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NEW FOLLETT
SPY NOVEL A
CHASE STORY

NEW YORK (AP) — A chase across a bleak
landscape. Jane and her lover, Ellis, are running for their
lives. But why are they running? And where are they

plotted his latest spy thriller, Lie Down With Lions.

For where, he decided on Afghanistans. But figuring
out why was a little more complicated, dealing with
Jane's flight from a treacherous husband and U.S. efforts
to aid rebel guerrillas.

The title refers to the Five Lions Valley, or Panjsher
Valley, a strategic area northeast of Kabul. It is a
stronghold of Moslem rebels fighting the Soviet-backedd
government.

Follett, who first made best-seller lists in 1978 with
Eye of the Needle, had two reasons for setting his book in
Afghanistan.

To begin with, he said, most people agree “the rebels
are the heroes, the Soviets are the bad guys.”

The other reason for the book's setting, he said, is
Afghanistan's “terribly, bleak, harsh, cruel countryside.

“It's just the right landscape for a chase story, which
was what I wanted to write.”

Follett spent two years researching and writing Lie

the books and talked to some of them.”

As a further check for accuracy, he had journalists
who had been to Afghanistan read the transcript, he said.

The author is by no means one-sided in making the
rebels heroes. He points out their primitiveness,
brutality in battle and their harsh treatment of women.
His point of view evolved as he learned more about the
Afghans.

“At first I was sure of the situation. As I got on with
the research, I had some qualifications,” he said. These
reservations appear in the voice of Jane, who ch

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BUSINESS

Editor's note: The following is reprinted from
Westar Timber Magazine.

Last time you were in a hospital you probably had to
wear one of those embarrassing gowns that tie at the
back with a couple of flimsy bows, Doctors leaned over
you and muttered through white masks while you laid on
a table covered with a disposable sheet.

The gown, mask and sheet may have been made of
cloth, but increasingly in modern hospitals they're made
of a non-woven fabric that’s either 100 per cent synthetic
or a mixture of synthetic fibre and wood fibre.

C.H. Dexter Division of the huge United States
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covers, instrument wraps and many other non-woven
medical products.

“We use a significant proportion of wood fibre
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buy,” says Howard McCormick, Purchasing Agent for
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because it’s non-absorbent, very strong and pr

“The whole pulp industry in general is somewhat
behind in standards of process quality control. I was
impressed that Westar were showing a great deter-
mination to play catch-up. There's no question that
quality and consistency of quality are number one with
us. It’s consistency from month to month that is the most
important thing.”

Dexter is the oldest company listed on the New York

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. William the Premier, played by C. Holte
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coun ‘sty
played by West Kootenay actress Meredith Bain
Woodward, in Friday night's performance of The

Enemy Within at Stanley Humphries Secondary School.
The performance in Castlegar of the political comedy

is part of a provincial tour. Conttows Photo by Chery! Celderbonk

the treatment of, and attitudes toward, women.

The 36-year-old Follett, a native of Cardiff, Wales,
started out writing science fiction, which he had trouble
selling. He turned to spy thrillers in 1973 for a most
mundane reason — his car broke down and he needed
$500 to get it out of the garage.

He was a newspaper reporter with a wife, baby and
house payments, and he didn't know how he was going to
come up with the money. He then learned a colleague had
received a $500 U.S. advance for a thriller.

Six weeks later, he had completed a book the
publisher accepted it and Follett got the advance he
needed.

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Dogs in the movies

LOS ANGELES (AP) —He has one blue eye and one
brown eye, one straight ear and one that flops down, and
weighs 42 pounds.

He's also disarmingly shy.

He is Mike, the seven-year-old Scottish border collie
who play sa neurotic, overprivileged dog named Matisse in
Down and Out in Beverly Hills and critics say he steals the
movie from Bette Midler, Nick Nolte and Richard Dreyfuss.

As the movie dog of the "80s, he follows a tradition that
began in the early days of cinema when pooches starred in
the Mack Sennett silent comedy classics and became as
popular as Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

A canine also barked his way to stardom in the Our
Gang series.

Pete, with his trademark ring around the left eye, was a
stalwart member of the kid cast that later became The Little
Rascals on television.

Rin Tin Tin, a German army dog found in the First
World War trench by an American soldier, became the
leading dog star of the silent period. Jack Warner often
remarked that the German shepherd's film saved Warner
Bros. from bankruptcy.

DISTINGUISED
SPEAKERS SERIES

Selkirk College is presenting a distinguished Speokers Series as part of the
College's 20th Anniversary celebrations. Four speakers of national renown
have been invited to speak at Selkirk College,

throughout 1986.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE FOLLOWING EVENTS
Paulette Jiles, Governor-General’s Award-winning poe!

p.m.

Margaret Cattey-C Carlson, head of the Canadian International Development

Agency — April 25.

Mel Hurtig, weil known Canadian publisher and outspoken advocate of
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Devid Suzuki, acre writer and producer of CBC's televisions's
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A descendant starred on television in The Adventures
of Rin Tin Tin from 1954-59.

An intelligent collie became an MGM star with the 1942
Lassie Come Home, starring Elizabeth Taylor. Lassie,
dubbed by one reviewer “Greer Garson in furs,” appeared in
several more films before moving to television in 1954.

A seventh generation Lassie may star this year ina new
weekly series for a Canadian cable company. Like its
predecessors, this Lassie is a laddie

Explaining why male dogs were used for a female part,
trainer Robert Weatherwax said: “In those days, movies
could take six months to shoot, and females didn't retain
their coats.”

Since the first picutre required Lassie to have puppies,
the dog’s role couldn't be switched to a male, he said.

Weatherwax has succeeded his father, Rudd, who died a
year ago, as Lassie’s trainer.

He also handles 0.J., a collie-sheep dog who is a regular
on TV's Who's the Boss and who appeared in Back to the
Future. “There's also Corky, a mixed terrier who played
Nick Nolte’s mutt in Down and Out in Beverly Hills.

Having trained movie dogs for 24 years, Weatherwax
says the work has changed: “As the state of the film art
improves — better cameras, lighting, etc. — my work gets
harder. Directors are using more master (wide, establishing)
shots, which means more distance between me and the dog.
My father and I used to be able to talk to the dogs; now it's
all silent cues.”

Producer-director Bill Beaudine, who worked on the
Lassie series for 12 years, says directing dogs can be easy,
sometimes too easy

“If a dog is well trained, he usually knows that to do by
the second take. But sometimes he knows too well, and he
responds ahead of his cue,” he said

Unlike child actors, dogs have no restriction on their
working hours.

“That can be a problem: they get pooped,” Beaudine
said. “Most dogs have an easy life, plenty of time to sleep.

“But s movie dog sometimes has to respond to
commands 10-12 hours a day, and that can produce a lot of
stress. With Lassie, I tried to schedule his important scenes.
first thing in the morning.”

Pop duo Wham!
calls it quits

LONDON (AP)
pop duo Wham! will soon be
history, after “the most ami.
cable split in pop history,”

The top George Michael said in an
interview.

Michael and Andrew Rid
geley will record the last
Wham! single next week in
Los Angeles and play a fare
well concert in London this
summer, Michael said in a
London television interview
filmed for broadcast Sat
urday night.

Michael and Ridgeley de
cided seven months ago to
quit while at the top, having
achieved everything they
wanted to when they started
four years ago at age 17.

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By BRENDA DALGLISH
The Canadian Press

to start with.

blowing it?

McGovern, vice-p
Bank of Montreal.

you have to discipline yourself,” says McGovern.
PAY OFF DEBTS

the first priority is to pay off any debts.

“Start with the
department store cards because you're paying 21-per-
cent interest on some of them,” Delaney says.

than the credit card rate. But the bank may want to hold

more debts.

Then begin a savings program.

START SMALL

“Start with the smallest amount you can afford, but
start and continue saving regularly,” says McGovern.

To do that prepare a budget to determine how much
is coming in and going out, he says.

“Even if you can only afford to set aside $5 a month,
you'd be surprised how much that will amount to after 20
years.”

The only problem with many of the racy, new
investment options is that you need to have some money

How should you approach money management if you
only earn a bare-bones income or if, like a large number of
otherwise sensible and often well-paid people, you have a
character flaw and can't save more than — before

The first step on the road to financial well being is to
set up a plan to manage your money, says Norm

of with the

“You have to develop some kind of program and then

Tom Delaney, an indepenent financial adviser, says
credit cards, especially the

If you are a good credit risk, your bank will arrange a
consolidation loan so that you only have to pay one

monthly sum and bank interest rates are usually lower

your credit cards so that you aren't tempted to run up

If you put $20 a month into a savings account paying
10 per cent compounded monthly, at the end of 10 years
you will have saved $4,151; at the end of 20 years your
account will be worth $15,334; and after 30 years you will
have accumulated $45,060.

AMOUN TGROWS

If you put $1,000 a year into a registered retirement
savings plan with a 10-per-cent annual rate of return, in
40 years you will have saved $486,000, plus enjoyed
considerable tax savings along the way.

If you have trouble saving, the best way to begin is
to set up an account where money is automatically
transferred from your chequing account into a savings
account on a monthly basis, McGovern says.

If your employer has a Canada Savings. Bond
program with monthly deductions, signing up to buy a
bond is also a good way to guarantee that you will save.

“Either way, it’s set up so that you don't see the
money, you don’t miss it,” says McGovern. “We advise
that if you are using a savings account yo set it up so it's
difficult to get access to — you could make it so that you
have to have both husband's and wife's signature for a
withdrawal, for example.”

McGovern says a savings system that he personally
favors is to automatically deposit the children’s family
allowance cheques into a savings account for their
education.

SETS GOALS

“I think the biggest thing is to get into the habit of
saving. And set some goals, because you have to have a
reason to save.”

If you have a good income but still can’t save,
another trick to consider is borrowing a sum of money to
open an RRSP, says Delaney.

“It's a kind of enforced savings because you have to
pay the loan off monthly and you can use the money you
save on the taxes to reduce the loan and cover the
interest charges.”

Then keep repeating the process for three or four
years until you have accumulated several thousand
dollars, a sum large enough to start putting into some of
those interesting investment opportunities.

“There's a great sense of achievement with that,”
says Delaney, “a great feeling of getting somewhere —
and suddenly saving becomes a lot easier.”

Yen drives away buyers

TOKYO (AP) — The rising

help make its products more
value of the J: yen, iti

against

which has driven away for.
eign buyers, is being blamed
for the financial woes of some
Japanese industries.

The yen's 25-per-cent ap
preciation against the U.S.
dollar September has sent
shock waves through small
businesses that depend on
dollar-based exports.

The dollar now buys only
about 180 yen, the lowest ex
change rate in over seven

rivals and help reduce the
huge U.S. trade deficit.
However, with Japanese
autos and electronic goods
still selling well in the United

exporters are complaining
about forced price cuts from
their parent companies.
Even big exporters such as
Toyota and Sony expect
profits to drop as much as a
10 per cent because of the

million small and medium-
sized Japanese firms, those
with less than 100 million
yen, or about $750,000 Can-
adian, in paid-up capital.

States, say it
probably will be late 1986 be-
fore the strong yen begins to
have an effect on trade fig-

ures.

Small exporters have ask-
ed for government aid be-
cause of a sudden halt in or-

years. It bought just over 240
in September.

The United States has
pushed for a stronger yen to

ders .from foreign buyers,

who now must spend more

for the same product.
Subcontractors of the big

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vice or extra copies of the tax return
schedules and forms, we have them. Need
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We'll Be in Trail

Starting Tuesday, March 4 and until Thursday,
March 6, we'll be at Studio 2, Cominco Arena.
This special local tax information centre, statfed
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Canada

On Thursday, many pre-
ferred stocks declined as in-
vestors reacted to the tight-
ening of budget rules on the
federal dividend tax credit.

But on Friday, the market
powered ahead on the stren-
gth of lower oil prices and
hopes for lower interest rates
and higher economic growth.

The TSE 300 composite
index of leading stocks rose
46.08 points or 1.64 per cent
to close at 2855.83. Nearly
half the weekly gain — 22.49
points — was registered Fri-
day as 456 issues advanced,
330 fell and 268 were un-
changed.

attractive, but they won't
permanently dull the market,
which is poised for a strong
rally, he said.

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