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But a major plus a game miscon- duct will be called on any player wie? injures an opponent as a result of checking from behind. When a player is high-sticked, cross-checked, body-checked, pushed or hit from behind into the boards so that the player is unable to protect or defend himself, a major plus a game misconduct will be called. Ys The compromise was needed beca- use of concern that referees might be reluctant'to make the calls becuase of their severity, said Richar Rarayre, manager of the association's referee program. APPROVE RULES Other rules approved at the five- day meeting, which ends today, include: — Players with three stick penal- ties (high-sticking, slashing, cross- checking, attempted spearing of at- tempted butt-ending) will be thrown out — Attempted spearing and attemt- ted butt-ending will carry double minors. — Players losing their helmets during play must put them back on or get off the ice. If they don’t, they'll get a delay-of-game minor. Play will stop i i after a Golf Tips WAYNE GAMBORSKI mm, DENNY McARTHUR With the upcoming tournament schedule in the Kootenays, we shall divert from the fundamentals of the game, and mention golf course nt. ’ The golf course management we will cover is how we manage our- Selves on the course, from etiquette to strategy. Golf is a game rooted deep ip tradition, and the manner in which we play the game has evolved over many years. The rules of conduct which guide the players behavior are similarly rooted in what is termed etiquette. It guides golfers in behaving in a manner which is worthy of the game and is essentially consideration for others and the golf course. Slow play is golf’s cancer. It must be stopped or it will spread, even- tually destroying the game. Players should play without delay. The typical round of golf takes four hours to play, an average of 12-14 minutes per hole. The five-hour round should not be tolerated. There exists no correlation between pace of play and score, so please be prepared to execute you’shot when it is your turn. Tt states in the rules of golf that once the hole in front of you becomes open, allow the groups who are following you to play through you. Simply move aside and allow the group to play on, and once they are out of range resume play. This is especially important when it become apparent that a ball will not be easily found. Slow play not only affects the beginners, like the avid players wish to think, but all levels of ability. Take Bob Tway in the Memorial tour- nament a couple of weeks ago. He set an extremely poor example by playing at the rate he did. We were honestly surprised he was not assessed a penalty for slow play as the rules allow. an enjoyable four-hour round. Good luck and good golfing. local golfers. At this moment we wish to restate that there exists no correlation between the pace of play and score, so let’s pick it up so that we all will play The Sunflower Open is June 3 and 4, Come out and support your Golfing hot shots By GERRY WICHERT Congratulations are in order for a couple of shotmakers who, bucked loses a helmet. Espo sacked in Big Apple NEW YORK (CP) — Phil Esposito was fired today as coach, general manager and vice-president of. the New York Rangers. Esposito took over ‘as coach with two games left last season, when as general manager, he fired Michel Bergeron Esposito was not immediately avai lable for comment In making the announcement, John Diller, executive vice-president of Madison Square Garden Sports Gr oup which owns the NHL team, said, “We announced at the end of the season that we would undertake a thorough, assessment of the entire Ranger organization."’ “We carefully evaluated where we are, where we can reasonably expect to be, and most important, what it will take to get us there,"’ Diller said Hextall suspended for 12 games PHILADELPHIA though he'll be opening suspension for the second time in three years, Ron Hextall doesn't see himself as one of hock. ey’s bad guys. “It’s only two incidents in three years,"’ the Philadelphia Flyers goal- ie said Tuesday, one day after being suspended for 12 games without pay for an attack on Montreal defence man Chris Chelios in Game 6 of the Wales Conference finals. “Therefore, I don't think it’s a big adjustment."" The suspension handed down by NHL executive vice-president Brian O'Neill for the attack on Chelios was about twice what Hextall said he expected (AP) — Even serving a season- “As a result of this evaluation, it is our belief that new hockey leadership is necessary at this time in order to achieve the goals we have set for this franchise **The decision with respect to Phil, who has completed his third season as Rangers general manager, was not an easy one. He has made many contributions to the franchise both as a-player-and-as-a- generat-manager and we appreciate the hockey judg- ment and experience he brought to us during his tenure."" After firing Bergeron on April 1 and coaching the Rangers through the last two regular season games, Esposito was behind the bench ‘for four games of a playoff against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Rangers lost all six of those games ical odds and scored aces. On May 6, Ralph Clay had the golfer’s dream materialized on the 165- yard, par three, 13th hole. Then on May 18, Andy Shutek holed his shot during the ‘‘String’’ event, on the 126-yard, third hole, also a par three. However, it should be noted that Shutek scored his ace without the help of the string. Fifty-four avid golfers played the course in cold and windy conditions with 15 picking up golfballs for their efforts. Those winners are T. Allis, R. Ar- chambault, F. Bacon, B. Cooper. J. Davidson, A. Franco, D. John, G. Pettit, A. Popoff, G. Rust, A. Shutek, W. Van. Yzerloo, F. Webber, G. Wichert, H. Wood. Canada wins first mixed-golf title OAKVILLE, Ont. (CP) — Dave Barr summed it up nicely Tuesday when he said organizers couldn't have written a better script for the first Canadian Airlines International mixed team golf tournament. 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But vast tracts of the forests, located mostly in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia, are still being chopped down each day for lumber and to clear land for farming. Here is a report on the slow progress of the preservation movement. By TOMCOHEN The Associated Press A campaign to preserve the remaining half of the world’s tropical rain forests has finally taken root, but the task is enormous and the last gasp for the “‘lungs of the Ear- th’’ could be less thana century away Environmentalist are pleased with their initial success three years after they began challenging governments, in- dustries and banks. But an area the size of a soccer field is destroyed each minute, and the preservation movement seeks fundamental changes in political, economic and social structures to save the jungles of South America, Africaand Southeast Asia The aggressive campaign of publicity, education and confrontation began in 1985 and appeared to capture the world’s attention last year. Almost overnight, it seemed, world leaders began calling for greater efforts to halt the chopping and burning of rain forests. Rock stars Sting and the Grateful Dead played benefit concerts for the cause. Media coverage increased Some recent fruits of that effort — In October, Brazil announced suspension of tax benefits for landowners who destroy the Amazon rain forest, the largest and fastest-disappearing on Earth, — The International Tropical Timber Organization approved a project worth the-equivalent-of $4:8-mittiorr Cdn in northern Brazil that calls for loggers to consult with environmental groups, government agencies, native In- dians and local workers to plan long-term forest develop- mentand preservation, — Some 500 Brazilian Indians from 20 tribes gathered in February to oppose planned hydroelectric dams in the Amazon that could flood rain forest areas, including their homes. The meeting was the first by the tribes, which traditionally have battled over territory and remained isolated Thailand imposed a countrywide logging ban after environmentalists blamed uncontrolled timber harvesting for floods that killed more than 350 people in November Last April, officials suspended plans for a hydroelectric dam that ruined Thailand’ s last virgin rain forest West Germany earmarked the quivalent of about $96 million Cdn for saving tropical forests “Without a coherent strategy for protecting the tropical forests in which everyone concerned participates, we cannot master the vast problems threatening the future of all manking,”” said West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl “We're in trouble,” said Randall Hayés, head of the U.S.-based Rainforest Action Network, ‘If we don’t get the changes we necd in the next five years, then we've lost the rain forests.” environmentalists said would have The results could be catastrophic Rain forests cover some 971 million’ hectares of the planet, about half the original amount, ecologists say Sometimes called the ** they act as a pollution filter, absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. If carbon dioxide isn’t removed from the at mosphere, it can trap heat, which some scientists say causes a global warming trend called the greenhouse effect. Bur ning the rain forests, a common way to create farm land, also adds carbon to the atmosphere Rain forests are storehouses of plant, insect and animal species, some of which could prove useful for drugs and other scientific endeavors. Scientists say only a small percentage of the five million species in the forests, many of them unique to the tropical environment, have .been studied. In addition, 200 million people live in and around rain forests, including indigenous tribes who depend on them for sustenance and shelter. NEED DEVELOPMENT Nonetheless, preservation presents complexities that cut across social and politcal boundaries. many rain forests are in developing countries that need to capitalize on their natural resources and must borrow money for costly modernization projects, such as highways and power plan ts. Brazil, for example, has the developing world’s largest foreign debt at the equivalent of $138 billion Cdn. Two of its limited number of export products are beef and timber — industries that cause major forest destruction. Cattle ranchers burn forests to create grazing land; loggers clear jungle in search of exotic hardwoods. Meanwhile, poor farmers burn small tracts to grow crops. The soil, so fertile under the rain forest canopy, is then leached of nutrients in seasonal heavy rains, forcing farmers to move on and burn another patch every few years. Last fall, Brazilian President Jose Sarney suspended tax benefits for land developers and banned exports of un processed tropical timber. ‘‘We must create nationwide consciousness that we are all passengers in the adventure of man on Earth,”’ he said. ‘‘The era of unlimited natural resources is over."” But Brazil is balking at proposals to swap some of its foreign debt for saving parcels of raig forest. Such plans would entail creation of an international commission to watch over the preserved jungle “We can’t turn the Amazon into a sort of national park for humanity,” said Brazil's foreign minister, Rober- to de Abreu Sodre. “Our priority is economic develop. ment. We're open to international suggestions, but not those that interfere in Brazilian sovereignty.”* SPARKS CONFLICT Industrial giants such as the United States and European countries, which have little or no rain forest, ~have been the most vocal about the developing nations’ ef forts to halt the destruction, That causes particular resen: ument “Part of the problem is that it's Coming down to the developed countries versus the developing countries," said U.S. activist who monitors the World Bank, the largest lungs of the Earth,”” source of aid to developing nations “They (developing countries) say, ‘You raped your countries to get developed, and now you're stopping us from doing it,"’’ said the activist, who spoke on condition his name not be used But N. F. Potter, Canada’s executive director at the 151-nation World Bank, said: ‘There are ways of doing things without making the same mistakes. The World Bank has been criticized by environmen: talists, who say it ignores ecological issues when funding projects. At issue are billions of dollars; in the fiscal year ending June 30, the bank expects to lend the equivalent of $25 billion Cdn { These bankers ... are absolutely reckless,”” said Brent Blackwelder of the U.S.-based Environmental Policy In stitute. ASSESS DANGERS Under increasing pressure from member nations and environmental groups not to fund ecologically harmful projects, the World Bank set up a department in 1987 assess the potential damage of development projects Environmentalists also have accused some nations, especially Japan, of funding projects with no regard for en vironmental issues. For example, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, for merly the World Wildlife Fund, claims Japan has helped finance hydroelectric dams in Brazil that will flood rain forest so it can buy logs from the land to be flooded — thus circumventing Brazil’s ban on unprocessed timber exports Motokatsu Watanabe, a Japanese Foreign Ministry officer, said Japan’s private sector has not recognized the danger of deforestation. A government goal was to increase public awareriess, he said. World Bank environmentalists say Japan—has im- proved its record recently by supporting research and in- creasing contributions to organizations MASS LOGGING In the Asian and African forests, logging has caused the most destruction. Environmentalists say that rather than selectively logging valuable woods for trade, the tim- ber industry destroys large tracts in search of exotic woods The wholesale logging leads to flooding from rain- water that runs over the barren land instead of being absor- bed by foliage. It also displaces native populations, creating conflicts between developers and local people In Malaysia, members of the Penans, the last known tribe of nomadic hunters and gatherers on the north coast of Borneo, have repeatedly obstructed logging roads in Sarawak state The Penans began the campaign two years ago 10 protect hunting grounds. They complain they are mot recognized as owners of their ancestral lands The Amazon Indians who gathered in Brazil have similar concerns. While governments say they will offer programs: to resettle the Indians, environmentalists call for ‘‘sustainable management’’ — conservation efforts that yield rain forest resources while preserving the Indian homelands. They say such conservationis practised in less than one percent of-alt rain forest An example of sustainable management is selec@ve harvesting, in Which rows of trees afe cut instead of whole sections of forest. The forest can thgn regenerate under the remaining canopy Such policies were the goal of Francisco Mendes, an Amazon ecologist. Mendes, 44, was shot to death outside his home in December while under police protection from death threats Unexplored ecosystem may soon be gone By The Associated Press Tropical rain forests are among the last ecosystems on Earth virtually unchanged since prehistoric times and largely unexplored by modern man. Here are some facts: * Rain forests in the world cover about 971 million hectares, mostly in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Environmentalists say about half the original rain forest has been destroyed, and at the current pace it all will be gone or severely degraded within a century © Some five million species of plants, animals and insects live in the rain forests, many unique to the tropical-_environment with possible untold benefits to science, agriculture and medicine. Scientists believe only a small percentage of these have been studied * Sometimes called the ‘lungs of the Earth,” rain forests act as a pollution filter by absérbing carbon dioxide from power plants, automobiles and fires and producing oxygen. In that way, some scientists say, they help reduce the so-called greenhouse effect, a gradual warming of the Earth because excess carbon dioxide and pollutants in the atmosphere trap the sun's heat. A major source of carbon in the atmosphere is from the widespread burning of rain forest, aGommon method of clearing it for farming * An estimated 200 million pedple live in and around rain forests, including indigenous tribes that depend on the jungles for sustenance and shelter. When disptaced;—the-natives-become-unskitled-taborers~ im countries already struggling to develop socially and economically