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Lemieux helps
sink Canucks

NDP silent
Brisco

Wagonmasters run

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Complex. The annual event held by the Red
Mountain Racers was a success this year.

By The Canadian Press

Mario Lemieux felt he had persevered but
Vancouver coach Bob McCammon didn’t buy all the
fuss about the Pittsburgh star, who was playing two
days after his encounter with David Shaw's stick.

“I didn’t think his chest was bothering him too
bad tonight,” McCammon said Tuesday night after
Lemieux, despite a bruised sternum, scored twice in
the third period to lead the Penguins to a 5-3
National Hockey League victory over the Canucks.

“T'll bet he's been hit harder in the bathtub.”

He had viewed the videotape from Sunday night
of the New York Ranger defenceman slashing the
NHL's leading scorer and had little doubt he'd be
dealing with Lemieux at something close to full
strength.

“Did you see the incident?” McCammon asked.
“How could he not play’

To hear Lemieux talk, it was not that easy.

“It was tough to concentrate out there with the
injury,” said Lemieux, who added he had second
thoughts about playing.

LOOKS TO IMPROVE

“I had to get myself going again. I guess I
needed that game to get myself back up and
h I can play a lot better the next game.”

CFTA Johnson's 'banker'

TORONTO (CP) — The Canadian Track and Field
Association continues to act as Ben Johnson's banker
even though the sprinter breached contracts with it
when he tested positive for steroids at the Olympics.

The CTFA disqualified Johnson for life from the
Sport Canada athlete assistance program — $650 a
month — and suspended him from competition for two
years for contravening its anti-doping agreement.

The International Olympic Committee stripped
the 26-year-old Toronto sprinter of the 100-metre gold
medal when post-race tests showed his urine contained
traces of the anabolic steroid stanozolol.

Johnson, however, can still withdraw money from
the CTFA's amateur athlete reserve fund, which
shelters money from tax.

Jean-Guy Ouellette, chairman of the CTFA, said
the association is morally obligated to allow the sprinter
to use its services, even though the scandal has
embarrassed the association and prompted a federal
investigation.

‘STILL A MEMBER’

“He's still a member of our organization and we are
there to try to protect his amateur standing,” Ouellette
said Tuesday.

“I don’t think we have any rules in our organization
that say an athlete who has been suspended also is
suspended from receiving funds from his trust fund. We

have this mandate to help the athletes and rehabilitate
those who are suspended.”

Ouellette said the track and field association will
also continue to deposit money from Johnson's sponsors
in the fund. Cash going directly to Johnson or a party
other than the CTFA would jeopardize Johnson's
amateur status.

The athlete reserve fund was established five years
ago as a tax-sheltered repository for the endorsement
earnings and appearance-fee money of track and field
competitors.

TAX SHELTER

Athletes are allowed to withdraw money during
their careers for training and living expenses. As money
is withdrawn, it becomes subject to income tax.

The original idea — at a time when Canadian track
stars might hope to accumulate a few thousand dollars
— was to create a nest egg for athletes so they would
have money when they retired from competition.

Johnson, however, signed huge contracts after he
won the world championship in world-record time last
year in Rome. The biggest was a $1.6-million, five-year
agreement with Italian sportswear giant Diadora,
which says it will honor the agreement.

Regardless of his two-year competition ban,
Johnson retains amateur status and says he will return
to amateur sport when the suspensions expire.

Shaw, who was given a match penalty for a
deliberate attempt to injure, had a hearing with the
league Tuesday. The results are expected today.

Lemieux intercepted Larry Melnyk’s pass at the
Pittsburgh blue line and beat Steve Weeks on a
breakaway at 9:59 for a 4-2 lead.

He scored his 18th goal into the empty net with
one second left to extend his NHL-leading point total
to 41.

Randy Cunneyworth, Paul Coffey and Rob
Brown also scored for the Penguins while Petri
Skriko, Barry Pederson and Jim Sandlak answered
for the Canucks.

In other NHL games Tuesday night, it was:

Winnipeg Jets 8, New York Islanders 1; Montreal
Canadiens 5, Hartford Whalers 3; Los Angeles Kings
3, Quebec Nordiques 1; New Jersey Devils 3,
Philadelphia Flyers 2; and Detroit Red Wings 3,
Washington Capitals 3.
KINGS 3 NORDIQUES 1
Wayne Gretzky's goal late in the second
period broke up a 1-1 deadlock as Los Angeles dealt a
sixth loss in seven starts to Quebec. John Tonelli and
Lue Robitaille, with an empty-netter, also scored for
the Kings. Walt Poddubny scored for the Nordiques
as rookie Joe Sakic’s scoring streak was stopped at
12 games.
DEVILS 3 FLYERS 2
Claude Loiselle scored on a breakaway with 6:14
left in the third period as New Jersey handed
Philadelphia its fifth loss in six games. Brendan
Shanahan and Jack O'Callahan added the other New
Jersey. Tim Kerr and Mark Howe replied for the
Flyers, who were without injured centre Ron Sutter,
their top scorer, and suspended right winger Rick
Tocchet, the team’s third-leading scorer.
JETS 8 ISLANDERS 1
Dale Hawerchuk had two goals and an assist as
Winnipeg dealt New York its fourth straight loss. It
was also the Islanders biggest margin of defeat ever
at home, worse than the 6-0 drubbing Philadelphia
handed Islanders on Oct. 13, 1973. Dave Ellett and
Pat Elynuik each scored twice while Dave Hunter
and Thomas Steen added singles for the Jets, who
after collecting 24 goals in their first eight games,
have 16 in their last two contests. Pat LaFontiane
got the lone Islander goal.
CAPITALS 3 RED WINGS 3
Mike Gartner's power-play goal with 58 seconds
remaining in the third period lifted Washington into
a tie with Detroit. Lou Franceschetti and Dale
Hunter also scored for the Capitals while Jeff
Sharples scored twice and Gerard Gallant once for
the Red Wings.

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Messier suspension

EDMONTON (CP) — The Edmon
ton Oilers said Tuesday they have
reserved the right to appeal captain
Mark Messier's six-game NHL sus
pension for a high-sticking incident
Oct. 23 which left Rich Sutter of the
Vancouver Canucks with four broken
teeth

The move means Messier will play
in the Oilers’ next three games
tonight and Friday in Edmonton and
on Sunday in Detroit.

The Oilers said they would have
no further comment until a final
decision is made on whether to
appeal the suspension.

Meanwhile, the Oilers announced
they have reacquired defenceman
Craig Redmond from the New York
Rangers and that defenceman Ken
Hammond has been claimed on
waivers by the Rangers.

Redmond, obtained for defenceman
John Miner in a pre-season trade
with the Los Angeles Kings, was
selected by Rangers when the Oilers
left him unprotected in the NHL
equalization draft. He played 10
games for the Denver Rangers, New
York's farm team in the International
Hockey Leauge, where he had 13
assists and six penalty minutes

Redmond will join the Cape Breton
Oilers, Edmonton's farm team in the
American Hockey League.

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who had one assist and eight penalty
minutes in five games with the
Oilers, will join the Rangers in
Buffalo for a game against the Sabres
tonight

Seahawks’
Largent
unlucky

KIRKLAND, WASH. (AP) —
Steve Largent's 13th season in pro
football hasn't been a lucky one for
him or his team, the Seattle Sea
hawks

Largent, who holds all but one
major receiving record in the NFL,

QUEBEC (CP) — When Peter
Stastny, the Quebec Nordiques cen
tre, told his daughter Kristina the
National Hockey League team might
move, her response was emotional.

“Right away, she started to cry,”
Stastny recounted Tuesday. “I quick.
ly reassured her everything was
going to be OK because I'm con
vinced that we'll find a Quebec group
to buy the team.”

Stastny, who joined the team after
being spirited out of Czechoslovakia
in 1980, is comfortable in this
francophone city where the only pro-
fessional sport is hockey. News of the
sale and possible transfer of the club,
jolted the family and thousands of
fans.

Nordiques president Marcel Aubut
announced Monday that Carling
O'Keefe Breweries Ltd. and its
parent company, Elders IXL of
Australia, had accepted an offer from
an unidentified Canadian group to
purchase the team. Under a clause in
his personal contract, Aubut has 30
days to match the offer.

Aubut spent much of Tuesday on
television and radio shows, expand.
ing on his statements that the
anonymous group from outside the
province would be under no obliga
tion to keep the team in Quebec
City, but expressing confidence he

could find local investors.

The identity of the buyers remains
a mystery, even to the NHL.

IDENTITY UNKNOWN

“The league is especially con-
cerned over the rumors that the sale
is part of an attempt to transfer the
franchise out of the city and the
province of Quebec,” NHL president
John Ziegler said in a written state-
ment. “The league has a longstanding
policy against the transfer of fran-
chises from one location to another.”

More than 5.5 million fans have
attended games at the Colisee since
1979, when Quebec entered the
league.

The transfer of an NHL franchise
would require 75 per cent approval
from the NHL board of governors, on

which all 21 teams have a repre
sentative. Ronald Corey, the gover-
nor of the Montreal Canadiens, Que-
bee City’s main rival, has already
said he would oppose any transfer.

In Montreal, Ed Prevost, presi
dent of Carling O'Keefe's Quebec
operation, called a news conference
that seemed largely an effort to
deflect public criticism of the brew
ery since the deal was announced.

“The Nordiques will remain in
Quebec, even though the brewery
has no guarantee from the new buy.
ers,” declared Prevost.

The future of the Nordiques was
also raised in the Quebec legislature.
Deputy premier Lise Bacon said the
government will seek to keep the
team in Quebec City.

Championships here

The East-West Kootenay high
school cross country running cham
pionships will be held at Selkirk
College this Saturday

Top runners from schools around
the Kootenays will compete at the
run to qualify for the provincials. The
boys will be running a 7Km course

and the girls will run 5Km.

The top 25 runners at this event
and the top four teams will qualify
for the provincial championships to
be held here on Nov. 19. The best
cross country runner from around
the province will compete at Selkirk
College for top provincial standings
at the provincials

Mid-Week Wrap-up

doesn't have a hdown catch in
1988.

The record Largent is still shoot
ing for is Don Hutson's career total of
99 TD receptions. Largent has 95.

And the Seahawks are 5-4, not
exactly the record coach Chuck Knox
envisaged for his squad as he started
a drive to the playoffs

“It's real frustrating,” said the
34-year-old Largent.

Although the Seahawks’ 5-4 record
leads the AFC West, Largent also is
unhappy with the way the team is
playing.

“I think the talent we have in this
locker room is very high,” he said.
“But we have not developed the
chemistry as a football team and the
confidence that we can play with.

“We were fortunate to win the San
Diego Chargers game (17-14 Sunday
in Seattle). They're an average team
and we've been an average team. But
we have the ability to be an above
average football team.”

Largent has made 25 catches for
339 yards, an average of 13.6 yards a
catch, this season.

In 13 games last season, he had 58
catches for 912 yards, a 15.7 average,
and eight touchdowns.

Largent tops the NFL in receiving
with 777 regular-season catches for
12,380 yards. He has caught at least
one pass in 161 straight regular
season games, a league record

The Seahawks will be in the King.
dome next Sunday against Buffalo,
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By JOHN WARD
Canadian Press

They're called wagonmasters and their jobs
might best be compared to those vaudeville acts
where frantic performers keep lines of plates
balanced and spinning on wands.

They're the unsung heroes of the federal
election campaigns, the people who ensure luggage,
equipment and people get where they're supposed to
be, that buses are waiting when the plane lands, that
reporters have a place to work and the leader has a
place to relax.

Each of the major parties is running a
cross-country leader's tour, a gruelling schedule of
chartered plane flights, bus cavalcades, walkabouts
and public appearances that can be a logistical
nightmare.

‘It's tiring, but
it's fun...

| wouldn't do it

if it wasn't fun.'

Art Lyon, wagonmaster for Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney's campaign, is a political veteranwho
started as Robert Stanfield’s driver at the
Progressive Conservative leadership in 1967.

“I got hooked on polities,” he says.

Anne Carroll, who is handling the logistics of her
second NDP tour, started as a secretary and is Ed
Broadbent's executive assistant between elections.

“It's tiring, but it’s fun,” she says. “I wouldn't do
it if it wasn't fun.”

Andy Shaw, a burly former football player who
is the rookie wagonmaster for John Turner and the
Liberals, jokes that his career with the Ottawa
Rough Riders in 1965-66 prepared him for this job.

GETS TO GAME

“I was responsible for making sure that the
first-string guys got to the games with their
equipment.”

Mulroney, Turner and Broadbent are accom-
panied by aides, clerical staff, media spokesmen,
security guards, reporters, photographers and
cameramen.

That means a mountain of briefcases, suitcases

election campaign

and the equipment boxes, cameras, — portable
computers and other paraphernalia of modern
communications.

In Mulroney's case, the luggage includes a
complete stage setting including a podium, Canadian
flags and sound system.

Stresses can build on the campaign planes
during a prolonged tour. As long hours, hurried
meals, busy days and jet lag erode people's stamina,
tempers fray.

Small hitches that might have been shrugged off
earlyin the tour can be magnified by fatigue into
major aggravations, something the wagonmasters
try to head off quickly

“We don't want the media snappy,” says Lyon

Campaigns can be blind-sided by unavoidable
circumstances. Shaw found himself scrambling early
in the tour when weather closed Vancouver's airport,
forcing Turner's plahe to divert to Calgary.

Shaw had to rustle up ground transportation
and hotel rooms in a hurry.

TESTS THE TEAM

“I really didn’t mind, actually,” he said after the
dust had settled. “In a way I was secretly happy
because it provided the first real test of how the
team would respond to a crisis. It went pretty well.”

If it all sounds like the life of a rock 'n’ roll
roadie, it’s not far from the truth.

Stewart Murray, tour co-ordinator for Mul
roney’s campaign, ran tours for the rock band Blood,
Sweat and Tears in the 1970s.

He says there's not much difference between the
two jobs.

There are always horror stories.

Carroll, a calm woman who projects a
businesslike air, says! this campaign has been
running smoothly, unlike some. She recalls a 1984
incident with a shudder:

“We arrived at the airport and the plane was not
there. It was malfunctioning. I spent 2'/: hours going
from the gate to the hangar to have nice, calm
conversations with Air Canada about what happened
to our plane.

“Finally, I said: “You must have a DC-9 some.
where we can use!’ "

They got a plane.

Lyon remembers a harrowing flight in 1979,
when an engine failed over Oshawa, forcing the
aircraft to limp back to Toronto.

“I thought it was anti-aircraft fire from Ed
Broadbent.”

says

The NDP has been “remarkably
silent” on its plans to nationalize
several key industries, Kootenay
West Conservative incumbent Bob
Brisco charged this week as Brisco
said NDP leader Ed Broadbent’s
commitment to follow the NDP
policy resolution book “means that a
massive nationalization program is
still planned by the NDP, a plan that
will cost Canadians billions of doll-
ars.”

“The NDP has called for the
nationalization of a major chartered
bank, and it would cost at least $3
billion to buy all the outstnading
shares of any one of the big five
chartered banks,” Brisco said in a
prepared release. “That's not even
accounting for the run on deposits
that would occur if the government
were to nationalize a bank.”

Brisco also noted that the NDP has
called for Petro-Canada to buy out
Dome Petroleum, at a cost of $5
billion, and also wants Petro-Canada
to buy out Imperial Oil, at a cost of
$12 billion.

“They have called for the nation
alization of Canadian Pacific, at a cost
of $4 billion, and passed a resolution
calling for more public sector in the
resource sector, most notably mining
and forestry.

“At today’s market value, it would
cost $2.4 billion to nationalize Mac.
Millan Bloedel, and $3.6 billion to
nationalize Noranda Mines,” said
Brisco.

“The NDP is even on record as
wanting public ownership of cable
TV. In 1987, Canada's cable com
panies had a value of $1.2 billion. The
total cost of these NDP nationali
zation plans — over $30 billion
dollars.

“Even the British Labor Party has
abandoned its traditional, hardcore
nationalization plans,” said Brisco.
“The failure of the NDP to modernize
s policies demonstrates an inability
to change, and an inability to
govern.”

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NDP NATO policy
criticized by MP

The New Democratic Party policy
on NATO is out of line with the
thinking of most Canadians, and
poses a great danger to national
security, says Kootenay West Con
servative incumbent Bob Brisco.

“The NDP candidate recently
stated that he viewed NATO as an
outdated organization, a step back
wards for our foreign policy,” Brisco
said in a prepared release. “I couldn't
disagree more.”

Brisco said that he doesn't view
the defence of Western Europen as
an outdated policy, and vowed that,
“A PC government will never aban
don our commitment to our demo.

cratic allies.

“It was the strength and unity of
the NATO alliahce that led to recent
arms reduction success,” said Bris.
co. “We will need to be united again if
there are to be more achievements in
nuclear and conventional arms re-
ductions.”

‘Canada, as a middle power, has a
unique role to play in NATO, said
Brisco, and a Canadian pullout would
send a “dangerous signal” to the
Soviet bloc.

“Any sign that the western alli
ance is weakening would be devas
tating to the current arms reduction
negotiations,” said Brisco.

Jenkins blasts
defence policy

Garry Jenkins, Liberal candidate
in Kootenay West-Revelstoke, this
week blasted the New Democratic
Party for attempting to “hide its
defence positions of wanting to re
nege on Canada’s commitments to
NATO and NORAD.”

“This’is a position found right in
the NDP's policy book" stdted Jen
kins. “Yet the NDP is trying to hide
it from Canadians. In reality, what
they are actually doing is sacrificing
their ideological roots in an attempt
to gain political support.”

Jenkins charged that the majority
of Canadians have historically been
at odds with and confused by the
NDP's defence policy which says:
“Be it resolved that the New Demo-
cratic Party confirm its commitment
to peace and disarmament from
NATO and other military alliances.”

Jenkins said NDP leader Ed
Broadbent has not adequately ex
plained to Canadians how leaving
NATO and NORAD will affect Can
ada’s future relations with the U.S.
and the countries of western Europe.

“The NDP has not explained how
Canada can pursue a successful arms
control/disarmament agenda outside
membership in a strong group of
like-minded nations,” Jenkins said
“Nor has the NDP informed Can
adians what they might expect in

cooperation from NATO on defence
matters after Canada leaves the
alliance.”

Jenkins added that the NDP has
recognized the unpopularity of its
position and “back-pedalled on the
issue by declaring an NDP govern
ment would not withdraw imme.
diately, but rather at some unspec.
ified date in the future. Even NDP
MP Svend Robinson, commenting
sarcastically on the change, said the
move was ‘a triumph of political ex
pediency over the principle.’

“The NDP policy on defence
spending is as vague and confusing as
their policy on NATO and NORAD.
The NDP has called for a defence
equipment acquisition program as
ambitious as that of the Conser.

and unquestionably as ex
pensive, if not moreso. Their ap-
proach is based on the false premise
nada should withdraw from
alliance commitments and
build a fortress Canada, protected by
ships, planes and troops. This is con
trary not only to world trends but
also to their stated position of em
bracing internationalism and multi:
lateral cooperation.

“Unlike the NDP,” said Jenkins, “a
Liberal government would keep
Canada’s comthitments to NATO and
NORAD. It’s a clear position that
needs no further explanation.”

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