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UBC scientist
visits high school -.

By CHERYL CALDERBANK

Science students at Stanley Humphries second
ary school had a break from the usual ‘routine
Wednesday when a University of British Columbia
scientist spoke to classes.

Dr. John Steeves’ visit to the school was part of
@ program set up by the provincial government in
cooperation with the province's universities whereby
scientists visit various schools in the province

The scientist’ explain various scientific discipl-
ines and methods, the impact of science on society
and also talk about careers in science and university
education.

Steeves says the scientists are visiting’ various
elementary and high schools throughout the province
and are “trying to instill an understanding of science
even at the elementary level."’

“In part we want people to understand that
science is one of the most important influences on
society."* he- s; “Consequently we need more
people who are trained in science so we can make
more informed and correct :decisions.”*

Steeves is a professor of neurobiology — the
study of the brain. He is working on a- field of study
that deals with how the brain and spinal cord control
movement. Research focuses on the repair of spinal
cord injuries

“We are making progress,”’ Steeves says. “We
are understanding it a little bit better."

Steeveg says science will be a phenominal
growth indatiey in the future.

“In an applied science there is almost unlimited
growth," he says, adding that biomedicat science
and computer science are. examples of this growth.

The provincial program is in its first year.

Steeves said the program will provide a more
direct conduit between teachers and universities so
they have a resource person that they know
personally and can contact for recent information in
various fields.

“Science is changing so rapidly that any teacher
at the schools cannot be expected to keep current by
just doing his own reading,"’ Steeves says

Steeves has visited other schools in Vancouver
and another one at Dawson Creek but SHSS is the
only school in the West Kootenay he visited

Steeves, Jike the other scientists, is volunteering
his time to come and talk to the students.

“If nothing else we're trying to raise the general
awareness of all students,"’ he says.

Steeves says it's great if the scientists influence
a few hundred students to go home and talk about
science or stimulate a few students to seek a career
in science.

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Smith says Socreds
should start bragging

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — It's
time B.C. Socreds started boasting
about their accomplishments before

government. The proof has been in
the eating of the pudding, and the
eating has been pretty good

the party loses the next election to The Social Credit party has been

who now are successfully portraying
themselves as the champions of the
province's grassroots, he said

Contamination

continued from front page

been bored in the contaminated earth

to. pull air through the soil and

remove the contaminants, he explain-
ed

Jensen said he will talk soon to

officials at Texaco and Gulf Pacific

of hich

Commerce wants to build a new
facility on the old Texaco site and has
been negotiating a lease on the
property with Gulf Pacific

Bank officials have said they want
to put up a 4,000-square-foot build-
ing on the site and move their

bh

The bank has not been officially
told of the contamination, he said,
but they were aware problems could
exist on an old service station site.

He said the bank “‘red-flagged the
situation"’ to wait for assurances the
site would be safe to build on.

Privatization losing

HALIFAX (CP) — Public sentiment is turning against privatizat
ion of government services says the President of the National Union of
Provincial Government Employees

We're finally beginning to win,"’ John Fryer told the annual
meeting of the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union, an affiliate
of the national group.

Fryer also announced that after 10 years as president, he is
stepping down to spend more time with his wife, who is suffering
from cancer

Fryer said. in a recent Gallup poll, 73 per cent of Canadians
indicated they do not want hospitals privatized and more than 60 per
cent opposed turning air and rail service over to the private sector.

RCMP officer pleads guilty

VANCOUVER (CP) — An RCMP officer pleaded guilty Friday to
conspiring to import cocaine

Christian Roy, 28, a ble in i was
charged along with another RCMP officer and two other men after
1.36 kilograms of cocaine were seized Sept. 24, 1987.

Provincial court Judge Larry Goulet ordered Vancouver RCMP
Const.. Yves Brunelte, 32, to be tried on conspiracy to import cocaine
and four related counts.

Petro-Canada shares on block

KITCHENER, Ont. (CP) — The federal government plans to sell
up to 49 per cent of Petro-Canada through a public sharé offering
later this year, the Kitchener-Waterloo Record reported.

The newspaper, citing documents it obtained under access-to-
information legislation, said the government will retain at least 51 per
cent of the company

The government will put part of the Crown-owned oil company on
the market after selling its remaining 55-per-cent share in Air Canada
this summer, the Record said

But a government spokesman said this week ther
decision made-one way or the other, even in principle,
selling shares in Petro-Canada

Khomeini recovering
NICOSIA, Cyprus (Reuter) — Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, is continuing to make a good recovery after an
operation last Tuesday and has started taking liquid food orally today,
cod aber .

“has been no
by Cabinet on

Social Credit must tell people it

the New Atiorney Gener. re
al Bud Smith said
“It's time we stood up and started

style speech to about 150 people at
the Kamloops Social Credit annual
general meeting

“We have a good and competent

credit, said Smith,

thunder from the

ible for most 7
educational.and environmental impr
ovements instituted in British Colum- increased education programs and
to brag."* said Smith. in an election- ‘bia. but has never received its due
member of the
legislature for Kamloops. said

Socreds must work
New Democrats

f
most balanced budget

adopted environmental programs th
at are the envy of the world, Smith
to steal the A provincial election must be held
before October 1991. he said. but he
denied his speech was geared for

Charters

continued from front page

Before that, he wrote “Just
Looking. Thank You" under an
alias as the column was intended
as ‘‘a kind of public gesture and
an opportunity to air certain
views and observations about
the current and passing scene
as seen through the eyes of a
teacher,"” Charter says in the
introduction of his book, Over
My Shoulder. ce. retiring in 1987

The book; published last year,
is a compilation of 30 years of
newspaper columns

Charters was born in Vancou-
ver in 1916. He attended the
University of B.C. and served in
the Seaforth Highlanders of Can
ada in the Second World War

He moved to the Kootenays in
1947 to teach high school scien-

one

“(The NDP) are a threat to form
the next government.” said Smith
“They're at the gates and they want
to get at the door. We are going to
have to work.”

British Columbia has balanced its
budget and become the jewel of the
country. said Social Services Minister
Claude Richmond, the other member
for the dual riding of Kamloops

“There are very few people compl
aining in B.C.."" he said

“There is not very much to compl
ain about. I don't think we have to
hang our heads in shame. We can

put our happy faces on."

LETTER

Questions raised

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The proposed payment of ‘grants
in lieu of taxes” to be made by B.C
Hydro raises some very concerning
issues

If accepted, would not this formula
provide grounds for re-assessment by
West Kootenay Power?

What are the implications of accep-
ting such a grant on claims for future
entitlement under the renegotiated
Columbia River Treaty or upon future
construction or upgrading of dams?

If this formula is adopted as
reasonable, then why should it not
reasonably be paid as accruing over
the past 20 years?

On the other hand, it is of extreme
concern to me that residents of Area

J should in the meantime be left with
no public sewage system and, in
some communities. severe water qu-
ality or supply problems. Fire protec-
tion services, outside of Robson, are
virtually non-existent and public road
access is below standard, a problem
compounded by removal of ferry
service to Robson

On the other hand, at least a
proposal has been advanced and to
react with confrontation may cause
only further delay and cost. Why not
agree that pending resolution of this
matter, the grant funds be advanced
now and dedicated to upgrading
public services?

Ken Wyllie
Robson

Fall trialexpected

By DONNA ZUBER
Special to the CasNews
The driver of a vehicle involved in
an accident which resulted in the
death of one woman, will answer to
charges in a trial expected to take

place this fall in Nelson, defence
attorney Brent Adair said

Elaine Jean Jerome faces seven
charges in connection with the accid
ent. including criminal negligence,
dangerous driving and impaired driv-
ing

A commitment to trial was made
following a number of testimonies

court imposed a ban on publication of
evidence given at the preliminary
hearing

The Feb. 20, 1988 accident on
Highway 22 near China Creek involv-
ed a head-on collision between a
truck and a car. The drivers of both
vehicles were treated for injuries and
have since recovered. However, the
passenger of the car died within
hours of being rushed by

owns the plaza, to work out a
clean-up plan

The contamination is probably due
to years of improper procedure| while
filling the four large and two small
gas tanks that were dug out from
under the old station recently, Jen-
sen said, since the tanks were
tested and no holes were found

At the time of the station demolit-
ion; tarry Geldart, Texaco senior
sales supervisor in Kelowna, told the
Castlegar News the tanks were test-
ed, cut up and destroyed so they
could not be reused

Jensen, who, , along with other
ministry oficials, was at the demolit
ion, said the .Wast Management
Branch was aware of contamination
on the site before the demolition
because Texaco officials asked the
Environment Ministry to investigate

“We didn’t get involved until we
knew from them (Texaco),"" he said

Geldart is away from his office
until Monday and could not be
reached for comment

The Canadian Imperial Bank of

Leetht
oP
building
George Holford, manager of prop-
erty administration for the bank, said
Friday that a lease arrangement is
still being negotiated with both Gulf
Pacific and the bank's head office

Nothing has been finalized but
negotiations could be concluded in a
few weeks, he said.

Gulf Pacific general manager Fr-
ank Delalla refused comment on the
situation Friday

Goodwin
honored

NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) — A union
leader whose death prompted the
first general strike in British Colum-
bia will have a mountain on central
Vancouver Island named after him
next month

The province has approved calling
a previously unnamed peak Mount
Ginger Goodwin, after the former
B.C. Federation of Labor vice-presi
dent. said BarbLemky. curator of the
Cumberland and District Museum

The dedication will take place June
24

Goodwin was instrumental in un-
ionizing Cominco workers in Trail in
1915 before dodging the draft and
hiding in the hills outside of Cumber.
land.

He was shot dead by the RCMP at
the age of 31. Workers staged a
24-hour general strike on the day of
his funeral

NDP

continued from front page
seven meetings set to wind up in the
middle of November — are showing
the party is on the right track.
Harcourt told reporters after the
speech

“There seems to bea real willing
party - \ huge
problems this prdyince(Taces.”" he
said ~

Those in the party who are expres;
sing unhappiness over the new party
theme of sustainable development —
as a number of delegates did Friday
night — will be listened to and their
feelings incorporated into the party
platform paper that will be ready for
the March party convention, Har-
court said.

“This is a coming together of
people to share their anger and
frustration but also their hope for the
future,"’ he said

Harcourt's speech was followed by
a panel discussion on the future of
children in B.C

Environmental activist Wayne Pep:
pard, who recently announced he will
seck the NDP nomination in the
Nelson-Creston riding, spoke of the
plight of children in a world that is
being destroyed by pollution and
poverty

“Each and every one of us must be
committed to hard’ work if we are
going to save the planet for ourselves
and our children," he said

Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy
spoke from the floor and reminded
the conference concern for children’s
futures is fine. but B.C. children and
their families have immediate needs
for support systems even in ‘‘ideal
families." }

“Let's start being concerned for
our children right from when they are
born,” he said

South Slocan logger Corky Evans.
who has also declared he will run for
the NDP nomination in the Nelson.
Creston riding, gave a keynote ad.
dress after lunch, telling the deleg-
ates B.C. is run by big corporations
in the same way as underdeveloped
countries are run by army regimes

Who's managing the house? he
asked. ‘*Who's zooming who here in
the Creston Valley?"

We have lost control not only of
the land but of the destinies of our
communities,"’ he said.

Harcourt

‘ continued from front p

party's position is on such disputed timber areas as the Carmanagh
Valley on Vancouver Island where environmentalists are calling for
the area to be preserved to save the huge old Sitka spruce trees.

The questions were rais¢d in light of IWA leader Jack Munroe’s
speech earlier this week calling for logging to ptoceed in the area to
save forestry jobs. .

Harcourt blamed the government for the conflict, saying the
Socreds are “pitting environmentalists against workers in an
increasingly desperate B.C.""

Social services critic Joan Smallwood (Surrey-Guildford-Whalley)
the NDP’s former environmental critic, agreed with Harcourt, saying
the situation needs discussions not confrontations that “force people
who should be allies to line up along battle lines.""

When probed by the delegates, Harcourt said the question of
whether or not to log such areas is not one that can be answered right
now because the government has not done the studies required to

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preliminary hearing held in Castlegar
Provincial’ Court Wednesday. The

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ict how much timber needs to be left standing to preserve the
spruce
bloody disgrace" how little information the government

has given the legislature about the situation, he said angrily

“If I had had to make such difficult decisions as mayor (of
Vancouver) with the kind of information we've been given, I would
have been thrown out of office."’

The key to forestry management in B.C. is the philosophy, he
said

“The Socreds see forestry as a mining industry, we see it as a
farming industry. We must treat our forests as a crop and replant.’*

Harcourt added the NDP js committed to establishing a four-year
degrce-gragting college in the Kootenays which would specialize in
forestry practices such as careful management of watershed arcas.

Harcourt told reporters al fair system of taxation for B.C. Hydro
dams. currently in dispute. must be introduced but that “it would be
presumptuous of me to say what that would be

That issue will be discussed in workshops today. he said, adding
that he prefers to let the delegates decide on at
power company

tion plan for the

The agency quoted 4 statement from Khomeini’s bureau as
saying the 86-year-old leader is ‘doing perfectly well’ after surgery
to stop internal bleeding

Doctors treating Khomeini, who has no designated successor,
said he is recovering as expected and his vital organs were
functioning satisfactorily

Tehran radio said meetings to pray for his health were held
across Iran and theological students sacrificed sheep as a gesture of
thanksgiving. '

Students throwcondoms .

WINNIPEG (CP) — Two Winnipeg high school students have
been ousted from student council elections for throwing condoms into
a crowd during their campaign speech promoting safe sex.

Nat Carnegie, 16, running for student council vice-president, said
teachers grabbed the microphones from him and running mate Mike
Thiessen after the pair flung a handful of condoms jnto the Grade 12
crowd at Kelvin high school during a rally

They said the move was to dramatize their concerns over teenage
pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Uno picked as PM

TOKYO (CP) — Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita and
his party's secretary general have agreed to ask Foreign Minister
Sousuke Uno to succeed Takeshita who will resign soon, the national
broadcasting network NHK said

NHK said Takeshita and Shintaro Abe decided to ask Uno to take
the job and hope to complete the procedure in the ruling Liberal
Democratic partly next week

No immediate official comment was available

Uno, 66, one of the few government ministers to emerge
untainted by the stock scandal that has rocked the government, was
not available for comment. He leaves for Paris today to attend a
meeting of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development

Blacks tohang

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A judge has sentenced 14 blacks to
hang for the mob killing of a black policeman, in a ruling likely to stir
widespread protest in South Africa.

Only one of the group of 13 men and a 60-year-old woman
sentenced Friday was found to have inflicted blows that caused the
death of Lucas Sethwala. He was stoned and set afire Nov. 13, 1985,
because of his work for South Africa's white-minority government

“The Upington trial is an outrage that only the apartheid system
can produce,"’ protested the South African Council of Chyrches,
which includes most of the country’s leading Protestant denominat-
ions

“We cannot be convinced that justice has been done,” it said

The Lawyers for Human Rights organization said the 14 are the
largest group ever condemned to death for a single crime in South
Africa.

Airliner hijacked

MIAMI (AP) — A Cuban immigrant who had escaped from a
mental hospital tried to hijack an American Airlines jetliner to Cuba
on Saturday, but he surrendered after the plane landed at Miami
International Airport, authorities said

The Boeing 727 carrying 157 passengers and crew en route to
Miami from Dallas was diverted toward Cuba temporarily before
heading back to his original destination

The hijacker was reported armed with a starter’s pistol and two
knives, but no one was injured

He was identified as Pedro Rene Comas-Banos, 37, who came to
the United States nine years ago as part of the so-called Mariel
boatlift of thousands of Cubans, FBI agent Willaim Gavin told
veporters. Gavin said the man fled from a mental hospital in Los
Angeles, but he didn't know when

The plane had 150 passengers and a crew of seven

Flames fans happy

CALGARY (CP) — More than rain streaked down Lanny
McDonald's face Saturday as he spoke to 20,000 deliriously happy
Calgary Flames fans following a parade to celebrate the NHL team's
first Stanley Cup victory

This is the greatest day in the world,” the player said in a voice
quivering with emotion to the cold, wet crowd crushed into Olympic
Plaza.

A roar of ‘‘Lanny, Lanny" and *‘We're No. 1"" forced McDonald
to step back from the microphone and wipe his face

“We all may be a little cold on the oustide today, but you have
niade us very warm on the inside. We love you and thank you."’

The Flames defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 Thursday to
win the best-of-seven Stanley Cup series in six games. it was the first
NHL championship in the history of the franchise, which was kindled
in Atlanta in 1972 but fanned to life following a 1980 move to Calgary.

Protests
may end —
next week

BELJING (AP) — Two leaders of
China's student protest movement in
Beijing proposed Saturday that thou-
sands of demonstrators hold a final
rally next week and end their
two-week occupation of Tiananmen
Square

Also’ today, in the first official
acknowledgement of a power strug-
gle at the top, former president Li
Xiannian accused ‘‘certain people in
the leadership of the Communist
party’’ of creating confusion in Chi-
na. He apparently was referring to
moderates.

The Statement, broadcast on state
run radio and television, came two
days after Communist party leader
Zhao Ziyang was reported stripped of
spower and placed under house arrest
for apparently being too sympathetic
to the protesters’ demands for demo:
cratic reforms.

Student leaders Wang. Dan and
Wu'er Kaixi, at a news conference on
the square, called for a citywide
march and mass rally Tuesday after
which
square

They said they wanted to leave the
square because of ‘sanitation and to
return the square to the people.’

They demanded an end to martial
law ordered for parts of Beijing on
May 20 by Premier Li Peng and a
withdrawal of the tens of thousands
of army troops surrounding the
capital

They said the approximately

10,000 students remaining in the
square would make the final decision

The student leaders also called for
April 27 to be made into a holiday for
freedom and democracy. On that
date, hundreds of thousands of stud
ents and workers took to the streets
in Beijing to protest a People’s Daily
editorial accusing the student move-
ment of causing turmoil

Students began leading organized
demonstrations on April 15 to de-
mand talks with government offi
on democratic reforms and ending
corruption and profiteering by party
officials.

The rallies gradually escalated,
drawing many average citizens, and
culminated with the occupation of the
square by hundreds of thousands and
a hunger strike by some 3,000
students in Tiananmen Square on
May 13, two days before Soviet
President Mikhail Gorbachev's histo:
ric visit to China.

At time$ a million people swarmed
through the square and city. Li Peng
declared martial law on May 20, but
soldiers either were reluctant or
unable to move against the masses.

The protests caused a power strug-
gle between more moderate leaders
and hardliners. with Li Peng appar-
ently emerged victorious

The student leaders did not ment-
ion another march, planned for to-
day, in Beijing. Student activists in
Beijing had called for a worldwide
march of ethnic Chinese and a
citywide strike in Beijing

Most people do not work in China
on Sunday.

Yeltsin
loses
election

MOSCOW (CP) — Communist
maverick Boris Yeltsin, who won by a
landslide in the popular vote for the
new Soviet congress, was defeated
Saturday in his bid f6r election to its
smaller, full-time legislature

Many party leaders and top burea
ucrats also faced considerable oppos-
ition from fellow legislators in the
Congress of People’s Deputies, but
were elected to the Supreme Soviet
— the revamped legislating body
intended to replace the rubber-stamp
predecessor of the same name.

The congress chose a combination
of reformers and traditional Commu
nist party members to make up the
two-house body. It must also pick a
vice-president

Yeltsin, running for a seat in the
Supreme Soviet, garnered a majority
of the votes of his fellow deputies
but -ran last out of 12 candidates
vying for 11 seats designated for the
Russian federation

It was a severe setback for Yeltsin,
who gave up his job in government
when the parliament convened and is
now technically unemployed.

Deputy Yuri Osipyan, chairman of
the commission that counted the
ballots overnights, said Yeltsin rece-
ived 1.185 votes in the congress, with
964 members voting against him

-Fhe-deputies voted Friday night
from a ballot of 600 candidates — all
members of the congress — to fill the
542-member Supreme Soviet

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Strife mars
NATO summit

BRUS 5 (CP) — The Canadian flag flew over the
Brussels military airport Saturday as Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney arrived in the Belgian capital for the
two-day summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizat
ion that begins Monday

Mulroney, who didn't speak to reporters on his
arrival from the francophone summit in Dakar, Senegal,
was greeted by Canadian officials, an honor guard of 12
Belgian military police and a four-man motorcycle
escort

He was among the first NATO leaders to arrive for
a summit that appears headed for problems.

Leaders of the 16-member western military alliance
had hoped to celebrate its 40th anniversary with a
hearty-round-of-self-congratulations-and by adopting a
so-called ‘‘global concept"’ for their future policies and
arms control priorities.

A bitter row over short-range nuclear missiles in
Europe threatens to mar the celebration and prevent
adoption of the new policy

West Germany and some of the other European
allies wanteNATO to negotiate cuts in short-range
nuclear weapons with the Soviet Union and its Warsaw
Pact allies.

Fhe NATO missiles with_a_range of about 120 _

kilometres, would explode on German soil, East and
West
HUGE SOVIET ADVANTAGE

The West German government says the Soviets
have a huge edge in such ground-based weapons —
1,400 missiles to NATO's 88 U.S. Lance missile systems
— and only negotiations can eliminate the Soviet
advantage

But Britain and the United States want a treaty
reached and implemented to substantially reduce the
Soviets’ capability to invade western Europe with
non-nuclear weapons such as tanks before agreeing to
cut NATO's nuclear deterrent. Conventional arms talks

PRIME MINISTER MULRONEY
+ arrives in Brussels

President George Bush was expected to propose a
reduction of up to 10 per cent of American troops
stationed in Europe

In Rome, where Bush stopped off before coming to
Brussels, his spokesman. said the United States will not
reduce its European troop levels without consulting its
NATO allies

“In the final analysis, this is something that th
president will want to discuss directly with his
partners,"’ White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater

Britain and the U.S. also want’ the western alliance
to approve the replacement of the Lance with 997
longer-range multiple-launch rocket systems, an eleven-
fold increase

Experts say Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is
particularily concerned that a deal to eliminate short-
range nuclear missiles will signal the start of a
movement to denuclearize Europe completely, eliminat-
ing all bombs, artillery, mines and air-launched
missiles.

Britain is determined to maintain its nuclear
arsenal and has ordered 60 of the multiple-launch rocket
systems that were to be deployed about 1997.

CANADA'S POSITION

Canada wants the modernization of NATO's
nuclear arsenal and negotiations to reduce the number
of weapons on both side :

NATO ambassadors were meeting throughout the
weekend in a feverish attempt to reach a compromise by
Monday morning, .but sé far, last-ditch efforts have
failed

A West German report Friday said West German
Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher has convinced
Chancellor Helmut Kohl that it's better to let the
summit end in open dissension than for the Germans to
“crawl on their knees.”

Public opinion polls in West Germany indicate
nearly 90 per cent of electors favor their government's
stance on the short-range missile debate

In another development, there were reports that

REDUCTION PROBABLE

Fitzwater suggested a troop reduction was prob
able, saying he didn’t “want to signal anything in
advance,"* but made it clear that none of the more than
300,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn without the
endorsement of NATO leaders at their summit

Meanwhile, Bush told | Italian Prime Minister
Ciriaco De Mita that. in concert with the NATO allics
he intends to seize on the ‘‘openings” offered by Sovict
President Mikhail Gorbachev for arms reductions
Fitzwater said.

Many of the NATO leaders are eager to have the
United States match a series of Soviet weapons
reductions pledged by Gorbachev. Fitzwater said the
latest Soviet moves, which include a willingness to
impose limités-on~ Soviet troops in eastern Europe
presented ‘‘some opportunities, and those are openings
that need to be discussed with the allies and will be.”*

The White House spokesman said the United States
now is willing to negotiate over troop levels in the
East-West talks being held in Vienna. Canada is taking
part in the talks.

Until now, the NATO allies have tried to concentr
ate the talks on tanks, artillery and armored personnel
carri¢rs. The Soviets, on the other hand, have insisted
on dealing directly with the levels of NATO and Warsaw
Pact forces

Fitzwater, responding to Gorbachev's acceptance of
equal ceilings in the two alliances, said ‘‘it's a matter
for discussion.”*

Former licensing head
causes mixed feelings

VICTORIA (CP) — Consumer Ser-
vices Minister Lyall Hanson said
Friday he feels uneasy about a
former senior bureaucrat acting for
the “other side’ in dealings with the
government

Bert Hick, the former
manager of liquor control and licens
ing for the province, is running a
consulting firm that advises clients

general

seeking lucrative liquor licences, said
Hanson

‘Ido have a problem with it,"’ he
said in an interview outside the
legislature. ‘‘We have already adivs
ed him of our concerns with jt.’

Hanson said there is nothing illeg.
al, about Hick running a consulting
business

“Our concerns are that someone
who may have knowledge of some
thing that happened in the past is
there now being an advocate for a
person sitting actually on the other
side of that issue,"" he said

“We as yet have not had any
specific difficulties.”’

Hick resigned last year after an
ombudsman's report charged there
were improprieties in a referendum
used to grant a liquor licence to the

The pub licence was revoked after
an investigation uncovered impropri
eties in the referendum. The pub's
owner has since pleaded guilty to
uttering a forged ballot. Giordano is
facing p charge of lying to the
ombudsman during the investigation

Hick could not be reached for
comment Friday. A secretary at his
Victoria-based consulting firm said

with Poole before Giordano’s comp:
any was put on the list of eligibl
pollsters

Hick said he knew of no contact
betwen him and Vander Zalm's
office

Hanson said in the
Thursday. “‘The knowledge that 1
had was different than an answer
that was given there (at the news

legislature

he was out of the province until next conference). I guess that
week equate to lying

Hick’s role in the pub affair
resurfaced Thursday after Hanson
said in the legislature that Hick lied

to reporters about whether he spoke not say if he disciplined Hick later.

Air controllers
needed soon

RICHMOND, B.C. (CP) — Barely
a kilometre from one of Vancouver complete solutions and consequently
International Airport's main flight | Jook to your
paths, where an airplane lands or
takes’ off about once a minute,
federal Transport Minister Benoit

assistance," he said.

would

Hanson said Friday he did not
correct Hick's statement at the time
because he was astounded. He did

‘I fully realize these are not the
membership _ for

Bouchard asked the 1,800-member
organization to co-operate with his

Knight Street Pub in Vancouver
ALSO QUIT

The report also led to the resignat

ion of David Poole. Vander Zalm's

Bouchard told

former principal secretary

‘The ombudsman said Poole impr.
operly used his political influence by am
phoning Hick to ask that a polling
firm run by a friend of the premier be nced
considered for the government's list
of approved pollsters to conduct overtaxed
neighborhood referendums on pubs. — said

Delta Media
Vander Zatm's former-campaign-ma
nager Charlie Giordano, was later
put“on the list and conducted the
Knight Street Pub referendum

American

Services, run by

suburb

speedier training, new equip

We are flying more people on
more airplanes than ever before."’ The —most—erities
Bouchard said in a politely received
speech at a hotel in this Vancouver port. Canada’s busiest. with 347.000

Bouchard pleaded for help. new government-industry panel on

the Canadian Air

Traffic Control Association's annual

convention the government is doing.

its best to eliminate the shortage of
air traffic controllers

But an expanded recruiting progr

air safety
meeting earlier this month and -is

The panel had its first

scheduled to meet again June 1

The inquiry is studying everything
from working conditions at air traffic
control centres, to training. safety
efficiency and technology. said Bouc

ment and stop-gap hiring of experie- hard
traffic
can't solve the problem of Canada’s
deregulated airways, he

controllers Association president Jack Butt
said there's a shortage of about 230
controllers in Canada. There are
about 1,400 active controllers in. the
Canadian system

Toronto's Pearson International A

takeoffs and landings a year