‘Exercise combats a

By FRANK DERBY

‘Sun staff writer

primary focus of the Castlegar
chapter. has ‘been on therapeutic

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Muriel Perry, the Ok
and Kootenay representative for
the Arthritis Society was in town
recently to look at and

those suffering from the disease.
Marge Rush, ‘President of the
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significant ‘benefit ‘derived from
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Mondays and Wednesdays,

While Rush herself does not
suffer from arthritis, her, daughter
does,

“The idea that anthritis afflicts
only the elderly’is a myth,” said
Rush, “There are over 100 different
kinds of arthritis and it strikes all
ages.” More than 30,000 Canadian
children already have it and anoth-
er million with the.disease are
between 30 and 50 years of age. In
fact, the many forms of arthritis
make up Canada’s most common
chronic disease.

Most forms of ‘arthritis’ attack
the joints in'one way or another
and can be not only'very painful,
but also disabling. Medication, diet
and rest are important commpoasaits

of but as y

come to realize over the past ce
years, exercise is'of benefit to gen-
eral fitness and when tailored to
individual needs can also be thera-
peutic and rehabilitative.

Sue Brattebo and Bev Olsen, the
instructors who.lead the group
through their exercises to music in
the pool concentrates on two gener-
al types of exercise, range of motion
and strengthening. Stiffness, loss of

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Bev Olsen leads her ladies through a variety of exercises designed to increase range

of motion and loosen joints.

motion and even deformity are the
consequences of arthritis, Moving
joints through their full‘range of
motion on a daily basis is vital in
counteracting the affliction and
maintain flexibility. Working i in the

between 300 and 500 people in the

area afflicted with some form of °

arthritic condition.Marge Rush

wants to let people know that their
Socisty is here to help,

“We want to get more people

pool p
and strengthens muscles.

‘The problem for many with the
disease is breaking the cycle asso-
ciated with the pain. Because it
burts to move the joints, many suf-
ferers tend to become less active.

This in turn weakens muscles.

which only adds to the joint prob-
lems. Gentle exercise such as is
provided through the aquafit pro-
gram helps break that cycle and in
many instances even reverse it.
Muriel Perry there are

in the p we cur-
pai have about 15 participants

but we know there are others out ©

there who could be helped through
the exercises at the pool. Besides

offering a supportive peer group
and networking, we will even pro-
vide rides for those who need help
with transportation.”

Besides the therapeutic value,
there is the recreational benefit - in
other words, the group is also com-
mitted to having fun. Anyone
interested in further information'of

‘any kind should get in touch with

Marge Rush at 365-5720.

Pony field to receive money

By BARBARA TANDORY

Sun staff writer

get for 1992.
Pakula said the parks and

Castlegar council will commit
more money for fencing and

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At its regular meeting last
Monday, city council voted sup-
port for Alderman Bob Pakula’s
recommendation to designate the
baseball field a number one prior-
ity in the parks and recreation bud-

pre-
senting costing for the project for
council’s (approval in the near
future, noting the initial cost esti-
mate was around $10,000.

He. said he'd be secking coun-
cil's “pre-approval” when the.
costing is done and before the
final budget is adapted in May in
order to start work as soon as the
snow goes,

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WORLDWATCH

Terrorist attack foiled at biggest US eval ae

The Daily Telegraph
Four bombs, described as “pret-
ty. sopblatlegted sabotage wea-
pons",’ were found Monday
attached to two huge tanks of high-
a inflammable methanol at Nor-
folk, Virginia, the site of America's

: ronald naval base and the launch-

ing point for much of the US
Navy's efforts in the Gulf war, .

The FBI said it was investigat- ~

ing the possibility that the bombs
were iets itn to Iraq, but had yet to
of the

The first two bombs were
attached to the valves of one of the
three million gallon tanks with a
timer that did not appear to be
moving. Had the methanol
exploded, the fire almost certainly
would have enveloped a second
three million gallon tank nearby.
That too, it was discovered later,
had also been booby-trapped.

Each tank was about one-third
full of methanol, a total of two
million gallons of a highly

first two devices that had been dis-
armed.

to link them directly to the Gulf
war or to any terrorist organization
intent on spb i

America’ 's military operations,

The devices were identified as
pipe bombs. The bureau was
reluctant to describe them, but
local authorities said that whoever
planted them had obviously been
hoping for a spectacular explo-
sion, and possibly heavy casual-
ties, in a city that is synonymous
with American military might and
its sea-going nuclear potential.

There was nothing immediately

and volatile liquid
used as a fuel, solvent or anti-
Ze

+ Bomb squad experts . bad
removed and disarmed two bombs
when an inspection of the second
tank revealed two more. By mid-
afternoon, experts were still work-
ing on these devices.

If this was the work of pro-
Iraqi terrorists, it would be the
first such sabotage act on Ameri-
can soil since the Gulf war began.

President Saddam Hussein has
warmed the United States several
times of the long reach of Islamic
vengeance and has said that terror-
ism and conventional warfare are

indistinguishabte in this “mother
of battles",

The plariting of the bombs was
one of several serious terrorist inci-
dents worldwide Monday. Haslicr
reports were received from the
Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah of
an apparent terrorist attack on a
shuttle bus carrying US servicemen.
" Rifle or 9mm pistol shots were
fired at.the bus, slightly injuring
two military personnel with flying

In the past, Arab terror groups
have been successful in striking at
Americans - civilians or service-
men - overseas, as well as Ameri-
can property abroad. But acts of
terrorism on American soil have
been rare,

The bombs in Norfolk were
found at Allied Terminals Inc, a
commercial port in an industrial
section along the It is

the terminal, Police cars 3 criss

local Javecoloreement authorities,
" civil

United States following calls from

crossed a
hood near the storage site advising
residents to leave their homes,

The sprawling Norfolk Naval
Base has sent more than 35,000
sailors to the Gulf and vast quanti-

iti ilian
throughout the country such as
refineries, airports, rail and bus
terminals and department stores
have revised and tightened securi-
ty arrangements, In most cases,

ties of ponry and
ammunition,
Forty of the US Navy ships

now fighting in and around the ©

Gulf are based at Norfolk, the
headquarters of the Adantic Fleet.
They include the aircraft carriers
John F Kennedy, Theodore Roo-
sevelt and America, and the battle-
ship Wisconsin, Security at the
base has been tightened since the
fighting in the Gulf began in the
wake of Iraqi threats to commit
terrorism “in the homeland of the
imperialist infidels.”

Lieut Cmdr Mike Todd, a Navy

about five miles from the perime-
ter of the naval base and two miles
across the Elizabeth river from
Newport Naval Shipyard.

An area one mile square was
immediately evacuated as a search
got under way for other bombs at

d to say.

* whether any emergency measures

had been put into effect, but
added: “I can assure you that
appropriate security is in place

with the i

threat.” -
On the advice of the FBI and

Two U.S. soldiers hurt in suspected terrorist attack

Los Angeles Times
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - In what
U.S. military officials described

is ap

attack, two American soldiers were
wounded slightly by flying glass
when a gunman fired on a shuttle
bus in the port city of Jiddah.

The attack, hundreds of miles
from the battle front, raised the
specter of American or other allied
military personnel in the Middle
East becoming targets off the bat-
tlefield. Mounting tensions in Jor-
dan already have prompted the U.S.
State Department to warn Ameri-
cans there to leave. In addition, ter-
forists Monday apparently targeted
a British Airways office in
Jerusalem, a Citibank office in an
Athens, Greece, suburb and a Saudi
diplomat in Karachi, Pakistan.

In Jiddah, a hotel-bound shuttle
bus. with three American soldiers
aboard.was passing .a junkyard
Sunday night when a gunman
opened fire with a 9-millimeter
pistol or rifle, officials said.

Maj. Gen. Robert Johnston,
chick of staff for the allied Central

Andy Shadrack, who teaches polit-
ical science at Selkirk College and
John J. Verigin Jr., President of the
United Nations Association,
Kootenay region. Patricia Lakes
will act as moderator.

This panel combines expertise
in politics, the media, middle east-
em history and the workings of the
‘United Nations and will be able to
provide informative answers for
public participation.

The program is being spon-
sored by the Castlegar Peace
Group, the USCC peace and disar-
mament group and the United

j picean a arcs

Tegion, in conjunction with the
community service of Shaw Cable.
* Following statements by the
, Panel members, questions may be
phoned in using the following
numbers: | x i
‘Trail » 368-5501 and
Castlegar * 365-3122.

d, told rep 3 that
ctituting the attack to terrorists
would be "a reasonable conclusion”

But no organization has taken
credit for the shooting or indicated
that “it was a contrived terrorist
activity,” Johnston said, and he
acknowledged that the attack
could have been an individual,
“free-lance” act.

Col. Ahmed al-Robayan, a
Saudi military

Since then, Westem interests
have suffered more than 70 terror.
ist attacks worldwide, but direct
Iraqi involvement has been detect-
ed only in attacks in the Philip-
Pines, Tanzania and Thailand.

“What we've seen so far have
been rather amateurish affairs that
were the work of local

declined Monday to characterize
the incident as a terrorist act, say-
ing such a determination could not
be made until the gunman was
captured. 2

“It’s a small act and it could
happen anywhere," he said,

Military sources said an Egyptian
driver and a Saudi security guard
also were aboard the shuttle bus,

Johnston would not describe
steps officials are taking to protect
troops from terrorism, but, he
said, "it is a high priority because
we. do present vulnerable targets.
We do everything we can to
reduce vulnerability and make
sure that the i service-

enthusiasts rather than trained ter-
rorists," Frank Brenchley, director
of London's Research Institute for

“the Study of Conflict and Terror-
- ism, said in a recent interview.

In Washington, the State
Department urged Americans to
leave Jordan because of the deteri-
orating security situati The

The office was badly damaged
but there were no reports of
injuries.

Meanwhile, Athens police dis-

" mantled a faulty time bomb hidden

in a plastic shopping bag and
placed outside a Citibank office in
the seaside suburb of Paleo Faliro
Monday. However, officials would
not say if the bomb was linked to
recent terrorist attacks in Greece.
The November 17 terrorist
group has claimed Fesponsibulity

rk has been car-
tied out so discreetly that the ‘aver-
age citizen may not notice any
great change.

The US’ State Department said ~

last week that there bad been a
total of 73 attacks on US installa-
tions around the world since Iraq's
invasion of Kuwait. The FBI
Director, Williams Sessions, how-
ever, said there was still no indica-

. tion that Arab terrorist cells had

set themselves up in business in
the US.

British Airways is to screen all
passenger luggage on flights to the

for guerrilla attacks on
members of the US-led coalition. '-
Arsonists set fire to the BA office
in Isracli-annexed Arab Bast
Jerusalem Mondey night, causing
extensive damage.
A home-made firebomb discov-

ered near @ liquid gas plant at an
Austrian subsidiary of British

~ Petroleum was defused by explo-
in Vienna.

sives experts

Jn Pakistan, which has seen

d anti-war p

unidentified gunmen fired at the
home of a Saudi Arabian diplomat
in Karachi, slightly wounding a
guard, i

A powerful time bomb was dis-

‘covered outside a branch of the

American Citibank in the Greek
capital of Athens. ‘The device was
defused by bomb squad experts.

World Briefs

U.S-BOUND BELGIAN PLANE
DIVERTED IN BOMB SCARE
Northern Ireland, Reuter - AUS.-
bound Belgian plane made an

emergency landing at Belfast air- °

port Monday after a bomb’alert,
police said.

The Air Belgium flight from
Brussels to Bangor, Maine, was
ordered to land after the airline
received a bomb warning at its
Belgian office.

The 219 passengers and crew
were taken off the plane. A five-
hour search revealed nothing on
board, police said.

GAULLIST REBELS WIN FRENCH
SPECIAL ELECTIONS
PARIS, Reuter - Gaullist rebels
have won two of three French par-

li ary special eli

for firing anti-t

offices of American Express ‘ad
British Petroleum in Athens, The
same organization has taken credit
for bombing two Citibank offices,

department said the advice applied
to all private citizens and "non-
essential" employees of the U.S.
Embassy.

Tutwiler said there are about

4,600 American in Jordan,, She;

‘said the department is urgin;
to: leave’ by regular com!

man is attuned to the fact that he
is never totally safe."
‘The incident in Jiddah was the

In Jerusalem, arsonists set fire
Monday to the British Airways
office in the Arab section of the

first attack of its kind i ig
Americans in Sandi Arabia since
the war against Iraq began.

city, app ly as a protest
against British participation in the
war, police said.

Iranian leader proposes to mediate gulf war

Los Angeles Times
AMMAN, Jordan - President
Hashemi Rafsanjani of Iran
offered Monday to try to mediate
an end to the war between Iraq and
American-led forces in the Persian
Gulf and declared that he was will-
ing to meet with Saddam Hussein.

But the Iranian leader said he
had found no Iraqi flexibility dur-
ing talks he concluded Sunday in
Tehran with a special emissary
from Baghdad.

“For the sake of the peace and

- security of the region and its peo-

ple,” Rafsanjani told a news con-
ference in the Iranian capital, "I
am ready to see Saddam," the offi-
cial Islamic Republic News Agen-

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cy rep

‘The Iranian’s initiative drew a

noncommittal response in Wash-

ington but was welcomed in
where it was

In Moscow, spokesman Vitaly
Churkin of the Foreign Ministry

can be used” this time,
Any direct Iranian contact with

said: "R Pp d his
i to meet dam Hus-

he told the press
would have to be

sein. We can only welcome that .
ss." He

added that “we do
not know all the details of (Raf-
sanjani's) statement” but indicated
that Belonogov, one of the Krem-
lin’s top Middle East specialists,
would follow up on those details
in Tehran and possibly act to
merge Soviet and Iranian initia-
tives seeking a political solution to
the gulf conflict.
In Washington, White House
Marlin
showed no evident enthusiasm for
Rafsanjani’s move. "They (the Ira-

_ hians) are not directly involved in

the conflict, and our interest is get-
ting Iraq out of Kuwait..." he said.
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that Deputy Foreign Minister
Alexander Belonogov would fly to
Tebran to consult with Iranian offt-
cials about the Persian Gulf War.

At the, United Nations, Secre-

tary-General Javier Perez de Cuel-
lar said that he welcomed any
effort by Iran to help find a settle-
ment in the Persian Gulf.
Rafsanjani said that he gave’
Hussein’s emissary, Deputy Prime
Minister Sadoun Hammadi, a let-
ter to Hussein and that the letter
an “idea” for peace. “If
Saddam accepts our idea, we
might prepare a plan on that
basis,”
quoted Rafsanj jani as saying.
; He did not divulge the details
of his idea, ‘nor did'be say where
be might meet Hussein, a meeting
‘that ‘wartime security might make
nearly impossible for both leaders.

the Iranian news agency —

piihaegeat He So ty
“All we've seen is press reports

approved by Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, Iran’s spiritual leader.
The United Nations’ frustrated
Perez de Cuellar, who sought
futilely to find a way out of the
conflict before fighting began Jan.
17, said: "I think Iran is in a good

a British bank and the office of
the French military attache. No
one was injured in any of the
attacks which were carried out
over the past two weeks.

In Karachi, police said gunmen

fired at the home of a Saudi diplo- .

mat Monday, slightly wounding a

guard. Investigators said they —

would not identify the diplomat
for security reasons.

marked by. high abstention and a
strong showing of the far right.

Michel Noir and Jean-Michel
Dubemard, who resigned from the
RPR Gaullist party last December
accusing politicians of being
divorced from everyday realities,
were both re-elected in Lyon to
the National Assembly with more
than 70 percent of the vote.

constituencies in the Sunday elec-
tion, called to fill vacancies.

In Paris, RPR Gaullist Rene
Galy-Dejean won the third special
election marked by an abstention
of 77.4 percent,

AUSTRALIA'S TREATMENT OF
ABORIGINES “GENOCIDAL” -
CHURCH GROUP

SYDNEY, Australia, Reuter -
Racist treatment of aborigines
in Australia amounts to genocide,
a U.S. Methodist executive of the
World Council of Churches said

- Monday:

Delegates from the Seventh
World Assembly of the WCC,
which meets in Canberra from
Feb. 7-20, visited two aboriginal
settlements last week,

"The impact of racism by Aus-
tralians on the aboriginal people in
this nation is not just horrific, but
genocidal, and must be
addressed,” said Dr. Janice Love
of the United Methodist Church of
the United States and a member of
the WCC executive committee,

Love said living conditions of

i had not imp
since wec officials last visited
in 1981. ‘

The ‘ight

Front, which
immigration, won more than 25
percent of the vote. Abstention
was higher than 66 percent in both

Officials “utterly frustrated”

Los Angeles Times

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia - Two
jumbo jets loaded with oil-spill
fighting equip were

according to Saudi oil ministry

-offici

“This is absolutely just the

-b ing," Costello said of the oil

to arrive here Tuesday to help con-
tain a widening slick in the Persian
Gulf, but a senior oil executive
said that officials were “complete-
ly and utterly frustrated" in trying
to clean up the giant spill.

“Nobody has ever seen a spill
this size. The whole world hasn't
got enough equipment to deal with
it," said Fred Costello, a senior

ions adviser at Saudi Aram-

co, Saudi Arabia’s giant oil-pro-
ducing

P to p a
which could put an end to the pre-
sent situation... I am hopeful and I

. keep my fingers crossed."

The only detailed Iranian pro-
posal so far was one made public
last week by Parliament Speaker
Mehdi Karrubi, a political oppo-
nent of Rafsanjani who was not
likely to have been floating a plan
for the president.

According to an Iranian news
agency report, Karrubi’s unofficial
proposal called for an immediate

fire followed by si

(on *s .
Fitzwater added. “Nobody has said
anything to us directly.” 3
United States relations with
Iran were broken in 1979, when
student militants, inspired by the
revolution of the Ayatollah Ruhol-
lah Khomeini, seized the Ameri-
can Embassy in Tehran and held
U.S. diplomats captive for 444
days. American interests are cur-
rently ‘handled by the Swiss
Embassy in Iran.
. Rafsanjani’s offer to try to
mediate in the conflict could
establish the first direct and offi-

cial U.S.-Iranian contacts since the

formation of the Islamic

y

ous wi of Iraqi forces
from Kuwait and Western forces
from Saudi Arabia and the smaller
Persian Gulf states. They would be
replaced by peacekeeping troops
from unspecified Islamic countries.

So far, however, Iraq has shown
no sign of giving up Kuwait, and
Karnubi's plan is further shackled
with conditions the West would
find unacceptable tied to any reso-
lution of the gulf war. These
include a halt to Israeli settlements
in the occupied West Bank and the
formation of an Islamic “commit-
tee" to Palestinian “libera-
tion-secking Struggles" in the

But the Iranian president pointed
out that the Swiss connection

exists and said “the same channel

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Although they don’t like the
terms being bandied around, U.S.
Officials say they have no opposi-
tion to the various diplomatic
moves, However, one

+ tion official’ warned:.""The one
~ danger .is that after too many of

these, ‘it may appear that ‘everyone
the coali

some form of linkage: ‘That could .

work ‘against'us. And, of course,

_ We will not consider linkage (with _
‘the Isracli-Palestinian issue) how-

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Favorable winds have held the
southernmost fingers of the slick
away from key industrial facilities,
but sticky patches of oil have
begun washing up on beaches at
Safaniyab on the northem Saudi

that has come ashore in Saudi Ara-
bia so far, primarily from two
smaller spills, one from a damaged
Iraqi tanker and one from an oil
Storage tank in the Saudi border
city of Khafji that apparently was
hit by Iraqi artillery fire.

"What you're seeing in this lit-
tle area which is what we're tying
to combat at the moment is purely
a dress rehearsal," he said.

“The very big oil spill, the 10
million barrel oil spill, is up here,"
he said, pointing to a point on the
map off of Kuwait. "When you
consider that the Exxon Valdez
spilled a quarter of a million barrels
and we're now talking about 10
million barrels and you don't have
the Pacific Ocean to

Arabian coast, and scientists say
the bulk of the slick is still beyond
their view in the war zone off the
shores of Kuwait.

Meanwhile, oil appears to be
continuing to flow from the Mina
al Bakr oil terminal in southem
Iraq, feeding a second large slick
in the northern gulf that.U.S. mili-
tary observers have said is now 12
miles long and three miles wide,

clean it ... there's no way you can
flush the water in acd out of (the
gulf) often enough to clean it up."
Protective rubber booms have
been placed around industrial facil-
ities and scawater desalination
plants along the coast, which sup-
ply two-thirds of the water to the
Arabian Peninsula’s 18 million
residents. So far, the booms have

against ~
percent of Australia’s 17 million

Aborigines make up about 1.5

population.

by spill in gulf

plants at Safaniyah and Tanajib,
where some oil has washed ashore,
Saudi Arabia’s Oil Spill Response
Center reported.

Workers were laboring furious-
ly to install similar protection at
the giant petrochemical city of
Jubayl, further down the coast,
where a huge desalination plant
produces more than half of Saudi
Arabia's domestic water.

Because favorable winds have
slowed the advance of the spill to
only slightly more than a mile a day,
the oil is now not expected to reach
Jubayl for another four days, said an
official at the response center.

Saudi Arabia has put out an

request for i
spill-fighting equipment around
the world, and two planeloads of
equipment were scheduled to
arrive from Norway and Japan
today, along with a team of Nor-
wegian experts. Another Boeing
747 full of equipment from Japan
is to arrive Thursday.

The United States, Germany,
Britain, France, South Korea and
Sweden have also sent equipment,
and environmental experts from the
United States and Britain are part
of the international response team.

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