PERSEVERANCE. . . Kris Stanbra shows Valley Vista
students a poster of herself, prepared initially for
the courts, of the short period in which she was for-

personal a
continual physical pain but she misses some sports,
; baseball.

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ced to use a wheelchair. Stanbra finished her talks”
this week which included most of Castlegar's

schools. — CosNews Photo by Mike Kalesniko

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divorcee.
“So what, I still make my
dancing,” she says with a laugh. “Though I can't do the

polka anymore.” 3
Surprisingly, Stahbra is not bitter about her
upheaval. She says she is able to endure the

ly

Still, she intends to coach baseball next season and
she plans to swim the 800 metre swim portion of a
triathalon relay race next year.

MAKES PRESENTATION :

Last week Stanbra was asked to make a presentation
to Rick Hansen when he reaches Castlegar sometime this

ith.

“I can't wait to meet him,” she said. “I wish I knew
him. I feel like I do.”

Stanbra said when she was asked to make the
presentation at a recent Rick Hansen committee meeting

STANBRA

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some 20 miles outside of Kamloops when a car came
around the corner in their lane.

The collision forced the Stanbra truck to roll three
times, throwing Kris out the back window and some 12
metres through the air.

The two men in the oncoming car ran to a nearby
house to call the police, then fled the scene. They were
never caught.

When the ambulance arrived, Kris's husband had
escaped with several cracked ribs, a punctured lung and
fractured hip, but Kris wasn't so lucky. She was found
lying on top of a baseball-size rock, the object which
snapped her spinal cord half-way down her back.

‘The Stanbra’s were taken to Kamloops Royal Inland
hospital and Kris was later transferred to Vancouver.

Kris said she remembered the shock wearing off and
the two hours she spent without sedation.

“Those were the two worst hours of my life,” she
said.

Despite the anguish, Stanbra says she could not Have
made it without the support of her family. She said her
husband, never left her side during her stay in
Vancouver, both her mother and sister came out and her
brother even chartered a plane from Castlegar to see her.

The emotional support was necessary to help cope
with news. Stanbra was told she would never walk again.
She was told if she had an operation on her back, she
would regain only 15 per cent of the feeling in her right
leg and absolutely nothing would return to her left.

“But 15 per cent was better than nothing,” she said
and she opted for the operation. Today, seven years to

she was over

“Lhad no idea they would ask me,” she said. “I spent
half an hour trying not to ery.”

But Stanbra remains uncomfortable with speaking in
front of crowds:

“It's getting easier,” she said. “I'm never going to be
totally comfortable.

“I love those kids but I don't like being on display. I
ignore everyone (adult) in that room and I talk to the
kids,” she said.

‘Kids at that age have no preconceived ideas,” she
said. “I had a parent phone me that her child was wrong,
that Rick (Hansen) couldn't stand. And I said, ‘Yes he
can.

“She turned around and said she had to apologize
then. She learned something from her child.

“It’s the children,” she stresses. “The children are
going to help teach the parents.”

Prime

OTTAWA (CP) — ye
Minister Brian Mulroney
t Ferdinand Marcos on Thursday after s hows

report that Tory party funds were used to help renovate his
official res shoes.

residences and build closets for hundreds of

i} “What kind of a guy requires 50 paits or 86 pairs of

shoes?” asked NDP House Leader Nelson Riis.

“The last time we heard of this many pairs of shoes was
— good grief — with the Marcos family.”
ks critic Don Boudria also referred to

indirectl, ying part of t
Puacrtve party are tax deductible,

The Toronto Globe and Mail reported Thursday the PC
Canada Fund paid about $308,000 over the past two years to
renovate, decorate and furnish the official residences at 24
Sussex Drive and Harrington Lake. ,

‘An unnamed source told The Globe that Mulroney's
closet was designed to accommodate 380 suits and 84 pairs of
shoes, including at least 50 pairs of Gucci loafers.

‘Te newspaper said Mrs. Mulroney's cloget contains
space for 100 pairs of shoes.

But Mulroney adviser Bill Fox, an old friend of the
prime minister, defended his boss, saying “there was
nothing illegal” and arguing there was ample precedent for
private support of the residences of the prime minister and
Opposition leader.

Fox also questioned the attention paid to, the hoe
closets.

“A closet might be built for 50 pairs of shoes, but. how
many shoes does it hold? It’s like saying a driveway was
built for 18 limos.”

Fox said he does not know how many Gucci loafers
Mulroney owns, but said he does not have 50 pairs.

‘The use of the party funds for renovations is not illegal
and doesn't violate the Canada Elections or Income Tax Act,
said F.B. Slattery, director of elections financing at
Elections Canada.

The work on the residences, including carpentry,
painting, ing and p ing of furnishii was
not included in the $508,149.17 the government spent to
maintain 24 Sussex Drive and the $437,754 it spent on
Harrington Lake from September 1984 to December 1986.

Montreal lawyer David Angus, chairman of the PC
Canada Fund, told The Globe the payments were part of an
agreement between him and Mulroney to help with

ing costs.

DEFECTOR TALKS

Soviets encouraged to flirt

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a young translator_for_
the Soviet government travel agency Intourist, Alexan-
dra Costa was encouraged to flirt with foreign visitors,
and “if a relationship developed, the KGB wanted to
guide it.”

“One of the conditions of the job was that I was to
report to the KGB,” Costa said.

“I was seeing one of the British guys, but nothing
really developed,” she said in an interview this week.

However, “one of the other girls fell in love with a
British man,” and the KGB —__ the Soviet Union's stat
security agency — wanted to run her as a “swallow,” or
seductress.

“My KGB handler complained that, ‘the wrong girl
fell in love. She won't talk to us.’ ”

The woman ended up marrying the man and moving
to England, said Costa, who defected from the Soviet
Embassy in Washington in 1977 and now works as a

P in the Washi area.

The woman who refused to co-operate was an
exception in what Costa calls a “totalitarian state” where
“most people don’t refuse to co-operate with the KGB.”

“The state owns everything,” Costa said, “and if you
want a job or an apartment, you play the game.”

The game is often the “honey trap,” the oldest trick
in the book of espionage — one that diplomats,
businessmen and journalists are warned to avoid:in the
Soyiet Union, but one into which many tumble
nonetheless. *

Officials in Washington reacted with outrage to
disclosures that at least three U.S. marines apparently
traded sex for secrets at U.S. diplomatic missions in
Moscow and Leningrad.

But over the last few decades, a British, a French
ambassador and an American as well as a French military
attache are among those known to have fallen into
variations of the same snare.

Cases that receive publicity are often intelligence
failures, security officials say, because the seduction
comes to light before the victim can be blackmailed into
betrayal.

Far more cases do not come to public attention, U.S.
security officials say, and many probably are never
reported.

Bomb
agreement
reached

WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Soviet Union and the
United States would deton-
ate underground nuclear ex-
plosions at each other's test
sites under an agreement
reached this week in Mos-
cow, says U.S. arms control
director Kenneth Adelman.

The agreement could set
the stage for the Senate to
ratify two treaties arranged
in 1974 and 1976 that limited
test blasts to no more than
150 kilotons.

“We've wanted better ver-
rification for six years, and
they have said yes. The
Soviets agreed we can test at
each other's test sites,” Ade-
Iman said Friday.

At a briefing for foreign
journalists, he called it an
idea that has been around for
along time but one that the
Soviets accepted only re-
cently.

Weather

Cloudy with some sunny
periods today with highs
between 12° and 14°.
More sunny periods and
warmer temperatures on
Monday. Probability of
precipitation is 20 per cent
for today and Monday.
Sun sets tonight at 7:48.

Union avoids trouble

VICTORIA (CP) — The B.C. Government Employees
Union says it does not want to repeat the 1983 illegal strike
it mounted to oppose labor legislation not much different
from the government's latest labor reform bill.

Although 88 per cent of the union's 37,000 members
voted to oppose the proposed Bill 19, president John Shields
said they will avoid confrontation. f

“| think it is. important that we try..to keep this as
restrained and under control as possible,” he told reporters
Thursday.

When asked if he was prepared to lead an illegal strike
against the industrial relations reform act, Shields said:
“We'll have to wait and see.

“It's very premature to talk about illegal strikes,” he
said. y

“We're trying to get a co-operative response from
government. We don't ask people to vote on breaking the
law.”

Members of the B.C. Federation of Labor and its
affiliates voted this week on whether to oppose the
legislation. Results of the vote by the 250,000 members,
including the g: P! » will not be known
until at least next week.

One of the government employees’ major concerns is a
section that appears to allow employers to fire people
without just cause.

Shields said that's the issue the government employees
fought successfully with the 1983 strike that coincided with
other actions by the broadly-based Operation Solidarity.

Labor Minister Lyall Hanson denied that is the intent of
bill, but would not say if the section would be changed.

“I am certainly looking at that,” he said. “There is a
remedy in common law for anyone who is fired without just
cause.”

Bill 19 is divided into two main sections — dispute
resolution and adjudication. One the dispute resolution side,

Shields said his union opposes giving the industrial relations
commissioner the power to determine salaries and benefits
on thé basis of the employer's ability to pay.

It ‘enshrines in legislation the d 'y
powers of the Compensation Stabilization board, he said.

On the adjudication side, Shields said the union opposes
eliminating the Labor Relations Board, and its ‘13 years of
rulings, in favor of an. industrial relations: council find
commissioner. It's particularly offensive to give the
chairman the power to recommend employees return to
work because a strike or lockout is not in the public interest,
he said.

STOP RELATIONS

Shields said the union wants to minimize the impact of
its opposition on the public. Instead unions plan to stop
normal labor realtions with employers, which Shigids said
has far more serious consequences.

The first step has been compared to severing
diplomatic ties. The union has withdrawn from co-operative
programs like sitting on the apprenticeship board and has
refused to hold information on the gcvernment-owned
insurance company's campaign against dangerous driving.

‘The tabor minister said the intent and philosophy of the
bill are not negotiable. But Hanson said he will discuss
changes that may result from varying interpretations on
specific sections. .

In Prince George, Premier Bill Vander Zalm said he
believes union members would support the legislation if they
had “reasonable information" and could vote in a
government-supervised secret ballot.

“There is no way people would go in such numbers
voting against it because worker's rights, the individual's
rights have been strengthtened,” he said.

Vander Zalm wouldn't say what the government will do
if unions disobey the legislation or if opposition to the
legislation includes work stoppages.

3 ‘

HOME BAKED . . . Brenda Mcinnes (left) makes her
selection with the help of Irene Tamelin from the
assortment of goods at the Rick Hansen bake sale at

the Castlegar and District Hospital Thursday. The sale
of goods and money donations reached $500. All
proceeds will be donated to Rick Hansen.

Casews Photo

Man makes key

WINNIPEG (CP) — A man deseribed as a slow
learner beat the city’s new parking metre systerm by
making a key that allowed him to break into 500
metres to steal change, a Winnipeg court was ‘told
Thursday.

Crown attorney Marica Kran said it took the man
only three hours to make a key after he stole a parking
metre in January,

Jailed for 180 years

BOULDER, MONT. (REUTER) — A 19-year-old
Montana man has been sentenced to 180 years in
prison in connection with thé shotgun slaying of the
parents of Patrick Duffy, star of the television series
Dallas.

Kenneth Miller, was convicted in March for the

jer 1986 of Terrence and Maria Duffy,
who owned a bar in the small ranching and mining
community of Boulder. ‘

A second man, Sean Wentz, also 19, has been
charged in the double slaying. He is to go on trial May
1 but his lawyer said he may enter a plea for him.

Oysters recalled |

VANCOUVER (CP) — Concern about possible
spoilage has prompted Canada Safeway to announce a
recall of Sea Trader brand smoked oysters in the
104-gram size tin.

The grocery store chain, with outlets in Western
Canada, said there have been no complaints from
customers. But there is concern about potential
spoilage after the discovery of possibly defective cans
in a Vancouver warehouse.  ~

Safeway said the canned oysters may have been
‘on store shelves since May of last year.

Sentence issued

QUESNEL (CP) — A Quesnel man who took his
estranged wife hostage last year in a desperate bid to
talk to her has been sentenced in county court to nine
months in prison for kidnapping.

Orville Grennon, 39, a B.C. Rail employee, was
sentenced by Judge Richard Law to three months
each on charges of assault and possession of a deadly
weapon. The sentences will be served concurrently.

The charges arose from a hostage-taking last
August. Grennon, upset by the collapse of his
marriage, took his wife Sandra hostage, holding her at
rifle-point in the local B.C. Rail yards for about five
hours.

Plane hits house

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A small plane
crashed into a house and exploded on Friday, killing
the pilot, while six people in the house escaped,
including one who was blown out of the shower.

There were no passengers aboard, said Federal
Aviation Administration spokesman Kathleen Bergen,

“It hit like an earthquake, and then it was a
double explosion,” said neighbor Helen Ochs.

The twin-engine Beech Baron aircraft crashed
about eight kilometres northwest of the Westchester
County Airport, its destination.

Suspect killed

MONTREAL (CP) — A man was shot and killed
by police Thursday after a robbery at a downtown
branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,
police said.

The man was fleeing on foot down busy
Dorchester Boulevard after the robbery in the city’s
main shopping district when he was pointed out to
police by witnesses to the holdup, Jean-Pierre Auger,
Montreal police assastant duty officer said.

When two policemen approached the man, “the
suspect pointed a pistol at one of the officers and the
officer's partner fired twice, hitting the suspect twice
in the abdomen,” Auger said.

Smoking banned

YELLOWENIFE, N.W.T. (CP) — The Northwest
Territories, one of the few jurisdications where
smokers are still in the majority, has decided to ban
smoking in all government buildings.

Jim Peterson, head of the tobacco program for the
territorial Department of Health, says the ban will
take effect June 1.

“The idea is to change the environment to where
non-smoking is the norm,” Peterson said Thursday in &
telephone interview.

Rebels surrender

MANILA (CP) — Mutineers led by a former
guard of ex-president Ferdinand Marcos stormed
army headquarters today to try to free jailed
comrades but surrendered as loyal troops prepared to
attack.

Gen. Fidel Ramos said one mutineer was killed
and two hostages — a navy captain and a civilian —
were slightly injured after the mutineers stomred
Fort Bonifacio in suburban Makati.

The attack was aimed at freeing prisoners jailed
in connection with a January coup attempt.

Alaska shaken

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (AP) — A moderate
earthquake rattled south-central Alaska Friday,
recalling for some a devastating quake that hit on
Good Friday 23 years ago.

Friday's quake, measuring 5.6 on the Richter
scale, occurred during the dinner hour and was
centred about 50 kilometres northwest of Anchorage,
said Alec Medbery, a spokesman at the Tsunami
Warning Centre in Palmer, Alsask.

A smaller quake followed 12 minutes later with a
magnitude of 4.5, Medbery said 7]

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ISSUE UP
TO OTTAWA

Whites were

TORONTO (CP) — Native Indians were executed in
disproportionate numbers to non-native, English-Canadians
while the death penalty was in effect, a statistical study of

TO DECIDE

REGINA (CP) — It's up to Parliament to decide
what changes are requred to alaw which allows police to
fingerprint suspects arbitrarily, lawyer William Herle
said Thursday.

Ina unanimous decision Tuesday, the Saskatchewan
Court of Appeal ruled the law violates the Charter of
Rights and Freedoms and is of no force and effect.

Ken MacKay, director of public prosecutions in
Regina; said it hasn't. been decided whether’ the ruling
will be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. He
expects a decision by Tuesday.

Herle represented Frederick Higgins, 48, who
refused to allow RCMP to take his fingerprints after he
was charged with fraud. He was eventually acquitted.

Herle said Thursday the law should be changed so
that police would have to seek a judicial hearing before
fingerprinting a suspect.

He did not explain what sort of hearing should be

used.
Howard McConnell, a University of Saskatchewan
law professor, said it would be absurd to force police to
get a judge’s permission for fingerprinting.

GOT TO BOARD?

He said it appears more likely the ruling will mean
police would have to go to a procedure board of some type
that would examine the case and rule on whether
fingerprinting was warranted.

Consulting a judge every time for permission to
fingerprint suspects “would be bureaucratically impos-
sible,” McConnell said.

“That judicial hearing term is a little ambiguous. A
board can give you a judicial hearing. I'd be flabbergasted
if it meant you had to go to a judge every time.”

McConnell also said he believes the ruling will be
appealed and that it may be overturned by the Supreme
Court of Canada.

Herle said it’s up to Parliament to determine what
process would be followed to protect the rights of
suspects.

He said the appeal court didn't deny there may be
times when police must take fingerprints, but current
laws on the subject are unconstitutional.

The Identification of Criminals Act gives sweeping,
arbitrary power to take the fingerprints of everyeone
charged but not convicted, Herle said.

“[ suppose it does create a problem for law
enforcement agencies in terms of how they obtain
fingerprints in those cases where they may be justified in
attempting to obtain them,” he said.

CALLED ARCHAIC

“The problem has been brought about because of an
archaic law that simply was behind the times.”

Herle said the Saskatchewan ruling isn’t binding in
other provinces, but said it is “a persuasive authority for
any court in another province.”

In Ottawa, Richard Mosley, a senior federal Justice
Department official, said the federal government was not
involved in the case and it is up to Saskatchewan to file an
appeal.

Federal officials haven't had a chance to study the
ruling and wouldn't comment on possible changes to the
law.

Sgt. Carl Stoski of the RCMP said the force has not
been told to change its fingerprint policy

Mosley and Stoski said if fingerprints can't be used
for criminal record checks, police will be in trouble.

In Saskatoon, Police Chief Joe Penkala said society
faces “no end of problems” if the ruling stands.

Police generally fingerprint anyone arrested and
charged with a criminal offence. Fingerprinting is used
both to identify and to find past records.

Penkala said Thursday the ruling is radical and
drastic.

“It’s a very, very serious matter,” he said. “If the
ruling stands, it will create havoc in the justice system.”

He said his officers will continue to fingerprint
suspects until the provincial Justice Department decides
otherwise.

d murderers

The Univeristy of Victoria study, which used computer
models to even out all other factors, included virtually every
capital murder case from 1926 to 1957 — a total of 440 cases.

The study found that English-Canadian murderers had
a “substantially” better chance of avoiding a date with the
hangman, its author, Prof. Kenneth Avio, said in a recent
interview. Statistics on French Canadians were not
immediately available.

Avio, 44, an P at the university, said
he uncovered frequent memos from the then-ministry of
Indian affairs recommending native offenders be executed
because native people “need special deterrence.”

“There is no question that if you were native, you were
more likely to be executed,” he said, adding Ukrainians and
Eastern Europeans had the second highest risk.

FAVORS WHITES

Avoid found 17 of 21 non-white murderers whose
victims were white were executed, and the four whose
executions were commuted had “very compelling” grounds
for communication.

Two were under 18, one was an accomplice to the real
murderer, and the trial judge said the other one could easily
have been found guilty of manslaughter.

In sharp contrast, only one of five whites who murdered
a non-white was executed.
“I think the point is that discrimination can be so subtle

better off

that even if you have public servants of the highest quality,
it is still possible for p in,” Avio said.

He spent parts of the past fre years poring over files in
the National Archives preparing the study, which will be
published in the Canadian Public Policy journal this year.

During the period studied, the federal cabinet
routinely reviewed each case to decide whether to grant
clemency. In making those decisions, the cabinet relied on
judges’ comments, police and psychiatric reports, and
comments by the now-defunct Remissions Service.

About 72 per cent of the 440 convicts were executed.

Avio's method was to narrow down 36 factors involved
in these decisions to a Isit of 18 that had particular
significance. These included provocation, brutality of the
crime, record of violence and co-operation with police.

From thesé data, he was able to determine the relative
impact on the cabinet of factors such as racial origin, gender,
color and job status.

In one particularly dramatic case, Avio used the data to
create a hypothetical killer of a white person. Then, he used
a computer to manipulate one factor — the race of the killer.

He found that, given the same set of factors, there was a
2t-per-cent risk of execution for an English Canadian. Fora
native, the risk jumped to 96 per cent.

“The question is, if you suppose that capital punishment
is brought back to Canada, could you build in safeguards to
ensure there are no vestiges of discrimination?” Avio said.

“One could still legitimately be in favor of capital
punishment if we could devise a system where there is no
discrimination,” he added.

Murdered girl’s mother voices
opposition to death penalty

TORONTO (CP) — The mother of Alison Parrott, an
11-year-old Toronto girl who was raped and murdered
last summer, has spoken passionately against the return
of the death penalty.

Lesley Parrott's comments were used with her
permission by Anglican minister and Liberal MP Rev.
Roland de Corneille in a Good Friday sermon against a
movement within the federal government to restore
capital punishment.

“Let the message be clear and unconditional: human
life is sacred; killimg is always wrong,” Parrott said in an
eloquent letter to de Corneille on March 5.

“Please consider my deep-felt views and vote No to
the return of the death penalty

Alison, a talented track and field athlete, was raped
and strangled last July 25 by a killer who lured her from
home.

Her naked body was found two days later in the
west-end suburb of Etobicoke. The killer has not been
found.

Parrott wrote that before her daughter's death, “I
had always been opposed to capital punishment . . . based

on very deep Christian beliefs that it is wrong to kill
another human being, no matter what the circumstances.

“Alison's murder has given me a very personal and

agonizing experience of the horror of violence and
killing.”
However, she said, “It has more than ever convinced
me that we as a society cannot ever and (must) not ever
condone killing, whether by state or individual, in any
shape or form.”

In his sefmon, de Corneille said he feels a personal
“agony” as a member of a Parliament that may bring back
capital punishment, and at a time when most Canadians
polled indicate that they agree.

The state killing of criminals would simply be a
barbarous act of revenge that will not prevent murders,
recognize the rights of the victims, protect the innocent,
or address the many social problems that cause crime in
the first place, the minister said.

The Anglican Church of Canada is one of many major
Canadian churches that officially reject capital punish
ment, which the federal Conservatives plan to debate in
the next few weeks.

B.C.'s lumbe

VANCOUVER (CP) — Offshore markets for British
Columbia lumber are booming and it couldn't come at a
better time, picking up the slack from falling North
American sales.

“It's very active right now,” said Ed Cameron, senior
vice-president of Seaboard Lumber Sales Co. Ltd. of
Vancouver.

“Our sales to Europe in the first quarter this year are
three times what they were last year, and prices are up 12 to
15 per cent,” he said.

Lumber exports to offshore markets from B.C
accounted for just under 15 per cent of production in 1986,
according to B.C. Council of Forest Industries statistics.

That's small, compared with the 30 per cent of
production consumed domestically and the 56.4 per cent
shipped to the United States, but it still represents almost

rin demand

$1 billion in revenue for the provincial economy, said the
council.

Cameron said the falling value of the Canadian dollar
compared with the European and Asian currencies has
provided a big boost as Canadian wood becomes more
competitive.

The Japanese market is not as buoyant as the European
scene, said Cameron, but B.C. producers are still pleased
STARTS UP

“The fundamentals are good in Japan,” he said. “Their
housing starts will hit 1.4 million and that's the highest level
in seven years.”

While traders are expecting U.S. housing starts, and
therefore lumber demand, to stay relatively healthy this
year, a number of factors will hurt Canadian producers
trying to compete, said Cameron