The record, 24 février 1984, vendredi 24 février 1984

Weekend Births, deaths .10 Business.8-9 Classified .12 Comics .13 Editorial .4 Living .5 Sports .6-7 Townships Week Champlain College hosts a tour-day symposium on disarmament with an impressive list of speakers and panelists/6.And Peter Seo-wen interviews Trevor Payne of the Jubilation Gospel Singers/4.A "Let me know when Ronnie’s check arrives so we can start the killing again.” I'HA'fc AN OKI W MiKNKiin.t ' UNNOXVIU I l>HIMAR> Ml tool Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, February 24, 1984 40 cents Lévesque gets green light on sovereignty LAC-BEAUPORT.Que (CP) — The Parti Québécois caucus has given Premier Rene Levesque the green light to continue his new hard sell of Quebec independence in the run-up to the provincial election expected late next year.Speaking to reporters Thursday during a break in the caucus meeting in this resort town 25 kilometres north of Quebec City, Levesque said the caucus voted unanimously not to backtrack on a pledge to hold the next provincial election on the theme of Quebec independence.The next step, the premier said, is to sell the idea to the people of the province, who refused to buy it four years ago in a referendum.“I’ll even buy your word seir,” Levesque said in response to a question from a reporter who used the word.Levesque, whose seven-year-old government has sunk to new levels of unpopularity in the last two years, has been unusually vocal in recent weeks about his party's commitment to ma king independence the central issue of an election.During a campaign-like swing last week through the eastern part of the province, he even ressurected the old nationalist slogan of the littitis, Maitres Chez Nous (Masters in Our Own House).But Levesque said Thursday the party doesn't want to get bogged down in “the nitty-gritty" details of what independence is What they want to sell is the idea.And he said he didn't want to repeat what he said was a mistake of the 1980 referendum campaign: coupling so vereignty with an economic associa tion with Canada.QPF concludes under-cover indecency probe \ Quebec Police Force officers Rémi Champagne (left) and Paul Godbout flank public relations director René Côté as details of the provincial police investigation into public indecency are unveiled at a Thursday press conference.Police hope public awareness will help curb this disturbing phenomenon.By Michael McDevitt SHE BROOKE — The Sherbrooke division of the Quebec Provincial Police has just completed a three-week investigation that has laid bare some disturbing statistics and has resulted in the laying of over 31 charges against individuals for having performed indecent and grossly indecent acts in public washrooms.At the request of Guy Laramée, manager of the Voyageur bus terminus, and of André David of the Carrefour de l’Estrie, — who in turn had recei- ved complaints from security guards — undercover police officers undertook surveillance of the washrooms in the two places and observed the behavior that led to the charges.At a press conference at QPF headquarters in Sherbrooke, public rela- tions officer René Côté revealed that QPF officers Paul Godbout and Rémi Champagne spent three weeks beginning January 9 observing activities at the Voyageur terminus.According to See VOYAGEUR page 3 Man.will pull plug on language bill, assembly NDP member told no funds available, Liberal given $78,000 WINNIPEG (CP) — Manitoba’s NDP government hasn’t lost the fight even though, by ending the current session of the legislature, it will be allowing a controversial French-language rights proposal to die.Government House Leader Andy Anstett argued Thursday.“We’re not giving up at all,” he told reporters.“The government is faced with a parliamentary crisis on bellringing.” For one week, opposition Progressive Conservatives have refused to return to the house to vote on a motion that would move the package closer to adoption.It is one of two votes needed before the government can invoke closure on a constitutional amending resolution, part of the language package._____ The first vote is on a motion to call the question.The question, or motion, would put a two-hour limit on Tory walkouts.Once it passes, the government can then invoke closure on the language issue with the certainty that the opposition cannot walk out indefi- nitely to prevent the closure motion from passing.Normally, under rules of the legislature, unless the opposition and government whips agree to turn off the division buzzers that call members to a recorded vote, no vote can be taken.____ Anstett refused to say exactly when the government would pull the plug on the longest session in the history of the legislature but the announcement is expected in the next few of days.Opposition Progressive Conservatives have ruled out any offer to call off their campaign to block the language package, forcing the government to make good on the threat to end the session that got under way in December 1982.Anstett said there was a difference between withdrawing the package and letting it die on the order paper by calling an end to the session, even though the end result is the same.WON’T WITHDRAW “It won’t be withdrawn, it will die on the order paper because we believe in what we’re doing,” Anstett told a service club luncheon Thursday.Later, he also refused to acknowledge defeat when questioned by reporters about the decision to let the language package die, only a few OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau asked the other two federal party leaders Thursday to agree to pass a resolution in the Commons today in support of the Manitoba government’s beleaguered proposals to protect French-language rights.“It’s a question of saving the country,” Trudeau said in French to reporters.“If one moves towards a Canada where there are only anglophones out side of Quebec and francophones in Quebec, that is not the conception of the country for which one fights and that is what is necessary to try to make Manitobans understand.” New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent immediately embraced days after Premier Howard Pawley told an NDP convention in Brandon, Man., that the government would not Trudeau’s idea for a resolution, party officials said, and was planning to shorten a visit to Saskatoon so he could be in the Commons today.There was no immediate word from Conservative Leader Brian Mulroney.However, he was expected to fly to Ottawa from Toronto late Thursday night to discuss the issue with some of his MPs.Jack Murta, a Tory MP from Manitoba, said in an interview from his riding of Lisgar that probably any resolution “with the federal government instructing the people of Manitoba to do anything may be counterproductive” and that a made-in- OTTAWA (CP) — A New Democratic Party MP said Thursday he was told there were no funds available when he applied to the Secretary of State Department for money for a playground for disabled children.Yet, Neil Young of Toronto's Beaches riding told the Commons, a Liberal riding received $78,000 through the same department for a project involving the handicapped.Employment Minister John Ro bcrts, the target of an opposition onslaught over government handling of $300 million in special job-creation funds, told Young he hadn’t been aware of the request and that the New Democrat should have applied to him rather than Secretary of State Serge Joyal.Joyal wasn't in the Commons.“What is the difference between a disabled kid that lives in Kitchener (the Liberal riding that received the funds) and any other disabled kid in this country?” Young shouted as he waved documents produced Tuesday by Roberts that showed several capi tal expenditure projects that came under Joyal’s jurisdiction were financed from the Special Employment In tiatives Program.Opposition MPs have labelled the program a Liberal pork-barrel limited to government MPs and Senators.Young later gave reporters copies of letters between a Toronto school trustee asking for the playground funding, himself and Joyal’s office.When Young asked Joyal’s office “if there are any monies available un dcr federal departments for such a project,” the minister’s executive assistant, Maurice Saint-Onge, wrote back “there is no program within my department with a mandate to pro vide funding for capital expenditures.” Among the documents Roberts ta bled in the Commons Tuesday were a page and a half of projects under the special initiatives program, including $60,000 for construction of a holocaust memorial in Toronto, $259,200 for improvements to the University of Win nipeg’s sports facilities and another grant to the same university of $130,000 to increase accessibility for NDP gov’t Manitoba solution would be best.Government House Leader Yvon Pinard said Trudeau was making himself available Thursday night for discussions either by telephone or in person with the other two party leaders.Pinard told reporters the proposed resolution was similar to one endorsed by all three parties in the Commons last October and that he “would be surprised” if it was rejected by the opposition parties.The new resolution says “a bit more” than the October one, he said, but he refused to provide details.the handicapped.However, Saint-Onge wrote to Young that the department's budget for its Status of Disabled Persons So cretariat “has a limited budget ear marked for the operating expenses of national organizations of the handi capped.” NO PATRONAGE Liberal MP Peter Lang, who olped get the $78,000 for the handicapped project in his riding, said the money “had nothing to do with patronage" and took more than two years to so cure.Lang said he approached several government departments with the project before learning that lunds might be available through Joyalsof fice."1 don’t like linking it with patro nage,” Lang said.“It's not patro nage, it was hard work " Lang said he didn't recall how he became aware that funds might be found through Joyal’s office.Neither Joyal nor Saint-Onge were available for comment on the matter Thursday.Earlier, Roberts fended off eriti cistn that the government had not ad vertised for applications under the Special Initiatives program.Oppose tion MPs have complained that they din’t even know what the criteria for projects were until Feb.2, although the plan was announced in the June 1982 budget.Roberts now says about $93 million of the $300 million has yet to be alio cated.“If an extensive advertising campaign had been undertaken," Roberts said, “the only result would have been to generate expectations which could not have possibly been fulfilled " But, he added, “there is a lot of evi dence that members of the public, municipalities and mayors of towns and cities across the country were fully aware of the program" because they applied for funds.He also mocked opposition MPs tor not applying for money “They knew it was there.They were aquiver with expectation.They were anxious to bring forward projects but they waited for the criteria to come down.” Waiting for the criteria “went on for days.It stretched into weeks, then months, then years, before they got the criteria.“They sat there for two years until last week to say ‘We really want to have those criteria.’ Is that what they call a dilligent exercise of their respo-nisibility on behalf of their consti tuents?” Roberts also sloughed off allega lions by Lome Nystrom.NDP mem ber for Yorkton Melville, that Saskat chewan ridings with Liberal connec lions had received more in job creation funding than opposition ridings.Nystrom asked why Assiniboia.with a 2.4 per cent unemployment rate, had received $736,000, while Prince Albert, an NDP riding with an unemployment rate of 7.5 per cent, only received $50,000.See NDP page 2 PM supports Pawley and Ever-present optimism acts as Reagan’s personal suit of armor WASHINGTON (CP) — President Reagan, less than a month into his re-election campaign, is making the most of a potent personal flair for making the most of things.Combining his gift of the gab with irrepressible optimism, Reagan makes political liabilities seem electioneering assets.He detects progress amid apparent domestic defeats.He turns up kernels of comfort in painful foreign policy retreats.And he makes his critics seem carping and mean-minded, even unpatriotic.To criticism that his tax and spending programs weigh unfairly on the poor and unemployed, Reagan’s typically tangential retort is that "the American people will choose opportu-^nity and growth over greed and envy any day of the week.” To those who say withdrawal of American marines from Lebanon means the failure of his policy in the Middle East, Reagan responds that the very fact opposing forces pushed for the withdrawal “is a kind of significant admission that we were having some success.” To Democrats who say his Republican administration has menaced peace and prosperity, Reagan counters that “if pessimism was an Olympic event, they’d win a gold medal." OPTIMISM ÉVIDENT Reagan’s ever-ready eagerness to look on the bright side has been especially evident since the launching late last month of his campaign for re- election in November.His relentless optimism was in full throat Wednesday night at his first te-levised news conference in two months.He offered upbeat accountings of what his questioners presented as dangers in his economic policies, defeats abroad, doubts about his personal grasp of what’s happening and his grip on the presidency.In his management of the economy, inflation rates are down but doesn’t the high cost of credit threaten to stifle recovery?“1 think that we will see a further decline in the interest rate.” In his abortive pledge to eliminate federal budget deficits, would Reagan countenance an increase in taxes and slow the growth of military spen- ding?“Raising taxes doesn’t reduce a deficit; raising taxes creates more government spending.And I think the world is a safer and more secure place and we’re further removed from a possible war by what we have done with the defence budgets that we have introduced than we’ve been in a number of years.” NOT YIELDING In the withdrawal from Lebanon, has the United States lost credibility in the Middle East?“As long as there’s a chance for a peaceful solution I’m not going to give up and say, ‘well, it’s all over.’ And we re not bugging out, we’re just going to a little more defensible posi- tion.” In the evidence of delay and indecision over Middle East policy, is there any truth to charges that Reagan is a part-time president out of touch with issues intellectually?"It wasn’t a case of delay; it was a case of looking at the situation and wanting to make the right decision.” "I have never gone upstairs from that office once that I have not carried an entire evening full of homework with me " “.I think, through the process we have of discussing all issues in the cabinets, 1 probably have a better store of information on the issues confronting us than a president normally has." Ronald Reagan has an actor's wav with words.I * 2—Tin* KRC'ORD—Friday.February 21, I9S1 Sparks fly as one candle brain knocks 15 watt bulb OTTAWA (C'l’l Sparks flew in the Commons Thursday when Prime Minister Trudeau became embroiled in the debate over the competency of Kevenue Minister Pierre Hussieres.Conservative M P Chris Speyer, one of two Tories spearheading a campaign against the Revenue Department, asked Trudeau how he could appoint "a 15-watt bulb" like Hussieres to such an important post.The prime minister said he would ignore Speyer’s assertions because they came from ‘‘a one-candle-power brain.” The Conservatives have been grilling the government about the practices and policies of Revenue Canada since early November.They say the department has become aggressive in its collection techniques and is giving taxpayers heavy-handed treatment.The exchange between Speyer and Trudeau began when the Tory asked what assurances the prime minister had given the Liberal caucus Wednesday after complaints wore raised about the tax department Trudeau said he told party members the government is aware of the situation and is dealing w'ith it by appointing private consultant William Farlinger of Woods Gordon to investigate.He had to be corrected by Liberal MPs in the House after he repeatedly referred to it as the Erlin-ger commission Liberal MP Peter Lang said earlier Thursday he had told the prime minister in caucus the cabinet would have to move quickly to defuse the crisis brewing in Revenue Canada.The member for Kitchener would not paraphrase Trudeau’s answer, but said it left him satisfied the situation is in hand.Lang said in an interview he has received complaints from constituents about the tax department.He said Revenue officials had an altitudinal problem that orginiated with the top bureaucrats.These bureaucrats have too much power, he said.“We have a situation here where the deputy minister has as much power as the minister.It’s given to him in legislation.That’s got to be changed.“Politics is democracy and democracy is accountability, but the deputy minister is not accountable.” * Wl SETTLE ESTATES * TAX PLAN YOURINCOMI * FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION * SPECIALIZE - FARM ROLLOVERS PROFESSIONAL ADVICE W.D.DUKE ASSOCIATES LTD.109 William St., Cowanjville J2K 1K9 514-263-4123 President W.D.Duke B Comm.C.A Vice President J.R Boulé B A.Argentines arrest last Falkland crisis leader BUENOS AIRES (Reuterl —- The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces detained former air force chief Hasilio Lami Dozo on Thursday, thereby putting under arrest all three members of the junta that ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands.Argentina's highest military court placed Lami Dozo, a brigadier, in custody after interrogating him for more than three hours Thursday morning.On Tuesday, the six-man court arrested the former president and army commander, Leopoldo Galtieri, and Thursday it detained the former navy chief, Jorge Anaya.The three men face a court-martial on the recommendation of an official inquiry into the Falklands conflict, w hich ended with Britain's recapture of the islands, 74 days after the Argentine invasion in April 1982.Galtieri and Anaya face possible death penalties on a charge of refusing a reasonable request for help from a military unit in distress in time of war.Along with Lami Dozo, they also risk long prison terms for several other alleged contraventions of the military code.ARREST MEMBERS Retired air force Brig.Luis Fages, president of the Supreme Council, said the three former junta members had not yet been judged.‘‘Galtieri might end up being acquitted,” he said on entering the court Thursday.The official inquiry, led by retired Gen.Benjamin Rattenbach.also recommended the court martial of 11 field commanders for their alleged misconduct in the f ighting.Although several of these men have already testified before the Supreme Council, only the former junta members have so far been arrested.Galtieri, Anaya and Lami Dozo also face a court martial by the Supreme Council on separate charges of authorizing the systematic abuse of human rights under military government.Argentina’s new elected president, Raul Alfonsin, has ordered the court to try all the country’s top military leaders from 1976 to 1982 for the kidnap, torture and murder of up to 30,000 political detainees during the armed forces “dirty war” against suspected leftist guerrillas.Saudis say ceasefire will start on Friday DAMASCUS (CTi Saudi Arabia announced late Thursday that agreement on a ceasefire among the warring factions in Lebanon would begin today.Saudi negotiator Prince Bandar bin Sultan told a news conference after an eight-hour meeting with representatives of the Syrian and Lebanese governments the ceasefire would become effective at II a m.(4 a.m.EST» He said the delay was necessary to allow time to inform all the parties involved.Bandar, who is his country’s ambassador to the United States, said the agreement was “only a ceasefire,” and did not cover political issues."I am pleased to announce that we have reached agreement for a cease- fire tomorrow and to us saving life is important,” he said We are in contact with all the parties now.” Bandar twice met Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khadam on Thursday and Saudi Arabian busines sman Rafiq al Hariri u'as present at the second meeting.Hariri flew in from Beirut with Lebanon’s response to a Saudi Arabian peace plan for Lebanon, details of which have not been disclosed.Bandar said a formal announcement of the ceasefire would be made today either in Damascus or in Beirut.“We have not discussed the exact timing, but we think it will be around midday,” he said.NDP won’t abandon ‘Made-in-Manitoba’ deal Continued from page one abandon its principles.The package consists of Bill 115 to provide bilingual government services and a constitutional amendment to protect statutory Frenchy-language rights, in exchange for retroactive validation of Manitoba statutes called into question on language grounds.Since last May, when it unveiled the Weathe Increasing cloudiness during (Ins afternoon accompanied by warmer temperatures.High today expected to reac li 10 with the low tonight reaching —3.Outlook for Saturday, c-bin mild.first draft of its language proposal, the government has been waging an uphill battle inside and outside the legislature to win approval of the package.In several polls and plebiscites in many Manitoba communities, the government ran into widespread opposition.Much of that opposition was blamed on a misunderstanding of the proposal and a resentment of federal bilin gual policies, but even changes to the plan failed to appease the more vocal critics of the proposal.Throughout it all, government spokesmen insisted they would never give up their ‘‘made-in-Manitoba solution” to the language question, which dates back to 1890 when the legislature passed an unconstitutional statute taking away French rights in the courts and legislature.Those rights were restored five years ago but a backlog of laws published only in English were left on the books.News-in-brief Cotroni to face U.S.heroin charge MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge ordered Montrealer Frank Cotroni extradited to the United States Thursday to face charges of trafficking in heroin.Mr Justice Charles Phelan ordered that Cotroni be held for 15 days at the Parthenais detention centre here before being surrendered to U.S.authorities, to give him time to appeal."We will appeal, no doubt about it,” said his lawyer, Sidney Leithman.U.S.wants to deport Salvail MONTREAL (CP) — United States immigration authorities want Marcel Salvail, 43, to be declared an undesirable alien and deported to Canada as quickly as possible, La Presse reports.Salvail, once described by the Quebec Police Commission inquiry into organized crime as a major underworld figure, was arrested Monday night in a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., hotel by drug enforcement officers who found him in possession of 100,000 quaalude tablets, a depressant drug proscribed in the U.S.A.Quebec to woo New Englanders QUEBEC (CP) — The Quebec government will launch a $500.000 advertising campaign to get Americans in the New England states to come and see the Tall Ships in Quebec City next summer, the Tourism Department has announced.The Tall Ships will be here June 25-30 as part of the festivities marking the 450th anniversary of French explorer Jacques Cartier’s first trip to Canada in 1534.The Quebec '84 festivities will run from June 23 to Aug.24 B of C rate up slightly OTTAWA (CP) — The Bank of Canada rate edged up to 10.04 per cent Thursday from 10 per cent, where it had been for two weeks, but the increase was not expected to push up other shortterm interest rates.However, one money trader warned that concerns about massive government deficits and higher interest rates a year or so down the road are growing.Incest now reported more often TORONTO (CP) The increase in incest cases reaching court is not necessarily due to a rise in incidents, but in more reporting of the crime, says a counsellor on the subject.Charlotte Vale Allen, w:ho described 10 years of sexual abuse by her father in her book Daddy’s Girl, said in an interview incest has come out of the closet, with more people talking about it and dealing with it.Her experience with molestation almost destroyed her life but in the end it drove her to tell her story and mount a campaign which takes her on speaking tours around the world, she said.30 years for Simpson’s robbery TORONTO (CP) —A 54-year-old Montreal man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday for his part in the $1.2-million robbery at the downtown Simpson’s department store in 1982.“Everyone should know' that the courts of this city will treat very harshly those who would select Toronto as a place to commit robberies of financial institutions,” said county court Judge Stephen Borins as he passed sentence on Johnny King.Pembroke ponders pansy power PEMBROKE, Ont.(CP) — A rose by any other name belongs to Windsor, which leaves members of the horticultural society here pondering the pansy as this city’s floral emblem.Already tin1 jokes have started: “Pembroke: city of pansies?” asked the Ottawa Citizen in Thursday’s editions.Aid.Henry Brown has planted a seedof doubt in fellow council members, convincing them to delay a final decision until the horticultural society supplies a more detailed rationale.“We are looking at developing a theme for tourism." Brown argued.“And ‘Pembroke: the city of pansies’ just doesn’t have the same effect as ‘Windsor: the city of roses’.” Komarno to honor native pest KOMARNO, Man.(CP) — Residents of this farming village are itching to erect a statue to immortalize Manitoba's least lovable resident—the mosquito.The 60 or so residents of Komarno, which means “full of mosquitoes” in Ukrainian, are trying to scratch up about $4,000 to erect a five-metre model of the winged bloodsucker.“It seems like it’s really going to get off the ground,” said Mike Shalagan, who runs a general store in this community about 75 kilometres north of Winnipeg.Shalagan says it will have a glass-fibre body and Plexiglas wings, and will be rigged to change direction with the wind.“We’d like to get it up by the fall but it all depends on how much money we can raise,” he said.Saskatchewan buys Riel diary REGINA (CP) — The Saskatchewan government has purchased the 1885 Batoche diary of rebel Metis leader Louis Riel for an undisclosed sum.The frail, tattered manuscript was turned over to the Saskatchewan Archives on Thursday for restoration.Culture Minister Rick Folk said the diary will be exhibited in various communities once archivists have completed their work.The document, written between March 26 and May 12,1885, is considered the most important of all the Riel diaries, provincial archivist Ian Wilson said.Mideast war could double oil price NEW YORK (AP) — If the latest flareup of the Iran-Iraq war leads to closure of the West’s main shipping link to Middle East oil, U.S.prices could double within days but a severe oil shortage is unlikely, analysts said Thursday.In Canada, however, such a shutoff is unlikely to have a serious impact, because Canada buys less than two per cent of its 225,000 barrels of imported oil a day from the Persian Gulf countries.Canada gets the bulk of its import needs from Venezuela and Mexico.In addition, oil prices in Canada are frozen at current levels until the end of the year under a federal-provincial agreement signed last summer.Hammer believes progress possible MONTEZUMA, N.M.(AP) — Armand Hammer, the American industrialist who has been doing business with the Soviets for more than 60 years, said Thursday he believes there “really is an opportunity now for positive, forward movement” toward better U.S.-Soviet relations.Hammer said that feeling resulted from a meeting he had wth Konstantin Chernenko, the Soviet Union’s new chief of state, following the funeral for Yuri Andropov.Hammer talked about the meeting at United World College, a school for international students he helped establish at an old resort outside Las Vegas, N.M.Honest man reaps huge reward LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Renee Jimenez found $10,000 in a paper sack on the floor of a Hollywood restaurant in October, the $106-a-week hotel worker did the only thing he thought was right—he gave it to the restaurant management.On Wednesday, after an unsuccessful attempt to find the owner, police gave it back to him.“I can’t believe it,” said Jimenez, 28.Soviets counter Jewish claims MOSCOW (Reuter) — Jews, who are only one-half per cent of the Soviet population, make up seven per cent of all people with a higher education now working in the state economy, a newspaper report says.The daily Sovietskaya Latvia cites the figure in an article addressing charges that Soviet Jews are subject to discrimination and have difficulty gaining admission to universities or entering high-level careers.Soviets engineer space hook-up MOSCOW (Reuter) —An unmanned cargo craft linked up Thursday with the Earth-orbiting Soviet space station Salyut-7 to deliver fuel, instruments and mail to three cosmonauts on board.The official news agency Tass said the craft, Progress-19, which was launched Tuesday, had been guided in by ground control and the three Salyut crew members.The cosmonauts — Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Solovyov and Oleg Atkov — have been on board Salyut-7 for two weeks.They are expected to stay in orbit for several months, possibly breaking the Soviet 211-day endurance record set in 1982.U.S.nods to Soviet chemical idea GENEVA (Reuter) — The United States on Thursday welcomed the Soviet Union’s acceptance of a key principle concerning the destruction of chemical weapons.The Soviet delegate to the 40-member Geneva conference on disarmament announced Tuesday that Moscow had agreed reluctantly to permanent, on-site verification of the destruction of chemical weapons by international inspectors.U.S.Ambassador Louis Fields called the Soviet move a welcome sign of progress.Verification has been the main stumbling block to a chemical weapons treaty, which has been under discussion by the conference since 1978.The acceptance announced by Viktor Issrae-lyan, Soviet ambassador to the conference, was described by western experts as a significant concession.Women start Human Rights strike GENEVA (AP) — Seven women began a hunger strike Thursday outside the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to protest the commission’s refusal to investigate some 90,000 disappearances in Latin America.New Soviet carrier enters Pacific MANILA (AP) — The new Soviet aircraft carrier Novorossiysk has entered the South China Sea from the Indian Ocean, making it the second Soviet carrier now patrolling the Pacific Ocean, U.S.Navy authorities said Thursday.Africa to get emergency food aid ROME (AP) — The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization announced emergency food aid Thursday for more than 800,000 people in four drought-affected Africian countries — Ghana, Upper Volta, Gambia and Niger.In addition, refugees in Somalia and Uganda will receive emergency food relief.The total aid being sent from World Food Program resources is worth $20 million, the announcement said.The drought-stricken countries are among the 24 on the African continent encountering acute food shortages.Masked men kill Spanish senator BILBAO, Spain (Reuter) — Masked gunmen shot dead a Socialist senator Thursday who was an outspoken opponent of Basque separatists and a leading candidate in a regional election set for Sunday.Police said Enrique Casas, candidate of Spain’s governing Socialist party in a regional parliamentary election in the Basque province of Gui-puzcoa.was shot at his home in San Sebastian.Hong Kong talks take breather PEKING (AP) — China and Britain ended the ninth round of monthly talks on Hong Kong’s future Thursday and scheduled the next session in three weeks.A statement released simultaneously by the British Embassy and the official Chinese news agency Xinhua called the talks “useful and constructive.”It did not elaborate on the substance of the talks, in accordance with the pledge by both sides to keep silent.Conflicting reports as Iran mounts offensive Ssconl George MacLaren, Publisher 569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor 569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager 569-9525 Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent 569-9931 Richard Lessard, Production Manager 569-9931 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40 kilometres into southern Iraq, cut the vital Baghdad Basra highway in two places and killed or wounded 2,500 Iraqi soldiers.It warned again that it would dose the channel to the oil-rich Persian Gulf ‘‘should its interests be threatened.” But Iraqi military communiques said the new Iranian offensive in the Basra region was “totally wiped out with thousands of (Iranian) bodies left on the battlefield." The Iraqi communiques said Tehran had claimed victory to divert public attention in Iran from the crushing of its offensives and the huge losses suffered.Iran said its forces captured two towns along the Iraqi highway- Qur-na, HO kilometres northwest of the oil port of Basra, and Al Uzayr.37 kilometres further north.Both towns are 30 kilometres west of the Iran-Iraq border, with Al Qur-nah at the confluence of Iraq's mighty biblical rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.Associated Press correspondent Mohammed Salam toured Qurna Thursday evening He reported no sign of fighting there and normal highway traffic.A provincial official in Qurna, Kha-laf Abdul Karim, told reporters of an Iraqi victory over Iranian forces Thursday 11 kiolmetres east of Qurna.He said armed Iraqi villagers and People's Army reservists killed 1,500 Iranian soldiers and captured 350 after the Iranians crossed marshes in 500 small boats and landed about 18 kilometres inside Iraqi territory.Thursday’s war communiques were monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus.Although Salam reached Qurna, foreign correspondents are seldom allowed near the battlefront, making it difficult to verify conflicting claims.IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE Iran’s official Islamic Republic news agency had said earlier that following the cutting of the highway, “Iraq lost one of its most important logistical routes.” The Iranians claimed that the Iraqi 3rd Army in the Basra sector was cut off from the 4th Army, manning the border opposite Al Amarah.The Baghdad-Basra highway is an important military objective because Iraq uses it to move troops and equipment along the southern sector of the 1,170-kilometre warfront.Iran said Iraqi forces were caught by surprise as the attacking force “used new tactics’ ’ to cross the Hur-ul Hoveizeh marshes between the border and the two towns.The comrquniques did not say what the new tactics were, but the official Iraqi news agency quoted an Iraqi general as saying his troops had destroyed a number of Iranian gunboats on the marshes.The advancing Iranians also captured 26 Iraqi villages in the region, killed or wounded more than 2,500 Iraqi troops and captured many more, the Iranian communiques claimed.Iraq had predicted a major battle east of Basra following reports that Iran had massed as many as 500,000 troops in the region.The offensive began just before midnight Wednesday night.Baghdad television interrupted its programs throughout the night to announce that the Iranian assault, the second in 24 hours, had been annihilated.MULTI-PRONGED ATTACK The Iraqi news agency quoted Maj.-Gen.Maher Abed al Rashid, in charge of the Basra sector, as saying Iranian troops initially “managed to infiltrate Iraqi positions east of Basra and in the marshes” following “a multi- pronged attack.” “Fierce fighting continued all the night and the early hours of the day when our formations managed to defeat the enemy and wipe out remnants of the infiltrators,” the general was quoted as saying.Iran said the Iraqi counter-attacks were repulsed with heavy Iraqi losses, and that Iranian air force jets helped beat back one attack.The new flareup in the bloody border war sparked fears in neighboring Arab states that the fighting might spread and close the Strait of Hormuz, through which nearly 20 per cent of the non-Communist world’s oil is shipped.Iran has threatened to block the strait if Iraq tries to destroy Iranian oil installations.U.S.President Reagan told a Washington news conference Wednesday night: “There’s no way that we could allow the channel to be closed,” indicating the United States would become involved if the strait was blocked.A Pentagon spokesman said Thursday that the United States is confident it can prevent Iran from closing the strait.“We feel we can handle any contingency," spokesman Michael Burch told reporters at a briefing.47 The Townships The RECORD—Friday, February 24, 1984—3 n____sa ixsoara Voyageur, Carrefour operations result in more than 30 arrests Continued from page one their estimates, the terminus washrooms are occupied approximately 94 per cent of the time, with an estimated seven out of ten persons who enter the rooms doing so with the intention of performing an indecent or grossly indecent act.These activities are described as being anything from solitary masturbation to homosexual activities between two or more people.The Voyageur operation led to the levelling of 13 arrests, one of which involved activities between a minor male and an adult.At the Carrefour de l’Estrie, a two-day investigation led to 18 arrests, again with one case involving a minor male and an adult.Police say the Carrefour statistics are a little less startling but reveal that at least three of ten people entering the Carrefour's public washrooms do so with indecent intentions.Police refused to name any of those arrested stating that the purpose behind the operation was "not to destroy careers or to cause family difficulties for those involved.We wished merely to let people know we are aware of this situation and are prepared to do something about it.” Côté said the situation in Sherbrooke is similar to those in all other Quebec municipalities.“It is a problem that exists everywhere,” he said, “and to be honest it will continue to exist.There is very little that can be done.There is no way security guards can patrol these areas adequately and those who wish to perform these acts will find ways of doing so.” Cté said the police intend to distribute signs to be posted in public washrooms informing people that the performance of grossly indecent acts (those involving two or more persons E.T.press club to name award winners at gala SHERBROOKE — The Eastern Townships Press Club will reveal the winners of its second annual Prix d'excellence journalistique Louis C.O'Neil Friday, March 16 on Télé 7, president Raymond Daigneault announced Thursday.The jury, composed of journalists Huguette O’Neil, André Payette and Daigneault, Hélène Cajolet-Laganière of the Office de la langue française, and Laurent Dubé and Rock Boisclair of Communications-Québec, will announce their decision on a one-hour gala broadcast.“The new part of the awards this year is that the broadcast will last one hour during which the work of the winning journalists in the four categories will be described, as well as contributions for the Louis C.O’Neil award for excellence, which will be decided from the top submissions in the four categories,” said Daigneault.The broadcast also coincides with the 80th anniversary of the birth of O’Neil.“The press club also hopes that this event will be testimony to the dynamism and professionalism of journalism in the Eastern Townships,” he added.To date, 32 submissions from 15 different médias — including two from The Townships Sun and two from The Record — have been received from the more than 50 members.One award (of a trophy and $400) and two honorable mentions will be given in each of the four categories: radio, television, daily newspapers and weekly or monthly newspapers.The best submission overall will receive the Louis C.O’Neil award for excellence, which is accompanied by a $2,000 bursary.The criterion for selection is quality, interest, pertinence and the amount of research done.CRSSSE requests groups register before March 10 SHERBROOKE — The regional council of health and social services (CRSSSE) is asking all organizations working in the health and social service fields in region 05 (Estrie) who wish to participate in nominations to administrative councils of public institutions, as well as in the election of officers to the board of the CRSSSE, to request accreditation before March 10.Since 1982, the law concerning health and social services has gran- ted to accredited volunteer organiza^ tions a seat on all administrative councils of more than 30 public institutions as well as on the CRSSSE.To this effect, the CRSSSE is presently in the process of revising its list of accredited organizations.Organizations wishing such accreditation should pick up application forms at the CRSSSE offices at 2424 King street west, or request them by phone at (819) 566-7861.What this lush and tipsy age is doing to children Remember the crokinole board?I saw one in the window of a second hand store the other day — a perfectly good old-fashioned crokinole board such as we had back home when I was a boy.And I could have shed tears of genuine poetry about it because if I remember it correctly there was one Christmas at our house when a board such as this one was the only gift of consequence that our family allowed itself.Indeed I think I can tell you to within a dime what that board cost in Eaton’s catalogue — $6.95 complete with those red and black discs you snapped with a middle finger in the hope of making a bull’s eye.Even though you could use those same red and black discs to play checkers, $6.95 was an awful lot of money in those days.But at our house at least it was money well spent.We played on that board for ten years thereafter — maybe more — and if a guest should unexpectedly drop in out of the evening, we never had to worry about how to entertain.A pot of green tea, an apple pie or two and that crokinole board would furnish enough hospitality to warm the coldest night or the coolest neighbour.I’ve been giving some rather sorrowful contemplation of late to this matter of family fun because it seems to me that of all the lamentable things this lush and tipsy age is doing to our children, none is quite so tragic as what we are giving them under the label of entertainment now.My radio listeners must be a little tired now of hearing me protesting the increasing variety of borrow shows on television and the endless number of kill toys now being urged upon them.But I haven’t had my say yet about the fantastic greed about the toy industry as a whole, and the determination of this undustry to make a luxury trade out of the toy business.According to an article in the Saturday Evening Post the making of modern toys is now a ten-billion-dollar-a-year business, and that article was written before the birth of the Cabbage Patch dolls! And that ten-billion H.Gordon , Green figure is the result of the fantastic number of ridiculously-priced toys which the industry has somehow been able to sell to the public.Among the items an adoring adult can now lavish upon a child are such things as a scale model Rolls Royce for something less than $300; a three-horsepower model of a Model T Ford for $500, complete with a sure-enough gasoline motor! (incidentally that $500 price tag would have bought the real thing when the Model T was still king of the road).In Montreal this last Christmas one very exclusive toy shop featured a pink teddy bear that sold for $350 and which was so big no ordinary child could get his arms around it! At a convention of American toy makers recently one manufacturer revealed that the mere designing of today’s toys has now become a major industry, and another forward-looking proponent of the free enterprise system—a man whose firm specializes in the making of horror plaques — declared optimistically that he forsees a time in the near future when the industry will have convinced the buying public that Christmas is by no means the only time for the buying of toys.“We are going to take Christmas right out of the toy business!” he told his fellow manufacturers, “and instead we will hail the day when children will get into the habit of expecting new toys all year round!” Now I ask all you parents who really care for your youngsters, won’t that be just too wonderful for words?in public places) are punishable under the Criminal Code by up to five years imprisonment and that indecent acts are punishable under summary conviction that includes a possible fine.Côté said the police hope publicity attending this particular operation will alert the public that this type of activity does exist in public places.“Basically we are concerned about the kids,” Côté said.“We are all aware that the Carrefour is a place where a lot of adolescents tend to hang around, and although we saw no signs of prostitution taking place that kind of activity is difficult to pin down.These people seem to be able to communicate without saying a word — with subtle gestures that they seem to be able to understand.“We are concerned, however, that young people — perhaps 13 or 14 years old — might inadvertantly become exposed to these things.Young people are impressionable and it could lead to a child being scarred for a long time.We hope parents will become aware of the problem and try to deal with it.” Côté says anyone noticing suspicious behavior around public washrooms should report it to security guards at once.QPF public relations officer René Côté reveals figures that committing an indecent act." Officers Rémi Champagne show "seven out of ten people who enter the washrooms at {centre) and Paul Godbout spent three weeks accumulating the Voyageur bus terminus do so with the intention of evidence.Victoriaville man trying to form new party By Peter Scowen AYER’S CLIFF — Saying the Liberals and the Parti Québécois are just the “same used car painted differently”, a salesman from Victoriaville is trying to organize this province’s third political party in time for the next election.Jacques Poitras will officially announce his Christian Democratic Party at a Québec City rally next November.Campaigning with a platform of linguistic freedom and noninterference, he is convinced he can raise the money needed to seriously challenge the well-established existing parties by then.Poitras is living in Ayer’s Cliff this winter while trying to establish his party in the Sherbrooke area.“Québec is a boat in an ocean of English money,” he said in an interview.“Robert Bourassa stuck a small hole in it, René Lévesque enlarged it and now we’re sinking.” Poitras’ platform contains six points that cover everything from Bible study in school to the formation of a Québec Olympic commission to improve the level of athletic competition in the province.The main point, however, calls for the abolition of language legislation to improve the economic climate in Québec.FREE CHOICE A MUST “To attract investment you have to have free choice,” Poitras said.“First settle the problem of language.The government has wasted money on the question it could have been using to create jobs.” The Parti Québécois’ language policy has done more to hurt Canada than any other single factor during the last eight years, says Poitras.“A house divided against itself doesn’t work,” he said.Poitras lays equal blame on Bourassa and Lévesque for Bill 101.“The party that really paved the road was the Liberals with Bill 22.Bourassa let the opposition push him into it.The PQ seized that law and took advantage of it.” He denies language legislation was ever inevitable, brought on by the English minority’s domination of French Quebec up to the beginning of the 1960s.“That was just a smokescreen to scare the people.Québec has been French and English for 300 years.Lévesque is trying to change history by saying the French can't live with the English.” “French Quebecers are frustrated with Lévesque,” Poitras added.“The end result of his government isn’t what they expected.They didn't expect people to leave the province.Even French businessmen making money here invest it elsewhere.” After straightening out the language situation.Poitras said he would make investments in new businesses tax-free to further warm the economic climate in Québec.He also wants the government to turn over all its bu siness interests to private companies, except Hydro-Québec which he calls “well managed”."The PQ are talking about language while in the back they’re socializing this province.They overstep their rights when they go into business.It’s a conflict of interest.Government should prevent abuses but this one is killing democracy by nationalizing in dustry.” SET UP SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Poitras would like to set up an asso ciation of school commissions that would meet once a year and inform the government of the specific educational needs of Québec’s many regions.“The Montreal school commission gives a different education than one in the northern Québec.The government is not an educator but an administrator and doesn’t understand the needs of each region." Although he says the Union Nationale was too influenced by the church to be an effective political party, Poitras' party advocates Bible courses in all levels of public education.“It would be part of their education — a moral base — not run by the church.There would be no mixing of the two." He also said the courses would be voluntary.“You have to speak of both cultures Jacques Poitras.Québec is a boat in an ocean of English money.when you speak of Canada,” Poitras said.“In Manitoba they see the English being mistreated here and they do the same to the French there.Once the PQ party is gone the whole country will improve.My impression of Lévesque is that he wants to lose the next election by saying he will run it on the independence issue.It’s an obvious faux-pas, like Charron stealing the coat.” Jacques Poitras is holding an information dinner at the Auberges des Gouverneurs on Saturday Feb.25 at 6:30concerning the Quebec Christian Democratic Party.Townships talk The Optimists Club is putting on a winter carnival in Ayer’s Cliff this weekend complete with a queen and a parade.The carnival opening takes place on the hockey rink at 7:30 Friday night.Saturday is a day of snowmobile races and fishing competitions, though the way the weather is going the ski-dooing will have to be done very carefully and the fishing in boats.Saturday night the Carnival Queen will be crowned at Burrough’s Falls Dance Hall.Sunday is the big day with a parade featuring numerous floats.It starts at 12:30 p.m.and will pass through downtown Ayer’s Cliff.• SWEETSBURG WARD (JMi - Ernest Morin, of Granby, pleaded guilty to a charge of simple possession of .5 grains of hashish in the Sweet-sburg Jail on Nov.1.Bernard Monast told the court his client had been sentenced to 32 months in Granby on Jan.19, on charges of armed robbery and was serving his time at the Waterloo Rehabilitation Centre thanks to a federal-provincial agreement, then asked for the clemency of the court.Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk said it was much more serious than the usual simple possession and suggested two weeks additional to all terms Morin is presently serving.Judge Biron handed down the sentence suggested by the Crown.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Paulette Burnham changed her option and pleaded guilty to charges of theft of $3,506.53, the property of the Village of Brome, and breach of trust by a public official.Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk then said he had no proof to offer on a charge of fraud which duplicated the amount stolen.Claude 11a-mann told the court his client had reimbursed all but $906 and was prepared to repay the municipality an additional $1,500 to cover the cost of the investigation.He then requested preparation of a pre-sentence report which was seconded by the Crown and Judge Bernard Légaré continued sentencing to June 19.Res.538-2624 W.G.Quigley, MEd.Individual • Family .Marriage COUNSELLING 243-6189 ___Knowlton Medical Clinic SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Daniel St.Pierre, 31, and Serge Dupras.28, entered no pleas at their arraignment on indictable charges of grievous assault on Cowansville Penitentiary staff members Marc Raymond and Claude Bernard, willful property damage of $2,500 to the penitentiary, and to having used violence on the persons of Pierre Menard and Maurice Harbec thereby committing extortion in the prison on Nov.24.Judge Guy Genest, in the absence of defence lawyers, ordered jury trial and the preliminary hearings were set to proceed on March 13.• SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Carlo Trem blay, of Cowansville, was ordered remanded fora 30-day psychiatric examination in Sherbrooke to determine whether or not he will be able to provide his lawyer with a full and adequate defence.Tremblay, in his early 20’s, faces charges of breaking and entering, willful property damage to Co-wansville’s Ste.Therese Church, and breach of a probation order.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Daniel Tremblay, of Bedford, changed his option and pleaded guilty to charges of impaired driving and refusal to submit to a breathalyser test on July 2, willful property damage on the same date, refusal to submit to legal identification subsequent to his arrest on those charges, then to hit and run and willful property damage on September 27.Crown 1983 CENTENNIAL THEATRE The JUBILATION GOSPEL CHOIR FIFTY INSPIRED SINGERS FROM MONTREAL'S UNION UNITED CHURCH Sunday, February 86, 7 p.m.TICKETS: «8.00 ( $4 00 students) FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY kiAJ® - POST PERFORMANCE RECEPTION attorney Henry Keyserlingk stressed the behaviour of the accused on the last charge when he became impatient following a woman driver who was braking within traffic flow when he rammed her vehicle with his truck propelling it into the opposite lane.“On the earlier charge of mischief he drove his 4x4 into a hotel staircase causing the damages while the driver of the car had to be taken to hospital for treatment,” Keyserlingk explained.Claude Hamann contested the insurance estimate produced for damages to the car.Keyserlingk called for stiff fines and the maximum three-year prohibition to operate a motor vehicle.Judge Bernard Légaré, after a few moments’ thought, fined Tremblay $150 and costs on the first charge, in default to 15 days, $100 and costs, in default to 21 days additional on the second, $25 and costs, in default to five days additional on the third, $250 and costs, in default to 45 days additional on the fourth, and $150 and costs, in default to 15 days additional on the fifth charge.In addition he was placed on two probation orders of two years, the first ordering him to effect restitution to the hotel owner within 60 days, the second to come to a settlement with either the car owner or her insurers within one year and he was forbidden to operate a motor vehicle in Canada for a period of nine months.PUBLIC AUCTION STAMPS, COINS & JEWELLERY IN SHERBROOKE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25/84 “More than 300 lots” Further to our auction sale ot last Fall, we have been mandated lo liquidate other mportant Stamp and Com Collections from Canada and Worldwide Numerous gold and silver pieces large pennies, silver 5 cent pieces, bullion collections world stamp albums.Canadian stamps including collectors' dems new 01 used lovons and medals More Ilian 300 lots Inspection ol sale will take place on Salurday.February ?5 at 11 00 a m and the Auction Sale «ill be held at noon at the Auberge Des Gouverneurs, Salon Sutton 3131 King Si W Sherbrooke al noon Catalogues at the enhance VISA and MAS1ENCARD accepted Another Auction managed by Serge UramOe LES ENCANS TRANS-QUEBEC Boucherville.Que J4B 5E6 For Inbrmation Serge Laramée 514 655-9134 > I 1—The u::t OKI)—Friday, February 24, 1!1H1 #1______ UBcara The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Water management depends on us Quebecers use much more water than any other province in Canada and consequently we have always taken this resource for granted.Many of us see no reason to preoccupy ourselves with the supply or the management of water since large quantities of it exist.Certain people have never even thought about it while others however, know the vital importance of this resource.Ask a farmer to talk to you about the earth’s dryness or discuss the effects of acid rain, or the pollution on the lakes with a cottage owner.Talk with someone whose wells have been contaminated by sewers or toxic wastes and then you'll discover the importance of our water.More often than not water makes media headlines.One thinks of the pollution of the Ya-maska and St.Francis rivers here in our region.Quebecers are reacting more and more to the wasting and polluting of our waters resulting from private and public development projects.It is only in the last decade that we have started to get interested in the supply and demand of water and taken protective measures in all exploitation projects of resources.One of the problems that we have to face immediately is the uneven balance in the supply and demand of drinking water, especially in urbain centers.There is also the exploitation of our underground water, acid rain and toxic wastes.To resolve these problems we must all work together.The governments, municipalities, industries, businesses, workers, environment protection groups and citizens all have a role to play.The success of Quebec water management depends on the unified efforts of all of us.REAL HEBERT Tomifobia Tales By CHICK SCHWARTZ Educational computers flunk language tests I was really happy to see that Camille and his group of education Department bureaucrats are sticking to their high principles concerning the education of our children.Just last week, they announced the much publicized purchase of the $2,500 computers from France ultimately designated to teach our kids the fundamentals of computer science might have to be delayed again It seems the gentleman who keeps telling us to trust turn with the education of our children has such high language requirements for the machines that these quite expensive French designed and built computers don't meet Quebec’s cultural standards.And.Laurin said, ‘ there is no possibility of relaxing the linguistic specifications.” The problem with the equipment is that it’s not capable of marking the letter "C" with a cedilla, the little squiggle that makes it pronounced as a soft “S”.Also, the dicresis (the two dots over the second of two adjacent vowels) cannot be indicated on these computers.There are probably a couple of other equally important shortcomings with the display capabilities of these machines.It's really kind of cloak and dagger.Some of the youngsters here along the mighty Tomifobia had some spare time after studying the department’s newly revamped science courses emphasizing the hi tech specialties ni Quebec (Textiles, Hydro, Asbestos, Forestry produels, etc).They had been talking to some of their friends at schools right across the border and locally at Stanstead College, where computers have been in the classrooms for years These students were telling the local kids that it's really fun to learn about programming, the various computer languages, Boolian Algebra.etc Our local gang got so excited that they borrowed a computer magazine from one of their American friends and saw advertisements for real computers costing only some $10.They got together, sold some Mol-sons bottles and ordered one of the machines.When I last saw them, they had the computer in a seldom used chicken coop in the back of one of their dad's barns After school, a whole gang of teenagers was hanging around the farm, ostensibly helping their Iriend with chores Really, they were taking turns learning ' Basie” and the fundamentals of “machine language They made me promise not to identify the location ot this secret piece of technology because, of course, the machine operates in the forbidden language and the kids were afraid of being raided by the Commission de surveillance de la langue française I wonder, do they burn computers?By the way.in what was probably a totally unrelated event, did you notice that the Royal Bank has announced that they are shifting another 1H() computer jobs from Quebec to its Toronto office?Regards, Chick 6 Was it gun law in the guise of law enforcement?’ The following is reprinted from theLon-don Times of Saturday December 24, 1982 — the same day residents of Sherbrooke became aware that something startlingly similar had taken place in Hock Forest the day before.It is interesting because of the similarities and, since British judgments can be used as jurisprudence in Canadian cases, it may come up here in the future: Earls Court, London, January 14, 1983, six o’clock in the evening.The scene is still vividly remembered.A yellow Mini is stationary in a rush hour traffic jam.It is approached by ; man in a blue anorak with a revolver in his hand.There are shots Two other armed men join the fray.The driver, five bullets in his body and beaten about the head with a revolver to within an inch of his life, lies half in half out of the car.The men with guns are policemen.Their victim is the wrong man, no firearm in his possession or his car.The policemen were exposed to danger in pursuit of a criminal who had escaped from custody.He had shot and wounded a policemen when previously arrested.The policemen were trailing a girl with whom the criminal was keeping company.Once of her companions in the car was thought to bear a resemblance to the criminal.When the car was caught in the traffic one of the policemen from a following vehicle was sent forward to investigate.That shooting in a crowded tho- roughfare and the fearful and almost fatal mistake of identity deeply shocked the public.Had the criminality of modern urban society really come to this?Was it gun law in the guise of law enforcement?Two of the three policemen who had used their weapons were charged with attempted murder and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.Their defence to all charges was that of self-defence, the use of a degree of force that was necessary in the extremity if they were to protect their own lives.They were acquitted.Though the acquittal was not to be questioned, there was lay concern at the judge’s exposition of the law in the course of his summing up.His doctrine of the preemptive strike in self defence appeared to confer an alarming licence on armed policemen to use their guns, not to mention the wider application of the doctrine beyond the police force (for in these matters the rights of the policeman are the rights of the citizen).Cleared of criminal charges, the three detective constables who had fired at the driver of the Mini remained exposed to possible disciplinary charges.A disciplinary investigation was duly carried out by the Metropolitan Police and it was concluded that charges should not be preferred, either because of insufficient evidence or because the charges would be of a kind precluded by the Police Act.DOUBLE JEOPARDY The rule of double jeopardy, the rule that no one shall stand trial twice on the same charge, applies to the police disciplinary code when criminal charges have already been preferred.It is the rule, quite rightly, that a police officer who has been brought before the courts on a criminal charge should not, whether acquitted or convicted, thereafter be charged with a disciplinary offence which is in substance the same.The criminal trial had taken care of assault and the use of excessive force.Those issues, which were the main issues, could not be retried in the context of disciplinary proceedings.The criminal trial had however brought to light several prima-facie breaches of police standing orders or instances of disobedience.In particular, the first detective constable to approach the Mini had been sent forward to make an identification of the suspected man, not to make an arrest.There was evidence that in drawing his gun when he did he was in contravention of police regulations.There was also evidence that he shot at — he certainly hit — the tyres of the car, also contrary to in-tructions ; and evidence that he failed — though he may have tried — to give an audible warning shout, as required.These were apparent breaches of discipline quite distinct from the burden of the earlier criminal charges.Yet the Police Complaints Board agreed with the two senior officers of the Metropolitan Police that they should not be made the subject of disciplinary charges.Their reasoning, especially in the case of the allegedly premature drawing of the revolver (that the matter had been gone into at the trial in relation to self-defence), is hard to accept.The breaches of the rules, if that is what they were, may in themselves have been minor, but they contributed to a ghastly misadventure.It is surprising that, it has not been thought proper to make them the subject of a disciplinary hearing.NO ONE TAKES THE RAP The upshot is that no one high or low takes the rap for a bungled operation of almost fatal consequence which gave the public of London cause for alarm that the Chicago of their imagination had been brought to the streets of their city.No individual responsibility has been fixed, except what is implied by the permanent removal of those three detective constables from the roll of police officers authorized to carry guns.It is more important that the right lessons should be learned from an incident of this kind than that the right people should be blamed.And the Metropolitan Police and Home Office are evidently seeking to profit from those lessons, especially as they affect selection and training of for elegibility to carry firearms.But it is not unimportant either that responsibility is fixed and borne with human endeavour goes so badly wrong.r 00 NOT CMUOS COUHCIL &tAnr.Ill U3- I Murder rate takes jump in Maritimes HALIFAX (CP) — It’s been a grim month in the Maritimes and for reasons that have nothing to do with a winter that’s starting to wear out its welcome.As most of the region lies bare or bland without the prettying influence of new snow, Maritimers are reading and hearing about a rash of murder trials and violent deaths — tragedies connected by their morbid domination of the headlines and newscasts.It’s been enough to raise eyebrows among criminologists, but has led to no new conclusions or theories, except that this could be one of those oddball years when the murder rate takes a jump.The cases have, however, adhered to one of the few clear patterns in down-East violence — that it occurs most often among relatives, friends, neighbors and lovers.So far this year, seven people have been slain in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and charges have been laid in each case.There areusually about 12 or 13 murders a year in each province.The hideous discovery of two mutilated bodies at a dump outside Saint John, the killing of a mother and two of her sons outside Halifax, the discovery of a woman’s ' body under the floorboards of a house in northern New Brunswick and the beating death of a man on a roadside in northern Nova Scotia have all happened over the course of five or six weeks.Coupled with more than a dozen other trials now in the news from killings last fall, the refrain that the East is a safe place to live may sound strained.REMAINS SAFE But it is safe, criminologists say, though it’s of no comfort to grieving families whose own cases proved to be exceptions to the rule.Murder rates in the Atlantic provinces are the lowest in the country and the incidence of all violent crime remains significantly below the national average.Rates in the Western provinces are the highest, reaching 3.73 murders per 100,000 people in British Columbia compared to 1.98 in Ontario, 2.79 in Quebec.1.17 in Nova Scotia and a low of .68 in Newfoundland.That was .in 1981, when the 599 murders in Canada made up a national rate of 2.48 murders per 100,000.When going down the right corridor is significant Magog resident Daniel Latouche is one of the few Québec political scientists with the respect of all sides in the constitutional debate.His avid listeners vary from the members of the Pépin Robarts Task Force of National Unity — who used many of his ideas in its final report in 1978 — to Quebec Premier René Lévesque, who hired him as a full-time consultant for two years.Following is a look at some of La-touche's recent work: My Michael McDevitt MONTREAL — A McGill University political science professor has described the political offices of western leaders as “organizational cultures” with their own sets of symbols, gestures, feelings and arti facts which set them apart from other organizational models, and says that a lack of hierarchical structure has tended to make them cumbersome, inefficient and often counter-productive.Daniel Latouche is an associate professor at McGill’s Centre d'Etudes Canadiennes Françaises, and served for two years as a political advisor in the office of Québec Prime Minister René Lévesque, where he first became interested in the phenomenon he describes.In a recent article, The Organizational Culture of Government: Myths, Symbols and Rituals in a Québécois Setting.Latouche says this trait of political staffs is an important one, and with the ever increasing size and influence of such offices, is one (hat warrants much further study.Latouche says that while the “culture" syndrome he refers to is very much in evidence in the Québec premier’s office, research has indicated (hat it is a phenomenon present in nearly all western democracies, particularly the United States."The problem, if it can be referred to as such." Latouche says, "exists nearly eve- Michael McDevitt rywhere, and may be inevitable.” According to Latouche, the very nature of political jobs in government makes for a special situation that must be dealt with psychologically so that some sort of structure at least appears to exist.“Gestures, sighs, emotions and ideas are elements of the daily life of political staffers," he says.“Not all of them have political significance, but all take place in a political context which is sufficient to provide them with such significance.When to walk in a given corridor can have important consequences.” COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TENDENCY Latouche says the lack of a specific job description and the nature of the work that actually does get done contributes to a counterproductive tendency in political offices as staffers must constantly be on the look-out for obscure signs and symbols of their position in the organization.Influence and power, being the only visible rewards for hierarchical privilege, La- touche says, then become the current,.* the entire organization.Because of the importance of the boss (president, prime minister, etc.) as the one absolute in a political staff, access and proximity to his person are often crucial indicators of an individual’s position in the hierarchy, and the transient nature of such ‘symbols’ makes a constant re-evaluation of his position a permanent pre-occupation of the political staff member.The very size and complexity of the organization surrounding the leader, however, ironically reduces his ability to make important decisions.He increasingly comes to depend on his subordinates in cabinet, who are also surrounded by similar political staffs.Latouche points out that political science as a discipline has been lax at keeping up with the actual behavior of the political animal.He says that members of personal political staffs must now be recognized as the real “political professionals” rather than the practising politicians whose influence on government policy, he feels, is rapidly diminishing.The expanding role of government, the overabundance of information and an obsession with detail all contribute to the political professional’s increasing importance in political life.Latouche also mentions the ideals associated with political movements and the difficulty of transferring these to the practical level.He says political offices tend to amplify the mythologies of the societal culture within which they function, which can lead to disastrous psychological results should these ideals prove flawed or incorrect.Unlike most bureaucracies, he explains, the political organization makes no allowance for failure, since failure means a negation of the raison d'etre of the office — it’s political ideals.NO ROOM FOR DISAGREEMENT Political organizations, according to Latouche, alsoleave no room fordisagree-ment once policy has been decided, which again leads to confusion anti insecurity which must be countered by the symbols and attributes of power anti influence.Latouche says much of the perceived inefficiency of political staffs can be traced to the underlying tensions apparently inherent in the system, and says that unless a modus vivendi is established, chaos and paralysis can set in.He cites the example of American president Richard Nixon, whose lack of effective control over his political staff led to his forced retirement and the imprisonment of some staff members.Jimmy Carter, another example, is shown to have allowed confusion within his personal staff to achieve such levels as to necessitate a complete and thorough overhaul of his personnel.Latouche says that great political leaders have often been commended for their ability to use the insecurity of subordinates to get things done by playing them off against each other, but he emphasizes that the best examples of this in recent history, Franklin Roosevelt, for example, dealt with relatively small staffs made up of men of broadly-based experience and training who could handle a multitude of tasks.Modern political offices, like offices everywhere, are beginning to rely increasingly on specialists as the functions of government become more and more complex.Latouche says that problems associated with the ‘organizational culture’ model are beginning to be recognized by governments, and that steps are being taken to reduce both the size and the scope of personal political staffs.But he says the phenomenon itself appears to be here to stay, and may eventually come to play a significant role in the overall effectiveness of government.I l Living Thr KECOKU—Friday.February 24.1984—5 —___gyj «Beam Conference to make recommendations on paper, glass recycling On February 28 and 29, and March 1, 1984, an event will be held in Montreal that will influence consumers' behavior.It is the Sectorial Conference on paper and glass recovery and recycling.The Secrétariat des conférences socio-économiques du Québec has prepared the following text on the subject.By Guy O’Bomsawin In Québec, more than $40 million are thrown in the garbage can every year.What means will Québec society take to end the wasting?Late this February, 150 participants from some 30 sectors concerned with paper and glass recovery will submit realistic recommendations to stop the waste.They will meet for three days in Montréal from February 28 to March 1 as part of the Sectorial Conference on paper and glass recovery and recycling.They have been invited by the Québec government, through the minis- ter of the environment, Mr.Adrien Ouellette, because they are well aware of the situation and the need to act.The participants will try to reach an agreement on the actions to be taken.The following sectors will be represented at the conference: (The) recovery and recycling industries, producers, users, workers, educators, consumers, research scientists, municipalities, financial organizations and government agencies.In all, about 50 organizations and firms will have to express their views on a hundred or so recommendations about recovery operations, markets, research, public information and actions to be taken once the conference is over.In addition to the delegates from the Québec Ministry of the Environment, six other departments will send representatives to the conference.As they previously agreed, they will discuss, among other things, separate collection of paper and glass, proces- sing of recovered materials and supply of materials.More than one million tons of recyclable paper and glass are involved It means millions of cubic feet of wood and tons of expensive raw materials, which are partly renewable or non renewable.Eighty-six per cent of the paper produced in Québec is exported, thus not available for recycling.Considering the size of the net loss in forest this represents, it is imperative to find a way of recovering almost all the paper used in Québec.According to estimates made for the conference to be held at the end of this month, a consistent policy on paper and glass reuse should result in energy savings, a reduction in all forms of pollution, a reduction in costs of supplies and raw materials, conservation of natural resources, a diminution of the volume of waste and, consequently, of the cost of elimination.The goals of the conference are to increase and strengthen recovery and recycling operations, reduce the costs of elimination of waste, promote selective collection, lay the foundations of a recovery industry in Québec, and thereby reduce the waste of resources.Reinvestment in the economy of tens of millions of dollars, and the maintenance and creation of thousands of jobs are at stake in the recovery and recycling operations.This means an economy of millions of dollars in garbage collection taxes, the conservation of tens of millions of trees, a significant reduction in industrial and environmental pollution.We can therefore expect a dramatic increase in the useful life of landfill sites, incinerations and dumps.a) In order to save more than $40 million annually in Québec and create hundreds of jobs, it is imperative that every household do its part in the re covery and recycling processes, for example, not throwing away paper and glass but sending them to recove ry industries.b) One ton of w aste paper is generally worth between $50 and $60.Yet, tens of thousands of tons are thrown away annually, and at times it is even more expensive to burn or bury it.ci The benefits of recovery and recycling are numerous: conservation of forest resources; increase in the useful life of sanitary landfill sites; dramatic reduction in the quantity of domestic waste to be treated or eliminated, reduction in environmental pollution and creation of many jobs.Solution to waste focus of meeting More than one million tons of recyclable paper and glass will be the subject of the Sectorial Conference in Montreal February 2S, 29 and March 1.Brome Lake Carnival again a success About Brome Lake By Guy O’Bomsawin Québec is literally buried under a layer of paper and cardboard.Even if we produce six times what we use, we still throw away enough paper and cardboard every year to cover Highway 20 between Québec and Montréal three meters deep.Before processing, this layer of used paper and cardboard, for the most part reusable, represented a forest of 20 million trees.This volume could be slightly higher if 315,000 tons of this recyclable matter were not already being recovered.The cost of disposing of it ranges between $15 and $40 a ton, depending on whether it is buried or incinerated.It is important to find a solution to the problem of waste of natural resources and money.A ton of recovered paper and cardboard sells for about $55 to a recycling industry, slightly lowers pulp and paper production costs (mainly by reducing pollution, water consumption and industrial waste), and helps some producers save almost $250,000 a year.A solution to the problem of waste of money and natural resources is going to be the topic of the Montréal Conference on glass and paper recovery and recycling that will be held next week.The participants will represent the sectors of pulp and paper, forestry, recovery industries, municipalities and the Government of Québec.Although a step forward has already been taken, about 60 recovery in- dustries are scattered throughout Québec it is necessary to reach an agreement soon on the application of actions that will make recovery of a waste a real industry.Although it does not represent a big challenge, we still have to find solu tions to deal with the administrative, social, economic and technological restraints.This does not mean that a recovery policy cannot be systematically applied, with the help of business and the municipalities.First of all, it is important to determine who, administratively, should take charge of recovery of wastes.To achieve this, representatives of recovery and recycling industries will have to know what position the government holds on the subject.Is recovery going to be a priority?Will it receive subsidies?Will it be eligible for existing grants program?All these questions should be answered at the conference.Political and administative powers are not the only important factors: without individual participation in the recovery industry, it will never grow and be able to counter the phenomenal waste now taking place.To agree to a recovery policy is not enough.Everyone must participate, however simple tl , giving for example, only clean, plastic paper and cardboard (newspapers, magazines, catalogues, circulars, envelopes, letters.).It is impossible to recycle paper and cardboard when contaminated, because' it cannot be used to fabricate good quality products.Most of these contaminants are glue and other ma terial that soften when exposed to heat, plastics, synthetic fibers, metal, organic wastes (including food) and carbon paper.Not long ago.all that paper and cardboard was thought to be useless; but it is now used again, appearing in a new form not recognized by us until we read the label "recycled paper".The recovered paper is used to produce fireproof insulating material and tar paper; but is mainly reintroduced in the paper industry cycle.Because recycling is gaining popularity, the paper industry has to adapt technologically, and recovery industries have to develop the paper market inside and outside Québec.In Quebec, recovery is carried out mostly by pulp and paper industries, although other sectors like businesses, and industries, institutions and private homes are joining the club.Actually, Quebec recovers only 24% of its paper, compared to 46'’; in Japan and 43% in the Netherlands, the two leading countries in the field.It is believed that it is in countries where the state is interested in recovery and recycling programs that the best results are obtained.In Sweden, the state even obliges its citizens to collect used papers.When the Lac Brome Winter Carnival began six or seven years ago, the people who started it all wanted not only to provide a good-time winter holiday for tourists and townspeople alike, but it’s prime and stated purpose was to bring together the two social groups of our French and English speaking peoples, particularly in the Knowlton area.The carnival has been successful in continuing to achieve both these goals, but nowhere and at no time, as spectacularly well as the Monday night dinner at St.Edouard’s School.At this writing, most of the carnival events have not yet taken place so cannot be compared but the atmosphere that was created by the St.Edouard’s School Committee, the Katimavik volunteers and the school’s principal, Mrs.Pauline Quinlan was inspired.The school was alive from top to bottom.About 500 people arrived, some just for beer, some for dinner and wine, some to buy a card and trinket made by their child.The committee made over $2,000 and grade six will be off to visit Toronto on the profits.But that is not the reason it was a great evening.It was special because the people that were there all felt truly welcomed and at ease.It worked oecause teachers like John Parry and Doug Harvey from our English Anglican, priests and nuns, all on a par with parents and people for every walk of life, and they all helped make it work.The volunteers served everyone well, and without being dominating, they too helped make it all work.But the intangible ingredient that really made it special was that all these diverse adults, somewhere along the way, decided to trust each other.Just like the children do.• One of the most entertaining things about living in Brome Lake is the wide diversity in the background of those that choose to live here.This other night a friend asked a new acquaintance from England if he had met (fellow countryman) Hank Rotherham.They had indeed met, but was the friend aware that Hank was part of the crew that spotted the Bismark and radioed it’s location?"Amazing” said the Englishman, "and did you know that it was my uncle, on H.M.S.Hood that took the call”?All this in a Knowlton living-room 40 years later! • As you probably know by now, several people aged about 40 years were looking for The Record’s silver ingots that would finally be found at the Glen by Michael Holmes and many more had picked up the trail that led from Camlen Antiques to the Brome Lake Inn, to The Pub, to Rose La Tulipe, to The Loft, to Brome Auto and finally to the Glen where Dick Shay buried the $200 prize in the snow, and Michael Holmes, complete with Treasure Map, finally dug it up.One of the interesting sidelights that led Michael to this treasure was an “ad-lib” offhand remark to boost our local ski slopes by CJAD’s Joe Cannon.No one at CJ AD or The Record knew where the treasure was buried but Joe said to take a look on the slopes at Glen Mountain, meaning have a good day skiing.• Speaking of Dick Shay, the town has once again awarded him the concession at the Beach and Lions Park.These are always one-year contracts making it quite difficult for a small businessman to plan ahead.It would appear that 3-year contracts, with non-performance cancelation clauses would be better all the way round.Meanwhile, skiing at the Glen continues to be sensational: The ski programme worked out by the Glen for Knowlton Academy and Ecole St.Edouard’s has been working smoothly and if you have a child at one of these schools, the Glen now offers a mini-pass of 10 one-day tickets for only $25.00 or $2.50 per day.That’s an unheard of price and a fabulous opportunity for town of Brome Lake children.THE RED CROSS St.John Ambulance offers courses HAS COURSES + Tax Tips Your provincial government, in a continuing effort to better serve itself, has decided it’s going to make it more difficult for you to complaina bout your municipal tax evaluation in 1984.The authorities, (presumably the same ones who doubled and tripled your evaluations over the past few years) cannot understand why there are so many complaints, and have taken steps to make it harder for you to complain, by requiring a $20 deposit with every complaint on a property valued under $250,000.You then must proceed through small claims court, using special forms supplied by a kindly government official at the Court House.No one knows if you get your deposit back but then in a Québec governed by Lévesque what would you expect?At least some of that money is going back into our Township’s ski area, both Sutton (the ski hill) and Brome Lake (the road from the autor route to Knowlton) are scheduled for their share of provincial tax dollars.As just about everyone knows, tourism will either make or break the economy of this region.Ski hills, la ke access and roads are of the upmost importance to any possible future success.As a matter of fact, Camlen Antiques and Christmas Shop on Lakeside Road are having a sales bonanza due to the erratic ski conditions.One day everyone skis at Sutton or Glen, but then if its too icy, or too wet, many head off to the shops.They are looking for nice shops, and good restaurants, and in spite of a couple of very ugly new signs, they are beginning to find what they enjoy in Knowlton and of course in Sutton.And that’s an improvement because last year people walking around, eventually on a Sunday afternoon, could hardly find a cup of coffee.Speaking of coffee brings to mind the item given many years ago by a friend who loves coffee ! Space will not permit reprinting it now — look for it in the column for your enjoyment next month.Women’s Lib.Dept.One last note for your bulletin board.St.Paul’s Anglican Church in Knowlton will hold a special “Leap Year Luncheon” on the 29th of February between 11:30 and 1:30.Ladies, now is your chance to invite the man of your choice to a fine luncheon.It’s $6 a couple.“There is a place for you in the brigade” In 1984, the St.John Ambulance in the Eastern Townships has an objective of becoming more visual to the public.With this effort the local newspapers have given us the privilege of communicating with you.This way you will be able to read about us every two weeks.With the help of the Sherbrooke Record, we will be publishing every month a report on our activities and first aid tips that you will be able to use.This week we will be talking about the St.John Ambulance organization.The St.John Ambulance is the oldest order of knights in the world.Constituted at the end of the eleventh century, the order of St.John Ambulance persisted and continued to develop through the centuries, threw wars and crusades.Actually the St.John Ambulance is present in some 40 countries.Naturally their profession has been modified considerably down through the years, to adopting the one we now know of, such as the teaching and the distribution of first aid to the public.The St.John Ambulance is made up of three complementary sectors: The associa tion, the brigade, and the order of the St.John.The association assumes the responsibility for giving courses to the public which are confirmed programs established by the St.John Ambulance.They offer a variety of courses such as: emergency first aid, general first aid, advanced first aid, CPR courses, home health care, child care, health care for seniors, which are given to all different ages and professions such as: adults, young people, children, workers, police, firemen, and so on.The profits from these courses, in part, go to finance the organization.The St.John Ambulance brigade is made up of volunteer workers, men and women, who are qualified in first aid and in home health care.The bri \ V gade offers their first aid services where ever they are requested, such as in sports events, holiday celebrations, public gathering and disasters.In Québec the brigade consists of 5,000 members.In the summer of 1982, these volunteers gave 700,000 hours of free service.The order of St.John is an organization of great honour, which recognizes the merits of the persons who by the freeness and the quali ty of their services, have contributated to the advancement of the work of the St.John.This order of knights holds many levels of rank, such as, brother or sister servant, officers, commanders or dame, knight or grand cross dame.Here in Sherbrooke, there has been a regular division of the St.John Ambulance for 70 years and a ski patrol for 15 years.With in these two divisions there are 33 and 13 members.In the region these volunteer workers assure regular first aid services at hockey and baseball tournament, at the fe-rie de neige, at the Sherbrooke exhibition, at the sports palace for the spectators of the Jet hockey games and at all public gatherings where their services are requested.If you are interested in becoming a member of the St John Ambu lance there is a place for you in the brigade and all you have to do is to communicate with the superintendent of your local division; Jean Marie Croteau at 565-1457.We’ll see you in two weeks with more first aid tips and in one month with an article on the St.John ski patrol.Robert McDonald FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES The Old Tyme 4 Orchestra Door prizes Everyone welcome.DANCE Lennoxville Rifle Club Saturday, February 25 DANCE SALLE JEAN-PAUL, BURY Saturday, February Music Brian Lowry & The Country Kings Œlje tôolïien Uton |Duli INTRODUCES NIGHTLY SPECIALS AT THE BEST PRICES IN TOWN MON.—SPAGHETTI TUES.—BURGER NITE WED.—TEX-MEX FAVORITES THURS.—CHICKEN 'N RIBS FRI.—STEAK SAT.—PIZZA Served 5:00-8.00 p.m.Happy Hour — Mon., Tues., & Wed.5:30-7:00 2 College St.— Lennoxville — Tel.: 565-1015 TAKE OUT ORDERS AVAILABLE 4 4 4-4- i f I •4-4 ~4-4~-4-4—(¦• j ARCHITECTURE-ARTS ADMINISTRATION •CREATIVE WRITINO-DANCE ! FILM «MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORK* MUSIC-PERFORMANCE ART | PHOTOGRAPHY-THEATRE-VIDEO-VISUAL*ARTS - l.t.h T A.j l i ^ 6—Tîie KKC'OHI)—Friday, February 24, IMt Sports —____««I iscconi For the kids Come on now Steve.Kverybody knows you were the bis star a couple of years back when you won the World Cup Downhill Championship.And no one has forgotten how you were named Cana dian athlete of the year for it You were a big shot celebrity and, hey big guy.we still love ya.But where do you get off snubbing those nice people over at RJ R Macdonald Tobac co.Sure you don’t like the idea that they sell nasty cigarettes and wicked stuff like that but really now, come on, getting all puffed up about it and refusing to accept their trophy, well that’s just not cool.And Stevie baby, if you’re gonna snub 'em don’t just rub their noses in it and then turn around and pat them on the backs.Sure you won the Canadian Downhill Championship yet another time but if you don’t like their hardware don’t chum it up with those awful smokers at the party after If you don’t like what they sell kid, why did you get into their race in the first place?Oh.for the young racers' benefit.Well, excuse me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the kids would really care all that much if a top seed sat out and they had more chance to win 1 know getting older is tough on you buddy and coming up empty handed at the Games in the winter at Sarajevo was hard to swallow.Cosing your spot as Number One on the team to Todd and performing poorly this year over in Europe plays on the mind doesn’t it pal?Nobody floc ks up to you after races anymore do they?Tough stuff to stomach, right?Well cheer up buddy.Now that your retirement is just around the corner and you'll be out on the street looking for a job maybe the Canadian Championship’s old sponsor that nice multinational oil company that does so much for everyone — will have a job for you.But of course being the virtuous and moral kind of guy that you are with your anti-tobacco stance and all.you wouldn’t take a job from them would you?Naw.You don't have to.You can live on all that trust fund money you made peddling skis during post race interviews a couple of years back when you were a top-ranked amateur.Doin’ it for the kids, right pal?• The Expos have hardly stepped their deated shoes onto the field yet and already there’s a minicontroversy.Oakland A s North or what?Poor old Kid Carter has been quoted out of context, he says, concering remarks he made this weekabout newly arrived Pete Rose.If Gary says Pete can do the talking this year then that’s OK with me.Gary’s much better when he plays ball and leaves the talking to us.Carter's a good guy and everyone should just leave him alone and let him do what he does best — catch, handle pitchers and drive in runs.• Good luck to La Tribune’s former hockey writer Mario Goupil who’s taken on new responsibilities over at Sherbrooke's other newspaper.Mario has moved from a union job into a mangement position as right hand man to editor Jean Vigneault.Starting last Monday Mario became assigne-ment editor and if he does as good a job there as he has on the hockey beat during the past decade, the Trib stands to benefit.Bonne chance, my friend.Tu nous manqueras dans la boite de presse.Some good news This is one of those good news/bad news weeks.First the bad news! Danville was unsuccessful in its attempt to defend the Québec Challenge Cup against Ottawa Hunt last Sunday In the double rink, total-stones competition Danville lost by a total of nine rocks, Lockwood losing to Krepps 11-5, and Gillim losing to Thurlow 6-3.The Cup now goes to Ottawa where it will be defended.Albert Gillim acknowledged that the club had benefited from having the Cup and thanked all those who turned out for the games.It was fun while it lasted.Now the good news.Representing the Region do 1’Estrie in the finals of the Cinzano will be a Wind sor rink consisting of skip Tony Jones, third, Jim Mastine.second.Ronald Sundborg and lead.Alain Corriveau.This team won the local play-downs and will be off to Québec City for the finals to be held at the Jacques Cartier club March H I 1 On the ladies side of the draw there was only one entry so the Olivette Duheau rink of Asbestos will be accompanying the Windsor boys to Québec (well, not actually accompanying them you know what I mean.) Also on that team are Ann Hardy, Ginette Houle and France Sevigny.The Windsor Men’s spiel saw two Lennoxville rinks face off in the finals of the A event.Playing for the Crabtree Trophy were Ron Kelden.Mike Mooney, Archie Quick and Doug McNab against Lloyd Humbert, Paul Connelly, Bruce Neil and Roger Labbc.The final score was 8-5 for the Bel den foursome.The Brehaut Trophy for the second event was won by Danville entry skipped by Alan Lodge Also on the squad were Albert Gillim.Louis Sieve Podborski.Smokes and skis don't Habs lose third straight as Jets take first at Forum By Terry Scott MONTREAL (CP) — Thomas Steen snapped a tie with his 15th goal at 17:42of the second period and Winnipeg Jets went on to their first-ever National Hockey League victory at the Forum, boating Montreal Canadiens 5-3 on Thursday night.The Jets, who have only beaten Montreal three times in 17 games the last time was in March, 1981 had lost seven straight at the Forum.But they jumped on Montreal’s mistakes and were helped by the solid goaltending of Doug Soe-taert, who made 24 saves, to add another negative to the Canadiens’ ledger the 15 defeats they have suffered at home are the most in fhe team’s history for a single season.Moe Mantha and Robert Picard.the former Montreal defen ceman, staked the Jets to a 2 0 lead in the opening period But the Canadiens rebounded in the second, getting two goals from Chris Nilan, his 14th and 15th, and another by Bobby Smith, which combined with Paul MacLean’s 31st goal for Winnipeg, left the teams in a 3-3 tie until Steen fired what proved to be the winner.The Canadiens didn’t help themselves in the third period by having to play short-handed for five minutes starting at 6:12, when John Chabot received a ma- jor penalty for spearing Tim Wat fers.It was after Chabot returned, however, that the Jets added their fifth goal.Lucien Deblois tapped in his own rebound past goaltender Rick Wamsley at 13:17 after defenceman Ric Nat-tress failed to tie him up in the crease.The Canadiens, already without the injured Mark Hunter and Rick Green, lost forward Ryan Walter with a twisted left knee in the first period.Nilan and Guy Carbonneau were the catalysts in a second-period resurgence by the Canadiens, who overcame a 3-1 deficit, only to have their efforts dampe- ned by Steen’s goal — a partially screened shot that handcuffed Wamsley on his right-hand side at 17:42— which provided Winnipeg with a 4-3 margin.The goal was especially disheartening for the Canadiens because they had held the Jets to only four shots in the period.• NEW YORK (AP) — Barry Beck scored a short-handed goal late in the first period and set up two goals by Mark Osborne — the first one just eight seconds into the second period —as New York Rangers defeated Quebec Nordiques 4-2 in National Hockey League action Thursday night.Osborne added an insurance goal with 1:08 left in the game after Quebec had cut a three-goal deficit to 3-2 on goals by brothers Peter and Anton Stastny.Rangers Rob McClanahan started the scoring at 6:37 of the opening period when Nick Fotiu’s pass hit the stick of Quebec defenceman Normand Rochefort and deflected to McClanahan, who stuffed a short shot past Nordiques goalie Clint Malarchuk.Beck made it 2-0 at 16:48 with the Nordiques on a power play.Rangers goalie Glen Hanlon blocked a Quebec shot and Mikko Leinonen fed Beck for a breakaway.Hanlon, who stopped 36 of 38 shots, picked up an assist on the play.Triathlon back in Waterloo WATERLOO — Waterloo will he holding its team triathlon race again and this year the loafers are going to be treated as well as the athletes.It 's oriented more to the spectators than anything else,” said Gilles Decelles, president of the race scheduled for Sunday, June 17.“We re going to make sure the athletes go past them as often as possible and with the best view.” The race, in its second year, is put on by the Club Sportif et Culturel de Waterloo Inc.The athletes in question come in teams of four people made up of a runner, a biker and tw'o ca-noers, travelling 7.5, 26 and 5 km respectively in a relay race.Decelles said the spectators will be able to see every relay exchange.The course winds in and out of Waterloo and the final leg is on Lake Waterloo.“The course is well worked for safety," Decelles said.“All the intersections will be controlled and medical staff will be on hand." There are various categories for the racers, from open men’s and women’s to an “originality" class with a prize for the most original team uniform.Several top-class athletes will be competing, including Johanne Lavoie, whose team won last year, and Guy Thi- bault, who won the foot race.Organizers also hope to have a team from the Montreal Canadiens in the race.The triathlon is run on a Sunday but the whole weekend is filled with dances, dinners and different kinds of races.On Friday, June 15 there is an improvisation contest with prizes, followed by a country dance.On Saturday there is going to be a “bicy-cross” race for kids aged 6 to 12 years.For the uninitiated, “bicy-cross” is an off-road race on those new-fangled bicycles that came out a few years back and look like motor-bikes without motors.Awards will be presented to the winners and then everybody — ranch! — off to the Bavarian dance.On Sunday, the gun for the big race goes off at noon, and the awards will be handed out at 5 p.m.The whole weekend is designed to be a chance to relax, get together with friends, and, for the courageous, compete as part of a team in a unique race.The courageous will also have the opportunity to compare their times with some of the best athletes in Québec, and with members of the Habs.too.For more information call (514) 539-3850.See you in W aterloo.B.C.retains curling lead — barely WINNIPEG (CP) British Columbia maintained its lead at the Canadian junior men’s curling championship Thursday, but once again it took nifty shot-making by skip Rob Houston to keep the Vernon team ahead of the pack.Houston, who came through under pressure in the late stages of Wednesday’s two rounds to spark B.C.to victories over Prince Edward Island and Ontario, raised his record to 8-1 in the ninth round with a 7-4 win over Andrew Buckle of Saint John, N.B.Houston, one of the quietest skips on the ice, took a 5-2 lead over New Brunswick with three on the sixth end.The poised 18-year-old scored those points with a last-rock takeout.B.C.increased its lead to7-3 when Houston was good on a last-rock double takeout for two in the eighth end.Then, in the l()th and final end, with Buckle trailing 7-4 and threatening to tie the score, Houston made a difficult double with his first stone to run New Brunswick out of rocks.Dave Stephenson, the B.C.third, said Houston has pulled the team out of trouble a number of times in the round-robin portion of the week-long bonspiel, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola Canada Ltd.“He’s a good curler,” Stephenson said.“He plays with confidence.“And, as long as we get behind him and give him a little support, he plays well.” With two draws remaining, defending cham- pion Jamie Schneider of Kronau, Sask., and Manitoba’s Bob Ursel of Winnipeg were right behind B.C., both with 7-2 records.Manitoba and Saskatchewan were scheduled to meet in the 11th and final round this morning.ONTARIO CLOSE Ontario’s Steve Hartley of Thornhill was next with a 6-3 record.At 5-4 was Kevin Park, who directs the Alberta team from Edmonton while playing from the third position.At 4-5 were Danny Bentley of Truro, N.S., Jean-Pierre Croteau of Gatineau, Que., and Frank O’Driscoll of St.John's, Nfld.Northern Ontario’s Rob Shall of Copper Cliff was 3-6, followed by New Brunswick, Alan Brown of Charlottetown and the Territories’ Derek Elkin from Yellowknife, all with 2-7 records.The top three teams qualify for the playoffs, with the leading team at the end of round-robin play earning a bye into the final Saturday.In other key ninth-round games at the Assini-boine Memorial Curling Club, Saskatchewan stole three in the ninth end to beat Newfoundland 9-3, Manitoba scored two in each of the seventh and eighth ends for an 8-5 win over Quebec and Ontario counted three in the seventh to defeat Northern Ontario 7-5.Alberta won its fifth game with a 5-3 decision over the Territories and Nova Scotia stole one in the 10th for a 5-4 win over P.E.I.to complete ninth-round action.and bad news concerning ET rinks Skip it BY CAROLINE THIBODEAU Fowler and Paul Marchand They defeated a North Hatley group skipped by John Johnston.Windsor will be a busy club this coming weekend as 16 junior teams hit town for the Junior Invitation Mixed Bonspiel.Teams from North Hatley, Sherbrooke, Windsor, Mt.Bruno, Asbestos, Danville, Sutton, St Lambert and the Border are entered for the games which will be going on from Friday to Sunday with the finals at 3 p.m.Sunday There will be a free luncheon for all players, coaches or drivers on Saturday.Entries for the Doug Washer competition close on Friday the24th.This is the Branch championship for Junior Men.The finals will bo held at Bel Aire on Mar 24-25.Our local playdowns will be held on Mar m at the Sherbrooke Curling Club and Mar.11 at Asbestos.Get your entries to Ron Relden or Jim Mastine The Branch Colts for men who have been but gained a great deal of experience since it was the first out of town spiel for this team.Brian Smeltzer.the ubiquitous skip from Bishop’s, North Hatley or Windsor (this time from North Hatley) fared a little better getting to the semis of the consolation before he was defeated.The North Hatley Men’s will be winding up on Saturday night with finals, festivities, etc.Coming up arc the following spiels: Magog Men’s, Feb.26 Mar.3, Danville Invitation Mixed, Mar.4-10, Border Men’s, Mar.4-10 and the North Hatley Junior Spiel on Mar.3 and 4.Also, don’t forget the North Hatley Senior Bonspiel on Mar.8,9, and 10.Lennoxville is hosting the ladies in the annual Mardi Gras Bonspiel this week with the finals on Saturday night.Curling on television starts this coming Saturday on Sportsweekend (CBC) with Junior Men, followed next week by the Scott Tournament of Hearts for the Canadian Ladies curling title.Check the TV section for times.Spring must be here— I just received a listing of the Québec Golf events for 1984— the only local tourney is the Quebec Amateur which will be held again this year at Asbestos.Good curling everyone! curling five years or less will he held at Thistle on Mar.24-25.The local playdowns are scheduled for the Laurier Club in Victoriaville from Mar.2-4.The entries close on Friday, Feb.24 and can be sent to Michel Corbeil (Asbestos) or Fred Roffey (Sherbrooke).In the results of the Teen Mixed, the rink from Victoriaville unfortunately lost all three games help youngsters BECOMt ¦ RSD YOUNG Aici^ss ADULIsTïM 267-2666 TILDEN CAR «NIAI l MOVING TRUCKS WEEKEND SPECIALS CHRYSLER VEHICLES VAL ESTHII Podborski tops downhill then butts sponsors out ROSSLAND, B.C.(CP) — Steve Podborski successfully defended his Canadian downhill ski championship Thursday and then shocked race sponsors by refusing to accept the Export A’ Cup.Podborski was presented with the first-place medal by the Canadian Ski Association in post-race ceremonies at Granite Mountain.“My feeling all along is that I don’t want to be associated with a tobacco company,” said Podborski, 26, of Toronto.“I’ve compromised my position by coming here for the young guys.“I think the part that’s important is the on-hill part, going up the hill and making the run.I’ve done that and that’s as far as I have to go.” RJR-Macdonald Tobacco assumed sponsorship of the major Canadian ski championships this winter following a long association between Shell of Canada and the ski association.“As far as I’m concerned, Steve is a real pro because he’s lived up to his commitment by being here,” said Jeffrey Goodman, director of public affairs for the cigarette company.“It couldn’t have worked out better for us.” Podborski won his second Canadian downhill title with a time of one minute, 54.94 seconds on a course slowed by 20 centimetres of overnight snow.The start was delayed one hour while packers worked on the course.CAME SECOND Felix Belczyk of Cranbrook, B.C., who had the best training run time Tuesday, finished second in 1:55.73 and Robin MacLeish of Kanata, Ont., was third in 1:55.89.Home-course racer Donald Stevens, who led Wednesday’s training run, finished fourth in 1:56.57, followed by Barry Warner of St.Donat, Que., in 1:56.66.Todd Brooker of Paris, Ont., who finished ninth in the Olympics a week carier, one placing behind Podborski, tied for sixth place with Chris Kent of Calgary in 1:56.71.Podborski admitted being tired following the Olympic competition at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.He said he decided not to accept the Cup before he raced.“You don’t really plan on winning a race, but I decided this morning I couldn’t possibly take the Cup because it goes against my feelings on the situation,” he said.“I have a moral obligation to the racers and I’ve lived up to that.“The people from RJR-Macdonald have been really good about it.We talked about it and they’re just going to roll with it because we all like each other.” Podborski was generally pleased with his run and was clocked at 136 kilometres an hour through the fast Indian Flats area of the course, about four kilometres faster than the other top racers.“I was a bit hard on my edges in a few spots because the course was so soft,” Podborski said.“The people preparing the course did a good job, considering how much snow we got last night.” Belczyk, 22, said he made a major error on a turn near the top of the course which probably cost him the race.“I got really wide there, but other than that I had a really good run,” said Belczyk, who started ninth compared to fourth for Podborski.“The course was pretty rough for the number of racers that had gone down ” Brooker, 24, also said he was tired after returning from Europe last weekend.“I really wasn’t with it; I still feel like I’m on a plane somewhere,” Brooker said.“I didn’t have any good training runs and when I don’t train well I usually don’t race well.” Stevens, 21, said he had several rough turns which cost him valuable time.Haight knocks off favored Sorensen STE-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRE, Que.(CP) — Diana Haight of Fruitvale, B.C., upset favored Gerry Sorensen and Laurie Graham on Thursday to win the Canadian women’s downhill ski title and the Export A Cup.Haight, 19, recorded a winning time of one minute 28.96 seconds, while Sorensen of Kimberley, B.C., ranked as Canada’s top downhiller, placed second with a time of 1:29.36.Graham of Inglewood, Ont., finished third in 1:29.42.Haight, whose career with Canada’s national team has been plagued by injuries ôver the last three seasons, admitted to being surprised by her victory.‘ ‘ I thought I had a chance for the top three, but to win was a big surprise to me,” she said.“To be the best in Canada today is very exciting for me because we have such an excellent downhill team.“In my practice runs my times were not that good,” she added.“But I was consistent on the course today.“I stayed on my line and I felt better than I had all week.Also, starting 14th made things a little easier for me because I knew more about the conditions on the course than the people who raced earlier.” INJURED KNEE After an excellent season in 1980-81, when she won the overall title of the Europa Cup as a 16-year-old, Haight tore knee ligaments that required surgery the following season and then broke her left leg and tore ligaments , in her left ankle at a World Cup race in : Val dTsere, France, in December , 1982.“Physically, I’m strong now,” she said, “But mentally, it has taken a little longer for me to come back.“That’s why I’m so happy with my performance today.” Members of Canada’s national women’s Alpine team dominated the top 10 placings, taking the first seven spots.Following Graham in fourth place was Karen Stemmleof Kettleby, Ont., who recorded a time of 1:30.62; Ker-rin Lee, Rossland, B.C., fifth in 1:30.99; Karen Percy of Banff, Alta., sixth in 1.31.01 ; and Liisa Savijarvi of Bracebridge, Ont., seventh in 1:31.05.Belanger Hebert COMPTABLES AGREES NOW IN SUTTON to serve you better.Some of the available services: — Commercial audit — Management — Public Institution audit — Data processing Business evaluation — Taxation — Real estate assessment — Subsidies — Eslafe planning — Human ressources — Accounting services consultants 29, North Principal?street, Sutton, Quebec 538-3256 Please contact Ron Frizzle, director of the Sutton branch.SUTTON SHERBROOKE IAC MÊOANTIC ASBFSTOS COWANSVIU1.i ( t i 4 Sports Thi* RECORD—Friday.February 2».I9HI—7 —__ Kama Outdoors-w1 r'\ BY REAL HEBERT A.S.U.C.-Q.U.A.A.Team F League W L PF PA Ttl McGill 9 8 1 708 589 16 Concordia 9 5 4 676 684 10 Bishop’s 9 4 5 613 621 8 U.Q.T It 9 1 8 573 664 2 Name School Scoring P FG FT Pts Av* Craig Norman Concordia 9 85/153 33/44 203 22.6 Nick Van Herk Bishop's 9 80/139 21/29 181 20.1 Daniel Dufort U.Q.T R.9 74/142 30/59 178 19 8 Carlo Del Bosco McGill 9 73/115 26/36 172 19.1 Dominic Forest U.Q.T.R.9 62/121 28/40 152 16.9 Simon Onabowale McGill 8 57/ 98 32/42 146 16.2 Name Rebounds School F DR OF Ttl Avg Neil Walker Concordia 9 67 33 100 11 1 Nick Van Herk Bishop’s 9 56 41 97 10.8 Daniel Dufort U.Q T R 9 66 25 91 10.1 Simon Onabowale McGill 9 60 22 82 9.1 Alan Chestanet Bishop’s 9 41 40 81 9.0 Craig Norman Concordia 9 47 15 62 6.9 Canada headed in the right direction after Games Even wilder sex?In 1974 the Ministry of Recreation, Fish and Game put into effect the law that only male deer, or bucks, could be hunted in all zones that permitted deer hunting in the province of Québec.Obviously the major goal of this law was to better our deer herds which were in a precarious state.As we know the ‘buck law’ has been in effect in the state of Vermont for many years and we realize that it can produce bad results such as the degeneration of the species.Also a surplus of the females reach the sterility age and continue to consume a large portion of the food which is sometimes limited especially in the winter season.Often it is the young that are the victims.I’ve often wondered whether the buck law was the ideal solution to increase our deer herds.Some time ago I read in an American magazine an article on this subject which answered my question.The article was by internationally known Lee Wulff and it interested me so much that I’ve decided to reproduce it in it’s entirity here in this column.I won’t comment on it but will let you draw your own conclusions.The author titled the article ‘Wild Sex’.It sounds like the title for an X-rated movie.Instead it’s a serious wildlife management problem.Sex is sometimes used as a management tool.How well it works is open to question.Whenever man “monkeys” with Nature he has to be careful.Too often we barge ahead, using domestic animal techniques as a guide.There can be disastrous result.Because we find that we can raise cattle with a few bulls for a lot of cows, we try the same techniques with our whitetail deer.In the process we forget a few things.We forget, for instance, that in cattle raising we go to great lengths to get the finest possible bulls to sire our calves.But in killing bucks, we automatically eliminate the finest breeding bucks because we kill the ones with the biggest antlers.Under our buck-only system it is the smallhorned, smaller bucks that survive to do the breeding.A buck-only law will work well only when a small percentage of the herd is killed.As soon as heavy hunting pressure develops, the number of bucks in the herd is reduced to one in ten or less as a preferred breeding ratio.Then it becomes impossible to utilize the new crop each year, by killing only bucks.With domestic animals, we kill regardless of sex.By using sex as a tool with wildlife we change the male character and with it the character of the species.In contrast the Europeans, who have been managing wildlife for centuries, are very careful to let their biggest and best bucks live for breeding.Sentiment comes into play, too.We, as humans, feel that the males should die first and the females and young of a species should be the last to die.yet that has never been Nature’s way.We have similar management problems with ring-necked pheasants, where the gaudy cock birds are easily recognized and where we also manage by sex.The obvious and simple conclusion is to leave sexual management to God and Nature.Since we don’t have such problems with rabbits, quail, and doves, (where we can’t tell one sex from another) why not let males be males, and females be females, as Nature intended.It is today at Place Bonaventure in Montreal that the Salon Nautique 1984 opens to continue until March 4.Each year thousands of people visit the many exhibits which feature pleasure boats of all kinds.All tastes and pocketbooks can be satisfied.If water sports interest you then the Salon Nautique is a place you should visit Scoreboard PLAY-OFF FINALS 3 out of 5 02/20/84 Manoir Waterville 1 vs.L'Envrillon 02/22/84 L Emerillon 1 vs.Manoir Waterville MEN'S BASKETBALL STATISTICS As of February 17, 1984 By Grant Kerr THE CANADIAN PRESS The bottom line of the hockey competition at the Winter Olympic Games is that Canadians shouldn’t have expected a medal performance from young players thrown together as a team six months ago.The reason Canada didn’t score a goal in its last three games against Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Sweden in the medal round is simple — their opponents have played together as teams much longer than the Canadians.Canada’s young players — live are still teenagers — gave a valiant effort against stacked odds.The fact that Canada won four games before the medal round is a remarkable acomplishment considering the circumstances.Just think of the increased sco- ring punch Canada would have had with players like Sylvain Turgeon, Steve Yzerman, Ron Sutter, Tony Tanti and Dave Andreychuk in the lineup.These outstanding young forwards are playing in the Na tional Hockey League this season.They might have made the difference against teams like Czechoslovakia and Sweden.BACKBONE OF TEAM There were several noteworthy performances by the Canadian players, led by goaltender Mario Gosselin, in the Olympics.The 20-year-old from Thetford Mines, was the backbone of the team and should be a solid professional for the NHL’s Quebec Nordiques.The Canadian defence also was more than respectable, anchored by the leadership of James Patrick, 20, of Winnipeg.The son of former football player Steve Patrick played every second shift in a high-speed game that demands top conditioning and mental discipline.Another strong performer on the backline was Doug Lidster, 23, of Kamloops, B.C.Lidster played almost as much as Pa trick, and with nearly equal skill offensively.Patrick was the No.1 draft choice of New York Rangers in 1981, and the NHL team has patiently waited for Patrick to complete his Olympic odyssey.Patrick may be burned out, however.and he wants time to reflect upon his immediate future.Canada’s lack of depth on the forward lines was accentuated by the use of defencemen like Kevin Dineen and J J.Daigneault up front.Carey Wilson and Pat Fla-tley, playing on a line with Darren Lowe, were the only consistent scoring threats.Wilson, 21, of Winnipeg plans to join Calgary Flames, while Fla tley, 20, of Toronto goes to New York after the Islanders made him their No 1 draft selection in 1982.HAVE TALENT Some of the youngest players — Kirk Muller of Kingston.Ont., Daigneault of Montreal, Craig Redmond of Langley, B.C .Russ Courtnall of Duncan, B.C., and Dave Gagner of Chatham.Ont , all 18— have the talent to be great players.Gagner and Courtnall have already been drafted.Gagner by the Rangers and Courtnall by Toronto Maple Leafs, in 1983.Muller.Daigneault and Redmond are considered sure-fire first roun ders this June.It's probably wishful thinking, but the teenagers from the team would provide a solid base from which to build the 1988 team for the Calgary Olympics.It would take some long-range planning by Hockey Canada and big dollars in the form of trust funds for the players, but it's the only sensible approach to the Calgary Olympics if Canada is to move into medal status under Olympic eligibility rules.Canadian coach Dave King performed a minor miracle in taking the 1984 team to fourth place, considering the way he had to scramble for players in the face of NHL competition for talent King has proved he can motivate and orchestrate a team at the international level He now deserves the opportunity of working with the best young players in the land in a four year plan to bring Canada back to the top of international hockey.Knowlton 5-k record smashed Jackass KNOWLTON — Manuel Salvati and Cindy New came from afar to show us local yokels how Sunday, shattering the male and female Carnival du Lac Brome course records by about a minute and a half apiece.Billed a five-kilometre event, the Carnival race is actually two-tenths of a mile short, having commenced in the early 1960s as a three-miler, back before metric.The old course record of 16:03 by Sandy Lenz had stood since 1968, challenged only by Michel Lemire’s 16:05 last year.But balmy 50-degree weather and an ice-free route helped doom all records this year.Salvati and New did the rest.Barely past his 20th birthday, Salvati lost the field in 14:50, a minute and 13 seconds faster than Lenz ran.A member of the Guelph University track team, also running for the Runners’ Choice team sponsored by Brooks Shoes.Salvati arrived as protégé of former Knowlton speedster Neil Irwin, who sat this one out.Salvati specializes in short distances.His best 10-kilometre time was 30:43, two years ago.New, strikingly beautiful as well as fast, is the newest star on the Québec marathon scene, with recent times of 2:52 in Ottawa, 2:49 in Philadelphia.She’s rated an outside shot of qualifying for the Olympics, by beating out one of the Pontuous twins or possibly former Fre-lighsburg star Lizanne Bussiéres at this year’s Ottawa marathon.Her 17:00 at Knowltoneelip-sed the record set last year by Manon Robert.New’s home is Westmount.but she frequently competes in the Townships.Defending champion Lemire settled for se cond overall in 16:18, edging Wendell Hughes, who made a futile attempt to catch Salvati during the first two kilometres before falling back to 16:22 — good enough to win Knowlton in some previous years.Jacques Tremblay of South Stukely charged home fourth in 16:29, but didn't even get a placement medal because Salvati, Lemire, and Hughes are all in the same division.The long-awaited first showdown between Brome-Missisquoi female champion Louise St.Onge and Ayer’s Cliff champ Johanne Brus was postponed because the latter recently tore a tendon in her foot.She tried to run a little during pre-race warm-ups, but felt unable to give St.Onge a battle.The two have clocked extremely similar times over the past year while dominating local competition in their respective regions.All the winners: Male, 19 and under: Kevin Ryan, Magog, 17:35; Allen McWilliam, Knowlton, youngest male participant, 20:30.Female, 19 and under : Michaela Ryan, Magog, making it a family affair at 23:31; Philippa Ann Cummings, Foster, youngest female, 26:27.Male, 20-29: Salvati, Lemire (Granby), Hughes (Richmond.) by Merritt Clifton Female.20-29: New; St.Onge (Cowansville), 20:32; Sylvie Baily, Ayer’s Cliff, 23:13.Male, 30-39: Alden Peasley, Knowlton, 16:43; Roger Page, Knowlton, 16:47; Luc Car-tier, St.Hughes, 17:26.Female.30-39: Dorothy Ross, Cowansville, 24:10; Margaret Badger, Knowlton.24:29: Joan Highfield, Brome.26:15.Male, 40-49: Ron Yeats, Lennoxville, 16:36.a course record for the age group; Franz Moers, Granby, 17:44; Richard Gilker, Sutton, 18:03.Male 50-plus: Claude Berichon, Eastman, 19:15; George Litman, CoteSt.Luc, 19:31; Gerard Tremblay, Farnham.21:56.Notes From The Jackass: In addition to the Ryans, whose father D'Ar-cy ran 18:55 for fifth in the 40-49 group, two other sets of siblings completed the course.Roger Page’s brother Brian came from Ottawa to log 21:23, while Mart Nunnelly of Lowell, Vermont aeed elder brother Bill, of Sutton, 20:29 to 21:16.Stuart McKelvie was present but unable to run due to a lingering ankle injury.Several other injured runners did make comebacks, however, including Denis Boisvert of Mansom ville, who managed 19:46 on just 15 miles per week of training.Boisvert, famous for his grin, is among the best-liked competitors on the local circuit.From the pre-registration list, I figured I had a good shot at third in the 30-39 division.1 didn’t know Cartier would show up to chase Peasley and Page home, so sized up Don Bisso-nette of Sutton, Barry Bellware of Dorval, Boisvert, Murray Matthews of Danville, and Colin Gage of Stanbridge East as my potential competition.I also remembered having beaten Cindy New, 3:05 to 3:08, in last year’s Sri Chinmoy Marathon at Montreal, and was unaware of her subsequent Ottawa and Philadelphia performances.Therefore, when New blasted off like the space shuttle, I figured I'd let her pace me.Fat chance.Within two kilometres she was out of sight and I was gasping like a Yamaska River fish.I did hold on for a division fourth, however, in a course personal best of 18:35.Bellware managed 18:52.Bissonette 18:54, Matthews 19:23, and Gage 19:59.Other noteworthy performances came from DanielThibault of Granby, 16:59; Joseph Bru-noff of Montreal, fourth man over 40 in 18:09; Gordon Renny of Phillipsburg, fifth over 40 at 18:41; and Murray Reynolds of Clarenceville, 19:19.Bishop’s (" McGill U.Q.T.R.(—Friday.February 24.1984—IJ n_______g«c_i mam The Townshippers find a friend — at last By Charles Bury COMPTON — After almost five years of hunting, the Townshippers Association has finally found a friend in high places.The high place is Ottawa, the friend is Secretary of State Serge Joyal and the Townshippers found him at a meeting at Domaine St-Laurent, the former King’s Hall School for Girls, here last week.Joyal’s friendship for the 7000-member Eastern Townships English-language rights group is doublebarreled.As secretary of state he is responsible for the federal government’s Official Language Minority Program (OLMP), the means by which Ottawa comes to the aid of English-language Québe-cers and francophones hors Québec, their French-speaking counterparts in the rest of Canada.Since none of the Eastern Townships all-Liberal MPs seems able to make it to the cabinet, Joyal (MP for Montreal-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve) also serves as federal ‘godfather’ for the region.Last week the minister made a one-day pilgrimage to his adopted region to present a couple of hefty cheques to local industries (Bedford’s Exceltor needle factory and Beebe’s new International-Starobe cutting-tool plant) and he took advantage of the visit to ask for a private meeting with some of the Townshippers.Along with several dozen community members and MPs Irenée Pelletier (Sherbrooke), Claude Tessier (Megantic-Compton-Stanstead) and André Bachand (Brome-Missisquoi), several civil servants from Joyal’s department heard the Townshippers tell a tale of language woes and suggest what Ottawa could do to help.The minister responded.Past secretaries of state have barely managed to discover what the association is before their terms have ended.Worst of all was Gerald Regan, who thought his job consisted of paraphrasing Voltaire’s Dr.Pangloss, repeating over and over, ‘everything is all right ; all is for the best in this, the best of all possible Liberal worlds.’ But Serge Joyal is different, probably due to his years as a strong backer of the Québec nationalist movement and subsequent re-birth as a pan-Canadian.DOOM AND GLOOM Joyal “listened very carefully” to everything the Townshippers had to tell him.Supper came next, then he stood up to deliver a 40-minute off the-cuff speech outlining his reactions.He opened his remarks by commending the recently-released ‘Caldwell’ report, a study outlining the decline of the Eastern Townships English-speaking community in both population and economic importance.He said a recent government report reached much the same conclusions.“In some aspects, the study reveals a picture of doom and gloom,” said Joyal.But his experiences earlier in the day, helping local industries with federal funds, had convinced him that the situation is not hopeless.“In Bedford the employees agreed to take a 25 to 40 per cent cut in pay to keep their business going,” he said.“In Rock Island the people have fought very aggressively to make sure their community survives.” In both cases, he added, there were lessons to be learned, both by himself and colleague Marc Lalonde.As protector of minorities, Joyal said he learned with pleasure that English- and French-speaking Eastern Townshippers can easily and happily work side by side for what they want.Finance Minister Lalonde, he said, “could learn that ‘What one wants, one can get’.” Joyal then observed that his own department seems to work on a reverse logic all its own.“I was shocked when I came to the secretary of state’s job and I found out about the ‘Official Language Minority Program’,” he said.“I think the reverse trend should happen.The idea should be to bring the minority up to equal status, not to bring the majority down." SIDE BY SIDE WITHOUT CONFLICT The government’s godfather for the Eastern Townships has enjoyed some revelations about his new region, he said.“My first image was of a quiet, idyllic, peaceful place.And I have learned more.If there is a part of the land where French and English live side by-side without conflict, it is here.” “1 think there may be two historic reasons for this.” “In the early days the two groups lived together but in mutual isolation, ” he said.“Thus, there are two well developed sets of institutions in one setting.Now, with the troubles of the last few years, we have realized we have to help one another if any of us are to survive.” Joyal first came to public attention as an avid Québec nationalist who came to the defence of the Gens de I'Air when English-speaking airline pilots said it was impossible to fly safely in a language other than English.“Today I have seen that your community is fearful,” he said.“It doesn't know if it will be able to keep its institutions, its schools, its churches, to survive.The parents have a strong perception their kids’ future is somewhere else.” “The French people of Québec had the same kind of fear a few years ago.Today, I had the feeling I was back there.” “It’s not a new phenomenon,” Joyal added.“In the 1880s more than a million French-speaking Quebecers moved to the New En gland states to get jobs.It was the same thing.” TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL Joyal described the Eastern Townships as a relatively underdeveloped region, but one with a bright future.“This region has tremendous potential,” he said.‘T'm convinced that what we have been doing today is a step in the right direction.” “We must sit together and try to find bridges to bring us closer together.French Québécois are ready now.They have gone through the extremism — studies on the per ception of Bill 101 among Quebecers have shown it ; French Quebec is ready for English schools and English institutions.” “This meeting today is the first step, on one side of the mountain.In the months to come we have to continue the process.” “The Bedford plant exports over 90 percent of its production,” he said, “to the United States, to Europe.If it only served the Canadian market it couldn't survive.At Rock Island it will be the same; they will export over 90 per cent of their production.Canada needs this, to maintain our cultural identity in the world, or wx* won't make it.” The same is true for the Eastern Townships English speaking community, Joyal said.“You have a challenge ahead,” he said."It is to establish the grounds to make sure the French-speaking leaders, from both institutions and business, realize the potential if you all pull together.The board of trade, the chambers of commerce, the municipalities — make sure they are all involved.” "Take your museums,” Joyal said.“They should participate in the network of museums.There’s no reason why not.It’s the same thing with your (Bishop's) university.It's not a local institution, it's a national institution." FOSSILIZED PERCEPTIONS Joyal said he is pleased with the change in attitude among French Quebecers in the last few years."There are more French Quebecers in Miami and Old Orchard than ever before,” he said.“They don't lose their language.they are sure of their identity.When you are sure of yourself, you are attracted by others, not afraid." "We have been fossilized in our perceptions of culture but we’re getting over it And if there's a place wx' can co-habit but not in isolation, it is here in the Townships.It’s not in Montreal, where there is a sort of Maginot Line down Park Avenue.It’s here." Joyal pointed out that there are few'er French-speaking Manitobans (35,000) than there are English Quebecers in the Eastern Townships alone (about 45,000) He said he is pleased that members of Quebec’s English-speaking community have shown interest in the plight of their Franco-Manitoban counterparts (see below).He praised Alliance Quebec and other Quebecers who have spoken out on the Manitoba situation."That’s the best insurance policy we have on our future.As long as the English fight for the French somewhere in Canada, the French will fight for the English." "If there is to be an evolution in this country it has to be along those lines." "Canada can work." Serge Joyal concluded, "not at the expense of the minorities, but rather for all of us — whoever we are." He said that the recent economic slump has actually contributed to this feeling.“When the economy is good, nobody helps their neighbors.When things are bad, that’s when you see things happen.That’s the historic moment we are living " Manitoba: Following a pattern by defying constitutional history As the language-rights struggle maintains a relatively low key in Québec, it has taken on epic proportions in Manitoba, where the provincial legislature is locked in a seemingly-endless debate over a government proposal to offer certain very limited rights to the province’s French-speaking population — even less than guaranteed by the Constitution Act of 1982.The oldest prairie province first saw white men in the form of French-Canadian explorers, missionaries and fur-traders.It’s first European-style settlers were the Métis — the French-speaking descendants of those early Canadiens and their Indian women.The plight of Manitoba’s French speakers has gotten worse over the years: Louis Riel and his Métis were driven out; French-language schools were outlawed; hate replaced tolerance.By the 1960s the federal government had become interested — at least a little, in the franco-manitobains.The Department of the Secretary of state set up programs to assist them ; the Official Languages Act was passed — giving a taste of hope to the remaining French-speaking population, which by then had dropped from one hundred per cent of the provincial total to less than ten.Then along came Sterling Lyon, as Progressive Conservative premier.Lyon's policies were more regressive than progressive, in spite of his party’s name.Whether by accident or design, Lyon manged to renew the ‘English-or-nothing’ Prairie spirit of the 19th century.Lyon’s party was dislodged in November, 1981, by Howard Pawley and the New Democrats, but the Tory leader’s influence remained.He is still at the centre of the Manitoba language debate.CERTAIN PARALLELS There are certain parallels between the Manitoba situation and what has happened in Québec since November 15, 1976, when the Parti Québécois came to power : government resistance to a truly open language policy, rapidly-diminishing population, angry debate and no solutions in sight.One leading spokesman for Québec’s English is Liberal National Assembly member Reed Scowen.The member for Notre-Dame-de-Grace was formerly executive-director of the Pépin-Robarts Task Force on National Unity, a federal commission which travelled across the country to gather information and make recommendations on the same touchy language questions in the late seventies.Scowen recently paid a quiet visit to Manitoba to see for himself what’s happening there.On his return, he wrote the following letter to Sterling Lyon: The Honourable Sterling Lyon, PC, QC MLA for Charleswood Legislative Building Winnipeg, Manitoba Dear Mr.Lyon, During recent months, I have been following with interest the current language debate in Manitoba.Recently, I have taken the occasion to visit Winnipeg and speak with representatives of the government and the Société franco-manitobaine.At that time, you were also kind enough to grant me a most interesting interview and provide me with useful documentation.In this letter, I am going to take the liberty of giving you my own reaction to the events which are unfolding in your province.In doing so, I am fully aware that the current debate over language rights is essentially a /naffer to be decided by the people of Manitoba and their elected representatives.Québe-cers themselves are no less insistent that the principles of our federal system be respected.However, it is also evident that the issue of language rights, wherever it is debated in Reed Scowen.‘The bottom line is we have to give support.’ Canada, has a national dimension.As the most recent evidence of this fact, let me point out that the current debate in Manitoba is being given prominent attention in Québec.The declarations made by yourself and others have a political effect which goes beyond your own political borders.They have an effect on all Canadians.As a former premier, you certainly understand the national dimension of the language debate and the need for responsible public figures, who care about our country, to consider this aspect in the positions they take.It is not my intention, in this letter, to raise the question of the linguistic “duality ’’ of our country.This matter of definition is open to all kinds of interpretations.It can and does mean different things to different people, even within Quebec.However, it seems tome that in the specific case of Manitoba, one thing is clear.The province was admitted in to the Canadian federation in 1870 with the clear understanding that French and English would be used in the legislature and the courts, two institutions which lie at the heart of the public life of any society.It is also clear that, since 1890 at least, this understanding was, unjustifiably and unconstitutionally, violated and that the French-speaking people of Manitoba have been denied their constitutional rights for several generations.No one would blame the people of Manitoba today for actions which were taken nearly 100 years ago.Nevertheless, it is the Franco-Manitobans of today who have brought this matter to public attention and demanded that changes be made.And it is the Manitobans of today who are obliged to respond, one way or the other.What the Franco Manitobans are seeking, and what the government of Manitoba is proposing, are guarantees that members of the French-speaking community will receive a reasonable level of public services in their own language, and they are requesting that a number of these rights to service be constitutionally guaranteed.In the light of their pre- vious experience, this insistence is certainly understandable.It is not my intention to compare the services proposed in your legislation with those available to the Anglo-Québec minority.The two situations, it seems to me.are quite different and so must be the responses.However, it does appear to me that the fears being raised in your province concerning the effect which the extension of French language services might have on the rights of the English-speaking Manitobans are completely unfounded.There is no conceivable way that the measures proposed will ‘The vast majority of Manitobans wish to give a generous response.’ ** " reduce the rights of your English majority to work and receive services in their own language.Those of us who live as members of another linguistic minority in Canada can assure you, and all Manitobans, that even the measures proposed by your government will not be sufficient to ensure the continuing presence of the small Franco-Manitoban community in your midst unless there is also a continual vigilance on the part of all to see that the legislative measures arc translated into administrative practice.And even then.?I also believe the reasoning that certain ethnic minority groups in Manitoba arc more numerous than the Franco-Manitobans is not a fair one.I believe it is safe to say that members of the Ukrainian community, for instance, did not come to our country in the belief that they would be provided with public services in their native language Those who settled in the western provinces expected to be served in English.They are so served presently and will continue to be.On the other hand, the French-speaking community in Manitoba, as in Québec, entered Confederation with specific guarantees, which form part of the agreement by which our country came into being.These guarantees are still in effect.It is today the turn of the people of Manitoba to be at the centre of the long standing Canadian debate about minority language rights.Your present experience is not the beginning of this debate and you will not end it.But each incident in this debate serves to further define our country and the kind of people we arc.It is my firm impression that the vast majo-rity of Manitobans wish to give a generous response to the requests of their 50,000 French speaking citizens whose constitutional rights have been denied for many years.They look to you personally for leadership and so do Canadians in many other parts of our country.The proposals of the Hawley government are probably not perfect.But they are the recommendations of the government of your province; they have been endorsed by the Société franco-manitobaine and they have been modified in the light of the criticisms you have made.You have said yourself that 90 per cent of your objections have been eliminated in the revised proposals.I hope you will give your support to the proposed legislation of the government of Manitoba and encourage your colleagues to do the same.Your party has a key role to play in this decision which is going to illustrate to Manitobans themselves the kind of leadership they have and the kind of society in which they are evolving.Yours very truly.Heed Scowen, MNA Notre-Dame-de-Grâce “The bottom line is that we have to give ‘The French-speaking in Manitoba, as in Quebec, entered Confederation with specific guarantees.’ < *Mf whatever moral support we can to Mr.Pawley in an attempt to amend the Constitution and pass a law,” Scowen said in an interview on his return from Manitoba, “to give a little breathing room to the Franco-Manitobans." "What they want is a law to guarantee French-language services from all parts of the government, in municipalities where eight percent of the population or a minimum of 100 people are French-speaking," he said.Scowen compares the controversial, yet-unpassed Manitoba Bill 115 favorably with the current Quebec situation : "This would be more generous, certainly, than Quebec law," he said.A proposed resolution to amend the Manitoba Act (part of the 1982 Constitution) is part of the Pawley package as well.But Scowen says this change faces a rough ride because it has to be passed by at least seven provincial governments in order to take effect.The amendment would be in two parts The first would be a schedule of translations defining what Manitoba legislation and regulations would have to be translated into French, and when.The second part would rule that since French and English are the official Ian guages of Manitoba, no existing legislation there “could be reduced in its effect on French-speaking Manitobans.” That condi lion, Scowen says, would mean that there could be no future reductions in services to French-speaking Manitobans without a further amendment to the Constitution Act."To give an example, they now have to provide French-language schooling where there are at least 23 French-speaking children.That would be frozen." This is right at the logical heart of the current emotional debate.“There are tremendously differing opinions of what the effect of these two proposals would be." Scowen says.“Neither Mr.Lyon nor the Franco-Manitobans seem to have any handle on it;” nor does public opinion.Sadly, saysthe MNA, “there is an ugly side to it." Why was Reed Scowen in Manitoba this February and why is he writing long letters to Sterling Lyon?"My concern for the Franco Manitobans goes back to the Pepin Robarts days.If you believe there is some space in this country for French-speaking people outside Quebec, you've got to be in favor” of the NDP proposals.Sterling Lyon is definitely not in favor of them.In fact, Scowen says, his position is very similar to that of the Quebec government."Mr.Lyon is becoming a Parti Québécois politician!" 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