The record, 15 octobre 1982, vendredi 15 octobre 1982

Weekend Sherbrooke Jets captain Ron Wilson leads his team the quiet way.The Jets host the Baltimore Skipjacks tonight/11 Births, Deaths.7 Business.5 Classified.8 Comics.9 Editorial.4 Living.6 Sports .10-11 Showers Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Frida>, October 15, 1982 35 cents Superior Council to hold own board hearings Townships Week The story of Malice in Blunderland and lots of activity for Quebec literature fans.This plus the regular features in today’s Townships “I don't know how you pulled it off but the buck stops here." By Charles Bury SHERBROOKE - Although Quebec Education Minister Camille Laurin is having his own private public’, by invitation only, consultations on the changes he plans for Quebec's school system, the Superior Council of Education — whose only job is to evaluate the Quebec education system is going him one better The council will be holding a series of public hearings in November to find out for itself what the public thinks of the proposed reforms Laurin has been visiting different centres in the province to discuss his radical proposals which include abolishing Quebec's more titan 200 school boards and replacing them with individual school councils which would answer directly to his ministry Regional municipalities tMRCs) would loosely supervise some school operations, but the school boards would be gone.The minister's tour has brought him Stocking up for the long cold winter RECORD/PERRY BEATON Tiffany and Michael Crosby of Lennoxville have settled in to make a thorough search of the SO cent paperback pile at the Rotary Club used book sale at the Carrefour de TEstrie this weekend.There were lots more books with the hardcovers priced at $2.Will next session be Trudeau’s last as PM?OTTAWA (CP) — Pierre Trudeau turns 63 Monday, marking a rollercoaster year of royal salutes and his famous one-finger variety.The glitter of Trudeau’s constitutional triumph faded against a tattered economy, slumping Liberal popularity and some of the most bitter personal attacks since he became prime minister in 1968.Looking ahead, there are no sure signs whether Trudeau plans to retire soon or w hether he will still be holding the country’s top job in two years when he hits the mandatory retirement age for many Canadians.If Trudeau knows the answer, he's not sharing it with anyone and impatiently brushes off those who try to find out.PM’s finger flies again Pierre Trudeau.another salute for a reporter OTTAWA (CP) Prime Minister Trudeau delivered another of his middle-finger salutes Thursday to a newspaper reporter who complained to him during an impromptu news conference.The incident was caught by CTV network cameramen as Trudeau left reporters following a cabinet meeting at Meech Lake in the Gatineau Hills in neighboring Quebec.The journalist.Michel Vastel of the Montreal French-language newspaper Le Devoir, first complained when Trudeau decided to deal w ith a question from another reporter before answering one from him.Then, at the end of the news con ference, he loudly compared the prime minister with French President Francois Mitterrand, described by critics as arrogant.That's when Trudeau delivered the salute.The last time the prime minister gave the salute was this summer in Salmon Arm, B.C., while on a cross-country train ride with his sons.Asked about his salute later Thur sday.the prime minister joked "I was just waving.' “I hate to be always told that I am trying to keep the world guessing," he said in a recent interview.“I am not If you stop asking the question, 1 will stop with pleasure talking about it.” It’s his secret whether the next session of Parliament will be his last, whether a trip to France in November and a possible trip to Asia early next year will be his final flings abroad as prime minister.And despite continuing rumors he might take a job with the UN or some other world body, Trudeau has given few clues about what he plans to do when he quits.A redecorated mansion awaits him in Montreal where his three sons would get a chance to work at French, their father's mother tongue.Trudeau promised in 1981) not to run again, giving the besieged Liberals a chance to rebuild their fortunes around a new leader before the next election SEEKS RECORD Although a vote will likely come sooner, perhaps as early as next year, the Liberals' current mandate runs until February, 1985 Trudeau once hinted to caucus he would like to break Sir Wilfrid Laurier s record as the country's longest-serving French-Canadian prime minister, a mark he would beat by staying for another 16 months.Trudeau now has been prime minister for 13 years and nine months over two stretches bracketing the brief nine month reign of Progressive Conservative Joe Clark Only Mackenzie King (21'.< years), Sir John A Macdonald 09 years) and Laurier 05 years, three months» have served longer in contact only with select groups from Quebec education circles, most of which he knows will favor his plan At some stops on his consultation, I^rurin has been mobbed by angry parents opposed to the plan The council, a government appointed watchdog body with an independent budget, announced Thursday that “by popular demand" it would hold public consultations in Montreal next month "We had a lot of requests," council vice-chairman Lucien Rossaert said in an interview."We got letters, people phoned They know our mandate and they expect it." "We have invited about 15 of the major educational bodies," he said, "to come and give us their views.We expect other groups to ask to present their ideas, and that s fine.It will all be out in the open; the media will be there, and of course the public is welcome Among the groups on the council’s list See COUNCIL Page 3 Milk payouts not bad but ‘probably certain’ Trudeau's career, through five elections, has been a kind of love-hate relationship with voters.Elected on a wave of Trudeaumania in 1968, he was chopped to a minority in 1972.He was given a majority in 1974, turfed out in 1979 and then swept back into office with his third majority in 1980.The last year has been microcosm of his career up and down Trudeau engineered a deal with all provinces but Quebec and reaped much praise when the Queen, on a rainy day last April, sealed one of his long am bitions by proclaiming a new Constitution with an entrenched Charter of Rights Four months later, the royal salutes had given way to the middle-finger variety he flashed at British Columbia protesters His vacation train across thecountry was pelted by tomatoes and rocks at several points.Trudeau's government appeared uncertain how to handle the slumping economy during the firsl half of the year but finally took the intiative with the six and five restraint program in the June 28 budget and cabinet shuffles this fall.But party fortunes went from bad to worse.The Liberals started the year only two points behind the Tories in the Gallup poll Now they are 15 points behind, after sinking to an all time low in July.And they were shut out in three federal byelections last Tuesday with their vote slashed in every riding STILL MOST POPULAR Polls still show voters think Trudeau makes a better prime minister than Clark or New Democrat Ed Broadbent But none has a high approval rate and many Liberals think Trudeau's un See PM Page 2 QUEBEC (CP) Agriculture Minister Jean Garon said Thursday it ’s "probably certain" that Quebec dairies have been handing out illegal kickbacks to grocery store chains in recent years.And while he said offenders should be brought to justice, he refused to denounce the system that sets milk prices, saying it can't be all bad if it provides Quebec consumers with some of the lowest-priced milk in Canada Speaking to about 1,500 dairy producers at the close of a symposium on dairy cows here, the minister said kickbacks were a hazard of having a marketing board set the price for milk."It’s possible to have kickbacks.In fact, it's probable.I would go so far as to say it's probably certain." Would things be better, he wondered, "if we had a better system and consumers paid 15 cents more per litre?" Garon told the dairy producers he felt compelled to comment on reports in the Montreal daily La Presse that accused him of not doing anything about the kickbacks even though he knew about them several years ago The newspaper said the kickbacks have been going on for about six years and involve about Slot) million.But Garon said he had not hidden the matter, and it was brought out into the open 2'2 years ago at a conference on the dairy industry.He added the Quebec Farm Markets Board is always investigating cases of people not following its price limits and that it does not need a mandate from him to do so.“The board lias a permanent mandate of inquiry to set prices and see to it that prices are respected,” the minister told reporters.Did the kickbacks involve $100 million?“It's easy to say, you have to prove it." "W'e can t have a policeman around every time a cheque is signed,” the minister said, encouraging anyone who hears of an irregularity to report it "If we have the evidence, then legal Jean Garon.a better system might cost IS cents a litre more.action will be taken." Under the current price scale set by Quebec’s Farm Markets Board, milk producers get 44 cents for every litre of milk they produce According to federal figures, the average price to consumers is 77 cents, compared to 88 cents in Ontario and a Canadian average of 83 cents Prisoners beaten during Archambault aftermath MONTREAL (CP) — Convicts at Archambault penitentiary told an American lawyer of being fed sandwiches saturated with tear gas and urine in the aftermath of a riot last July which left three guards and two prisoners dead In a report for the Washington-based International Human Rights Law Group and distributed to reporters here Thursday by the independent Quebec Prisoners' Rights Office, Charles Kolb said he also heard of acts of brutality and sexual perversion by an apparently tiny minority of guards at the federal institution just north of Montreal Kolb recalled how prisoners were confined indefinitely to their cells once the July 25 riot which began as an escape bid by a pair of convicts who committed suicide during the melee was quashed, and how tear gas was used in some blocks for two days to avert another incident.But during private interviews with convicts he chose, Kolb heard of tear gas sprayed directly on some sand wiches and into glasses of milk served to prisoners in their cells at the maximum-security prison "There were repeated incidents of guards serving inmates food by throwing it on the floor or directly into the toilets in their cells," wrote the lawyer, who has handled several prisoners' rights cases in the U S "Others (prisoners) reported having their food spat upon prior to its being thrown into the cells.There was at least one reported instance of a guard urinating on sandwiches, making the inmate eat the sandwiches, and then forcing him to say how good they were " 'KICKED REPEATEDLY’ One of at least 12 prisoners placed in solitary confinement after the riot told Kolb of being gassed "at least a dozen times" and, on one occasion, being "kicked repeatedly" after refusing to sign a blank sheet of paper that was to be used as a confession Another said he was “handcuffed and then beaten en route to an interrogation room" two days after the riot, where he was "shoved head first ., .smashing See ARCHAMBAULT P2 Separate studies indicate Arab, Israeli arms trade over $20 billion WASHINGTON i Reuter» — Two studies made public this week spotlight the key roles of Israel and its Arab adversaries in a world arms trade that exceeds $20 billion a year The studies — one a slim American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee report entitled Israel's Arms Exports, and a thicker document from the Israeli Defence Ministry called National Security Issues — appeared in Washington on the same day Their contents and conclusions were widely dissimilar But both studies shed new light on the Middle East's growing significance in the international arms trade.The Israeli study, distributed by the Israeli Embassy, focuses on weapons purchases by the Arabs, two-thirds of which have come from the United States It says the arms flow to the Arabs from East and West, totalling $90 billion since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, "undermines the delicate balance of power between Israel and her neighbors." The Arab-American study deals with a less well-known aspect of the arms trade Israel's fast growing place as a purveyor of sophisticated weapons, many of them to developing countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa whose governments have been widely condemned for human rights violations.REPORTS SALES GROWTH Israel ranked seventh in the in ternational arms trade in 1980 and now is estimated by the US Central Intelligence Agency to be in fifth place, the study says.It says Israel's steady weapons customers have included Guatemala.Nicaragua and South Africa coun tries that have been subject to arms embargoes by the United States and other governments because of (heir human rights records The American-Arab study said Washington's almost total silence on such arms sales indicated the U S wanted Israeli to become its surrogate as the "major arms supplier to authoritarian military regimes " In some cases, the study says, Israel stepped in to fill the gap left by U S weapons sanctions In the last days of the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua, for example.Israel was providing 98 per cent of its arms imports.It says other purchasers of technologically advanced weapons from Israel include El Salvador, Haiti, Argentina, the Philippines, Taiwan and Iran, both before and after the over throw of the pro western Shah in 1979 REM \1\S SILENT "Israel has emerged as a major arms exporter to some of the most notorious regimes with hardly a protest from those Americans who have been activists on behalf of human rights issues," the study says It says the value of Israeli arms exports has doubled every year since the mid 1970s and reached $13 billion, about 40 per cent of the country's total exports, in lOHt The Israeli Defence Ministry report focuses on threats to Israel including terrorism, the changing Middle East power balance and Soviet ex pansionism It links these threats, especially terrorism, to the presence of Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon before Israel forced them to leave this summer The study concentrates on the un dermining of the military balan-Israel s Arab adversaries have been "rapidly procuring massive quantities ol superlative weapons systems from txith western and eastern sources," I 2—The RECORD—Friday, October 15.1»82 Students lukewarm to gov’t youth camp for 70,000 OTTAWA (CP) — A group representing 450,000 university students was lukewarm today toward a suggestion by a Quebec Liberal back-bencher to establish a voluntary youth camp to help combat high unemployment among people under 25 years of age “My initial feeling .is that it is a Band-aid measure, no more than that," Diane Flaherty, executive officer with the Canadian Federation of Students, told a news conference.Instead, the federation wants Ottawa to develop a comprehensive economic strategy that includes extra money for education and job-creation, she said.Andre Maltais, MP for the northern Quebec riding of Manicouagan, tabled the camp proposal in the Commons in May In August, he sent a copy to Prime Minister Trudeau, suggesting it be considered for the throne speech later this fall in which the government outlines its major objectives for the new session of Parliament Trudeau thanked Maltais for the study and in a form letter dated Sept.7 told him that it, along with all other proposals from MPs and the Liberal party platform com- mittee, would be studied.However, Trade Minister Gerald Regan, the former secretary of state whose department would have dealt with the proposal, told reporters outside a cabinet meeting today he was not aware of it.Maltais wants a camp set up to handle about 70,000 students in its first year The $260-million facility would accommodate 10,000 students for a seven-week stretch where they would study languages.Canadian history courses and take part in intensive physical exercise programs Students would receive 10 per cent more than they would earn on unemployment insurance — $103.97 a week for those under 20 and $119.52 for those between 20 and 24.WE SETTLE ESTATES 1 TAX PLAN YOUR INCOME * FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION * SPECIALIZE-FARM ROLLOVERS PROFESSIONAL ADVICE W.D.DUKE ASSOCIATES LTD.109 William St„ Cowansville J2K 1K9 SI 4-263-4123 President W.D.Duke B.Comm.C A Vice-President: J R Boulé B.A.MPs’ freebies read like vacationer’s paradise OTTAWA (CP) — MPs and Senators — sometimes accompanied by their spouses — have taken more than 400 trips in Canada and abroad at public expense since 1980 in representing the country’s parliamentary associations, figures show The associations, which have no official power and make almost no reports or recommendations to the Commons or Senate, will spend more than $1.8 million this year on their activities, including trips to functions and entertaining delegations from other countries.Most MPs and Senators defend the associations, saying it’s necessary to exchange ideas with their political counterparts.Others, including a handful of elected officials, say they are a thin disguise for expenses-paid holidays.In all, MPs and Senators took 408 trips in the two years up to last March On 163 of those, they were accompanied by spouses.On hundreds of occasions, association workers went along.Some destinations during that time read like a vacationer’s paradise: Fiji, the Ivory Coast, Greece, the Caribbean, the Virgin Islands, the Isle of Man, Morocco, Kenya, the Philippines, Cuba, Barbados, Zambia, Spain, Jamaica, Brazil and Senegal.And while they attended several official conferences, including dozens of NATO and association gatherings, often the journeys were simply described by the Parliamentary Relations Secretariat as “special visits” or “delegations” to such countries as the Barbados, Jamaica, Morocco, Spain, West Germany, Hungary and Romania.SOUTH IN WINTER A summary from the secretariat on the associations’ activities shows federal politicians tend to visit the tropics during Canadian winter and temperate spots in summer.Six MPs went to Jamaica last February, 10 MPs and senators went to Senegal in January and eight parliamentarians visited the Barbados in February, 1981.Progressive Conservative MP Michael F'orrestall took 15 trips to such far-flung places as Barbados in February, 1981, Venice that spring, Germany, Britain and the Netherlands that summer, Munich in the fall and the Netherlands and Paris last spring Forrestall said in an interview the trips were “hard-working functions’’ and part of his work as a liaison bet ween the Commons defence committee and NATO.Liberal MP Keith Penner attended 10 gatherings, including Zambia in September, 1980, Barbados with Forrestall a few months later, Sri Lanka in June, 1981, Fiji and Australia last October and Jamaica last February.Tory Senator Paul Yuzyk visited nine places, including Luxembourg in June, 1980, Belgium that November, Spain the following March, Venice one month later, Munich last October and Geneva last February.Liberal Senator Earl Hastings took eight trips — seven of them in the year ending last March — including Paris in the spring of 1981, Munich last October and Paris again last February.Liberal MP Roland Comtois took eight trips in two years, while New Democrat MPs Terry Sargeant and Bob Ogle and Tory Allan Lawrence took six.Forrestall is MP for Dartmouth-Halifax East, Penner is from Cochrane riding in Northern Ontario, Yuzyk is from Saskatchewan, Hastings is from Alberta, Comtois is from Terrebonne riding in Quebec, Sargeant is from Selkirk-Interlake riding in Manitoba, Ogle is from Saskatoon East and Lawrence is from Durham-Northumberland in southern Ontario.Sometimes it proved hard to get parliamentarians to go places — none could make it to New Brunswick in June of 1980 for an Atlantic Parliamentary Conference Other limes it was less difficult — 18 went to Belgium in November of 1980, 10 went to Senegal last January and six went to Jamaica with their spouses last February HELPS IMAGE Ian Imrie, director-general of the secretariat, said in an interview that MPs and Senators help improve the image of Canada abroad and learn many things about other systems of government.But New Democrat MP Jim Fulton of Skeena riding in British Columbia, and three other MPs and Senators interviewed who asked not to be named, said some federal politicians take advantage of the associations to get out of town."I can’t see how an MP can do all his constituency work, all his party work in Ottawa and prepare for these delegations abroad,’’ Fulton said “It’s obvious that some members are just using the associations as a trough to run to when they’re planning their vacations.” The associations' work has been curtailed this year by a one-third reduction in the money they receive from Parliament, Imrie said Angels power struggle may be linked to killings MONTREAL (CP) - Police say they believe a power struggle among members of the Hell’s Angels motor cycle gang may be linked to four recent killings.Weather Friday cloudy with a 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Ron Wilson leads Jets by example and riot emotion Outdoors BY REAL HEBERT In past columns I have often praised the sport of hunting; I have explained that it is the skills that are most important and not the kills It's true that without the kills, the sport loses some of its significance, but on the other hand, killing game without the hunt is no better than what goes on in slaughterhouses.While I consider myself lucky to have been able to spend many of my leisure hours in contact with nature, one thing that has always been unpleasant to me has been to discover a dead deer in the woods.Three times during hunting season I have come across carcasses of deer which have been mortally wounded by hunters who failed to find them.I suspect there are two factors in this.First, the hunters are either poor marksmen or they shot in very unfavorable circumstances.Second, the hunters didn't have the knowledge needed — or enough of it — to pursue their prey after they shot it.I have to wonder how many deer these supposed hunters wound mortally before actually getting one home to the freezer.There is an old saying that goes : ‘don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes'.The theory is that if you can see the whites of their eyes, it will be hard to miss.It seems to me that all hunters should put this rule to use, especially when they are after big game — and for most hunters this means deer.There is no good reason to pull the trigger, not only until you have identified the prey, but until you have made sure you can hit a vital spot and death will be instantaneous, or nearly so.Sadly, there are too many hunters in our woods who are ready to pull the trigger as soon as they hear a sound or see some branches move.Too many shots are fired, as well, at animals so far away the best the hunter can hope for is to wound them.For me the rule of the game is simple: don’t shoot until you are sure that you will hit the animal in a vital spot and kills it right away.If there is the least doubt, don't shoot.That’s the difference between a real hunter and a vulgar killer.Even if you follow this rule it’s possible that a mortallv-wounded animal mav run some distance from where it was shot before going down.It is then the hunter’s duty to track it down until he finds it, even if it takes the rest of the day or the next day.I don’t want to tell you what to do, but I suggest that you read the article ‘Deer Trackers Guide’, by Tony Atwill, on page 125 of the September Sports Afield.Let me just remind you again that from the moment you pull the trigger, it’s your duty to find the ^^^^apim^,, field-dress j.t, gut it and bring it out of the woods.Anyone who doesn’t intend to undertake this obligation has no business traipsing around in the woods with a loaded gun.Many critics won’t miss a chance to put down our sport.Some are well-intentioned, while others would take the opportunity to start an anti-hunting campaign and ask that hunting be abolished.So, it’s up to us to follow the basic rules of hunting and denounce those who seem to ignore their responsibilities.They are ruining the reputations of the real hunters.Scoreboard ! 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