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The cecal Sun

Wednesday, March 20, 1991

Valley trying to raise funds by. -
raising pulses dancing for heart

‘This Saturday the theme behind ;

to get involved in this fun day,”

the Slocan Valley R
Commission’s Dance For Heart
fund raising event is aerobics...acr-
obics.,, and more aerobics as an
excess of thirty people will partici-
pate in raising funds for the B.C.
Heart and Stroke Foundation.

‘The aerobics dance exercise will
be held at the Mount Sentinel
School Gymnasium from 10 a.m,
to 1 p.m, and will focus on promot-
ing cardiovascular fitness,

“We are encouraging everyone *

says phany Dean,
instructor in the Slocan Valley,
“We're asking people to pick up
pledge sheets from myself or the
Recreation Office in advance, and
to urge their friends and relatives to
sponsor them, The whole idea is to
get people out for a half day of
exercise, and at the
money for a worthy cause.”
There's lots of varicty aimed at
keeping everyone occupied said
Stocan Valley Recreation Commis-

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sion Co-ordinator, Mark Ritchie,
“Besides having moderate ond
low impact acrobics workouts,
we'll also include dancing, and
weather permitting, maybe even a
game of soccer or softball. But no
matter what we do, the focus is on
fun and participation.”
Participants will vie for various
prizes donated by local merchants
will be :

ments for all the participants. :

Everything is a go for this wor-
thy fun day this Saturday. To get
your pledge sheets, or for more
info contact: Stephany, Dean at
359-7759 or the Slocan Valley
Recreation Office at 226-7744 or .
226-7778.

Members of Beta Sigma
Phi, Xi Gama Rho donated
$500.00 to Castleview
Care Centre. The donation
is designated for the pur-
chase of pictures for the
main area of the new inter-
mediate care facility in
Castlegar. Seen here mak-
ing the cheque presenta-
tion is Linda Swanson, left,
President of the Chapter,
Shirley Fox, middle, Ser-
vice Coordinator and
Dianne Ramage, Adminis-
trator of Castleview Care
Centre. As part of their
evening program, the
Chapter members recently
foliowed up their donation
with a tour of the new facili-
ty which is scheduled to
open mid-April, Prot subcitted

Organizers
& F
with turnout

Organizers of the Nutritional
Fun Run held last weekend, were
pleased with the 200 people who
participated in the event.

Carol Tickner, organizer of the
run said, that she would like to
thank all the sponsors and people
who contributed in making this
year's rally a success and that she
is looking forward to sceing every-
one next year.

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groups and sponsors for contribut-
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Tickner also wanted to thank the
Royal Air Cadets, The Castlegar
Sun, Trail Daily Times, and KBS
Radio Network.

She reminds all those who par-

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be airing the Fun Run in the near
future,

Gorbachev’ S

Moscow (SNS) - President
Mikhail G

gamble of putting his vision of a
looser Soviet Union to the people
appeared to have backfired Monday,
‘Preliminary results of Sunday" ‘8
hational referendum, the first in the
country’s history,

al unity 4 and of an
his p which, in aaa
months, has moved steadily towards
the orthodox Conimunist camp,

To compound his problems,
results of a supplementary question
in the Russian Federation will

d Mr.

Gorbachev would fall short of the

unequivocal mandate he has des-

perately sought for his vague plans
© keep the nation together,

»' Despite a heavy vote of support

in more remote regions, his overall

majority is unlikely to exceed 70

per.cent.
1 He failed in his two main aims of
achieving a demonstration of nation-

War warning as Serbia deserts

BELGRADE (SNS) - Serbia’ 's

Mooday removed the republic’s last
member from Y1 st 's state

the p of Mr,
Boris Yeltsin, his rival. :

In Russia, which contains more
than half the Soviet population, a
huge majority was said to have
voted for direct elections for the
presidency, This would make Mr.

’s job almost
Mr Yeltsin is now set for a show-
down with conservatives next
week when he is likely to push for

Possible civil war.
Leaders from the country’s four
peas eraivior ra republics Monday

presidency, driving the entire nation
into deeper political paralysis,

Communist delegates endorsed
the ousting of Mr Riza Sapunxhia,
an ethnic Albanian representative
from the southern Kosovo
province.

He was accused of “open sup-
port of Separatist stands at Ser-
bia’ 's expense”,

Despite uncertainty over the
legality of the move - Mr Sapunx-
hia was chosen by the Kosovo
parliament which Serbia forcibly
suspended last July - his imminent
departure leaves the eight-man
presidency without a quorum.

| The emergency vote came as the

ining four mem-

their willingness to
resume talks on the future political
order of the troubled federation.

But they expressed concern
that Serbia, the biggest rep

a quick presi
The five sere of f Central
Asia, populous, economically back-
ward, politically inert and a different
world to cosmopolitan Moscow,
Produced astonishing data in favor
of union,

The contrast with | major cities,
the radicals’ could not

gam abl

e fails with voters :

and 90 per cent in favor of an elect:
ed president,

Ina further sign of the threat
Posed by workers in key energy sec-
tors, the Tyumen oil region gave a
very muted 53 per cent backing to
union,

The Ukraine, the second most

have been greater, In Moscow, the

vote was 50-50, with a low 65 per -

cent tumout. In Kiev, 56 per cent
voted against the union ‘plan,

although in Leningrad 70 per cent °

voted in favor.

Unsurprisingly, Sverdlovsk, Mr
Yeltsin's home town, voted 66 per
cent against Mr. Gorbachev's plan

the army high command on Friday.

"The presidency cannot.be
happy with the complete lack. of
communication with the general
staff in the last two days,” he said.

There. are still conflicting
Teports over a possible split
and Commu-

was trying to obstruct federal
agencies to provoke the Serbian-
dominated military to fill the
Political vacuum. “All those. who
don’t show up for the presidency
session will be held

nist hardliners in the Serbian-dom-
inated officer corps which might
have forestalled a martial iaw
solution in the country.

Serbia’s abrupt desertion of the

before their own nation’ and the
world because the only alternative
to continuing dialogue is war,”
said Mr Milan Kucan, president of
Slovenia. “We are at the edge.
The army must pull back (from
any confrontation),” said Mr Vasil
Tuporkovski, presidency repre-

bers called for an urgent meeting
this Thursday of federal leaders and
heads of the six republics to find an

im the southem repub-

lic of Macedonia,
But be underlined concem over
an unexplained severing of contact

11th-hour iP ise to pull
Yugoslavia back from the brink of

Canada

the p and the
army since a reported meeting of

along with Cc

Montenegro, followed their failure
to obtain support for army plans to
mobilize troops to disarm local mili-
tias in the breakaway western
republics and to prop up central
nie.

Serbia’s

Pp republic, voted far more
convincingly for its own supple-
mentary question for a fully
sovereign state within the Soviet
Union than for Mr. Gorbachev's
‘watered-down version.

‘The faimess of the results, which
will need several days to collate,
‘may be open to doubt in some
areas, In the Baltic republics, where

presidency

A local council in the self-pro-
claimed Serb region of Krajina
voted to secede from the republic
of Croatia.

the republican govemments boy-
cotted the referendum, local Com-

munist Party groups set up polling
booths | for members of the Russian

being able to vote up to 10 times.

Voters in the Kuriles rejected
the idea that their four islands,
seized by the Russians in 1945, be
handed back to Japan. The issue,
which has prevented a peace treaty
with Japan from being signed, is
likely to be the focal point of a visit
to Tokyo by Mr. Gorbachev next
month,

Mr. Gorbachev will seek to argue
that he obtained the simple majority
needed, both overall and in each of
the republics that had taken part.

The message was drummed
home Monday by state television
which spoke of an overwhelming
majority for union and ignored the
separate Russian and Ukrainian
questions,

Yet, however hard he and his

Citing fears of “pog
against the Serbian minority in
Croatia,” Serb activists in Knin
said their move would be followed
by 11 other predominantly Serbian
districts.

the results,
Mr. Gorbachev ‘Might privately be
tuing his experiment with democ-
racy, In terms of popular Support
‘be must have long ago written off
the peoples of Lithuania, Latvia,

Estonia, Georgia, Armenia and

Moldavia who did not take part in ‘;
the vote, Each is making concerted *
moves towards full inde;

But even in the Russian heart-
land, his vote is slipping away. A

i

few years ago no Russian would *

have dreamed of voting against the
union.
Putting on a brave face, Mr.

‘. Gorbachev will probably press on

with his Union Treaty, part of a
Dew constitution devolving limited
Powers to the centre, while holding
on to the real power in Moscow.

He will make.no real progress,
however, until he addresses the
demands of the republics. Opti-
mists suggest he might rediscover
some of the radicalism of his early
years. But he would have to bury
his pride and seek a modus vivendi
with Mr. Yeltsin, while somehow
placating the party, the military
and the KGB.

‘The referendum also takes Mr,

.Gorbachev no further towards

dealing with his other crisis: the
economy. More trouble is in ‘store
at the start of April when prices of
some basic foodstuffs will more

Soviet troops seize Lithuania’s defence minister

MOSCOW (SNS) - Moscow's
“black beret" Interior Ministry
troops seized Lithuania’s defense
minister, Mr Audrius Butkevicius,
Monday. He was freed, apparently
on Moscow's orders, 12 hours
later and was reported to be

Mr Slobodan Milosevic, said at the
weekend that his republic would no
longer obey federal ity and

unhurt, According to a L

deputy interior minister, the inci-
dent “was a a misunderstanding”.
‘ius’s driver

ordered a call-up of police reservists
to guard against possible unrest in
Muslim regions in the south of the
republic and in Kosovo.

Links between trade accord and polls

CUERNAVACA, Mexico (SNS)

A: Canadian lawmaker in Mexi-
0 to monitor local elections said:
Monday I he will lobby against a

view several incidents had cast

doubt on the elections’ faimess.
The most serious incidents,

which Gibeault and his fellow

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Trade Agreement until the Mexican
government demonstrates its demo-
ctatic legitimacy.

® Gerry Gibeault, an Edmonton
legislator from the left-leaning New
Democratic Party, was one of four

Canadians invited by Mexico's
Sent: left rT if

arty (PRD) to observe Sunday’s
elections in the central state of
Morelos,

. After 7ig-70gging his Way across
the d

heard about second-hand, included
the alleged buming of ballots in
some areas immediately after polls
closed and the trucking in of voters
from outside the state.

He said residents of the small
town of Atlatlahucan had told him of
20 people being beaten and dragged
off by plainclothes police for protest-
ing that they could not vote.

Institutional Revolutionary Party
@RI Officials could not be reached
for i di but the

al state that | was an opposition
stronghold in July 1988

tuling Day's § 'S ae have said
were

for Pi

was still Eins acne and his car
was impounded.

The reappearance of the black
berets on the streets of a Baltic
capital may signal increased pres-
sure exerted by Moscow on the
republic, which declared indepen-
dence a year ago.

After refusing to hold Sunday’s
referendum on the future of the
Soviet Union, Lithuania could

d ion from

Cane Salinas said the observers had,..,

no right to talk about electoral fraud.
“especially without the arguments
and proof to support their claims.”

Nevertheless, Gibeault said Sun-
day's elections appeared to back up
allegations he had heard in the past
of vote-rigging by the PRI and
appeared to showcase serious demo-
cratic shortcomings in Mexico.

“I'm going to share these find-
ings with various federal and
provincial colleagues,” he said.

"Given the ci I

have exp a

local forces answering to Moscow,
Since last autumn bomb explo-
sions have increased tension in all
the Baltic capitals. The latest blast
happened outside a military build-
ing in Vilnius, last week.

No-one has been injured in the
blasts and both sides blame the
other for the bombings.

A black beret unit stormed the
Latvian Interior Ministry in Jan-
uary, killing five people.

A few days earlier, 14 people

think it would be a good idea to put
this continental free trade agree-
ment on hold until after August to
determine that the goverment that
Mexico is in fact a legiti-

elections, Gibeault said in an inter-

VICTORIA {SNS} The Human
Rights Council has told Fletcher
Challenge it was wrong to bar an
Indian immigrant from a mill job
because his lack of English posed
asafety hazard.

HRC member Eric Powell has
ordered Fletcher Challenge to pay
Harvinder Singh Grewal $2,000
in compensation for the “bhumilia-
tion” of repeated job rejections on
the basis of his race.

"Mr. Powell equated language
‘with race, and followed past HRC
Jedgements i in cases where mills

Lack of English no | problem

that posted safety regulations and
all communications were in

mate government ...

The process that we have seen
here has certainly raised my doubt
about that.””

Key mid-term elections are to be
beld in Mexico in August. Gibeault

Petro-Canada
to sell refinery
in Taylor, B.C.

OTTAWA (SNS) - The National
Energy Board has issued an order
Inc. to

said the poll could fuel widesp

English. In several
with personnel officers in 1988,

_ Mr. Grewal was unable to answer

any questions put to him in that

language, but repeated “I’m a very

hard worker. I work very hard.”
‘Chal defe

to the proposed trade
agreement - which | would link the
economies of Canada, the United
States and Mexico in the world’s
largest tariff-free zone - if fraud, or
even serious allegations of it,

itself from the charge of racial dis-
crimination by citing some 21
East Indian employees at the mill
where Mr. Grewal sought employ-
ment.

Sin to Mr. Powell, these were
“who

appli-
¢ants for safety reasons have

waived these during Pp

shortages.
. Fletcher Challenge had argued

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the C

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died, some crushed under tanks,
when Soviet paratroopers seized
the television tower in Vilnius.

Soon afterwards, Mr Butkevi-
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hefty fortifications to defend the
republic’s parliament from possi-
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This year, military patrols have

been roaming the streets of Vil-
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Points, asking to see papers, and
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"It’s an indication of how free
the military feel themselves.to be
on the streets,” a spokesman for
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