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Liberal MPs Stan Keyes and Jean Lapierre told a news conference Charest should resign, regardless of whether hé intended to interfere with the political process in the civil case of Daniel St-Hilaire. ‘ “The rule here is quite simple: a minister of the cabinet does not call a judge,” said Keyes, the Liberal sports critic. Latvian publishing halted MOSCOW (AP) — Latvian newspapers have stopped publishing after the republic's legislators shut down a polluting pulp factory and central authorities in Moscow refused to supply paper from elsewhere, Tass reported. The official news agency said that only national newspapers such as Pravda and Izvestia will now be delivered on a daily basis in the Baltic republic. It said three Latvian dailies would now be published weekly. The paper shortage followed the Jan. 1 closing of the Sloksky pulp and paper factory in the resort city of Jurmala on the northern Latvian coast after residents complained about pollution from the lant. P A Latvian journalist said the cut-off of paper supplies will force about 30 newspapers to close and 1,300 journalists will lose their jobs. Gas leaks at Hinton mill HINTON, Alta. (CP) — Seventeen people were sent to hospital when a cloud of chlorine gas escaped at a Hinton pulp mill. Workers were getting out of their cars shortly before 7 a.m. Monday when a hose broke on a train car unloading chlorine gas. The toxic gas was carried by the wind across rking lot at the Weldwood mill. Ambulances took 17 people to the hospital, said company spokesman Gary Dewhirst. One employee was still being monitored in case the exposure causes fluid buildup on his lungs. Overhauling of laws promised TORONTO (CP) — Federal Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek says he plans to overhaul laws g ing it organ- izations. ba Jelinek said the believes the overhaul is necessary to prevent abuses by some groups now iti in the legislation allowing them special tax status. ‘The reporting mechanism isn’t very strict,"’ said Jelinek. “There are all sorts of loopholes. I want to get tough on those that take advantage of the system."’ The overhaul will benefit most of the 60,000 charitable organizations across Canada that are doing important work and being hurt by a “‘few bad apples,” he said. Romanian election date set BUCHAREST (Reuter) — The National Salvation Front, which has run Romania since the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu last month, has set May 20 for general elections and said it will become a political party to run in them. The front reversed an earlier pledge to lead the country into the first free elections in four decades and then dissolve itself. Tuesday's near-unanimous decision by the council of the front brought cries of outrage from some of the 15 political parties which have registered since Ceausescu was ousted on Dec. 22. Opposition parties said the front’s control of the news media and Political power gives it an unfair advantage. If its members want to stand in the election they should first leave the front council. Soviet troop raids reported MOSCOW (CP) — Soviet troops trying to put down a nationalist uprising in Azerbaijan raided offices_of—unofficial groups in the republic's capital of Baku, arresting 43 people and seizing copying machines, local radio said today. Demonstrations and strikes were banned in the city and activists were warned they face 30 days in jail if they try to organize protests, the official Soviet Tass news agency said. The city has seen mass demonstrations almost daily for weeks, and a general strike called to demand the withdrawal of Soviet troops Paralysed the capital's factories and transport today, Soviet troops killed dozens of people Saturday in storming Baku to end bloody ethnic clashes in the southern Caucasus that exploded Jan. 13 with anti-Armenian rioting in Baku. The official overall death toll in 11 days of violence stood at 170. 4 Opposition postpones talks EAST BERLIN (AP) — O; forces have talks with Prime Minister Hans Modrow on entering his caretaker g indicati their rel to be st with the till-dominant but i 2 C i In the latest demonstration ‘of East Germans’ growing impatience with the authorities, more than 10,000 skilled workers rallied in East Berlin on Tuesday to denounce communism for squelching craftsmanship. = They sought free-market reforms to revive artisanship and many echoed increasing calls for reunification with prosperous West Germany. A new round of warning strikes, bleak new economic data and the announcement of price increases for farm Products have added to the sense of crisis. Religious restrictions lifted PRAGUE (AFP) — Restrictions on religion enforced by Communists in 1949 have been lifted by a vote in parliament. The legislation was passed on Tuesday night and. allows churches to chose freely their representatives, but the state will continue to pay them. Members also agreed for a bill to be drawn up in committee on the withdrawal of Soviet troops stationed in Czechoslovakia, after independent member of the parliament Michael Kocab called for the treaty covering their deployment to be declared null and void. First Japanese probe lifts off | UCHINOURA, Japan (AP) — Japan's first lunar probe lifted off today, billowing clouds of smoke and carrying Japanese hopes of becoming the third country to reach the Earth's closest neighbor. The slender M3S-2 rocket disappeared into the night sky over the Pacific Ocean from its launch pad nestled between mountains on Japan's southern coast. If successful, the Muses-A satellite will be the first Spacecraft to visit the moon since an unmanned Soviet vehicle landed on its surface in 1976. Only the United States and the Soviet Union have sent spacecraft to the moon. Chretien officially enters Grit race OTTAWA (CP) — Jean Chretien officially joined the Liberal leadership race Tuesday saying he wants to lead a party that will rally Canadians around fundamental values and a shared sense of common purpose. “This leadership campaign marks the begin- ning of the end for the Mulroney government,”’ said the former cabinet minister, who quit politics in 1986 after losing the last race to John Turner. “This will di to Ci the dynamism and the vitality of the Liberal party.”’ Chretien was joined by his wife, Aline, and followed to the podium at a downtown hotel by several caucus members including Montreal MP David Berger and Toronto MP Charles Caccia. Chretien, a lawyer, is the fourth person to enter the race to replace Turner. His announcement comes after months of: i in the ta, the leadership convention in Calgary on June 23. He has been embroiled in controversy since calling last week for the renegotiation of the Meech Lake constitutional accord. “ The latest criticism came from a Kemer Quebec cabinet colleague on Monday. Francis Fox said his old friend made a big mistake by mixing the Meech Lake issue into the Liberal leadership race. “By saying he was diametrically opposed to the accord, I think he was givensmoral sustenance to the people who oppose the accord," Fox said. EASILY RECOGNIZED To take a walk with Chretien, populist politician par excellence, is to share for a moment an almost Gret que glow of iti An acquaintance who encountered Chretien by chance one day last year was struck by the reaction as they walked along the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. Passing cars. honked. People waved. Mothers pointed out Chretien’s rangy presence to their kids who grinned toothily. Chretien had a wave and a smile for all, never breaking his quick pace nor slowing his stream of anecdotes and observations, all delivered in that gravelly Shawinigan drawl. At S6, Chretien still has something of the small-town Quebec lawyer in him. Despite having dined with the Queen and been feted by tycoons, he can still marvel at the fact his daughter, France, grew up to become a lawyer and marry into one of Quebec's most powerful business families. Now he wants to ratchet_himself up the status ladder another notch. A gambler who took such unpopular cabinet jobs as Indian affairs and finance to improve his resume, he’s now making one last bid to lead the Liberal party and, perhaps, become prime minister. Chretien is a provocative man who once thumbed his nose at appeals from Rene Levesque to run for the Liberals in Quebec. Intellectuals of the left and right, Quebec federalists and nationalists, can all find something to hate about him. But it’s the guy in the street, the lady on the bus, who likes ‘‘ti-Jean”’ for his easy-going style, his unmistakeable accent and down to earth sense of humor. The son of Wellie Chretien and Marie Boisvert, Jean was the eighth of the couple’s nine surviving children. Wellie was a paper-mill machinist and local Liberal organizer who sent all his children to university. Jean was a political prodigy. He won his first election in 1963 at age 29 after several years as a party activist. JEAN CHRETIEN . : +. Wants to rally Canadians Lester Pearson was prime minister and he sent Chretien to work with then-finance minister Mitchell Sharp, the man Chretien calls his political mentor. Sharp is still one of Chretien’s closest advisers —'so close that Chretien once described him as ‘‘almost a father to me."’ It was under former prime minister Pierre Trudeau that Chretien came into his own. Appointed minister of Indian affairs and northern development, Chretien plunged into the work with a passion. In four years, he helped create 10 national parks while promoting the idea of native self-government. Eventually, he and his wife, Aline, adopted a native child, Michel, who was brought up with France and their other son, Hubert. The couple’s compact brick home beside the Rideau Canal is still decorated with Inuit and Indian art. HARD WORKER Chretien held several senior cabinet posts and was reg: asa 1g Trudeau li says former colleague Gerald Regan. But he never achieved the intimate status of Marc Laloride or Allan MacEachen, Trudeau’s top fixers. Chretien ‘“‘had a good, fly-by-the-seat-of-his- pants intuition about political matters and when he intervened, it was with a-certain view,"’ Regan said. Chretien, an avid golfer who walks to stay fit, is not known as a deep thinker, a knock he suggests is unfair. “The language I use. . . has nothing to do with a lack of education or a poor upbringing,” he says in his 1985 autobiography Straight From the Heart. ‘It stems from my wish to remain close to the working-class people.”” A passionate federalist, he fought at Trudeau's side during the epic referendum battles in 1980 and was there for the negotiations that resulted in patriation of the Constitution. Two years later, Trudeau was gone and the Liberals needed a leader. They picked Turner, Chretien’s former cabinet colleagues who had been hailed as the next Grit messiah. Coordinator for Hydro. ° | Location | Winlaw Elementary School Mon., Jan. 29 I aia ne You are invited to attend a seminar in Winlaw on the Columbia River Treaty. Last month, B.C.Hydro presented a seminar on the Columbia River Treaty in several communities in the lower Columbia Valley. Now the seminar is being presented in Winlaw to give residents of the Slocan Valley an opportunity to attend. Key presenters at the seminar will be B.C.Hydro staff membets Tim Newton, who is Chairman of the Canadian Operating Committee for the Treaty, and Al Geissler, Community Relations This is an opportunity to increase your knowledge of the Columbia River Treaty. Please plan to attend To register, call Shelley Hancock at 359-7564. Registration is free. ___Date 7 ___ Time 7:00 - 9:30 pm | (Hwy. 6 north to Winlaw, left at the intersection) For more details, cafl Al Geissler, Community Relations Coordinator for B.C. Hydro at 549-8531 (collect). BC hydro Boneless. . Or Outside Round Roast. 1 99 kg. 4.39 Ib. GROCERY APPLE JUICE Sun-Rype Blue Lobel. Case of 12 | Litre cartons. ea. 99° 210% | MINUTE MAID Lemonade or Punche: Frozen Conc. 99 Or Wing Steak. Regular Cut. Limit 4 with family purchase. kg. 8.80 ib. 3 79 PAPER TOWELS Scott. Viva. Package of 2 Rolls. 94 355 mL tin. Bathroom. 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