Si wera om aero ATTIRE Page 4A The Castlegar,Sun Wednesday, November 28, 1990 Mayor Moore back at the helm By BARBARA TANDORY Sun staff writer 7 The newly re-elected mayor of .Castlegar says she’s confident the new council will see the city move towards its proper destiny as a hub of economic activity in the region. “’'m hoping that in the next four-five years Castlegar will become a transporiation centre of the region and a distribution cen- tre for goods and services,” said Moore, noting that Martech Electrical Systems Ltd. ‘is build- ing another outlet in Castlegar. “And if there's to be a regional centre for shopping, it should be located in Castlegar, where it could draw on a population of 50,000-60,000.” Moore said the anticipated Celgar expansion project will be a green light to a number of propos- al that have been put on hold while the $630-m. pulpmill pro- ject is under an extensive federal- provincial review. “I'm sure that the Celgar mod- emization is going to go ahead,” said Moore. “It’s a good project and it’s a cleanup project. That will trigger a multi-family apart- ment building project, and more. We have tentatively $40 million worth of plans and projects wait- ing for the (Celgar) announce- ment.” Moore says the city has been preparing for the effects of brisk ic activity — especially since the.Celgar ion is “alternate through street,” said Moore, pointing out that the pre- . posed road will be what's called a “collector” route rather than.a new arterial highway. + : This proposal will: come before council at its Dec.11 meet: ° ing, and then be taken to public expected to be followed closcly by a B.C, Hydro turbine installa- tion in the Hugh Keenleyside dam - by planning improvements in its road system, ‘ The city staff has prepared a comprehensive development plan, _ which includes a proposal for a KITCHEN DESIGN SCABINETRY Gere This is a special introductory discount offer on Kitchen Craft products for a limited time only! CENTRE presents KITCHEN CRAFT att “It’s going to help the traffic movement on Columbia Avenue,” said Moore. ! “The traffic counts are compa- rable to an arterial highway,” she said in reference to vehicles counts carried out by the ministry of highways four months ago at the south-end ii ; in Castlegar : its oxpected use numbers for the year by August — Moore said she's pleased with the plans by the Castlegar Projects Society for a major community theatre centre to : be located at Stanley Humphries ., Secondary School. . - p * “That would almost complete our recreational facility develop- ‘ment,” she said.) Moore. said the city-built - industrial park in South Castlegar, should see more occupancy after several years of standing near vacant, “I think ‘we're going to have more.and.more people locat- ing in our industrial park,” she sal : Moore who has been mayor * since’ 1977;—after tires years on _ cuncil as an alderman — said sho believes in a brighter economic future for Castlegar, “25 ““Castlegar has been very fortu- nate,” she said. “We're dependent on Celgar (pulpmill) a little, but we're not so dependent (on a major employer) as many other towns, ‘ t “We have other industries. We also have the principal campus of the (Selkirk) college. We're diver- * sified.” “The movements are very high,” stressed Moore. She said the city staff has plot- ted all areas where traffic acci- dents had been most frequent =i the information will be presented to council Dec. 11 and then in public meetings. “T also think the new bridge on the Columbia is going to make quite a change in our traffic pat- tern.” The proposed bridge — to ‘ replace the Robson-Castlegar ferry link — is also’ tied to the Celgar expansion, but planning and preparation by the provincial government has begun earlier this year. Speaking of past achieve- ments, Moore says one of the things that pleased her most was the devolopment by the city of Zukerberg Island as a park. “When we bought it, it was basically a garbage dump,” she said. But Moore would like to see the city to undertake a more ambi- tious park development project — to develop its waterfront as a “complimentary development to Zukerberg Island.” Moore says it’s make a great park “for the people's pleasure.” The Columbia River water- front is a “high use area,” she , noted. “I think we're very fortunate not to have our waterfront cov- ered with industrial plants. We're very, very fortunate to have that latent potential.” Noting that the aquatic centre opened Jast January has been a GEAR UP AT... success —— it exceeded “TOP QUALITY GORTEX JACKETS BY SIERRA #\ DESIGNS YOUR CROSS-COUNTRY SKI SPECIALISTS 333 BAKER STREET, NELSON » 352-6411 Council Briefs eve by oe ‘Barbara Tandory. get. The city owns the property fencing around the compound. AIDS alert day. Out going Ald Tuesday, November 27, 1990 Castlegar. Chamber. of Commerce appealed to council for $25,000 to help build a new one-stop Business info centre, able to‘ provide tourist and business ‘counselling services under one roof, Jim Craig and Laurie Renwick from the chamber said the $150,000 project was scaled down from a two-story to one-story building when Go B.C. grant funding fell through. Renwick said the pro- posal was still hanging on a firm commitment from Public Works Canada to relocate the airport weather office into the new building. Council voted to include the requested $25,000 in the new bud- on which the chamber building is to be located. The amount would pay for site development and oe Alderman Patti Richards said the coming World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, should not go unobserved in this area. “People still think there's not a problem in our area,” said Richards, “There's indeed a problem in our own area,” ‘Women, who make up one-third of those suffering from the . deadly immune deficiency syndrome, are the focus of this year’s “oe region's Terry Rogers d once more the the latest figures released by Canada Employment Centre in Trail. Unemployment was up at 10.4 percent in October from 9.6 in : to don p Golden and Salmon Arm. feats “ fighters* So v u Castlegar is a part, along with Nelson, Creston, Revelstoke, “Sadly, we continue to be on the high side of unemployment, so I suspect Newfoundland is better off than us,” he said. ne oP het ceereas. So aca ee any ae ‘** Colincil voted to give $1,600 to the Castlegar volunteer fire-. , social clubs for their annual dinner and dance, on a rec- Region No. 92 of which ion:from the city passed Tuesday on Council issued a temporary permit to allow a dance studio operation at 2205 - 14th Avenue ona condition that it be renovated to comply with the building and fire codes. ‘. ‘The city of Castlegar decided to not continue its planning ser- vices agreement with the Regional District of Central Kootenay board and will no longer share the cost of management and devel- opment under Part 29 of the Municipal Act. © “The city does not wish to enter into an agreement at this time with the RDCK for planning services in 1991,” said a motion and finance committee. one from the ing and devel- opment committee. “We feel we have our hods of d k this year. planning,” said C noting the cost was $25,000 last year and would go up to $27,000 “Alderman Lawrence. Cheroff said the protective services ooe has met with complaint in the past six weeks. Ay the problem of vandalism in the area. But he noted lately it’s been quiet around the- Wizard's Palace, and police received only one \ ‘The next regular meeting of Castlegar City Council will be held on Monday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m, in Council Chambers. The newly- elected Council will be sworn in at that time. ° .' : of the Wizard’s Palace to discuss 8 468-6588. Castlegar 352-3200 Nelson 4 MENS AND LADIES - SKI GLOVES “SALOMON ‘CROSS - COUNTR' DYNASTAR “2 SKIS . 3. & SALOMON 447 mounting | — OR LDWATCH patel DNESDAY, November 28, 1990. U.S. a i Los Angeles Times . As Iraqi troops ‘rolled into Kuwait, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. St and U.S across the Urals, talk tumed quick. ly to the Iraqi invasion. Ross’ Soviet. counterpart, Sergei = fs Secretary of State James A; Baker MI were in Irkutsk, enjoying a soft Siberian summer and a fishing Holiday while they wrapped up yet another session in their con- thuing efforts to negotiate an end to the Cold War. Nye cite ‘ Downtown, on the’streets of Irkutsk, the mood was not so felaxed. The city’s 630,000 inhab- itants, like those elsewhere in the © Soviet Union, were desperate. Earlier that week, riot police ‘had: Been called to disperse a crowd of 1,000 shoppers shoving to get into a'store that had managed to come bitingly d the brutality of Hussein, a longti Sovict ally.-Ross and Tarasenko began talking about the possibility of a joint U.S.'- Sovict statement condemning the invasion and’ embargoing arms sales to Iraq. In Moscow, Ross rushed to the U.S. ; Embassy and called Baker in Mongolia. The Soviets might, agrec to a joint statement on Iraq, Ross suid, if Baker would fly to:. Moscow and deliver it alongside Shevardnadze. 1 Baker liked the idea. A joint statement would show the world that a new era of superpower . up with a shi of imp then’s boots. Across Uritsky Street; Siberian consumers’ partic- ipated in a kind of lowery in hopes of winning prized items such as rizors, cigarettes and toothpaste. ‘Baker and Sh dze were P ‘had ‘arrived. Such a : statement would make it difficult for the other major nations of the world to lag behind in condemning Iraq. And it would put the lic to | any claim by Hussein that he had nearing the end of their. talks . when Lt. Gen. Howard Graves, a Tepresentative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was in the secretary if state’s delegation, informed Saker of the Iraqi invasion. Baker ifmediately told Shevardnadze, The Soviet foreign minister was stunned. The previous day, he had told the Americans he was con- vinced that Saddam Hussein would not invade Kuwait. "This is what 40 years of our policies in the Middle East have come to,"’ Shevardnadze later would tell an aide, Tt was too carly to know exact- ly what was happening, Baker left the Soviet Union for Mongolia, while Shevardnadze flew back to Moscow. Aboard Shevardnadze’s Aeroflot jet were two of Baker's top aides - Dennis Ross, director of policy planning, and State Department counselor Robert Zpellick. They had intended to sit down with Soviet officials at a ¢ dach#’ outside‘ Moscow ‘to work - out the agenda their two govern- - ments should confront in the com- ing year. {: But as their plane soared ag ra } OTTAWA, Reuter - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is deeply unpop- ° ular throughout:Canada, while his Conservative Party has sunk to a new low in public opinion, according to a poll teleased Monday. gy ee i: An Environics poll released ‘by The Toronto Star confirmed ‘that Mulroney was personally ‘disliked by the electorate and his party got approval from only 14 ‘percent of those interviewed. When asked who their favorite leader was, Canadians showed strong dislike for the cur- gent crop of politicians and ‘instead chose Pierre Trudeau, the charismatic French Canadian awho ruled Canada for much of ‘the 1970s and early 1980s. is A spate of polls in recent nonths has shown Mulroney’ in ‘deep disfavor with the electorate. ‘Th a Globe and Mail, survey last ‘month, the ruling Conservatives . were supported by 16 percent of tyoters.' > “In Monday’s Star poll it was ‘also found that 31 percent of (Canadians think Mulroney, in power since 1984, is the worst Iprime minister in years. ~ * y' wee Mutroney ‘must call an elec- ”. ‘lon within the next three years, “He doesn't listen‘and-he gives: ‘the impression that he knows best sdnd the rest of us should fall ‘in Mine,” the newspaper quoted poll \¥espondent Carolyn Willis as say= Ung in a front-page story. + St-Canadians, worried about the ‘flowing economy and the rise of ‘ i sly French-speaking province.’ ebec separatism, are not happ: lwith any of the major parties and cauempts. ® i support for his inva- sion. : Be Seas Still, ever-cautious, Baker instructed Ross: "Make sure the statement is a good one.” Sovict-U.S, condemnation of Iraq and a demand that Hussein pull his troops out of Kuwait, But on Aug. 3, as Baker and his party were already flying from Mongolia to Moscow, this draft came under attack. Traditionalists in the Soviet Foreign Ministry thought the state- ment was too strong. The Soviet Union had not aligned itself with the United States in the Mideast for decades. Wasn't this going too far? : The haggling and uncertainty among Soviet officials continued until just before Baker landed. In the end, Tarasenko, Shevardnadze and, ultimately, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev won out. On Friday night, Aug. 3, soon after Baker's Boeing 707 touched down at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, the Soviet foreign minister and the USS. secretary of state appeared before television cameras to read the prepared statement. The two superpowers made clear that their efforts would extend beyond the mere rhetoric of condemnation. "The United States and the Soviet Union believe the The idea for a quict d at adacha was d. Ti Y must not d invited Ross to an office in an ‘ annex of the Soviet i only this action,’’ the two superpowers said, “but also tak i g Ministry compound. He told Ross - they should get the latest news from Iraq. The American: visitor thought his Soviet colleague was about to pick up the phone and call some Mideast specialist in the Soviet Foreign’ Ministry, or per- haps the KGB. Instead, Tarascnko moved over to an office television and tured on CNN. Tarasenko phoned Shevard- nadze and got tentative approval for a joint U.S.-Soviet' statement on the invasion. Ross’ aide, Andrew Carpendale, was assigned to begin work on the drafting. All the typewriters in the Soviet Foreign Ministry offices had the : Cyrillic alphabet; finally, after a frantic’ séarclt, Sovitt officials + ‘Mocated an electric’ typewriter with the Latin alphabet, and Carpendale went to work, His draft included an explicit ‘Michel Gratton, a. former Mulroncy press secretary and now a columnist for The Sun group of ep 1 steps in to it” The gulf crisis shows how the superpowers hope, in the future, to work together to solve conflicts, and why the Soviet Union has become a staunch champion of a stronger U.N. Security Council - even one able to deploy multina- tional forces against aggressors, In seeking to restrain Iraq, the United States and the Soviet Union are working together in an area of the world where Americans and Soviets have been at odds for more than three decades, virtually since the beginning of the Cold War. "A major event in the Near Edst'is rio longer a‘subject for con- frontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, whereas before now it had always been 2 subject of confrontation,” former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing said. A senior Mulroney very unpopular left for the Bloc Quebecois because of the failure of a consti- tutional deal in June while two iP says ings have started among Conservatives but believes it would.be too carly to callitarevolt.. — ; ies “But the whispering campaign has started,” Gratton said. “ And these things have a nasty way of feeding on themselves.” * Other Ottawa watchers. say that unlike in Britain,, where Michael Heseltine was. instumen- tal in Thatcher's resignatiag, there ! are no rea) Conservative, chal- whos bers from English Canada have left recently in protest over: economic policies. Leaders of The Baltimore Sun BEIJING - China's leaders, who told American congressmen this month that many jailed dissi- dents soon would be released, reportedly have charged two alleged leaders of last year’s pro- lengers in the wings. “Toppling an i primo minister is nearly impossi- ble in Canada...,” said: Mike Duffy, a television host and news- papercolumnist :s.0) 00 t -In the poll,.the leftist New Democrats were in the lead with ” 32 percent support‘of decided vot- ers, while the Liberals were sec- ond with 30 percent. 3h “No party would come close” to forming a majority goverment, protests with trying to topple the government, a capital crime. Families of the two intellectu- als - Wang Juntao, editor of a weekly economic journal, and Chen Zeming, its publisher - received notice late last week that they had been charged with sedi- tion and spreading counter-revolu- tionary propaganda, eccording to sources quoted by Western news ies here. } which would tion of two or even three parties to © form a government,” ‘the pollsters said in the-survey. . Adding to Mulroney’s woes has been a rise in-special interest : parties in his two:main political : strongholds, Western Canada ‘and Quebec. ut In the West, Canadians,~ among. other hings, are angry .about the planned ‘implemenitation of a seven percent consumption tax in.” january. that would -be applied on: a coali-. ~ Plotting to overthrow the gov- emment is one of the most serious crimes in China, and the reported, ‘. charges are the strongest filed to date against any alleged ringlead- ers of last year’s protest move- ment. 4 This latest move follows a meeting two weeks ago between a ion. of U.S * and Premier Li Peng, a meeting in which Li was said by some of the 2) to have indi d that China soon would release many still being held in jail as a result of last year’s military crack- . downon pro-democracy pro- testers. But the reported .charges against Wang and Chen appear to confirm a claim earlier this month by the human, rights group, ional, that China op of exii pro sales taxes. 2, atyzy : 2.1. -Mulroney‘has,been a hit by a . string of defections 'in his party, although the Conservatives remain in contrel of Parliament. | ~ Six Quebec Conservatives have was. planning to hold a series of trials of jailed dissidents, perhaps «in secret. “One Western diplomat said that any:trials of dissidi could Bush ‘administration official termed the gulf crisis "the first’ major military operation or con- flict which hasn't almost immedi- ately taken on East-West over- . tones." But the crisis also has under- scored one of the paradoxes inher- ent in what President Bush and others call the "new world order’’: As the two superp cooper- U.S. and Soviet Union showing a. newfound union in oppos ition to Iraq — on regional disputes,” says profes- sor Lawrence B. Krause of the University of California, San Diego. At the same time, the crisis illustrates how a strengthened Security Council could serve the interests of Soviet foreign policy. "The Soviet Union has tcarned firsthand the dangers of military a result, the Kremlin has become perhaps the most active and vocal advocate for a more dynamic United Nations." : Gorbachev gnd other Soviet leaders have beea motivated by more than a belief in world feder- alism, Weiss and Kessler say. By relying on the United Nations, ; they argue, “the Soviets are able | ate, they may have less influence on the clients they. subsidize and support around the world. "The end of the fear of a global conflict may have lifted a restraining force particularly be- cause of serious economic crises at home and in Eastern Europe,” wrote Thomas G. Weiss and Meryl A. Kessler in Foreign Policy magazine last summer. "As to abroad and cut the costs of military assistance elsewhere, while using multilater- al diplomacy to prevent the ; United States from taking advan- tage of this retreat.” Peace groups urge OTTAWA, Reuter - Peace groups called on the Canadian government Monday to work harder to find a diplomatic solu- tion to the Persian Gulf crisis and not be quick to be drawn into any U.S.-led war with Iraq. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government has taken a strong stand against Iraq, saying the multinational force in Saudi Arabia should move if Saddam Hussein refuses to withdraw from Kuwait. 3 Canadian External Affairs Minister Joe Clark said Monday in Jerusalem that Canada was ready to back a United Nations resolution setting a January dead- line for Iraq to withdraw from the * country it has occupied since Aug. 2. After meeting Defense Minister Bill McKnight, the government to avoid war in the Persian Gulf. Canadian Peace Alliance said the ; government seemed too eager to 4 go to war while not allowing ° enough time to let the U.N. trade - sanctions work, ‘ “The Canadian government: should say it wants a negotiated + solution; it's not prepared to go to ° war,” said David Kraft, a, spokesman for the alliance tha! represents several peace, labo: and women’s groups. : Bombs The Daily Telegraph BAGHDAD - Iraq is unlikely - to-respond:to-a°United-Nations ">" ultimatum to leave Kuwait by Jan 1 until the bombs start falling, Western diplomats in Baghdad said Monday. Responding 10 reports from America that the United States would be pressing the UN Security Council on Thursday to impose an end-of-year deadline, ’ the near unanimous belicf here was that President Saddam Hussein would prefer to be beaten in a war, rather than capitulate to threats before force was used. "He was scared to start with and issued orders from his must fall first bunker. But lately he has been more relaxed. He must now “believe ‘that the US‘and ils allies don’t-have: the: stomach fora war,” said one source. Another said Saddam was sur- rounded by “yes men” who lulled him into believing Iraq might sland a chance if there. was 3 Saudi-based attack, The was, Monday, saying he was secking : the release of all foreign hostages. * More than 50 British detainees’ were moved by bus to Baghdad’s Mansour-Melia Hotel from instal- lations and hotels in Kuwait. The Kuwaiti installations are reported to have been cleared of all Britons, but it was too early to say whether their evacuation was that Saddam was getting some “very good advice” on how to handle the crisis, particularly the hostage issue which has attracted many foreign politicians to Baghdad.Mr Tony Benn, the for- mer British Labour Party minis- ter, was the latest to arrive d with Mr Benn’s visit. Mr Benn said he was in Iraq to try to maintain Middle East peace at a “dangerous” time when the US was “trying to move the world towards an acceptance of war”. The remaining 56 Swedish hostages have, meanwhile, been told that they can go home. protests charged with sedition problem in the West. "It seems rather counterproduc- tive to put people on wial,” he said. "IF the trials are secret, it mises a lot of human rights questions. If they’re public, China ends up showing off how its legal. system really works - 99 percent of those Canada Today put on trial are convicted.” _-“Although tens of thousands of protesters were arrested after last year’s protests - and at least 18 are believed to have been execut- ed - there have been no-public wi- als. Hundreds still remain in jail. In the case of the most impor- tant official implicated in the protests, former Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, the party is said to have closed its investigation without a conclusion for fear that putting him on trial would bring to light its decp internal divisions. Reform Party popular, MPs headed home, Defense expensive, P.Q. call for referendum MINORITY POLL _ Another. popularity poll has been released showing a split among respondents with no party aclear favorite. - According to results of the Environics poll, the westem-based Reform Party is almost as popular as the Mul g The -after receiving a letter from the Hy ime Mini The breakdown in the Gulf promis- ing medical supplies and pointing “out the Swedes had no troops in the Persian Gulf participating in the United Nations’ blockade led by the U.S. The Canadian delegation has g Tories polled 14 per cent and the Reformers got 11 per cent. The Reform Party is just one percent- age point more popular than Quebec's reformers, the Bloc Quebecois, who polled 10 per cent among respondents. Leading the poll were the NDP - at 32 per cent and the Liberals at 30 per cent : -MPS COMING HOME The three MPs lobbying for release of more than 40 Canadian hostages in Iraq may be.coming home as early as ‘Tuesday. They have been in Baghdad one week meeting with government officials > but'so far have little more than sympathy for their efforts.» - “Monday. the trio — PC Robert Corbett, Liberal’ Lloyd Axworthy and NDP. SVend: Robinson — _ only aggravate China’s image hed as the Iraqi voted to release Swedish hostages Pp d the point of view that war is no way to end the crisis precipitated when Iraq invaded and took over neighboring Kuwait. However, the presence of Canadian troops in the Gulf. is a. hindrance to getting the release of the hostages now in their fourth month of captivity. CUTS TOTAL $350 M The Mulroney government moved Friday to transfer $350 million in additional funds to assist with forces stationed in the Persian Gulf. The Department of National Defence said it will cost - $90 million a month to keep the. forces stationed in the Gulf. The defence budget is also © short $83. million as a result of * operations’: ‘at'.) Oka’. and Chateauguay. There is $16 mil- lion that couldn't be covered within the current defence budget this year. Pe includes $229 million for operating expenditures and $121 million for upgrading ships and aircraft dispatched to the Gulf. Finance Minister Michael Wilson said cuts will be made elsewhere in the budget to restrain the growth of the deficit this year. PARIZEAU CHALLENGES OV'T Parti Quebecois leader Jacques _ Parizeau ‘has challenged. the Bourassa government to declare its support for sovereignty, hold a ref- erendum or call a general election, Speaking at a party rally which re-affirmed Mr. Parizeau’s hold on independence platform, he said the cost is too high in economic terms ‘and otherwise in maintaining the current constitutional relationship with the rest of Canada. *"Let’s have a general election to settle it,” he said. : The Liberal government of Robert Bourassa will likely await , the report of the Bonlanger-:3‘.: Campeau Commission ‘in Marc before taking a position on consti: tutional issues, The commission is ‘currently holding public meetings | in : : : Quebec. “,