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We'll tell you right away it a tiny Beltone hearing in strument can help you hear better and enjoy the company of the peopte you care about most Government Licenced Hearing Aid Dealers and Consultants Bush, Gorbachev to meet at sea in December WASHINGTON (Reuter) — U.S. President Georgé Bush says his two- day high-seas summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will enhan- ce understanding between the wo superpowers but produce few of the accords that traditionally accompany such gatherings Despite earlier U.S. opposition to a meeting with the Soviet president unless a formal accord could be signed, Bush and Gorbachev will meet on U.S. and Soviet vessels Dee. 2-3 in the Mediterranean I think it’s the right thing to be doing,” Bush told reporters Tues at the White House when I wasn't sure that it was, but with There was a time this rapidity of change (in Eastern Europe) 1 don't want to miss something I don’t want to have two gigantic ships pass in the night because of failed communication The use of naval vessels for the talks a first for superpower summitry raised questions about security for the world’s two most powerful leaders The Mediterranean in recent years has seen military clashes between the United States and Libya anda terrorist hijackir ie Htalian_ cruise-liner Achille Lauro. A U.S. official, however, dismissed questions about security by saying “*an attack on the United States and the Soviet Union seems a little far out since it would draw the wrath of both countries DISCUSS CHANGES Officials of both governments in sisted the agenda would be wide open for the talks, but Bush said he wanted to discuss the economic and political changes sweeping most of Eastern Europe and the Kremlin's attitudes oward them While a discussion of arms contro was likely to come up, it agreed that the details would wait until a for mal summit set for next year int the United States, Bush sar Our talks will informal in character, designed to allow us to become betier acquainted with each other and to deepen our understanding ofeach other's views,”* said Bush who ' START NOW For the Best Christmas Morning Ever! We're putting Christmas ro s out on » display throughout our mall ial f. ++. he your to find your list . . . at unheard of Pre-Christmas values! 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The Mediterranean meeting would be in sharp contrast to most post Second World War superpower sum mits, which began in 1959 when Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev met at Camp David, Md., and agreed that U.S.-Soviet disputes should be settled by negotiation White Ronald Reagan was at the White House, Gorbachev and the U.S president met five times, with both usually signing some type of accord including a 1987 pact to destroy inter mediate-range nuclear weapons. Bush attended the final meeting, last December in New York, when he was president-elect The forthcoming talks were timed around a Gorbachev visit to Italy and the Vatican on Nov. 29-Dec. 1, the first by a Soviet leader to the head of the Roman Catholic Ghurch The decision to hold talks at sea evoked memories of a 1941 summit between U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill set in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland. Officers visit Moscow OTTAWA (CP) The Soviet Union's armed forces are being restructured, but Canadian Forces of fivers will believe promised Soviet arms reductions when they see them, Lt Gen. David Huddleston said Huddleston led a delegation of éenior officers’ to “Moicow, and Leningrad last week for talks with the Soviet military I don't see any merit in questioning what they say they’re going to do, Huddleston, deputy chief of defence staff, told reporters. **For the last two or three years we've seen them doing what they said they were going to do But for us, Seeing is betieving. An nouncements of unilateral cuts aren’ enoug we want to see them im plemented Officers from both sides worked out a two-year program that will include exchange visitis by land, sea and air commanders, naval historians and teachers from defence colleges Briefly w~ Doctors awarded new contract VANCOUVER (CP) — Residents and interns at British Columbia hospitals have received a little break they now only have to work 89 hours per week. In a landmark agreement that defines for the first time the maximum work week for interns and residents, the province's 500 junior hospital doctors were awarded a new contract this month by arbitrator Stephen Kelleher He also handed down a three-year wage package that calls for a 20.9 per cent increase in the first two years. Sewage spill to continue MONTREAL (CP) — Over 600,000 cubic metres of raw sewage per day will spew into the river which runs on the north side of Montreal island until the end of the week, the city’s director of environmental services said A major breakdown in Montreal's only sewage treatment plant oc curred on Monday afternoon and allowed untreated sewage from toilets and drains — as well as waste from heavy industries — to spill into Riviere: des-Prairies, which empties into the St. Lawrence, Gerald Perreault said The treatment plant — which cost $1.3 billion to build was finally opened just last year but has had a number of technical problems, Perreault said. Fultone calls for ‘green tax’ OTTAWA (CP) — Canada’s tax system should help clean up the en vironment as well as the government's batance sheet, opposition MPs said Jim Fulton, thé NDP environment critic, told the Commons a ‘green tax’’ is needed to encourage products and practices that are en- vironmentally sound However, the Tory majority in the House rejected his motion for such a tax ina 133-74 vote. Soviet unemployment rates up MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union's unemployment rate has soared to 27 per cent in some areas, in part because of government efforts totrim factory payrolls, the Communist party newspaper Pravda said Unemployment has reached 27.6 per cent in the republic of Azer baijan,\25.7 per cent in Tadzhikistan, 22.8 per cent in Udbekistan, 18.8 per cent in Turkmenia, 18 per cent in Armenia and 16.3 per cent in Kirgizia, the newspaper said. The Soviet Union had previously said unemployment is exclusively found in capitalist countries. It was only last summer that Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov admitted the existence of mass unemployment in the Soviet Union. He cited it as acause of ethnic violence Union releases services report OTTAWA (CP) — Taxpayers may no longer be getting their money's worth-of government services because of cuts in the public ser vice and more use of outside contracts, says the Professional Institute of the Public Service in Canada The union, which represents 24,000 scientific and professional em- ployees, said Tuesday that 11,600 federal public service jobs have been cut since 1985. But the union says the programs cost more, with spending rising to $91.5 billion in 1989-90 from $74 billion in 1984- 85 for gover nment programs In a report entitled Who's Minding the Store, the union cites several cases in which it claims contracts for outside services and staff cuts have jeopardized the government's ability to control costs and to protect health and safety Leader quitting, ADN says EAST BERLIN (Reuter) The hardline leader of East Germany's official trade union movement, apparently facing pressure for reforms, will quit this week, state news said Tuesday The ADN news service said Harry Tisch will tender his resignauon Thursday, becoming the latest Communist hardliner to be Swept aside by grassroot demands for greater democracy The news came as more than 20,000 demonstrators marched in three East German cities Tuesday in protests that followed marches by 500,000 the previous day. The demonstrators demanded free elections and legalized opposition groups Ottawa refuses to be rushed on mill FORT McMURRAY, Alia. (CP) The federal government insisted Tuesday it won't be rushed into ‘ap proving megaprojects like a proposed $1.3-billion pujp mull in northern Alberta Ottawa will not give its blessing to the mill, about 150 kilometres north of Edmonton, until it is sure the project won't damage river systems in the area or in Wood Buffalo National Park, a spokesman told stunned officials from the provincial government and Alberta Pacific Forest In dustries < “Tlie Department of Fisheries and Oceans and En vironment Canada find the Alberta Pacific proposal to be currently unacceptable,"” Robert Lane, a regional director of the Environment Department, told a joint federal provincial panel holding hearings on the project Lane said Ottawa has serious concerns about deficien cies in the company’s environmental impact assessment, and won’ t give it the green light until Alberta Pacific comes up with data on how the world’s largest bleach kraft pulp mill will affect water quality, fish and wildlife in the area The federal demand for more information could delay the province's plan to diversify its oil-dependent economy with forestry initiatives. The federal government is also concerned about the total effect six other proposed and existing pulp projects * will have on an ecosystem that covers the top half of Alber taand the bottom half of the Northwest Territories. One of Lane's staff predicted it might be months or years for the company to meet some of environmental requirements SPARKFIG Environment Canada’s surprise hard-line stance could rekindle a squabble between Alberta and the federal gover nment over jurisdiction Alberta Pacific is the flagship project the province's strategy to diversify its economy with $3.5 billion dollars worth of forestry projects The move has drawn wide criticism for the leasing of Pressure from Ottawa was a factor in the Alberta government's decision’ (0 hold hearings on the Alberta Pacific mill, announced last December Since then, the federal government voiced concern about the pulp mill affecting areas beyond the province's borders and gained seats onthe review panel. The move forced the Alberta government to replaceat least two board members over conflict of interest concerns. Federal pressure also recently helped convince the province's environment minister to schedule hearings in Edmonton, despite his fears that environmentalists might turn the meeting into a mill bashing **media circus.” NOCOMMENT « Neither the provincial government nor Alberta Pacific has yet comment on Environment Canada's position on the mill developments When asked if Ottawa’s demands could put the mill in jeopardy, Alberta Pacific vice-president Gerry Fenner said his company will wait for Environment Canada to make a more detailed presentation of its concerns during a hearing in Athabasca later in November “We will have to evaluate what they've said so that we understand completely what they've said so that we under stand completely what their position is before making that kind of statement,” said Fenner. **We have to make sure we know what they've said before we can say if we are worried or not worried.”” But people downstream from the project cheered Tuesday's development “It’s wonderful news," said Kristine Reed. ‘*The whole process has been just too fast and inadequate and the federal representatives are pointing that out.quite clearly." Robert Cree, president of the Athabasca T ribal Coun: cil, had expressed misgivings about the mill’s impact on the traditional lands of his people “1 am happy today,” he said. **The people will finally get the answers to questions we’ ve been asking.” The panel was unable to hear all the submissions from Ground Beef Regular Quality 5-Ib. Chub (4.45 each) Limit 2 with family purchase 1.96/kg. November 1, 1989 “ Extra Large Tomatoes Red Gra U.S. Grown * No. 1 Grade * Extra Large * Slicers * Taste the difference of a vine-ripened tomatoe 59 Emperor U.S. Grown * No, 1 Grade Large * Full