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By LAURIE STEPHENS Canadian Press AMHERST POINT, ONT. — Paul Hertel gazes across the mouth of the Detroit River at the enemy: twin white towers emitting wisps of vapor. Barely visible through the haze, they are the signature of Fermi Il, a cl

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Hertel and his organization, Essex County Citizens Against Fermi I, have lobbied municipal leaders, pro- vincial and federal politicians and area citizens for more than a year, pointing out the plant’s checkered record of operation, reports of design flaws and what they. perceive

d plant that di electricity for the American utilities giant, Detroit Edison.

Ironically, the towers are the prist- ine part of Fermi, containing nothing more than normal water and steam. But to Hertel, they represent every- thing that is to be feared about nuclear energy and its production.

“Our group is dedicated to shut- ting the plant down,"’ says the tea- cher from nearby Amherstburg.

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The group received yet another scare—and some support—recen- tly when, aftet reports of a radio- active steam leak at the plant, Ot- tawa asked the United States to have an international team of experts assess the reactor.

More than 300,000 people are spread throughout Essex County, 15,000 of whom live in the shadow of Fermi Il in Amherstburg and the townships of Malden and Anderson. Millions more throughout heavily populated southwestern Ontario could be affected by a major acci- dent.

Hertel is making sure — through pamphlets, petitions and public meetings — that residents of Can- ada’s southernmost region are aware of the troubled history of Fermi II.

The plant, in Monroe County about 40 kilometres southwest of Detroit, was first announced by Detroit Edi- son in 1968 as a six-year, $229-mill- jon project. Twenty years later, it began operating at full power with an output of 1.1-million kilowatts a day — enough electricity for a city the size of Detroit.

By that time, the price tag had soared to about $5 billion, including $525,000 in fines levied by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for violations of security and plant test- ing requirements and failure to im- mediately report a low-level emer- gency.

Reasons for the lengthy construc- tion are numerous: a 27-month stop- page when Edison had a cash crisis from 1974 to 1977; new safety regu- lations imposed by the commission in the aftermath of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident; and frequent shut- downs — 38 times in one year alone, between 1985 and 1986 — for equip- ment failures and mistakes by per- sonnel.

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By PAUL MOONEY

OTTAWA — Donald Laird got his harsh i i to old army soon after arriving at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa in 1985S.

A sergeant walked into a room and told a eroun of soldiers that the only way to correct '& young trooper’s violations of the dress code was to ‘‘go down to his room, put a blanket over his head and beat him senseless.”’

A few days later, Laird saw a driver come back to the base from town with 30 soldiers in a truck built for 18. The driver_was drunk; when he opened his door, he felf Out of the cab to the ground.

Laird says he has served under some fine officers concérned \for the welfare and training of their soldiers. But-in his stay at Petawawa, he also saw brutal bullying of young privates, excessive drinking and officers who tried to advance their careers at the physical expense of those they led.

Heavy drinking at parties is condoned, if not encouraged, much of Ithe time, he said. The simplest event — a soldier completing a simple training cours: serves as a cause for a drunk.

“The idea isn’t to have a couple of beers, talk a bit of shop and have a good time,”’ he said. ‘‘It’s to get so intoxicated you can’t stand up.

“The bullies go home to the steds (barracks) at 2 or 3 a.m. and kick holes in doors, damage personal property, throw up in washing machines, roll garbage cans down hallways and smash bottles in the hall.

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“Then they'll beat on the doors of the younger privates, sometimes get into their rooms and slap, punch and kick them and make them beg for their lives.’

Others who have served at the elite training base, about 180 kilometres west of Ottawa, tell similar stories.

But many are still serving with the ‘forces and won't speak publicly for fear of jeopardizing their careers. Some fear the sort of retribution they've seen by those who don’t want attention drawn to the base, the sprawling home to Special Service Force, paratroops and armored corps soldiers.

The 3,500 military a are

THE ARMY Macho attitude rapped

‘We're very concerned about it,’’ Associate Defence Minister Paul Dick told the Commons. “They're serious allegations."”

A spokesman for the base, Capt. Al Wong, said he won't comment until the panel completes its work.

After Laird’s charges became public, another former private alleged that a woman militia officer was raped by soldiers at Petawawa in 1984. He said she was lured into the barracks and forced to perform sexual acts with 15 men.

The incident was common knowledge on the base, he said, but wasn’t reported to superior officers or military police. The force’s special investigation unit is conducting an inquiry into the rape charges.

Meanwhile, Trooper Philip Fleming, as Petawa- wa soldier suffering from a severe shoulder injury, has asked for his release from the army because he believes troops there are being sent into the field against doctor's advice and he doesn’t want to be one of them.

‘They'll beat on the doors of the younger privates ...slap, punch and kick them and make them beg for their lives’

One officer cadet, who declined to be identified, said _non-commissined officers try to squeeze months of basic training into 14 weeks. Recruits are driven so hard that many are injured and can’t complete the training, the cadet said.

Laird says he enjoyed army life, especially the challenge of it. During basic training at Cornwallis, N.S., he was awarded the commandante’s shield, an award for the recruit with the highest academic and practical scores in the class.

But excessive drinking, abuse of young soldiers and disregard for their health and safety have no place in modern land’forces, he said in a recent interview.

One chubby young corporal became a favorite target of the bullies a few years ago, Laird said. They would force the hapless soldier to stand on an armored vehicle and bark like a dog for half an hour

t trained to defend Canada and take part in special duty with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Some see the base’s role as high-pressured and expect some steam-letting antics, but many politi- cians and others familiar with the base believe Petawawa is out of control and becoming a bit of an embrrassment.

After three years of a second hitch with the Canadian Forces, Trooper Laird left July 14, dis- illusioned with what -he says is an outdated macho attitude that dominates the base.

He not only left, he went public with complaints, prompting a Defence Department inquiry that will in coming weeks assess Petawawa’s practices.

or in them by dancing.

Laird described a number of incidents which he said shows officers’ disregard for the health and safety of their men.

One ignored regulations requiring a double check of a tank barrel and accidentally fired a blank round from the gun. A soldier standing nearby went into shock and was temporarily deafened. Laird said a direct hit, even a blank round, would have taken the soldier's head off.

In another incident on the firing range, soldiers hammered blank rounds into ammunition belts by banging the shells on metal crates. One of the rounds exploded, seriously injuring a soldier’s hand, Laird said.

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TORONTO (CP) — People who maintain a good balance between work and family life are more satis- fied with their jobs and have lower levels of absenteeism, a study of employees at three Canadian corpor- ations says.

They also have distinctive ways of running their families as well as a certain set of job characteristics, says psychologist Mark Frankel.

Frankel recently completed a study of 109 employees from three corpor- ations in which he sought to find

what people who achieved a good balance between work and home were doing.

“‘Nobody has paid attention to people who are succeeding at bal- ancing work and family life,"’ he said in an interview, He and his research team spent an average of 312 hours with the employees and their families and found that about two-thirds had achieved what he calls a good work-family fit.

All the people in the sample had children under 14 and in 80 per cent

of the cases, both parents worked outside the home.

For the successful people two things stood out on the family side — one was what Frankel calls a flexible family system.

“People were willing to scramble and do things differently when cir- cumstances changed; to switch roles."’

If the wife had to work overtime, the husband was willing to pick up the children at day care or bathe them, Families who were having

problems on this front tended to have fixed, rigid roles and routines and to be more hierarchical.

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He also found the successful fam- ilies were ‘‘almost fiercely devoted to doing things together and that the parents spent considerable time at home discussing work with each other and with their children."

By contrast, the less successful families tended not to talk about their work around the children -

The study also found the success-

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