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_ Cady in favor of
Campbell report

By SURJ RATTAN
Staff Writer
District of Central

| Kootenay has come out in favor of the

findings of a provincial government
report aimed at all B.C. municipalities.

In October, 1983 the Municipal Af.
fairs Ministry hired former municipal
affairs minister Dan Campbell to
review all of the regional districts,
which were created during his term in
office, and to offer any comments on
the evolution of regional districts over
the past 20 years.

The Campbell report, which was re
leased just over a week ago, recom.
mends giving more authority to re.
gional districts, an idea that Regional
Distriet of Central Kootenay chairman
George Cady favors.

“We tend to agree with the report;
we're very happy with it. The provin-
cial government is proposing that re-
gional districts be given more author

ity to do certain things, and that sits
well with us,” Cady told the Castlegar
News in an interview.

He added that after 20 years it was
time to review all regional districts
again and that the main theme of the
report is that regional districts become
“more accountable,” to the people they
represent.

Cady, who recently returned from a
trip to Victoria where he met with
Municipal Affairs Minister Rita John
ston, said the regional district “has an
excellent relationship” with Johnston's
office.

“Being a former municipal official (a
Surrey alderman) Rita Johnston un
derstands how regional districts
work.”

Cady also said that the regional
district had a lot of problems trying to
work with former municipal affairs
minister Bill Ritchie.

“The last Municipal Affairs minister

GRANTS ANNOUNCED

was different. Everyone (regional dis-
tricts) had trouble with him.

Other recommendations contained in
the Campbell report include:

holding a mandatory study on the
possiblity of areas incorporating five
years after reaching local status;

« giving regional districts authority
for setting and collecting business
licenses in electoral areas;

© establishing closer liaisons be-
tween regional districts and the Mun-
icipal Affairs Ministry

Johnston recently said the Campbell
report will set the scene for new
legislation governing regional districts.

“Mechanism will be provided to
allow fegional districts to work with
greater autonomy within clearly de-
fined limits and to quickly resolve
disputes,” said Johnston.

Charges laid

VANCOUVER (CP) — A second-degree murder
charge was laid Saturday in the stabbing death of a
grocery warehouse worker who had been picketing
outside the closed Slade and Stewart operation.

Ron Pankowski, 58, was locked out along with 75
other workers on May 19, 1984. For the last few
months, he had been picketing alone, collecting $160 a
week in strike pay from the Retail Wholesale Union.

Police said he was approached Friday morning by
a man who pulled out a butcher knife and stabbed
Pankowski in the heart.

Charged with second-degree murder is Gary
Thomson, 33, of Burnaby. He is scheduled to appear in
court Monday. ¥

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Fonyo to marry
CALGARY (CP) — Steve Fonyo, the one-legged

runner who crossed Canada to raise money for cancer_|

research, is planning to marry a woman he met while
on his cross-country trek last year.

Fonyo, 22, and Wendy Reeder, 20, of Strathmore,
Alta., are going to have the largest wedding the small
community just east of Calgary on the Trans-Canada
Highway has ever seen, Reeder's mother, Judy
Pethick, said Friday.

Man returns home

EDMONTON (CP) — David Ammar returned to
his home near Ei Friday after ding six
months in a Syrian jail on drug charges.

Ammar, 28, who lives in the Edmonton bedroom
community of St. Albert, arrived at the Edmonton
International Airport last Friday night and was

faced with a publie inquiry by
the B.C. Inspector of Muni-
cipalities if it tears down the
downtown library, Ald. Nick
Ogiow said this week.

Ogiow raised the spector of
an inquiry into council's con-
duct at the end of Wed-
nesday’s special council meet-
ing where Mayor Audrey
Moore announced that the
provincial government will
provide an additional $22,500
grant from its Expo Legacy
Fund.

Oglow said that while he
doesn't support an inquiry,
he knows some local resi-
dents are considering it.

Moore said council would
cross that bridge when it
came to it

Ogiow said in an interview
later that the local residents
would lay their complaint
with the Inspector of Muni-
cipalities on the basis that
the city is destroying public
property: the library.

A FAMILY AFFAIR . . . Students, staff, parents and friends gathered
at the Woodland Park Family Night at Woodland Park. school Thur-
sday evening. The night included tree decorating, crafts, ginger-

Christmas.

bread houses, dancing, puppetry and bingo. During the singing of
Christmas carols, Santa dropped by to wish everyone a merry

U.S.-IRAN ARMS DEAL
Key player summoned

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House of Represen-
tatives intelligence committee has summoned a key player in
the Iran arms controversy in an effort to determine before
Christmas whether any money from the sales went to

greeted by about 150 relatives, friends and
well-wishers.

It was an emotional homecoming for the father of
two, who said he thought he would never get out of
jail. Friends hoisted Ammar above their heads to
welcome him as he said that being home is a great
Christmas present.

TOP ORNAMENTS . . . Winners in the Robson River Ot-
ters Swim Club's Christmas tree ornament contest
were: (front, left) Sean Pinkerton and Kristy Verigin
who won $5 each; (rear, left) Astrid Pinkerton, who

MONA LISA

won a gingerbread house for second place, and Don
na Moyer who “won $25 for first place. Third place
went to Bobby Itcush

Brisco delivers jobs

By CasNews Staff

Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco announced this week
federal grants totalling $253,000 for three job training
projects in the West Kootenay.

The projects are under the Job Entry and Re-entry
rogram and will provide employment preparation for 57
residents in Nelson, Trail and Nakusp.

Job Entry and Re-entry are federal initiatives under the

Vander Zalm
sparks anger
over abortions

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In Trail, Impact Training will conduct a 10-week
program for 24 people who will spend an additional 16 weeks
with Trail area businesses to gain valuable work experience.

“Job Entry and Re-entry have proven highly successful
in Kootenay West,” Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said in a
prepared release.

“The numbers indicate that there is a demand for the
kinds of skills these people are being taught.”

The pivotal figure in both the Iran and Nicaraguan
connections was Lt.-Col. Oliver North, who was fired from
his job on the National Security Council staff last month.
North and his boss, former White House national-security

“It's the only solution to fit the facts and (it) may be b
one of the most important in the history of art,” he said,

that Schwartz's conclusions were consistent
with historical records of the work.

Barge explodes

IDENTITY
QUESTIONED

NEW YORK (REUTER) — An artist using
modern-day computer techniques claims to have solved
one of the great mysteries of history — the identity of the
woman in Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa

The answer, said Lillian Schwartz, is the painter
himself.

The disclosure unleashed a bitter controversy in the
art world Friday, with many experts skeptical the
Renaissance Italian artists would paint himself dressed as
the woman with the mysterious, beguiling smile.

“I don't see anything very persuasive in the finging,”
said Peter Sutton, curator of European Painting at
Boston's Museum of Fine Art. “In a sense, all paintings
are self-portraits, but this is a very silly conclusion.”

But Wick Allison, editor and publisher of Art and
Antiques which published Schwartz's conclusions, said
the magazine's experts went over the findings
point-by-point and confirmed the conclusion.

BASES CLAIM

Schwartz, who works as an artist-in-residence at AT
and T Bell Laboratories in New York, based her claim on
a comparison of the painting with a self-portrait by the
artist.

She supposed the red chalk portrait made in 1518
next to the 1504 Mona Lisa and found that the eyes, nose,
hairline and cheeks were identical.

Using computer techniques, Schwartz reversed the
self-portrait of Leonardo — which faces right while the
Mona Lisa faces left — then set the two paintings to the
same scale. This resulted in a mirror image, she said.

Diana Gisolfi Pechukas, associate professor of art
history at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and an expert on
16th century painting, was not convinced. She even
superimposed he rown slides of the two works to compare
them.

“Without seeing the computer work, there are a lot
of questions,” said Pechukas. “There are similarities in
the eyebrows and nose, but I don't see it working for the

Canadian Jobs Strategy designed to assist people who are
having difficulties making the transition from school or home

to the work force.

In Nakusp, 15 people are to receive 10 weeks of skills
training through Selkirk College, and 16 weeks of on-site
training with carefully chosen companies who are willing to
participate in the program and provide actual work settings

for the trainees.

Nelson Business Services and Training will provide a
10-week program of skills training for 18 people in Nelson
who will later spend 16 weeks with various businesses to
and gain

reinforce their classroom skills

experience.

Brisco added that employment department figures
show that of the 71 people who were trained under three

previous Entry and Re-entry projects in Kootenay West, 53

found jobs.

“That's a placement rate of 75 per cent,” he added, “and
that proves the program is working.”
Brisco said the business community in Kootenay West

deserves much of the credit for the success of these projects.

on-the-job
be unemployed.”

‘On-the-job training is an integral element of the
program. Our business
for taking up the challenge of the Canadian Jobs Strategy,
and providing opportunities for people who would otherwise

ies are to be d

Oil production cut expected

GENEVA (AP) —

All OPEC members except Iraq
agreed today to cut the cartel's oil production by seven per
cent during the first half of 1987 and raise prices to about $18
U.S. per barrel from the current range of $13 to $16, the

Iraq was assigned a production quota of 1.466 million
barrels a day, but because it is not party to the deal it is
expected to continue pumping near its current rate of 1.7
million barrels daily

Lukman told a news conference.

rest of the face.”

AWANA —

914 Columbia Ave.

Sunday School 9:45 a.m
Family Worship Service
a.m
Bible Study & Prayer
Tuesday 7:30 p.m
Phone 365-3269
or 365-2605

Past Fireside Motel
Pastor: Alan Simpson
Sunday School

ANGLICAN CHURCH
1401 Columbia Avenue
Sunday Services
8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m
Sunday School 10 a.m
Rev. Charles Balfour
365-2271
Parish Purpose:
To know Christ and
make Him known’

CHURCH OF GOD

2404 Columbia Avenue

Police file

A single vehicle crash Fri
day sent one man to Castle
gar hospital with undeter
mined injuries.

Fred Faminoff, 64, of
Castlegar, drove his car into
the ditch about 18 km west of
here, RCMP report

Damage to the vehicle was
at about $2,000.

10:00 a.m
Morning Worship LIVING WATERS
11:00 a.m. AITH FELLOWSHIP
Evening Service
6:30 p.m
TUES. 6:00 PM.
dren s Program
Kindergarten to Grade 8
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Study & Prayer 7 p.m
Church 365-3430
Pastor 365-6170

GRACE PRESBYTERIAN

“Vision with Vitality
2'A miles west on
Hwy. 3 towards Gr. Forks
(Old Hilltop Restourant)
Sunday Celebration
lla.m.

Nursery & Children s Service
Home Bible Study
ghd

, 7:30 p.m

2605 Columbia Ave. MONTHLY SATELLITE

Rev. J. Ferrier
Phone 365-3182

Morning Worship
11:00 a.m

into: 365-8292 or 365-3182

ST. RITA’S CATHOLIC

VIDEO SEMINARS
Accredited video
Bible College Available

PASTOR:
Stuert Lourie — 365-3278

Church School
9:45 a.m
Morning Worship
1am
Pastor Ire Johnson
Phone 365-6762

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(A.C.0.P.)

Below Castleaird Plaza
Phone 365-6317
Pastor: Barry Werner
Phone 365-2374
SUNDAY SERVICES
“Sunday School 9:45 a.m
Morning Worship 11:00
Evening Fellowship 6:30

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Morning Worship 10 300. m
Evening Evangelistic
600 p.m
Wednesdoy Bible Study
Prayer at 7 00 p m
Friday Youth ot 7 30 p m

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1471 Columbia Ave... Trail
364-0117

Regulor Saturday Services
Pastor Cliff Drieberg
365-2649

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Ph. 365-7143
WEEKEND SERVICES
Saturday 7 p.m
Sunday 8 and 11. a.m
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Youth Meetings 6:30 p.m

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2264-6th Ave
1'% Blocks South of
Community Complex
9:45.0.m Singing

10. a.m. — Worship
and Sunday School

Rev. Ted Bristow
365-8337 or 365-7814

Meanwhile, a 93-year-old
woman, who walked away
from her residence Tuesday
night, was found lying on the
side of Pass Creek Road 8
a.m, Wednesday morning

The woman was taken by
ambulance to the hospital
where she is listed in stable
condition.

Castlegar RCMP have not
released her name

Titford
brightest
light

By CasNews Staff

A perennial winner has
once again captured the
Castlegar Chamber of Com
merce’s residential Christ
mas lighting contest

Tom and Ann Titford of
2628 Columbia Ave. took first
place. Doug Feliman of 2709
5th Ave. were second.

Marvin Sommers of 770
Woodland Dr. was awarded
an honorable mention.

In the business category
The Fireside Place Dining
Room captures top spot while
Tulips Floral Co. was given
an honorable mention.

cartel's president said

Some leaders of the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries said they believed the agreement,
which takes effect Jan. 1, will quickly dry up the world oil
glut-and move the cartel closer to regaining control over oil
prices

Bryan Jacoboski, an analyst for Paine Webber Inc. who
was observing the meeting in Switzerland, predicted prices
on the open market would jump as a result of the agreement

The pact was reached after 10 days of intense
bargaining. much of it focusing on Iraq's refusal to accept a
production quota lower than that of its enemy, Iran

The Iraqi oil minister, Qassim Taki al-Oraibi, issued a
statement saying the accord is not official because it was not
unanimous. He said Iraq refused to accept the quota
assigned to it under the majority agreement because it
would have unfairly reduced Iraq's oil revenues by 25 per
cent

Iran, however, said it would search for legal grounds to
either force Iraqu co-operation or have Iraq suspended from
the 13-member cartel

FINANCES WAR

Both Iraq and Iran depend heavily on oil income to
finance their war, now in its seventh year

Rilwanu Lukman, the OPEC president and Nigerian oil
minister, said the pact set OPEC's collective oil production
at 15.8 million barrels a day for the first six months of 1987
Total production now is estimated at 17 million barrels daily

DOWNTOWN

continued trom front poge
the project will act as a catalyst, prompting other
businesses to renovate their properties.

Pritchard said that with the newly-announced mall
proposed for the eliptical site, the downtown has two
routes to go: either make Castlegar a regional shopping
centre like Nanaimo with an enclosed mall, an outdoor
plaza and a good-looking downtown, or leave the
downtown the way it is anc lose any benefit it might gain
from being a regional centre

Pritchard said that while the DBA hasn't set a
deadline for signing up the necessary property owners, it
is putting on a “final push” between now and the first
week of January

“This is an investment in their own future,” he said,
adding that the project won't be any cheaper than it is
now

Under the provincial government's Downtown
Revitalization Program, the DBA could receive a loan for

as little as six or seven per cent interest for 75 per cent of
the cost of the project.

LIBRARY EXPANSION

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the library board to spend up to
$445,000 for the expansion.

Ald. Nick Oglow was the only council
member opposed to the move. Oglow
explained that while he didn't want to
delay the expansion, he thought the
building should be constructed on a
vacant lot

He said building on a vacant lot
instead of tearing down the old library
would save $45,000. Another $35,000
could be saved by hiring a contract
superintendent to oversee the con
struction and report to city hall

The combined $80,000 saving could
allow the library board to build the
full-size expansion instead of the
reduced facility, Oglow said

“I don't think we are getting enough
for what we are spending.” he sug
gested

Ald. Len Embree rejected Ogiow's
proposal, saying the fund raising effort
made it clear the community wants to
proceed with the expansion at the
chosen location. Embree also pointed
out that the sealed down expansion can
always be enlarged in the future

Embree expressed concern that if
council doesn't proceed with the

expansion now, it may be sitting

Ald. Carl Henne agreed. Henne said
he supports proceeding but suggested
Ogiow draw up a proposal for building
the library on vacant land and bring it
to council before council gives final
approval to the expansion.

Council has until Tuesday to either
award or reject the lowest tender for
the 6,600-square-foot expansion. Willi
am Berg Construction of Castlegar
submitted the lowest bid
around a year from now discussing the
project

MALL

But Ogiow is hoping his proposal will
change council's mind. He suggests
constructing the library on the vacant
lot between city hall and the Bank of
Montreal on Columbia Avenue

It's bigger and better than the
Property on which they proposed to
build,” he said in an interview

Oglow said he intends to contact
William Berg Construction to see if it is
possible to build the full-size library on
the vacant lot for the same cost as the
smaller library on the old library site

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number of jobs it will create itself.”
First Commercial is no newcomer to
the world of shopping centres.
It presently either owns or has an
interest in 18 shopping centres in five
provinces and one territory

We are experts in the field,” said
Charne who pointed to the Chilliwack
mall and the Peachtree mall in Pentic
ton as two examples of their work
Charne said the mall design may be

similar to another mall in Canora, Ont
which was built on a site similar to the
one in Castlegar

Charne, who hopes construction will
begin this spring. cited the addition of
$100,000 or more a year to the com
munity tax coffers as another advan
tage

“We're delighted to have an oppor
tunity to serve a need we feel exists in
this community,” said Charne

First Commercial hopes to hold a
community contest to name the new
mall.

PINEY POINT, MD. (AP) — A petroleum barge
explosion Saturday that was heard 25 kilometres away
killed three workers, injured a fourth and left a fifth
missing, authorities said.

Four workers were on the 100-by-30 metre barge
at the Steuart Petroleum Co. Bulk Storage Facility
cleaning out remnants of a load of aviation fuel when
the blast occurred early Saturday, said Bob Thomas, a
spokesman for the Maryland State fire marshal's
office. The fifth worker was on a pier, he said.

Soviets an example

JOHANNESBURG (REUTER) — Opposition
politician Helen Suzman, citing plans for the release
from imternal exile of Soviet dissident Andrei
Sakharov. called on the South African government
Saturday to follow the Soviet lead and free black
nationalist Nelson Mandela.

Soviet authorities announced Friday the end of
Sakharov's confinement to the closed city of Gorky.
The physicist. a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is
expected to return to Moscow next week after almost
seven years of internal exile

Suzman, a veteran opposition member of
parliament and a champion of human rights in South
Africa, said she hoped the Kremlin's move would
inspire Pretoria to release Mandela, who has been
serving a life sentence since 1964 on subversion
charges

Ties strained

ANKARA (REUTER) — Long-strained ties
between Turkey and Greece were at a new low today
and both countries traded protests after a border clash
that killed one Greek and two Turkish soldiers.

Turkey said the incident began Friday around
noon when two Greek soldiers crossed the frontier
near the town of Ipsala, close to the Aegean coast.
Turkish troops gave them a verbal warning but other
Greek soldiers opened fire

The Greek Defence Ministry said in Athens on
Friday night that a three-man Greek patrol came
under “unprovoked attack” from a Turkish patrol.

U.S. gets cheap gas

WINNIPEG (CP) — Natural gas producers are
selling Canadian gas to Americans at lower prices than
they are selling to Manitoba consumers, Consumer
Affairs Minister Al Mackling said Friday

He was referring to a deal signed this week
between Pan Alberta Gas Ltd. and United Gas
Pipelines of Houston, Tex., to sell gas at an Alberta
border price of $2.55 per thousand cubic feet

That's 45 cents less than Manitoba gas consumers
can expect to pay under the recently signed Inter City
Gas Corp.-TransCanada PipeLines deal, which has yet
to be approved by the province's Public Utilities
Board

Store worker charged

SPRINGFIELD ONT. (CP) — The husband of a
convenience-store owner was charged Friday in the
shooting of an unarmed man during an alleged
attempted robbery.

Roert Putnam, 23, was charged with possession of
a weapon for a purpose dangerous to public peace and
careless use of a firearm, police said

The shooting on Thursday was the fifth such
incident in Canada in almost as many weeks.

Chinese protest

PEKING (AP) — About 30,000 students marched
through the streets of Shanghai waving banners
Saturday night, demanding freedom and democracy in
the biggest demonstration in China since the turbulent
era of the Cultural Revolution.

Foreign sources said that, including marchers, the
curious and other bystanders, the procession drew up
to 70,000 people. The protest was peaceful and organ
ized and no major clashes with police took place,
sources said

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
New Democratic Party and
pro-choice groups in British
Columbia have harshly criti-
cized suggestions by Premier
Bill Vander Zalm that he's
looking into trimming doc
tor’s fees for abortions in a
bid to reduce the number
being performed in the prov
ince.

Vander Zalm, a devout
Roman Catholic, said Friday
he wants to ensure each
abortion qualifies under the
Criminal Code and it not
merely being used as a means
of birth control.

“(Alberta) has seen some
reduction in abortions, I'm
told, because they only pay
doctors $89.75 for abortions,”
he said.

“We're hoping to get more
information from the (Alber.
ta) government.”

The premier made his
comments on a radio talk
show. He said he doesn't
think women should be
granted abortions even if

Police
through files

NORTH VANCOUVER
(CP) — Police investigating
the discovery this week of
the bodies of two women in a
wooded area at the base of

Mount Seymour have de
cided to check the files of

issing women aged 16 to 30.

Police said Friday the first
body, discovered Sunday,
was that of a Caucasian, 22 to
26 years old, about five feet,
three inches tall and weigh
ing about 110 pounds. She
had fine features, dark brown
short hair, and teeth in ex
cellent condition.

The second body discov
ered Monday in a nearby
shallow grave, is a Caucasian
or East Indian, 18 to 23 years
old, about five feet, five
inches tall and weighing be
tween 100 and 130 pounds.
She had dark brown or black
shoulder-length hair, and
teeth in poor condition

Cause of death has not

the pregnancies are due to
rape or if they claim to be
financially unable to care for
a child.

Canadian law states a
therapeutic abortion is legal
if it is necessary for a
woman's continued life or
health

Theresa Kiefer, a spokes-
man for the Vancouver
branch of Concerned Citizens
for Choice on Abortion, said
Vander Zalm’s comments
were “ludicrous.”

“The Alberta government
isn't lowering its fees to cur
tail access to abortion,” she
said. “It's not a deliberate at
tempt. It's part of trying to
maintain low fees for Alberta
doctors in general.”

“It's just incredible,” said
New Democrat Joan Small
wood

“What Vander Zalm's do-
ing with this kind of talk is
putting us back in the dark
ages,” she said. “Only the
rich women would be able to
afford abortions then.”

check

been determined, said Staff
Sgt. Tom Hill of North Van
couver RCMP who didn't
know how many missing
women would fall into the
16-to-30 age range

An official from the pro
vincial coroner's office has
been assigned to review the
files of missing women for
characteristics of those that
match the two bodies.

Hill said while there has
been no positive identifica
tion, police have decided that
neither of the dead women
were Lisa Marie Morrison, a
21-year-old Seattle prostitute
who went missing last March
and did not appear at an
April 7 preliminary hearing
at which she was due to tes
tify against a customer ac
cused of attempting to mur
der her

When she failed to appear
Crown counsel stayed char
ges against the man

Nicaraguan rebels, a congressional source said Saturday.

The committee wants retired Maj.-Gen. Richard Secord
to appear before the panel behind closed doors to explain
what happened to money Iran paid for the sales and
deposited in a Swiss bank.

Although Attorney General Edwin Meese said last
month $10 million to $30 million U.S. from the sales went to
help U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels, members of the Senate
intelligence committee said they cannot determine how
much, if any, of the money went to the rebels. Senate
investigators said $4 million to $10 million might be a more
accurate figure.

“Secord is supposedly involved at both ends, in Central
America and Iran,” said a congressional source who spoke on
condition of anonymity

“There are a lot of questions for him.”

Secord, 54, played a role in negotiations that led to the
shipment of arms to Tehran and the release of three U.S.
hostages by Lebanese groups with links to Iran, said
Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian who arranged the
contacts with the Tehran government

Congressional sources and court documents show
Secord also played a key role in sending arms to the
Nicaraguan rebels during a period when Congress banned
direct U.S. military aid to them.

adviser Vice-Admiral John Poindexter, declined to answer
questions when they were asked to give congressional
testimony.

DIDN'T KNOW?

Meese said Friday that North and Poindexter assured
him President Ronald Reagan did not know until last month
money from the Iran arms sales was channelled to the
Nicaraguan rebels during the congressional ban on aid.

The diversion came to light when a Justice Department
investigator uncovered an undated memo from North

outlining the transfer.

It is not clear whether Secord’s schedule would allow
him to testify before the House committee this week, said a
source close to the panel. =

Secord refused to answer questions during an earlier
congressional appearance, behind the closed doors of the
Senate intelligence committee Dec. 9.

In the Democrats’ weekly radio address, Senator Gary
Hart, who is expected to run for the D jc presidential
nomination in 1988, lashed the Reagan administration for
“cynical attempts to manage the news, secret attempts to
bypass the law, arrogant attempts to substitute rigid
ideology for democratic concensus. All bring shame on our
government.”

RSS sss

MOJAVE, CALIF. (AP) — The tired crew of the
experimental aircraft Voyager forgot to add oil to their
rear engine Saturday, causing an abrupt rise in engine
temperature that gave them the biggest scare of their
weeklong attempt to fly around the world without
refuelling

Pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, who took off
last Sunday, were over the Atlantic Ocean when they
noticed the engine was dangerously hot about 4 a.m. PST,
Voyager spokesman Peter Riva said at a late-morning
news conference Saturday

Within 10 minutes the engine, one of two on the
experimental plane. was low on oil, he said

They quickly corrected the problem by adding oil.
Riva said, adding Rutan and Yeager probably neglected
to check the oil because the engine was burning only
small amounts of oil throughout the trip

Glenn Maben, the project's engine specialist, said he
believes the engine was not damaged. He estimated the
crew failed to check the oil level for 1'/2 days when it
should have been checked every six hours.

“This is very minor,” Maben said.

“They just got sort of complacent and let the engine
run without adding oil

Riva said the failure to check was “due to crew
fatigue after the Africa crossing.” where Rutan and
Yeager endured air currents so violent they were
repeatedly thrown against the walls and top of their
telephone booth sized compartment

The incident occurred at three degrees, 38 minutes
north latitude and 14 degrees, 18 minutes west longitude.
It lasted about 10 minutes, during which time Rutan
reduced engine power and started a slow descent from
11,000 feet and opened air ducts leading to radiators to
lower the temperature, Riva said

oyager crew has scare

Rutan's taped voice sounded calm and businesslike
while talking with mission control during the incident,
and Riva said “they weren't in any way in a flap.”

Aside from the oil scare, flight officials said, Voyager
was soaring easily over the Atlantic Ocean, making good
speed on tailwinds that have favored most of its non-stop
attempt to circle the world.”

Voyager had covered 29,309 kilometres since taking
off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., last Sunday and
had 11,495 kilometres to go, mission control reported at
mid-morning.

The experimental plane is expected to return to
Edwards some time Tuesday, a day ahead of the
originally scheduled Christmas Eve touchdown

Voyager was in mid-Atlantic, about two degrees
above the Equator in “super” weather with a 30-knot
tailwind, chief meteorologist Len Snellman said

Flight officials said Yeager did well at the controls
Saturday while her co-pilot and longtime companion, Dick

Rutan, slep

Rutan piloted the Voyager much of the way, getting
little sleep during stints at the helm that included nearly
all of the crossing of Africa on Thursday and Friday.

Riva quoted Yeager saying: “I am a little sore and
bruised from the turbulence,” but otherwise fine

The pilots are expected to rotate duties more often |

during the home stretch, Riva said :
Voyager is heading west toward the northeast coast
of South America on a gentle are toward the Caribbean.
Snellman said a bad weather system would block a
southern approach to the United States, so Voyager will |
cross Costa Rica to the Pacific and turn north, probably
flying up the Gulf of California H
“They probably won't cross any other state of the
United States” before reaching California, Snellman said

CasNews deadlines

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Dec. 24, but will not publish Sunday, Dec. 28. The Dec. 24
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special pull-out section our news department has prepared
with year-end wrap-ups of local, regional and world affairs

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weekdays except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New
Year's Day, the newsroom will be closed Dec. 25 through
Dec. 29.

The CasNews management and staff, as well as all of
our carriers, wish our readers a very Merry Christmas

Court news

In Castlegar provincial
court this week, Daniel Fri
edel was convicted of one
drinking and driving related
charge under the Criminal
Code and one count of failing
to stop and state his name to
a peace officer under the
provincial Motor Vehicle Act

Friedel was fined $600 for
the first offence and $400 for
the latter

HYDRO

continued trom tront poge
to educate children of dam workers

Although the Regional District of
Central Kootenay is the only regional
district involved in the court action.
Cady said it has support from the
Association of Kootenay and Boundary
Municipalities, the Union of B.C. Mun
icipalities, the City of Vancouver and
area residents who passed a refer
endum with 91 per cent in favor of B.C
Hydro paying taxes.

We are trying to sit down with the

provincial government and talk this
thing over. We want to resolve it
through the political process rather
than spending taxpayers’ money on

lawyers,” said Cady

He adds that the regional district
could end up spending $400,000 to fight
the case in court

But at the same time, Cady said he is
hopeful with this new breath of fresh
air in Victoria we can resolve this
thing