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ROME AIRPORT

NOW SAFEST IN EUROPE

By PHILIP

ROME — When a “high risk” airliner approaches

Rome's Fiumicino airport, a

it in and armored personnel carriers circle the aircraft after it

has: pulled up to the termi

At the terminal entrance, armed police with metal detectors check tickets, identity documents and hand luggage before allowing passengers to enter. People without tickets are asked to explain their presence.

In the seven months since 17 people were killed in a machine-gun and grenade attack by Palestinian guerrillas inside the terminal; the airport has become one of the safest in Europe, say airline officials and security

ex

was quite obvious to a lot of to take a certain tragedy measures were taken.”

THREE HIGH RISK

Pan Am, along with

Israet’s El Al, is among the airlines Italian officials have classified as “high risk” and given special protection such as the helicopters and the armored personnel carriers

A departing passenger's first encounter with in creased security measures may come

reaching the terminal.

Police jeeps cruise the airport's access road and helicopters patrol its perimeter as far away as the Tyrrenian coastline to detect any attempts to get into the runway area and to guard against possible missile

the terminal, paramilitary joned on balconi

rts.

“I think they have really pulled up their socks.” said

Frank Guzzardo, Pan Am's managing director for the

southern Mediterranean. “I must admit that they have

actually made tremendous strides over the last months. “At one time the security was not as good as it

should have been for a Mediterranean country and that

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Pan Am's Guzzardo, Steve Forte, TWA director for Italy and his counterpart at El Al, Shlomo Homossany, agree that these and other less visibile measures have contributed to greatly improved security at Fiumicino in

recent months.

“Even though there is no such thing as 100-per-

cent security everywhere.

security today certainly meets existing requirements and exceeds them in many cases.

“That would probably one of the safest airports

Both Forte and Guzzardo said U.S. government officials and aviation authorities who inspected Fiumicino recently were pleased with the security found

Homossany said El

present situation” at Fiumicino. An International Air Transport Association spokes-

man in Geneva said: “Rome

laid-down international standards of security.”

In the attack last December, two guerrillas who had mingled with customers at a coffee bar near the TWA and El Al check-in areas opened fire while another two came

into the terminal via near!

Other police

." said Forte, “the level of

make Fiumicino as safe if not in Europe today.”

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James Dube says people who take more than 1,000 milligrams of calcium daily, either in food or through supplements, should tell their doctors so their blood and urine calcium levels can be watched.

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Westar to mee with ministry

British Columbia’s deputy minister of forests said Friday Westar Timber Ltd. has expansion plans that must be

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT . . . local firefighter gives o poke with a long pole toa burned-up building across from the Castlegar-Robson ferry. The site is being

cleared of the old buildings to make way for the Rob-

son neighborhood pub. Clearin serves two purposes — it gets ri gives local firefighters practice in controlling blazes.

the land with fire of the buildings and

CosttewsPhoto by Simon Burch

Workers return to jobs

By Canadian Press

The striking International Wood workers of America has apparently punched another hole in the solidarity of British Columbia forest companies after four operators — including Slocan Forest Products Ltd. of Slocan — agreed to accept demands not to contract out union jobs.

The development will put about 1,600 woodworkers — 145 of them at the Slocan Forest Products mill — back on the job Friday in the coastal and southern Interior regions.

About 20,000 union members were

ICBC may move to Castlegar

By RON NORMAN Editer

The Insurance Corp. of B.C. is con sidering consolidating its Trail and Nelson offices into a new office in Castlegar, the Castlegar News has learned.

ICBC president Tom Holmes dis cussed the move this week with Nelson Mayor Gerald Rotering and Trail Mayor Chuck Lakes, said Roberta Prepchuk, media relations assistant with the Crown corporation

“No decisions have been made at all.” Prepchuk added in the telephone interview Friday from Vancouver.

“It’s just sort of up in the air There are several options open to us.”

Prepchuk said ICBC would have to sell its Trail building before moving to Castlegar.

As well, she said Holmes pledged to diseuss any change with the Nelson and Trail mayors before relocating the offices.

There are 14 employees in ICBC's Trail office and four in Nelson.

out in a strike which began July 23 mainly over the contracting out issue.

Less than a week into the strike, northern Interior mill operators agreed to accept the union's wording of a contract clause severely limiting con tracting out

Coastal operators, represented by its bargaining agent Forest Industrial Re lations, and southern Interior com panies rejected the clause. But the union managed to get several Forest Industrial Relations members to agree to the clause, prompting the bargaining group to win a labor relations board ruling against the practice.

But the union said one Forest In dustrial Relations member and three southern Interior operators have agreed to accept union restrictions on contracting out

Union president Jack Munro said the

fact Rave Lumber Ltd. of Campbell River signed with the union was “of major significance.”

Workers will also return at three Interior mills; Slocan Forest Products Ltd., Evans Products Ltd. of Kamloops and Riverside Forest Products Ltd. of Kelowna, after operators said they were ready to accept the union's conditions on contracting out

However, the deal remains an un written understanding because the companies’ membership in the Interior Forest Labor Relations Association re quires majority approval of any deal involving the bargaining group's mem bers.

We cannot bargain with the TWA,” said Slocan president LK. Barber. “Only the IFLRA has the legal capacity to do that.” -

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WKPL gets federal government grant

By CasNews Staff

West Kootenay Power and Light Company has received a federal government grant to develop a model for computer assisted instruction, and interactive video training modules for power linemen

The Innovations program grant of $293,780 was announced this week by Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco on behalf of Employment and Immigration Minister Benoit Bouchard.

The modules will form part of a computer managed traiaing experi ment using stand-alone work stations to update journeyman and provide on-site trades training for apprentices.

According to Briseo, the Ministry of

Labor will methods and applicability and jurisdictions.

“This project addresses both a regional and national training need and proposes an innovative and flexible training system,” said Brisco. “I see it as being an important step in develop- ing training systems in virtually all trades.”

Innovations is one of the six programs that collectively make up the Canadian Jobs Strategy, and is the first government program to provide financial assistance for pilot and demonstration projects which test new solutions to changing labor market problems.

monitor the training results to determine for other classifications

before a decision is made on reducing the company’s annual allow- able cut on its Tree Farm No. 23 in the West Kootenay.

Bob Flitton told the Castlegar News in a telephone interview from Victoria that ministry officials will meet with Westar representatives this week to

A ing of

to the story,” he said.

Flitton said Westar has “some fairly elaborate expansion plans” that are not yet public knowledge and must be taken into consideration before a decision is made on reducing the company’s annual allowable cut on the tree farm.

He said’ he has had preliminary discussions with Westar president Sandy Fulton and expects further meetings “very shortly.” He added that those it could take place

discuss the company’s TFL No. 23.

Minister of Forests Jack Kempf has said he is considering reducing Wes- tar’s annual allowable cut (AAC) on the tree farm by about 143,000 cubic metres out of a total AAC of sbout 1.2 million cubic metres. Flitton said the issue is on the agenda of a ministry meeting scheduled for Tuesday morn- ing.

But Flitton acknowledged that Wes- tar has its own opinions on the issue that must be heard.

“It's fair to say there’s another side

Man didn’t receive

By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer

A sightless Castlegar man who borrowed $1,000 from his family to invest in Dixie Dee Powers’ “plan to eliminate poverty” so that he could double his money and go to Calgary for medical treatment did not receive any of his money back.

“| wanted to go to Calgary for medical treatment to see if I could get some sight back,” Nick Keraiff told the Castlegar News this week. “I haven't given up hope yet.”

Keraiff said he contacted the news paper in the hope that his story would encourage other people who did not get their money back from the scheme to come forward.

Keraiff said he knows “at least 40 people” who invested money in Powers’ plan, “some up to as much as $15,000.”

“A lot of them won't say it because they're ashamed of it,” he said. He told of one person who invested money set aside for his grandmother's funeral and didn't get it back.

“within days.”

Flitton said the B.C. Forest Service has advised the ministry that Westar has been undercutting on TFL No. 23 by about 143,000 cubic metres a year.

“That's the figure that will be dis- cussed,” he said.

He said Westar will be given a chance t “rationalize” the undercut.

If th@*MAC on TFL No. 23 is reduced, Flitton said the wood will be made available to smaller mills in the area.

“Mr. Kempf has stated one of his priorities is to get more wood available

Keraiff said he was told he re-invest his meney-immediately it had been doubled. However, all he. has to show for his $1,000 is a carbon copy of & receipt for the money, apparently signed by Dixie Dee Powers and dated Feb.

“The biggest point I want to make is not to get caught in a deal like this,” said Keraiff, who added that he had second thoughts about the scheme after investing his money.

But he stressed he invested his money only to raise additional funds for possible medical treatment.

“What I want to do is make it clear I did this for my vision,” he said.

Powers, 35, also known as Laura Grace Gibbons, is in jail in Casper, Wyo., awaiting a Sept. 8 trial on charges that she violated Wyoming’s Uniform Securities Act.

She is wanted in Canada on charges of fraud and running a pyramid scheme in the West Kootenay. RCMP say Powers collected $3.4 million over a 16-month period from January 1985 to April 1986.

how the will treat the company’s AAC for the years

pute from Westar’s point of view is government

allowable cut regardless of the actual amount cut. Westar officials don't deny there was

variation over the 1960-84 five-year period of the company’s wood manage-