A2 Castlegar News

August 13, 1989

Nurses resume
bargaining

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. (CP) —

Association said

“The mediator Vince Ready contacted HLRA and
requested the parties return to the bargaining table at 11
said Martin Livingston, spokesman for the
association that represents 144 hospitals and health-care

a.m, Sunday,

facilities.

Livingston would not say whether he believed Premier
Bill Vander Zalm’s threats of government intervention had
played a role in the sides getting together again

The 17,500-member ‘B.C, Nurses’s Union went on
strike for 17 days last month before voting to reject a three

The two sides in the
B.C. nurses’ dispute have agreed to return to the bargainng
tablé today, a spokesman for the Health Labor Relations

move hastily.

The premier would not say what action his gover
nment would take, although it can use a variety of powers
under the Industrial Relations Act if it belieVes public
safety is threatened

Options include a 40-day cooling off period or
requiring compulsory arbitration.

But Vander Zalm said the government would not

**We've been very patient so far and we continue to be

patient.””

year contract offer that included a total pay increase of 29.5 week

Percent.

“We have made it very clear thawe cannot finance the
ut by the nurses, so |
consider their willingness to return to the bargaining table

types of demands that have been set

encouraging,” Livingston said.

The nurses are currently working to rule, refusing to
work overtime or perform non-nursing duties.

Nurses’ union president Pat Savage was in meetings
Friday and was not immediately available for comment
the Health Labor
Relations Association broke off after just five hours

Talks between the nurses and

Tuesday.

Vander Zalm said in an interview before the opening
of Airshow Canada that he would call what he termed an
emergency meeting if no new negotiations were scheduled

“‘If there's nothing concluded soon, I may have to call
a special meeting to deal with it,” the premier said. ‘If 1
have tocall a special meeting, it could be any time.

Vander Zalm’s comments appeared to contradict
Labor Minister Lyall Hanson, who eatlier Friday said the
media had misconstrued the premier’s warning that the
government would act if there was no settlement within a

Hanson said he was taking a wait-and-see approach

The ongoing dispute has caused problems at some
Vancouver hospitals.
The president of a downtown Vancouver hospital said

patients may have to be diverted elsewhere because of nur-

sing resignations in its emergency department

“Ibis becoming a very serious situation,” said hospital
president Ron Mulchey, who met with emergency-depar-
tment nursing staff Thursday

Nurses say the resignations are largely. due to stress,
overwork and frustration

Four nurses tendered resignations on one day last

week, bringing to more than 25 the total number of people
who have quit the department in the last year. About eight
of those were in the last month and most of the resignations
have gone unfilled by new permanent staff

**We have asked the other hospitals to help us out until
we get back tonormal,”’ Mulchey said

More legal battles
for murder suspect

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) —
Spokane County prosecutors may file
stolen-property or other charges
against a man described as a viable
suspect in the Green River serial
killings.

If charged, William J. Stevens Jr
could be kept in custody even after his
scheduled release from a Seattle jail
next month. He will complete his King
County Jail sentence Sept. 25 for a
1979 burglary and 1981 escape in Seat-
tle.

Stevens, 38, has not been charged
with any of the Green River murders
and has denied any involvement.
Police blame the Green River killer for
the deaths of up to 48 young women,
most of them Seattle-area prostitutes

The head of the police task force in
vestigating the serial killings said this

week that detectives’ investigation of
Stevens, who also used to live in Van
couver, probably wouldn't be com-
pleted by the end of September
Spokane County prosecutors are
reviewing possible charges against
Stevens that include possession of
stolen property — a car — and making
a false statement on a vehicle owner-

-ship application, Deputy Prosecutor

Clint Francis said Friday

“There is more than one charge that
weare reviewing,” Francis said. “‘If we
determine there is adequate evidence
to charge him we will charge him and
bring him back.””

* SEARCH HOUSE

The task force last month searched
two Spokane houses, including the
Stevens family home. An affidavid
filed in applying for the search warran

ts described Stevens as a “‘viable
suspect” in the case.

Craig Beles, a Seattle lawyer who ac-
ts as a spokesman for Stevens, said he
would not comment on any possible
charges in Spokane

“They've been poring over the
man’s goods for over a month and they
don’t have anything,” he said

The Green River Task Force last
month «confiscated $5 boxes of
belongings from Stevens, including
about 1,800 videos tapes. Another
search by Spokane County detectives
at the Stevens family home last
January found 29 handguns and 27
license plates

Stevens, who grew up in Spokane,
escaped in 1981 from a Seattle work-
release center where he was serving a
sentence for burglary

Strike

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“Basically we have two people
working side by side at the same
position and making two different
wages.””

Gary Lotochinski, vice-president of
human resources with B.C. Gas, said
the union broke off the talks after
refusing to respond to a two-year
agreement which would give em
ployees a six-per-cent increase

He added that workers receiving the
higher salary would continue at the

Feedlot

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Wood said the company proposes stockpiling the
manure from the cattle to be used as fertilizer
Rick Van Kleeck of the Ministry of Agriculture in Ab-
botsford told the Castlegar News that if the cattle company
uses the manure as fertilizer as it has suggested, the com-

pany does not need a permit

Van Kleeck said he has calculated how much land the
company will need to be in proper ratio to the likely amount
of manure but declined to say what he had determined
because his calculations were ‘‘based on assumptions.”"

Van Kleeck said that if the company does not use the
manure as fertilizer, it must obtain a permit that specifies
the type of treatment system the company will use to
dispose of the waste. He said the Environment Ministry

issues those permits.

In addition to their environmental concerns, residents
have also questioned how the cattle company will transport
as many as 40,000 cattle to West Arrow Park

Klaus Magenau, spokesman for the Arrow Lake En-
vironment Alliance, said the small ferry which crosses the
lake is in ‘bad shape”’ and a logging road the company says
it will use is too muddy in winter and spring. Although the
company has said it will transport the cattle in the fall,
Magenau said the company must still truck in large quan-

tities of feed for the animals.

Magenau said Dormet and Long Drive Cattle Co
president Russ Cummins, who also attended Thursday's
meeting, failed to convince residents of the need for the

feedlot in the area

Ina letter he wrote Friday to Cummins, Magenau says
Dormer ‘‘has not succeeded in convincing but one single
person of the residents present at the meeting in Burton that
your proposed feedlot operation would be in any respect

desirable for the area."”

“We strongly feel the quality of our life threatened by
You are not wanted here!"’

your activities

higher level. However, the union wants
all salaries to reach the highest level

OTEU president Anne Harvey said
in a news release the employer is trying
to fund the takeover of the B.C. Hydro
Gas Diyision out of the pockets of its
former Inland employees, OTEU
members at B.C. Gas have been
negotiating for their first collective
agreement since Inland Natural Gas
took over B.C. Hydro’s gas operations
last year

“Since Inland Natural Gas pur

chased the gas operations of B.C
Hydro, they are the successor em-
ployer to B.C. Hydro. This means
former Hydro employees have the
right to be treated the same as current
Inland employees,"” Harvey said in the
release

Other items still under dispute in.
cluding having B.C. Gas agree to post
temporary job vacancies as well as
hours of work and the company’s
plans on establishing shift work
throughout its operations.

Four-year-old Taylor Lewis of Castlegar takes a dip to escape the warm temperatures
at the wading pool next to the Bob Brandson Pool.

Costews photo by Guy Bertrand

credibility

owners

RDCK

continued from front page

proposal Thursday night at the Burton Community
Hall. *‘I'm concerned over the fact that the principals
that were presented don’t have a high degree of
It also appears as though there’s a hidden
agenda with this whole issue.”*

He added that, because the Long Drive Cattle Co.
is not yet a registered company in British Columbia, it is
difficult to obtain information about the company or its

Cuthill said he hopes to have some information
from the RDCK administration before Sept
closing date for bids on the 10 lots Hydro is selling in
West Arrow Park

“I'm hopeful that we'll be able to mount a suc
cessful move to either determine what this company’s
actual intent is or to block the proposal as it currently
stands because of the environmenial impact it will un-
doubtedly have in the area," Cuthill said

Cuthill said his suspicions of a hidden agenda were
aroused by the lack of answers given by Cummins and
his spokesman, John’ Dormer; at Thursday's meeting.

“1 was not impressed with the calibre of answers
that were forthcoming from the two gentlemen that
presented themselves as representatives of the Long
Drive Cattle Co.,
being presented as the sole owner of the Long Drive
Cattle Co., Mr. Russ Cummins,” Cuthill said. ‘‘On the
surface, he had done precious tittle research as to the
logistics of moving the cattle and the problems with
waste disposal that are going to be faced

“When you consider that he’s talking about an in
vestment of some $30 million, one would have to
question that kind of poor research on that size of in
vestment unless there's some sort of agenda operational
that is not immediately apparent.”

10, the

particularly with the person who is

Forestry cutbacks
may force layoffs

VANCOUVER (CP) — Sawmills in
the Quesnel area could face layoffs and
shift curtailments next year after four
forest companies failed to convince the
B.C. government an artificially high
cut in the region should be maintained,
company spokesmen said

“Every mill will say they plan to
operate at current capacity,”” said
Wayne Clogg, woods manager at West
Fraser Mills Ltd. ‘*But if they can’t buy
the wood . . . it’s obvious they’re going
to have to have shutdowns, layoffs of
shifts or whatever.”’

West Fraser, along with Tolko In-
dustries Ltd., Slocan Forest Products
Ltd. and Weldwood of Canada Ltd.,
have been lobbying B.C.’s ministry of
forests to maintain a cut of 3.45-
million cubic metres of wood a year in
Quesnel, located about 420 kilometres
north of Vancouver.

That cut is scheduled to be reduced
by 33 per cent or 1.15-million cubic

metres of wood next July when a five-
year licence awarded to the four com-
panies to cut wood damaged by insects
expires.

All four ¢ agreed the

hoped to convince the ministry the

high cuts they have enjoyed over the

past four years could be sustained.
Since the licence was awarded, the

mountain-pine-beetle problem in local
forests has been eliminated. But they

Pulp company faces

say they may be unable to
purchase enough wood on the open
market.

pollution charges

VICTORIA (CP)— A dozen pollution
charges were laid Friday against
Western Pulp Inc., a long-time
polluter in Vancouver's Howe Sound,
said Environment Minister Bruce
Strachan.
*‘Although recent renovations to the

Pool

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have concrete walls all around and
drywall in areas with less humidity.””

In Grand Forks, the cost of repairs
to its pool has fallen back on the city
which has raised the question of
allowing a committee to oversee a
major project

Bill McCaffrey, a former alderman
in Grand Forks who served briefly on
the building committee, was strongly
opposed to the selection of a commit-
tee.

“‘It’s simple to say, ‘I told you so,’
but when problems arise such a com-
mittee can walk away with no tax-
payers to answer to,’’ McCaffrey said
“Had city council been responsible for
it, at least they could get booted out of
office.’”

In response to the suggestion that a
building committee can walk away,
Turner noted that the local committee
consists of Mayor Audrey Moore,
Area I director John Voykin and Area
J director Ken Wyllie, all of whom
represent a strong taxpayer voice.
Wyllie was recently elected Area J
director, replacing Martin Vanderpol
who also sat on the building commit-
tee

Grand Forks Mayor Sugi Sugimoto
said having non-elected people on a
committee is good, but added that they
should hold a minority advisory
Position.

Now faced with the task of repairing
a brand new facility, Sugimoto sighed
and said repairs must be made to the

obvious problems.

**Time should tell us what to do,"
he said, referring to any long-range
plans for the centre.

But the problems facing the Grand
Forks centre aren’t major concerns in
Castlegar, Camrec’s Smith said

They are two totally different
designs and two different buildings,”
Smith said. ‘‘Grand Forks used a very
inexpensive and minimal air control

**A pool is the worst environment to
control,”’ he added.

Smith also dismissed any concerns
about the ozone system being installed
jin Castlegar. He said the system in
Grand Forks ‘‘is not a proper pool
ozone system.””

Smith said the ozone system in
Castlegar is a European design and
features some ‘‘new technology’’ that
is relatively new to North America.

“Pools in Langley and Surrey have
the system, but you can’t do it
cheaply,” he said.

Turner is also satisfied that
problems in Grand Forks won’t be
repeated in Castlegar.

“Ed Sherry (Camrec consultant) is
very much aware of the problems faced
in Grand Forks and we as a building
committee are also very much aware,"’
she said.

mill have resulted in major im-
provements in air quality, the com-
pany has failed to reduce the toxicity of
its liquid discharges to Howe Sound as
required under its permit,”’ Strachan
said.

Western Pulp Inc. had said it would
spend about $70 million by the end of
1992 on environmental improvements
after Strachan levied stringent
guidelines on 17 B.C. pulp mills in
May. Strachan said the mills should
erect effluent treatment systems by the
end of 1991

The mills use chlorine in their
bleaching process — a technique that
Produces dioxins linked to cancer.

Tourist alert

VANCOUVER (CP) — Tourist
Alert issued by the RCMP. The
following persons, believed travelling
in British Columbia, are asked to call
the person named for an urgent per-
sonal message:

Julia or Ray Cordova, Downey,
Calif. , call Gloria Martinez.

Dr. Paul Gotaas, Edmonton, call
Christine Gotaas,

Arlene McDonald, Burnaby, call
Harry Seifert. A

David Denton, Wabamun, Alta.,
call Jocelyn Wiggins.

Daniel or Glenda Ross, San Diego,
Calif., call Casey Ross.

Eric Jones, Springside, Sask., call
Gladys Nickolet.

George Wilson, Saskatoon, Sask.,
call Jeannie Wilson.

August 13, 1989 Castlegar News a3

Briefly

In memory

Lottery numbers

The following winning numbers
were drawn in Thursday’s lottery:

B.C. Keno — 6, 14, 25, 36, 44, 50, 53
and $5.

The following are the winning num
bers drawn in Wednesday’ s lotteries:

Lotto 6/49 — 13, 22, 24, 34, 37 and
44. The bonus number was 47

The jackpot of $1,872,006.00 was
divided into two prizes of $936,003.00.

Extra — 5, 18, 71 and 90.

B.C. Keno — 1, 6, 9, 19, 24, 25, 42
and49

These numbers, provided by The
Canadian Press, must be considered
unofficial.

Cemetery

Funeral Chapel

Dora Moojelsky

Dora Moojelsky of Glade, passed away Aug. 10 at age 95

Mrs. Moojelsky was born June 18, 1894, in Russia and came with her
parents to Canada in 1899 settling in Saskatchewan.

In 1910, she came to Ootischenia where she lived until marrying Eli
Moojelsky at Glade in 1913. She resided at Glade since her marriage. She
loved gardening and her flowers and singing.

She is survived by one son, Alec of Glade; two daughters, Annie
Makonen of Castlegar Extended Care and Nora Koorbatoff of Nelson; 11
grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; 12 great-great-grandchildren; and
one sister, Mary Danshin of Grand Forks

She was predeceased by her husband on April 12, 1969.

Funeral services were held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel and the
Glade Russian Hall on Friday and Saturday with burial in the Glade

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar

Camp closure investigated

REVELSTOKE, B.C. (CP) An assistant deputy highways
minister will investigate the proposed closure of a ferry crew camp inthe
East Kootenay, says Cliff Michael, government management services
minister

Dan Doyle*was ‘scheduled to meet Friday with crew members to
Uiscuss what is would cost to keep the camp at Shelter Bay, about 50
kilometres south of Revelstoke, Michael said.

The Highways Ministry had said the camp would be closed to save
money. It said ferry workers could commute from Revelstoke during their
14-day shifts.

But crew members have argued that hazardous road conditions will
mean delayed ferry service and higher costs

Crew spokesman Ron Dyer said the ministry first said the closure
would save $90,000 a year, but has since reduced the estimated amount to
$55,000,

Priest on trial in Penticton

PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) — A former Roman Catholic priest used
tutoring sessions and camping trips as opportunities to sexually assault
young boys over a 17-year period, provincial court was told Friday

Crown prosecutor Vern Frolick told a crowded courtroom that
Leonard Philip Buckley, 50, had sexually assaulted nine boys on multiple
occasions between 1971 and 1988 at Cranbrook, and elsewhere in British
Columbia.

Buckley pleaded guilty June 30 to six counts of indecent assault, three
of sexual assault and one of attempted sexual assault, all involving young
boys. He resignéd his post as parish priest at St. Anne’s Catholic Church
in Penticton earlier this year after turning himself into the RCMP

Daigle's ex loses job

MONTREAL.(CP) — Jean-Guy Tremblay, who lost a Supreme
Court of Canada case over an injunction that barred his former girlfriend
Chantal Daigle from having an abortion, has lost his job.

His boss, Jean Gromyko, said his work as a technical service

with an auto in was. not considered
satisfactory. Tremblay was released Friday after a probationary em
ployment of less than two months.

Gromyko said the decision had nothing to do with Tremblay’s legal
battles which ended with the Supreme Court overturning the injunction
that had been upheld by Quebec Court of Appeal.

Sewage system full in Banff

BANFF, Alta. (CP) — Park officials have appealed to residents and
tourists in Banff to limit bathing and flushing toilets over the next week to
help bail out the Rocky Mountain resort town’s bursting sewage system

Park superintendent Dave Day issued the notice in the wake of test
results showing a massive sludge overflow had contaminated the Bow
River

“| know it’s going to be hot and uncomfortable, but it’s a serious
request,’’ Day said, adding residents can still water their lawns

It’s still not known what caused the untreated human waste to be
released into the Bow, although the 18-year-old sewage plant's automatic
chlorinators are suspected

No queen for Tillsonburg

TILLSONBURG, Ont. (CP) — A lack of interest has led to the can.
cellation of this year’s Tillsonburg Tri-County Fair Queen pageant

Last year’s queen, Angie Winnie, agreed to reign over the fair this
weekend, but said she was “disappointed and angry in a way’ over the
lack of interest in the competition

‘1 was really looking forward to crowning this year’s queen,” said
Winne, 19

Organizer Kim Cronmiller of nearby Langton said Friday she had
people going door-to-door trying to recruit pageant candidates. They had
no luck

Then she called 40 girls and women she thought might be interested,
but none considered entering. Cronmiller then called grocery stores to see
if there were any potential candidates ‘‘standing at their tills’’. Again, no
luck

Tillsonburg is about 50 kilometres east of London, Ont

Long strike expected at mine

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — The five-week strike at the Highland
Valley copper mine could go on indefinitely while the company waits to
“*starve out’’ the union, a steelworkers’ spokesman said

Talks between the company and the 1,200-member United
Steelworkers of America Local 7619 broke off Thursday over wage
demands. The strike started July 6

Highland Valley is the eighth-largest copper producer in the world,
processing more than 130,000 tonnes of ore daily

“Our members’ expectations are high, and the company knows
that,”” said union spokesman Richard Boyce. “They were reluctant to
produce a package because they feel it will be an insult to their own em
ployees. Now, I guess they’re going to starve us out.””

Mine spokesman Rod Killough expects the strike to go on “for quite
a period of time.”” i

The mine is located near Logan Lake about 40 kilometres southwest
of Kamtoops.

IRA bomb misses parade

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (AP) — An IRA bomb ex.
ploded Saturday hours before Protestants marched through tHe streets on
the tense anniversaries of both ancient and recent sectarian Strife in the
region

The bomb caused no injuries, and the annual Apprentice Boys’
Parade marking the end of a Roman Catholic siege of the city 300 years
ago began on schedule

Marching bands featuring piping flutes and humming ‘accordions
alternated with men carrying banners commemorating the siege.

“The way. we iook at it we're more besieged than ever before,"’ said
RobertKerr, a Protestant farmer from Dungannon district, as he watched
the marchers. The bomb ‘‘means we have no security. For the amount of
money they'rd spending, we should get better security.”"

Beirut shelling continues

BEIRUT (Reuter) — At least 300 people were reported killed or
wounded as Syrian gunners hammered away at Lebanon's Christian en-
clave for a second day Saturday and Christian-commanded Lebanese ar
my troops blasted Syrian-controlled Muslim regions with artillery and
rockets, despite international ceasefire calls

A smog of smoke, ash and dust covered the dead and dying in Beirut
after Syria pledged to step up the battle against right-wing Christians

PCB shipments in limbo
as ports refuse delivery

MONTREAL (CP) — The head of
the firm responsible for shipping PCBs
destined from St-Basile-le-Grand,
Que., to an incinerator in Wales, says
he still hopes they'll be unloaded at a
British port

Most ports in Britain have said they
will not touch the toxic cargo but Mar-
tin Clermont, president of Dynamis
Envirotech, said Friday he thinks he'll
be able to overcome authorities’ fears.

“The boat will arrive in Liverpool
on Aug. 16 and we're confident we'll
be able to . . . unload it,”’ said Cler-
mont. He told reporters he will rely on
lobbying or the threat of legal action

“There's a lot of emotion involved
in it,”” he said. ‘*We're trying to con-
vince them to change their minds.””

Two freighters loaded with PCB
waste are en route to Liverpool for
unloading and trucking to Pontypool,
Wales, where a special high-
temperature incinerator capable of
destroying them is located

Premier Robert Bourassa, cam-
paigning for the Sept. 25 provincial
election, said he believes the two ship-
ments will be accepted but alternatives
must be discussed in case the loads are
refused

FACE PROBLEMS

“The government is not in the habit
of playing ostrich when faced with

major problems,” Bourassa told a
Dai

LONDON (CP) — Chantal Daigle
was quoted Saturday as saying
she had an abortion before the
Supreme Court of Canada could
thle of her case because she was
“afraid the Supreme Court would in-
sist I had the baby I did not want

In her first public comments ’since
the highly publicized case, the Mail
Sunday tabloid newspaper also quoted
her as saying: ‘*But worse than that, I
did not dare wait any longer to have the
operation because I was already 22
weeks pregnant.””

The Mail on Sunday, one of the
more respectable of British tabloid
newspapers bought, for a reputed
$8,000 Cdn, the rights to the story of
Daigle’s decision to have an abortion
before the court could rule on her bid
to overturn an injunction granted by
Quebec courts to the baby’s father to
block the abortion

It quoted her as saying in an
interview last week in Montreal: ‘I was
very, very angry that he (the father,
Jean-Guy Tremblay) tried to force me
to have this baby against my will
Nobody was going to stop me getting
my own way . . . I was determined that
Jean-Guy was not going to get away
with this.””

The story, carried in the Mail on
Sunday’s women’s section, also
quoted Daigle as saying: ‘‘If Ihad gone
ahead and had our baby, he would
always have had a hold over me. He

Special tax m

OTTAWA (CP) — The Commons
finance committee will hold a special
summer meeting next week to air the
government's side of the story on the
Proposed nine-per-cent sales tax on
goods and services, chairman Don
Blenkarn said

Top officials of the Finance Depar-
tment will appear before the commit
tee on Tuesday and Wednesday to
defend the tax proposal which has been
widely vilified as a $24-billion tax grab

The committee hadn't been
scheduled to hold public hearings until
fall. The countrywide public hearings
will begin Sept. 18 in Ottawa.

“There’s a lot of horseshit around,”
said Tory MP Blenkarn. “You solve a
lot of God damn problems by having a
good public review so the members and
the interested media and so on get a
good look at the thing,” Blenkarn, a
leading supporter of the reform, said
from his Toronto-area riding.

Finance Minister Michael Wilson
had hoped a technical paper released
last week would quell concerns about

news conference in  St-Bapile-le
Grand, the site of a giant PCB
warehouse fire a year ago which drove
thousands of area residents out of their
homes for more than two weeks.

Another ship, carrying PCBs across
the Atlantic Ocean from a textile plant
in Quebec, iyheading back to Montreal
after dogk workers and port
authorities in Tilbury, England,
refused Wednesday to unload it

Clermont also confirmed that the
third of the 13 planned shipments of
PCBs from St-Basile-le-Grand, east of
Montreal, has been put off. It was
scheduled to leave on a Soviet freighter
Monday

About 38 of Britain’s 43 ports, in-
cluding Liverpool, have indicated they
will not unload the PCBs after a recent
storm of publicity over Canada ship-
ping its toxic waste to Britain. But
Clermont said he has all the necessary
licences and permits to ship the PCBs
to Wales

The issue will be discussed at the
provincial cabinet’s regular meeting
next Wednesday, said Bourassa, who
declined to rule out sending the PCBs
for storage in the town of Senneterre,
Qué., Which is about 550 kilometres
northeast of Montreal and has a PCB
warehouse

Bourassa would only say he has
promised Senneterre’s 4,100 residents

le tells

would have had to keep seeing me to
see the child.

“That isn’t my idea of what a family
should be.””

Daigle and Tremblay met last fall,
shared an apartment and had planned
to be married in July. But the romance
went sour and Daigle moved out,
alleging Tremblay struck her and
treated her roughly

By ‘that time, however, she was
pregnant.

Quebec courts granted Tremblay the
injunction he sought to prevent her

BRIAN MULRONEY
. « «'We'll deal with it.’

that no PCBs from other regions of the
province would be sent there except in
“exceptional circumstances.”

In Rouyn-Noranda, Parti
Quebecois Leader Jacques Patizeau
Promised that Senneterre, which now
stores PCBs only from the surroun

ding region, would not
Quebec's garbage dump

He said Bourassa should have
backed a project | 1/2 years ago by
Hydro-Quebec and University of
Sherbrooke to construct mobile PCB-
destroying units that could be put
together and dismantled in three days.

In Ottawa, a spokesman for federal
Environment Minister Lucien
Bouchard said Canada is not respon
sible for disposal of the’ Quebec PCBs
now on the high seas, even if they are
returned home

“If a shipment of toxic waste to
another country is refused, the shipper
is responsible for finding an alternate
plan,”’ said Terry
Collins. ‘In the case of PCBs from St
Basile-le-Grand, the responsibility
rests with the Quebec government.””
Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney said Canadian PCB waste
should ‘‘absolutely’? be treated in
Canada and not shipped abroad, the
Toronto Star reported

**We'll deal with it,’” Mulroney said
speaking to reporters at an air show in
Abbotsford, B.C., on Friday.

become

Press secretary

However,

“IU'sa problem for the moment for
the government of Quebec, but in a
larger sense it’s a problem for Canada
and we'll have to make sure these
things don’t happen.””

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from carrying through her plan to have
an abortion.

But Daigle defied the injunction and
had the abortion before the Supreme
Court overturned the Quebec court
rulings

The Mail on Sunday quoted her as
reiterating earlier public statements in
Canada that Tremblay physically
abused her

“I had left him and he wanted me
back at any price,”’ the newspaper
quoted her as saying

“But I wasn’t going to stay with a

man who was violent, insanely jealous
and wanted to control every aspect of
my life... I didn’t want to be a single
parent bringing up achild alone

“‘My life would have been very dif
parent then. Although I have the sup-
port of my parents, I would have
found it very difficult t find a job and
look after a baby at the same time.””

The newspaper quoted Daigle, a
former secretary, as saying she now
wants to resume her career

Police nab pro-lifers

SPOKANE, Wash (AP) — Spokane
police arrested nearly three dozen anti
abortion demonstrators Friday mor
ning at a clinic where elective abortions
are performed.

About 70 demonstrators, members
of Rescue Northwest, occupied’ the
third and fourth floors of the Sixth
Avenue Medical Center, the target of
several previous rescues.

About half the demonstrators left
when police told them they would be
arrested for first-degree criminal
trespass, said spokesman Lt. Robert
Van Leuven.

Those arrested also face civil fines
for violating a federal restraining order

turers’ sales tax, a hidden levy applied
on some manufactured goods.
FAIRER TAX

Wilson says the tax is fairer and
more efficient than the existing tax he
calls a silent killer of jobs.

However, a handful to Tory back
benchers — particularly in Alberta
where there’s no provincial sales tax
say the new tax will spark a taxpayer
revolt

In Red Deer, Alta., MP Doug Fee

barring such activities at abortion
clinics, Van Leuven said

**We would anticipate about 30 to 35
arrests," Van Leuven said as officers
led demonstrators to waiting police
vans.

Supporters of the demonstrators
lined the sidewalk outside the building
but refused to talk to reporters, They
referred questions to Jim Anderson, a
Rescue Northwest official who
remained inside the building

Members of the National Abortion
Rights Action League wore orange
vests as they stood by to escort women
into the building

There were no confrontations and

none of those arrested resisted, Van
Leuven said

Police Chief Terry Mangan said he
met for several hours with officials of
Rescue Northwest after a similar in-
cident in March, in which more than
100 people were arrested at the clinic

Mangan said he asked the demon-
strators for advance notification of
planned demonstrations and to hold
the actions on Fridays, when more of-
ficers are available

He said he was not notified in ad-
vance of Friday’s protest, but called
the demonstrators “‘responsible and
cooperative.’”

eeting called

said Wilson is facing a backlash in the
province.

**There’s still a fair bit of confusion
in spite of Mr. Wilson’s announcement
of the other day,”” Fee told the Red
Deer Advocate. He joined Alberta
colleagues David Kilgour, Louise
Feltham and Alex Kindy in warning of
ataxpayer revolt

Blenkarn said the biggest miscon.
ception is that the tax is new. He said

Canadians have to realize that it’s
replacing an existing tax that
discriminates against manufacturers
and exporters, but the new tax will
eventually yield more than the yearly
$24 billion projected by the Finance
Department
“always do believe there is an extra
dollar or two that will be picked up
when we bring in people who presently
their sales,"’ said

don’t declare

Blenkarn

Soviet fans rock
and roll at benefit

MOSCOW (AP) — Soviets fans
jumped, danced and some wrapped
themselves in giant American flags
Saturday as some of heavy metal’s
biggest stars made their Soviet debut in
Moscow's biggest hard rock concert

The benefit concert, a two-day ex-

‘There's a lot of
horseshit around.’
— Commons finance
committee chairman
Don Blenkarn

the new levy, scheduled for 1991. But
small businesses, consumers, labor
and senior citizens say they're opposed
tothe scheme.

The tax, to be applied at every step
of production from the factory.to the
checkout counter is intended to replace
the existing 13.5-per-cent manufac-

travaganza billed as the Moscow Music
Peace Festival and likened to the
Woodstock festival of 20 years ago,
features western musicians Motley
Crue, Bon Jovi, Scorpions, Cin
derella, Ozzy Osbourne, and Skid Row
as well as the Soviet groups Nuance,
Gorky Park and Brigada S

Proceeds will go to the programs
that fight drug and alcohol abuse in the
United States and the Soviet Union

About 100,000 fans filled the Lenin
Stadium in central Moscow, many of
them reclining on mats or jumping and
screaming near the stage, painted in
the psychedelic style of the 1960s

Some fans wrapped themselves in

giant American flags and formed
human pyramids.

“We're athle we need some
psychological relaxation!"” a member
of the Soviet junior fencing team
shouted after the pyramid he was for
ming with teammates toppled

The concert’s Soviet organizer, im
pressario Stas Namin, told a news con
ference Friday the concert would be as
important to his generation as Wood
stock was to American youth in 1969.

**We will show that rock is not just
negative," he said. **After so many
years of stigmatization, this is
something positive."*

TICKETS SOLD OUT

At the equivalent of $18.70 Cdn a
ticket, the concert was exorbitantly
priced by Soviet standards. However,
organizers said it quickly sold out

“This is the first time we've ever had
such a concert,"’ said 23-year-old
Yelena Viklova, who came with her

husband. ‘There was no way we could
pass up the chance. We came to see the
foreign groups."”

Rock promoter Alexei Kisilev said
the concert represented a major step
forward from two years ago, when
Soviet authorities banned a proposed
anti-drug concert because ‘they said
we didn't have a drug problem, and
our rock was not developed enough

Few hard rock albums are put out in
the Soviet Union, and groups have
generally had a hard time making
arrangements for concert halls and
They have, however, gained
ground under President Mikhail Gor
bachev’s cultural thaw

Any parallel with Woodstock, the
outdoor festival at a farm in New York
state that became a symbol of the
1960s, escaped many of Saturday's
fans. One 18-year-old Muscovite asked
whether Woodstock had been held in

Moscow

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