October 18, 1989

October 18, 1989

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SUMMIT BEGINS

Opening speech
strongly worded

KUALA LUMPUR (CP) — The
Commonwealth summit opened today
to a drumbeat and the wail of Malay
horns as representatives of 49 coun-
iries criticized apartheid and warned of
the widening gap between its rich and
poor members.

Malasian Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad delivered the opening
speech, a sharp assessment of the role
rich and poor countries are playing in
the world and a blast at what he called
state terrorism by Israel

The Commonwealth leaders arrived
at the conference centre in chauffered
limousines. They were introduced in
turn to Mahatir as young women
dressed in traditional Malay, Chinese
and Indian dress showered them with
rose petals and a band of drummers
kept upa driving beat

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Each year, half of British Columbia's motor vehicle
accidents happen at intersection:
accidents took a toll of 13,000 injuries and more than

But as soon as Mahathir took the
stage, the festivity was dispelled,

“State terrorism as practised by
Israel is as despicable as any kind of
terrorism and must be stopped,”
Mahathir said to applause from some
of the African delegates but silence
from Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
and Margaret Thatcher of Britain,
among others

Israel's security may be important
but “surely we must also consider the
security of its neighbors and the faie of
the Palestinians,” he said

He also repeated the Common
wealth’s unanimous condemnation of
apartheid in South Africa.

*‘SENDSIGNAL’

Mahathir urged delegates 10 send
“the correct signal’’ to South Africa.
“Sanctions work," he said, adding
that the sanctions **must not only con-
tinue but must be escalated

“Investments and financial flows
to racist South Africa must be com
pletely stopped.”

Mahathir
treatment of developing countries by
the prosperous West. He said the
wealth of developed countries still
comes at the expense of the poor

complained about the

“The rich countries have apparently
ganged up against. the poor,”
Mahathir said

“They have arrogated to themselves
the right to direct world trade and to
manipulate currencies to their advan:
tage,” he said, adding that new en.
vironmental rules and concern for
human rights are being used to hamper
Third World development

Mulroney delivered a low-key
speech in which he called on the Com
monwealth to maintain economic san
ctions on South Africa

“SANCTIONS WORK’

He said the sanctions are having an
effect and should not be abandoned
now, when Pretoria appears more
willing to talk about changes than ever
before

Later, the prime minister had lunch
with anti-apartheid leader Alan
Boesak of South Africa. After the lun

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That’s why ICBC and police departmen
throughout the province

especially when turning left.

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graciously.

e Avoid unsafe lane changes and illegal turns.
If any additional reminder is required, extra police
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CICBC

Together, we can drive
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this fall.

These intersection

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they may have forgotten in the rush to beat traffic:

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Stop tailgating: give the car ahead space to stop

suddenly.
e Take it easy when entering any intersection,

BRIAN MULRONEY
. .. lunch with anti-apartheid
leader Alan Boesak

ch, Boesak said the Commonwealth
sanctions adopted in. 1985 have had an
impact on Pretoria and there seems to
be achance that reforms can be made

Boesak said Mulroney agrees that
South African President F.W. de
Klerk must be given time to see
whether he keeps promises of reform
when-the South African parliament
resumes sitting this fall.

“We are saying that we should give
him the time to talk to his parliament
and see whether they are going to
scrap those basic laws which are the
pillars of apartheid,’ Boesak said

Mahathir led off the morning
speeches, followed by Commonwealth
Secretary General Sir Shridath Ram
phal, Mulroney, Zimbawe President
Robert Mugabe and Pakistani Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Bhutto, who is making the first ap
pearance by a Pakistani leader at the
Commonwealth in 17 years, was war
nily applauded by the audience when
she spoke. Pakistan left the Common:
wealth in a dispute over recognition of
Bangladesh in 1972

COLUMBIA

Briefly

Mission teachers back to work

VANCOUVER (CP) — Some 5,800 students ‘in the Fraser Valley
community of Mission are going back to school this morning.

The district's 400 teachers voted Tuesday about 73 per cent in favor
of sending their dispute, mainly over class sizes, to binding arbitration.

OF 295 ballots cast,-216 were in favor of arbitration, 77 were opposed
and two were spoiled.

Mediator Vince Ready is expected to han
weeks

The strike began about two weeks ago.

‘Welfare agitators’ blamed

VICTORIA (CP) — The man who wants to build a smelting
welfare agitators” Tuesday for stalling

d down his ruling within two

operation in Nanaimo blamed
his proposed ferrochromium plant
me's all agitators from Gabriola Island, which has about 2,000

people on it, most of them living on welfare and have nothing better to
do,”” said Jay Wooding, from his office in New Jersey

“The facts are that we have a clean, non-polluting method of making
metal,” said Wooding

But Nanaimo city councillors agreed Monday to ask the federal
government for a detailed study of the environmental impact of
Wooding’s plant

The council move came after about 1,500 people staged the biggest
demonstration in Nanaimo in recent memory, said Mayor Frank Ney

Ney said if the plant’s operation gets a clean bill of health from the
more detailed study, the plant can proceed. The study could be completed
in abouta year

The $41-million plant is set to be built with about $9 million in
provincial and federal money, about $25 million from private investors
and the remainder from Wooding.

The smelting plant will make ferrochromium ingots, which are used
to produce stainless steel, and employ about 150 people.

Court told of surveillance

VANCOUVER (CP) — Seven men, including three Americans,
charged with conspiracy to traffic in 13,000 kilograms of marijuana were
under police surveillance for more than five weeks before their arrest two
years ago

Federal prosecutor Patricia Babcock made that statement Tuesday in
her opening remarks toa B.C. Supreme Court jury

In a jury trial expected to take two months, the Crown plans to call
evidence to show surveillance of the accused began Aug. 4, 1987 in Van-
couver and Victoria

The accused were arrested Sept. 14, 1987 after unloading a large
number of sports bags filled with marijuana from a fishboat in Delta onto
large trucks.

New Manitoba fines stiff

WINNIPEG (CP) — Drivers whose cars are impounded under
Manitoba’s new drunk driving law will have to pay up to $245 to get the
vehicles back

Provincial officials announced Tuesday the administrative fees
associated with the new law as a legislature committee met to put the
finishing touches on the legislation

The law, described as the toughest in Canada, takes effect Nov. 1

The legislation allows police to impound vehicles driven by suspen~
ded drivers for 30 days.

It also provides for a 90-day licence suspension when a driver is
charged with failing or refusing a breath test
imposed before charges are dealt with in court

Nurses talk strike again

CALGARY (CP) embittered by overwork and
the 30-per-cent pay increase for provincial politicians — are again talking
strike action as they prepare for negotiations on a new contract

“Nurses in this province don’t want to consider strike action, but we
have to be prepared to do that,’’ said Heather Smith, president of the
United Nurses of Alberta

Negotiations with hospitat employers begin the first week of Decem-
ber for a new contract to take effect April 1, 1990, but a deadlock on the
crucial pay issue could result in a strike as early as January

Deal struck for Soviet TV time

TORONTO (CP) Two Canadians have won the North American
advertising rights for Soviet television

The suspension would be

Alberta nurses

Under a deal signed Tuesday with the Sovtelexport agency, Toron-
to’s George Boros and Brian Hawkins hope to be selling ‘tinfomercial”’
air time on Soviet television early next year

“We're still negotiating with ihe Russians to work out a rate card,”
said Hawkins, senior vice-president of marketing for Trans Global Enter-
prises Inc

“But I think it’s going to be very reasonable (by North American
standards)."*

Rather than consumer companies doing the advertising, Hawkins
said early commercials will be by technology-based companies wanting to
advertise their wares and expertise to Soviet government agencies and co-
operatives

Alberta elects senator

EDMONTON (CP) — Nearly
everyone with a political axe to grind
wasted no time Tuesday telling Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney he must
allow the winker of the first Senate
election in Canadian history to take his
seat,

Two maverick federal Conservative
backbenchers, Alex Kindy and David
Kilgour, were among the first to say
Mulroney can't ignore the 257,000
Albertans who chose Stan Waters, the
western-based Reform party's .can-
didate.

Mulroney is in Malaysia for a Com.
monwealth conference and has yet to
say if he will let Waters fill an Alberta
vacancy in Parliament's upper house.
But two senior federal cabinet
ministers said there is no guarantee the
prime minister, who is responsible for

appointing senators, will heed Mon
day’ selection result

Deputy Prime Minister Don
Mazankowski said premiers who
sighed (he Meech Lake constitutional
accord, including Alberta’ Premier
Don Geity, agreed to submit lists of
nominees. from which the ptime
minister would make a choice

Senator Lowell Murray, secretary of
state for, federal-provincial relations,
said one name does not make a list

Getty, who met with Waters and
Reform party leader Preston Manning
Tuesday, refused to say how many
names would be submitted

Getty called the election to push for
reform of the unelected and virtually
powerless upper chamber, which has
104. seats. The Conservative premier
favors a so-called triple-E Senate

el effective and with equal
representation.
SWEPT ASIDE

Waters, an advocate of western
rights who was once a commander in
the Canadian army, easily swept aside
five other candidates. Senate reform is
an important issue for the two-year-
old party, which opposes official
bilingualism and special status ‘for
Quebec,

About 37 per cent of 1.5 million
eligible voters cast ballots in the Senate
election. Waters, 69, received 256,511
0f 618,262 votes cast

Murray said the low voter turnout
would be ‘tin the background’’ as
Mulroney weighs his decision.

Saskatchewan Premier Grant
Devine said the Alberta vote is a **sym:
bol of alientation and frustration’ in

OTTAWA (CP) — It'll be bye-
bye Tory Alberta if Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney does not appoint
that province's elected nominee to
the Senate, the Reform party's
lone MP said Tuesday

The bad news for Mulroney is
that at least one of his Conservative
backbenchers, Alex Kindy of
Calgary, agrees

Crowing about a second’ stun.
ning Reform party triumph with
the election Monday of colleague
Stan Waters as Alberta's Senate
nominee, Reform MP Deborah
Grey said Mulroney has no choice
but to appoint him

“The people of Alberta have
spoken resoundingly,"’ Grey told
reporters. “‘If the prime minister
refuses to appoint (Waters) the
term Tory Alberta may truly be a
thing of the past.””

Waters, 69, a retired military
commander, swept aside five other
candidates in the first such election
in Canadian history. He almost
doubled Liberal challenger Bill
Code and left Conservative Bert
Brown adistant third:

But two senior cabinet ministers
said Tuesday there was no guaran
tee Mulroney would name Waters
to the Senate.

Premiers who signed the Meech
Lake constitutional accord — in
cluding Alberta Premier Don Get
ty — agreed under that pact’s
provisions for Senate reform they
would submit lists of nominees
from which the prime minister
would choose \a senator, said
deputy prime minister Don
Mazankowski

“That is the process that is in
place as I understand it,” he said
**And I expect that’s what will be
followed."”

ONE NAME NOT LIST

Senator Lowell Murray,
secretary of state for federal-
provincial relations, agreed that
one name does not alist make.

“Iv’s Premier Getty’s role to
submit names — plural — and
Prime “Minister Mulroney's
responsibility under the Meech
Lake accord to select the name of
somebody who's acceptable to
him.”*

Mulroney has no choice,
Reform MP Grey says

Meanwhile, Kindy said
Mulroney should cut short his trip
to the Commonwealth conference
in Malaysia in order to deal with
the Senate appointment and scrap
the sales tax.

“There is a message being sent
by Alberta and I think the voters
are unhappy,” Kindy said. “He
should come back, absolutely and
as fast as possible

“The consequences are that we
might have difficulty in the next
federal election." The Tories hold
24 of the 26 Alberta seats in the
Commons.

Liberal Lloyd Axworthy said he
found it incredible MPs from an
elécted Commons would even con
template ignoring the vote and
“repudiating democracy.”*

Getty called the election to push
for reform of the unelected upper
chamber, which has 104 seats with
eight vacancies.

Getty, a Conservative, favors
the concept known as the triple-E
Senate elected, effective and
with equal representation from
each province

Western Canada to which Mulroney
should listen closely. ‘1 wouldn't take
it lightly. I’m not so sure the feelings of
alienation and frustration are isolated
to Alberta."’

Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon
said he‘will consider holding an elec
tion to fill his province's next opening
in the Senate.

New Brunswick Premier Frank
McKenna said although he’s not
required to listen to Alberta voters,
Mulroney will find it hard to ignore
their choice

Getty described the turnout as ‘im

pressive,” and said he expects *

Mulroney to respond quickly but
wouldn't say how long he is prepared
to wait.

Although Conservative candidate
Bert Brown finished third, Getty said it
wasn’t a backlash against his gover
nment. because the campaign was
fought on federal issues, especially the
proposed goods and services tax

Roger Gibbons, chairman of the
political science department at. the
University of Calgary, disagreed. “It
was an election fought on, a national
issue, but it was as much a test of
provincial strengths as of the federal
strengths of the parties.””

Some say the Reform party, which
scored a breakthrough last winter with
a federal byelection win by Deborah
Grey in northern Alberta, isa threat to
the provincial Tories. The party will
decide this month whether to run can

didates in the next Alberta election

Kilgour, who represents an Edmon
ton constituency, said ignoring the will
of Albertans would lead to “political
oblivion."’ And Kindy, a Calgary MP,
said Mulroney should cut short his trip
to deal with the Senate appointment
and scrap the sales tax

“There is a message being sent by
Alberta,” he said. ‘The consquences
are we might have difficulty in the next
federal election.””

Liberal Lloyd Axworthy said it is in-
credible members from an elected
Commons would contemplate
ignoring the vote and “repudiating
democracy.”

Brown, a longtime elected Senate
advocate, said his Committee for a
Triple-E Senate is trying to convince
MéKenna and other Meech Lake
holdouts to trade their signatures on
the document for a country-wide
onan elected Senate

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