The record, 5 avril 1984, jeudi 5 avril 1984

Thursday Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .10 “The Pope isn’t running.” 0.*N4 Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Thursday, April 5, 1984 35 cents U.S.customs looks into Gabr and the China connection NORTH TROY.Vt.— Does Saad Gabr’s mysterious world network of friends reach all the way to China?U.S.Customs agents have raided two Vermont engineering companies owned by Canadian businessmen and the U.S.home of a Canadian ballistics expert following a three-month inves- tigation into allegations that weapons technology had been illegally exported to the People’s Republic of China.U.S.Customs agents descended on North Troy Engineering Inc.in North Troy, Vt., on March29.The company, which conducts video and sonic research.is owned by Morocco-born Saad Gabr, an Eastern Townships businessman.Agents also raided Phoenix Engineering Inc of Newport, Vt.— which is involved in computer sales and software, aerospace engineering and defence related engineering — and the Westfield, Vt, home of Denis Lyster, a Canadian ballistics expert and former Phoenix part-owner.Lyster and the three owners of Phoenix — company president Cecil ( Bud) She pa rd, J ohn W a rd and Denni s Jenkins — are all former employees of the now' defunct Montreal-based Space Research Corp., a company which manufactured advanced high altitude artillery shells before going bankrupt in 1980 Two of Space Research’s directors were convicted in 1980 of illegal arms shipments to South Africa Gabr See GABR page 3 Senate invite to PLO divides Liberal party OTTAWA (CP) — The Arab official at the heart of a controversy over his scheduled testimony before a parliamentary committee today says “representatives of Israel and their friends” are behind a move to block his appearance.Zehdi Terzi, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s permanent observer at the United Nations, commented Wednesday shortly after arriving in Ottawa to testify today before the Senate foreign relations committee.Terzi said he is aware that some Canadian MPs regard the PLO as simply a terrorist organization, but added he intends during an address to the Senate committee to “concentrate on the PLO’s diplomatic efforts” to find a resolution of Middle East conflicts that would include giving Palestinians a homeland.But the issue of Terzi’s appearing at all set off a dispute within the Liberal party, as well as between the Liberal government and the Progressive Conservative opposition.Senator George van Roggen, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, said at noon he had no intention of postponing or cancelling Terzi’s testimony.Opposition Leader Brian Mulroney claimed the Liberals were being insensitive to the feelings of Canadian Jewish voters.There should be no official dealings with the PLO until it publicly renounces terrorism and recognizes the state of Israel, he said.MOST INAPPROPRIATE’ Later, the Tory foreign affairs critic, Sinclair Stevens, released a copy of a letter to External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen calling Terzi’s appearance “most inappropriate” in view of the “extreme sensitivity of matters pertaining to the Middle East and in particular with respect to PLO activities.” Stevens asked for an explanation of why Terzi was granted an entry visa.MacEachen is in Central America.A department spokesman said Terzi’s visa was routinely granted by the Im- It wasn’t Trudeau after all TORONTO (CP) — Support for the federal Progressive Conservatives has increased since Prime Minister Trudeau announced his plan to resign, while Liberal support has fallen off, a Gallup poll published today suggests.The poll indicates Conservative support among decided voters has climbed to 54 per cent from 48 per cent in February.And Liberal support, which had risen to a two-year high of 36 per cent in the previous poll, has slipped to 32 per cent.The NDP, which reached a 13-year-low of 13 per cent in February, dropped to 11 per cent of decided voters in March — the party’s worst showing since June 1960, when it was called the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation.Thirty-one per cent of those polled yvere undecided, compared with 24 per cent in February.Gallup, which conducted in-home interviews with 1,037 eligible voters between March 1 and 3, says samples of this size are accurate within four percentage points 19 times out of 20.The 20th time could be considerably different.The margin of error means a four-percentage-point change by one party could be statistically insignificant.In the latest poll, for instance, support for the Liberals could also have remained the same as in last month's Gallup or dropped by as much as eight percentage points.The new figures appear to reverse a trend in recent polls showing the Liberals slowly recovering from an all-time low last summer, when Gallup put the Conservatives at 62 per cent and the Libe-^rals at 23.^ migration Department.Liberal MPs were also at odds among themselves over Terzi’s Parliament Hill appearance.Jim Peterson, a Toronto-area MP, said it is useless to talk peace with the PLO because it is committed to “wiping Israel off the face of the map.” But Ian Watson, from the Montreal riding of Chateaugay, said Terzi’s appearance would be “a step forward in the level of consciousness” about the role the PLO will eventually play in a Mideast settlement, “whether Israel likes it or not.” Watson alleged that some of his fellow Liberals were “acting like they were representatives of the government of Israel and not representatives of the people of Canada” in the PLO affair.It was an apparent reference to Peterson and to MP Roland de Corneille, also from a Toronto riding where Jewish voters are a significant influence.The question of Middle East policy has become a political minefield for Liberal and Progressive Conservative M Ps as they square off for a general election expected later this year.Only two weeks ago, MacEachen and Stevens separately addressed the Canada-Israël committee at its annual meeting here, each warily supporting the idea of a West Bank-Gaza Strip homeland for Palestinians, but disavowing the PLO as a legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.Terzi’s appearance before the Senate committee would be the highest-level meeting any North American legislative body has granted the PLO.The Senate foreign affairs committee already has met informally with PLO representatives and last November a subcommittee met twice with PLO representatives during a Middle East tour.It hasn’t yet heard testimony from an Israeli government representative, although Watson said Wednesday there was a standing invitation for the Israeli ambassador to Canada to appear.Justice Minister Robert Kaplan, who is Jewish, reminded reporters that only last Monday PLO-affiliated terrorists in Jerusalem wounded 48 people in a machine-gun and hand grenade attack.The PLO’s “joy in killing innocent people” makes the appearance of a PLO representative before a Canadian parliamentary committee “a very wrong decision,” Kaplan said.RICORO PERRY BEATON 7 can see clearly now.’ Lennoxville firemen, sporting new face-guards — to the small fire Wednesday, in the garage of the White joy of their insurance man — made quick work of a Fathers of Africa.Provinces take one last kick at medicare bill OTTAWA (CP) — Provincial health ministers made a last-ditch effort Wednesday to get the Canada health act changed or scrapped altogether, but they also scotched talk of challenging the bill in court.“As of today I’m not aware of any legal action contemplated by any province,” Alberta Hospitals Minister Dave Russell told a morning news conference after a stragegy session.Wednesday afternoon, the ministers took their case to the Senate social affairs committee and complained again that the legislation was drafted without any meaningful fede- ral-provincial consultations.The main purpose of the health act is to discourage extra billing by doctors and hospital user fees by giving Ottawa the power to levy financial penalties against provinces that permit those out-of-pocket charges.However, provinces regard the act as a federal invasion of their jurisdiction over health care that would interfere with the way they run their medicare plans.What has the ministers most upset is a late amendment to the bill suggesting that provinces which do away with extra billing set up a system of conciliation or binding arbitration to settle fee disputes with their doctors.Federal Health Minister Monique Begin insists the section is not binding on the provinces, but merely offers them one way of avoiding federal pe nalties.Provincial ministers said they question Begin s interpretation.SEEN AS BETRAYAL Ontario Health Minister Keith Nor ton said all 10 provinces and the two territories regard the amendment as unacceptable, and its introduction was a “blatant betrayal” of an earlier promise by Begin “This amendment flies right in the face of undertakings I had from her,” he complained.Begin offered no hint Wednesday that she might yield to the provinces on that issue, but she didn’t flatly rule out further changes in the bill.“We think we’ve done a very good job in committee,” she said of the amendments approved by the Commons health committee, “but I’m ready to entertain any improvements to the bill ” U.S.offers chemical weapon ban WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States, accused by the Soviet Union of stalling on negotiations to curb chemical weapons, is ready to propose a total global ban on development, production and stockpiling of the devices and tough steps to protect against any cheating.In the meantime, however, the U.S.government will continue to push for resuming U.S.production of chemical weapons, President Reagan said Wednesday."If we re going to have a chemical warfare ban or a treaty banning them, you’ve got to have something to bargain with," Reagan said In its latest budget, the administration is seeking $105 million to build facilities to make two new types of chemical projectiles.Noting that the United States has not produced any chemical weapons since 1969, Reagan said the Soviet Union "has a massive arsenal and is ahead of us in many areas having to do with chemical warfare.” From the start of the Reagan administration, Congress has rejected the president’s plea for resumption of nerve gas production.At his nationally broadcast news conference, Reagan said Vice-President George Bush will carry the American treaty proposal to Geneva, Switzerland, in two weeks where the 40-country United Nations Committee on Disarmament is meeting REQUESTS DIFFER While the United States is proposing a worldwide ban on the weapons, the Soviet Union is pressing for a prohibition applying only in Europe.The new U.S.proposal follows on the heels of a Soviet statement last February that it was ready "in principle” to let international teams inspect its facilities for destroying chemical weapons.Ambassador Louis Fields, chief U.S.representative at the talks, called the offer a breakthrough in view of the Soviet's adamant opposition earlier to on-site inspection plans.Trying to capture the offensive in the propaganda battle between the two superpowers, the Kremlin has characterized its offer as a concession aimed at breaking the impasse in the talks.Last month, the Soviets accused the United States of stalling in the negotiations and planning an eventual “chemical rearmament." Announcing the new U.S.proposal, Reagan said it would be difficult to verify Soviet compliance with a chemical weapons ban.“Only an effective monitoring and enforcement package can ensure international confidence in such an agreement," he said, adding that the United States is developing “bold and sound verification procedures." While Reagan did not spell out the procedures, one administration offi cial said it would give the two superpowers “access on demand” to each other’s chemical weapons stockpiles and production facilities.Mulroney and PM square off over payments to farmers OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau and Opposition Leader Brian Mulroney fought to a draw in the Commons Wednesday over help for Prairie farmers looking for money to plant their crops this spring.The exchange kept the House in an uproar for more than 10 minutes but left no one clearer on when the Liberals might introduce a bill to amend he Western Grain Stabilization Act as promised in the speech from the throne in December.Mulroney said his party would give the bill urgent passage and called on Trudeau to introduce it immediately.But Trudeau said he wanted assurances that the Conservatives would stop “goofing off with bells" and tying up the Commons with procedural tricks to prevent passage of other important bills.Mulroney said that reply showed why “the Liberals are dead as a doornail in the West.” Farm bankruptcies on the prairies are up 110 per cent over last year and “all we get is a jokester hamming around .” But Trudeau said Mulroney was the joker who had just “discovered one constituency that needs assistance.” Mulroney’s approach showed why the Tories “will never be the government.” Trudeau said the Liberals have a serious program of action for the country and if the Tories would agree to pass (it) speedily, “I can guarantee this legislation (grain stabilization) will be passed expeditiously.” However, he didn’t say when the stablilization bill might be introduced.Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan said Tuesday it would come soon but government officials say it still faces a long trip through cabinet committees before it reaches the Commons.MADE NO PAYMENTS About 160,000 prairie grain farmers belong to the voluntary stabilization plan which has about $900 million in its coffers but hasn’t made a payment since 1979.The government contri butes $2 for every $1 from producers.The ilan is supposed to make a payment when net farm income drops but there hasn’t been one since 1979 because steadily rising exports of grain have more than compensated for low grain prices.But many farmers are still strapped for money to buy seed, fertilizer and fuel to plant this year’s crop, many western farm leaders have warned.Farm groups, as well as the opposi tion parties, have been pushing the Liberals for months to amend the act to turn over some of the $!KM) million to farmers.But Garth Gorsky, director of the Winnipeg-based plan, said Wednesday the federal cabinet has yet to choose from a number of options for reforming the plan.To get a bill passed to authorize a payout is still possible before the end of June summer recess, "but would have to move very quickly." Mulroney said the situation in the West is desperate and the Liberals “should stop fooling around with the interests of western farmers and bring in the bill now." Later, Len Gustafson, Tory wheat board spokesman, said high fuel costs, high interet rates and rising production costs are pushing more farmers into bankruptcy.Fuel costs had doubled since 1980.But Finance Minister Marc La-londe said the government has taken a number of steps to help farmers.mm Prime Minister Trudeau says he'll move on the drain Stabilization Act when the Tories stop playing games with the Commons bells. The ItK('OKI)—Thursday, April 5, IWK-I Like a phoenix up from the ashes — the Liberal party in the West OTTAWA (CP) - The Liberal party in Western Canada, after fading into obscurity under the leadership of Prime Minister Trudeau, is being reborn on a massive scale, a survey of Liberal party headquarters in the four western provinces shows.Liberals are returning to the fold in droves.New memberships are outpa cmg the party’s capacity to handle them Manitoba Liberal membership has quickly doubled to TOOO from a low last fall of about 1,500 Party headquarters in Winnipeg is bringing in a new computer to deal with the load that provincial president Diana Ky back says is physically impossible” to deal with In British Columbia, where four volunteers have been conscripted to help the Vancouver headquarters process the mountain of paperwork, membership has soared by 40 per cent to 7,500 in the last three weeks.The Alberta federal Liberal party sold 600 memberships in March and is now sending 10,000 membership application forms to riding presidents, who have been begging for them, says a party official in Edmonton.Saskatchewan Liberal headquarters has hired part time staff to help deal with new memberships that are pouring in at a "phenomenal rate,” said a staffer in the Regina office.The Saskatchewan party has signed up 500 new household memberships in the last two months.There were only a total of 2,000 party members in January.The renewed Liberal passion in the West was touched off by Trudeau’s resignation announcement in February and the natural excitement that comes before a leadership convention, some party officials say.But other Liberals say that a major factor has been the leadership candidacy of former finance minister John Turner, who entered the contest vowing to bring in westerners who feel alienated from Central Canada and the federal government.“The biggest thing that’s drawing in people .is John Turner and nobody else,” said Randy Royer, vice-president of Alberta’s Bow River riding association.Turner garnered broad western support with his controversial opening statement that the French-language dispute in Manitoba is a provincial issue and should be settled there politically, Royer said in an interview from Edmonton Wednesday.While Turner later moved closer to the federal Liberal attitude that the issue is a national concern and minority-language rights must be protected by the federal government, his original stand was widely embraced in the West, Royer said.C M.(Red) Williams, president of the Saskatchewan Liberal party, disagrees.“That’s too simple a response,” Williams said.“I would put it on the excitement of the leadership run.” Both Williams and Alberta provincial Liberal Leader Nick Taylor said that Energy Minister Jean Chretien, who also lays claim to broad popularity in the West and has addressed the issue of western alienation in his leadership bid, shares support equally with Turner.Manitoba president Ryback also rejected the notion that the rise in party membership can be traced primarily to Turner’s candidacy.“Our province happens to be ripe right now,” Ryback said, attributing much of the activity to the election last month of a new provincial leader, Shirley Carstairs.Senator Keith Davey, who has run federal Liberal election campaigns for the last two decades and is a co-chairman of the party’s election preparation committee, agreed that resurgence of party support in the West is not solely due to Turner’s return to the party.Bilingual brochures okay says Superior Court judge MONTREAL (Cl’) A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that the province's language law was wrongly applied to prevent a Montreal florist from mailing out bilingual catalogues.Mr Justice Jacques Vaillancourt ruled that the Office de la langue française, the government agency which oversees the law, exceeded its powers in demanding that catalogues mailed out by McKenna Inc.be in French only.In a declaratory judgment from the bench, Vaillancourt said that nothing in the Charter of the French Language, commonly known as Bill 101, created the power to restrict distribution of bilingual material.Alliance Quebec, the province’s main anglophone rights lobby, funded McKenna’s court challenge as a test of the law’s powers.‘ What this means very simply is that a merchant is now legally entitled to print his brochures in bilingual form and to distribute them, whether in his shop or by mail to Quebecers,” said Alliance president Eric Maldoff.“We are pleased with the decision because an impediment to the distri button of bilingual catalogues and brochures has been eliminated.” MAY APPEAL There was no immediate comment from government officials, but they were reported to be studying the ruling and planning an appeal.In its suit filed last July, McKenna had charged that regulations set out by (he language agency on the distribution of brochures and catalogues “are contrary and inconsistent with” provisions in Bill 101 which do not put limits on distribution of bilingual material.Babysitter beat youngster says accused’s brother HALIFAX (CP) — The brother of accused murderer Coleen Gottschall testified Wednesday his sister slapped and punched four-year-old Teddy Maehielsen in the head.Gottschall, 27, is charged with the second degree murder of the child, for whom she was live-in babysitter The child, battered, bruised and burned on the legs, died in hospital on Aug.22,1982, of a blow or blows to the head Gottschall was sentenced last year to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 22 years, but the Nova Scotia Supreme Court’s Appeal Division ordered a new' trial because the original judge had erred on the admissibility of evidence Danny Gottschall testified that the day before Teddy died his sister “lashed out with her foot and kicked him.” The child was knocked backwards and struck his head on a kitchen counter.Although the child was unconscious, Coleen straddled him on the floor and struck him in the head before she could be pushed aside, Danny testified.Under questioning by Crown prosecutor Duncan Beveridge, Danny said he came to Halifax from his home at Antigonish, N.S., at his sister’s request after she telephoned him to say Teddy had burned his legs and “there was a possibility she would be charged with child abuse if she took the child to the hospital.” Dead Ottawa teenager may have been choked OTTAWA (CP) - A 13-year old boy may have been choked into unconsciousness w ith a skate lace before he drowned in a shallow creek in nearby Nepean.Ont last Halloween, a foren sic pathologist testified Wednesday.“There’s nothing in any evidence that would reveal a natural death,” said Dr David King, a Hamilton, Weathe Rainy today with moderate winds at times and a high ot 10 Low tonight 7.Outlook for Friday ducks only.High 9.Ont expert who examined medical records and police photographs.Although the cause of the youngster’s death was drowning, he was “incapacitated” at the time, King told juvenile court during the trial of a 14-year old schoolmate charged with manslaughter.By law.the names of the accused and victim cannot be published.King said a red mark around the victim’s neck could have been caused by the skate lace found around his neck and added it is possible that whatever produced the mark also could have incapacitated him.“The mark is consistent with partial or attempted strangulation.and could have resulted in some difficulty breathing or might have caused some loss of consciousness,” King said.It could take less than five seconds to render a person unconscious with a lace, he added #¦___ftei lœcara George MacLaren, Publisher S69-9511 Charles Bury, Editor 569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager 569-9525 Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent 569-9931 Richard Lessard, Production Manager 569-9931 Debra Waite, Superintendent.Composing Room 569-4856 CIRCULATION DEPT -569-9528 Subscriptions by Carrier: 1 year - $72 80 weekly $1 40 Subscriptions 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new head office building here for its 700 head office workers.The newspaper, quoting sources in the real estate industry, says the building would require 9,290 square metres or more of floor space and would cost a minimum of $8 million to build.Lotto bridesmaids to get more MONTREAL (CP) — There will likely be no more whopping first prizes in the 6-49 lottery such as the $13.9 million won by a Brantford, Ont.couple in January as a result of changes made by the corporation which runs the game of chance.The Interprovincial Lottery Corp.has decided to restrict the accumulation of huge jackpots by drastically reducing the flow of funds into the top prize once it reaches $7 million.Instead, more money will go into the second prizes.David Clark, an official for Loto-Quebec, said Wednesday the heftier second prizes will make 6-49 more interesting.Trumpeter wins railing suit MONTREAL (CP) — A woman in suburban Laval was awarded $2,291 in damages in Quebec Superior court Wednesday following a violent incident in the stands during a minor hockey league game.The woman decided to blow a tune on her trumpet to celebrate the scoring of a goal by her son.The lady sitting next to her did not appreciate the gesture and asked her husband to do something about it.New party can’t get support QUEBEC (CP) — The Parti Nationaliste, setup last fall to carry the Quebec nationalist message into the federal arena at the next Canadian general election, says it has the support of about two thirds of the 71 Parti Québécois members in the national assembly.But the would-be “federal wing” of the Parti Québécois has weaker support at the cabinet level, with half the 26 PQ ministers either lukewarm in their support or fiercely opposed.Strangler gets five years HULL, Que.(CP)— Robert Hassim of Hull was sentenced to five years in jail for strangling a 25-year-old woman in June.Hassim, 57, was sentenced by provincial court Judge Edgar Allard after pleading guilty Tuesday to manslaughter.The body of Rene Laroche, a machine operator at an Ottawa printing firm, was found fully clothed with no marks under her mother’s bed June 7.Natsea nominations withdrawn HALIFAX (CP) — Senator Michael Kirby and Halifax lawyer David Mann have withdrawn their nominations to the board of directors at National Sea Products Ltd., it was announced Wednesday.Kirby, in a letter to board chairman David Hen-nigar, said he could not accept the nomination on the basis of conflict of interest.Mann gave not reason for his decision.Kirby and Mann held key posts for the federal government during negotiations to restructure major fish processing companies based in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.Native dispute ending in layoffs MALISEET, N.B.(CP) — Chief David Perley says he will lay off all 25 employees of the Tobique Indian Reserve after Friday because he still has not been able to get his band council to pass a resolution accepting his budget.A meeting between the two sides and two regional officers of the federal Department of Indian Affairs failed to make any progress because the five councillors who oppose him did not show up, Perley said in a telephone interview Wednesday night.Taxmen told to cool it OTTAWA (CP)— Revenue Minister Pierre Bus-sieres has stolen a little of the Conservatives’ thunder by issuing instructions to his new deputy minister which closely resemble recommendations in a report the Tories plan to release this weekend.In a six-page letter sent to Harry Rogers on Wednesday, Bussieres said tax officials must remember they are dealing with people and must strive to be humane in administering the Income Tax Act.Soldier denies stealing guns PETAWAWA, Ont.(CP) — A soldier accused of stealing weapons from the Canadian Forces base here last month pleaded not guilty to six counts of break, enter and theft at a military court martial Wednesday.Pte.Jean-Camille Muise, 25, of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, was arrested March 15 following a military police investigation of the disappearance of weapons, money and property from the base storage area March 3.I OTTAWA (CP) — Agriculture Department chickens really devour the Ottawa Citizen.Chickens at the department’s Central Experimental Farm fed the local newspaper have thrived.Actually they got a black granular substance that started out as the local newspaper, ink and all.Using sulphuric acid, researcher K.C.Ivarson transformed newsprint to sugar — which represents about half of the bulk of newsprint.Then an industrial-type of fungus was used to convert it to protein.Canadians start four-wheel trip HALIFAX (CP) — Two Canadians from Halifax drove their four wheel-drive station wagon north from Cape Agulhas, South Africa early Wednesday, begining their bid to become the first motorists ever to drive from the southernmost tip of South Africa to the northern tip of Norway.Garry Sowerby, originally from Moncton, N.B., and Ken Langley, originally from Sydney, N.S., reported the start of their trek by telephone to their home city.Pulp strikers defy work order VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia’s 12,700 pulp and paper workers continued Wednesday to defy legislation prohibiting work stoppages, but there was an air of optimism as the parties resumed contract talks.The wage caucuses of the Canadian Pa-perworkers Union and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada voted to continue a strike that began Monday when the pulp companies continued their eight-week lockout.“We going to take it one step at a time, one day at a time, one hour at a time,” said Art Gruntman, paperworkers regional president.“The lines are staying up and hopefully we can have an agreement real fast.” New York buildings collapse NEW YORK (AP) — Two adjacent buildings undergoing renovation collapsed Wednesday on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, killing two people, injuring 19 others and reducing it to “a big pile of dirt,” witnesses and authorities said.The dead men apparently were two members of a construction crew pouring concrete inside the vacant brick buildings when they collapsed, fire department officials said.Last week, the buildings commission had ordered a safety inspection of the buildings.And if it was a winning team?TOWSON, Md.— Talk about dedicated fans.A married couple who say they suffered “severe emotional distress” because the Colts moved to Indianapolis from Baltimore, are seeking $30 million in damages in a class-action suit against the National Football League team and its owner.Robert and Mildred Sachse of Towson, Md., filed the suit on behalf of all Colts fans in their state.The suits says the fans had an “emotional bond” with the team that was strained by owner Robert Irsay’s shopping for a new home for the Colts, repeatedly denying he planned to move them and then actually moving the team in the middle of the night.Murder-suicide discovered CHANTILLY, Va.(AP) — A Korean family of four was found dead of gunshot wounds in their home Wednesday in what police said was an “ap-parant murder-suicide.” Howard Kim, 48, apparently shot his wife, Helen, 40, their two sons, John, 7, and David, 5, with a rifle and then shot himself in the n Philip Lively.Police discovered the bodies in the rented house in the Washington suburb when checking in response to a phone call from the convenience store where Mrs.Kim worked.Kim was unemployed.Same case, different verdict NEWBURYPORT.Mass.(AP) — A jury Wednesday found two policemen not guilty of raping a 21-year-old woman in an empty bar.The tavern’s owner also was acquitted on a charge he aided the attack.The Essex Superior Court jury also found policemen Unree Poellnitz and Edward Jackson not guilty of drugging a person for sexual intercourse.Jackson, 31, and Poellnitz, 34, showed no emotion as the verdict was read.Stephen Harden, owner of Ye Olde Ox Bar in Lynn, lowered his head and wept.Jackson’s mother and wife sobbed in the courtroom.Bar responsible in injury suit DENVER (AP) — A tavern has agreed to pay a permanently injured woman up to $9.5 million for serving liquor to the driver of a car that hit her.State law allows damages to be collected from bars that serve alcohol to customers who are drunk and then drive.The settlement will be paid by insurance companies for Otto’s bar.Janet Pattison, 27, formerly of Littleton, claimed in her lawsuit she suffered permanent brain damage when her car was struck by a car driven by Robert Brooks.Whites buy out Black journal JOHANNESBURG (Reuter) — Drum magazine, one of Africa’s leading black journals and a veteran campaigner against South Africa’s apartheid laws, has been sold to a powerful Afrikaans newspaper group linked to the white minority government, its owner said Wednesday.Jim Bailey, who founded Drum in the early ’50s, said he has sold Drum and two other black-oriented publications to Nasionale Pers, a publishing house whose daily newspapers often reflect the thinking of the National Party government.India erecting border fence NEW DELHI (AP) — India will spend $200 million to erect a barbed-wire fence along its 2,695-kilometre border with Bangladesh to keep out illegal immigrants.Home Secretary Prakash Sethi said Wednesday plans are to be completed in about four months, after which construction will begin.A government spokesman said India plans to build roads along the fence and to patrol it.East Germans can’t return home EAST BERLIN (Reuter) — East Germany, in an apparent bid to stop a rush of exit visa applications, warned emigrants Wednesday that they can not come back home.A statement by the official news agency ADN, quoting a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said there have been numerous requests to return from former East Germans who have gone to West Germany and West Berlin in recent months.“Responsible sources stated that such an appeal, although understandable, cannot be granted,” ADN said.West Germany wants Hess released BONN (Reuter) — West Germany appealed to the Soviet Union on Wednesday to allow Hitler’s former deputy Rudolf Hess to be released from Berlin’s Spandau prison where he has spent the last 38 years.It was the third time since 1981 Chancellor Helmut Kohl asked Moscow to free Hess.The last appeal was in a letter to Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko this year, said Alois Mertes minister of state for foreign affairs.Queen making private U.S.trip LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth will make her first private visit to the United States from Oct.8-15, when she will tour race horse stud farms in Kentucky and a ranch in Wyoming, Buckingham Palace announced Wednesday.“Apart from arrivals and departures at airports and two press conferences, it is intended that the visit should be strictly private,” the palace said in a statement.“It is not expected that the Queen will meet the President and Mrs.Reagan since her visit will take place at the height of the American presidential election campaign.” Diver cleared on fraud charge LONDON (Reuter) — A British deep-sea diver who raised a fortune in gold from a sunken warship off the northern Soviet coast was cleared in court Wednesday of trying to cheat rival firms.Keith Jessop led the operation three years ago that recovered ingots worth more than $57 million from the British cruiser Edinburgh, sunk by German torpedoes in 1942.Soon after returning to Britain with the gold, he was charged with trying to defraud two rivals of the contract for the dive by making false statements about them to the government department that awarded the contract.Panda plan elaborated LONDON ( Reuter) — The London zoo is sending panda sperm to China, to help save the threatened species, a zoo spokesman said Wednesday.British veterinarian John Knight will take frozen sperm from the London zoo’s panda, Chia-Chia, to China later this week when he leaves on a consultative trip, she said.Zoologists are fighting to save pandas in China s Szechuan Mountains following a severe food shortage (bamboo) this year.Peace protesters evicted GREENHAM COMMON, England (AP) — Bailiffs, backed by hundreds of police, evicted women protesters Wednesday from their “peace camp outside the U.S.nuclear missile base at Greenham Common and ripped down their plastic-sheeting home.Jeering women at the base’s main gate set fire to some of their shelters as bailiffs tore down the rest and workmen quickly fenced off the site and began drilling for a road-widening project.No-finger phone developed I AR1S (Reuter) — A new telephone that automatically dials a number after hearing the name of the person being called will go on sale in France at the end of the year.The French electronics group Thomson CSF has invented a telephone programmed to store up to 30 names and numbers in its memory chip, a company spokesman said The new device, expected to cost about $625, is aimed at saving time for business executives who spend several hours on the phone every day the spokesman said.4 The KECORU—Thursday.April 5.ISM—.1 The Townships —____gpj itecora Cancer drive set to start * The Canadian Cancer Society, which begins its local 1984fundraising drive on Sunday, demonstrated the use to which it puts its money Wednesday with the presentation of a cheque for $463,926 to the University of Sherbrooke Medical Centre for research into the prevention and cure of the deadly disease.The Society will donate over $4.3 million this year to institutions throughout Quebec.Pictured from left to right — Guy Angers, director-general of the CCS, Etienne Lebel, vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and research scientists Carlos Brailovsky, Marcel Bastin and Jean-Guy Lehoux.Thomas gets 5 for 1979 stabbing death SHERBROOKE - The long judicial ordeal of Denis Thomas, 26, of Magog, ended Wednesday when Superior Court Judge Georges Savoie sentenced him to five years in prison for the manslaughter of Robert Dragon, who died in September 1979 of stab wounds to the chest.Thomas pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of manslaughter following a four-and-a-half year court struggle which saw him become the first man in Canadian legal history to be found guilty — and then acquitted —- of the same charge by the same jury.The whole affair began on September 20, 1979, when Dragon died of chest wounds he received in the course of a parking lot scuffle which involved Thomas and Bruno Jacques on one hand and Dragon, Jacques Descôteaux and Christian Hamel on the other.Jacques, Hamel and Descôteaux were also injured.Thomas and Jacques were originally charged jointly with first degree murder in the death of Dragon and the attempted murder of his companions.The two were then brought to trial separately and Jacques was found guilty of second degree murder while Thomas’s case was transferred to the district of Bedford where the same jury found him guilty of second degree murder one day, and then reversed itself the next.Crown prosecutor Claude Mélançon appealed this unprecedented verdict and a new trial was ordered.Meanwhile, Jacques took his appeal to the Supreme Court of canada which ordered a new trial for him.The murder charge against him was dropped last year as a result of a legal technicality, and he now faces charges of attempted murder.Then, in February of this year.Thomas was found guilty of his charges of attempted murder and sentenced to five years.Returning to Sherbrooke to face his new trial for the murder charge, Thomas pleaded guilty to the reduced charge, which netted him the concurrent five-year term from Savoie.Savoie said Thomas’s lack of a pre- Gabr associates raided; N.Troy documents seized Continued from page one bought much of the company’s facilities.His North Troy Engineering, Which conducts video and sonic research, is on the U S.side.Press reports at the time quoted Gabr’s general manager, Earl Wal-lick, as saying Gabr planned to manufacture and launch satellites from the site.Space Research manufactured advanced high-altitude artillery shells before going bankrupt in 1980 after two of its directors, former McGill University aeronautical engineer Gerald V.Bull and Rodgers L.Gregory, were convicted of exporting arms to South Africa in violation of a United Nations embargo.A 23-month investigation by the RCMP and by U.S.Customs agents led by Lawrence Curtis, the same agent who is now investigating the two engineering companies, revealed Bull and Gregory had sold, without a licence, 53,000 howitzer shells and advanced artillery technology to South Africa between 1976 and 1978.They were sentenced to six-month prison terms in the U.S.VISITED CHINA At the time of the raids last week, Shepard was on his , ; ;:k from China.Ward, Jenkins and Lyster are reported to have visited China in the last six months.U.S.Customs agent John O’Hara said “several cartons” of documents were removed after an eight-hour search of the Phoenix offices and Lys-ter’s home, but no documents were rempved from Gabr’s company.“We didn’t find anything there,” O’Hara said.He said the investigation was continuing and no charges have yet been laid.Canadian authorities have been informed of the investigation, he said.RCMP spokesmen in Montreal said the federal force knew nothing of the Vermont raids, however.Affidavits detailing the allegations on the three 60-page search warrants have been sealed by court order at the request of U.S.Attorney Peter Hall who said the evidence sought particularly concerned “exporting technology without the required licence.” Shepard said that Phoenix had done nothing illegal.“Basically I think that speculation is based on the fact that principals here were once (Space Research) types," he said.“We are expecting this thing to die a proper and graceful death within a week." He refused to comment on whether the company has sold any technology to China and, when asked about trips by him and his associates, he said it’s not illegal to visit China.“The place is full of people.You up there in Canada were the first to open China up.There are lots of Americans there now.” Shepard said his company is involved in “three activities: computer sales and software, aerospace engineering and defence-related engineering.” He said Phoenix has contracts with the U.S.Defence Department, but declined to elaborate.He also said Phoenix has no connection with Gabr or his companies.Neither Lyster, Gabr nor Gabr’s general manager could be reached for comment.MONEY PROBLEMS Gabr’s Eastern Townships empire has been under attack in recent months by unpaid creditors.He has invested over $40 million here since he started a spending spree in 1978.But since a visit to North Hatley by Pakistani president Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq there has been little sign of his previous largesse.Presently believed to be in England the enigmatic property owner faces millions of dollars in lawsuits in Sherbrooke and Montreal, mainly for unpaid bills.Observers say his apparent decline is associated with one thing : the slumping world price of oil.Gabr’s main source of revenue in recent years has been payments for work on the pre-construction planning of the massive University of King AbdulAziz, in Geddah, the port city of Mecca, the Islam sanctuary in Saudi Arabia.At the time of Zia’s December 1982 visit, British bankers es- ( timated Gabr’s cash income into Canada at $8 million a month.They set his Canadian net worth then at “between $40 million and $60 million.” But the declining price of oil has slashed the income of the Saudi government, which has delayed subsequent phases of the university project.The lower oil prices have also cut the personal income of Gabr’s friends in the Saudi royal family.Although he would never admit it himself, insiders in the Gabr empire claim much of his money aside from the Geddah project has come from Saudi princes seeking a safe refuge for their money — and for themselves in the event of a revolution in Saudi Arabia.Gabr is said to be in the United Kingdom.He hasn’t been seen here since the middle of last year vious criminal record, the fact that he has already spent a year-and-a-half in preventive detention, and that he is still capable of rehabilitation, were all factors in his sentence.Protesters head for Québec By Peter Scowen SHERBROOKE — A busload of welfare and unemployment benefits recipients from Sherbooke is heading to Québec City today to protest certain proposals made in the gover nment’s white paper on fiscal reform, Hélène Bisson of the Regroupement des Assistés Sociaux (RASS) said Wednesday.The protesters, along with others of their kind from all over the province, will be meeting with Manpower Mi nister Pauline Marois to demand reforms which will enable them to improve their lot.In all, 30 buses will be pulling into the capitol today to mark Welfare Recipients Week in Québec.The protesters are demanding three things, Bisson said.They want equal benefits for recipients of all ages.At the moment the monthly payment to those under 30 years of age is $152 while recipients over 30 receive over twice that much.They want the government to scrap proposals in its white paper on fiscal reform that would oblige welfare recipients who can work to take part in provincial job creation programs if they want to keep receiving their benefits.Most of all, the province’s down and out want jobs, which is why RASS joined up with the Eastern Townships Unemployed Persons Movement (Mouvement des Chômeurs et Chômeuses de l’Estrie — MCCE) for the trip to Québec City.Bisson said welfare recipients have already been burdened with numerous cuts in their benefits during the last few years, particularly in the health care area.The government gets away with the cuts because it preys on the public’s image of the average welfare recipient — a bum who would rather collect than work.Most recipients would do anything for a real job, but there aren’t any to be had.And Bisson said, “the job creation programs are just patches.They didn't create jobs.It’s just activities to keep recipients occupied.They don't do anything to change their social status.” Most of the programs run for 20 weeks and pay $100 a month for 24 hours work.Bisson said she fears companies will use the programs to get the government to pay for labor that could have been done by a permanent employee instead.“The government says it’s business that has to create jobs but busineses won’t do it, not with these programs available," Bisson said.Recipients will be “obliged” to take part in the job programs, which are supposed to be voluntary, just to get by.“You can’t turn them down when you only get $152 a month,” Bisson said.And it may soon be impossible to turn down the opportunity to work for 20 weeks if the proposal making participation necessary in order to keep receiving benefits.“The government is trying to rebuild Québec on the backs of welfare recipients by offering them as cheap labor to business," Bisson said.“We aren’t saying we don’t want jobs.We just want real work which will let us live decent lives.” C’ville council asked to outlaw mags, exotic dancers by anti-porn petitioners COWANSVILLE (JM ) — I’ornogra phic signs materials, and nude dancers became the prime topic of dis cussion at Tuesday's regular council meeting when a petition signed by 701 residents and endorsed by 11 organizations requesting changes in bylaws was presented by Mrs Louise Gagnon and Mrs.Gaétan Lassonde Town legal counsel Gilles Mercure explained there were certain "black holes” in the law and a final decision might only eventually be established in the Su preme Court of Canada.The demands included a change in zoning laws banning establishments with supposedly “erotic" dancers within the municipality ; a bylaw ban ning the posting of so-called “erotic” signs and any other “abusive and degrading” materials; and a bylaw set ting out standards governing the mer chandising of so-called pornographic literature in newstands and other pices specifying they should not be available to children, be at least 1.5 metres above the floor, and preferably concealed in sealed opaque eo vers.The petition cited problems of por nography are at the seat of violence towards women stating they had volumes of substantiating material available for reference It said the re opening of the CoCo Bar with its nude dancers in an area containing several primary schools and two churches was a sign children are no longer respected in our society.The committee said it is aware of certain legal problems but hopes the council will act within its powers in the shortest possible delay The committee representatives said amendments to the Cities and Towns Act implemented in December 1983 gave the town power to control the display of so-called pronographic materials in news outlets and said Hull.Dorval.Beaconsfield, and Gran by had taken advantage of the amendment and had implemented the ap propriate bylaws, covering the third of their demands.It was suggested the town could proceed through private bills in the National Assembly to obtain the powers required to change the zoning and sign bylaws citing, to the best of the committee's knowledge, that Lasalle, St.Basil le Grand, and Quyon had done so with success.Alderman Claude Hamann pointed out the criminal code covers eroticism but does not clearly define pornography and said definitions also lie in the eye of the beholder.“Are we going to have to screen the windows in all the ladies' boutiques in town?" he asked.Mercure said zoning laws govern the size and type of enterprise but cannot tell the owners or operators what to do within their premises.Equally the bylaws concerning signs are limited to the type and dimensions, however do not cover the content or illustrations He said cer tain similar cases were before the courts, but "The interpretation of the law is nebulous, in short a black hole in the law A pile of private bills might force the provincial government to act.but in the end the issue may have to go to the Supreme Court for a final decision." Mayor Fred Tanner pointed out pressure tactics forced the owner of the CoCo Bar to first put a bikini on the nude sign, yet additional pressure resulted in a knee-length skirt and a sweater."Up to here." Tanner said pointing to his neck.He assured the committee the town would do whatever it could within legal means to conform to their requests.A number of routine matters preceded the presentations of the petition from the floor of the packed council chamber.East Angus deficit wows members; council sets up finance committee EAST ANGUS — Councillor Jean-Claude Bibeau says he and his colleagues “look crazy” in light of the town’s whopping $433,584 deficit for 1983, but he says the blame can be laid at the feet of former mayor Roger Couture.The 1983 accounts, tabled at Tuesday’s council meeting, show expenses of $2.5 million but revenues of only $2,092,744.The town has had deficits for the last eight years and is now behind a total of $2 million altogether.Bibeau says the numbers make the present council “come across like idiots.” He was a member of Couture’s council and he says that although the fault is not entirely the exmayor’s, there were many occasions when “the councillors were not always warned of expenses in- curred.” “Couture often told us about them (expenditures) at council meetings after they had been made.” New' Mayor Roland Brousseau, w ho replaced Couture in November’s municipal election, says council expected a debt for 1983 but not as much as $433.584.“When we were elected we immediately ordered an interim au dit; it estimated we would have a deficit of about $399,000.” “Last year was an election year,” Brousseau told council, “and the money was badly spent.For example, $75,000 was spent on roads when only $10,000 to $20,000 was expected.I don’t think the council can be blamed.1 think it is Couture’s fault.Even if he meant well, he was supposed to look after municipal finance and there w as waste.” Recreation and culture took a bigger chunk of expenses than anticipa ted : $280,470 was spent ; $220,000 had been budgeted.For transportation: $303,580 was in the budget; $383,266 was spent.Brousseau says there will be no tax increase to cover the debt, because the citizens of East Angus are “already the biggest taxpayers of Québec, there’s no question about it." Council has established a finance committee in the hope that there will be better control over spending in the future.Councillor Bibeau says East Angus “may even finish 1984 with a surplus of $200,000 or $300,000.” Striking CEGEP students to march SHERBROOKE - Striking students at Sherbrooke’s French-language CEGEP will take to the streets today to focus public attention on their cause.But there is no unanimity in the student camp.With less sympathy from the general population that they had hoped for after three weeks on the picket lines.Collège de Sherbrooke strikers will march across town to the office of MNA Raynald Frechette today.The GEGEP students are part of a province-wide movement hoping to-pressure the provincial government into changing a proposed law which would make it harder to graduate.Students at 13 of Québec’s 44 government-operated junior colleges will continue boycotting classes until the end of this week to protest a new law which changes study requirements, says the student association organi zing the protest.Patrice Legendre, spokesman for the Association nationale des étudiants et étudiantes du Québec, warned the disruption will continue until the association’s demands are met.Representatives of two other Québec student associations, which sup port some of the boycott’s demands, denounced Legendre’s group for its radical tactics Wednesday.Delegates from the three groups are to meet with Education Minister Yves Bérubé on April 12.The striking students want the government to withdraw’ the new law.implement fairer evaluation of loan and bursary applications, and amend another law setting out how student associations are to be formed.Bill 29, passed in February, makes course attendance obligatory, imposes course content guidelines on teachers and restructures certain programs to place an emphasis on two-year technology courses, mea ning a restriction of other courses.REFERENDUM NEEDED The strikers are also angry over Bill 32, which calls for a referendum among students to prove how representative a student association is before the school administration gives it official approval to operate.Colleges affected include those in Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Saint Felicien, St-Jerome and Québec City About 50 picketing students occupied Hull’s L’Outaouais CEGEP — the commonly-used acronym for col lège d'enseignement general et pro fessionnel — after one student in a wheelchair persuaded a security guard to let him into the locked school to use the bathroom.He then let the others in.One front-door window was broken during the takeover.Townships talk Sentence delay for drug user SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) Judge Claude Leveille continued sentencing in the case of François Gau dreault to April 17.Gaudreault, of Stanbridge East, earlier pleaded guil ty to possession of restricted drugs during 1983.His lawyer called for a sentence entailing community work stating the drugs were for his personal consumption.He produced a priest who said he could provide the young man with as many hours of work as the court deemed fit and added, “I’ve been inside the Cowansville Penitentiary and I don’t think exposing this young man to such an atmosphere would help in his rehabilitation.” Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk said the objective gravity of the crimes justified a jail term citing the QPF raid turned up over 1,000 grams of marijuana, a small package of cocaine, 14 plants ready for the ground, 23 plants whose leaves had been re moved, scales, weights, syringes, and several pipes.Leveille continued his sentencing to study jurisprudence after Keyserlingk suggested a sentence of community work would certainly not be in the public interest “The individual plastic bags seized by the police can tacitly be considered ovi dence of trafficking, not personal consumption." Keyserlingk argued QPF divers join search LENNOXV1LLE — Divers from the Québec Police Force joined Sherbrooke detectives Wednesday in the search for a firearm apparently used in an attempted murder in Sherbrooke last week.Laurent Houle, 46, of Ascot Township is charged with the attempted murder of his estranged wife Ga bridle Rodriguue-Houle, who was shot in the back as she was crossing a Sherbrooke street last week.The diver s w er e searching near Lon noxville’s Bishop's University for the wea pon presumed used in the assault, which they feel may have been thrown from the bridge which crosses the St.Francis River near the university The search Wednesday proved fruitless as divers were hampered by extremely poor visi bility and they are ex peeled to resume their hunt today.Police are still not sure what calibre weapon was used because doctors have judged it unwise to attempt to remove the bullet from the victim who is still in hospital.Meanwhile Houle has been transferred to the University of Sherbrooke Medical Centre where he will undergo psychiatric tests.His preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 12.serious condition in 1983 CENTENNIAL THEATRE ALEXANDRE I.AGOYA “SUPREME MASTER OF HIS INSTRUMENT Ton into SIhi Friday, April 0 8:30 p.m.TICKETS: $8 00 ($4.00 students) \JB TOST PERFORMANCE RECEPTION bishop's irprrvBRsrrr, unmoxvn.LE » * 4- The KK.IOKD—Thursday.April 5.19M —___ tSBcora Fhe Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial F rightened into barbarity Konald Keagan has once again proved beyond a doubt that age does not always breed wisdom.In perhaps the most startling demonstration of distorted logic since the second world war.the president of all the Americans has proposed in the same breath and without cracking a smile — a global ban on the research.production and use of chemical weapons and the resurrection of this production in the United States.Reagan's assessment that “if you’re going to have a treaty banning them (chemical weapons) you have to have something to bargain with” is so horrendously immoral as to stagger any thinking human being.Reagan asserts that while the United Steles ceased production of chemical weapons in 1969, the Soviet Union has continued to stockpile these weapons and now enjoys a lead over the U.S in research into their development.He neglects to mention that while ceasing production of these weapons, the Uniied States has continued to maintain massive stores of these barbarous weapons and has encouraged intensive research into related scientific endeavors.The use of chemical and biological weapons was condemned by the League of Nations in 1925 and their appearance on modern battlefields had not been seen since the first world war until evidence recently emerged that Iraq had employed them in its interminable war with Iran.American accusations that the Soviets have employed them in the guerrilla war in Afghanistan have yet to be independently confirmed.Whether other nations are willing to demean themselves enough to use these horrors is not the issue for the United States, however, and should not be allowed to appear as such.American security, protected by an equally inhuman nuclear umbrella, will never be threatened as a result of an enemy deployment of chemical weapons, and protection against them would be both cheaper and easier than trying to match their barbarity.Reagan's initiative is simply the result of his total inability to accept America lagging behind in anything — regardless of whether it be useful, expedient or morally acceptable.It’s a matter of childish pride.If a powerful, secure and independent nation can be frightened into barbarity simply because others are willing to do so, one must won-der what it is we are so hysterically willing to defend.American foreign policy has always been based on a supposed moral superiority inherent in the democratic system If we must descend ourselves into the mirror image of our worst fears then we have already lost the battle and should surrender gracefully.What more have we got to lose?MICHAEL McDEVITT Argentine debt more than finance WASHINGTON (CP) — Argentina’s delay in paying interest on multi billion-dollar bank loans, causing jitters in international financial circles, underlines a great political challenge for the United States across South America.The challenge is this: if the United States genuinely wants to see democracy established in South Amercia as it claims when it is justifying military intervention, it will treat the debt not as a narrow financial problem but as a foreign policy priority.This point of view is espoused by Riordan Roett, a Washington professor and writer, who sees handling of the debt problem as the key to whether new buds of democracy in South America are going to be allowed to bloom.Roett, director of the Latin American Studies Program at John Hopkin s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, recently travelled extensively in Latin America to collect material for a book on the triangular relations between the U.S., Latin America and Western Europe.He found what he calls "a promising trend to greater democracy in the area” as some of the military regimes that took over in a wave of successions during the PMîOs and 1970s now are being repudiated in free elections of civilian governments.NEED TIME Argentina, with its election last October of President Raul Alfonisin and his Radical party, is such a case, he says.He argues that U.S.support in handling the debt problem is critical to allowing the new freely elected government time to establish its legitimacy and to show democracy can work “While the social cost (of the debt) in Argentina has not been as great as in other countries in South America, a 198J inflation rate of 433.7 per cent, the highest in the world, daily price changes, rising unemployment and widespread uncertainty have created a tense situation," he said in a recent Foreign Affairs essay.“It is simply not realistic to expect Alfonsin and the Radicals in 19K4 to successfully restructure the armed forces, to reorganize the unions and to deal with the punishment of those guilty of the dirty war and the death of at least 6,000 disappeared’ Argentinians, while at the same time imposing further economic hardship on the Argentine nation.” Argentina sent jitters throughout the international financial world this week by announcing it cannot meet this Saturday's deadline for paying $650 million in already overdue interest payments to U.S.banks.Argentina has a foreign debt of about $43.6 billion of which about $10 billion is supposed to be repaid this year.About half of about $800 billion in Third World foreign debt is owed by Latin American countries, most of it to commercial banks in the United States and some of it to banks in Canada.Europe and other rich areas.Division of Arctic not a ‘sporting event’ YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T.(CP) - A spi rit of co-operation between two political groups aiming to split up the Northwest Territories has dissipated in an emotionally charged debate punctuated by charges of racism.“I’m tired of people trying to steal my land,” John Amagoalik, a prominent Inuit leader and member of the eastern Arctic group, said of the western group following a tense five-day tour of remote western Arctic communities that was frequently clouded by bitter verbal sparring The fighting was not limited to the two opposite sides.Disagreement among members of the Nunavut Constitutional Forum, which sponsored the tour to per suade resource-rich western Arctic communities to join their Inuit cousins to the east if the territories are divided, surfaced at a news conference at the end of the tour.Dennis Patterson, chairman of the Nunavut forum, tried to play down the differences between his group and the Western Constitutional Forum, attributing the arguments to frayed nerves on a trip that sometimes included two or three flights a day Patterson, noting the two groups had worked together to reach 11 principles to lay the groundwork for dividing the territories, dismissed the tension as no more than “friendly rivalries” that could be resolved amicably.CITES OBJECTION But Amagoalik, president of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada and one of Nunavut’s key members, objected to Patterson’s choice of words.“I disagree with the term friendly rivalry,” he said.“It’s not as though we’re in a sporting event.This is very serious business and I feel very strongly about these things.1 feel the people of the Mackenzie Valley are trying to steal our land, they’re trying to steal our people.And I don’t mind admitting that I’m very mad about it.And I don’t intend to lose another inch to these people.I’ll fight them tooth and nail.” Earlier, a visibly angry Amagoalik had given western vice-chairman Bob Mac-Quarrie a tongue-lashing in front of reporters, accusing him of not caring about the people of the western Arctic.MacQuarrie, in turn, has accused Amagoalik and other Nunavut members of drawing racial, rather than political, lines, violating the conditions agreed upon by the two groups.CHANGE STAND “They’ve told the government of Canada that they want a political division because the Northwest Territories is too big to govern,” MacQuarrie said in an interview Monday.“Now they seem to want to gather all the Inuit into one jurisdiction.I’m not saying that’s not a valid goal, but the prime minister has said he won’t go for an ethnic government.“Apparently (Nunavut members) didn’t intend to abide by the agreement.In a way, I feel they’ve used us.” In April 1982, residents of the eastern Arctic voted overwhelmingly in favor of dividing the Northwest 'territories.In the West, however, only a small majority favored division.Equally galling for MacQuarrie, a Yellowknife member of the legislative assembly, was a charge by Nunavut member Peter Ittinuar, Liberal member of Parliament for Nunatsiag, that western members would be more sensitive to the aspirations of Indians and Metis, who make up about half the population of the proposed western territory, than to those of the Inuit minority.Members of Nunavut, an Inuktitut word meaning “our land,” were not alone in basing their appeal on ethnic grounds.In Holman Island, a tiny, wind-swept community on the Beaufort Sea, a council member told the forum his people remembered only too well the Bloody Falls massacre of 1765 in which Inuit died at the hands of Indians.Letters Mustard gas tea—‘best kept secret of the war’ Sir: In the issue of your newspaper of March 21 I read an article written by Gwynne Dyer where he quotes — General Adnan Tharnalla, Iraqi Defence Minister commented on the use of Mustard Gas by his army against teenaged Iranian soldiers who were dying from the use of this gas.Several of my friends have asked me “if mustard gas was used in the First World War — What is it like.” My reply was that I could not give a definite explanation.We were never shelled by the Germans with this type of poison but other units were.From what we saw of it — it is not a gas, but a substance like mustard and the same color.It explodes and the substance sprays on face and hands and on your clothes and if not washed off at once causes painful sores to develop and it will penetrate through your clothes causing more sores.We had crossed the Canal du Nord and were eventually to proceed to Passchen-daele.Myself, Captain V.R.Spearing, M.C.of Sherbrooke and three other noncommissioned officers and cook and three other ranks were ordered to proceed to Inchy-en-Artois area as an advance party to locate a dry spot for the balance of the unit.This place was full of shell holes and water and very desolate.We carried enough tea, coffee and sugar for the rest of the unit for their arrival later on.The cook found a boiler in a deserted house and here is where we broke King’s rules and regulations which states: “No water must be used for consumption unless checked by proper authorities.” The water in the shell holes looked clear and pure so we used that to make our tea and coffee.The balance of the unit arrived so we ate our rations and drank plenty of tea and coffee except Captain W.Carling, D.C.M.the commanding officer.Being late in the day we curled up in our blankets and went to sleep but not for long.I woke up with terrible pains in my head and I could hear others groaning.The Brigade medical officer was called by Captain Carling, but he could not explain our condition so he marked us “out of action”.Later on I was in conversation with Captain Spearing and balance of Advance party where we took an oath not to divulge that we got the water from a shell hole contaminated with “Mustard Gas”.We could be punished for this violation of the rules.Such as demotion and loss of pay.Incidentally, this date was Oct.11th and the Germans were retreating and exactly one month later the Armistice was signed.After the war I met Captain Spearing in North Hatley and we both agreed that our oath of secrecy was the best kept secret of the war ”.We could both see the humourous side of it.H.J.DREW, Sherbrooke / don’t want to tell you your business.To the editor: I don’t want to tell you how to conduct your business, but why not do an article or series of same on lunatics who are apparently allowed to roam about freely?Dunham would be a good place to start.I mean, I thought C.B.had a god complex, but that Wright jerk is incredible.Where did he get the idea that he was a poet?Or a philoso- pher?Or an authority on everything?Trying to read his inane doodlings is on a par with trying to read Mein Kampf.A colossal collection of random idiocies all strung together without any semblance of continuity.Every line a contradiction of its neighbor.But I don’t want to give the impression that I think the Dunham Doodler has anything in common : COST of LIVING PRICE of LIFE n'.vrHc.-'•/«u*vAL with Adolph.I mean, apart from periodical (daily) deluges of his fairly terrible attempts at verse, and perfectly putrid portrayals of his idealistic notions, which can only be described as slightly loopy, and last (but by no means least) his meaningless meanderings on that favorite pastime of his (sic) God is dead, the two dolts have very little in common.Off hand, I don’t understand how he can rant and rave about the stupidi ties of us poor, misinformed bozos who insist that God is quite real and not dead at all, and then, several lunacies later, say things like “damned well” or “hell”.But I’m not worried.I’m sure he’ll lower himself (in future drivel-lings) to our humble and undeserving level and explain that part.I can’t wait.Expectantly yours JOHN ROLLAND R.R.3 Magog A few short remarks on that obnoxious Ian MacLeod Editor: Just a few short remarks to that obnoxious Ian MacLeod in reply to his letter to the editor published in The Record of Monday April 2.If he dreads so much to renew his subscription to The Record (if he has one), why doesn’t he just forget it and find some other paper more to his liking.The Record will not go out of existence if he doesn’t read it.Maybe he could just buy the Friday edition, as he can tolerate the Townships Week, it saves him from despair! Poor thing’ he’s to be pitied.It was very poor taste to mention the Butters Home, as the residents there cannot defend them selves and there are many who lead normal lives and corne out on top, with help and lots of hard work on their part.Our editor and reporters are all well-educated people, something you seem to lack, but it takes all kinds of people to make up this world, and it would be better off without some of them.I won’t mention any names.Lastly, it wasn’t the Len-noxville Players who had a production write-up, but Bishop’s University drama department who sponsored the play; the Lennoxville Players have not put on a production for some time.You wouldn’t do too well at reporting the true facts either.Submitted in disgust H.DOROTHY EVANS, Lennoxville NATO games—A bizarre mix of fiction and reality OERLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Norway (CP) — The crudely hand-drawn slide portrayed a NATO Viking standing superimposed on a map of Norway, ready to strike a threatening Russian bear.It was the first in an audio-visual presentation shown to journalists at this northern Norwegian airbase during recent war game exercises.But despite official efforts to play down the underlying East-West tensions which prompt both military alliances to conduct such huge exercises, the slide had obviously missed vetting by NATO's public relations officers.The presentation focused on NATO’s early warning aircraft—modified Boeing 707s with a huge radar dome mounted on pylons above the fuselage.Their role was two fold, to take part in the largest-ever exercises on NATO’s northern flank and to keep a close watch on Soviet surveillance.Daily briefings during the exercise included a bizarre mix of fictional war game strategies and pointed out the dangerous realities of East-West tensions.FINE LINE With 150 ships, 3(H) aircraft, and 40,()0 ihcii community tics to bring them buck.AND WHAT ABOUT THK FUTlIRi:?Rick Young says that it is not necessarily bad lor Quebec that the youth are leaving, but it is assumed that, having left and gained new perspectives on themselves and their home, they will then return and involve themselves in the development of their communities.But if they don’t return — and, he says, many don’t — it is a tragedy.Pauline Antink wants to go on farming and sees little reason to leave Quebec, since her roots and her family are here.Shè says that if we want our children to stay, we should stop urging them to go and show them what they have to stay for.The QYF is already doing this, she says, and many areas of Quebec are the better for it.Q.Y.F.Families Are The Roots Which Keep Kids Here AQREM AMRAQ There was a time when we told our kids to go to the city to make their fortunes or get educated, then come back home.Today young people seem to be getting the message that they will have to forget about coming back.The QYF young people were different from other people talked to in a general way.They were secure in their right to I stay and many felt that it was up to them to stay and fight if necessary.by Howard Smith The Quebec Young Farmers is ce-I lebratingits 15th anniversary this year.1 In an era in Quebec history when ¦ the English are on the defensive every-1 where, the QYF is flourishing.At a f time when the Prophets of Doom a are predicting the demise of English | Quebec, especially on “mainland I Quebec”, the QYF is putting down ever-stronger roots.The obvious reason lies in the word “farmer”.These kids are staying because their jobs are secure.They have, or hope to have, farms to run.This is not the whole story.Farm kids have many of the same problems as others: They have to deal with government bureaucracy, often even more of it than the nonfarmer; They have to deal with disappearing services and are more isolated than their urban counterparts.Leaving the countryside or the province is not the problem, says Ann Louise Carson who used to be the Provincial Co-ordinator.“There is no better way to appreciate home.” Through the QYF, she says she learned as much in Ormstown, Shawville and Lachute as she did in Europe.She stressed how important it was not to have regrets about what could have happened.The QYF kids will never have that problem.Some have gone on exchanges as far away as New Zealand, but Neil Burns will be back in Sawyerville farming before long.Leaving for a while can give a young person the breathing space to find out if the decision to stay on the farm is the right one, she says.People is what the QYF is really all about, she says.It teaches the kids how to deal with people.It brings them into contact with other groups and it teaches them to explore all of the potential of their community.tPinta James Hammond of Lachute 4-H.MEET SOME OF THE KIDS Every QYF’er interviewed remarked on the QYF’s involvement in the community.In the Pontiac, it, the Townships and in the Chateau-guay Valley, members tell how belonging to the QYF led to their joining other organizations and forming friendships with the other members of their communities.In Bedford at the western edge of the Townships, Debbie Dohmen of the Cowansville Club spoke of how declining English populations brought those left into more contact with their neighbours.Debbie runs the family farm in conjunction with her parents, Lambert and Annie, and a younger brother and she intends to continue.The Dohmens bought the land in 1959 and have no intention of leaving.Isolation has always been a problem for the farmer.The theme is echoed by QFA’ers all over the province.In the western Quebec region of the Pontiac, a former president Rick Young helps his father Robert run a dairy farm.The Youngs bought the farm in 1960, continuing a family presence in the Pontiac dating back to the 40’s.The Youngs have a herd of 200 Jerseys.In spite of the time requirement of dairy farming (cows never learn to feed and milk themselves), Rick finds time to be involved in his community, especially with the Shawville Fair, putting a lie to the rumour that the young aren’t interested in county fairs.Pauline Antink of the Hatley Club is a representative of a younger group.Her parents, Willie and Dina, settled in the Townships in 1954 and quickly became involved in the community.Pauline and her sisters Joanne and Cecile grew up in a tradition of community awareness.All of them have been members and Cecile and Pauline have held office.Pauline is currently president.In the Chateauguay Valley, the Ness family has played a key role in the association.All four Ness children have been members.Larry is currently farming in Howick.He joined in 1972 and became president five years later.Larry maintains his connections today as a leader of the Howick 4-H.Larry’s sister Carol Tannahill spent a dozen years with the QYF, both as a member of the Howick 4-H and then as Provincial Co-ordinator of the national 4-H Program.She left when the office moved to St.Foy.Carol Smith in the Gaspé has an interesting point of view for several reasons.At 15, she has been a member for five years and is now president.All that sounds fairly normal, but Carol has no intention of farming.Not only that, but she does not come from a farming family.Parents Russell and Mary and her grandparents are native Gaspesians, so her roots are there, but Carol wants to be a truck driver so she can travel.Only one of the members in the Gaspé actually comes from a farm, she says.The rest of them “are just kids who like ani- mals” and want to get together.Pat Brown of Howick is another non-farming member of longstanding.The daughter of a manufacturer, Pat is studying at Concordia University in Montreal while working part-time as a junior accountant.In the club for nine years, Pat praises its recent expansion to include 10 - 14-year-olds.The most recent club to join QYF is really the oldest club.This para- dox is explained by the fact that Lachute 4-H was large and well-organized before QYF was, so they waited for QYF to get rolling before joining the federation.Suzan Smith from the Lachute club is the president of the Quebec Young Farmers.19 now, she joined 4-H when she was 12, and had been Secretary of her club.Her parents Harold and Joyce and sister Sandra live on the ancestral farm near Lachute, where Sue plans to return to after finishing Macdonald College.A fifth-generation Quebecker, Suzan feels she has a stake in the future of the province.Anne-Louise Carson is the Quin-essential QYF success story.Born to a bicultural family, she grew up in South Durham in the Eastern Townships.Following in the steps of older brother, Norman, she joined the QYF, and like Norman, became Regional Fieldman, a position she held until 1978.Today a Fieldman only covers the area of their club, but in those days Annie-Lou represented the entire Townships.In 1979 she became Secretary-Manager of the federation and from 81-83 served as Provincial Co-ordinator.Now back in the Townships, working for the Townshippers Association in Sherbrooke, she laughingly says that she took six years to get a couple of dozen miles from home.Ann Louise points out that the QYF is not just English rural youth any more, but includes French and urban kids, too.She says that one of the aims is to teach the young people how to organize and become involved in their communities, which she says, is the best way to get to know oneself.ROOTS Anne Louise Carson says that if the others are saying that the QYF builds roots through networking, then the organization is working.It puts them into contact with other groups across the province and teaches them all how to deal with people.“Isolation”, she says, “has always been a problem for the farmer”, but the provincial link of the clubs lets them know that they aren’t alone, that their problems are not unique and that there may even be solutions to be found in other areas of the province.Pat Brown has no plans for leaving Quebec, crediting the club with expanding the kids’ awareness of the rest of the province.Pat praised exchange programs and leadership programs which bring people of different regions together to learn from each other.She says that the best thing it does is to get participation in communities and ultimately the province.Larry Ness feels that the tun he had working with the club has given him a strong involvement in his community and has helped to reinforce his desire to stay.He says flatly that more community-oriented programs in other organizations would give more young people reasons to stay and fight for their futures.He says that such programs are not difficult to organize, as the young are willing to undergo new experiences and so can be made aware of what their province has to offer them.Rick Young says that his involvement in community organizations began during his years with 4-H and QYF.The club encourages its members to participate in county fairs, to meet with other young people from other regions of Quebec and other parts of Canada and the world through exchange programs.Debbie Dohmen says that she thinks that the people who leave her region do so because of family reasons or for schooling — that is, many follow their families to other provinces and so have little to draw them back to Quebec, and others leave to go to school in other provinces and may like what they find and never return.Debbie says this happens less in the farm community because young people have Having gained new perspectives they will return and involve themselves in the development of their communities.Larry Ness is worried by the number of young adults leaving and says he sees two major reasons for it — the lack of jobs and the frustration of the language laws.Farm youth, he says, are more likely to stay, as well as those who feel secure in both languages.Larry also says that many who leave to go west looking for jobs return to their homes when they fail.His sister Carol agrees with her brother that jobs and the language laws are key factors in pushing out the youth.But, she says that the language itself should not be a reason for going.Even if a young person is not fluently bilingual, their exposure to a second language is an edge other kids don’t have.As the Secretary for the Association of Quebec Regional English Media (AQREM), she continues to be in touch with rural people from all regions of Quebec.Her interest has always been in rural people, not just farming."It’s a good program for meeting people,” Carol says of the QYF, “and not just once”.Through exchanges, members make friends in other regions and they learn about the whole province.Carol Smith says that QYF has given her a chance to see other parts of Quebec and meet other kids her age with similar problems.She doesn’t think that leaving is all bad, because it allows people to grow.Since there aren't many jobs outside, she says, many return to their roots more aware of what they have.Suzan agrees that community ties help encourage kids in her area to stay.She also credits Quebec Young Farmers exchange programs and community involvement with the decision of many young people to stay in Quebec to build a new future.Howard Smith is Publisher of The Journal in Rock Island, Quebec.Carol has no intention of farming.She wants to be a truck driver so she can travel.— The oid order ehangelh — Ann Louise Carson Coordinator of Coninumi-cations and Membership Services for The Townshippers, Carole l aniiahill.Secretary to AQREM and Nora Clancy D.H.I.Supervisor for Brockville, Ontario Region.SBPfll W -F Richmond Club 1979 Big Brother / Big Sister Day hay ride. 12—The KKCORD—Thursday, April 5, 19KI f|„„