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Cost too high

The provincial government's decision to reduce the Tourism Ministry budget from $52 million last year to $45 million this year is Puzzling to say the least. It comes at a time when tourism is one of B.C.'s fastest-growing industries.

The provincial government's own publication, Provincial Report, boasts how the travel and tourist industries injected more than $3 billion into the provincial economy last year.

Provincial Report adds that the tourism season was healthy almost year-round in virtually every cor- ner of the province. That means tourism has succeeded where other economic development| pro- grams have failed: by ensuring that the wealth of this province is not concentrated in the Lower Mainland, but is spread into the In- terior.

Tourism’s. value cannot be overemphasized. A recent gover- nment study notes that the average spending by individuals was $48.33 a day in 1987, com- pared to $23 a day in 1979 — the last time a similar analysis was made.

With—tourism now a year round industry worth some: $3 billion, it is strange that the Tourism Ministry budget was cut. It is even $franger that the $7 million cutback came from the tourism marketing budget, which has met with tremendous success in recent years and is credited with helping B.C. avoid a post-Expo bust.

In the Kootenays, for exam- ple, visitations in 1987 were up an average of 36 per cent, with some

attractions reporting increases as high as 110 per cent,

Part of the reason for that suc- cess was the Partners in Tourism marketing program. That is where the province matches funds from private tourism operators.

The Kootenay Country Tourist Association, which administers the program in the Kootenays on behalf of 150 members, had an- ticipated that the provincial gover- nment would provide $315,000 this year as its share of the program, with private opertors kicking in the other $310,000.

Instead, Victoria. announced that the KCTA will get only $222,000 — nearly one-third less than it had expected.

The reduced funding comes as a blow to tourism operators around the province. But it will be especially hard in this area where unemployment is pushing the 21 per cent mark, and many look to tourism as the new growth in- dustry.

But why would Victoria cut a seemingly worthwhile and suc- cessful Program? It is more than just lence that while the tourism budget was slashed $7 million (and the colleges budget was axed to the tune of $8 million), the premier’s own family planning program suddenly grew from $2 million to $20 million.

It seems Victoria has decided to shift its emphasis from tourism marketing to alternatives to abor- tion. In doing so it has exacted a cost, a cost that appears to be too high.

Ron Norman

Lyle Kristiansen is probably still chuckling to himself.

The 48-year-old former sawmill worker from Nelson who was written off by a number of local political observers had the last laugh when he took the NDP nomi nation for the newly-created federal riding of Kootenay West-Revelstoke last Saturday

The victory caught plenty of people by surprise, including yours truly. It wasn’t so much the fact that Kristiansen won the right to hoist the New Democrat colors in the next federal election, as much as the relative ease with which he accomp. lished it.

Oh sure, Kristiansen had an im pressive list of endorsements head ing into the nomination convention, but his support wasn't nearly as visible as Steelworker representa. tive Ron Schmidt's or Kaslo eng ineer Don Scarlett's.

And at the nomination meeting Kristiansen supporters seemed lost on the convention floor amid the yellow ribbons worn by the Schmidt supporters and the highly vocal Scarlett people. But in reality, Kristiansen had the nomination all but locked up on the first ballot.

It was surprising that Scarlett’s supporters were so vocal given the dismal speech by their candidate. Scarlett had a chance to really show his stuff, te whip the more than 900 NDP members into a frenzy. But he just couldn't rise to the occasion.

In fact, his nominator, Doug Swanson, president-elect of the United Steelworkers of America Local 480, gave a more impassioned speech.

(By the way, I don't believe Schmidt's supporters went to Kris. tiansen on the third ballot out of revenge for Swanson supporting Scarlett. On the contrary, Kristian sen would have attracted most of Schmidt's labor supporters any way).

Kristiansen, on the other hand, showed the kind of polish and ability expected of a candidate about to enter a tough election campaign. His speech hit on the safe theme of using Canada's defence funds for social programs. But it wasn’t so much what Kristiansen had to say,

but the way his speech was crafted and how he delivered it.

Kristiansen looked and acted like a candidate — and it paid off at the ballot box. Kristiansen’s strong showing on the first ballot made it clear he is not viewed as~a loser among New Democrats. To much of the general public, he’s seen as the guy who lost two of three elections to Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco. But not to New Democrats. They point to the fact that his share of the vote has increased every time he's run. In fact, he collected nearly 3,000 more votes when he lost in 1984 than when he won in 1980. And he had a larger percentage of the vote: 45.2 per cent in 1984 compared to 43 per cent four years earlier.

Kristiansen was also helped by the fact that his support cuts across party lines. He is widély known in labor circles, as an active member of the community, and for his work in the party

Contrast that with Schmidt and Scarlett. Schmidt's support was relatively thin, relying heavily on labor and the Rossland-Trail NDP constituency, where he is president. Scarlett, though recognized for his work with the Electric Consumers’ Association, just couldn't match Kristiansen’s connections.

While Kristiansen cleared one hurdle with last Saturday's nomi- nation, his biggest test is still to come — perhaps sometime this fall — in a federal election.

Then he’ will face incumbent Brisco, if Brisco's health allows him to run again. Failing that, Kristiansen will do battle with a new Conservative face.

Can Kristiansen win a second time? The NDP say he can.

It might be noted that with the new boundary including Revelstoke, Kristiansen would have still lost the 1984 election to Brisco — but by just 111 votes instead of some 750.

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The NDP raised more than $14,000 at the convention, which will be used in Kootenay West-Rev- elstoke in the next election. New Democrats say that is the most money ever ralsed in this area at one time. It is about one-third the cost of a federal campaign.

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Plan raises concerns

Re: Kokanee Glacier Park master plan.

The above-named park master plan, was discussed at the February general meeting of the West Kootenay Naturalists. Some of our members have already made personal submis. sions after circulation of the copies we received. However, a motion was passed at this meeting instructing me to write to you about the very serious concerns we have after further study of these documents.

Phe WKNA-has become aware of the alarming provisions in the master plan, particularly in dealing with mineral resources. These provisions are set out in appendix A, which is the “Agreement Between Parks and Out- door Recreation Division and Mineral Resources Division for Management of Mineral Resources Within Provincial Recreation Areas.”

Clause 2 states that each (or any) recreation area could be subjected to the granting of mineral rights and titles. A number of these recreation areas are inside the boundaries of the original park, and in the vicinity of alpitie lakes. We consider this to be a very questionable decision.

Clause 3 — all pre-existing mineral rights, etc., will be honored. We also understand there are several pre existing claims in the park. If these claims were to. be opened up and developed, much damage to the park would result.

Clause 4 — infers that prospecting and locating of mineral claims can be carried out in any of these recreation areas, without authorization by a resource use permit. We do not agree with this clause.

However, clause 5 is extremely disturbing as it grants the unreserved right to access with a resource use permit. As we see it this is the right to build roads for mineral development and mining across or in any of the so-called recreation areas, some of which are within the boundaries of the park.

Clause 6 — This clause is truly alarming as it states: “Terms and conditions of the resource use permit respecting mineral exploration, dev. elopment and mining will be no more

stringent than those required else- where by the province outside rec- reation areas.” In other words, there is really no reserve, no guarantee of protection for Kokanee Glacier Park in this master plan.

Clause-8-— contains a threat to the park, stating that the government will conduct geological “surveys, and clause 9 goes on to infer that if minerals are discovered inside the park, devel opment could take place.

It appears that this threat of_

Mining tthe park will 5€ with us for a long time, for as well as the original 10-year term granted, an additional term is possible.

WKNA members feel very stron gly about Kokanee Glacier Park. It is an important historical area, well. known not only locally, but throughout the country. It has only to be seen to be

recognized as an area worthy of the fullest protection.

WKNA members feel that this agreement gives the balance of power to the Ministry of Mines, that it is slanted in its favor and will foster the search for minerals in this small park. We feel that the Ministry of Environ- ment has given up too much in the deal, and can only hope this park will not be subjected to damage by mining, tailings ponds, polluted streams and

_lakes_and-the-inevitable road-building ravages.

In this agreement the Ministry of Mines appears to have too much power, and too great an opportunity to take over. We sincerely hope this will not be the case and that Kokanee Glacier Park will be preserved for years to come.

Helen P. Corresponding Secretary, WKNA

ECA deserves $57,000 refund

Iam a BC. resident and a West Kootenay Power and Light Co. con sumer.

T believe in Canada and admire the province of B.C. What Ihave seen happen in the last while amazes me. It is strange how people will decide to get into polities. The promises they make before elections seem to be forgotten once elected.

Iam annoyed at the B.C. govern. ment and the B.C. Utilities Commission as they appear to be one and the same. When Iattended the BCUC hearings (into the sale of West Kootenay Power and Light to UtiliCorp of the U.S.), I felt quite certain the Commission would stop the sale to a foreign cor- poration. The decision was announced about six months later to allow the sale to UtiliCorp. In the decision the com. missioners stated they didn’t have the jurisdiction to stop the sale. If they didn’t have the jurisdiction at the end of the hearings, they must have known this at the beginning of the hearings.

So why.did ‘the BCUC and the government keep these hearings going on for months and cause the Electric Consumers Association (a lobby for- med to oppose the sale: to a U.S. company). to spend $57,000 of the consumers and public's money? There were more than WKPL consumers who donated money for this cause. Some donors were from as far away as Montreal.

The reason for allowing the sale to a foreign corporation is reason enough for the government to refund the $57,000 to the ECA.

Under these circumstances it appears there was a fraudulent act committed by BCUC and the govern- ment.

If the ECA had been informed the BCUC and the government could or would not stop the sale, there could have been other avenues taken and it may have quite well succeeded in its

endeavors. Kelowna

NDP policy ‘albatross’

In The Vancouver Sun

The New Democratic Party is tinkering with fts defence policy that could make the difference of success or failure in the next federal election.

Sensible changes were made in a paper approved by the party's federal council, but the essential problem remains: the commitment to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organ- ization.

As is often the case when political parties try to make a 180-degree turn without being noticed, this revised defence policy is convoluted.

The NDP would make a strong commitment to building up convent: ional defence forces, for which it is already being praised by experts in think tanks. It would buy new ships, including conventional submarines — not nuclear-powered ones. It would try to form a hemispheric nuclear wea- pons-free zone with other northern countries such as Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland. It would not

This is all very well and plausible But it is when the proposed defence policy gets down to deployment that things begin to unravel. Canadian forces would be reassigned from present duties, including NATO ob- ligations. The Arctic would_be demilitarized zone in which everyone could traverse the Northwest Passage. There would be an attempt to create a Canadian alternative to the North

The Village office is now located in the Fire Hall on the ground floor, a greater convenience to the public. Ppa aa

A special meeting of the Castlegar Community Club was called Monday night to diseuss the future of the Club and the Hall. It was suggested the hall should be turned over the Village and a committee will be formed to go into this.

“_ * * At the regular Dinner Meeting of the Kiwanis Club held last Tuesday the joined in the birthday of Archie Ferguson. Kiwanian Ferguson would not state his age and was fined for being late on this occasion. nN ¢

Plans for participation in the “On-to-Nelson” Caravan of Western Canadian Boards of Trade on May 28th and 29th were outlined to the Castlegar Board of Trade on Thursday evening last, by President S.C. Watson.

25 YEARS AGO From the May 2, 1963 Castlegar News

The decision of the Board of Trustees of School District No. 9 to relieve w, Roy Brown as principal of SHSS was not based solely on recent disagreements between Mr. Brown and the school board, chairman Mrs, W. Jacobson stated this week in adver- tisements placed in several news- papers.

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D lished by fire on night and early Sunday morning was Coluifibix—Cellulose—Gompany's—old. sawmill located across from Castlegar. The old mill was to have been burned down on Tuesday but caught fire Saturday night from what is believed to be smoldering sparks from welders working in the old dry kiln that after- noon.

* 8 « An inquiry from Tarrys Improve- ment Society re: the old water pump at Tarrys was discussed at the regular meeting of the School Board held Monday and tenders will be called. . * 28 «

The Castlegar and District Hos- pital reported a decrease in the number of patients during March, 1963, in com- parison with March, 1962.

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A meeting to reorganize the'!

Castl Busi: 3 A iation is to be held next Thursday evening at 7:30 in the Marlane Hotel.

15 YEARS AGO From the May 3, 1973 Castlegar News A whirlwind tour was made Friday by Premier Dave Barrett of both the pulp and sawmill divisions of Celgar, giving many employees an op- portunity to meet the man some now call “our new boss.” * 8 6 A resolution direction that the disposition of the Castlegar Arena be agreed upon before any new arena referendum is presented to voters will be placed before directors of the Regional District of Central Kootenay when they meet Saturday in Nelson. * 8 «

Castlegar council levied a $30 fee on private swimming pools despite protests by a swimming pool contrac- tor that the charge is “unfair and unjust.”

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Many questions by the Slocan Valley residents to the board of School District No. 7 (Nelson) went un- answered at a joint meeting held in Mount Sentinel gymnasium last Thursday night.

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Two hundred bikers took to the road on Saturday to “Hike for History.” With ‘a total of $4,162 in sponsorship pledges, all but eight covered the entire route of 15 miles from the

Casth Museum to the Doukhobor Cc Village Museum.

5 YEARS AGO From the May 1, 1983 News In a dramatic move to form a united - bargaining front, representa- tives from 11 Cominco locals of the ‘United Steelworkers of America will meet in Calgary early this month, the Castlegar News has learned. * 8 Five Castlegar projects will re- ceive more than $46,000 to employ under the Summer Canada

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American Air Defence Command shar- ed with the United States. (That would require’a massive buildup indeed). But the NDP, the paper suggests, would not pull out of NATO during its first term of office should it form a government. It would: attempt to

redefine NATO's role — and then pull_

out.

Quite how a Canadian government could negotiate a new NATO — or even be trusted — after it had given notice it was pulling out of the old one defies

imagination. But plenty of that quality has gone into the defence policy paper.

Realists in the party understand that it might not get elected on a platform of quitting NATO. But at the same time they must try to please the theorists, of whom there are many, who will be determined to make the Parliamentary party stick to resol- utions of the plenary party convention (a self. exercise in di ry) where, presumably, the new policy would have to be approved.

Kr this week. * 8 « The two front runners in the race for the Rossland-Trail seat in the legis- lature came under fire Thursday as both Social Credit candidate Walt Sie- mens and NDP incumbent Chris D'Arey were called upon to defend their individual and party records.

Kootensy Boundary. Visitors’ As- sociation manager Ron Mensing has resigned for “personal reasons”, the Castlegar News learned this week.

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Crime rate up

OTTAWA (CP) = Violent crime increased for the 10th consecutive year in 1987, with more than 218,000 offences reported by across the country, Statistics Canada said.

But the preliminary figures, which are still subject to revision, indicate violent acts accounted for only nine per cent of total criminal activity.

There were 2,852,403 Criminal Code offences last year. As usual, nearly two-thirds of them were offences against property, while anothet one-quarter fell into various miscellaneous categories.

Tests eyed

OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government is considering a proposal to require pregnancy tests before women can be prescribed Accutane, an acne medication known to cause birth defects, officials said.

The proposal follows a report last week quoting a secret U.S. Food and Drug Administration memo that said up to 1,300 babies born in the United States between 1982 and 1986 had severe defects because their mothers took the drug.

Turner rejected

MONTREAL (CP) — Nearly one-half -of all Canadians believe John Turner should resign as Liberal leader, suggests an Angus Reid opinion poll published Saturday.

Forty-nine per cent of respondents said Turner should quit, compared with 35 per cent who believe he should stay on. The rest are undecided.

The survey, conducted Wednesday and Thursday for Southam News, also indicates that if former cabinet minister Jean Chretien led the party the Liberals would win @@ next election easily.

Sub runs aground

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A United States nuclear-powered attack subenarine ran aground off _Fox-Island- rl k-until_ fou navy tugs pulled it free a at ager tide cas, morning, authorities said.

The USS Sam Houston, based at Pearl Harbor, was grounded Friday night about 100 metres off the southeast end of the island with the tide going out, said navy spokesman Fred Watson.

No one was injured, and the sub's 142 crew members remained aboard until it was refloated.

McCartney deal

MOSCOW (Reuter) — British singer Paul Mc- Cartney has signed a contract to release a new record album exclusively in the Soviet Union this fall, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reported Satur- day.

Thirteen rock ‘n’ roll classics from the 1950s and 1960s will be on the album released by the Soviet recording fitm Metotiya, the Communist youth newspaper Said. oi ;

In an interview with the newspaper in London, the former Beatle said the album was a gift to his fans in the Soviet Union.

“I knew that my records were a hit in the Soviet Union, that the Beatles and Beatles-style music is loved there,” McCartney told the newspaper. ~

Experiment success

GERLACH, Nev. (AP) — American and Soviet scientists exchanged vodka toasts after claiming victory in the first of a series of experiments they hope will prove that a cheat-proof ban on all nuclear weapons testing is possible.

“The experiment is successful,” Charles Archam- beau, a Univeristy of Colorado-Boulder geophysics professor, said after delicate seismic equipment detected a low-yield simulated nuclear blast in the Nevada desert.

Youth lured

PEKING (Reuter) — Sex and money are luring increasing numbers of young Chinese, including girls, into violent crime, an official newspaper said Satur- day.

“Chinese youths, who in the past mainly committed minor offences such as petty thefts and fighting on the streets, are mainly responsible for the increasing number of robberies, violent assaults and rapes,” the China Daily said.

Adolescent girls even form gangs to carry out robberies and serious asoault, Xu Jian, vice-president of the China Ri of J ile Delin« quency, was quoted as saying at a Shanghai seminar.

OPEC increase

VIENNA (AP) — Analysts and OPEC officials said Saturday that a proposal to cut OPEC production by two per cent could boost oil prices by as much as $1 US a barrel, translating to an increase of 2.5 cents at the gasoline pump.

OPEC oil currently is selling for $14 to $16 per 160-litre barrel, well below its target of $18 a barrel.

Strike ends

KRAKOW, Poland (CP) — Some striking workers at one of two big Polish steel mills were reported to have ended their work stoppage Saturday when authorities granted pay demands.

Some of the.strikers occupying the Stalowa Wola mill, about 240 kilometres south of Warsaw, left soon after noon after being promised a pay increase and other pay concessions, workers at the plant said.

However, thousands of workers were still on strike at the giant Lenin steel mill at Nowa Huta near Krakow, Poland's biggest industrial plant, opposition sources said.

Expo opened

BRISBANE (AP) — Queen Elizabeth opened World Expo ‘88 Saturday, one of the highlights of year-long celebrations to mark 200 years since Europeans settled in, Australia.

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Opponents after Gorbachev?

MOSCOW (Rayter) — The Soviet Culture Mistery a letter

political opponents could be plotting to remove rpdiara leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Sovietskaya Kultura published the letter which it said was written by a reader in Siberia who ex fears held by many liberal intellectuals and Gorbachev supporters that his position was under attack from conservatives,

“A (party) plenum at which M.S. Gorbachev could be removed . . . is still a real possibility,” the letter said, “It is far from everywhere and far from unanimously that the party apparatus supports our leader.”

Public backing by party officials for Gorbachev's perestroika — or reconstruction — program was not

always sincere, it said.

“But if there is an effort to block the perestroika, the people will not keep silent this time,” the letter said in a clear reference to the lack of reaction to the ouster of Nikita Khrushchev in 1964.

“Almost every citizen of the Soviet Union is for Gor. bachev. Against him are a handful of people who are biding their time behind the double doors of their offices,” the letter, signed Y. Borokhovich, said.

RUMORS ABOUND

Publication of the letter, one of many on similar themes now appearing in newspapers identified with Gorbachev, came amid reports in Moscow that the Kremlin chief had recently defeated a bid to sidetrack his reforms.

Gorbachev, general secretary of. the Communist party, has increasingly warned of the danger from oppohents of reform, and his supporters have indicated he hopes to reshape the top leadership.

His No. 2, Yegor Ligachev, is suspected by liberal intellectuals of promoting some of the opposition, particularly to the policy of glasnost — or open discussion of public issues — and to plans to reform the party structure.

Reports circulating in Moscow suggest Ligachev may. have already been effectively demoted over publication of an article in a conservative newspaper since denounced by the party newspaper Pravda as a

manifesto by enemies of reform.

MILK RUN... Stenley Humphries secondary school students took k Run earlier this week. The three-kilometre

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TO PROTECT VESSELS

Shippers like U.S. move

DUBAI (Reuter) — Shipping executives expressed delight Saturday at the U.S. decision to protect neutral vessels in the Persian Gulf but doubted the move would end attacks by Iran and Iraq.

.“The decision is years overdue,” a Greek sea captain told Reuters. “Hundreds of innocent seamen have needlessly died.”

“But what steps will American warships take to stop the attacks?” the captain asked.

Swift Iranian gunboats, which have attacked about 30 neutral ships this year, can sometimes attack a vessel and return to their island bases within an hour, shipping sources said.

They said it is difficult to see how about 15 U.S. warships in the gulf could stop such raids.

“The gulf is huge and the Americans can’t be every where,” said one source. “If they are not prepared to attack the gunboat baSes, the Iranians can choose their moment carefully and keep up the raids.”

The Strait of Hormuz, mouth of the gulf and passage- way for one-sixth of the western world’s oil, has been a favorite Iranian point of attack. It is dotted with Iranian islands and is only about 50 kilometres wide.

SPEEDBOAT ATTACKS

Iranian speedboats armed with machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades can race up to fire on tankers travelling at less than half their speed.

Iraqi attacks, usually by jets firing Exocet missiles at tankers carrying Iranian oil, would be harder to stop even if they were covered by the new U.S. rules of engagement, the sources said.

The U.S. Defence Department announced the decision to extend protection following a naval battle with Iran in the southern gulf on April 18.

Until Friday, U.S. warships had orders to protect only U.S.-flagged vessels.

U.S. Defence Secretary Frank Carlucci said Friday: “Following a request from the vessel under attack, assis- tance will be rendered by a U.S. warship or aircraft if (one) is in the vicinity and its mission permits rendering such assistance.”

“We do not intend to describe our specific rules of engagement or the methods we plan to use,” he added.

U.S. warships in the area include the aircraft carrier Enterprise, whose A-6 jets took part in the battle in which six Iranian warships were damaged or sunk.

WANTED HELP

The shipping industry has called for years for naval protection in the gulf, where U.S., Soviet, British, French and Italian warhips have generally defended only ships flying their own flags.

Iran attacks ships serving Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other gulf Arab states it regards as Iraq's allies in the Iran-Iraq war.

Western warships have sometimes watched as merchant ships went up in flames and seamen were killed.

Most crewmen in the gulf are from the Phillipines, Pakistan and other poorer countries. They are enticed by war bonuses despite the risks.

Britons, Singaporeans, Greeks and others have also been killed since Iraq staged the first attack on a merchant ship in May 1981.

“For years ships that have nothing to do with this war were being attacked and no one cared,” said a shipping agent. “Now at last that has changed.”

The shipping executives said the U.S. decision offered at least limited protection and some said they hoped it could lead to a United Nations force of warships being set up.

Soviets building bunkers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Soviet Union has been pursuing an “enormously ex- pensive” program of con- structing huge underground bunkers and subways to pro- tect its leaders and allow them to fight a protracted nuclear war, U.S. Defence Secretary Frank Carlucci

said.

every cabinet official and our whole command structure

running here and there.” Carlucei highlighted the Soviet Union's so-called pas- sive defence program As he released the 1988 version of Soyiet Military Power, an annual Pentagon study.

underground with subways )

also says the Soviets will soon deploy their new Black- jack long-range bomber.

It says deployment of the new railway-mounted SS-24 nuclear missile has begun. And production is expected to begin soon on a more accurate version of the SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile.

Without elaborating, he made it clear the United States_is developing an of-

ive threat to the Soviet bunkers.

“Although the program strikes at the very basis of deterrence, we have a num- ber of initiatives under way that will provide us an effective response to this

While the existence of such complexes has been known for years, “only recently have we been able to do the full analysis of the enormous extent of this program —

10,000 of the long connection between th Xe throne and Queensland, Australia's tropical northern state.

“T am told you like to call your state the Sunshine State,” she said. “But I prefer to think of it by its original name — queen’siand.” .

of metres deep, with subways under several cities,” Carlucci said.

“To have something com- parable, we'd have to have facilities where we could put every governor, mayor,

“There can be only one purpose for these shelters — to provide the Soviet leader- ship the ability to fight a protracted nuclear conflict,” Carlucei said.

“These facilities contradict in steel and concrete Soviet protestations that they share President Reagan's view that nuclear war can never be won and must never be

fought.”

program at a fraction of the cost that it must have tak the Soviets to undertake i he said.

Deferice and Energy De- partment officials have prev. iously acknowledged work on “earth-penetrating” nuclear, warl

The 1988 Pentagon review of Soviet military power, a 175-page glossy publication,

Carlucci said that with the SS-24, the Soviets now have two operational mobile ICBMs “while we're still arguing . . . whether we should have one.”

In addition, the report says, the Soviets “are on the verge of deploying a variety of sophisticated cruise mis- sile systems,” and continue to lead the West in activity in outer space.

run was finished by hundreds of the school’s students.

‘Big Maks’

Moscow soon

MOSCOW (AP) — The biggest burger maker in the world will soon find out whether it can cut the mus- tard in Moscow, but only after it goes Hungary.

McDonald's has announced it will open the first of a planned string of eateries in Moscow next year.

It may not mean golden arches in Red Square, but it will mean Muscovites can munch fries, slurp shakes and gobble “Big Maks” just like their western counterparts, courtesy of McGlasnost.

“I think the McDonald's in Moscow will be the highest- volume McDonald's in the world,” George Cohon of Toronto, president of Mc- Donald's Restaurants of Can-

ada, said after signing a pact with the Moscow city gov- ernment.

Meanwhile, the first Me- Donald's in a Soviet block country opened its doors Saturday in Hungary. The Budapest burger emporium was dedicated Friday.

Last month, McDonald's opened a restaurant in Bel- grade, Yugoslavia, its first in a communist country. Im. patient customers waiting in line on opening day became so unfuly that police were called.

Although five more res- taurants are planned for Bel- grade, Moscow could be the big enchilada for McDonald's, which had worldwide sales of $14.3 billion US last year.

Cohon and Vladimir Mal. ishkov, chief of food services for the Soviet capital, signed an agreement for the crea- tion of up to 20 fast-food eateries in Moscow and the building of a commissary to process the beef, potatoes and other food McDonald's uses. °

“A Big Mac, our world-fam- ous sandwich, will taste the same in Moscow as it does in Toronto, or Tokyo, or Rio, or New York,” Cohon said.

The agreement gives Mc- Donald's of Canada a 49-per-

Reagan to veto trade bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Ronald Reagan said Saturday that he plans to quickly veto the trade legislation passed by Con- gress and that the issue of plant closing notification will not be the only reason for his action.

“You can be sure that this bill is going to get a veto but fast,” Reagan said in his weekly radio address.

The president said “almost all” of the provisions the ad- ministration originally ob- jected to had been removed from the bill during negotia- tions_with Congress. =

The main provisions of the trade bill would overhaul the

international trade violations and aid American industries threatened by for- eign competition.

Canadian officials who have examined the bill said that it will apparently have almost no adverse impact on Canada.

But Reagan said “the cur- rent legislation, despite all the hard work, still has pro- visions that threaten eco- nomic growth.”

“These provisions are comprised mainly of demands for unnecessary, burdensome and costly regulation of pri- vate industry.”

“The provisions range from rules on plant closing notifications to restrictions on exports.”

SUSTAIN VETO?

Reagan's veto could come as early as midweek, and he indicated that he expects his veto to be sustained. Al- though the measure won approval by a wide margin in the House of Representa- tives, the Senate's 63-36 vote was three votes short of the margin needed to overturn a veto.

“I urge the congressional leadership to schedule prompt action on a bill immediately after my veto is sustained,” Reagan said. “It is time to set aside the special interests and advance Amer- ica’s interests by passing trade legislation that will assist, not impede, our dyna. mic economy.”

The plant-closings feature requires all but the smallest employers to provide 60-day notice of closings and large- seale layoffs. There are ex. ceptions for companies that find themselves in serious financial trouble.

Robson receives $3,059

An adventure playground will be constructed at Robson elementary school with the help of a $3,059 grant from the British Columbia Lottery Fund.

Provincial Secretary El- wood Veitch, minister re- sponsible for the fund, said the playground will be in the heart of Robson and will be an important recreational facility.

“The parent group is a dynamic, coneerned organ- ization and the members are to be commended for the energy and initiative they have demonstrated in co

cent share in the Soviet trolled joint firm.

ting sup- port for this project,” he said.