Page 4A The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, May 1, 1991 P.A.C. giving Castlegar Primary students their o By BRENDAN HALPER Sun staff writer Students at Castlegar Primary School could soon be enjoying their own library thanks to the efforts of their Parent Advisory Council. { “A large part of the problem is * winter weather because kids will have to cither hike through the snow and use the library at Twin i Se SWISS CHALET AT. PORCUPINE CREEK HIPWELL REALTY SOME LIKE IT RURAL! MINI-FARM NORTH OF SALMO 2.1/2 acres of cleared farmland with civer frontage. Large, family home on art bsmt. Garage, 2 wells, equip. shed and a great garden. If you want a spotless home $67,500 180 Main St. Salmo 357-2141 Jackie Stefoniuk 365-6642 Susan Hi jazel 357-9993 Jack Hipwell 365-7514 (— FAMILY FOCUS '91 A three-day conference providing insight into the development of challenged children will be held in Trail,.B.C. May 17-19 The conference, entitled the Power of Laughter, will be valuable, and fun, as it will show how humour can empower professionals, parents and the children in the challenges they face in all facets of daily life. The conference will include workshops with noted professionals in the field and panel discussions. For registration information contact the Children’s Development Centre 311 Kootenay Ave. Trail, B.C. VIR 1H6 or (604)368-3306. 204 East Sth‘Aven Melaline Falls; Washington AA BONELESS WHOLE HAMS Maple River. Avg. wt. 4-8 Ibs. AND MOZZE 12 pack. Select varieties. 12— 12 oz. cans. ‘Wester Family. Granulated.10.lb. ba (ORANGE £64 oz: Select'varieties. nald Duck; : Rivers Blementary or miss using it,” said Vice Chairperton of the. Parents Advisory Council Kris Standbra. “Twin Rivers has ani excellent library but they also have 290 students of their own who must use it." ' The P.A.C, is spearheading a + book drive to stock the library shelves. their bookcases , closets, attics and basements and donate any books sujtable for children ages four to ten years old. di. wn library | Ranger Rick or Equinox would also be appreciated, “The school board has been + very supportive,” sald Principal of Cast! Primary school John The group:is’ ing that ar residents “ of lop children’s magazines such as Owl, Castlegar Primary School kids are in nee right are; Daniel Johnson, Justin Pongraz, Celgar's housing applic Celgar's application for a tem- porary industrial use permit allow- ing the company to set up a construction camp needed to house workers employed for the mill expansion project might be more ed. hands down it's verdict May 13. Parking, sewage disposal, trans- portation, water supply, security and fire protection are some of the conditions Council will have to look at before the nod of approval is given. F Council has also given notice of its intent to consider the Celgar application to give anyone in the immediate area time to voice their concerns before the meeting. Celgar had informed council ‘The Commission in their April 18th meeting recommended that Council allow the issuance of a Temporary Use Permit for the Cel- gar Camp subject to the recommen- dations stated by the Administration in the notice of intent memorandum with the “SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper d of books for their library. Here, from left to Donny Osachoff and Aryn Davidson. ation more complicated than expected Water, Celgar already has a con- nection to the City System and are proposing to extend it to serve the camp. The camp will be metered. Site Security. Hample suggests that a gate contro! system should be put in place to monitor access to the camp. that the Fire P Celgar’s plans camp water supply be metered only for the purpose of a water balance. The Celgar itoring commit- include utilizing the City’s Fire Department as back up to its own and this must be co-ordi- Sewage. An on-site treatment sys- tem is proposed which could require public bealth department and Environment Ministry that the camp is exp d to be home for about 1400 workers when construction hits its peak. Castlegar’s director of engineer- ing and public works, Kenn Ham- ple told council members at the April 16 Committee of the Whole meeting that 1400 people. in some -. provinces is a decent sized town. LE Pearson Peace medal Schedule for May Wed. 5 pm, Fri. 9 am, Sun. 5 pm * West Kootenay Today - previews this week's shows. Wed. 5:30 pm, Fri. 9:30 am, Sun. 5:30 pm « Kootenay forum - interviews with author Anatol Rapoport and pent Murray The approval. T The city is con- cemed with traffic safety and con- gestion from the increased number of vehicles travelling between the camp and the city. The solution is to provide a “transit” system which makes it attractive enough to use, so that private vehicles are left at ito May 5 1991 _ Hated with the City’s Fire Chief. Solid Waste. No information has been provided, but the City says that it is necessary to insure q' are Pp and regular collection carried out. Any landfill costs would be bome by Celgar. Recreation Facilities. The camp will not be provided with any out- door recreation facilities. Any use Eggleton. “We have a tremendous amount of resources in the school right now and the school board will be providing shelving. It’s a good example of what can be done with the school and the members of the community working together.” In order to spark interest in the book drive the P.A.C, has desig. nated the month of May as Book Awareness Month and the students will be making posters, decorating boxes and eagerly awaiting the community’s response, Book donations can be dropped off at Castlegar Primary School or sent in with students. For pick-up of your donations please call Castlegar Primary School at 365- 5744, Kris Standbra at 365-3500 or Deb Davis at 365-2664. ‘The library will open new hori- zons of reading for the children in the comfort of their own school. of City (or Regional) facilities would be co-ordinated by the Recreation Department. The City may wish to review a fee schedule for use of baseball diamonds/ soc- cer fields. On-site Commercial Operation. If any such operations take place they must conform to City licens- ing and land use bylaws. Storm Drainage. To avoid impacting the City system (ditches along Arrow Lakes Drive) the camp would be required to provide on-site collection with disposal to the river as approved by Environ- ment Ministry. Cleanup. Within.a specified period of time( say six months) any camp structures should be removed and the site restored to an approved plan. one Couvelier attacks Ontario budget By Steve Weatherbe (SNS) VICTORIA- Mel Couveli yesterday that Ontario’s new budget, with ‘an’ unprecedented deficit of $9.7 bil- lion, was “driving at the very heart of what holds Canada together.” The deficit doubles Ontario’s deficit of last year, and makes the total of provincial deficits for the first time the equal of the federal deficit. + Mr. Couvelier also said that the huge deficit would reduce the con- fidence of world lenders and investors in any provincial econo- my and the bonds issued by any Wed. 6:30 pm, Fri. 10:30 am, Sun. 6:30 pm « Dancing Thru the Years - Ice show by Beaver Valley club. 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Mr. Couvelier identified as the keystone of the Canadian identity what he called the “portability of social services,” or the roughly equivalent level of service among the have and have-not provinces. But be could give no evidence that Ontario’s budget would create inequities. Mr. Couvelier said be thought it was unprecedented for a B.C. finance minister to comment on an Ontario budget. He was doing it, inance Minister — OUR NEW PRICES ARE THREE YEARS OLD. Get any Linda! Custom Home ata 1988 price now through June 7, 1991. This one-of-a-kind price roll-back will save you thousands of dollars on the home of your dreams. + But you need to call or stop ‘by today —because these 1988 prices will soon be history‘again, 7: ‘ 4Lindal Cedar 1. Independently distributed by: Broadwater Cedar Homes f Castlegar,’ B.C. geet he said, “because of the magnitude of the problem.” He denied that the Ontario gov-’ emment’s attempt to lift the provincial economy out of a reces- sion with deficit spending was the same as then-B.C. Premier Bill Bennett’s huge deficits in the early and mid-’80s. Mr. Bennett had built “infrastructure” that once in place carried no ongoing costs, said Mr. Couvelier. Ontario Pre- mier Bob Rae was borrowing to expand social programs. “It’s like comparing borrowing to buy a house and borrowing to buy gro- ceries.” Mr. Couvelier himself has pro- posed a massive capital spending program if the recession seriously affects B.C.’s economy, but it would be funded by long-term bor- rowing, not from the operating budget. Dunahee case gets new leads after TV show ‘VICTORIA (SNS) - The third re- enactment Sunday of how four year-old Michael Dunahee went missing at a Victoria playground March 24 for the program “Amer- ica’s Most Wanted” has given police some new Ieads. New information has indicated that the dark brown van police previously thought was d to Michael’s di arance was in fact black in colour, and police now have reason to suspect that Michael didn't even make it to the nearby swings be was allowed to play on while his mother played a game of touch football, Nine members of the Victoria Police Task Force are on their way to an PBI centre in Virginia to study child abduction cases in greater detail. a Six FBI agents will be coming back with them to assist police in their efforts to find the missing WORLDWATCH ‘WEDNESDAY, May 1, 1991 | S. African president warns c JOHANNESBURG (SNS) - Pres- ident Frederik W. de Klerk wamed , Monday that South Africa was threatened by ‘a culture of vio- lence" that was polarizing socicty and could fcad to “a civil war.” “Issuing his most dire waming to date of pending political chaos, de Klerk called upon the African National Congress to reverse its decision to reject the conference he has called for May 24-25 to discuss ways of ending the escalating vio- lence. He also appealed to ANC Deputy President Nelson Mandela and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Zulu-led Inkatha Freedom Party, to resume their talks begun in March to prepare for his proposed all-party “summit” on “violence next month. De Klerk spoke at the start of a general budget debate in Parlia- ment in Cape Town as police reports put the nationwide death cal lines, De Klerk blamed anti heid “This cannot continue. Violence and intimidati ‘op 3 for promoting violente as a grou “justifiable method of settling — political and social disagreements" and elevating “every stone-throw- toll from last d’s Ip violence at 50 people, with nearly 200 others injured, ‘ Forty-three of the deaths black in the ing youngster to a hero." On the other hand, he said, “a reactive culture of violence” had taken hold, creating “a psychosis of vi ‘on both sides of the townships of Soweto and Alexan- dra, where supporters of the ANC and the Inkatha Party are now in a virtual state of war with each other. _ At least 600 people have died so far this year, most of them in clashes between the ANC and Inkatha. Both groups oppose apartheid but are divided along tribal and politi- political spectrum." Most anti-apartheid groups hold South African authorities primarily responsible for forcing them to resort to violence in the first place. They also charge the security have'to come to an end," said de Klerk, who has just retumed from a three-nation trip to Western Europe where he leamed how seriously the escalat- ing violence is affecting South Africa's image, f Local press reports said he found the issue of political violence weighing heavily on the minds of ; hi . P the sought to attract particularly during his stay in London. Even as de Klerk was addressing Parliament, 200 white right-wing students broke up a meeting at the forces are to violence to divide and weaken these groups. l ity of Pretoria where Man- dela was preparing to speak. As the students stormed onto the stage, Powerful earthquake strikes Soviet Georgia MOSCOW (SNS) - A powerful Ihquake struck the Soviet republic of Georgia at noon Monday, burying mountain vil- lages ‘with rock slides and tearing apart homes, schools and shops. About 30 people were killed, according to preliminary govem- ment figures. The quake had a magnitude of at least 7.0, scientists reported. Another tremor, nearly as strong as the first, came a little more than nine hours later as soldiers and res- cue workers searched through the night for victims still trapped in the Meeting of factions could open way BELFAST, Northern Ireland - For the first time in 17 years, leaders of Ulster’s feuding unionist and republican traditions will open talks. Tuesday on a new political future for the strife-tom province. Over the next 10 weeks, they will try find a formula for the peaceful, local government of Norther Ire- land that will end “The Troubles” - the sectarian violence that has left 3,000 dead: over the past two decades. ‘ ‘Norther Ireland has been con- the previ unionist (Protestant) refusal to share power with the republicans (Catholics). . Despite repeated efforts at com- promise, the two sides remain far apart, . Britain’s Secretary for Northem Ireland, Peter Brooke, is sponsoring this new round of talks. The Irish government of Prime Minister Charles Haughey stands ready to join the table “at the right moment.It will be the first time that unionist leaders kave sat down with Irish leaders. Dublin ministers have opened the the lig's tered near Dzhava, a town of about 300-mile path from Grozny in the 11,000 in the p region of Southem Ossetia, and the Soviet Geophysics Institute assigned it a magnitude of 7.0, Seis- mologists in Sweden and the United States put it even higher, at 7.2, not- Russian lic in the north to P ~ Yerevan, Armenia, in the south, While more powerful than the Armenian earthquake, which mea- sured 6.9, the Georgian tremors ly did less d ing capable of heavy, widespread damage with resulting loss of life in populated areas. The shock waves i to reports Monday evening, because of differences in local geological conditions. An hquake in through the afternoon and were strongly felt in neighboring Arme- nia, where a 1988 earthquake killed more than 25,000 people, and across the Soviet border in Turkey and Iran. Altogether, the earthquake was felt strongly over a deleting or two articles that particularly offend the unionists by laying claim to the north as an integral part of a united Ireland. Des O'Malley, minister for indus- try and commerce who will be one _of the Irish negotiators, said that the Dublin government now had “an open mind"about dropping its claim to the north. “Tt was not a great surprise,'said a British official Monday. ‘There have been indications over the past years thal quite lot Ot the’ Trish onstnu- tion is no longer thought by some to” be appropriate to modem needs." A recent poll showed that four out of five voters in the Republic would be willing to postpone Irish unity in retum for an “internal settlement"in Ulster. But the poll also showed that an overwhelming majority of Irish voters still see unity as “something to hope for.” Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish Con- stitution long have been rejected by the Ulster unionists who favor con- tinuing the links they have had with Britain since 1800. As a prelude to the talks, the Offi- cial Unionist Party laid down this marker: ‘Tt is our contention that the prospect of H Canada only Iran last June killed about 40,000 people and left half a million homeless. The official Soviet news agency Tass, quoting Georgian officials, said that according to preliminary reports about 30 people had been - killed, but it gave no details nor an to peace in Ulster Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom is the harsh, aggressive, i ist claim from a nei; i estimate of the number of injured. Hospitals in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, were alerted to receive hun- dreds of injured from the area, local doctors said, but by late Monday only six people, four women and two men, all gravely injured, had ** been brought to the central hospital “We do not have full information on the number dead or injured,” a spokesman at the Georgian parlia- ment said late Monday night. “The damage was very extensive, we know, and we fear heavy loss of life. “But the area is very mountain- ous, communications have been cut and the aftershocks are continuing. The numbers of the victims and the injured will become know only as the search for survivors goes on.”. Squads of soldiers were shown on the nightly ision news pro- lhaos may i scuffled with Mandela's guards and seized control of the micro- phone, Mandela himself escaped through a back door. De Klerk renewed his invitation to Mandela and Chief Buthelezi to join him at his proposed “summit ‘on violence” saying the country needed “a massive effort by all the various leaders in our society, The time has come for them to speak - up in public.” “The time has come for the men of peace to gather,” he said. He promised the ANC he would ensure that “those who act in the name of the law do so with clean hands and with meticulous impar- tiality" and that he would take “firm steps" against those security forces who failed to obey orders. The ANC said Saturday it would not attend the summit and accused “certain forces" within Inkatha and the state of engaging in “massive plans" to attack its supporters in ips here and i prominent ANC leaders. Inkatha operatives, trained by South African . Army counter-insurgency units, rganizing in the townships to carry out the attacks, it charged. The goverment and army have Yeltsin travels to Siberia oad te civil war denied the charges while Buthelezi*. said Monday they appeared to be “sucked out of the thumbs of the ANC spokespersons." At the same time, he said he had leamed the ANC had drawn up a “hit list" of Inkatha leaders to be assassinated in the Natal region and also received “urgent wamings" that the ANC had decided to abduct two of his children and kill them. The ANC has said it will cut off preliminary talks with the govem- ment if demands, including a ban on Inkatha members carrying weapons to rallies, the firing of Defense Minister Magnus Malan and Law and Order Minister Adri- an independent commission on : inquiry into alleged incidents of misconduct by the security forces, are not met by May 9. Meanwhile, de Klerk also - announced the government plans to sell off part of the country’s strate- gic oil reserve and use the money : raised - about $360 million initially - and double the. amount when all westem sanctions are lifted - for clinics, schools, sports facilities, roads and the purchase of land to : in bid to end coal strike MOSCOW(SNS)- Russian repub- lic leader Boris Yeltsin followed up on his latest political truce with Soviet President Mikhail Gor- bachev by traveling to Siberia on Monday to try to iking coal miners to end their crippling gram Vremya working along with local resid to dig out, some- foreign country to juri over the territory and people of Nortbem Ireland contrary to intemational law." Dublin already has a limited voice in the affairs of Ulster as a represen- tative of the Catholic minority under the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement. The unionists, who were not con- sulted about the Agreement for fear will-be among the British and the‘ parties of Northern Ireland, the Catholic-republicans and the Protes- tant-unionists. They will set the agenda. The republicans will be represent- ed by the Social Democratic and Labor Party of Catholic moderates. Sinn Fein, political arm of the out- lawed Irish Republican Army, will not be involved because it refuses to renounce violence. A British official, involved in the negotiations, said: “There is quite a general sense of weariness in North- em Ireland. People are fed up with the sterility of the past 15 years.”” times with nothing but their hands, more than 30 homes buried beneath the rockslides there and to clear the rubble of collapsed buildings in the search for survivors. - The troops had been guarding a - convoy of supplies for Dzhava and an adjacent village because of the continued fighting between the Ossetians and the Georgians, and “hey tt Pin if + Ambrolauri, a town of 17,000 ne: "s epi and the first 's ‘k-old w: Yeltsin’s three-day visit to the Kuzbas region of central Siberia, a hotbed of labor strife, marks what is effectively the opening shot in his campaign to become Russia's porters who support the miners’ political demands, which include the resignation of Gorbachev and the current Soviet government. One strike leader, Alexander Smimov, said Yeltsin was carrying a draft document that would allow the miners to suspend the strike short of their political goals. It is believed to provide for transfer of many mines from control of the Soviet central government to that of the Russian republic, in addition first popularly elected presid and it coincided with a rally of his supporters outside the Kremlin to begin collecting the 100,000 signa- tures needed to put his name on the June 12 ballot. to their strike but Said he was trying to create the appropriate political in Oni, about 20 miles away, six people were reported dead in each place. In Zestafoni, which is on the toad from Tbilisi to Kutaisi, eight people were killed, according to initial reports. “More than half of the city’s i have been d or diti in which they could make such a decision on their own. Yeltsin, whose attacks on Com- munist Party bureaucracy have eamed him a massive popular fol- lowing, faces a delicate diplomatic challenge in Siberia. On the one hand, it is an opportunity for him to damaged,” a town official in Zesta- foni said. In Sachkhere, the railroad he has the political authority to cut short the wave of station was virtually destroyed, and in nearby Chiatura a lid 1 turmoil ping the country without resorting to the bein, swept through a residential area of the town, crushing some houses, burying others. g demand- ed by orthodox Communists. At the same time, however, he must be careful not to alienate his many sup- to imp: for the miners. Gorbachev has flatly rejected the miners’ political demands, but Yeltsin aides argue that the accord signed last week by Gorbachev and leaders of nine of the 15 Soviet, republics eventually will resolve - most of their concems. accord calls for new elections to Soviet governing bodies following the signing of a new treaty of union regulating relations between the central authorities and the republics. Yeltsin, who now holds the indi- rectly elected post of chairman of the. Russian legislature, said Mon- day that Gorbachev had accepted key demands of the republics’ lead- ers during a hastily arranged meet- ing outside Moscow last week. He added that his own call for Gor- bachev’s resignation last March had been instrumental in forcing the Soviet leader to adopt a more flexible position. Arctic “Green Plan” announce two-fold IQALUIT, NWT (SNS) - A $100 million Green Plan initiative designed to protect the arctic’s waters by establishing a compre- hensive water monitoring network to assess the impact of pollution on arctic rivers, lakes and seas; and a $10 million plan to work with terri- torial and i Volatile Times.” Of the companies who respond- ed, 87 per cent place a high priority on employee communication, but only half currently bave the dollars ie the health of the northem people n gi toi J and eco- and to support it. Over 65 per cent stated that their nomic by p lacked the time, role locally created and imp egy is the result of more than 18 months of discussion with north- emers, Formal consultations held with native organizations, business groups, the territorial governments and other concemed interest groups identified the special envi tal issues and concems in the arctic that are in need of immediate action, The AES sets out four specific programs. These programs will be implemented by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northem Devel- opment in cooperation with north- em communities and other federal goverment departments to be car- ried out over the next six years. ‘These include a $35 million pro-. gram to identify, reduce and, wher- ‘ever possible, eliminate chemical contaminants, like ‘that have found their way by air \and water from other regions into.. the food of nonhem people; a $30, °. million plan to clean up unsafe, shazardous and unsightly waste like ‘chemicals, fuel, buildings and other (equipment that have been aban- doned over the years; a $25 million PCBs and DDT, . plans based on the use of traditional values, knowledge to revise existing resource manage- ment legislation in order to achieve the goals of the strategy. The models and to ensure that communications are a priority. “The most disturbing finding of the survey was that over 65 per cent of vice-presidents of human resources rated their managers “being unable to effectively commu- nicate with employees,” said Doug of comp land claims and the continued transfer of provincial-type responsi- bilities to the territorial govern- ments are the other important steps needed to ensure the success of the action plan. Poor employee com- munication to blame TORONTO (SNS) - Canada’s com- petitiveness and business survival is being threatened by a disturbing trend - poor employee communica- tion. ‘ This is the finding of a recent sur- vey conducted by BRG Associates, Royal Trust’s independent employ- ee benefits consulting arm. The survey cited that the main issues confronting today’s man- agers such as low producti i A Partner, BRG Associates. “This means that the messages filtering through the organization are often blurred or misunderstood. And this directly impacts on a com- pany’s productivity, quality pro- cesses and ability to get closer to the client.” Blind hunter plans to bag big game CALGARY (SNS) - Canadian bunter Herman Biffert is blind but plans to bag a deer this fall. + “T like to bunt and I’ve got the same right to hunt as anybody with sight,” Biffert said. “People have got the stupid idea that I am going to go into the bush and kill some- from major r mergers or cultural changes, arc further complicated by poor internal communications. Forty major. Canadian service body, but T go Ll have a guide with nie.” Last year his son or a friend lined up the gun and told him where to shoot. “We missed,” he said in a tcle- .3 Program to improve the manage- ion of Q ment and p: and corp _ panicipated in the survey entitled “Ce ing to ployecs in Monday. Although he went hunting four times and shot.71 several deer he finished the season empty-handed. This year, his second season with a big-game license for the province "of Alberta, he bopes to modify the permit to allow a guide to shoot the animal for him. Biffert was tumed down when be first. applied for a license in 1989. Last year’s license was granted after he took the issue to court, claiming discrimination. This year the Alberta wildlife ministry asked for an investigation into the safety of allowing him to bunt. A retired farmer, he lost his sight over 20 years ago because of a dete- _. fiorating optic nerve. “T have always liked bunting,” be said. “I owned my first gun when I was just 13 years old.” Canadarm busy. with latest launch WESTON, Ontario (SNS) - Canad: has a busy 1 aboard the space shuttle Discovery . launched Sunday. ‘The astronauts aboard the shuttle will conduct a series of scientific experiments, the main one involv- ing the Shuttle Pallet Satellite which requires extensive maneuver- ing, rendezvous and close proximi- ty operations with Discovery. All of the maneuvers are carried _ out using the Canadarm.with Dis- covery. On day 3 of the flight, an astronaut using the Canad will deploy the SPAS where it will be placed 20 kms from the shuttle. The Canadam will recapture the \ satellite on day rand 5 and retum it to its berth in the cargo bay, On day 6; Canadarm will again deploy the SPAS to perform another series of experiments. On day 7 of the mis- sion, Canadarm will capture the SPAS and retum it to the cargo bay in preparation for return to earth. Since its deployment nearly 10 years ago, Canadarm has been used to retrieve satellites and perform a variety of tasks in orbit, well beyond the original design expecta- tions, Because of NASA's confidence in this Canadian technology, Canadarm flies on most shuttle Metis agreement signed om Monday SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario Ontario governments and the Ontario Metis and Aboriginal Association (OMAA). Participating in the signing cer- emony with OMAA president Olaf Bjomaa were Tom Hockin, federal Minister of State responsi- ble for Small Business and Tourism, Bud Wildman, Ontario Minister responsible for Native Affairs, and Ontario Minister of Mines, Gilles Pouliot. OMAA and its subsidiaries ke a number of i development activities for aborigi- nal people in the province, includ- ing offering business advisory services, and operating aloan fund and the Off-Reserve Native Hous- ing Program. Mr. d that the (SNS) - An P! iB for the improvement of the eco- arrangement creates a process tu nomic Ip PP for Ontario Metis and off-reserve aboriginal people was signed Monday by the federal and review Pp business, and skills training pro- grams offered by both the provin- cial and federal governments. ‘The Sun carries all the news _ and sports! 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