she returned to pick them up,
they weren't there.

Derrick's children were re-
turned to her early Tuesday
afternoon, even though a
ministry spokesman said ear-
lier in the day that the pair
would be kept in a foster
home while the situation was
assessed further.

Leon Mercer was returned
home Sunday.

Elaine Murray, the minis-
try’s regional manager, said

When they didn't return,
Derrick contacted RCM be-
fore going back downtown to

first concern is to ensure the
children are'safe and warm.

“It's unfortunate it took so
long to with the

parents,” she said. “The sit-
uation is really, really un-
usual. It looks like communi-

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MLA critical of party

VICTORIA (CP) — The New

Demoerstic Party's
unsuccessful

strategy of attack in British Columbia has boon

Graham

and should be repli
Lea said Tuesday. suf

party hk

In an open letter.to all New Democrats, the member of

the legislature for Prince

said open and frank

Rupert
discussion has not only been denied party members for a

decade, but even

even discouraged.
He said the NDP basically has been hiding from issues,

challenges,

‘The party has used a negative voicé, snd expected the
voters to understand what it stood for without expressing it
clearly and forthrightly, Lea said.

“Our strategy has been to attack, attack, attack. It is

th has not been ful. We

Bob Skelly and A! Passarell, all current members of the
legislature, and Bill King, « veteran New democrat who lost
his Shuswap-Revelstoke seat in last year’s election.
NOT WORKING

Lea, who has been a member of the B.C. legislature
since 1972, said the establishment forces within the party
believed the “negative approach would bring Us success.”

“With absolute certainty we can say that this approach
has been a disaster, and has opened the door to legislation
that delights the forces of reaction in B.C. and elsewhere.”

It is time the NDP re-examined its direction, and took
new bearings, he said, adding there is “tod much at stake for
poll rts Liver Dery nt alan ma rant
have meaningful change.’

coat head arty casabeca re treeeoe i NDP.

‘now obvious that this app

are out of office and the Socreds are once again the

government.” .

Lea is one of five announced candidates seeking to
replace Opposition Leader Dave Barrett as party leader.
Barrett, who has headed the party for 14 years, will
down in May. The NDP under his leadership lost the last
three provincial general elections to Premier. Bill Bennett.

In last May’s_election, Social Credit won 35 seats to the

NDP"s 22.

Other declared leadership caididates are Dave Stupich,

said party
sod Menppcinted, but have ect let their eserby. commit-
ment and courage; and they want their party back.
While

advocating that unions should be corporate ‘

members of the party, he questioned whether they should
have e: power or a special voice in the party's

“We must be a people's party, not the party of special
interest groups,” he said.

Local
resident
dies

William Bonderoff of

Otherwise, he added, its and social

will not, be pursuasive in today’s society. ate

Rain forces highway closure

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Heavy rain forced closure of
several highways in south-
western British Columbia to-
day, including portions of the
Trans-Canada Highway.

The Vanouver weather of-
fice said 43.8 millimetres of
rain fell in the 24 hours end-
ing’ 10 p.m. Tuesday. A
downpour forecast for today

way was littered with debris
from an early-morning rock
slide about 65 kilometres east
of Hope which covered both
lanes of the highway.

A slide forced closure of
the Trans-Canada at Bridal
Falls, near Chilliwack and the
Fraser Canyon section of the
highway between Hope and
Kamloops was closed briefly
because of slides.

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Vancouver to the Whistler couver-area municipalities of

ski resort.

‘A Squamish RCMP spokes-
man said Highways crews
were posted at some bridges
along the road where creeks
had risen after heavy rain

sible danger along the: nar-
row, mountainous highway.
In southeastern B.C., the
Salmo-Creston highway was
closed because of several
small slides and the danger of
avalanches.
Some streets in the Van-

Experts uncertain
about damage

KELOWNA (CP) — No

Union call
ignored

VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C.

hopes for a sign that the Soviet chief was well enough to

“\gee Trudeau.

Tynes coeskdaring ‘oeeeseneary :
task force én to get a i
creators ofthe Roviee Festinre He esis MOM

invitation to visit Moscow but must decide whether and
how to press the Soviets for a specifie date.

The prime minister said in an interview / before
Christmas that if Andropov remained sick he would have
to decide whether to try to maintain the momentum of his
peace initiative by going “to Moscow anyhow and see who
I can see.”

While officials say he wants to do that, they are
uncertain whether the Soviets will agree because. a
meeting with lesser leaders might be seen as an
admission that Andropov is sicker than has beem
previously admitted.

23 comets recorded in ‘83

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

ternational Astronomical
Union's central telegram bur-
a.

Recofel-breaking year

“Seeing so many of them
helped us -understand low
the-universe was formed and
how it operates,” he said. “I
tadds to our knowledge of the
evolution of the solar sys-
tem.”

Marsden is in charge of
naming new comets observed
by professional and amateur
sky watchers around the
world. This year he also lab-
elled the comets discovered
by an extremely successful
new satellite known as IRAS,

“v0 Jan. 17 in Stockholm.

% have a clear reading on that,” ssid one”

"a the $64 question.”
succeeds in setting up a Moscow trip, it
wise ely happen vn a at ate the month her
disarmament which

‘That conference has been upgraded to the foreign
tminister level, a move urged by Trudeau as part of his
call for more East-West comm

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S.

"Btate Secretary George Shultz will attend and will also

hold private talks in the Swedich capital on Jan. 18.
It is unlikely Trudeau could squeeze in a Moscow trip
then.

After his meeting in New York with Perez de Cuellar,
which makes up for a proposed meeting that fell through
last’ month, Trudeau plays host here Jan. 12-13 to
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad and
Jan. 16-17 to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang.

by
Ritchie
Rubinoft

yntil

jan. 27-

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or the Infra-Red Astronomy
Satellite.

In 1983, Marsden recorded
23 comets for the reference
books — 13 more than in

“At the ratewe were goiag However, it is possible that

for comet discoveries, 1
wasn't sure we would make it
to the end of the year with

record-setting 1975 and so said.

many that he nearly ran out
of letters in the alphabet to
name them.

He started to get worried
in September, when an as-
tronomer in California stop-
ped three comets on three
successive nights. Marsden
aan them 1983q, 1983r and

Pup brought back

OAKFIELD, N.S. (CP) —
Mouth-to-mouth resuscita-

When Hollett’s son found ¢ “The

the pup and told his mother,

she immediately took it into
the house. Hollett said the
pup appeared dead, but she
decided to try to revive the
hand-sized animal.

“The animal was frozen
stiff and if I had attempted to
bend its legs, I'm sure they
would have snapped off,” she
said. “Even though the pup
apy to be frozen solid
th it struck me to try
and thaw it out.”

Applying heat with a hair
dryer and gently massaging
the pup, it took about 20
minutes before the animal
began to soften.
pup’s hind legs
straightened up but I

thought it was just contrac-
tions. But when they curled
up again I did a double-take.

“Concentrating the heat
around the head area, I was
able to pry the pup’s mouth
open enough to attempt res-
uscitation by blowing in her
mouth and squeezing her
ribs.”

“Suddenly the-pup started
gasping just &6 | 4 “newborn
pup usually does,” Hollett
said. “I blew in its mouth four
or five times and she started
breathing on her own.”

Carnegy said it is a.miracle
the pup survived: “Every-
thing just fit together.”

with primes,” he said.
The year's last official
comet — called 1983w — was ”

a comet photographed by the
satellite on New Year's Day
1964 will be named 1983x if
it can be proven that the star
was seen by an amateur
‘comet watcher on Christmas
Day. Until then, the comet is

spotted in mid-December f

Marsden said.

to life

He believes membrane
covering the pup from its
birth had frozen, giving the
appearance it was dead.

“There had to be a heart-
beat, enough at least to keep
the tissues inside the ani-
rake body from becoming

 Sonacie appears healthy
but Carnegy said the terrier
wil] have to be watched dur-
ing the next several weeks to
determine if there was any

it damage.

Hollett, who breeds Scotch
terrier‘and Lhasa Apso dogs,
has already found a home for
Pupsicle and the other four
pups.

Soviets to improve education

MOSCOW (REUTER) —
The Soviet school system will

be overhauled to improve the ei

qyuality of education in the

adequately educated.
The planned changes, some
of which are already being

train five years instead of

yncouraged to teach,
PUSHES PATRIOTISM
Once in school,

the reform was part of

To combat the skilled labor
shortage, the Communist
party guidelines for school

par-
reform suggest children do

‘comets pass about 160 million
kilometres from Earth.

Ten of the 1983 comets
were rediscoveries, comets
already known and expected
to return.

Last year’s first desig-
nated comet was a false
alarm, reported by observers
in Perth, Ai but it will
remain on record books
as Comet 19638 because, as
Marsden said: “We don't
want to reuse a designation.

There's going to be ‘some
confusion if.you use a desig-
nation twice. Somebody,
somewhere, would get con-
fused.”

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