£2 Castlegar News August 4, 1990 LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS Stein Festival mixed music with message} TSAWWASSEN, B.C. (CP) — It started out with $00 Indians and environmentalists converging on the pristine Stein Valley in 1985 to discuss environmental problems in their regions and take part in spiritual ceremonies. This year, organizers expect more than 40,000 people to attend the four-day Stein Festival on an Indian reserve south of Vancouver. In 1987, music was added to the festival, and singers like John Denver helped push attendance up to 3,000. It raised the profile of the fight to preserve what environ- mentalists say is the last significant unlogged, un- per in British Columbia. Organizers realized the i posed a danger to the ecosystem they were there-to protect, and last year, the festival switches to the Mount Currie rodeo grounds near Pemberton, 125 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. Acts such as Bruce Cockburn, Gordon Lightfoot and Colin James attracted 26,000 people over the August long This year’s festival was switched to the Tsawwassen Indjan reserve following rumors of a blockade by loggers in Pemberton. The loggers threatened the blockade in retaliation for blockades set up by local Indians, The Indian roadblocks wer established to show sup- port for Mohawks involved’ in- an armed standoff in Quebec and to press their land claims. Performers this year include Gordon Lightfoot, Blue Rodeo, Tom Cochrane, Spirit of the West, Sarah McLachlan, Sue Medley, lan Tyson, 54-40, Barney Ben- tall and the Legendary Hearts, Paul Hyde and a wide variety of native acts. There also will be speakers, panel discussions and spiritual ceremonies. **People are coming to the Stein from all over the w the natural wilderness ecosystems and says festival producer John McCandless. It’s hard to express how it feels,”” he says of the musicians who are performing at the festival explaining thai “Indian people have felt very lonely’’ in their “17- weekend. year war of words over the future of the Stein Valley. For their part, the musicians are pleased to be able to do something for the environment and native rights. McLachlan recently flew’ back from Europe on a clear day: passing over the mountains and valleys, she had “‘mever noticed so much clear-cutting . . . half the forest was gone."’ “If we oon "t a little more sensible, we won't haye - any trees left.” ty Matt Johnson of 54-40 says the environments the fundamental issue of the 1990s and the Stein is j OF many areas in British Columbia ‘‘that should be pi ed for generations to come."” nm Johnson says the’ band members support the blockades Indians have set up across Canada to press native land claims. John Mann of Spirit of the West says the success of the Stein Festival is ‘‘quite a statement from musicians and people."" “T would love to see the B.C. and Canadian gover- nments own up to the fact a wrong was done to the native Indians of Canada — and that amends have to be made." Meanwhile, Delta Mayor Doug Husband says he's worried the festival will cause parking and traffic problems in his community, which includes Tsawwassen. “You can’t afford to have vehicles parked holus- bolus all over the place on an ad hoc basis in an agricultural area — we have to move tractors and farm ‘Vehicles around,’’ Husband said, McCandless said he is confident the parking problem Yean be solved through discussions with local authorities. And hé held & news: conference Thursday to: chastize Premier Bill Vander Zalm for saying the festival will result in traffic chaos. Weekend passes are $50, two-day passes $35 and single day passes $25. All proceeds go to support the Lytton and Mount Currie Indian Peoples’ Stein Valley tribal heritage park fund and the building of a Stein Valley cultural centre. Last year about $150,000 was raised toward con- struction of the cultural centre, which will be situated at the mouth of the Stein. Natives still pressing with road blockades PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. (CP) — About 350 Indians marched down the main streets of this coastal city Thur- sday to publicize thier land claims and show support for Mohawk Indians involved in an armed standoff at Oka, Que. The protestors, members of the Haida, Nisga’a and Tsimshian nations, also signed petitions, carried signs and made speeches demanding the B.C. government negotiate Indian land claims, which natives say cover more than three-quarters of British Columbia. “‘Our younger generation is getting serious. We were patient, we were taken for granted,"’ said Henry Kelly, the Tsimshian hereditary chief he two-hour demonstration was orderly as police barricaded streets and rerouted traffic. The city is located about 750 kilometres north- west of Vancouver. Joseph Gosnell, executive chairman of the Nisga’a Tribal Council, warned the protests will increase if Premier Bill Vander Zalm doesn’t follow a recent report from his advisory coun- cil on native issues. The report recommends the B.C. government get involved in land claim settlements. “If Vander Zalm waters down those recommendations, then the unrest in this province is going to esc- alate. Roadblocks will increase. B.C. could be completely shut down if the government of the day doesn’t ad- dress native issues.’” Elsewhere in British Columbia, RCMP said about nine road blockades or information pickets were in place Thursday. Manitoba New Democrat Elijah Harper visited the Penticton Indian band’s roadblock in the Okanagan Valley and said he considered the protests to be an effective tool to make people aware of Indian land claims. But non-natives continued to show their impatience with the protests that have cropped up across British Columbia over the last four weeks. Fisherman and truckers staged blockades of their own, while residen- ts of Pemberton, about 125 kilometres north of Vancouver, plan- ned an information blockade for Saturday. Town officials have said businesses have suffered because of a nearby Indian blockade. Hours before the Prince Rupert march, about 100 fishing boats tem- porarily blockaded the city’s harbor, delaying ferry service to Port Hardy, B.C. and Ketchikan, Alaska. A spokesman for the paci Fishemen’s Alliance said the group is demanding the B.C. government get tough with Indian blockades, and warned the organization may block the harbor again. The fishermen are also afraid that the government may Biv dians too many fishing rights in any land claims settlement, he said. B.C. Ferries Corp. said there were no plans to seek an injunction against the protesters, who delayed service by nearly two hours. Japanese exchange student Ayumi Tsuiki, 18 GST ried to catch a quick nap at the Castlegar and District Golf Course Thursday. Tsuiki and other students are in Castlegar staying with host d by Selkirk College. GasNews photo by Ed Mills LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS Carmanah getting eyed by just about everyone VANCOUVER (CP) — The Car- manah Valley is about to become one of the most scrutinized pieces of land in British Columbia. At least two researchers are con- ducting field studies in the Vancouver Island valley on insects and a threatened seabird, the marbled murrelet. And this fall, forest company MacMillan Bloedel could begin government-ordered ecological studies in the valley’s upper half. derway as soon as orders-in-council are signed creating the 3,600-hectare Carmanah Pacific Provincial Park in the lower half of the valley. “1 would think that if they wanted to take advantage of the good weather it could start by the fall."* The flurry of scientific activity follows Victoria's last spruce. They fear logging could even- tually destroy the big spruce which thrive in the valley bottom. One group, the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, established platforms in three spruce trees to aid researchers. April that logging will be allowed in the upper valley while the lower half will be preserved as a park. The decision angered some en- Jack Biickert, chief provincial forester, said the Mac- Millan Bloedel studies could get un- who had hoped to preserve the entire 6,650-hectare valley, which is home to gignt Sitka Neville Winchester of the University of Victoria is using a platform to study insects in old- growth forests His colleague, UVic biologist Dr Alan Burger, is studying marbled murrelets in the upper valley. Murder suspect nabbed VANCOUVER (CP) — A 28-year- old man from India living in suburban Surrey is facing extradition to Den- mark on a murder charge. Gurigbal Singh Dhaliwal — wanted for the 1984 strangulation death of a 56-year-old pensioner in Copenhagen —appeared in B.C. Supreme Court on Th irsday, where he was remanded into custody. His next court ap- pearan ‘eis Aug. 9. Dhal.wal was the subject of a year- long manhunt by Copenhagen police, who recently travelled to India looking for him. After tracing Dhaliwal-to a Surrey residence, police in Denmark requested RCMP make an arrest early Wednesday. But Dhaliwal was released later over a ‘‘misunderstanding’’ by of- ficers in Denmark on what was required to legally detain him in Canada, Surrey RCMP Insp. Rick Hall said Thursday. “The Danish had not sent the request to the proper channels — i.e. the Justice Department . . . We wan- ted to arrest this person for them, but we can’t just go making our own rules.’" Hall said RCMP kept surveillance on Dhaliwal, at the force’s- own expense, until the proper extradition warrant was received by the federal Justice Department. Police were able to re-arrest Dhaliwal late Wednesday. Hall said he had been living with a family there for quite some time and had a valid work permit. Hall said Dhaliwal must have gotten into Canada prior to February, when an international arrest warrant was issued for him by Copenhagen police through Interpol. The RCMP were praised by Det. Chief Supt. Wolmer Petersen of the Copenhagen police homicide depar- tment, who has been searching for Dhaliwal for the last year after getting atip from an informant. “It was good news for us to find him. We've been looking around the world,” said Petersen. “Our police colleagues in Surrey did very fine work.” Petersen said the man is wanted for the December 1984 murder of Holger Julius Jorgensen, a 56-year-old pen- sioner in C had Eric Jacinto, 8, had his styrofoam airplane doing tricks at Kinsmen Park Thursday been hit on the head with a blunt in- strument and strangled. Most A CasNews photo by Ed Mills Eric and his playmates were enjoying a day in the park as part of the Biggest, i] Club's The club is run by the Castlegar Library. NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL NEWS continued from front page rather than simply introducing another means of emptying the tax- payers pockets. “‘A major concern about the GST is that the rate of tax will be increased once the legislation has been adop- ted,"" Walker told the committee, which wrapped up four weeks of cross-country hearings in Whitehorse Friday. Finance Minister Michael Wilson could allay that fear, said Walker, simply by promising that the yield from the goods and services tax will not exceed the revenue received from the 13.5 per cent manufacturers sales tax it is designed to replace. Walker said he didn’t think it was the Senate’s place to kill the bill, but that as ‘‘the chamber of sober second thought”’ it should urge amendments. He said he expects revenue from the tax to grow as the economy expands. “(But) to ensure that the GST revenue of the government does not grow in real terms faster than the economy, the government should commit itself in GST legislation to the seven per cent rate of tax by making it impossible to increase the rate of tax without resubmitting the GST legislation to the House (of Com- mons).”” Crossword Before and After . . . answer in Wednesday's paper TOURIST ALERT VANCOUVER (CP) — Tourist Alert issued by the RCMP. The following persons, believed travelling in British Columbia, are asked to call the person-named for an urgent per- sonal message: Ont Prasad. Grant Jack Philip, of Balfour, call Leslie Polege, Alta., call Edmonton RCMP. Bert Latchford, of Scarborough, -, call Jane Ball. Delbert Stene, of 100 Mile House, B.C., call Roxanne Gjaltena. Richard Harrison, of California, call Kelly Harrison. 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Noting the study recommendations include im- provements to Forest Service planning and procedure to prevent future landslides, the SVWA said its members have been working for 10 years to improve risk analysis, planning, operational standards and liability provisions for logging in Slocan Valley watersheds. Alliance mem- bers have take the position that no more logging should take place in licenced watersheds until such improvements are in place. Herb Hammond, co-chairman of the SVWA, said alliance members believe forest lands must be studied to determine the most appropriate uses. “If the area is not ecologically suited to logging or if higher priorities exist for other uses, the area should not be logged,’ Hammond said. Secondly, in areas that are logged, ‘‘we need vastly improved standards for planning and operations,’’ he said. If this had been done in the Cape Horn Bluffs area, there would ‘‘most likely not have been logging and we could have avoided the current slides and ongoing risks from these destabilized slopes,’” Hammond said. The study points out that all the slides occured on steep, gullied terrain which has shallow soils on top of bedrock and is naturally prone to slides. “This raises the question of what were they doing logging on such sensitive sites in the first place,’’ said Wayne McCrory, a member of the Valhalla Society. **Not only do my neighbors and I now have water supplies that will always be in jeopardy, but living below steep mountain slopes destabilized by clearcut logging means our very lives are in danger. This is an example of what rural landowners throughout B.C. are facing,”’ he said. McCrory, an environmental consultant, said a‘ press release issued by the ministries that conducted the study is misleading in its reference to prior slides in the area. “*Before major clearcutting in 1977, there were only small, minor slides. After 1977, we had major slides unheard of both in size and number along Slocan Lake. (The study) does not even acknowlege the two large sec- tions of forested lakeshore which have collapsed into Slocan Lake below the clearcut areas following logging. There is no evidence of this occuring along Slocan Lake prior to clearcut logging,” he said. The SVWA and the Valhalla Society are considering legal action and intend to ‘‘study thoroughly’’ the ministries’ report and the consultant's report, the SVWA. said. Arnett told reporters he wanted to clear up rumours that the Forest Service was involved in a ‘‘coverup”’ of the findings of the reports because. there was a delay in releasing the material. “I assure you, this is not the case. 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(CP) — The winning numbers drawn Thursday in the B.C, Keno lottery were 5, 9, 35, 37, 42, 46, 48 and 56. The winning numbers in Wed- nesday’s Lotto 6-49 draw were 2, 8, 13, 23, 27 and 44. The bonus number was 21. There was no winner of the jackpot prize of $1,689,840.60 The four Extra winning numbers for British Columbia on Wednesday were 18, 44, 67 and 85. The winning numbers drawn Wed- nesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 1, 2, 7, 18, 21, 30, 32 and 50. These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must be regarded as unofficial. BRIEFLY From Wire Service Szabad said. 13 against. turnout of only 14 per cent. Forum and the Free Democrats. cellor in 1933. Guenther Krause. gain representation in parliament. Doe’s troops. Taylor. Lutheran church Sunday. $140-million project. nment is saying,”” of the Raffery reservoir. ces. six planes now under construction authorized. Hungarians elect president BUDAPEST — Interim president Arpard Goncz was officially elected president of Hungary in a parliamentary vote that over- whelmingly endorsed his candidacy, National Assembly speaker Gyorgy Goncz, 68, the sole candidate for the post, won 295 votes for and ‘A writer, Gonca has served as interim president since last May. He is a member of the conservative opposition Alliance of Free Democrats. The vote was held after a referendum Sunday on whether to have direct popular election of the president was annulled because of poor The referendum was demanded by the Socialist party, but opposed by the governing conservative Democratic Germanys sign treaty BONN — The two Germanys signed a treaty Thursday for the first free elections in a unified Germany since Adolf Hitler became chan- Meanwhile, there was growing pressure for full unification well ahead of the Dec. 2 balloting, set in a treaty signed by West German In- terior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and East German State Secretary The treaty, signed in East Berlin, retains a West German provision requiring parties to attain at least five per cent of the national vote to This measure has effectively barred small radical parties on the right and left from membership in the Bonn legislature. Civilians flee violence MONROVIA — Thousands of civilians fled the Liberian capital as rebels fearing attack from a rival faction withdrew from key positions and left Monrovia open to renewed occupation by President Samuel Only a handful of Prince Johnson's Independent Patriotic Front were seen Thursday in areas they had captured earlier. A longtime U.S. resident who claimed to be close to the rebel leader said Johnson was turning his troops around to fight his rival Charles The withdrawal of Johnson’s fighters left the capital open to Doe's troops, who massacred as many as 600 men, women and children in a Opponents have ammunition REGINA — A serious engineering error may boost the cost of the Rafferty-Alameda dam by $50 million or more, say opponents of the “We estimate the Rafferty dam project in southeastern Saskat- chewan could cost as much as double what the Saskatchewan gover- Rod MacDonald, director of the Stop Construction of the Rafferty-Alameda Project, said Thursday. MacDonald said information needed to determine precise estimates of the cost increase is being withheld by the government. The group released a letter dated June 26, 1989 from consulting engineer C.D. Smith of Saskatoon which suggests engineers made a mistake about the maximum flood level that would occur in some parts Stealth gets the go ahead WASHINGTON — President George Bush won U.S. Senate ap- proval to save the B-2 Stealth bomber Thursday, with backers saying Irag's invasion of Kuwait shows the need to maintain strong U.S. defen- The Senat rejected by a vote of 53-45 an amendment 10 uelay tur ther production for a year and rejected by 56-43 an amendment that would have killed production of the radar-evading bomber beyond the The amendment to end production with six planes would have killed the costly plane, going even further than an expected House of Representatives vote to kill any production beyond 15 B-2s already The amendment to delay production would have kept the sleek bat- wing bomber alive but freeze production for a year until flight tests prove the plane is virtually invisible to radar as it is supposed to be. reformed-communist Mohawks, province agree QUEBEC (CP) — The Quebec government and Indian leaders have reached a tentative agreement that could lead to resumption of negotiations aimed at removing the Mohawk barricades at Oka, Premier Robert Bourassa said Thursday. At a news conference in his office in Quebec City, Bourassa and his native affairs minister, John Ciaccia, said the agreement is not yet in writing but both were confident that a formal arrangement could be made. The Mohawks have said they want any deal in writing. Meanwhile, residents unhappy with the Mohawk blockade of the Mercier Bridge succeeded in blocking traffic on another bridge connecting Mon treal and the South Shore during the morning rushhour. A convoy of the about 100 vehicles from Chateauguay, the largest com- munity cut off from Montreal by the Mercier Bridge blockade, left for the Champlain shortly before 6 a.m. After blocking traffic on highways leading to the bridge, several of the Protesters made it to the span itself and stood in the way of cars heading into and out of Montreal. Traffic was blocked for about an hour, until police arrived and convin ced the protesters to leave, said provincial police Const. Pierre Rochefort. There were no arrests Ciaccia said the Mohawks have three conditions. After they are set down in writing, negotiations should resume on lifting the barricades, followed by long-term discussions on land claims, he said The conditions include the presence of international observers at the Kahnesatake settlement at Oka, casy access for legal and spiritual advisers to the Mohawk positions and the free passage of food Konrad Sioui, vice-chief for Quebec of the Assembly of First Nations, sat with Boursassa and Ciac cia at the news conference and said he was acting as an intermediary Asked if he was also speaking for the militant Warrior faction, which is believed to control the Indians in the armed standoff agdinst the provincial police, Sioui said the assembly ‘thas been in contact with all sectors of the Mohawk community at Kahnesatake."” The standoff started July 11 when police staged a raid to remove a Mohawk barricade set up to stop ex pansion of a golf course. One policeman was killed. Hoe Norton, chief of the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal, where Indians have blocked the Mer World condemnin lraqi invasion LONDON (CP) — more countries Friday joined the chorus of condemnations of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, calling on Iraq to withdraw its forces immediately from the oil-rich Persian Gulf sheikdom. The insurance company Lloyd’s of London in- troduced war-risk premiums for shipping in the gulf for the first time since the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988. U.S. President George Bush denounced Thursday's France, Iraq’s second-largest supplier, had already arms ies because failed to pay about $4.5 billion US in debts, Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said. The French government announced it plans to send a second warship to the gulf because of the Iraqi action On Thursday, the United Nations demanded Iraq's and China, Iran, takeover and said he has not ruled out any in- cluding military. A U.S. aircraft carrier is on its way to the gulf to join other U.S. warships, and France said it plans to send a second warship to the waterway. External Affairs Minister Joe Clark was quick to add his voice to the widepsread condemnation of Baghdad’s action. Clark termed the invasion ‘‘a_totally unacceptable aggression’’ and called for the immediate withdrawal of the Iraqi troops. Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, Yves Fortier, joined other members of the Security Council in condemning the invasion. But Canada did not announce any freezing of Kuwaiti or Iraqi assets, or barring of Iraqi imports. “Clearly, Canada would want to see a co-ordinated international response,”’ said External Affairs spokesman Bob Peck. ‘‘But we are (also) carefully reviewing what will be an appropriate mix of Canadian measures.”” At least two Arab countries cautioned against outside intervention in response to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s takeover. Most Arab states reluctant Australia and Algeria were among countries echoing the call. Israel: said it is ready to meet any military threat posed by Iraq but would not act unless attacked Israel delivers clear message JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli chief of staff Friday warned Iraq against attacking the Jewish state and said the United States and Israel have exchanged intelligence on the situation in Kuwait. “President Saddam Hussein (of Iraq) knows very well that if he attacks us he will have to pay a heavy price,’ Gen. Dan Shomron said in an interview in the to speak against Iraq. South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and China urged a peaceful solution to the conflict. Singapore issued an especially strongly worded of the Yedioth Aharonoth. “We have access to a variety of responses to the missiles and chemical weapons possessed by Iraq.”” Israeli officials have joined in the near-universal invasion, calling it ‘ta threat to the security of small states everywhere."” New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer called the invasion ‘‘an outrage."” He said his country, which exports dairy products and sheep meat to Iraq, would “‘join in fully’? if the UN Security Council calls for economic sanctions Japan, which was taking 260,000 barrels a day from Iraq during the first quarter of the year, or 6.2 per cent of its oil needs, also may boycott Iraqi crude, Kyodo New Service reported Bush said Thursday that Washington would freeze all Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets and impose a trade embargo in. cluding a halt to imports of Iraqi oil. The United States was importing an average of 600,000 barrels of Iraqi oil a day in the first five months of this year The United States, France and Britian froze Kuwaiti assets Thursday to protect them from Iraq, and the United States and France froze Iraqi assets as well. Swit- zerland ordered its banks to increase vigilance over of Iraq's invasion Thyrsdaysaf its Per- sian Gulf neighbor Kuwait, with..Defence Minister Moshe Arens calling for Baghdad’s international isolation. Shomron added that Israel and the United States have ‘‘had regular exchanges of intelligence’’ on the situation in Kuwait, where Iraqi forces are reported to be in control of the capital and its suburbs Foreign Minister David Levy, in a statement on Voice of Israel Radio, warned Baghdad against any at tempt to deploy troops in Jordan — which has com. mon borders with both Israel and Iraq “Deployment of Iraqi troops in Jordan would constitute a real and immediate danger for King Hussein (the Jordanian monarch) and Israel which knows how to deal with such a situation,” said Levy Of his visit to Washington on Aug. 9 and 10, Levy said: ‘Israel is now more than ever a strategic asset for the United States, for Iraq threatens not only our country but moderate Arab states in the region as well as the entire free world.”’ Kuwaiti assets to prevent their seizure. Rebels tricked by gov't PORT-OF-SPAIN (Reuter) Government officials held hostage by the black Muslim rebels tricked them by signing agreements the officials did not intend to keep, a spokesman said Thursday “Tricked or double-crossed whatever you want to call it,” said government spokesman Gregory Shaw “It's foolish to quibble about ehtics with people who have done these things. Why not promise them the moon? You had hostages under gun: point.”* The 112 rebels, running low on food and short on arms, released the hostages Wednesday and surrendered peacefully Shaw said agreements signed by cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Arthur Robinson, wounded during the coup attempt, are not legally bin. ding under the laws of Trinidad and Tobago. ° The cabinet ministers agreed to form an interim government with new elections in 90 days. Robinson had also agreed to resign “All were signed under duress and gunpoint and are therefore invalid,"’ Shaw said Shaw also said a 350-man Carib- bean security force will arrive in Trinidad today to provide limited military assistance to government troops after the bloody coup attempt and widespread looting