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EDMONTON (CP) — The provincial premiers came

around the pale oak conference table to achieve a rare
solidarity.

One by one, they emerged into the glare of the summer
sun, smiling and eager to enthuse about their accomplish-
ments — and about one another.

“I sensed a unique feeling around the table, perhaps
special for this moment in time, that these premiers are
really not dealing in narrow provincial areas but are dealing
with a Canadian view in mind,” said

premiers with 15 previous conferences under his belt, also
caught the spirit after refusing to say anything to reporters
during the first day of the meeting.

“It was a much more relaxed conference” than
ones, he said. There was “much less tension and a good Weal
of agreement.

“I was getting kind of tired of the premiers getting
together and bashing Ottawa and not taking any re-
sponsibility for things they're responsible for.”

Besides establishing a good working relationship, the
two days of talks in a staid, Victorian
housed Alberta's li £ duced agr

Soviet spy tried
to recruit Kaplan

MONTREAL (CP) —
Former solicitor general
Robert Kaplan says he be-
lieves that a Soviet spy
tried to recruit him when
he was a backbench MP in
the 1970s by offering him a

bargain-priced car.
In an interview pub
lished in today's Montreal

had become friendly with
the diplomat and his wife
Natasha.

reform, the was one of
11 Soviet diplomats ex-
The premiers agreed to hold new discussions aimed at polled in February 1978 for

getting Quebec, the one holdout, into the C.

to in-

WANTS CONDITIONS
Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa told his nine English-

Don Getty, a former football quarterback who called the
signals less than a year after becoming Alberta's premier.
“It may be a unique group of people at the right time.”

New Brunswick's Richard Hatfield, the doyen of the

MILL SALE

continued from front page

She said she would like to see the new owners make
the mill the top specialty pulp mill in the world.

Meanwhile, B.C. Resources broke its self-imposed
silence late Tuesday when it issued a press release on the
sale.

The company confirmed it is carrying on negotiations
for the sale of the pulp mill and that “many key issues have
been resolved.”

However, it added that no agreement has been
finalized.

B.C. Resources also declined to comment on the terms
of the sale, but said details would be provided “when and if”
a final agreement is signed.

The sale will mark Westar’s complete from
the pulp business and make the company entirely a wood
products company.

Celgar Pulp Operations employs about 300 people.

CONGRESSMAN SAYS

over a working lunch Monday that his
government has five conditions it wants met before
the — a new d formula,
recognition Quebec is a “distinct society,” new powers over
immigration, a limit on federal spending authority and a say
in the appointment of Supreme Court of Canada judges.

While they did not discuss specifics of the conditions,
most premiers indicated a strong desire to get Quebec into
the fold.

Bourassa said he viewed the conference as a success
because “all the premiers in Canada agree their top
constitutional priority is to get Quebec back within the
Canadian constitution.”

The leaders also reaffirmed their desire to continue full
provincial participation in the freer-trade negotiations with
the United States, despite reservations expressed by
Ontario Premier David Peterson and Manitoba's Howard

fitrate whe RCMP deearity
service.
Kaplan said the car offer
came when Borishpolets
told him his country’s dip-
Jomats had to change cars
frequently and asked him
whether he wanted to buy
his two-year-old car for

$3,500.

Kaplan, -now Liberal
justice critic, said he did
not want the car and
alerted the RCMP.

In the interview, Kaplan
refused to reveal the type
of car but said the price
“seemed crazy.

Kaplan said be realized
when he was solicitor gen-
eral between 1980 and 1984
that accepting the car
would have been “a good
first step for getting me
into a situation where they

him by saying: “Look, if we
tell people that you got our
car...

Kaplan added that he
believed he was spotted by
the KGB, the Soviet secur-
ity agency, as “someone
who was a good bet for
being in government for a

long time.”

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VANDER ZALM
IMPRESSES

PREMIERS

Premier

EDMONTON (CP) —

experience at such meetings dates back 15 years.

Vander Zalm is newest member of the premiers
fraternity, a week in office. Joe Ghiz of Prince Edward
Island and Don Getty of Alberta were also at their first
meetings.

The British Columbian did a lot of listening, instead
of trying to grab centre stage with his good looks and
fabled quick lip.

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1 Fielt comfortable immediately and that makes it
easier for us to go to the next conference,” he said.

He took a moderate stance on issues that concern

ould. "3 Gan’ keoe wees ire aon toms bow”
He was satisfied with a communique stating the

may be shaken some and we'll have to try and repair it.

“You don't repair it by going against them with a big
club. ‘They are far too big to club in any event, so we hope
to stay friends.”

IWA DISPUTE

Castaways won't
be deported

OTTAWA (CP) — As long as the 152 castaways found
adrift off Newfoundland are really Sri Lankans, they won't

Pawley be deported back there even if they came to Canada from
The premiers want Prime Minister Brian Mul to West Minister Benoit Bouchard told
arrange a special briefing session with trade negotiator reporters today.

Simon Reisman at the first ministers meeting next month on
freer trade.
Getty said the premiers had endorsed freer trade “full
speed ahead,” but Peterson and Pawley demurred.
“Insofar as full speed ahead . . . the answer is no,” said
Pawley. Peterson described the process as more akin to “a
fast trot.”

U.S. administration ‘wimpish’

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WASHINGTON (CP) —
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Canadians seem well-equiped

“The Canadians have sent

“They employ some of the

- best and most expensive at-

torneys in the United States
and they empley very ex-

with a range of new tariffs on
U.S. goods after President
Ronald Reagan imposed stiff
penalty duties on Canadian
cedar shingles and shakes.
"we ended up not only
looking clumsy but like a
wimp.as a result of that ex-

* as Murphy was providing an

update on the current freer-

trade talks to a House sub-

ofessionol Services economic policy atid trade.
° The s have met
5 Conpte teen three times and plan another
* Consulting session later this month in

deal would have to be accept-
able to

“I hope I can convince you
that this is a good negoti-
ation,” he said.

“Maybe I'm wrong, maybe
Tm a wimp but we'll

Subcommittee chairman
Don Bonker, a Washington
Democrat, warned of a “pub-
lie-relations problem” be-
cause Canadian media cover-
age of trade disputes is
prompting a negative re-
action in Canada to the
United States.

By contrast, he said,
these disputes receive litte
attention in the U.S. media
and there is no anti-Canadian
sentiment south of the bor-
der.

“['m hopeful that all of us
can lower the rhetorical
levels,” Bonker said.

“I think Congress needs to
be a little more responsive to
speaking quieter so that we
don't incite people on the
other side of the border.”

While offering subcommit
tee members fresh assur.
ances that Congress will be

on
Capitol Hill to be the major
factor working against more
open trade:

fopaeers Oe ene
the protectionist mood

Teachers
donate

VANCOUVER (CP) —
British Columbia's teachers
are contributing money to
build an underground school
in El Salvador’s war-torn
province of Chalantenango.

The region has been
wracked by five years of civil
war which has meant 300,000
children in the central Ameri-
can country have been denied
an education, said Salva-
doran teacher Julio Portillo.

The school, which will cost
$4,000, will double as a bomb
shelter.

Portillo said money from
members of the B.C. Tea-
chers’ Federation will also be
used for medical supplies to
treat wounds suffered by
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RCMP officials doubt the contention of the castaways
that they boarded a ship off the coast of India and didn't
come out of the hold until they were forced off the ship into
the lifeboats near Newfoundland.

An RCMP officer, who did not want to be named,

The refugees say they left a port in southern India July
7, aboard an unidentified freighter with an Oriental crew.
They claim the freighter left them off the Newfoundland
coast seven days ago where they were rescued by three

However, a refugee helper in Hamburg told Reuters
news agency today that the Tamils started their journey in
West Germany and not India.

ee Tamils, who had been living in
refugee near each
radttke equivalent of about $4,000 Cdn to an organization in
Paris called Tamil Aid for the trip to Canada.

CLOTHING EUROPEAN

A Tamil interpreter, who helped the RCMP question
the weary refugees Tuesday, told the Canadian Press that
police were suspicious of the Sri Lankans’ belongings. They
demanded, he said, to know why the Sri Lankans were
wearing European clothing.

“Where did you get that coat?” an RCMP officer asked a
Sri Lankan.

“I bought it in India for 1,000 rupees,” the refugee
replied.

worn by the

refugees bore German words, qos Hapag-Lloyd, the
name of a large West German shipping company. The
jackets were made in Germany, a manufacturer confirmed.

Some of the fishermen aboard the longliners said the
refugees, who were stiff and drawn-looking, did not look as
though they had spent five days in two lifeboats designed to
carry 35 people each. At least one of the refugees was
wearing sneakers made by Adidas, a German company.

“There is no way those people could have spent five
days in those liferafts, there wasn't even room for all of them
to sit down,” said Ron Dalton, a crew member from the Mary
Theresa.

Although there were no washroom facilities aboard, he
said, the castaways did not appear to be soiled. One of the
skippers said he noticed a . unidentified object on his
radar after he spotted the lifeboats. The objects remained on
the radar until the refugees were rescued.

The Sri Lankans, who appeared dazed after being
rescued, were granted residency permits in Canada on
Tuesday. The one-year permits will enable them to stay in
the country while their applications for refugee status are

The 14 men, five children and three women spent the

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Strike escalates

VANCOUVER (CP) — The dispute that has idled much
of the forest industry that is the key to the British Columbia

While the International Woodworkers of America got
another company to break ranks with Forest Industrial
Relations, which negotiates for 85 coastal employers, an
industry spokesman said he will never crawl on his hands
and knees to union head Jack Munro.

In addition, the union ordered 2,000 more workers on to
picket lines —& bringing the number to 20,000 — the
companies took a tough stand after the union rejected an
offer to negotiate.

“T'm not going to get down on my hands and knees and
crawl to Jack Munro — today, tomorrow or next month,”
said Keith Bennett, the chief industry negotiator.

“He had an opportunity for us to get back to the
bargaining table. I'm the one who phoned him. And as far as
T'm concerned he blew it.”

But Munro, regional head of the International
Woodworkers of America, shrugged off the attack.

UNION

SERIOUS

“The industry still doesn't seem to understand that
we're serious,” he said.

Munro said he would escalate the strike that began
three weeks ago by putting MacMillan Bloedel and Canadian
Forest Products mills in Vancouver, New Westminster and
Dunean behind picket lines.

He said the two companies were refusing to agree to the
union's main proposal that logging firms restrict the amount
of work they tender to contractors.

Munro said too many union jobs — which pay a base
rate of $14.08 an hour — are being lost because of the
contracting practices.

But he waved an agreement the 34,000-member union
signed with Whonnock Industries which accepted the
union's contracting-out clause.

Whonnock, which has half a dozen sawmills along the
lower Fraser River, became the fourth company to break
with Forest Industrial Relations and agree to contract
language accepted by employers in the northern interior of
the province.

the other companies to settle,” Munro said.

Kitwanga, and Nova Lumber of North Vancouver — have
also signed separate agreements with the union.

That prompted the industry bargaining group to charge
the union with bargaining in bad faith and to apply to the
B.C. Labor Relations Board for a cease-and-desist order that
would prohibit member companies from negotiating outside
Forest Industrial Relations.

At a hearing Tuesday, the labor board was told by FIR
lawyer Lloyd Doidge that companies which sign with an
accredited bargaining agent are bound by that agreement in
the same way dissident workers are bound by a union
tion.

He said it is L for individual ited em-
ployers to become dissatisfied with the actions of their bar-
gaining group but “an individual employer would not be
allowed to opt out just because it believes it is in its best
interests.”

VOID PACT
said FIR is the accredited bargaining agent for
Doman Industries and the agreement Doman signed with
the woodworkers should not stand “because it was not
entered into by the accredited bargaining agent and the local
union.”

Joe Frumento, Doman vice-president, told the hearing
his company agreed to the woodworkers’ proposals so it
could be competitive with northern Interior mills. The union
did not attend the hearing.

The board said it hoped to have a decision by the close of
business today.

Forest Industrial Relations continued today to put
forward its case in full-page newspaper advertisements.

“The IWA has put a contract out on British Columbia,”
said today’s advertisement. “Just as it begins to stagger to
its feet, our economy is threatened by yet another shot.”

The company statement said the forest industry has
contracted out work for 30 years to small companies that
employ IWA members and has guaranteed union members
will not lose work by contracting out.

It also criticized the union for refusing to be flexible in

“It’s a breakthrough for us and itis PI on

work

veterans Jim Chabot, Don
Phillips and Harvey Schroe-
der.

Jim Nielsen, who now
holds the health and human
resources protfolios, has
raised doubts about his abil-
ity to serve under Vander
Zalm, but the new premier
said he has “more good

a smaller cabinet, may decide
to combine some ministries.

Air BC
announces

service

PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) —
Air BC announced Tuesday it
will provide regular service
between Penticton and Van-
couver beginning Sept. 14.

Airline spokesman Ron
Moore said there will be
three non-stop Vancouver
flights daily during the week,
with reduced service on
weekends, using 37- and
50-seat turboprop commuter
aircraft.

He said fares will be com-
petitive with those of Pacific
Western Airlines.

Air BC, owned by the Van-
couver-based Jim Pattison
Group, links 15 communities
in the B.C. Interior, Lower
Mainland and Vancouver Is-
land, as well as Seattle.

Sign
to warn
motorists

PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) —
The provincial Highways
Ministry plans to erect a
flashing sign to warn
motorists of a deadly curve
on Bs pied 3 near Osoyoos.

Bill Coates, a spokesman
for the Penticton highways
district, said an overhead
sign will be installed on the
approach to a 180-degree
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