i News Jonvary 18, 1967

BRIAN MULRONEY.
. .. cutting back on costs

ts to trim fat |

Tokyo, China and South Korea last
minister will have fewer than 20 staffers when he leaves for
Rome, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Sei his office says.

After using a giant Air Canada L-1011 jet for the trip to
Asia, he and his entourage will fly on a 17-year-old Canadian
Forces Boeing 707 this journey.

Where an advance team of minions took @ separate
forces Hercules transport to Asia to set up shop and
technical services, a much smaller unit will take regular
commercial flights to Africa ahead of the prime minister.

“There is definitely an effort to economize,” said Michel
Gratton, Mulroney’s press secretary, adding that a technical
need for extra hands will always exist.

* But despite the scrimping this trip, Gratton said earlier

his movements posterity,

“Phat is the greatest fantasy that's ever been printed,”
Gratton said in an interview. “There never was a TV crew.”
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‘The press secretary said the prime minister's technical
service had bought a “small camera, a Beta I believe,” about

apy ago.
It’s something that just about everybody could learn to
operate. It's not a TV camera. It's not a highly sophisticated
thing. Basically, people who would do the sound for public
‘events would aim the camera at the podium.
“We never added people for video and, frankly, I don't
think we're bringing the video equipment this time around.”
Mulroney has come under fire several times for his
spending on foreign trips since taking power in 1984, One of
the most controversial incidents involved lavish $1,500-a-day
hotel rooms in Paris for a summit of francophone nations last

ary, nal Affairs Inter said the’ French government had
gute ne that Mulroney and 70

bill,
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stfeale sry ‘aids spent over $50,000 a night on the Asian

But the trip included an economic summit of seven
western iatiena fo Tokyo, and External Affairs Minister Joe

. Clark defended the high number of officials as necessary for

such a trip.

Despite questions about using the Air Canada jet on the
‘Asian tour, an armed forces aircraft would have been more
costly, Gratton said. ‘

The length of the trip and the size of Mulroney's
entourage and accompanying journalists made the Air
Canada choice wise, he argued. As well, the government-
owned carrier got good publicity in Asia.

“But it doesn't seem to be appreciated, so this time
around we'ré going in the 707.”

Janvary 18, 1987» ( Castlegar News

B.C. Briefs

Discounts O.K.

VICTORIA (CP) — Asking for more money from
motirists who put off paying their parking fines is
illegal, but offering discounts for those who pay
quickly is all right, a provincial court judge has ruled.

Judge Stephen Denroche said the city’s system of
fines, which begin at $5 and increase to $10 if not paid
within seven days and $20 if not paid with 45 days, is
not legal. e

Victoria lawyer John Coupar disputed two tickets
he received late last year, arguing that the increases
were improper.

Denroche adopted an Ontario High Court decision
which stated it was.improper for a municipality to set
a fine, then make it a higher amount as time passed.

The court suggested a municipality should set the
fine, then offer an “incentive plan” to pay earlier.

No tax hike

VICTORIA (CP) — There will be no tax increases
in the next provincial budget and hospital user fees
will end by April 1, Finance Minister Mel Couvelier
said.

Couvelier said there will be no increase in
provincial income or sales tax in the budget, which is
expected in the spring.

However, the sales tax may be applied to new
items not now taxed.

The provincial government now collects about $32
million in hospital user fees, but the federal
government has been holding back transfer payments
to provinces charging user fees.

Couvelier said when B.C. drops the fees, he
expects Ottawa to hand over as much as $90 million in
accumulated transfer payments.

The minister made the statements during taping
of the CHEK television show For the Record in
Victoria.

March sitting?

VICTORIA (CP) — Premier Bill Vander Zalm
says the B.C. legislature probably will not sit until
March.

He said the government initially thought the
session might be called in late February but will be
delayed partly because the government wants all the
feedback it can get, particularly on its forestry white
paper, before completing its legislative package.

Vander Zalm said there will be a new legislative
program and some of it will be “rather impacting.”

Kelowna gets customs

KELOWNA (CP) — Mayor Jim Stuard says the
Kelowna airport will have 24-hour Canada Customs
service beginning Feb. 1

Before last April, customs service was available
for a limited period of time each day and on a on-call
basis only, but beginning April 1, customs officers
were assigned to the airport, the hours extended and
the service made available for charters of up to 140
passengers.

The 24-hour . service will permit continued
development of large charter flights from the United
States and opens.the possibility of regularly scheduled
flights to the U.S. if an air carrier were to seek such a
licence.

Seventy-five per cent of the small planes now
clearing Canada Customs at Penticton are bound for
Kelowna or points north, Stuard said Friday.

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MEETING TENNANT . . . Social
Claude Richmond shakes hands

RICHMOND

continued from front
welfare and back to work. Richmond
said if the pilot project goes well in
Kamloops, Surrey and White Rock,
then the provincial government will
id

Services Minister
hh a tennant of the
Rosewood Manor on Friday. Richmond was to of-

ficially open the facility, which is designed for the

elderly and handicapped, last October but cancelled

out when the provincial election was called.
CosNewsPhoto by Suri Ration

3
Castlegar Mayor, Audrey Moore ‘said ,
she would also need more information
on the program. But she added that if
she were on welfare she would want to
do some kind of work to earn the

the Castlegar News, but added that he
would hope the program does not take
jobs away from people who are already
working.

“I'd be concerned that legitimate

expand the program provi!

The provincial New Democratic
Party criticized Richmond for not con-
sulting them prior to implementing the
program. Rossland-Trail NDP MLA
Chris D'Arcy said he was not aware of
the program when contacted Friday by

ployees would be displaced by this
program. If it displaces people then
there's nothing to the program. It
sounds rather vague to me and I'd have
to have more information on it before I
could really offer a detailed comment
on it,” said D'Arcy.

money.

“It appears to be a program that
might help people get back into the
work force. I would much rather be
earning the money if] were on welfare,
it would add a lot more dignity to my
life,” said Moore.

Westar. to ship
less coal

REAL Women vows

'This is not the end’

TORONTO (CP) — The
women’s lobby group REAL
Women will keep up its fight
to preserve traditional wom
en's roles in society, despite
being turned down this week
for federal government fund
ing, a founding member says.

“This is not the end of it,”
said Gwen Landolt. “We're
here for the long run.”

Secretary of State David
Crombie told the group it
won't receive public funding
for now.

But the five-year program
of financing for women’s
groups ends next year, and
the review processes now
under way may open up ac-
‘cess fc- REAL (Realistic,
Equal, Active for Life) Wom:
en later, said Ruth Grant, a
Crombie aide.

The organization — which
has been turned down twice
for federal funds — will have
difficulty participating in the
discussion on the future of
financing women's groups
because of Crombie’s refusal,
Landolt said.

“Without equal funding,
we can't enter the national
debate with the radical fem.
inists. The federal govern
ment intends to keep us
down and out of sight, but we
won't give in.”

REAL Women promotes a
family-oriented society and
opposes divorce, abortion
and equal pay for work of
equal value. The group, set
up four years ago, says it has
a Canadian membership of
40,000 to 45,000.

REAL Women expects
eventually to receive a “pal.
try” project grant from
Crombie but nothing to com.
pare with the $500,000 given
the National Action Commit.
tee on the Status of Women,
Landolt said.

“The grants should be a
reflection of those who pay
the taxes and not the cabinet
minister,” she said.

Crombie’s letter laid out
the ground rules for public
funding of women's groups,
his aide said.

The letter says: “Projects
concerned with better educa
tional and job opportunities,
quality day care, equal pay,
improved pensions, mater
nity leave, women's needs in
the home and in the work
place have done much to

raise the level of understand
ing of status and needs of
women participating in Can-
adian society.”

Chaviva Hosek, past presi
dent of the national action
committee, said she was
pleased that Crombie reiter-
ated support for women's
equality. The women’s move-
ment does not accept REAL
Wornen’s support of the
“separate but equal” phil
osophy, she said.

The national action com
mittee received funding be
cause it fits the criteria es:
tablished by the federal gov
ernment, said Marjorie
Cohen, vice-president of the
umbrella group for 479 wom
en's organizations represent
ing more than three million
people.

WKPL SALE

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VANCOUVER (CP)
Westar Mining Ltd. has
agreed to ship less coal to its
Japanese customers at re
duced prices in the year be
ginning April 1, the company
said

Westar said in a news
release prices for metallur
gical coal from its Balmer and
Greenhills mines in south
eastern British Colsumbia
will be $44 U.S. a tonne, a
reduction of $4.50 U.S. and $4
U.S. a tonne fram prices pre-
vailing during the contract
that expires March 31

The Japanese have said
they will take 37.5 per cent of

to Japan

thier original contract vol
ume of 4.37 million tonnes
from the Balmer mine and 40
per cent of the original con
tract volume of 760,000 ton
nes from the Greenhills mine

The 1987 coal year ship
ments of 1.9 million tonnes
from both mines is a drop of
250,000 tonnes for the cur-
rent contract year, said Wes.
tar, a 67-per-cent held sub-
sidiary of B.C. Resources.

The company’s 1986 ship.
ments to Japan were lower
than originally expected be
cause of a four-month labor
dispute at the mines and re.
duced steel production in
Japan

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more than that, said Scarlett. Yet Investment Canada
announced its decision Dec. 31, without public hearings or
a parliamentary debate, he said

Brisco tried to persuade 100 residents at a public
meeting in Nelson last week that justice had been done
but they scoffed when he produced a letter he'd received
from Investment Canada. In the letter, officials refused to
answer most of Brisco’s questions because, they said, the
information he sought was confidential.

Opponents of the sale are edgy about the upcoming
hearings.

Harry Killough of Castlegar, a member of the
association, said Utilities Commission Chairman Marie
Taylor “is very competent, and has been conducting the
hearings in a fair and thorough manner

“But Davis has shot her down, shot the hearings
down,” argued Killough

“Why should the commission spend a lot of time and
taxpayers's money on the hearings in Kelowna, when

Davis has already announced what the decision is? said
Killough. “We want public hearings, but the credibility of
the B.C. government has been undermined in this
matter.”

Killough said he’s not much of an activist.

“['d rather be home chopping wood,” he said. “The
majority are against (U.S. ownership of the utility) and
somebody has to fight it.”

Even if residents had no qualms about the sale to a
foreign company, they should be worried about UtiliCorp
on financial grounds, said Scarlett.

Although founded less than two years ago, UtiliCorp
has grown quickly, mainly through acquisition, pyramid
ing its assets to finance more takeovers, said Scarlett.
However some of its investments, such as in the volatile
natural gas and troubled nuclear industries, are
questionable, he said

It's heavy financial commitments have caused U.S.
ratings institutions to downgrade UtiliCorp's ratings, he
added.

SSHAHUU LU THOU

MUNRO NOT __
AFTER NDP

LEADERSHIP

WEST VANCOUVER
(CP) — Jack Munro, regional
president of the International
‘Woodworkers of America
and British Columbia's best
known labor leader, said
Saturday he’s not going to
contest the leadership of the
provincial NDP.

“Til still work with the
party but I'm just not going
to lead it,” he said.

Munro said in an interview
a lot of party members aren't
ready to accept a trade
unionist as leader.

Besides, he said, there's
not enough time to prepare a
leadership bid before the
April convention. He would
have preferred a convention
in April 1988.

Murno said attitudes
would have to be reshaped
before a labor leader could
head the party.

“There would be a major
rebuilding there,” he said.

Munro also said he doesn’t
relish four years of sitting
across the floor from Premier

Bill Vander Zalm's governing
Social Credit party.

“The fact of being in op-
position to these characters
in Victoria for the next four
years seems to me to be a
real drag, not an attractive
situation at all,” he added. “I
would rather be doing posi-
tive things in the IWA.”

But Munro still had some
advice for the party.

“I think the party has to
speak out louder, consid-
erably more on a lot of
important issues,” he said. “I
think we have to convince
the people of British Colum-
bia that we are an alternative
to the Socreds and that we
have got the capabilities to
run a province.”

He also warned that for-
mer Vancouver mayor Mike
Harcourt, the only declared
leadership candidate so far,
must mount a campaign to
raise his profile outside the
Lower Mainland, especially
in the interior. Harcourt won
a seat in the legislature in
last fall's general election.

Japan considers
sales tax hike

PRINCE GEORGE (CP) —
Japan is considering addi-
tional sales taxes on all
building materials, members
of the northern interior sec-
tor of the B.C. Council of
Forest Industries have been
told.

The taxes, which would in-
crease the price of British
Columbia lumber imports as
well as building materials
produced domestically, were
discussed during a visit
Thursday by a delegation of
Japanese home builders who
were here to study house
construction.

Lumber mills in the B.C.
Interior annually sell framing

materials worth about $37.5 15-per-cent tax on softwood.

million to the Japanese.
Japan ranks behind the
United Kingdom as B.C.'s
second-largest offshore lum-
ber customer.

Mike Madrigga, wood
products vice-president at
Northwood Pulp and Timber,
said if the sales tax increases
— possibly five to 15 per cent
— are implemented they
would not single out B.C.
lumber products but would
make all building materials
more expensive for the Jap-
anese.

He said the proposed tax
increases, which might not
come into effect for a year or
two, are not as harmful as the

EDMONTON (CP) — An
Edmonton entrepreneur is
hoping to get rich quick by
marketing what he calls a
revolutionary toothbrush
that rinses as you brush.

Gerry Robinson, presi-
dent of Aquamatic Dental
Products, says he’s devel-
oped a toothbrush that will
improve dental hygiene
and keep kids entertained
for hours.

It's called the Aqua Plus
and according to Robinson
it is the only toothbrush
with a built-in. riasing
mechanism.

“It's more like a tool and
a toy,” he said. “Kind of
like a shower in your
mouth.”

The toothbrush is a
package containing three
interchangeable brush
heads and three rinsers.
Water comes through the
head of the brush for a
simple rinse.

He developed the tooth:
brush because he felt rins
ing after brushing is messy
and potentially embarras-
sing.

Robinson, 27, sold his oil-

Now rinse and
brush together

field servicing company in
southern Alberta to raise
enough capital to develop
the product. He estimated
Canadians spend about $30
million a year on tooth-
brushes.

Aquamatic has set up a
small manufacturing plant
in Edmonton with 10 em-
ployees, but the company
has no firm orders yet.
Still, Robinson said they
are on the verge of gaining
distribution in Europe and
Quebec.

“If we can sell 150,000
products in Germany and
10,000 in ‘Quebec, that
would provide us with $3
million in cash flow,” he
said.

That would be enough
for the fledgling company
to convince bankers to ex-
tend a line of credit, he
said.

Robinson is also pre-
paring to manufacture a
conventional toothbrash
called Smiles-Plus. But the
company’s hopes rest
mainly with Aqua Plus, an
item he calls “a product of
tomorrow.”

Paes

No station closures

year
despite continued budget problems, says network
president Pierre Juneau.

The Crown corporation earlier this
year it will have to chop $63 million from its budget
next year due to rising operating and production costs
and federal restraint measures,

Textile pact inked

HONG KONG (AP) —. Canada and Hong Kong
reached a new five-year textile agreement Saturday,
the Hong Kong government reported.

‘The government said in a news release that under
the new agreement covering exports from the British
colony, the average growth rates for apparel
categories were reduced to some 1.12 per cent over
the period although the overall export growth rate
was about the same as before at 2.7 per cent.

Wheelchair beauty

VACAVILLE, CALIF. (AP) — Shortly after
Maria Serrao was paralysed in a car accident 18 years
ago, she had wheels put on her braces so she could
roller-skate with her friends.

Today, the 23-year-old actress and model tackles
another goal when she becomes the first wheelchair-
bound woman 'to enter a beauty contest that could lead
to the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.

“If it's in your heart to do well, I believe anybody
can do it and will do it,” said Serrao, who lives in
Studio City, a Los Angeles suburb.

Photos released
BEIRUT (AP) — A terrorist group released
h y of two U.S. h and ina
separate statement threatened to “punish” all
participants of an Islamic summit to be held next week
in Kuwait.

The i ‘Nah: paper said its
offices in western Beirut received the photographs of
Joseph Cicippio and Edward Tracy at dawn in an
envelope that carried the name of the Revolutionary
Justice Organization. It said the pictures were not

ied by any or d

American defects

NOME, ALASKA (REUTER) — A 30-year-old
American dashed across eight kilometres of frozen
Bering Sea that separates the United States and
Soviet Union and was last seen in the custody of
Soviet soldiers, an Alsask state trooper says.

Trooper Thomas Martin said Friday night Lazaro
Castro of Santa Monica, Calif., was fishing for crabs on
the U.S. island of Little Diomede with a family with
whom he was staying.

Brothers stabbed

JERUSALEM (REUTER) — Suspected Arab
guerrillas stabbed two Jewish brothers in the walled
Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday and Israeli police
immediately went on alert to prevent revenge attacks
against Arabs. One Arab youth was beaten.

Avi Ohayon, 25, suffered serious wounds while
Shalom Ohayon, 16, was slightly wounded when knifed
from behind in the ancient Arab marketplace near
Damascus Gate.

$4 billion war

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Soviet Union is spending
up to $4 billion U.S. a year on military operations in
Afghanistan, or two per cent of its total defence
budget, says a NATO study.

The study also says total Soviet military
spending, while apparently limited by the Kremlin's
emphasis on modernizing the economy, is likely to
continue growing at about three per cent 4 year
through 1990. That is about in line with expected
NATO growth in defence spending.

The report was prepared late last year at North
Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters. A brief
summary was released by the West German
delegation.

No more guns

LONDON (AP) — The number of London
policemen allowed to carry guns will be reduced by
about 200, land Yard after a poli
was acquitted in the shooting of a black woman that
touched off rioting in 1985.

Scotland Yard said the number of London
plainclothes officers authorized to carry firearms has
decreased from 4,500 in 1983 to around 3,200, and will
be reduced to 3,000 by the end of this year. Overall,
the London police force has about 26,000 members.

50 killed in boat

CEBU CITY, PHILIPPINES (AP) — A boat
carrying participants in a Roman Catholic festival
sank near an island in the central Philippines, killing at
least 50 peple, authorities said Saturday.

Scuba divers and local boat owners rescued 131
passengers after the vessel sank Friday near Abugan
island in Bohold province, 24 kilometres southeast of
Cebu, said Cebu coast guard commander Capt
Alberto Orevillo.

Concorde diverted

BOSTON (AP) — A Concorde supersonic jetliner
with 75 people aboard landed safely Saturday at
Boston's Logan International Airport, where it was
diverted after reporting low fuel and smoke in the
cockpit.

Air France Flight 00] from Paris was en route to
New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. The smoke was
caused by an air conditioning malfunction, airport
spokesman Nicholas Lamberti said. The plane was
carrying 66 passengers and nine crew members, he
added.

The malfunctioning air conditioning unit forced
the pilot to fly at subsonic speed, causing the plane to
burn more fuel than expected, Lamberti said.

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| Cold Dinmed for 270 deaths

A thaw anloéked frozen Britain on
. , from

a
than 270 deaths this month.
In France, soldiers in tanks

press reported Friday that 10 people died and 47 were
hurt when a’ snow-laden roof collapsed at a mining
equipment factory.

In Britain, most of the problems Saturday were in
the plumbing. Basildon, a city of 80,000 people some 70

trucks, and a two-day rescte by 20 men and 2
helicopter located 400 Jost sheep, many of them ready to

Warsaw and Berlin.

Six more cold-related deaths in western Europe
were reported Saturday — three in France, two in Spain
and one in Britain. Many of the deaths involved the
elderly, the homeless or home heating accidi But in

west of Loudon, was without water because of
damage to a water pumping station.

Officials warned residents of Cornwall and Devon in
southwest England to conserve water because
levels started falling rapidly as millions of litres of water
spilled out of pipes that and ruptured during

blown fuses, blacked out a half-million homes in
southeastern England on Friday night, but electricity
was restored Saturday.

In Spain, paramilitary Civil Guards in all-terrain
vehicles reached « rural rehabilitation centre for
recovering heroin addicts Saturday to provide food and
medicine. The centre had run out of supplies after being
isolated from the nearby town of Arnedo, just east of
Calahorra, for three days because of snow.

In Paris, 4,000 people, including 900 soldiers,

the earlier freezing weather,

The London Fire Brigade said it responded to more
than 14,000 calls for help over the past five days.
Assistant Clef Michael Doherty said it has been the
most intense period of activity for the department since
the German bombing blitz of the Second World War.

“Priority was given to fires or flooding incidents

one of the worst accidents of the cold wave, the Romanian

ng old-age or hospitals,” he said.
Power cuts, caused by ice-damaged conductors and

lized for snow removal operations, concentrating on
side streets and sidewalks, the mayor's office said.

Eastern Europe has been hardest hit. Since Jan, 1,
the Soviet Union counted 81 weather-related deaths.
Poland 88, Hungary 21, Romania 10, Czechoslovakia five
and Yugoslavia one.

Elsewhere, Associated Press bureaus reported the
following déath tolls: Britain 38; France 31; Spain 17;
Italy nine; West Germany six; Netherlands three;
Austria three; Greece three; Ireland two; Denmark two.

KHOMEINI

T

GET

F RAID

NICOSIA, CYPRUS (AP)
— Iraq claimed a crack air
force squadron bombed Iran-
ian leader Ayatollah Ruho-
lah Khomeini's headquarters
in Tehran on Saturday.

Iran's state-run media,
meanwhile, said a lone Iraqi
fighter-bomber raided the
capital, killing three civilians,
and the media made no men-
tion of Khomeini.

Iran also said that in heavy
fighting Saturday, including
hand-to-hand combat, its for-
ces widened a bridgehead in
an offensive launched eight
days ago east of Basra, Iraq's
second-largest city. Both Iran
and Iraq claimed to have in-
flicted thousands of casual-
ties.

A military communique is-
sued in Tehran said Rev-
olutionary Guards pushed
north and south from their
beachhead in Iraq during the
night and now hold some 100
square kilometres of marsh-
land and an island in the
Shatt-al-Arab waterway.

Iraq, however, said Iran
failed in several attempts to
break out of the beachhead

and suffered heavy casual-

ies.

The Tehran raid wag One of
seven Iraqi air and/ missile
attacks of Iranian
cities Saturday. Iran said 20
civilians were killed and
scores wounded.

The accounts were mon-
itored in Nicosia and couldn't
be verified. Both sides reg-
ularly make exaggerated
claims and neither as a rule
allows foreign reporters into
battle zones of the Persian
Gulf war, which has gone on
since September 1980. But
western analysts have reck-
oned casualties in the latest
drive as being in the scores of
thousands.

NO DETAILS

Baghdad Radio said a “sel-
ect air force formation .. .
barraged with bombs head-
quarters of the head of the
snake, Khomeini,” in an at-»
tack on the “capital of snakes‘
and charlatans.”

It said the jets returned
safely, “laureated with vic-
tory.” but gave no details.

Prince Edward

ICE SCULPTURE . . . Europe may be freezing, but the
West Kootenays is experiencing a cold snap .of its
own, as icicles along local roadsides indicate

Castlegar weather office says temperatures could
warm up slightly today.

CasNewsPhoto by Mike Kalesncko

IN PHILIPINNES

New coup rumored

MANILA (REUTER) — The Philippine military went
on full “red alert” and hundreds of heavily armed troops
guarded the presidential palace today after a warning of a
new plot brewing against President Corazon Aquino's
government.

Guards were doubled at the two main military camps in
Manila and troops remained in barracks where soldiers could
be seen sleeping on desks or on chairs with their weapons at
their sides. Troop transport trucks were parked near
barracks and gates.

Reporters visiting the palace had to go through three
roadblocks early today and saw an estimated 300 soldiers
armed with shields and rifles and backed by water cannon
and vehicles.

The nearby street where Aquino lives was blocked by a
barbed-wire barricade.

A military spokesman said the red alert went into effect
at 4 p.m. local time Saturday. This was about two hours
before Aquino returned from a tour of troubled Mindanao
island, where an adviser reached a ceasefire with a Moslem
rebel leader whose followers had been on a five-day
rampage.

Aquino, saying she is ready to die for her people, flew to
strife-torn Mindanao island Saturday after a Moslem chief
agreed to halt five days of fighting that killed up to 67
people

Haji Murad, the senior Moro Islamic Liberation Front
official in the southern Philippines, agreed to a temporary
truce during a half-hour meeting with presidential adviser
Aquilino Pimentel at a Moslem religious school 11 kilometres
northeast of Cotabato City of Mindanao.

‘Aquino arrived soon after in Iligan City, a largely
Christian Mindanao town some 110 kilometres to the north.
Amid heavy security there, she appealed for an end to the

bloodshed over Moslem demands for self-rule and asked
voters to ratify the Philippines’ draft constitution in a Feb. 2
plebiscite.

Murad said it was up to Hashim Salamat, the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front chief who is in exile, to decide how
long the ceasefire would last. Salamat told The Associated
Press by telephone from Saudi Arabia that “the doors to
negotiation are still open,” but refused to disclose his next
move.

Estimates of casualties since the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front began its attacks on the island Tuesday
varied. The government news agency put the toll at 46 dead,
86 hurt. Local military officials said as many as 67 people
died.

In a separate rebellion in the Philippines, Communist
rebels have fought the government for 18 years, but agreed
to a 60-day ceasefire which went into effect Dec. 10. The
Communist rebels and the government now are trying to
work out a peace accord.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front said it resumed
fighting in the 14-year Moslem insurgency because the
government excluded it from peace talks in favor of the rival
Moro National Liberation Front. Both groups seek Moslem
autonomy on Mindanao but are divided on the terms of
self-rule and by factional jealousies.

In Manila, the Filipino capital, police went on maximum
alert Saturday as a precaution against clashes between
Christians and Moslems, but no incidents were reported.

Military units in the éapital were also placed on red
alert, a precaution taken in_the past when Aquino left the
city. Troops closed a major street that runs beside her office
at Malacanang Palace.

Aquino went ahead with her tour of Mindanao, the
large, southern island despite fears for her safety.

job hunting?

LONDON (AP) — It's not likely that Prince Edward
Anthony Richard Louis will be placing a position wanted
ad in any newspaper soon.

After all, he is the youngest of three sons of Queen
Elizabeth and fifth in line to the throne.

But the idea of a job-hunting royal prince has
prompted a lot of talk in Britain. Other young bluebloods,
although of lesser rank, have begun branching out into
work not traditionally in the royal domain.

It all began when Edward, 22, broke a long tradition
of royal military service by quitting the Royal Marines
last week. After the announcement, Edward went to the
country home of his sister, Princess Anne, to ponder his
future.

Neither the marines nor the palace gave any reason
for Edward's departure, but it is widely reported that he
wants hing more ii a} ing than the
military.

The prince has a Bachelor of Arts degree in history
from Cambridge University and is an expert horseman
and aviator.

Even 10 years ago, the idea of a son of the Queen
looking for a vieilian job was virtually unthinkable. But
today, the possibility has been welcomed by the British
public and media, who have seen a new generation of
royals making their own way in school and at work.

POLLS BRITS

More than 80 per cent of Britons polled said Edward
should be free to choose his own career, and what he
should do has consumed hours of radio phone-ins and
thousands of words in print.

“The Royal Family is still a role model for many of
the nation’s families and the Queen's children have
seemed until now to be protected from the hesitations
and false starts that most of us go through when leaving
school,” wrote Barbara Amiel in a column in The Times.

If Edward goes to non-military work, he will follow a
growing number of royal cousins and his sister-in-law the
Duchess of York, the former Sarah Ferguson. She has
continued working — albeit at home in Buckingham
Palace — for an art book publisher since her marriage last
July to Prince Andrew. ’

- Lord Linley, 25, son of the Queen's sister Princess
Margaret and 10th in line to the throne, started his own
custom-made furniture company. His sister, Lady Sarah
Armstrong-Jones, 22, has studied fabrie design and
worked for her father, Lord Snowdon, when he was
shooting still pictures for David Lean's movie A Passage
To India. She is in the second year of a three-year course
in fine arts at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Lady Helen Windsor, 22-year-old daughter of the
Duke of Kent and 19th in line, works in the contemporary
arts department at Christie's auctioneers. Her brother,
the Earl of St. Andrews, 24 and 17th in line, spent four
months in India working for Save the Children Fund, and
press reports say he hopes to be the first royal to earn a
doctorate at Cambridge