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Briefs not add ressing problems

By PAUL MOONEY
QUEBEC (CP) — Members of the federal

Quebee social affairs minister. “Many of the briefs are just a
list of

ing the Program are
frustrated and disappointed with the briefs they've received

and gr
‘re legitimate and must be addressed — but if all
we do is redress minor grievances, we'll fail in our task.”
Frances Soboda, another member of the commission set
up by Ottawa last July, said she is disappointed so few
people are seeking long-t to DI

meépt.
. She said briefs from business have failed to address

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“People were saying five or six years ago that most of

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Westar closes Watson
Island mill for repairs

Senior habitat biologist Den- said would take about two
is Rowse said the company’s
action Monday was a step in
the right direction.

He said no obvious damage
such as a fish kill had been
done by the effluent spill.

Westar officials could not
be reached for comment, but =

fish- National Trade Unions, said there are about 20

the jobs we'll have in the 1990s haven't been created yet —
we're still not addressing that problem as a nation,” she said.

Soboda, vice-president of the Canadian Labor Congress,
also said there are still those who cannot accept that women

STARK
TO MAKE
COMEBACK

have moved into the out of

one Alberta man who said “bored housewives married to
$100,000-a-year doctors and lawyers are taking jobs away
from men.”

Others, she said, implied that most women who collect
unemployment insurance don't need it because they're
married or have other resources.

“Where have these people been living the past 26
years?” Soboda asked. “Seven out of 10 women today are
self-supporting—and what about all the women who head
single-parent families?”

During the one-day hearing here, the commission heard
from union and social action groups who warned against
wholesale cuts to the program, charging Ottawa has

created to fight inflation.

Monique Simard, vice-p of the C

reshaped into w’
anti-nuclear group said in

the
release anid. “Mr.Stark is now rested and enthusiastic
about the challenge the new role offers.

Robert Hale will continue as interim president until
Stark's appoifitment is formalized by the group's national
board of directors.

Stark's responsibilities will include more speaking
and fund-raising activities, more travel and a greater

Canadians for every available job.

her findings on UIC statistics, Simard said that
only 3.5 per cent of Canadians collecting benefits quit their
jobs voluntarily. She argued that

em; ‘on encouraging the formation of new Operation
Dismantle than before. His duties will not
encompass those of chief executive officer, a position he

also held before Nov. 16.
A committee has been established to look for a new

creates jobs and benefits the economy more that it acts as a

Rowse said the mill was
closed at 4 p.m. for repairs he

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ago.

“It's extremely fragile
right now because it's just in
the recovery mode. And this
may wipe out the last 12
years of recovery.”

to work.

A group which works with the unemployed, Movement
Action-Chomage, said an “employment stabilization fund”
should be established to retrain workers or permit them to
set up co-operatives.

A women's rights group, the Reseau d’Action et
d'Information pour les Femmes, called for a guaranteed

|, ‘annual income to replace existing programs such as welfare

and unemployment insurance.
The inquiry will hold hearings in Montreal on Thursday
and Friday. It tables its report June 30.

Turner blames
Tories for

chief ive officer.

“] think there clearly was some dissatisfaction with
my leadership,” Stark, 42, said in November after he
rejected nominations for the presidency at his group's
annual meeting.

Stark formed Operation Dismantle almost nine years
ago and nurtured it into an 8,000-member group, working
for years without salary in pursuit of his main goal — to
get the United Nations to hold a worldwide referendum
on disarmament.

‘The Canadian government has dismissed that idea as
naive and has so far declined to propose it at the UN.

But Stark said in November that he felt he has

ip, the group waged an
unsuccessful but histopit’ court battle last February to
stop testing of the U.S. cruise missile over Canada.

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dollar slump

OTTAWA (CP) — Liberal
Leader John Turner says the

iean dollar in recent weeks. It
closed Tuesday at a record
low of T1 cents U.S. and
opened today at 71.15 cents
US.

“I looked at all the in-
dicators this morning, in-
cluding our trade figures, our
inflation figures and so on,”
Turner said. The most recent
trade figures show Canada's
trade surplus with the rest of
the world fell to $500 million
in November from $2.2 billion
the previous month.

Inflation has remained
moderate through 1985, slip-
ping slightly to 4.0 per cent in
November.

“There seems nothing con-
crete to indicate why the
Canadian dollar is falling ex-
cept for the one overwhelm-
ing reason,” said Turner.

“I believe the markets are
saying that they have little
confidence in the way that
this government is managing
the country and managing
our economy, and I think that
is what is being reflected in
the lower dollar.”

ONLY TEMPORARY

Finance Minister Michael
Wilson tried to reassure the
Commons Tuesday that the
dollar crisis and ensuing es-
calation in interest rates are
only short-term fluctuations.

Wilson said “stability will

return” but added that in the

Wilson told reporters
Tuesday he never felt there
was any particular level at
which the dollar must be
protected.

“We don’t like the cur-
rency to go down too far for
other reasons — it leads to
higher inflation — that's why
we try to moderate, but we
moderate both ways.”

Wilson was referring to
the actions taken by the Bank
of Canada, over which he has
responsibility. The central
bank's policy is to moderate
fluctuations in the exchange
rate and in interest rates.

It does so by entering ex-
change markets to buy and
sell Canadian dollars and also
by entering the money mar-
kets to buy and sell treasury
bills.

Interest rates in Canada
generally follow the lead set
by the Bank of Canada rate,
which is pegged each Thurs-
day at one-quarter of a per-
centage point above the av-
erage yield of three-month
treasury bills.

The bank rate has been
climbing almost steadily
since the end of October.

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Cocaine use
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LOS ANGELES (REUT-
ER) — The former wife of
rock singer Rick Nelson, who
was killed in a New Year's
Eve air crash, is seeking
temporary control of his es-
tate she claims is worth more
than $1 million.

In another development, a
published report said today
cocaine use may have caused
the crash that killed Nelson
and six others in Texas.

Nelson's ex-wife, Kristen
Harmon, said in a petition
filed with the Los Angeles
Superior Court on Tuesday
that Nelson died without
leaving a will and she should
be given temporary control
of his estate until a per-
manent administrator was
appointed.

Nelson owned property
worth $1 million, and he re-
ceived an income of $100,000

cials are investigating the
possibility that cocaine free-
basing. a process used to
remove impurities from the
drug, may have started a fire
in the plane.

The plane's pilot and co-
pilot, who survived the crash,
said they tried to land after
the fire broke out in the
passenger cabin, the newsps-
per said.

One source said the pass-
engers would have survived
the crash had it not been for
the fire, the cause of which
has not been determined,
The Post said.

Preliminary toxicology re-
ports show traces of cocaine
in Nelson's body which had
not been absorbed into his
system at the time of death,
The Post said. Final toxi-

a year from that property, i
she said.

Nelson, his fiancee, Helen
Blair, and five members of
his Stone Canyon Band were
killed when their DC-3 air.
liner crashed near DeKalb,
Tex., on Dec. 31.

Harmon, who was divorced
from Nelson several years
ago, had four children by
Nelson — Tracy, 22, twins
Matthew and Gunnar, 18, and
Sam, 11.

The Post, quoting uniden

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as either or aerosol can
propellants are mixed with th
drug. After they evaporate,
the cocaine is smoked
through a pipe held over a
flame.

Investigators found 18
aerosol cans at the crash site,
The Post said.

A free-basing mishap badly
burned comedian Richard
Pryor in 1980.

Nelson man
jailed, fined

PENTICTON (CP) — An
18-year-old Nelson man was
sentenced Tuesday to seven
days in jail for making a
bomb threat to a Penticton
senior secondary school last
fall.

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Maurice Penner, who
pleaded guilty, also was fined
$500 by provincial court
Judge Wilfred Klinger.

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the fine was the maximum
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girlfriend wanted to skip
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