hectares from th. P i Park on Island and opened it up for mining development. Westmin Resources holds the mineral rights to the land and Rogers’ family trust has shares in Westmin. ‘ive Gordon said last week the company would not benefit immediately from the change but could “some time down the road.” OID CONFLICT The government's conflict-of-interest guidelines announced by Vander Zalm in Janvary say in part: “Ministers shall ensure that their ability to exercise their duties and responsibilities objectively is not affected, and does not appear to be affected, by either financial interests ‘of their own or members of their immediate family unit.” However, there is no one appointed to oversee the guidelines and it is left to the prethier to enforce them. Vander Zalm said he was not prepared to see Rogers’ 11 years in public life ended by “accusations which have no basis in fact.” However, the premier said when he looked for a new portfolio for Rogers, he did consider whether it had the potential for conflicts. Olson claims rights violated OTTAWA (CP) — Child-killer Clifford Olson says being locked ‘in isolation 28 hours a day is cruel and unusual punishment and violates his Charter rights, but an Ontario Supreme Court judge disagrees. Mr. Justice William Maloney dismissed on Tuesday written from the i who is protesting his incarceration in the Kingston Penitentiary and wants to be returned to British Columbia. Olson was transferred to Kingston in 1962 from a Burnaby prison after pleading guilty to the first-degree murder of 11 youngsters. He must serve 25 years of a life term before becoming ¢ligible for parole. But Olson says he is sick of being cooped up in his cell and misses his family, his young son and his friends on the West Coast. In court documents, he says he never asked to be segregated in the Kingston penitentiary and wants to return to general population. Federal solicitors general have refused to make the requested transfer, saying it would be too dangerous to allow him in with other inmates. The father of one of Olson’s young victims agrees. Gary Rosenfeldt said he was shocked when told of Olson's attempt to shun special protection and return to a BC. prison. “It doesn't make a lot of sense,” Rosenfeldt said in an interview from Edmonton. “He's probably the most hated man in the whole prison system. He wouldn't last a day.” Rosenfeldt heads the national Victims of Violence group. Olson sdid in legal documents filed in January that his imprisonment is “not simply inhumane. “It is the most individually destructive, psychologi- cally crippling and socially alienating experience that could conceivably exist . . . more vengeance than punishment,” he wrote. The Kingston prison caters exclusively to child-kill- ers, rapists, police informants and the like. These prigoners are loathed, often attacked by other inmates. Freshly Ground Beef In Pkgs. Sear 10 be. $2"8ing 99% ‘s got it Bassett’s Allsorts Liquorice Chocolate Coated Peanuts Expo Ernie 50.G. Box Regular 3/$1.79 SAVE 79¢ ON 3. /*1 Colonial Chiperoos Bite size cookies. 300 g. Pkg. Regular $2.29. an. 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By the end of 18, the impatient redhead was working for a promi hitectural pany. At 24, his moved him t and he chose Cana settling in Vancouver. WON CONTEST He had hardly landed when he entered — and won — an architectural contest to design the British Columbia legislature buildings, He was 25. Biographer Terry Reksten wrote later that “Rattenbury’s skill lay not in attention to the finer details of design, but in his ability to envision 1 buildings in sp lar settings — buildi: that would have an immediate visual impact.” From there, it was onward and upward for the young architect. He designed various courthouses, including the one in Vancouver that later turned into the Vancouver Art Gallery. He drew plans for the homes of the rich and became architect for the Bank of Montreal, designing banks in Rossland, Nelson and New Westminster. As house architect for the Canadian Pacific Railway, he designed the opulent Empress Hotel and the Crystal Garden, both in Victoria. ‘A wing of the original Hotel Vancouver sprang from his plans. SOUGHT PROFITS In 1898, he invested in ships to carry prospectors and supplies to the Yukon gold fields. Subsequently, he bought more than 16,000 hectares of land in northern is marriage was also failing. He slept and ate apart from his wife Florrie, passing messages through their daughter Mary. Then, at a reception in the Empress, he met young Alma Victoria Clarke Dolling Pakenham. Her first husband had been killed in the First World War and she had remarried — this in itself being enough to outrage Vietorian society. He began being seen in public with Alma — cause for further outrage. POUT SENSUOUS One chronicler observed that Alma was “everything Florrie was not.” 2 She was described as having “a lovely oval face and deep, hauntingly sad eyes and full lips which easily settled into a pout — at once fashionable and sensuous.” The Rattenburys divorced in 1925 and Alma shed her second husband about that time, too. Ratz and Alma were married in about 60 days, and that finished them socially. After weathering the ostracism for about five years, they set sail for England along with their baby son, John, about 1930. They settled in Bournemouth. Alma pursued a career in music. By 1934, when Alma was 39 and Rattenbury 67, this marriage too was disintegrating. Rattenbury had fallen into depression, had begun drinking heavily, was impotent and spoke daily of committing suicide. TOOK A LOVER Alma took a lover — a 17-year-old simpleton named George Stoner, their chauffeur. OTTAWA (CP) — The world could be drifting toward what one Environment Canada official describes as heric A ddon while lis and politicians argue about how to protect the planet's fragile ozone layer. There's little doubt among scientists that the layer of ozone gas circling the globe is being eroded, However, the erosion seems worse than scientists predicted it would be when they first became concerned a decade a Since there are natural factors which contribute to the loss of the complex oxygen molecules that protect Earth “from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, the scientific community cannot be certain how much of the ozone deterioration is due to chemicals and how much is caused by natural phenomena. The lack of hard scientific proof is frustrating efforts to stop i icals into the here that are known to destroy ozone. Negotiations among 46 countries that produce or use these chemicals have been going on for years. In March 1985 they drew. up a convention on protecting the ozone layer. It called for a formal protocol on regulations to be negotiated by March 1987. Later this month they will meet in Vienna to decide what those regulations will be — a draft treaty could be signed later this year. But many people in the chemical industry, especially within the Eruopean Communtiy, argue there's not enough evidence to warrant drastic action. although it’s more interested in short-term restrictions and appears willing to leave long-term measures open to negotiation. ~ It also warned that if the Vienna meeting doesn't produce an international accord, it might take steps to stop most production and domestic use of the chemicals in question. ‘The Europeans have called for a freeze on production facilities, meaning no new plants could be constructed to more of the i ieals — except in countries that import such chemicals. They would be allowed to start producing enough for their own domestic needs. The United States strongly supports controls, | Scientists fear _ SJ oe , © i i , elson native big-time lawyer By DEBI PELLETIER Canadian Press VANCOUVER — At first glance, David Walter Gibbons seems an unlikely courtroom combatant. But the diminutive, soft-spoken lawyer has built his reputation by be g embroiled in cases. He is probably best known for representing the families of the victims of mass murderer Clifford Olson. The families were seeking the $100,000 that the RCMP had paid Olson’s wife in return for Olson disclosing the burial places of his victims. While unsuccessful in that case, Gibbons was left with a lasting impression “T used to think about him (Olson) at night and I would think, ‘My God, if it were my kid I know exactly what I would do. I know exactly how I would feel.’ ” DEFENDS SIKHS More recently; the 46-year-old man with the quick smile, warm handshake and subtle sense of humor defended 16 Canadian Sikhs in two seaparate trials in Ontario and British Columbia. He says he does not intend to become a spokesman for the Sikh cause, but he does sympathize with their Khalistan movement to form a separate state in India. “Sikhs are absolutely tremendous citizens,” says Gibbons. “They're prosperous, hard-working and they've suc ceeded.” When Gibbons isn’t defending alleged rapists, murder ers or terrorists, he retreats to a cabin hideway on an island off the West Coast of British Columbia. A native of Nelson, Gibbons studied law at the University of British Columbia. “J was a political phiJosophy student and took up law because I thought it would be an extension of my studies. But law school proved not to be the place to study philosophy.” TRIED POLITICS Despite that disappointment, Gibbons stuck with law and graduated in 1969, but not before a short-term diversion into polities. A self-professed admirer of federal Liberal Leader John Turner, the often rumpled-looking Gibbons served as president of a local Liberal riding association in the early 1960s. He alsoran B.C. legislature in 1968. In 1975, deciding life was not what it should be, he dropped out of law for three years. With two doctor friends, Gibbons sailed the South Pacific for a year. It's a memory he relishes as he wistfully lists off the exotic names of several tropical islands. While on that odyssey he met and married his current wife, lawyer Janice Dillon. as a Liberal for the STUDIED ART From there, it was on to study art in Quebec. And while he says he's not a good painter, he does what he can to support aspiring artists. His office in the heart of Vancouver's Gastown district is decorated with native works. A larger art collection adorns the walls of his West Vancouver home, an impressive structure commanding a panoramic view of the Strait of Georgia. . Besides practising law and dabbling in art and politics, Gibbons labels himself an environmentalist, involved with the Gi F ion since its ii “We used to meet in my house when it first started in North Vancouver,” said Gibbons, who once succeeded in keeping foundation president Patrick Moore out of jail by winning him an acquittal on charges of interfering with the Newfoundland seal hunt. FEW CONVICTED Gibbons takes pride in the fact that few of his clients have been convicted and only two are still in jail. When asked the reasons for that, he breaks into an expansive grin and explains it was his clients’ innocence, not his legal sleight of hand, that kept them dut of jail. “The system will work. If they’re scoundrels and they're as bad as someone says they are, the police will have them back in jail again.” In Hamilton, Ont., Gibbons is defending seven Sikhs charged with conspiring to bomb India’s parliament buildings and kidnap the children of an Indian member of parliament. 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By PETER Buckley Canadian Press ROODEPOORT, SOUTH AFRICA Tish White is blunt and nervously edgy, and you know she'd be tough to tangle with. So, when she recounted recently how she was preparing for another battle with the municipal council in Roodepoort, the first thought that came to mind was “Lord help the municipal council.” With her husband, Rev. Dale White, Laetitia — Tish to everyone — is a veteran of numerous confrontations with authority in South Africa. The Whites’ battlefield is the Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre, a collection of low-lying buildings on the surprisingly rural corner of this Johannesburg suburb where dozens of programs over the years have helped two generations of community workers become leaders in the country's black townships The programs are shaped with the help of church and township leaders; the money comes from Canada and other foreign countries as well as from various churches in South Africa. : Wilgespruit (pronounced Vill-ka-sprate, meaning “wil low branch” in Afrikaans) has helped street-hawkers gather supplies, guided village weavers to form a crafts co-op, given practical and theoretical courses to community leaders, taught home-ownership, money management, industrial and farming skills. It has helped send potential leaders abroad on scholarships, organized seminars, sheltered refugees, and sponsored studies. The list seems endless. Its work is achieved in an atmosphere of cheerful chaos that carries the personal mark of the high-strung Tish and the bearded, informal, soft-spoken Dale. Staff workers wander in and out on errands, the kitchen staff gather to sing and shuffle-dance for someone's birthday, a young black boy — one of many the Whites have sheltered over the years — is rowdily cross-examined about his school work, some mongrel kittens race underfoot. As an example of the Whites’ battles, there was the time when the municipality ruled that blacks sheltering at Wilgespruit couldn't stay more than 72 hours without violating the segregationist Group Areas Act. In response, the blacks were driven into a neighboring municipality every three days, then returned — legal for another 72 hours. FINDS LOOPHOLES “And that’s how we survive: legally dancing through loopholes,” says Tish, twirling one hand like a dancer. A much more serious battle took place last spring. Fifty police descended on Wilgespruit in helicopters and vans, firing rifles and seizing about 40 young blacks hiding from police roundups in the neighboring black townships. It took the intervention of Anglican Bishop Simeon Nkoane to have the youngsters released. The kaleidoscopic range of programs at Wilgespruit receives as much as 20 per cent of its annual budget of 1.5 million rand ($1 million Cdn.) from various churches and government organizations in Canada, says Dale White. Over the years, some of southern Africa's most prominent figures have sampled the Wilgespruit atmos: phere. a | Samora Machel, the Moxambican leader killed last Oct. 19 in-a plane crash, helped clear a laneway during a work-and-study course; Steve Biko, the legendary black. consciousness leader who died in police custody in 1977, was here on several courses; other graduates have been more conservative. The presence of names like Bilko's on the alumni list however, is what helps make the National party government and its security forces suspicious. Somewhere in the Wilgespruit files is a letter from the late prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, accusing the Whites of hiding their political views behind a camouflage of religion, says Tish. LEAVES SIDELINES Wilgespruit is unique. What's not unique is a church-related involvement in some of the issues at the core of South Africa's crisis. After standing largely on the sidelines for decades, and even providing a theological gloss to racism, Christianity has begun to move to the cutting edge of the black rebellion. 's role Many of the clergy and lay workers are paying the price. While anti-government politicians and trade unionists have been the prime targets in police raids under state-of emergency laws, hundreds of church leaders were also jailed. Many are still behind bars, months after their arrests. Rev. David Nkwe, burly pastor of St. Paul's Anglican Church in nearby Soweto black township, interrupted an interview with a visiting Canadian to inquire calmly: “Can I help you, gentlemen?” as a dozen armed security police in fashionable summer civvies trotted across the courtyard of St. Paul's to strip a civic-association office of its subversive T-shirts and posters. « It’s a routine occurrence, Nkwe says, adding with unusual bitterness: “They come in here with rifles as if they were hunting for animals.” The black secretary general of the Catholic Bishops Conference was arrested and a fortnightly Catholic paper, The New Nation, has been closed. A German priest near Durban was deported and 20 seminarians who protested were jailed CONTINUE FIGHT Throughout the country, the sotry is the same. If the security forces think politics are being camouflaged as religion, they act. And yet the clergy continue to involve themselves in black protest and organization. A Pietermaritzburg cleric, Anglican Rev. Mazwi Tisani, knows why.