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URGES BOYCOTT The union has been trying to persuade franchise op- erators not to go ahead with their deals and has urged postal customers to boycott stores that contain the out lets. John Caines, a spokesman for Canada Post Corp., said postal officials are “not un- happy” with the decision. “We do have to consult, which doesn’t bother us, but we don't have to tell the union who we're negotiating with,” Caines said. “They don't have the opportunity to harass the potential fran- chise.” Two-day walkout ove DELTA, B.C. (CP) — A two-day walkout by about 225 workers at a B.C. Forest Products Ltd. plywood plant ended Tuesdhy when the company agreed to rehire two probationary employees in their 50s. “Basically, the company agreed to reinstate the two employees and everyone's going back on shift,” said Terry Smith, spokesman for Local 1-357 of the Inter. national Woodworkers’ ~ of America. The workers walked out Monday, claiming the two were fired because of their age. John McMillan, 55, and Tony Derrisch, 51, who each had more than 30 years ex perience, had been let go three days before a 30-day probation period expired. They had been hired after the closure of a B.C. Forests plywood mill in nearby Sur- rey. A clause in the wood workers’ contract requires companies to give prefer. ential hiring treatment ‘to workers laid off because of plant closures. Company spokesman said Monday the men were fired because their work was not up to the company's stan dards. Lives Reactor closes WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. administration will recommend Washington state's N Reactor be put in “cold standby” next year after safety improvements to the aging defence installation are finished and tested, two congress. men said Tuesday. Senator Dan Evans and Representative Sid Morrison, both Republicans from Washington state, made the announcement after meeting with U.S. Energy Secretary John Herrington. Evans and Morrison said at a news conference President Ronald Reagan's budget that is to be presented to Congress on Thursday will call for the reactor to be mothballed after the safety tests are done. The congressmen estimated 2,620 workers at the reactor will lose their jobs by the fall of 1989, but they said the layoffs will come gradually. “While all the pieces of the puzzle have yet to be put in place, it is clear the Department of Energy has decided that the N Reactor is not needed to meet our requirements for defence-nuclear materials,” Evans said. The announcement ends months of speculation about the future of the N Reactor, located about 300 kilometres south of the British Columbia border, which has been Producing plutonium for nuclear weapons since the early 1960s, Energy Department officials tentatively set the reactor’s restart for this spring but Evans and Morrison said the department now believes it is no longer needed and can't be afforded. Evans and Morrison said under the “cold-standby” plan the fuel would be removed from the reactor and main- tenance would be continued on essential systems, but the reactor would only be restarted if there was a new demand for plutonium or a national emergency. The N Reactor is one of four reactors run by the Energy Department that produces plutonium or tritium for the U.S, nuclear arsenal. The other three reactors, located at the Savannah River complex near Aiken, S.C., are running at 50-per-cent power because of safety concerns. The N Reactor was shut down in January 1987 for $68 million US worth of safety improvements prompted by a nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union, where 31 people died. The N Reactor is similar in design to the Soviet reactor. February 17, 1988 Airlines add planes TORONTO (CP) — Can ada’s two largest airlines are intensifying competition in each other's backyard with separate announcements for aircraft purchases to beef up their commuter airlines. Ontario Express Ltd., the Toronto-based commuter arm of Canadian Airlines In ternational Ltd. of Calgary, is spending $155 million to pur chase six European-built ATR 42 turboprop aircraft by next year. And it has options to buy another six of the 48-seat aircraft, said Ronald Patmore the company’s president and chief executive officer. The aircraft will help Can adian Airlines to carry the fight to Air Canada of Mon. treal in the lucrative Ontario market and on cross-border routes, Ontario Express will use hubs -in Toronto, Thunder Bay and Ottawa to feed pas sengers on to Canadian Air. lines and North American flights. While Canadian Airlines is increasing competition in a regional market dominated by Air Canada and its sub sidiary Air Ontario of Lon- don, Ont., the Crown-con trolled airline will be nipping at Canadian Airlines’ flanks in Western Canada. Air Canada’s subsidiary in Western Canada, AirBC of Richmond, is increasing its fleet and plans to spend $160 million on three jet aircraft that are capable of carrying 111 's each and has ern Airways and Canadian Pacific Air Lines Ltd. of Vancouver last year. Air Canada has targeted Western Canada for its growth to compensate for enough room for a complete business service. It will receive three of the British Aerospace 146 air. craft by June with an option for another three of the four. engine jets next -year. These aircraft will provide competition for Canadian Airlines on routes in Western Canada where Canadian Air- lines has a virtual monopoly as a result of the merging of Calgary-based Pacific West pected losses in Ontario and across Canada now that Wardair Inc. of Edmonton has become a scheduled car- rier. Canadian Airlines is in. creasing flights in the tri angle between Toronto, Ot tawa and Montreal to com pete head-to-head with Air Canada. This triangle is the most lucrative market in Canada and is currently dominated by Air Canada. Mulroney was target NEW YORK (CP-AP) — A convicted murderer was once contacted by a group who wanted Prime Minister Brian Mulroney assassinated, CBS. News reported Tuesday. The network said it had obtained a deposition by John Wayne Hearn ii ‘which he said he received 10 to 20 calls a day after placing an advertisement in Soldier of Fortune magazine. The calls came from people wanting Hearn, now serving life sentences in Florida, to commit illegal acts including kidnappings, bombings and murder — including the assassination of Mulroney, CBS said. The network gave no other details about the group. The deposition has yet to be introduced in a $22-million US lawsuit filed against Soldier of Fortune, which be- gan_Tuesday in Houston. The parents and teenaged son of Sandra Black of Bryan, Tex., are suing the magazine, alleging Black's. “husband, Robert, hired a killer who had advertised his avail ability for “high-risk assign ments” in the publication. Robert Black was con victed of arranging and pay- ing $100,000 US for the 1985 slaying. He now is on death row in Texas. Hearn, the alleged gunman in the murder, was convicted of other murders. The ad appeared in four issues of the magazine in late Get us working for you! WITH A CIBC RRSP YOU COULD RETIRE A MILLIONAIRE convenient tax-sheltered CIBC RRSP makes it easy. For complete details, ask for a copy of our information booklet RRSP EXTENDED HOURS Castleaird Plaza Branch TUESDAY, FEB. 23, 1988 6:00 p.m. to 8 p.m. Join us for coffee and donuts. a | i if Wy DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 29 1984, offering a former marine and Vietnam veteran and weapons specialist with jungle warfare expertise for “high-risk assignments” in the United States or over seas. Vera Holiad, a spokesman for Mulroney's office, and Darryl Harker, the press secretary for Solicitor Gen. eral James Kelleher, both said Tuesday they knew nothing about the alleged attempt to hire Hearn to kill Mulroney Spokesmen for the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service were unavailable for comment. Defections prevented TORONTO (CP) — Ro- manian officials acted swiftly to prevent the defections of three female speed skaters and a male coach at the Winter Olympics Games in Calgary, the Toronto Star reported today. The four departed Calgary International Airport on Sat urday morning. No explan ation was given by the Ro manian delegation or the Olympic organizing commit tee for the hasty exit just hours before the opening ceremonies. An_ unidentified | Sports Canada official quoted by the newspaper said the rooms and luggage of the athletes and coach were searched by Romanian sécurity people. “It is my understanding the Romanians found those in question were travelling wi more than their passports,” the official said. NeED To KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR NeW COMMUNITY? Weame Wagon Connie 365-7601 Joyce 365-3091 Our hostess will bring gifts and greetings, along with helpful community information. “They had all the docu- mentation necessary to claim refugee status in Canada,” the official added. “As a result the athletes and coach were escorted out of the athletes village and taken back to Romania.” The speed skaters were Tleana Cletstenai, 17; Mi. haela Dascalu, 18; Cerasela Hrdobetiu, 17, as well as coach Adrian Ciobanu. Romanian officials refused to answer questions about the incident. In a separate report, the New York Times quoted Alexandru Sipercu, an Inter- national Olympic Committee member for 33 years, as saying the wife of the coach had been involved in an auto accident in Bucharest. Rather than leave the young skaters to compete without a coach, Romanian officials decided that all of them should return home. Mardi Gras over NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The wild abandon of Mardi Gras gave way to the sob- reity of Ash Wednesday today as police cleared the French Quarter of revellers hoping to forestall the end of the annual street party. Two fatal accidents involv- ing parade floats marred the feverish excitement of the Carnival season, police said. Officially, the day con cluded at midnight with the meetings of the courts of Rex and Comus, the signal that Mardi Gras has given way to 40 days of Lenten penance. Good Business Sense... ECONO SPOTS Call 365-5210 VANDER ZALM LOVES GOOD MEDIA SCRUM By MIRO CERNETIG Press VANCOUVER — On his way into self-imposed political exile in 1983, not long after calling his cabinet colleagues “gutless wonders,” Bill Vander Zalm apparently didn't want hard feelings to prevent his fallen star from rising again. So the municipal affairs minister with a penchant for writing poems and ditties penned a two-page goodbye full of fond, personal anecdotes. But he didn’t send it to his ticked-off peers. It was for the reporters in the legislative press gallery. Say hello to the man who now is possibly the most media-conscious and telegenic premier in Canada. A ‘man whose brilliance for image-making became legend when he shaved off his sideburns during the 1986 Social Credit leadership race and then managed to make those few razor strokes worthy of the six o'clock news. Unlike media-shy politicians such as Alberta Premier Don Getty, who prefers a round of golf to a press conference, British Columbia's Vander Zalm loves nothing more than a good scrum. GOES FOR LIGHTS “Bill Vander Zalm is unlike any other premier I've ever seen,” says former journalist Bill Bachop, now the premier's press secretary. “He just doesn't shy away from the media at all.” With an attraction to television lights that even a moth would have trouble matching, Vander Zalm has introduced British Columbians to a government where election-style media blitzing seems to go on and on. It's entertaining, but some observers wonder how Vander Zalm's flamboyant style fits in with legislative tradition and whether it causes government policy to be born in front of boom mikes; “It’s a one-man show in British Columbia,” said Evan Lloyd, press secretary to New Democratic Party Leader Mike Harcourt. “He's more comfortable running it alone, thinking as he goes instead of following the established procedures of the legislature.” BILL TRIED IT Social Credit governments have traditionally had a flair for the big event. Even: in the tight-lipped days of Bill Bennett, Vander Zalm's taciturn predecessor, government policy was often announced with a glitzy media event. But then, only when the stage was set did the premier step into the limelight. Vander Zalm, known for philosophies like “No ink is bad ink” and “Style is substance,” is seemingly willing to wing it anywhere, anytime. British Columbians can now tune into TV and radio stations and actually hear policy being formulated on the airways, says David Mitchell, author of a number of books on the Socreds. Handlers of Vander Zalm, however, take exception to the notion he makes policy on the fly. “Sometimes people think the premier is contradicting his minister when he's really just saying the same thing in a different way,” says Bachop. OPPOSITE VIEW Most recently, the premier called an extraordinary 11 p.m. news conference on, the Saturday night he returned from a Hawaiian vacation. Reporters who dutifully answered the summons to the airport were told that contrary to what various cabinet ministers had been saying for a week, the government would not pay for any non-emergency abortions in British Columbia. Although everyone agrees Vander Zalm is his own best press agent — “If he were in a corporation he'd be VP of public relations,” says Mitchell — the premier and his cabinet sometimes like to bypass the fourth estate al- together. “From time to time Vander Zalm feels the government has the right to inform people in a more direct way, without having the message diluted by the media,” says Bachop. So the good-looking premier appears on a regular phone-in radio show and cable television program. Playing catch-up, NDP Leader Harcourt is now doing the same thing. There's also the occasional prime-time commercial blitz by Vander Zalm and his ministers, such as when trade unionists were attacking controversial new labor legislation. ISSUE TABLOID Every B.C. household also receives Provincial Report, a glossy tabloid-style paper issued by the premier’s office that tirelessly extols the virtues of Socred policies. But these publicly funded public-relations efforts are not enough for the charismatic Vander Zalm, who revels in the personal touch. Just ask the reporters who last autumn scheduled a baseball game with the premier and his caucus on the night of an emergency cabinet meeting. Vander Zalm walked into the legislation press lounge and asked if it was true the game was that night. “Well,” a reporter recalls the premier saying, “I'll try and see if I can keep the meeting short. The guys are all asking me. They really want to play.” The meeting ran long and Vander Zalm never showed up. But the press gallery reporters all knew the premier had thought of them. SPRING IS COMING! Local & Friendly Services for all your... * Upholstery Needs Boot top, boat seat, window & i tailed. Car seat, je seat. R.R.S.P.s Options inciude oRRIFS *1.A. 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