4 July 24, 1988 eltlivelle 4 i: 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.” *, 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. . 8 «6 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. . 8 Bert Franks received six months conditional discharge after pleading guilty to assault. * . 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. are only