Castlegar News —J01v 9.1989

Plans get funding Meeting

By GUY BERTRAND
Staff Writer

Renovations at Stanley, Humphries
secondary school have taken a big step
from the sketch pad to the drawitig
board thanks to a major capital fund
approved by the Ministry of Educa

School Distriet (No.
9) will receive funds totalling $384,593,
Education Minister Tony Brummet
and Nelson-Creston MLA Howard
Dirks announced ina press release
The allocation will be used to plan
the renovation of SHSS. John
Dascher, secretary treasurer of School
District No. 9, said the money is the fir
st phase of a $5- to $6-million face-lift

the school will receive.

“Those funds will go to architect
fees, consultant fees, engineers and so
on,” said Dascher, He said the next
step is to have the work drawings com.
pleted for approval by the ministry

“We're approaching the ministry
right now with sketches for their ap
proval.”’

Dascher said the fenovations at
SHSS will include major upgrading of
flammable materials. The ceilings and
walls of the 38-year-old high school are
scheduled to be redone with fire
retardant materials.

There are also plans for internal
changes. Larger rooms for classes and
storage, and provisions for an elevator

fogdisabled students and visitors are in
the planning stages.

Dascher said the approval of initial
funding is a good sign.

“We're quite hopeful now that the
government has committed some fin
ding the actual funding will go
through."* 3

If the ‘plans are approved, the
earliest construction would start is
June of 1990, Dascher said

Brummet said in the press release
that the government is meeting the
commitment it made earlier in the ygar
to more than double its sending on
school capital programs. Hetalso Said
over the next six years the government
will spend up to $1.5 billion on major
school construction.

Society in need despite
added government funds

By CasNews Staff

The Women in Need Society in Trail
has received a Victim Assistance
Program grant of $2,500 but more is
still needed, according to society ad
ministrator Mary Hamann

Howard Dirks, Minister of State for
Kootenay, presented the grant on
behalf of Attorney-General Bud
Smith

In a press release Smith said, “The
supplemental grant is being awarded to
help this valuable victim assistance
agency meet the needs of a growing
number of sexual assault and family
violence victims seeking help."

The Women in Need Society has
operated the Thansition House in Trail
since 1980. The house provides shelter
for victims of assault, The volunteers
provide emotional support, court ag
companiment and help with the
process of putting their lives back
together, Hamann said

She said the society is facing a ‘fun
ding crisis right now’’ which is
seriously jeopardizing the crisis line
and support groups that are of tered

“The government has realized we're
doing a needed job,’ said Hamann in
reference to the grant. But she said the
group has projected a loss of $2,600

continued from front poge

Stark has had problems receiving
funding from Canadian organizations
before, he said. B.C. Film held up
$18,000 worth of funds from Telefilm
last year, he said, then gave Stark
$5,000

That's a “*ludicrous"* sum for an in
vestment company to supply, he said,
when he spends more than that each
month on phone calls and faxing

You can’t express to someone
behind a desk the nuts and bolts of put
ting a $5-million picture together,” he
said

Stark said he will try to assemble
private funding in the next few days
but U.S., Canadian and British
backers have so far made their in
volvement contingent on Telefilm
funding

Start said it's ironic that the film isto
be called The Dispossessed since the 10
years of personal financial in
volvement he has invested has left him

personally dispossessed’ after
sinking over $100,000 into the film

He has sold his house and ail his
possessions and hawked his car for
$5,000 to keep Farmer from leaving the
film, he said. His phone bill was $800
last month and he expects to be evicted

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any day, he said

I'm absolutely ruined — finan
cially and emotionally," he said. “If |
survive, this is the last I'll ever have to
do with Telefilm or a Canadian pic
ture.”

The film is not commercial but
“socially conscious — and therefore
more difficult to market, he said,
another reason that a- U.S
distribution commitment at this stage
is so unusual

The film deals with all minority
cultures and their treatment by
majorities, by focusing on the ex
periences of the Doukhobors in
Canada in the 1930s, Stark, who wrote
the script, said

The story is a romance
backdrop of the Doukhobor experien:
ce in the years leading up to the Second
World War, he said

The plot involves a young labor ac
tivist who comes up from the U.S. to
organize the Mine/Mill Union in the
Kootenays and falls in lo
Doukhobor girl, he said

The film begins in Canada
moves to Russia. Filming will be done
partially in the Kootenays and partially
intheU.S.S.R., he said

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CASTLEGAR

In the Castlegar Avto Mall DL. 7956

“THIS IS THE MAZDA WAY

this year if further funding isn’t
received

‘Right now we're on a letter cam
paign writing to the Minister of Social
Services and Housing, the Health
Minister and even Premier Vander
Zalm

The society receives annual funding
gf $7,500 and the addition of the
$2,500 grant raises their annual fund to
$10,000 but: Hamann said more is
needed.

“We receive donations from the
United Way and local people plus we
have volunteers helping out. but we
can’t always be turning to the public,”
said Hamann

She also stressed the society is not
limited to the people of Trail, ‘*We get
lots of calls from people in Castlegar
and’ many attended our support
groups.

Hamann estimates that $15,000 a
year would keep the society's house

and programs going

Tourist alert

VANCOUVER (CP) Tourist
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following persons, believed travelling
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Leonard Richards, Prince George,
call James Dinsmore

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continued trom front page

The road will not be paved past the site either, he said,
since that too is costly and not in the budget. A process
called flush coating, which ‘uses gravel, oil and chips to
produce a hard, dust-free surface, may be considered if

work together to ensure the project ‘and bridge go ahead.
Gunn told the crowd “the site is highly sensitive —
each footprint has an impact.”
Former Area H director Corky Evans explained the
circumstances of the restraint period of the early 1980s
when the RDCK voted in favor of the present road align-

A’

“Briefly

there are sufficient funds, he said.

The RDCK passes a motion at its last meetingtosenda = ent

letter to Transportation and Highways Minister Neil Vant
asking that the road be paved to keep down dust anda fence
and treed buffer zone be installed to maintain the privacy of

the site.

Eastman also said the road would be constructed to
accommodate logging trucks that may use the road now or

in the future.

Maureen Stoll, a Vallican resident, spoke for those
who want to see the road and bridge put in quickly apd fear
possible realignment of the road would put it through the

middle of their quiet subdivision.

There are families with young children in the sub-
division and they value their relatively traffic-free lives, she

said.

The road, which is slated to go beside the subdivision,
is not the perfect solution, she said, but
best for all concerned” and the people of the area should

June dealt
average
weather

Nature dished out a little bit of
everything in what proved to be a
slightly above-average month of June.

In its monthly weather report the
Castlegar Weather Office said tem-
peratures, precipitation and even days
of thunder were all above normal

Although the month may have been
slightly on the cool side, the mean tem-
perature was 17.8 C which was 1.1
degrees above the normal monthly
average. June was highlighted by a
high of 32 C on the 12th but that was
still short of the record 35.7 C reported
on June 30, 1987

On the other end of the thermometer
6.3 C was the lowest recording at the
airport on June 20, once again it was
still short of the record 2.2C on June 4,
1976.

Precipitation was slightly up for the
month: 70.3 millimetres of rain fell
which was 5.7 mm above average. That
total was still a far cry from the 115.4
mm downpour faced in June of 1981
The dryest June on record is June 1974
whena paltry 12.7 mm fell

Lottery numbers

this must the be

The RDCK and the Valley Advisory Planning Com-
mission was lead to believe the area had to take what it
could get, he said.

Evans said he was responsible for the motion to accept
the road and there should have been a public consultation
process before the vote

**But | also think the present site is a rational place for
that bridge to go,"” he said.

Lou Stone, of the Arrow Lakes Indian Band, ex-
plained the significance of the site to a “*conglomeration of
disintegrated people” that the band became after fleeing
persecution from the white settlers to the valley, Much, of
the band is now centred in northern Washington state.

Cady closed the meeting with a pledge to try to im-
plementasuggestion from Evans.

All the parties involved should have a private meeting
and try to hammer out the issues, Evans said.

In memory

TEACHER AND STUDENTS . . . Marjorie Galbraith with some of
her pupils from Robson school in June, 1925.

Marjorie Galbraith

Mrs. Marjorie Galbraith, age 87, an early resident of Robson, died
on June 30, 1989 in the UBC Hospital.

In 1908 her parents, James and Mary Ann Fowler, sold their farm in
Pilot Mound, Manitoba, having purchased 15 acres in the orchard

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being created on the abandoned railway yards of the
Columbia and Kootenay Railway at Robson. After graduating from
elementary school in Robson during World War I, Marjorie relieved her
father of the duties of telephone operator and CPR express agent in Rob-
son, thus permitting him to take on the job of freight clerk on the Arrow
Lakes steamboat run between Robson and Arrowhead. After secondary-
level grades opened in Robson in 1921, Marjorie completed her schooling
and went on to graduate in 1925 from Normal school in Victoria

During her Normal school year, Marjorie became engaged to Stewart
Galbraith, the brother of her Normal School classmate and close friend,
Myra Jean Galbraith, with whom she shared interests in music and in the
activities of Victoria's First Baptist Church. After teaching a couple of
years in Arrow Lakes communities, Marjorie married Stewart Galbrait on
March 3, 1928 and they settled in Vancouver. They joined the West Point
Grey Baptist Church and Marjorie served as organist in this church for
about a decade, and sang in the church choir thereafter for about 40 years.

Marjorie was widowed in 1956, but continued to live in the house
which she and her husband purchased in 2926 West 8th Avenue in Van-
couver. A host of UBC students roomed under here roof, as did her
widowed father, who sold his fruit ranch in 1935 to Peter Evdokimoff of
Brilliant. She retained an unflagging interest in gardening and music, and
continued an active life until a week before her death.

Her daughter, Jean Affleck, predeceased her on Feb. 18, 1989. She is
survived by her son, Don Galbraith, of Quebec City; four grandchildren,
Bruce and Peter Galbraith of Quebec City and Caroly and David Affleck
of Vancouver; and by her two brothers, Earle Fowler of Copurtney,
B.C. and Jim Fowler of Vancouver

Ruth Ritter

Ruth Bernice Ritter, beloved wife of Arthur Ritter, passed away
Tuesday, July 4, 1989 at the age of 73

Mrs. Ritter was born Oct. 5, 1915 at Grand Forks, B.C. and spent her
younger years in the Blewett area. She graduated from secondary school
in Vancouver and received her beauticians license there and worked as a
beautician in both Vancouover and Castlegar. She also worked at the
Castlegar Hospital

She married Arthur Ritter on Dec. 24, 1964 at Couer d’ Alene, Idaho.
She has lived at Blueberry Creek with her husband since 1971

Besides her husband, she is survived by four daughters, Judy Phillips
Northport, Washington, Donna Waters of Olympia, Washington,
Virginia Bache of Plains, Montana and Ardeth Walley of Lacey,
Washington; 14 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; one brother,
Alan Willey of Duncan, B.C. and two nephews on Vancouver Island

Funeral service was held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel on Friday,
July 7, 2989 with Rev. Jim Ferrier officiating. Cremation followed.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar
Funeral Chapel.

Margaret Selbie

Margaret M. Selbie died peacefully at White Rock on July 5, after a
short illness. a :

She was born Dec. 25, 1911 in Vancouver, and spent her early years
there. In 1935 she married Allen Selbie. The couple lived in the Northwest
Territories, Vancouver, Cowichan Bay,
Revelstoke before moving to Castlegar in 1960.

Residents of Castlegar for 25 years, the Selbies were involved in many
Community activities. Margaret was a keen bridge player and loved enter
taining, although this was somewhat curtailed by her loss of vision.

She will be missed and fondly remembered by her husband of $4
years, Allen; her son Colin; daughter-in-law Norma and grandchildren
Mark, lan, and Janice SElbie of Kelowna; her daughter Susan and son-in
law Jim Forrest of Castlegar; and grandchildren Lieut. Patricia Huffam
of C.F.B. Gagetown and Cpl. Douglas Forrest of C.F.B. Chilliwack

Cremation has taken place, and there will be no funeral by request. In
lieu of flowers, those who so desire may make a memorial donation to the
Canadian National Institute for the Blind,
choice

Victoria, Kitimat, and

or to the charity of their

Union denies Province story

VANCOUVER (CP) — The Hospital Employees Union. reacted
angrily Friday toa story in a Vancouver newspaper that claimed the union
was taking money out of its members’ cheques to finance the recent
hospital strike.

**We have members calling us with the mistaken idea that after being
on strike for three weeks, andsuffering wage losses, that they are being
asked to pay more money and that's not true,"’ said union spokesman
Sean O'Flynn.

The Province reported Friday the hospital union is taking 20 per cent
of members’ wages until further notice to replenish its strike fund.

Electoral reform in progress

VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia government began Friday
to do away with dual-member ridings and increase the size of the
legislature to 75 members, but with some reservations.

The seven-member electoral reform committee voted unanimously
to ask the to accept the of a royal com-
mission on redrawing the province’ s electoral boundaries.

“There's not a parade or brass bands waiting,”’ said Graham Bruce,
the Social Credit member from Cowichan-Malahat

Two Socred cabinet ministers on the committee argued that the
report by county court Judge Thomas Fisher did not serve the interests of
northern British Columbians and needlessly increased the size of the
legislature.

Hoopla surrounds summit

OTTAWA (CP) — It will be hard to distinguish the summiteers from
the revellers when Prime Minister Brian Mulroney goes to Paris next
week

This year’s economic summit of the G7 countries — the United
States, Japan, Britain, France, West Germany, Canada and Italy — is
shaping up to be a photographer's dream and could be called the Photo
Op Olympics

The government leaders will be competing with fireworks, parades
and an all-night party on Bastille Day, marking the bicentennial of the
French Revolution. Bastille Day is July 14, the beginning of the three-day
sanamit

The mixture of summitry and revelry has prompted predictions of
failure.

Court refuses extradition

STRASBOURGH, FRANCE (AP-CP) — The European Court of
Human Rights ruled Friday that a West German accused of killing two
former Canadian residents in Virginia should not be extradited to the
United States because he could receive the death penalty.

The court said the threat of the death penalty is a violation of Jens
Soering’s human rights. Soering is being held in Britain

Rulings by the court don’t technically bind the members of the
Council of Europe, but they’re rarely ignored. Britain said it will study the
rulilng

Court officials called the judgment a landmark ruling because the
court normally issues such decisions only after a human rights abuse has
occurred

Return visit for Queen Mother

LONDON, Ont. (CP) — It wasn’t the Queen Mother's clothes or
jewels that won the affection of the crowds.

It was the warmth behind the spontaneous gift of a sprig of yellow
flowers from her bouquet, the patience that sustained her long enough for
well-wishers to get another picture, and the unselfconscious bewilderment
revealed in an impromptu remark

The Queen Mother returned here Friday after 50 years for a heartfelt
welcome from residents of the southwestern Ontario city named after her
English hometown

The 88-year-old matriarch’s schedule on the third day of a five-day
visit to Ottawa, Toronto and London wasn’t as hectic as that of the royal
tour half a century ago.

On June 7, 1939, London was the first of seven communities the
Queen and her late husband King George VI visited in one day of the mon-
th-long cross-Canada journey, the first by a reigning king and his queen

Reporter ordered out of China

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities ordered Saturday the ex
pulsion of another American reporter, the fourth U.S. journalist told to
leave the country since last month.

Mark Hopkins, correspondent for the U.S. government-run Voice
of America radio network, was given 72 hours to leave China, VOA Direc-
tor Richard Carlson said in a telephone interview from Washington.

Hopkins was the second VOA reporter ordered out of the country
since the bloody June 3-4 military crackdown against pro-reform demon-
stators in Beijing. A total of seven foreign journalists have been ordered
expelled from China

Hopkins, 58, was called in this morning to the Beijing State Security
Bureau and accused of breaking martial law, instigating propaganda, and
violating the terms of his tourist visa, Carlson said.

Police baffled by crime

OTTAWA (CP) — The unearthing of a freshly buried coffin Thur-
sday night at a local cemetery has left police and the family of the deceased
baffled and angry

“*When they got down to the coffin they either panicked or left,”’ said
Staff Insp. Dan McFaul.

The casket had been buried at 4 p.m. Thursday in Beechwood
Cemetery, said Sgt. Dave Murgatroyd. Sometime overnight, somebody
hopped the two-metre iron fence and started to dig

The name of the deceased was not released, but detectives are
examining his background for clues to the “‘heinous”’ crime, said Insp.
Pat Moyle.

Menem to lead Argentina

BUENOS AIRED (AP) — Carlos Menem, a three-time provincial
governor and former political prisoner was sworn in today as Argentina's
46th president amid hopes he will be able to find a way out of the country’s
serious economic crisis

During the ceremony at a special session of Congress, Menem
promised ‘‘to observe and enforce the constitution of Argentina

“If [do not, may I be answerable to God and the nation,”’ he said

Israelis call for revenge

JERUSALEM (CP) — Fist-waving Jews clamoring for vengeance
mobbed Labor party leadér Shimon Peres and attacked Arabs over the
killing of 14 people, including two Canadians, by a Palestinian who for-
ced their bus over acliff

Enraged right-wingers tried to lynch an Arab driver in Jerusalem in
one of a series of incidents during the funerals of four of the bus victims
Friday. The driver was saved by police who fired tear gas to disperse the
crowd

A 90-year-old Arab man suffered a fractured pelvis when he was run
cover by a Jewish settler in a car. Arab hospitals said nine Palestinians were
wounded, two of them critically, after being stoned by Israelis.

Police arrested at least 10 right-wingers

Quebec nurses reject offer
MONTREAL (CP) — Members of the Quebec Nurses Federation
have over rejected an agi in principle with the provin
cial government.
Of the 46.5 per cent of the union's 40,000 members who voted, 77.8
per cent [rejected the agreement, which the union’s executive and

The nurses will be meeting within the next few days to develop new
strategies or achieving their demands.

Rockin’
in the park

The Travelling Mildooies. a group of Grade 7 students from Salmo elementary school, were
the headline act in the first "Concert in the Park” of the year. Groups will be enterta
people from noon to 1 p.m. every Thursday at the Kinsmen Park.

Mother
files
suit.

VANCOUVER (CP) — — the mother
of a 10-year-old boy who has waged a
highly-publicized battle against a rare
kind of tumor has filed a lawsuit again
st his doctors.

Phillipa © Wigglesworth _of
Squamich, filed a writ in B.C
Supreme Court on Friday on behalf of
her son, Andrew. She alleges that 10
doctors and the B.C. Children’s
Hospital were negligent in diagnosing
and treating the boy

The claim says Andrew suffered
damages as a result of the diagnoses,
advice and treatment that the doctors
gave.

Andrew was diagnosed as having a
rare type of non-cancerous tumor. His
left leg was amputated at the pelvis in
1987. He also lost his kidney, bladder,
rectum and part of his bowel and un-
derwent 25 radiation treatments at the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

The clinic gave him a clean bill of
health last February

Andrew's fight against his disease
drew media attention. He was befrien-
ded by movie star Martin Sheen, who
met him while filming in | British
Columbia.

Minimum
wage
going up

VICTORIA (CP) — British Colum
bia’s minimum wage will be increased
to $5 an hour in two stages, the gover:
nment announcéd Friday

The minimum wage is currently
$4.50 an hour. It will be raised by 25
cents an hour on Oct. | and another 25
cents next April 1

For workers younger than 18, the
minimum wage will rise to $4.25 from
the current $4 an hour Oct. | and to
$4.50 0n April

Labor Minister Lyall Hanson said
minimum wages for domestics, live-in
homemakers, farthworkers and| hor
ticultural workers will also be ad-
justed

About five per cent of British
Columbia workers earn the minimum
wage — mostly in the accommodation
and food service industry, trade,
finance and agriculture.

Council
dismisses
complaint

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
British Columbia Press. Council has
dismissed a complaint against the Van
couver Sun by columnist Doug Collins
of the North Shore News but criticized
The Sun for its handling of the issue.

The complaint concerned a Nicole
Parton column in The Sun in which
quotations from a ‘North Shore
newspaper columnist’’ were cited as an
example of*‘the language of hate."’

The Parton column was based on an
interview with Aziz Khaki, president
of the Council for Racial Justice, who
had been the subject of the column
from which the quotations were taken.

In its decision released today, the
press council said neither Collins nor
his newspaper was named but Collins
said it was clear that the reference was
to his column.

Unemployment rate
said lowest in years

By LARRY WELSH
OTTA WATER) = irate
the next few weeks have been dashed after the counitry's
unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level in almost
eight years, economists said Friday
The national unemployment rate fell to 7.3 per cent in
June, down from 7.7 per cent in May. This is the lowest
level since August 1981 after adjustments for seasonal
variations, Statistics Canada said.
“We didn’t expect the rate to drop by this amount,

* said Ted Carmichael, senior economist at Toronto invest

ment dealer Burns Fry Ltd.

“This is good news from the point of view of people
looking for jobs in the country, but it’s not so good news in
terms of the interest rate outlook.”

Bank of Canada governor John Crow has steered in-
terest rates higher to slow the economy and dampen in-
flationary pressure

Rates have climbed four percentage points since last
spring to their highest level in five years and economists ex
pected that would boost the number of jobless.

The prime rate, generally charged by major banks on
loans to their top customers, stands at 13.5 per cent

But an ‘“‘amazingly resilient’’ economy has largely
shrugged off rising borrowing charges so far, said Marc
Meagher, chief economist at Merrill Lynch Canada

After adjusting for seasoffal variations, there were

50,000 fewer ufiemployed in June while the number of
working rose strongty after several Months Of Unset
tled changes, Statistics Canada said

There were 58,000 more people working last month
than in May, boosting the total number of employed to 12.5
million

The economy had generated another 62,000 new jobs
in May

Economists said those new workers will be getting pay
cheques, spending money, thus heating upinflation:

**| doubt very much that the Bank of Canada will show
any significant easing over the next couple of months unless
you get a real downturn in the inflation numbers andl
don’t expect that to happen,’’ said Robert Boaz, an
economist at Deacon Morgan McEwen Easson Ltd., 0
Toronto.

Still, it’s only a matter of time before high interest rates
take their toll on the jobless as most indicators point to a
slowing economy, said Warren Allmand, Liberal em-
ployment critic

‘I believe this is a temporary situation, ’’ he told repor-
ters.

Unemployment rates historically bottom out just as
the economy slides into a downturn, Carmichael said.

In actual figures — before adjusting for seasonal
variations — the number of people working in June rose to
12,856,000, an increase of 277,000 or 2.2 per cent

U.S.S.R., allies
sign agreement

BUCHAREST (AP) — The Soviet Union and its War-
saw Pact allies signed an agreement today to seek a nuclear-
free Europe with significantly fewer soldiers and arms, the
official Soviet news agency Tass reported.

The document calls for ‘‘a stable and secure Europe,
free from nuclear and chemical weaspons, for substantial
cuts in armed forces, arms and military spending,” Tass
said

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the red:
covered text of the 16-page accord with a flourist and a
smile for photographers, who were allowed to attend a
brief signing ceremony. The signing took place in a marble-
columned hall in Bucharest’s former royal palace

In remarks Friday at a palace dinner for the East bloc’s
top Communist party and government officials, Gor
bachev said the documents adopted by the pact in the two-
day annual summit contain a ‘‘serious palpable answer to
the proposals made by the NATO countries.”

ENHANCE DIALOGUE

**We took new steps today toward European security
and rapprochement and East-West dialogue,"” Gorbachev
said

East German leader Erich Honegfer, meanwhile,

NUCLEAR BOMB
EXPLODED

MOSCOW (CP) — The Soviet Union exploded un:
derground a nuclear device of up to 20 kilotonnes today
at its test site near Semipalatinsk in the central Asian
republic of Kazakhstan, Tass said

The blast was part of an upgrading of military har-
dware, the official Soviet news agency said, adding that
radioactivity in the area was normal

A similar test had been conducted at Semipalatinsk
in February, after which M.V. Bukatov, vice-president

of a ministerial experts’ commission of the environment
announced that the next test would involve a much
smaller charge

The commission was set up following complaints
from people living in the area that they feared radiation
contamination

A deputy representing Kazakhstan in the new
Soviet parliament, Oljas Suleimanas, demanded last
month that the Semipatatinsk test site be shut-down,
claiming that radiation there had soaked up to the
equivalent of ‘2,500 Hiroshimas.”’

flew home early today suffering from an illness that was
serious enough for him to miss the signing ceremony with
his Warsaw Pact collegues.

The 76-year-old leader's illness was variously
described asa gallbladder ailment by the East German news
agencyADN, an ‘‘acute biliary trouble"’ by the Romanian
news agency Agerpres and’as a kidney problem by Roman
officials and East German journalists in Bucharest. Bile
ducts carry digestive fluids from the liver or gallbladder to
the intestinal system,

Gorbachev expressed the hope that the new East block
agreement will allow the two military alliances in Europe to
rapidly and successfully complete negotiation’ for arms
reductions

“I think one could say that, owing to our comradely
talks today, one more serious step was taken offering
prerequisites to the future progress of the all-European
process,’’ Gorbachev said at the dinner

Details of the documents were to be released later
today

The Soviet leader said the pact’s ‘important
resolution’’ will help narrow the gap between NATO and
the East bloc and bring success at the Vienna negotiations
onareduction of conventional weaponry in Europe.

FOR BEST RESULTS

Gorbachev's host, Romanian President Nicolae
Ceausescu, told the dinner the Warsaw Pact declaration
expresses the East bloc’s determination ‘for the conven-
tional arms reductions talks in Vienna to end with best
possible results and in the shortest possible time."”

Ceausescu renewed what he termed the Soviet bloc’s

‘appeal to NATO to give up its policy of nuclear deterren-
‘ce’’ and expressed hope that new step® ‘by the East bloc
would draw a favorable response from the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization

Gorbachev said that, if Moscow’s allies agreed, the
Kremlin would be ready to make further unilateral cuts in
its European nuclear arsenal once NATO agrees to talks on
reducing short-range missiles.

Earlier in the week while in France, Gorbachev assured
East bloc allies that each is free to find its own way to
socialism

“Each country and each party has its own specifics
and can continue its own individual road to Socialist
democracy and progress,"* he said

Gorbachev added, however, that hé hoped
perestroika, the social and economic reforms he has cham-
pioned in the Soviet Union, would serve as a model.

Officiatsar the tates dectined to-comment on whether
the discussion involved friction between reform-oriented
leaders in Hungary, Poland and the Soviet Union and their
more orthodox counterparts elsewhere in the bloc