ha Castlégar News December 13, 1989 Communists sticking with party line EAST BERLIN (CP) — The Com munist -pafty- reaffirmed today its commitment to traditional socialism and said it will still espouse the prin- ciples of Lenin even as East Germany ends one-party rule and embraces democracy An article in the party newspaper Saturday Neues Deutschland said the Com- munists also, will continue to resist 9:30-5:30 reunification with West Germany “til In the detailed proposal for restruc Dec. 23/'89 turing the party, the Communists called for a course that adheres to ‘socialist, anti-fascist, pacifist and all international: leftist traditions, especially those of Lenin,’’ founder of communism and the Soviet Union CHRISTMAS STORE HOURS Open: Mon.-Fri. 9:30-9:00 DOWNTOWN TRAIL Despite the reaffirmation of socialism, the party leadership ‘has been overhauled to remove hard-liners and install reformers in an effort to appease the restive populace, which is demanding democratic change and has thrown its support to the opposition. The party will have to compete for power against a powerful opposition movement in May, when East Ger- many holds what are to be its first free and open elections. West Germany has offered massive aid to East Germany on’ ‘condition some capitalist reforms are under- taken. But the Communist-led gover- nment has agreed to discuss only those co-operative ventures that fit into the socialist structure of the economy. SEASONS GREETINGS = From All of Us at S. Castlegar Savings ‘ GQ 4 FBS HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY TESTS General Educational Devel (G.E.D.) Testing Schedule ng program. olfered by the Examination Branch of the Ministry je in the Selkirk College region. 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CASTLEGAR CAMPUS + OWE OS re Prime Minister Hans Modrow and other top officials also have repeatedly rejected West German efforts to merge the German states, though they have expressed interest in closer ties that benefit both sides, FILE COMPLAINT Meanwhile, the opposition group New Forum has filed a criminal com- plaint against former Communist leader Egon Krenz and the head of the secret.-police force for allegedly destroying evidence needed in probes of corruption among ousted high party officials The official ADN news agency reported the accusations made against Krenz and Wolfgang Schwanitz. ‘The decision to seek charges inst the two was made at a New Forum meeting in Leipzig. A former regional Communist party chief, Johannes Chemnitzer, briefly elevated last month to the Politburo, has been thrown out of the party, Neues Deutschland reported today. On Tuesday, Modrow met U.S. State ‘Secretary James Baker, who ex- pressed American support for the democratic reforms introduced in East Germany. Under the rule of ousted leader Erich Honecker, relations between the United States and East Germany often were tense, largely because of the Berlin Wall and other barriers to free movement that were enforced with shoot-to-kill orders. Baker’s meeting with Modrow was held in Potsdam, where Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union mapped out Germany’s future in 1945 after the defeat of Nazi Germany More than four decades later, East Germany is undergoing its biggest upheaval since its founding in 1949. Two sets of leaders of the Socialist Unity party have been ousted since Oct. 18. Quebec softens stand on Meech TORONTO (CP) — Quebec is showing ‘some willingness to com- promise to get the Meech Lake con- stituional accord passed, the Toronto Star reported today. The province is willing to go some distance in meeting some of the demands of dissenting provinces, the newspaper said in a report from Ot- tawa, quoting a source close to federal- provincial negotiations Previously, Quebec officials said the accord, which recognizes Quebec as a distinct society and would bring it into the Constitution, would have to be ratified unchanged by all 10 provinces, without an’ eement But provincial officials now say they may agree to let such an agreement ad- dress the controversial issue of the relationship between the accord and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the newspaper said Quebec would not object to a parallel agreement stating that it is not the intention of the accord to affect the rights of women, the newspaper said. But the province remains adamant that such an agreement cannot become part of the Constitution. The compromise still falls short of what the accord’s critics demand — amendments to Meech Lake Meanwhile, Senator ~ Lowell Box 1200, Castlegar B.C. VIN 3J1 GOVERNMENT INFORMATION TO FAST AND EASY Do you have questions about programs and services offered by the Government of Canada? Reference Canada will steer youto the right person in the right office where your inquiries will be answered take erence Canada Avoid the long and eating road - the easy, direct route to Re! 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Manitoba and New Brunswick have yet to ratify it and N diand is Briefly Bridge deaths ‘accidental’ VANCOUVER (CP) — CP Rail should fence off the Ruskin railway bridge where a woman and her young son were struck and killed by a train, acoroner’s jury said Tuesda The jury ruled the Oct. 1 deaths of Maria Knopf, 35, and her son Ben- jamin, three were accidental. The inquest was told that Knopf and her husband Edward took their son and two young daughters to a popular fishing spot near Mission, 75 kilometres east of Vancouver. The family was crossing the Stave River on the 120-metre trestle when a westbound grain train of 104 cars rounded a nearby curve at the track regulation speed of 80 kilometres an hour The parents managed to swing the two girls onto metre-high metal barriers beside the tracks, but the mother and boy were unable to get clear. Mistletoe gets the boot MOORHEAD, in. (AP) — Mistletoe has been banned from Moorhead State University after a psychology instructor filed a grievance saying she believes it encourages sexual harassment University president Rolland Dille agreed with instructor Margaret Potter, and the affirmative-action officer ordered the ban Monday. **I'm not against Christmas, honestly," said Dille. ‘But we’ve come a long way in eliminating some of the customs that encouraged a very dif- ferent treatment of women. In my opinion, mistletoe tends to sanctify uninvited endearment.’ Costly world of Disney ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — It would cost Scrooge McDuck nearly $100 US to take Huey, Dewey and Louieto Disneyland for aday Disneyland has boosted one-day admission prices by $2, to $25.50 for adults and $20. 50 for children. Parking prices have jumped, too, by $1 to$4. Prices were raised to offset the costs of Disneyland’s Splash Moun- tain ride, which opened last summer Spill blamed on skipper ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuter) — An Alaska judge upheld on Tuesday state criminal charges against Joseph Hazelwood, skipper of the Exxon Valdez supertanker responsible for the worst oil spill in the United States. Superior Court Judge Karl Johnstone ruled at a pre-trial hearing that the 43-year-old Hazelwood is not entitled to immunity under a federal law designed to protect those who report oil spills. However, Johnstone has yet to rule on other defence motions to dismiss up to six felony and misdemeanor charges filed against the fired master of the tanker which ran aground March 24 in Prince William Sound. The state has held Hazelwood, of Huntington, N.Y., criminally responsible for the 42-million-litre spill which fouled more than 1,500 kilometres of Alaska’s southern shoreline, killing thousands of birds and other wildlife. Hazelwood, who is attending the pre-trial hearing, is scheduled to face trial in Anchorage Jan. 22 Czechs expel leaders PRAGUE (CP) — Czechoslovakia’s parliament turned against the ds h, decisions it ratified for years, expelling the two December 13, 1989 Castlegar News AS Large number of strip club loans startles MPs OTTAWA (CP) — Thirty-ei strip clubs have received $17 million in “inappropriate loans’’ from the Federal Business Development Bank — and the minister responsible for the bank has hinted at disciplinary action. Bank president Guy Lavigueur startled MPs on the Commons in- dustry committee Tuesday with the total, but said he couldn’t provide an explanation. “I take whole responsibility,"’ the head of the Crown corporation told the committee. ‘*But I’m still trying to put the puzzle together.’’ Reaction was swift. Asked if there will be personnel changes at the Crown corporation as a result of the latest development in the so-called ‘*G-string scandal,’’ In- dustry Minister Harvie Andre, seeming exasperated, said ‘‘maybe"’ as he left the Commons, Later, he said such action would be taken if it becomes evident that stan- ding policy prohibiting strip-club loans has been ignored. “If there is any evidence of HARVE ANDRE «+. @xasperated fashion,"’ he said outside the Com- mons. “I repeat again, this government does not believe that we should have a government institution in the business of funding strip clubs. We thought that was the policy. We are now making sure that is the policy."” Since the strip-club loans issue first exploded in the Commons a month ago, Andre had maintained there were about 10 such loans. GIVES NO NAM) Lavigueur wouldn't identify the 38 clubs as he left the hearing or indicate where they are. “I would say one is too many," he told the committee. ‘‘It is now evident this policy was not applied evenly. You Start with one then you have a precedent.” * He had another disclosure that star- tled MPs. The bank has been receiving lists of recommended lawyers from cabinet ignoring the pi . on the part of employees of FBDB they'll be dealt with in the appropriate and MPs That brought an allegation of pork- barrelling from the opposition. POLITICIANS UNDER SCRUTINY Lavigueur said the 45-year-old Crown corporation operates at arm's length from the government and the bank has its own list of lawyers. When Liberal MP Rey Pagtakhan asked how often lawyers suggested by ministers and MPs are used, Lavigueur said he doesn’t keep track of-such statistics. “+1 don’t think it is appropriate for any politician to supply you with a list,"" NDP MP John Rodriguez told Lavigueur. *‘I think that is true pork- barrelling.”” Even before the bank president finished testifying, opposition MPs were demanding a second day of testimony from bank officers. “I am not satisfied at all,”’ said Liberal patronage critic Don Boudria. “The only thing we know now is that there were not 11 inappropriate loans. There were in fact 38." Committee chairman Bobbie Sparrow, a Conservative, said it will be up to the committee to decide if there will be more testimony. Investigations revealed OTTAWA (CP) — More then 30 MPs and senators have been in- vestigated by the RCMP in the last five years and 15 of them are still under scrutiny on suspicion of breaking either criminal or electoral law, Com- missioner Norman Inkster said Tuesday. Some MPs took the numbers as a sign of unprecedented corruption, while others hinted at a police vendetta against politicians. But Inkster said they simply prove the Mounties are doing their job. Speaking in an interview after ap- pearing at the Commons justice com- mittee, Inkster said he doesn’t have any pre-1985 figures and can’t say whether there is more political wrongdoing now than there used to be. if there are allegations of criminal include 11 in which criminal offences are suspected and four arising from the electoral law that governs campaign spending. No charges have been laid, and Inkster would not discuss the political affiliations of those under in- vestigation. But senior officers, Liberal John Nunziata, however, complained that some MPs may have been targets of an RCMP “‘hit team"’ for criticizing the force. “It’s passing strange,” said “We don’t know where it will allend . The impression is being left that Nunziata speaking on condition of y, said they are not all Tories. NDP justice critic Svend Robinson called the numbers ‘‘historically un- precedented’”” and noted there are cases already on the public record in- volving Liberals as well as Conser- vatives. every isacrook."’ Earlier, Inkster told the justice commitee that uninformed criticism was undermining public confidence in the RCMP and defended his own role in the Grise case. The commissioner said in June it was pure coincidence that search warrants were not carried out against Grise until after the Nov. 21, 1988 elec- tion. The former MP for Chambly riding, south of Montreal, won re- election but later pleaded guilty to fraud and breach of trust and resigned his Commons seat. 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The 350-member parliament approved a report Tuesday from an in- vestigating commission that named Milos Jakes and Miroslav Stepan as being politically responsible for police violence against student demon- strators in central Prague on Nov. 17 Parliament endorsed a recommendation to expel Jakes, Communist party leader until he resigned Nov. 24, and former Prague party leader Stepan, and to lift their parliamentary immunity against possible criminal prosecution. Both men have repeatedly denied responsibility for the violence. onaire jailed NEW YORK (Reuter) — Leona Helmsley found out Tuesday that the rich also pay taxes and can go to jail if they don’t. Dressed i in black, Helmsley went into a New York courtroom a threatening to withdraw its approval Appointment Announcement B.J. CLIFFORD Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd. P.O. BOX 4600, CRANBROOK, B.C vicas7 ged a common criminal The pemeaseh broke down sobbing as a judge ordered her to jail for four years and fined her $7.1 million US for plotting to evade taxes on everything from bras and girdles to a million-dollar marble dance floor and a $130,000 stereo set And for the woman who is said to have boasted to a maid that “We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes,”’ the judge imposed one more penalty — she must repay close to $1.7 million in back taxes and bear the government’ s costs in bringing her to trial Students fined for sexism EDMONTON (CP) — Engineering students at the University of Alberta were fined $500 and slapped with a written reprimand Tuesday for what the university calls ‘‘sexist’’ and ‘‘malicious’’ content in their student newspaper. The engineering students’ society are to pay the fine — the maximum allowable amount for breaching the university's student conduct code — tocharity. A hearing was held Friday after two arts students complained to the university last month about material in the November issue of The Bridge. It included profanities and sexual connotations to attack Edmonton mayor Jan Reimer's refusal to wear a beaver pelt ceremonial chain when taking office this fall * Dye gives up on hotline OTTAWA (CP) — Auditor General Ken Dye is reluctantly shelving plans for an anonymous hotline for reporting fraud and waste in gover- nment Dye told the Commons public account committee Tuesday he likely won't be getting the $400,000 he requested to start the controversial hotline. “I think the reality is that (the hotline idea) is on the very far back burner,’’ Dye said after the meeting. “If you haven't got the money and you haven't got political support and you haven’ t got bureaucratic support, what can be done?” Dye asked the federal government to institute a hotline that civil ser vants could’call — anonymously — to finger waste and fraud in gover nment operations. Similar systems exist in the United States, Britain and in Ontario. Economics top Soviet talks MOSCOW (CP) — The Soviet Congress took up today the country’s grave economic issues, with Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov proposing that the eastern European common market, Comecon, conduct all its in- ternal trade in convertible currencies and at world prices from 1991 Ryzhkov, ina report on the economic situation and the government's economic program to 1995, called for “the creation of a unified market between Comecon members,” the official Tass news agency said. ie government proposes to use current world prices and a conver tible curr in all exchanges with these countries from 1991,"’ Tass said we're going to them,’’ he said. ‘‘We do so without fear, favor or affection towards any person.”” Inkster said he released the figures to refute_claims of undue political in- fluence on the Mounties under the current Conservative government. “If indeed someone is trying to politically influence‘ the RCMP, they’re not very good at their work,” he said, ‘because we’re carrying on just the way we have, and we'll con- tinue todothat.”” But Inkster still came under attack for the handling of one high-profile corruption case in which the force delayed: its investigation of former Tory MP Richard Grise during last year’s federal election campaign. While he defended. the move, the. also for SOFIA (Reuter) — Bulgaria's ruling Communist party, facing in- creasing popular demands for change, ousted a top official today amid calls for further resignations. Bulgarian radio said trade union president Petar Dyulgerov asked to be relieved of his position as non- voting member of the party’s policy-making Politburo, a clear sign he was forced out. The announcement came on the third day of a meeting of the par- ty’s Central Committee in Sofia. It was not clear whether Dyulgerov, regarded as an ally of disgraced former leader Todor Bulgaria ousts top ——E€ommunist official — Zhivkov, would retain his Central Committee membership. The Communist party has been buffeted by personnel and policy changes since the ousting of Zhivkov last month by new party leader Petar Mladenov, but op- position groups are seeking further reforms. 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