1 _Casthegit News March 21, 1990 MOET URNS ity ar CASTLEGAR ROTARY CLUB Invites applications for the following Rotary Foundation Scholarships GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS VOCATIONAL RSHIPS TEACHER OF THE HANI SCHOLARSHIPS JOURNALISM SCHOLARSHIPS JAPAN PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIPS Phone to see if you are eligible. 365-2780 or 365-7671 Soviet manoeuvres worry Lithuania MOSCOW: (Reuter) —- Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ordered Lithuanians to surrender all weapons and called for a crackdown on the republic's self-proclaimed indepen- dence. His orders, contained in a decree in Kazimiera Prunskiene as saying the people are ‘‘deeply disturbed’’ by the manoeuvres. “The military leadership explained that this is part of broad program of standard manoeuvres,’ she was artes as saying. line with new powers him last week, were issued two days after the republic's new leadership defied a Kremlin order to rescind its proclamation and return to the Soviet fold. Earlier, the prime minister of Lithuania wrote to Kremlin leaders Closing date March 22. breakaway Baltic republic Lithuania’s official Bureau of In- formation, set up after the republic declared independence from Moscow last week, quoted Prime Minister Ove Aegon Ad Phone Number\s 365-2212 expressing concern over increased military activity in and around the Castlegar Savings Credit Union Annual Meeting Monday, March 26 Fireside 6:30 p.m. Registration 7:30 p.m. Meeting Refreshments! Door Prizes! GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Tim Newton Conedian Chairmen of the Columbio. River Treaty Operating Committee CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION “Your Community Finéncial Centre” CASTLEGAR SLOCAN PARK 601-18th Street, | } wy. ‘365-7232 226-7212 , the g of Lithuania has__not__been informed either of the initiation of these manoeuvres, nor of their com- pletion.’ The telegram was addressed to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov and Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov, said the bureau. White House .spokesman Marlin Fitzwater voiced U.S. concern Tuesday about the military exercises, which began last weekend after Gor- bachev issued an ultimatum requiring Lithuania to return to the Soviet fold. Soviet assurances that Moscow does not plan to use force against the E.Germa remains EAST BERLIN (Reuter) —- Centre- right political parties trying to form East Germany's first non-Communist government have no ready plan to solve the country’s most pressing economic problem —- the continued exodus of disillusioned workers to the West. The conservatives, who won 48 per cent of the vote in Sufday’s elections, paint a glowing picture of the future once the West German mark becomes legal tender in East Germany and a wave of expected inv ent —- also from the West —- takes hele a ““We have to find a way to reward people for staying here,’’ said Eberhard Engel, economic adviser to the Christian Democratic Union, the largest of the three parties in the vic- torious copservative Altiancefor Germany. republic have failed to Washington’s fears. “The activities and statements of the Soviet government over the past few days are cause for concern,’’ Fit- zwater said. The United States ig particularly worried about reports of troops and tanks massing in the south of the Baltic republic. But Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze insisted there are no plans to use military force. calm “*We are against the use of force in any region and particuarly against using force domestically,’ he told reporters before a meeting in Africa with U.S. State Secretary James Baker. Lithuanian leader Vytautas Lan- dsbergis said Tuesday the Kremlin has stepped up security at key points in the republic, including its nuclear power station. exodus problem “*But it can’t be done with money. People actually have money. What | they need is hope.”” ‘‘We can only urge them to be patient,” said Stefan Sabottka, East Berlin district chairman of the Ger- man Social Union, another Alliance party. A record 344,000 East Germans moved to West Germany in 1989 and 145,000 have left this year. The recent rate of 2,000 a day dropped by half on Monday, right af- ter the voting, but officials in West Berlin said it is too early to call this a trend. Bonn’s decision Tuesday to shut teception camps and scrap cash han- douts from July 1 to stop the flow could set off.a rush to get out while benefits can still be had, said Harald Viss, head of West Berlin's Marien- felde refugee camp. Briefly Mulroney to address nation OTTAWA (CP( -- Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will address the country on national television Thursday on the subject of the Meech Lake constitutional accord, The prime minister’s office announced he will make the address at 5:30 p.m. PST. Agreement reached VANCOUVER (CP) =- After 30 hours of non-stop bargaining, a tentative agreement was reached Tuesday to end the two-week-old Langley school strike. Details of the deal were not released pending ratification votes Thur- sday by the Langley school board and school support staff. The 600 support staff include clerical workers, bus drivers, teacher aides, ac- countants and custodians. Canadian Union of Public Employees negotiators would not say whether they achieved their bargaining goal of pay parjty with counter- parts in Surrey, but negotiator Judi Armstrong said they were “*satisfied’’ with the deal. Cleanup coss to be split VANCOUVER (CP) —- The federal and B.C. governments will equally split the costs of cleaning up the former site of Expo 86, B.C. Environment Minister John Reynolds said. Estimates on the cleanup costs have ranged as high as $65 million but Reynolds said last week that new proposals received by his ministry ‘on how to deal with contaminants on the 82-hectare site are well below that figure. The announcement on the final cleanup costs won’t come until May “We've got proposals in now. It’s a 50-50 cost sharing on the technology end,”’ he said. Twelve firms are in the running for the cleanup contract, said Reynolds. Chretien has big lead OTTAWA (CP) —- A survey by The Canadian Press of most federal Liberal party delegate selection meetings through Sunday night indicates the following support among delegates: Jean Chretien —- 596. Sheila Copps —- 82. Paul Martin —- 264. John Nunziata —- 0. Tom Wappel —- 12. Uncommitted —- 133. The results are cumulative, from 127 delegate selection meetings held by riding associations, university and college clubs, women’s groups and native groups since Feb. 15. The results, based on interviews by CP and its member newspapers with riding officials or delegates or both, reflect current voting inten- tions. Delegates are free to change their allegiance at any time leading to the June 23 leadership convention in Calgary, where about 5,200 delegates will vote. The survey does not include approximately 600 ex-officio delegates who cast votes because they are party executive members, MPs or defeated candidates. New campus planned KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — Okanagan College plans to acquire 98 hectares near the airport to build a new $31-million campus, college THE ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERS FUND TOGETH WE CAN Bill Bowering said. The campus, to open in the fall of 1992, would accommodate 2,200 students in degree programs. In the next 25 years the campus could be expanded to accommodate up to 9,500 students, Bowering said. He said the college will maintain its present site for vocational and two-year diploma but hopes to its satellite facilities. Namibia celebrates WINDHOEK (AP-CP) —- The world’s newest country celebrated its birth today with parties, tribal dancing and parades, and ex-guerrilla leaders were sworn in as ministers of the new government. About 25,000 Namibians cheered wildly at a sports stadium as the South African flag was lowered in Africa’s last colony just after mid- night, replaced by the red, green and blue banner of newly independent Nami Tens of thousands lined the main street of Windhoek, the capital, for a five-kilometre parade. Ethnic tensions explode BUCHAREST (CP) -- Three months after the Romanian revolution, long-simmering tensions between ethnic Hungarians and Romanians have exploded in street battles involving thousands of Mills to face tough laws VANCOUVER (CP) _ Federal and provi delegates from 56 countries. An ac- have reached agreement on a plan to cut in half the use of disposable packaging and get tough with pulp mill polluters. * “It’s the first time in the history of federal-provincial relations that we have agreed on a common frame work for action on the ia trade fair, with more than 600 exhibitors, ends Thursday at B.C. Place stadium. The national strategy on pulp and- paper mills will reduce the pollution in theig effluent by 75 to 80 per cent from current levels, said Vic Shan- tora, a scientist with the federal of the i an excited federal Environment Lucien B said The plan calls for the virtual Tuesday at the Globe '90 of dioxins and furans, the He lauded the accord as a historic achievement that requires manufac- turers to reduce packaging by 20 per cent of 1988 levels by 1992, and to achieve a 50 per cent reduction by the year 2000. Globe "90, a five™day | conference on business and the that most in pulp ef- fluent. All the provinces and the federal government are to introduce uniform legislation, he said. The Packaging Association of Canada has warned that reduced packaging, but the federal and provincial governmenmts will in- troduce legislation if the targets are not met. The packaging code will also apply to imported products, and, this is permissible under the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement, said Bouchard. The ministers also said that a $250- million cleanup of high-risk con- taminated land sites, announced last year, will be underway by this fall. The federal government will help pay —- along with the B.C. gover- nment —- to clean up an unprecendented transfer of wealth , from developed to developing coun- tries. But Jeremy Warford, ist with the i lending agency, questioned whether the rich countries are ready to finance the changes needed to stop en- vironmental degradation in the Third World. **I really can’t see any alternative to a massive, unprecendented transfer of wealth from developed to developing countries,’’ Warford said. senior b: soil at the Expo 86 site at Vancouver. The project is intended to demon- Strate new that can later with the new code will require billions of dollars worth of new investments. ends Friday, has attracted some 2,200 will be asked to voluntarily meet the targets for be used at other sites. At another seminar, a senior World Bank official said achieving sustainable development will require VANCOUVER .(CP) — Business is willing to practise con- servation and control pollution, a leading Canadian environmen- talist said Tuesday. But it still has a tough time buying the idea that certain land and water must be preseved when the resources could be exploited for gain. “*Business must no only practice environmentally sensitive development on that part of the landscape where environmental activity will take place,’’ said Monte Hummel, president of the World Wildlife Fund of Canada. “It must also set aside an adequate network of protected areas where no industrial activities will take place.”” Hummel spoke to a standing- room-only—crowd- of about 200 people at one of several seminars at the Glove '90 businessand the environment conference and trade fair. ‘He was part of a six-man panet —- including scientists, environ- mentalists and business people —- tackling the issue of whether economic growth and a clean en- vironment are compatible. TOM D'AQUINO - ‘worst is now behind us’ one of an international network in conservation groups led by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature in Switzerland, said some people believe business is nor interested in preserving the environment. While he doesn’t hold that view, he remains skeptical of business’s commitment. “The preservation side of will be Hummel, whose ization is Responsibility for environment accepted the real litmus test of whether or not business practises what it preaches,’’ he said. ‘‘And so far the jury is out.’” The president of the Business Council on National Issues, a business lobby group that includes 150 chief executives officers of leading Canadian companies, says business has shown it accepts is the idea that current economic development should not detract from the ability of future generations to meet their economic needs. Chairman tired of hostility VANCOUVER (CP) —- Running counter to the conference goal of harmony, the deep hostility between industry and environmentalists bubb- led Tuesdat at a Globe ’90 panel on forestry. “I’ve personally been in the tren- ches so long that I’m getting sick of the antagonism and the frequent Statements of doom and gloom,’’ Adam Zimmerman, chairman of Noranda Forests Inc., told about 170 the session at the for , mai a healthy environment. “There are a lot .of CEO’s (chief executive officers) who are prepared to say I’m chief en- vironmental officer,’’ said Tom D’ Aquino. ‘I think the worst is now behind us.”’ D’Aquino also warned that business and the environment con- ference. “I'm really very fed up with the ridiculous claims of some of the en- vironmentalists which invariably and always receive far more attention than they could possibly deserve... They amount to a kind of verbal flashing,” Canada -and—other P nations. must not blindly impose their newfound environmental values on other struggling coun- tires. Some_Mexican-businessmen-he met Monday pleaded that North American cannot curtail development—at- the expense of countries like Mexico that must grow if they have any hope of feeding millions of people. To dampen growth is to con- demn them to death, —said D’ Aquino, quoting the Mexicans. WOODWYNN'S CLOSET STOCK Zi said to ng of laughter. But some in the room didn’t ap- preciate Zimmerman’s sense of humor, pointing out the forestry in- dustry’s shortcomings during two five-minute breaks for questions. One of the delegates, Phil Carson of Canmore, Alta., said- Zimmerman tends to downplay the effects of ef- fluent from pulp mills. 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