. A2 Castlégar News November 26, 1989 Copps p KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — It’s time for Liberals to put a fresh face at the helm of their party, leadership con- tender Sheila Copps said Friday as she attempted to put some distance between herself and Jean Chretien Although Copps supported Chretien in the 1984 leadership race, she said he belongs to another era. “L think there is a sense he’s written his last chapter,” Copps said of the Quebec Liberal who placed secofid to John Turner in the last leadership contest Chretien has also visited British Columbia to check out party support. Kamloops was the first of three stops in this province for Copps, member of Parliament for Hamilton East Westar takes concerns to public By CasNews Staff Westar Timber Ltd. is mounting a major campaign to ensure that the progress being made towards the elimination of not sufficiently restocked (NSR) land on Tree Farm Licence No. 23 continues, the com. pany says Woodlands manager Gord Murray and chief Doug Lang are making presentations to and soliciting feedback from all parties concerned with the area, Westar says in a news forester release Murray and Lang will talk to com- munity groups as well as municipal, provincial and federal government representatives during the remainder of the month ‘The focus of our presentation is to look atthe significant progress that our mutual efforts have made to date and to determine just what will be needed over the next five years to com- plete the process,’” Murray says in the release Lang says he hopes the Westar’s ef- forts will have solved the problem of NSR land by 1994 “We're confident that the tremen: dous increase in Westar’s own planting program, supplemented by the con tinuation of existing government fun ding, will effectively address the NSR challenge by 1994,"" Lang says. Westar is already in the process of evaluating all of the land base within TFL 23 and by the end of this year will have developed a strategic action plan The plan will be based on surveys of the problem. areas by professional foresters, silvicultural prescriptions developed for every section, and the assessment of appropriate treatments and time each, weighting biological and economic con siderations, the company says. Over the past two years, in conjun- ction with the provincial and federal governments, Westar has eliminated more than 4,000 hectares of NSR land on the TFL, through a huge silvicultural program which has in cluded site-preparing 4,500 hectares and planting 8.6 million trees, the company says. Complete reforestation of all of the backlog is a top priority for Westar Since October 1987, when companies were madg fully responsible for reforesting their operating areas, Westar says it has remained current, completely replanting every hectare harvested “We recogni is here, in responsibly managing the lines for how crucial our role forest for all resource users today and on into the future,” Murray said “Forest practices have changed dramatically in recent years as a result of increased knowledge and_new technology, and in response to the many considerations held by a variety of interest groups. Our objective is to see that all of the activities and programs now in place are maintained to achieve our common goals."" To do this, Westar says itis-con tinuing its own aggressive efforts, and encouraging the federal and provincial governments to extend existing fun ding agreements. 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Association Copps said delegates to next June's leadership conven. tion will be looking for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. “I think I’ve got a proven record there,"" said Copps, who was scheduled to be in Castlegar tonight for a dinner sponsored by. the Kootenay West-Revelstoke Liberal someone to do battle” against However, the dinner has now been postponed until sometime at the end of January Kamloops. “Obviously I want (convention delegates) to want someone who represents a fresh new image,"’ Copps said in In 1991 when we go against Mulroney, we should go "i ahead with a new team and new faces."’ Copps said when she supported Chretien on the second ballot in 1984, she thought he represented the populist vote. I’ve seen him now as very much out of the main- stream. I think he’s part of the old time of Liberal politics and we have to turn anew chapter," she said. Chretien also ‘‘didn’t make a lot of friends’’ in the Liberal party since 1984. His lack of support for Turner “was painfully obvious Although Copps didn’t support Turner in his leader- ship bid, she gave him ‘110 per cent when he was leader and expected everyone else to. BURYING THE PRESENT . instructor Mark Mealing load the time cap: o college g with explicity not to open until 2015. ~ Selkirk College archeology student Kelly Yendrys (left) helps sule which the students then buried on the Time capsule contents a picture of our lives By CasNews Staff Leaving something for posterity is noeasy decision, Tamara McClung chose a Barbie doll and a McDonald's Big Mac con tainer. Her classmates in the ar cheology class at Selkirk College picked things like old running shoes, a Gumby doll and a can of hairspray Those were just some of the items packed and sealed in a time capsule (actually a Rubbermaid cooler) which was buried on the college grounds Thursday afternoon with explicit in structions left in the college's archives toexhume the capsule in the year 2015 The-class came up with the idea for the time capsule to mark the final year program at the college for the time being, and students and instructor Dr. Mark Mealing wan. something behind for for the archeology ted to leave future archeologist Twenty-five years seemed to be a reasonable compromise (between 15 years and something over 25 years) because of the possibility that someone will be able to return for the opening,’ said Mealing. ‘‘And enough significant changes will have taken place in 25 years to make it worth opening.** Other items left to whever opens the capsule in 2015 include: Penthouse and Mad magazines, a Sears catalogue, five B.C. newspapers and a supermarket tabloid, a floppy disc, three video tapes — one with taped commercials and television shows — an eight-track cartridge and a compact disc, a bottle of coke, cigarettes, some wine and a Bulova woman's self- winding 17-jewel wristwatch art of Liberals’ new era “The test of a strong character is when you can be sup- portive and graceful in defeat But Copps said she doesn't expect, or want, the leader- ship challenge to become a personality battle as it did in ner’s leaders! 1984. She expects five or six strong candidates will vie for top spot and that will force the leadership hopefuls and the delegates to confront ideas. ‘Copps, who turns 37 on Monday, also sees herself as someone who can mend the divisions that flared over Tur- “1 have the capacity to pull people together which is going to be desperately needed by our party ... something we did not do last time around.”’ Heritage sites to be studied By CasNews Staff Two studies, to be conducted simultaneously in the Kootenays, will identify heritage sites that need to be preserved and determine if the sites have potential as tourist attractions, the Kootenay regional development liaison officer said Friday Wally Penner said the two studies, to be conducted by the Kootenay Region Parks, Recreation and Tourism Task Force and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Recreation and Culture, will each other a pilot study on heritage sites, the task force asked if the study could be made here, he said. The ministry's study will identify heritage sites in the area and consider how they can be managed, preserved and promoted much as Nelson has promoted its heritage, Penner said The ministry’s study is in response to its realization that heritage values are not recognized in this province, he ad- ded. Both studies will employ a con sultant to compile research and the The task force’s study, which will begin in December, is designed to con- sider methods of generating tourism in the Kootenays, focusing in particular on tourism opportunities that could be of interest to private business, Penner said. Part of the study will look at heritage sites and when the task force members discovered the Ministry of Municipal Affairs was looking for a suitable area in the province to conduct will work together closely, Penner said Public meetings will be conducted at some point and the task force study is due to wrap up in the spring, he said. The studies won't have restrictions placed on them as to what can or can not be considered, Penner said, but he was unable to say if the heritage study would encompass any existing heritage sites such as the Doukhobor Museum in Castlegar or the native burial site at Vallican in the Slocan Valley Steelworkers and Cominco ink pact By CasNewsStaff Cominco and the five United Steelworkers of America locals from Trail and Kimberley have reached an agreement on collective bargaining procedures. Asa result of the pact, Cominco will drop its application to the B.C. In- dustrial Relations Council for changes in certification and representation among the locals, the company said in a news release. Hearings on the ap- agreement into three separate agreements to facilitate the bargaining process, the company says According to Cominco and the Steelworkers, formation of the recen- tly constituted Joint Bargaining Coun- cil of the five Trail-Kimberley locals will be a big plus for cohesive bargaining in 1990 and was a major factor leading up to the signing of the USWA — Cominco pact Meanwhile, Cominco will lay off 30 plication, for N ber, December and January, will be can- celled The agreement recognizes the dif: ferences between Cominco’s operations at Trail and those at Kim berley related to the depletion of ore reserves at the Sullivan mine. As a result, issues specific to Trail and Kimberley will be separately bargained, but common issues, plus remaining unresolved local issues, will olice file A Castlegar charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking will appear in Nelson provincial court Monday John William Vigue, 32, was arrested after an operation by Castlegar RCMP, the Nelson RCMP drug section and the Richmond drug section fecovered about 100 grams of cocaine with a street value of between $8,000 and $10,000, RCMP said Vigue was remanded in custody and the gi is Further man Rigo was arrested in Cranbrook and pleaded guilty to the charges, tlegar RCMP said Charges of possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking are pen- ding against a Winlaw woman after Castlegar RCMP and the Nelson RC- MP drug section raided a Winlaw residence Nov. 19, RCMP said. About half a kilogram of marijuana was seized. The woman is expected to appear jin Nelson provincial court in January be jointly. All local or common issues will be negotiated through the joint council. Cominco will pay the cost of rewriting the current single Local 480 (Trail), Local 651 and Local 8320 (Kimberley) temporary emp within the next two weeks as operations begin to wind down in the old lead plants, the com pany says A further 25 temporary employees may be laid off within the next few months, Cominco says “These employees were hired at the end of the summer to cover for shor tfalls that arose when the students went back to school,"’ said Reg Conway, employee relations superintendent The full-time operators in the lead plants which are being phased out will be transferred to other plants. The construction force at Cominco is expected to remain at its current level, Conway said Drowning continued from front page folding by an engineer ‘for complian ce with his design prior to use’’ ¢ approval of each scaffolding Court news charges may be laid, police said Sandor Rigo, 31, of no fixed ad dress, was sentenced in Cranbrook Friday to two years in jail after being charged with breaking and entering and theft in connection with incidents at the Castlegar Dairy Queen and the Castle Theatre Aug. 18 In Castlegar provincial court, Warren Fredrick Goldsbury pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and was fined $300 Arthur Sutton Humphrey pleaded guilty to driving while impaired and was fined $600 or, in default, senten ced to 12 days in jail. As well, Hum phrey is prohibited from driving for one year Elizabeth Defoe was fined $75 for mailing obscene matter Kevin Terrance Hearne pleaded guilty to assault and received a suspen- ded sentence and probation with con- ditions for one year. system on jobs © assurance by employers that alt workers are trained and aware of potential hazards when working on scaffolding * workers wear full body harnesses and personal flotation devices when working above water © assurance workers’ lifelines are attached to the ‘‘permanent structure and are totally independent of the work platform and its support system” and © safety boats be properly equip- ped and readily available to perform Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn Thur sday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 6, 7, 13, 23, 38, 39, 44.and 54 The winning numbers in Wed. nesday’s Lotto 6/49 draw were 6, 7, 18, 21, 24, and 32. The bonus number was 31. The jackpot of $4,419,365.00 goes to the holder of a single ticket bought in Ontario The four Extra winning numbers for British Columbia on Wednesday were 30, 35, 72and81 The winning numbers drawn Wed nesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 1, 4, 28,31, 35, 37, 40 and 48 These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must be considered unofficial Road says. around the lakes, he adds. continued from front page Octopus Creek to the north and Broadwater to the south, linked up with a 17-kilometre extention and a 64- kilometre stretch widened to two lanes and paved The extension would provide a quick, scenic route to Revelstoke along the Arrow lakes and make the Cogquihalla Highway and Vancouver easy to reach via Vernon, opening the area up to more tourism, Evin It would also provide a faster, smoother route for Celgar and Westar Timber trucks going back and forth to Revelstoke and provide better access for B.C. Hydro toits Hugh Keenleyside dam and any future dam projec- ts in the area such as at Murphy Creek, he says And it would bring tourists, attracted by the lakes, into downtown Castlegar and boost real estate prices “*It’s just going to help everything,’’ Evin says Because of his work with the government in promoting roads in the area, Evin was asked recently to work on behalf of the Robson-Raspberry Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee to get the ferry reinstated until a bridge can be builtover the Columbia River, he says. The government is studying the ferry proposal along with the proposal for extending Highway 23, he says, and announcements should be made soon Reviews of the proposals will take some time in light of the recent cabinet shuffle, he adds, Evin says it’s also likely B.C. Hydro will make an on the much- power toadd capacity to the K put in a dam at Murphy Creek, based on what he heard dam and at the Socred convention rescues and employers be aware of and comply with all WCB regulations Castlegar coroner Paul Oglow, who officiated at the inquest, said the recommendations will be reviewed by the WCB for any possible contraven: tion of WCB regulations. A review board with the solicitor general's department will also consider the recommendations, he said. One of the most notable parts of the testimony was the discovery no one on the job was designated fo be in charge of safety on the site, Oglow said. Much of the technical testimony surrounded the beams which held the platform system up and the clamp, which was never found after the ac- cident, that was used to hold the beams together, Oglow added Pope John Paul II has appointed Peter Mallon of West Vancouver's St Anthony's Parish as the new bishop of Nelson. The pontiff Nov. 16 accepted the resignation of Bishop Emmett Doyle who will remain the administrator of the Nelson Diocese until the in Stallation of the new bishop. The Nelson Diocese Synod will con: tinue as scheduled and the bishop-elect willattend November 26 1989 Castlégar News 43 Briefly Delegates reach compromise VANCOUVER (CP) — Labor delegates seeking to ban logging in the Carmanah Valley on Vancouver Island and others wanting to preserve jobs in the forest industry have worked out a compromise. The formula uniting the interests of trade unionists and environmen- talists was hailed as the most important resolution of the five-day conven- tion of the B.C, Federation of Labor this week. “This resolution marks a real coming of age for the labor mevement,”’ said Geoff Meggs of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union The delegates resolved to support efforts to develop logging plans that, would see *‘critical areas and i balahce with opportu: for use in the areas."’ ' Earlier, delegates had been prepared to vote on a resolution to ban logging in the Carmanah Valley and include the valley within the Pacific Rim National Park. The substitute resolution avoided an expected division of delegates. They voted to set up a committee of labor, aboriginal and environ- mental organizations to develop a policy to-address the need for environ- mental protection and sustainable use of resources. in based on resource Whooping cough cases rise VICTORIA (CP) — Parents should make sure their childrens’ whooping cough vaccinations are up-to-date because of a steady increase in the number of cases of the disease in British Columbia, says a provincial health official Provincial epidemiologist Dr. John Farley said he expects the B.C. Centre for Disease control to get about 160 reports of the disease this year, nearly double last year’s total. Farley said the disease recently claimed the life of a 20-day-old infant. He said immunizations for whooping cough are normally given in a series of injections at the ages of 18 months and two, four and six years. Farley said whooping cough is a highly contagious disease and can result in complications including pneumonia and convulsions, and ultimately death. Crash victims identified KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — Police have identified two Vancouver- area men killed Thursday when a courier plane crashed near Kelowna air- port Dead are pilot Clifford Germann, 22, of Delta, and co-pilot Adam Hulcoop, 29, of Vancouver. Their twin-engine Navaho aircraft crashed on Mount Terrace in snowy, icy conditions while on a flight from Vancouver. The 500-metre- high hill is on the approach to the airport PM to meet with NATO leaders OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will travel to Brussels for a meeting Dec. 4 with NATO leaders, his office announced Saturday A one-sentence release from the prime minister’s office said Mulroney would leave for the meeting Dec. 3 Although the release gave no other details, such NATO leaders meetings are often held after summits involving United States and Soviet leaders. The Brussels meeting follows a floating summit off Malta Dec. 2-3, involving U.S, President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gor- bachev Rust in trouble again HAMBURG (AFP) — Matthias Rust, the young West German pilot who in 1987 defied Soviet air defences and landed his plane near Moscow’s Red Square, was charged Friday with the attempted murder of Rust, 21, was remanded in custody in Hamburg pending trial. He had tried forcibly to kiss an 18-year-old female co-worker in a eloakroom ata retirement home where he was working, but the young woman refused his advances and he became angry, Hamburg magistrate’s spokesman Juergen Daniels said. Shortly after, Rust allegedly threw himself at her ‘‘with surprise and treachery’ and stabbed her twice in the chest. The wounds ‘‘could have been mortal,’’ Daniels said Rust subsequently fled the home, went for a walk in a nearby forest and later turned himself in to police. . RCMP uniforms redesigned WINNIPEG (CP) — Female RCMP officers will wear trousers, the Mounties’ gum holsters will be redesigned and the color of the force's ser- vice shirts will be changed over the next three years, said Sgt. Pierre Belanger “‘The women in the force overwhelmingly agreed to adopt the male uniform,’ Belanger said They now wear a specially designed uniform based on a Canadian Armed Forces model, which consists of a tunic and skirt and hat. Belanger said the move to a unisex uniform will save the government money because it will have to buy only one style for its 14,000 male officers and 1,000 females, instead of two. Abortion law may fail TORONTO (CP) — The federal government’s proposed abortion law may be headed for defeat, the Toronto Star reported Saturday after surveying 288 of 293 MPs. The newspaper found that the bill likely would not pass into law unless the government amends it to make it more difficult for a woman to have an abortion, or Prime Minister Brian Mulroney twists many Conser- vative arms. The survey shows that 127 MPs are opposed and only 105 support the proposed law, which would allow doctors to perform abortions at any stage of pregnancy if a woman’s physical, mental or psychological health isat risk Anyone having or performing an abortion except for health reasons could face up to two years in prison. A total of 147 votes will be required for {he proposed|law to survive. Clerk fined for leak OTTAWA (CP) — A fired government print shop clerk was fined $500 Friday on a charge related to a leak of the summary of Finance Minister Michael Wilson's budget last April. “I'm quite happy with it," 29-year-old Brian McCuaig told reporters after the sentence was imposed by provincial court Judge Jack Nadelle “1m glad that it’s over and I can carry on with my life.” The tall, sandy-haired McCuaig was convicted last month of possession of stolen property valued under $1,000 — a pamphlet sum- marizing Wilson's budget taken from the government printing plant in Hull, Que The Crown dropped charges against Johan Mares, an employee of Mutual Life of Canada, the company that was the ultimate recipient of Global television reporter Doug Small and two other men remain before the courts on charges arising from a separate leak. Their trial, already marked by allegations of political interference, resumes in mid- December LAYING ‘EM ON... . bricklay: s Frank Hugli (ri work Friday at the new Aquatic Centre placing ites gree we habad WO we ae ght) and his son Shane Hugli were hard at ricks bearing the names of people, groups and businesses who participated in the Castlegar and District Project Society's "Buy-a-Brick” program which helped raise money for the indoor pool. Spill_ fouls beaches VICTORIA (CP) — Cleanup crews will try again today to corral and skim an oil slick that has broken up and Stretches for 40 kilometres off southern Vancouver Island Colin Hendry, Canadian Coast Guard regional manager of emergency operations, said attempts touse booms to contain the slick failed Friday because of strong currents. Volunteers from the coast guard and about 30 members of the provincial youth corps walked along beaches to pick up the tar-like oi that had washed ashore By late afternoon about’ 12 cubic metres of oil-covered seaweek, rocks and gravel had been collected. Also collected were about 50 oil-soaked bir- ds, most of which were too heavily Soiled to survive Darlene George, whose trailer overlooks an’oiled beach, set up a makeshift bird cleaning station — rin- sing oiled seabirds with soap before they were transported to the SPGA “Some of them are just too bad I don’t think they are going to make it,”” said George. “It makes you really angry toseeit.’” Hendry estimated the slick, which was spotted Thursday by a sports fishing charter operator, was caused by 10 to 20 barrels oftpunker C fuel oil which is used to power deep-sea ships. He said he doubted earlier theories that a ship caused the slick by pumping out its bilges environmental Mulroney hopes to be at Cold War's funeral LENINGRAD (CP) — The Cold War is not over yet, ‘but we all hope to be at the funeral,” Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Saturday as he prepared to fly home after six days in the Soviet Union But he told reporters that the Soviet Union has changed under President Mikhail Gorbachev The Soviet Union before Mr. Gor- bachev was an entirely differ than the Soviet Union today referring to the president’s reforms. Speaking of the Cold War, Mulroney said, ‘*Nothing is dead and buried yet, but we all hope to be at the funeral “Their intentions are non belligerant,”’ he said “I don’t think anyone can state that the Cold War is over — everyone hopes the Cold Waris over.”” Mulroney said he will address the House of Commons on Monday to tell Canadians about the first visit by a Canadian prime minister to the Soviet Union in 18 years. : As well, Mulroney said he hopes to speak next week to U.S. President George Bush before Bush meets Gor bachevat the Malta summit Dec. 2-3 Mulroney said the United States has been remiss in not easing some of its trade restrictions with the Soviet Union He will also tell Bush that “President Gorbachev is in for the Jong haul with broad support as far as I can see in the party and the country.”” Earlier, Mulroney visited the Her mitage Museum, a complex of opulent palaces rich with art treasures and revolutionary history “Everything was splendid; it’s mar vellous,’” Mulroney said in French af- ter touring the museum on the banks of the Niva River The Hermitage is one of the world’s great museums, ranked with the Louvre in Paris Mulroney joked that he would need at least two more—mandates—from Canadian voters, and more trips to the Soviet Union, to do the museum justic External Affairs Clark, who also visited the museum in 1985, said his daughter would be jealous when she heard what he had seen One of the museum's four buildings was the czar’s winter palace which was stormed by workers, soldiers and sailors during the revolutuion that brought Lenin and his Communist followers to power In one room, Mulroney had a hard time ‘Choosing between a French im pressionist painting or a view of the palace square revolutionaries had gathered on that fateful evening of Nov. 7, 1917. Mulroney was on the last day of a six-day visit that also took him to Moscow and Kiev On Friday, Mulroney told his Soviet Minister Joe where the Czechs cheer former leader's call for changes PRAGUE (AP) — Half a million demonstrators Saturday cheered Alexander Dubcek as he said that a leadership change has failed to meet the public’s demands for democracy Prague party boss Miroslav Stepan, a member of the new Politburo chosen Friday, resigned together with the en tire city party leadership Saturday, the official news agency CTK said. The rally at Letna field — the largest in Czechoslovakia’s history — was shown on state-run television Dubcek, the architect of the 1968 Prague Spring reforms that were crushed by a Soviet-led invasion, made his strongest comments to date in favor of reform. The rally capped a historic week of protests that ended with the entire ruling Politburo resigning “The political leadership has lost touch with the people, and the crisis has deepened,"’ said Dubcek, 67, rejecting Friday's leadership changes as a cosmetic manoeuvre “Long Live Dubcek!"" the people cried. ‘‘Dubcek To the Palace!"” they more chanted, referring to the official residence of Czechoslovakia’s president Dubcek was ousted from the party he led and spent nearly 20 years in seclusion But today, he urged party leaders to hear the voice of the people **L appeal to the Central Committee of the party to take the initiative and the ideas (of the reform group) very he said, speaking publicly in Prague for only the second time sin ce 1968. Prominent dissident Vaclav Havel also addressed the cheering demon strators. He told them that the op Position group Civic Forum would demand to negotiate democratic reforms with the ruling party Polit buro. State-run media also criticism from seriously reported Communist party members who said the measures im. plemented at Friday's Central Com mittee meeting did not go far enough The Central Committee replaced the 13-member Politburo with one con taining nine members. BRIAN MULRONEY ...U.S.S.R. ‘entirely different hosts: ‘‘We are both northerners; the Arctic is part of us.”” Speaking to officials of the Arctic and Antarctic Institute, the prime minister said the northern region is being polluted by industrial activigy in thesouth (ae , Mulron 70 per Yet of the pollution that creates haze over the Canadian North comes from the Soviet side of the Arctic “These are everybody's problems and will only respond to international solutions," he said Canada will be host for a conference on the protection of the northern en- vironment in Yellowknife next spring, Mulroney announced. The session will consider common actions to combat pollution There were indications both sides may have modified their positions on proposals by Gorbachev for an *‘Artic zone of peace.’ Romania continues to reject reforms BUCHAREST (AP) party chief Nicolae Ceausescu, the east bloc’s longest-ruling leader, was reap pointed to Romania's top post Friday in a lavish show of support for his Communist rejection of reforms washing over his Communist neighbors Delegates to the 14th Communist party congress in Bucharest cheered and clapped repetition of the staged displays-of adulation for their hardline leader that have marked the. congress opened Monday rhythmically in a since it Ceausescu, 71, told delegates he has no plans to step down from the post he has held for 24 years. His new term is for five years “I would like to assure the congress, the people and the nation that in the future I will continue to bea soldier fighting for socialism and Romania,”” he declared, his voice rising to a near- scream “Romania has achieved a number of victories in its 1,000-year history, but none so great as the building of a new socialist society,’ said Ceausescu. CHANGE FOUGHT As he spoke in downtown Palace Hall, parade marshals and police positioned phalanxes of workers, group members and the paramitirary people's guard outside in preparation for his appearance youth Lithuania takes step to secede MOSCOW Lithuania has taken another step towards seceding from the Soviet (Reuter) Union by setting up a parliamen tary commission on restoring. its independence, local journalists said Friday In Moscow, the parliament was in an uproar’ over national proposals to grant more economic leeway to the Baltic republics, with charging that Lithuania, Latvia and were trying to sneak out of the Soviet Union The Parliamentary Commission to Achieve Lithuanian Indepen some deputies Estonia dence was formed at a meeting of the — Lithuanian parliament said by republic's journalists telephone from the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. The move defied Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who has said republics, although permitted by the Soviet constitution, is politically out of the question “There is no doubt in Lithuania about independence as a goal,"* a correspondent with Radio Vilnius told Reuters news agency “The question is how to achieve it." Thursday secession by