A2 Castlegar News

December 4, 19868

Teacher
wins $5,000

By CasNews Staff

A Fruitvale teacher has won two
prestigious awards and over $5,000
for his use of computers in his Grade
7 social studies class.

Ken McClean, a 47-year-old teach
er at Beaver Valley Junior secondary
school recently learned he will be
awarded the Marshall McLuhan Dis.
tinguished Teacher Award. McClean
is one of 10 chosen from 138 teach
across British Columbia for his
novation and use of communications
and technology.”

The award carries with it $2,500 in
cash, a Marshall McLuhan medal and
$1,000 for a school project. McClean
intends on using the $1,000 to buy

some telecommunications hardware
for the school's computer lab, or to
pay for telephone charges used in the
class. *

“We want to get on-line with some
of the big data bases,” he explained.

McClean’s computer project liter-
ally saw his students electronically
plugged into the B.C. Challenge —
Round the World Single-Handed
Sailing Race.

The class adopted a boat and fol-
lowed the race progress as it
happened by accessing information
electronically from the sailing forum.

The students learned about geog-
raphy, weather and the impact of
high-tech communications.

Public invited
to ceremony

By CasNews Staff

The public is invited to Tuesday
morning's sod-turning ceremony for
the new $2.2 million aquatic. centre,
said Pat Metge, Castlegar and
district recreation director.

Premier Bill Vander Zalm, Tour.
ism Minister Bill Reid, Municipal Af.
fairs Mi er Rita Johnston and
Howard Dirks, minister of state for
the Kootenay region, are all expected
to attend the ceremony during which
it is anticipated Vander Zalm will an
nounce Castlegar is the recipient of a

GO BC grant for the pool.

Reid is the minister responsible for
the Growth and Opportunity, or GO
BC fund.

A spokesman for the premier's
office said this week that an
announcement of importance to the
community will be made at the cere.
mony but would not elaborate.

Castlegar has applied for a grant of
some $700,000 from the GO BC fund.

The sod-turning is scheduled for
8:30 a.m. at the Community Com-
plex.

Deadline nears

Did you know there's just a couple
of days left to drop off your letters to
Santa? That's right, deadline for
letters to Santa to be printed in the
Castlegar News is 5 p.m. Wed., Dec.
7

Children should write the letters
to: Santa Claus c/o Castlegar News,
Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4,
or drop them off at our office at 197
Columbia Ave.

We'll try to publish as many letters
as we can in the Castlegar News,
space permitting. And this year we'll
again draw 10 letters from those
submitted. Each of the 10 letter
writers will receive two tickets to the
Castle Theatre.

But remember, the deadline is this
coming Wednesday, so better tell
Mom and Dad to help you get
started!

Pebbles

passes away

Dorothy Grace Alice Pebbles of
Rossland died Nov. 24 after a lengthy
illness at age 80.

Born Feb. 7, 1908 in London,
England, Mrs. Pebbles came to
Canada in the 1920s, settling in
Vancouver. After her marriage
there, she and her husband came to
Rossland in 1928.

She enjoyed gardening, sewing
and knitting but her home and family
were most precious to her

She is survived by two sons,
Dennis of Castlegar and Alexander of
Rossland; two daughters, Dorothy

Jones of Rossland and Joan Yolland
of Matsqui; 13 grandchildren and 17
great-grandchildren. She was prede.
ceased by her husband, Alexander
Campbell and a brother, Percy
Harris.

Funeral services were conducted
in Carberry's Memorial Chapel on
Nov. 28 with Rev. Art Turnbull
officiating. Internment followed in
Mountain View Cemetery

Funeral arrangements were under
the direction of Carberry’s Funeral
Home.

Former
resident dies

Joan Elizabeth Biddle, a former
math and French teacher at Stanley
Humphries secondary school died

BEL

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“When I came to town on Monday
morning Pass Creek road saw its
first sand,” said Strong, adding,
“They have done an exceptional job
since my letter appeared.”

Bel Maintenance inherited the
current repairs on two area bridges
when it was awarded the highways
contract.

It recently removed the railings on
the Kinnaird Bridge and is currently
removing the railings on the Brilliant
Bridge. Another company, subcon
tracted by the Ministry of Highways
will re-galvanize the railings and
then Bel Maintenance will put them
back on the bridge.

The permanent rails have been
temporarily replaced

Shannon said he didn't know when
the railings will be replaced.

SCHOOL

continued from front page

Hadikin; Special Education Centre,
Turner; Stanley Humphries secon
dary school, Guglielmi; Tarry's
Elementary school, Conroy; Twin
Rivers elementary school, Turner;
Valley Vista elementary school,
Voykin; Woodland Park elementary
school, Smecher

Nov. 13 in Victoria.

She is survived by her mother,
Ethel Biddle; sisters Ann Lightbody,
Mary Jameson and her husband,
John; nieces Stephanie, Karen,
Wendy and Lori; cousins and many
friends.

She was predeceased by her
father, the Rev. Canon George
Biddle, and her twin brother, John.

Memorial services were held Nov.
16 in Victoria with the Rev. Robert
MacRae officiating.

Flowers are gratefully declined
and those wishing to do so may make
donations to the Canadian Cancer
Society, 226 Richmond Road, Vic-
toria, B.C. V8R 4R5, or to St. John’s
Church, 1611 Quadra St., Victoria,
B.C. V8W 2L5.

Court news

In Castlegar provincial court this
week, James Neil received a $500
fine and was placed on probation for
six months after he pleaded guilty to
assault causing bodily harm.

8 «

Lorne Hawthorne was fined $300
after pleading guilty to possession of
a narcotic.

.

Jack Cheveldave was fined $100
after pleading guilty to driving
without due care and attention.

.

Darrin Davi received a six
month conditional discharge after
pleading guilty to assault.

A SOBERING THOUGHT . . . Workers string a banner across
Columbia Avenue announcing the start of this year's CounterAttack
program aimed at getting drinking drivers off the roads. Last year,

VANCOUVER (CP) — An elderly
priest who pleaded guilty last June
to fondling 17 girls and young women
has lost his bid for a reduction of his
four-year prison sentence.

The lawyer for Msgr. John Mon
aghan, 80, of Nelson argued the
prison term was too long given the
nature of the assaults but the British
Columbia Court of Appeal upheld the
sentence

Monaghan admitted to 14 counts of
indecent assault and three of sexual
assault against young female parish
ioners. The incidents began 29 years
ago and took place in hospitals and
private homes in the Nelson area

The victims’ ages ranged from six
to 21 at the time of the offences.

Monaghan served as rector of the
Cathedral of Mary Immaculate in
Nelson from 1952 to 1971 and also
taught at St. Joseph's Catholic elem
entary school. Since his retirement,
he looked after small outlying
Catholie churches | in Salmo, South
Slocan, Ymir and Slocan City.

He was suspended from his duties
after the charges were laid last
February. Monaghan is serving his
sentence at the minimum-security
Mountain Prison near Agassiz in the
Fraser Valley.

ID cards
on the way

VICTORIA (CP) British Colum
bians who do not have a driver's
licence for identification will be able
to purchase an official B.C. iden
tification card in the new year

Solicitor General Angus Ree said
Friday new regulations will give
formal recognition to a B.C. iden
tification card bearing the holder's
picture.

Residents who don't drive will be
able to obtain the card at Motor
Vehicle Branch offices. The cards are
often requested to cash a cheque or
produce evidence of age.

Government regulations will in
clude penalties for those who obtain
cards under false pretences, misuse
or alter the card. .

The card will cost $25. Seniors will
pay $10, the same cost as replace
ment cards. Motorists who volun
tarily give up their valid driver's
licences will receive identification
cards free of charge

Gaglardi
wants
statue

KAMLOOPS (CP) — Flyin’ Phil
Gaglardi, a former Social Credit
cabinet minister and the new mayor
of this southcentral city, wants to
erect a statue of former premier
W.A.C. Bennett in front of the legis.
lature in Victoria.

Gaglardi called the elder Bennett,
whose son Bill succeeded him as
premier following a three-year NDP
government in the early 1970s, the

premier ever to govern
h Columbia.

against

more than 340,000 vehicles were checked and 880 charges laid
drinking drivers in
CounterAttack program.

the provincial government's

CosNews Photo

Study urges easier-
to-understand laws

VICTORIA (CP) — Legal costs must be trimmed
and laws should be written in simple, understandable
language, says a year-long study into justice reform in
British Columbia.

And people should be encouraged to take issues
“only truly in dispute” to court to help reduce the
backlog of cases, says the report, released this week by
Attorney General Bud Smith.

It is because people have such confidence in the
legal system that the courts are clogged, Smith told a
news conference. The challenge, he said, is to make
improvements without undermining the trust.

“If the recommendations are fulfilled in both spirit
and content, it will make the justice system more
available to the public,” he said.

“It will make it faster for people to get through the
system and it should make it relatively less expensive
for them to take certain cases through the process.”

The eight-member committee which wrote the
report received 375 verbal and written submissions
from judges, lawyers and volunteer organizations
during hearings across the province.

“Everybody who asked to be heard was heard and
the result is a blueprint for reform that is innovative
and will carry us into the 21st century,” Smith said.

The 260-page report contains 182 recommenda.
tions, including:

® Decentralizing the B.C. Supreme Court from the
Vancouver area, with judges being appointed to live and
work in areas throughout the province;

e Urging the Law Society of British Columbia to be
more aggressive in disciplining lawyers where
unreasonable fees have been charged;

e Streamlining pre-trial procedures;

¢ Making mediation and counselling
available to native people who encounter
problems;

e Having some provincial courts sit during the
evening and on Saturdays.

services
family

e A pilot project, to be known as the economical
litigation program, for cases involving $20,000 or less.
The program would encourage people who want to
represent themselves by using simplified procedures
that would result in a shorter, less formal trial and an
early trial date.

The committee rejected the concept of establishing
mandatory alternatives to the court system.

But it recommended lawyers and clients consider
the so-called alternative dispute resolution techniques
at every stage of a lawsuit.

HIGH FEES

High lawyers’ fees are “one of the greatest barriers
to access to the justice system,” the report said.

“Procedures have become far too complex for many
cases and this leads to fees which may be justified by
the time spent but are out of proportion to the amount
at stake.”

The committee also recommended a government
project to ensure the justice system uses plain language
rather than bewildering legalese.

Such a program should begin with the legislature,
Smith said, because that is where the laws are created.

Smith said he will tour the province during the next
two months to seek comments on the report from the
legal community and the public. He will then consult
with ministry officials and make recommendations to
cabinet.

But NDP justice critic Moe Sihota said there should
be immediate action on a recommendation calling for
improvements to the province's legal aid system.

“You need an announcement from the attorney
general that we're going to say to those people that
they're entitled to legal aid funding,” said Sihota, who is
a lawyer. “I can't disguise my displeasure about that
because that’s the key to access to the judicial system.

“I'm not upset about the report at all, and I applaud
it. What I'm upset about is the attorney general's
reaction to the report.”

Hard
to be
popular

VANCOUVER (CP) — It will be hard for the
Social Credit government to become popular, but
“Christ would have been low in the polls” too,
Premier Bill Vander Zalm says in a video tape being
distributed to British Columbia churches.

The premier says he and his government will try
to adhere to “pure Christian standards,” but he
warns, “the closer we come to Christ, the busier the
devil gets.”

Vander Zalm also accuses the media of trying to
“destroy” him after he declared his anti-abortion
views earlier this year. He contrasts his treatment
with that of Svend Robinson, the federal NDP
member of Parliament whose public declaration of
homosexuality “was almost given an aura of respect”
by the media.

The premier’s remarks are contained in a speech
he delivered Oct. 28 at a conference of Christian
businessmen and leaders in Vancouver. The
conference, was organized by the B.C. brapch of a
U.S.based evangelical organization, the Campus
Crusade for Christ.

The organization videotaped the speech, and has
recently distributed copies of it to 1,300 churches in
British Columbia.

The speech was given less than a week after
Vander Zalm was endorsed by the Socred convention
in Penticton.

During the speech, the premier says the
Penticton convention was “a tremendous show of
support and it again told me that prayer really works
all the time if you pray hard.”

“I will try to become a better and stronger

BILL VANDER ZALM
Christ would have been low in the polis”

leader,” he promised the crowd, “with the knowledge
that to best please the people I serve, I just first
please my God.”

ETHICS GUIDE

In the speech, Vander Zalm indicates his
government will be guided by the same Christian
ethics that guide him.

“Can we as a Social Credit government be
Politically popular if we follow the precepts I've
outlined for you?

“It won't be easy . . . but good things weren't
meant to be easy. Christ didn’t have an easy way. He
came into the world poor. He never travelled far
from home. He was taunted and ridiculed. He never
had a (University of British Columbia) education. He
would have been low in the polls. But he left a
tremendous impression on the world .. .”

re

Briefly

Sex offender appeals

TERRACE (CP) — Convicted sex offender Robert Willoughby
has won the first round in his battle to have his jail sentence reduced.

The British Columbia Court of Appeal has agreed to appoint a
legal aid lawyer after the legal aid society refused to provide one.

Willoughby is serving life in prison for three of 21 sexual assault
convictions in July 1987. He is appealing the sentence

UBC hikes tuition

VANCOUVER (CP) — The University of British Columbia wants
to raise tuition fees by 10 per cent next year — a larger-than-usual
hike that will cost students an extra $150 or more.

University president David Strangway. said he told the
university's board of governors this week the increase is needed to
help balance the budget and to avoid large staffing cuts.

Strangway said although tuition-fee increases have been kept at
a “cost-of-living” rate of around five per cent over the last few years,
that amount would only bring in about $1.8 million. He said that, even
with a 10-per-cent hike, 30 to 40 jobs at the university could still be
lost.

He said the university plans to cut the budget by one per cent, or
about $2 million, as well as increase student fees.

American company bids

WILLIAMS LAKE (CP) — An American company wants to use
Greater Vancouver garbage trucks to increase its supply of pulp
quality wood chips.

Georgia Pacific of Bellingham, Wash., is one of two bidders for a
pulp-wood timber harvesting contract near 100 Mile House in the
Cariboo region of British Columbia.

The company plans to send wood chips to it's parent plant in
Bellingham via the Fraser Valley community of Aldergrove. The
chips would be transported south by Greater Vancouver garbage
trucks returning from taking garbage north to landfill sites near
Cache Creek.

Another company said it would build a $60 million board plant in
100 Mile House if it gets the timber harvesting contract.

Gorbachev visits Trump

NEW YORK (AP) — Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his
wife, Raisa, have accepted an invitation from developer Ronald
Trump to visit his glitzy Fifth Avenue shopping atrium when they
come to town next week.

The Gorbachevs are expected to spend about 30 minutes next
Thursday inside Trump Tower's marble-lined shopping atrium,
guided by the multimilli e, Trump spokesman Dan Klores said
Friday.

Gorbachev is coming to New York to attend a UN General
Assembly session as well as to meet with President Ronald Reagan
and president-elect George Bush

Leaders set meeting

MOSCOW (REUTER) The leaders of the Soviet Union and
China seem likely to meet next year for the first time since 1959 after
signs of a deal on Kampuchea

In a report on a meeting between Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev and visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, the
official Soviet news agency Tass said both countries attach great
importance to a summit.

It would be the first Sino-Soviet summit since 1959, when Nikita
Krushchev met with Mao Tse-tung in the Chinese capital. By then,
relations between the once-close allies were already collapsing,
leading to clashes across their border and a 20-year ideological rift.

During talks Thursday, officials from both countries agreed to
promote a settlement to the Kampuchean conflict and set up a
working group to study it

Military uprising calmed

BUENOS AIRES (AP) President Raul Alfonsin returned to
Argentina Saturday to deal with a military rebellion by more than 400
troops surrounded by loyal forces at a military base near the capital.

The government said the uprising, in which one soldier was
reportedly killed, “had been overcome.” But a spokesmen for rebel
leader Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldin insisted the rebels had only agreed
on a truce, pending Alfonsin's return from a three-day trip to Mexico
and the United States.

Alfonsin originally planned to return home today but changed his
plans because of the rebel uprising, the country's third since April
1987.

Prisoners released

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ordered
about 1,000 political prisoners released and commuted all death
sentences in Pakistan on Saturday in her first official act after
assuming power

She also promised to free all women prisoners except those
convicted of murder.

Bhutto, sworn in Friday, told a news conference her Pakistan
People's party amnesty program will be handed over to President
Ghulam Ishaq Khan for approval.

General election set

COLOMBO (REUTER( — President Junius Jayewardene
announced Saturday the dissolution of parliament and set Feb. 15 for
Sri Lanka's first general election in more than a decade.

In a television and radio address, he also made it clear that after
a separate presidential election on Dec. 19 he will retire after 45 years
in polities, including 11 years as ruler of the Indian Ocean island.

Jayewardene, 82, said the dissolution of parliament would take
effect on Dec. 20, the day after the presidential election. But in an
apparent rebuff to opposition demands, he said there was no need to
hold parliamentary elections at the same time as the presidential poll.

Aftershock devastes region

HONG KONG (AP) — A strong aftershock of an earthquake that
devastated a remote region of southwestern China killed at least one
person, injured 24 and toppled more than 1,000 homes, newspapers
reported Saturday.

The aftershock, which registered 6.7 on the Richter scale
Wednesday afternoon in Yunnan province, also forced the closure of
several schools and a cement factory, Hong Kong newspapers said,
quoting the domestic China News Service.

An earlier report from China's official Xinhua news agency said
the aftershock injured 13 people and damaged 620 houses.

China News Service said the casualties occurred in Lancang
county, which bore the brunt of the huge quake Nov. 6 that measures
7.6 on the Richter scale and killed 730 people.

Rose Bowl
jarred by
quake

PASADENA, CALIF. (AP) — A
sharp earthquake beneath the Rose
Bow! Jarred Southern California
early Saturday, toppling bottles from
store shelves, knocking out power to
thousands of homes and causing at
least 23 minor injuries.

The 3:38 a.m. quake registered
five on the Richter scale, said. Hall
Daily, a spokesman for the California
Institute of Technology Seismology
Laboratory.

No serious damage was reported.

The most serious injury was to a
man who mistook the quake for an
intruder and shot himself in the leg,
said Shirley Muldoon, nursing super.
visor at St. Joseph's Medical Centre
in Burbank.

The quake was felt at least 145
kilometres away, in San Diego. The
earth shook across 38,850 square
kilometres and six countries for
about 15 seconds.

“Talk about your rude awaken.
ings,” said Patricia Brillhart, who
was roused at her home 400 metres
from the Rose Bow] by her shaking
bed and the sound of china crashing
to the floor.

It was the strongest quake in the
Los Angeles area since a 5.9 temblor
on Oct. 1, 1987, and an aftershock
two days later killed eight people,
injured 200 and caused $358 million
US in damage.

The 66-year-old Rose Bowl, home
of the annual Tournament of Roses
New Year's Day college. football
classic, appeared to be undamaged.

INJURIES MINOR

Twenty-three people were treated
for minor injuries at four hospitals
Most suffered cuts and bruises when
they fell, hospital spokesmen said.

Power outages were scattered
throughout the area, including Pas.
adena, downtown Los Angeles and
parts of the San Fernando Valley.
The quake was felt in Los Angeles,
Orange, Riverside, San Diego, San
Bernardino and Ventura counties.

Atlantis shutt

SPACE CENTRE, HOUSTON
(AP) — NASA disclosed nothing but
the lunch menu Saturday, the day
space shuttle Atlantis was to deploy
a top-secret spy satellite that can
peer down at the Soviets through
clouds and darkness.

The public space-to-ground radio
link was kept silent while the crew of
five military men went about their
business on the second day of the

Canada. With him is his brother
mother, Lurane.

CHRISTMAS WISH . . . Ken Zeabin of Nelson leaves
for Disney World after being given.a trip to Disney
World through the Children’s Wish Foundation of

Mike and his

Zeabin gets wish

A 17-year-old Nelson youth was
granted quite a Christmas wish this
week — a trip to Disney World in
Florida

Ken Zeabin, who suffers from
Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is
making the trip courtesy of the Chil
dren's Wish Foundation of Canada, a
non-profit organization which grants
wishes to children with life-threat
ening diseases. He flew out of
Castlegar airport Friday accompan.
ied by his mother, Lurane Zeabin,

mission, which began with Friday's
launch and is under the control of the
air force

The National Aeronautes and
Space Administration said in ad
vance it would break the silence only
if major problems developed aboard
the spacecraft

By all accounts, Saturday was to
have been the crew's busiest day,
with the expected release of the
$500-million US Lacrosse satellite.

Hijackers sent home
to Soviet Union

JERUSALEM (AP) — Four hi
jackers who extorted a $3.3-million
US ransom from Soviet authorities
for a busload of schoolchildren were
sent home Saturday along with the
airplane crew that flew them to
Israel.

The wife of one of the hijackers
also left with them.

The hijackers left in two planes
along with the eight-member Aero-
flot crew that brought them to Israel
and a 19-man Soviet delegation that
arrived Saturday to arrange their
return, witnesses said.

Preparations for the departure
were shown live on Israel television,
with soldiers guarding the runway at
Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.

Israel deported the four as illegal
immigrants, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Alon Liel said, adding
this helped “shorten the process.”

He said a Soviet woman who ac
companied the hijackers, the wife of
one of them, was not part of the
hijack plot as previously believed.

The four seized a bus in the Soviet
republic of Georgia on Thursday,
then traded the 30 child hostages for
a trip to Israel on Friday aboard an
Aeroflot jetliner.

The women left the Soviet Union
with the hijackers as part of their
demands for freeing the school
children, Liel said

TWO-DAY DIPLOMACY

The deportation of the four men
from Israel came after two days of
diplomacy, in which U.S. officials
played a role in getting the hijackers
to Israel and Soviet Foreign Minister
Eduard Shevardnadze reportedly
thanked the Israelis for returning
them.

Three of the Soviets, the married
couple and one man, were sent back
on the Ilyushin-76 that brought them
to Israel. The other two returned in a
Tupolev airliner that brought the
Soviet delegation to Tel Aviv on
Saturday.

Soviet officials were also given the
ransom money and the weapons car.
ried by the hostages, after signing a
receipt for them, Israel television
reported.

Army radio said the five were
taken blindfolded from Abu Kabir
jail in Tel Aviv to Ben-Gurion about
two hours before their departure

Earlier Saturday, Motti Amihai,
another Foreign ministry spokes
man, said that Israel expected to
return the five but wanted to follow
accepted procedures.

GENEVA MEETING

and older brother, Mike Zeabin Jr.

“The wishes can be simple, from
Nintendo games and dolls to trips to
Disneyland,” said Melody Johnson,
provincial director of Children's
Wish.

She said the intent of the organ
ization, which relies solely on private
donations, is to “give families a break
from constantly dealing with the
realities of the illness.”

Ken, a Grade 12 student at L.V.
Rogers secondary school in Nelson,

le kept

The only official word on the mission
came from NASA, which released
the menu: salmon, ham, macaroni
and cheese and turkey tetrazzi

Sources have said the satellite is
capable of recording sharp images of
military targets in the east bloc.
Weighing 18 tonnes and with
panel wingspan of 46 metres,’ th
satellite, according to sources, will
help verify Soviet compliance with
arms treaties and serve asta “radar
eye’ for the stealth bomber.

The Soviet news agency Tass
apparently knows plenty about the
satellite, reporting many details
about it, including the code name
Lacrosse.

Atlantis’ secret mission began with
a blastoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla.,
during a momentary calm in fierce
upper-level winds similar to those
that halted the launch Thursday

‘CREW IS GO’

Four hours after lunch, Mission
Control broke the silence, saying,
“The crew of Atlantis is go for orbit
operations.” The announcement
meant that the spaceship's cargo bay
doors were open and the task of
preparing the satellite for deploy
ment could begin.

Only military men are aboard
Atlantis, serving under navy Cmdr.
Robert Gibson. The pilot is air force

said nothing was going to stop him
from going to Disney World despite
not having fully recovered from a
school bus accident in June, his
mother noted.

The family learned of Children's
Wish through the Nelson school
board, Lurane Zeabin said.

Children’s Wish has chapters in all
provinces and since May has granted
nine major wishes to sick children in
B.C., Johnson said. The organization
has been operating in B.C. since
March 1987 and in anada since 1984;

secret

Lt.-Col. suy Gardner, and the
mission specialists are Col. Richard
Mullane and Lt.-Col. Jerry Ross of
the air force and navy Cmdr. William
Shepherd

According, to pre-flight reports,
Mullane was to be inside the shuttle
cabin using the orbiter's robot arm to
hoist the satellite out of the cargo
bay and release it.

The procedure was so intricate
that Shepherd and Ross were to be in
space-walking suits, prepared to
ener the cargo bay if any problems
arose in releasing the satellite. Nor-
mally, astronauts do not suit up for
satellite launches

Once Lacrosse is in orbit 385
kilometres high, Gibson and Gardner
were to fly alongside the satellite
until ground controllers were certain
it was working properly

The crew also planned to conduct
several experiments aimed at de.
fining the role of military observers
in space, with reconnaisance a high
priority, according to sources who
spoke on condition of anonymity

The flight, the second since the
Challenger disaster, the 27th shuttle
mission joverall and the third dedi
cated to the military, is expected to
end Monday or Tuesday with the
landing at Edwards Air Force Base
in California

UN to hear Yasser Arafat

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN General

The assembly took the historic step of moving to

Assembly slapped its host country with an unprece
dented rebuke by voting 154-2 to reconvene in Geneva
so that PLO leader Yasser Arafat, barred from the
United States, can address the delegates.

The resolution adopted Friday “deplores” the
refusal by the U.S. to grant Arafat a visa

“Once again, within hours, the international body in
this community has stood together for what is right
against what is wrong,” said Palestine Liberation
Organization envoy Zuhdi Labib Terzi

Only the United States and Israel voted against the
Arab-sponsored resolution. Britain abstained, having
previously said the criticism in the resolution was too
harsh. Canada voted in favor of the measure.

Members of the PLO, “who specialized in hijacking
of airplanes and cruise ships, are expanding their efforts
and hijacking the General Assembly,” said Israel's
acting ambassador, Johanan Bein.

U.S. Ambassador Herbert Okun said the move was
unnecessary. The United States contended that another
PLO delegate could present Arafat's viewpoints.

But the highest ranking U.S. official at theUnited
Nations sided with critics, saying Washington's action
had done* “incalculable damage to the United States
credibility in the world are .

HISTORIC STEP

The comments were written by Joseph Reed,
under-secretary general for General Assembly affairs,
in a letter to President Ronald Reagan.

the UN's European headquarters because the U.S
rejected UN appeals to admit Arafat, who last visited
New York in 1974

Okun said the United States didn’t object to the
move and would participate in the debate there

Arafat wants to address the 159-country
to explain the PLO's declaration of an independent state
and its implicit recognition of Israel. The Palestinian
issue will be discussed Dec. 13-15 in Geneva.

It will be the first session the United Nations has
convened outside New York since moving into its
building in Manhattan in 1952

Okun said the United States was justified in
denying a visa to Arafat, whom the Reagan adminis
tration called an “accessory to terrorism

Critics said the U.S. action violated the 1947 UN
Headquarters Agreement, under which the United
States is obligated to grant visas to UN diplomats and
guests.

The United Nations has estimated the cost of the
Geneva session at $645,500 US, including $159,000 for
first-class round-trip tickets to Geneva for delegates of
the world’s 40 poorest countries

Since 1946, the UN has paid travel expenses of the
least developed countries so they can be represented in
deliberations.

The cost also includes travel for at least 30 UN
officials and staff, translation and documentation in six
official languages and other expenses

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