As Castlegar News October 6, 1990

NutraSweet slammed

OTTAWA (CP) — NutraSweet
Co., supplier of 95 per cent of the ar-
tificial sweetener in Canadian soft
drinks, gum and diet foods, has been
ordered to stop using exclusive con-

NutraSweet is a subsidiary of the

“We are convinced that
*s game plan has been to

which invented protein-based aspar-
tame in the 1960s, then underwent the
long and expensive process of

tracts to protect its near

The decision by the federal Com-
petition Tribunal is Canad:
successful monopoly-busting
almost 40 years.

The tribunal ruled Thursday that
U.S.-owned NutraSweet has abused
its market clout to squeeze out
c such as ed
Tosoh Canada Ltd.

Tosoh has been fighting for four
years to break into the $25-million-a-
year Canadian market for aspartame,
but has gained only three per cent

y a al. Its red-swirl logo
now is a fixture on pop cans and gum
wrappers around the world, but
NutraSweet's patent has expired

Tosoh vice-president Louis
Hoshimi said NutraSweet went
"beyond legitimate business prac:
tices”’ to retain its domination, and
Thursday’s decision will benefit con-
sumers.

Hoshimi said his company would
quickly open negotiations with Coca-
Cola and Pepsi, the world’s two
largest users of aspartame.

drive us out of business and then
retain the monopoly,’’ Hoshimi said.

He said Tosoh's target is 30 per
cent of the Canadian market

NutraSweet — which argued that it
simply has a better product and out
hustles the competition — said Thur.
sday it was studying the tribunal's
decision and the possibility of an ap-
peal.

“We are confident the NutraSweet
Co. will remain the leading aspartame
supplier in Canad: the company
added.

It was the first case brought under
the monopoly-busting provision of
the 1986 Competition Act.

OTTAWA (CP) — Are the op-
ponents of privatization dead or
only sleeping?

In 1979, Joe Clark's proposal to
sell the state oil company Petro-
Canada fuelled angry debates
across the country and helped
topple his Conservative gover
nment.

Now the Conservative gover
nment of Brian Mulroney has put
forward a similar plan, but it
hasn't sparked nearly the same
reaction.

Energy Minister Jake Epp says
Canadians have come to under
stand that privatization is a fact of
life.

“There is a different under
standing of privatization today
than there was in 1979,"’ he said
Wednesday in an interview

But some analysts say the op-
Position could flare up again,
especially if there are energy
problems because of the Persian
Gulf crisis.

“*] just wonder if, once it gets a
bit more airing, it isn’t going to
arouse a lot of emotions,’’ says
lan Doig, editor of the Doig’s

Digest.

Doig recalled the fury in
Saskatchewan last summer over a
proposal to privatize Saskat-

Little reaction so far
to privatization bid

ANALYSIS :

chewan Energy. The Conservative
government there was forced to
pull back despite its firm
majority

So far, the federal Liberals who
created Petro-Canada in 1975
haven't raised the issue in the
Commons question period

The New Democrats forced a
recorded vote when the bill to sell
the company was introduced, in-
dicating they intend to put up a
fight. But so far their leader has
said little about the issue.

A Gallup poll last year — the
most recent survey on the issue —
found that 50 per cent of
Canadians supported
privatization while 41 per cent op-
posed.

In comparison, a Gallup poll in
August 1979 found 22 per cent for
and 48 per cent against — the rest
were undecided.

Political scientist James Laxer
of York Univeristy says the shift
in opinion is due to complacency
about energy security.

‘The 1980s has been a sort of
false period when people thought
oil was something they didn’t have
to worry about, because the price
of oil has been falling in real terms

since the 1980s,"" he said.

“Unfortunately it may turn out
that people have to learn the hard
way, they may have to have some
supply shocks, they may have to
face a recession that is
strengthened by the much higher
price of oil and natural gas.”’

Petro-Canada was created in
the wake of the oil crisis of 1973
74, which raised concerns about
security of energy supply

“Petro-Canada was established
to watch that industry, to make
sure that its assessments of cost
and price and oil and gas reserves
made sense. That reason is still a
very important one,” Laxer said

But Epp says the reason for
selling Petro-Canada is that the
company needs money.

‘Petro-Canada needs cash,
possibly in the neighborhood of
$500 million. You can get it
through more taxation, but I
don’t think Canadians would ac-
cept the option, nor would I. Or
they can sell off more assets and
reduce the critical mass they've
now acquired.

“Or they can go into the private
marketplace on the basis of selling
to the market the viability of the
company, I would think that’s a
better approach."

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SPORTS

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Where You Balong,

By CasNews Staff

Jim Cameron says hockey has changed since the
days when he was a kid. And not necessarily for the
better either.

“‘In the 1930s I played pond hockey in Regina. 1
used a couple of magazines for shin pads, held on with
imnertube rings. I had a 25-cent hockey stick. There
were no masks, no helmets, no anything and we had a
lot. of fun. And never, not once, can I remember
anyone getting hurt;}’ said the former public relations
man at Cominco.

“Today, you have all these kids needing to have
helmets, masks, gloves, neck protectors, shoulder har-
nesses and what else? It's come to the point where

with the Trail Smoke Eaters ending up in Switzerland
for the 1961 world championships.

Since that time, at least one thing about hockey
hasn’t changed — Canada hasn't won a world cham-
pionship since.

As president of the Smoke Eaters at the time,
Cameron took reams of notes during the excursion,
and after they pulled off Canada’s own miracle on ice,
he vowed, one day, to write a book about the adven-
ture.

When he retired after 37 years at Cominco,
Cameron made good his vow and the result is a
chronicle of Trail’s, and Canada’s, glory year in inter-
national hockey.

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sad.” 3

As far as the pros go Cameron doesn't deny that
players like Wayne Gretzky, Al Mclnnis, Mario
Lemieux and others are legitimate superstars.

He's just saying it’s not like the old days.

Like the days when he travelled across Europe

characters and events as the Smoke Eaters, a senior
hockey team from a town of less than 10,000 people,
stunned the greatest powers in hockey from the Soviet
Union, Sweden and Czechoslovakia, and the eastern
media, who said it couldn't be done.

It is sometimes funny.

Days of '61 Smokies recalled

Like the time Western Hockey League president
Ernie Cook swallows an Alka Seltzer tablet, mistaking

it for an aspirin.
“*He burped for quite a while.””
It is sometimes poignant.

“*The Smokies lined up at centre ice, opposite the
Russian and Czech (in civvies) teams and O Canada
began to roll out over the speakers. The flag was
slowly raised. The team began to sing, and with them,
the 1,000 Canucks in the area. It was musical roar.

““Canada heard it on the radio. It was a moment

t@remember.”"

*—] It’s a book that can make you feel proud to be a

ian.

Whether hockey has changed for better or worse
is a question Cameron leaves to the readers to answer.
One thing for sure, it certainly has changed from the

days he recounts in the book.

At 141 pages with photos but no index, The Last
Time We Won Hockey is available in most West

Kootenay book stores.

Red Sox
gun for
upset

BOSTON (AP) — The Oakland
Athletics are baseball’s defending
World Series champs. They’re good,
and they know it.

The Boston Red Sox are the upstar-
ts, a bunch who defied the odds and
crashed the party.

So, in a matchup of opposites,
Oakland’s best-in-the-West will meet
Boston's East champs in-a best-of-
seven showdown for the American
League pennant, starting tonight in
Fenway Park.

The A’s, who humbled Boston in a
four-game sweep in the playoffs two
years ago, are favored after easily
winning the West by nine games.

The Red Sox, though, refuse to
acknowledge the odds. They're gun-
ning for another upset after winning
the AL East on the final day of the
season.

“*We know we're the underdogs,”"’
said Dwight Evans, completing his
18th season. ‘‘We know our work is
cut out for us, but it’s been like that
for us all season.

“We just know we're the little
guys. It’s a little like David and
Goliath.’’

Wade Boggs, who finished with 187
hits while failing to reach the 200-
mark for the first time in eight years,
says the Red Sox have ‘‘a lot of
misfits with hearts as big as the
Prudential Building.’’

The A’s had a 103-59 record this
year, the Red Sox 88-74. The A's won
eight of 12 games with the Red Sox,
including four of six in Boston.

The Red Sox, who won six of their
last eight games in edging Toronto for
their third division title in five years,
insist they’re much better off heading
into the playoffs than in 1988.

“I gotta feel winning all those
games is going to make a big differen-
ce,”’ said second baseman Jody Reed,
recalling how Boston backed into the
division title with one victory in the
last seven games two years ago. “In
1988, we were emotionally drained."’

The A’s boast power and pitching.
Mark McGwire hit 39 home runs,
Jose Canseco 37, although bothered
by a bad back much of the season.
Rickey Henderson hit .325 with 28
homers — as the leadoff batter.

Right-hander Bob Welch led the
majors with a 27-6 record. And Dave
Stewart wasn’t far behind with 22-11.
Dennis Eckersley anchored the
bullpen, as usual, with 48 saves.

The Red Sox led the league with a
.272 average, but hit only 106 homers,
topped by Ellis Burks with 21 and
Tom Brunansky with 15.

Roger Clemens missed most of Sep-
tember, but had a 21-6 record.

Mike Boddicker was 17-8. Jeff
Reardon made a remarkable recovery
from back surgery on Aug. 4, and led
the bullpen with 21 saves.

In speed, there’s no contest bet-
ween the two clubs. Henderson had
65 stolen bases in leading the league,
more than the entire Boston team,
which finished last in the majors with
53.

Stewart and Clemens will renew an
old rivairy in the series opener.
Stewart is 6-1 lifetime against the two-
time ‘Cy Young Award winner.
‘Clemens’s lone victory was in 1984,
when Stewart was with Texas.

The second game of the series will
be Sunday night in Boston, with the
next three scheduled for Oakland next
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

into teams.

CosNews photo by Simon Birch

THE NEXT GRETZKYS?

Junior novice players in the Castlegar Minor Hockey Association were swarmi
ice at the Community Complex Thursday afternoon at the Community Complex
season practice. The youngsters will play for a week or two and then will be separated

over the
ran early

Blue Jays boss
faces tough
winter decisions

TORONTO (CP) — Pat Gillick
says he’s willing to listen to trade of-
fers for any Toronto Blue Jay, in-
cluding Kelly Gruber and Fred
McGriff.

“*But we'd have to be overwhelmed
to deal either of them,’ the Blue Jays
general manager said

Top of the list of winter decisions
for the Jays is whether to re-sign
‘George Bell, who's led the majors in
RBI production over the past six
seasons combined

Bell, a free agent, would be signed
Principally as a designated hitter,
Gillick said. Rookie John Olerud is
being sent to the Florida instructionat
league to learn how to play left field.

At the top of Gillick’s short shop-
ping list for 1991 is a fifth starter. Bud
Black, acquired Sept. 17, becomes a
free agent

Gillick also wants another middle
reliever. He'd probably also consider
dealing for an experienced out-
fielder.

Pitchers John Cerutti, John Can-
delaria and cither Jim Acker or Frank
Wills most likely won't be around
next year. Gillick forsees Al Leiter
making the team as a long reliever
Bob MacDonald could assume the
left-handed set-up spot left vacant
when David Wells joined the starting
rotation in May, Gillick said.

Another area Gillick would like to
improve is outfield defence. Mookie
Wilson’s arm is weak due to surgery
several years ago, Junior Felix
wouldn't know a cutoff man from a
stranger on the street. Bell, mean
while, made some spectacular catches
at the fence this year, but Rob Ducey
showed in September how much bet
ter the position can be played

The GM agreed there are per-
sonality conflicts in the Blue Jay
clubhouse, but not enough to
motivate a trade

He was asked specifically about 18-
game winner Dave Stieb, who
glowered at Wilson when the centre
fielder misjudged a fly ball Wed-
nesday. When Stieb was removed in
the eighth inning with a 2-1 lead, his
glued to their

PAT GILLICK
. . . willing to listen

seats, refusing to congratulate him

“That's been his personality for 13
or 14 years,”’ Gillick said. “He's not
the most liked guy on the club.””

Gillick said he'd be reluctant to
trade McGriff, whose single on a 3-0
pitch Wednesday in Baltimore gave
him a .300 average to go with 35
homers and 88 RBIs

“All you have to do is look at the
fellow who hit 51 home runs” to
realize the danger of letting power hit
ters drift. away, ‘said Gillick. Cecil
Fielder, a Blue Jay castoff in 1988, hit
$1 homers for Detroit

“You just can’t. find guys like
that,” Gillick said. “‘You can’t give
them up because they'll hurt you im
mediately."*

Gillick, who said he’s planning no
major changes to the Jays’ roster,
said inconsistency hurt the Jays. Lack
of baserunning. bunting and other
fundamental skills was part of the
reason for the erratic play. Youth was
another factor, he said

He admitted the team is often un
disciplined, doing, everything from
flailing at the first pitch when they"ve
got a pitcher in trouble to running the
bases recklessly

“They've just got to be told over
and over again, like they were still
kids," Gillick said

Obie benches receiver

SURREY (CP) — There’s a new
controversy brewing in the CFL camp
of the B.C. Lions.

Head coach Bob O'Billovich insists
a one-game benching of Larry Willis
is in the best interests of the wide
receiver.

Willis demanded to be traded or
released this week when learning he
will not play today against the Ottawa
Rough Riders at B.C. Place Stadium.

“He knows where I'm coming
from,”’ O'Billovich said. *‘His job is
to play when he’s healthy."’

O'Billovich said Willis will miss the
Ottawa game becaue of a bothersome
groin-muscle injury, not because he
dislikes the receiver.

Willis, signed in the off-season as a
free agent, has caught just one pass
for five yards in the last two games —
and merely waved at several other

vpasses thrown his way.

“*Rest is the best thing for him right
now,” said O’Billovich,

“‘He should be 100 per cent for our
next game and ready for the stretch
run.”

The last-place Lions have a 3-9-1
record and trail the third-place
Saskatchewan Roughriders by seven
Points in the West Division standings
with five games left on the schedule.

The Lions are 1-1 since O'Billovich
became head coach and vice-president
of football operations last month
following the firing of Lary Kuharich
and Joe Kapp.

Willis 27, from Fresno State,
averaged 73 catches and 1,385 yards a
season during his three CFL years
with the Calgary Stampeders. This
season he has 49 receptions and 837
yards for the struggling Lions.

The B.C. coaching staff and several
players were visibly upset last Sunday
in Regina when Will
hard after an interception at
Saskatchewan goal line by li

Later in the game, won 37-34 by
Saskatchewan, Willis failed to throw
a block that might have sprung fellow
» ide receiver Ray Alexander into the

car.

“After that one play in Saskat-
chewan,”’ O'Billovich said of the in-
serception, ‘a lot of people didn’t like
him.

“There's times when a receiver has
to become a defensive player. 1 don’t
want any players on the field who
can’t do that.”” :

Willis admitted the Saskatchewan
game was his worst CFL performan-
ce, adding that he played with an in-
jury so that the opposition couldn't
double-team Alexander

The Lions will replace Willis with
either Anthony Hunter or Tim Eger-
ton against Ottawa.

The five-foot-eight Hunter retur-
ned a punt 108 yards for a touchdown

Eddie Lowe of the Roughriders.

and has im-
staff.

Smyl's
captaincy
ends

VANCOUVER (CP) — Stan
Smyl's appointment as captain of
the Vancouver Canucks ended
Thursday at the NHL
opener in Calgary

Smyl was removed from the
responsibility by club
management after cight seasons as
the on-ice leader of the team.

Canuck Officials named a
threesome to alternate the cap-
taincy — defenceman Doug Lid-
ster, right-winger Trevor Linden
and centre Dan Quinn. Lidster
wore the captain's “‘C” in the

season-

Smyl, 32, was not in the
opening lineup after scoring just
‘one goal in 47 last season.

The right winger SWaneduver’s
career scoring leader with 260
goals in 851 league games