55; a2 Castlegar News August 6, 1989 INTRICATE one of the A several Tuesday and Wednesday. College - a front view of the seated Maitreya Tathagata, drawn by Reiko Tomita, Tech 1 di who visited Castlegar last year, is one land gs which will be on display at Selkirk College Selkirk. to show drawings Castlegar residents are invited to a than 30 renderings depicting residen Armstrong explained that the showing of highly detailed architec- tural and technical drawings Tuesday, Aug. 8 and Wednesday, Aug. 9 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Castlegar Campus of Selkirk College. “The drawings are on loan from Aoyama Technical College — Selkirk College’s sister institution in Tokyo, John Armstrong, head of the college's said in a news release. The exhibit is comprised of more tial and commercial floorplans, ar- chitectural plan drawings of buildings, commercial space design, and highly technical cutaway drawings of machinery. “This is the work of Aoyama students,”’ said Armstrong, ‘though not the students who are presently visiting Castlegar. The pen-and-ink drawings are representative of the kind of illustration and design work these students learn at Aoyama.” exhibit will hang for only a few hours each day since the college lacks the proper facilities to adequately display these drawings. “We would like tovinvite Castlegar residents to take advantage of this rare opportunity to see these exquisitely crafted works," Armstrong said There is no admission to the show, which will be displayed in the cafeteria corridor at the Castlegar campus Crawl continued trom tront page natural world, Cifarelli says. “‘We have to make changes and if everyone did something environmentally conscious — even just for him- or herself — it would makea differnce, he says. *‘Now is the time — we don't have any more time. And that's the message Cifarelli plans to deliver to forestry officials in Nelson when he tries to talk to them about logging in the Slocan Valley He has kept his action small and simple, he says, because people are more willing to listen to an ordinary person who is doing something extraordinary “My walk is just a simple message from a humble person," Cifarelli says But his choice of action is hard on his body as he forces muscles that have not been used this way since in- fancy to travel up to 10 kilometres per day He is often in pain as he sets up his tent for the night, he says, and his knees feel ‘red hot’” after a few hours of crawling Cifarelli, $2, says his years of practising yoga and Chinese exercises have helped him adjust his body to a new way of moving. He wears padding and thick rubber kneepads, such as carperitérs wear when working on flooring, and double gloves — a soft, inner pair and a tougher, thickér outer pair. He goes through a pair of gloves per day, he says Cifarelli eases the pain in his wrists by walking on his palms, knuckles and finger tips in turn, he says. The other problem is traffic. Cifarelli says he walks around the most dangerous curves and the RCMP made him walk the single-lane area over the Cape Horn Bluf- fs. The police have been monitoring his progress, he ad- ds The support of his wife, Denyse, and his friends in Silverton have helped keep him going, Cifarelli says. They have brought him food and a local lum- beryard is going to sponsor him, keeping him supplied with kneepads and gloves, he says Cifarelli has no strict timetable for himself — although he expects to complete the 100 kilometres in 10 days to two weeks — and that’s probably good con- sidering the amount of time he is willing to spend talking to those he meets about his walk and his beliefs. “don’t think any particular person is at fault for what is happening to the environment,"’ Cifarelli says. “Weareall at fault “‘If there is a demand (for forest products) there will always be a supply,"’ he reasons. “If we stop using things like disposable chopsticks (we will) stop the demand and then there won't bea need for a supply “I’m not here to stop people (loggers) from working,’’ he continues. “But there has to be more of a balance and harmony with nature.”” The creases in the tan skin around his eyes deepen and he apologizes for becoming emotional as he illustrates his point by reading a passage from Touch thé Earth The book, a gift from a friend, uses native people's own words to explain their respect for and connection with the natural world He feels a connection with the Indian way of life, he says quietly, and reads from his book each night before he goes to sleep Cifarelli has lived in Silverton for about six months and says he has owned property there for about 2 years. Such natural surroundings are relatively new to him, however Cifarelli was born, grew up and lived most of his life on Staten Island, right next door to one of the most populated, polluted cities in the world — New York His father and uncle were barbers and although Cifarelli vowed he would never cut hair for a living, he and his three brothers followed their father into the family business. Cifarelli opened a shop of his own In his 40s he moved to California and ‘received my enlightenment” about the environment, he says Then a few years ago, he travelled up from Washington to B.C. and found the Slocan Valley “This place just hit me,’ he says, his distinctive ac cent betraying his origins as he looks around at the green stands of timber and dark-blue mountains. Today, Cifarelli says he ‘‘feels like a Canadian" and he and his wife of five years, who is Canadian, plan to ‘homestead’ on their property and perhaps cultivate the wild blueberries growing there Cifarelli dreams of someday being self supporting by selling the fruit to the valley markets He says he wants to ‘keep the spark”” of what he is doing alive after he reaches Nelson and he would like to see each person walk a mile on his or her hands and knees for the environment For now, he is crawling slowly through the valley From a distance, he is an indistinguishable creature moving beside the highway But up closer, you can see the small things — the homemade orange flag and bright pink plastic ribbons on the back of his pack, the gravel under his knees and hands, the broken beer bottles in the ditch Park 75 years old REVELSTOKE (CP) — Residents of Revelstoke celebrated the 75th an niversary of Mount Revelstoke National Park on Saturday. And to help mark the occasion a special guest, Anne Cecilia Baring, great niece to Lord Revelstoke after whom the park and city are named, presented the city a letter from her second cousin Princess Diana. “This is a lovely city and park,” Baring said. ‘I really have enjoyed my Stay here. My grandfather used to go hunting and fishing with the Indians in the area when’ he could get time off work."" Lord Revelstoke headed the British banking firm of Baring Bros., which invested heavily in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway Revelstoke, located about 400 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, is a major divisional point for the rail line in the Kootenays. The federal government declared the mountain a national park in 1914 after lobbying to local citizens The park was officially opened in 1927 by then Prince of Wales, Edward the VII. It was also visited in 1958 by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. “He (the prince) was so taken by natural beauty of the park that he chose not to ride down,”’ said park naturalist, Bob Bradec. “Instead he walked down a good part of the trails.”” Mount Revelstoke is the only national park in Canada with direct Public access 10 an alpine meadow via a 26-kilometre road to the summit Police investig station break By CasNews: Castlegar RCMP are investigating a break-in at the Railway Station that occurred between 5 p.m. Thursday and 7:50 a.m. Friday, according to a police news release Castlegar and District - Heritage Society president Jack Charters said this is the first time the station has been broken into or vandalized Restorer/guide Connie Schmidt arrived Friday morning to find the new landscaping and donated plants had been damaged, Charters said. One of the office exterior windows was broken and one of the original plate glass interior ticket windors was shattered, he said Office damage was minor, Charters said, and nothing appeared to have been stolen Const. Jennie Latham—of—the Castlegar RCMP made the initial in- vestigation and investigators from the Nelson RCMP detachment studied foot- and fingerprints inside and out- side the building, Charters said BROKEN WINDOW .. . Connie Schmidt (left) of the Castlegar and District Heritage Society and Const. Jennie Latham of the Castlegar RCMP inspect the damage to a window at the Castlegar Rail Station. Avovsi 6.1989 Castlegar News 3 Briefly Guide continued from front page Lorraine met Guides from South America, Hong Kong and Mexico, as well as from across Canada, and made a special friend in a girl from Argen- tina “It was hard to say goodbye. The Guides, although accompanied by leaders from Ontario and a tour guide while touring the city and historical sites around the country, were expected to be responsible for themselves, Lorraine says. Each girl was in charge of her own money and passport, she says. Government stops logging VICTORIA (CP) — The provincial government has called a halt to logging in Clayoquot Sound, a popular tour! area on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Environment Minister Bruce Strachan said. Strachan said logging will be stop- ped for three months while a 13- person task force made up of local residents, the provipce and lumber companies pinpoints areas that can be logged = without — environmental damage. Strachan said the task force will draft a plan in the next year for the area that will allow logging while preserving the scenic beauty of the area, close to Pacific Rim National Park and the popular tourist spot Long Beach Residents in the villages of Tofino and Ucluelet have accused forestry companies of scarring the land with large clearcuts “We must strike an environmen tally sensitive balance between com- peting demands on the area's resource base,"’ Strachan said Premier Bill Vander Zalm said after touring the region by helicopter that maybe some of these areas should never be logged.” Strachan’s announcement came a week after Fletcher Challenge an- nounced it wouldn't finish building a logging road in the area A contractor for the New Zealand- controlled company halted work on the road last year after a number of protesters were arrested for defying a court injunction against interfering with construction, While in Mexico City, when the girls were not touring the National Palace or the Basilica of Qur Lady of Guadaloupe they sampled local food such as cacti salad (“I'm an adven turous person,”” Lorrainé says), and checked out the local McDonald’s. The fast food franchises are where the wealthy go to eat, she noted. Lorraine says the city’s population was evident in the number of cars and “‘crazy drivers” they saw is the only pla a new-model bug. join Rangers or Cadets. Mexico she still hasn't seen pedestrian but a survivor,’’ she remembers. time to the coast And many of those cars are Volk wagon Beetles, she says, since Mexico left in the world to buy Lorraine has graduated from Path finders and must now decide if she will She's also thinking about the friends she made on her trip and the parts of She would like to see her Argen “In Mexico City, you're not a_ tinian friend again, she said, and she would like to return to Mexico — this In memory Lottery numbers KAMLOOPS (CP) — Unofficial results from Friday's Punto Parley lot- tery in British Columbia Aug. 1 — Calgary wins by 6 points (a 4-7 point spread) Aug. 2 — Saskatchewan wins by 2 points (a 0-3 point spread) Aug. 3 — Edmonton wins by | point (a0-3 point spread). Aug. 4 — Hamilton wins by 6 points (a4-7 point spread). The following are the winning num bers drawn in Thursday's lottery B.C. KENO — 11, 15, 28, 40, 44, 45, 46 and 56 The following winning numbers were drawn in Wednesday's lotteries: LOTTO 6/49 5, 13, 19, 26, 37 and 38. The $1,894,163 jackpot was shared by two tickets — one purchased in Richmond and the other in Ontario. The bonus number was 42. Extra numbers were 13, 24, 42 and 60. B.C. KENO 2, 11, 13, 18, 20, 49, 54 and 56 These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must be considered unofficial Paul Seymour Paul (Chief) Kutsieuhakeron Seymour, 74, of Castlegar died ‘sud- denly July 2 at the Castlegar Hospital Born at Cornwall Island, Ont., in 1915, Mr. Seymour was a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College. He spent four years with the Canadian Armed Forces and came to Trail to play lacrosse for the Trail Golden Bears. Mr. Seymour worked for Cominco for 36 years, mostly in the assay office in Warfield. He was a member|of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 11, past grand knight of the Knights of Columbus, Trail Council 2665, Trail Aerie 2838 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, International Folk Society, and past president of the Toastmaster’s Club. He was named Trail’s Citizen of the Year in 1972 and was very active in local sports, both participating and coaching Mr. Seymour is survived by his wife Sheila; six sons, Phillip of Kem- ptville, Ont., Eugene of Chapeau, Que., Leonard of Rossland, David of Vancouver, Michael of Montreal and Thomas of Trail; two daughters, Paulette and Elaine, both of Vancouver; two stepdaughters, Alexa of Robson and Willa of Quesnell; 16 grandchildren He was predeceased by his first wife Lena in 1978. Rosary was recited at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church Funeral mass was celebrated at OLPH with Monsignor Armando Maglio officiating. Interment followed at the Mountain View Cemetery. A memorial reception followed at the Eagles Hall Peter Chernoff Peter Chernoff of Shoreacres passed away Aug. 3 at age 68 Mr. Chernoff was born July 14, 1921, at Glade. He lived at Glade un- til moving to Shoreacres in the 1930s. He married Grace Lactin in 1950 at Shroeacres. During his life he worked in sawmills in the area and for Celgar (Westar Timber) for 25 years. He liked the outdoors. Mr. Chernoff is survived by his mother Mabel Perepolkin; former wife, Grace Chernoff; two daughters, Nettie Pollock of Shoreacres and Katie Peterman of Nanaimo; two sons, Paul of Calgary and Walter of Shoreacres; six grandchildren; and four brothers, George Perepolkin of Shoreacres and Fred, Paul and John Chernoff of Nakusp. Funeral service will be held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel on Tuesday, Aug. 8 from 10 a.m. until noon with burial following at the Glade Cemetery Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel Robert Kinakin Robert Paul Kinakin of Duncan, B.C. passed away July 31 at age 23 Mr. Kinakin was born March 16, 1966, at Castlegar. He grew up and attended schools here and moved to Victoria at age 16. He married Melanie Hunter in June 1985 at Castlegar and they returned to Duncan in He enjoyed reading, music and drawing. Mr. Kinakin is survived by his wife Melanie; two sons, Rodney and Bradley; brother David of Saanichton; sister Judy of Victoria; father Paul Kinakin of Castlegar; mother Annabelle Sheloff of C ranbrook; gran- dparents Nick and Florence Horcoff of Castlegar; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. Funeral service was held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel on Satur day, Aug. 5 with burial at Park Memorial Cemetery Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel Dan Markin Dan Markin, beloved son of Kay and Jerry Markin, died Aug. 2 at age 27 He is survived by his parents; two brothers, Jerry and Ben; gran. dparents Paul and Mark Koochin; grandfather Nick Markin; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. He also leaves behind many friends He was loved by all and will be missed By request, there were no services. Castlegar Funeral Chapel was in care of arrangem Mine talks to resume Tuesday KAMLOOPS (CP) — Talks with striking workers at the Highland Valley copper mine in nearby Logan Lake are scheduled to resume next Tuesday; says a union spokesman. Mediator Vince Ready left the negotiations Wednesday and talks were adjourned after two days. Ready left the discussiohs to meet with the two sides in the fishermen’s strike. Before the Highland Valley talks were adjourned, union and com- pany spokesmen both said there had been some progress made toward reaching a new contract agreement at the southern Interior mine The 1,200 workers at Canada’s largest copper mine walked off the job on July 3 after contract talks broke down over contracting out, hours of work and seniority rights. Victoria to fund private road TERRACE (CP) — In an unusual move, the provincial government will spend $2.5 million to build a road for a private ski hill near Terra Premier Bill Vander Zalm said Vander Zalm said the province normally would not complete and upgrade a road for the benefit of a private company. But he said the owners of Shames Mountain have promised to plow all their profits back into the facility The 10-kilometre road will be widened and upgraded and another four kilometres will be built from scratch. The $4-million Shames Mauntain ski hill is expected to open for business by the winter of 1991, abput 30 kilometres west of Terrace Vander Zalm said it will be good for the economy of northwestern British Columbia Jet makes emergency landing KELOWNA (CP) — A Canadian Airlines International jet made an emergency landing at Kelowna airport Friday after a problem with a fan caused the smell of smoke in the cockpit The Boeing 737 was carrying 103 people on a flight from Vancouver to Salgary. There were no injuries. An airline spokesman said the smoky smell resulted from an problem in the fan feeding fresh-air vents. It was repaired and the plane continued on to Calgary rT ' Shelling storm’ kills 21 BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of Syrian and Christian shells crashed into Beirut on Saturday in a fierce ‘‘shelling storm” that killed 21 people; including 10 in an underground shelter, Lebanese police said A reliable Christian source said seven of those killed in the shelter, _ beneath a residential building in the Christian suburb of Fayadiyeh, were Lebanese army soldiers. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the targeted building was used by Gen. Michel Aoun’s army as a “‘communications station."* Aoun’s command refused comment The six-hour barrage also wounded 82 people in the capital and near- by mountain villages, a police spokesman said. Polish workers said striking WARSAW (Reuter) — Polish workers were staging strikes against food price increases of up to 500 per cent, but major plants such as the Baltic shipyards and coal mines of the south appear unaffected so far, authorities said They said the most serious stoppages occurred Friday in the railway and communications industries. In the western region of Legnica, where thousands of Soviet troops are based, strikers cut off the telephone and Telex network Railwaymen stopped commuter trains for four hours in the Baltic port of Gdansk and bus drivers staged a sit-in strike in the western town of Zielona Gora. Railway workers in the southwestern region of Silesia also stopped work for an hour Ortega wants rebels disbanded TELA, Honduras (CP) — President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua will press for the disbanding of the Contra rebel force in talks with other Cen- tral American presidents, and he has the backing of opposition leaders at home. Ortega’s leftist Sandinista government and 20 opposition parties in Nicaragua signed an accord Friday calling for the U.S.-backed rebel force to be dismantled The issue is expected to top the agenda when Ortega and the presiden- ts of Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica open three days of meetings in the Honduran Caribbean resort of Tela, abput 300 kilometres north of Tegucigalpa, the capital Evacuees should be home soon WINNIPEG (CP) — The last 2,500 evacuated northern Manitobans forced to flee their homes by forest firest should be back in their own beds by Monday, Emergency Measures Minister Albert Driedger said, while announcing he was lifting the state of emergency imposed 11 days ago “*By the end of the weekend we hope to have everyone back,”” he said Emergency Measures Organization gave the go-ahead late Friday af ternoon for residents frg¢m Nelson House and Herb Lake-Wekusko to return home because fire is no longer a threat to the communities. Blood donor age limit raised TORQNTO (CP) — The Red Cross has announced it will now accept blood donations from regular donors until they reach the age of 70. The age limit for new donors is 60 and the minimum age for donors is i i The changes will help secure a good blood supply without en- dangering the health of senior citizens, Red Cross spokesman Michael Tevershain said The society set the upper age limit at 66 several years ago. But the ‘advancement of medical technology and careful medical studies show there is no risk for older donors,”’ Teversham said. Not every blood clinic in the country has adopted the new policy, he added. The Toronto branch raised its limit to 67 last year and will keep raising it gradually as regular donors grow older Lawsuit over film settled HOUSTON (AP) Film-maker Errol Morris, whose movie The Thin Blue Line helped free a former death row convict, has settled a lawsuit brought by the man he helped to save, lawyers said Randall Dale Adams, whose conviction for killing a Dallas police of- ficer was questioned in the film, will receive full rights to any commercial movies or books about his life, according to the settlement announced Thursday Adams sued Morris in June for rights to the story, which depicted his account of his arrest and conviction. ement, Morris said, Adams dropped his demand for $60,000 US for The Thin Blue Line, but Adams's lawyer, Randy Schaffer, said Thursday that was never part of the lawsuit An earlier written agreement said Adams was owed $10 for a documentary or $60,000 and two per cent of profits for a commercial film. Schaffer had contended The Thin Blue Line, produced in documen:- tary style, was a commercial fim. Fhe film was released in commerciat theatres in North America More athletes admit to drug use TORONTO (CP)— A former Canadian bobsledder says steroids transformed him ‘from 4 128-pound weakling into a barroom bully. And a former York University foot ball player admits he bought $20 shots of the drugs from a Toronto physician and also got steroids from Ben John son's doctor. The admissions’ Friday capped. a week of testimony at the Dubin inquiry into drugs in amateur sport, which also saw top amateur sports officials admit existing drug tests designed to catch steroid users don’t work Former bobsledder Clarke Flynn, 30, said he weighed just 128 pounds in high school, where his classmates pushed him around But while at Ottawa's Carleton University, Flynn said-he grew-six in- ches taller and discovered weightlifting and steroids. He soon bulked up to 185 pounds “I wanted to be the best I could be in weightlifting,” Flynn told the inquiry ‘I felt that’s what I needed to do (take steroids)."" JOINED TEAM Flynn said the drugs were also help: ful for bobsledding. He joined Canada’s national team in 1982, travelled with the squad throughout Europe and competed in the 1984 Win ter Olympics But the Brampton, Ont., resident said the drugs had undesirable side ef- fects. “+1 became aggressive,”’ said Flynn, adding he took a job as a barroom bouncer for atime while on steroids. “Being bigger than most people and being a bouncer gave me a chip on my shoulder. I remembered how I was the little guy. All of a sudden now I was the big guy, so anybody that ever poked me around before, | thought maybe I should do that to him.”* Flynn said he gave up steroids in 1984 and quit the bobsled team in 1987 Mark Logan, 29, also admitted taking the muscle-building drugs while he was on the footbajl team at Toron- to’s York University from 1981 to 1984 Logan, now a chiropractor living in Missouri, said teammates directed him to the Toronto office of Dr. Ara Ar tinian. He said Artinian gave him a weekly injection of steroids for $20 a shot **He gave me whateve I ordered and as much as I wanted,”” said Logan, ad ding he visited the physician regularly for about three years Artinian was unavailable for com ment, his secretary said Logan said he eventually decided to save money and went to the black market for his steroids. Japanese government veterans apply torun TOKYO (CP) — Education Minister Toshiki Kaifu and two other Liberal Democrat veterans applied Saturday to run in next week's election to choose Japan's third prime minister of 1989 Scandals involving bribery and sex have forced Noboru Takeshita and Sousuke Uno from office prematurely While the 58-year-old Kaifu remains the front-runner, some party leaders complained that he had been selected in backroom factional manoeuvres. Offended by demands for reform pledges, two party veterans announced at the last minute Friday that they would challenge for the leadership. Joining Kaifu as candidates are Yoshiro Hayashi, 62, a former welfare minister, and Shintaro Ishihara, 56, a former transport minister who comes frgm the strongly nationalist wing of the Barty All three put in nomination papers shortly. before the deadline this mor ning at the headquarters of, the LDP, which holds its secret ballot Tuesday MONEY, SEX Uno took office June 2, replacing Takeshita, who had resigned as an in: fluence-peddling scandal sent the par. ty’s popularity skidding to record lows in opinion polls. Uno, in turn, became the target of allegations he kept paid mistresses, and he stepped down after the party lost in voting last month for half the seats in the upper house of parliament Whoever is elected to head the party is assured the prime ministership because the Liberal Democrats retain their majority in the House of Representatives. Party officials say the new leader wilt serve only until the end of Oc tober, when Takeshita’s original term expires and a new election will be held BIRTHDAY SURPRISE . . . A surp: Aoyama Technical College, Selkirk College's e party was held last week for five students from J The stud sister visiting Castlegar and will leave the city Aug. 10. Hostages won't be freed, Israel told BEIRUT (CP) — The pro-Iran Hezbollah movement, believed closely linked to Lebanon's kidnap groups, dim med hopes of an early end to the hostage crisis by declaring Saturday it was impossible to release three captured Israeli solders as demanded by Israel A UN spokesman working on the issue, however, talked of ‘optimism in the air Meanwhile, Iran said it has refused to accept a message from U.S. President George Bush about the foreign hostages in Lebanon. But in Washington, a government source told The Associated Press the Bush administration had succeeded in communicating with Iran, which is believed to have strong influence over groups holding hastages Hezbollah, or Party of God, named five prisoners held in Israel that it wants released, in addition to a Shiite Muslim cleric kidnapped by Israel It said the release of three missing Israeli servicemen a key element in an exchange of captives suggested by Israel — was impossible. “Any discussion of the issue of the (Israeli) prisoners is out of the question now,"’ Hezbollah said ina statement “The Zionist entity (Israel) has to understand that it has made a mistake. Its abduction of Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid has ended all possibilities for an exchange A PUBLIC DEBATE Israel said it was exploring all ways of winning freedom for hostages but would not engage in ‘public debate"’ on the demands Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted an unidentified Foreign Ministry official as saying: ‘*The U.S. administration sent a message to Iran’s Foreign Ministry last week through a third country. Since the con: tent had nothing to do with Iran, the message was not ac cepted.” Iran has denied involvement in hostage-taking, The agency said the official was responding to reports that Bush sent a message to Iran to prevent the killing of hostages. It gave no further details Iran’s new president, Hashemi Rafsanjani, offered on Friday to help solve the hostage problem to both the West and radical Muslim groups, h However, he said the United States must press Israel to free Obeid, a Shiite Muslim clergyman abducted July 28 by Israeli commandos from south Lebanon Last Monday, a pro-Iranian group said it hanged an American hostage, marine Lt.-Col. William Higgins, in retaliation for Israel's refusal to free Obeid. The Revolutionary Justice Organization then threatened to kill American hostage Joseph Cicippio, but said Thursday it was ‘‘freezing’’ the order while demanding freedom for Obeid and Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in Israel OFFER TO FREE Israel has accused Obeid of instigating attacks on Israel and has offered to free him only if the foreign hostages and three Israeli soldiers held in Lebanon are freed There are 16 foreigners, including eight Americans, held in Lebanon In Damascus, Syria, the head of UN peacekeeping operations, Marrack Goulding, told a news conference there was *‘optimism in the air’’ in Beirut about the release of hostages But he warned there would be no ‘quick fixes, no sim ple solution Goulding arrived in Syria from Lebanon, where he was investigating the killing of Higgins, who was working with a UN observer force when he was abducted in February 1988 After three days of discussions in Beirut, Goulding said he had not yet ‘‘obtained concrete proof that Col Higgins is dead, and I pray he is not dead.” U.S. officials have said they are virtually certain Higgins is dead Goulding also told reporters: ‘Algeria is playing an extra part in trying to resolve the hostage problems as Algeria has done in previous cases The North African country, which has strong ties as suc. cessfully mediated hostage crises in the last 10 years. Algerian diplomats helped win the release of American hostages in January 1981 after they were held 444 days at the U.S. Embassy in Iran Daigle case said worst for two sides OTTAWA (CP) — The Chantal Daigle case, which goes before the Supreme Court of Canada on Tuesday, is the worst case for both sides in the abortion debate, says a prominent legal expert . Daigle is appealing a Quebee court ruljng that gran ted an injunction to her former boyfriend, Jean-Guy Tremblay, and prevented her from having an abortion “This is everybody's worst case,"’ Professor Ber nard Dickens, an authority on abortion law, said in an interview “It’s the worst case for the pro-life movement in that they're dealing with a man who comes across as an insensitive, macho" person, said Dickens, who teaches at the University of Toronto. Daigle, 2 Tremblay, 25, grabber her by the throat in a fight early in July. She said he became increasingly abuse after they began living together last December He says he never hit her hard enough to leave marks. , Says she decided to get an abortion after He is not the model of a concerned fathe Dickens said As for the pro-choice movement, Dickens noted that they say there is no need for an abortion law because women aren't going to have abortions late in pregnancy without compelling medical reasons. But Daigle doesn't have any compelling medical reasons. She says an abortion is necessary to preserve her ‘psychological and moral health,’ but she apparen Uy is physically and mental healthy And she is five months into pregnancy, past the point at which abortiong are usually performed in Canada unless there js @ serious health risk to the fetus Daigle is carrying is protected under the Quebec Civil Code and the provincial charter of rights peal was correct in ruling that the fetus has rights and qualifies asa **person’’ under the civil code. A fetus, for instance, has the right to inherit pro-choice movement. It must be born alivé to enjoy any legal benefits whether in Quebec or in provinces where English common law is used rights by dealing with the appeal in purely constitutional terms, perhaps ruling that if not greater than those of a woman At issue in this case is the question of whether the Tremblay’s lawyers say the Quebec Court of Ap. But only if it is born, say lawyers for Daigle and the Dickens says the court can avoid the issue of fetal ¢ fetus has rights, they are The Supreme Court struck down the country’s only criminal abortion law on Jan. 28, 1988. It ruled $-2 that the old abortion law infringed the constitutional rightof women to security of the person Three judges on that appeal have retired. New on the court are Justices John Sopinka, Claire I Heureux Dube, Charles Gonthier, Peter Cory and Beverley MeLachlin The tull nine-member court likely will hear the Daigle appeal Dickens said the court's ruling in a case brought by Joe Borowski, a Manitoba pro-life crusader, may signal what it will do in the Daigle case. Borowski attacked the old abortion law as an infringement of the right to life of the fetus. But the court refused to deal with the issue of fetal rights