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RL OW > za ¢ ) MOSCOW (CP) — Communist party leaders agreed today to surren- der their monopoly on power guaran- teed by the Soviet Cbnstitution and seven decades of rule from the Kremlin, delegates said The reported vote bythe powerful party Central Committee was a vic- tory for President Mikhail Gor- bachev, who had urged his fellow par- ty members to compete for the right to rule. Svyatoslav Fyodorov, a famed eye surgeon and participant in the three- day meeting in the Kremlin, said party officials agreed with only one objec- tion to a platform presented by Gor- bachev calling for the abolition of the itution’s Article 6 i power to the Communist party. “Article 6 will no longer be, there will be a multiparty system,”’ Gorbachev was not going far enough. The official news agency Tass said debate at the closed meeting resumed today but did not give details. Yegor Ligachev, a leading conser- vative Politburo member, was ap- plauded Tuesday for a speech that blamed Gorbachev's reform program for the country’s dire economic situation and nationalist upheavals, a committee source said. ‘After somewhat of an unlivening inthe first two years of perestroika, the economy began to decline, inter- ethnic feuds reached bloodshed, people began to experience fear, and in some places there is practically dual power,"’ Ligachev, 69, was quoted by Tass as having told the meeting. Ligachev demanded that in its final form the party platform emphasize the sacredness of party unity and said ‘Either we find the correct answers and offer a workable policy at this plenum or at the (next) Congress or we fail in these tasks and then cease to be ue ne pes party and the political dof t — Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov Fyodorov said. ‘‘There will be a nor- mal democracy. He said there were few changes to the document presented by Gor- bachev at the meeting's opening Monday. In a show of hands, only maverick deputy Boris Yeltsin, a leading refor- mer, voted against the dropping of Article 6, delegates said. The Lithuanian Communist party chief, Algirdas Brazauskas, who was attending the Central Committee session as an observer, also confirmed the adoption of Gorbachev's proposals. Brazauskas said the meeting then discussed the decision last December by the party in his Baltic republic to break away from Moscow. The Communist leaders went into overtime today after failing in two contentious days to enact Gor- bachev’s plan. Speaker after speaker from the ruling Politburo made it clear the par- ty must act now to reform itself or risk being cast into political limbo by the wave of nationalist and political turmoil gripping the country. TOUCH CHOICE “Comrades, life has put before us its demands in a very tough way,"’ Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov told the session. “‘Either we find the correct answers and offer a workable policy at this plenum or at the (next) Congress . . . or we fail in these tasks and then cease to be the ruling party and the political vanguard of the people,”’ he said. Most speakers during debate Tuesday agreed that Communists must end their political monopoly, but the Soviet leader’s plans for the party's future — and his tenure itself — drew harsh criticism from hard- liners. Reformers also complained that he opposes allowing private property, a demand of radical reformers. The Soviet ambassador to Poland, Vladimir Brovikov, said Moscow's economic problems and ethnic and “Our tragedy is that we cannot abandon a single man's power in the state,"’ he said in clear reference to Gorbachev Brovikov said the reform had “thrown the country into the vortex of crisis and led it to the line where we have come face to face with an orgy of anarchy.”’ Tass quoted Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and influential Politburo members, Vitaly Voron- tinkov—and—Vadim—Medvedev, —as- backing Gorbachev’s program, ex- pressing emphatic support for a strengthened presidency. Medvedev said survival of the party is at stake. “Either we prove able to lead a rapid but controlled process of tran- sformation or it will become an un- controlled deluge and fall under the influence of populist demagogues or even fanatical leaders of pogroms,”’ he said. Medvedev, in an interview with Reuters today, said he believes a ‘‘far- reaching document’’ will be worked out at the committee meeting that “must mark the beginning of a sharp turning point in the work of the party. “Of course there are very sharp arguments about the course of perestroika, different judgments are being made, from soothing to what I would call alarmist."* Shevardnadze rejected assertions that Gorbachev's liberalization was to blame for the ouster of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Justice Wallace Oppal said the Crown corporation properly adver- tised in the Vancouver Province newspaper its permits to spray the her- bicides Spike and Gléan along tracks in the Kelowna area, and the her- bicide Simazine between Boston Bar and Surrey in southwestern Briti: Columbia. The Kelowna-based Canadian Earthcare Society and 10 other en- vironmental groups argued that CN Rail failed to properly advertise its pesticide spraying permits in the Kelowna-area. They appealed a B.C. Environmental Appeal Board decision that CN complied with adver- tising standards. Earthcare said CN used ™Ayncouver Province rather-than the local Kelowna Courier to advertise the pesticide spraying Oppal said the Province had an adequate circulation — 2,100 in the Kelowna area. “Anyone interested in the spraying would have been alerted through the (Province) paper,” he said. “*It was preferable to advertise in the-tocal paper but the Province is a well-known paper and would have given adequate notice.”” Queen gets rough ride WAITANGI, New Zealand (AP) — Hundreds of Maori protesters plunged into the water and jeered Tuesday as the Queen came ashore to mark the 150th anniversary of, the treaty that ceded New Zealand to Britain. About 400 protesters were among the 5,000 people who gathered to greet the Queen at the site where the treaty of Waitanga was signed by 500 Maori chiefs and Royal Navy Capt. William Hobson, who represen- ted Queen Victoria. The protesters, some shouting ‘*Go home, ‘Queenie!"’ plunged into chest-deep water as the Queen’s spectacular flotilla neared the shore. The Queen arrived by navy launch, escorted by 22 giant war canoes, some carrying as many as 200 crewmen. After she got into an open car for a short drive to the ceremonial treaty site, a woman threw a black T-shirt at her. Yolanda Ballard detained TORONTO (CP) — Yolanda Ballar ined at Pearson In- ternational Airport on Tuesday after failigg tofdéglare $3,000 in jewelry she brought into Canada, said a customs oMidal quoted by the Toronto Sun png The longtiméxompanion of Maple Leaf Gardens owner Harold Ballard was held at customs for an hour after arriving on an Air Canada flight from Miami Meanwhile, Ballard, 86, in Tuesday at Miami Baptist Hospital after emergency sagery to insert a tube into his body to help the dialysis he has been undergoing since being admitted Jan. 4 “The operation went fine but it doesn’t look like he’ ever regain the use of his kidneys,’” said his son, Bill. Godiva ride tamed VANCOUVER (CP) — This year’s annual Lady Godiva ride at the University of British Columbia was a horse-and-buggy affair A horse-drawn carriage carried six fully clothed engineering studen- ts, three men and three women, escorted by hundreds of red-jacketed engineering sudents and a knight on a horse, who paraded around the campus during a snow storm Tuesday. The 1990-style ride follows almost two decades of protest by cam- pus feminists against the spectacle, which usually involves a nude woman riding a horse and has been labelled sexist Police downplay reports CALGARY (CP) — City police are downplaying reports that passers-by shouted lewd comments and taunts as a man tried to rape a woman at a busy intersection in northwest Calgary Monday night. “There is no indication of that,"’ police Insp. Ron Yanish said Tuesday. ‘I think if there were people making comments as they drove past they didn’t realize what exactly was happening.”’ The head of the police sex_crimes nit said he had heard nothing about onlookers not intervening during the attack A witness, Brian Dorscht, said he was waiting in his car at a red light when he saw a screaming woman run away from a vehicle stopped in front of him “Guys rolled down their windows and said ‘Give it to her’ and “Way to go, guy.” They were laughing, driving by in their trucks and laughing.” VICTORIA (CP) — As colorful Premier Bill Vander Zalm glitters in the spotlight, his principal rival is busy in the shadows, pecking away at the underpinnings of the Social Credit government. Cards and Gift Wrap In what many consider a clash between style and substance in British) Columbia politics, - it's Vander Zalm against Mik¢ Harcourt, leader of the New Democratic Party. ~ Harcourt characterizes the contest this way: ‘'T think substance and style are going to win over style and extremist government."’ Ask a question of Vander Zalm and you usually get a short, quick, pithy response. Ask one of Harcourt and you get a labored shopping list. ANALYSIS On television, the balding, bespectacled NDP leader is overshadowed by the Pepsodent smile of Vander Zalm. However, Harcourt is betting that British Columbians are tired of ‘‘the tease’’ and are ready for a more earthy commitment. WANTS VOTE FOR “I don’t want people to vote just against the Socreds, but for the NDP,’’ Harcourt said, referring to the provincial election expected within the next year. The most recent example of the tease was the Tiki that p for almost five weeks while the premier considered his future and then went on television to say he was staying put. “Bill Vander Zalm fiddled with and toyed with and played with the people of British Columbia to tell them he was staying on as premier,’’ Harcourt fumed. ‘‘I mean, what an absurd waste of time."’ After the government lost a sixth straight byelection last Dec. 13 — which left the standings in the legislature at 39 Socreds, 26 New Democrats and four Independents — the premier indicated he would ponder his options before/annoucing his decision on Jan. 17. The decision to stay, Vander Zalm said, was for the good of the province. It was also good for the NDP, said Harcourt. “We're now the mainstream party,’’ Harcourt said, calling the Socreds the fringe party. SOCRED RADICAL? Bob Williams, a crusty veteran New Democrat with’ 1S years in the B.C. legislature, agrees. “For middle-of-the-road people, the present governing party is, in a sense, too radical and too intolerant,’’ the gruff-voiced politician said. Both Harcourt and Williams say they don’t think Vander Zalm’s domination of the spotlight has dimmed the NDP’s election chances. ‘BHI Vander Zalm fiddied with and toyed with and played with the people of British Columbia to tell them he was staying on as premier. I mean, what an absurd waste of time.' — NDP leader Mike Harcourt “‘It all wears a little thin,’’ Williams said. ‘‘And I don’t think you can do the who-shot-J.R. thing more than once. “*So no matter how much strutting there is on Stage, despite the showbiz and despite the razzma- MIKE HARCOURT = NDP mainstream party tazz, the majority of British Columbians, identify the New Democrats as their party."’ Vander Zalm is a harming fellow,”’ said Williams, but the premier will eventually self- destruct. ‘In the end, he’s like the moth drawn toward the flame.’” SELLS MESSAGE While criticizing the Social Credit government for being too preoccupied with’ its own survival to the detriment of the people's business, Harcourt has been diligent in delivering his party’s message — over and over and over. It’s a message based on issues such as women’s rights, the native self-government and affordable housing. The.New Democrats have also prepared 18 major policy papers for their party convention in March. “That's virtually unprecedented,’’ Williams said, explaining the party wants to make sure the public knows what it would be getting with an NDP government. Williams also said he thinks Harcourt, who has been described as wooden, dull and uninspiring, has what it takes to defeat Vander Zalm. Comparing Vander Zalm with the late Socred premier W.A.C. Bennett, ‘‘who had a bit of the ham in him, but not as much as Bill Vander Zalm,"’ Williams said today’s harsh political realities will cut Vander Zalm’s career short. He pointed to polls that have given the NDP the lead for two years running. ‘‘That’s never been the case in British Columbia's history.”’ While Harcourt smells victory in the wind, he’s not taking it for granted — which is just as well, considering what happened to one of his prede- cessors in 1983. 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