sy. A2 Castlegar News January 28, 1990 ov hon st & Workers to continue slowd VANCOUVER (CP) — Workers at Cominco's three largest operations in British Columbia plan to step up, work slowdowns in the next two weeks to protest the closure of the company's Kimberley mine, union leaders said. Cominco, citing falling zinc prices and high produc- tion costs, announced last week that the Sullivan mine in Kimberley will be closed indefinitely as of Jan. 31. The closure’ was announced in a two-paragraph release. “The company's acting for the sake of corporate greed,"’ said Ken Neumann, western Canadian director for the United Steelworkers of America. The closure in Kimberley will result in 600 layoffs at holding meetings,’ Local briefs CIPE announces its neutrality The Coalition for Information on Pulp Mill Expansion (CIPE) met Saturday and formally announced it will take a neutral position on the proposal expansion of the Celgar pulp mill in Castlegar. CIPE co-chairman Wayne Peppard said the coalition’s purpose is: © to gather complete information on the impacts of the proposed ex- pansion and of the provincial government's review process; © tomake that information available to the public; and © toencourage and support full public participation in the process. Peppard said CIPE fully supports a safe workplace for the mill’s em- dasaf I for thec ty in which they live. Council halts truck parking Castlegar city council will no longer allow drivers of tractor-trailers to park their rigs on city property at the Community Complex after the end of February. Council last week agreed to write a letter to David Chambers Trucking advising that the city requests the tractor-trailers be removed from the property by Feb. 28. Ald. Terry Rogers said the property will be needed for additional parking at the new Aquatic Centre. “Our intention is to clearly define that (property) as additional parking space for the community,"’ he said. City administrator Dave Gairns said the trucking company is con- sidering another site in the immediate area for parking its trucks. However, ‘‘I’m not certain whether the proposed use of the property would comply with existing zoning,”’ Gairns told council Local man faces sex charges David DaCosta, 30, of Castlegar, is scheduled to re-appear in Castlegar provincial court Jan. 31 on six charges of sexual assault, Castlegar RCMP said. The alleged offences occurred in the Castlegar area during the sum- mer and fall of 1989, police said. DaCosta has already made appearances in Castlegar provincial court onthe charges, RCMP said. Sales committee abolished Council has abolished its Castlegar Industrial Park sales committee which was originally established.to consider offers on city-owned proper- tyin the park. The economic development committee at that time was an arm of council but has since become the independent Castlegar and District Development Board “It seems inconsistent to have a separate society sit in on offers to city property,’’ said Ald. Doreen Smecher, chairman of council's ad- ministration and finance committee. Smecher said the city’s adminstrative staff has been dealing with offers on the industrial park property and council has either been endor- Sing SWejecting the offers. Castlegar to have twin Caftlegar council will maintain contacts with the Soviet embassy in Ottawa as the city establishes twinning relations with Mukachevo in the Soviet Ukraine. The news that Castlegar council is willing to twin with Mukachevo has been sent by telex to the Ukrainian Friendship Society in Kiev with a request to notify the mayor of Mukachevo of Castlegar council’s decision and an invitation to come with a delegation to Castlegar in May, a letter from the Soviet embassy says. Council approves local grants Castlegar council last week approved a number of grants to local organizations. Receiving grants are the Light and Power Theatre Co. — $250; Castlegar Arts Council — $500; Miss Castlegar committee scholar- ship — $200; Miss Castlegar committee — $250; West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre — $3,500 for operational costs and a one-time-only grant of $500 to assist with the purchase of display cases; Castlegar Figure Skating Club — $100. Campagnolo to speak tomorrow Tona Campagnolo, past-president of the Liberal Party of Canada and currently co-chairman of the Paul Martin leadership committee, will be in Rossland tomorrow to speak at a luncheon at the Uplander Hotel Campagnolo will speak to members of the Kootenay West- Revelstoke Liberal Party. The public is welcome to attend Lottery numbers nesday were 22, 56, 60 and 66. The winning numbers drawn Wed nesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 3, 13, 19, 21, 22, 27, 29, and 34. These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must be considered unofficial. The winning numbers drawn Thur- sday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 8, 9, 12, 26, 31, 32, 34and 51 : The winning numbers in Wed nesday’s Lotto 6/49 draw were 19, 21, 24, 29, 46 and 48. The bonus number was 27. The four Extra winning num. bers for British Columbia on Wed Court news Canada Safeway Central Foods Fields : In Castlegar provincial court last e ° Overwaitea e e ° week, Michael Gelber pleaded guilty to failing to stop when signaled or requested to do so by a police officer and was fined $300 and prohibited from driving for six months. Shoppers SuperValu Zellers Gordon Dwayne Sookaveiff was fined $75 for exceeding a posted speed limit Not oll flyers receive full distribution . | - . Wf you did not receive one of # flyers and would like to do so, please phone our Circulation Department ot 365-7266. Jodi Bertram Whyte was fined $75 for exceeding speed limits posted by crews during road work the end of the month and another 100 on Feb. 15. In Trail, workers will only perform their duties as long as the company meets all safety rules, said Doug Swanson, president of the union's Local 480. “We're calling it safety awareness month and we'll be * said Swanson. ‘‘Management used to have our co-operation on minor safety points during busy periods but no longer."” More than 3,000 unionized workers are employed at Cominco's refinery and smelter in Trail and 1,200 at the company’s Highland Valley Copper mine at Logan Lake. Workers at all three operations are involved in some kind of protest, union spokesmen said. Cominco spokesman Ross Pilkey won't jnterfere with the, union’s campaign as long as workers are discus: ty matters. “We expect ‘they'll be acting responsibility,’’ said Pilkey. Union officials from Cominco's B. meet Feb. 7-8 in Kimberley to discuss their next move, Richard Boyce, president of the union's Local 7619 in Logan Lake, said his members decided the protest over the Kimberley layoffs. “We havea lot of thing: sense for us to advertise them all,”’ union’s plans for Logan Lake. mind but it wouldn’t make said the company party caucus. owns ~ Duane Crandall, whose riding encompasses Kim- berley, announced Wednesday that the closure at the Sullivan minehas prompted him to rejoin the Social Credit ‘Crandall and three other backbencher quit caucus last .C. operations will Wednesday to join brook. Boyce said of the fall, saying they feared for the future of the party. «*T’ve in essence felt that the short-term concerns for my own constitutency now ‘take precedence over any other political schedules that might exist,’’ he explained in Cran- Crandall said he has asked for a two-week delay in Cominco’s layoff plans, fequest that a Cominco official said will be taken seriously. SMOULDERING RUINS . . . the foundation was st about all that was left Saturday after firefighters battled for three hours to quell a blaze that destroyed a home in Robson. CasNews photo by Ed Mills Robson home destroyed By ED MILLS Staff Writer Flames-shot-20-feet-in-the-air-and- smoke billowing out could be seen for up to two miles in a fire that destroyed the home of a Robson couple early Saturday morning. Robson Fire Chief Bob Taylor said the fire began at approximately 8:15 a.m. at the home of Charles and Carol Gregory at 2882 Fraser Street in Rob- son. Charles Gregory, who stood outside with tears in his eyes as he watched the firemen pour water on to the flaming house, said he and his wife were asleep when the fire started. Both managed to get out safely before flames engulfed the house. Firefighters arrived on the scene but nothing could be done to save the house or its contents. Two vehicles, a day. Charles Gregory also said he didn’t know how the fire started. Atrailer at the back of the home was not damaged in the fire but that was small consolation for Gregory who said all he has left are the clothes on his back took the crew of 10 to 12 car anda truck, were ed. “Right now we don’t know what caused it, we've just started going through it,’’ Taylor said later Satur- fi three hours to get the blaze under control, said Taylor. There were no injuries. The cause of the fire is un- der investigation Doukhobor women fast again By CasNews Staff Two Sons of Freedom Doukhobor women serving a sentence for arson and parole violations were in their 17th day of their second fast in 10 months a Zmaeff, both in their 60s, were in’ stable condition, Canada Correctional Services com- munication officer Sonya Chupick said frqm Abbotsford. The Women, who were granted full parole following a fast in April, were returned to Matsqui medium security prison following alleged parole violations in December, Chupick said. , The women will go before the National Parole Board Feb. 6. The board will determine if the two will remain in prison to finish their senten- ce of more than 10 years, which runs out July 31, 1993, or if they will be freed on parole once again, she said The women received full parole-in April after fasting for 22 days. During decades of imprisonment, Braun and Zmaeff have fasted a num- ber of times. Both women were gran- ted federal pardons in 1983 following a hunger strike with fellow Freedomite Mary Astaforoff, 71, who died in 1985 following a protest fast which lasted 54 days. in 1985, Braun and Zmaeff were sentenced to more than 10 years €ach for burning a building near Castlegar They went on a 107-day fast to protest the convictions which ended in 1987 when they were granted day parole. Braun’s day parole was revoked in September 1988 after the Kootenay house in which she was staying burned down. Zmaeff’s parole was revoked at the same time. Celgar continued from front page . Ed Conroy, the Castlegar school board’s representative on Castlegar city council’s Celgar expansion ad- visory group, last week was critical of the provincial government’s review process describing it at this point as a “fiasco,” “They're scrambling right now,” said Conroy, who last week announced he will challenge Chris D’Arcy for the NDP nomination in Rossland-Trail The advisory group met Jan. 22 with David Parsons, co-chairman of the government committee studying Celgar’s expansion plans Conroy said it’s possible the federal government will get involved in the ex- pansion plans which could lead to delays in approval of the plans “Intervention by the federal government will be a major delay,”” he said. Conroy added that none of the ad- visory committee members are op: posed to the pulp mill expansion However, he said the process must be done properly. Parsons was travelling last week and could not be reached for comment. Browne said once the Feb. 3 deadline for public comment on the initial impact reports is reached, the company may be asked to provide more detailed information on the ex- pansion’s impact or make the technical environmental report easier for the public to understand The government could also demand changes be made to the expansion designs, he said But Celgar is ‘using up our comfort zone’’ of time before the company had planned to begin construction, Browne said, adding that the company still hopes to get approval in principle by the end of March or sometime in April “I don’t know how realistic that is,”” he said. Approval in principle can be granted by the steering committee atyany stage of the review process, the Castlegar News has learned. However, at each stage the committee can also insist more studies be conducted Browne said Celgar is ‘‘debating right now’? whether the company will hold public meetings on the expansion plans. Public meetings would have been more useful earlier on in the review process and the environmental igppact study would have been completed sooner to allow for such meetings if the company had known it would be put through the review, he said. Celgar officials are ‘‘feeling some pressure — I guess anyone would, Browne said, referring to projects such as a possible bridge between Castlegar and Robson being put on hold until the mill plans are approved “If (the expansion) is not approved, Celgar is a thing of the past,’’ Browne predicted “1 don’t think anyone would allow the mill to: continue’’ at its. current levels of air and effluent emissions. Even if the mill does not expand, Celgar would still have to install the environmental safeguards being proposed in’ the expansion plans, Browne said. Postal continued from front page The RDCK board will forward the matter to the Federation of Canadian i i for its co and comment. Wyllie, in a letter to the regional district, says Robson residents were advised the reason Canada Post is initiating the privatization is the Feud continued from front poge board's general feelings. The chairman of this regional district has done a fine job."" Nevertheless, Moore, who apologized to the board for losing her temper at the Jan. 13 meeting, warned that a chairman of a regional district or amayor ‘‘should be careful they’re not articulating policy on the part of the board or council."’ “I would be ill-advised to establish policy and communicate it without the permission of council,’ Moore said Earlier, while responding to Neville’s comments, Cady appeared ready to lose his temper when he was cut off by Area F director Earl Hamilton, who said ‘‘this type of thing is doing none of us any good.”” Hamiltonssaid the board must tackle some important issues in the coming months and having directors fighting among themselves is ‘‘wasting the public’s time and money.”’ The board agreed to refer the letters from Cady and the Castlegar and Nelson councils to the executive and personnel committee and to invite Moore and Neville to the meeting in an attempt toend the dissent. Cady has said he didn’t appoint Moore to any of the committees because she is too busy. “| communicated to the Castlegar director that since she was absent for half of the board meetings in 1989 — seven out of 16 to be exact — and also had not attended five committee meetings that it was obvious the direc- tor had far more commitments and was too busy and otherwise involved to be burdened by further demands on her time,’’ Cady wrote in his letter to Castlegar council Castlegar council last week respon- ded by passing a resolution calling on the regional district to change its policy to allow an alternate director to represent a municipality at committee meetings Council said the Municipal Act allows an alternate director to “‘generally act in all matters for the ab- director’’ and suggested the regional district's policy conflicts with the act of the present post office premises in Robson “In point of fact, when offered an alternative place for providing postal service, the corporation then acknowledged that it was committed to o providing a franchised outlet and would not maintain the present postal service even if suitable premises were available,’’ Wyllie writes. “Although no franchise agreement has been negotiated, nonetheless, Canada Post intends to close down the present facility in early April 1990 with the result that the users will have to travel to Castlegar for stamps, money orders and delivery of parcels, etc. It is my belief that, notwithstanding the representation that Canada Post is committed to improving the postal service, in fact, the present services will be significantly downgraded.”’ ou Jonvary 28,1990 (Castlegar News 3 continued from front page be called to modify the M.V Galena and build shore ramps at Galena Bay and Shelter Bay. This will increase the vessel's carrying capacity by eight vehicles to 50 from 42. This contract will be scheduled for completion by Mar ch3l Work on the 28-car Robson ferry should be completed by Mar. ch 31 the government says. **These changes will benefit both the public and the industry in the area of Revelstoke, Fauquier and Nakusp,”’ said Dirks, in whose riding the Robson ferry will now operate. ‘Traffic volumes in the Ministry past few years have increased to the extent that additional capacity is needed, particularly in summer." The Arrow Park route is located- about 23 kilometres south of Nakusp. “I'm pleased to hear about these improvements to the ferry service,’ said Hanson. ‘Residents in the Needles area will be thrilled ‘to know that their interests are being served."” Ministry staff are meeting with employees and with their bargaining unit, the B.C. Gover nment Employees Union, to plan the placement of all regular em. ployees affected by the changes Briefly Noriega to be held for trial MIAMI (Reuter) — A federal judge refused Friday to free former Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio Noriega on bail and ordered him held for trial, which is set for the week of March § Federal prosecutors said Noriega, facing trial on drug trafficking charges, might try to leave the country and was a danger to the com: munity. Lead prosecutor Myles Malman cited Noriega’s ‘‘vast overseas wealth,"’ saying the government had frozen $20 million in accounts he held in Europe. Tough pollution laws wanted TORONTO (CP) — Tough laws are needed to force corporations to stop polluting because they are unlikely to act on their own, a conference on law and the environment was told “Every corporation I have looked at yntil now has hed as it raison d’etre making money and maximizing profits,”’ lawyer David Estrin said. That-has meant putting wastes into the water and air rather than treating them internally, said Estrin, who is now head of the environmen- tal law group with the firm Gowling, Strathy and Henderson. When corporate executives are subject to large fines and jail when their companies pollute, ‘‘then they will have a motivation to act,”” he said Tampon company found liable CHICAGO (AP) — A circuit court jury has found a tampon maker responsible for a woman’s death from toxic-shock syndrome in 1978 and has ordered it to pay her family $905,750 US. The jury deliberated 11 hours during two days before deciding on Friday that Johnson and Johnson, maker of O.B. Tampons, was respon- sible for the death of Donna Marie Davis of Decatur, III. Ten years ago, toxic shock syndrome was linked to dozens of women’s deaths and studies suggesting tampons were a major cause prompted scores of lawsuits against tampon makers Davis, 31, was using the O.B. Tampons just prior to her death, said lawyer John Nickley, who tried the case for the woman’s estate. Dissidents given time limit BURNABY (CP) Three Social Credit dissidents who resigned from caucus will sit with the Opposition if they do not return when the legislature reconvenes, caucus chairman Jim Rabbitt told a Socred gathering Friday night Rabbitt said he was pleased with the return of Columbia River mem- ber Duane Crandall, one of four who originally left caucus, but added: “With the others, I'm hoping in the next couple of weeks that we'll see them back “The chairs that we sit in in the house are divided. You're either with the government or you're not. So by that time, anybody that’s not back in caucus will be sitting in the Opposition.” AZT policy review promised VANCOUVER (CP) — There will be a full review of the provincial government's policy not to fully fund the anti-AIDS drug AZT, Health Minister John Jansen said The move comes after a B.C preme Court decision that the gover nment is not discriminating against AIDS patients by refusing to pay the fullcost of AZT “1 would have a concern if people are not getting access to the drug because of costs,’” Jansen said We are examining the situation to see if we are applying undue financial burden on people. But the other fact is that we don’t want to seta precedent for drug coverage. It’s a balancing act.”” Mill found releasing dioxins MONTREAL (CP) — Chemical studies of effluent from two Nova Scotia pulp mills have revealed that one was releasing minute traces of toxic dioxins and furans, while the substances were not detectable at the bther The results, released Friday by the Pulp and Paper Research Instityte of Canada in Montreal, were based on samples taken last year at the Scott Maritimes Ltd. plant at Glasgow, and Stora Forest Industries Ltd., Port Hawkesbury Pulp from the Scott Maritimes plant contained 20 parts per trillion of furan; while the final effluent flowing into the river from the plant was 50 parts per trillion. The sludge at the bottom of the waste treatment pond, which is later disposed of in a landfill or burned, contained 530 parts per trillion of furan, and 26 parts per trillion of dioxin Romania to seek Candu help OTTAWA (CP) — Romania will ask Canada for a major loan to finance completion of Canadian-designed nuclear reactors and to begin work on more, the Romanian ambassador said Emilian Rodean said the new government has decided to complete the five-reactor Candu facility at Cernovoda. And the National Salvation Front, which took power after the Dec 22 overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu, has decided to build two or three more Candu reactors at another location, he said “For such a huge program, of course we have to have the co- operation of Canada, we need to import some equipment from Canada, we need Canadian technical assistance and there will bea lot of work todo together,"’ Rodean said He said work on the Cernovoda project has been slow because the new government needed time to consider what to do with the 10-year-old project Canada to study Bush drug plan WASHINGTON (CP) — Canada will study the Bush ad ministration’s new drug plan to make sure there's no increase in narcotics traffic along the Canada-U.S. border as the United States clamps down onits southern boundary, says Justice Minister Doug Lewis Wrapping up a three-day trip to Washington, Lewis told a news con. ference there’s a possibility Canada could suffer from the ‘‘bulge problem”” if drug importers try to move their goods into United States via Canada instead of Mexico or other southern points “We will examine the elements of the Bush package,"" Lewis said. ‘1 _ will discuss it with my cabinet colleagues. Then we would make our own assessment of what we had to do in Canada to improve our operation."” : . Reyat trial set for Sept. 17 NEW WESTMINSTER (CP) — Inderjit Singh Reyat will go on trial Sept. 17 on charges tying him toa fatal airport bombing in Tokyo, but the court date was abbut the only thing the prosecution and defence agreed upon Friday Reyat, 37, faces two manslaughter charges and five explosives charges relating to a June 23, 1985 blast that killed two baggage handlers at Narita airport as they were unloading a CP Air jet from Vancouver Because he.was charged under direct indictment, Reyat goes to trial in B.C. Supreme Court without a preliminary hearing. The former resident of Duncan, on Vancouver Island, has been in custody since he was arrested in England in February 1988, but defence lawyer David Gibbons put off a bail application scheduled for Friday All wet parent and tot swim Candice Warner, 4, sneaks up and dumps a bucket of water on Albert Baker during a ssion Friday at the Aquatic Centre. Delegation plans trip to Ottawa By CasNews Staff Trail Mayor Marc Marcolin will lead a delegation to Ottawa to meet Wed- nesday with members of the New Democratic Party caucus and possibly ther Liberals to discuss the federal government's plans to move 10 jobs to the Nelson Canada Employment Cen- tre from Trail in April, Marcolin said Friday. Doug Swanson, chairman of the Regional District of Kootenay Boun- dary and president of Local 480 of the United Steelworkers of America, Joe Szajbely,—local—_president—of—the Canadian Employment and Im- migration Union that represents the CEC workers, and another represen- tatives of the CEIU will make up the delegation, Marcolin said The meetings were set- up by Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP Lyle Kristiansen, Marcclin said, adding the government’caucus has not replied to inquires about a meeting with Conser- vative MPs. The delegation is travelling to Ot- tawa despite not receiving a reply from Employment and Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall to a request for a meeting with the minister and her staff Meeting set for Monday By CasNews Staff A meeting will be held Monday night at Kinnaird Junior secondary school for parents of Grade 6 students in the school district who are interested in more information about the proposed late French immersion program the district is considering implementing next year at the Grade 7 level, assistant superintendent of schools Lach Farrell said Friday All parens of Grade 6 students have been contacted about the proposed program and about half of the 180 families have indicated they are in terested in more information, Farrell said Those attending the meeting will be able to talk to students and their paren ts from Nelson who are in that district’s late immersion program, he said. Students who have been in the program for four years as well as some who have only begun the program this school year will attend, he added As well, a Ministry of Education coordinator for late French immer sion, Lili Ann Doucet, and Dennis Stolen, a principal from Penticton whose school runs a similar program will address the meeting, Farrell said A few weeks after tomorrow's meeting, parents will have a chance to register their children for the French program and then the district staff will decide if enough students have registered to warrant starting a class. he said Farrell said at least 25 or 30 students will be needed because when a normal drop-out rate is allowed for the district could end up running a class for a han dful of students if they begin with fewer than 2S children. That can be “extremely expensive,” he noted However, Farrell said the Nelson district's classes have remained at high levels over the past few years The meeting at KJSS will begin at 7 p.m. More than 15 reported dea MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet troops made scores of arrests to crush nationalist groups in Azerbaijan but acknowledged that 125 people, including 27 police and soldiers, have died since the military seized control of the republic’s capital, official reports said Saturday Most of Banku, the capital of the southern Soviet republic, was still reported on strike Saturday to demand the withdrawal of Soviet soldiers who entered the city Jan 20. However, a truce along a section of the Azerbaijan- Armenia border was said to be holding, and the terior Ministry reported exchanges of hostages between Ar- menians and Azerbaijanis. The national Soviet newspaper Trud, quoting military reports, sajg more than 1,000 military uniforms and a large cache of &ms were seized in headquart@rs of the Azer baijani People’s Front, along with telephone lists, bank passbooks, passports and other belongings of Armenians who were victims of ethnic attacks that began two weeks ago. . Those attacks evolved into a fight for secession by militants in Azerbaijan, a predominantly Shiite Muslim republic Rakhmi Gadzhiyev, identified as a leader of the pro- independence Azerbaijani People’s Front and a member of the National Defence Committee, the front’s militant wing, was among those arrested, the official news agency Tass said. SCORES ARRESTED Forty more members of nationalist groups linked to the People’s Front were arrested, another newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, quoted police Lt.-Col. A Sorokovikh in Baku as saying. But newspapers said front leaders had gone un derground and were preparing ‘*new mass disorders.”" Tass reported the arrests of 80 people in the city of Lenkoran and 22 in Neftechala. Both cities are in the southern corner of Azerbaijan, near the Iranian border Nearly 150 people were detained in Baku overnight most for violating curfew, the reports said. The ethnic attacks in Baku on Jan. 13 started the latest flare-up in violence in the Caucasus republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which are disputing control of the moun. tainous Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. . The population of Nagorno-Karabakh is predominan- tly Armenian and is demanding to be united with Armenia. Officials.of the People’s Front organizations of the three Baltic republics announced that officials from similar movements in Armenia and Azerbaijan had agreed to travel to Latvia for possible peace talks: But the Azerbaijanis said they would negotiate only if the Armenians did not bring up claims to Nagorno- Karabakh STOP TRANSFER Defence Minister Dmitri Yazov said Friday that the army had moved into Baku to stop a drive to transfer power to the People’s Front. He said soldiers and security forces were intent on rooting out a nationalist network from fac- tories and state institutions. Baku’s military commandant, Lt.-Gen. Vladimir Dubnyak, told Tass that according to the Azerbaijan Health and Interior ministries, 125 people, including 27 soldiers and law officers, had been killed since Jan. 20. That raised the death toll since Jan. 13 to 197. The figures indicated that soldiers and police in Azer baijan continue to be attacked by armed nationalists. Yazov said the Soviet military estimates there are 40,000 armed nationalists operating in the republic Quoting the Interior Ministry in Moscow, Tass said a truce called Thursday alon pte border-between Armenia and the Nakhichevan section of Azerbaijan was holding It said the two sides exchanged 17 Armenian hostages for 22 Azerbaijani hostages In Baku, some stores were beginning to open, although there were shortages of supplies and long lines Newspapers reappeared, but teleVision broadcasts had not resumed and more than 400 enterprises were at a standstill, reports said Polish Communist party plans to form new group WARSAW (CP) leaders met Communist Saturday to write the obituary for their party and forma new group that stands a better chance of winning power in an_ increasingly democratic Poland Party leader Mieczyslaw Rakowski, and be Poland's new spectrum opening the party's final congress of its four-decade history, surprised the gathering by announcing he would not seek the leadership of the new organization Outside the hall, demonstrators still outraged by the Communists’ hold on the country battled with riot’ police tyin October the hall chanting There were no reports of serious in juries or arrests The three-day congress was con vened to dissolve the Polish United Workers party as the COmmunist party is formally known. Delegates Leaders hope the new party will become the main left-wing party in democratic political The party would be the second east bloc Communist party to dissolve itself reconstituted as a non Communist party Socialist Workers party transformed itself into the Hungarian Socialist par As delegates met, more than S00 demonstrators from various anti “Communists must go!" They burned a red flag Riot police moved in to push them away, with a few police using trun cheons. One demonstrator was seen with a bloodied fa ceeded in moving the protesters a block treme liberalism — not to split into more than one party “If we want to exist as a real force in the Polish political scene, we should not leave the Congress Hall through different exists,"" he said Rakowski told the congress he had struggled to reform the party since the Stalinist era ended ‘in 1956 but failed because many members ‘clung to Stalinist ideas, and the Soviet Union interfered with Polish reforms until the The Hungarian ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev in Communist groups gathered outside 1985 Referring to the past, he said, ‘It's true that we deserved a good whip. ping.” The party now claims 1.9 million members, but the new party will be much smaller, Politburo member Janusz Reykowski predicted Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and The police suc also planned to endorse parliamentary democracy and_start_a_new left-wing party with a different name After much debate Saturday night the delegates decided to start ‘work immediately on founding the new par ty before the old one was dissolved Indecision over how to turn over the part's property and end its work led the delegates to put aside the original plan of dissolving it Saturday night Rakowski said it was time for a new generation to assume the legacy of the Communist party, which relinquished control of the government to the Solidarity movement after a defeat last year in Poland's freest elections since the Second World War away, where demonstrators continued tohurl stones, bottles, firecrackers and gasoline bombs at the police More thar Try-delegates gathered at Congress Hall in Warsaw's Stalinist-era Palace of Culture and Science, where Rakowski opened the congress “1 consider it appropriate to pass over the helm to a new generation. I personally am not going to run for leadership of the party, and I think that comrades of my generation will not do so,"" the 65-year-old first secretary said toa standing ovation Rakowski also appealed to the delegates whose opinions range from orthodox communism to ex the Communist party's delegation in parliament have supported deputy Tadeusz Fiszbach, $4, to lead the new party. Fiszbach is a former Gdansk party chief ousted vfrom official positions in the 1980s because he op- posed the 1981 imposition of martial law Other possible candidates include Slawomir Wiatr, 37, the founder of a liberal faction in the party; Aleksander Kwasniewski, 35, in charge of national sports and recreation; and Leszek Miller, 43, a party secretary and Rakowski loyalist The current party was founded in 1948.