ey Pe SANA oy By Sleaneaua TANDORY ies. The it Sun ‘staff writer ‘i, For 'a’ group of new students at olkirk College the Castlegar campus is‘a long way from home ‘them home is in Singapore, - 8 Kong and Other parts of Sisters Tracy and Eileen Chong,’ 18 ‘anid 20 years'old, ‘are Among .a: group of 16 newly “arrived Students from Asia to ‘begin school in the winter semester, « They?re’among 90 students from ‘Asia who live and study in Castlegar. * And since English is the offi- “cial language in Singapore, they've settled right to their stud- des — of business administration, both 1 to inve at a uni- paid $400 a month per student to provide meals and do the student's laundry, “Families really enjoy the experience,” she pointed out. “That is something that people find very rewarding.” More Homestay families are necded all the time, said Archam- bault. ‘Although most Asiatic students do take advantage of the program, the Chong sisters and Calvin Wong chose instead to rent a place of their own, All three arrived in Castlegar before Christmas, ahead of the larger group, and were lucky enough to find an apartment after a week-and-a-half of house hunting. These students are very i with the availability of verity in in Vancouver after a year Sar Tracy, Castlegar offers a "Welcome change from distractions Of a busy social life in Queen- ‘stown, her hometown in Singa- pore, “There are a lot of discotheque there,” she said, “a lot of enter- tainment. It’s a shopping par- sais.” PPIng P ay Here, she admires the moun- ‘tains because, she says, “we have ; “Ho mountains at all.” Calvin Wong, 25, another Sin- small rental housing. “We don’t hive such houses,” said Tracy. “All buildings are very tall and and the apartments are very expensive. The Singapore student noted that private homes such as are abundant in Castlegar are “considered private property” and priced out of reach, “It is getting more populated and more crowded,” she said of her small island country home. Singapore Population is only 2.6 million but is receiving immigra- tion from the nearby Hong Kong of Rapore student from Q ‘finds the air cleaner and clearer in 1. “This is a better environment,” be noted. “Two skiing trips are planned hoe the international students by ‘Philomena Archambault, coordi- ‘ator of the H changes 4 in 1997 when Hong Kong will become part of the Commu- nist China, A student from Hong Kong, Ryan Lai, said 29,000 people left Hong Kong for Singapore in the last year. Ryan, 19, is here to families are, from Singapore. ' “Generally ‘we've been ‘secing an increase ‘all along,” says John ‘Amnstrong,’ department head of popenrieret Education at Selkirk: e've. talking about a ‘goal of 100 students,” ‘adding that, with 90. now, the goal has been nearly. program. ‘started in the fall of qos, with six students from Hong Kong. It has four English instructors, for stadents— mainly from Japan — who aren't fluent in: bh. : ‘ “Ie has given the college a more international flavor,” said Armstrong. ; At Selkirk, Asiatic students attend regular classes: with local students, But they pay more. 6. jj; The current fee increase pro- posal the college is now seeking will have set basic student fees for. intemational ‘students — in uni- versity transfer, prep and English’, as a second language courses — at. - $2,500 per semester, compared to the proposed $886 per semester, for Canadian students who are now paying $826 in fees. - But the students from Asia still find it a bargain. Jessica Sung from Hong Kong says the fees here are “quite the Same” as those charged by English schools in her country. “But they don't give a good edu- cation,” she noted. Most students have found Selkirk College through an agency referral, - Amnstrong says the college. receives queries and applications from allover the world now and then, for the past three years. ; Archambault’s job is to place students with Castlegar fami- fies for the duration of their stud- study b and is f ing to stay four or five years in Canada. But unlike many young people from his country in search of a new home in the west, he intends to retum to Hong Kong. International education at Selkirk is profitable for the college and Selkirk President Leo Perra and other college officials have made numerous trips to Asia to attract students. At present, the intemational students come from Ityou have something to sell Phone 365-7848 : , we had several applications form Kuwait,” he said, but we never saw those stu- dents. We accepted them but they never came.” ‘GUN STAFF PHOTO / Barbara Tandory International students from Selkirk College enjoy a meal in'a Canadian restaurant. There are 90 international students enrolled at the college now, duet ten shy of the goal of an even: 100. FIRE DESTROYS HOME An Ootischenia man is homeless following a fire that completely destroyed his rental house last night. Larry Dow was at his job at.the airport when the blaze began and ‘he lost everything in the fire. A boat that belongs to Mark Schicker, the owner of the premises, was towed to safety by neighbors. RCMP were called to the incident at 8:15 p.m. There is no fire protection service in Ootischenia and the house and contents burned to the ground as helpless spec- tators watched. There were no injuries in the incident. More details and Photos in the next edition of the Castlegar Sun. 7- i ( INFO '91 The representatives of UBC, UVic, the Faculty of Education.at UBC, the Faculty of Education at UVic, SFU, BCIT, Cariboo __. College and Selkirk College Counsellors will be avallable to the general public in the:- Main Lounge, Selkirk College, Castlegar Campus, to discuss programs, admission requirements and procedures: THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 : 9p.m. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 9 ~.11:30 a.m. EIN {j—— CASTLEGAR CAMPUS : 2 Box 1200, Castlogar, B.C, VIN 3)1 — 365- 7292 Y By NANCY LINGLEY Sun Editor There were 3,122 vehicles hours during the 1990/1991 Christ- mas CounterAttack Campaign that Denise & Greg from all of us at :-The numbers.are impressive..:.1\.:.,and seven. auxiliary checked in ten roadblocks over 25... 1DS810 659. Canon FAXPHONE 15 © Auto dialing © 12 number memory © local copy function and more COMPUTER WORK STATION Desk, hutch and printer stand. Oak finish. Easy assembly. 139.8 = set include G.S.T. Prices do not Letter size RECYCLED FILE FOLDERS Legal size |. GOOSENECK. 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However, none of the motor vehicle accidents involved alcohol. A total of 13 charges under the Code and Motor Vehicle Act were written up and 59 written - warnings were issued. “Tt was quite cold,” said Cpl. David 1 Day of the Castlegar RCMP of the C : ey “But I can’t say it was dif- ferent than any other year. There ‘was probably less. traffic because of the weather. We had ten ic roadblocks not including the Nelson Highway Patrol: They float around and Put one up whenever they feel like it.” Day added that there will be a provincial speeding campaign: Aug. 24 - Sept. | 6, ‘which will pass the back. period. The Spring C Baker on peace mission w with Bush letter to Sat ‘LONDON,’ Reuter - Secretary of : State James' Baker said Sunday he would deliver a letter to Iraqi Pres- ident Saddam Hussein Wednesday from President Bush bluntly wam- ing of war in the Persian Gulf but promising not to attack Iraq if it withdraws from Kuwait. . ‘Baker will deliver the letter : Wednesday to Iraqi Foreign Min- ister Tareq Aziz when the two ‘officials meet in Switzerland for the first high-level direct talks on the ‘crisis since Iraq invaded Kuwait in August. ‘In an interview with ABC tele- vision shortly before departing for London where he will hold talks with British leaders on the Gulf crisis, Baker said he' would close the door to further’ high-level U.S.-Iraqi talks once he delivered an ultimatum ‘to’ ‘Aziz that Traq must withdraw, Speaking later to reporters aboard‘his plane’ from Washing- ton, Baker said most of Washing- ton's ‘allies were ready to go'to war with Iraq if it did not with- draw from Kuwait by next week and that some were cager to fight, He said his Wednesday meet- ing with Aziz was the last chance for Iraq to d that war eject them from Kuwait, a z Baker said on the ‘program be ‘would give Aziz the letter from Bush “making those’ points specif- ically, and making it very, very clear what the resolve of the inter- national community is,” Saddam reportedly has voiced concern that the United States would go ahead with an attack sven if be complies with the U.N. t was imminent and that the United States was not bluffing. Baker told ABC's “This Week With David Brinkley” earlier Sun- day that if the Iraqis. withdrew from Kuwait he wanted “to give them assurances against the use of force against them.” Otherwise, he warned, they will in all Probability face force to ‘force agains! Iraq if it fails to withdraw its forces from Kuwait by aJan. 15 deadline. Bush, retuming to the’ White House from Camp David Sunday, declined to discuss the letter “until the guy has a‘chance to read it,"”, Asked if his meeting with Aziz Wednesday would close the door to further high-level talks, Baker said: “Iam closing the door.” During his flight to-London, Baker said he intended to review military plans with key U.S. allies during his 10-nation tour of ‘Europe and the Middle East. ‘. "It is important that we touch . base with respect to the panning to to date, both political and military, and with Tespect to next steps,” he said. Asked which of the 27 nations that have sent forces to the Gulf would join a U.S. attack on Iraq, Baker said: “The vast majority in my view would be. firm. Not only would they be willing to fight, some of them are eager to fight.” Baker said he would not be negotiating with Aziz, “Talk about negotiation is totally out. There teally is nothing to negotiate. There are some things to communicate.” With both sides trying to pin Soviet Society Shifting to Right, Parliament Chief Says Los Angeles Times MOSCOW - Faced with increas- ing economic problems and grow- ing ethnic unrest, Soviet soley f is shifting markedly to the right, the chairman of the Soviet parliament said Sunday, acknowledging a conservative resurgence after shift to the right?" he asked in a television _ interview... /"The Congress only Teflects the aspira- tions easing i society.” is significant is that the Congress took a stabilizing Posi- tion. The Congress undi a time. These are very dangerous forces ... but,we do not see a direct threat of a di ip by pline and of executive authority is a continuation and persistent them at the moment.” _ These issues are, of consider- able controversy following the ion last month of search for certain, decisions and ways of order, nearly six years of politi reforms, ,” Anatoly L. Lukyanov, chairman of the Congress of ‘People’s Deputies, said that "the demand for order and_ stability" has become a national priority and that the country’s politics would have to reflect it. "Should such demands be treated as part of the right-wing or as the C World briefs cooperation and civic peace in the country,” he said, Lukyanov, one of President Eduard A. Shi dze, the it of the Raat Ss 4 Many d spoke of a posers as one'of the law, discipline and order. I support this position.” 1 descri the Gor- Soviet foreign minister and anoth- er Gorbachev ally, who told the Congress that the country was sliding toward a dictatorship by Mikhail S. G ‘bach "8 closest ry forces.” this shift, clear at the Congress when it met last month, and the Tecent growth of the ultra-right. "Conservative forces are quite strong," he said. "We have to fight this conservatism all the Shi dze, who his position last week in an inter- view with the newspaper Moscow News, said that these rightist forces, taking advantage of the increasing chaos in the country, were growing in strength, putting great pressure on Gorbachev and could effectively take over. L MOTHER CRUSHES CHILD IN BATHROOM FALL CAIRO, Egypt, Reuter - An Egyptian woman weighing 264 pounds died Saturday and crushed her four-year-old son to death when she slipped in the bath, security sources said. ‘They said Hindia Abdel-Hamid, 37, who had heart trouble, was found dead with ber son Hanafi in their home near Giza on the west bank of the Nile. THREE KOREANS KILLED IN THA! RESORT BOAT SMASH , BANGKOK, Thailand, Reuter - Three South Korean tourists were killed when their. motorboat ‘anda pach collided: off the! Thai beach 'res rt! ok Pattaya, police said Sunday.’ ee Nine other Korean tourists were’ injured 1 in the Saturday ‘and their Thai guide was missing. All the passengers in the motorboat were thrown over- board when the vessels hit, police said. The dead were two men and a woman. Police detained the yacht’s owner. FIFTEEN KILLED IN SOUTH AFRICAN ROAD CRASH CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Reuter - Fifteen people died in a collision north of Cape Town between a minibus-taxi, a truck and a car, police said Sunday. Polkce said the accident happened shortly before > apparently the task of refuting Shevardnadze, disagreed with the widespread lib- eral characterization of the last session of the Congress as a set- back for the country’s still young * democracy as well as for radical reformers. “I think that any democracy ... is closely connected with exact ‘and strict order," Lukyanov said, "Without order, discipline or ‘laws, genuine democracy is impossible . a0 bachev leadership as struggling to occupy the center ground in Sovi- et politics. “Both the conservative and the radical wings are trying to tug us from our stand to their sides," he said. For Gorbachev, he said, this Meant "to be just one step ahead of the movement forward, but not two steps." Although a key figure in the Soviet leadership under Gor- bachev, Lukyanov has developed the blame of an ‘eventual war on. the other, Wednesday's meeting seemed to be shaping up as some- thing of a public relations exercise, Bush, in a radio address Satur- day, wamed Saddam of the “ terri- ble consequences” of his actions and said time was running out to avert a conflict. ; He seemed to suggest that the United States would not wait long after Jan. 15:before launching an attack, Defense ‘Secretary Dick Cheney, in an interview on CBS's “Face the Nation” Sunday, warned the Iraqi leader not to be misled by U.S. congressional debate on whether to wage war. "There are a lot of precedents for the president proceeding with the use of military force,” said Cheney. “Saddam Hussein should not make the mistake of assuming he (Bush) needs additional author- ity - he doesn't.” Bush originally wanted Baker ‘ ve tet 1 Saddam face-to-face in Baghdad. but withdrew that offer after the sides failed to agree on a date for the visit. * The Baker-Aziz meeting now looks likely to develop into, rejt- eration by both parties of familiar. Positions. Iraq will insist that Persian Gulf crisis be settled conjunction with the Palestinian problem while Baker: will reject any such linkage, Bush said Baker would t engage in secret diplomacy, ‘The private message to Iraq would be identical to the public threats now. » Baker will stop briefly in Paris and Bonn Tuesday to ensure he still has the full support of France and Germany in the last cracigl days before the U.N. deadline. : After the Aziz meeting, plans’ brief stops in Egypt, Sau Arabia, other Gulf states and Pos- sibly Syria,‘ "* Found: Temple of the soul? The Daily Telegraph ° LONDON - Psychiatrists using the latest brain-scanning equipment appear to have succeeded where of ph failed:' “which gives detailed pictures of the living tissue deep within the brain. Again, nothing. Finally, ‘he decided to use a to locate the human soul. The discovery, made at the Maudsley Hospital i in London, fol- lows an examination of a patient who reported having lost his abili- ty to experience higher thought. For example, after years of being an enthusiast of classical music, he was completely un- moved by Mozart. Dr Peter Fenwick, consultant no p Pp of his own, Radical reformers view him as deeply conservative, an old-style apparatchik given to at the hospital, decided § at to bring technology to bear on the mystery. A computerised tomography the Congress. Conservatives, however,-have criticized him as a “disguised left- ist," or radical in Soviet political parlance, who lets them speak but rarely brings their proposals to a vote. |. on bet ‘Pressed.by-the interviewer to define; his, ,eyn; position, Luk- yanov again declared himself a “The ing of disci- centrist. hine was used to X-ray the patient's entire brain to look for faults. No problems. A whole series of neuropsycho- metric tests followed, looking for differences between the perfor- mance of the left and right halves .of the patient’s brain. Ability to ‘follow. rhythms, memorise. faces, jand work with objects in space, were tested. No abnormalities. Dr Fenwick then turned to technique that can show up flaws in the blood flow around the brain. Single-photon emission tomog- raphy involves the injection of a radioactive liquid into the blood- stream. Particles called positrons are emitted by the liquid and their effects are picked up by detectors and turned into ‘a map of the bloodflow around the brain. “ This time he found an abnor- mality. Dr Fenwick said: “A region of the medial and lateral right hand temporal structure! of his brain was not getting enough blood.” It was getting less than 90 per cent the amount received by the same region on the left. The Patient was right all along, but thie condition was incurable. Dr Fenwick said that the aie covery of a link between 'a defedt in the right half of the brain = the inability to experience higt thoughts raised questions. about whether this means the human: sopil could be thought of as lying there,’ Baby survives lavatory bowl birth The Daily Telegraph LONDON - A-three-day-old baby was ing in hospital Sunday the main road between Cape Town and Johannesburg, a busy holiday route during the Christmas season. PHILIPPINES TO SELL GOVERNMENT CARS TO RAISE CASH Philippines, Reuter - Philippine President Corazon Aquino will order the sale of almost all government cars to raise money for her cash- strapped government, an official said bse Budget Di ‘in Diokno said the govem- ment expected to save bear $21 million from the sale of the vehicles through auction. The government is under severe pressure to raise cash to its budget deficit. in the after spending the first half-hour of his life in a lavatory bowl. The survival of Daniel Averre who weighed only 2]b 20z, was described as a “billion to one chance” by one of the ambulance- men who rescued him after he was bom three months premature. His birth took place on when his 19-year-old mother, Mrs, Cabinet ies in Aquino’s gi and Philippine congress would have to buy the cars given them or else lose their vehicles, he added. RWANDA TROOPS REPORTED TO HAVE KILLED 150 REBELS: NAIROBI, Kenya, Reuter - Rwandan troops have killed 150 rebels and wounded many others in renewed fighting near the Uganda border, Rwan- da Radio reported. ‘The radio, monitored in Nairobi, said about 800 rebels - remnants of a force of Rwandan exiles who invaded their homeland from Uganda in October - launched ‘an attack through Friday. survivors fled back i into Uganda, in Byumba p: It sid the rebels came from the direction ofthe Ugandan border and weapons and QUAKE SENDS BURMESE FLEEING INTO STREETS BANGKOK, Thailand, Reuter - i of fled into the‘: streets when earthquake tremors shook Burma's second largest city Satur- day night. The quake struck at about 9'p.m. local time (9:30 a.m. BST). A diplo- mat who had contacted Mandalay said two strong tremors were felt there about five seconds apart, sending people fleeing from their houses. is set to go April 13. to May 4. But nobody is planning to felax until “But there's always a push on for the drinking driver, All the time, all the time,” said Day. “And we'll be doing our normai policing — Spot check roadblocks; you: name it. We doing stuff all the time in conjunction with the Nel-‘ *}.80n Highway Patrol. So everybody. bones watch out.” 375 miles north of the capital Rangoon, has a population of about 500,000. It could not be reached by telephone from B: The Geological Survey office in Golden, Colorado, measured the quake at 72. TURKISH ‘TROOPS HALT COAL MINERS FROM MARCHING , Turkey, Reuter - Turkish sécurity forces backed by water can-* non and bulldozers halted almost 50,000 striking coal miners on a ASG mile march to Ankara Sunday.’ > The miners set out on foot Friday from their home town ‘of Zonguldak : on the Black'Sea after police stopped their 1,000-bus convoy from leaving for Ankara. They ‘plan to demonstrate at the gates of President Turgut: ‘Ozal’s palace in the capital. iThe.48,000 workers of the state-run Turkish Coal Board went ‘on strike: Nov. 30 to demand an 800 O perceat) Taise over thelr average n net, daily wage’ a ‘the aan Sun eo ‘] pi pees Is POLITICALLY SN par nie A. MEMBER OF THE 'STEI RLING NEWS SERVICE" ‘Established November 28, 1990 *'Socond Class Malling Perm ‘: Published by The Castlogar Sun weokly’on Wedneadays 485 Columbia ‘Ave, Castiegar, B.C. VIN 1G8° riage, Mrs, Averre and ber husband, Robert, 29, a coach driver, left Daniel motionless in the toilet until an ambulance crew arrived at ber home in Peterlee, County Durham. The crew also assumed the child had been stillbom and made Mrs. Averre their priority until they noticed air bubbles. The baby was removed from the bowl by the ambulance driver, Miss Marion Christelow. “Tt never occurred to us the baby could be alive until: I saw him move,” she said. “I gently blew into his mouth and he started to gasp. "I was amazed. It was the most fantastic feeling, the father’s face was a picture of joy. He was jump- ing up and down like a ping-pong ball and bugging and kissing me.” Her colleague, Mr. Malcolm Woods, added: “It must be a bil- lion-to-one chance that the baby survived. "He had been in the lavatory for 30 minutes. By luck he was bom in the breach position and went Quebec birth rate jumps in 1990 for third straight year MONTREAL, Reuter - Quebec's birth rate, for years one of the low- est in the Westem world, rose for the third Straight year as the P 8 campaign to big families and increase the num- bers of French Canadians yielded results. took jobs outside the home. ‘The drop in the birth rate con- tributed to Quebec’s dei industri- ion, but it posed threats after falling below the level required to sustain the current pop- - ulation of 6.5 million. Quebec’s low birth rate The Canadian provine ed Thursday that births were up 67 t last year, the same rate as in 1989 -and‘ncarly double the prior year’s rate, ', ‘The fastest-growing category of ' new babies was third children, sig- nailing a revival in the number of large families in Quebec. --Under a.1988 Program de- signed to reverse a the province’s depen- dence on immigration, and it slowed the growth of the French- speaking majority. Analysts say the recent increase in births is“due in part to the Bat they say it also reflects a widespread concem among French Canadians about the need to trend towards smaller families that ‘was eroding the French Canadian Population, Quebec began giving The bonuses range from $500 the first-born to $3,000 for the Canada's French Canadians, who make up four-fifths of Que- bec’s population, have feared throughout their history that their culture and language would be overwhelmed byt their 270 1 million third ‘child - up to a maxi of 000 ($5,170) per family. Province where families of i 4:11 children were once c monplace, Quebec saw, its birth'rai ‘te drop in the 1960s and z 1970s 3 28 the Catholic, church’s ‘waned and more women ig! io North America. The provincial report ‘showed the number of. Quebec women having a fourth oreven more chil. dren in 1990 jumped 12.6 percent,’ compared -with a slower.5.3, per- cent rise in first-time mothers. into the water feet first. “All you could see was the top of his head. The emergency team from the hospital were amazed. No one has ever heard of anything like this before. Daniel must be a tough baby. He was obviously deter- mined to live.” Mr. Averre admitted he was WELLINGTON, N. Z., Reuter - A solar eclipse - which ancient civilizations associated with death and destruction - will darken central New Zealand soon after the dead- line set for Iraq to pull out of Kuwait expires, an astronomer said. Astronomers from around the, world will visit New Zealand on Jan. 16 to witness the first “annu- lar” eclipse to pass over a large body of land since 1976, But Graiizm Blow, scientific officer at the National Observato- ty, is hopeful the event will not spell war in the Gulf following the Miauted Nations deadline of Jan. 15. panic-stricken when his wife went into labour. “I ran for help; but when I got back the baby had been born,” he said. “We thought he was dead, but Marion brought him back to life. We can never thank her and Malcoim enough. They ‘deserve a medal.” ‘Rare solar eclipse to follow gulf deadline Pportents of doom and gloom, but generally nothing's happened,” be told Reuters. In an annular eclipse some parts of the sun's surface remain visible, thereby swamping the sun’s faint and delicate outer atmosphere (or corona) seen in'a total eclipse. The eclipse will be relatively long, about eight minutes, and plunge central New Zealand into twilight, People near Perth, Western Australia, and in northern Tasma- nia will also experience its full effect and most people in both and and the South Pacific sober have used eclipses as ‘will see at least a partial eclipse.: Edmonton man willing to go to jail over extra 35 cents G.S.T. on gas EDMONTON, AB.(SNS) - Some people are willing to go to extremes in protest against the new GST, as was the case with an Ed: The manager, Randy Bi : then called police on Bardweil’s : own insistence, reiting two. hours man who says he’s willing to goto jail for Tefusing to Pay it John B millwright, refused to pay the extra 35 cents tax on the gas he ata south Edi gas station. The flustered clerk called the’ Manager, who offered to cover the 35 ‘cents for Bardwell, but he refused 'the offer, saying he wank ed to make a point. * jo appear this month, but charges him are being dropped.