
the disease after inoculation was the nine-banded
armadillo, which is physiologically far removed from
humans.

The chief investigator for the Tulane group, Dr.
Bobby Gormus, said primates such as monkeys which
rapidly and predictably develop leprosy could speed the
testing of vaccines and new drugs to treat the disease.

Africa and Southeast As

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been a man.

away with it.”

Speaking on a television program to mark Thatcher's
10th anniversary as head of the Conservative party, Nott
said: “All the time of course she uses her feminine

“I don’t think that the way in which she conducts
business would have been tolerated sometimes had she

“The men look at her and they say, ‘Well, goodness
me, this is a rather attractive woman’ .. .

and she gets

Testimony tells of
Belushi’'s last night

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Cathy Evelyn Smith re
peatedly injected comedian
John Belushi with drugs in
the days before the portly
star of Saturday Night Live
died of a drug overdose, two
witnesses told a grand jury.

The sealed testimony, in
advertently released briefly
by a court clerk to the Los
Angeles Herald Examiner,
also provided a glimpse of
Belushi's final night.

Smith of Toronto, who was
indicted on a murder charge
in Belushi's death, abandoned
her extradition battle and
returned to Los Angeles on
Thursday under a plea-bar.
gain arranged by the district
attorney's office.

A prosecutor indicated the
office would be willing to re-
duce a second-degree murder
charge to involuntary man.
slaughter and drop many of
the 13 drug charges against

her in exchange for a guilty
plea
Nelson Lyon, a former

writer for Saturday Night
Live, described a three-day
drug binge that began March
2, 1982, when Belushi, 33, and
Smith, now 37, came to
Lyon's house, the newspaper
said.
‘BIG SURPRISE’

“I have a big surprise for
you,” Lyon said Belushi told
him. “Roll up your sleeve.”

Smith then injected what
Lyon believed was cocaine
into him and Belushi, who
started in the movies, Animal
House, The Blues Brothers
and Continental Divide.

In the 24 hours before Bel.
ushi's death on March 5,

days, testified that she wat.
ched Smith inject Belushi re
peatedly during the first four
days of March 1982, The
Herald Examiner reported.

Smith, a former backup
singer to Hoyt Axton and
Gordon Lightfoot and com
panion to several singers,
was quoted in The National
Enquirer in 1982 as admit
ting that she injected Belushi
with drugs. She has claimed
she was under the influence
of alcohol when she gave the
interview

Lyon said what he believed
to be the final and most po-
tent injection was given in
the office of the private
nightclub, On the Rox, on the
Sunset Strip, where Belushi,
Smith and Lyon partied with
Robert DeNiro and Harry
Dean Stanton. He said
neither DeNiro nor Stanton
took drugs.

Belushi and Lyon became
violently ill and vomited,
then returned to Belushis
$200-a-day Chateau Marmont
bungalow in West Holly
wood, Lyon said.

DeNiro and actor-comedi
an Robin Willians dropped
by. but Lyon, DeNiro and
Williams left, leaving Belushi
alone with Smith.

She was quoted as telling
The National Enquirier she
had injected Belushi with the
“coup de grace” when they
were alone, but denied giving
him more drugs after Lyon
left

The three-volume trans
cript, which runs more than
600 pages, provided the basis
for the indictment against
Smith. It is technically sealed

1982, Smith ini at
least six injections into Lyon
and Belushi, Lyon testified
Leslie Marks, another com
panion of Belushi in his final

until W but a clerk
inadvertently released it
The court retrieved it from
The Herald Examiner before
it could be fully read