33, Castlégar News October 15, 1986 Foreign adoption abuses increasing MONTREAL (CP) — Da vid and Marie, a childles: middle-aged Montreal couple, desperately wanted to adopt a baby from abroad but re fused to submit to Marcos. style corruption in the Phil lippes. In the late 1970s, the couple was twice turned down by officials of the gov: erment of president Ferdin- and Marcos, who fled his country late last month Filipino officials claimed the couple did not have enough money to care for a Filipino child The couple, who do not want their real names used, are both junior college tea about Filipino authorities later told them to “contribute” Women develop disorder CHICAGO (AP) - Bulimia occurs most often among young, upper middle-class women partly because of the pressure to do well that has built up since the feminist movement took shape, a psychologist in the United States says. Most of those suffering from bulimia — an eating disorder characterized by binge eating and purging — were born in the 1960s and grew up in a time of shifting cultural norms caused by the feminist movement, said Craig Johnson, co-author of a recent article in the Annals of Adolescent Psychiatry. The study's co-author was Karen Maddi, a research associate In an interview, Johnson said an estimated 95 per cent of bulimia patients in the United States are between the ages of 15 and 30, with 24 being the average age And although up to eight per cent of females in high school and college in the United States are estimated to have significant problems with bulimia, the figure is less than one per cent for men in high school and college, he said. The disorder is more com mon among middle-class women, he said, because feminism has been a preoc cupation of the upper and middle classes. thousands of dollars to a French-Canadian nun who ran an orphanage in the Philippines if they wanted to be able to adopt a Filipino child, said David. “We were put in a bidding war with a Belgian couple for one particular child.” But the couple would have no part of it, because they objected to children being “bought and sold.” The couple then turned to Peru but after two years of filling out forms and waiting, their contact person in that country stopped working and wasn't replaced. Finally, last fall, after a mountain of paperwork that had to be translated into Spanish, the couple picked up their baby in Guatemala: It had taken six years. Despite their ordeal, the pair, who were driven to look overseas because adoptive children are in short supply in North America, firmly be lieve international adoptions should be difficult and take time. “To adopt a child, the mo tiv: are very hard to de fii David said in an inter view “So a delay of one or two years is reasonable to allow couples to examine their mo tives It's a way of screening a couple.” Across Canada, as interna tional adoptions increase, adoption officials are increas ingly worried about whether current laws and practices provide adequate protection against’ abuses in foreign adoptions. There are no precise stat- isties about the number of international adoptions but officials estimate Canadians adopted 350 to 400 children from other countries last year, up from some 250 a decade ago. Quebecers account for about half of these. ~~ “Sure the number is in- creasing,” said Pat O'Brien, co-ordinator of the children's operation section for On. tario’s Ministry of Commun. ity and Social Services. “There are a lot of people going to South America, Po- land, Romania or wherever they can to get a child.” NUMBER INCREASING But the number of abuses of international adoption is also increasing. O'Brien said Ontario is considering ways of tighten. ing up international adoption rules after a few Haitian children were “dumped” at the Children’s Aid Society offices. They had been left there only a few days after they had arrived in Canada for adoption. In Ontario, officials do not necessarily have to get in volved in a foreign adoption not even to evaluate prospective parents, she said. Ontario's involve ment depends on the laws of the child's country of origin. Many other provinces have next to no experience with international adoptions. 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D'Arcy: It’s most unfortunate that the company is sold outside of Canada. 1 think it's tragic that neither the federal or provincial governments saw to put any rules or requirements in place when CP and Cominco announced over a year ago that they were going to sell it. Without any rules in place providing the purchaser in legitimate in this country anybody can buy it I hope that the new owners are going to make every effort to maintain the service and efficiency of the company, but there's always that uncertainty when you're owned outside of the country that they are not going to have the same concern that we would have if they were locally owned in British Columbia, and most importantly, locally owned her in the Kootenays. The Victoria government right now takes about 25 per cent of all West Kootenay revenues and all bills that are paid, it goes directly or Moore promises new team By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer Question: So far Premier Bill Vander Zalm has campaigned on style and little substance. Why should we trust him to do a better job than the New Democrats when he will not tell us what is in store? Moore: Mr. Vander Zalm is in the process of building a new team for the government of B.C. There are a great number of new candidates running in this election, out of them 20 to 22 of us are from the municipal field. Mr. Vander Zalm, I think, is displaying a lot of the criteria, a lot of the attributes of a leader. Question: How does your position on the sale of the WKPL mesh with the premier’s stand of hands off? Moore: I haven't heard them say that. I've had two meetings with the premier on that in the last six weeks. I haven't heard the premier say “hands off.” I have said it is entirely different to sell a renewable resource and to sell a finite resource. I have steadfastly said that. I think it should be looked into with a great deal of care. This is the very first time an electrical facility has even been contemplated to be sold. I haven't heard nor I have seen that policy set out by the govern ment Question: Can we afford the Socred policies which some claim will cost $3 billion (ie: the expanded CAMPAIGNING . . . Rossland-Trail New Democrat candidate Chris D'Arcy was out knocking on doors in Castlegar this week, one of whose was Frank Harvey's indirectly to taxes to the provincial government which perhaps is one of the reasons why the government did not want to see municipal ownership I feel that that's Kootenay money and Southern Interior money. really. Since it is a public resource and a public utility I think that it should stay Question: You apparently shifted your stand on the West Kootenay Power and Light sale. Why? MEETING LOCALS . . . Social osttewsPhoto by Chery! Coiderbonk D'Arcy: I don’t see that I made any shift on it at all. I said at the outset that I was opposed to sale outside the country and I had a concern about that. I also felt that the reality of the matter is that there were no rules set around it Question: Will educational fund ing be restored under an NDP government? D'Arcy: There've been major, major cuts in the educational continued on poge A2 5 Saga EET Credit candidate Audrey Moore arranges to have a sign delivered to Tennette Dechkoff and her son Christopher rapid transit to Vancouver Inter national Airport, the improved Vancouver Island highway and the natural gas pipeline to the island?) Moore: There is a fair number of people that live in the Richmond Surrey area. The rapid transit system will probably have to be extended out there eventually. The combination of the two populations is greater than that of Vancouver proper which is 400,000 people There is a user fee attached to any transit system. I don't know where the $3 billion dollars came from and I'm not in the position to analyze that figure. The highway up the island is in progress now. I'm well aquainted with the island and there are many municipalities there with only one way in and one way out. With more and more people living on the island, it’s a necessary infrastructure. It is my understanding that it (the continued on poge A2 Sterling sells off 10 B.C. daily newspapers By The Canadian Press TORONTO — Conrad Black's Hol. linger Inc. has expanded its holdings into the profitable low-rent end of the newspaper business with a $130. million purchase of 34 papers — 28 of them dailies — in Canada and the United States. The 13 Canadian papers — 10 dailies and three weeklies — involved in the deal were purchased from Sterling Newspapers Ltd company owned by Black and several Hollinger associates Sterling owns both the Trail Daily Times and Nelson Daily News, but it is not known if they were included in the deal. The deal includes the Lloydminster (Sask.) Times, the Summerside (P.E.I.) Journal Pioneer, and 11 small papers in of Vancouver, a British Columbia The U.S. papers are small, family. run operations in New York, Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. These papers are the backbone of the United States and Canada,” Charles Cowan, vice-president of Hol linger, said in an interview. Dixon Chant, a Hollinger director, said the purchase involves all but two of Sterling's papers, but neither he nor Cowan could immediately supply the names of all the papers purchased NO PRICE DETAILS Toronto-based Hollinger, which re leased a statement late Friday, did not provide a breakdown of the prices of the Sterling and U.S. groups Hollinger already owns a 58-per-cent interest in The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain's quality newspapers. It also ON EDUCATION Candidates stat By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer Audrey Moore and Chris D'Arcy were both guests at two seperate breakfast meetings hosted by the Castlegar District Teacher's Associa tion this week. Moore, the Social Credit candidate for Rossland/Trail, met with the group Tuesday morning and D’Arcy. the NDP candidate of Rossland/Trail, met with the group Thursday morning to hear concerns and give impressions regarding education Both small groups were made up of individuals representing the Castlegar board, Selkirk College teachers and area parents matters ranging from funding formulas to a royal commission on education School board chairman Kay Johnson said the district has received its funds school local They raised for excellence, but it's the allotment from the second year of a three-year funding program. She said the district is afraid it will miss the first year's funding Moore told Johnson the district will get whatever it has missed D'Arcy spoke up against the present government's attitude “It's most unfortunate that this he said. “I really district has had a delay suggest if the government wanted to make that money available to you they would have At both meetings. Johnson tioned her dissatisfaction with the province's proposed midterm enrol ment check: Such a process would see funds removed from the budget if a drop in enrolement is detected She added her fears were abated from the men. somewhat after reassurance education ministry that the midterm check will likely be eliminated Johnson then brought up tion of teachers and school having the right to strike he ques boards Moore requested more information on the idea But Johnson suggested receive full bargaining rights You realize, strikes would really teachers must disruption by really disrup families.” said Moore Karen Hughes, an area parent, said full bargaining rights for teachers do not bother her. “I don't think that (a strike) would happen,” she said, adding that she is an optimist I'm not saying that collective bar gaining is the answer,” said Johnson has cable holdings in Los Angeles, left over from its sale of Standard Broad casting Corp. last year Expanding into small was the best strategy available to the company, considering management ex pertise in the area and the industry's capacity to generate high profits, Black, Hollinger’s chairman and chief executive officer, said in the statement The acquired newspapers generally enjoy monopolies in the areas where they are published and are largely insulated from the ups and downs of local economies, Black said Hollinger, Black's holding company, started out as a mining company, but in recent years has been in a state of flux. At various times, its major business has been grocery stores and oil and gas production newspapers main e views “But I am saying something should be done D'Arcy said teachers should have the same responsibilities as anyone else “Teachers don't want to go on strike any more than any other working or professional group.” he said. “The question is, should teachers and sc hool boards be treated any differently than someone working in a mill or on cor struction or even your own CUPE employees?” Jim Howard, a Selkirk College in structor, told the candidates he is con funding formula for colleges and its drastic effect of Selkirk Moore cerned with the province's that the formula is not appropriate. There has to be far more flexible funding because of the special situation of our college.” she said. “Things should be with the proper ministry for a more specific look at our agreed funding done needs D'Arcy told the group that continually working in Victoria to have he is the funding formula changed If we had been held to their funding formula that someone has pulled out of a computer,” he said. “We would have continued on pege A3