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V1Y 6L8 Dollar hits record low TORONTO (CP) — The against U.S. currency Friday Canadian dollar dropped to as a wave of speculative its lowest point in history on hit North America. Cai CLEARANCE SALE On Now! Madeleines Castleaird Plaza the dollar PPh to a low of 71.02 cents U.S, before the Bank of Canada stepped in to save it. “If the (central) bank hadn't stepped in, the dollar would be gone,” a currency trader at one of the five largest banks said. The central bank buys Canadian dollars with its re- serve of U.S. funds when the currency is under attack. In the Chicago money market, speculators sent the dollar spinning down to 70.80 cents — $1.4124 in Canadian funds. The dollar closed at 71.25 cents U.S,, down only 0.03 cents from the previous close, thanks to the central bank's efforts. At that rate, it would take $1.4035 in Can- ~adian funds to buy one U.S. dollar on the wholesale mar- ket. fashions 365-2663 But the Canadian currency was not alone. The U.S. dol- lar left all the major world currencies in the dust as tra ders decided it had fallen about as low as it was going to go. Further weakness in the Canadian dollar is possible, but, “wateh out for the cor rection,” a trader at the Royal Bank of Canada said. The dollar is “so oversold” that it could bounce back next week, he said. Meanwhile, the currency’s lingering weakness has econ. omists scratching their % on fundamentals, the dollar shouldn't be failing, said Douglas Peters, senior vice- president and chief econ- omist at the Toronto Dom- inion Bank. “I don't have an answer.” The currency’s perfor- mance over the last year has been erratic. It plunged from about 75 cents in March. ‘The company’s 1,800 mech- anies, flight attendants and ticket agents walked off their making detailed checks on maintenance of the aircraft, but are checking records to ensure maintenance follows company procedures.” As well, inspectors do a “walk around” the aircraft to ensure basic requirements are being met, Almolky said. The rotating inspections ~ are done on a surprise basis, PC leader ducks strikers WINNIPEG (CP) — Mani- toba Progressive Conserva- tive Leader Gary Filmon played hide-and-seek with strikers early Saturday when he returned from a Mexican vacation aboard a Western Airlines flight. About two dozen striking workers were waiting to greet Filmon at about 3:30 a.m. CST at Winnipeg Inter- national Airport and just to prove their presence was no accident, a television crew was along for the show. But Canada Customs offi- cials told the strikers that the Tory Leader decided to leave by a back way. Filmon was not available for comment. About 1,800 employees of the airline walked off the job Nov. 20. Negotiations between the ine and two of three striking unions, representing ticket agents and mechanics, are to resume Tuesday = Calgary. normally do checks on air- craft of all airlines in Calgary. However, because of the strike, two i ‘s from Elsewhere, PWA applied for injunctions limiting the numberof picketers in four cities because of incidents of violence, airline spokesman Jack Lawless said. Lawless said injunctions limiting picketers were granted in Saskatoon and Calgary and an interim in- junction was granted in Win- nipeg. In Vancouver, the British Columbia Supreme _ Court granted an injunction — re Edmonton are currently helping out in Calgary, where most of PWA's daily main tenance work is done, Al striking hii flight attendants and cargo and ticket agents from ob- structing access to the air- line. Officer shot during QUALICUM BEACH (CP) — A former resident of this tiny seaside community shot and killed his ex-mother-in- law and injured an RCMP of- ficer early Saturday before turning the gun on himself. Parksville RCMP say they were called to a home in this quiet retirement community of 3,000 and found Irene Marguerite Bushaw, 64, shot to death in the home. Police immediately began a search of the area, assisted by Cpl. Ron Flack, dogmaster at the Courtenay RCMP de- tachment. “In a search of the bush area -direetly -south of -the residence . .-. Cpl. Flack surprised the‘ assailant’ and search subsequently was shot with a shotgun blast in the area of the leg.” RCMP said in a statement. Police sealed the area and‘ called in an emergency res- ponse team. Four hours later, Glen Gordon Rowand of Langley was found dead on the lawn of a home a few doors away from Bushaw’s residence. Police said Rowand, 36, formerly of Qualicum Beach, died of a self-inflicted gun- shot wound to the head. Flack was reported in good condition in Nanaimo hos- pital. He was expected to be released in about 10 days. RCMP refused to release any details about a possible ‘motive for the slaying. Salisbury treated for an infection of the kidneys and liver in the intensive care unit. CAKE DEATHS statistics from Toyko and the adjacent prefectures of Kanagawa and Chiba, said that in the first three days of the new year, 14 people had choked to death on the heavy white cakes, usually boiled in soups or grilled and wrapped in seaweed. EVACUATION ‘The voleano, which killed 23,000 people when it erupted Nov. 18, spewed ash Friday night over the iy of Meninie shout 39 Memotees eww, civil defence officials said. 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In another accident, at least nine people were killed and 15 injured when a bus carrying pilgrims to a Hindu festival in the southern state of Karnataka collided with a truck, Pregs Trust said. 20 INJURED BELGAST (REUTER) — Screaming Protestant demonstrators attacked police with bricks, bottles and stones on Saturday_outside the headquarters of a controversial Angio-Irish secretariat set up by London and Dublin late last year. Police said 20 policemen and a number of civilians were injured in the clashes. The demonstrators were protesting an accord giving the mainly Roman Catholic Irish republic a consultative role in the future of Protestant-dominated Northern Ireland, a British province. CHIEF WOUNDED BEIRUT (AP-REUTERS) — Unidentified gun- men ambushed Alam, security chief of Lebanon's D ‘backed Syrian Social party, on Saturday, seriously wounding him and the ree police reported. gunmen fired machine-guns and two rocket- seeropelied grenades at Alam’s convoy as he drove on Hamra Street, Moslem-controlied West Beirut's main commercial district, and fled on foot immediately after the attack, police said. BIG BILLS OSLO (REUTER) — Two escaped convicts, armed with credit cards they applied for in prison, thve run up bills of more than half a million dollars on a three-month, round-the-world spending spree since getting away from a Norwegian jail. Ocystein Christiansen and Per Wold lived it up in Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Tinidad and = sending—cheery—posteards—to—prison wardens. Christiansen formed a private company to qualify for the cards while still in jail and made Wold his managing director. TOXIC WASTES Mill clean-up ordered A small West Kootenay sawmill that chemical to preserve its wood products has been ordered by the B.C. environment min istry to come up with proposals for the safe disposal of its contaminated wood. The order was made Thursday used a highly toxic during a meeting in Nelson environment officials and representa tives of Meadow Creek Cedar Ltd. The company’s sawmill, located just north of Kaslo, treated lumber with highly toxic chlorophenols for about two weeks last fall. Dennis McDonald, regional director of the ministry of environment in Nelson, said the company was ordered between to stop using the chemical wood pre servative when government officials learned of the practice He said the company did not have a permit to use the chemical, which pre- vents fungus growth on wood, and was apparently unaware of the dangerous nature of the material. Now the company has to get rid of the waste wood that was exposed to the preservative. That problem has been magnified because exposed mat- erial was dumped along with clean wood waste, possibly contaminating 50,000 cubic metres. McDonald said that, containing chlorophenols is burned, it creates deadly dioxins that can get into the food chain, falling as rain or smoke ash. Dioxins are highly toxic to humans by inhalation or skin absorption. McDonald said the mill usually burns its waste in a large open fire at this time of year. But he said open fires don't generate enough heat to destroy the dioxins. He said the company will have to find an incinerator that can burn the waste at extremely high heat or it may have to truck it to a secure dump site. Meadow Creek Cedar has been given when wood until the end of next week to come up with some proposals. Brisco quizzed about gas tax By CasNews Staff Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco found himself on the hot seat at Saturday's Re- gional District of Central Kootenay board meeting when the subject of gas prices was raised. Brisco was asked why the federal government imposes such a high tax on gasoline and why millions of dollars are being spent to lure Americans-to Expo 86 when the price of Canadian gas is defeating the purpose. Brisco said he was told that the high price of Canadian gas results more from differ ences between the Canadian and American income taxes on oil companies than on fed eral government-imposed taxes. But that drew an angry response from Area J-diree tor Martin Vanderpol who said he was tired of the gov ernment and oil companies pointing the finger at one another. “Canadians are being used as a milking cow for every body,” Vanderpol told Brisco. “If it's a questionof legis lation to better Gentrol the oil companies then do it.” FREE TRADE FAVORED Brisco also responded to a question on the issue of free trade between Canada and the U.S. talks and mentioned speci- fically the federal govern- ment’s recent purchase of Cominco stock to assist with the construction of the com- pany's new lead smelter. He implied that the U.S. might look upon the assis- tance as an unfair subsidy. Brisco added that most of the opposition to free trade RDCK Briefs Western Canada, he said “is largely in favor of free trade.” However, Brisco warned that “eulture is not part of a free trade agreement (and) the U.S.-Canada auto pact is not.part_of a free trade agreement. Those are ele ments that aren't up for grabs.” Brisco also said there are “grey areas” in the free trade comes from the “industrial corridor” of Ontario which he said is worried it won't be able to compete with the U.S. BYLAW APPROVED In other regional district news, the board approved a new_building code bylaw — but _not before a majority of directors forced the removal of a clause that would have allowed individuals to opt out of building inspections. * The clause would have given people the choice of obtaining a building permit under the new RDCK bylaw or registering at their own cost a covenant against their property indicating they al- lowed construction without obtaining a building permit. However, most directors argued that the clause might have allowed construction that did not meet building code specifications. LICENSE AMENDED The Water Management Branch of the Ministry of the Environment has amended the water license that author- izes the diversion of water from Norns Creek into the Pass Creek swimming pools. The amendment allows construction of “diversion structures, ditch. pump. pipe. control structure, spillways, dyke, culvert and The amendment wil allow the regional district to up- grade the swimming pools. nuclear depots and cause an “international catastrophe” if America again “attacks” the Gulf of Sidra. Western military analysts say Libya's air force has 535 fighter aircraft, including Soviet-made MiG 21s, 23s and 25s and Sukhoi fighter-bombers. The London-based International Institute for Strat- egic Studies says Libya's navy counts six torpedo-carry- ing submarines, 25 fast-attack craft and seven anti-mine vessels. The Pentagon in 1964 said Libya has obtained a fleet of small, remote-controlled boats that could be packed with explosives and sent at high speeds against targets such as U.S. warships. Storm savages New Brunswick By The Canadian Press A winter storm that gathered strength over the Great Lakes and pounded the New England states has savaged New Brunswick, bringing most of the province to a standstill Saturday with knee-deep snow. The overnight storm abated late Saturday morning, moving toward Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, where wind and blizzard warnings have been posted and residents warned to expect up to 20 centimetres of snow. Moncton, in southeastern New Brunswick, was buried under almost 60 centimetres of snow. After suffering through accumulations of six centimetres an hour overnight, Moncton residents faced the prospect of another 10 of snow later and 15 more on Sunday from a second storm following the same path. “It's a mess,” said a harried Moncton police officer. “We've got cars left all over the place. “Not very much is moving in this city today.” Hundreds of cars were abandoned by drivers frustrated by waist-high drifts and zero visibility. Many snowplows were not able to begin work until mid-morning. No planes were landing or taking off in Moncton airport and Air Canada delayed its morning flights until mid-after noon. Local radio stations broadcast appeals early Saturday from hospitals for residents with four-wheel-drive vehicles t take nurses to work Winds gusting to 110 kilometres an hour toppled trees and brought down power lines, causing power outages throughout New Brunswick, northern Nova Scotia and western Prince Edward Island. “Our crews are having a terrible time keeping up,” said spokesman Marg Tracy of the New Brunswick Power Corp. “Many trouble spots are difficult, if not impossible to reach because the plows are not out and the trucks are getting stuck. - “It’s taking a lot longer to restore service than it would in better weather conditions.” One of the largest outages was in Bouctouche, 80 kilometres north of Moncton, where 1,000 people were without power early Saturday morning.