AFRICA APPEALS TO CANADA FOR SANCTIONS MONTREAL (CP) — Three major anti-apartheid leaders from Africa issued appeals late Friday for Canada to impose full sanctions against the white-supre- maeist regime in South Africa, saying only tough actions will end apartheid. * The three; ip ek eaives manting ovules S an ti-apar d money from Ottawa, also used phrases like earns bead poe clae and “the bastard son of Nazism” to describe South Africa. “Canada has a diplomatic mission in a fascist regime,” said Thabo Mbeki, a central leader of the banned African National Congress, in calling for Ottawa to cut off diplomatic relations with Pretoria and cultivate stronger links with his cing Wi bdbowr time to take sides.” Mbeki stopped short of saying Canada should cisigenes the ANC, which advocates using violence to fight apartheid, as the South African government in exile. “(South African President P.W.) Botha has his army and we-have our army,” Mbeki told about 500 church, student, labor and other leaders from Canada, the United States, Europe and Africa. Rev. Alan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, called apartheid “the moral issue of our times” and said it is highly doubtful the world would have tolerated such a government for so long if white children were dying by the hundreds, not black ones. HAS SUPPORT “The South African government wouldn't have survived for so long is it had not been for the constant support it has received from the world,” he said. “But we can not fight Pretoria, London, Bonn, Washington and Tokyo all at the same time,” he added, noting that Canada has often been a leader in prodding its western and Cogmonwealth partners to take a tougher stand. But nothing short of full sanctions — cutting all economic links with South Africa — would give Pretoria the message to dismantle apartheid, he said. Among the sanctions Canada has imposed so far against Pretoria is a ban on federal government purchases in South Africa and on the promotion of tourism to that country. On the same problem, Teodato Hungwana, Mozambi- que's information minister, compared South Africa's current regime with Hitler's Germany. “Like Nazism, the superiority of a race is the cornerstone of apartheid.” South Africa has repeatedly sent commandos into the former Portuguese colony to attack ANC exiles there, and Hungwana accused the South Africans of “genocide.* “It is in this way that our country's borders have been turned into the second front of apartheid.” The conference, which ends Sunday, was organized by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, a non-profit group concerned with development in the Third World in an open attempt to try to put the pressure on Ottawa to take a stronger stand against apartheid. Church observes Shrove Tuesday 8t. Peter Lutheran Church will observe the ancient cus- tom of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, the day preceding the beginning of Lent. Shrove derives from shri- ve, referring to confession of sins as a preparation for Lent. During Lent, with 40 days of fasting, Christians in the Middle Age were forbidden to eat eggs and fat and, thus, gathered for a meal of pan- cakes before Lent began. The fellowship meal at St. Peter will be served with pancakes, sausages and bev- erage. Lenten services at St. Peter Lutheran Church will be each Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. Job openings nanan Funds hove been made available 10 groups or employers to sponsor Job Development Projects in port Trail District. In- formation ond applications. ore available at the Canada E ment Centre in Trail. Applications are new being eccepted for the posi Student Placement Officer, with Canada Employment Centre Deadline for application is February 27, 1987. Heirdressers ore required in Trail and Castlegar. (10, 53, 70 and 71.) A Trail firm has an opening for eppliance repairer. SEVEN MILEDAM proposed chai to the dam will ys cae Hydro to raise the Seven Mile reservoir on the Pend s Oreille River by 4.6 metres, bringing it to its maximum operating level. —LostiewsPhoto by Mike Kalesnike cker image changes HALIFAX (CP) — Remember the myth of the old-fashioned trucker? He was gruff but gentle in his shiny-visored cap. And he was the safest driver on the road. In the 1950s and '60s he was the sainted Big Joe of the country song Phantom 309 or the homesick husband of Six Days on the Road. The good-guy myth disappeared back in the 1970s, about when baseball-type caps replaced the shiny visors. It’s been replaced by another myth, certified by Hollywood — the trucker as law-defying, crash-causing speed demon straight out of the film Smokey and the Bandit. Alfred Oakie, chief operating officer of the Hamilton, Ont., Automobile Club, remembers when he started at the club 30 years ago. “I go back to the days when truck drivers were the knights of the road,” he says. “Those days were something. I was impressed.” BONUS TO HELP In those days, an Ontario brewery paid bonuses to its drivers for each person they helped on the road. It stopped the practice long ago. Now, Oakie often receives letters from motorists complaining of truckers who tail-gate, speed and hog the road. “But there are still a number of drivers who will give you a hand,” he added, and most truckers are still safe drivers, especially the older ones and the long-haul drivers. Most of the tail-gating and lane-hopping on the highways is by the small and medium-sized trucks, he said. In fact, the real-life modern truck driver doesn't seem to be quite the demon that the Bandit myth protrays. Bill Todd, a longtime travelling salesman from Halifax who recently returned from a drive to Florida, says he found truckers in both countries as courteous and safety-conscious as ever, except for occasional tail-gating. The real problems, Todd said, are impatient young motorists and two-lane highways with too few passing lanes that almost force people to take chances with slower truck taffic. SOME HORRORS Still, there are horror stories about truckers. Last October, in Montreal, a New Brunswick trucker who had consumed two beers and a steak for breakfast sped through the Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine Tunnel at 30 kilometres over the speed limit, ignoring flashing lights that warned drivers to switch lanes. He rammed a stalled car, killing the driver. But Louis-Paul Tardif, general manager of the Canadian Trucking Association in Ottawa, says 99.9 per cent of drivers ac* like professionals. Movies like Smokey and the Bandit, said Tardif, “took the exception to the rule and magnified it to the point where people believe that it's happening out there. “It just isn’t so. The problem is one of image.” AT TRUCK STOP In Nova Scotia, one place to meet truckers is the Cozy Corner truck stop on the Trans-Canada Highway near Truro. A dozen or so rigs are usually idling outside while drivers snooze in their cabs or drink coffee in the Hay restaurant. yee “Car drivers don't. know, what a truck, is like,”, Anan Leo Brideau, who's on a haul to Sydney, N.S., from his home city of Moncton, N.B. “They think it can stop on a dime.” Brideau is at the Day and Ross table. Day and Ross Inc. is one of the biggest trucking outfits in the Maritimes; its drivers own their tractor units — or cabs — and hook on the company trailers. The company requires them to take an eight-hour break after every 1,000 kilometres. Brideau says he won't be speeding. Day and Ross, like some other trucking companies, has a safety man who travels the region with a radar gun checking up on drivers. Drivers caught speeding are suspended for a week or so. FROM FLORIDA Across the aisle sit two veteran drivers from Tampa, Fla., who took up long-haul driving after retiring from their regular jobs. Norman Richards, hauling a load of Florida shrimp to Lunenburg, N.S., says truckers on long hauls generally drive no more than 800 kilometres a day, spending not more than five hours on the road between breaks. They usually drive a maximum 10 hours a day and are not allowed to drive more than 70 hours over an eight-day limit, particuarly the 55-mile-per-hour limit in the Unites States, but not fast enough to be stopped by radar, he ys. “If you drive 55 miles per hour, as one guy said to me, you're either going to get bored to death or somebody's going to run over you.” Truckers, ial, PAID BY TRIP d m ones, are paid by the trip, not by the kilometre or mile. That's one reason why they may be in a hurry; another is that they may be hauling perishable goods. Nelson man compensated By CasNews Staff A 53-year-old Nelson man was only one of 136 people who received financial awards last month under the Criminal Injury Compensa- tion Act. He was awarded $1,028 after suffering multiple lac- erations and contusions about the face and head after being beaten and kicked without warning by a male youth. Under the Criminal Injury Compensation Act, anyone who is a victim of crime in B.C. can apply for compen- sation, sue a person or do both. The money to pay victims of crime comes from the con- General duty régistered nur- ses to work on a casual basis are urgently required in Trail. (233) tain further information at the LOGGING TRUCKS continued from Al They'll (CP Rail) be obligated to consider all of the opposition that is being raised over the issue,” Brisco told the Castlegar News in an inter- view Friday. Moore said she is concerned that CP Rail wants to cut off service to its customers — something she says is not new. “Qur concern is that it’s just one more move by a transportation outfit to downgrade the service in our area. It means more and more trucks coming along Columbia Avenue out to the mill,” said Moore. She added that she has been told that if the rail link is discontinued Columbia Avenue could see as many as 110 additional woodchip trucks using the route to and from the mills. “I have this reoccurring nightmare that Columbia Avenue will one day be come one giant truck route,” Moore said. “We're concerned about the impact it may have in attracting industry to our area and we're concerned about the wear and tear on our roads.” Although Brisco said CP Rail has not yet applied to abandon the rail link, at least one trucking company sees a future in the Midway to Castlegar run SCT Chambers Trucking Ltd., of Vernon is advertising for owner/oper ators who are interested in buying new trucks to transport woodchips between Midway and Castlegar. Company spokesman Dave Cham bers told the Castlegar News that rail companies that transport woodchips over a short distance cannot compete with trucks that also move woodchips. But it's not only the Midway to Castlegar rail line in jeopardy. Both CP and CN Rail want to abandon rail lines throughout the country that have proved to be unprofitable. The Canadian Transport C: VANCOUVER (CP) — The U.S. government is concern- ed about the decision of sev- eral British Columbia forest companies not to pay the 15-per-cent export tax on softwood lumber before fed- eral tax legislation passes in Parliament, says a Vancou- ver-based U.S. diplomat. Consul-general Sam From- owitz said Friday the U.S. Commerce Department will ask Canada for clarification of the situation. Several major forest. com- panies, including the two lar- gest in Parliament has ap- proved the legislation, not expected until mid-March at the earliest. The companies are on safe period. But some drivers break the rules. “They're the ones who are having accidents, getting fines and losing their trucks,” Trucks generally go slightly faster than the speed Tax concerns U.S. legal ground in withholding payment, but under the terms of the U.S.-Canada lumber agreement, signed Dec. 30, Canada is supposed to collect the first installment of the tax no later than today. Officials of the U.S. Com- merce Department warned their Canadian counterparts earlier this month that Can- ada would be in technical violation of the agreement if the collection was not made. Canadian officials assured them the money would be collected eventually because the tax will be imposed re- troactively. The export tax was set up to avoid impostion of an equivalent U.S. tariff on is considering railway applications to cut service on three branch lines in southern Ontario and it expects addi tional applications soon In the past five years, approval has been given to all but one application, ending railway service in dozens of small towns. Across Canada, CN wants to aban. don 16,000 kilometres of track. CP Rail has plans to abandon 11,000 kilometres. Weather ftwood lumber, di by U.S. lumber producers who said Canadian exports were subsidized. Cloudy Sunday with iso lated snow showers. Highs 4 and lows -3. Monday will be mainly cloudy with a’ few snow showers. ial Forests Minis. ter ‘Jack Kempf said Friday there is nothing he can do to make the industry pay the tax. “It’s on the heads of the people in Ottawa,” he said. “It isn’t my concern.” solidated, the revenue fund of British Columbia, through the attorney-general minis- says Richards. try. If a victim decides not to sue, then after they receive payment the Workers Com- pensation Board, which ad- ministers the Criminal Injury Compensation Act, is allowed to sue the person responsible for the victim's injury. Some other claims that were accepted by the Work- ers Compensation Board in January included a 22-year- old man who was beaten by three men who carried clubs and boards while he was sit- ting in a restaurant. He suffered two fractures to his left hand, multiple human bites to his back and a laceration to the scalp. He was awarded $3,146. A 36-year-old Vancouver man was beaten, kicked and robbed by an unidentified male assailant. He suffered fractures to his nose, jaw and contusions to his right knee. He was awarded $2,820. LEGISLATION continued from Al “host” country who actually come into the camp. “And these people are confined,” he said. “They cannot just catch the next flight to Canada. “The bottom line,” said Brisco, “is we still have the most open immigration policy.” Despite such reassurances, Sally Williams, a spokesman for Amnesty International in Castlegar, said her or- ganization feels the new legislation is unfair to legitimate refugees. Williams said the government needs a more open approach to legitimate refugees. “The new immigration policy is a step backwards by making life more difficult for refugees,” she said. “Em- phasis, in terms of government, should be on improving the process of hand ling refugees, not penalizing them be cause of a narrow and inadequate sys. tem Williams pointed to the new legis lation’s elimination of the list of 18 countries to which Canada does not deport people, meaning that now a person from a country such as El Salvador, Guatemala, Sri Lanka and Iran who is not granted refugee status can be returned home. Previously, people from countries on the list had been automatically issued special minister's visas and admitted to Canada to await the result of their hearing. Williams said that now people such as Mario Escamilla, who entered Can- ada near Christina Lake only last week, are under the threat of deportation to a treacherous homeland. Williams related the story of a woman from Guatemala who went through legitimate channels at the Canadian embassy there for refugee immigration to Canada, but was tor- tured to death during the time it took to process her application. Rev. Ted Bristow of the Castlegar's United Church, said his people have not prepared an official stand yet on the refugee situation, but he said the United Church organization through- out Canada and the U.S. supports “re- ceiving genuine refugees.” “We are aware of what could happen to these people if returned to their country,” said Bristow when asked about the possibility of giving sanc- tuary to illegal immigrants. “But people in touth with the refugee prob- lem say we shouldn't have to.” Harboring illegal residents in Can- ada ean result in fines up to $5,000 and a maximum of two years im prison. “What we want is legislation to resolve the problem so that we shouldn't have to,” he said. killing seven people and injuring at least 500, a8 fallon trees and power lines blocked rescue efforts. An official of Jones County said there .were injuries along a 20- to $0-kilometre tornado of Glade, eight kilometres: southeast Killer remanded PORT ALBERNI (CP) — Stanley Mickey, 21, was remanded in custody until Tuesday when he appeared in court charged with first-degree murder. Mickey is charged in the death .of Rebecca Johnson, 29. by.a Salvation Army minister. The declined to be identified, said he had returned from walking his dog and found the body slumped in the back of his church van. Wears ear-ring TORONTO (CP) — Saying his employer is living in the past, a male flight attendant has won the first round ofa battle to determine whether he can wear an ear-ring to work. In a recent arbitration decision it was ruled that Wardair Canada Inc. did not have the right to restrict Robert Elder, a 30-year-old Toronto flight attendant, from wearing at work the gold stud he began sporting in his left ear about two years ago. Carnival begins RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of revellers from around the world celebrated the first full day of Carnival in Brazil on Saturday, with non-stop drinking, dancing, sexual abandon and colorful parades the order of the day. From the hot and humid towns on the Amazon River to the industrial city of Sao Paulo, people danced in the streets and private clubs to the rhythmic sounds of samba bands. Banks, stores and government offices closed for four days, not to reopen until the famed Carnival officially ends Ash Wednesday. Soldier killed CHAMBERY, FRANCE (AP) — A Canadian soldier was killed and four were injured, one seriously, when a group of seven Canadian rons were swept away in House chief of staff Donald ‘Regan would stay on for’an indefinite period to help his succeasor, former U.S. senator pores Weber of Tet The official, kit of PRE place engin: Seg er panera building, across the steet from the White House. Don Regan paid a farewell visit to his West Wing office in the White House on Saturday, and declined to talk about his replacement by Baker, telling reporters: “I'm goi8ng to | wait for time to pass before I comment.” ‘Two longtime aides to Baker, Thomas Griscom and Jim ‘Cannon, sat in on a 14-person White House meeting dealilng with the chief of staff transition. The meeting was presided over by ‘Regan’s executive assistant, Dennis Thomas. White. House spokesman Marlin Fitewater said\\they discussed, among other things, a broadcast speech Reagan wil make this week responding to the Tower commission report on secret U.S. arms sales to Iran and the diversion of profits to aid Nicaraguan Contra rebels. The Tower commission strongly criticized Don Regan for his handling of the aftermath of the Iran-Contra disclosures which rocked the administration. . ‘HE WILL DOIT’ Griscom, who was Baker's press secretary when Baker ‘was in the Senate, said Baker “was asked to do a job and he will do it; he will put a team together.” Cannon, however, indicated he does not expect any immediate personnel changes. “All he (Baker) has said at this point is that he wants Tom and me to undertake the transition,” said Cannon, who has most recently been vice-chairman of Baker's political action committee. Baker, after a weekend holiday in Bal Harbour, Fla., will move into the West Wing office of the chief of staff Monday. “He'll be here .. . and we're going to be wasting no time preparing for another two years of aggressive work,” the president said in his weekly radio address, delivered from the Oval Office. Reagan has two years left in his second four-year term. By law, he cannot seek re-election in 1988 for a third term. The president passed up his usual weekend visit to Camp David, the presidential hideway in the mountains of western Maryland, so that he could consult with advisers as he studied the report of the presidentially appointed Tower commission. “The board’s effort is a demonstration of my for safety reasons at the Alpine resort wooreet Tignes, the Chambery gendarmerie said. The dead soldier was identified by gendarmes only by his family name, Bouffard. The identities of the injuted were not released. Anniversary marked STOCKHOLM (REUTER) — Swedes marked the first ‘y of the ion of Prime Minister Olof Palme with_a series of solemn, low-key ceremonies Saturday. Focal point for the ceremonies, held in 150 towns and cities, was Palme’s grave in Adolf Fredrik Church in central Stockholm. Vagrant killed PARIS (AP) — A well-dressed man on a subway platform pulled a machete from his attache case and killed a vagrant with one stroke to the neck as dozens of horrified passengers looked on, police said Saturday. The killer calmly put the machete back in the attache case and fled without anyone trying to follow, said a police officer. Police said the vagrant, about 40 years old, was drunk and shouting insults at passengers in the station Friday. Actions proper WINNIPEG (CP) — Police did nothing wrong when they stopped a motorist for driving too carefully in 1984, the Manitoba Court of Appeal has ruled. In a unanimous ruling Friday, the court ruled the RCMP spot check and questioning of Leonard Victor, Nelson did not constitute arbitrary detention under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The court upheld his conviction on driving while suspended. Boy injured | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A riderless horse bolted during a pre-Mardi Gras parade, critically injuring a six-month-old boy. Fourteen other people suffered cuts and bruises in the accident, police said. The infant, Quentin Sanders of suburban Marrero, suffered head and internal injuries Friday, said doctors at Children’s Hospital, where he underwent abdominal surgery. Man sentenced NEW WESTMINSTER (CP) — A Burnaby man who videotaped his sexual assaults on two young girls was sentenced Friday by a county court judge in New Westminster to five years in prison. Judge William Selbie, passing sentence on Walter Vereecken, 63, said it was clear to him from his viewing of the videos the children lost all their innocence as a result of the assaults. Women jailed LONDON (AP) — Amnesty International said Friday it had adopted a jailed American chureh worker as “a prisoner of conscience.” Amnesty said the woman was imprisoned in Texas because of her humanitarian work for’ Salvadoran refugees. to find out what was wrong and ‘fix it,” he told his radio listeners Saturday. “I am still studying it and continuing to consult with members of my cabinet, the Congress ‘and other advisers. After a full evaluation, I'll speak to you again midweek about this issue in detail and about how we can move forward from here.” Reagan is expected to make a television address Wednesday or Thursday. ‘NO COMFORT’ Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina, delivering the Democratic response to Reagan's radio address, said Democratic-controlled Congress takes ‘no comfort from the disaster that has befallen theReagan administration” and is ready to move beyond the Iran-Contra affair. “Nothing is to be gained now from dwelling on the past; we stand anxious for a new start and a refreshed attitude.” But Sanford admonished the Reagan administration for straying from moral principles he said have defined the United States. _ The change in chiefs of staff came Friday. Don Regan ina letter to the pi after news of Baker's impending appointment was announced on television. The president said Saturday that Regan had indicated to him several months ago that he intended to leave. Alberta is wrong, lawyer charges FORGOTTEN . . . an old log cabin, overlooking the Pend d‘Oreille River just east of Trail, serves as a ; ‘ fading reminder of the areas original settlers. —CoatiewsPhote by Mike Koletniko: Poll reveals LONDON (AP) — A minority of Italian men see self-images educated, well paid and holding moderate ‘social themselves as hot-blooded Romeos and West Germans have the highest proportion of stylish adventurers, says a poll on self-image published Friday. The seven-country survey of 2,100 West European men aged 16 to 34 classified them into eight groups, from the settled, moderate “know-my-place” males who predominate in Italy and Switzerland, to directionless “nowhere-to-go” men found in biggest proportions in Spain and Britain. * The French, West Germans, Italians, British, Spanish, Swiss and Dutch have much in common, said researcher Adrian Wiztreich of the Association of Market Research Organizations. But certain characteristics appear more common in different countries and preconceptions of national traits are often wrong. The apparently stolid West Germans best fit the “Jack, the lad” category, with 15 per cent seeing themselves as adventurous, stylish and unreliable. These are young, single, chauvinistic men who dream of being rich, and while quite image-conscious, care little about their diet and drinking habits. The Italians are a close second with 14 per cent. But many Italians are far from being CaSanova-style adventurers. Forty-one per cent fit the “know-my-place” category, tending to be settled, low-income men with moderate views who prefer not to stand out. One in five Swiss also likes to keep a low profile. HIGHLY EDUCATED In the Netherlands, 54 per cent said they fit the “9-to-5” role, tending to be secure, middle-class, highly attitudes. They are satisfied at work, self-assured in social circles while not necessarily being dull or unambitious. Britain is a distant second with 14 aah cent of 9-to-5 men. Clusters of “the family man” are most prominent in France. These also are middle-class, settled men, but they tend to be traditionalist and lack ambition. The French are far ahead with 26 per cent, followed by the Swiss with 15 per cent. “Reach for the sky,” highly work-oriented, ambitious and aggressive men, account for 26 per cent of French. While image these men are relatively insecure and dissatisfied at work, have a troubled home life and are fairly sexist. “New Puritan” males are found largely in Switzerland (23 per cent) and West Germany (22 per, cent). Their careers are paramount and they're high earners, They're health Sonacious, cagetily thon savine. inseeure and. conformist. . - . Almost two of three Spanish men belong to the “rebel without a cause” or “nowhere to do” groups. The “rebels” are highly educated, disillusioned men with low aspirations and little concern for their health or image. Spain registers 27 per cent, with West Germany (11 per cent), Britain and France (both 10 per cent) next in line. Forty-one per cent of the Spaniards are students, factory workers or unemployed who believe they have “nowehre to go” in their jobs. The British recorded 23 per cent in that category. Volunteers offer aid HOUSTON (CP) — Volun. teer workers Rick Miller and immigration legislation was Kathy Granrose have been passed in November. doubled since strict new U.S. constantly interviewing Cen- A key measure will impose known on the streets here as secution if they return to “the ticket to Canada” be- their native countries, Gran- cause of the high number of rose said. people selected by the group | What happens to the re- EDMONTON (CP) — The Alberta government is per- secuting Jehovah's Witness- es with its laws permitting children to receive medical treatment against their par- ents’ will, a lawyer charged i family court Friday. Glen How, acting for Mi- chael and Colleen Killins of Peace River, Alta., said the laws ‘e aimed solely at Johovah’s Witnesses. The Killins have been fighting the province's child welfare branch for custody of their seven-week-old son Ry- an. He was born prematurely and received three blood transfusions after a child welfare worker took him away from his parents. The baby, still in an Ed monton hospital, weighs 2" pounds. Doctors gave the infant transfusions because he was too immature to produce his own red blood cells. Jeho- vah's Witnesses object to transfusions on religious grounds. Now the child welfare branch is applying in family court for temporary guard ianship of the child. How cited the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to sup- port his argument that people should be able to choose how to.trewat their children. TRIES SUBPOENA He tried to subpoena pro- vincial documents and offi- cials, ineluding Hospitals Minister Marvin Moore, in an attempt to support his charge of discrimination. Judge Ann Russell ruled the information irrelevant. She also rejected How's at- tempt to call Jehovah's Wit nesss whose babies he said died after receiving blood transfusions. How said he will appeal the two decisions in Court of Queen's Bench. Ken Cleall, lawyer for the child welfare branch, asked Michael Killins whether he would allow a blood trans: fusion rather than let his son die. After being asked sev. | times, Killins said, “I w 1 not accept a blood trns fusion. There is always a er. native treatment.” Dr. Robert Scherz, a pedi- atrician from Tacoma, Wash., said none of the three trans: fusions given Ryan Killins was necessary. He said doc tors could have used drugs instead. The hearing is expected to finish Monday. tral Americans seeking re- fuge in Canada and they have sore throats to prove it. Their job is to sift through hundreds of applications and do followup interviews with some of the estimated 115,000 Salvadorans and Guatemalans living illegally in this city ot single out the best bets as immigrants to Canada. They're volunteers, with Jubilee Partners, a private non-profit organization based in Georgia devoted to helping refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala get to Can- ada. Miller and Granrose said their workload has more than stiff fines and possible prison terms on employers who hire illegal immigrants, prompt- ing more illegals to eye Can- ada as an alternative home. They expect even brisker business now that Canada no longer automatically allows people from El Salvador and Guatemala to stay in the country if they arrive at the border Canada announced last week it was cancelling its policy of automatically per mitting entry to people from 18 countries regarded as pol- itically repressive, including several in Central America. The Jubilee program is who get admitted. The pair duo brushed off the street talk as an ex- aggeration, although Gran- rose recalls phone calls from people asking “if this where we pick up visas to Canada.” They have even had calls from unemployed Americans saying “I hear you guys are offering jobs in Canada.” They attribute their suc- cess rate to a close working relationship with the Can- adian consulate in Atlanta and the clear understandinjg of the criteria of gaining ac- ceptance to Canada. The bottom line is that ap- plicants must demonstrate a genuine fear of personal per- jected ones? A few go home, but most stay and worry. Many have taken their chances and gone to Canada, despite warnings Canada was about to tighten its refugee policy and they could be turned away. Ryan Karis, director of the Jubilee program, said from Comer, Ga., that he expects about 200 people to be ac cepted into'the program this year, the Same as last year. Karis said about 90 people have gone through the pro- gram since November. Not all have been accepted by Can: yet but most will be, he said confidently. Blacks must mobilize MIAMI (AP) Blacks must mobilize to head off an international resurgence of racism, the organizer of a confernce for black intell ectuals said Saturday. “People would make a very serious mistake if they thought this (racism) was a U.S. problem,” said Dr. Car los Moore referring to recent racial tension in Forsyth County, Ga., which has no black residents, and the death of a black youth hit by a car while being chased by whites in Howard Beach, N.Y. Moore a visiting professor in the anthropology and so- ciology department at Flor ida International University, made his remarks on thé final day of a symposium entitled Negritude, Ethnicity and Af- ro Cultures in the Americas. More than 1,000 people at- tended. “We feel a second holo caust similar to the one that befell all black people four centuries ago has again be come possible,” Moore said, referring to the slave trade and conquest of Africa. Blacks must organize to head off the danger, he said. “The need wasn't seen for this until recently when we started seeing the pinch of racism flaring up again in the world,” said Moore, a poli- tical ethnologist and special ist in international relations at the University of French West Indies. Prominent participants in. cluded former Senegal presi dent Leopold Senghor and French politician Aime Ces- aire, founders of Negritude, a movement that aims to des: cribe blacks’ identity and the need to understand their his. tory. Moore said it is time for blacks to unite or face serious trouble. He attributed the, resurgence in racism in part to blacks becoming more as- sertive. “The more blacks refuse the role of being subservient, the more they assert their difference . . . the more they are resisted by racists,” Moore said. Moor said Negritude in volves destroying the notion of a “melting-pot” idea and embracing the concept of singularity. “The melting-pot idea is the most destructive myth,” he said. “You don't get people to interrelate in a pot.”