CasthagarNews 25.17 Lions allow females TAIPEI (AP) — The Lions Club International voted Women had been barred from the Lions Club since its over to lift immediately its 70-year- old ban on female members. “The presence of women should add new life and vit- ality to Lions Club Inter- national,” said the service organisation's s Canadian by a Chicago busi- ness group in 1917. Officials said women were kept out because so few were in bus- iness when the organization began. Of the 5,100 delegates who voted in Taiwan's capital of Calgary. nay problems of the world are too serious to limit their ‘solution to only half of our population.” RENT THIS SPACE 365-5210 TT per cent voted in favor of an amendment to the constitution removing the stipulation that members be male. ‘The measure, effective im- mediately, grants invited women full membership rights and privileges, includ- ing the right to vote and hold office in the club, which has 1.85 million members in 162 countries. 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DEMAND GROWS Officials said the Lions first d About 40,000 Lions Club members attended this year's convention, the big- gest international event ever held in Taiwan. women five years ago when there was a growing demand by women to join. vote to allow women de narrow- ly missed the required two Partial freeze on civil servants VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia govern- ment has placed a partial hiring freeze on the civil ser- vice and is only replacing positions deemed urgent and essential. David Poole, principal sec- retary to Premier Bill Van- der Zalm, said the action re- lates to the privatization and government program re- views currently under way. “We want to ensure that ‘astlegar we're not doing hiring that would . be ‘contradictory to any action that might restult tization reviews,” Vander Zalm launched a review last year of all gov- ernment programs in an ef- fort to weed out government waste and to determine if there are programs the gov- ernment can discontinue in order to save money. Inter- governmental Relations Minister Stephen Rogers is reviewing all Crown corpor- ations and government agen- cies with an eye to selling them off. Poole said the government does not want any gov- ernment agency to become less attractive to a potential it is essential. committee chaired by Alan Filmer, head of the Govern- ment Personnel Divisior: Court news In Castlegar provincial court this’ week, Murray Wrenshall was sentenced to 30 days intermittent impris- onment for a drinking and driving related offense. . 8 @ Wladyslaw Parulski was fined $500 when he pleaded guilty to a drinking and driv ing related offense. . * * Garnet Lepine was fined $350 when he pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing a police officer in the execution of his duty. *_ * « Joseph Sander was fined $200 when he pleaded guilty to one count of causing a dis- turbance in a public place. Crossword Red, White and Blue. . . answer in Wednesday's paper ACROSS 70 City in New 96 Delitwes 103 Snow vehicle op 08 One INVESTIGATION . . . RCMP investigate scene around dead in his room. Castlegar Motel on Saturday after a man was found CosNewsPhoto by Mike Kalesniko: DEATH continued from front poge combing the motel area. Stooshnoff said Harshenin first moved into the motel about two years ago, but then left. “He was away for one year and came back last winter,” he said. Stooshnoff said he Harshenin much. Teresa Paetkau, who works across the street at the Turbo gas station, said she only saw Harshenin once when he was sitting outside his motel unit on the patio. never saw “I work here quite a bit and never seen the guy,” said Patkau. “The guy's very quiet obviously, or never home.” Castlegar RCMP and Nelson subdiv- ision GIS are continuing the investiga- tion. Tentative contract reached in mail strike By DAVE BLAIKIE Canadian Press OTTAWA — Canada Post and its striking letter carriers’ union reached a tentative contract settlement Satur- day, ending nearly three weeks of often violent rotating walkouts. Both sides*€alled the settlement — reached during the fourth straight all-night bargaining session with medi- ator Bill Kelly — a good deal and said they expect mail service to be back to normal by Monday. However, the big loser appeared to be Canada Post, which went into the strike determined to take major con cessions from the union and ended up settling for basically the same contract it had before. The strike also cost the agency millions in reduced mail volumes, wages for strikebreakers, and travel and accommodation costs for man- agement personnel sent to centres hit by strikes. The deal was contingent on the two sides making separate arrangements to reinstate about 140 carriers who were CO-OP continued from front page “But that’s not the same as having a real live person there you can ask ions,” she said. for praz ]103 McGauley recruited an additional 300 investors in Calgary, another 200 in Edmonton, and about 130 in Winnipeg. But McGauley stresses that time is running out. After Sept. 30, no deposi- tors can join the lawsuit. She explained that because of administrative details, each person must have their name on the suit and their individual claim against the gov ernment complete by that date. McGauley, who plans to meet with their legal counsel in September, also plans a meeting with Finance Minister Mel Couvelier. Meantime, McGauley has little doubt that she will be kept busy, with some 10 to 15 former depositors continuing to join the committee every day. fired or suspended over picket line incidents. EXPECT AGREEMENT Both sides said they expected to agree quickly on arrangements to res cind the firings and process the cases through internal union grievance pro- cedures. Harold Dunstan, chief negotiator for Canada Post, said the new contract would not stop Canada Post from starting a controversial five-year post office business plan approved by Con servative cabinet last fall. Robert McGarry, president of the 20,000-member union, said the new contract will give his members the same protection against layoffs and the contracting out of union work as they had in the old contract. He also said it-will allow carriers to return to the post office at lunch time rather than remain out on their routes and deliver additional mail. McGarry, speaking at a joint news conference with Dunstan and Kelly, said Canada Post also backed down on a demand that new carriers provide their own cars so they could travel to routes more quickly and deliver more mail while there. The new contract will let individual carriers decide whether they drive their own cars, or take buses or taxis — the same practice now in effect, Mc. Garry said. FIRES Sources said the contract will run for 31 months and contains a wage in- crease to offset the impact of inflation on the union's current basic rate of $13.43. an hour. The contract will also contain new rules for the delivery of junk mail — worked out in a separate agreement before Kelly was brought into the talks at the request of both parties last Sunday. There were reports that the union had agreed to some changes in work rules to accommodate Canada Post's demand for greater contract flexibility but McGarry said the job of a letter carrier will remain unchanged. The mood among Canada Post offi- cials was generally somber as details of the settlement leaked out at the Chat- eau Laurier Hotel ‘where bargaining sessions took place. However union leaders were jubilant Bill Findlay, union vice-president, grabbed the hand of a Canada Post negotiator as the news conference ended, breaking into a chorus of Soli darity Forever as he hoisted it into the air. It was the fourth straight postal dispute settled by Kelly, an associate deputy labor minister who heads the federal mediation and conciliation ser- vice. continued from front page the Prince George and to a lesser extent the Cariboo forest regions,” Lipes said More than 50 fires were reported Friday in the Prince George region in central B.C., he said, but most were spot fires not considered dangerous Two, however, were considered dangerous and about 100 firefighters were working on each Both fires, one 800 hectares and the other 500 hectares, were southwest of Prince George but were not near any populated areas, Lines said A total of 147 new fires were reported across the province in the 24-hour period ended Friday morning — 182 of them from lightning strikes. The 24-hour period ended Thursday morning had seen more than 10,000 lightning strikes. Although the 1985 fire season cost the province more than three times the previous record of $40 million to fight fires in 1982, the area burned was well under the record 830,000 hectares consumed in 1958. UNZNWIAZL ‘Average Ume of solution: 56 minutes cRYPTOQUIP RVIVIY oTw Ro. NA Ho Tay's Chypencqip che 1) equa This Crossword Puzzle sp BAT ‘ed by the following busii SCHNEIDER'S BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD IM ABER OF TIAA BR MAARTS LO. 368-6466 wai” CHRYSLER Woneta Junction, Trail PAUL’S PLACE LTD. DODGE PLYMOUTH 368-8295 HOMEGOODS FURNITURE Weather July 5, 1987 Castlégar News A3 #11 ae WAREHOUSE Tues.-Sat., 9:30-5:30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” A mixture of sunny and cloudy periods today with a chance of showers in the late after- noon. Highs today near 26° with the lows around 15°. Probability of precipitation today is 20 per cent. CIA in Canada OTTAWA (CP) — The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was caught operating in Canada without the government's knowledge or consent in late 1984, the Ottawa Citizens says. The newspaper quotes unnamed sources as saying the incident was important enough that the Americans apologized afterwards. The sources would not give details of the incident. Solicitor General James Kelleher denied the story, saying the subject is a perennial allegation that has not been substantiated. Burned alive PRETORIA (REUTER) — An unidentified white man was burned alive or “necklaced” in a black area near the South African city of Port Elizabeth, police reported a F igations indicated the killing was not counacted to the political violence that has swept white-ruled South Africa for the past three years, a at police head ters in Pretoria said. “Necklace” killings are used by young radicals in black townships against blacks suspected of being government collaborators. Victims are set afire with gasoline-filled tires around their necks. More reform PEKING (REUTER) — Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said Saturday that more political and economic reforms and a greater opening to the outside world would bring faster progress for China. He told visiting Bangladesh President Hossain Mohammed Ershad that developments in China in recent years showed that wherever the reform and pen-door policy was i d it brought success. “If we step up our reform and opening policy we will be able to make more rapid progress,” the official Xinhua news agency reported Deng as saying. “We will abide by the reform and opening policy, while adhering to the leadership of the Communist party and the socialist road,” the official New China News Agency reported Deng as saying. Bus crash NEW DELHI (REUTER) — Twenty-three people were killed and 45 injured Saturday when a bus plunged 90 metres into a ravine in the northern Idnian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Press Trust of India news agency said all the injured, eight of them in critical condition, were taken to hospitals by three army helicopters. Woman hanged KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — ‘Prison’ authorities hanged a 69-year-old Malaysian woman convicted of drug trafficking, newspapers reported Saturday. The New Straits Times and other dailies reported that Tan Mer was hanged at Pudo prison Friday, but prison officials contacted by telephone refused to comment. Guerillas arrested KALKILYA, WEST BANK (REUTER) — At least 11 Jews and Arabs were wounded Saturday when Palestinian guerrillas planted a bomb in a restaurant in this town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, security sources said. Security forces put a curfew on Kalkilya, some 27 kilometres from Tel Aviv, which was later lifted except in the vicinity of the explosion, a military spokesman said. Move ships MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union called on all foreign ships to leave the Persian Gulf and said the U.S. military buildup in the region is an attempt by Washington to dominate the strategic waterway. “Psgeudo-measures supposedly motivated. by concern for the safety of shipping or ‘ensuring stabilization’ in the Persian Gulf but in reality prompted by selfish egoistic designs are absolutely impermissible,” said a government statement dis- tributed by the official Tass news agency. Waldheim welcomed AQABA (AP) — Austrian President Kurt Waldheim flew home from Jordan Saturday, ending four days.of rare hospitality for a man widely os. tracized over allegations he was involved in Nazi war crimes. King Hussein, who earlier piloted Waldheim on a helicopter sightseeing tour, drove the Austrian leader to Aqaba’s airport and saw him aboard a Royal Jordanian Airlines Tristar jetliner Star's birthday ROME (REUTER) It's the kind of birthday most actresses would rather not notice but one that reminds an entire generation of the passing of time Gina Lollobrigida turned 60 on Saturday The sultry, buxom La Lollo, as Italian newspapers dubbed her early in her career, has been making movies for 40 years Resume protests SEOUL (AP) The opposition threatened Saturday to resume anti-government protests unless thousands of political prisoners in South Korea are freed and their rights restored in the coming days. The warning came just three days after President Chun Doo-hwan, at the end of three weeks of often violent demonstrations, accepted opposition demands for sweeping democratic reform. Chun's move appeared to have resolved the crisis, the worst since the former army general took power in 1980. = PM takes credit for settlement TORONTO (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney took some of the credit for the tentative settlement reached between Canada Post and striking letter carriers Saturday, saying his government's delay in appointing a federal mediator played a key role. The prime minister, in the midst of a three-day, campaign-style tour of ethnic centres and senior citizens’ homes in southern Ontario, did not comment on the specific terms of the ag reached early in Ottawa after six days of intense bargaining. “I'm encouraged that progress has been made,” he told reporters after a visit with his wife, Mila, to a Greek home for seniors. The 20,000-member letter carriers’ union began rotating strikes against Canada Post on June 16. Mulroney said the government was right to delay the of federal Bill Kelly, who has settled the past four postal disputes, until June 28. “In the labor relations business, timing has a very important role,” Mulroney said, adding that appointing Kelly earlier would have been “inappropriate and probably unhelpful.” NEEDS ROOM “One of the things that you have to give a mediator is some running room,” the prime minister said. “The most important aspect of that is timing. “What we wanted to do in putting Mr. Kelly into it was to give him all the advantages he could have in coming to a very, very difficult situation.” Mulroney also said discussions about the recall of Parliament next Tuesday were “unrelated completely” to the postal strike. There had been speculation that one of the reasons the government was recalling Parliament was to have it on hand in case a decision was made to legislate the letter carriers back to work, Earlier ig-in ceremony for five new stioenshee Judges at Toronto's Harbourfront complex. The five new judges have records of community service that “should be viewed with pride and satis- faction,” Mulroney said. Doris Lau, one of the judges, said in a recent interview in a Toronto Chinese-language newspaper that she owes the position to her work as a fundraiser for the Conservative party. Lau, a stockbroker with Nesbitt Thomson Deacon Inc., is chairman of the ethno-cultural committee of the Progressive Conservative Canada fund. Following Mulroney's speech, Secretary of State David Crombie told reporters he is angry at criticism of the appointments aby Sergio Marchi, federal Liberal critic. Marchi has port that there is no question that patronage played a key role in the government's choices. The judges are “very impressive people,” Crombie said. “They have made an enormous contribution to the communities in which they participate and to the general community as well.” In addition to Lau, the Torontoarea judges appointed were Teresa Barreiro, Robert Meagher, Joseph Piccininni and Pamela Appelt. “It is to their (the judges’) credit that they have chosen to help their fellow citizens by participating fully and actively in the public policy process,” Mulroney told 40 new citizens also sworn in at the ceremony. He urged the new citizens, many of them of visible minorities, to become involvéd in political life. “The sidelines are not good enough,” the prime minister said. “Multicultural communities must be very much a part of the decision-making process.” Earlier in the day, Mulroney toured the downtown St. Lawrence market with his family, chatting to farmers and shaking hands with shoppers and merchants. KLAUS BARBIE FOUND VERDICT "INCREDIBLE’ LYON* FRANCE (AP) — Klaus Barbie, the former Lyon Gestapo chief, found it i ible that he was , Saturday of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison, a defence lawyer said. Three judges and nine jurors deliberated 61: hours after an eight-week trial and then found Barbie, the man called the Butcher of Lyon, guilty of deporting hundreds of Jews and French Resistance members to Nazi death camps during the Second World War. Both verdict and sentence had to be approved by at least eight of the 12 judges and jurors, who deliberated together until just after midnight Friday night. The exact vote was not disclosed. “It's incredible,” Barbie defence lawyer Nabil Bouaita quoted the 73-year-old defendant ‘as saying. Bouaita said he had a short and unemotional meeting with Barbie after the trial. The Barbie trial was hailed Saturday for reminding the old and teaching the young about the suffering the Nazis inflicted during the Second World War occupation of France. “This trial had to take place,” Andre Frossard, a journalist who was imprisoned by the Nazis and who testified at Barbie’s trial, wrote Saturday in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Hundreds of observers in the courtroom cheered when the verdict was announced. Outdoors, hundreds more waited on the street. LAWYER JEERED., ” When Barbie's chief lawyer, Jacques Verges, stepped outside he was jostled and jeered. Police officers drew batons and scruffled with demonstrators before Verges re-entered the building by another door. Verges said he would appeal the verdict. Bouaita told reporters Verges was hit on the head but not injured during the disturbance. Bouaita received anonymous death threats himself, two of them: in telephone calls Saturday morning, he said. Barbie faces another trial, possibly next year, on new charges of crimes against humanity which allege he istani SEA SHANTIES ... Tom Lewis, the first performer in the free noon hour Con- certs in the Park series, played both his autoharp d guitar to a variety of musical selections such as sea shanties, English Music-hall numbers and British ballads. —CosNews Photo by Burt Compbett deported two men he arrested with French R hero Jean Moulin in June 1943. Many of the 105 men and women who testified at the trial, which began May 11, said they were telling things they always considered too painful to mention “We needed this trial and we needed it for the memories,” Lionel Collet, a leader of the Co-ordinating Committee of Lyon Jewish groups, said shortly before the verdict. The committee said the Jewish community welcomed the sentence as “an act of justice and charity toward all those who died.” Under French law, Barbie would have to serve at least 17 years of his life sentence. Barbie lived in Bolivia for more than 30 years before being expelled and brought to France in 1983. US advisors run secret government MIAMI (AP) — Some of President Ronald Reagan's top advisers operated a parallel government that, among other things, has been linked to the theft of briefing materials from former president Jimmy Carter's 1980 campaign, the Miami Herald newspaper reported in today's editions. The group operated outside traditional cabinet departments and agencies almost from the day Reagan took office, with the National Security Council co-ordinating its activities, congressjonal investigators and administration officials told The Herald. The influence of fired National Security Council aide Lt.-Col. Oliver North was so great he able to have the orbits of surveillance satellites altered to follow Soviet ships around the world and called for the launching of high-flying spy aircraft on secret missions over Cuba and Nicaragua, The Herald quoted one unidentified source saying. North also was said to have drafted a secret contingency plan. that called for suspension of the Constitution, turning control of the United States over to the Federal Emergency Management. Agency, appointmént of military commanders to run state and local governments and eclaration of martial law during a national crisis, The Herald said. Officials said the genesis for the ‘phantom government may be traced to an October 1980 decision by Casey, then Reagan's campaign manager, to create an “October Surprise Group” to monitor Carter's negotiations with Iran for the release of the 52 U.S. hostages. Congressional aides now link another campaign incident, theft of Carter's briefing materials before an Oct. 28, 1980 debate, to the same group of advisers that included campaign foreign-policy adviser Richard Allen, the newspaper reported The group also allegedly orchestrated well-publicized news leaks, including the Nov. 4, 1984, Election Day announcement that Soviet-made MiG jet fighters were on their way to Nicaragua, The Herald said. AIR TERRORISM Bombs in baggage By GREG JOYCE Canadian Press VANCOUVER (CP) — Nestled on the former waterfowl habitat of Sea Island in the quiet suburb of Richmond, Vancouver International Airport seems an unlikely starting point for vicious air terrorism. Yet is was here that two men who called themselves by the traditional Sikh name Singh managed to have loaded as baggage two bombs that exploded almost simultaneously in \ June 1985. One bomb exploded in luggage taken off a CP Air flight at Tokyo's Narita airport, killing two people; the other brought a horrific end to Air-India Flight 182 near the coast of Ireland as all 329 people aboard died when the plane plunged into the ocean: In the two years since, public inquiries in India and Ireland have pieced together a thin web of details surround. ing the twin terrorist plots. But despite angry criticism of police efforts by opposition politicians and grieving relatives, no one has been charged with the crimes. The investiation, co-ordinated by the RCMP and invglving the relatively new civilian spy agency, the Canadian Security Intell Service, is But two years after the fact, apparently hampered by numerous personnel changes and the difficulty of untangling a plot with international connections, there are questions about what the investigation is likely to produce: WON'T TALK Police at all levels refuse to discuss progress, saying they don’t want to tip their hand. “Nothing is being said,” said Supt. Pat Cummins, who has headed the Ottawa task force for only three months. Another spokesman, RCMP Cpl. Pierre Belanger, of all Sikhs in Canada, some of whom are openly antagonistic toward the Indian government. In suburban Burnaby, a high-profile Sikh leader says he has been tailed by police for two years. Talwinder Singh Parmar, 42, who heads a fundamental- ist Sikh separatist group called the Babbar Khalsa — Tigers of the True Faith — claims police consider him the prime suspect in the bombings. “I'm happy if the RCMP are following me” he said. “If I'm not followed, Indian government agents might kill me.” In November 1985, Parmar and another member of Babbar Khalsa were arrested as part of the Air India inves- tigation. He was charged with possession of an explosive substance for no lawful purpose, a charge later dismissed by a provincial court judge for lack of evidence. Arrested again a year ago on charges of conspiring to commit terrorist acts in India, Parmar and six others were acquitted when a Hamilton, Ont., judge ruled wiretap evidence was inadmissible. The Crown is appealing. SHOWS POSTER Parmar makes no secret of his fierce support for the Sikh bid for an independent state in India called Khalistan. On display in his home is a large poster showing bloodied bodies of Sikh holy men killed by Indian soldiers in June 1984 during an attack on the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh holy city in the Punjab. Three of the most staunchly pro-Khalistan Sikh groups are active in Vancouver — the Wrold Sikh Organization, the International Sikh Youth Federation and the Babbar Khalsa. Sikh expert Beatrice Hamizrachi, a PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba, says Canadian police — most of whom are white — have trouble understanding minority groups such as Sikhs. That makes it difficult to “infiltrate” in confirmed the former head of the Vancou RCMP Insp. John Hoadley, retired more than a month ago, but his replacement has not yet arrived in Vancouver. There is an acting head. And while Belanger concedes there have been four different top investigators in Ottawa, he cites “career opportunities” as the reason. “If there is a promotion available, the officer can't turn it down,” he said As for what appears to be an almost invisible inves tigation, “it is still ongoing and being actively pursyed,” Belanger added. “If we say we have a lead, the person might see that and the lead might get burned.” HOME BASE Vancouver remains key to the police effort not only because the bombs were loaded here. It is home base for a vibrant Sikh community that numbers about 80,000 in Greater Vancouver and 100,000 in the province — one-third criminal in’ But Hamizrachi cautions that while Babbar Khalsa is in ion with Air-India, many factions have grievances against the Indian government. Among those that have voiced discontent against the Indian government are the World Sikh Organization, the International Sikh Youth Federation, the Khalistan Liberation Front, the Hindu Shiv Sen: in extreme Hindu organization, and the Akali Dal, a political party in the Punjab. “India has many problems,” she said. “Everyone wants something, but the focus is on the Sikhs.” Jagtar Sandhu, president of the Sikh Youth Federation, said in an interview from Toronto that his group wants a public inquiry into the allegations against the community. “The majority of Sikhs want a full investigation,” he said. “The attitude of the police and media is that our people are suspects.”