re Aa Castlégar News October 23, 1988 Vander Zalm’s leadership approved By DAPHNE BRAMHAM Canadian Press PENTICTON — Premier Bill Vander Zalm and his wife Lillian whooped it up Friday night to celebrate a resounding vote of confidence in his leadership at the Social Credit convention. It was also a chance for Vander Zalm, dressed in western garb for the party's hootenanny, to mend fences broken down by differences over his contro- versial leadership. “It's been a really difficult time,” a relaxed-looking Vander Zalm said after the vote. “It seemed the debate was never-ending and I never really knew who was shooting at me. It got to the point that I didn't even want to pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV.” Vander Zalm has come under fire for his strong anti-abortion stand. Two senior cabinet ministers resigned in the summer, citing interference from the premier's office. Before the convention, dissidents called for a secret ballot on Vander Zalm’s leadership. But the motion was passed by one-third of the delegates, short of the majority required. On a resolution confirming confidence in the premier and his government, only 75 raised their blue voting cards against it compared with 1,060 who supported Vander Zalm Vander Zalm waited tensely during the debate and the leadership vote, holding tightly to Lillian's hand. His critics said the fact that 367 delegates supported a secret ballot was more representative of the opposition to the premier than the vote on the resolution itself. FEW OPPOSED Vander Zalm admitted there may still be’critics. He said his caucus will have to deal with any dissidents within its ranks. “It's time now for all people to come in line and support what it is they stand for and become a part of a united group,” he told a news conference. Some supporters of the secret ballot, such as former attorney general Brian Smith, joined the call for unity. “There's absolutely no point to have people yahooing at one side and yahooing at the other side,” said Smith, who resigned in June over differences with Vander Zalm. “If we all believe in free enterprise and keeping this coalition together, we have to stop the backstabbing. We've got to be constructive. We have no choice.” That's the same message Vander Zalm had for delegates in his speech Friday morning. “We will stand united,” he told the overflow crowd. “We will grow together in strength from this day forth and for many decades to come.” In a confident but contrite speech where he admitted he had made mistakes, Vander Zalm said the party must work together “for good free-enterprise government.” Grace McCarthy, who like Smith resigned from cabinet over differences with Vander Zalm, was less conciliatory. She said she will wait and see whether he will live up to his promise of better communication with the party, caucus and cabinet. McCarthy said by not holding a secret vote “the grassroots were denied their democratic right. “I think they will always wopder, as I will wonder, if the secret ballot would have changed anything.” Others — many of whom refused to even wear the free blue scraves imprinted with Growing Stronger To- gether — were also considering their futures in the party. Mickey Patryluk was hurt by the boos and catcalls that greeted her proposal. for a secret ballot. The vice-president of the Okanagan-South riding said she has spent innumerable hours doing menial chores for the Socreds and will have to consider whether she'll continue to make that effort. Stephen Rogers, who was dropped from cabinet in the summer, said he'd spend the rest of the weekend trying to determine whether his unhappiness is mirrored in other parts of the province. What he decides to do will depend on what he hears in the next few days. Alistair Palmer, the Vancouver-Point Grey presi- dent who has been Vander Zalm's fierciest critic, said he will consider staying on if “the rest of the delegates don’t treat me like a leper for speaking out.” BILL VANDER ZALM . . Fesounding support Byelection called in NDP stronghold October 23, 1988 Briefly POET READS MATERIAL . . . Patrick Lane was at Selkirk College on Friday reading from a selection of his poetry. The Nelson-born poet won the Governor- General's Award for poetry in 1978 and is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Saskatchewan. CosNewsPhoto by Nick Allon CELGAR continued from front page fibre particles, is sprayed into the bottom of the recovery boiler where it is burned at very high tempera tures. Working along the same lines as a wood stove, the boiler is fed with pressurized air to burn the chemical. Chemicals from the residue drop to the floor of the boiler and are recovered for use again. The chemicals can't be thrown away for environmental and eco nomic reasons, explained Morandini. “At this time we have not been able to process more liquor,” said Morandini. “The more they've pushed the system, the system tubes have plugged with liquor,” said Morandini. The steam tubes are enclosed tubes atthe top of the boiler which carry water to be heated by the process to create steam which is crucial for other areas of mill production. Morandini said the boiler has been shut down twice for 24-hour periods because the passages between the steam tubes have become clogged. Celgar has made “some minor changes” in the air distribution to the boiler trying to achieve “a better mixing of the gas” and “a better mixing of the liquor.” Computerization of the boiler has given the operator better control of the system, said Morandini, but it is still not working as well as hoped. Celgar needs to be able to increase the amount of liquor going into the recovery boiler by eight per cent because of future improve- ments to the pulp process which will increase spent cooking liquor. The company wants to put in an oxygen delignification process — a more efficient way of cleaning the pulp. “This makes up about five per cent of the eight per cent,” said Mor. andini. The other three per cent will be produced through a “better washing of the pulp.” These will cost the company less money and produce less effluent dis- charged into the Arrow Lake. Currently, the mill effluent jdis- charge is under a 10-year variance order issued by the Ministry of the Environment in 1986. Johnson said the mill is allowed higher levels of effluent than the provincial average. “But this is a big river too and that’s why there isn't much of an impact,” he said. If improvements to the boiler don't work, Celgar may have to decrease production, build another smaller boiler to help this one, or “take this one down and build a bigger one, which will cost you a fortune,” said Morandini. Union raid “unprincipled” VANCOUVER (CP) — A move by a Teamsters union local to raid the union representing striking White Sport workers has been branded “unprincipled” by the president of the British Columbia Federation of. Labor The White Spot workers, members of the Canadian Association of In: dustrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers union, have been on strike since Aug. 27 and are without a contract. “There is just absolutely no jus. tification for what the Teamsters are doing,” said Ken Georgetti. “It's wrong, its unprincipled and they shouldn't. do it.” That view was echoed by Jess Succamore, national president of the 40,000-member Confederation of Canadian Unions, with which the association is affiliated “Unanimously, everybody, some of us not on good terms, have criticized this as the most outrageous action by a union in the history of the labor movement,” Succamore said. DEFENDS MOVE However, the move was defended by Ed MacIntosh, business manager of the raiding Teamster Local 213, which has 10,000 members in B.C., and does not belong to either the B.C. Fed or the confederation. “It is a difficult decision to have to make and I'm sure there will be some adverse reaction to it,” MacIntosh said. “But I believe there's a job there that needs to be done and can be done and we can do it and we'll give it our best shot.” The Teamsters will hold three meetings at their offices Sunday and hope to have cards signed up by at least 50 per cent of the association's members by that night, he said. Macl h said the T “without rolling over and playing dead,” could negotiate a contract for the other union's members. And he said the Teamsters were willing to face the ostracism of the labor movement. “Everybody is entitled to their opinion and I respect that,” he said. SENT LETTER Teamsters local 31 president Spike Edwards quickly sent a letter to Succamore assuring him that his local is not engaged in any talks with any White Spot employees “would not attempt to organize people who are on a legal strike.” Contacted later in the day, Ed- wards refused to say if he considered the sister local’s move wrong or un principled. “I can't judge what another local thinks,” he said. Georgetti offered the B.C. Fed's assistance to help CAIMAW mem- bers settle their contract — without the Teamsters — as quickly as possible, by pressuring White Spot. PENTICTON (CP) — Premier Bill Vander Zalm has called a byelection in the New Democrat's stronghold of Alberni for Nov. 19 — the same day as provincewide municipal elections. “] think having it on municipal election day will really give people an opportunity to turn out in good numbers and make it a little more convenient,” Vander Zalm told reporters Saturday. The premier — who is attending the party's annual convention here — made the announcement in a news release and did not announce it to the more than 1,400 delegates. Vander Zalm admitted it would be tough for the Social Credit party to win the riding that runs along the west coast of Vancouver Island. In the 1986 provincial election, former NDP leader Bob Skelly won the riding with 8,597 votes and a 2,100-vote margin over the Socred candidate. “It's a tough riding undoubtedly,” he said. “I think there are some important issues that, people are concerned about and those issues will bode well for our chances particularly the fact that the community is very dependent on forestry and other resources.” FIGHT HARD While Vander Zalm did not speculate on his party's chances, he said the party will fight hard to “make a great election campaign.” It is the first of three byelections that must be called. However, the others don't have-to be called for nearly six months following two recent resigna- tions by members who are running in the Nov. 21 riding that was split with one Socred and one NDP member. Vander Zalm said the other byelections “will follow not too long from now.” Vander Zalm, who won an overwhelming en- dorsement of his leadership Friday despite a move for a leadership review, said he'll campaign in Alberni if candidate George Dryden asks him to. Dryden, a 61-year-old retired. B.C. Hydro lineman, said he'd wait to see whether to ask for Vander Zalm’s help.. The governing party lost a spring byelection in a traditionally solid Socred riding of Boundary-Similk- ameen and party polling showed that its popularity dropped every time Vander Zalm campaigned in the area. Dryden believes his union background will help in the highly unionized constituency. NDP candidate Gerard Janssen learned of the byelection call from a radio report. Janssen, a 42-year-old jeweler, said his chances have been enhanced by the Socreds' endorsation of Vander Zalm. “With the endorsation, the party has moved to the right where Vander Zalm is and I think the party has lost the people of reason and conscience,” he said in a telephone interview. Former attorney general Brian Smith, who was among the Scored delegates calling for a secret vote the Socred coalition of Liberals and Conservatives was damaged at the convention. federal election. The ridings are Nanaimo, another NDP strong- hold, and Vancouver-Point Grey, He said the byelection “won't be a two-way race” because the Liberals have a strong candidate, school teacher Shirley Bonfield. a two-member PROMISES continued trom front page province in order to partly offset the effect of cutbacks in recent years.” Jenkins said the Liberal party will increase funding for university re- search and development projects and slammed the Torries for slashing research and development funding. “Mr. (Prime Minister Brian) Mul- roney in his national campaign in 1984 promised to double it; in fact he has cut it,” said Jenkins, adding: “We will also reinstate the cutbacks the Conservatives made in national re- search and development.” Brisco said the Tories are re-ex- amining the Canada Student Loan program. He said the problem of high levels of student debt will be ad- dressed so that former students will be able to meet their obligations with less hardship. As well, he said the revision of the Canada Student Loans will address the needs of part-time students, single parents and the dis- abled. Jenkins announced a Liberal plan to establish a program called En- counter Canada, a voluntary year of work in the community geared to- wards reforestation or environment- al cleanup, to replace Katimavik. “A Liberal government will con- tinue this type of program as well as reinstate the funding that the Con- servatives have frozen for summer job programs,” he said. Tempers flared briefly during the question period when Kristi9ansen was asked to NDP plans for Western diversification. “We do believe that there is a great deal more that can be done for Western Canada and Atlantic Can- ada. We don’t always have to rely on what happens in Ontario,” said Kris- tiansen, stating that NDP Leader Ed Broadbent plans to add $200 million to the Western Diversification Fund. Brisco responded by saying that the government has not even begun to spend the $1.2 billion Western Diversification Fund. Brisco said that Broadbent favors his own riding in Ontario when it comes to the auto- motive industry. “Well I guess it is because Ed Broadbent's riding is in the auto motive industry and of course you all know that for all intents and pur- poses is a free-trade agreement under the auto pact,” he said. “That sir is a lie and you know it,” Kristiansen said out of turn. “So much for Western Canada,” Brisco added. Brisco was taken to task by a student who wanted more infor- mation on the free-trade agreement, saying the government has not pro- vided enough information about how the agreement will affect industry. Brisco said he is not permitted to hand out information on the free- Nature trade agreement during the election campaign and was met by rumblings from the crowd. Brisco said his office will provide a toll-free number to obtain that information, Brown received the most favorable response from the students for his position on nuclear-powered sub- marines. Brown said Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s plans to spend $12 billion on the submarines does not make economic sense, stating $1 billion spent on the military creates 75,000 jobs while $1 billion spent on edu- cation creates 187,000 jobs. “It seems that having nuclear- powered submarines which are going to be built in a foreign country just does not make sense,” he said. Brisco argued that the country has an obligation to buy the subs because of its ties to the North American Aerospace Defence Command and the Northern Atlantic Treaty Or- ganization. decides boundary limit VANCOUVER (CP) — Faced with competing interests of equal merit, a B.C. Supreme Court judge used nature's own boundary to define territorial limits in a dispute between a logging company and B.C. Indians. He was dealing with competing applications in which Westar Timber Ltd. sought to stop the Gitksan Wet'suwet'en from interferring with its operations, and the Indians tried in turn to halt all logging work. Mr. Justice Alan Macdonell, using the Babine River in north-western B.C. as a dividing line, succeeded in handing down a judgment favorable in part to both parties. Approving Westar’s operations south of the river, the judge issued an injunction restraining the Gitksan from obstructing the lawful work of the company in that area. But upholding the desire of the Indians to keep certain land un touched, pending the outcome of their land claim, the judge restrained Westar from building-a bridge across the river or constructing roads on its north side. Freighter captain held PIRAFUS, Greece (AP) — Authorities detained the captain of an Italian freighter and accused him of ramming a Greek cruise ship, but Italian officials said Saturday the freighter was at a standstill before the fatal crash, A British teenager was missing and feared dead after Friday's accident involving the freighter Adige and the 6,300-tonne Jupiter, which was carrying 486 British students and teachers. Two Greek crewmen were killed and 54 passengers injured. The crash tore a gaping hole in the port side of the Jupiter, which sank about 1.5 kilometres from shore. All others aboard the Jupiter were rescued, and no injuries were reported from the Adige. Italian officials denied the Adige was at fault. Hurricane still moving MANAGUA (AP) — Hurricane Joan blasted across Nicaragua on Saturday with 200 km/hr winds and torrential rains, flattening buildings and setting off floods and mud slides. Five people were reported killed and 140 were missing. In Costa Rica and Panama, authorities reported seven deaths, raising the toll from the storm to at least 38. Dozens of people were injured and more than 80,000 were evacuated in the three countries. “We had to look for shelter to save our lives,” said Xiomara Campo, sitting on the floor of a church shelter in Rama, about 210 kilometres east of the capital, Managua. Independence urged VILNIUS, Soviet Union (Reuter) — A Lithuanian intellectual who spent I1 years as a political prisoner urged full independence for the Soviet republic on Saturday in a fiery speech at a congress broadcast on radio and television. “Only by removing Soviet troops from our country can independence and freedom be achieved,” Antanas Terlackas told the founding congress of Sajudis, the Lithuanian Movement for Perestroika. “Sovereignty means full independence.” ‘or di i he the 1939 Nazi-Soviet part under which the Baltic republic was absorbed into the Soviet Union. Israel bombs Lebanon JERUSALEM (AP) — Troops shot and wounded 12 Palestinians on Saturday in scattered clashes in the occupied territories, hospital officials said. The army said a soldier was injured when he was struck in the head by a rock. Also Saturday, 21-year-old Lieut. Moti Shtaier died of wounds suffered Wednesday when a suicide car bomb exploded in southern Lebanon, the army said. His death raised the number of Israeli troops killed in the explosion to eight. Two other soldiers remained in critical condition. The bombing prompted Israeli air raids over south Lebanon Friday that killed 16 people and injured 34. Police stations attacked SANTIAGO (AP) — Chilean guerrillas attacked two small police stations in the south with machine-guns and anti-tank rockets, killing a corporal and wounding a local farmer, police said Saturday. They were the first significant actions since President Augusto Pinochet lost an Oct. 5 referendum on extending his military rule to 1997. A national police statement said, eight guerrillas opened fire Fri day night with machine-guns and rifles on a small frontier post in Los Quenes, in the Andes foothills 30 kilometres east of the city of Curico. The guerrillas then set a police building afire, destroying it and a police jeep, the statement said. It said the gunfire killed a corporal, Juvenal Vargas, and wounded a farmer visiting the post, Fernando Garcia. Constitution amended BELGRADE (AP) — The Yugoslavian parliament approved a package of constitutional amendments Saturday in an effort to ease the country's worst crisis since the Second World War. The amendments would give Serbia more control over its autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. The crisis has been fuelled by hundreds of thousands of Serbians protesting alleged harassment of their people in Kosovo by the majority Albanians. Adoption of the 34 measures were largely symbolic, since strong opposition is expected when they are submitted for approval by the legislatures of each of Yugoslavia's six republics and two provinces. Congress refuses funds WASHINGTON (Reuter) — Congress has refused to authorize the U.S. administration to transfer up to $150 million US for UN peace-keeping operations. The Senate failed to act on a bill passed by the House of Representatives authorizing the transfer before Congress adjourned for the year early Saturday amid expressions of concern about the possible shape of a peace accord in southern Africa. The administration sought the authority to switch the money, appropriated earlier for other programs, to help pay for possible UN peace-keeping operations that might be needed following conflicts in Angola as well as Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Kampuchea and the Western Sahara. Fire fight erupts SIDON, Lebanon (Reuter) — Syrian-backed Shiite Muslim militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas loyal to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat fought with rocket-propelled grenades and machine-guns Saturday in southern Lebanon. Witnesses said Palestinians entrenched around Ain el-Hilweh and Miyeh refugee camps exchanged fire with Shiite Amal militiamen positioned on hills overlooking the settlements and the nearby town of Maghdousheh. There were no immediate reports of casualties, security sources said The clashes coincided with reports Syria and its anti-Arafat Palestinian allies is massing troops near the port of Sidon, 50 kilometres south of Beirut. Peace conference proposed AQABA, Jordan (AP) — The leaders of Jordan, Egypt and the Palestine Liberation Organization met Saturday in an effort to forge common proposals for an international peace conference in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Their summit was held with a view toward Israel's parlia- mentary election No. 1 and a session of the Palestine National Council, which acts as the PLO’s parliament, Nov. 12. “This meeting aims at co-ordinating Arab positions so we can move forward quickly to convening an international peace con ference,” PLO chairman Yasser Arafat said after meeting with King Hussein of Jordan and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Brisco’s C ANSWERING QUESTIONS . . . Joe Clark and Bob efforts ters Brisco answer reporters’ questions Friday at aati Clark was in town to bolster Brisco's campaign CosNews Photo PEACE continued from front page Soviets realized that if they wanted a reduction of weapons they had to negotiate it, down. They couldn't divide the West.” But Clark also said Canadian nuclear-powered submarines would be used to protect Can- ada’s sovereignty. And he was quick to point out the vessels would not carry nuclear wea- pons. “We have the Arctic,” he said “We want to assert our control of the Arctic. The only vessels that can transit that are nuclear. powered submarines.” But Clark stressed Canada's peacekeeping role at the United Nations as \well. He said Canada is a leader in designing systems that will help peace continue. “We think one of our duties as a government is to make our ex pertise available,” he said, citing a recent journey he took to Central America in the hopes of establishing peace for the war torn nations of Guatemala, Hon- duras, El Salvador and Nic. aragua. “Canada was prepared to offer our expertise in designing a peace-keeping mechanism that would be useful there. They certainly are very much interested in Canada’s capacity in helping design’ some mech anism.” Whale presumed dead BARROW, Alaska (AP) — One of three trapped whales was presumed dead Saturday, but its companions inched toward open water as work ers cut a string of breathing holes and a helicopter battering ram smashed a path through thick ice. However, a huge ridge formed by colliding ice masses stood in the way of a breakthrough for the California gray whales, members of an en dangered species. The mammals were about 6.5 kilo- metres from open water. The whale nicknamed Bone dis- appeared beneath the 30-centimetre- thick ice Friday afternoon. By mid night Friday night, rescuers on the ice near this small town on the Arctic Ocean had given up hope Bone might rejoin the others. Biologist Geoff Carroll said the whale was presumed dead Bone, Crossbeak and Bonnet be. came trapped at a small breathing hole in unseasonably heavy ice more than two weeks ago during their annual migration south. Open water was too far for them to swim without surfacing to breathe. The missing whale got its name because skin on its snout had been rubbed to the bone by the rough ice surrounding the breathing hole. That condition may have led to Bone’s death, said biologist Craig George “Once they get a bone infection, they go pretty quick,” George said Something will have to be done soon about the ice ridge if the remaining whales are to be freed, said Col. Tom Carroll, in charge of the Alaska National Guard's two helicopters being used for the rescue. RIDGE THICK The ridge was believed to be too thick to be punctured by the heli copters’ five-tonne, steel-reinforced concrete hammers, and demolition experts were on their way to assess the situation, said Geoff Carroll Ron Morris of the National marine Fisheries Service has expressed re luctance to use explosives for fear they might harm the remaining two whales. Bone disappeared about the same time rescuers had their greatest success. About two dozen Inuit volunteers led the whales about three-quarters of a kilometre closer to open water Friday by using chain saws to carve a string of breathing holes measuring three metres by nine metres. De-icers, which keep the holes open by agitating the water, freed the Inuit to work on new holes. the first helicopter worked in the opposite direction, from the open water back toward the whales so they wouldn't be frightened. The aircraft used a concrete block suspended from its cargo hook to punch four 4'/2- to six-metre holes in the i¢e at 75-metre intervals. The second helicopter abandoned the repeatedly frustrated effort to drag a 185-tonne, icebreaking barge 370 kilometres from the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay. The population of endangered California gray whales has risen to about 20,000, growing at an annual average of 2.5 per cent for the past decade, officials said The whales spend their winters in the warm water off Mexico's Baja California and Southern California and their summers in the food-rich northern seas. Court news In Castlegar provincial court last week, Wayne Drouin was fined $300 after pleading guilty to possession of a narcotic . Thomas Kinakin was fined $200 for assault Canada plays important global peacekeeping role RED DEER, Alta. (CP) — Canada retains an important international role with its history of peacekeeping and friendly intervention, former United Nations ambassador Stephen Lewis said. “Canada is a middle power without great pretension,” said Lewis, Can adian ambassador to the UN for four years until his resignation this year. “But we're a middle power that collaborates with the Nordics to form a kind of angelic and near perfect country that would intervene in a fashion both principled and with some integrity.” Canada still acts independently of other countries on many issues and is not viewed internationally as being in the pocket of the United States, he said. Canada often votes differently from its southern neighbor, fre quently to the consternation of American officials. “When I got to the United Nations, I tended to believe that our re lationship with the United States might prejudice the way countries view us,” said Lewis, who was known as an outspoken delegate to the international organization. “I think I was wrong. I think we are viewed exclusively on the way in which we behave consistently with our own cultural and political prior: ities and traditions — and we have not been sullied or undermined by the close relationship with the United States. “That is probably more strongly in the minds of the beholders in Canada than it is in the minds of the ob servers internationally.” But Lewis said Canada’s image could change if the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement is adopted “I am concerned that bond would be so inextricable that down the road the generosity of Canadian foreign policy is eroded by the ideology of American foreign policy,” he said. STEPHEN LEWIS middle power ED BROADBENT pin Mulroney Broadbent “to pin” Mulroney By CLYDE GRAHAM Canadian Press OTTAWA — Ed Broadbent says pinning down Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on free trade will be his chief goal in the two televised leaders’ debates. “There is no doubt in my mind the most crucial aspect in the debate is to have the chance to pin the prime minister down on fundamental ques- tions about the trade deal that he hasn't answered,” the NDP leader told reporters Saturday after taping a television interview. While Broadbent was making the television appearance, Liberal Lead er John Turner and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney were cloistered with key advisers preparing for the critical debates. The debate in French will be held Monday and the one in English will be held Tuesday. Both are scheduled for three hours. Broadbent, who will also crack the briefing books this weekend, said earlier this week he would treat his two opponents equally. With a CTV poll on Friday suggesting the NDP is in second place at 30 per cent of voter support, his primary target is clearly the Con- servatives at 43 per cent. The Liberals trail at 25 per cent. During the interview for CTV's Sunday Edition to be broadcast today, Broadbent said he'll stick with his policies during the debate and confront Mulroney on free trade. COULD BE KO When asked if a knockout blow could be delivered, Broadbent said: “Yes, there can be. Is it likely? I wouldn't say that.” Broadbent said unlike the 1984 election debate when a rusty Turner was savaged by Mulroney, all three party leaders have been in the Commons for the last four years and have become seasoned debaters. Broadbent later told reporters he'll press Mulroney to defend the pro- posed trade agreement with the United States that would phase out tariffs and pull down a range of other commercial barriers over 10 years. The agreement — already ap- proved by the U.S. Congress — has been stalled by the Liberal-domi nated Senate until the issue is decided in the Nov. 21 election Broadbent said he'll bore in on the impact of the deal on the environ ment, energy, regional development and farming — areas he says Mulroney has been ducking because they are a bad deal for Canada. On Friday, Turner also said the debate would be his big chance to get across his message that the trade deal is a sellout of Canadian sov. ereignty. Mulroney, expecting attacks from two sides on the issue, has already started trying to lower expectations for his performance Edmonton chutch says gays out EDMONTON — (CP) United churches in a number of communities surrounding Edmonton have agreed not to ordain practising homosexuals. Churches from the Yellowhead Presbytery adopted a resolution last week to “not knowingly recommend for the order of ministry and candi- date who is a practising homo- sexual.” The presbytery, which represents 65 congregations, also voted not to accept homosexual ministers who have been ordained in other pres. said Rev. Don Watt. sort of active homosexual lifestyle is not acceptable, at least in leadership positions,” he said. The resolution is similar to one passed last month by the Peace River Presbytery in northern Alberta. They follow a statement issued last summer by the United Church of Canada’s general council on sexual lifestyles.