The record, 14 février 1985, jeudi 14 février 1985

Thursday Births, deaths .9 Business.7 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .8 Education .5 City .3 “Just stay where you are and blow me a kiss.’’ Soviet boss completes first year By Charles Bremner MOSCOW (Reuter) — Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko completed a year in office Wednesday, but there was deep concern over his health and Pravda discussed the ease of Kremlin leadership changes.Chernenko, 73, succeeded Yuri Andropov as party leader a year ago and became president last April.He dropped from public view on Dec.27 and officials have acknowledged he has been ill, although they have denied his condition was serious.Western experts say he suffers from a respiratory ailment.The press Wednesday published fresh material indicating Chernenko was working, but Pravda ran a front-page editorial praising the party’s ability to ensure the continuity of its policies through leadership changes.Speculation that his condition was serious grew Tuesday when a Greek spokesman said the Kremlin called off a planned meeting between Chernenko and Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou because of the president’s illness.Foreign Ministry spokesmen yesterday denied a meeting had been scheduled but the Greeks contradicted them.Some diplomats speculated the confusion could reflect manoeuvring at the top of the party over the succession.Diplomats said the Soviet official’s frank acknowledgement of his illness indicated the question of a successor may have been settled, with most pointing to Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, as heir.REPORTS SPREAD Informed Soviet sources in Moscow have also been spreading reports that Chernenko could agree to step down soon — a move unprecedented in the Soviet Union’s 67-year history.Others reported that the leadership, still dominated by the “old guard,” favored Moscow city party chief Viktor Grishin, 70, as another short-term leader.Today’s Pravda editorial said: “Skillfully using and developing its great accumulation of experience, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ensures the succession of the leadership, implementing its internal and external policies.” Western diplomats said the editorial was to be expected on the anniversary of a leadership change.But it was clearly aimed at reassuring the party when the Kremlin was without a visible leader for the second time in 18 months and could face its third change in little over two years, they said.Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Thursday, February 14, 1985 35 cents SNOW JAMES MacASKlUL POPE MEMORIAL PRIMARY SCHOOL Hatfield denies he supplied students with party drugs FREDERICTON (CP) — Premier Richard Hatfield, saying he has been the victim of malicious falsehoods, denied Wednesday that he gave drugs to three university students in 1981 and said he will not resign.Hatfield’s statement, ending more than a week of silence on the allegations, did not address his private meeting with Solicitor General Elmer MacKay on Oct.7 before the premier was charged and found not guilty of marijuana possession.The following is the statement he read in forceful, measured tones to a roomful of reporters in the Centennial Building, home of the main offices of Hatfield’s Progressive Conservative government.“Because my stubborn sense of justice has been so offended and with the knowledge of my own innocence I have now decided to make a statement.On Jan.29, in a public courtroom in Fredericton, I successfully defended myself against a criminal charge of possession of marijuana.Now I find that I must defend myself against serious allegations and rumors brought against me, not in a courtroom where they can be questioned and impartially adjudicated, but in the national media.The sting of these new accusations against me is that it is said I invited students into my home four years ago and supplied them with drugs.I completely and unequivocally deny that charge.When told the narcotic was found (in September 1984) in an outer pocket of my suitcase I said it was not mine.I stated publicly I did not put it there.Nevertheless, I was charged with possession.This was done even though: The authorities knew at least two people were aware a narcotic had been found in my suitcase before I was told.How did they know?All those who were aware of the discovery swore under oath that no one outside the RCMP was told.How did they know?Who told them?The authorities knew my suitcase had been tampered with long after it left my possession.The (Fredericton) airport manager testified he placed it in his assistant’s office.It was left unattended in an unlocked opened room to which many people had access.When the assistant manager returned to his office the zipper to one of the outside pockets was open He closed it.The narcotic was subsequently discovered in one of these outside pockets.Why was the pocket opened?Who opened the pocket?See HATFIELD, page 2 X RECORD/ROBERT PALMER Not quite a godfather, but.Tory cabinet minister Robert Layton, who is responsible for Ottawa’s relationship with Quebec’s English-speaking communities, met with directors of the Townshippers Association Wednesday and liked it so much he didn’t want to leave.Story, page 3.Lortie handed a life sentence By Paul Mooney QUEBEC (CP) — Cpl.Denis Lortie was found guilty Wednesday of three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of three government employees in a submachine-gun attack on the Quebec National Assembly last May.Mr.Justice Ivan Mignault, who wyers, the seven women and five blasted defence lawyers for the way they handled Lortie’s case, sentenced the Canadian Forces supply clerk to the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole for 25 years.The Quebec Superior Court noted, however, that Lortie can ask for a judicial review of his parole eligiblity after he has served 15 years.Lortie showed no emotion as jury foreman Rene Cote stood and pronounced him guilty for the premeditated murders of George Boyer, Camille Lepage, and Roger Le-francois.The jury began deliberation on Saturday.At the request of defence la- Picture may not be rosy at ministers conference By Madelaine Drohan REGINA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the 10 provincial premiers sit down today at a federal-provincial conference some observers have billed the St.Valentine’s Day love-in.But there were indications from some of the arriving premiers Wednesday that the two-day meeting may not be as congenial as was earlier anticipated.Most of the premiers said they intended to raise the question of high interest rates, the issue that bedevilled the last major federal-provincial gathering.Although the February 1982 conference ended in failure, with no agreement on interest rates or anything else, all the premiers and the prime minister predicted this meeting would have results.Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed said his main concern was a drop in the value of the Canadian dollar below 75 cents U.S., which he feared would prompt the federal government to raise interest rates.The dollar has fallen to record lows in the last two weeks and interest rates have begun to climb after falling steadily since midsummer.“We really hope very much and will press hard that there not be a return to monetary policy that will move interest rates in Canada to try to protect the Canadian dollar,” he told reporters.Lougheed said higher rates would be “inopportune” and would hurt western farmers.Lougheed and British Columbia Premier Bill Bennett arrived Tuesday.Ontario Premier Frank Miller, sworn in last Friday, said no “extraordinary” measures should be taken to keep the Canadian currency in line with the U.S.dollar.“We shouldn’t put our national pride on the line and say that our dollar has to go up as fast as the American dollar,” Miller said.“We shouldn’t take extraordinary measures to try to maintain it by forcing interest rates up and thereby slowing down business investment.” LET DOLLAR FLOAT Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford advocated a floating dollar, saying that even a further drop in value would help exports.“We don’t think there are any negative down sides to letting the dollar float,” said Peckford.“And that would help get interest rates down.” Leader question ‘cannot be avoided’ — Lévesque QUEBEC (CP) — Vowing to stay on as premier, René Lévesque says he is ready to deal with the question of his continuing leadership at a special Parti Québécois caucus meeting next week.The premier, however, suggested to reporters Wednesday the issue may not be settled to everyone’s satisfaction: “I’m starting to ask myself if the question is ever going to put to rest once and for all — as long as I’m here.” Speaking before his departure for a first ministers’ meeting in Regina, Lévesque conceded the leadership question “cannot be avoided” at the caucus meeting Feb.19-20.Two members of the PQ cabinet, Francois Gendron of education and Jean-Guy Rodrigue of energy, said Tuesday the leadership issue has to be on the agenda of the special caucus meeting.Reports indicate that as many as a dozen PQ caucus members were prepared to urge Lévesque to quit following a speech last week with off-color jokes that was poorly received.It was closely monitored by the media as Lévesque’s first public outing since returning from a vacation after he was diagnosed by doctors as suffering from overwork.BACK FROM MOROCCO Meanwhile, PQ back-bencher Jacques Baril is to hold a news conference today in Victoriaville to clarify his decision not to quit the PQ caucus as he originally said he would.Baril was convinced by Lévesque not to resign last November in reaction to the shelving of the independence issue in the next election and to wait for publication of the PQ electoral platform before deciding on running in the next election.Seven ministers did resign from caucus over the question of dropping independence from the party’s electoral platform, but Baril took a vacation in Morocco instead and missed the PQ convention.The resignations have left the PQ with a slender three-seat majority — excluding the speaker — in the 122-seat national assembly.While resignations by assembly members appear to have tapered off, PQ activists continue to drop out of the party hierarchy.On Wednesday, four of six executive members of the PQ’s regional association on the south-shore of Montreal — which includes the premier’s riding of Taillon — resigned to protest the party’s new-foundbrand of federalism.The previous day, half of the PQ’s executive in its stronghold of Chicoutimi quit their posts.WAR OF WORDS The defections have led to war of words between Lévesque loyalists and dissidents.Just as Wednesday’s resignations were announced, PQ headquarters countered with the announcement that more than 500 new recruits had joined in the Hull region.In making the announcement, PQ vice-president Nadia Assimo-poulos downplayed the rift in the party and congratulated party activists in Hull for their “dynamism.” men were polled individually and told the judge they agreed with the verdict.The diminutive 25-year-old soldier, who is married with two young children, was handcuffed and stood calmly in the prisoner’s dock between two guards as Mignault rendered sentence.The jury rejected defence arguments that Lortie was in a psychotic state at the time of the bloody rampage in the provincial legislature that left three dead and 13 others wounded.DELIVERS SENTENCE Mignault said he was obligated by law to hand down the sentence he passed on the young,soldier.“I don’t do it out of vengeance,” he said.“It’s the law.“I’m sure you regret your actions, and I’ll say that in your name,” he said after Lortie waived his right to speak.He told Lortie his eligiblity for parole can be revised by the courts at the end of 15 years and if that request is rejected, “you can come back to this court and ask again.So all is not lost.I wish you good luck.“When the parole board asks me for a report, it will be lengthy and not unfavorable to you,” said Mignault.Article 672 of the Criminal Code states that people convicted of first-degree murder can request a judicial review of parole eligibility after 15 years of their sentence has been served.A jury can reject the request for revision, reduce the number of years the convict has to wait before becoming eligible for parole or terminate the ineligiblity for parole.The judge criticized defence lawyers Andre Royer and Francois Fortier for not presenting evidence to support testimony by psychiatrists that Lortie grew up with a brutal and incestuous father.“Proof was easy to obtain,” said Mignault.“Even if you had come to this court with evidence that a complaint had been laid against his father we would have had reason to believe such a thing affected the children.“As it was, we had the right to believe the incest charge was false.” During his lengthy instructions to the jury last week, Mignault said testimony by psychiatrists based on their interviews with Lortie constituted hearsay and were not proven fact.U.S.legislation will cost Canadian industry, CL A head says By Kevin Dougherty MONTREAL (CP) — The “Canadians go home” message in a bill before the U.S.Congress threatens as many as 75,000 jobs in Canada’s lumber industry, the president of the Canadian Lumbermen’s Association said Wednesday.Daniel Smith told reporters at the first day of the association’s annual meeting that the proposed rollback in softwood lumber exports to the United States, limiting the Canadian market share to 25 per cent, could cut jobs here by 20 to 25 per cent.The lumber industry employs 300,000 Canadians directly and supports another 700,000 jobs across the country.“If the current attempts to le- gislate against or harass, so as to restrict Canadian lumber imports, are successful the effect on the Canadian industry would be catastrophic,” said Smith.He said one of the main themes at this year’s association convention will be the “Canadians go home attitude that our competitors in our major U.S.market are working hard to advance.” He added that American statistics indicating Canadian softwood lumber accounts for 30 per cent of the market are wrong, estimating the actualfigure is closer to 28 per cent.Congressmen Jim Weaver of Oregon and Larry Craig of Idaho have introduced a bill calling for a 25-per-cent ceiling on Canadian importsto the United States of softwood lumber siding, shakes, shingles and particle board for a five-year period.They say the imports are costing jobs in the United States, blaming the attractive price of Canadian lumber on the shrinking Canadian dollar.Imports of softwood lumber, used mostly in construction, have risen steadily since 1980 beyond the traditional level of 25 per cent.“We apologize for the high U.S.dollar,” Weaver said at a Washington news conference last week.“But because of that, we have to ask Canadians to stick to their traditional share (of the U.S.lumber market.)” Association vice-president Bill Hatch said that because there are no import duties on lumber between the two countries “we have one market in North America” and there is an oversupply on both sides of the border.“It makes better economic sense for them to import construction lumber from Canada and direct their domestic species to export markets or highervalued products,” added Smith.On the other hand, he said, the higher American dollar is “extremely inflationary for Canadian producers” because it boosts the prices they pay for sawmill equipment imported from the United States.This latest effort to limit Canadian lumber imports will be on the agenda at a meeting in Ottawa Feb.26 of trade officials from the United States and Canada Federal Forestry Minister Gerry Merrithew says the Canadian government is concerned about the bill.It could also figure in discussions between President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Quebec City on March 17.A U.S.trade official has indicated the Reagan administration is not backing the bill, but the possibility remains that the U.S.forest industry could seek countervailing duties on Canadian lumber.A similar attempt failed two years ago.“Just the harassment alone can have some effect,” Smith said.“It forces Canadians to rethink their market approach." The Canadian lumber industry is caught in the dilemma of dwin dling tree supplies and an oversupply of lumber.By 1990 the industry will be forced to exceed its annual allowable cutbut reforestation programs, which are starting to pick up, will not produce dividends for another 30 years.Andre Lemire, past president of the association, said there is an oversupply of lumber because sawmills have to operate at 100 per cent capacity just to cover ex penses.Smith said it would be difficult to control production and regulate prices as agricultural producers do because there are too many independent producers.“I’m not sure it wouldn't be against the law.” he added.*1 2—The RECORD—Thursday, February 14, 1985 Tiffany’s owner praises Coates as being a ‘really polite’ person By Nicole Baer OTTAWA (CP) — Robert Coates is a well-mannered gentleman whose resignation as Canada’s defence minister is a lamentable surprise, Lothar Schaudt, the owner of a West German nightclub offering nude dancing and pornographic movies, said Wednesday.And a stripper at Tiffany’s, a bar near Canadian Forces Base Lahr, said she feels “very bad” about the resignation Tuesday of Coates, with whom she chatted for more than an hour last November.Both Schaudt and stripper Micki O’Neil said they remember Coates in the bar with two other men, but insist they only learned over the weekend from inquiring reporters that Coates was then defence minister.“He was nice, charming, polite and therefore we could remember him,” Schaudt said in a telephone interview.“I just recall his face and I remember this man in a positive light,” he said, adding he did not personally speak with Coates.“Your Mr.Coates was sitting at a table,” said Schaudt.“He wanted to have fun for his eyes, nothing more.” O’Neil, 38, said she went over to Coates’ table to introduce herself and stayed “maybe one or HA hours.” “I just had a normal conversation with him, like with every average person,” she said.O’Neil, who said she was wearing “normal clothes,” recalled the two did not talk about Canada and Coates left an hour or two before she did because she hadn’t yet finished work.CAN’T RECALL Schaudt said “it was too long ago” to recall what Coates’ aides — reported to have been chief of staff Rick Logan and press secretary Jeff Matthews — did at his bar But O’Neil said she did not think Coates’ “two friends” left the cabaret-contrary to reports saying the men disappeared to other parts of the establishment with two women.“They just maybe went to the bar because .(from) where I was sitting with Mr.Coates, I couldn’t see where they went, but they only left for a few minutes,” she said.Inside the club, housed in a white stucco building near a highway, is a bar overlooking some couches and a dance floor.On a wall facing the bar is a giant screen on which adult movies are shown.The couches and dance floor are separated by a handrail from an area containing about 10 tables, where patrons can order small champagne drinks for about $22 each.Men who go to the club are approached by pretty women asking that they be bought expensive drinks.There is also a curtained exit behind which are five booths.At the end of a hallway past the booths is a room containing two couches and a table.Asked about Coates’ resignation, delivered to a hushed Commons just a few hours after reports of the minister’s visit to Tiffany’s were published, Schaudt said: “It’s probably hard for a man like that, it is also quite surprising.“And it is something that man did not deserve,” he added.Schaudt said he feels “sorry for that man because he was really polite,” and he took a shot at the Ottawa Citizen for first bringing the matter to light.But he refused to comment when asked whether he considered it strange that a minister would resign from cabinet after visiting his nightclub.Both Schaudt and O’Neil denied having been approached by police following the incident, noting questions have all come from journalists.“It certainly is publicity for me, but a negative kind,” Schaudt said.“It’s not good for the gentleman (Coates) and not good for me.” Hatfield says students lying about night of dope and partying Continued from page I I was found innocent because the marijuana was not mine and I did not put it in the suitcase.The truth is that some other person or persons deliberately planted the narcotic in my suitcase in order to disgrace me and to force my removal from office.It is my belief that whoever did this terrible thing were the same persons who orches- trated these new false accusations.How then can I defend myself against these accusations?I have always believed in the Canadian system of justice as inherited from Britain.Under that system, citizens are innocent until proven guiulty and when a man is acquitted in open court he is not then persecuted for matters that would never be brought against him in the courtroom.I must rely on the de- cency anbd common sense of the people of New Brunswick.I believe that throughout this ordeal, and save for the trial in the Fredericton courtroom, I have been treated less fairly by the justice system than other Canadians.As the judge at my trial said, ‘Never has so much been done by so many for such a little.’ The police waited a month before charging me.In violation of my rights under the Charter the Crown delayed giving me notice of the specific charge against me in a vain attempt to compel me to incriminate myself.At the trial admissions were made of the use of unprecedented investigatory procedures in a case of this kind — lasers were used (for fingerprint analysis), couriers for marijuana analysis, and expert police witnesses giving unprecedented evidence.The Crown called 17 witnesses.In gathering evidence police travelled to Toronto and elsewhere to dig up unrelated slanders.When, despite all this exceptional and indeed extraordinary effort, I was acquitted, within a matter of days a lawyer from the federal Department of Justice located in Ottawa confirmed to an Opposition member of Parliament that statements were made and the identification of the men who performed on television last week.As far as I can tell the lawyer’s conduct was certainly unprecedented and unprofessional and improper.The Opposition member of Parliament has said he was told the name of one of the men by Southam News.How did they know?It is my information that at the same time certain representatives of the media throughout the country received unmarked brown envelopes containing the two statements.Who sent these envelopes?Why were they sent?The Opposition member of Parliament, using his parliamentary privilege, made public before the nation accusations that could not be brought against me fairly in a courtroom.Following this these two persons were brought forward to tell their own unlikely stories in an attempt to discredit me in my trusted office.The statements made by these men that I used a narcotic in their presence and that I supplied a nar- cotic to them are completely false.It is true that they were in my home together with others some four years ago.However, they were strangers to me.Those who know me will confirm I am extremely gregarious.I meet and talk to people on the streets, in the markets and the shops, in the restaurants and in the bars.I invite them to my house.I go to their houses.The door to my house is usually unlocked abd frequently open.That is my way.I admit I am unconventional.It is the same when I travel.Especially in New Brunswick, because these people are my constituents and members of the public of the province.I cannot and do not know the character or habits or truthfulness of every one of them.When these false statements were published I remained silent because once again I was obliged to obtain legal advice.I am advised it is open to me to commence action for defamation.While this is not an option I have rejected, and it is one I would not hesitate to pursue if ultimately required, there are serious competing considerations.Some four months elapsed between the planting of the marijuana in an outer pocket of my suitcase and my acquittal.During this time I experienced immense strain and personal distress.Must I now defend myself forever against other slanders anu stale, dated tales?I received the office I hold as a result of a free election and a democratic process.That is the only process which will remove me from this office.It would be a breach of the faith all Canadians have in the integrity of that process if I were to allow myself to be removed in any other way.I want to close by appealing to that sense of decency and fair play which best characterizes New Brunswick.The presumption of innocence is a fundamental right of every Canadian including me.I have been found innocent in a fair trial of the only charge brought against me.To those who sought to profit by their wickedness, they should know they have failed.To those who believed in me and supported me and relied on me, I have not and I will not let you down.” A bump on the noggin REGINA (CP) — An unidentified security guard cracked his skull Wednesday as about two dozen reporters and cameramen mobbed New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield when he arrived at the airport for the first ministers’ conference beginning today.The man was knocked over as the journalists surrounding Hatfield swept past another group of reporters who had cornered Manitoba Premier Howard Pawley.Blood ran from the man’s head as the Hatfield group passed.“Do you mind showing me the way to the (luggage) carousel?” Hatfield asked.The New Brunswick premier, acquitted of a marijuana possession charge stemming from an incident last autumn, was surrounded by journalists as he tried to retrieve his luggage.With television and print cameramen darting through the airport crowds, Hatfield eventually gave up and strolled out to a waiting limousine.After all these years.TORONTO (CP) - Meryl Duns-more’s secret admirer has brightened her Valentine’s Day once again.The 73-year-old Toronto housewife says she has been receiving Valentines every February since 1928 from a mysterious secret admirer who sends them from different parts of the world.This year was no exception.On Wednesday, one day before Valentine’s Day, Dunsmore said she received a Valentine in a carefully sealed red envelope, just as she has since high school.“Those were very saucy cards teasing me about being a flirt or warning me that I’d be an old maid,” she recalled.“I’m no wiser.” Gunman still inside home RIMOUSKI, Que.(CP) —Quebec provincial police brought in a remote-controlled robot Wednesday as they tried to persuade a gunman holed up in a house near here for two days to surrender.Police said the 31-year-old man fired random shots Tuesday from his home in nearby Luceville but no shots were fired Wednesday.Via Rail, however, is busing passengers between Mont-Joli and Ri-viere-du-Loup on either side of Luceville as a precautionary measure, said Via Rail spokesman Marcel Bordeleau.He said the railway did not believe any of its trains were hit by bullets Tuesday.Police Const.Berlin Barrette said police have been using the robot equipped with a radio and television camera to maintain contact with the man who is believed armed with several rifles and shotguns.The incident began late Monday when the man returned home and told six friends to leave, said Barrette.Police were summoned to the house after he fired a shot into the ceiling.About 40 officers staked out the home and cordoned off the area to traffic.Twenty-five residents of neighboring houses were evacuated.Dead baby’s mother found MONTREAL (CP) — Police said Wednesday they have identified an Ontario teenager as the mother of a baby boy whose body was discovered in the toilet of a bus which had been chartered by the Canadian Forces.Det.-Lieut.Jean-Louis Helie said the identity of the woman is being withheld pending an investigation into the infant’s death by Montreal police.The 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main, but Gaz Métropolitain blamed the incident on a city work crew repairing nearby power lines.“We think they knocked the gas line,” said Gaz Métropolitain spokesman Ahmed Gaili-peau.Mohawks ignore Indian status law MONTREAL (CP) — The Caughnawaga Indian band, whose members say they and not the federal government should determine who is a Mohawk Indian, welcomed four new families into the band this week.Myrtle Bush, one of 12 chiefs on the band council, said Wednesday the new families were those in which an Indian woman was married to a man of mixed Indian-white background.The women lacked Indian status under Canadian law, usually because their fathers were not Indian.Auto standards to be imposed OTTAWA (CP)—Canadian motorists will probably be told to clean up their act, but by when and how much have yet to be decided, an aide to Transport Minister Don Mazankowski said Wednesday.A final decision and announcement on new auto emission standards is expected within a few weeks, press secretary Tom Van Dusen said.Death penalty bill introduced OTTAWA (CP) — Conservative MP Dan McKenzie introduced a private member’s bill in the Commons Wednesday calling for the restoration of capital punishment for first-degree murder.McKenzie, MP for the riding of Winnipeg-Assiniboine, is the fourth Tory MP to introduce such a bill demanding the reinstatement of the death penalty.The other three are Peterborough MP Bill Domm, Gerry St.Germain of Mission-Port Moody, B.C., and Gordon Taylor of Bow River, Alta.Oldsters plan Valentine wedding LINCOLN, 111.(AP) — Cupid’s arrow has hit Mary and Desmond Weindorf yet again, and the couple, in their 80s, plan to end their latest divorce on Valentine’s Day and marry each other for the third time.*4.J 3 J “Maybe we’ll get it right this time,” says Weindorf, 85.After the wedding today, Weindorf will move into his new bride’s room at the nursing home here where they now have separate rooms.The couple were first married on Valentine’s Day in 1924 and since then have been married a total of 37 years and divorced 24, said Sue Nea-vill, 40, their youngest of four living children.Mrs.Weindorf said she “didn’t care a thing about him (Des)” when she entered the nursing home, but, giggling, added: “He started bringing me a banana every morning.” One thing led to another and, last month, Weindorf popped the question.“I don’t know what I said but it was beautiful,” he said.“I didn’t get down on my knees though.I wouldn’t have been able to get up.” Professors protest gov’t cuts Women rabbis admitted Expert rejects famine explanation MONTREAL (CP) — A group repesenting professors at all of the province’s unversities launched a $200,000 publicity campaign Wednesday to criticize Quebec government spending cuts which they say are “strangling” universities.The professors say the universities, which receive four per cent of the province’s budget, have had to shoulder 10 per cent of Quebec’s budget cuts.As a result, universities are under funded by $300 million or about a third of their actual needs while enrolments have risen by 30,000 since 1978.TORONTO (CP) — The Rabbinical Assembly, the international organization of Conservative rabbis, has voted to admit women into the movement’s governing body for the first time.The vote opens the way for women rabbis to lead Conservative congregations.“It is a very far-reaching decision because it affirms the legitimacy of women rabbis functioning in the field,” Rabbi Alexander Shapiro, president of the assembly, said in a telephone interview Wednesday from a synagogue in South Orange, N.J.WASHINGTON (Reuter) — A prominent U.S.meteorologist said Wednesday that Ethiopia has plenty of water and suggested the country’s Marxist rulers are blaming the weather for their own mismanagement in the current famine.Drought played only a minor role in the famine, said Douglas Le Comte, chief assessor for foreign weather for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and consultant on weather to the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization.Flying senator not offended by comic strip WASHINGTON (AP) —Cartoonist Garry Trudeau calls it “the most extraordinary junket in the history of Congress,” but Senator Jake Gam isn’t offended by the down-to-earth humor about his impending space shuttle trip.“That (criticism) was raised almost from the moment he was asked to entertain the possibility of a flight,” said Bill Hendrix, Gam’s press secretary.“He takes his mission much too seriously to be bothered by that.” The Republican senator from Utah, readying for a four-day mission scheduled for blastoff on March 3, was in training in Houston and unavailable to reporters who tried to reach him Tuesday and Wednesday.But Gam has seen the comics.“We showed him (the strip) and he thought it was pretty funny,” Hendrix said, referring to Monday’s instalment, which noted that one of Gam’s main jobs will be to conduct experiments in motion sickness.In the strip, Gam is interviewed by Doonesbury television correspondent Roland Hedley aboard a KC-135 military aircraft being flown to simulate weightlessness.Hedley is investigating whether Gam, “no stranger to weightlessness,” is qualified for his mission — “to throw up on request.” As a floating Hedley poses that question, an off-frame voice warns, “Heads up!” Gam has called himself a “medical guinea pig” for the space agency, and Hendrix says, “He’s amused by it just like everybody else.” In Tuesday’s instalment of the strip, Hedley tells Garn that “many people feel your trip is the most extraordinary junket in the history of Congress.” The reporter suggests that a poet or essayist wou'd be better able to tell the public about space since Garn, like many members of Congress, would have his staff write the speeches about the flight.Hendrix said that won’t happen.“Anybody who knows Jake Garn knows that he never follows a text,” even if his staff has one prepared.“It wouldn’t matter what we wrote — Jake Garn speaks for himself,” he said.Wednesday’s strip returned to the nausea theme.“Barfin’ Jake Garn, a man and his mission,” Hedley says as a roll of toilet paper floats by.The shuttle launch, originally scheduled for Feb.20, has been delayed because of problems with its heat shield, but Garn should be back to preside over congressional hearings scheduled next month.Weather Wet snow today with moderate winds and a steady temperature of 0.Overnight low .Outlook for Friday — cloudy with a few snow flurries, high -4.Doonesbury JUST PUTIN A mUHOUPS ON THe"VOMfTCOm“ THINKI FINALLY GOOV 6OTTNBHAN60F 5/R.THE FOOT RESmiNIS./ SEEMS UKE THE TMININ6JUST GOES ON FOREVER, POESNT IT?HOUI LONG HAVEYOU BEEN MT1N6T0G0UP, ' SON* « v YEARS.I BY GARRY TRUDEAU THE HELL YOU SAY! YOU SHOULPHRVE JUST RUN FOP SENATE' YES, SIR.([9 THAT l00UU?\fj HAVE BEEN ONE MY wpon \ P ) I The Townships The RECORD—Thursday, February 14, 196S—3 —______tel mam Townshippers find a new Mend in Tory cabinet minister Layton By Robert Palmer MAGOG — You can't take the Townships out of the minister and you certainly can’t take the minis- ter out of the Townships — particu-larly when he doesn't want to leave.Organizers had to practically drag federal Mines Minister Ro- Townshippers Association president Marjorie Goodfellow and federal cabinet minister Robert Layton chatted foilwing a meeting in Magog Wednesday.bert Layton back to his waiting car after he told directors of the 8,000-member Townshippers’ Association here Wednesday night that the new federal government is “committed to providing responses to the needs” of the Eastern Townships English-speaking community.Layton was so happy to be in the Townships he didn’t want to go back to Ottawa.“I feel truly at home here,” the minister said.“I really identify with the Eastern Townships.” Layton’s sister, Doris, lives in Cowansville and he met his wife at Brome Lake in 1942.He reminisced about fishing on Brome Lake and how he used to travel to the Townships often on business around 1947.GREAT PASSION “I have a great passion for this part of the world,” he said, grinning.“It’s full of wonderful memories.” Getting back to business almost reluctantly, Layton enthusiastically assured the Townshippers that the government “wants to consult and dialogue with this part of the country” and maintain contact with the anglophone community.When asked if he was the Townships’ new ‘godfather’, the minister laughed.“That’s what the Liberals called it,” Sherbrooke MP Jean Charest piped in.Layton said his role was more informal than ‘godfather’, that it was given to him by Prime Minister Mulroney with instructions to “keep in touch with our community.” And Layton was proud of what the new government has accomplished so far, both in the Townships and elsewhere.“You elected an incredible force to run this country, one that is committed to finding answers and taking initiatives right across the country,” he said.Layton cited the June 1 restoration of Via Rail passenger service in the form of the Atlantic Limited and a new Montreal-Sherbrooke service as part of those accomplishments.“It’s not just this (restoration) itself but more what it represents as part of the role the government wants to play in this part of the country.” He also heralded the recently-signed energy accord between Ot-tawa and Newfoundland as another historic accomplishment in federal-provincial relations.Layton didn’t miss the opportunity to criticize the previous government.“This country was practically being given away,” he said loudly, “without any idea of the costs.This country was going far too fast.We re in a time when we have to start cutting, not adding to the government.” TOUGH TIME “This is a tough time to govern,” he said, “but we’re going to do it with two things in mind: responsibility and fairness.” Layton steered clear of the cabinet’s recent crisis over the resignation of Defence Minister Bob Coates, saying only that “This hasn’t been an easy week for Brian Mulroney.” Layton’s message had a heavy emphasis on consultation, open ears, and “a readiness to respond.” “We re committed to providing responses to the things which really matter to your community.We will do whatever we can with whatever resources we can put to- gether,” he said.Charest had nothing but praise for Layton, saying he had “an irrepressible dynamism".REAL ASSET “He's a real asset to the English community," Charest said.“He generates a lot of enthusiasm.Just his trip here is a message in itself.He takes his role very seriously.” Layton’s trip to Magog follows consultations with Alliance Quebec and members of the Chateau-gay Valley English-speaking community.“He wants to meet them in their own communities,” Charest added, “not have them come to see him.” The Townshippers were genuinely impressed, if not awed by Layton’s enthusiasm and affection for the region.According to Association president Marjorie Good-fellow, that’s a good sign.English Guide MAGOG (RP) — Le Guide des oinés will definitely not be published in English.According to Townshippers’ Association president Marjorie Good-fellow, senior citizens in the region who wrote to Quebec to ask for an English-language version have now begun receiving full-page French-language form letters which say no such version will be published.“Sending a French letter like that represents a very insensitive attitude,” Goodfellow said Wednesday.“Many of those elderly people do not understand French and for them, getting a letter like that is a very intimidating expe- “It’s a promising start to a hopeful relationship with the current government in power in Ottawa,” she said.“I’m hopeful he and our MPs can make our case strongly for adequate funding to continue the work that is so badly needed in our community.” That work includes everything from health and social services to job opportunities and Goodfellow says the co-operation of the federal government is particularly important in areas such as manpower centres.Goodfellow says she looks forward to meeting with Layton to talk to him more about the Townshippers’ Association.“He’s familiar with the area, he’s spent time in it and he’s obviously got some very special memories.That can only work to our advantage — there’s no doubt about it.” turned down rience.” SCARY ENOUGH Goodfellow says that for many senior citizens, getting a government letter is scary enough, let alone receiving one in French.The letters, which began arriving last Friday, are dated simply ‘February, 1985’.“This is very insensitive on the part of the communications department official who sent them,” Goodfellow said.“We are going to write (Quebec Communications Minister) Jean-François Bertrand to bring this to his attention, and lobby our MNAs again to continue our efforts to have this decision reversed.” Youth gets priority with Eastern Townships regional council By Charles Bury SHERBROOKE — Eastern Townships young people don’t have enough say in decisions affec- ting their futures and the regional development council says it wants to help.The council is offering a meeting place and “technical support” for young adults who want to join in the deliberations of their elders, and will steer them in the right direction if they have plans which require assistance from government Post-summit fusion may take months SHERBROOKE — The planned amalgamation of the Eastern Townships regional development council and the follow-up committee formed at the recent economic summit in Compton may take as long as 12 months to complete, says CRDE president Jacques Fla-hault.The old CRDE and the new fol low-up group will both disappear some time this year to be replaced by a combined council on regional issues, Flahault said, but the impression given at the summit that it will “all be done by April” is incorrect.MAY TAKE 12 MONTHS “We have to make sure the issues we have been working on don’t get lost in the shuffle,” Flahault toJd , reporters at a press conference Wednesday.“Negotiations are going on but it may take as much as 12 months to get it all cleared up and complete the fusion of the two groups.” Flahault says there is no friction or feeling of a territorial battle between the two groups.“The negotiations are going well,” he said, “and we are all working in the same direction.” “Everybody involved wants more or less the same things,” Flahault said.“It is just a matter of working out the technicalities.” Flahault said press reports at ,the time o^,the, January summit may have given the impression that the fusion of the two groups could be completed almost right away.“But it was all a very last minute thing and we have only started talking about it this month.” Flahault says the CRDE’s three main priorities are the restoration of Via Rail passenger train service to the Eastern Townships, the involvement of youth in regional decision-making, and full employment.He says those main issues won’t change when the two groups disappear to form the third.or private enterprise.“It’s International Youth Year, and with all the problems the young are having finding jobs and having their concerns listened to by decision-makers, we felt we should do something,” said Jacques Flahault, president of the Conseil régionale de développement des Cantons de J’Esf (CRDE, the Eastern Townships regional development council).WILL WORK CLOSELY The CRDE youth project will be carried out in close co-operation with organizers of the Plein Emploi campaign which was a major accomplishment at the regional economic summit held last month in Compton, Flahault told reporters at a press conference Wednesday.The council will also work closely with other youth and youth-oriented groups in the area, he added.“We want to help find practical solutions for the problems of young people,” Flahault said.“In order to do that we must first get their input.We hope they will respond to our invitation.” The CRDE has also produced a 28-page report examining the living and working conditions of Eastern Townships young people.The report says that the ability of the young to “be welcomed into society” has changed seriously in the last 25 years.Since 1960, it points out, there have been “fundamental changes” in the way Quebec society is able to find useful work for young people.The results are underemployment, lack of motivation, and early dépendance on welfare, says the report.And this reduction in the capacity of Quebec to “absorb” its young has come in spite of the “major place” of young people in the population.POORLY EQUIPPED The report also says young people who have been brought up in an age when government has played a large role in economic development are often poorly equipped to respond to a new social context in which private enterprise is expected to regain its historic economic leadership.The bottom line is that young people today face a “value crisis” which “is clearly shown in the way they think and açt.” ,.,, , The CRDE says one way to help solve the problems of youth is to invite young people to participate in regional interest groups, and it is prepared to act as their ‘godfather’ to accomplish this.Another way is to set up youth groups with the goal of addressing these problems.For this, the CRDE is offering its offices and other facilities for meetings and will provide potential groups with organizing advice.“It’s not like it was in my day,” said Flahault, “when you could get a good job as soon as you were on the market for one.” “Today things have changed and we have to do something about it.” Bourassa sings same old song to Chamber Weedon man convicted for mistreating 185 dogs ly Michael McDevitt SHERBROOKE — Quebec Libe-al leader Robert Bourassa says is party is ready to fight a general lection, which it believes must ome soon, and has developed a ealistic program to help get the rovince back on its feet.Speaking to about 150 members f the Sherbrooke Chamber of tommerce Wednesday, Bourassa aid economic stability is the main iriority for Quebec and said a Lierai government would introduce iew policies designed to streng-hen the private sector.Speaking in the kind of general erms reminiscent of an election ampaign, Bourassa said a Liberal lovernment would end the right to trike in key areas of the public ervice and would replace it “with i a formula that would better pro-:ct the rights of the worker while at the same time ensuring public health.When a government is caught between public health and the reality of public finance, it usually often has to choose public health, with fiscal repercussions that are felt throughout the public service,” he said.Bourassa also promised an immediate end to Quebec’s notorious succession duties which, he said, have accounted for a drastic drop in the province’s wealth.Bourassa said that in 1976, when the Parti Québécois came to power, Quebecers accounted for 30 per cent of all Canadian savings of over $100,000, while the present figure is around 10 per cent.“All this for the sake of an increase in revenues of one per cent!” he said.Bourassa said another key objective in economic recovery lies in the reduction of the public debt, which in Canada he says has reached critical levels.“We just saw the Canadian deficit jump from $34 to $38 billion, even after cuts of $4 billion,” he said, “and if that pattern keeps on we are soon going to lose control over the deficit.” Bourassa said such a figure represents between 35 and 40 per cent of the national budget being used to service the debt.“This can only lead to a complete government paralysis.” he added.Bourassa said he wasn’t sure whether the new Progressive Conservative government in Ottawa would be able to significantly reduce the deficit, but said he was relieved to know that the government was at least committed to trying.“In Canada, about 10 per cent of all economic activity goes to servi- cing the debt,” he said.That’s higher than in any other developed western nation except Italy, which has unique problems of its own — not to mention an ‘underground’ economy that rivals the official one.“It’s a question of simple justice for our descendants,” he added.“We have to look at the situation with our eyes open.” Bourassa, echoing the party platform outlined in the recently released “Mastering the Future” policy paper, said the Liberal party is also committed to encouraging the development of small- and medium-sized businesses and a more rational exploitation of Quebec’s natural resources — particularly hydro-electric power.The Liberals are also committed to encouraging ‘high-tech’ industrial development, he said.Trio could get 8000 years for smuggling plot BURLINGTON, Vt.(CP) — hree Montreal residents accused f aiding the illegal entry of immi-rants into the United States were enied bail Wednesday.Magistrate Jerome Neidermeier f the US.District Court cknowledged the two men and a oman were not dangerous, but nd he feared they might flee the country if granted bail.Who wouldn’t, considering their possible maximum sentences.The three accused, Roger Desronvil, 49, Nicholas Decosse, 36, and Jacqueline Sanon, 33, were arrested Saturday in Alburg, Vt., by the U.S.Border Patrol.A grand jury is to sit today to determine whether there is enough evidence to send the three to trial on charges of conspiracy.The Border Patrol said Monday it believed it cracked a major smuggling ring which was bringing Haitians into the United States illegally from Montreal.Under American law, those charged with aiding illegal entrants are liable to five years in prison for each person involved.A border Patrol spokesman said Tuesday the trio arranged the illegal entry of up to 400 Haitians per year for four years.Conviction in every case would bring a maximum sentence of 8000 years for each of the accused, putting them in prison until 9985 AD.Of course they would be eligible for parole as eary as 4318 AD.Police passed up Pouliot call, daughter says MONTREAL (CP) — The Quebec Police Force was called before a mass killing in Compton Station but did not arrive in time to prevent the deaths, Quebec Superior Court was told Wednesday.Marie-Josée Pouliot, 15, said her father, Jean-Luc Pouliot, told her to call police to halt a vicious beating in their home near Compton Station last June 26 Her father, 50, is on trial on 19 charges stemming from the deaths of four young Coaticook residents.The charges include complicity after a murder, illegal use of a firearm, kidnapping and grievous assault.She said she watched her brothers beat three motorcycle gang members in reprisal for damage to a family cottage.After her father told her to call police, she left the house to find a telephone.She could not reach the QPF detachment in Coaticook.When she telephoned the force’s regional headquarters in Sherbrooke, police told her there was only one patrol car in her area.After she returned from making the calls, she said she noticed her brothers washing bloodstains off the family Jeep.Pouliot said police arrived in three patrol cars just as the brothers finished their cleanup.Other witnesses have testified that Gaston Scalabrini, 24, Jean-Pierre Truchon, 34, Renaud Paquette, 27, and France Michaud, 21, were lined up on an isolated country road and shot with a high-powered hunting rifle.The trial continues.SHERBROOKE — A Weedon man pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he treated 185 dogs cruelly by failing to properly feed, clean and house them — inside his house, which witnesses said was unfit even as a kennel! Léo Jean was handed a two-year probation term by Sessions Court judge Michel Côté, who also forbade him to keep animals during that period.Jean’s establishment was raided Jan.29 and 30 by a team of six animal specialists headed by Ghislain Cyr, inspector for the Société protectrice des animaux (SPA — animal protection society) of the Eastern Townships.The Canadian society was also involved in the raids, which took 16 hours each and led to the seizure of the 185 dogs.Veterinary doctor Claire Beaudry examined all the animals and provided the court with an 80-page report.Many of the animals were too badly diseased to be cured and had to be destroyed.Jean kept most of his dogs in his house.About 50 were housed in a room on the ground floor while the rest were kept in an adjoining shed.TWO GROUPS The dogs were divided into two groups, according to the SPA.The first was older reproducing females, who showed serious signs of aging, had lost teeth, were badly underweight, had cataracts and showed the symptoms of widespread infestation by fleas, mange and other diseases contagious among humans.They also had viral bacterial infections in the lungs.The second group was very young dogs showing apathy and anemia.They were suffering from internal and external parasites including hookworms, which fed on Léo Jean kept 185 dogs in quarters like this until his Weedon home was raided two weeks ago.their blood and left them in a much weakened state.All the animals also suffered from human negligence.Their cages were unclean and too small to allow them to move.Ventilation was inadequate and they were poorly fed.Many had been left untreated for such ailments as fractures, open eye wounds and umbilical hernias. 4—The RECORD—Thursday, February 14, 1985 1________fogl UBcara The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Economic smugness If there is one thing that will ensure that the Quebec Liberal party will be remembered in listory books to come, it is that as a political body it is rather forgetable.And it’s not entirely the fault of the Liberal party, either.It just happens to be competing with a government that is in the process of making bona fide history.Robert Bourassa was in the Eastern Townships yesterday passing on the message of the party he leads.He gave an election campaign speech, full of promises of economic prosperity brought about by taking advantage of Quebec’s natural resources and lowering taxes.It was a basic speech about a typical campaign platform and it was covered by local papers.Meanwhile Premier René Lévesque is in Regina, Saskatchewan and all eyes are on his performance.The world realizes the Parti Québécois is at a turning point.Everyone wants to know how Lévesque will perform and whether he will do well enough to hang on to his leadership.The PQ has been part Canada’a national conscience for more than a decade.It is a passionate party, offering a dream to a people that it probably can’t make a reality, but dreams inspire hope.The Péquistes make Quebec stand out as a province that is not like the other nine, and even if even if you don’t agree with their goals, you have to respect the struggle they have undertaken with such fervor.Now that struggle is in doubt.The PQ has betrayed itself by amending its position on independence, but there is still no doubt about what that party really stands for.Even if Lévesque doesn’t want to talk about sovereignty-association, he can easily come back to it at the right time.And the PQ is part of a historical drama that began when Wolfe defeated Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham.The history of Quebec’s linguistic struggle is still being made and it is the Péquistes who are doing it.The Liberals, on the other hand, offer economic prosperity through fiscal responsibility.Was there ever a political party that didn’t offer those things?Bourassa does realize that as the seat of French culture in Canada, Quebec has to at least feel different from the rest of the country.He promises to enshrine the province’s singular character in the constitution.At the same time, however, he is offering Quebec a government that stands out like a Conservative MP in Ottawa — run of the mill.Not that it wouldn’t be a good government.Bourassa would take over and do things in his smug little way and succession duties would be dropped.People will vote for that.But who can say how many are still attracted to the passion that René Lévesque and the PQ have brought to Quebec politics?Who can say how many will vote for a party that doesn’t consider the province’s language debate to be settled?This drama will certainly get more public attention than Bourassa’s economic smugness.Unless the Liberals find a way to make them stand out during a period where history is being made on a daily basis, they may be history themselves after the next election.PETER SCOWEN Ottawa joins Crime Stoppers OTTAWA (CP) - Local criminals will soon have a price on their heads because of a new police hotline that’s been popular in a number of Canadian cities.Beginning March 4, anyone with information about an unsolved Ottawa crime can anonymously call the hotline and get up to a $1,000 reward if an arrest is made in the case.Called Crime Stoppers, the project has resulted in thousands of arrests and the recovery and seizure of millions of dollars worth of stolen property and narcotics since beginning in the U S.in 1976 and Western Canada in 1982.Police say 15 Canadian cities including Calgary, Edmonton and Hamilton, Ont., operate the same project with great success.In Ottawa, the community-run project will involve the two daily newspapers, The Citizen and Le Droit as well as a local television and six radio stations.Each will feature a major local unsolved crime of the week in one form or another.The television station will broadcast a re-enactment of the crime and radio stations are expected to create short dramas.Anyone with information about the crimes — or any other unsolved ones — will be asked to call the police hotline.The reward money is to come from private donations with the minimum set at about $50 depending on the quality of the tip and seriousness of the crime.“There's a big criminal element out there and we have to try and do something about it,’’ says Crime Stoppers’ board chairman Bruce Hillary."Crime touches every facet of our society, so it’s important we get everyone involved.And once the pu blic realizes how successful this program can be, we’re confident the support will increase as time goes on.” Totals from all 15 cities show the project has been responsible for 1,500 arrests, 2,410 crimes solved, $3.3 million in recovered property and $1.5 million in drug seizures.And about $175,000 has been paid out in rewards.“This program will benefit everyone in our communi ty except criminals,” adds Ottawa police Del.Sgt Bruce Harrison.U.S.shifting to overt aid policy in Nicaragua?By Juliet O’Neill WASHINGTON (CP) — Recent developments suggest a potential shift in U.S.policy toward more open intervention against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, placing less emphasis on clandestine work by the U.S.Central Intelligence Agency.The possible shift has become apparent in the calm before an expected storm on Capital Hill soon over whether Congress should end a ban on release of more funds for the CIA’s covert operations against a government the Reagan administration considers a Communist menace.Financing of support for rebel groups against the Sandinistas through CIA channels has run into increasingly intense resistance from Congress in the last two years, culminating in a ban on funds until the end of this month.The issue has pitted the White House against Congress, divided the Senate and the House of Representatives, led to a breakdown of cooperation between Republican and Democrat legislators and triggered international criticism of the Reagan administration.Nicaraguan Defence Minister Humberto Ortega says about 5,600 people, including hundreds of civilian bystanders, died in Nicaragua in 1984 fighting between government soldiers and U.S.-financed rebels.Peace talks aimed at ending this fighting and related warring in neighboring Central American countries have so far failed.The Congressional ban on covert aid can be lifted after Feb.28 if both the Senate and the House agree.The condition for a vote by the Congressional bodies to release $14 million for covert aid is that President Ronald Reagan must file a report showing, in effect, that Nicaragua is exporting revolution to neighboring countries.CHANNEL OPENLY Increasingly there is talk on Capital Hill that suggests Congress would be more willing to approve anti-Sandinista funds if the money were channelled more openly and subject to more public debate.Until now, the CIA’s activities have often come to light only as a result of the activities of whistle-blowing politicians.Aides attached to the Senate select committee on intelligence say the administration has not told Congress just how it proposes to unlock the ban next month.Whether the administration will seek a shift to overt aid from covert aid is still “very much up in the air” says an aide to committee Chairman David Durenberger.Durenberger, for one, has proposed the idea of open funding to an umbrella group of rebel factions.At the same time it is not clear whether such an umbrella group exists for that purpose.Three main rebel groups are the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance based in Costa Rica, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force based in Honduras and the Misura, comprised of Indian rebel groups.Congress approved $24 million for CIA support of the rebels, known as contras, in 1983, but Reagan’s 1984 request for another $21 million got lost in a shuffle of disputes between the Republican-controlled Senate, which agreed, and the Democrat-dominated House, which was against it.Reagan asked for $28 million for the current 1985 fiscal year, half of which was authorized but subject to a ban on its release at least until the end of this month.Among other activities, the CIA was involved last year in the planning and execution of the mining of Nicaraguan harbors.There is little doubt Reagan is prepared to make a case to Congress to repeal the conditional ban on the funds.Congressional aides say they expect “a hard sell” by the president on Capital Hill whether he wants the money channelled through the CIA or other means.Reagan foreshadowed this last week in his State of the Union address to Congress, harshly attacking the Sandinistas, labelling the rebel groups freedom fighters and arguing that U.S.support for the rebels is consistent with the charters of the United Nations and the Organization of American States.“The Sandinista dictatorship of Nicaragua, with full Cuban Soviet-bloc support, not only persecutes its people, the church and denies a free press, but arms and pro ides bases for Communist terrorists attacking neighboring states,” Reagan said.“It is essential that the Congress continue all facets of our assistance to Central America.I want to work with you to support the democratic forces whose struggle is tied to our own security.” Letters Where o’ where has our humility gone?Editor, In viewing the extreme positions that science and religion have taken over the past centuries in their quest for knowledge and truth I wonder if anyone has taken the position that they must agree.After all, science cannot disprove God and religion cannot disprove science.When early man was awed at nature and that which surrounded him he saw God, the unseen creative force, in everything.This sense of awe can be attributed to his ignorance of the various intrinsic fields of science.Presently, with the evolution of science, physics has removed God from nature and psychology has removed Him from the heart.However this attitude needs further investigation because science has not only revealed to man “facts” and “things”, but also a world of energy and unseen forces.A humble man will realize that these are the same myste-.ries that early man awed at, but at a different level.Science has found the elements, but cannot explain this energy.Religions, on the other hand, have discredited scientific discoveries on the basis that “their way” was the ab- •xn.cmm- „5fe PRESS kcer - and'Hiat0rie mus+Hatfield/.solute truth.When science contradicted their views outcries were heard far and wide.Dogma and pride crept into the clergy.The humiliation of being wrong did not go over well, along with the thought of losing power.We now come to the question, what is the truth?Where did this energy originate?Being neither a scientist nor a theologian I can only attempts at a response.In order for something to begin there has to be something there.Nothing will not create something.In every religious scripture, whether it be Hindu, Zoroastrian, Christian or Islamic there are striking similarities.In essence, and I emphasize essence, they all state that God was always there, similar explanations for the creation are given, there is one God and we, the people of this planet, cannot know God except via the prophet.For example Christ said, “I am the way.” Each of these religions were also the foundation of a great civilization.Now if one were to think of the term love and its implications, why would God have created nature to conflict with His word?He created us because He loved us and confusion is not an aspect of love.What if religious truth was relative and not absolute?What if it was realized that discovery is not creation.Where o’ where has our humility gone?RITCHIE ROLFE, Danville Listen closely to both sides Dear Mr.Editor, I wish to use your column to speak to the people of the Townships.As a voting delegate of the Federation of United Nurses.I was able to attend a labor rally of the COALITION.The Federation of United Nurses is the union that protects the working conditions of the nurses who serve you at the Sherbrooke Hospital.The COALITION is a syndical group containing fifteen unions of the public and para-public sector.The COALITION was formed to fight for the withdrawal of the draft bill on negotiations with the public unions.This draft bill was submitted for study to the National Assembly in December 1984.This draft bill contains articles that will lead to the destruction of public unions (nurses, teachers, etc.) as we know them today.Salaries will be legislated.Statistics will be kept confidential.Working conditions will be done locally leading to disparity in each estblishment.I am not about to ask the public to blindly support the COALITION movement in Uje weqjfls to come.I will ask your readers to listen closely to both sides.To think of the political implications of this draft legislation.To think of the rights of public workers.To remember that over 70 per cent of the public unions’ members are women.To try and understand how far the labor movement has brought the working conditions during the last fifty years.The COALITION will be coming to this area later in February.Watch for their notices.Try to attend their information sessions.Listen to their speakers.Please approach the subject of the union’s right to negotiate verses government “decrees” as objectively as possible.Respectfully submitted by NANCY CILLES, R.N.Bury P.S.Please remember, as in the past, the FIIU of the Sherbrooke Hospital will always adhere to essential services in the event of a labor dispute.Gambling on Islamisation — and losing “You will find some countries now where they kill thieves, as in Kenya, Nigeria and the Soviet Union,” explained Sudan’s President Gaafar Nimei-ri, defending his imposition of Islamic law just over a year ago.Amputating the limbs of thieves may seem cruel to non-Muslims, Nimeiri patiently continued, but the cutting is done with the aid of anaesthetics : “The thief doesn’t feel anything until he finds that he hasn’t got any fingers.” The Sudanese president was a hard-drinking pro-Communist when he first seized power 15 years ago, but the experience of surviving four major coup attempts and 16 lesser ones seems to have driven him to seek solace in religion.He is now surrounded by Islamic fundamentalists like the new Chief Justice, Fuad El-Amin, who simply says: "Cutting off hands and feet is justifiable, because it is prescribed by God in the Koran.” But Sadiq El-Mahdi, the religious leader of the Ansari sect which commands the loyalty of 7 million Sudanese Muslims, has been in jail for the past year for denying the Islamic authenticity of the regime.There is little doubt that Nimeiri’s newfound personal devotion to Islam is genuine - he now proclaims himself ‘imam’ — but there is equally little doubt that he has imposed his personal views on all of Sudan only as an act of political desperation.The 22 million Sudanese have traditionally had an easy-going approach to Islam ; and one-third of them, in the African-populated south of the country, are not Muslims at all.Indeed, Gwynne Dyer V' the Christians and pagans of the south fought a bitter 17-year war of secession again the domination of the Muslim, ‘Arab’ northerners, a war that only ended in 1972 when Nimeiri guaranteed them wide local autonomy within a secular republic.Nimeiri threw that achievement away in September, 1983 by declaring Sudan an Islamic state and his simultaneous attempt to weaken the Christian reaction by dividing the south into three separate provinces only compounded the offence.His southern-born vice-president, the former rebel leader Joseph Lagu, warned that if sanity did not prevail, "Sudan will become another Lebanon” — and within weeks the south was once again in revolt.Nimeiri was driven to such extreme measures by his critical need to regain some political support in the Muslim north, the one region he must hold.His mismanagement of the economy had turned Africa’s largest country into a disaster area with crippling forciün debts and shortages of practically every basic commodity, and a spreading wave of strikes in Khartoum itself was challenging his rule.His gamble on Islamisation has not worked, however.Thousands of enthusiastic Muslim fundamentalists gather regularly at el-Kobar prison to shout ‘God is great’ as people who were tried by ‘special Islamic courts’ without defence lawyers or any right of appeal are punished by hanging, flogging or amputation, but the majority of Sudan’s Muslims are quietly appalled.They do not approve of people (including Christians) being flogged for drinking beer or for ‘suspected intended adultery’, and they do not believe government claims that the crime rate has dropped.Ordinary Sudanese know that pick pockets are still at work even among the crowds witnessing the latest amputation for theft.By last April Nimeiri had to suppress a renewed wave of strikes by proclaiming a state of emergency in the country.It was formally lifted in October, but Sudan’s real emergency is growing worse.Attacks by southern guerillas have forced the virtual cessation of work on the Jonglei canal, the centre-piece of a vst agricultural development scheme, and on oil wells and a pipeline to the coast which might provide a solution to Sudan’s critical shortage of foreign exchange.The south is the key to Sudan's economic salvation, and Nimeiri has lost it.One rebel group, Anyanya II, is simply a revival of the secessionist movement led by the Nuer tribe in the 1960s.However, Nimeiri’s decision to divide the south into three provinces has alienated an even more important group, for it destroyed the political domination of the powerful Dinka tribe over the whole southern region.A series of army mutinies in the south last year created the Dinka-led Sudanese Peole’s Liberation Army, headed by Col.John Garang, a West Point-educated officer whose aim is to link up with northern dissident groups and restore a secular, decen-talised republic.The ill-equipped and badly led Sudanese army cannot now hope to reestablish control over the south by military means.As Nimeiri stumbles ever deeper into trouble, his American supporters look on with unconcealed dismay.The US government has pressured Chevron Oil into resuming some of its oilprospecting activities in the south, but nobody really has confidence in Nimeiri any more.For the US, Sudan is a vital buffer between the anti-Western regimes in Libya and Ethiopia and an essential staging post for the Rapid Deploy-ment Force.Washington deplores Nimeiri’s policies, but as an American official recently asked: "Who would succeed him?We have to think in terms of a successor, and there isn't one.” A businessman in Khartoum was more representative of Sudanese opinion.He simply didn’t care what the alternative to Nimeiri is : “Something would rise from the ashes — it really couldn’t be worse.” Education The RECORD—Thursday, February 14, 1*85—5 the' #1_raj mam Cookshire Primary spells it out Kids, this page is for you.In the past.The Record mini history lessons has published numerous special pages of material sent to us from our younger readers in elementary schools across the Eastern Townships.This week, boys and girls from the Cookshire Primary School have given us everything from science articles to and there’s more to come.Unfortunately due to space limitations and the amount of material given us, we’ll have to do another page at a later date.So don’t go away — keep your eyes glued to this page.And thanks! Did you know atten-1 lying cream ml"0 •* to groW^eai£__^— S-V-H .'ll i acts.-’' -'W News and^^ea -i maternity leavej !^%oSafranP»m«M ^hVer SOn [Trevis‘ i mes visited all ^el MrSolS tP'0 0UI 6ra ’ I other classes 1 la«"cd an/2 years.He returned to the Bruins in 1976.His overall record as coach of the Bruins since the 1980-81 season is 204 victories, 126 losses and 46 ties.Sinden previously coached the Bruins from 1966 to 1970, directing the team to one Stanley Cup triumph in the 1969-70 season.In March 1980, Sinden took over as coach the last month of that season, replacing the fired Fred Creighton.Sherbrooke Canadiens tie Fredericton Express Hot goaltending from Clint Ma- .• mm» » Alex Hilton pleads not guilty on all charges MONTREAL (CP) — Former Canadian Middleweight Champion Alex Hilton pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four charges, including impaired driving and assaulting a police officer.Lawyer Frank Shoofey entered the plea for Hilton, who did not appear in south shore Brassard Municipal Court.The 20-year-old boxer was also charged with refusing to take a breathalizer test and disturbing the peace.Judge Jacques Dansereau ordered Hilton to appear in court March 20, when a trial date will be set.The charges stem from an incident last Oct.28 when Brassard police were called at 2 a m.by a resident complaining that someone was causing a disturbance outside his home.Hilton was arrested at the scene.Hilton, who still holds the Continental of Americas middleweight crown, was stripped of his Canadian title when he refused to defend it against first-ranked challenger Michael Olajide Jr.within the specified time period.He recently lost his first professional bout, a decision to Carlos Betancourt in Montreal Jan.22.Hilton faces other charges in Montreal An incident last Monday saw him charged with impaired driving, refusing to take a breathalizer test, negligent discharge of a firearm, and mischief, while another last March left him charged with impaired driving.He was also arrested in December while training in Catskill, N.Y.where he was charged with driving while intoxicated, driving without a permit, and possession of marijuana.He has court appearances scheduled in Montreal Feb.25 and April 4, while his U.S.trial is still pending.Hot goaltending from Clint Ma-larchuk and an eleventh hour goal by defenseman Niel Bellland gave Fredericton Express a 4-4 tie with Sherbrooke Canadiens in AHL action Wednesday night.Malarchuk faced 36 shots, inclu-ding four which came on breakways.Only Claude Larose, coming in all alone for the second time in the night, managed to score on a break.It was his 27th goal of the season.Also scoring for the Canadiens were Murray Eaves, Brian Skru-dland and team captain Jordy Douglas.Belland scored twice for the Express while Dave Morrison and Grant Morrison contributed singles.Inother AHL games, it was: Adirondack Red Wings 6, Springfield Indians 5; Nova Scotia Oilers 5, Rochester Americans 2; Baltimore Skipjacks 8.Binghamton Whalers 6; and Maine Mariners 3, Hershey Bears 3.In Halifax.Ken Berry, Lowell Loveday and Norm Aubin also scored for the Oilers, who are fifth in the Northern Division but only nine points behind first-place Maine.Goaltender Marco Baron turned aside 31 shots to help Nova Scotia’s cause.Chris Langevin and Timo Julila scored for Rochester.In Glens Falls, N.Y.Dennis Po-lonich’s disputed goal at 13:36 of the second period lifted Adirondack to its third win in a raw and moved the Red Wing to within one point of Maine.Bassett advances in upset-filled tournament ¦Jk Sherbrooke Canadiens forward Claude Larose had two cracks at Fredericton Express goaltender Clint Malarchuk in an AHL game at the Sports Palace Wednesday night.The first time the goalie made the save.The second time Larose put his team up 4-3 with eight minutes left in the game.Final score was 4-4.Andre St.Laurent, Ted Speers, Pierre Aubry, Joe Kocur and Tom Cronin also scored for Adirondack.Springfield’s goals were scored by Dirk Graham, David Jensen, Tim Trimper, Ken Leiter and Scott Howson.Polonich’s goal appeared to hit both goal posts and fall into the crease, but referee Bill McCreary ruled the puck had crossed the goal line.In Baltimore, Tom O’Regan scored three goals and Steve Gatzos added two, including the winner, as the Skipjacks rallied from a 3-0 deficit to defeat the Southern Division leader.Randy Pierce had two goals for Binghamton.In Hershey, Pa., Larry Floyd’s 24th goal of the season with less than eight minutes to play lifted Maine to the tie.Paul Evans and Steve Tsujiura also scored for the Mariners.Ray Allison, with two, and Bill Campbell scored for the Bears.Maine goalie Sam St.Laurent save the tied in overtime by stopping Doug Morrison on a breakaway.DELRAY BEACH, Fla.(AP) — Carling Bassett of Toronto advanced Wednesday to the semifinals of the $1.8 million Lipton International Players Championships tennis tournament and another meeting today with Martia Navratilova, the top-ranked women’s player in the world.Bassett, seeded No.10, defeated No.7 Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia 7-5, 6-2 in the quarterfinal match.It was the Canadian teenager’s second straight triumph over Mandlikova and the third time in their five career meetings.The two traded service breaks in the sixth and seventh games before Bassett broke her opponent in the 12th, closing out the first set.They again traded breaks in the second and third games of the second set.After Mandlikova held in the fourth game to pull even at 2-2, Bassett reeled off the final four games of the match.The other women’s semifinal in this inaugural two-week, Grand Slam-size event pits No.2 Chris Evert Lloyd aganst unseeded Steffi Graf of West Germany.Meanwhile, Czechoslovakian Tomas Smid and Americans Scott Davis and Tim Mayotte captured men’s semifinal berths.The fourth berth was filled Wednesday night when No.12 Vitas Ge-rulaitis took on Swede Jan Gunnar-sson.Smid will play Davis and Mayotte will take on the Gerulai-tis-Gunnarson winner in the men’s semifinals Friday.The women’s final is to be held Saturday with the men’s title match set for Sunday.The winners pocket $112,500 each.While the women’s draw has gone pretty much with form, upsets have ruled the 128-player men’s singles.Wednesday was no exception.Smid ousted Yannick Noah of France, the 1983 French Open champion, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 and Davis shocked Stefan Edberg of Sweden 6-1,6-4,7-5.Noah was seeded ninth, Smid 11th and Edberg, who knockechout top-seeded Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia on Tuesdays, was 13th.Earlier in this tournament being contested on the hardcourts at Laver’s International Tennis Centre, the top seeds fell like dominoes.They included Lendl, No.2 Mats Wilander.No.3 Henrik Sundstrom, No.4, Anders Jarryd, No.5 Aaron Krickstein, No.6 Johan Kriek, No.7 Kevin Curren, No.8 Joakim Nys-trom and No.10 Jimmy Arias.Gingras back in Habs fold, coming down to Sherbrooke MONTREAL (CP) — Montreal Canadiens have acquired defenceman Gaston Gingras from Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for right-winger Larry Landon, Montreal general manager Serge Savard announced Wednesday.Gingras, Montreal’s first choice in the 1979 amateur entry draft, was traded by the Canadiens to Toronto.Dec.17, 1982.The 26-year-old played in 104 National Hockey League games with the Maple Leafs before being sent down earlier this season to Toronto’s American Hockey League farm team in St.Catharines, Ont.Gingras has been assigned to Montreal’s AHL farm team in Sherbrooke.He will report Friday.B.C.team alone in first after two-victory day TORONTO (CP) — Steve Skillings of Victoria was more relaxed at the Canadian mixed curling championship Wednesday night.So was Ontario skip Garry Lombard of Kingsville after stealing three points in the 10th end for a 10-7 win over defending-champion Saskatchewan in the eighth round at the Bayview Country Club.Skillings, in charge of the British Columbia team, won 4-2 over Dave Jones of Halifax in the seventh round and defeated Northern Onta- rio’s Murray Affleck of Kenora in the evening to take sole possession of first place with a 7-1 record.Skillings, who lost to Rick Folk of Saskatoon in the 1983 mixed final, was not ready to celebrate after his double victory but was looking forward to his remaining three draws in the 12-rink, round-robin portion of the championship.“We (the B.C.rink) were all nervous in the game against Nova Scotia,” Skillings said.“But against Northern Ontario, we felt we were Scoreboard in control most of the way.“We feel a lot better now, although we have tough games remaining before the playoffs.” FINISHES SCHEDULE Skillings, just about a cinch to make the playoffs which involves three teams, concludes his round-robin schedule against Ontario this afternoon, then meets Lloyd Beckett of Saskatoon tonight and goes against Kent Blandford of St.John’s, Nfld., Friday morning.Six teams are in contention for playoff berths, including Ernie Rehberg of Winnipeg, and Nova Scotia.Northern Ontario, Ontario and Saskatchewan, which won the title in 1984 under the direction of Randy Woytowich and finished first in 1983 behind Folk, all were at 5-3.Randy Ferbey of Edmonton was at 4-4 entering the ninth and 10th rounds, while Norbert MacKinnon of Saint Johm, N.B., and the Territories’ Don Twa were both 3-5.Kyrke Nussey of Riverfield, Que., and John Fortier of Charlottetown were 2-6, while Newfoundland was winless at 0-8.HOCKEY CAMPtllL CONFERENCE AHL Nomtm Dlvtuon Mane Adirondack Fredoncton Sherbrooke Nova Scotia Moncton 0M$hamton Rochester Spnnglieid Battirno'e New Haven Hershey SI Oath T F 6 219 7 217 6 200 4 222 5 202 6 211 W l 27 23 26 25 26 24 25 29 23 26 22 30 Division 38 14 4 276 30 17 10 239 28 25 3 238 24 21 8 199 22 28 6 214 18 30 9 223 17 34 4 186 Wednesday Resent Adirondack 6 Springfield 5 Baltimore 8 Binghamton 6 Nova Scoia 5 Rochester 2 Fredericton 4 Sherbrooke 4 Marne 3 Hershey 3 Tenifht i Game Adirondack at St Catharines Friday Games Maine at Baltimore St CMltdrmes at Binghamton Ftochester at Moncton Nova Scotia at New Haven Fredericton at Spnngtieid Saturday Games Sherbrooke at Adirondack Binghamton at Hershey Nova Scotia at Ma ne New Haven at St Catharines Fredericton at Springt«id A R 192 GO 253 59 206 58 231 54 216 51 219 50 186 80 213 70 232 59 173 56 245 50 235 45 St Lours Chicago Minnesota Detroit Toronto Edmonton Winnipeg Calgary Los Ang Vancouver 25 19 10 208 25 28 3 218 16 29 10 187 16 31 9 203 13 35 7 171 SmyOie Division 40 10 6 283 29 23 6 251 28 21 7 256 24 22 10 250 16 33 8 194 201 60 215 53 222 42 255 41 237 33 Hull 7 Shawmigan 6 Chicoutimi 5 Quebec 3 Trois-Rivières 9 St Jean 5 BASKETBALL 220 63 237 58 291 40 Winnipeg 5 Washington 3 Tonight s Games Haittoid it New Jersey Quebec it Phiiadetphia Minnesota at Detroit Pittsburgh at Chicago Washington at Calgary Toronto at St Louts Boston at Los Angeles Friday Games Montreal at Buffalo Edmonton at NY Rangers National Hockey League scoring after Wednesday games Boston Phiia Washington New Jersey New York Milwaukee Detroit Chicago Atlanta Cleveland Indiana EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W l 41 10 41 10 28 25 25 27 18 34 Central Division 35 17 31 20 25 25 22 30 16 35 16 35 WESTERN CONFERENCE Pet.GB 804 -804 -528 1 4 481 It’/J 346 n'n m -608 1’/! 500 9 423 13 314 18V5 314 18'^ Bathmore at Binghamton Rochester at New Haven Nova Scotia at Marne N Fredericton at Sherbrooke N NHL WALES CONFERENCE Adams Dhntitn W L T F Gret/ky F dm Kurn l dm Bossy NYl Hawerchuk Wpg Dionne LA B Sutler NV I Maclean Wpg Nicholls LA Nilsson Cat Colley F dm GAP 54 99 153 52 52 104 45 50 95 36 59 95 33 55 88 31 49 37 40 28 48 21 55 49 83 80 Houston Dallas San Ant Utah Kan City LA Lakers Photon Portland Seattle LA Clippers 32 20 29 21 28 24 26 25 24 28 16 34 Pactllc Division 36 16 25 26 23 28 22 30 21 31 615 -580 ?538 4 510 S1/?462 8 320 15 692 -490 10T?451 12’>2 423 14 404 1 5 Golden State 11 40 216 2412 Wednesday Retails Detroit 124 Dallas 119 New Jersey 11?Cleveland 105 Philadelphia 131 New York 129 Atlanta 94 Utah 88 LA Clippers 108 Golden State 105 Tonight's Garnet Milwaukee at Indiana Houston at New York Phoenw at San Antonio Denver at Kansas City Boston at Seattle Frtday Gams Detroit at New Jersey Cleveland at Philadelphia Indiana at Chicago Phoenix at Dallas San Antonio at Denver LA Clippers at Utah Atlanta at LA Lakers Washington at Portland Boston at Golden State CURLING TORONTO (CP) Canadian mixed cutting championship standings after eighth round play Wednesday RC * 1 BC 7 , Manitoba 6 7 Nova Scotia g ^ N Ontario 5 3 Ontario 5 3 Saskatchewan Alberta New Brunswick Territories Quebec PEI Newfoundland 5 3 4 4 3 5 3 5 2 6 2 6 0 8 Milwaukee at 11 Wayne ppd Indianapolis at Muskegon ppd Ofummondvtte 8 Verdun 5 Butta to Montreal 27 15 1?202 15?27 19 10 214 187 26 22 8 223 199 25 24 7 209 199 17 30 6 180 241 Wwhrngion Phtia Nlanders Pittsburgh 34 15 8 240 168 76 31 16 7 ?7 170 69 30 2?3 253 ?15 63 17 29 9 191 227 43 18 29 5 186 ?38 41 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