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Felix Belczyk arrived in Castlegar Friday after another long World Cup alpine ski season. Details on BI. CosNews photo PIOUS MESSAGE , Pope ushers in Easter VATICAN CITY (AP) — Flicker- ing lights from thousands of candles illuminated St. Peter's Basilica late Saturday as Pope John Paul followed a procession of cardinals and bishops in ceremonies to usher in Easter. A two-hour vigil on the eve of Ohristianity's holiest day of the year culminated with a midnight mass cele- brating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Thousands of people packed into the pews and aisles lit small candles as the silent procession moved through the cavernous church. The Pope carried a long white candle as he walked to the main altar under the Baldacchino, the baroque canopy designed by the 17th-century sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The pontiff's candle was lit from a large Easter candle in an act that symbolizes the light of Christ. The Lumen. Christi, or Light of Christ, was chanted three times as the Pope reached the main altar. After the third time, the lights of the Basilica suddenly came on “During this night of vigil we are baptized in the death of Christ. We are buried together with him in death, so that we may walk in a new life, like Christ,” John Paul said in his homily delivered in Italian. After the homily, John Paul bap- tized and confirmed 27 people from 11 countries. They youngest was a seven-year-old boy from India, As. mathy Cristofanilli, and the oldest was «Joana Maria Evora, 49, from Cape Verde. ‘SEND GREETINGS’ “Via you I send my greetings to your respective countries: Korea, Ger- many, Japan, India, Indonesia, Cape Verde, Italy, Peru, The United States of America, Hungary and Vietnam,” the Pope told them “Coming from different parts of the world you symbolize the univer sality of the church, the universality of redemption.” In his homily, the pontiff said: “This night of vigil invites us to the greatest joy, the joy of the Easter of Christ.” Today, during-an open-air mass, the Pope is to give the traditional Urbi and Orbi greetings to the pilgrims in St. Peter's Square and television viewers around the world: The mass caps a week of Easter activities. Friday evening, the Pope carried a simple, black wooden cross in a torchlit procession at the Colosseum. Tens of thousands watched the Via continued on page A2 B.C. school trustees meet KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — The provincial government must re-affirm local autonomy and revamp the fin aneing formulae for public schools, the B.C. School Trustees Association said Thursday in a brief. In its submission entitled The Schools That We Want, the association called on the Royal Commission on Education to “maintain a traditional arm’s length relationship” with local school boards “so that it may act as an independent and credible defender of the public interest.” “Of overwhelming importance is a reform of the school finance system to allow informed choices of goals and curriculum to be made by elected people,” the report states. The group wants the government to implement the 1975 McMath Com- mission report — with the province committing itself to paying 75 per cent of current and capital costs of the public school system. The other 25 per cent would be raised by both resident and non-residential property tax MISTAKES MADE “In the heat of that debate we made a grave mistake,” the report says. “We elected to cut costs by introducing in 1983 a new finance system established to reach financial goals by distorting the systems of asontinued on poge A2 SELKIRK FUNDING B.C. budget not good for college By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer Selkirk College could be faced with a funding squeeze in the wake of the provincial government's budget last week Selkirk Leo will College president Perra predicted the college have “problems” unless it more provincial funding. “If these (budget) indications are firm then there will be problems,” Perra told the Castlegar News. How ever, he declined to speculate on what kind of problems might arise. In its budget 10 days ago, the * provincial government allotted an est imated $287 million for operating B.C.'s community colleges, up .89 per cent from last year's $284-million college budget About two thirds of the increased funding will go to pay for higher medical premiums for college em ployees. The budget figure has prompted a meeting this week between the B.C. Association of Colleges’ executive and Premier Bill Vander Zalm and Stan receives LEO PERRA . college concerned Hagen, the Minister of Advanced Education and Job Training. Selkirk College board chairman Elizabeth Fleet said the Association hopes “the concerns of the college and institute system “will be resolved at that time.” She said the Selkirk College board completely agrees with the BCAC executive and its plans to talk to the government about receiving more funds for the province's colleges, including Selkirk “The proposed .89 per cent in crease in funding is inadequate to meet even the basic needs of the system,” Fleet said. “The universities will be receiving a five-per-cent increase and the public school system an increase of eight per cent,” compared with the .89 proposed for the colleges. Fleet said last year's budget at Selkirk totalled $11.38 million. Selkirk had proposed a $12.1 million budget fdr the 1988/89 fiscal year — about a seven per-cent increase from the previous year. Fleet said this year's college budget proposal is “maybe a little optimistic but not out of line.” She said the College and the BCAC are “hope. ful” and “positive” they can convince the government to provide more than a 89-per-cent increase for the institution and other colleges around the province continued on page A3 Charge for AIDS drug VICTORIA (CP) — The provincial Ombudman’s Office wants to know why the British Columbia government is paying all costs for the anti-rejection drug cyclosporin but not for a drug used in the treatment of AIDS. Deputy Ombudsman Brent Parfitt said Thursday that complaints to his office prompted investigations into the funding of both cyelosporin and AZT. The government, apparently bow ing. to protests: from transplant pat ients who need cyclosporin, annoupced Thursday it will pay for the drug through the B.C. Transplant Society, a government-funded agency . But the province still won't pay the full costs for the experimental drug AZT, or azidothymine, said Health Minister Peter Dueck a position condemned by the B.C. Medical Assoc. iation and AIDS support groups across Canada Dueck, explaining the government decision, said cyclosporin is as im portant as the donor organ in a trans plant “You can’t have one without the other,” he said. “Without a donor, you don't need the cyclosporin and without the cyclosporin the organ would not possibly be successful.” Dueck said AZT won't be given special treatment like cyclosporin The Social Credit government recently said that the 150 patients in B.C. with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome who are taking AZT must pay a portion of the drug's costs under the provincial Pharmacare program. AIDS groups say B.C. is the only province that does not fully fund the drug, which costs about $10,000 a year “I think one has to compare the two and see if there's any rationale for that (government decision),” Parfitt said. “We're looking at it in the broader perspective, especially with the com ments this morning from Mr. Dueck.” NO SENSE The president of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, John Dixon, said the decision to pay for- one life-pro- longing drug and not another makes no sense in terms of fairness. In administrative terms, the two situations are indistinguishable, Dixon said “If you don't take your cyclo sporin, you die,” he said. “If you don’t take your AZT, you die.” Cyclosporin was on the experi mental drug list until April 1 and was being fully paid for. But after April 1, it would have been treated like all other drugs under the provincial Pharmacare program Under Pharmacare, the patient must pay the first $300 plus 20 per cent of the drug's cost up to a maximum of $2,000. There are an estimated 400 trans. plant patients and the annual average cost of cyclosporin for ‘each patient is almost $6,000. The Health Ministry expects another 240 British Colum bians will have either kidney or bone marrow transplants this year and the society hopes other transplants will soon be performed here Meech accord gets criticism from Trudeau for Trudeau interpreted in light of Canada’s multicultural heritage and argued that “we could do no less” for Quebec. He dismissed concerns that the rights of womer might be endangered, calling them virtually invincible. Despite his best efforts, Murray was far from the hit that Trudeau was. At times the public galleries - packed were efipty and only a third or fewer of the senators showed up. OTTAWA (CP) — Pierre Trudeau's call to refer the Meech lake constitutional accord to the Supreme Court of Canada for a legal opinion on what it means is “nothing more than a subterfuge.” Tory Senator Lowell Murray said. Murray, the federal-provincial relations minister, was rebutting the scathing six-hour attack Trudeau delivered on Wednesday He added Trudeau made. it clear what he really wants is to consign the accord “to the dustbin of history One elderly Tory seemed to keep nodding off to sleep and Allan MacEachen, Trudeau's former depty prime minister and now Opposition leader in the Senate, read a newspaper part of the time. Murray rejected as preposterous a suggestion from Royce Frith, the deputy Opposition leader in the Senate, that the Senate may have the power to veto’the accord after all. “If it gets out that honorable senators are now trying to claim that we didn't lose the absolute veto (in the Trudeau zeroed in on the clauses recog 1g Quebec as a distinct society and ordering the courts to take that into account when interpreting the rest of the Constitution — including the Charter of Rights At the very least, the Supreme Court should be asked what effect that will have on the rights of women, linguistic minorities and indeed the entire charter, Trudeau said. Murray, appearing as the last witness in the Senate's hearings on the accord, acknowledged that Trudeau had “waxed eloquent and passionate, and impressively 80,” about the community of values the charter represents for the country. “But what kind of community of values is it — or was it — when Quebec refused to subscribe to that charter’ Murray asked. Murray also noted that the 1982 amendments Trudeau engineered stipulate that the charter is to be di s) in 1982 well, they're welcome to take that to the people of Canada,” Murray said, adding that they. would be the laughingstock of the country The Senate is only supposed to have six months to deal with most constitutional amendments. If it hasn't approved the appropriate resolution by that time — in this case, April 23 — the House of Commons can override the Senate simply by voting on the issue again. Frith, who didn't attend Thursday, said Wednesday there is a loophole in the wording that could still give the Senate an absolute veto. CLAIMS LOOPHOLE Frith argued that as long as the Senate approves “such a resolution” — but not “the” resolution — within the six-month deadline, the process stops. He even tried to enlist Trudeau to his cause — but failed.