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provincial park, Des Ken nedy of the Friends of Strath- cona said Tuesday

“I predict there will be many more arrests,” said group member Kel Kelly,

Thirty-eight people have already been arrested and charged with mischief in their attempts to stop ex ploratory drilling by Cream Silver Mines Ltd.

All 88 pleaded not guilty when they appeared Tuesday in provincial court in Camp. bell River. Trial dates were set for April 21-22, and May 5 and 9.

Lawyers for 25 demon. strators will appear in court Wednesday to argue against a bail condition that those charged stay five-kilometres away from the drilling sit

A four-hour meeting with Environment Minister Bruce Strachan to discuss mining in the central Vancouver Island park “was futile,” Kennedy said

Strachan said after the meeting Monday night he will proceed with a publie review of park boundary changes without further in- put from the environmental group.

“I don't think there is much point,” he said. “We have reached an impasse,”

The Friends of Strathcona group wants a full public inquiry into mining within the 10,000-hectare “recrea- tion area” of the 19,000-hee- tare park where mining is allowed.

Italso wants Cream Silver to stop exploratory drilling in British Columbia's oldest provincial park, the bound- aries of which were altered by the provincial cabinet in 1986,

Strachan said drilling will continue but no further per- mits will be issued until after a public review.

Staying close aides survival

SIDNEY, B.C. (CP) — A Coast Guard safety officer has told an inquest here ‘Tuesday that statistically there should have been fewer survivors in the January eapsizing of two University of Victoria rowing shells on Elk Lake.

Two members of the row ing team died after a squall blew up and the two racing sculls overturned on the lake in the Victoria suburb of Saanich.

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Packenham said he believes the fact that the rowers stayed together in the water contributed to the survival rate. They gave each other psychological support, he said.

He also testified that rac. ing shells are exempt from Canada Shipping Act regu- lations requiring personal flotation devices for each person. Nor is there any regulation requiring the coach's boat to carry such devices for athletes — al- though he thought doing so would be prudent

The team's rowing coach testified earlier that she knew little about the swim. ming abilities of her athletes before the accident

Lorna Ferguson also said she never discussed hypo- thermia with the students, nor did she discuss pro cedures in the event of a

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LONDON (CP) — A Vancouver woman who lost a leg to cancer 15 years ago was awarded a prestigious British medal on Tuesday for her medical aid work among Cuna Indians in the jungles of Panama.

Anna French smiled proudly as Princess Alexandra, a cousin of the Queen, presented her with the Bish Medal. One of the bronze medallions awarded each year for unusual achievements “in the face of adversity.”

French is the first Canadian and only the second non-Briton to win the medal since it was first presented in 1978.

The sponsoring Scientific Explorations Society, which runs worldwide youth programs, described French as “a most courageous lady who has triumped over adversity in the face of her terrible fight against cancer.

French spent 3% months in Panama jungles on medical programs aimed at helping the native Cuna Indians. The 32-year-old French lost her leg when she was 17.

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She is also a community aid worker, researcher and a documentary film-maker. French remains instrumental in raising money for the B.C. sector of the society's Operation Raleigh for youth which she set up in 1984.

She said in an interview before Tuesday's ceremony that her work for the society in Panama in 1978 was “a real challenge, especially walking through the jungle areas where the brush is so dense you had to clear your way with a machete.”

“(There were) no home luxuries. I mean, you slept in a hammock six feet off the jungle floor and in the middle of the night would wake up and see all these little eyes looking at you.

“It was really scary. (But) for me personally it was an opportunity to see how far you could push yourself and how tolerant you were — not only of the situation you were in but of the people who were around you.

“That we were able to help some of these Cuna Indian tribes made it really worthwhile.”

“Despite any hardships or obstacles that we're fixed with in life, we should try not to dwell on them,” she said.

Pesticides questioned

OTTAWA (CP) — Opposition MPs were unim- pressed Tuesday with Health Department assurances that agricultural chemi 't th C k health,

Lynn McDonald and Charles Caccia, the New Demo- erat and Liberal environment critics, said they're particularly concerned about the possibility that agricultural ch could be drinking water.

Ray Hickman, director of the department's environ- mental division, told the Commons environment com- mittee that Canada has one of the strongest set of guidelines in the world for drinking water quality.

“Well, that may win you a medal McDonald said, “but it doesn't mean our water is safe.”

Outside the hearing, McDonald said she isn't impressed with the way the Health Department assesses and controls farm pesticides.

“Their testing is geared to immediate toxicity,” she said in an interview. “What about long term cumulative effects?”

While it can be demonstrated that there isn't enough of any one chemical in drinking water to pose a health threat, McDonald said she doesn't believe the federal government is putting enough effort into studying the impaét the combination of chemicals might have.

She is also dissatisfied with its attempts to analyse the effect of substances that might be created by chemical reactions between two or more chemicals.

Vander Zalm hints at compromise in abortion law

‘By DAPHNE BRAMHAM Canadian Press

VICTORIA — Government funding of abortions was reluctantly restored in British Columbia on Tuesday, but Premier Bill Vander Zalm said he won't quit trying to ensure taxpayers don't have to pay for abortion on demand.

“The stance of government has been and continues to be that we don't believe it correct for taxpayers to fund abortion on demand,” Vander Zalm said on his return to the province from Saskatoon

On Monday, the B.C. Supreme Court quashed a month-old government regulation cutting off funding of abortions except in life-threatening cases. Chief Justice Allan McEachern said the Social Credit government went beyond its authority and “common sense.”

Health Minister Peter Dueck said in the legislature Tuesday that the government has instructed hospitals that abortions will once again be funded by medicare. For the last month, some hospitals had been demanding cash in advance from patients.

Vander Zalm, a Roman Catholic who is adamantly opposed to abortion, said his government will consider a Tumber of options, including the policy adopted in Saskatchewan. The government there pays only for abortions that are “medically necessary” and only after it receives a second medical opinion.

The definition of medically required includes a consideration of emotional and psychological as well as physical health.

Vander Zalm said that would be “a compromise of sorts” and would ensure that. abortion doesn’t “run out of

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The province has the highest per capita abortion rate in Canada, with about 11,000 abortions in 1985, In the same year, Ontario, with three times the Population, had about 27,000 abortions.

Attorney General Brian Smith, who recommended against an appeal of McEachern’s decision, said there was a strong suggestion in the judge's ruling that if the government were to try to re-enact its regulation in another way it would still fail under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

But Vander Zalm said he believes McEachern's ruling does leave the government an opening.

“I can see where perhaps the chief justice has given us at least one lead,” said the premier. “Just how that will stand up after we pursue it more closely with the legal people, I can't say. But I intend to pursue that lead.”

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Vander Zalm said he will meet with caucus, cabinet and the B.C. Medical Association before coming up with a policy within the next week that will assure British Columbians they don’t have to pay for abortionon demand and “that we're not setting up some sort of an industry for the Dr. Morgentalers or the likes who can then abuse and use the people in the system.”

Opposition Leader Mike Harcourt said the premier is heading for trouble is he continues to impose his own Personal opinions.

“I would hope he would stop being an outlaw and start to obey the law like everybody else.”

Purchase under review

KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — The new owner of the British Columbia government's soil, tissue and feed lab says the $150,000 he paid for the operation was a fair price.

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TORONTO (CP) — A tiny wasp, no bigger than a head of a pin, may be the natural pesticide that farmers and foresters have been looking” for in their battle against destructive insects.

During recent tests conducted near Hearst, Ont., trichogramma wasps were released in a three-hectare stand of trees infested with spruce budworms, a major source of forest destruction, particularly in the Maritimes.

The predator wasps killed 80 per cent of the budworms, effectively bringing the infestation under control without pesticides.

The Hearst tests are part of a joint Canadian-Chinese project looking into ways of expanding the application of the naturally appearing parasite in agriculture and forestry.

The project has important ramifications for Canadian farmers and foresters, who've faced the ire of protesters — primarily in New Brunswick — over the human and environmental risks of’ chemical Spraying.

While Canadians have been aware of the one-millimetre wasp’s potential for 100 years, the Chinese have led the way in applying its use over the last 50 years.

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John Laing, a University of Guelph biologist, told a Toronto conference organized by the International Develop- ment Research Centre and the Canadian Science Writers Association that Canada was benefiting from China's experience in the field.

Gou Xuegi, a graduate student studying at Guelph, told the meeting that the wasp proved relatively inexpensive to use — about 10 per cent of the cost of chemical pesticides.

It also alleviated Chinese concerns about the long-term environmental effects of man-made Pesticides.

Varieties of the wasps will lay their destructive eggs in 400 species of insects, particularly butterflies and moths. In China, it’s used principally to fight corn borer and sugarcane stem borers.

A special advantage of the wasps from the Canadian perspective is that adding them to the environment appears unlikely to cause ecological damage because they don't last the winter.

“It does its job and dies off,” Laing said.

While the effectiveness of the wasp as a natural predator has been demonstrated, Laing said a variety of problems would have to be overcome for use in Canada.

These include developing a way to preserve the moth eggs that the breeding wasps lay their eggs in, finding a cheap and efficient means of spreading these eggs in fields and forests, and integrating the wasps with methods already in use to control other agriculturally harmful pests.

In terms of the egg-spreading problem, the application near Hearst was made using a helicopter, but Laing said other people have experimented using model planes over farmers’ fields.

Laing added that a key advance to industrialize the use of wasps may grow out of current Chinese work to produce an artificial medium for the wasp eggs to grow in.

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