June 30, 1989

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Tories try revival

VICTORIA (CP) — A declaration
by the long-dormant B.C. Progressive
Conservative party that it will fight for
votes in the next election isn’t making
hearts beat faster in the British
Columbia capital.

‘I don’t get very nervous,"’ said
Premier Bill Vander Zalm in a hallway
of the legislature

Calvin Lee, a former member of the
Alberta legislature who helped the
Tories oust the Social Credit gover
nment there in 1971, announced Thur-

Canada
ready
to party

By RICHARD HOFFMAN
The Canadian Press

Canada cuts the cake on another
birthday Saturday as Canadians
kick up their heels and celebrate
122 years of nationhood with
parades, picnics, speeches and siz-
zling fireworks

It’s the day that marks the birth
of Canada on July 1, 1867,
although it wasn’t until 1982 that it
was officially called Canada Day
Before that, it was known as Con.
federation Day or Dominion Day

Newfoundland — the last
province to join Confederation —
will be the first to raise the flag and
start the party with a sunrise
ceremony atop historic Signal Hill
in St. John’s.

The festivities continue across
the country before wrapping up
with a giant fireworks display in
Vancouver

“This is a party for all
Canadians,” says Andre Viger,
president of the Quebec Canada
Day Committee, pointing to the
swearing in of 60 new Canadians in
Montreal as the ‘‘most moving
moment of the celebration.”

Across Canada, citizenship
ceremonies will be held to swear in
scores of landed immigrants as
full-fledged Canadians.

BIRTHDAY BASH

At the centre of-the celebrations
will be the traditional Parliament
Hill party, where puppets, clowns,
musicians, and magicians entertain
on the front lawn of the Commons.

After speeches by Gov. Gen
Jeanne Sauve and Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney, the day comes to
a colorful climax in a variety show
featuring top Canadian perfor-
mers and a huge fireworks display
broadcast live on CBC

Federal and provincial’ gover-
nment offices will be closed Njn-
day along with financial in
stitutions | and = markets as
Canadians enjoy one of the best
long weekends of the year:

As Ottawa's birthday present to
Canadians, there will be free ad-
mission to all federal parks and
historic sites.

In the southern Ontario city of
Brantford, sprinter Ben Johnson,
stripped of his Olympic gold medal
for using steroids, will be the guest
of honor at a Canada Day bash

The town plans to dedicate a
maple tree to him

sday he is the new spokesman for the
party’s nearly dead wing in British
Columbia.

“We're very optimistic about our
prospects,"’ said Lee, now a
management consultant in the Victoria
area. “There are a significant number
of citizens looking for a moderate,
conservative alternative."*

The Tories, who are now leaderless
and have not held a single seat since
1953, are considered a poorly
organized fringe party in. British
Columbia.

But Lee believes the time is ripe for a
rebirth of the party because of what he
sees as a split in the Social Credit party,
best described as a long-time coalition
of Liberals and Conservatives cammit
ted to keeping the NDP out of power

1 think we'll do very well in the next
election,”” he predicted, adding the

Jans a leadership convention in
**Our timing is good.””
CUTINTOSUPPORT

Vander Zalm, who doesn’t have to
call an election until 1991, admitted a
Conservative resurgence could cut into
his party’s own base of support and
help the NDP.

“I suppose if you effectively split the
free-enterprise vote that certainly plays
into the hands of the NDP,” said Van
der Zalm, whose government is suf
fering in the polls after the premier's
anti-abortion stance and scandals in
volving friends and advisers.

But recent voting history indicates
the Tories have a daunting task ahead
of them. In the last provincial election
they won less than one per cent of the
popular vote, or only 14,000 of more
than 1.3 million ballots cast

Lee,who says he doesn’t want to be
leader, admits it will be a tough battle
to win any seats but thinks there is sup-
port for his party in almost every area
of British Columbia

““We've had sort of a quiet core of
members who have kept things in place
over the years,’’ he said. ‘‘We’re not
even sure what the membership is.””

The New Demoérats, though, aren’t
shaking in their
prospect of a newly. revived Conser
vative party

“There’s been abortive attempts
before to revive these moribund, dead
parties,"’ said NDP house leader Mark
Rose. *‘l wish them well."*

boots over the

Ontario drops

trading

TORONTO (CP) — The Ontario
Securities Commission dropped in
sider trading charges against Bill and
Russell Bennett in a brief court ap
pearance.

The two brothers had been tried and
acquitted on the same charges ina B.C
court in May after they sold shares in
Doman Industries just minutes after
Doman learned that a proposed
takeover offer from a U.S. company
had fallen through

When asked by the judge if he wan
ted to give a reason why the charges
were being withdrawn, Nigel Cam.
pbell, counsel for the Ontario
Securities Commission, declined.

When the commission made the an:
nouncement earlier in the week, it cited
the legal principle of double jeopardy,

charges

under which an individual can’t be
tried more than once on a charge for
which a court has already granted an
acquittal

Although the charges have been
withdrawn, the Ontario commission is
proceeding with a hearing on whether
to lift the trading privileges of the Ben
netts and Herb Doman, chairman and
president of Doman Industries

That hearing is scheduled for Oct
30, but Doman’s lawyer will in:
vestigate whether it, too, can be stop-
ped because it violates the principle of
double jeopardy

The B.C. Securities Commission is
still holding the $2.1 million in profit
the Bennetts made from the trade.

Doman and the Bennetts are also
facing three lawsuits by shareholders
of Doman Industries

B.C. schedules
another wolf hunt

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) —
British Columbia has authorized
another wolf hunting season this fall
and winter in the southeastern part of
the province, but with bag limits inten
ded to protect the animals’ recovery in
Montana.

“We have two wolf management
units that border Montana, the
Flathead and the Wigwam," said
Ralph Archibald of the B.C. Ministry
of Environment

“A hunting season beginning Sept
10 and running through February has
been authorized in those drainages.

The Flathead drainage limit is two
wolves of either sex, and the Wigwam
has a maximum of five wolves with a
subquota of two adult females. Mon-
tana borders the southeast corner of

British Columbia.

Officials estimate there are 8,000
wolves in British Columbia, and 1,000
die annually through hunting and
other control measures.

The recovery of wolves in the nor-
thern Continental Divide ecosystém is
dependent on wolves from British
Columbia dispersing south and for-
ming packs in Montana and Idaho.

““We have density thresholds on the
number of wolves within an area that
we can comfortably live with,’’ Ar
chibald said. “‘In the Flathead, we are
close to that’ threshold, and in the
Wigwam we have exceeded it.”*

The most recent wolf hunting season
two years ago drew the furor of en
vironmentalists from both sides of the
border

Nurses angry
over proposed pact

VICTORIA (CP) — A day after Pat
Savage was booed in Vancouver, the
B.C, Nurses’ Union president was
greeted at a meeting Thursday in Vic-
toria with warm smiles and hugs.

“Just ignore it,"’ one murse told
Savage, referring to the rough recep-
tion she received from about 700 nur-
ses at a Vancouver meeting.

“The nurses there were just demon-
strating their anger," Savage said in an
interview. ‘I think we all recognize
(the deal) is not what nurses want, but
the bargaining committee has deter-
mined that it is as much as we could
get."”

Savage said she had no comment on
a protest staged earlier Thursday by
about 150 angry nurses in front of their
own union headquarters.

The nurses, carrying placards and
chanting ‘We defy to ratify,”’ milled
around the parking lot before ap-
proximately 50 moved inside to air
their complaints and deliver petitions.

Victoria nurses are not entirely
pleased with the tentative deal, said
Judith Ogilvie, a Campbell River nurse
who was elected bargaining represen-
tative for Vancouver Island

But overall, they were willing to
listen to the bargaining committee's
explanations during the meeting Thur-
sday, she said.

HARD CHOICE

The committee faced a difficult

decision Sunday night when discussing

the final offer from the Health Labor
Relations Association, Ogilvie said.
“We spent a long time making that

ting the offer meant a longer
strike, further impact on patients and
nurses’ salaries, and the possibility of
the government implementing back-
to-work legislation so the committee
decided to recommend the deal,
Ogilvie said.

The tentative agreement was
reached about dawn Monday. The
17,500-member union will vote July
12

The settlement, which includes
raises of 6.25 per cent retroactive to
April 1 and 6.25 per cent on Oct. 1,
works out to 29.5 per cent over three
years.

Starting nurses who now earn $15.07
an hour would receive $19.52 an hour
or $38,220 annually by 1991. Senior
nurses now at $17.43 an hour would
earn $22.58 an hour or $44,208 by
1991

Inside the union headquarters Thur-
sday, the dissident nurses tore up news
releases by Savage.

“There are petitions coming in from
the various hospitals throughout the
province asking for an early
ratification vote in 48 to 72 hours,”
said rally organizer Grant Tomlinson.

Tomlinson, a psychiatric ward nurse
at St. Paul's Hospital in downtown

Vancouver, urged nurses to reject the
settlement.

Ogilvie said the ratification date
can't be moved, up because the com-
mittee wants to talk directly to each of
the bargaining units in British Colum-
bia.

When the tentative settlement was
reached, the union agreed nurses
would take down their picket lines and
return to work at the hospitals not
behind Hospital Employees Union
picket lines.

The hospital workers are on strike at
81 hospitals in a separate contract
dispute. Nurses have refused to cross
those picket lines, although about 70
per cent of both the nurses and hospital
workers have femained on the job to
provide essential services.

Talks continued Thursday between
the Hospital Employees Union and the
Health Labor Relations Association,
which bargains for the 144 hospitals
and health-care facilities across the
province.

The 29,000-member union, which
represents a range of workers from
licensed practical nurses to cleaners,
wants wage increases of $1.50 an hour
or.12 per cent in each year of atwo-year
contract. The association has offered
5.5 per cent, five and 5.5 per cent over
three years.

A union spokesman says the average
Hospital-Employees Union_member
earns $12 an hour

dirt

patients’ beds and in corners.

Dust balls have settled like tumbleweed under

Cleaning a struggle

BURNABY (CP) — The usually glossy, spotless
halls of Burnaby Hospital are scuffed and streaked with

emergency department Monday night suffering extreme
pain and nausea from an obstructed bowel.

“1 had to come,"’ she said. ‘‘I feel sorry for the

people who have to work here — they are all rushing

around so much, itis very hard for them,

sy

Castlegar News **

June 30, 1989

Briefly

After 16 days behind picket lines as of Thursday,
hospitals in the British Columbia are struggling to keep
ahead of the dirt and undone jobs and to limit the effects
on patient care. A visit behind the lines at Burnaby
reflects what is happening in many other hospitals
across the province.

Burnaby Hospital is down to 472 beds from 600,
215 of which are extended care, the rest acute care and
long-term care.

Only five of the usual 47 housekeeping staff have
been declared essential so 15 members of management
do cleaning chores.

“Anywhere that is a breeding ground for germs we
have to pay attention to,”’ says Karen Lee, the hospital's
public relations officer. She has spent the strike bagging
and removing garbage and cleaning toilets and
bathrooms.

“The most important infection control is the bugs
you can’t see — the micro-organisms growing in the
garbage and bathrooms,” she said Wednesday. “Each
day we get a little farther behind. We are reaching the
stage were it is becoming a serious health concern.””

NO CHOICE

Patient Rosa Diapolo, one of 38 medical and
surgical patients grouped together in one ward lies with
an IV line dripping into her arm. She came to the

“The care really hasn't been too bad,
Diapolo, who supports the nurses’ demands. ‘The nur-|
ses don’t have time, but I don’t think I have really suf-
fered from it.’”

Garbage bags pile up in utility rooms, waiting to be
carted out of the hospital. Black bags contain regular
paper and plastic garbage; bright red bags contain
biomedical garbage — intravenous tubes,. surgical
gauze, used IV bottles, bandages and other con-
taminated items

In the infectious waste room, Alistair Sim, director
of supplies and services, corrals the red bags for
disposal.

Normally in charge of hospital stocks, Sim now is
one of 19 people who move items about the hospital,
ferrying. food trays to and from rooms and carting
linens, garbage and medical supplies.

He is also still overseeing the hospital’s curtailed
supplies to see that no shortages occur.

““1’m exhausted,” he said as his pager sounded with
a request that he come to the picket line to carry a
delivery of milk into the hospital.

In the kitchen area, Anne Toupin, hospital senior
vice-president, was cleaning lunch trays.

“*If L have any spare time I go up to the wards and
change beds,”’ she said.

Alliance

continued from front poge
board administering the Slocan Valley
community tree farm licence would
commit to supplying timber to Slocan

release

“The present
working,” Hammond says in the
“The MoF (Ministry of
Forests) has a mandate to protect all

system just isn’t needs of the whole community rather
than just corporate shareholders.””
Arrow Forest District officials have

invited the Slocan Valley Watershed

Forest Products at a fair market price,
the release says. The quantity of timber
supplied would be determined by the
board and harvesting would be carried
out by people employed by the board.
All aspects of the forest ecosystem
would be considered in the planning
process, the release says

Should higher timber prices result,
increased costs could be recovered by
industry through value-added
manufacturing, the alliance says.

“*We must move away from our un-
stable, volume-based ‘board’
economy to a stable system where we
cut fewer trees while providing more
jobs by making a variety of wood
products such as furniture, doors and
windows,”’ said Peppard, who recen-
tly announced he will seek the New
Democratic party nomination in the
Nelson-Creston riding.

SVWA members acknowledge that
implementing their proposal will
require some effort but they believe a
community-administered TFL will
solve the watershed-management
issues they want to resolve with the
Ministry of Forests.

Road

continued from front page

of secondary highways, including
bridges and other structures,
within their boundaries. Under the
program, the ministry may con-
tribute 50 per cent of capital con-
struction costs and 40 per cent of
maintenance costs for approved
projects. The funds are distributed
after work has been completed by
the applicant municipality

aspects of the forest, but by far their
greatest effort is on facilitating the
desires of industry

“Workers and all parts of the robes)
will benefit from: community contro!
of the forest,"" Hammond adds. ‘‘The
mill will continue to operate, but the
style of forest practices will reflect the

Alliance to participate in an integrated
watershed management plan for the
Slocan Valley. But the alliance has said
it won't participate unless it is given
some kind of decision-making powers,
a move which Arrow Forest District
officials say they are legally prevented
from doing

Lottery numbers

TORONTO (CP) — The winning
numbers in Wednesday’s Lotto 6/49
draw were 2, 4, 13, 16, 17 and 40. The
bonus number was 41

There was no winner of the jackpot
prize of $1,857,978.70. Therefore, the

*PENTICTON (CP) — A Roman
Catholic priest pleased guilty today to
10 sex charges involving boys.

Father Leonard Buckley, 50, will be
sentenced by provincial court Judge
Gale Sinclair on Aug. 41.

Buckley, who is not in custody,
pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual
assault aid six counts of indecent
assault

Penticton RCMP said the incidents
involved young males between 12 and
15in the Cranbrook area, Whistler and
Penticton.

Buckley was with the St. Ann's
Roman Catholic Church in Penticton

x

Lotto 6/49 jackpot prize pool estimate
for the next draw will be $4 million.

The second prize pool, awarded to
those matching five regular numbers
and the bonus number, had six winners
of $116,983.80.

The four Extra winning numbers for
British Columbia on Wednesday were
27, 41,43 and 82.

B.C. Keno — 8, 10, 11, 23, 25, 28, 32
and 37

The following are the winning num:
bers drawn in Tuesday's lottery:

B.C. Keno — 1, 2, 6, 18, 20, 26, 29
and 52.

These numbers, provided by The
Canadian Press, must be considered
unofficial,

Police file

Castlegar RCMP made 19 liquor
seizures and-laid seven charges as a
result of a graduation party Saturday
in Blueberry. Charges are also pending
against two impaired drivers, police
said.

Seniors get rent help

VICTORIA (CP) — Changes to the province's rent subsidy program
for seniors will come into effect SaturYay, Social Services Minister
Claude Richmond said Thursday

Minister Aid for Elderly Renters, known as SAFER, will be expan-
ded as part of the $120-million package of housing initiatives announced
by the government in the March budget, he said

The program provides monthly financial assistance for eligible
seniors who pay more than 30 per cent of their income on rent

About 8,000 seniors will receive increased benefits and an additional
5,700 will be eligible for the program, Richmond said.

The eligibility age for the program is being lowered to 60 from 65.
The rent ceiling is being increased and the assistance formula is being ad-
justed to help those most in need.

Petro-Can layoffs expected

TORONTO (CP) — As many as 800 employees of Petro-Canada will
be laid off in the next few weeks because of the oil giant’s declining profits
and market share, the Financial Post reported.

Ina report out of Ottawa, the newspaper said most of the layoffs are
expected in the company’s marketing division in Toronto, but other
departments may also be affected. ‘

Petro-Canada, which has a total workforce of about 7,370, saw its
net earnings fall by 45 per cent last year to $94 million from $172 million

The layoffs are an effort to reduce costs because of those dismal
financial results and-the company’s loss of market share to 19 per cent
from 26 per cent four years ago, the newspaper said

Toronto woman has quints

TORONTO (CP) — A Toronto woman gave birth Thursday night to
quintuplets — believed to be only the sixth set born in Canada.

The babies — three boys and two girls — wete born at Mount Sinai
Hospital to a 32-year-old woman and her husband, who did not wish to be
identified

Three of the babies were in good condition. But one was critical,
requiring help from a ventilator to breathe, and another was in fair con-
dition, said hospital spokesman Jodi Macpherson.

The smallest baby, a girl, weighs just more than three pounds, while
the heaviest, a boy, weighs almost four pounds and the others range in
between, said Macpherson.

The mother, who had taken a fertility drug, gave birth by caesarean
section. The family has two other children, aged two and 12.

AIDS spreader charged

CALGARY (CP) — Three more charges have been laid against a
Calgary man accused of knowinglyg@geading the AIDS virus.

Gordon Summer appeared iMProvincial court Thursday for the
beginning of his preliminary inquiry on two aggravated assault charges
laid earlier this year

The Crown is adding two charges of attempt to cause bodily harm,
stemming from relationships Summer had with two women. It is alleged
he had unprotected sex with them without telling them he has the AIDS
virus.

The third charge, of aggravated assault, is related to a bar fight that
led to Summer's arrest in March.

The 24-year-old has been in custody since that time.

No plastic for B.C. booze

KAMLOOPS (CP) — British Columbia isn’t likely to follow Alber-
ta’s lead and allow’credi€ ards in the province's liquor stores, a liquor
branch official said.

While credit will be accepted at selected Alberta liquor stores next
month, a spokesman for the B.C. liquor distribution branch said existing
B.C. legislation specifies cash payment only

Kathy Gurton said the branch is looking at various ways to moder-
nize its operations and while the use of credit cards has been suggested, it’s
not being considered at this time

The Consumers Association of Canada has already blasted Alberta's
plan, saying it will encourage compulsive liquor buying

Business task force created

VICTORIA (CP) — The provincial government has established a 14-
member task force to review,its programs for small business, Regional
Development Minister Elwood Veitch said

The Small Business Task Force will meet at least five times from July
to October and report back by late fall, Veitch said.

Co-chairmen of the group are Social Credit caucus members Ivan
Mes$mer and Dan Peterson

Task force members include Rick Jensen, mayor of Cranbrook;
Richard Allen, chief economist for the B.C. Central Credit Union; and
Colin Smith, former president of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce.

McCurdy enters NDP race

WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) — Howard McCurdy, federal NDP critic for
science and technology, announced he is joining the race for the party
leadership

The Windsor-St. Clair MP joins five others, including his neighbor
Steven Langdon of Essex- Windsor, in the leadership contest

McCurdy, 56, a former city councillor, says he’s hoping for special
support from ethnic minorities, labor and the academic and scientific
communities to give him a major boost when the party chooses its new
leader in December

Lightning scorches B.C.

VICTORIA (CP) — More than 10,000 lightning strikes throughout
British Columbia this week caused 64 of 119 new fires, the B.C. Forest
Service said.

“*In one 24-hour period alone, between June 25 and 26, there were
more.than 6,200 lightning strikes in the province,” said fire control officer
Dave Dunsdon.

There have been 1,078 wildfires in the province to Thursday, while
the 10-year average for the same period is 806. The total area burned by
forest fires this year is 14,187 hectares.

Pacific Rim exports No. 1

VICTORIA (CP) — British Columbia exports to Pacific Rim coun
tries exceeded those to the United States for the first time ever, Inter
national Business Minister John Jansen said.

Exports to the Pacitic Rim were $1.84 billion in the first quarter, or
41 per cent of the province’s total exports. Exports to the United States
were $1.79 billion, or 40 per cent of the total, he said.

While the difference might seem small, Jansen said the figures
showed the steady growth of trade with the Pacific Rim and emphasized
the province's distinct trading pattern compared to the rest of Canada.

Provincial exports increased by 130 per cent in the last 10 years, rising
to $17.4 billion in 1988 from $7.6 billion in 1978. Exports are expected to
reach $1.8 billion this year

Syringes
litter
beaches

LONDON (AP) — Beaches from
the chic Riviera to the English Channel
are beginning to be hit by"the same
blight. that ‘reached U.S. shores lass
summer — syringes.

The needle refuse dropped by drug
users on European shores hasn't been
as putrid as the waste and blood —
some of it ALDS-infected — that
washed up on the U.S. East Coast.

No one, for example, is reported to
have contracted any disease from the
needles, but French,” British and
Spanish children have been pricked.
And as the number of discarded
needles increases, concern is growing
over what a British newspaper calls the
syringe peril.

“We're very concerned for children.
Children are going to be digging in the
sand far more than adults,”’ said Peter
Green, medical officer for the south
coast district of Torbay, where five
people have been treated the last mon-
th for needle injuries.

“The syringes have been found near
what looked like burned-out fires, and
from what we deduce these are from
late night drug parties,"’ Green said.
“These people are high-risk. We
regard their equipment as potentially
dangerous.""

In neighboring Exmouth district,
five needles were found in the last
month, although no one has been hurt.

BEACHES OPEN

European officials see no cause for
panic or closing beaches. They are
counting on public vigilance and extra
cleaning.

Torbay authorities asked owners of
metal detectors for help, and one Fren-
ch mayor hopes to keep addicts from
night forays onto the sand.

Brian Hayes, a painter who was
scratched by a needle on a Devon
beach near Salcombe, agrees that
beaches should remain open.

It's not a_ question § of
scare mongering,” he says, explaining
why he called a local radio station to
tell of his plight.

**People have to be cafeful where
they sit and step. If I can sit on one,
anyone can.””

On the French Riviera, a seven-year-
old boy was pricked in Cannes, and a
three-year-old girl was hurt at Cap
D’Ail in June. Another child was in-
jured several months ago on a
Spanish beach.

Manuel Carballo, a doctor from the
Geneva-based World Health
Organization’s Global Program on
AIDS, partly blames changes in drug-
taking methods.

“If you are seeing more drug-
injecting equipment disposed of
casually, it is because there are more
drug injectors around doing this,”’
Carballo said. ‘‘Injecting, as opposed
to smoking, chewing or sniffing, has
increased.””

STREETS LITTERED

Although no needles have turned up
‘on Italian beaches, they litter some
streets. In 1988, Milan sanitation
workers collected as many as 4,000
syringes a day

Carballo said the availability of
syringes reflects the greater use of
disposable medical equipment.

He and others say that hepatitis B,
with a virum more hardy than the HIV
virus associated with acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, is probably the
more likely menace from the needles,
although nothing can be ruled out.

In response to the problem, early
morning cleaners in Cannes and other
Riviera cities were asked to redouble
their efforts. Some workers were given
special gloves or pincers.

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TOP STUDENT .

Chris Blackman (right), president of the Kinnaird and Valley Vista

Parents Group, presents Kim Quiding (centre) with the J.H. Corbett Award as the top
all-round student at Kinnaird elementary school last year. Proud mom Kathy Quiding

looks on.

China criticizes
international scorn

BEIJING(AP-AFP) — China renewed attacks today
on foreign countries it said are trying to isolate it for sup-
pressing the pro-reform movement, and complained of an
*‘anti-China”’ bias.

State-run news media said Premier Li Peng dismissed
international criticism of the military crackdown that
began June 3-4 when troops entered central Beijing's
Tiananmen Square and fired on demonstrators. At least
200 people were killed.

“China has also noticed an anti-China . . . current,"
Li told the foreign minister of Sao Tome and Principe, an
island state off West Africa. ‘Under the banner of human
rights, these people have made unwarranted accusations of
China for its quelling of the counter-revolutionary
rebellion and punishment of criminals according to law.””

President Yang Shangkun told a visiting delegation
from Bolivia on Thursday he hoped the world ‘will under-
stand that the suppression of the rebellion represents a
reasonable act in handling our internal affairs,’’ the state-
run China Daily reported

**No ruling party or government will allow the subver-
sion of itself,” Yang said

The government also lashed out Thursday at the
European Economic Community for making *‘presum-
ptuous accusations,”’ against China.

The 12-country EEC condemned on Tuesday the
**brutal repression taking place in China."’ It called for an
embargo on arms sales and urged the World Bank to post-
pone new loans.

The United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and
other countries have already taken similar steps against
Beijing.

In Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives
voted 418-0 Thursday to endorse the cutoff of military aid
already ordered by Bush. But it also voted to suspend trade
and development programs, ban the sale of police equip~
ment and limit transfer of high-technology and nuclear
materials.

China faces increasing isolation within the inter-
national community as authorities continue to arrest
people who supported the movement for greater political
freedom that began in mid-April

Since the military crackdown, at least 1,800 people
have been arrested and 27 executed

The party’s Central Committee formally ousted
moderate party chief Zhao Ziyang last weekend and named
Jiang as his replacement

Zhao fell into disfavor when he opposed the May 20
imposition of martial law in Beijing and the military assault
on Tiananmen Square.

Four officials have been jailed for profiteering and
bribery in northwestern and southern China, reports said
today

In the southern province of Guangzhou, the section
chief of the provincial Communist party committee
economic department, Zhu Hai,was sentenced to life im-
prisonment for embezzling 230,000 yuan ($73,850 Cdn) in
refirgerator dealings in 1984-86, the Yngcheng Evening
News reported.

An accomplice, Liu Dianming, and another person,
Wang Sumei, were jailed for 15 and two years for bribery.

In Shanxi province on Tuesday, a court sentenced
Chang Xiaofeng, head of a material trade centre, to eight
years and Zhang Yanhui, an official in a provincial metallic
firm, to 10 years for profiteering, the People’s Daily repor-
ted.

China has delayed plans to build 48 generators this
year with a total capacity of 7.9 million kilowatts owing to
lack of funds| and the late delivery of equipment, the of-
ficial Xinhua news agency said today

POSE PROBLEMS

Xinhua, quoting a spokesman for the Ministry of
Energy Resources, said the delay was caused by bank
arrears of the capital planned for the projects, and late
delivery and quality problems with imported equipment.

The ministry has urged local banks to provide
necessary funds to complete the projects, the agency said.

Only 13 units had been completed at the end of the first
half of this year with a capacity of 1.5 million kilowatts,
about 19.1 percent of the planned annual target, it said

Authorities in Shanghai have denied a report that two
prize-winninig Chinese ballet dancers from the coastal city
have been arrested, a Hon:, Kong newspaper reported
today

Ta Kung Pao, quoting a spokesman. from the
Shanghai Bureau of Culture, said the two dancers, Yang
Xinhua and Xin Lili, had returned to Shanghai last Mon-
day after a performance in Hong Kong.

The Chinese legislature held a special session Thursday
that hailed the ruling Communist party’s violent sup-
the movement as ‘“‘legal,

pression of
necessary."”
Jiang Zemin, the new party

niversary on July |

extradition

still on hold

CALGARY (CP) — It will likely be
several months before Canada’s
highest court decides whether Charles
Ng can appeal his extradition order,
his Calgary lawyer said.

Don McLeod filed documents
this week in the Supreme Court of
Canada asking leave to appeal Ng’s ex-
tradition to the United States, where he

Offer
rejected

SEATTLE (AP) — Registered nur-
ses at 31 Group Health Co-operative
clinics and two hospitals in the Puget
Sound area voted Thursday to reject a
contract offer and authorize a 10-day
strike notice

Nurses voted_$13-225 to reject the
last offer from the state's largest health
maintenance organization and largest
single employer of nurses, said Diane
Sosne, president of Local 1199,
National Union of Hospital Care Em-
ployees, Service Employees Inter-
national Union.

faces 13 counts of capital murder and
numerous other charges.

The court would agree to hear the
appeal if it deemed the matter of
national importance, MacLeod said
Should the court refuse the appeal, the
decision would rest with, Canadian
Justice Minister Doug Lewis.

The Alberta Court of Appeal in May
upheld orders from two earlier courts
that Ng, 28, whose name is pronoun
ced Ing, be extradited for trial in a
string of grisly sex-and-torture slayings
in northern California

The case has prompted a public out-
cry over Canada’s extradition laws,
which give the federal government
power to refuse to extradite a fugitive if
he faces the death penalty

Meanwhile, Victims of Violence
spokesman George Bears said his
group is encouraged that another
California murder suspect has been ex:
tradited to face the death penalty

Canada’s justice minister signed
Rudy Blanusa’s surrender warrant last
week and the fugitive was promptly
handed over to American authorities

Negis serving a 42-year jail sentence
for a bungled shoplifting and shooting
at adowntown Calgary store.

leader and former
Shanghai mayor, appeared Thursday with other members
of the party leadership to celebrate the party’s 68th an

correct and

Yang Xinhua and Xin Lili were among four dancers
reported missing when they failed to arrive Wednesday at

La Baule, in western France, where they are scheduled to

still unknown.

appear in an international dance festival next week
The other two are Wu Wei and Qu Zijiao, 1988 gold
medallists at the Liaoning Ballet whose whereabouts were

Tests show risk
in eating fish

CHICAGO (Reuter) — Eating
only one large trout from Lake
Michigan in a lifetime iks a poten
tial cancer risk, the largest U.S.
conservation group said.

The National Wildlife
Federation said fish from Lake
Michigan, and probably from
other U.S. waters, pose a greater
risk of cancer and other health
problems, than
thought

Women who want to have
children, pregnant women and
children under 15 should not eat
any of six varieties of fish from
Lake Michigan that were involved
ina study, the group added

‘*Puget Sound, the Hudson
River, the Ohio River, Quincy Bay
in Massachusetts
these waters, and many others,
contain high concentrations of
toxic chemicals,’ said federation
president Jay Hair

“*Our se
curate approach in this study for
evaluating the health risks of eating
sport fish, and we hope that federal
and state agencies will take im

previously

sport fish from

ntists used a more ac

mediate action to. apply this
methodology in other waterways
where fish are likely to be con
taminated,”’ he said ina report
ASSESSES RISK

The group said it took existing
data on contaminants in fish from
Lake Michigan compiled by the
state of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana
and applied “‘risk-assessment’
guidelines from the Environmental
Protection Agency to the data
to the data.

The technique gives a different
and more-thorough picture of the
health risk involved than the
method used by the Food and Drug
Administration. It was the first
time the EPA health-risk
guidelines had been used to judge
Great Lakes fish, a spokesman for
the federation said

The group said the chemicals
cafry the risk of birth defects in
children, cancer, liver damage and
other health problems.

Current government advisories
which set limits for consumption of
certain Great Lakes fish are
inadequate, the report_ said,