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Castlegar Slocon Park 365-3368 226-7216 Drug war escalates in Colombia BOGOTA (CP) The reputed leader of the Medellin cocaine cartel has threatened more violence if the Colombian... government _ refuses to make peace and allow drug traf fickers to rejoin society, media reports said The government has rejected all calls for negotiations, however, and “a television report said that authorities are preparing to extradite a suspected drug finance chief to the United States and have given hima Week to appeal The effort to extradite Eduardo Martinez Romero, an alleged money manager for the traffickers, is seen asa key test of Colombia's will to battle the drug barons. He was arrested in the fir st days of an unprecedented offensive against trafficking, which began after hitmen hired by the cartel assassinated presidential hopeful Senator Luis Carlos Galan on Aug. 18 The syndicated TV news program Noticiero 24 Horas reported that the Colombian government notified Mar tinez on Tuesday of plans to extradite him to the United States. He was told he had five working days, or until next Tuesday, to appeal. AUS. narcotics official said earlier that the paperwork was going forward on anextradition request for Martinez, a 35-year-old economist who faces federal charges in Atlanta in a $1.2 billion’ US operation for laundering coéaine profits Meanwhile, President Virgilio Bar co re-established the country’s ex tradition treaty as part of a series of emergency measures in the drug crack down, In raids across Colombia, police have seized more than $200 million in real estate including luxurious homes and office buildings, and other property such as airplanes, helicopters and cars. About 11,000 people have been taken into custody Drug traffickers in turn have declared war on the state and counter attacked with a wave of bombings and burnings, mostly in Medellin, 345 kilometres north of Bogota and ihe base for the world’s largest cocaine trafficking cartel Mother convicted Office / Retail Space Street-level air-conditioned office or small retail space for rent in Castlegar News building. 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(CP) — Striking steelworkers at the Highland_, Valley copper mine near Kamloops met with management for about two hours Tuesday before contract talks adjourned for the day The 1,200 members of the United Steelworkers of America local 7619 were presented with a new monetary package from the company Details of the offer were not released because of a news blackout, said union president Richard Boyce Most of the non-monetary items were settled\during three days of weekend bargaining, he added The union, which struck the mine July 6, has asked for a 20-per-cent wage increase in the first year of atwo-year contract Professor appeals censure TORONTO (CP) women in a swimming pool claims his constitutional rights got soaked when a university tribunal censured him last spring Richard Hummel, a chemical engineering professor known for his unorthodox, thrashing strokes in snorkel, mask and flippers, is set to ap peal his five-year ban from the University of Toronto's Hart House and its pool wcouver was so successful A professot, accused of leering underwater at “Why bother?" reporters asked him after a hearing Tuesday with a university tribunal to establish procedures. “Principle,” the white-haired scholar shot back before loading a leather satchel and a copy of the book The Terrible Truth About Lawyers onto his green bicycle and riding away Along with banning him from the pool, the school sex harassment board ordered Hummel to seek counselling after three lifeguards and several women testified that he ogled female swimmers. The decision was handed down in March after a hearing last January : Ng back in court OTTAWA (CP) — The Supreme Court of Canada will decide this week whether to give a hearing to Charles Ng in his long-running judicial effort to avoid extradition to California to face 13 murder charges. Ng, a 28-year-old former U.S. Marine wanted for a series of grisly sex and torture slayings near San Francisco, has been fighting extradition sin ce he was convicted on an armed robbery charge in Calgary in 1985 Heis still serving time for the robbery offence but has been ordered to be extradited on completion of the sentence His lawyers, appealing the rulings by Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench and the provincial Court of Appeal, contend he was denied a chance to cross-examine key witnesses at the extradition hearing. They also argue he should not be extradited to face a possible death penalty, since Canada has abolished capital punishment Evangelist's aid testifies CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Witnesses at TV evangelist Jim Bakker’s fraud trial testified that when his ministry was raising millions he spent $2,000 a month on electricity keeping his pool warm and $105,000 moving belongings by private jet David Taggart, a former Bakker aide who has been convicted of tax evasion, testified in U.S. District Court that the founder of the PTL evangelical empire was enchanted with real estate *He told me he wanted to have 10 homes,"’ Taggart said Prosecutors say Bakker and other PTL executives diverted for their own benefit at least $4 million of the $158 million they raised from 1984 to 1987 by selling $1,000 *‘lifetime partnerships." Many of the partnerships were supposed to be good for hotel stays at the ministry's resort in Fort Mill, S.C Study faults policy WASHINGTON (Reuter) faulty government policy, not negative news coverage, caused Americans to stop supporting the Vietnam War and sparked the country’s military withdrawal in 1973. Army historian William Hammond said rising casualties coupled with a no-win U.S. strategy were at fault. He wrote the 413-page report titled The Military and the Media, published by the U.S. Army Centre of Military History A new U.S. Army study has concluded The study rejects a view among many Vietnam-era analysts that negative media coverage caused eroding public support and eventual withdrawal from Sduth Vietnam in defeat More PCBs arrive BAIE-COMEAU, Que. (CP) — A second shipload of PCBs arrived at this lower-St-Lawrence River port today, the morning after police used truncheons to clear a path through protesters so an earlier shipment could be taken toa temporary storage site nearby The Khudozhnik Pakhomov arrived in this North Shore city - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's hometown — after a two-week voyage from Britain, where dockworkers refused to unload the cargo after pressure from environmentalists. The ship was anchored offshore awaiting permission to dock, said Chantale Bergeron of the Quebec Environment Department URGENTLY REQUIRED The Castlegar News requires a replacement carrier for ONE ISSUE ONLY — SUNDAY, SEPT. 3 in BLUEBERRY. Please call Heather, 365-7266, Monday-Friday. Company faces pollution charges ST—JEAN, Que. (CP) — The Quebec Environment Department will lay @ number of charges against the company responsible for lead con- tamination that has forced blood tests of hundreds_of people, a department official said Tuesday “The exact number of charges has not yet been determined,” said Con- rad Anctil, a member of the dangerous b: branch of the E Department **But one thing is certain, thére will be a few,’”including failure to respect the conditions of the government's operating permit, he said Soil and air samples released by the government Monday show that lead re ion exceeds rec maximum levels by 10 times on proper- ty adjacent to the Balmet Canada Inc. battery-recycling plant. Environment officials said repeated requests to Balmet to clean up its yard were fruitless The Environment Department has ordered blood samples taken from at least 300 children and an unknown number of pregnant women living in the immediate vicinity of the facility Results should be known within a week The department also warned about 7,000 people living within a 600-metre radius of the plant not to eat produce from their gardens. High levels of lead in children’s blood have been linked to hearing damage, stunted growth and mental deficiencies. GETS CONFIRMATION Environment Department officials admitted Monday they knew 18 mon- ths ago that lead levels in the soil of the Balmet compound were as high as 20,000 parts per million, but said they just received confirmation the con- tamination extended to the surroun- ding neighborhood. Contamination in the neighborhood reached 5,000 parts per million, The federal government's recommended maximum level of contamination is $00 parts per million **You can’t immediately conclude that there are adverse medical effects if the environment is contaminated,” department spokesman Jean’ Filion said Tuesday. The test results were released Mon- day after an interdepartmental memo warning Quebec’s environment minister of potential danger was leaked to Parti Quebecois Leader Jacques Parizeau As residents waited nervously for blood tests to start today, they told stories of bureaucratic runaround and indifference. ““We've been complaining for years," said Robert Leblanc, foreman of a lumberyard adjact to the Balmet plant, where on Tuesday workers cleaned up a mountain of batteries that, until Monday, dominated the yard ‘“*We'd phone one department, they’d tell us to get in touch with another, who'd tell us to get in touch with a third, who'd tell us to get in touch with the first,"’ Leblanc said He and others blamed the gover nment after being exposed to lead- laden smoke and soil since Balmet began recycling batteries in 1984 in this town of 35,000, about 40 kilometres southeast of Montreal BLAMES GOVERNMENT Leblanc said smoke from lead smelting at the Balmet plant routinely poured into the lumberyard and its warehouse. “Sometimes the smoke was so thick you couldn’t see the roof,” he said, adding that some of the 30 employees of the lumberyard complained of headaches, nausea and dizziness because of the smoke. Premier Robert Bourassa, already under fire for his government’s han dling of the disposal of PCBs, said the Environment Department acted responsibly “We took maximum action, the quickest action possible,"’ he said during a campaign stop for the Sept. 25 provincial election An announcement that huge tracts of contaminated earth may have to be excavated has St—Jean residents worried cn AARRRREREENREECReERRIR ST HELP YOUR CARRIER Your Castlegar News car rier will be collecting for the paper during the next few days The job is made easier if he or she doesn't have to make a second or evena third call Please consider your car rier. He or she is an indepen dent business person and they don’t earn their profit until you've paid for your paper. That's why they'll ap preciate it if you're ready for them the first time they call August 30, 1989 AS SAFEWAY ($ We bring tall together Old Fashioned HAM Fleetwood. Sliced or Shaved 100g @ ipee Hot B.B.Q. 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