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July 24, 1988

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ANNE FRANK

Letters auctioned

NEW YORK (AP) — A month
before the Nazis invaded Holland,
Anne Frank and her sister wrote
pen-pal letters to two girls in Lowa,
only hinting at the danger to come.

The correspondence — two letters,
@ postcard, two passport-size pho-
tographs of the Jewish sisters and an
envelope — has been verified by the
director of the Anne Frank Centre in
Amsterdam and is to be auctioned in
October.

“Dear Juanita,” Anne wrote in her
letter, part-of which was reprinted in
Friday's New York Times, “I did
receive your letter and want to
answer you as quick as posible. Mar.
got and myself are the only children
in our house. Our grandma is living
with us. My father has an office and
mother is busy at hom

She signed the letter Annelies
Marie Frank.

Margot wrote, “We often listen to
the radio as times are very exciting,

having a frontier with Germany and
being a small country we never feel
safe.”

After the letters were written,
Anne and her family, refugees from
Germany, hid in a Dutch house until
they were found by the Nazis. Her
diary, published in 1952, is an
account of their life there. “

Anne Frank was 15 when she died
in the Bergen-Belsen concentration
camp in 1945.

‘The letters, dated April 27 and 29,
1940, were sent to two farm sisters in
Danville, lowa — Juanita Wagner,
11, who was Anne's age, and Betty
Ann Wagner, 15, the age of Anne's
sister, Margot.

In a telephone interview with the
Times, Betty Ann Wagner, of Bur-
bank, Calif., said she and her sister,

ww Juanita Wanger Hiltgen, of
Redlands, Calif., started the pen-pal
mail at the suggestion of a.teacher.

“We never received a reply from

our second letters in answer to
theirs, but we thought that had to do
with the war and censorship,” said
Wagner.

“After the war, in 1946, we wrote
to the Amsterdam address that the
letters had comefrom and we re-
ceived a sad letter from their father,
who told us how the family had died
during the war,” she said. “I just sat
and cried.”

The sisters kept the letters and
told their friends about them. Only
recently did they decide to make
them public and auction them.

The letters are to be auctioned by
Swann Galleries in New York on Oct.
25.

George Lowry, president of the
galleries, said he thought at first the
letters, to be sold as one package,
might bring $20,000 to $30,000 US.
He now thinks they might go for
more because of possible interest by
institutions.

Pope lauds Mandela

LORENZAGO, ITALY (REUTER)
— Pope John Paul, in a rare and
intimate conversation with report
ers, paid tribute Friday to the
“greatness” of Nelson Mandela, the
black nationalist leader jailed in
South Africa.

The Roman Catholic pontiff also
expressed hope that the Persian Gulf
war between Iran and Iraq will énd
soon.

The relaxed and sun-tanned Pope
spoke to five Italian reporters and a
Reuters news agency correspondent
in the garden of a secluded moun:
taintop house on the last day of his
10-day vacation, in the northern
Italian Dolomites near Austria.

Pope John Paul spoke pensively as
he expressed his admiration for
Mandela, who turned 70 last Monday.
The African National Congress lead-
er, jailed in 1962, is serving a life
sentence for plotting to overthrow
white rule in South Africa.

“He is a man who suffers so much
for the rights of his people,” the Pope
said. “He suffers and with this

suffering he offers a testimony to his
people, even to the South African
government, and to the entire world.

“This testimony, naturally, has a
high price, which rouses appreciation
from all who are concerned about the
rights of man, about problems of
race.”

OMITS SOUTH AFRICA

At the advice of the country's
Roman Catholic bishops, the Pope is
omitting South Africa from a trip this
September to southern Africa. He
will visit Zimbabwe, Mozambique,
Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland,
so-called black frontline states neigh-
boring South Africa.

He is expected to make strong
statements against racism and Pre-
toria’s apartheid racial separation
policies during the trip.

“It is not yet possible, according to
the conviction of thé South African
episcopate, to go to South Africa,
where there are many Catholics, es-
pecially the blacks . . .,” he said. “But
we hope that perhaps one day we can
go there too.”

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Political issue

shelved

WINNIPEG (CP) — With the most
divisive issue on the table a con.
stitutional accord that may not come
toa vote for a year, it seems unlikely
Manitoba Liberals and New Demo
crats are yet plotting the downfall of
the province's minority government,
which opened its maiden legislative
session this week.

Thursday's speech from the throne
gave neither opposition party much
justification for introducing the non
confidence motion that could force
the second election since April 26,
when Premier Gary Filmon's Pro-
gressive Conservatives squeaked in
with a 25-seat minority government.

Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs
likened the speech to apple pie and
motherhood, while NDP Leader
Gary Doer called it thin on sub-
stance.

“T think to solve all of the problems
of Manitoba in one throne speech, as
they have indicated they can do, they
would have to be some kind of
supermen and I don’t think they have
that capacity whatsoever,” Carstairs,
leader of the 20-seat Official Oppo-
sition, said of the document.

The Liberal leader said she'll
announce at a news conference
Monday what her caucus has decided
about the non-confidence issue.

The 12-seat NDP caucus has
already decided it probably won't be
forcing such a vote, an aide to Doer
said Friday.

With the throne speech largely a
repeat of Tory election promises, it
was the news that the Manitoba
legislature will consider the Meech
Lake accord at this session which
captured the most attention.”

But with a requirement to hold
public. hearings before it can clear the
house, it isn't known when the accord
will finally come forward for a vote.

Carstairs and Doer have both sug:
gested they want changes to the ac-
cord before they would consider
supporting it, although Filmon has
offered his unqualified backing. Ot.
tawa has ruled out changes.

As for the rest of the Tory legis:
lative blueprint, Liberals, who often
leaned as far to the right as Tories
during the last election campaign,
support most major planks, Carstairs
said.

They back the plan to phase out a
tax on company payrolls, the mer.
ging of government departments to
peel off layers of bureacracy, and the
promise to wind down three Crown
corporations.

for year

In addition, Liberals favor changes
to a controversial law that gives
union members the right to et
contract disputes settled by an ar.
bitrator. —~

The throne speech also predicted a
signifvicantly reduced budget deficit
for 1988, but both Carstairs and Doer
said Friday it remains to be seen
whether the Tories can honestly take
credit for the cut.

The budget brought down by the
government of former NDP premier
Howard Pawley estimated the 1988-
89 deficit to be $334 million, but a $75
million windfall in extra transfer
payments from the federal govern
ment is expected to substantially
lower that figure.

New Democrats oppose dropping
the payroll tax and labor law changes
but Doer said this week he supports
a proposed cooling-off period for
cabinet ministers and senior officials,
to stop them using inside knowledge
to personal advantage in the private
sector.

Tronically, it was the actions of two
members of the former New Demo-
cratic Party government that may
have prompted the idea.

Former Health Minister Larry
Desjardins quit last year to head up
the Manitoba Health Organizations
Inc., a coalition of health groups that
lobbies the province. Former NDP
cabinet clerk Michael Decter left his
post to form a consulting firm, and
soon won government contracts.

Court news

In Castlegar provincial court this
week, Aaron Webb has fined $400
after pleading guilty to having a
blood alcohol reading over .08.

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Wayne Drouin was fined $150 after
pleading guilty to assault. Drouin
also received one year suspended
sentence and probation and one year
suspended sentence and probation to
be served concurrently after plead-
ing guilty to two different mischief
charges.

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Bert Franks received six months
conditional discharge after pleading
guilty to assault.

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Samuel Salekin received three
months probation after pleading
guilty to assault. r]

More than twothirds of South
Africa's 2.8 million Roman Catholics
are black but the country’s bishops
have expressed fears that the Pre-
toria government might exploit a
papal visit.

South African newspapers have
reported that Pretoria has invited
the Pope to make a step of several
hours for a mass in South Africa,
during the Sept. 10-19 trip.

But Vatican sources said this is
unlikely.

The Pope said news that Iran has
agreed to a United Nations resolu-
tion calling for a ceasefire in the gulf
war with Iraq is “certainly a con.
solation.”

“This war has cost so many vic-
tims, so many massacres, and has
lasted so long. We will thank God if
this Hews is completely fulfilled.”

Blood ruled
as personal
property

LOS ANGELES (REUTER) — Ina
judgment said by legal experts to be
the first of its kind in the United
States, a California state court of
appeals has ruled that a person's
blood is personal property.

The ruling stems from a case
involving Seattle sales manager John

loore, whose blood is said by re-
séarch experts to contain. special
properties that could be used to
protect people from leukemia.

Moore's lawyer, Sanford Gage,
said the products created from
Moore's blood and spleen could
worth billions of dollar: .

In a two-toone decision, Justice
Arleigh Woods and Judge David
Rothman ruled on Thursday that the
University of California had failed to
obtain Moore's consent to market a
product based on his blood cells.

The judges wrote they knew of no
legal authority which would compel
them to conclude Moore's blood was
not his personal property.

Moore, 43, consented to the
removal of his spleen in 1976 as part
of his treatment for leukemia. But
Gage said Moore never signed any
consenting forms for the removal of
his blood over the next seven years.

A hematologist, Dr. David Golde,
and the university has filed patents
concerning a cell line — cells with the
same characteristics — developed
from Moore's blood, but lawyers said
no one had profited from the product.

Golde's lawyer, Anthony Murray,
argued in court the product had been
developed from Moore's spleen and a
patient's agreement to remove an
organ included consent to use the
organ for research.

Study finds
single ear
may help

EDMONTON (CP) — One ear
could be better than two for some
learning-disabled children, says an
Edmonton psychologist.

“For some learning-disabled chil.
dren, both ears interfere with one
another,” said Paul Green, a clinical
psychologist at Alberta Hospital.
“But by just using one ear, they can
listen and understand better.”

By giving learning-disabled chil-
dren a 20-minute test, Green can de-
termine which side of the brain is
more responsive and block the ap-
propriate ear with a special plug
prescribed by a physician.

Policy announced

By JIM BROWN

OTTAWA (CP) — The government offered a
compromise approach on abortion to MPs Friday,
proposing a policy of relatively easy access in the
early stages of pregnancy and tougher restrictions
later in the term.

But anti-abortion MPs are sure to offer their
own alternative when debate begins in the Commons
next week, and advocates of freedom of choice will
probably do the same.

The government wants to hold a free vote
before the House takes a brief summer recess, but
the vote is only intended to establish a general
policy. Detailed legislation to replace the law struck
down by the Supreme Court of Canada in January
will not be drafted until the fall,

The whole process could backfire if none of the
general policy options can win a majority in the
282-seat House, where there is no agreement among
Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats on
what kind of law is needed or even whether one is
needed at all.

A government motion filed with Commons
officers and made public Friday would allow abortion
in “the earlier stages” of pregnancy if a woman's
doctor concludes there is a threat to her physical or
mental well-being.

In later stages, a second doctor's opinion would
be required and abortion would only be permitted if
there is a serious threat to the woman's life or health.

No cut-off point is specified between early and
late term.

Doug Lewis, the deputy government House
leader, has said MPs will be free to offer as many
amendments as they want. He says the motion is
only a device to facilitate debate and does not
necessarily represent official policy.

But the wording is identical to a proposal that
was described by Justice Minister Ray Hnatyshyn as
the “government position” when it was presented in
May as part of an earlier package of three policy
options. +

New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent said his
caucus will have to study the latest proposal before
deciding how to vote and whether to propose
amendments.

But he offered a personal opinion that no new
criminal is needed to regulate abortion,
and said if the government believes otherwise it
should not waste time with a preliminary free vote.

“If something is urgent you bring forward a bill .
. . They are now proposing a totally unnecessary step
by having this sort of Gallup poll in the House of
Commons.”

SLAMS MOTION

Liberal justice critic Bob Kaplan also slammed
the motion, saying the vague wording is sure to
produce a flood of amendments.

“And every amendment that's defeated will be
moved again when-the- government brings * its
eventual bill forward. It’s a.gerious duplication of
effort.”

The Liberals will not officially decide on
strategy until early next week, but Kaplan said he
expects MPs will be free to vote according to their
consciences.

The government has already said Conservative
MPs will be free to vote. The NDP has an official
policy favoring freedom of choice, but House leader
Nelson Riis has said there will be no retaliation
against MPs who break ranks\

Liberal Don Boudria was one of the first MPs off
the mark with a promised amendment Friday, saying
the only option he can support is to bar abortion
unless the mother's life is threatened.

But fellow Liberal John Nunziata, another
ardent anti-dbortionist, said he would support such
an amendment only if it guarantees that the
government will bring in legislation before an
expected fall election.

“When I stand up and vote, the result is going to
be meaningless unless there's follow-up legislation,”
said Nunziata.

Abortion devastates father

EDMONTON (CP) — An Edmon-
ton man says he's devastated by the
news that his former girlfriend had
an abortion despite his legal at-
tempts to stop her.

“It's devastating to me,” Randy
Mock told reporters Friday after-
noon. “I mean face it, they killed
something that was actually living.”

Earlier in the day Mock learned his
court application to stop the abortion
was refused by an Alberta Court of
Queen's Bench judge.

In her ruling, Madame Justice
Joanne Veit had said Mock could still
sue for damages if his ex-girlfriend,
Michelle Brandanburg, had the abor-

tiop.
Brandanburg's lawyer confirmed
Friday the 18-year-old went to the

United States for -the abortion on
Thursday — hours after a temporary
injunction to stop her expired.

Mock, 25, had applied for a per-
manent injunction after receiving a
48-hour injunction Monday to stop
the abortion.

Mock's lawyer, Rosanne Saccom:
ani, said they have not decided
whether they will continue with the
case and sue for in a

emotional harm to Brandanburg. The
abortion would cause harm to Mock,
but at least he could seek recognition
of that harm in a civil suit.

She ruled there was solid basis
for Mock’s court application. “The
application has satisfied me that the
causes of action are not frivolous.”

“It’s now apparent she (Veit) has
now invited us to continue with the
case, i said.

separate action.

But Mock said he would like to see
the ease continue.

“T've come this far . . . I've just lost
my ‘ehild and it’s not going to die in
vain.”

SEEKS EXTENSION

Veit said she could not extend the

injunction because it would cause

San Francisco
ant invasion

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hordes
of thirsty ants driven by drought and
heat are invading homes throughout
the San Francisco Bay area in search
of water, and residents say no one
seems to know how to stop them.

“I've never seen anything like it;
there are millions of them,” said
Anita Lowery of Novato on Friday.
“I've almost cried.”

The ants are climbing out of light
switches, creeping into baby bottles
and even making their way into
freezers.

“They are getting into bed with
people,” said Dick Wolbert of Jack-
son Pest Control in Novato. “When
you turn on the water, they come out
of the faucet in globs. People finding
themselves taking baths with ants.”

Experts say the tiny insects are
only looking for water for their
bone-dry nests, but unsympathetic
human hosts are calling extermina
tors.

“It is really, really bad this year,
and it’s creating hysteria, i
Kevin Pendergraft of Californi
terminators in Walnut Creek.

More than 150 calls have come in
each day since last weekend, when
temperatures soared to record highs,
he said.

“The country is going under with
all the ants,” Wolbert said. “People
have called in who haven't had ants
for 20 years. They have them all over
the house.”

Even ant fans wish the ants would
march somewhere else.

As a scientist, Benny Fouche
admires ants as “survivalists,” but as
a homeowner, he's being driven

Tourist alert

In the July 20 issue of the
Castlegar News it stated that the
City of Castlegar is considering sup-
plying water outside city boundaries
to several Grosvenor Place residents.
In fact, the residents having trouble
with their water live near the
Grosvenor subdivision off Lucas
Road.

crazy by the insects’ persistence.

Fouche, a research associate in
urban entomology at the University
of California at Berkeley, has looked
for nests in the yard of his El Cerrito
home but admits he’s probably
wasting his time.

“Unless you get the queen, I can
almost guarantee that the ants will
out-persevere you. They'll just keep
coming,” he said. “The colony needs
food and water. They have thousands
of workers who will sacrifice them
selves.”

If they weren't so good at
surviving, they wouldn't have defied
“all the pest control people in the bay
area,” Fouche said.

Wolbert calls the situation “just
another result of nature changing”
and said a similar problem occurred
during the 1977 drought.

“They just have to set up a happy
home. They need water and a little
food,” he said. “If you have food in
your pantry or water in your sinks,
you're going to have them.”

Wolbert said he can’t understand
all the uproar. “It's really phenom
enal. Ants are very clean. They're
always preening each other.”

But Susan Grippi of Novato didn’t
share his complacency.

“It feels like it’s been a disaster,”
she said, adding that ants had sur-
rounded her home and invaded an
upstairs bathroom. “They make me
crazy.”

For the record

The decision is a victory for the
anti-abortion movement in Canada,
said Saecomani, because the abortion
issue has never been fought in civil
tourts « + * e

Abortion was covered by the
Criminal Code until the Supreme
Court of Canada ruled that the rele-
vant section was unconstitutional.
Parliament is currently struggling to
come up with replacement legisla-
tion.

Saccomani had argued Mock and
Brandanburg were bound by a verbal
contract when they agreed as a
common-law couple in February to
have a child. It was Brandanburg’s
obligation to continue with the
agreement when she stopped using
birth control, she told court Thurs-
day.

But Brandanburg’s lawyer said
Veit's ruling was a victory for her
client and all women who believe the
abortion decision should be left up to
the woman affected.

Veit’s ruling was not based on the
emotional abortion issue, which
should not be argued in the courts,
said Donna Oliver Dyck.

“It was a good legal decision.”

But she predicted the case will
open the door for other fathers
wanting to assert their rights.

“I have no doubt this sort of thing
is going to go on again.”

Keegstra’s
residence
set ablaze

ECKVILLE, ALTA. (CP) — Crime
laboratory tests have indicated a
petroleum-based fuel was used. to
start a fire at the home of Jim Keeg-
Stra, the former teacher once convic-
ted of hate mongering.

But RCMP in Edmonton said Fri-
day they have no suspects in the
arson.

The fire early Monday caused
about $3,500 damage to Keegstra’s
house trailer. Keegstra and four
others had to flee the burning trailer
after awakening to the sound of an

VANCOUVER (CP) — Tourist
Alert issued Friday by the RCMP.
The following persons, believed
travelling in British Columbia, are
asked to call the person named for an
urgent personal message:

Phillip Fraser of Anchorage call
your parents.

Fred Rathaley of Arizona
Maria Matey.

Jill Frying of Victoria call Heather
Frying.

Adam Dettling of Chilliwack, call
Anita’ Dettling.

call

Staff Sgt. John Metcalfe said police
found cans at the scene they believe
were used to carry the fuel to start
the fire.

But he said searches of the area
have failed to turn up any other
evidence to aid police in their
investigatioa.

Keegstra was convicted in 1985 of
promoting hatred against Jews.

The conviction was Overturned last
month by the Alberta Court of
Appeal, and the provincial govern-
ment has not decided whether it will
appeal the decision.

Canadians want election

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney is mistaken if he
thinks Canadian voters will reject
John Turner's attempt to use the
Senate to force an election on free
trade, says a pollster.

Poll after poll has shown that a
majority of Canadians want an
election before the free-trade deal
with the United States takes effect,
Michael Adams, president of Envir.
onics Research in Toronto, said
Frida;

“This is a risk he's taking and a
calculated risk and one in public
opinion terms makes a lot of sense,”
Adams said an interview from
Toronto.

Conservative stategists believe
Turner handed them an issue on a
silver platter when he called on the
Liberal majority in the Senate to
essentially force an election.

Mulroney was quick to ridicule
Turner on Wednesday, suggesting
the Liberal leader was using the
Senate to hijack the authority of
elected members of Parliament.

“I feel like I'm the only Canadian
other than John Turner who feels
that what he has done makes perfect
sense,” said Adams.

Surveys have suggested that as
many as 70 per cent of Canadians
want an election before the trade
deal takes effect on Jan. 1

SUPPORT TACTIC

A January survey taken by
another pollster, Angus Reid and
Associates of Winnipeg, indicated
that 49 per cent of Canadians would
support Senate delay of the trade
legislation if they thought it was nec.
essary. Thirty-six per cent opposed
it,

Adams said the Senate gambit has
the added advantage of making
Turner look decisive.

“I can't understand the last time
John Turner was on the front pages
of the nation's newspapers in which
he initiated something.”

On Wednesday, Turner announced
that the Liberal majority in the
Senate had agreed to hold up legis
lation needed to implement the trade

deal until Mulroney calls an election.

Under the trade deal, Canada and
the United States would begin
phasing out a wide range of commer-
cial barriers — from tariffs on im-
ported goods to restrictions on
energy exports and foreign invest
ment.

Mulroney could wait until the fall
of 1989 to hold a general election. But
the agreement would almost cer
tainly die unless Canada has passed
its free-trade legislation by Jan. 1,
when the deal is scheduled to take
effect.

SEES MERIT

Turner's decision was wise, sug-
gested Howard Lesson, head of the
political science deparanent at the
University of Regina.

That's because it served to shift
the spotlight to the Liberals from the
New Democrats, who had been
carrying the fight against the free.
trade bill in the Commons.

In the process, it has also created a
thorny dilemma for the NDP, which
supports abolition of the Senate.

NDP Leader Ed Broadbent says he
won't comment on whether it's right
or wrong to use the Senate on the
trade issue.

“My gut feeling is that it won't
hurt Turner,” said one NDP strat
egist. “But I'm worried about us.”

On Friday, Tory Premier John
Buchanan of Nova Scotia called
Turner irresponsible for resorting to
the Senate.

“I certainly believe that Mr.
Turner is overstepping his bounds,”
said Buchanan.

Alberta Premier Don Getty, also a
Conservative, said it's another exam
ple of Liberals trying to deny his
province something it wants.

“I'm telling the people of Alberta
not to let them get away with it
again.”

Police drive
a dump truck

ST. CATHARINES, ONT. (CP) —
A Canadian disc jockey has taken
pity on a small U.S. police force
reduced earlier this week to patroll
ing the streets in a municipal dump
truck feeling like a “bunch of jerks.”

When the only police car in Por.
tage, Pa., broke down last weekend,
the only available vehicle in the town
of 3,500 was a dump truck.

Things got worse Thursday when
even the dump truck broke down.
Now, Portage’s finest are chasing
criminals and upholding justice from
the seats of a rented Chevrolet
Citation.

When Scruff Connors of HTZ-FM
in St. Catharines heard the town's
hard-luck story, he offered to pitch in
and is trying to raise $15,000 for a
new cruiser.

So far, the station has raised over
$1,000 and hopes to come up with the
difference over the next few weeks
through donations and fundraising
events.

“At first, they couldn't believe that
we really wanted to help them,”
Connors said of the police.

adie.

COOLING OFF . . . Taking advantage of the hot
weather, many people are off to Syringa Creek

summer sun

provincial park beach to enjoy the cool water and

asNews Photo by Chery! Calderbonk

Bill Henderson, president of the
town council, called Connors’s plan
heart warming.

Henderson said the diligent police
of Portage would “patrol on a bicycle
if they have to” but using a dump
truck caused them nothing but
heartache.

“Soon, all the media in our area
were cracking jokes, saying things
like, ‘Portage police are dumping on
everybody,’ " Henderson said."They
were making us look like a bunch
of jerks.”

Church undecided

Briefly . . .

Germs studied

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Nobel Prize-winning
biologist and three other U.S. scientists said the
Defence Department is embarking on germ warfare
research that could lead to a war nobody could win.

The scientists, representing a group called the
Committee for Responsible Genetics, said the
Pentagon is asking for $300 million US to conduct
research into biological warfare techniques.

Shultz backs down

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. State Secretary
George Shultz has decided not to fight a move by the
Israeli government designed to require most Jews
who leave the Soviet Union to settle in Israel, State
Department officials said

Most Jews who leave the Soviet Union have
visas from Israel. But almost 90 per cent of them go
elsewhere, mostly to the United States, once they
reach Vienna, the transit point for Soviet emigres,
and are taken in as refugees.

Sewer museum open

BRUSSELS (REUTER) — The city whose
best-known landmark is Manneken Pis — a statuette
of a urinating boy — is putting more waste water on
display. Brussels now has a Museum of Sewers.

The exhibit, which actually leads down into the
bowels of the Belgian capital, boasts cast-iron gutter
lids, massive pumps and locks, stretches of dimly lit
tunnel, two stuffed rats and lots of gurgling dirty
water.

“All the time we had people — tourists,
engineers, school classes — who wanted to see the
network. A permanent exhibition was the best
solution,” explains the museum's director, Pierre
Magdelyns.

Rig extinguished

ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND (AP) — Workers led
by Texas troubleshooter Red Adair have put out two
of the remaining fires on a North Sea platform
ravaged by the world's worst oil rig disaster, the
platform's operator and main owner said.

A_ huge explosion followed by a fierce fire
wrecked the Piper Alpha oil platform 193 kilometres
off Scotland on July 6, killing 167 men, including two
Canadians.

Floods hit homes
BEIJING (AP) — Torrential rains have
destroyed 14,000 houses and flooded 166,000
hectares near one city in northeastern China, the
official Xinhua news agency said Saturday
It said rains have been falling non-stop for six
days on Qiquihar near Harbin, capital of Heilongjang
province. Xinhua said some counties near Qiquihar
have been getting more than nine centimetres of rain
a day and the hardest-hit areas have received more
than 12 centimetres of rain a day,

Clash cited
COPENHAGEN (AP) — The attack aboard a
Green cruise ship July 11 was in fact a clash between
Abu Nidal terrorists and the Israeli secret service, a
Danish newspaper said. -

Murder denied

CARROLLTON, KY. (AP) — A pickup truck
driver pleaded not guilty Friday to 27 murder counts
— one for each victim of a crash with a church bus —
hours after a grand jury rejected charges that could
have led to the death penalty

Larry Mahoney, 35, was silent and looked at the
floor as defence attorney William L. Summers
entered pleas to the 27 murder charges, 44 counts of
wanton endangerment, 13 of assault and one of
driving under the influence of alcohol

Sanctions imposed

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. (AP) — President
Reagan imposed trade sanctions against Brazil in
retailiation for that country’s denial of patent
protections for U.S. pharmaceutical products.

Acting under a section of the Trade Act of 1974,
Reagan started a process which will lead to sanctions
against $200 million US worth of yet unspecified
Brazilian imports.

Plan developed

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Soviet Union has
developed a detailed plan for verifying constraints on
cruise missiles that would allow U.S. and Soviet
inspectors unprecedented access to each other's
bomber bases, strategic naval parts and military
ships, The Washington Post reported in Saturday
editions.

In a dispatch from Moscow, the newspaper said
the proposal calls for permanently stationing’ teams
of U.S. and Soviet inspectors outside factories where
cruise missiles are produced, where their warheads
are installed and where the weapons are loaded onto
submarines and other ships.

Appeals quashed

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. federal appeals
court let stand the Environmental Protection
Agency's 1984 denial of petitions from Maine, New
York and Pennsylvania seeking action against acid
rain originating in smokestacks in the Midwest

A three-judge panel of the U.S, Circuit Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia did, however,
order that New York's case be returned to the
agency for new data because the standards have
been changed since the cases were filed in 1980 and
1981

Newspapers pay
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury ruled that two
newspapers broke an oral contract by identifying a

confidential source and ordered them to pay $700,000
US in damages.

Hondas recalled
GARDENA, CALIF. (AP) — Honda announced
a voluntary recall of 279,821 of its 1984 and 1985
model Civic cars because of a design flaw that could
cause fuel leaks and what the company called a small

Supporting the ordination of women priests and
bishops is important enough to risk dividing the 70
million members of the Anglican church worldwide, the
Anglican Primate of Canada said Friday

But “there is a powerful desire for unity” among
the 525 bishops attending the Lambeth Conference in
Canterbury, England, said Most Rev. Michael Peers
addressing bishops from around the world.

Since there are already about 1,000 women
ordained as priests in Canada, the United States, New
Zealand, Hong Kong and Brazil, it’s only a matter of
time before one is ordained a bishop, Peers said in a
telephone interview Friday.

The Anglican Communion, or church, “is not going
to fly apart because of one woman or two or five or 10,”
he said.

“The will to hold together is very strong.”

Delegates from the world's second-largest Chris
tiam community after Roman Catholics will debate and
vote formally Aug. 1 about whether to ordain women as
bishops

The Lambeth Conference is held once every 10
years and Rev. Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, has warned it may not be called again if
this issue splits the church

Discussing the Canadian church's decision 12 rs
ago to ordain women to the priesthood, Peers described
it as a matter of weighing truths.

“Was the ordination of women as priests high
enough in that hierarchy to put at risk another
cherished value: Unity? We believe that it is, and we
now believe that that decision has been vindicated.”
« In Canada, most of the largest Protestant denom
inations ordain women. The Vatican is firmly opposed,

SEEK BLESSINGS

although some members of the Roman Catholic church
are fighting to ordain women.
QUOTES BIBLE

Those that oppose the ordination of women‘call the
practice sacreligious. They quote Scripture and cite the
example of Jesus Christ and his disciples — men.

But Peers, one of five speakers Friday who Runcie
chose to present the ordination issue, refuted that view.

“When God took human nature in the person of
Jesus Christ, the result was a male Jewish inhabitant of
Palestine,” Peers told the delegates.

“But the human nature which was assumed into the
Godhood was not merely male or Jewish or
Palestinian, it was everything that is meant by human-
ity.”

Rewv. Nan Peete, 50, an Anglican priest from
Indianapolis, Ind., was the only one of the five speakers
to receive a standing ovation at the conference.

Peete, who is black, said she turned to the church
as a sanctuary from the pain of racism she suffered
while growing up in the 1940s and 1950s.

“Those same feelings come back when I am not
accepted as a priest, this time because of my sex and not
my race,” she said

Some American delegates to the conference have
said they will ordain women as bishops no matter what
the conference decides, and Peers confirmed that the
vote Aug. 1 has no legislative authority

‘It has tremendous moral authority and insome
way sin the church that’s more important but it
wouldn't affect us in some jurisdictional way,” he said.

Runcie has said he does not oppose the ordination
of women in principle. But he has urged a delay in the
decision.

Texans flock to church

LUBBOCK, TEX. (AP) Hun
dreds of faithful from across Texas
have been flocking to a cavernous
underground church each week to
hear parishioners report what they
claim are messages of peace and hope

Worshippers then crowded around
the messengers, seeking blessings.
The three laid their hands on those
who said they were seeking help for
physical or personal problems

James said it doesn't bother him. “I
can't say somebody has to believe
this,” he said

Lubbock Bishop Michael Sheehan
is on vacation and has not com
mented publicly about the message

possibility of fire.

Owners of the cars subject to the leak in the fuel
pump will be notified and the pump replaced free of
charge, American Honda Motor Co. Inc.’ said.

from the Virgin Mary.

Crowds have grown from a handful
of worshippers into hundreds, and
are expected to swell to thousands
for a Roman Catholic feast day néxt
month

The largest gathering so far was
Monday night, when 800 attended a
mas and rosary service at St. John
Neumann Roman Catholic Church
parish officials said .

The worshippers came to see three
parishioners who knelt on the altar
scribbling the “messages” in note
books as the congregation recited the
rosary, which is a series of prayers
counted off on a string of beads, also
called a rosary

After the prayers, the crowd fell
silent‘as the first of the messengers
read from his notebook.

“My dear little children, listen to
me your mother, I want to help you,”
read Mike Slate. “I want you to be in
heaven, where we can pray and serve
our father for all eternity. Yes, my
dear ones, you must have signs and
you will have these signs . . . but it
will be up to you believe.”

Messages from Slate, a retired air
force officer, were followed by others
from Mary Constancio, a former
hospital therapist, and Teresa Wer
ner, a housewife and mother.

“My children, do not be sad,”
Constancio, after first delivering the
message in Spanish. “Have joy in
your hearts, have peace. Listen to
the prayer that you ask for, the Lord
will give it to you.

Msgr. Joseph James, pastor of the
chureh~built partially underground
during 1972 to save on energy bills,
said he and other parishioners began
feeling Mary's presence after a trip
in January to Medjugorje, Yugos.
lavia. They visited a spot where four
visionaries have been reporting
apparitions of the Virgin since 1981

There have been skeptics, but

reports.
has interpreted
y ssages as indicating
that something miraculous will hap-
pen Aug. 15, the day Roman Catho-
lies celebrate the Assumption of
Mary into heaven
“I think we're going to see some
beautiful, beautiful thing — experi
ence her presence.” said the priest

Court refuses
to back IRC

VANCOUVER (CP), The Attor
ney General's Ministry will take part
in the appeal of a ruling by a British
Columbia Supreme Court judge who
refused to enforce an order of the
Industrial Relations Council

“This case doesn't seem to be in
step with the approach the court has
taken in these types of cases up until
now,” said Bob Edwards, assistant
deputy attorney general. “These
types of clauses that make orders of
tribunals enforceable by courts are
in virtually labor code in
Canad:

Mr. Justice William Trainor sug
gested that provincial legislation re.
quiring the courts to enforce orders
of the council may not be valid under
the federal Constitution Act.

He refused to consider contempt
of-court charges against carpenters

every

who picketing their Citation
Cabinets workplace in Richmond, in
violation of a council order that was
filed in court

Trainor suggested that to do so
would improperly elevate tribunals
to Supreme Court stature that can
be granted under the Consti
tution

Council commissioner Ed Peck said
in a prepared statement that the
ramifications of the ruling are such
that they call for “sober and objec
tive review.”

Many administrative tribunals,
such as those in the areas of human
rights, health, workers’ compensa.
tion and residential tenancy, relay on
the courts to enforce their orders,
said Peck

An appeal was filed in the B.C
Court of Appeal Thursday by Cita.
tion Industries Ltd.

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