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w Castlegar News Febivory 1, 1989 February! 1989 Castlegar News 67

Rainforests
damaged

TORONTO (CP) Commercial
banks. including some in- Canada,
that invested money in Third World
countries may have unwittingly con
of rain!

tributed to the denmtise rests

there. an environmental researcher
said

Peggy Hallward of Probe Interna
tional said countries such as Brazil
received huge sums of money for
projects that failed and felt pressured
their debts by cutting i

nforests to develop an export

to repay
their r
market
How did Brazil build up debts of
about $120 billion?"’ Hallward said in
“Why did. the banks
to lend out that kind of
projects. that

an interview
continue
money for investment
weren't working?

The World Bank and commercial
banks in Canada and other countries
wanted to invest in developing coun.
tries. Perhaps they didn't ask enough
environmental questions

Some. Third World
courage logging. mining and hydro

countries en:

electric projects designed to generate
revenue to_repay_foreign-loans, she
said
Hallward
Probe ‘international since, its incep
tion 2% has been con
centrating on the Brazilian rainforest
problems. Probe International, like
Pollution Probe, is a non-profit’ citi

who has been with

years ago.

zens’ group

‘Greedy timber barons have also
been ripping into the rainforests and
some have the support of their gov

ernments,”” She said.

In Malaysia, for example, the nom
adic Penan people of Borneo are bat
tling a pro-logging regime that re
cently enacted the equivalent of Can
ada’s War Measures Act to stop the
natives from fighting the destruction

of their forest homelands. she said

In an address on Monday

Queen's University’ in ngston
Ont., Hallward said about half of the
world’s irreplaceable rainforests have

disappeared during the last 30 years

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WINTER'S BACK .. . Cold air returned to the West Kootenay this week. Tomorrow is

Groundhog Day and we'll se
of winter weather.

f the furry forecaster indicat:

FURRY FORECASTER

we're in for anoth

six weeks

Groundhog out tomorrow

WIARTON, ONT (cP) For.
more than 30 years, Wiarton Willie
the groundhog-has-enjoyed celebrity
status each Feb, 2 when he demon
strates his uncanny ability to predict
the weather

The belief is that if the groundhog
his shadow, winter will last
weeks. If he

sees
another six doesn't

spring is just ardund the corner
Early Thursday morning, dignitar
Wiarton, a Georgian Bay
2,200 25. kilometres
northwest of Owen-Sound, Ont., are

ies from
town of about
to form a greeting party for Willie

The men are.to wear white tuxedos
and the women white dressés to
blend in with what is usually a snow
covered landscape, and avoid giving
Willie an unnecessary scare

Last year, Willie tried to escape
and the dignitaries
scamipered about in the snow chasing

after him

well-dressed

This year, he'll be kept in check in
a pink harness

“We-set-him-up in an indentation
of snow that looks like a burrow,”*
said handler John Makela

But how dq people know whether
the furry White groundhog actually
sees his shadow?

Well, for the people who have
been working with Willie for years
you learn to tead the reactions,”
Makela said, *‘Just-a little turn of the
head and gleam in his eye gives the
official forecast

Local folks say*-Willie has been
right 90 per cent of the time. Makela
suggested the groundheg is always
right, but sometimes people misread
his gestures

But now suggestion in
the United States that when ground
hogs set midwinter, they
couldn't care less about the weather

there’s a
forth in

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"This is the
Mazda Way!”

“You're absolutely right."’ Makela
said Tuesday. ‘‘The males do come
out-of -hibernation-a-month-carly"*

They would travel across the snow
in search of the burrow of a female
he said

But Willie's mating instincts don't
undermine his forecasting abilities.
Makela said

In any event
come out of
coaxed out of it, gently

He was moved

Willie didn’t actually

hibernation; he \was

from his winter

TO SPOT JUNK

home in the old fire hall into
warmer location — a private room at
a _motel_named after him — so he
would slowly wake up for the occa
sion

The.tradition of predicting winter's
end from animal behavior dates back
at least to the ancient Celts and was
spread by the Roman legions

The folk belief is that animals
know what weather is coming. They
would end their tion and
come out if spring is near

hibern

NASA looks
for radar

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Admin
istration is looking for a kind of radar
that can spot orbiting debris as small
as a dime which someday ‘could pose
a hazard to its planned space station

The space agency has
space debris reports from the U.S
air force, but it says information is
still “‘extremely limited about the
number and_size—of_small debris
pieces at the operational altitude
range of the space station."*

The station will operate 290 to 580
kilometres above Earth

NASA needs radar
debris.as small as one centimetre in
diameter with the 10
centimetre capability of current sys.
tems. The new equipment also would
altitude of the

aecess to

that can see

compared

need. to calculate the
objects.

A request proposals
specifies that the new system must
be available ty October 1991. The

issued for

space station, named Freedom, is
scheduled té be in orbit in 1996

As of Jan. 11, the
tracking 7.087 pieces of space junk
3.142 put United
States and 3,302 left behind by Soviet
spacecraft

Space junk has included items such

as screws 41%

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into orbit by the

centimetres in dia
missing after a 1984
shuttle mission, a thermal glove that
floated out of Gemini 4 in 1965, and a
screwdriver dropped by a spacewalk
Soviet Mir

meter space

ing astronaut aboard the
space station

Even the smallest pieces of orbi
tal debris pose a potential hazard’ tc
the space station, NASA said
important that the pressurized mod
ules of Freedom be built to withstand
as much orbital

debris damage as

possible
The station is planned to remain in
Earth orbit for up to 30 years

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HAVANA (REUTER( —
according to Fidel~ Castro,
mentality in a Cuban citizen

In Cuba, lobster is reserved for export and for
foreigners who pay in U.S. or Canadian
Ordinary who are not allowed
dollars, also cannot stay in the top hotels
they eat in the best restaurants

“The —dottar—is—king—in—€ubs—said—a—West
European ambassador

A taste
betrays

for lobster
a bourgeois

dollars
citizens to have

nof*can

‘It has created open discrim

Where restaurants accept both Cuban pesos and
dollars, foreigners are encouraged to walk past lines
of Cubans waiting to be assigned beats

An entire holiday island, Cayo Largo, is effec
tively off limits to Cubans: the air fare has to be paid
in dollars. In Havana and the major beach resorts, a
fleet of modern taxis accept dollars only

*DOLLAR SHOPS

Dollar-spending foreigners have their own stores
and supermarkets, packed with everything that is
unavailable or in short supply in Cuban shops, from
refrigerators to cosmetics, from blue jeans to fruit

Cubans who complain about this, says Castro
have failed to grasp what his revolution was~all
about

Ihave heard petty-bourgeois opinions . . . from

individuals who want to have universities
schools

hospitals
careers, employment, transport, receation
everything,"’ says the Cuban leader
‘And still they say ‘How it pains me that I can't
And
they see this as a tragedy and blame the revolution
And ‘they say ‘What a_pity-that_we can't eat the
lobster we produce

NEED THE MONEY

art, culture

go to such and such hotel in my own country.’

The argument sounds convincing but what
appears to irritate Cubans about their no-frills
revolution is*the overt way in which the dollar is
courted.

On Havana's
example, a Cuban supermarket and a d
stand side by side and the contrast is stark.

On the halfempty shelves of the Cuban
supermakret are rice and sugar packed in brown
paper bags, an assortment of liquor, pickled vege:
tables and canned food from Bulgaria, a few
tomatoes, No meat, no fish, no fruit

Twenty metres aways, capitalist abundance.

DIFFERENT MENUS

“Twas on holidayson the beach this summer,’
related a, European resident. ‘In the off-season,
Cubans are allowed inta some of the hotels that are
closed to them during the high season,

‘For us, there was a splendid buffet, shrimps,
lobster, salad. For the Cuban family at the next
table, there was a simple set menu. The looks on
TheiF faces tote -w tong story:"*

By the year 2000, Cuban officials hope to attract
two million tourists a year, compared with 180,000
hard-currency visitors in 1988,

Most of them come on package
tours, with Canada providing the biggest contingent

50,000 — followed by 28,000 from West Germany
Compared with other Caribbean islands, the num
bers are small: the Caribbean as a whole pulled in
close to 10 million visitors last year

low-price

How the Cuban government will ideologically
reconcile a supposedly classless society with hordes
of free-spending foreigners has not been explained
so far

WHY IT IS

What has’ been explained is the reason why
Cuba is trying to develop tourism, an activity lone
considered a hangove from the pre-revolutionary
days of debauchery and vice

In those days, foreigners were attracted by
gambling, drugs and a free-wheeling
night-life which earned the island a reputation as the
brothel of the Western Hemisphere

beaches,

“We have to develop tourism, it is an important
source of foreign currency, Castro proclaimed. two
years ago.

Since Cuba is in desperate
Castro. explained, the
must be exported
tonne of

currency

lobster buys

children
menu. But neither are

daily litre of milk

need
country’s
He said the money yielded by a
190,00 litres of

‘We can say there is no lobster on the Cuban
there childfen
hunger, neither is there-a-child-who doesn't have a

“It is not a case that we Jike i
tourism

of foreign
lobster
of the main tourist hotels

milk for some

state agency
has its way, this will change
dyifig of Unlike

industry risk being fired

other workers in the
security of socialist Cuba, bad workers in the tourist

Neither do the bored, bad-tempered waiters at
But if Intur, the
responsible for international tourism

We

cradle-to-grave

do not like

AIDS chimps

get pensions

TEX
U.S. biothedical foundation is estab:

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A
lishing a pension plan for 81 AIDS

infected chimpanzees
The Southwest Foundation for Bio
medical Research plans to
more than $1.7 million US over the
next 10 years into chimpanzee-retire
ment. accounts that are expected to
into $2.9 million through the

invest

“We always have had a moral
obligation to take care of the animals
that—we—use,” John—Speck,
controller of the biomedical founda
tion. ‘We can have the .
tions in the world, but
have the there
we can do for them

The fund wilt help in the animals
care and is sure to be enough to buy
food during the next 40 years for the
chimpanzees, who cannot be used for
other research after being exposed to
AIDS

Roger Fouts, a psychology profes
sor at Central Washington University
in Ellensberg who has studied chim.
panzees for 20 years, said the bio
medical foundation's humanitarian
attempt is admirable, but might not
be enough

“If you look at $3 million for about
40 years, that’s bare minimum,"’ he
said. ‘‘Giving a chimp enough food

said

best inten
if we don’t

money is little that

Inuit groups Sa
fight mines

YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T. (CP)
Centfal Arctic Inuit groups are rally
ing to fight a open-pit
uranium mine which they say threat
éns their health and way of life

“We're wortied-about cancer-cau.
ing agents affecting people thorugh
the food chain’ of fish and caribou
said Tagak Curley, president of the
Keewatin Wildlife Federation

“The life of the mine may be 20
years, but what's left behind — the
— will be with us for many

proposed

radiation
years after that.”

The uranium mine — the first in
the world to be built if tdffinuous
permafrost — is proposed by Uran
gesellschaft Canada Ltd. at a site
near-Baker-Lake, 1,400 kilometres
northeast of Edmonton.

At the request of the territorial
government, Ottawa has appointed
an environment assessment panel to

Britons want
constitution

LONDON (REUTER) An in
ceasingly group of Britons,
campaigning for a written constitu
tion, have launched a campaign to
win_.public» .support.for.a_10-peint
reform plan

The group, which calls itself Chat
ter 88, recently took out @ two-page
advertisement in the Observer news
paper filled with the signatures of
1,000 members. The pressure group
200 members when it

vocal

counted only
first published its document in De
cember

Charter-88-was-set-up-by_a_group
of. academics and intellectuafs de
manding Brita’
tlement — dating back to the Glor.
ious Revolution of 1688 — be record
ed in ink and calling for a Bill of
Rights

The proposals came in response to

‘s constitutional set

what the signatories said is erosion of
civil liberties and democratic rights
under Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher

They
enshrine human rights and liberties,
an electoral system based on prop
ortional representation and a reform
of Parliament's House of Lords from
an hereditary, to a

demanded a constitution to

democratic sec
ond chamber

The group, also wants the consti
tution to insure independence of a re
formed judiciary and provide legal
remedies for all abuses of power as
well as a guarantee of equitable dis

bution of power among local, re

The time has,come to demand
political, civil and human rights in
the United Kingdom. The first step is
to establish constitutional
that they are no longer
arbitrary diktat of
Whitehall," the

them in
form, so
subject “to the
Westminster and
charter said

The New Statesman magazine.
Charter 88 was born
month the

said in
broad

where

an editorial last

range of signato
strates the wide
erosion of dem:

this country.”*

But editor and Charter 88 member
Stuart Weir stressed while three suc

cessive
made constituti¢
the group's aim:

anti-Thatcherite

Its signatories include stage
Peggy
John

fitm
Jackson__and.

wrights Harold
Potter

stars

novelists
John Fowles.

Thatcher governments have

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enough water and making sure that

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officials said
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