7" Castlégar News November 8, 1987 Pacific Press still making papers VANCOUVER (CP) — A spokesman for Pacific Press said Friday the company has been told that “suspicious” production problems that left many readers without their morning and evening daily newspapers would not occur again Saturday. Pacific Press has received assurance that The v Sun will be and as normal Saturday,” Stu Noble, vi ident, human for The production problems resulted in an overnight press run of 96,000 for the Province — less than half its daily run — and mean no home delivery for many residents of the Greater Vancouver area. STALLED PRESSES Later in the day similar problems stalled the presses during production of the Sun, preventing home delivery to the company, which publishes the Sun and Province newspapers. hile, contract 1g The News- paper Guild and The Joint Council of Newspaper Unions and the company. resumed under private mediator Vince Ready, Noble saic able said a series of “Suspicious” problems hampered printing after a breakdown in contract talks Thursday. “There's been a variety of things — upside down plates, ink in the wrong places, web breaks,” said Noble. “They're highly suspicious and it's not a normal situation, that's for sure.” PEACE PARK . . . The following are the initiating members of the committee for the peace park — rear: Jim Penman, Colin Pryce, Marilyn Johnstone, Fred Stroes, Jack Dunn, Alec Chevaldave, Dave Ward, Her- culano Parece, Walter Kanigan; front: Charles ds of subscribers on Friday. In total about 171,000 copies of the Sun were not printed and copies of early editions were seriously delayed. Negotiations between the 980-member newspaper guild, which represents reporters and circulation workers, and Pacific Press broke down late Thursday. The impasse came only after the 650-member joint council, which represents seven craft unions, walked out of contract talks. The previous contracts for all the unions expired Feb. 28. Joint council spokesman Stan Lepper said: “There are quite a few issues still on the table and we've been Balfour, Dick Wayling, Ivar Reinsbakken, Vi Murphy, Al Sheppard; missing from photo: Conrad Brattebo, Kevin Lagan, Kent Robbie, Andy Rowe, Paul Strelive, Jom Voykin, Web Webster, Nick Chernoff, Ron Sch- midt. hammering at these for eight months and we just can’t solve them.” He declined to identify the issues. The Pacific Press bargaining committee and the bargaining committee for The Newspaper Guild both sent bulletins to employees, Friday, outlining their positions. NO SETTLEMENT _ The company bulletin stated that although recent negotiation sessions did result in the resolution of one key issue “regrettably it did not pave the way for the rest of the pieces to fall into place.” The company stated that in the last bargaining session, Thursday, a settlement proposal was rejected by both the Joint Council and The Newspaper Guild, although the guild did counter with suggested amendments. “The negative reaction to the Company’s position is disappointing; it means the unions do not want to recognize the validity of the past 10 months of concerns expressed by the Company,” stated the bulletin. The company also released for the first time details of its proposed wage package, which would cover a four year period with hikes of one per cent on Dec. 1, 1987, followed by increases of 8.6 per cent on March of the subsequent three years, The company is also offering a $1,000 pro-rated signing bonus. ‘The company stated that there were “not many” other issues outstanding. “At this time, no tetore mectings are scheduled,” stated the bulletin. will prevail and onlay gins in settlement.” The guild bulletin states the union is pressing for a five-per-cent increase in each year of a three-year agreement. “Agreements in Canadian newspapers have been between five and six per cent, so our proposal is on the low end of the scale.” The union bulletin “The gui believe the two sides are not that far apart, but that a final resolution of the issues will require the company to recognize certain economic and market realities.” Police believe child killer had accomplice VANCOUVER (CP) — The RCMP plans to interview child killer Tomas Yebes because police don't believe the hairdresser acted alone when he killed his two adopted sons. But Yebes, who's serving a life sentence for the 1982 murders, says he's innocent and he knows who the real killer is. Yebes, who lost an appeal of his second-degree murder conviction in the Supreme Court of Canada, said in an interview at William Head Correctional Institute’ near Victoria that he would be willing to take a lie-detector test to clear his name. “To be in jail is not such a terrible thing,” said Yebes, a 4-yegr-old father of two teenage daughters. “The worst thing to have in life is a murder charge. The fact someone can think of you as such a thing (a murderer) can depress you all your life.” Cpl. Glen Woods, the original investigating officer in the boys’ murders, said he believes he got the right man. His only concern is that Yebes was aided in his crime. Woods said police always had a second suspect but never enough evidence for charges. He said police hope Yebes's will provide the missing links. Fighting MANAGUA (AP) — Nie- to a request by President resumed ernment would talk only with the United States, which mediator, he’s the most re- araguan soldiers were or- dered to resume fighting Saturday when a unilateral ceasefire ended, but a key government critic agreed to act as mediator in talks aimed at reaching a truce. Elsewhere in Central America, rebels in E] Sal- vador said they are willing to renew ceasefire talks with the government, but that they reserved the right to attack soldiers who enter areas under rebel control, and warned they would con- tinue sabotaging El Salva- dor’s economy. Ceasefire talks are a key provision of a regional peace plan signed by the presidents of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica. Nicaragua's Defence Min. istry said Friday that sold- iers would return to combat today in four areas where a unilateral ceasefire imposed by the government had ex- pired. It said the limited truce that began last month has served only to strength en the rebels. Also Friday, Miguel Car- Daniel Ortega that he serve as go-between in the effort to arrange a truce between the government and the rebels. The agreement was an- nounced after Ortega paid a visit to Obando y Bravo at the Roman Catholic arch. bishop's offices. Afterwards, the cardinal told reporters, “I have ac cepted the proposal” to act as go-between for the govern. ment and the rebels. “The cardinal considers this positive and we are going to continue discussions with him to make it more concrete in coming days,” Ortega said HEADS GROUP Obando y Bravo, head of the church in Nicaragua, leads the country's National Reconciliation . Commission formed under the regional peace plan and has been a critic of the government. In a reversal seen as a boost to the regional peace process, Ortega offered on Thursday night to hold in. direct talks with rebels and promised to release about 1,000 political prisoners. backs the rebels. Rebel leaders in Miami were pleased Ortega picked Obando y Bravo to mediate peace talks, a rebel spokes- man said Friday. “We are quite glad,” Marta Sacasa, spokesman for the Nicaraguan Resistance, said in Miami. “We had proposed him ourselves some weeks back. All of the directors support the cardinal and agreed he was the best possible. We think he is the best possible spected man in Nicaragua. His love for the Nicaraguans the legislature proposals for an amnesty and an end to a state of emergency in effect almost continuously since 1982. The amnesty applies to political prisoners and rebels who renounce their fight, but does not include former Na- tional Guardsmen who work- ed for the U.S.-backed dic- tatorship of Anastasio Som- oza. Kelowna blacked out for an hour KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — More than 65,000 people were without electricity for more than an hour early Fri- day when a power outage hit this Okanagan city. “It's one of those things that happens in the middle of the night,” said Barry Smith. son, a for West Co. “Now we're trying to figure out what happened.” The power outage occur- red just after midnight when a transmission line shorted out. Smithson said the blackout might have been caused by WON'T FORGET “This is the one case in my career I'll never forget,” Woods said. “Can you think of any worse crime? Here these poor kids were brought out of the holes of Chile and murdered by their (adoptive) father.” Investigators were never able to determine whether the boys — Gabriel, 7, and Tommy, 6, — died of suffocation or strangulation the night they were found on a burning mattress in Yebes's rented townhouse in suburban Surrey. ~. After his conviction, Yebes told the court: “I woald beg the police to not close the case; to not only use circumstantial evidence, but please use feelings and sensitivity. I under- Elvira. The couple eventually separated. Yebes said the night the boys died he heard footsteps in the house but assumed it was one of them going to the washroom. “I loved my children. They were beautiful kids. There's no reason in the world I would do that.” Yebes said he believes police did not investigate the case as fully as they should have and relied on circumstantial evidence to convict him. Prosecutor John Hall said Yebes could apply for a new trial but would need new evidence of some significance. ed diel bales “It was pri vidence,” Hall said. “But there's ssothing carogedl that. Tall pointed in one direction.” Yebes’s appeal trial lawyer, Tom Braidwood, said he the case wasn't proved beyond a reasonable doubt and felt the fact Yebes’s wife never took the stand was missing evidence. “I don’t like the verdict, but there's not much else I can do for him,” Braidwood said. “It's a very peculiar case. It's hard to believe a father kills two children, especially adopted children. “The Crown did say this (murdering his sons) was a way of solving his problems. But I didn't see any evidence of stress or (him) breaking down. “It’s a whodunit case.” According to court testimony, Gabriel and Tommy first met their future parents in a South American orphanage. The boys were brought to Canada in 1979 and formally stand it is hard work, but I beg. “To my friends (who) believe in me, I beg them to not lose their faith because the truth will come out . . . innocent.” that Iam At Yebes’s trial, witnesses testified the two boys contributed to marital strain between Yebes and his wife, STUMPAGE FEES U.S. wood cheaper TORONTO (CP) — A dis- pute between the B.C. gov- ernment and the provincial lumber industry over stump- age fees has made it cheaper to use American wood to build new homes, says the head of Canada’s biggest lumber wholesaler. “It's cheaper to bring lum- ber to the Ontario market from the U.S. West Coast than to buy the product from B.C.,” John Sereny, presi- dent of the Green Forest Lumber Corp., told a news conference. imposed by Canada on soft- wood exports to the United States. The export tax was im- posed earlier this year at the insistence of U.S. lumber producers, who said low pro- vincial stumpage fees amounted to a subsidy on the $4 billion worth of Canadian softwood lumber shipped an- nually to the United States. TAX DOUBLED With the combination of the export tax and stumpage fee, B.C. lumber producers are being double taxed, Ser- adopted in 1981. After the couple separated, Yebes took the boys with him. Court was told Yebes wanted to reconcile with his wife and asked whether the Human Resources Ministry could make other arrangements for the boys. He was told it would be possible but would take time. Woods said he believes Yebes was running out of time because of the financial strain of having to support two households. to have been aimed at eliminating the federal ex- port tax payable on B.C. wood. shipped to the U.S.,” Sereny said. “But the U.S. lumber in- dustry has yet to agree to replacing the federal export tax on softwood lumber ex- Lexie with a system of pro Smaller lumber distribu- tors face going out of bus- iness because they lack the manpower and resources to keep track of what they export, he added. Sereny called on the fed- eral and B.C. governments to get together to devise a better formula involving less. charges (stumpage bureaucracy. Sereny added that stump- age fees and the export tax, eal” WILL REPAY The B.C. government has agreed to reimburse lumber producers the amount of the increasingly difficult for B.C. like a car hitting dinal Obando y Bravo agreed Previously, he said his gov Kootenay Power and Light a utility pole.” RESIDENTS continued from front page ted it could include a concrete wall and other major repairs. Vanderpol said the fire depart ment agreed to look after the wharf because it uses the wharf to fill up its tankers. The board also agreed to write to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission opp- osing CBC Radio's proposed removal of the Daybreak program. Chairman George Cady pointed out that the program informs all B.C. of current news, events, concerns and views, and that loss of the program will deprive rural areas of contact with common rural happenings in other areas. In a resolution to the board, Cady also noted that the program's popu- larity was proven three years ago when an “overwhelming” number of TOURISM continued from front page “We estimate that during the month of August, there were 1,000 en quiries just from Roxanne.” Grand Forks reported an “excel lent” year. And Sam Dutoff of the Grand Forks Chamber of Commerce also said Christina Lake was “booked solid” all summer. The tourist association uses the Spokesman Review as a major vehicle for promoting the Kootenays. “We have to do everything we can to get them up here and to keep getting them up here,” said Marilyn Strong In other KCTA business, Charlie Cohoe was elected president for the upcoming year. Peter Duck of Slocan Valley was elected vice-president and Norm Mackie of Kootenay Lake finance chairman. CHARLIE COHOE listener's objected to a proposal to discontinue the program GAS continued from front page gas war started, but added that a current gas war in Trail is not helping. On Friday morning Trail Esso was selling gas for 39.9 cents a litre. That was down from Thursday's price of 42.5 cents a litre, which in turn was down from Wednesday's price of 47.5 cents a litre. A spokesman for Trail Esso said there had been a gas war in Trail since Wednesday. Across the street at Trail Petro Canada, the price of gas was also selling for 39.9 cents a litre while both the 7-11 gas and food store and the Texaco service station were selling gas for 42.5 cents a litre. In Ontario, for example, home builders can save as much as $250 on the larger pieces of wood used to con- struct houses, he said. Sereny said the problem arose when the B.C. govern- ment “jumped the gun” and increased stumpage fees to 16 per cent on Nov. 1, before an agreement was reached to drop a 15-per-cent export tax eny said. Many observers felt if wood-producing provinces increased their stumpage fees — the fees companies pay provincial governments for the right to cut trees on Crown land — the United States would ease its demand for an export tax. “The move towards in- creased stumpage fees ap- Harcourt says yes to walkouts VICTORIA (CP) —- Provincial NDP Leader Mike Harcourt says he would support mass walkouts by the labor movement to pro- test the government's priv- atization plans. Harcourt, who had refused to say whether he supported labor’s June 1 day of protest, also said people will die be- cause of privatization. said he under- stood why John Shields, president of the B.C. Gov ernment Employees Union, roe Georgetti, president the B.C. Federation of export tax, but extensive records have to be kept of wood producers to sell their product. every shipment of wood going to the United Staten. The resulting of paperwork has caused chaos and confusion in the in- Police file There were no injuries in a car accident involving two vehicles driven by Castlegar distributors “because there is Fesidents Thursday after too much paper work in- volved.” Court news iid 26, driving a 1965 Ford at of 10th Labor, are walk- outs to show opposition to privatization. Premier Vander Zalm has no mandate to make such privatization and decentral- ization changes and has indi- cated neither would be sig- nificantly debated in the legislature, Harcourt said. Vander Zalm earlier an- nounced plans to divide the province into eight economic zones, and subsequently an- nounced pi plans peli and 6th Street around 2 p.m. Each vehicle received $600 damages. No charges were laid. . has also received two six- month after pleading guilty to as- sault and possession of stolen beet SO Wiliam Hallet was given a Weather Mainly cloudy today with patchy drizzies. that would result in the selling of some Crown corp- orations and government agencies. tasinly’ ‘cloudy. period inly riods with . slight chance showers. Rate drops OTTAWA (CP) — The unemployment rate dropped to a six-year low of 8.4 per cent last month and deputy prime minister Don Mazankowski, ignor- ing warnings that the good news won't last, said it’s proof positive that the government's economic policies are working. It's a“ h “4 told reporters after the release of Statistics Canada figures showing the jobless rate was down from 8.6 per cent in September and was at its lowest level since November 1981 when it was 8.2 per cent. Relations improve OTTAWA (CP) — Canada has taken a step toward widening diplomatic relations with the Sand- inista government in Nicaragua with the announce- ment that an aid office will be opened there this fall. The office will be one of three new bureaus to be ope! key Central American countries currently proing with regional wars and underdevelopment. ‘The field-support offices will also be opened in Honduras and E! Salvador and should be fully functional by next summer. Their prinkry aim is to provide technical, administrative and logistics support for Canadian aid programs in the three countries. Sturgeon found BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — An 3.3-metre sturgeon weighing almost one-half tonne has been found dead in Lake Washington, where tales have long persisted of a huge, duck-eating “monster.” Police found the fish floating at the north end of the lake Thursday, said Officer Roger Heath of King County's marine patrol unit in suburban Kirkland. Matt Kramer, who operates Underwater S ists Inc., hquled the fish out of the lake with his 15-metre boat. State fisheries officials determined it weighed close to 402 kilograms and estimated it was born somewhere around the turn of the century, said state Fisheries Department ‘spokesman Tony Floor. Candidate smoked pot MIAMI, Fila. Laon — U.S. Senator Albert Gore of for the D he used mari- juana several times during college and while serving in the U.S. army in Vietnam. Gore told reporters at the Florida Democratic party convention he has not used marijuana in the past 12 years and has never been involved with the drug during his years in public office. “I hope it will be placed in perspective and not become a major issue,” Gore said of his marijuana use. Mayor elected PARIS (AP) — Federico Mayor of Spain was elected director general of UNESCO on Saturday and emphasized renewal and change for the troubled organization. Mayor, who begins a six-year term Nov. 16, replaced controversial Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal, who led the United Nations Educational, ifie and Cultural Or ion for 13 years and whose efforts to win a third term failed. The vote at a public session of UNESCO's general conference, was 142 for Mayor, seven against and two Most western Canada, and the Soviet block backed him. Mandela sorry JOHANNESBURG (Reuter) — Black nationalist Winnie Mandela apologized to Govan Mbeki, the freed African National Congress leader, on Saturday that South African blacks had not rid'the country of apartheid during his 28 years in jail. “We are almost ashamed to introduce you back to the same conditions you fought against over 23 years ago,” said Mandela, wife of Mbeki’s jailed ANC colleague Nelson Mandela. “We are ashamed to be in your presence without presenting a liberated country to you,” she added Blakeney wanted REGINA (CP) — Ed Broadbent still wants Allan Blakeney to be an NDP candidate in the next federal election and the retiring Saskatchewan NDP leader's response is: Maybe. The federal leader confirmed Saturday that Blakeney had already turned down one request to run federally in Saskatchewan. “I asked him to run some time ago and for personal reasons his response was no,” Broadbent told reporters after a 45-minute speech at the NDP leader- ship convention. “He seemed to be categoric, but I have a political agenda which is to give Mr. Blakeney some time for retirement and . . . then I'm going to talk to him again.” Man charged DUBLIN (Reuter) — A Dublin man was charged Saturday with kidnapping dentist John O'Grady, freed last week at the end of a three-week ordeal. Amid tight security, Gerard Wright, 44, made a brief appearance in a Dublin court on charges of falsely imprisoning 38-year-old O'Grady and pos- sessing a firearm. Two other men who escaped from custody but were recaptured were expected to appear in court later. Security forces are still searching for an Irish H nationalist guerrilla whom police believe organized O'Grady’s: abduction. November 8, 1987 Cast News 1s Charles and Di to divorce? LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, and his wife, Diana, lived distinctly separate lives in October. From that one fact has come 4 flood of speculation that their marriage is in trouble and that a royal divorce is possible. However, none of the monarchy seem to think Chalres, 88, and Diana, 26, will divorce. But the topic is out in the open, complete with the dismal histories of some dissolute forebears of today's monarchy. . King Henry VIII dissolved his marriage to Catherine of Aragon in 1588 and precipitated a break with the Catholic Church in Rome that shook Europe. Henry also divorced Anne of Cleves, his fourth wife. And what about George IV? Lang before he became king in 1820 he had married a Roman Catholic widow, Mary Anne Fitzherbert, in secrecy. She was dumped — the record isn't clear how — so he could marry Princess Caroline of Brunswick in 1795. SEEKS DIVORCE However, he and Caroline separated after the birth of their only child. When he succeeded to the throne, George petitioned Parliament so he could divorce her. The petition failed, followed by the spectacle of Queen Caroline trying to force her way into Westminster Abbey for George's coronation. No wonder, then, that some midis commentators in Britain moan that speculation about Charles and Diana could destroy the Royal Family's standing as symbols of national continuity and rectitude. But others in the press have jumped in with both feet, and it hasn't been confined to the so-called “popular press.” The Sun tabloid took the story about as far as it-can go with an article about a royal divorce that was headlined, Unthinkable — But Who'd Get The Kids? The Sun left its readers to decide which parent should get Prince William, five, and Prince Harry, three. The boys are second and third after Charles in line of succession. Some so-called “quality papers” also have had a go at the topic. The Sunday Times surveyed constitutional experts and reported that a divorce wouldn't prevent Charles from succeeding his mother, Queen Elizabeth, on the throne. Marital splits are a fact of life in Britain. One in three marriages ends in the divorce court, and the Royal Family "NEW LOCATION . . . Workers put finishing touches on the CPR station after it was moved across the street from its original spot to Third Street last week. — CosNews Photo by Ron Norman Ginsburg steps down WASHINGTON (AP) — Douglas Ginsburg, saying his views on the law “have been drowned out in the clamor” over his marijuana-smoking, asked President Ronald Rea- preme Court nominee. It fol- lowed’ the stinging 58-42 Senate defeat Oct. 23 of Robert Bork, Reagan's first choice to fill the vacancy left White’ House hopes to an- nounce a new nominee early next week and gain Senate confirmation by the end of the year. CHOICES by the of Justice gan on Saturday to withdraw Lewis Powell. The source said the other two judges on the final list of burg, a little-known, 41-year- old judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — and one of Bork’s colleagues — who served as an official in the Office of Management and Budget and chief of the Jus- tice Department's antitrust his U.S. Supreme Court nomination. Reagan, spending the weekend at the Camp David, Md., presidential retreat, ji in a state- Reagan said in his state- ment: “I commended Judge Ginsburg for his record and qualifications when I an- nounced his selection, and I his and ment and said he will prompt- ly make a third attempt to fill clear thinking now.” The president publicly de- three from which Ginsburg division. was selected will be con- Ginsburg’s announcement sidered. They are Anthony came some 17 years after Kennedy of the 9th U.S. former president Richard Cireuit Court of Appeals and Nixon failed to win confir- William Wilkins of the 4th mation for two consecutive the vacant seat on the high court. Ginsburg turned his brief withdrawal statement into an anti-drug ‘message and said he hopes: “The young people of this country,” including my own daughters, will learn from my mistake.” Ginsburg’s departure, only nine days after he was nom- inated by Reagan in an ela- borate ceremony at the White House, was one of the quickest exists ever for a Su- fended the nominee Friday and said he would not with- draw the nomination. However, Reagan's edu- cation secretary, William Bennett, telephoned Gins- burg on Friday night and asked him to take his name out of consideration. Bennett did so after Reagan advised him to “do what you think is right,” a Bennett aide said. A senior administration official, speaking on condition he not be identified, said the Water deal OTTAWA (CP) — final draft of the papers agreement with the United States will specifically exempt Canadian water from the deal, a government source says. The exemption will antee that the Americans will not be able to use any pro- vision of the trade deal to win access to Canadian water supplies, the source, who did not want to be identified, told The Canadian Press. The ery should put to rest, he said, fears that the trade deal would give an increasingly thirsty United States a claim on Canadian water. ‘There are already 60 ex. amples across Canada of pro- jects that divert water re- - serves to the United States. In most of those cases, the water is used to generate hydroelectricity but it's also used in many cases for irri- gation and, in some cases, to supply drinking water to FEARS Liberal Leader John Turn- er and other MPs .S. Cireuit Court ‘of Ap- peals. He said others also will be considered. Kennedy was considered the favorite of White-House Chief of Staff Howard Baker after Bork’s defeat. But At- torney General Edwin Meese was reported to have pushed for Ginsburg, and several conservative Republican senators said they would fili- buster against Kennedy, whom they consider too lib- eral. Reagan then chose Gins Supreme Court nominees, Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell. Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, ranking Republican on the Senate judiciary committee, said given the circumstances he recommended the White House withdraw the Gins- burg nomination. “Judge Ginsburg is an able judge and it is most un- fortunate that this situation has arisen,” he said. threatened have expressed fears that the trade deal guidelines leave the door open toa continental water policy, much along the lines of the continental ap- proach to energy policies that water to the United States, specifically for drinking and irrigation: purposes. One, known as the Grand Canal project, would involve building dykes across the mouth of James Bay and using an elaborate system of canals to divert the water that pours into the bay water exports could be of- fered as a sweetener to get a deal with Washington. Several major projects have recently beem promoted to divert more Canadian |, into rivers that drain into the Great Lakes. The United States would buy the diverted water, at about $20 billion a year, and draw it from the lakes. isn’t immune, Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister, and her husband, Lord Snowdon, were divorced in 1978 amid intense press coverage of Margaret's romance with a man 18 years her junior, Diana herself comes from a broken family — both her parents have remarried. John Pearson, an historian whose book The pir ee Family described # public-relations machine behind the Royal Family, said he thinks divorce is “extremely unlikely.” Pearson said Charles was brought up on the “horror story” of the Queen's uncle, King Edward vit who had to abdicate in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee. Pearson said although he doesn't expect it to happen. eo divorce “would be one more twist in the royal story.” However, the speculation about Charles and Diana has subsided — they recently completed a state visit to West Germany and seem to be happy in each other's compaity. But if Charles goes off to Scotland alone again for weeks and the resumes, Palace un- doubtedly will be advised to break its habitual silence and end rumors of a royal rift. “SOVIETS WELCOME SUMMIT MOSCOW (Reuter) — Soviet Defence Minister Dmitri Yazov told the traditional Revolution Day military parade in Red Square on Saturday that the threat of nuclear war persists and he denounced the quest for military superiority. But the general lightened his tough remarks by noting the “ Washington, where Kremlin leader Mikhail U.S. President Ronald Reagan will sign a pact banning superpower intermediate-range nuclear arms. “Despite favorable trends on the international stage, the situation in the world remains complicated; the threat of nuclear war persists,” said Yazov, who was flanked by Gorbachev and Soviet President Andrei Gromyko. “Reactionary imperialist circles, ignoring the lessons i history, are continuing to strive for military superiority,” he declared, in remarks clearly pointed at the United States. The military display marking the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution began as Yazov, saluting from an open olive-grey limousine under light snow, reviewed troops of the Moscow garrison assembled in Red Square. JOINS GORBACHEV He then joined Gorbachev and the Soviet leadership atop the red-and-black granite mausoleum to Vladimir Lenin, who led the 1917 revolution and founded the Soviet state. Yazov said Gorbachev and Reagan would discuss proposals to reduce their stockpiles of strategic, long-range weapons by 50 per cent when they meet in Washington beginning Dec. 7. He said this project would be discussed in the context of an understanding between the two powers to observe the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty for an agreed period. Although Yazov did not directly refer to Reagan's strategic defence initiative, or Star Wars program for an anti-missile defence, his message against attempts to achieve military superiority appeared to refer to the U.S. program for a weapons shield in space. Moscow has said it considers Star Wars an offensive rather thana system which wants to deploy to establish world domination from space. Soviet officials content that strict observance of the ABM treaty would limit development of Star Wars. They want the treaty to remain in place for seven to 10 more ars. Yazov, appointed to oversee a military shakeup last May after a young West German violated Soviet airspace and flew a light plane to Moscow's Red Square from Finland, id the armed forces stand “vigilantly on guard” against aggression. PARADE BEGINS His speech was followed by an artillery salute and the national anthem. The parade then began. Cadets from Soviet military academies paraded past the mausoleum, where Cuban President Fidel Castro and the leaders of Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland and Romania stood with members of the ruling Soviet Politburo. Facing the mausoleum was a giant red portrait of Lenin and two huge posters, one with slogans from 1917 — All Power to the Soviets, Peace to the Peoples, Land to the Peasants — the other with the slogans of Gorbachev's 1987 reforms. OTTAWA (CP) — One of three men convicted in a liquor smuggling operation had told the RCMP that 40 cases of the illegal booty were sold on Parliament Hifi last Christmas Const. Luc Vidal was told that some of the liquor, smuggled into Can. ada through the St. Regis Indian Reserve, ended up at the National Press Club in Ottawa. The three men given fines by District Court Judge David MeWilliam. Joseph Mensour, of Ayl mer, Que. and Marc Sauve, a former House of Com mons employee, were fined $1,000 and $2,000 respect- ively for their parts in dis- tributing the illegal spirits for Thomas Craig of Or- leans, Ont. Federal Crown Attorney Keith Ward said the Press may have had illegal liquor RCMP laid the charges after a five-month investi- gation. Ward said charges of possession of smuggled liquor are difficult to prove because the Crown must show the buyer knew the spirits were illegally ob- tained. While under surveil- lance, Craig confided to the RCMP that he bought the illegal spirits on the St. Regis Reserve near Corn- wall, Ont. And Sauve said he sold the 40 cases of liquor, with a black market value of $6,000, on Parlia- ment Hill within 45 min- utes. Craig said the liquor was “duty-free,” not stolen. The smugglers avoided paying $30,450 in federal excise, customs and sales taxes and fees for a pro- vineinl liquor permit