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Tennis

By STEVE MacLEOD

Press

POINT EDWARD, N.S. — The two men trade
forehands, the hollow thwack of the ball echoing in the
hangar-sized home of high-tech tennis.

Suddenly, a shot rockets off line and skips off the court's
rubberized surface a few centimetres past the baseline. An
odd warbling ery splits the air,

Heed the call of computerized tennis.

“We know in our hearts we have a winner,” says John
Van Auken, the inventor of the Accu-Call line-calling
system, a device making noises in the tennis world.

Eighteen years in the making, Accu-Call uses a small
computer and an array of stainless steel wires imbedded in
the court to determine when a ball is in or out of bounds.

Van Auken, 70, says the system makes line judges
»bsolete. If he's right, the only squawks in tennis will soon
be synthesized.

“It would be unconscionable to go on with all the vile’
language and indecent and ungentlemanly behavior of some
of the players,” says the Montreal-born inventor.

Van Audken, who went to the United States in his
teens, moved to Nova Scotia to begin producing the
Accu-Call system with help from government grants and
private investors. He expects the system to gain widespread
use, even outside tournament tennis. \

“We think we're sitting on a multi-million dollar
business within 10 years,” he says.

calls

In Toronto, after an exhibition against Mats Wilander
using the Accu-Call system, Jimmy Connors said he would
rather have somebody to complain to “because that is how I
grew up playing the game.”

At one point, a frustrated Connors turned to where a
linesman would have been, When all he found was a small,
decorative plant, he whacked it with his racket.

Van Auken — a friendly, rotund man — moved to
Chicago in his teens and eventually settled in Miami where
he got into the photocopy business in the mid-1950s, In 1961,

‘The system functions on
most court surfaces
except grass'

he spearheaded the development of the first electrofax
machine, a technique using coated paper now in common
use.

A tennis enthusiast, Van Auken annually put up touring
junior players in his Miami home. Frustrated by arguments
over line calls, they asked him to develop an infallible
line-calling system.

Intrigued, Van Auken thought of chemically treating
the ball so it would leave a mark when it hit the court. Then
he devised a ball that emitted a radio signal.

Finally, he injected a ball with conductive fibres and put
a circuit in the court that is shorted when the ball touches

go high-tech

down. The balls look identical to regular ones.

The system functions on most court surfaces except
grass.

“We've had enough inquiries from around the world to
convince us that as fast as we can make them they will be
used,” says Van Auken.

TESTS SYSTEM

The company ~- Canadian Tennis Technologies — faced
its watershed test in January when Van Auken spent
$30,000 to truck a rollup court and Accu-Call system to
tennis exhibitions in Portland, Ore., and Toronto.

After positive reaction there, Van Auken expects
Accu-Call to be mandatory in all professional tennis tourna.
ments in a few years.

His company is housed in a large former modular-home
plant near Sydney, far removed from mainstream tennis.

Van Auken set up shop in Cape Breton just over a year
ago, using a $220,000 development grant from Enterprise
Cape Breton and the federal Department of Regional
Industrial Expansion and a $75,000 capital loan from the
Cape Breton Development Corp.

He invested $3 million of his own money and raised
another $400,000 through the sales of 16 limited partner-
ships.

Van Auken is selling nothing except court time and the
conductive balls. His company will install the courts free and
lease the equipment. He couldn't say how much it costs to
build and install the Accu-Call system.

THE MINISTRY OF ADVANCED EDUCATION

REGIONAL

BALMERTOWN, Ont.

forced to train an unusual and heavy machinery in close

Mining boom in Ontario

programs. “We've hired a lot of young

April 10, 1988

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On

Tuesday, April 12, 1988

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ten submission concerning access to post-secondary
education is welcome. For further details on the scope of this
enquiry telephone the Committee Chairman, Elizabeth Fleet
365-8019.

(CP) — A mining boom in
Ontario, coupled with a
shortage of skilled hard-rock
miners, is straining the in
dustry, union and mining
officials say

“We have to stay on top of
it and make gure inexper.
ienced people gren't pushed
too fast into @ situation they
can't handle,” said Gordon
Prest, president of the
United Steelworkers of
American Local 950 in Bal
mertown, 440 kilometres
northwest of Thunder Bay.

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number of people, said Pat
Reid, president of the On
tario Mining Association,
adding that the province
could need 1,000 to 1,500
more miners in the next 12 to
18 months.

The boom has been fuelled
by flow-through shares and
recent increases in the price
of base metals such as copper
and zine, Reid said in a tele.
phone interview from his
Toronto office.

Flow-through shares — a
popular tax break the gov-
ernment has moved to phase
out — are securities allowing
investors to write off $133 in
tax relief for every $100
spent on eligible mining ven

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HANDLE EXPLOSIVES

Prest said it takes two to
five years before a miner is
fully qualified, with training
in safe handling of explosives

quarters.

Underground workers are
exposed to such dangers as
cave-ins, rock falls and fires,
he added.

“With the new mining op
erators that are opening up
and the boom in the mining
industry over the past two
years, it’s really taken its toll
on the workers,” he said.
“They just can't produce fast
enough.”

Eight provincial mining fa
talities were reported in
1985, 11 in 1986 and 17 in
1987, said Gayle Gilmore, a
spokesman for the Mines
Accident Prevention Associa
tion of Ontario.

During that period, the
work force declined by more
than 1,1,00 to 28,459.

It was experienced miners
who died in 1987, Gilmore
said, adding that most comp.
anies have stringent safety

However, the legislature's
standing committee on re.
source development was
asked Jan. 7 to investigate
the growing number of min.
ing fatalities and look at ways
to reduce them. A report is
expected in May or June
following hearings in mining
centres throughout Ontario.

FIRM STRUGGLES

The shortage of skilled
miners is causing difficulties
for companies like Dickenson
Mines Ltd., which is strug-
gling to boost production at
its Balmertown gold mine to
900 tonnes of ore a day from
650 tonnes, company secre-
tary James Geddes said in
Toronto.

The company has hired
about 165 of its 360 mine and
mill employees since 1987,
said manager Bruce Bried.
About 115 are miners, while
another 50 are in training.

kids that we're training and
we're starting them on the
basis,” Bried said.

Under provincial regula-
tions, the company must put
trainees through a four- to
six-week program on general
safety practices and tech
niques.

Afterward, they can work
as mine beginners. But they
can only work at the mine
face where ore is extracted
after drilling and blasting at
the mine face where ore is
extracted after drilling and
blasting if accompanied by
two experienced miners, said
Dennis Brown, safety and
personnel co-ordinator at the
mine.

Besides the strain on the
company's payroll and ser-
vices like housing, “it also
affects safety,” Brown said.

“We're getting people who
aren't used to our mine.”

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DEATH, TERROR
FOR FAMILIES

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Despite police dec-
larations of war on cheap, potent crack cocaine, drug turf
wars are transforming the city’s low-income housing
projects into twilight zones of violence, death and terror.

“Families are selling (crack), families are using,” said
Charlotte Tillman, director of the Bayview-Hunters Point
F ion Youth Drug “It's a way of life —
survival in the projects.”

Her program has 36 clients, a waiting list of 18 and
has to turn away referrals. Tillman, a social worker for 23
years, said the crack situation is the worst she's ever seen
— and there's no end in sight.

‘We're losing a generation of young people,” Tillman
said. “In one night you can make at least $400 off one
person buying all night. (On) heroin you nod out after a
couple hundred dollars’ (worth of the drug). On crack
you can go on for days or as long as your heart can stand
it.”

Crack, a rock-like, smokeable form of cocaine that
goes for as little as $5 for a whitish pebble, is intensely
addictive and potentially deadly to users, dealers and
anyone crossing their paths.

On Jan, 22, Daniel Foster visited his old Hunters
Point neighborhood, stepping off a bus just after
midnight into a crowd of men and women, many high on
crack.

POSED QUESTIONS

“They asked him if he was a cop,” said police
Inspector Earl Sanders. “He told them, ‘No,’ and kept
walking. Then they asked him if he was from Sunnydale
(turf of a rival gang), but when he said, ‘No’, someone in
e crowd said he was lying. Then they began to chase
im.

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‘They have seized more

than 180 kilograms of

cocaine, $2.7 million in
cash and 302 guns'

Police said someone fired a pistol at least four times,
hitting Foster once in the back. He died less than an hour
later.

On Jan. 29, police broke up a battle between two
competing gangs in a Mission district housing project.
There were 32 shots fired from an M-16 rifle, a 12-gauge
shotgun and handguns.

On Jan. 17, a 13-year-old retarded boy in the Potrero

Annex housing project three blocks from Mayor Art
Agnos’s home was fatally shot by police, already tense
from gang violence, who mistook his toy gun for a real
one.
Since last fall, when the city set up a crack cocaine
task force of police, the state Justice Department and
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, officers have
made 5,506 arrests for drug sales and possession.

They have seized more than 180 kilograms of
cocaine, $2.7 million in cash and 302 guns, said police
Lieut. Jim Molinari.

ADMITS FAILURE

“We do put organizations out of business . . . but
somebody else always seems to pick up the banner and
ff carry along,” said Jerry Smith of the California Bureau of
Narcotics Enforcement. “I think we're failing, quite
frankly.”

The city has 47 projects with 6,800 units and 17,000
residents, but its security force merged with city police
five years ago because of budget constraints. In the past
year, the city has doubled its narcotics officers to 157 and
the state recently assigned 18 more narcotics agents to
the region

Betty Brooks, a 20-year resident of Portrero Annex
and a San Francisco Housing Authority commissioner,
said residents live in constant fear.

At San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Don Wong
said that like other metropolitan public hospitals, one in
10 of the approximately 200 infants born there each
month are addicted because of maternal drug use.

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U.S. flexes |
of law to nab crooks

WASHINGTON (AP) — Drug agents jokingly refer to it
as Mexican extradition. Courts use the more dignified term,
informal rendition. Defence lawyers call it just plain
kidnapping.

Whatever name you use, U.S. authorities flexing the
long arm of their law have had several successes luring,
spiriting or forcing criminal suspects out of seeming safe
havens abroad into custody in the United States.

It happened last year to an Arab who fell prey to an FBI
ruse and ended up in custody to await trial in a 1985 Beirut
plane hijacking; to Edwin Wilson, a former CIA agent
accused of selling weapons to. Libya, and to Dr. Timothy
Leary, the drug cultists’ icon of the 1960s who was tracked
down in Afghanistan after escaping from a California jail.

The most recent example occurred this week, when a
month-long U.S.-Honduran operation led to the unwilling
odyssey of alleged international cocaine trafficker Juan
Ramon Matta Ballesteros from his home in Honduras to a jail
in Illinois.

Honduran police abetted by U.S. marshals arrested
Matta and put him on a plane to the Dominican Republic,
where he was hustled to a flight bound for New York and
shipped to a federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill., U.S. officials
said.

Matta, who holds Colombian and Honduran citizenship,
was wanted on drug charges in the United States and was
sought for questioning in the murder of a U.S. Drug
Enforcement agent in Mexico.

One law enforcement official described Matta as being
“stunned” to find himself in the United States, as the result
of an operation apparently designed to get around Honduran
law.

The United States has extradition treaties with more
than 100 countries, but many countries like Honduras do not
extradite their nationals. Even when they do, or if a U.S.
citizen is involved, the legal proceedings are sometimes long
and often fruitless.

There are surer ways to bring a suspect to the United
States, officials speaking on condition of anonymity said.
One method, as in the Matta case, is to get foreign
governments to cooperate with U.S. authorities to arrange a
transfer.

Or the suspect is lured back without foreign help.

There have been some dramatic examples.

Last year, said the FBI, undercover agents tracking
Fawaz Younis, a suspect in the hijacking of a Jordanian
aircraft, tricked him into going aboard a yacht in the
Mediterranean Sea and arrested him under a U.S. law giving
American courts jurisdiction to try suspected terrorists who
act against U.S. citizens. Younis is awaiting trial in
Washington.

In 1982, former CIA agent Wilson, who had fled to
Libya after being indicted on weapons sales charges was
duped by an acquaintance into flying to the Dominican

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. The disciplines and skills one learns beside the language itself, will be used
time and time again in whatever else one does.

The applicability of knowledge gained is one of those things only the lear-
ning of a second language can provide.

Memory skills are improved, the grammar of English is better learned, and
the choice of words in any language is heightened.

Studies have shown that most students of second languages consistently do
better in most other subject areas.

Experience with a second language increases the student's ability in
divergent thinking tasks.

ISN'T IT WORTH YOUR CHILD'S TIME?
The Parents for Russian will be having information meetings at.
Castlegar Primary Schoo! — 7:80
lementary School — 7:00 p.m. - April 14, 1988
If you are interested in giving your child a solid foundation
in language skills, we invite you to attend

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

PARENTS FOR RUSSIA

CORRECTION

NOTE: Date change

Information Meeting . .

CASTLEGAR PRIMARY SCHOOL WILL BE HELD
TUESDAY, APRIL 12 AT 7:00 P

GIVE YOUR CHILD
AN OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME!

ENROL YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 9
ENGLISH/RUSSIAN BILINGUAL PROGRAM
Kindergarten and Grade 1 — Housed at Castlegar Primary
Grade 2 & 3 — Twin Rivers Elementary
This program will be open to EVERYONE. You DO NOT have to speak
Russian or come from a Russian background.

WHY STUDY ANOTHER LANGUAGE?

The benefits of learning another language are unique. Learning the
precision and semantics of a language will aid in the knowledge of one’s
own language — in self-expression — and
disciplines that are applicable to any learning situation.

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Authorities there put him on a non-stop flight to the

United States, where he was arrested.
FLED IN 1970

Leary, who escaped in 1970 from a California jail, was
turned over to U.S. narcotics agents in Afghanistan even
though the two countries had no extradition treaty.

In\a case that did involve extradition, Carlos Lehder, a
Colombian wanted in connection with a massive drug
conspiracy, was flown to Florida last year to stand trial on
narcotics charges.

Turning suspects over to U.S. authorities without
formal proceedings is often called Mexican extradition, from
the tradition of authorities in Mexico taking people to the
U.S. border and sending them across the line into the
waiting arms of American police.

The legal term is informal rendition, a U.S. government
attorney said. “We find someone in another country who is
wanted here,” he said. “We go to the authorities and say
we're interested in the person. They kick him out by putting
home on a plane to the United States, and that’s it.”

Defence lawyers in some of the celebrated cases —
notably the Wilson and Younis cases — have sought
dismissal of charges on grounds the overseas arrests
violated the defendant's rights by, in effect, kidnapping
them.

Appeals courts, however, have upheld the prosecutions
in most cases, saying they are not particularly concerned
about execution of the laws in foreign countries or how
defendants got to the United States.

Sometimes, information supplied by U.S. authorities
leads to extradition between two other countries.

In their investigation of the 1985 murder of Drug
Enforcement Agency agent Enrique Cmarena Salazar in
Guadalajara, Mexico, U.S. authorities informed Costa Rican
police that a suspect, Rafael Caro-Quintero, was living in
Costa Rica.

He was arrested there and extradited to Mexico to
stand trial.

Ootisch District

ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING
Thursday, April 21

7:30 p.m,
Ootischenia Hall

THE CHARTER OF
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It's impact on Low Income and
Disabled people. A one day
workshop will be held.

Saturday, April 16
10:00 A.M.
SANDMAN INN, CASTLEGAR

To discuss various issues and
concerns. Please register by April 11 by calling

352-9383

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