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You also may obtain copies of CRTC public documents by. contacting the CRTC at: Ottawa / Hull (619) 997-0313, Halifax (902) 426-7997; Montreal (514) 283.6607; Winnipeg (204) 983-6306; Von. couver (604) 666-2111 Superpowers: agree to cut forces Earlier in the day, six major coun- Briefly MPs warn Wilson TORONTO (CP) — Backbench MPs in the Conservative caucus are warning Finance Minister Michael Wilson that Canadians have had enough tax increases, reports the Financial Post. In a dispatch from Ottawa, the newspaper said the tough stance in the Tory caucus réflécts a public mood of ‘‘tax fatigue’’ with more and Economy still in shackles CP News Analysis By WARREN CARAGATA Fresh Daily From Our In-Store Bakery CRUSTY There’s little difference between them, except that Gastronoms are sometimes bigger. They carry pretty Canada CAKE OTTAWA (CP) — The Soviet Union and United States broke a Men's & Lidies “Regular Priced FRAMES With Prescription all Ox — CHIL FRAMES & LE 2-Yr. Warranty on Frames starting at Trail Optical 1490 Cedar Ave., Trail, B.C. 364-2911 lengthy logjam-in-conventional-arms reduction talks Tuesday by agreeing to deep cuts in the size of their forces in Central Europe. And on the same dramatic day, a i ry was d that will bring closer the goal of a unified Germany after 45 years of division into a capitalist West and a communist East. Under the military agreement, the two superpowers will limit themselves to 195,000 ground and air personnel each in the central European zone. The United States will be permitted to continue basing 30,000 traditional troops in other areas such as Italy, Greece and Britain. The announcement was made after a private meeting between U.S. State Secretary James Baker and .Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet foreign minister. “The agreement on manpower overcomes one of the most important obstacles to a conventional forces in Europe treaty and provides additional impetus to reach an agreement this year,’ External Affairs Minister Joe Clark told del to the 23- tries agreed to-a-two-stage process that will almost certainly lead to the unification of East and West Ger- many. The so-called ‘‘Two plus Four for- mula’’ was adopted by the two Ger- man states and the four powers that occupied Germany at the end of the Second World War — France, Britain, the United States ‘and the Soviet Union. It calls for discussions among the six countries on ‘‘external aspects of ghe establishment of German unity, including the issues of security of the neighboring states.’’ Once that is achieved, the six coun- tries will then start discussions on such questions as the new Germany's military borders, its relationship with NATO and the European Community and its expected renouncement~ of nuclear and chemical weapons. fn endorsing the formula, the {Soviet Union implied it will no longer press for a guarantee the new Ger- many will be a neutral state, not aligned |with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Meanwhile in Bonn, West German ¢C Helmut Kohl and East country Open Skies conference. The agreement is basically the same as one proposed by U.S. President George Bush on Jan. 31. At present, 325,000 U.S. troops face 560,000 Electrolux Central Vacuum System TLO $59999* | Available For Only LOWEST PRICE EVER! ! 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Fighting JOHANNESBURG (CP) — Nelson Mandela consulted with frien- ds and colleagues today on developing Strategies for —dealing with South Africa's white-minority government and stepping up efforts to seek the abolition of apartheid. Aides said Mandela would spend a quiet day at his modest home in SENIORS TAKE NOTE! Now is the time to renew your Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS*) Renewal application kits have been mailed to everyone who receives the Guaranteed Income Supplement. If you have already returned your return your renewal application in the self- addressed envelope by March 31, 1990. If you did not receive your renewal kit, or if you want German Premier Hans Modrow agreed to begin negotiations on making the West German mark the official currency of East Germany. If that happens, it will immediately help the badly damaged East German economy as-well as help bring the two states closer together. - A partial agreement on Open Skies was also announced in Ottawa, which will set the stage for an agreement likely to be signed by the 23 countries at a May meeting in Budapest. reported as Mandela rests ‘ Soweto, resting and meeting with associates to discuss strategy. The 71-year-old black nationalist leader was a little tired after the enormous. reception he received Tuesday from tens of thousands of blacks on his return to the black townships of Soweto outside Johan- nesburg after 27 years in prison, they said. Police, meanwhile, reported a major new outbreak of fighting bet- ween rival black factions in Cape province had left at ‘least nine people dead. Scores of houses were burned down in fighting between anti-apar- theid groups and conservative black forces, police said. Police squads using tear gas, rubber bullets and shotguns were trying to quell the unrest at Kwanobuhle. Major unrest was also repotted in Natal province on the east ogast and the government said troops would be deployed to halt black factional fighting. Mandela has condemined black- against-black violenee, saying it weakens the fight against apartheid, the system of instituionalized racism that denies the country’s blacks a say in national affiars and forces them to live in segregated districts. Mandela and his family spent the night at the modest four-room house in Soweto that the black leader has rented for decades. more MPs being told by their constituents that there’s no more room for tax increases, Since coming to power in 1984, the Tories under Wilson have gone to the taxpayer 32 times for tax increases — either on income-or through sales tax increases — or through increased fees for government services. During its six years in power, the current government has boosted its revenue by 70 per cent. Davis inquest slated MONTREAL (CP) — A coroner’s inquest into the death of Olym- pic champion Victor Davis, 25 — struck by a car and killed outside a suburban bar on Nov. 13 — will open on April 2. Coroner Pierre Trahan, who will preside over the proceedings, said the hearings would last until April 4. Coroner’s inquests investigate violent or suspicious deaths and produce recommendations on how similar deaths could be prevented. Davis rose to the top of the swimming world when he won a gold medal and set a world record in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Bodies recovered BANFF, Alta. (CP) — Four cross-country skiers from Calgary, lost in an avalanche Sunday in Banff National Park, may have stopped in a patch of trees to have a sandwich when disaster struck, says a park warden. The bodies of Clara Coombes, 56, and Verne Powell, 49, were found Tuesday beneath the snow. The search was to resume today for the bodies of Charles Coombes, 55, and Charlie Lorenzo, 57. “There is zero possibility of anybody surviving now,’’ Auger said. ‘We're recovering victims.’” The force of the avalanche snapped thick tree trunks like mat- chsticks and turned the wooded Healy Creek valley into a barren, snow- covered landscape. Perrier drought expected TORONTO (CP) — Consumers shouldn’t expect to see Perrier water on store shelves for at least two months, says the Canadian com- pany that imports the bottled water. “We'd be lucky to be back im business by My president of Toronto-based Perrier Group of Col Tuesday. De Vries said Source Perrier SA, the French parent, needs that much time to dispose of the tainted stock, bottle fresh, uncontaminated water and ship it to Canada. However, Perrier SA is reported to have said that bottling has resumed and shipments to the United States may be out shortly. Perrier subsidiaries in Canada and the United States yanked the trendy mineral water from distribution on Saturday after some bottles were found-to-contain-benzene,a-dry-cleaning-solvent. The Japanese distributor followed suit Tuesday. Winds blow oil ashore HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — High winds and rough we blew ashore today a gooey black tide from an oil spill, halting cleartup efforts as officials feared shoreline workers might get swept to Frank-de Vries, panies Inc., said Officials tripled the size of cleanup crews to 1,120 as the worst ac- cumulation of crude oil from last week's spill swept onto many kilometres of beach. But treacherous seas, with waves up to two metres high, brought a nighttime halt to cleanup efforts that had been around the clock since just after the 1 '4-million-litre spill from the tanker American Trader. Crews were sent home Tuesday as high tide approached and on- shore winds began gusting to 50 kilometres an hour, said U.S. coast guard Lieut. Richard Booth. Captain notified ANCHORAGE (AP) — The third mate in control of the Exxon Valdez said Tuesday that seconds before the tanker went aground, he called skipper Joseph Hazelwood to tell him the vessel was ‘‘getting into serious trouble."” The message was interrupted by a crash, Gregory Cousins testified at Hazelwood’s trial. Cousins and a helmsman, Robert Kagan, were at the wheel when the 300-metre tanker ran aground on Bligh Reef, spilling more than 40 million litres of North Slope crude in the United States’ worst oil spill KGB admits to executions MOSCOW (AP) — More than 750,000 people were executed as enemies of the state in the Soviet Union from 1930-53, the KGB state- security police said in a report Tuesday. The figure doesn’t include those who died in labor camps and prisons but it is the first time the KGB has given a figure for those executed during the period when the late Josef Stalin led the country. Under President Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, government com- missions and the KGB have been ordered to find the truth about the Stalin era and rehabilitate the victims. MOSCOW (CP) — Lena comes out of a food Store in the city’s west end with a cabbage, eggs, a cake and a frown. DId she get what she wanted? “Of course not.’ ~ What couldn't she find? “Everything. I can't find food for my child and I can’t buy anything I really need.’’ She had wanted to ANALYSIS buy meat and cheese and sausage but didn’t because what was on sale wasn’t any good. Not only that, but service is so bad ‘‘you leave the shop being upset President Mikhail Gorbachev promised his citizens this week that the Communist party would give up its monopoly of power, clearing the way for a multiparty political system. But while G ig C control from political life, little has been ¢ done since he came to power five years ago to free the economy from its Communist shackles. Ang, the few changes there have so far been little felt by Soviet consumers. About the most tangible benefit is the right to buy McDonald's hamburgers at one restaurant in Moscow. The Soviet economy is marked by gigantic trusts unfettered by competition, prices that are minutely controlled, rigid planning, control. by ministries in Moscow, a broken-down infrastructure, and a system of foreign trade that despite reform is still managed by Moscow. The Produkti food store near the Molodozhnaya metro is just like all the others in the city. Food shops come in two flavors here — Produkti and Gastronom. * beef sit on an unrefrigereated counter. There’s carrots, much the same range of goods and all are run by the Moscow city council. This one has eggs and baloney. Hunks of fatty onions, garlic, cabbages and pickled tomatoes from Hungary. There’s bread and one kind of cheese and milk and sour cream and butter and margarine and not a lot else. There’s sugar, but ration coupons are required. There’s no fruit, but Lena says she can buy ap- plies through the order department where she works. While Lena shops, Alexei stands outside with their three-month-old daughter, Yulia. He's all for a multiparty system because it could help push the country toward a solution of its many problems but he wishes Gorbachev would spend more time dealing with economic problems. “*We have no real owners,’’ he said. *‘Every fac- tory, every enterprise, should have a real owner.” Isn’t that capitalism? “*So whi Nikolai is a factory worker from Saratov in the Volga region outside Moscow. He’s on holiday and has-come to Red Square and is watching the changing of the guard outside Lenin’s tomb. “*Everybody knows the economic situation is in a crisis,’’ he said. ‘‘Without strengthening the economy, these debates (about politics) are just a waste of time.’” The program adopted by the Central Committee this week has not yet been published and while party officials have said it also deals with economic reforms, few details have been provided But Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov said in December the government intends to proceed slowly with fun- damental changes in the way the economy works. Price reform will be put off until next year and new prices will be-phased in over two years. Obstacles remain to creating one Germany WEST BERLIN (AP-CP) — The Ottawa agreement on German unification provides the decisive in- ternational acceptance for a process already well under way inside the two neighboring countries. From business ventures to television programming and vacation travel, the two states have been coming closer together in bandrada of ways each day. “‘What belongs together will grow together,” former West German chancellor Willy Brandt is fond of saying. And Germans in both east and west have accepted the inevitability of a rapid unification since the Berlin Wall opened Nov. 9. “Socialism and capitalism can no more be united than fire and water,’ then-East German leader Erich Honecker said during a 1987 visit to Bonn. While much of what the now- disgraced hard-liner did and said has been ridiculed, there may be a good deal of truth in his metaphor. East German industry is a product of heavy-handed central planning. West Germans say that leads to inef- ficiency and slowness to change. Most East Germans are also_ac- customed to a cradle-to-grave socialism that up until very recently has left very little to individual choice. Meshing the economies will be a daunting task and will cost billions FOR YOUR HEALTH Planning a Serious obstacles remain in making a single country. From an_ inter- national standpoint, the most serious may be the military stance of a united Germany. Soviet President Mikhail Gor- bachev has said NATO membership is “not acceptable,’’ the official East German news agency ADN said. And also stressed discussions about unification ‘‘will also include the questions of security of neighboring ‘states.”* Still mindful of the horrors of the Nazi aggression, East Germany’s Ci are seeking that conservatives in Bonn have no designs on former lands that now belong to Poland. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said his country has no intention of seeking to regain any lands that were part of pre-Second World War Germany. The Ottawa agreement sets the stage for the first redrawing of European_national boundaries since the Second World War. It was a step that only recently many had never ex- pected could happen. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV . NATO “not acceptable” many agreed to a two-stage process for unification. The so-called “two plus four for- mula”’ calls for discussions among the six countries on ‘‘external aspects of the establishment -of-German unity, including the issues of security of the neighboring states.” ' The six countries will also discuss the new Germany's borders, its relationship with NATO and the European Community and its expec- ted renouncement of nuclear and chemical weapons. Internally, there are still num- berous questions to be answered. of dollars. West Germany has one of the most efficient economies in the world, but East Germany’s economy has been going downhill since the 1960s. West Germany has strict factory safety measures and a vocal Greens party to help enforce environment Much of y East Germany is an ecological night- mare. Other problems loom as well. 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