‘Exercise combats a

By FRANK DERBY

‘Sun staff writer

primary focus of the Castlegar chapter. has ‘been on therapeutic

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Muriel Perry, the Ok and Kootenay representative for the Arthritis Society was in town recently to look at and

those suffering from the disease. Marge Rush, ‘President of the a branch, d the

progress in the Castlegar area. The

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significant ‘benefit ‘derived from setting. up'a! program. andithey responded by providing an instruc-) tor and time slot, 8:00 - 9:00 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays,

While Rush herself does not suffer from arthritis, her, daughter does,

“The idea that anthritis afflicts only the elderly’is a myth,” said Rush, “There are over 100 different kinds of arthritis and it strikes all ages.” More than 30,000 Canadian children already have it and anoth- er million with the.disease are between 30 and 50 years of age. In fact, the many forms of arthritis make up Canada’s most common chronic disease.

Most forms of ‘arthritis’ attack the joints in'one way or another and can be not only'very painful, but also disabling. Medication, diet and rest are important commpoasaits

of but as y

come to realize over the past ce years, exercise is'of benefit to gen- eral fitness and when tailored to individual needs can also be thera- peutic and rehabilitative.

Sue Brattebo and Bev Olsen, the instructors who.lead the group through their exercises to music in the pool concentrates on two gener- al types of exercise, range of motion and strengthening. Stiffness, loss of

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Bev Olsen leads her ladies through a variety of exercises designed to increase range

of motion and loosen joints.

motion and even deformity are the consequences of arthritis, Moving joints through their full‘range of motion on a daily basis is vital in counteracting the affliction and maintain flexibility. Working i in the

between 300 and 500 people in the

area afflicted with some form of °

arthritic condition.Marge Rush

wants to let people know that their Socisty is here to help,

“We want to get more people

pool p and strengthens muscles.

‘The problem for many with the disease is breaking the cycle asso- ciated with the pain. Because it burts to move the joints, many suf- ferers tend to become less active.

This in turn weakens muscles.

which only adds to the joint prob- lems. Gentle exercise such as is provided through the aquafit pro- gram helps break that cycle and in many instances even reverse it. Muriel Perry there are

in the p we cur- pai have about 15 participants

but we know there are others out ©

there who could be helped through the exercises at the pool. Besides

offering a supportive peer group and networking, we will even pro- vide rides for those who need help with transportation.”

Besides the therapeutic value, there is the recreational benefit - in other words, the group is also com- mitted to having fun. Anyone interested in further information'of

‘any kind should get in touch with

Marge Rush at 365-5720.

Pony field to receive money

By BARBARA TANDORY

Sun staff writer

get for 1992. Pakula said the parks and

Castlegar council will commit more money for fencing and

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At its regular meeting last Monday, city council voted sup- port for Alderman Bob Pakula’s recommendation to designate the baseball field a number one prior- ity in the parks and recreation bud-

pre- senting costing for the project for council’s (approval in the near future, noting the initial cost esti- mate was around $10,000.

He. said he'd be secking coun- cil's “pre-approval” when the. costing is done and before the final budget is adapted in May in order to start work as soon as the snow goes,

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Terrorist attack foiled at biggest US eval ae

The Daily Telegraph Four bombs, described as “pret- ty. sopblatlegted sabotage wea- pons",’ were found Monday attached to two huge tanks of high- a inflammable methanol at Nor- folk, Virginia, the site of America's

: ronald naval base and the launch-

ing point for much of the US Navy's efforts in the Gulf war, .

The FBI said it was investigat- ~

ing the possibility that the bombs were iets itn to Iraq, but had yet to of the

The first two bombs were attached to the valves of one of the three million gallon tanks with a timer that did not appear to be moving. Had the methanol exploded, the fire almost certainly would have enveloped a second three million gallon tank nearby. That too, it was discovered later, had also been booby-trapped.

Each tank was about one-third full of methanol, a total of two million gallons of a highly

first two devices that had been dis- armed.

to link them directly to the Gulf war or to any terrorist organization intent on spb i

America’ 's military operations,

The devices were identified as pipe bombs. The bureau was reluctant to describe them, but local authorities said that whoever planted them had obviously been hoping for a spectacular explo- sion, and possibly heavy casual- ties, in a city that is synonymous with American military might and its sea-going nuclear potential.

There was nothing immediately

and volatile liquid used as a fuel, solvent or anti- Ze

+ Bomb squad experts . bad removed and disarmed two bombs when an inspection of the second tank revealed two more. By mid- afternoon, experts were still work- ing on these devices.

If this was the work of pro- Iraqi terrorists, it would be the first such sabotage act on Ameri- can soil since the Gulf war began.

President Saddam Hussein has warmed the United States several times of the long reach of Islamic vengeance and has said that terror- ism and conventional warfare are

indistinguishabte in this “mother of battles",

The plariting of the bombs was one of several serious terrorist inci- dents worldwide Monday. Haslicr reports were received from the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah of an apparent terrorist attack on a shuttle bus carrying US servicemen. " Rifle or 9mm pistol shots were fired at.the bus, slightly injuring two military personnel with flying

In the past, Arab terror groups have been successful in striking at Americans - civilians or service- men - overseas, as well as Ameri- can property abroad. But acts of terrorism on American soil have been rare,

The bombs in Norfolk were found at Allied Terminals Inc, a commercial port in an industrial section along the It is

the terminal, Police cars 3 criss

local Javecoloreement authorities, " civil

United States following calls from

crossed a hood near the storage site advising residents to leave their homes,

The sprawling Norfolk Naval Base has sent more than 35,000 sailors to the Gulf and vast quanti-

iti ilian throughout the country such as refineries, airports, rail and bus terminals and department stores have revised and tightened securi- ty arrangements, In most cases,

ties of ponry and ammunition, Forty of the US Navy ships

now fighting in and around the ©

Gulf are based at Norfolk, the headquarters of the Adantic Fleet. They include the aircraft carriers John F Kennedy, Theodore Roo- sevelt and America, and the battle- ship Wisconsin, Security at the base has been tightened since the fighting in the Gulf began in the wake of Iraqi threats to commit terrorism “in the homeland of the imperialist infidels.”

Lieut Cmdr Mike Todd, a Navy

about five miles from the perime- ter of the naval base and two miles across the Elizabeth river from Newport Naval Shipyard.

An area one mile square was immediately evacuated as a search got under way for other bombs at

d to say.

* whether any emergency measures

had been put into effect, but added: “I can assure you that appropriate security is in place

with the i

threat.” - On the advice of the FBI and

Two U.S. soldiers hurt in suspected terrorist attack

Los Angeles Times RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - In what U.S. military officials described

is ap

attack, two American soldiers were wounded slightly by flying glass when a gunman fired on a shuttle bus in the port city of Jiddah.

The attack, hundreds of miles from the battle front, raised the specter of American or other allied military personnel in the Middle East becoming targets off the bat- tlefield. Mounting tensions in Jor- dan already have prompted the U.S. State Department to warn Ameri- cans there to leave. In addition, ter- forists Monday apparently targeted a British Airways office in Jerusalem, a Citibank office in an Athens, Greece, suburb and a Saudi diplomat in Karachi, Pakistan.

In Jiddah, a hotel-bound shuttle bus. with three American soldiers aboard.was passing .a junkyard Sunday night when a gunman opened fire with a 9-millimeter pistol or rifle, officials said.

Maj. Gen. Robert Johnston, chick of staff for the allied Central

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d, told rep 3 that ctituting the attack to terrorists would be "a reasonable conclusion”

But no organization has taken credit for the shooting or indicated that “it was a contrived terrorist activity,” Johnston said, and he acknowledged that the attack could have been an individual, “free-lance” act.

Col. Ahmed al-Robayan, a Saudi military

Since then, Westem interests have suffered more than 70 terror. ist attacks worldwide, but direct Iraqi involvement has been detect- ed only in attacks in the Philip- Pines, Tanzania and Thailand.

“What we've seen so far have been rather amateurish affairs that were the work of local

declined Monday to characterize the incident as a terrorist act, say- ing such a determination could not be made until the gunman was captured. 2

“It’s a small act and it could happen anywhere," he said,

Military sources said an Egyptian driver and a Saudi security guard also were aboard the shuttle bus,

Johnston would not describe steps officials are taking to protect troops from terrorism, but, he said, "it is a high priority because we. do present vulnerable targets. We do everything we can to reduce vulnerability and make sure that the i service-

enthusiasts rather than trained ter- rorists," Frank Brenchley, director of London's Research Institute for

“the Study of Conflict and Terror- - ism, said in a recent interview.

In Washington, the State Department urged Americans to leave Jordan because of the deteri- orating security situati The

The office was badly damaged but there were no reports of injuries.

Meanwhile, Athens police dis-

" mantled a faulty time bomb hidden

in a plastic shopping bag and placed outside a Citibank office in the seaside suburb of Paleo Faliro Monday. However, officials would not say if the bomb was linked to recent terrorist attacks in Greece. The November 17 terrorist group has claimed Fesponsibulity

rk has been car- tied out so discreetly that the ‘aver- age citizen may not notice any great change.

The US’ State Department said ~

last week that there bad been a total of 73 attacks on US installa- tions around the world since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The FBI Director, Williams Sessions, how- ever, said there was still no indica-

. tion that Arab terrorist cells had

set themselves up in business in the US.

British Airways is to screen all passenger luggage on flights to the

for guerrilla attacks on members of the US-led coalition. '- Arsonists set fire to the BA office in Isracli-annexed Arab Bast Jerusalem Mondey night, causing extensive damage. A home-made firebomb discov-

ered near @ liquid gas plant at an Austrian subsidiary of British

~ Petroleum was defused by explo- in Vienna.

sives experts

Jn Pakistan, which has seen

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unidentified gunmen fired at the home of a Saudi Arabian diplomat in Karachi, slightly wounding a guard, i

A powerful time bomb was dis-

‘covered outside a branch of the

American Citibank in the Greek capital of Athens. ‘The device was defused by bomb squad experts.

World Briefs

U.S-BOUND BELGIAN PLANE DIVERTED IN BOMB SCARE Northern Ireland, Reuter - AUS.- bound Belgian plane made an

emergency landing at Belfast air- °

port Monday after a bomb’alert, police said.

The Air Belgium flight from Brussels to Bangor, Maine, was ordered to land after the airline received a bomb warning at its Belgian office.

The 219 passengers and crew were taken off the plane. A five- hour search revealed nothing on board, police said.

GAULLIST REBELS WIN FRENCH SPECIAL ELECTIONS PARIS, Reuter - Gaullist rebels have won two of three French par-

li ary special eli

for firing anti-t

offices of American Express ‘ad British Petroleum in Athens, The same organization has taken credit for bombing two Citibank offices,

department said the advice applied to all private citizens and "non- essential" employees of the U.S. Embassy.

Tutwiler said there are about

4,600 American in Jordan,, She;

‘said the department is urgin; to: leave’ by regular com!

man is attuned to the fact that he is never totally safe." ‘The incident in Jiddah was the

In Jerusalem, arsonists set fire Monday to the British Airways office in the Arab section of the

first attack of its kind i ig Americans in Sandi Arabia since the war against Iraq began.

city, app ly as a protest against British participation in the war, police said.

Iranian leader proposes to mediate gulf war

Los Angeles Times AMMAN, Jordan - President Hashemi Rafsanjani of Iran offered Monday to try to mediate an end to the war between Iraq and American-led forces in the Persian Gulf and declared that he was will- ing to meet with Saddam Hussein.

But the Iranian leader said he had found no Iraqi flexibility dur- ing talks he concluded Sunday in Tehran with a special emissary from Baghdad.

“For the sake of the peace and

- security of the region and its peo-

ple,” Rafsanjani told a news con- ference in the Iranian capital, "I am ready to see Saddam," the offi- cial Islamic Republic News Agen-

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‘The Iranian’s initiative drew a

noncommittal response in Wash-

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In Moscow, spokesman Vitaly Churkin of the Foreign Ministry

can be used” this time, Any direct Iranian contact with

said: "R Pp d his i to meet dam Hus-

he told the press would have to be

sein. We can only welcome that . ss." He

added that “we do not know all the details of (Raf- sanjani's) statement” but indicated that Belonogov, one of the Krem- lin’s top Middle East specialists, would follow up on those details in Tehran and possibly act to merge Soviet and Iranian initia- tives seeking a political solution to the gulf conflict. In Washington, White House Marlin showed no evident enthusiasm for Rafsanjani’s move. "They (the Ira-

_ hians) are not directly involved in

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that Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Belonogov would fly to Tebran to consult with Iranian offt- cials about the Persian Gulf War.

At the, United Nations, Secre-

tary-General Javier Perez de Cuel- lar said that he welcomed any effort by Iran to help find a settle- ment in the Persian Gulf. Rafsanjani said that he gave’ Hussein’s emissary, Deputy Prime Minister Sadoun Hammadi, a let- ter to Hussein and that the letter an “idea” for peace. “If Saddam accepts our idea, we might prepare a plan on that basis,” quoted Rafsanj jani as saying. ; He did not divulge the details of his idea, ‘nor did'be say where be might meet Hussein, a meeting ‘that ‘wartime security might make nearly impossible for both leaders.

the Iranian news agency —

piihaegeat He So ty “All we've seen is press reports

approved by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s spiritual leader. The United Nations’ frustrated Perez de Cuellar, who sought futilely to find a way out of the conflict before fighting began Jan. 17, said: "I think Iran is in a good

a British bank and the office of the French military attache. No one was injured in any of the attacks which were carried out over the past two weeks.

In Karachi, police said gunmen

fired at the home of a Saudi diplo- .

mat Monday, slightly wounding a

guard. Investigators said they —

would not identify the diplomat for security reasons.

marked by. high abstention and a strong showing of the far right.

Michel Noir and Jean-Michel Dubemard, who resigned from the RPR Gaullist party last December accusing politicians of being divorced from everyday realities, were both re-elected in Lyon to the National Assembly with more than 70 percent of the vote.

constituencies in the Sunday elec- tion, called to fill vacancies.

In Paris, RPR Gaullist Rene Galy-Dejean won the third special election marked by an abstention of 77.4 percent,

AUSTRALIA'S TREATMENT OF ABORIGINES “GENOCIDAL” - CHURCH GROUP

SYDNEY, Australia, Reuter - Racist treatment of aborigines in Australia amounts to genocide, a U.S. Methodist executive of the World Council of Churches said

- Monday:

Delegates from the Seventh World Assembly of the WCC, which meets in Canberra from Feb. 7-20, visited two aboriginal settlements last week,

"The impact of racism by Aus- tralians on the aboriginal people in this nation is not just horrific, but genocidal, and must be addressed,” said Dr. Janice Love of the United Methodist Church of the United States and a member of the WCC executive committee,

Love said living conditions of

i had not imp since wec officials last visited in 1981. ‘

The ‘ight

Front, which immigration, won more than 25 percent of the vote. Abstention was higher than 66 percent in both

Officials “utterly frustrated”

Los Angeles Times

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia - Two jumbo jets loaded with oil-spill fighting equip were

according to Saudi oil ministry

-offici

“This is absolutely just the

-b ing," Costello said of the oil

to arrive here Tuesday to help con- tain a widening slick in the Persian Gulf, but a senior oil executive said that officials were “complete- ly and utterly frustrated" in trying to clean up the giant spill.

“Nobody has ever seen a spill this size. The whole world hasn't got enough equipment to deal with it," said Fred Costello, a senior

ions adviser at Saudi Aram-

co, Saudi Arabia’s giant oil-pro- ducing

P to p a which could put an end to the pre- sent situation... I am hopeful and I

. keep my fingers crossed."

The only detailed Iranian pro- posal so far was one made public last week by Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karrubi, a political oppo- nent of Rafsanjani who was not likely to have been floating a plan for the president.

According to an Iranian news agency report, Karrubi’s unofficial proposal called for an immediate

fire followed by si

(on *s . Fitzwater added. “Nobody has said anything to us directly.” 3 United States relations with Iran were broken in 1979, when student militants, inspired by the revolution of the Ayatollah Ruhol- lah Khomeini, seized the Ameri- can Embassy in Tehran and held U.S. diplomats captive for 444 days. American interests are cur- rently ‘handled by the Swiss Embassy in Iran. . Rafsanjani’s offer to try to mediate in the conflict could establish the first direct and offi-

cial U.S.-Iranian contacts since the

formation of the Islamic

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ous wi of Iraqi forces from Kuwait and Western forces from Saudi Arabia and the smaller Persian Gulf states. They would be replaced by peacekeeping troops from unspecified Islamic countries.

So far, however, Iraq has shown no sign of giving up Kuwait, and Karnubi's plan is further shackled with conditions the West would find unacceptable tied to any reso- lution of the gulf war. These include a halt to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and the formation of an Islamic “commit- tee" to Palestinian “libera- tion-secking Struggles" in the

But the Iranian president pointed out that the Swiss connection

exists and said “the same channel

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Although they don’t like the terms being bandied around, U.S. Officials say they have no opposi- tion to the various diplomatic moves, However, one

+ tion official’ warned:.""The one ~ danger .is that after too many of

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Favorable winds have held the southernmost fingers of the slick away from key industrial facilities, but sticky patches of oil have begun washing up on beaches at Safaniyab on the northem Saudi

that has come ashore in Saudi Ara- bia so far, primarily from two smaller spills, one from a damaged Iraqi tanker and one from an oil Storage tank in the Saudi border city of Khafji that apparently was hit by Iraqi artillery fire.

"What you're seeing in this lit- tle area which is what we're tying to combat at the moment is purely a dress rehearsal," he said.

“The very big oil spill, the 10 million barrel oil spill, is up here," he said, pointing to a point on the map off of Kuwait. "When you consider that the Exxon Valdez spilled a quarter of a million barrels and we're now talking about 10 million barrels and you don't have the Pacific Ocean to

Arabian coast, and scientists say the bulk of the slick is still beyond their view in the war zone off the shores of Kuwait.

Meanwhile, oil appears to be continuing to flow from the Mina al Bakr oil terminal in southem Iraq, feeding a second large slick in the northern gulf that.U.S. mili- tary observers have said is now 12 miles long and three miles wide,

clean it ... there's no way you can flush the water in acd out of (the gulf) often enough to clean it up." Protective rubber booms have been placed around industrial facil- ities and scawater desalination plants along the coast, which sup- ply two-thirds of the water to the Arabian Peninsula’s 18 million residents. So far, the booms have

against ~ percent of Australia’s 17 million

Aborigines make up about 1.5

population.

by spill in gulf

plants at Safaniyah and Tanajib, where some oil has washed ashore, Saudi Arabia’s Oil Spill Response Center reported.

Workers were laboring furious- ly to install similar protection at the giant petrochemical city of Jubayl, further down the coast, where a huge desalination plant produces more than half of Saudi Arabia's domestic water.

Because favorable winds have slowed the advance of the spill to only slightly more than a mile a day, the oil is now not expected to reach Jubayl for another four days, said an official at the response center.

Saudi Arabia has put out an

request for i spill-fighting equipment around the world, and two planeloads of equipment were scheduled to arrive from Norway and Japan today, along with a team of Nor- wegian experts. Another Boeing 747 full of equipment from Japan is to arrive Thursday.

The United States, Germany, Britain, France, South Korea and Sweden have also sent equipment, and environmental experts from the United States and Britain are part of the international response team.

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