July 28, 1985

WEATHER

Brisco

SYNOPSIS: A weok frontal system offshore will send some high cloudiness into the central in

terior. Otherwise mainly sunny skies are generally expected.

says Ng
should go

By CasNews Staff

Kootenay West. MP” Bob
Brisco responded Wednesday
to’complaints that the federat
government is acting slowly
in the extradition of Charles
Ng.

Ng is wanted in California
in connection with a series of
sex slayings.

Brisco said Canada cannot
extradite Ng without ‘an
application from the U.S.

“The fact is that the U.S.
has not applied for extra-
dition,” he said. “They're not
going to apply for extradition
cuntil_their investigation is
completed.”

Brisco said he sympathizes
with the public's complaints.

“I totally support the

desire that this man be ex-

BECESHaS

tradited. Canada doesn’t
need to bear the extra cost of
putting this man in jail for 20

to 25 years when he is a U.S.
citizen.”

Brisco d that the
extradition process requires
a hearing in Canada at which
time the U.S. authorities will

PLAN

continued from front

present their evi

Until the U.S. feels it has a
strong case against Ng, it
‘won't jeopardize the case by
rushing an extradition hear-

allow residents to farm on a small scale.

Vanderpol asked the board to
approve the .4 hectare minimum lot
size because “once we prepare this
fringé settlement plan amendment and
send:it to a public hearing, we will get
public support for .4 hectre.”

He said the board will then be able to
take that public support to the Land
Commission to appeal the two hectare
limit.

However, Vanderpol also admitted
he doesn't know whether the Land
commission will go along with the
reduced lot size.

“I don't know what this will do for

thew Agricultural Land Commission,”
he told the board.
- Meanwhile, the board has also in-
structed-its staff to begin processing
rezoning applications, which had been
frozen for two years pending the
agricultural land study.

Among the applications is one for a
water slide on six acres near Highway

3. .CETAC developments Ltd. of
Castlegar has proposed the slide.

In his rezoning application, CETAC
president Alex Cheveldave says the
slide would use water from the
Ootischenia water district and a
private well.

The’ slide will provide 30 long-term
jobs for four to six months a year,
Cheveldave said, with a direct annual
payroll of $150,000.

“Castlegar and area is in dire need of
more tourist and recreational facili-
ties,” he said. “Our current plans are to
develop the subject property in such a
way that it will attract tourists, and the
water slide is one example only.”

As well, the Kootenay Columbia Co-
operative Society has applied to rezone
a two-hectare site near the weigh
scales.

The co-op plans to build a retail store
and service station covering 6,000.
square feet. It will’ sell feed, seeds,
groceries, ‘fertilizers, farm hardware
and local produece, among other items.

ing, Brisco said.

When the hearing is com-
pleted, the Minister of Jus-
tice evaluates the evidence
and makes his decision on
whether or not, to éxtradite.
Ng was arrested in calgary
July 6 after a bungled shop-
lifting attempt in which an
unarmed security guard was
shot and wounded in the left
hand.

Court news

A $350 fine or 21 days i
jail was handed down to
Nicholas Veller in Castlegar.
provincial court this week.
Veller pleaded guilty to driv-
ing with a blood-alcohol
reading exceeding .08.

. * .
Kenneth Berosek was

fined $400 for driving while

CONFERENCE

continued from front
who will speak- on~the role of ‘non-governmental or-
ganizations.

Following him will be either Ron Cleminson or Neil
Reeder from the arms control and disarmament division of
Canada’s Department of External Affairs.

Cleminson or Reeder will speak on the role of govern-
mental organizations.

Then the former head of the United Nations Dis-
armament Agency, William Epstein, is scheduled to discuss
the role.of international organizations.

Vadim Kassis, the chief editor of the Russian journal
Otchizna, is also scheduled for the second day.

Friday's theme, “The Search for a Just, Secure and
Peaceful Future,” will feature Elizabeth Sherman and Steve
“Meacham™of the International Economic Conversion In-
formation Exchange in Cambridge, Mass. speaking on the
conversion of military industry to civilian uses.

Dr. Tana Dineen, chairman of Psychologists for Social

.. Responsiblity in Toronto, will discuss the threat of nuclear
was as it affects young people.

She will be followed by Robert Allen, a. founding
member of the Beyond War Foundation, who will speak on
positive visualization for the future.

Verigin said the general public will be able to come to
the morning sessions to listen to the speakers and to ask
questions. ~

During the afternoon, youth delegates are scheduled to
go to Stanley Humphries Secondary School for workshops
and the public is invited to visit the information booths and
displays in the cultural centre.

One to two hours of entertainment will follow the
discussions. The entertainment is still to be confirmed,
Vergin aid, but will feature loeal entertainers.

Youth delegates will be charged a fee of $25 which will
admit them to all conference activities during the.week.

‘The general public will be charged $10 for one day or

$6 for a morning or evening session. The price does not

include the workshops, which are only for youth delegates.

Harshenin said the number of youth delegates will be
limited to 200 because of the size of Stanley Humphries
school. Otherwise, he said, the workshops would be too
crowded.

“Once the foreign delegates are confirmed, we'll fill up
(to 200) with local youth delegates, not only from Castlegar,
but from all over the Kootenays. But we have to take care of
the invited delegates first.”

Harshenin said the organizers of the conference are
aiming at a cross-section of foreign and Canadian delegates.

Because they did-not have a budget to pay for foreign
delegates’ travel expenses, the organizers.of the conference
are working with Lester Pearson College on Vancouver
Island in the hope of attracting 10-15 foreign students from
‘there as delegates to the conference.

Verigin said the conference is being organized by a
committee of about 20 people from Castlegar, Trail, Nelson
and Grand Forks.

So far, the committee has received $35,000 in donations
from the Secretary of State for Youth, the disarmament and
arms control division of external affairs.and the Canadian
Institute for International Peace and Eeery, Verigin said.

Sponsoring organizations such as O)

s relating to the theme of the
shown-at=the-cultural centre from 3-6 p.m.

-Scheduled are: Button, Button: A Dream_of_Nuclear
War; The U.S. vs the U.S.S.R.: Who's Ahead?; War Without
Winners; What Soviet Children say About Nuclear War;
Who's in Charge Here?; and The Only Difference Between
Men and Boys is the Price of Their Toys.

During the evening sessions, the morning’s speakers
will form a panel with a | and youth
will discuss with the panel questions arising out of the
workshops.

The public is invited to attend the discussion, which will
last from one to two hours.

Horkoff
passes

away
~ at 82—

will be

Fred Horkoff beloved hus-
band of Mabel Horkoff of
Ootischenia passed away Sat-
urday, July 27 at the age.of
82 years.

Funeral service for the late
Mr. Horkoff will begin at 7
p.m. today .at the Brilliant
Cultural Centre and continue
Tuesday, July 29, 1985 at 10
a.m. with burial at the Pass
Creek Cementery.

Mr. Horkoff was born
April 12, 1903 at Buchanan,

7

the Vi branch of the United Nations peer in
Canada and the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, as
well as local municipalities, have also donated money.

But, Verigin said, “We're still fundraising to offset the *
cost of the conference.

“We're g
as pens and pads.”

He said billets are needed for some of the speakers and
the out-of-town delegates, and young peopleiare needed to

local i for such

“ act as hosts and hostesses at the conference.

He added volunteers are also needed for information
booths, to meet people upon arrival in Castlegar and to man
a driving pool.

retirement. He was a mem-
ber of the Union of Spiritural
Communities of Christ and
enjoyed reading and the out-
doors.

Saskatchewan and came to
B.C. with his parents in 1910
settling at Pass Creek. He
married Mabel Verigin in
1921 at Pass Creek. In 1945
the family moved to Rossland
where they lived until 1963
when they moved to Kinn-
aird and to Ootischenia in
1981 where they have since
resided.

Mr. Horkoff worked as an

“is survived by one daughter,
Maria Zeberoff of Ootisch-
enia, three grandchildren and
one great-grandchild.

Funeral

Besides his-wife Mabel, he - b:

STILL BATTLING . . . one of the helicopters (top)
fighting the Ata fire northwest of Renata flies with its

bucket of water toward the mountainous terrain (bot-
tom) where the fire is burning.

CosNewsPhotos by Ryah Wilson,

FIRES

continued from front
they worked against a 2,500-hectare
forest fire within a kilometre of North
Bend, on the west:side of the Fraser
Canyon.

“It did heat up on us quite-a bit in the
afternoon, particularly that fing

drastic action on. it.”

North Bend remains officially under
evacuation order, lalthough about half
of the village's 350 people have
returned to their homes since the order
went into effect last weekend.

About 270 firefighters, with bull-

dozers, heli and water

and the Nelson region of southeastern
BC.

Travel'was restricted to main roads; ©

but parks remained open. Ullman:said
the forest service wanted to keep
tourists in well-patrolled recreational
areas 5
Overall,_the B.C. forest-fire_pictur

above North Bend, so we brought in a
couple of drops from a DC-6 to help us
hold it,” said B.C. Forests Ministry
spokesman Frank Ullmann.

“It was showing the potential to
move, so we had to take some pretty

AIRPORT-—

continued fromfront —

“We were just too liable,’’ she said,
adding the current $100 million liability
coverage did not come into effect until
cies Transport Canada took over the

irport. ieee tore cana
poeiciene with the better coverage,
Moore said the city is again interested
in managing the airport for a fee.
It’s an interesting concept,”
sai

She noted that municipalities are
always interested—in- ways they can
augment income.

However, she said the city would
also want to ensure it had some say in
managing the airport. :

Meanwhile, David Dale, a policy.
adviser to Mazankowski, told The
Canadian Press that one possible result
of the proposed shakeup is that. the .
country’s largest airports would be run

y
instead. of by, the federal government.
id the government wants tee
science to be involved in runnin
airports, but exactly how that might be

under the direction of the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

edgerman for the 'Hadikin
Brothers Sawmill until his

private

were assigned to the fire. -

With the weather office forecasting
continued sunny, warm weather for
most areas through the weekend,
recreation and travel closures are in
effect in the forests of the Vancouver
region, southeast Vancouver Island

improved with the number of fires
continuing to decline, to 676, down
from 715. The number of uncontained
fires was down by 10 to 34.

As of Friday, the province had spen\
$67.2 million this year fighting 2,244
fires covering 218,000 hectares.

construction and operation of terminal
buildings.
He said he hopes the major airline

companies, for example, will build a.

third terminal.at the Pearson Interna-
tional—Airport,_whichserves—the
Toronto area, because ‘we don’t have
the money. “They have complained
that Transport Canada spends too
much money on terminals, We'll let

“them build the terminals. They know

the business,””
i said his is

,operations related to safety and

security at airports and ensure that
bigger, money-making~ airports
continued to help subsidize smaller,
less viable airports.

Héwever, the Public Service Alliance
of Canada estimates re-organizing the
deparment will lead to. the layoff of
about 6,000 people. The union

local

P federal government

management boards to bring in fresh
marketing ideas that might include
putting more shopping space, hotels
and offices at airports.

Of the 91.federal airports, only those
at Toronto, V

Bob|Cox, president of-the Transport
component of the union, said both
safety~ and service could suffer if
Ottawa abandons its responsibility for
running airports.

Edmonton and Calgary showed a profit
last year, he said.

“Clearly, Edmonton and Calgary
want to take their airports over. They
want to-have a local airport

“I don’t know why I should approve
every peat stand, cigarette stand,

new system, such as in the design,

That's not the
role of the minister of

Cox the C
want to establish airport authorites.
primarily to create new positions for
patronage appointments.

Cox said if airports are privatized,
smaller airports arid the populations
they serve will suffer.

Large airports now help subsidize
smaller ones. But if they are taken ov-
er by independent authorities, the only

- way to cut costs will be to reduce

services, Cox said. ,

But whatever developments occur,
Mazankowski said, the federal
government would-retain control of

BRIEFLY

KAMPALA (CP) — Ugandan President Milton
Obote was overthrown for the second time in 14 years
“Saturday in a military coup led by the army's northern

} commander, Brig: Bazilio-Olara-Okello- —
The new military authorities closed Entebbe
airport, virtually isolating. the country from the
outside world, declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew in
the capital‘ and elsewhere Government-run Radio
Uganda later broadcast an appeal to all loyalist troops
to surrender.

Obte reportedlyh feld to Kenya. Sources in Nairobi
said he had crossed into Kenya at the Busia frontier
post accompanied by two ministers and was taken toa
gver d lodge in K: in the western
part of the country. The identities of the two ministers
were not disclosed.

‘BEIRUT TALKS.

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese Moslem political and
religious leaders held three rounds of talks Saturday
in the Chouf Mountains near Beirut “to close Moslem
ranks” before discussing with christians how to end

10 years of civil war.

_Firefighters

not eli

gible

for benefits

By CasNews Staff

The firefighters employed
in the battle against B.C.'s
forest fires are not covered
by unemployinent insurance,
but the federal and provincial
governments are working
hard to rectify that situation,
Kootenay West MP Bob
-Brisco said Friday.

“The matter is being con-
sidered by both levels of
government. The acting
prime minister (John Fraser)
has talked to Premier Benn
ett's office and I've talked to
the deputy minister of labor

“and minster of labor for the
province of B.C.,” Brisco
said. Sas

“The problem is being
addressed at the bureau-
cratic level and hopefully will
be solved very shortly.”

The problem arises from

Aides said President Amin Gemayel,
was sending an envoy to suggest to Syrian Presidnet
Hafez Assad that a peace conference sponsored. by
Syria be held as soon as possible. They said Gemayel
was also sending to Syria a list of possible Christian
negotiators.

Assad is seen as the powerbroker betwen the
feuding armed factions in Moselm West Beirut that
were the focus of Saturday's meetings.

FREE HOSTAGES

PARIS (Reuter) — Four Frenchmen among foreign
hostages held in Lebanon will be freed and delivered
to Damascus soon, Syrian Defence Minister Mustafa
Tlas ‘was quoted as saying Saturday.

In an interview with a Paris-based magazine, Tlas
said assurances concerning the imminent release of
the French hostages had come in response to a Syrian
demand that all. foreign hostages be set free.

Seven Americans and a Briton are also missing and
presumed kidnapped in Lebanon.

DEATH PENALTY

PENANG (Reuter) — Two Australians face the
gallows after being foiied guilty Friday of heroin
e first to be con-

vieted under aalspo 's seaheeel drug laws.
Although sentencing was delayed until Thursday,
the judge warned he has no alternative but to impose
the death 'y for ion of more

than 15 grams of heroin or morphine.

Despite stark notices at all entry points warning
travellers to Malaysia that they will be

the U Insur-
ance Act which 1 says that
anyone who works under the
-civil service commission and
is paid by the civil service
commission is eligible for
unemployment~ insurance
unless that person is “abating
a disaster” and is not regu-

larly employed by the prov-
ince.

That means firefighters
are not eligible and would not
, collect eredits —for_wee weeks_/
worked which they could use
when claiming unemploy-
ment insurance benefits.

However, the act does
provide for exceptions,
Brisco said.

The provincial government, ‘fp

by an order-in-council, can
waiye the section of the act
wat is now disqualifying the
firefighters from eligibility.
But Ottawa has to agree to
waive the section, which is
why the~presentflurry—of
discussions is taking place.
Brisco also said that Ott-
awa has offered. manpower
and equipment to B.C. to help
fight the fires.
However, the province has
not accepted the offer.
“That doesn’t mean they're
rejecting it—out- of hand,”
Brisco said Thursday.
He added that perhaps the
province does not ‘want
people on the fire line with-
out experience or perhaps
officials feel they have things
under control.

Vancouver boy
beaten, left
to die

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
two-year-old boy who was
taken from his room, severe-
ly beaten and left to die on

the front lawn of his parents’ .

Point Grey home early Fri-
day, may have been the
“victim of a child molester.

- After a day of investi-
gation, police investigators

said Aaron Kaplan, who died’

in hospital about three hours
after. being found, had been
taken from his crib after a
break-in through a_ partly
opened window:at his home
in the posh neighborhood-

Insp. John Lucy said there

convicted of drug smuggling, many foreigners still risk
their lives as couriers.

~~ CALL REJECTED

JOHANNESBURG (CP) — South Africa's white-
minority government rejected a United ‘Nations’ call
for sanctions to force an end to its apartheid racial
policies Saturday, saying it violates the UN Charter
and will bring more harm to the country's black-ruled
neighbors.

Meanwhile, police announced that more than 1,000
people have been detained in the first week of a
crackdown on dissent and violence under south
Africa's declaration of a state of emergency.

A police statement from Pretoria said the number of
activists held since South Africa delcared the
emergency July 21 rose to 1,035, up from 915 on

‘ Friday. Nearly all held are blacks from grassroots

were the killing
was the work of a child
molester,: but neither he nor
coroner Larry -Campbell
would say whether there was
evidence the boy had been
sexually assaulted.
The boy's father Frank
Kaplan ;is a lawyer and is
—active_in_the Jewish comm-

unity. His wife Freda and*
two sons, Sammy, 8, and
Michael, 10 are described as
being a close-knit family.

The slaying -prompted
police to warn residents to
take extra precautions with
their children in case a child’
molester-turned killer was
lurking in the affluent neigh-
borhood.

Lucy told a+ news con-
ference Friday night; that
there were. similarities be-
tween the pre-dawn incident
which led to the Kaplan boy's
death and a-break-in in the
same general area 10 days
ago.

He asked for public help in
the investigation and urged
people to make sure their
windows and patio doors are
locked at night.

“During this hot weather,
people tend to relax security,
particularly in relation to
sliding doors and windows.”

Serious crime
declines in U.S.

WASHINGTON (Réuter)
— Seriots crime in the
United States declined in

1984, marking the third
straight yearly drop, but
violent crime, particularly
rape, was up, the Justice

TAKING A BREAK . ... Swimmers relax suring, time off
from Castlegar Aquanauts swim meet under.

set up on lawn of Bob Brandson pool Saturday. Teams

and U.S. regions. _

meet come from the

Midwest tol

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Based on letters written by
former president Jimmy Car-
ter’s environmental chief, the
Reagan_adminstration is
being ordered to begin mak-
ing Midwestern states re-
duce pollution linked to acid
rain in the U.S. northeast
and Canada. ~

Ruling on a suit by six
northeastern states, U.S.
District judge Norma John-
son has given the Environ-
mental Protection Agency
nine months to order. reduc-

tions’ of‘ sulphur. dioxide
emissions from Midwest
power plants.

Though no states were
specifically: named in the
order issued Friday, the
petition on which the suit is
based targeted Ohio, West
Virginia, Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Michigan and
Tennessee as likely points of
origin of the pollution.

President Ronald- Reagan"

has opposed new federal con-
trols on sulphur dioxide emi-

Amin would help

leaders

of coup

By ALY MAHOUD

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Idi Amin," who ruled
Uganda with an iron fist for eight years, said Saturday he
would help the ‘leaders of a coup in his East African
homeland if they allow exiles to return.

Asked if he himself would—return,
“Everybody wants to go home.”

In a telephone interview from his exile home in Jidda,
Saudi Arabia, Amin urged the new leaders to free all
political if home L d. who left the

Amin said:

and wel
country after he was toppled_in 1979.

Amin said that if the army coup leaders took his advice,
“I will support themandIcan Work and contact many
countries to give “them suppor

“If they refuse my. advice we would work to topple
them,” he added, speaking in English.

Milton Obote, the elected’ president overthrown in
Saturaday's coup in the: Ugandan capital of Kampala, has
been quoted as saying the rebels who ousted him had joined
forces with Amin.

“Teannot confirm or deny this, but I am very powerful

to clean up-

ssions from coal-burning
power plants, contending
evidence is insufficient to
blame_ them for acid rain
The administration also
contends it is not bound by
two letters that former EPA
adminstrator Douglas Costle
wroteon Jan. 13, 1981 —
seven days before Reagan
took office — to then-state
secretary Edmund Muski and
Senator George Mitchell, a
Maine Democrat.
ENDANGERS CANADA
The letters orpar that

when his successor, Anne-
Burford, wrote Ohio's gover-
nor saying the Costle letters
were “void of legal signi-
ficance.”

JURY STILL OUT

The, judge acknowledged
that the damages that acid
rain to lakes, forests
and both animal and human
health are still “problematic”
and the subject of both
political and scientific dis-
pute.

“This argument, however,
is little more than an‘asser-~
tion that EPA is unable or
ili: to do what Con-

“acid
ing public welfare in Canada
and the United States.”

New York and the six
other northeastern states
contend in their suit that
Costle’s’ letters represent a
formal government deter-
mination, “setting in motion”
a process under the Clean Air
Act to reduce - allowable
emissions.

“The fact that Costle mem-
orialized his findings in a
letter (rahter than in a Fed-
eral Register notice) does not

defeat their classification as:

official’ agency
Johnson wrote.
She also:rejected admini-
stration * contentions that
whatever Costle’s actions
represented, they were
ked nine months later

action,”

gress had mandated it must
do,” she said.

Other states that were
plaintiffs in the suit were
Maine, Connecticut, Ver-
mont, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire and New Jersey.

Under 1977 amendments
to’the Clean Air’ Act, new
power plants must be
equipped with smokestack
scrubbers to filter out sub--
stantial amounts of sulphur
oxides.

Utilities_in the Midwest
contend that the cost of
extending that requirement
to older plants or making
them shift to higher-priced
grades’ of low sulphur coal
would raise the electric bills
of their consumers by up‘ to
30 per cent.

civic and—student— groups

detention is seen as a police attempt to deal a body
blow to.the opposition after nearly a year of persistent
violence. $

MORE BODIES

TESERO, Italy (AP) — Rescue workers digging
through a hardened river of mud in Stava removed
two bodies Saturday, raising to 220 the number of
bodies found after the July.19 dam break that buried
the Alpine resort.

Authorities in Tesero, located near Stava in
northeast Italy, also reported the death Saturday of an
87-year-old woodsman, who suffered a heart attack a
few hours after the dam break when told his
grandchildren were killed by ‘the raging torrent of
water, dirt and debris. —

The said ‘Vigilio Dolliana, whose sawmill was
destroyed by the mud, went into a coma after the
heart attack. '

13 ARRESTS

VIENNA (Reuter) — Austrian police arrested
another wine merchant Saturday, the 13th person
detained in the growing scandal over wine contam-
inated with a sweetening chemical that can cause

brain and kidney damage.

Anton Schmied, 50, from Tulln_in-lower-
joined wine dealers, manufacturers and chemists abo
have been arrested in a crackdown over the wide-

. spread use of the chemical diethylene-glycol, also used
in anti-freeze.

Justice Minister -Haral Ofner said Saturday that
those dof wr ing could be i for
up to 10 years. He-also said people who could prove
they suffered physically from drinking the contam-
inated wine could sue the producers.

in Uganda,” Amin said.

_. Police file

——_—_—__=
Castlegar’ RCMP are con-

tinuing their investigation
into an attempted arson July
17 to a home on Columbia
Avenue.

The ‘ police have ‘inter-
viewed a young offender sus-
pected in the offense.

. 2 @

A young offender has been
charged following a break-in
at Grifone Taxidermy and
Sporting Goods on Columbia
Avenue.

The suspect’s name wilt —*

not be released because of his
age.

Tourist .
Alert

VANCOUVER (CP) — The

to be travelling in British
Columbia, are asked to
contact the RCMP for urgent
messages: _

Glen Ayers of Grande
Centre, Alta., Dave Harri of
Thunder Bay, Ont., Beatrice
Kennedy of Hanover, Ont.,
Marge Kushnier of Regina,
Darryl Lindgren of Néw

Depar saith aye

An annual report said-11.9
‘million serious criminal off-
ences were reported last
year, down two per cent from
1983.

It was the first time the
annual total has dipped below
12 million since 1978.

‘The figures compiled by
the FBI showed violent
crimes went up one per cent
in 1984, due to rises in aggra-
vated assaults and forcible
rape. i

The FBI includes murder,
forcible rape, robbery and
ggravated assault in the

Amin said without elaboraling Uat te “knew about the
coup (preparations) several months ago,” indicating that
tribes loyal to him in the Nile province had aided the rebels
against Obote.

He said that organizers of the coup had briefed him of
their plans Friday afternoon.

KILLS THOUSANDS
The former dictator indicated he had yet to fully
ascertain the affiliations and political leanings of the new
‘military leadership.

Amin overthrew Obote in 1971 and established one of the
bloodiest regimes in African history ing hundreds of
thousands of opponents and declaring himself president for
life.

Amin was deposed in 1979 by Tanzanian troops and an

ernment said Friday.

with a separate entrance,”

irregular Ugandan force. The former st
remains discredited in Uganda because of | the social and
economic chaos under his rule. 7

i i that he is not interested in gaining

coffee shop.
Hewitt first

violent crime category.

Murders totalled 18,692 in
1984, down three per cent
from the prior year. --=>

More than half of all mur-

ders were done by either
relatives or acquaintances of

the victims and arguments
were by far the leading
cause. ,

Guns were the most fre-

quently ‘used murder _wea-

‘pon, employed in three of
every five murders during
the year.

The number of forcible
rapes reported to law enfor-
cement authorities last year
jumped seven per cent. In
1984, 69 of every 100,000
women in the United States
were rape victims.

Aggravated assaults _in-
creased five per cent in 1984.

power for himself, although he mentioned that the new
government should allow his former army officers to go back
to Uganda with other exiles. .

Amin said the situation in Uganda “could be very
serious and lead to civil war” if the new leaders in Kampala
did not heed his advice

The new hip “can be d ii
because Obote is very cunning” but that if they took his
advice “the new leadership would survive.”

PRAISES OKELLO
Amin described the coup leader, who has been_id-

—entified as Brig. Bazilio Olara Okello, ‘as a “very good officer

who had been trained by me.”

But, he said, Okello “shifted to supporting Obote later
on.”

Amin, who said he closely monitors Ugandan affairs,
insisted that all of Obote’s intelligence specialists must be
removed, as well as the minister of interior and defence.

Amin appealed “to all Ugandans to unite and avoid any
spilling of blood, including that_of the tribe of Obote.”

The coup was reported to have followed army
in-fighting between the tribes of Obote and Okello. Obote's
tribe, the Langi, and Okello's tribe, the acholi, are both from
the north.

“We-envision clean, attractive stores that will be
either free-standing or attached to the existing premises
said Jim Hewitt, consumer
‘and corporate affairs minister.

Stores will also be required
resentative selection of products from B.C. suppliers,”

The Hi Arrow-Arms Motor Hotel in Castlegar has
d it intends to open a retail store in its former

announced
licensed hotels would be allowed _tovset_ up separate

Retail stores
must be clean

VICTORIA (CP) — Appli
pubs to sell British Columbia beer and wine from
separate retail stores will be judged according to past
record and the storefront design, the provincial gov-

tions from hotels and

to carry a rep-

in May that pubs and

buy

‘storefront:

In_ addition,

wine coolers.

ae:
the beverages they sell.

near liquor store prices,”

prices. from government
arrangement.

Good Friday.

or their premises;
take-out beer, cider and wine without having to go
through the drinking area to the bar.

The minister said the government now is ready to
take applications from licence-holders currently selling or
are eligible to sell off-premise beer.

REGULATIONS CHANGE
the government
regulations to allow the off-premise sale of low-alcohol

istribution—Branch—will enter into
agreement with licence-holders regarding the supply of

has also changed

“The pricing system will allow licensees to sell at or
Hewitt said.

Pubs and hotels currently pay staridard liquor-store
prices for beer and charge a premium of about $1.20 a
dozen. They are expected to be given near wholesale

outlets. under ‘the new

The stores will be permitted to stay open from 9 a.m.
to 11 p.m. every day except Sunday, Christmas Day and