Castlégar News. March 15, 1989 Ottawa stalls on abortion OTTAWA. (CP). =» The. federal government is in no rush to bring in abortion law, Barbara Me Dougall, minister responsible for the status of women, a new said McDougall said she has spoken to Justice Minister Doug and believes he isn’t planning to quickly introduce Lewis a new law “I didn’t get the sense that he was planning to leap intg—tegistative action in the next couple of weeks. women's she told a conference on health..organized by the Advisory Council on the Women The Supreme struck Canadian Status of Court of Canada abortion law 14 ago and week said it wouldn't deal with another case on the Fights of the fetus unless the government brings law McDougall should get unrestricted free choice on abortions:-totd-reporters that —bewis Should take whatever time he needs federal down the months last who believes women Lewis said last week that Coastal mills VANCOUVER (CP) mills in British Columbia have been cited as the utérs in an industry that is res ponsible for half of Canada’s wate pollution, a government report says An Environment Canada ‘eport obtained by the Vancouver Sun says 83 of the 122 pulp mills in Canada dump more toxic chemicals into the SI KITCH Coastal pulp nd Quebec worst poll in your home. 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RIT PO OUR NAME Fruitvale officials are studying the issue and the country wouldn't be served if the government rushed to a’decision McDougall said she continues to lobby colleagues to adopt a’ pro choice stand, but women should also pressure their MPs. “I've made my position quite both publicly and privately inside the cabinet on what I think is in the best interest of the women of ““L-will-eontinue clear €anada;* to do that McDougall ‘also said. the govern: ollute commissioned three years ago to assess how well the 1971 regulations she said. were working It says the industry ‘‘chooses not to invest in pollution controls’’ dur ing economic good times and argues it doesn't have the times are bad. But the report blames a tiered system of enforcement" created by the federal government Different mills have become ject to different pollution standards. depending on whether the millswere built, expanded or altered before or after the pulp and paper effluent regulations of the federal Fisheries Aer Became Taw th TIT SHOULD COMPLY The- report recommends Canadian mills be brought money -when also sub, that all under ment may soon set up a federal qask- force to study the issue of new reproductive technology. including research on infertility and sexually transmitted diseases. can't. give ‘you terms of. ref- erence, but there's a_whole range of issues that should be looked at,"’ she said Women's groups have been pres- sing for a royal commission on new roproductive technology like artificial insemination hood, more regulation and forced to meet nat- ional standards The regulations. are now than guidelines,"’ the and surrogate mother: “little more report states Brian McCloy of the Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia said he didn’t oppose the recom- mendations to make all mills comply with national standards within five to providing the 18-year- old standards were reviewed. “Five to seven years doesn't sound like an unreatistic time frame to allow industry to make changes they say McCloy said. ‘*The question is-whether that standard is Stir realistic He said that- most B.C. pulp mills are currently. subject to less stringent provincial pollution standards seven years. are necessary," Buyout lets grape growers yank roots KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — Okan gan grape growers now can take the final steps to go out of business Both the federal and provincial governments have given final ap: proval to a $28 million buyout pro gram for the industry, said Allan Brock, president of the British Col umbia Grape Marketing Board He said a letter has been sent to growers authorizing them to pull out their cheaper varieties of grapes Brock said growers can tear out 70 existing nearly per cent of vines (@ { the € rkin) Norr Living and w Alice Woods education Living at the rer to pursue her intere The Open Unive possible fur her t walked two hours She worked hard ice has move y course th be ep ee ee eee ee For more information about University at 660-2221 or b ‘ape Beale light stati amfield on the rug te Cape Beale lighthouse to the Bamfield OPEN UNIVERSITY A partner in Open Learning in Britsh Columbia en Learning uminates! in a lighthouse is a demar vally, living in isolation makes it difficu especially when specialized equipment and facilities are unavailable Alice found « didn’t th Then she vut about rsity took Alice oattend university level biology laborat st in biology situation into set up by the Open University which allowed he at Cape Beale 1 to the Chatham Po vrough and enjoyed the course family int light station anc pen learniny University can provide her with the courses she wants and needs to take Open Learning can work for you! ee eee open learning 800-66 3-97 11; ged wiest coast of t rewarding challenge f onside: Marine Station to attend special lab sessions No matter where she live: opportunities and university programs, phone the Open It to proceed with an ink she would be able the Open University ration and made it ary sessions. Alice r to remain with her 1 is taking another , the Open or writé to P.O. Box 94000, Richmond, BC V6Y 2 1,000 hectares of the of vines in the Okanaga ameen valleys He said he expects 120 out of 210 grape growers to fold. Growers will be paid about $20,000 a hectare for removing lower-quality grapes The growers had one year to from producing grapes for mass-market B.C rendered uncompetitive under free trade and a ruling by the General Agreement on Tariffs_and_ Trade that provincial markups on imported wine were dis- 1,400 hectares and Similk switch wines criminatory The move comes as markup dif ferentials for British Columbia wines Previously, B.C. wines had a 50-per-cent price markup and imported wines a 110-per-cent markup. giving the domestic product a price advanta Brock said the biggest obstacle to final approval’ of the, buyout was getting and wineries . to agree on which grapes should remain are phased out growers in production Looking for Special Help? 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(CP) — A recent series of break-ins at the Ottawa office of Jim Fulton, the federal NDP environment critic, may be an aide said. related to his work in a report on the The most recent break-in occurred Monday when the report was tampered with, said David Garrick, Parliament for Prince Rupert “Also the same night, a file the assistant to the member of appeared on my desk that I had put elsewhere, and it was related to the nuclear industry,’’ Garrick said ina telephone interview from Prince Rupert Alderman bungles French KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — languages but it’s still a little foreign toa Kelowr French is one of Canada’s official alderman After brushing up on his university French, John Weisbeck thought he had the language in hand But on a recent trip to France, he gave the wrong message to his Freh- ch friends when he announced his intention to retire to bed with his wife. “What I actually said was, Weisbeck said. C'est la vie OTTAWA (CP) test can renew itself under a new leader turer WASHINGTON (AP) strike benefits. are also hired, and at full seniority — $2,400 a month ticement”’ said. VANCOUVER (CP) — here that police should seize ‘‘cars, conference. ‘ New mine PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. pany president Bob Dickinson said Canada. Qpposed to VANCOUVER (CP) - been fined $1,500 this week three boats which carried 22 Police everything it buys because crime won't pay if the booty is confiscated, says a policy analyst for the U.S, Justice Department Philip Baridon told the 11th International Asian Crime Conference “We're going up to make babies,’”” Brown won't lead NDP Rosemary Brown has ruled out'a second try for * the New Democratic Party leadership Y “I'm definitely not considering running again ‘this: time, Brown, who finished second to Ed Broadbent in the-1975 leadership con- said I’ve been getting a lot of encouragement from people in the party, from people outside of the party, but no, I've done it(run for leader)."” Broadbent announced this month that he will step down so the party Drug mutates virus NEW YORK {AP) — Widespread use of the ai has led to the appearance of mutant AIDS virus strains that can no longer be completely controlled by AZT, says a study by the drug’s mahufac- nti-AIDS drug AZT Doctors aren’t recommending any changes in the use of AZT, only drug approved in the United S AZT hasn’t been approved for general use in Canada, but is available through designated treatment centres to people with AIDS tes to tréat AIDS virus infgction Unions aids pilots The Air Line Pilots Association, easing the way for 3,600 pilots not crossing Machinist union picket lines at Eastern Airlines, said it will give its members almost $9 million US a month in The pilots’ union also said its 41,000 members won't fly planes or routes sold to. other airlines by Eastern, bankruptcy court last week, unless a comparable number of Eastern pilots which filed for debt relief in John Bavis, head of the Eastern pilots’ group, said the strike benefit is designed to remove the company’s ** to pilots who have refused to work until the Machinists settle. Only two per cent of unionized Eastern pilots have crossed picket lines, he last en: Drug money eyed should seize drug money and houses, boats, businesses, everthing More than 450 policemen from around the world are attending the in the works (CP) — Continental Gold Corp. is plan- ning to open a substantial new mine in northern British Columbia, com: Test drilling shows there are enough copper and gold reserves at its Mount Milligan property north of Fort St. James for a $150-million to $200-million open pit operation, Dickinson told a news conference. He said the project is similar to other copper mines in British Colum. bia such’as the Brenda and Gilbraltar mines. But he says Mount Milligan also’contains enough gold reserves to make it the fifth biggest producer in bear hunting Two people opposed to bear hunting have h in provincial court in the Vancouver Island com: munity of Tofino on three counts of interfering with a legal hunt Steve Lawson and Richard Beaupied prevented bear hunting guide Wayne Weibe from conducting his hunt May 13, the court ruled earlier Lawson and Beaupied, both whale-watching guides, drove two of the protesters as they effectively chased Weibe and two of his clients off Tofino-area beaches fed | CASTLEGAR STOP 'N'SHOP jue mo MOHAWA Tre handiest gas store going, DIESEL * PROPANE JOURS me . 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Was “*just complete nonsense,”” “Well, Mr. Keker, if I had sat down in my state of mind the day before 1 tried to take my life, if 1 had tried to parse every last dime that went to the Contras, it probably would have come out different,” McFarlane retorted In the letter, McFarlane told Hamilton, then chairman of the House of Representatives’ intelligence com- mittee, that aiforeigner had offered ina May 1984. meeting with him-to con- tribute money to the Nicaraguan Con- tras and that the amount eventually donated was $5 million or less. McFarlane had known for two years that the offer came from the gover- nment of Saudi Arabia through its ambassador~and~that~the—country donated $32 million to the Contras starting in 1984 But McFarlane testified he had wan ted to be sure the committee had the full about the’ contribution Speaking rapidly, he said “You're quite right. If | had taken thg time, it probably, would have come out differently. In my-state of mind at the time, if I had really taken the time to tote it up, it would have toted up'far more."* ‘I’M DEAD WRONG’ Glaring at Keke your point, you're right, I’m dead wrong. | knew darn well it something close to a million dollars a month. I was acknowledging my par- ticipation in aYhird-country donation And I wanted that on the record.” When Keker pointed out that the let ter claimed the money was from the foreigner’s own wealth and ‘not from any government’’, McFarlane replied: “That is agloss, but that is what he (the Saudi ambassador) told me."* facts he said, was While Keker was asking questions, defence lawyer Brendan Sullivan 6ften interposed objections. When it came Sullivan's turn to interrogate Mc Farlane, Keker turned the tables and the two argued €alm down, both of you,” U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell McFarlane, North's boss at then president Ronald Reagan's National Security Council, pleaded guilty to four charges of lying to Congress stemming from his role in the sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of some of the proceeds to the Contras. said Gorbachev holds food-crisis meeting MOSCOW (AP) President Mikhail Gorbachev has convened the Communist party's top policy-making body for a special meeting on the wor- sening food shortages that threaten to derail his entire reform program Tass, the official news agency, said the 300-member Central Committee moved first to formally elect its top leaders, including Gorbachev, to the country’s new parliament, the 2,250- seat Congress of People’s Deputies. The party, one of 30 organizations with the power to its own deputies in the new parliament, already nominated 100 of its top of ficers, including most members of the ruling Politburo, to fill its allotted 100 seats in the congress was therefore assured. Gorbachev will make his report on agricultural today, discussion of the country’s pressing food supply problems to continue on Thursday, T The shortages popular support for the Soviet leader's choose has Their election policy with ass said have weakened reform efforts. There recent days that Gorbachev Politburo rival Yegor Ligachev, heads the commission on agriculture, disagree on how to resolve the crisis. The hottest item on the agenda is have been strong signin and his who party's Gorbachev's desire 40 lease state owned fields to farmers, making them “masters of the land”* that he says will produce more because they can carn more In several appearances, Ligachev-has~skipped lightly leasing, and instead emphasized collec tive farming — the traditional system that has left Soviet consumers standing intine for meat and vegetables. recent over March 15, 1989 : Come & Celebrate ($) FULL SERVICE DELI OPENING SO With Us CATESSE ON! Cross Rib Roast Boneless or Chuck Roast $5.49 is. 2.49 Stewing Beef $5.49 is. 2.49 Dinner Sausage Fresh or * Beef or * Beef & Onion or ® Regular $4.39 is. 1.99 If that’s Crusty Rolls Freshly Baked 13 FOR 1.59 — Bake Shop — elly onuts Freshly Baked 4 FOR 2.09 Brocolli Cauliflower 51.74 As. 19. Red Grapefruit Florida 3 FOR Cat Food Natural Love. Asst'd 170 gtin...... 19 Raisin Bran Kelloggs. 800 g. Box .......- Light Tuna Chunk. Sea Haul. In oil or water. 135g. 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