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carnival with their sculpture of cartoon character Gar-

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Squatters
won't leave

WILLIAMS LAKE (CP) — On a rough piece of land
near where the upper Fraser River meanders through
the Cariboo country of central British Columbia, a classic
confrontation between ranchers and farmers is playing
itself out.

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Commune who have been squatting for more than a
hectares of Crown land they call the

They're living the back-tothe-land dream in a
two-storey log house, raising pigs, horses and chickens
and running a truck garden.

Periodically, they run into trouble with the RCMP
over the marijuana laws.

They have three other properties in the Williams
Lake area, including one downtown where street people,
mostly Indians, are welcome to sleep.

The commune members, who number about 20, also
work at landscaping (giving the street people laboring
jobs), restoring log buildings and rebuilding horse-drawn
equipment.

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LIFESTYLES
The commune members charge that the ministry is

Times tough for rich

DALLAS (AP) — H.L.

Two other famous Texas

Hunt, the Texas oil
wildeatter who left his chil-
dren one of the country’s
great fortunes, was said to be
so frugal he took his lunch to
work in a brown paper bag.

Frugality may be in vogue
again at the Hunts’ head-
quarters.

High-stakes wheeling and
dealing appear to be catching
up to Hunt's heirs — some
family members have a cash
crunch and observers say one
of the richest American fam-
ilies may not be as wealthy as
thought.

The Hunts aren't alone.

— Cullen
Davis and Clint Murchison
Jr. — were in bankruptcy
court this week.

“It seems to be a tough
time for Texas billionaires,”
said William Gibson, chief
economist at Republic Bank
Corp.

The falling price of oil,
farmland and commodities
has taken a toll on the Hunts’
fortune.

The family was stung ear-
lier this month by a govern-
ment order to pay more than
$200 million in back taxes —
an order the family contests.

Then last week, Hunt Int-
ernational s Inc., a
major holding company of
brothers Nelson Bunker
Hunt and Herbert Hunt, told
the it and E:

worth generally aren't worth
very much.”

under pressure from conservative ranchers who dislike
their lifestyle and political outlook.

The commune has refused to leave, and appealed to
the provincial ombudsman, who urged the ministry to
reconsider.

“Kick their asses clear out of the country,” says
neighbor Willie Wiggins. “They are criminals and dope

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the public, don’t really help the street people, “and the
only reason they want to live at the Borland is because

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d in the in-

Commission it is in default on
$295 million and is unlikely to
be able to repay it all.
When asked how much he
was worth, at a congressional
hearing into the Hunt broth-
ers’ purchase of 59 million
ounces of silver, eccentric
Nelson Bunker Hunt said: “A
fellow asked me that once
and I said I don't know, but I
do know that people who
know how much they are

BELLEVUE, WASH.
(AP) — The simple, age-
old game of fetch has taken
on a new twist with a de-
vice that allows a dog to
play while the master’s
away.

Industrial designer Dean
Merriman and behavioral
psychologist Roger Bacon
have come with a the
Boomerac, a device de
signed to throw a ball for a
dog when the dog pulls on
& rope attached to the ma.
chine.

When the dog fetches
the ball and deposits it
back in the firing chute,
the machine releases a few
doggie treats.

Bacon said he designed
the Boomerac using the

Machine plays with dog

principle of “operant con-
ditioning.” That means
that when a dog correctly
performs a task, the pooch
gets a reward.

An animal lover and be-
havioral psychology at the
Veteran's Administration
Hospital in Los Angeles,
Bacon said he designs ani-
mal recreation devices as a
hobby. Bacon's dog, Bonk-
ers, will run the device by
himself for hours.

Together with a silent
partner in Bellevue, Bacon
pooled $30,000 to form
Dynamic Behavioral Sys
tems. He then enlisted the
aid of Merriman, a high-
tech designer.

Merriman’s just-com
pleted prototype is being
readied for market testing.

Already, the $150 toy has
several months’ worth of
orders, Bacon said,
through a dog magazine
called Kennel Club Gaz-
ette.

Business won't stop with
dogs, Bacon said. He envi-
sions a cat-operated exer-
ciser for indoor-bound fel-
ines. That device will look
like a cat seratching post
with toy mice suspended
on either side by pulleys.
When the cat climbs up the
sides and pulls down a
mouse, it would raise the
mouse on the other side
and release several cat
treats.

Bacon also is considering
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Turner no
ordinary
MP at ‘home’

By DAPHE BRAMHAM

VANCOUVER (CP) — John Turner is no ordinary
member of Parliament in his Vancouver Quadra riding.

The cachet of power attracted voters to him in the
Sept. 4 federal election and guarantees media coverage —
even now as Opposition leader — when he's here.

But Liberal organizers say more important is the
persona charm that sealed his upset win in Quadra while
his party toppled from power.

Today, they want Turner to meet as many people as
possible, from the rich and powerful to the young and
unemployed, as he cements his hold on Quadra, works for
more support within the party and attracts enough
people to get him elected prime minister.

“The therapy's over and the renewal is beginning,”
Turner said during a v' to the riding last week.

Renewal means cruising down False Creek to view
Expo 86 in the 25-metre yacht of fair chairman Jim
Pattison, his “good friend.”

It also means sharing private jokes with University
of British Columbia friends who have made good — chief
executive officers, lawyers and millionaires.

The Quadra MP believes young people are another
key to revitalizing his ailing party. So, every three or four
weeks, he stands in a high school auditorium or

ium and answers i about issues ranging
from nuclear disarmament to the economy.

RELEARNS ROLE

Turner says the role of politician is coming more
easily: “Well, I was away from it for eight or nine years.”

His speeches are more polished. He received a
standing ovation at a Jewish fund-raising dinner for a
passionate speech decrying racism.

But returning to his riding also brings the reminders
of the reality of his situation as a former prime minister
and the leader of a demoralized, broken party that no
longer has provincial roots.

His constituency office is a sparsely furnished
storefront that used to be the office for an ethnic pay-TV
channel.

The staff consists of a former legal secretary and a
former organizer for the Canadian Federation of

Several other did: for the jobs were
rejected as “too political.”

Some B.C. Liberals say Turner hasn't spent enough
time getting the party in order. The executive director's
job has been vacant for three months. There is no
fundraising scheme. They say old party workers have
been overlooked in favor of recruiting the young and
inexperienced.

DISMISSES CRITICS

“Renewal doesn't mean replacement. The people
who have served in the past will certainly be asked to
help, but we do have to broaden our base.”

He says he is committed to an open party and to
town hall meetings where constituents can ask him any
questions they like.

Not all the questions are lofty. Last week, one
woman asked what can be done to ensure a hospital bed
will be available the next time one of her friends needs
surgery.

The Opposition leader tries to spend half his time at
the House of Commons and the rest divided between his
riding and travels around the country.

That, he said, will change if a crisis arises in the
House of Commons.

Turner won't say what part of his three-pronged job
he prefers. He says he enjoys meeting people at local
gatherings but quickly adds that he likes the sparring in
Parliament

One problem the Quadra MP has not solved is
residency. Although he claims to be a British Columbia
resident on the basis of an apartment he rents in his
riding, he lives in Ottawa and stays in hotels when he
comes “home”

PERSONAL CHARM . . sition leader John
Turner's personal charm ‘hole he key to his suc-
cess, say organizers. He turned on some of that
personal charm on a it to Rossland last May
during Liberal leadership race. Turner once lived in
Rossland, though as article indicates, his current
residency is a problem.

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UN ambassador
says he .walks
‘tightrope’

By AL COLLETTI

UNITED NATIONS (CP) — Four months into the job as
Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, Stephen Lewis
says he's learned to contain himself from a “capacity for
self-immolation.”

There are times, he admits, being a socialist working for
the Tories has its Not so much now, but he
says there was doubt in his mind at the beginning whether
he could overcome them.

Lewis by bitterly critical of the Conservative

the A shortly before
Sirs. sanicies bese teens teed tan a enn
post last fall.

That criticism still haunts Lewis although he says now
that he was wrong and Mulroney's way of seeking friendler
relations with the United States is in the right direction.

At the United Nations, Lewis by his own admission
walks a tightrope enunciating government policy. Outside
UN confines, he's becoming outspoken

on important foreign-policy questions is another matter.
~ ROLE LIMITED

It's one thing to make speeches strongly supporting the
United Nations, but “how long can you keep saying only
good things about the UN?" Lewis asks.

Langella Amanda tryttaien tance pe few
waters with more like the one he del
cuff this week to an of dij and
citing differences in foreign policy with the United States

taking off for the Sudan, Lewis swung open his doors to the
media for interviews.
He what he calls one of his “fun” speeches to

the Centre for Inter-American Relations, all of the cuff. But
his notes were meticulous.

The ‘title, Canada’s Tough Choice: the U.S. or the
World, was the centre's own idea.

In fine fettle, Lewis said that when he first circulated
the title in Ottawa. “External Affairs nearly had apoplexy,
thinking that at one fell swoop I would destroy the new
rapprochment which has been fashioned between the United
States and Canada.”

COUNTRIES DIFFER

Then he followed with an essay-like lesson on some of
the basic differences between the two countries in their
systems of government, processes of law, culture and world
outlook that make Canada “quite distinct.”

For one thing, Canada has a much wider ideological
spectrum heed its parliamentary system where the

In the Used States, the classic democratic socialist left
died in the 1920s and 1930s with the political demise of
Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas.

And Canada has Quebec, and is better off for it.

“Quebec brings to Canada, thank God, a very strong
sense of linguistic and cultural identity,” Lewis said.

“The reality of French Canada pervades the institution-
al apparatuses of our country and strengthens it enormously
as a result, and forces upon Canada in the healthiest imagin-
able way a debate about minority rights and language rights
im a fashion which has enhanced the fabric of Canada.”

Lewis, former leader of the New Democrat Party in
Ontario, predicted that one day official bilingualism will
become a matter of law in the province where five per cent
of the population is Francophone.

At the United Nations, Lewis noted that Canada doesn't
always see eye to eye with the United States.

As a non-nuclear middle power, Canada took different
positions on disarmament than the Americans 20 times in
the last General Assembly.

But Canada supported the United States in opposing a
nuclear freeze.

MacKay now on hotseat

By NICOLE BAER

OTTAWA (CP) — Elmer MacKay, once a tenacious
opposition muckraker who urged abolition of the solicitor
general portfolio, now finds himself squarely on the hotseat
in the same post.

And there's a certain irony in watching the 48-year-old
Nova Scotia lawyer, who once instilled panic in the hearts of
Trudeau cabinet ministers with his penchant for exposing
scandals and government waste, doggedly fighting off
Liberal and New Democrat calls for his resignation. ,

At the centre of the furore is his secret Oct. 7 meeting
with New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfiled, then under
investigation by the RCMP after a package of marijuana was
found in his luggage during a royal visit

Hatfield was later charged with possession of the drug
and acquitted Jan. 29

MacKay, the country’s chief law enforcement officer
because of his responsibility to oversee the Mounties, speaks
slowly, almost wearily in the Commons these days as he
repeatedly rejects calls for his resignation and defends the
meeting as proper, open and the sort of thing he would do
for any Canadian.

Crities argue the soft-spoken, balding former college
halfback afforded the premier special privileges and showed
poor judgment because the meeting could be interpreted as

interference in the course of justice.

The heat intensified with accusations of a double
standard when his colleague, Robert Coates, quit as defence
minister following a late-night visit to a German strip club
which Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called “an error in
judgment.”

TURNS NASTY
The Commons battle turned nasty as MacKay and Jus
tice Minister John Crosbie accused chief Liberal tormentor
John Nunziata of sleazy tactics and betraying sources.

“At least I didn’t wiretap my own office,” Nunziata
retorted

MacKay's opposition star went into temporary eclipse
in late 1977 when he charged in the Commons that his
parliamentry office had been bugged — only to have a
private detective hired by the Conservatives later convicted
of publie mischief for planting the device.

But that was one of the few setbacks, until the Hatfield
affair, in a political career that began when the Presbyterian
father of four bowed to pressure from former Tory leader
Robert Stanfield and left a small law practice in New
Glasgow, N.S. to run successfully in a 1971 Central Nova
byelection.

MacKay, who has been returned to office in five
subsequent elections, developed a reputation as a relentless

and thorough critic of Liberal mistakes during those long
years in opposition.

MacKay’s pet cause was the RCMP and his dogged
questioning of a string of solicitors general, at the head of a
horde of Tories, eventually led to formation of the McDonald
royal commission into wrongdoing by the force's security
service.

MacKay even went so far as to call on then-Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau to abolish the post of solicitor
general and return control of the RCMP to the more senior
justice minister.

“We can't afford to have the RCMP floating around this
country like some sort of mythical entity,” MacKay argued

But the Hatfield issue has torpedoed MacKay’s
credibility and his capacity to carry on as solicitor general,
Nunziata said.

“It's unfortunate on a personal basis,” he said. “I feel
sorry for the man but he’s made a very serious mistake and
he should step aside for that mistake.

“Anything that attacks the integrity of our criminal
justice system is very serious and justly for all people,” he
added in an interview.

“And what he has done is put doubts in the minds of »
lot of people and for that he has to resign.”

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