ny. a2 Castlegar News Janvary 3, 1988 By The Canadian Press From house parties to Parliament Hill, Canadians turned out by the tens of thousands Thursday night to celebrate the new year. The partying continued well into Friday, with the now-traditional New Year's Day dip playimg an increasing role in the festivities. About 15 people in Carleton Place, just west of Ottawa, may have been the first in the country to hit the fey water this year. Donning wet and dry suits, members of a local diving club slipped into the Mississippi River at the \stroke of midnight for a 450-metre swim. They then retired to a private home for a more conventional celebration that included watching a video about the warm, sunny Car. ibbean. But another group — at Zwicker Lake in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley — claims to be the toughest of the polar bear clubs. To get into the water for their 10th annual dip, 100 swimmérs cut a hole in the ice covering the lake, which sits more than 200 metres above sea level. “The people who run in the ocean just go in up to their knees,” said one woman at Zwicker Lake. “We go in over our head: In Halifax, about 150 people slipped into the Atlantic off Pt. Pleasant Park, in the city's south end. ‘BRRRR! No one knew what the water temperature was, but one swimmer estimated: “She's near freezi In Vancouver, where the New Year's Day dip tradition began in Canada, more than 1,000 people were expected for the 68th annual polar bear swim at English Bay, at the city's west end. The winner of another traditional New Year's competition of sorts — the first baby of the year — appeared to go to newborn Janney St-Laurent of Quebec City. Doctors at St-Francois-d’Assise Hospital. say mother Sylvie gave birth at the stroke of midnight. On Thursday, about 20,000 Vancouver residents turned out for First Night, a series of indoor and outdoor arts and cultural events organized to celebrate the arrival of the new year. In Toronto, about 3,000 people brought in the new year at Nathan Phillips Square, in front of city hall. They skated, danced and swayed around the square, which wi jurrounded by red, green, yellow and blue lights. At midnight, cannons filled the air with plastic confetti. * DEJA VU Some Ottawa revellers got the chance to celebrate twice. About 30,000 people converged on Parliament Hill for the third annual New Year's Eve party organized by the Nationa! Capital Commission and broadcast by the CBC. That was about 2,000 more than last year and more Canada celebrates the New Year | than double the 12,500 who turned out for the first party on Dec, 31, 1985. Because the festivities, which cost about $80,000, were broadcast to Atlantic Canada, the crowd sang Auld Lang Syne and watched a short fireworks display at 11 p.m, EST. Most of the fireworks were reserved for the second; larger six-minute display at midiight local time. In Halifax, about 3,000 people weleomed 1987 from a party in the Grand Parade, a small square near city hall. They sang songs and sipped hot cider as they waited for the midnight fireworks. Many Halifax celebrants stayed up all night and some carried on Friday, still in formal wear making the rounds of Nova Scotia's traditional Jan. 1 levees and open houses. Their wait in the long lines was usually rewarded with a cup of mopse milk, a Nova Scotian concoction of egg-nog and consomme with just a touch of sherry. a OLD YEAR USHERED OUT WITH PARTIES AROUND THE WORLD By The Associated Press Muscovites smashed champagne bottles on Red Square, and throngs of Japanese entering the Year of the Dragon bought charms against misfortune in worldwide New Year's celebrations on Friday. It was also the start of Australia’s bicentennial and Dublin’s second millennium. The Pope sent joyful greetings to the faithful in the Soviet Union who this year celebrate 1,000 years of Christianity. He implored world leaders to “listen to men’s yearning for peace.” In the Philippines, at least 11 people were killed and 1,225 injured in a frenzy of fireworks, gunshots and drunken brawls. And in two West German cities, anarchists pelted police with rocks, smashed windows and cars and plundered stores. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan exchanged greetings in broadcast addresses to each other's countries. e New Year's Day is the biggest celebration in the Soviet Union. The atheistic authorities have transferred to it most Christmas traditions, including gift-giving and decorated fire trees. SMASH BOTTLES Several thousand Muscovites trekked to Red Square minutes before the clock on Spassky Tower chimed midnight, when toasts and cheers rang out and people smashed empty bottles on the cobblestones. People across Canada sang, swam and skated to cele. brate the new year. About 150 members of the Polar Bear club dived into the icy waters of Halifax Harbor. More than 50,000 people gathered in Nathan Phillips Square in downtown Toronto to skate, shout and join entertainers Murray McLauchlan and Ronnie Hawkins in singing Auld Lang Syne New Year's was celebrated twice in Ottawa. About 30,000 people assembled on Parliament Hill for a concert and stage show, and the events were broadcast by the CBC. At 11 p.m. EST, a few fireworks were set off and the network pretended it was midnight for viewers in the Atlantic provinces. Other fireworks were set off an hour later. In Brazil, there- was singing and dancing until dawn in the streets of Rio de Janiero. At the shore, tens of thousands of people paid homage to the sea goddess Iemanja by tossing white and yellow flowers and small gifts into the Atlantic. They asked for peace, health and love in 1988 in a ritual brought by African slaves in the 16th century. At midnight in Tokyo, ships tooted their whistles and temple bells tolled to mark the end of the Oriental calendar’s Year of the Rabbit~ Japanese jammed Buddhist temples and shrines to buy good luck charms. The belief is that people born during the Year of the Dragon are healthy, honest and energetic, but short-tempered and stubborn. In Sydney, Australia, wreaths were thrown on the beach where British discover Capt. James Cook landed in 1770. Eighteen years later, a colony was created. Tens of thousands of people packed downtown Dublin on New Year's Eve to kick off a year-long celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of the Irish capital, which was settled by the Vikings About 50,000 people ushered in 1988 at London's Trafalgar Square, with another 50,000 celebrating in nearby streets. Authorities said 102 people, mostly drunks and brawlers, were arrested and 31 people were taken to hospitals, two for stab wounds. Parisians in formal clothes who had partied all night were among thousands outside the Versailles palace who watched the pre-dawn start of the 10th annual Paris-Dakar Rally, the world’s longest. Reagan signs trade ICY SCENE. . . Spectacular icicles form on rock face along Highway 3 near Nancy Green Lake. CosNewsPhoto pact without fanfare By The Associated Press PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Presi. dent Ronald Reagan hailed the U.S. Canada, free-trade pact which he and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed Satbrdgy as an example “the entire world’ should be pursuing.” The pact, which lifts trade res. trictions between the world’s largest trading partners, was signed with little fanfare by the two leaders at separate sites, nearly a continent apart. Reagan, in a statement released by the White House, said the pact has vital international implications. “It will encourage supporters of free trade throughout the world by demonstrating that governments can remove trade barriers even in the face of protectionist pressures,” the presi dent said. “The creation of the world’s largest free-trade area will be a mark of leadership and presents an historic opportunity to the United States and Canada,” he said. “We must ot let this opportunity slip from our grasp.” Earlier, Reagan said in his weekly radio address the pact will create more jobs and result in lower prices for consumers on both sides of the border. “It is a win-win situation for both countries,” Reagan said “Even more importantly, the agreement is an example of the market-opening steps the entire world should be pursuing.” SIGNS DEAL Reagan, nearing the end of a traditional New Year's vacation, signed the measure while secluded at a friend's desert estate near Palm Springs. White House officials rejected journalists’ requests to cover the event. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Reagan spoke with Mulroney for four minutes before ming the pact. Reagan lauded the agreement and Mulroney's leadership during the phone call, saying the pact was forged “in the face of rising pro- tectionism,” Fitzwater said. “But we cannot stop here,” he quoted the president saying. “We have a lot more to get accomplished on opening up world trade.” There had been discussions of the two men signing the agreement in a ceremony at a U.S.-Canadian’ border point, but Mulroney appeared cool to the idea. Mulroney is under political attack for-his advocacy of the agree” ment from Canadians fearful of losing economic sovereignty to the United States. The agreement, announced Dec. 11 after months of negotiations, is also expected to be a magnet for election- year controversy in the U.S. Congress. Unlike a treaty, which requires only Senate approval, the free-trade measure will take the form of legis lation that must be approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate The agreement is to take effect Jan.-1, 1989, and would gradually eliminate all tariffs between the two countries. The agreement would lift tariffs and non-tariff restrictions on goods and services in three phases over a 10-year period. Canada and the United States have the largest two-way trade of and two countries in the world, amounting to more than $150 billion US in 1986. DESCRIBES PACT In general, the pact would: e Eliminate all tariffs on the trade of goods between the two countries. e Eliminate virtually all import and export restrictions. Eliminate or reduce many non tariff barriers to trade and investment. e Establish rules for the conduct of bilateral investment. When the agreement was an nounced, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter hailed it as creating “export opportunities for our pro- ducers of computers and other infor- mation processing equipment, tele- communications equipment, furniture, paper, printed matter, machinery, fruits, vegetables, wine and distilled spirits to name just a few.” “By further opening our markets and establishing rules of fair play across a wide range of economic activity, we can achieve greater effi ciency for our consumers, more jobs for our workers and enhance international competitiveness for business on both sides of the border,” Yeutter said. Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.), chairman of the Senate finance com mittee, and Representative Dan Ros: tenkowski (D#Ill.), chairman of the House ways “and means Committee, have urged the administration to delay submitting the legislation until June. Bentsen spokesman Jack Devore said Saturday the committees want time to consult with the administration in drafting the implementing legis. lation. The committees need, time to work on the omnibus trade bill passed in different versions by the House.and Senate before considering the Can- adian trade bill, Devore said. After the trade pact is submitted, Congress would have 90 working days in which to act. With many recesses expected, this could push a final vote back until after the 1988 presidential and congressional election. Meanwhile, wheat industry repre sentatives criticized the pact. Dallin Reese, chairman of U.S. Wheat Associates, said a Canadian prohibition against U.S. wheat imports would likely continue, while the Can. adians “can sell wheat to us anytime they want, and do.” The White House has often made big’ production of events that showcase Reagan's favorite causes. Officials said the lack of ceremony for the free trade proposal does not slight the importance of the trade measure, and they said Reagan will take up the drive to have it approved by Capitol Hill closer to the time it is to be considered by Congress. THATCHER Britains don't like her LONDON (AP) — Politically at her most powerful, Margaret Thatcher became Britain's longest continuously serving prime minister of the century Saturday, eight years and 244 days after making history as the first woman to get the job. The Conservative party leader is in a seemingly un assailable position as she overtakes Liberal Lord Herbert Henry Asquith’s 1908-1916 tenure. Thatcher, 62, won a third five-year term with a thumping majority last June and is now set to lead Britain into the 1990s. She is already the longest-serving leader in Western Europe. She is hailed as having ended decades of British decline, but criticized by some as a bossy, patronizing leader under whom divisions widened between the prosperous and poor, the races, and the sexes. Both admirers and critics acknowledge that she wrought fundamental change and identified with the aspirations of millions of Britons, and that after she leaves office, things will never be the same. “I think she will be seen as the prime minister who turned Britain around,” said Sir William Rees-Mogg, the respected former editor of the London Times. “When you think of women who've actually changed Unemployment is down from a 1983 record of 13 per cent to a five-year low of 9.5 per cent, or 2.65 million of the country's 56 million people. Their ranks include what Ralf Dahrendorf, a sociology professor at the London School of Economies, calls a permanent underclass — second-gen eration jobless in inner-city ghettos of rising crime and resentment. Britain's standing has increased internationally under Thatcher, but critics argue that she has never really identified this country with its European Community partners. : The energy of the grocer’s daughter appears un diminished after two terms spent taming labor unions and reducing the prospects of socialism. Thatcher is embarked on perhaps her most contro- versial legislative program yet — an overhaul of schooling, property taxes and state-run housing. In a New Year's message, she called it the “greatest program of reforming legislation this century.” Underlining the risks, the bill that will levy property taxes on every adult, as opposed to each home, provoked a revolt by Conservative rank-and-file members of Parlia- ment. The revolt slashed the government's 102-seat j in the 650-member House of Commons to 72 at the tial legislative stage in November. things, they've changed things by behaving in a and indeed quite aggressive way,” Rees-Mogg said. “Those aren't popular attributes. People prefer nice, easygoing chaps,” DON'T LIKE HER Many Britons don't like Thatcher personally. In a December Gallup poll, she was rated likeable by 45 per cent of respondents. That was one of her better scores. By comparison, socialist Labor party leader Neil Kinnock scored 60 per cent. Left-wingers see Thatcher's crusade to make Britain great again and to wipe out socialism as a skilfully disguised appeal to greed. “She has changed people by appealing to the darker side of what we are,” said legislator Ken Livingstone, a prominent left-winger in the Labor party, which Thatcher ousted from power in May 1979. _ “People in Britain today are more self-seeking, more self-centred, and a lot of that is due to her style of ” added Livi ¥ Most Britons are also better off: average earnings have nearly doubled since 1980 to 199 pounds (equivalent to about $484 Cdn) a week. First-time stock owners, buying shares in state-owned enterprises, have tripled to eight million. Two-thirds of Britons own their homes, up from 50 per cent in 1980- The rich are also richer and the poor poorer-Thetop 10 per cent of employees now make 10 times more than the lowest-paid 10 per cent. : splits that have helped Thatcher win big parliamentary majorities with only 42 per cent of the vote may diminish before the next election, due in 1992. The centrist Social Democratic-Liberal party alliance has collapsed in a dispute over merger, and Labor is em barked on a long-term policy review. White Funeral Thomas James White of remained there until his Robson passed away on retirement at the age of 70. thursday, Dec. 31 at the age White and his wife Flora of 88 in the Castlegar and made their retirement home District Hospital. in Robson in 1971. She passed away that year. Born in Lilliesleaf, Scot- He is survived by his three land on Aug. 2, 1899, White children and their spouses, moved to Canada in the Tommy and Bonnie White of 1920s. Robson; Angus and Delores He made his home in Lent- white of Prince George; and law, Sask. and returned to Florence and Joe Labby of Great Britain to serve with Celista, B.C., nine grandchil- the Royal Canadian Forestry dren and three great grand- Corps, during World War children. Two. Funeral White moved to Prince George in the early 1960s and arrangements are in care of the Valley Funeral Home. oe Eee January 3, 1988 Castlégar News A3 Briefly Oil prices on rise NICOSIA (AP) — Iran's oil minister predicted Saturday world oil prices will rise soon and denied reports Iran's oil exports have declined. Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The minister, Gholamreza Agazadeh, also denied reports Japan is reducing its Iranian oil imports and said an Iranian delegation will visit Tokyo in two weeks to discuss future sales, said IRNA, monitored in Cyprus. Soviets deny laser MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union denied Saturday that an observatory being built near the Afghan border contains lasers to counter the U.S. Star Wars program, saying the complex has only a one-metre telescope. The front-page report in the Communist party newspaper Pravda denied western reports the Sanglok observatory near Nurek in Soviet Tadzhiki stan contains lasers strong enough to blind satellites. AIDS risk unknown CHICAGO (AP) — Some people with AIDS had 200 times without infecting their spouses while one women got the virus in a single encounter, indi- cating the frequency of heterosexual relations doesn’t always determine risk, U.S. researchers say. The study for the national Centre for Disease Control looked at 80 AIDS patients — 25 women and 55 men — and their spouses Two of the men married to women, with AIDS contracted the virus through sexual contact with their wives, the study found, and 10 of the 55 women whose husband had AIDS were infected. Ozone layer thin * WASHINGTON (AP) — The earth's protective ozone layer is growing thinner around the world, not just over the South Pole, says a controversial new study of satellite data. But the conclusion is disputed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, sponsor of the study. Hitler purchase LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) A painting of Adolf Hitler was sold Friday at auction for $36,000 US to a local doctor who said he wanted the watercolor for its artistic and historical value. “He's not someone to be admired, but he is a multifaceted historical figure, and I was very interested in the watercolor painting for my own pleasure,” said Don Wright, who had only one competitor in the bidding, which started at $10,000. Radio cancer TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Amateur radio operatogs in two states appear to die at abnormally high rates from several forms of cancer, suggesting a link between cancer and electromagnetic fields, according to data collected by a state epidemiologist. Others cautioned that evidence of such a link has been inconsistent and that other factors may be involved. Bribery cited HONG KONG (CP) — The former chairman of Hong Kong's stock exchange and two top aides were arrested Saturday by the British colony's anti-cor- ruption agency and later released on bail. The Independent Commission Against Corruption said that former chairman Ronald Li, 58, and aides Jeffrey Hon-keun Sun and Donald Tak-hung Tsang were arrested under Hong Kong's prevention-of-brib- ery ordinance in connection with an investigation into the operation of the stock exchange. Skipper caught ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) — Fisheries officers had a bit of unexpected luck when they arrested the Spanish stern trawler Ria de Pontevedra this week on charges of illegally fishing in Canadian waters. Unknown to them before they arrested the shi its fishing master was a captain they had on their wanted list since June, when another Spanish trawler escaped pursuing fisheries patrol vessels. Freighter hit MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A Maltese freighter was hit by a missile in the Persian Gulf, but it was not clear whether it was attacked by Iran or Iraq, maritime salvage officers said today. Meanwhile, Iraq said its warplanes destroyed a strategic bridge in southwestern Iran today. Rebel ambush MANILA (AP) — Communist rebels ambushed a military truck and killed 11 people on it — six soldiers and five civilians — during a surge of political violence that began New Year's Eve and left 25 people dead, the military said Saturday A policeman and a pro-government town council candidate were shot dead in separate incidents Saturday on Negros island. It was the 18th slaying of a candidate since campaigning began Dec. 1 for the Jan. 18 regional elections. Hotel fire BANGKOK (AP) — Guests in a burning hotel dived out windows into a swimming pool and scaled the outside of the nine-storey building to escape froma New Year's Day fire that killed 13 people, most of them foreigners. The fire at the First Hotel in the capital of Thailand began at 4 a.m. ina party room and raged for four hours before firefighters had it under control. Thirty-six people were injured. SKI FUN. . . Cross-country skiers were out in full force Saturday afternoon at Nancy Greene Lake taking ad- vantage of the sunshine and powder snow. , CosNewsPhotc KILLING TREND Mass murder studied 7 By FRED BAYLES An Arkansas man methodically kills his family, then shoots other people he knew in town. An Iowa farm family is wiped out: a son is suspected of murder-suicide. A postal employee kills 14 co-workers in Oklahoma, then kills himself. Those who have studied such killers say the recent spat of murders in the United States doesn't signal an epidemic. However, they warn that factors such as an aging baby boom generation and a growing rootlessness may Yield a crop of multiple killers. “Mass murder is still a rare phenomenon and it's hard to make predictions about the future,” said James Fox, a crim inologist at Northeastern University. “But over the decades there has definitely been an increase in this type of crime.” Park Dietz, a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia and a consultant to the FBI's National Centre for the Analysis of Violent Crime, also believes mass murder is on the rise. “T’'ve been resistant to calling it an increase, but I think there's no avoiding the fact there is an increase,” he said. “The numbers are becoming convincing to me as a skeptic.” Fox and Northeastern sociologist Jack Levin, co- authors of Mass Murder — America’s Growing Menace, analysed 364 cases of mass murder from 1976 through 1985. The researchers defined mass murder as killing four or more victims within a short period of time. THREE MONTHLY The pair say there are three mass murders in the United States, on average, each month. They estimate that 1,772 people died in these cases over the 10-year period, but the number pales when compared to the approximately 20,000 homicides in the country each year. The FBI collects crime statistics on murderers, but it does not break out figures on multiple killings. Fox and Levin delved into the FBI statistics and scoured newspaper indexes of the past 50 years. Fox says 1966 was “the onset of the age of mass murder.” That was the year Richard Speck strangled and stabbed eight student nurses in a Chicago apartment and Charles Whitman killed his wife and mother, then climbed a campus tower at the University of Texas in Austin and shot 14 others dead. “They called Speck’s murders the crime of the century,” Fox said. “Nowadays it's happening all the time.” Fox notes that while the number of mass murders fluctuates, a number of the century's worst cases have occurred since 1980. Topping the list is the 1984 massacre of 20 people at a San Ysidro, Calif., McDonald's restaurant and last week's deaths of 16 people in Russellville, Ark Analysis of the mass murder cases have toned down the theory of a psychotic who suddenly runs amok. In 75 per cent of the cases, the victims knew their killers, almost always a white maJe who often planned the killings for weeks. COMMON THREADS Fox and Levin cite four other common threads running through most mass slayings: e The killer was familiar with firearms. e There was usually some precipitating event, like the loss of a job or divorce or separation from a spouse. e The killer led a life of frustration filled with menial jobs and real or imagined slights. e The killer had few outside contacts with friends or neighbors who might help vent the growing rage. Levin notes that social trends are creating more opportunity for these conditions. “You look at the divorce rate of 50 per cent and the tremendous residential and job mobility in this country,” Levin said. “It can leave people rootless, isolated without sense of community Dietz has examined several mass killers and believes many suffer from depression and see no way out. Another factor is the aging pf the baby boom generdtion. Most mass killers are middle-aged, bitter and dissatjsfied with their lives, reaching a point where they might\lash out. “Ittake time to byild up that sort of frustration,” Levin said. “If We're right about this one variable, we might predict an increase in,massacres as the baby boomers get older.” Fox and Levin say serial killers kill for different reasons. Serial killers enjoy the feeling of power they get from killing, prey on strangers and may kill for months or years. Fox cautions against wondering whether a reclusive neighbor or an angry relative may be a walking time bomb. “There are thousands of people who fit the profile of a mass murderer, but that doesn’t mean they are going to commit mass murder,” he said. Cough syrup tainted CHICAGO (AP). — The FDA is giving consumers the U.S. Food and Drug Admin- wrong impression by saying istration has ordered a recall some of the tranquillizer was of a cough syrup that left a mixed with the cough syrup. six-year-old boy unconscious “What was prescribed for and was later found to the child was cold medicine, contain only tranquillizer. but what was in the bottle The FDA recalled Thurs- was pure tranquilizer,” he day the syrup made by My-K said. Laboratories to determine The Fort Bragg, N.C., boy whether any other bottles of was kept overnight at a cough medicine were tainted hospital for observation and with a tranquillizer the was released with no ill company produces. The FDA effects, Streips said Friday. said the tranquillizer could He called the incident iso- kill a child. lated and said the company is Laimonis Streips, a comp- trying to determine how it i i h d any PI » said the My-K is recalling its non- problem and has been in prescription cold medicine contact with Food and Drug bearing lot No. 15718 with an Administration. expiration date of December, None of the products are 1988. known to be sold in Canada, a The medicine is sold under department spokesman said the labels Walgreen WalAct today. Syrup: Osco Aphedrid However, the FDA is ex Syrup: Myfed Syrup: Life- pected to supply Canadian Line, Trifed Syrup; and URL health authorities with dis. Uni-Fed Syrup. tribution records — hopefully Streips said 105,000 units early in the week — so a of the medicine were shipped definite check can be made. out in 113-gram bottles a Appropriate action would year ago. Other shipments, then follow in Canada, said have been made since. Bonnie Fox-McIntyre of the In Ottawa, the Health De- federal health protection partment is aware of the branch. GIRL KILLED IN RESORT DURING HOLIDAY TRIP TORONTO (CP) — A gift vacation ended tragically for a Chatham, Ont., teenager’Thursday when she was slain on the resort island of Bonaire off the cozst of Venezuela. The body of Shay Harwood, who would have turned 16 Friday, was found in the washroom of a hotel where she was vacationing with relatives, said her uncle, Norm Ritchie. “Word is that Shay was strangled and raped,” he said Friday in an interview from Collingwood, Ont. Police were withholding an official statement about the cause of death until after an autopsy, but a police spokesman told Tke Associated Press this morning she had not been raped The coroner. was to conduct the autopsy today, said Brian Hood, a Canadian Embassy official in Bonaire investigating the death. The girl's body was to be flown back to Canada after the autopsy Shay was travelling with her aunt Ann, uncle Harley and cqusin Danielle Vannatter, 13, of Sarnia, Ont. The trip was a combined Christmas and birthday gift to Shay, who would have turned 16 on Friday. UNCLE COMMEN’ “They were staying at a very luxurious hotel, it was very, very luxurious, however it doesn’t matter; where you are, does it?” Ritchie said The family was watching a crab race at the beach when Shay had to go to the bathroom and went to the hotel. “She never returned.” Her body was found several hours later at about 8 p.m. Thursday in a washroom near a bar-recreation area in the Diva Flamingo hotel, Hood said. The mood at the hotel was sombre and there are conflicting stories about who found the body, he said. Police in Bonaire had no one in custody after questioning two hotel employees, Ritchie said. The teenager, whose father died when she was 3, was living with Brian and Shirley Harwood, her aunt and uncle. Her mother, Connie Harwood, also lives in Chatham. “It's terrible — she's not a strong person,” Ritchie said of his sister Connie. “She's had a lot of bad things happen to her, especially this. From what I understand, she's taking it very, very hard.” Ritchie said he had been in constant communication with his relatives in Bonaire and with officials at the Canadian embassy in Caracas since about 90 minutes after his niece’s body was found. TRAVELS SOUTH Shay's brother Michael Harwood, an Ontario Provincial Police officer, arrived at the hotel in Bonaire on Friday night, Hood said. “I think he’s here primarily to support other family members. He's under a fair amount of mental anguish.” Ann and Danielle Vannatter were on their way back to Canada from the island, a Dutch colony in the Lesser Antilles, Ritchie said. “The reality of these situations is we all know they happen, but when it strikes close to home it affects you all the more,” Ritchie said. Shay was the youngest and only girl among four children. A memorial service is planned for Sunday. Jenni Grant, a school friend since Grade 5, said Shay had taken a part-time job to earn extra money for the trip, which she had talked about for months. “She never thought anyone would every hurt her,” said Jenni, 15. “She sort of trusted everyone.” Shay was described as a quite, good natured Grade 10 student at Chatham's Ursuline College by Terry Lyng, vice-principal of the Roman Catholic high school. On holiday since Dec. 18, Shay was to return to Chatham, a town of about 41,000 people 65 kilometres east of Windsor, this weekend. Skiers found after 1 SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — Two women who be- came stuck in snow on their way back from a skiing trip were found alive Saturday after they spent 10 days inside their vehicle with only a bag of peanuts to eat, a hospital spokesman said Jamie Goldman, 19, of Tempe and Lisa Barzano, 18, of Paradise Valley, Ariz., were in excellent condition for what they went through, said Claudette Womack, a spokesman for White Moun tains Communities Hospital. “My understanding is that they found a pack of peanuts under the front seat just this morning, and that's all they had,” Womack said. “As long as you have plenty of fluids, that helps.” In addition to spending the ordeal without food, the women had no. external source of heat, but Womack said it had not been deter mined whether ¢ither sus. tained frostbite. The women- were found about noon by a snowmo- biler, Michael Estes of Eagar, near Crescent Lake about 40 kilometres southwest of Springerville, said Apache County sheriffs Sgt. Edwin Plum. They had been driving a red Chevrolet Blazer, and Estes said he spotted some- thing red in the snow and went to investigate, Plum said. 0 days The condition of the two had not been fully evaluated but they appeared to be well enough to avoid a stay in hospital, depending on the decision of their families, Womack said. ON SKI TRIP The women were on a pre- Christmas ski trip to Purg- atory Ski Area, in southern Colorado, via Gallup, N.M., officials said. “They took a wrong road and got so far and couldn't go any farther and became stuck in their vehicle,” Womack said “Of course, we had a big snow right after that; we had about a foot and a half of snow jn that area, and they have been in their car ever since,” she added. After the snowstorm, the two tried to walk out “but didn't have the right foot gear.” The vehicle would not start after it became stuck the first night, Womack added After Barzano and Gold man failed to turn up for several days, the parents of both said they believed their daughters were abducted and complained police agencies did not seem _ in- terested. The state Department of Public Safety finally formed a task force for the search and involved police agencies from California to Oklahoma.