A2 Castlegar News

March 19, 1989

Steve

Fonyo

pleads guilty

VERNON, B.C. (CP) Steve
Fonyo was fined $750 and put on
probation for six months after he
pleaded guilty to driving with a blood-

The Crown stayed charges against
the one-legged runner of impaired
driving and refusing to stop for a police
officer when asked to do so.

Provincial court Judge H. M. Ellis
of Kelowna gave Fonyo until June 1 to
pay the fine, prohibited him from
driving anywhere in Canada for six
months and placed him on six months’
probs

Fonyo, accompanied by his
girlfriend and his mother, Anna,
arrived 25 minutes late for his court

ion,

appearance. Fonyo, 23, declined to an
‘Swer when a reporter asked him why he
pleaded guilty.

The ¢harges stern from an incident
outside his mother's home in Vernon
in October 1987 when police clocked
him exceeding the speed limit. Lt was
the second time the charge had been
dealth with

Fonyo was acquitted last Sept. 9
when a provincial court judge ruled the
officer. who did a breath test on Fonyo
did not check the machine. The Crown
appealed the acquittal and a new trial
wasordered Feb, 22

Fonyo, who lost his left leg to cancer
as a youngster, raised $13 million for
cancer research in 1984-85

Mayrhofer wins
photography award

By CasNews Staff

With the help of his sister and her
children, Castlegar photographer
Michael Mayrhofer is following in his
father’s footsteps.

Mayrhofer recently won a
Professional Photographers
Association of B.C. trophy for a
photograph of his sister and her
family. Mayrhofer’s father, a Nelson
photographer, has also won PPABC
trophies for his work.

Mayrhofer, who
Studios, said he’s ‘‘ecstatic’’
win. He also had three of the four prin.
ts he submitted for judging chosen to
hang in a provincial show or ‘Print
Salon”’ and one of his prints chosen for
asalon at the national level

runs’ Vogue

over his

But Mayrhofer said he doesn’t enter
the judging to win prizes

“I'm only out to better myself,” he
said. “‘If | enter four prints and none
get accepted, that’s OK as long as I
learn something in the process and bet-
ter myself as a photographer."” The
association of about 200 professional
photographers — of which Mayrhofer
is a member — has a panel choose

Schools

photographs to represent the best
work in the province each year in 12 to
1S categories such as wedding
photographs or wildlife ‘shots. ”
Mayhofer’s-trophy-winner was in the
large-group category

Mayrhofer has entered prints for
judging for three years now and has
had prints accepted into the salon each
year. This is his first trophy

Winning trophys and having prints
hang in salons — as well as service-type
activities such as writing articles for
photography magaziries — can rack up
points forthe association- members
that go toward fellowships. Mayrhofer
has about 15 points right now, he said;
he needs 35 for a fellowship.

Mayrhofer’s father Helmuth — a
Nelson photographer for 40 years now

won his fellowship two years ago, as
well as a similar national title.

Mayrhofer said his father provides
his ‘inspiration and drive”? and his
family is his support group. .

The provincial salon will be in the
Kootenay area in June and July,
travelling to Kaslo, Cranbrook,
Nelson, Trail and, Mayrhofer hopes,
Castlegar.

receive

‘just passing’ grade

VANCOUVER (CP) — More than
half of the parents in British Columbia
would send their children to indepen-
dent schools if they had the money
because they rate the public system as
doing only a ‘‘fair’’ job, the Education
Ministry’s annual report reveals.

The ministry’s assessment, which
drew uiverse response from education
officals, also shows that one-third of
the population
should be government's top priority
because countries with the best
educated people will be the most suc
cessful. The report was conducted last

believes education

‘just-passing’ grade is a
challenge to us, isn’t it,"” B.C. School
Trustees Association president
Charles Wingston said.

“1 think that one of the largest con
siderations (in forming public opinion)
is that more time has been spent on in-
fighting than on teaching.”*

“But I see that changing," Hingston gperforming well

said. ‘‘I don't think the system is bad

but there’s always room for im-
provement.”

Former Vancouver school trustee
Phil Rankin, who did not seek re-
election last November, said although
the public system has been eroded un-
der the Social Credit government he
still would not send his children to a
private school

Rankin said public school is “the
only place you'll learn to integrate with
other types of people

“They've (Socreds) been destroying
the public school system since 1982
The government has ‘increased the
stipend to independent schools and
ased money to the public
system,"’ Rankin said.

Education Minister Tony Brummet
would not comment on the report
when reached at his Victoria home.

The ministry’s annual report shows
that B.C. public school students are
on provincial,
national and international exams

decr

Byelections

continued from front page

Levy distanced himself from the
premier for most of the election, but
put_on_a united front with Vander
Zalm at the end of the campaign

Vancouver-Point, Grey and
Nanaimo were left vacant when MLAs
Kim Campbell and Dave Stupich
resigned to run federally
won seats in the House of Commons

They boths

and Campbell, who ran for the Con-
servatives, was recently appointed
Minister of State for Indian Affairs
and Northern Development. Stupich
ran Tor the NDP.

Nanaimo and Vancguver-Point
Grey are both dual ridings. Perry joins
fellow New Democrat Darlene Marzari
in Vancouver-Point Grey while
Pullinger will represent Nanaimo with
the NDP’s Dale Lovick

Deductions

continued from front page
“Beyond the built-in problems of
this program since its inception, this
change is simply unacceptable,” he
said. ‘‘In my mind, fairness dictates
that once an area is prescribed, it must
remain prescribed.””
Kristiansen is also asking Revenue
Canada to allow residents of Silverton

Maloney said Revenue Canada’s
Penticton office is aware of the High-
way 6 closures and will examine the
documentation Kristiansen has sent

nless Silverton and a few unincor-
porated communities to the north are
ruled as qualifying by virtue of
Kristiansen’s. intervention, the

and New Denver and the surr ng
area to claim the deduction because
they were placed more than 160 road
kilometres away from Trail as a result
of the temporary Closure of Highway 6
at the Cape Horn Bluffs.

The MP has submitted documen-
tation to Revenue Canada and a
decision is expected shortly, he said

ry are the only
ones listed in Kootenay West
Revelstoke as eligible for the deduction
under guidelines established before the
last election for 1988: Argenta, Arrow
Park, East Arrow Park, Beaton,
Galena Bay, Howser, Lardeau,
Meadow Creek, Renata, Syringa
Creek and Trout Lake.

High-spirited
entertainers

dance ata ish.,
Legion Friday afternoon with their lively traditional dance:

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March 19, 1989 Castlegar News AS

The Debbie Tompkins dancers, fresh from their wins in four of five categories of highland
in Nh d a large St. Patrick's Day-crowd at the

‘* {EBC
claims
increase

VANCOUVER (CP) — Drivers in
British Columbia are the worst in
Canada — and their ‘‘atrocious’’
habits behind the wheel are reflected in
the Insurance Corp. of B.C.’s annual
report, a B.C Automobile
Association spokesman said :

David Baker was commenting on the
corporation’s annual
report, made public this week, which
showed the corporation paid a record
$1,045 billion to settle claims in 1988.

“Weare atrocious drivers. The mosi
common-—catses—of-—accidents it this
province are following too closely
behind other vehicles, running red
lights and failing to yield the right-of
way toothers,”’ he said

Transport Canada afd insurance
corporation statistics back up Baker’s
claim that B.C. drivers are Canada’s
worst.

For every 100 million
driven in this province, 193 injuries are
recorded, By comparison, Ontario
records 158 and Alberta 105

The report also showed that out of
2.2 million policies, a record 649,000
accident claims were filed.

Police said another reason for the
increase in insurance claims is the in-
creased number of carson the roads —
22,000 more each year in the Van:
couver area, where 668,000 vehicles
were registered in 1987

Vancouver police have their own
grim comparison: Their records show
twice as many people were killed in
traffic accidents as were murdered in
the city last year

City police usually record 65 ac-
cidents a day, more in bad weather
Last year 6,000 people were injured
and 53 killed. Vancouver had 25 mur-
ders in 1988.

insurance

kilometres

Social problems focus
of throne speech

VICTORIA (CP) — The provincial government
promised aid Thursday for tenants, the poor, disabled and
seniors in a throne speech that focused heavily on B.C.’s
social problems. ,

The speech, opening a new session of the legislature,
also pr action on the en ent

Lt.-Gov. David Lam indicated the government will
soon establish its own version of the Peace Corps — a
1,000-strong environmental youth service to provide
seasonal employment and be available to help in crisis
situations such as oil spills.

Premier Bill Vander Zalm said he was extremely proud
Of the Speech and it was one he'd happily take into an elec-
tion.

“If | was going to the electorate, it’s a document I'd
like to carry with me, but there are many more good things
tocome,”’ said the premier

And Vander Zalm denied that new social programs
contained in the speech taken from the New
Democratic Party’s platform.

“Every good social program in existence today was in
troduced by a Social Credit government,”’ said the premier

About 150 demonstrators | gathered outside the
legislature for the start of the session to protest over a wide
range of issues from the environment to forest policies. But
the lieutenant-governor’s arrival to the legislature was not
disrupted.

While Vander Zalm called the speech a ‘‘blueprint for
the future,"* NDP teader Mike Harcourt called it a cynical
€ffort io buy votes.

But he said he does not feel the government will follow
up on the policies it has announced.

“Just because they have thrown a few words up again
st the wall, it does not mean any of them will stick.””

Harcourt, after criticizing many of the main points in
the speech, said he believes the government is listening to
the polls and discovering ‘‘the real agenda of the p¢ople of
B.C.”

Promises in the speech, he said, are shallow ways of
dealing with the concerns without the government having
todoanything significant

“It is a very shallow attempt
deteriorating fortunes.of Social Credit,’’ said Harcourt

were

to restore the

way as the voters in Nanaimo and Vacouver Point-Grey did
not go for Social Credit, but went for the new policies of the
NDP,”’ said Harcourt.

B.C. Liberal leader Gordon Wilson said he was
**delighted that Social Credit picked up on Liberal policies
regarding housing and pleased that they picked up on our
policy regarding solid-waste management.

“1 think what we've seen is a pre-election throne
speech, I suspect that there'll be big money into every riding
and constituency that they think they can possibly win,”
said Wilson.

‘The throne speech was Lam's first since he assumed his
duties last fall.

Lam told the legislature the government would fodhs
on three areas — economic growth and diversification, the
environment and education.

But the issue of housing got much of the attention in
the speech.

“Sweeping and innovative policy changes will be an.
nounced to enhance our housing programs and to begin to
rebalance the stock of housing with the demand," the
throne speech said.

Those changes include the establishment of a Rental
Housing Development Fund to ‘‘stimulate construction of
affordable rental housing; matching start-up grants for
non-profit seniors’ housing projects and introducing a
Renters Tax Credit Program and new social housing
initiatives involving Crown lands and municipalities.””

The speech said the government will name a minister
of state responsible for women’s issues and establish a
Premier's Council on Native Affairs

The government: plans to introduce business
assistance legislation and will ask the house to approve a
Financial Institutions Act and further amendments to the
Securities Act

As well, the ministry of energy, mines and petroleum
resources has prepared an electricity strategy detailing a
plan “‘tafurther our economic growth and development.””

Education Minister Tony Brummet will be in
troducing a new School Act and ann Independent School
Act, and will appoint an education-advisory committee to
implement the thrust! of the royal commission on

“And the people of B.C. won't go for it in the same

Funds for Sunfest

On March 16, the City of Castlegar
presented the Castlegar Festivals
Society with a cheque for $4,000 to be
used towards the Sunfest 89 parade.

In making the presentation, Mayor
Audrey Moore emphasized that the
grant-in-aid money was from the city
taxpayers and that the city was pleased
to be the sponsor of the parade

“All Castlegar residents are looking
forward’ to the Saturday morning

Court news

In Castlegar provincial court this
week, Joseph Tarasoff was fined $100
for driving without due care and atten-
tion
Jody Hackman was ced to

parade and with the theme of ‘'Pioneer
Days” we are looking forward to
seeing all the costumes and float
decorations,’” Moore said

As part of Sunfest, the 21st Annual
Canadian Frog Jumping Champion-
ships will be held on Sunday, June 4,at
2 p.m. at Kinnaird Park. This year
Canada Safeway will sponsor the
event. The Lions Club and organizer
Jim Chapman are pleased that Canada
Safeway is donating bicycles as first
prizes in the boys’ and girls’ categories

Sunfest 89 Pioneer Days will also see
the return of the bed races. CKQR will
sponsor them at Kinsmen Park im-
mediately after the parade

For the record

two years in jail and two years
probation after he pleaded guilty to
breaking and entering.»

W. B. E. Sapriken was fined $35 for
driving without a seatbelt.

William Hamilton was sentenced to
two four-month jail terms and one six-
month term, on two counts of
cultivating marijuana and one count of
trafficking in narcotics. The terms are
to be served concurrently. He was also
placed on 12 months’ probation on
each offense

An obituary notice the Castlegar
News received for Sam Relkoff
published Wednesday contained an in-
correct date. Mr. Relkoff was
predeceased by his son Pete in 1982 not
in 1928

A notice of a memorial service for
Fred Lindstrom which appeared in
Wednesday's Castlegar News failed to
include the date. The service will be
held Saturday March 25. The
Castlegar News regrets any incon
venience caused by this omission

education

In memory

Wayne Kullervo Staudinger

Wayne Kullervo Staudinger of Castlegar passed away March 17 at
age 83.

Mr. Staudinger was born March 3, 1906, at Siletz, Ore. and moved
with his parents to Sylvan Lake, Alta. in 1910. He farmed with his parents
there until moving to Trail in 1936 to begin working at Cominco.

In 1938, he married LaVere Lybbert at Lethbridge and moved to
Castlegar that same year.

From 1943 to 1945 he served in the RCAF. After returning home
from the service, he worked as a contractor in the Kootenays moving to
Calgary in.1951.

In 1962, he returned to Castlegar and worked as the building superin-
tendent at Selkirk College when it opened. He returned to Calgary in 1968
and retired to Creston in 1976 and returned to Castlegar in 1988 where he
since resided

He was past secretary of the Alberta Building Superintendents
Association and upon his retirement he was made an honorary member of
the association. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and loved crafts and

building things for friends and family

Mr. Staudinger is survived by his wife, LaVere of Castlegar; one son,
Gary of Calgary;.one daughter, Faye Gosselin of Calgary; seven gran-
dchildren; One brother, Frank of Victoria; four sisters, Esther Walsh of
Calgary, Vee Gray of Seattle, Ellen Reid of Chase, B.C., and Helen Hawk
of Summerland, B.C

Mr. Staudinger was predeceased by his parents, ane son, Kenneth,
one daughter, Cheryl Murphy, son-in-law, Leonard Murphy, grand-
daughter, Melissa, one brother, Alfred and one sister, Faye.

Funeral service will be held, Monday, March 20 at 1 p.m. at the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Richard Wolfe will officiate. Interment will be
in Park Memorial Cemetery

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar
Funeral Chapel.

BRIEFLY...

Cheney confirmed

WASHINGTON (Reuter) — The Senate has unanimously confir

ed Congressman Dick Cheney of Wyoming as U.S. defence secretary

eight days after rejecting John Tower, President C
choice to head the Pentagon.

Ina vote of bi-partisan good will after its bitter party-line battle over
Tower, senators approved the popular Republican member of the House
of Representatives to preside over major cuts in U.S. defence spending
next year

The White House said earlier that Cheney, 48, will probably be sworn
in next week as the 14th and last government agency chief to take a seat in
the Bush cabinet

orge Bush's first

Doctors want trash stopped

CACHE CREEK, B.C, (CP) — Area physicians have asked Health
Minister Peter Dueck to halt Vancouver garbage shipmients they said
could be rat infested until a study can be done on the Cache Creek landfill
site.

**We don’t know what the impact of the landfill rats might be in ter-
ms of potentially spreading the bubonic plague," Dr. Frank Campbell
said

“*But the situation is serious enough that we believe it warrants taking
extra preventive measures until it can be determined if the importation of
Lower Mainland rates isa health threat to the people of this area.

Instructors to strike

BURNABY, B.C. (CP) — Instructors at the B.C. Institute of
Technology Wit go on strike after contract talks with the school broke off.

Staff society president Chuck Spong refused to say\when the close to
600 instructors will leave their classrooms or whether they will engage in a
full-scale or rotating strike.

Spong said the two sides are far apart on the issue of wages.

Last month, Spong called the institute’s offer of 13.4 per cent over
three years inadequate and noted that other settlements in the education
sector were running at about 7.5 per cent annually

Girl dragged by car

ST. PAUL, Alta. (CP) — A five-yeartold girl died Friday-efter-being
dragged more than a kilometre by a car after her scarf became accidently
caught in the vehicle’s door

RCMP said the girl and three other children were being taken home
at about noon from kindergarten in St. Paul, about 200 kilometres nor-
theast of Edmonton.

The child was in the front seat of the four-door Impala, which is used
asa school bus. She got out of the car by herself and closed the door.

Police said the 55-year-old driver pulled away, not realizing the girl
was being dragged. He travelled about 1.6 kilometres along a rural road
before being stopped by some oil pipeline workers.

The girl died in hospital about an hour later.

Eastern puts planes on sale

MIAMI (AP) — Eastern Airlines ended the second week of a strike
by its workers by placing part of its 250-aircraft fleet up for sale, and
machinists union officials explored a possible joint employee buyout with
PanAm.

Eastern regularly gives notice to aircraft brokers worldwide about
planes being put on the market, but with the airline reorganizing in
bankruptcy court, the sale ‘obviously draws much greater attention,
Eastern spokesman Robin Matell said

Gotlieb named publisher

TORONTO (CP) — Allan Gotlieb, Canada’s former ambassador to
the United States, has been named publisher of Saturday Night — the
financially troubled magazine now said to be steaming toward
profitability

Gotlieb, 61, said at a news conference that the part-time position is
mostly as a goodwill ambassador who can gi: the venerable publication a
higher profiteinthe public eye

**He will be our public presence,’
are going to employ him inall sorts of deeds.

* said editor John Fraser, ‘tand we

Ortega announces changes

MANAGUA (AP) — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has an
nounced eléctoral and other changes and said the measures point to his
government's commitment to bring peace to Central America

Hours earlier, Nicaragua freed 1,894! former national guardsmen
from prison. Most had been jailed following the July 19, 1979, rise to
power of the Sandinistas.

Ortega appealed to the U.S. Congress not to renew humanitarian aid
to Nicaraguan rebels beyond 90 days because it would go against the desire
of Central America presidents to dismantle the U.S.-backed force.

Dr. Ruth's book seized

WELLINGTON (AP) — Customs officials have seized 4,500 copies
of a book by U.S. sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, saying they may be
pornographic

Customs Department spokesman Robin Dare said the copies of
Guide To Sex were being held in Auckland until the Indecent Publications
Tribunal rules on its acceptability.

Dr. Westheimer, host of a U.S. television show and frequent guest on
Tadio programs, is due to visit New Zealand next week to promote the
book, which has sold well in neighboring Australia

Soldier killed

SE RUSALEM (AP) — A guerrilla unit sneaked into Israel from Jor-
dan and opened fire on troops, igniting a gunbattle that left one Israeli
soldier dead and another wounded, the army said.

No group claimed immediate responsibility for the attack, the fourth
guerrilla raid. against Israel in a week

The guerrillas attacked the army patrol late Friday in the southern
Hatzeva area, about 120 kilometres south of Jerusalem, an army
spokesman said.

The soldier was killed and another was slightly wounded in the
crossfire, the spokesman said.

Fighting leaves 14 dead

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuter) — Savage fighting between rival
ethnic gangs left 14 people dead Saturday in Karachi, doctors said

“People have just gone mad,"’ said an ambulance driver ferrying
the dead and wounded from Malir-Khokhraper in the east of Pakistan's
biggest city

“There are dozens of bloodstains on the ground, he told reporters

Troops seated off the area and told people over loudspeakers to stay
inside their homes. A formal curfew in Malir-Khokhrapar was expected,
officials said

All aboard

with Stanley Humphrie:

elementary schoo! Thursday

s
island and the Castl

Band students from a school in Edmonton visited Castlegar this week as part of an exchange
jes secondary school band students. Part of their trip included
Rail Station. After a concert at Twin Rivers
SHSS band di will the

this year.

late:

Discovery
returns
to earth

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif, (AP) The space shuttle
Discovery's astronauts swooped out of
orbit to a desert landing and the cheers
of 450,000 spectators Saturday after a
nearly flawless journey that completed
a vital space communications network
and mapped a fragile Earth

Commander Michael Coats guided
the 97-tonne winged spaceship to a
touchdown on a concrete runway at
this flight test base at 6:36 a.m. PST,
concluding a flight that covered three
million kilometres in four days, 23
hours, 39 minutes

‘Well done Discovery; that’s oneto-
be proud of,’ capsule communicator
Frank Culbertson said as the craft
rolled toa stop.

Two loud sonic booms cracked over
the California Discovery
glided powerless through clear skies,
with the huge crowd, \some waving
U.S, flags, shouting its approval from
viewing sites on parched Rogers Dry
Lake.

The U.S. air force estimated the
crowd, which streamed in overnight in
more than 90,000 vehicles, at 450,000.

An hour before landing, Coats fired
braking rockets 315 kilometres above
the Indian Ocean to drop Discovery
out of orbit and start it on a fiery dive
through the atmosphere-on-a-course
over the mid-Pacific, across the
California coast south of Santa Bar
bara and into this Mojave Desert base

desert as

The spaceship was travelling more
than 320 km/h when it touched the
runway, but siowed quickly as Coats
operated new brake systems designed
to improve performance.

PM and
Clark not
‘fighting

BRANDON, Man.(CP}— The ap-
parent riff between External Affairs
Minister Joe Clark and Brian
Mulroney over diplomatic ties with the
Palestine Liberation Organization is
nething but a creation of the media,
Canada’s ambassador-to-the-United.
Nations said

“I'm quite close to the scene, and I
think this is pure invention on the part
of the media,"’ Yves Fortier told repor
ters following a speech to the Brandon
United Nations Youth Seminar

“I'm not aware, and if anyone
would be aware it would be me, that
there is any conflict between Prime
Minister Mulroney and Mr. Clark on
that issue.””
Clark said earlier there are
strong arguments that can be made for
increasing contact with the PLO.

“We're considering that now,"’ he
said

But Mulroney told
London that contact with the PLO
could hurt Canada’s relations with
Israel and no change in relations with

very

reporters in

the PLO are being considered
denied
disagreements between Clark and
Mulroney

Fortier there were any

“I guess it makes news, doesn’t it, to
say there's a riff between the Prime
Minister and the secretary of state for
external affairs?" “I's
baloncy, it doesn’t exist

he said

Government lifts
_ban on produce

OTTAWA (CP) The federal
government lifted its ban on the import
of some Chilean produce Friday,
within hours of a similar move by the
United States

However, a new threat to poison
Chilean produce was received at the
U.S. Embassy in Santiago on Friday

In lifting the ban on Chilean grapes,
berries and vegetables, Health
Minister Perrin Beatty promised five
per cent of each new shipment from
Chile will be inspected before it can be
distributed.

The-ban-on-other-Chilean- produce
— Granny Smith apples, piums, pears,
peaches and nectarines — was not lif
ted Friday. A health
spokesman said Ottawa is being more

department

cautious because they might be easier
to poison

“Smaller fruits are much more dif
ficult to sabotage,"’ said John Riou,

director of field operations for the
Health Protection Branch

Beatty also ordered the destruction
of millions of dollars of Chilean

produce sitting in cold storage since the

March 13 embargo since it is imprac-
tical to have the produce adequately
inspected

And he said the government will not
compensate retailers and wholesalers
stuck with the produce

“Traditionally in these incidents,
the taxpayer has not been asked to
compensate people who've received
lossesas a result of safety concerns.””

Beatty said the Chilean government
has agreed to beef up safety inspec
tions.

CONTAINED POISON

Canada, the United States and other
countries slapped embargoes on
Chilean produce itnports after U.S. in
spectors found two Chilean grapes had
been injected with cyanide

The discovery followed two calls to
the American Embassy in Santiago in
which an anonymous caller threatened
fruit destined for North
America to draw attention to the plight
of Chileans.

to poison

Ottawa warned consumers to throw
out any Chilean produce they had and
asked stores to remove all Chilean fruit

and vegetables from their shelves
Beatty called it a voluntary recall
but he warned inspectors would ensure
merchants complied

Asked about the latest threat, Beatty
said: ‘‘l think that Canadians
recognize the fact that you can never
have 100-per-cent certainty."*

Beatty said with the more stringent
security measures, it. will be late next
week at the earliest before new Chilean
produce
shelves

Meanwhile, Nick Luciano, a broker
at-Foronte’s Ontarie Food Terminal,
said Friday that the government
“made a big blunder. They almost
ruined this industry.””

Luciano said Beatty

arrives on grocery store

should have
specified from the start which fruits
consumers were to avoid. By rhyming
off a long list of fruits and vegetables
produced in chile, the federal gover
nment has consumers away
from produce counters, he insisted

scared

“People won't buy grapes and they
won't buy bananas. They won't buy

citrus.’

Brit blasts Yank
hysteria over flight

LONDON (AP)

A Conservative legislator accused
what he termed as hysterical Americans of a witch hunt™
while party members rallied to fend off opposition charges

that the government bungled a warning of terrorist attack

before Pan Am Flight 103

“If-every government and every airline broadcast

every warning from every source

crank or terrorist — in.

The BBC said passengers may be required to remove
electrical equipment from suitcases and carry it in hand.
baggage that can be examined at boarding gates

ON COMMITTEE

Adley, a senior member in the party of Prime Minister

Margaret

Thatcher, is an officer of the Conservative
legislators’ committee on transport

ternational air travel would grind to a halt;"* the legislator,
Robert Adley, said. “The culprit ... isthe person who plan:
ted the bomb; it is'not the (British) secretary of state for
\ransport."”

Transport Secretary Paul Channon came under attack
after admitting this week in the wake of newspaper
disclosures that authorities were warned terrorists might
bomb an aircraft with explosives hidden in a radio-cassette
player

That method was used to destroy Flight 103 on Dec
21, investigators say. The bomb blew apart the New York
bound Boeing 747 over Scotland, killing 270 people — in.
cluding two Canadians. The Night originated in FrankTurt,
West Germany, and stopped in London

The Department of Transport, meanwhile, was repor
ted-today to-have issued-new security orders to all major
British airports. The department refused to give details on
grounds of security

The BBC said the orders instruct security staff to ask
all passengers boarding planes if their baggage contains
electrical equipment, in particular radio-cassette players.

Another Tory MP, David Wilshire, said Friday that
some relatives of victims have been “blaming the British
government, blaming (airport), blaming
anybody except the people I think they ought to be com
plaining about: namely the American government and Pan
Am.”

Heathrow

In, Massachusetts, however, the parents of five
American victims opened a petition drive Friday deman
ding a U.S. inquiry and accusing Washington of treating
them ina shoddy manner

“There is an enormous amount of anger and outrage
at-the-way-we've-beentreated-by this COUMITY"S- BOT
nment,"* said Barbara Primeau of Greenwich, N.Y. She

spoke at a news conference in North Adams, Mass

Her 20-year-old twins, Jason and Eric Coker, were
among the victims

The chairman of a Senate transportation panel, Frank
Lautenberg (D-N.J.), introduced a urging
President George Bush to appoint a commission to in
vestigate the bombing

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