The record, 16 avril 1984, lundi 16 avril 1984

Monday Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .10-11 “Are you aware that what you are asking me for is the root of all evil?” thci W&m STÏIX RAINING CORKY GRAPES, AGE t> POPE MEMORIAL Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Monday, April 16, 1984 35 cents Reagan authorizes harsh measures to combat terrorism LOS ANGELES (Reuter) — President Reagan has signed a policy directive endorsing the principle of preemptive strikes and reprisal raids against terrorists and permitting creation of FBI and CIA paramilitary squads, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.The newspaper, quoting sources in Washington that it identified only as U S.officials, said Reagan will ask Congress for new laws, including one to permit the payment of rewards as high as $500,000 for information on terrorists at home and abroad, It said the new policy stemmed from the suicide truck bomb attack that killed 241 U.S.military men in Beirut last October.In Washington, White House officials declined to comment on the report.National Security Directive 138, a secret document signed by Reagan on April 3, ordered 26 federal agencies and offices to provide him with options on how to carry out the new policy, the newpaper said.It said the presidential directive stopped short of authorizing the killing of suspected terrorists.PERMITS FORCE But it permits the use of force in other forms, including the creation of paramilitary squads of the FBI and the CIA, the paper said.It said officials of the State and Defence departments and other key agencies had stated the directive seeks to make formal and to coordinate new steps the United States is already taking.The steps include, the newspaper said: — Intensified intelligence collection at home by the FBI and abroad by the CIA and the Defence Intelligence Agency, a Defence Department group The D1A was authorized to use intelligence agents for the first time.— The couter-terrorist military units in each of the armed services would be co-ordinated by a joint special operations agency under the joint chiefs of staff, which is preparing a contingency list of potential terrorist targets overseas for quick disruptive actions or reprisal strikes — Increased security for a range of potential American targets, from di plomats and military men overseas to spy satellite ground stations and nu clear warhead storage depots • .' .__ .L Waterloo mortar shells get 24-hour guard «H* I ^3 A“ I» * «s®5?RH.CORD STEPHEN MeDOUGAIJ.Québec Police Force technical experts Cst.Denis Leblanc (left) and Sgt.Léopold Lavigne examine mortal shells found in Waterloo last week.By Stephen McDougall WATERLOO — Armed Forces bomb disposal experts are expected to arrive here Tuesday to begin removing several piles of mortar shells uncovered at a construction site The shells, believed to date from the Second World War when a munitions factory stood near the site, were found last week as workmen cleared a field in preparation for construction of a water filtration plant, a police spokesman said.Police have mounted a 24-hour watch over the shells until they are removed from the area.The World War II mortar shells were uncovered Wednesday when workmen and bulldozers were clearing one square kilometre of field near Waterloo’s old industrial park for a water filtration plant.The find was disclosed Friday by spokesmen for the Québec Police Force, which has since mounted the 24-hour guard.No injuries were reported during their discovery, according to Waterloo police chief Rodolphe Larose.Two-and-a-half years earlier a similar site was found a quarter mile from this one, said Larose.He said the site was cleared by army munitions experts, who he said believed they had cleared out all the See ARMY page 3 Lévesque claims win in St-Malo flag war ST MALO, France (CP) — Quebec Premier Rene Levesque claimed victory Sunday in the so-called flag war with Ottawa at celebrations in France to commemorate Jacques Cartier’s first voyage of discovery to the New World in 1534.Canadian government représenta lives in this coastal town where Car-tier set out across the Atlantic 450 years ago contended that the French explorer discovered Canada, while Levesque gave Cartier credit for discovering Quebec.Officials of the Canadian Embassy in Paris distributed posters and Canadian flags to local stores and restaurants, but Quebec’s blue flag was in greater evidence.At a news conference, Levesque compared Quebec’s fortunes in St-Malo with those of the Quebec Nordiques in the National Hockey League playoffs and his Parti Québécois.Asked by a French reporter whether the flags and posters bearing his picture were part of a préélectoral campaign, Levesque referred to the rivalry between the Nordiques, who wear blue sweaters, and Montreal Canadiens whose sweaters are mostly red.“It’s like, you know, the ice hockey playoffs are on at home and there is a team in blue and another in red,’’ he replied.“As you know, Quebec is blue and Ottawa is red, and it looks like the blues won against the reds in St-Malo.Perhaps its an omen.” Blue is also the color of Levesque’s Parti Québécois, while Quebec’s opposition Liberals are known as Les Rouges, or Reds.Since winning the 1981 Quebec election, the PQ’s fortunes have fallen dramatically.Celebrations marking Cartier’s voyage are seen by observers as one of a series of measures to boost the popularity of Levesque and the PQ.Turner and Chrétien one-two in Que.delegate selection MONTREAL (CP) — Federal Liberals in 10 Quebec ridings chose delegates to the party’s June leadership convention in Ottawa Sunday and it appears many think the seven candidates for Prime Minister Trudeau’s job still have some explaining to do.The organizations for John Turner and Energy Minister Jean Chretien both declared their candidates winners Sunday night.However, an informal survey of officials and delegates in the 10 ridings indicates that Turner has the lead with about 32 of the delegates ready to support him.Jean Chretien is in hot pursuit, showing surprising strength with 26.Most observers last week predicted the energy minister to be far behind.But of the 96 delegates that were either elected or automatically chosen at Sunday’s meetings, 38, or more than a third, refuse to declare their preference.Each riding elects seven delegates.As well, all of Quebec’s 75 Liberal riding association presidents are automatic delegates as are the province’s 74 MPs.Some ridings add additional delegates to representseparate Liberal youth or women’s groups associated with the party.WON’T VOTE Alternate delegates are also being elected at the meetings, but they won’t have voting rights at the convention.In the Montreal-area riding of Verdun all nine voting delegates — seven elected, plus riding president Gilles Dupuis and MP Raymond Savard — are resolutely uncommitted.Dupuis said his executive has had seven meetings in the last two months, including several with Savard, before agreeing to hold out until after an all-candidates policy panel here May 13.There appears to be strong Turner support in the riding.However, Chretien’s brother, Guy, is an active member of the association and the energy minister is widely respected.Gilles Gascon, Quebec leadership campaign organizer for Employment Minister John Roberts, also is an association member.The riding borders that of Westmount-St-Henri.represented by Economic Develop- mentMinister Donald Johnston, another of the leadership hopefuls.Dupuis said his riding’s delegates are all active party members who should not be “railroaded” into a hasty decision And delegate Bill Mandel said ‘ ‘there are major issues that no candidate has discussed yet.” One of the m a jor concerns of people in his part of the riding, a residential community on an island in the St.Lawrence River, is ecology, said Mandel.Other members at the meeting ap- peared to be concerned about unemployment, particularly among youth.The Verdun meeting, like all the others Sunday, was quiet and orderly.The association had a television set in a corner of the church basement tuned to the Montreal Canadiens-Quebec Nordiques National Hockey League playoff game at the Forum.About 75 of the riding’s 300 members attended the meeting.They cheered twice, once when the winning delegates were announced and once when a riding officer reported that the Canadiens won 2-1.The federal and Quebec governments are together spending about $28 million on the festivities, which include a westward transatlantic race of tall sailing ships.Police estimated that 500,000 people descended on this Britanny town of 50,000 Saturday to see the tall ships Levesque was accompanied by In ternational Relations Minister lier nard Landry and Cultural Affairs Mi nister Clement Richard on a boat trip to view the sailing vessels before the race began.Canadian Ambassador Michel Uu-puy also came along and Quebec’s new delegate general in Paris, Louise Beaudoin, was in the official party which included a junior French minister and the mayors of St Malo and Quebec City.Jacques Joli-Coeur, Quebec’s chief of protocol, referred to Beaudoin as "Madame Ambassador As the race set out for Quebec City there was only one square rigger participating, the 95-metre long Dar Mlodziezy from Poland, but Levesque said there would be about 80 tall ships in the flotilla by the time it arrives in Quebec in June.Other ships will join the fleet along the way.About 25 smaller ships are accompanying the Dar Mlodziezy on the first leg of the race to Bermuda Levesque was followed Saturday by Jean-Luc Pepin, federal minister of external relations, who said openly that he came to keep an eye on I ,eves-que and to contain Quebec’s desire for international recognition The premier brushed aside federal efforts to make his party a Canadian event, dismissing them as the actions of a government on its last legs He said Pepin was “panicking.Pepin returned to Canada on Sunday .Huron Indian chief Max Gros-Louis, wearing a feather bonnet and traditional moccasins, went to both the naming of a square called Place du Canada, with Pepin officiating, and the naming of Place du Quebec where Pepin watched Levesque un veil a plaque Gros-Louis drew attention away from both politicians, delivering his message that Cartier had not discovered Canada, because the Indians were already there.Levesque left for Paris after reviewing the sailing fleet.He will dine pri vately with French Premier Pierre Mauroy today.The private designation of the dinner ensures that federal officials will not attend.On Tuesday, he goes to London for his first visit as Quebec premier He will address a luncheon of the Canada-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce.Sherbrooke delegates back Turner By Bobby Fisher SHERBROOKE — The John Turner movement in Sherbrooke got a boost Sunday when 11 delegates were elected to attend the Liberal party leadership convention in mid-June and six of them promised their support to the Toronto lawyer.A disappointingly small crowd of 75-100 people milled about the Polyvalente Le Phare as the names of the 11 Sherbrooke representatives were announced.While six pledged their votes to Turner, only two offered backing for Energy Minister Jean Chrétien.The other three delegates remained undecided.Chrétien’s two supporters however, wield a lot of clout in the Sherbrooke riding.They are MP Irenée Pelletier and local riding president Simone Joubert.Contrary to what the delegates were saying about their loyalties, Pelletier said “right now I’ve got five or six delegates for Mr.Chrétien.” If the undecided voters elect to go with Pelletier’s wishes that would give Chrétien five supporters.The Sherbrooke MP told reporters he would “try to convince them (delegates)” to vote for Chrétien but that he “wouldn’t be twisting any arms” while attempting to get his man into the soon-to-be-vacant prime minister’s job.Pelletier praised Chrétien’s efforts during the 1981 Quebec separation referendum and his work in England while bringing the Constitution back to Canada in 1982.Locally, Pelletier said Chrétien had worked hard to get the mapping branch of the department of Energy, Mines and Resources transferred to Sherbrooke — a project that will create an estimated 400 new jobs in the region.Following the meeting, four women handed out pamphlets supporting the Energy Minister to party members leaving the building.Pelletier conceded that Turner “is the favorite right now” but added that he feels some voters can be swayed.One of those might be 17-year-old Eric Clark of Lennoxville, one of two youth delegates chosen along with Nancy Pépin.Clark said he was “split between the two most likely candidates” — Ché- tien and Turner — and that he needs more time before he makes a decision.“I’m not committed yet because I’d like to do some more research on both of them through media reports,” Clark said.“Then I’ll try to make the most intelligent choice.” Pelletier added that he does not find there is a discernible trend among young or old party members in the divided local Liberal ranks for either of the two front-runners.“That is about the same as the overall choices,” said Pelletier, indicating support is more or less equal throughout.Other delegates who will have votes in Ottawa are: Julie Legaré Fortier, Françoise Champagne, Rolland Boulanger, Pierre Dubreuil, Richard Dion, Danilele Coté and Micheline Dupuis.Of that group Coté and Dupuis, selected as representatives of the women’s club, said they will go with Turner.Pépin went along with Clark as an undecided as was Fortier.Champagne, Boulanger and Dubreuil will go with Turner while Dion is also leaning towards in the same direction.m How sweet it is! RMtXIIIIIKHY HI A TON The Montreal Canadiens kept on with their winning Ryan Walter's(ll) power play goal in the second period ways Sunday with a 2-1 victory over the Nordiques.proved to be the winner.Story page 10. 2—The RECORD—Monday, April 16, 1984 Hart wins Arizona, Jackson South Carolina but Mondale still leads Gary Hart said Sunday that “it's been a rough couple of weeks but 1 think things look better'1 after winning the Arizona caucuses.Walter Mondale began a three-day campaign break with a comfortable lead in delegates to the Democratic national convention.Jesse Jackson was in Cleveland on Sunday, criticizing his Democratic presidential rivals on defence spending and then hedging on his announced support of a boycott of the Campbell Soup Co Jackson had scored his first clear-cut victory of the campaign Saturday by amassing the largest share of delegates in his home state of South Carolina.Hart hailed his Arizona win as a “clear and decisive victory" that foreshadows more western wins.“We won the state pretty decisively,” Hart said At a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif , Hart said, “Inereasin gly, Democratic voters are turned off by Mr Mondale's cheap attacks on me and his failure to put forth any vision of the future other than the Carter Mondale period.“Voters are going to increasingly ask what Mr.Mondale stands for,” the Colorado senator said.“Where’s his beef?What’s his vision?” He then said he wanted to focus “less on Mondale versus Hart and more on Hart versus Reagan." Referring to President Reagan’s policies in El Salvador, Hart said : “I think this president is on a foolhardy course that the American people do not accept and will not support and will inevitably lead to the loss of American lives unnecessarily.” Jackson, meanwhile, criticized his rivals for failing to support cuts in defence spending.Both Hart and Mon-dale have advocated increases in defence spending, although not as much as Reagan has proposed.At a news conference in Cleveland, Jackson backed off his call on Saturday for an immediate boycott of Campbell Soup, offering instead to help negotiate a dispute between the company and migrant farm workers.“The first step is to seek to meet with the (company’s) president,” Jackson said.“We have sent a telegram seeking to meet with the president of the company and other officials." “If we do not get a response, we will have no choice but to escalate to the level of a boycott,” he said.On Saturday, Jackson came out on top in South Carolina, winning 34.4 per cent of the vote at the state’s Democratic convention.As a result, he will get 17 of the state’s national convention delegates, compared with 12 uncommitted, seven for Hart and six for Mondale.In Virginia’s caucuses, Jackson won the popular vote but Mondale got more delegates because of a quirk in geographic distribution.The three Democrats were heading into a relatively slow week, with only one series of caucuses scheduled — in Missouri on Wednesday, when 75 delegates will be at stake.LEADS COUNT The delegate count Sunday stood like this: Mondale, 1,077.8; Hart, 603; Jackson, 161.2.There were caucuses and conventions in several states Saturday, although most were the second or third stage of the delegate selection pro cess.However, Arizona Democrats expressed their presidential preferences for the first time this year.Hart, in search of a comeback after successive losses in New York and Pennsylvania, polled 45.4 per cent of the vote to 39.8 per cent for Mondale.With 99 per cent of the votes counted, the unofficial tally qualified Hart for 17 of the 33 pledged delegates at stake, Mondale for 15 and Jackson for one.In North Dakota, Mondale picked up six delegates, while Hart picked up three.The remaining five delegates selected at the state convention are not pledged to specific candidates, although four are pledged to support agricultural issues.Jackson picked up an additional two delegates in Mississippi, while Mondale gained one — all at the expense of the uncommitted group.Manitoba language group was infiltrated by Klan WINNIPEG (CP) — The Ku Klux Klan secretly infiltrated a citizens’ group that helped scuttle the NDP government’s plan to expand French-language services in Manitoba, says the national director of the white su-premist organization Anne Farmer said Kiansmen were members of Manitoba Grassroots, a group that opposed provincial bilingualism proposals that were eventually dropped last February The New Democratic Party administration had hoped to entrench French rights in the constitution and widen its services in French, particularly in provincial government head offices and French-speaking communities.But that hope was foiled by the walkout tactics adopted by the Progressive Conservative opposition.Farmer said in an interview her organization is not anti-French and there are some French-speaking Kiansmen in Quebec.But, “we feel language is a provincial concern and that there should be political autonomy in each province to decide which language it wants to use, English, French or bilingual.” Farmer’s claim was denied by Grant Russell, spokesman for Grassroots Manitoba.But, he said, Grassroots Manitoba has 50,000 supporters and there may have been some Kiansmen among them.Alan Shefman, Canadian director of B’nai B rith, told a news conference Sunday that Manitoba Grassroots has links with the Canadian League for Rights, led by Ron Gostickof Flesher-ton, Ont., but not with the Klan.Police remain baffled by Brooklyn mass murder NEW YORK (AP) — A baker who followed a screaming neighbor to his apartment found a “massacre” of three women and seven children — all shot in the head and showing no signs of panic — while an unhurt toddler sat crying among the bodies, police said.It was believed to be the largest mass slaying in the city's history, authorities said.“Six of the victims, at least, were sitting in chairs,” Deputy Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy said Sunday night.“There appear to be no signs of panic There appears to be no disruption.” Murphy and other police officials said they have not established a motive for the slayings and know of no suspects.No drugs or signs of forced entry were found, and the 10 victims remained unidentified early today.“We don’t think they were all members of the same family,” said Sgt.Eddie LeSchack “There may have been some people visiting.” Authorities described the victims as three adult women, one teenage girl and four younger girls and two boys ranging in age from about three years to the early teens.The man who discovered the bo dies, described as the common-law husband of one of the victims, voluntarily came to police headquarters for questioning early today but was not considered a suspect, LeSchack said.Sudbury gasoline spill caused by twin bombs SUDBURY, Ont.(CP) — The spill of millions of litres of gasoline and fuel oil from two Texaco Canada Inc.storage tanks Friday night was caused by two deliberately set explosions, police say.Staff Insp Robert Cowley of Sudbury Regional Police said Sunday the explosions occurred within seconds of each other The first caused a large break in the wall of one tank, releasing 1 36 million litres of fuel oil, and the second damaged a valve in the Weather Rain, rain and more rain today, tonight and on into Tuesday.Low tonight of 5.High both days of 7 to 10.nearby tank, spilling an equal amount of gasoline, Cowley said.He said police have determined the explosive devices were set deliberately and an investigation continued.Two families were evacuated from the area near Kelly Lake on the outskirts of Sudbury after the alarm was sounded by a Texaco employee who was washing a truck near the scene when he heard the explosion and saw fuel gushing from both tanks.< Fire officials estimated about 1.8 million litres of the fuel was contained early Saturday by dikes surrounding the tanks.An undetermined amount of the fluid flowed along Junction Creek about one kilometre to Kelly DAMAGE MINIMAL John Robertson, Ministry of the Environment district officer, said Sunday the environmental damage from the spill was minimal.“Any of the stuff that escaped was on the surface (of the water).” —____ftgl UCCDTu 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 Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room 569-4856 CIRCULATION DEPT —569-9528 Subscriptions 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refugee status have started a hunger strike in police cells.The 30 men and four women were arrested about 4 a m.Saturday for illegal occupation of a refugee centre in the east end of the city.When they were arraigned in court Saturday, they were also charged with refusing to identify themselves, to be photographed or to allow police to take their fingerprints, said police spokesman Const.Charles Poxon.New party announces platform MONTREAL(CP) —The Parti Nationaliste has clarified its platform for the next federal election campaign, with pledges to oppose testing of the cruise missile in Canada and to fight for more funding for research into acid rain.The pledges were among a long list of resolutions adopted during the weekend at a minicongress held at the party’s headquarters in Montreal.The Parti Nationaliste was formed last year to elect MPs to fight for Quebec’s interests in the House of Commons.The party has the backing of the Parti Québécois and a large proportion of its members are PQ supprters.Bill 40 softened up MONTREAL (CP) — The Parti Québécois government has drafted a new version of its school reform bill that will conserve several powers now enjoyed by school boards, La Presse reports today.The legislation essentially spellsout an “improved status quo” for school boards, while retaining the original plan to reorganize them on linguistic rather than religious lines, the newspaper said.School boards across Quebec were enraged when the original version of Bill 40 proposed to shift control of education to individual school councils from elected school board commissioners.Quebec to reduce farm spending QUEBEC (CP) — Quebec will reduce its agricultural spending by two per cent to $413 million this year because lower interest rates mean the government spends less lending money to farmers, says Agriculture Minster Jean Garon.Garon told a legislative committee reviewing budget credits for his department Friday that interest-payment loans given to farmers will decrease by $44 million in 1984 because of lower interest rates.Ice may delay fishing season RICHIBUCTO, N.B.(CP) — Unusually heavy concentrations of ice along the Bay of Chaleur and Northumberland Strait has inshore fishermen in northeastern New Brunswick worried they will lose part of the fishing season scheduled to open May 1.Spokemen for the inshore fishermen said Sunday there is little chance the fishery can begin on the scheduled date.Houston man wanted in N.B.DALHOUSIE, N.B.(CP) — Police in this nor-then New Brunswick town are awaiting confirmation that one of the three Canadians captured in an aborted Brinks robbery in Texas was the same man who escaped from the local jail last June by telling the guard he had a “pen gun.” Police believe that Dores Catien, in custody in Houston, may be the 39-year-old Quebec man who escaped from the Dalhousie jail while waiting to be tried for the armed robbery of a credit union at nearby Allardville, N.B.Trudeau may visit Reagan TORONTO (CP) — U.S.President Reagan has invited Prime Minister Trudeau to Washington for more talks on key issues affecting both countries, the Toronto Star says.The Star, in a dispatch from Ottawa, says Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid will also be present at the meeting, tentatively scheduled for early May.Brawling Ed Broadbent weighs in TORONTO (CP) — Shrugging off the polls that predict an electoral wipeout for his party, NDP Leader Ed Broadbent slipped on a pair of red boxing gloves Sunday to signal he’s ready to battle the Liberals and Conservatives in the coming national election.“1 want now to officially declare from our point of view that the federal election campaign is on,” said Broadbent, who donned the gloves and hammed it up in front of cameras.Winds create havoc in B.C.PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.(CP)— Heavy winds in the Prince George area created numerous problems Sunday when power lines were knocked down and brush fires erupted.Trees were knocked down in some areas, cutting off power, while firefighters worked to bring three small rural fires under control.Provincial forest fire crews using tanker trucks fought one fire in the Mud River area west of the city that threatened a group of homes.Prince goes surfin’ U.S.A.LOS ANGELES (Reuter) — Prince Andrew arrived in Los Angeles Sunday from London with the temperature above 25 Celsius to be given his first taste of the California lifestyle — a surfboard.The 24-year-old prince, son of Queen Elizabeth, seemed taken aback when a member of the reception committee which greeted him in the courtyard of the exclusive Beverly Wilshire Hotel stepped forward and handed him the two-metre-long board.Harvard fights restrictions CAMBRIDGE, Mass.(AP) — Officials at Harvard University say they will refuse to perform research for the U.S.Defence Department if the government restricts publication of researchers’ findings.“We will not agree to any restrictions by the Defence Department or anyone else in the right to publish research results,” said Daniel Steiner, Harvard’s vice-president and general counsel.He said a Defence Department proposal that would allow military reviewers to prevent publication of some findings is “disturbing.” Volcano finally stops spewing VOLCANO (AP) — Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Volcano has stopped spewing lava for the first time in three weeks, but geologists warned Sunday that activity might start up again.“Our feeling would be that it (the eruption) is winding down, but we can’t say definitively” said Tina Neal, a geologist with the U.S.Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.Lava output ceased sometime Saturday or early Sunday, said Neal.Meanwhile, on Kilauea, the island’s smaller volcano, lava was reported to be bubbling near the brim of a vent in the active east rift zone.Uruguayans battle with police MONTEVIDEO (Reuter) — Riot police used truncheons Monday to disperse 4,000 men, women and children preparing to demonstrate for release of political prisoners in Uruguay, witnesses said.The police charged the crowd as it was gathering, seizing posters demanding the freeing of Tupamaros guerrilla leader Raul Sendic and Communist Jaime Perez, among others.World’s leaders are inbred LONDON (Reuter) — U.S.President Reagan and French President Francois Mitterrand are distant cousins, descended from an 11th century Irish king, the Daily Mail said Monday, quoting British genealogists.A new edition due next year of a standard reference work on notable bloodlines, Burke’s Peerage, may spell out ancestral links between many current world leaders and ancient leaders, the British paper said.MSO finishes triumphant tour LONDON (CP) — The Montreal Symphony ended a major European tour Sunday with an ovation ringing through a packed house at the 2,000-seat Barbican Hall.It was a triumphant finale for the orchestra’s first visit to Europe in eight years.Despite a gruelling pace that saw the orchestra play 14 concerts in 15 days, conductor Charles Dutoit and his musicians have won both critical and popular acclaim.Reagan plays diplomat LONDON (AP) — U.S.President Reagan has turned down an “informal offer” from Queen Elizabeth to travel with her on the royal yacht Bri- • tannia to Normandy for the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings, The Sunday Telegraph reported.In a report from its Washington correspondent, the newspaper said an acceptance by Reagan would have appeared “that he was favoring one ally (Britain) more than another (France).” IRA continues bloody tactics BELFAST (AP) — IRA guerrillas raked a British army patrol with machine-gun fire near the border with the Irish republic early Sunday, wounding one of the soldiers, police said.A spokesman at the Belfast headquarters of the Royal Ulster Constabulary said the soldier, whose name was not disclosed, was hit in the cheek.He was flown by helicopter to a Belfast hospital, where he was in stable condition, the spokesman said.Police said a yellow car approached the patrol, and assailants sprayed the soldiers with automatic weapons fire before the car sped away.WWI gas bomb kill man and son LILLE, France (Reuter) — A Frenchman and his 18-year-old son have died after piercing a German poison gas canister leftover from the First World War, police reported Sunday.Police said the two died Saturday 12 hours after being rushed to hospital after piercing the canister they found in a field near their home.They had inhaled a mixture of carbon monoxide and chlorine.Strikes threaten Bolivia La Paz (Reuter) — Leaders of Bolivia’s powerful workers’ confederation said Sunday night they will call an indefinite general strike if the government does not modify austerity measures by April 25.The warning came after national leaders of the Communist-led union met for 10 hours to discuss protest action against last Thursday’s economic The package raised the price of basic foodstuffs, transport and fuel by between 110 and 600 per cent and devalued the peso by 75 per cent.Soviets mock U.S.report MOSCOW (AP) — The Communist party newspaper Pravda reported Monday that a Pentagon report on Soviet military might is an attempt to frighten the United States’ allies into supporting Washington’s military policies.The Pentagon annually publishes the survey of Soviet military power with commentary on Soviet global policies, and the Soviet press usually says the statistics are inflated and misrepresented.The latest U.S.report, which a Pravda editorial termed a “hackneyed invention,” was issued Tuesday.More Central-American deaths MANILA (Reuter) — At least 18 suspected Communist guerrillas and five soldiers were killed when rebels fired at troops on a river ferry in Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman said Monday.A heavily-armed group of about 100 New People’s Army guerrillas ambushed the ferry on Saturday near Sante Fe, in Agusan Del Sur province, southeast of Manila, he said.China calls U.S.controls unfair PEKING (Reuter) — Washington’s controls on technology exports to China are discriminatory and unequal, a leading Chinese scientific official said Monday.Chen Zongji, director of China’s Institute of Geophysics and member of the Academy of Sciences, said U.S.policy on scientific and technological exchange with China has hampered the growth of bilateral co-operation, reported Xinhua, China’s official news agency.Iran holds elections NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Iranians voted Sunday for a new parliament — the second to sit since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s Islamic revolution of 1979.Results are expected within a week.About 20 million voters are eligible to choose the 270-member parliament from a list of more than 1,500 government-approved candidates.A quarter of the candidates are young clergymen.Syria strengthens Israel border GHAZZE, Lebanon (AP) — Syrian troops are reinforcing and shifting their positions along their front line facing Israeli forces in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, Syrian sources say.But some observers say they do not expect a war between the two longtime foes because the Israelis do not want to anger the Soviet Union.Syrian military and political sources in the Bekaa Valley confirmed printed reports about the recent movement of new Soviet T-72 and T-62 tanks, artillery and missiles into the valley to face what they see as a planned Israeli offensive.Lebanon president saves family BEIRUT (AP) — When a rocket smashed into the living quarters of the presidential palace, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel broke down the door to a bedroom to rescue his daughter, newspapers said Sunday.They quoted official sources as saying Gemayel and his wife were on an upper floor of the palace in suburban Baabda when the rocket hit the third floor Friday night.Rebels take Nicaraguan port MANAGUA (AP)—Nicaraguan Defence Minister Humberto Ortega said Sunday that Costa Rica-based rebels have seized control of the Atlantic port town of San Juan del Norte.It was the first time that the Sandinista government has acknowledged that the rebels have occupied a Nicaraguan town.Ortega said retaking the town will be difficult because it is surrounded by mountains and thick forests.He said it is possible the rebels “will be able to continue operating in the area.” Israeli inflation rate rising JERUSALEM (Reuter) —Israeli inflation jumped by 10.7 per cent last month bringing the rise for the first quarter year to 42.4 per cent, the Central Bureau of Statistics said Sunday, The consumer price index rose by 12 per cent in February and 14.9 per cent the previous month, prompting the finance ministry to say: “There had been some improvement in March.” But the Histadrut labor federation's secretary-general Yerucham Meshel said last month’s increase was the highest ever for that month and renewed his call for monthly cost of living allowances instead of the present arrangement of every three months. Th«* RECORD—Monday, April 16, 19K4—3 The Townships #¦___foj uecora Millionaire killer suicides in police confrontation near E.T.border COLEBROOK, N.H.(AP) - A U.S.wide manhunt for a suspect in a series of kidnaps and murders ended in death Friday just a few miles from the Canadian border.Christopher Bernard Wilder, a mil lionaire race ear driver suspected of kidnapping and murdering young women, shot himself to death Friday when police confronted him on a highway leading to East Hereford and Sawyerville, authorities said.Wilder’s identity was confirmed by FBI spokesman Lane Bonner, who said the agency had made positive fingerprint identification.reached from Florida to California and back to upstate New York, where the body of Beth Dodge, of Phelps, N.Y., was found Thursday and a teenage Indiana girl was found walking along a road with multiple stab wounds.Authorities said they believed Wilder was in northern New Hampshire to visit friends of a woman he knew years ago.Wilder, 39, a Florida resident with dual U.S.-Australian citizenship, had been wanted for questioning by the FBI in a nationwide string of 11 abductions of young women, including four who were slain.He was a millionaire electrical contractor from Boynton Beach, Fla., who raced sports cars as a hobby.The abductions started Feb.26 and MOST INTENSE It was “definitely one of the most (intense) and to the recent memory of many agents it is the most intense manhunt ever conducted,” said Chris Mazzella, a spokesman for the FBI’s Miami office, which was in charge of the Wilder investigation.Floyd Clarke, deputy assistant FBI director, said in Washington that FBI agents were continuing to search for four young women still missing and added: “By no means is the case closed.” Wilder was driving a gold Firebird automobile owned by Dodge, 33, whose body was found in a gravel pit in Victor, NY.The FBI had put out an all-points bulletin for that vehicle, Clarke said.New Hampshire state police spotted it and approached the vehicle, Clarke said.Wilder, who was alone in the car, pulled a gun from the glove compartment after two state troopers identified themselves.He shot himself, and the bullet passed through his body and hit trooper Leo Jellison in the ribs, Cray said.The man then fired a second time, killing himself, Cray said.In Torrence, California a psychiatrist said Sunday that a 16-year-old California girl who was freed by Australian-born fugitive Christopher Wilder nine days after he abducted her might have been spared because “she did not meet his need to murder and destroy,” a psychiatrist says.However, Tina Marie Risico was “subjected to an unimaginable terroristic action” by Wilder, Dr.Roland Summit said after examining the girl.Wilder, a Florida businessman described by his partner as an “easygoing, quiet” person whose flamboyant image was a sham, was sought in the abductions of 11 women during a U.S.-wide spree of rape, torture and murder.Four women were killed, three escaped and four remain missing.The FBI said Wilder approached an average of one woman a day, often in sur- burban shopping malls, posing as a fashion photographer.Wilder s himself in the tow n of Cole-brook just eight kilometres from the Québec border, the day Risico walked into the police station in the Los An geles suburb of Torrance Risico.who said Wilder had put her on a plane in Boston the night before, was exami ned by Summit at the request of police.Summit said Saturday he agrees with police and FBI descriptions of Risico as a victim rather than an ac complice.“There was never a moment.I be lieve, when there was any hope of escape.” Summit said “Whenever she was asked to drive a car, she was reminded that he was a race car driver who could catch up and kill her.” He said Risico was “subjected to sexual bumiliation and brainwashing; the pattern follows explicitly one in which terror and obedience are instilled in the victim ” PULLS GUN Risico told police that Wilder offered her $100 to pose for photos when they met April 4 in Torrance, and then pulled a gun.Summit said Wilder “was a man with great skills at eluding and tricking and acting on the hopes of young women.“At one point, that would change and he impressed her repeatedly with the fact that her life hung in the ba lance depending on her cooperation,” he said Summit suggested Wilder took pity on Risico.“I'm speculating that she did not meet his need to murder and destroy," the psychiatist said.“1 believe she showed a kind of humanness, gentleness, a kind of feeling that somehow didn't provoke rage in this individual.” Wilder and Risico drove east across the country, with Risico driving at one point while Wilder assaulted a woman in the back seat Torrance Police Capt James Popp said Saturday that Risico "was not in close proximity” to the stabbing of Dawnette Sue Wilt, 16, who was ab ducted at Merrillville, Ind., and later escaped with stab wounds, or Beth Dodge, 33, abducted in Victor, N.Y.and then fatally shot, apparently by Wilder On Thursday.Wilder bought Risico a plane ticket home She told police he was "tired of running and felt they (the authorities) were going to catch up with him real soon ” WOMAN ESCAPES Police in Wenham, Mass .believe he tried to abduct another woman the next morning The woman accepted a ride after her car broke down and then jumped out when the driver pul led a gun, said police officer David Doyle.He said she positively identi fied the man as Wilder after seeing photos of him.After questioning in Torrance.Risi co was released to her mother, Carol Sokolowski.who said she went out Sa turday “partying with her fiance ' “She's been through hell but now she’s in heaven on Earth,’’ her mother told The Associated Press by telephone.“She's a tough person, her own person, but I don’t want her talking to anybody yet She doesn’t need it right now “She and I pray those other girls show up." Mrs.Sokolowski said.“We re praying for their families.” Two Canadians charged, four held in Houston Brink’s guard robbery HOUSTON (AP, CP) — Two Canadians were charged Friday in an attack on an armored car guard and a judge found probable cause to hold four of their companions without charges, court officials said Texas State District Judge Ted Poe ordered Mario Valiquette, 28, and Dores Catien.39, held without bail on charges of aggravated robbery and attempted capital murder.Both Valiquette and Catien were being treated at Ben Taub Hospital for gunshot wounds.They were charged in an attack Wednesday on Brinks guard Bernie Saintes, 27, who was held up while delivering bags of money to Intercontinental Bank in north Houston.Saintes exchanged shots with two men, apparently wounding both, police said.The two fled, leaving the money behind.Poe also found there was probable cause for Harris County officials to hold another man, Yves Lasalle, without charges in the case, Assis- tant District Attorney Terry Wilson said.He said Poe also granted police permission to hold three women pending the arrival of Canadian authorities who wish to question them.But Wilson said no charges are planned against the women in the attack on Saintes.“We can’t show any involvement by them,” Wilson said.PERMISSION NEEDED Federal guidelines require Harris County to get a magistrate’s permission to hold jail prisoners without charges longer than 24 hours, Wilson said.He said Poe granted permission to hold the four without charges until Monday.Houston police, acting on a tip from Canadian authorities, arrested the six men and women at a west Houston motel Thursday morning.Quebec Police Force spokesman André Blanchette said Canadian authorities want to question mem- Police think guns may be linked to Pascal’s heist bers of the group about a Dec.22 hardware store robbery in Sherbrooke in which a Brink’s guard, Yvan Charland, was killed and robbed of $47,000.No warrants have been issued for any members of the group in that crime, at the Pascal store in the Carrefour de l’Estrie, Blanchette said.Sherbrooke police mistakenly raided a motel in nearby Rock Forest on Dec.23, believing the bandits to be inside.One innocent man was killed and another injured in the raid before police discovered their mistake.Three Sherbrooke policemen have since been charged with offences ranging from criminal negligence to dangerous use of firearms for their part in the raid.U.S.law-enforcement agencies are trying to piece together the Canadians’ comings and goings in the days and weeks before they were arrested.Police say the men may have been involved in other recent Sunbelt robberies, in California, Louisiana and Florida.SHERBROOKE —- Police believe a pair of shotguns found by a group of Ascot Township youngsters Friday may be linked to the death of Brink’s guard Yvan Charland in the December 22 Pascal hold-up.The shotguns were found in a canvas bag in a ditch along Dunant Road.Both are 12-gauge weapons; one is a Remington of the type carried by Brink’s guards ; the other is a sawed-off Winchester.About 20 rounds of 12-gauge ammunition was in the bag as well.The youngsters who found the dea dly cache turned it over to Metro-Police captain of detectives Léo Hamel, who then turned it over to Sherbrooke police Det.-Lt.Raymond Bonneau.Police say technical tests may be able to prove whether one of the guns was used in the Pascal killing.They say they may yield incriminating fingerprints as well.Police will scour the Dunant area again today to try and find further evidence.PEN-GUN ESCAPEE?In Dalhousie, N.B., police are awaiting confirmation that one of the three Canadians captured in Texas was the same man who escaped from the local jail last June by telling the guard he had a “pen gun.” Police believe that Dores Catien, in custody in Houston, may be the 39-year-old Québec man who escaped from the Dalhousie jail while waiting to be tried for the armed robbery of a credit union at nearby Allardville, N.B.Quebec police say Valiquette and Lasalle are wanted for escaping from a Montreal prison and Catien and Valiquette are suspects in the Pascal robbery-murder.Army to begin bomb removal Tuesday Continued from page one shells.“I worked along with the army back then, we searched the area for other shells, but didn’t find any" he said.La rose and Sherbrooke QPF technical expert Sergeant Léopold Lavigne said army experts w ill start work on the site starting Tuesday QPF munitions expert Constable Denis Lebl ant-said the shells probably were used for a two-inch mortar.TESTING SITE OR DUMP “They probably used this field as a testing site or a dumping ground," Leblanc said Friday.Chief Larose said the field had not been used since the Second World War “There was no time to test these shells at a base such as Farnham.They had a contract to fill, there was a war on.” Police do not know who the original Word War II contractor was hut said the factory had been situated on the other side of a stream from the field.They pointed to an abandoned concrete foundation, surrounded by a high, grey wood fence.“These shells may have been buried here after the war; they (operators of the munitions factory) probably had no more use for them,” said Leblanc.Sgt Lavigne and Chief Larose cautioned any one who had possesion of these shells not to handle them but to call the QPF or the Waterloo police immediately.“We advise anyone who has them to leave where they are.Tell us where they are, and we will come and get them,” said Lavigne.Leblanc added that despite the age of the shells, they could still explode if they are hit hard or heated with a match."Some of the shells here seem bent or defective, but other ones are in good shape," he said Larose said the site w ill be guarded 24 hours a day by both police forces until the shells are cleared away.He said the clean up could take up to three weeks Larose has not yet received any complaints about the shells from the town’s 5,000 residents nor has the news caused much of a stir Despite this second uncovering in the same area, Lavigne said no request will made by the QPF to the Department of National Defence for further information on other possible munition dump sites.“That is a lot of work to do for such a small force, we think it is better to handle the sites one at a time, when they are found," he said.Bureau away as Tories open office By Charles Bury Roberts vows to ‘new Liberalism’ By Michael McDevitt SHERBROOKE — Federal Employment and Immigration Minister John Roberts became the first Liberal leadership candidate to visit the Townships Saturday but his vow to win the race was greeted by only a handful of Sherbrooke’s Liberal party militants.Roberts, who says his Quebec support will increase as the June convention nears, told a handf»' of Liberal party faithful his candidacy represents “a new Liberalism, a Liberalism that doesn’t abandon our traditional Liberal values but rather looks to find ways of adapting them to the needs and conditions of the 80s.” According to Roberts, the Liberal party “is now facing a dangerous shift to the right” and this trend must be fought if the party expects to continue in its role as the governing party of Canada.“There is a reason why the Conservatives have been out of power for so long,” Roberts says, “and that’s because their policies don’t work for the majority of the people in this country.I don’t think we can profit by borrowing anything from them.We have to stand up to our proud Liberal traditions — while dealing with the new realities.” m Roberts said he believes Quebec’s language problems will best be solved by a Liberal government in Quebec City after the next Quebec general election.“Once there is a more reasonable government in Quebec we should be able to come to a suitable agreement,” he said.SHERBROOKE — Guy Bureau may be on the way out of federal politics.Progressive Conservative candidate François Gérin is going outside traditional party structures to create a regional planning and policy committee to prepare for the next federal election.Gérin, recently chosen to represent the Tories in Megantic-Compton-Stanstead, announced Friday the opening of a new regional "research and policy” office, located on King Street east in Sherbrooke.But Sherbrooke riding president Guy Bureau, who is also the PC regional president, refused to attend the opening ceremony, although other members of his executive were present, along with both announced candidates for the city riding and other party officials from every Eastern Townships county.Gérin says his initiative has the blessing of Tory Québec campaign president Bernard Roy and Opposition leader Brian Mulroney as well.Bureau said later he is opposed to the new initiative.He said he missed the opening because of prior engagements.Bureau added that he doesn’t think his dissidence would create a rift in party ranks.However the rift seems to be pretty wide already.Observers suggest the long-time Conservative organizer may be in the same position as former Brome-Missisquoi president Louis Cournoyer, who resigned angrily early this year.Like Cournoyer, Bureau is an old-style Tory mover, preferring to work mainly behind closed doors with a small group of organizers.Like (’our noyer, Bureau is faced with a large, new group of PC enthusiasts who have become active in the party since Joe Clark, and now Mulroney, have given it new life in Québec.The new Tories want to become fully involved in par ty activities and in Brome-Missisquoi they ended up forcing Cournoyer out of the organization when he refused to open up party activities Bureau seems to be heading down the same path, although he will be talking to party officials in Montreal today to try and straighten out the differences of opinion.Although Bureau says his meetings will lead to some "rules of play” being established for the region, Gérin sup porters say he will likely be told to "put up or shut up," in no uncertain terms.Friday Gérin revealed that his new regional structure will include committees of volunteers to research regional problems and suggest possible solutions that could become part of the party’s national policy The first committees formed will deal with agriculture and forestry, the el derly, and convincing party leader Mulroney to run in Brome Missisquoi in the next election.He was flanked on the stand by Magog Tory Louis Philippe Galipcau and farm expert Paul Flipot of Ascot Township.“If Mr.Mulroney eventually decides to run in Brome-Missisquoi,” Gérin said, "it will benefit the whole region, not just that riding That's why all the region should be involved in convincing him." Gérin said the Tories recognize that agriculture and forestry are the cornerstone of the Eastern Townships economy, but that they have been neglected by the region's sitting MPs, all Liberals He said the Tories, unlike the Libc rals.feel there should be a special place for Golden agers in the party."All great civilizations, for example the Greeks and Romans, have honored the elderly, the people who built theirsociety.Noone more deserves to participate in party matters ' Blais acquitted of C’ville pen murder OPPOSES BILL 101 Roberts would not say where he feared this threat from the right came from, but took issue with frontrunner John Turner over language rights saying that he, unlike Turner, could say unequivocally that he opposes “the spirit and the principle of Bill 101 (Quebec’s Charter of the French Language).” Roberts said he believes in the Liberal ideal of bilingualism for John Roberts .Opposes spirit and pinciple of Bill 101.choice in the language of education of their children.Roberts was responding to controversial statements by Turner that he supports the principle of Bill 101.“It wasn’t me who injected this issue into the campaign," Roberts said.“As far as I’m concerned the Liberal party has always been committed firmly to the principle of bilingualism.To find this committment threatened from within the Liberal party is something I find disturbing, and I have HAS LEGITIMATE INTEREST Roberts said he supported the francophone Manitobans who have been the centre of much of the language controversy in recent months and said that the federal government has a legitimate interest in making sure constitutional guarantees to its citizens are honored.He said as an Ontarian he sometimes feels reluctant to lecture people in other parts of the country since Ontario should be the province leading the way in expanding minority language rights."Look how much they have accomplished in New Brunswick," Roberts said, referring to that province’s commitment to becoming officially bilingual.“While Ontario, which is in a much better position to lead the way, has refused to become officially bilingual itself." Roberts says that as leader of the Liberal party — and the next Prime Minister of Canada — he would call an election very soon after the party’s convention.“I think there will be a great deal of enthusiasm and excitement generated by my assuming the leadership that we will be able to carry over into an election.I know that the Liberal party will form the next government.” Despite Roberts’ optimism, results of delegate selection meetings in 10 of Quebec’s federal ridings Sunday indicated that the leadership race in Quebec is shaping into a two-man contest between Turner and Energy By John McCaghey SWEETSBURG WARD - Michel Blais was acquitted of a charge of in voluntary homocide causing the death of Daniel Brouillard at the Cowansville penitentiary on Nov.9, 1983 by reason of insanity at a special issues hearing here Friday.Blais, 23, of Montreal, struck Brouillard, 43, twice on the back of the skull with a steel bar in the prison’s machine shop.Brouillard was declared clinically dead on arrival at Sher brooke's CHUS but was kept alive un til Nov.11 so that his kidneys could be donated to the centre’s organ bank “We are at the stage of the preliminary hearing on a charge of second degree murder and both the Crown and the defence have had an opportunity to study the reports prepared by psychiatrist Jacques Talbot and Pierre Gagné,” Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk explained "In view of the reports and their conclusion that there was no rational motive for the crime, the Crown has decided to procédé on a charge of involuntary homo cide (manslaughter) The defence will be based on temporary insanity which will not be contested due to the reports indicating diminished responsibility according to article 16 of the Criminal Code." Defence lawyer Jacques Dupuis then opted for trial before a magis trate alone, entered a plea of not guil ty and elected immediate trial He made admissions concerning the and allowed production of the autopsy report which listed the causes of death as two massive skull fractures accompanyed by internal hemmora-ging He told the court testimony at the inquest — when Blais told coroner Suzanne Mireault that "God made me do it" would be substantiated by the testimony of the psychiatrists.Talbot, a psychiatrist at the Pinel Institute for the Criminally Insane, said he examined Blais in a cursory manner shortly after his arraignment then for a longer period from December through early February when he showed symptoms of serious psychotic problems indicating he was a high danger to society.He termed Blais’ disorder as severe psychotic schizophrenia with a consistant pattern and said the incident at the penitentiary occurred when he was suffering advanced psychosis “He had been depressed during the six months leading up to the incident when he claimed he heard voices which culminated in the act when he was hallucinating,’’ Talbot said, “He heard as coercive voice, one he deemed to be that of God, which made him act God told him to kill and if he hadn't obeyed the command it would have been a breach of faith.The act was done in cold blood with no hate involved, it was something he had to do which was manifested when he nl lowed himself to be disarmed and offered no resistance.It was all perfectly normal to him within the context of his major mental problem ; in short, a necessary act MATHIAS TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE Sales & Service Reconditioned Typewriters Repairs to All Makes 41 Wellington St.North phone 562 0440 IT W WWW Admission S4bu Stutlents 1 IS m iwq I IS JÉAaMÉMMMMÉÉI mm 4—The RECORD—Monday, April 16.19K4 The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Overcrowded prisons facing an era of violence KINGSTON, Ont.(CP)— Overcrowding in federal penitentiaries — forcing some prisoners to share already cramped cells — is reaching crisis proportions in Canada and may be at the core of escalating prison violence.That's the charge of angry guards and prisoners across the country who are protesting such conditions at most of the 59 federal security institutions.Harried corrections officials, guards and prisoners are keeping an intent eye on a pending Federal Court decision in Manitoba on whether the practice of double-bunking constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.The court challenge was launched by five inmates of Manitoba's medium-security Stony Mountain Penitentiary, where about 300 prisoners destroyed a section of newly-installed bunks less than two years ago.About 550 of more than 11,000 federal prisoners are now living two to a cell, down from a peak of 896 six months ago.Sharing a two-by-3'/2-metre cell is a recent phenomenon in federal prisons, although double-bunking and even triple-bunking is common in provincial jails, where terms are shorter.LEAD TO TROUBLE “They’re laying the foundation for so much trouble and violence it’s unbelievable,’’ says Ron Van Bree, an exprisoner who was double-bunked at Joy-ceville Institution in Kingston.“At one point I went and got locked up in the hole (segregation) to get away from it all, but I found out it was all double-bunked too.” Van Bree told the Kingston Whig- Standard the shared cells aggravate the problem of homosexual activity among prisoners and destroy any sense of security in the jungle of prison life.Graham Stewart, director of Kingston’s John Howard Society, warns the anticipation among prisoners that double-bunking will spread has severely aggravated tensions in overcrowded prisons.Bob Boucher of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, which represents Kings-ton-area guards, says prisons are no longer able to control their inmate populations because overcrowding makes it difficult to segregate and punish prisoners.The impact of overcrowding on health and behavior is well-documented, showing higher rates of illness, death, suicide, self-mutilation, psychiatric problems and violent confrontations between inmates and staff.WOES INCREASE In 1983, when the Canadian prison population swelled by about 1,000 prisoners, there were 16 suicides, 276 self-mutilations, 389 assaults on inmates, 121 assaults on staff, seven inmates murdered and one staff member murdered.Solicitor General Robert Kaplan has launched an investigation into a recent surge of violence in Kingston-area prisons.Millhaven maximum-security prison has had five homicides in 12 weeks, although double-bunking is not practised there.The statistics on prison population are not encouraging.More prisoners are admitted to federal penitentiaries than released.And the federal Correctional Service, which administers prisons, projects the current population of 11,000 will grow by almost 4,000 during the next 10 years.Building seven or eight new prisons to accommodate those inmates — at about $150,000 a cell — would mean a massive capital expenditure of almost $359 million.In addition, prison operating costs are projected to escalate 50 per cent over the next decade to $614 million from $450 million.STILL SHORT Construction already approved and under way will add 1,502 bunks to the system at a cost of $235.7 million.But when those projects are completed over the next five years, Canada’s prison system will still be short about 2,400 cells.In a July 1983 report entitled Incarceration: A Plea for Restraint, senior corrections officials urged the courts to show restraint when sentencing criminals.With the second-highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world (the United States is first), Canada is handing out longer prison sentences and has an almost stagnant parole rate, both of which add to the prison crowding problem.The number of prisoners serving two-to-three-year sentences has jumped to 26 per cent from 19 per cent —- a sign judges are opting to impose prison sentences of more than two years instead of sending offenders to provincial jails for two years less a day.Fergus O’Connor, director of the Queen’s University correctional law project, says Canada’s sentencing process, by giving judges a great deal of discretion, increases the impact of public opinion on the courts.REFLECTS SWING reflected in a general desire to take steps to increase law and order,” he said, “and there is some feeling that higher sentences for offenders is one of the steps that can be taken.” Stewart of the John Howard Society says the parole board is not responding to the longer sentences handed down by the courts.“It’s not taking up the slack.And it doesn’t take many years of that for the prison population to increase dramatically.The parole board is a much more conservative institution than most people realize,” Stewart says.Parole rates have remained fairly stable for the past six years.In 1982-83, the board granted full parole to 37.2 per cent of all federal prisoners who applied, compared to 41 per cent in 1981-82.The rate increased slightly to 44.6 per cent this year.But even though prisoners become eligible for full parole after serving one-third of their sentence, they serve an average 44 per cent of their sentence before being paroled and many end up with only day parole when they are eligible for full parole.Kaplan says he is preparing recommendations to address the problem of prison overcrowding, which include “encouraging the parole board to review cases at earlier opportunities instead of postponing day parole.” Earlier, the minister said overcrowding in Canadian prisons is far less severe than in the United States and that double-bunking is a short-term solution."It’s a last resort for us.We don’t want it as a permanent condition.” “The conservative swing in society is Nova Scotia’s Ombudsman hears litany of complaints Boats in the bathtub Did Jacques Cartier discover Québec or Canada, or both?Or did the explorer from St.M alo just get lost while trying to look for a short cut to China 450 years ago?René Lévesque, a Nordiques fan, says Car-tier discovered Québec.The federal government says the man from St.Malo discovered Canada, and sent Jean-Luc Pepin to the Brittany town to make sure the premier didn't stick a flag into French soil and claim it in the name of Québec.Pepin didn’t do his job, because after a ceremony commemorating Cartier’s voyage of discovery in 1534, there were more blue flags visible in St.Malo than red ones.Lévesque claimed victory, and said it was an omen in the playoff series between the Montreal Canadians (in red) and the Québec Nordiques (in blue — see this morning’s sports page).Poor Jacques Cartier.If he had known what kind of rhetoric would be caused by his innocent search for the Northwest Passage, he probably would have stayed home in St.Malo.But he didn’t.He set sail in 1534, hoping to find the fast way to the Orient.Instead he came across the Gaspé Penninsula, cruised a little around the Gulf of St.Lawrence and headed home after taking possession of all he saw in the name of the King of France.The next year Cartier repeated the voyage and made it all the way up the St.Lawrence to a place he named Mont Royal.When he returned to France his report on the land he discovered was so negative his king and backer lost interest in the place.Exploration went on however, and in 1608 Samuel de Champlain founded Québec City, and in 1663 Canada became the royal colony of New France.The French race established itself, and Voyageurs became legend, exploring the interior of the new land in the search for beaver pelts.Then the British showed up and conquered the territory, and in 1867, Canada became a dominion.Now the premier of the province which is the home to most of Cartier’s descendants in Canada is telling everyone the explorer discovered a door but not a house.There is no doubt the French settled Québec, but it is equally certain the settling of Québec was the first step in Canada’s development.The struggle for a separate Québec is a legitimate one, but hopefully won’t succeed.Canada should be able to show the world how two cultures and languages can run one country.In the meantime let’s not get silly and argue over what Cartier discovered.Lévesque can say what he wants, but even if Canada did lose Québec from its repetoire of provinces, the history of the country would begin “In 1534 Jacques Cartier sailed into the Gulf.” It would only be recent history that would be changed.And anyway, the whole argument is an insult to Canada’s native people, who were here long before Jacques Cartier was playing with model boats in the bathtub.PETER SCOWEN ‘It’s sort of public relations for wildlife’ GRANTS PASS, Ore (AP) — Perched atop of a pine tree, a female kestrel falcon screeched at Dave Siddon.He tossed a piece of red meat high in the air, where the grey and russet bird caught it in its talons and flew off.The kestrel is one of hundreds of birds of prey that Siddon and his wife, Judy, have mended and returned to the wild “She’s been free for six years now,” said Siddon.“She still comes by occasionally for a handout and to show off her young." Besides about 100 eagles, hawks, kestrels, owls and a turkey vulture, the Siddons care for a pair of bear cubs, six cougars, a raccoon and a wolf-dog mongrel on their two-hectare property near the Rogue river “There’s no biological significance to this,” Siddon said recently.“We’re not saving endangered species.It’s sort of a repayment for things I’ve gotten from the wild It’s sort of public relations for wildlife ” Most of the animals are kept in cages outside, but occasionally they spill over into the house Five baby barn owls, found in a truckload of hay by a local farmer, hiss menacingly at anyone who passes their cardboard box set on the washer and dryer.GIVE TO ZOOS Animals that cannot be returned to the wild are given to zoos or used in educational programs the Siddons present in schools around the region.The declawed South American cougar, wolf-dog and turkey vulture are among the animals the Siddons show at school assemblies.They figure they have reached about two million people with the six wildlife education programs they supervise in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Delaware, Washington and Oregon Siddon began caring for injured birds when he was a boy and people brought them to his father, who raised parakeets, cockatoos and other pet birds.A former newspaperman, cameraman and writer for some Disney wildlife films, Siddon moved to southern Oregon from southern California about 10 years ago.Authorized by a federal permit to care for injured wild animals, the Siddons paid for the work themselves for a while, but it just kept growing Though known best for their work with eagles, the Siddons won’t reject any injured animal brought to them for help.ROBIN RECOVERING “Somebody brought in a couple of robins their cat chewed up the other day," Siddon said.One died, but the other was recovering.By Connie Camp HALIFAX (CP) — An unemployed woman determined to work at sea was unable to get Employment Canada to pay for her training because the department’s quota at a nautical school was filled.So she used her unemployment benefits to pay for the course, landed a job on a gypsum boat and then ran into the kind of bureaucratic stickiness that keeps Nova Scotia’s ombudsman busy.The Unemployment Insurance Commission wanted her to repay more than $600 in benefits.Obviously, the commission said, she was not readily available for work if she was going to school.“We think such enterprise, which took the lady off the unemployment rolls, should be recognized in a somewhat better way,” said Ombudsman William Campbell, whose office advised the woman she could appeal.He never heard how she did but based on similar cases, assumed the commission stuck to its rules.Like many of the 950 complaints last year, this one didn’t fall within Campbell’s jurisdiction.The office was created in 1971 to investigate complaints from people who believe they have been wronged by provincial or municipal governments.But people feeling wronged by the federal government, private companies, their families and neighbors frequently call on Campbell and his staff of four.And in most cases, the office will take a stab at straightening things out, even if it’s only a phone call to somebody who can help IDEAS STOLEN Kms um-'Scmr^TS wsi resmo R$U t^atcau in acid lak^s.f c.TftiWAN - w V 'mmmà 1 j 1.i-yr- wjtyi i u : o?" 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