The record, 15 février 1985, vendredi 15 février 1985

Weekend week fra\t-llinfitliruuRk Townships Week: Michael McDevitt talks to an up-and-coming Sherbrooke-born musician (4), Merritt Clifton reviews an Arts Sutton photographer’s show (3) and Louise Léger winds up her report on Jamaica (12).Plus lots of other features! Bourassa to run in Bertrand?MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec Liberal Leader Robert Bourassa has decided to run in the south-shore riding of Bertrand if a byelection is called, a party source said Thursday.The source told The Canadian Press the former premier will run in the constituency left vacant last December when former citizens relations minister Denis Lazure quit to protest Premier Rene Lé-vesque’s watered-down stand on independence.Bourassa, under mounting pressure to run for a seat in the national assembly, has refused to state publicly which riding he will contest.He repeated his contention Thursday that Premier Rene Lévesque will call a spring election.But the former premier promised he would run in one of four bye-lections which must be called this summer if Lévesque delays an election until the fall.“I said my first year would be devoted to the program and financing,” Bourassa said.“Now I can say mission accomplished andl’m ready for a general election or for a byelection.” Lévesque has said he favors a fall election.The ridings of L’Assomption, Trois-Rivieres and Bourget are also vacant.Bourassa, who resigned as party head after the Parti Québécois chased the Liberals from power in 1976, regained the leadership in October 1983.At least 10 Liberal party members have expressed interest in running in the ridings of L’As-somption, Trois-Rivieres and Bourget, but no names have been mentioned officially for Bertrand.The Liberals are expected to hold nomination meetings in March to choose candidates for the four ridings, said a party official.Parti Québécois administrative director Jacques Lauzon said “several names” have been mentioned as PQ candidates for the ridings, but no decisions about who will run will likely be taken before May.Meanwhile, Bourassa said he disagrees with Lévesque’s position that the value of the Canadian dollar should be allowed to fall to stimulate the economy.Lévesque told the first ministers’ conference in Regina that the Canadian economy has to be ‘ ‘liberated from high interest rates that risk immobilizing competition, investment and job creation.” But Bourassa said the Bank of Canada should intervene to shore up the dollar, which recovered slightly Thursday on foreign exchange markets after setting record lows against its U.S.counterpart in three of the previous four trading sessions.“I’ve always maintained thatde-valuation is not an efficient remedy to economic problems,” Bourassa said.“Our dollar has been devalued 30 per cent in the last few years and there’s been no improvement in unemployment.” Robert Hourassa.Hitting the stump?Births, deaths .11 Business.7 Classified .12 Comics .13 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .8-9 Behind news .5 City .3 ocm snowy Weather, page 2 DONAH) ACiL » * ilMARV SCHOOL Sherbrooke Friday, February 15, 1985 40 cents Vet pension benefit plan closer to reality Never explain yourself.nobody will believe you anyway.“All those who feel I should continue as chairman signify by saying Beep'" OTTAWA (CP) — A bill to revamp calculation of pension benefits for about 90,000 armed forces veterans and 51,000 veterans’ spouses, children or orphans received swift approval in the Commons on Thursday and moved on to the Senate.The proposed legislation would peg pension increases to whichever is higher — increases in the cost of living or the average of the annual wage increases of five selected categories of public servants.Veterans Affairs Minister George Hees told the Commons “this change will remedy a situation which for years has been very unfair to veterans because the percentage increase in the consumer price index has often lagged behind the percentage increase gained by these public servants.” Hees added that if the new formula had been used in 1984, individual pensioners would have received $611 more than they did.The legislation would also allow the spouses of deceased pensioners to continue collecting benefits at the married rate for a year after their spouse's death.Now, they drop down to the single rate one month after the pensioner dies.“This change,” Hees said, “will remove the shock of an immediately reduced income at a time when the spouse is under the emotional stress of such grievous personal loss.” Other proposed changes include adding four more members to the Pension Review Board to clear up a backlog of cases and the allowing of hearings by the Pension Entitle- iueut Boards when only two commissioners are present Now it takes three.Hees said the move should allow the boards to process about 30 per cent more cases a year.On split decisions of two-member boards, he added, “every split decision will go in favor of the veteran.” Liberal and New Democrat MPs backed the bill, paving the way for speedy Commons passage.The changes will take effect when the bill receives royal assent in the Senate.RhCORD/ROM K I PAI.MKR mSmÈM I *¦ Valentine’s tattoo There were hearts and flowers everywhere Thursday, but will they wash off?Only Cathy knows for sure, but Mom will find out the hard way.Millions $$$$ going to job creation program By Madelaine Drohan REGINA (CP) — The federal government will spend an additional $695 million next year on training and job creation, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney told a federal-provincial conference Thursday.Mulroney said the new programs will be aimed at young and female unemployed and will include both provincial and private-sector participation.Money will be allocated according to a formula based on unemployment levels and regional needs, he said, adding the details have yet to be worked out.“I think it’s a tremendous program,” said Premier Brian Peckford of Newfoundland, where unemployment in January stood at 23.2 per cent, the highest in the country.“We have more consultation and negotiations to work out the details, but it’s going to mean more training for Newfoundland and it’s going to be long-term training.” Quebec Premier Rene Levesque praised the announcement, but said he still wants to discuss “who runs the show.” Unemployment in Quebec was 12.2 per cent in January, slightly higher than the national average of 11.2 per cent.Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devine, whose province shares with Manitoba the lowest unemployment rate in the country, said he was pleased with the announcement.“It’s got long term written all over it,” Devine said.“People can count on these kinds of programs.” Manitoba Premier Howard Pawley said he too was pleased.Unemployment in his province was 8.5 per cent last month.Ontario Premier Frank Miller said it met his province’s objective of maximum flexibility.WANTED TRAINING “We were more interested in skilled training and retraining than we were in short-term job creation,” Miller said.Ontario had 8.8-per-cent unemployment in January.Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed said the federal approach was a nice change from that of the former Liberal government.“We got so frustrated with the former government that we developed our own priorities,” he said.“ We ’ re just delighted th at the federal government has taken a look at this issue.” But Don Johnston, federal Liberal finance critic, said his party had been advocating the same sort of programs for years and he criticized the premiers for attacking the former government.“I only hope Pierre Trudeau is not watching this,” Johnston, who is attending the conference as an observer, said.“I think he’d almost throw up at some of the statements that are being made.” Employment Minister Flora MacDonald said she will meet with the provinces in the next two months to work out the details.MacDonald added the money was part of the $1 billion set aside in the Nov.8 economic statement.The government plans to spend another $100 million on programs for native people, she said.This Brian Mulroney.‘Jobs, jobs, jobs’ 3'* ’NSP* f will bring total spending on job creation and training in the next fiscal year up to $2.2 billion, the same amount spent by the Liberal government in 1984-85.MacDonald admitted the amount was the same but said this money will be spent “more effectively.” The $695 million will be spent as follows : — $125 million to help young people and women enter the labor market.— $350 million to extend employment opportunities for the longterm unemployed.— $80 million to train workers who need new skills.—- $40 million to help declining communities in job, retraining and mobility programs.— $100 million to stimulate innovation, pilot studies and experimentation in the private sector.Wise remarks anger farm group members OTTAWA (CP) — Agriculture Minister John Wise has angered the country’s largest farm organization which says he is trying to play down the financial problems in the agriculture industry.Delegates to the annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture unanimously passed a resolution Thursday asking that Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Finance Minister Michael Wilson and Wise “treat our present reality as a serious crisis in Canada which demands extraordinary attention and action.” Convention delegates were irked by comments Wise made Wednesday on the CTV program Canada AM that only one per cent of Canadian farmers are in trouble and any special help for them would inflate land values for other farmers.Such statements are especially frustrating for farmers because they are made to a national audience and leave the impression among the public that everything is fine in agriculture, delegates said.Wise told the federation Tuesday that the one per cent of farmers, about 2,500, are so deeply in debt they probably wouldn’t survive, even with massive government support.And government has to concern itself with aiding the 39,000 farmers the Farm Credit Corp.has said are in moderate to severe financial difficulty and could go bankrupt without government help and improvement in prices for farm products.Farm Credit has described these people as among the most productive and progressive of the country’s 250,000 farmers REACHED RECORD Farm bankruptcies reached a record 551 in 1984, almost double what they were a few years ago.There have been predictions that farm bankruptcies could hit 1,000 this year.The resolution says Canadians need “to become aware of the fact that they pay the second-lowest portion of their disposable income in the developed world for food products and that farmers can no longer afford to subsidize consumers.” “Governments must look at this issue as a very serious economic policy concern.” QUEBEC (CP) — Accusing a Quebec Superior Court judge of "flagrant bias,’’lawyers representing Cpl.Denis Lortie announced Thursday they will appeal his three first-degree murder convictions and sentence of life imprisonment.A jury found Lortie guilty Wednesday of murdering three government employees when he sprayed the Quebec National Assembly building with bullets from a submachine-gun last May 8.Lortie was sentenced to the mandatory life term with parole eligibility set at 25 years.Responding to criticism levelled at them during sentencing by Mr.Justice Ivan Mignault, lawyers Andre Royer and Francois Fortier charged the judge with "flagrant bias." In addition to appealing the verdict and sentence, they said, they will also lay a complaint against Mignault with the Canadian Judicial Council, the governing body for judges.They also plan to lay complaints based on "lack of professional ethics" against Dr.Robert Duguay and Dr.Gilles Paul-Hus, psychia The resolution added a major increase in farm bankruptcies would further aggravate the country’s already unacceptably high unemployment levels and would be devastating to “the well-being of our rural communities.” “There will be few new employment opportunities for these hardworking individuals and there is no justification for these farmers to become in need of social assistance.” trists who testified for the Crown during Lortie’s four-week trial.Fortier said the judge's lengthy charge to the jury “led in one direction only,” leaving the seven women and five men no choice but to find Lortie guilty.The lawyers said they will also base their appeal on Mignault's handling of testimony by defence psychiatrists who interviewed Ix)rtie after his arrest.Mignault ruled the testimony about Lortie's childhood with an incestuous and violent father was hearsay and ordered it stricken from transcripts given to the jury for deliberation.Royer and Fortier accused the judge of giving the jury poor instructions on a number of other points of testimony and of * 'obvious aggression” toward them in court.The judge blasted the two lawyers after the verdict was announced, saying he had been perplexed by their handling of the case from the beginning of the trial.He was particularly critical of them for not presenting evidence to support the psychiatrists' testimony about I>ortie’s father.“Proof was easy to obtain,” he said.Royer and Fortier said they will Meanwhile, a committee of civil servants, bankers and representatives of multinational food processing companies have been chosen to bring in the death sentence on federal agriculture programs, said Liberal agriculture spokesman Maurice Foster.Foster said in the Commons that there are no representatives of farm groups or Eastern or Western Canada on a study group announced Wednesday by Deputy Prime Minister Erik Neilsen.lay a complaint against Duguay because he tried to mislead the court about the amount of time he spent examining Lortie after the soldier was arrested.They said Duguay left the impression during his first day of testimony that he had spent four to five hours interviewing Lortie, but conceded under cross-examination the next day that he had not spent that much time with him.The lawyers accused Paul-Hus of "making up” a sentence the psychiatrist testified he had heard on one of three audio-cassettes that Lortie recorded before the attack.Paul-Hus testified the sentence — "I’m thinking with my heart and with my head” — indicated a harmony between Lortie’s intellectual and emotional state."Denis Lortie said no such thing," Royer said.“He referred repeatedly to a separation between himself and his mind that he couldn’t control,” Lortie will appear in Quebec Superior Court May 6 to have a trial date set for nine charges of attempted murder in the legislature shooting.‘Help wanted’ means more jobs available OTTAWA (CP) — Things appear to be improving slightly for job seekers, with the seasonally adjusted index of help-wanted advertisements up slightly in January from its December level, Statistics Canada said Thursday.The index of changes in the number of help-wanted ads in 18 major Canadian dailies roughly reflects trends in employment opportunities for the 1.4 million unemployed.For January, the index stood at a revised level of 64, up from 60 in November and December, but only equal to its Au-gust-to-October level.Based on space devoted to help-wanted ads being equal to 100 in 1981, the index is considered a crude standard for judging available jobs.The unemployment rate often drops when the help-wanted index rises, but there is generally a lag before people are hired while companies process applications.The rise in the index was only four points and the short-term trend, a measure which smooths irregular monthly fluctuations, remained at the same level as in December, the federal statistics agency said.However the overall total shows a marked improvement over the same period in 1984 when the index stood at 53 for January or in 1983 when it reached 39.The index stood at 76 in January 1982 as the recession began to take hold on the economy The index increased everwhere except in Atlantic Canada, where it dropped to 168 from 220 after the Newfoundland government completed a hiring program.Lortie lawyers rap judge for ‘bias’ ’ r *—Tfce RECORD—Friday, February 15, 1985 ‘No politics’ involved in the plum deal going to Tory company OTTAWA ICP) — A company founded by one of the most prominent Tories in the country and headed by the man who directed the Conservative federal election campaign has been named the lead agency to handle $30 million in government tourism advertising.Camp Associates Advertising Ltd.of Toronto — whose president is former Tory campaign chairman Norm Atkins — will be the central agency in a consortium of companies handling what amounts to almost half of all federal government advertising.The choice of the Conservative-associated firm to control what is considered one of the best advertising plums for friends of the governing party was announced in a brief news release from the office of Tourism Minister Tom McMillan Thursday.McMillan, however, denied in an interview thaï politics was involved in the decision.He said the company, while acting as a consultant, will not be paid until it comes up with a proposal for advertising strategy that is accepted by the government.McMillan, a Prince Edward Island MP and the brother of Charles McMillan, senior policy adviser to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, said Camp Associates was chosen from a field of three competitors who were reviewed by a panel of public servants.The panel made its recommendation to McMillan, who in turn recommen- ded Camp Associates to the cabinet communications committee.The company was founded by Dalton Camp, the New Brunswick political columnist and former national Conservative party president who is a longtime friend of New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield and an old acquaintance of Mulroney.McMillan said he believes Camp is no longer associated with the company, but telephone calls to New Brunswick and Toronto showed that Camp keeps an office at company headquarters in Toronto.Neither he nor Atkins were available for interviews.The other two competitors for the job who appeared before the panel were Foster Advertising Ltd.and Hayhurst Advertising Ltd., both of Toronto and both tied closely to the Conservatives.The head of Foster Advertising is Tom Scott, who was director of advertising and communications on the Tory campaign team.He supervised a group of advertising specialists for the campaign, including talent from both Foster and Hayhurst, said a Tory source.The three were chosen from a wider field of advertisers and recommended to the public servant panel by the government’s advertising management group — headed by Bob Byron, another key strategist with the Tory election campaign team and former executive with Case Associates Advertising Ltd.of Toronto.Camp Associates has specialized in the tourism area for the Conservative government of Ontario, the Tory government of New Brunswick and other provinces, McMillan said.It has also won advertising awards in the United States.McMillan acknowledged that opposition MPs will likely criticize the choice as another patronage handout.The government has already named a company formed by prominent Montreal and Toronto Tories to be the government’s main agency of record for all advertising placements.But McMillan says he has “no problem” with the fact that the head of Camp Associates was the party’s campaign director.“What we needed was a major advertising company,” McMillan said.“And I don’t know of any advertising company in the upper echelons that has not had something to do with one party or another." The tourism minister said if the government excluded every advertising company that had political connections, only “second raters” would be left.“1 have no interest, frankly, in paying off anybody,” he said.“I have no interest myself in political debts or lOUs.All I was interested in was recruiting the best single advertising company in the country that could handle a major account of this sort in the tourism field.” Hatfield claims RCMP Ethiopia exodus causing Sudan problems leaked story to press By The Canadian Press New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield, charging that “one or two or three” RCMP officers leaked information about the investigation that proceeded his drug trial last month, called Thursday for quick action to preserve the police force’s integrity.Although he stopped short of joining Liberal MPs’ cry for a public inquiry, Hatfield told reporters in Regina at the first ministers’ conference on the economy that the officers who talked about the case must be tracked down and advised of their duty to keep certain knowledge confidential.“In the interest of the reputation of the whole force and in the interest of all Canadians, they (the RCMP) should make it very clear that (officers) have to contain the knowledge that they have because of the position and the job they have to do," he said in an interview.Hatfield, beleaguered for weeks by allegations arising from the drug investigation, said looselipped officers in the RCMP are like “bad apples in a barrel” and will spoil the force’s reputation if they are allowed to continue the practice.The RCMP has refused to respond to Hatfield’s comments or his earlier allegations that police made an “exceptional and extraordinary” effort to build a case against him after they discovered a small bag of marijuana in his suitcase Sept.25.Hatfield, premier of New Brunswick since 1970, was charged with possession of marijuana on Oct.26 and acquitted in provincial court Jan.29 following a two-day trial.John Nunziata, the Liberal solicitor general critic who has spearheaded his party’s campaign for an inquiry, criticized Solicitor General Elmer MacKay for standing idle while the RCMP’s reputation is sullied.REQUESTED MEETING Hatfield told a reporter earlier that he requested the meeting with MacKay because he was worried about the way the RCMP was handling the case and wanted to see the investigation concluded as quickly as possible.The RCMP has been “spreading rumors and innuendo about me for years” he said aboard a flight to Regina, later agreeing with John Baxter, New Brunswick’s acting justice minister, that certain officers may be trying to bring down the government.The premier first raised concerns about the RCMP’s conduct when he held a news conference Wednesday to discuss his case and to deny allegations that he used marijuana and cocaine with four students during a party at his home in 1981.The police used “unprecedented investigatory procedures” — including a trip to Toronto and elsewhere to “dig up unrelated slanders” - to win a conviction, Hatfield said.Quebec booklet outlines kids’ ethnic differences By Nelson Wyatt MONTREAL (CP) — The mysteries of the Orient are no more, thanks to Quebec’s Education Ministry.In a series of 13 French-language brochures to be distributed in Quebec schools, such things as China’s national sport and history of Haitian voodoo rites are revealed.The booklets, written for the ministry by members of the featured ethnic groups, were made public by Education Minister François Gendron at news conference at an elementary school in Montreal Thursday.The countries featured in the booklets are Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Lebanon, Vietnam, Chile, Haiti and El Salvador.Gendron acknowledged none of the books had been translated into English, but said he was willing to consider an English version if the demand existed.Most of the children from these ethnic communities are forced to attend French schools because their lack of English educaton does not qualify them to attend anglophone schools under Quebec’s language law, Bill 101.Gendron pointed out Quebec schools boast students from more than 35 countries and “the arrival in our schools of children from different cultural communities constitutes an enrichment.” The booklets average 15 to 20 pages in length with the Haitian community nabbing the most ink with 32 pages.Each of the brochures starts with a word of welcome and followed by a capsule description of each country’s geography, weather, economy and history.Politics are deftly handled.The election of Chilean president Salvador Allende is described as “an event of capital importance.” Land reforms introduced by the late Allende are described in two paragraphs while the violent methods used by the current Chilean military regime are recapped in a sentence.Haitian voodoo rites are given 14 lengthy paragraphs and Chinese sports — the national game is ping pong but football and basketball are also enjoyed — are summed up in five paragraphs.The booklet on Lebanon is equally brief in describing the country’s strife since 1975, noting the Lebanese, “graced with an extraordinary dynamism, rebuilt their country rapidly.” There is no mention of the Israeli occupation which is currently winding down.By Peter Calvert KASSALA, Sudan (Reuter) — Some 100,000 famished Ethiopian refugees are pouring every month into Sudan, exceeding the ability of aid organizations to provide food and water and taking refugee camps here to the brink of mass starvation.Since November the flood of Ethiopians fleeing guerrilla war and famine in their country has become one of the largest refugee movements in recent years.And it is descending on a country already desolated by drought and hunger.“Massive resources are required but they’re just not coming,” said Kedar Neupane, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in this border town.“We’re struggling to provide minimum food and water for children in the camps in eastern Sudan, and 3,000 more people are arriving every day.” Some 330,000 Ethiopian refugees are now in primitive desert camps, relying on outside aid for all food and most water.Their number, which compares with 130,000 last September, is expected by the United Nations to soar to more than 600,000 by mid-April.About 150 people, mainly children, are probably dying every day, but this total could shoot up three- or four fold if aid is delayed or epidemics break out, Neupane said.BEGAN AIRLIFT After appealing for international aid, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees was able in January to begin an airlift of some 30 tonnes of food a day to Kassala.But aid workers say these amounts remain pitifully small and the airlift is to end soon.More food may arrive later by ship at Port Sudan.But the relief effort is also threatened by problems of organization, bureaucracy and the appalling difficulties of transport over desert tracks, officials say.“We are only just beginning the infrastructure,” said Joel Bou-trove of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.“How do you organize a new town of 85,000 people like the camp at Wad Kowli, which didn’t exist in September?” Some 40 agencies are involved in the relief work, which is being coordinated by Sudan’s Commissioner of Refugees — known as COR — and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.Yet many aid workers in the camps accuse the UN organization of bureaucracy and failing to take advice from experts.“The UN is being a bunch of bureaucrats but their hands are tied by having to work through COR,” said Martin Weber, a Swiss doctor in charge at Wad Sharifee camp near here.But Neupane, who is generally praised despite the criticism of his organization, emphasizes the difficulties facing Sudan: “You have to be sensitive in dealing with people here — you can’t just ride in and demand action.We are beginning to get things done.” NO MORE FOOD Sudanese authorities have already said they have no more local food available for the camps.Nearly a quarter of Sudan’s own population of 20 million are hit by famine and more than one million are displaced because of drought, the United Nations says.In the camps themselves, such problems of organization and statistics seem far away.The main impression is one of misery.At the emergency Red Cross feeding stations at Wad Sharifee, hundreds of emaciated children wait for help while their mothers sit quietly, showing little emotion but stunned acceptance.The only sounds are of children coughing and the shuffling of feet in the dust.Outside, refugee families slump dully on the desert floor beneath thousands of crude shelters made of branches and thatch.Many problems threaten to overwhelm the camps.“We do not even have wood left for huts,” Weber said.“We must have it brought in from Eritrea across the border.Somehow, we’ve got to build food stores.” Three years ago, Wad Sharifee had one working water pump for 3,500 people.The same pump and well now serve 62,000.At Wad Kowli, to the south, only about 50 days’ supply of water is left in reserves in the area and the Sudanese want to move the 85,000 inhabitants to camps in the interior with more resources.But a thousand or more new refugees arrive there each day.DELAY KILLS “We’re managing to give more than 7,000 children a meal every day at Wad Sharifee because of the airlift, but we cannot afford any delays or interruptions in the supplies or we’ll get lots of deaths,” Weber said.“Food distribution is difficult and many don’t seem to be getting it at all.They’re just starving.” Errors that might be comic in oiuer circumstances become tragic in the refugee camps.Water trucked in to Wad Sharifee in January had to be poured away after Weber discovered it was contaminated with gasoline, because the drivers had not washed out the tanker trucks following their previous load of fuel.So far, major epidemics of serious diseases have not been reported in the Sudanese camps, but children are so weakened by hunger they are dying from dysentery and other ailments.A measles outbreak killed hundreds in November and December.The dryness has helped prevent disease, doctors say.The refugees, who arrive with no more belongings than a bundle of rags, are emaciated and filthy after walks of many days from deep inside Ethiopia.“One group of children I saw had their hair crawling with lice and their gums were bleeding from scurvy,” said Paul Worrel, a doctor from Anchorage, Alaska.“Their condition was as bad as I’ve ever seen.” Canadian one of many volunteers By Peter Calvert KASSALA, Sudan (Reuter) — In a flimsy hut of branches and grass on the edge of the desert in Sudan, Dianne Mackie cares for starving infants, close to death from dysentery, tuberculosis and a host of other ailménts.' ! It’s a far cry from the brightly painted, well-equipped children’s'01 wards of a Toronto hospital where she worked until two months ago.As another disaster of famine and disease gathers pace in Africa, this time centred on the countless thousands of Ethiopian refugees pouring into Sudan, most of the world has watched from a distance.But hundreds of volunteer aid workers like Mackie have hurried to the area, forsaking the comforts of their homes to accept hardship, depression and the risk of disease.Most are doctors and nurses but they also include engineers and other specialists.Many say they came because they feel a personal responsibility to help when disaster happens.HAS EXPERIENCE “I think this may be the last time I do something like this; I feel I’m getting too old for it,” said Mackie, 34.“But I can’t be sure.It’s very tempting to come when you see pictures of a major disaster like this.It’s very difficult just to sit at home and let it happen.” Mackie typifies many aid workers here.A Canadian Red Cross volunteer, she has been in disaster zones twice before, spending six months at Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand in 1980 and four months in southwest Ethiopia in 1982.“We usually stay for about six months,” she said.“I’ve been here two.” Normally employed at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, she plunged suddenly into refugee work.“I Saw the pictures of the Cambodian refugees on television.I phoned the Red Cross one day to see if they needed help and six days later I was in Thailand.It was as quick as that.” Pale and composed, Mackie looks younger than her years and v/ears her fair hair close-cropped to cut the risk of picking up dirt and disease at the Wad Sharifee refugee camp where she works.The camp is near this east Sudanese border town, where she has a room in the Swiss Red Cross compound.“I’m lucky with the conditions here,” she said.“We’ve even got running water and electricity in the compound.I expected just a tent.” ERECTS BARRIER Like many other volunteers, Mackie says she tries to steel herself against being emotionally affected by the plight of the refugees but it’s impossible not to be moved.“You’ve always got to put a barrier around yourself,” she said.“There is so much suffering, it would destroy you otherwise.“But sure, it still affects you.It’s heart-breaking to watch so many children die.“The worst time for me was when I first came here and we were setting up the kids’ hospital.Every single child died, whatever we did, because they were so weak and ill.” #1_______________fagl «cairn Q«org« MacLarvn, Publisher .Chari» Bury, Editor.Lloyd O.Schalb, Advertising Manager .Mark Guillatte, Press Superintendent.Richard Lasaard, Production Manager .Dobra Waite, Superintendent.Composing Room CIRCULATION OEPT.-M9-9S2I Subscription* by Carrier: 1 year - 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The Townships The RECORD—Friday.February 15.1985—3 a_______ssi KBcara Mapping branch still not decided but has Mulroney’s support Robert Layton.Mulroney ‘very much in favor’ By Robert Palmer SHERBROOKE — The city is going to have to wait until Finance Minister Michael Wilson’s April budget before learning the fate of its long-awaited Institute of Cartography.Construction of the mapping institute on the chosen site across from the University of Sherbrooke is, like all current government projects, under review by Deputy Prime Minister Eric Neilson’s special task force.Neilson is expected to make his report at the end of March before the April budget.According to Sherbrooke MP JeanCharest and Minister of State for Mines Robert Layton, there’s a good chance the cartography dos- sier will not fall under either Neii-son's or Wilson's axe.In Treasury Board President Robert de Cotret’s Nov.8 financial statement (which cut out or reduced many government projects), the cartography institute escaped mention.The same month a preliminary budget for the institute was approved.These actions lead Cha-rest and Layton to believe plans to begin construction in mid-1986 will go ahead.Already, 25 technical staff have been hired and trained and 25 more are set to move into the temporary King St.West facility in July.‘CHRÉTIEN SOLUTION’ Plans for the department to remain in Ottawa and an specialized, high-technology institute to be built in Sherbrooke — ‘the Chrétien solution’ to the touchy proposed transfer of Ottawa employees and families to Sherbrooke — have not changed since the new government took power Approximately 400 people will work in Sherbrooke : 100 from Ottawa in a "slow transfer”, and 300 from the local area whenever possible.Both Layton and Charest say they are enthusiastic about the institute and are hopeful plans for its construction here will remain intact past Wilson’s April budget.“I’m enthusiastic about it,” Charest said Thursday.“And Bob (Minister Layton) assures me the department (in Ottawa) is enthusiastic.” “The region needs the high-tech type of industry the institute would bring.” LOC AL HIRING PRIORITY Charest says the institute will give hiring priority to local people but due to the very specific nature of the job qualifications, people from across the country will likely have to be found.“These will be multi-disciplinary teams,” he said, “of people with backgrounds in computer science, geography, cartography and engineering.The region might not be able to supply everyone because of the very specific job profiles.” “But as much as it is possible, priority will be given to people in the region," he added.Layton, who told reporters in Magog Wednesday plans for the institute are still alive, said Thur sday the project has the support of the prime minister.“This is one of the very key projects for Brian Mulroney.He is very much in favor of it.” Speaking about Neilson’s review.Layton, who is also cabinet spokesman for Quebec’s English-speaking community, said in a telephone interview the cabinet "decided it was the government's full responsibility to review all projects.” “The institute has fallen under that moratorium group of projects awaiting the task force's report.” "It is a very important project for the Eastern Townships, not just the English-speaking population but for the French community, too,” he said.But only the April budget, he said, “will reveal what resources the country has to carry on projects around the country.” Government money and recovery make ’84 a good year for city By Peter Scowen SHERBROOKE — Some 4,000 jobs were created in the Sherbrooke area last year, according to the first annual report of the Société de développement industriel de Sherbrooke.The unemployment rate in the region reflected this activity, dropping to 9.5 per cent from 13.6 per cent, the best improvement in the province, according to Mayor Jean-Paul Pelletier, who is president of the SDIS.But the mayor also admitted that “in some cases” the jobs were recreated rather than created, having been lost during the recent recession.Pelletier read the report at a press conference Thursday during which he also officially introduced Serge Bouchard, the city’s new industrial commissioner.(See story same page.) The report is the first to cover a full year of SDIS activity.The Société was created in the spring of 1983 as a replacement for the city’s industrial commission.It is a kind of municipal Crown corporation that encourages investors to spend their money in Sherbrooke.?!-Tbe SDIS’s 1984 budget-was $280,000, most of which was paid by the Quebec ministry of industry, trade and commerce.The city paid only a small part.PHONE CALL SURVEY The report released Thursday is based on telephone calls to all of the Sherbooke area’s manufacturing industries, ranging from bakeries to newspapers to cement companies.Personnel department officials were asked how many people they had hired or laid off during the year.In all, there was a net increase of 855 jobs in the greater Sherbooke area.Tie Communications Canada led the way, creating 420 jobs at its new telephone assembly plant in the city’s industrial park.A total of 80 firms hired at least three more people during the year.“This statistic alone confirms that there was an economic recovery in 1984,” Pelletier said.The biggest investment of the year in a local industry was at Berkley Wallpaper.That company is putting more than $6 million in to a new plant to be named Les Papiers Peints Quatre-Saisons.Four other manufacturing firms invested over a million in their plants: Dominion Textile, Lowney’s, Combustion Engineering and Enduits Unifix.Another $21 million was invested in 56 projects around the Sherbrooke area.Much of the plant expanding and job creating was due to the availi-bility of grants and loans from go-, vernment bodies such as the Canadian Industrial Renewal Board, the Société de développement industriel du Québec, the Quebec ministry of regional development and the ministry of industry, trade and commerce.BUILDING PERMITS TRIPLED The construction industry had a good year as well, according to the report.Over $76 million in permits was handed out in Sherbrooke and its suburbs during 1984, compared to $29 million in 1982.Sherbrooke SHERBROOKE (PS) — Although it was only ‘officially’ announced Thursday, Sherbrooke has had a new industrial commissioner since last Monday and so far he likes what he sees.Serge Bouchard told reporters at his introduction to the press Thursday that this city has qualities that should be irresistible to investors.“It’s one of the only place you can sell as a package deal,” he said.“It has well-established bilingual insi-titutions.It’s in a beautiful region.That’s very attractive to Americans.” Bouchard should know what Americans like.Before coming to Sherbrooke he,spent a year,,and a » half working in Chicago for the Quebec ministry of external trade.Liberals ready to deal with Quebec hospital ‘crisis’ — Pierre Paradis By Peter Scowen SHERBROOKE — A Liberal government would outlaw the “inhuman” strikes and lockouts which paralyze Quebec hospitals during contract negotiations, the provincial party’s official spokesman on social affairs said here Thursday.At the same time the workers’ right to bargain with the government would be respected as long as hospitals were kept open.Pierre Paradis told reporters.His party would also direct more money into hospitals, turn some services over to the private sector, set regional quotas in medical schools and try and get more chronic-care patients to live at home.Hospitals, he said, are in a state of crisis because of government spending cuts and bad relations with unions.“If you are the government and you care about social services, you have to move fast,” said Paradis.“Not in two years or in your next mandate but in the first 100 days of power.” Paradis, MNA for Brome-Missisquoi, is on a “pre-election campaign” across the province spreading the Liberal message on health care services in Quebec.Thursday he was with MNAs Madeleine Bélanger (Megantic-Compton) and Richard Middlemiss (Pontiac), both members of the party’s committee on social affairs.STRIKES ‘INHUMAN’ “.The work stoppages in hospital services have been, are and will always be inhuman in our eyes,” said Paradis.“Workers can do two things.Either they accept to settle their contracts without striking.Or they see the right to strike and lock out abolished by law.” So far, Paradis claims, the promise to outlaw strikes has been well-received, even by unions.He said he met workers at Hôtel Dieu hospital in Sherbrooke Thursday and there were no confrontations on the issue.“The crisis has reached a point where people are willing to accept the strike ban,” said the MNA.The “crisis” is due to budget cuts made by the Péquiste government that have seen $1 billion lopped off social services since 1981, most of it from hospital administration fi- nances.Hospitals are overcrowded and under-equipped as a result, according to Paradis.“The cuts have been so drastic that this year they (the hospitals) can’t follow Quebec orders,” he said.He gave the example of the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins hospital in Cowansville which is faced with the impossible task of cutting over $800,000.WOULD PRIVATIZE SERVICES His party has two proposals; turn over services such as food, laundry and security to the private sector and find an “intelligent” way to get more chronic care patients to live at home.Private businesses working within hospitals would be subject to the strike ban, he added.“You can’t talk of deficits in hospitals, only performance — how one hospital is doing compared to another,” said Paradis.“Hospitals can’t control the number of clients, the seriousness of the cases.It’s easy to cut deficits — you just cut services.” Another serious problem in Quebec is a shortage of doctors willing to work away from the Island of Montreal.Its not a problem finding students willing to work in the big city, said Paradis, but Trois Rivières and the Gaspé are another story.Sherbrooke is exempt from this problem because of the university’s medical school.Paradis said the Liberal answer is quotas on students from around Quebec accepted in big medical schools.The theory is that students from rural areas would choose to return home after graduation.Paradis insisted students accepted into medical schools to fill the quotas would still be qualified.“You don’t need a 90-per-cent average to be a good doctor,” he said.Correction It was erroneously reported in Wednesday’s Record that Wesley Nichol died at the Sherbrooke Hospital after a lengthy illness.Mr.Nichol died at the Wales Home near Richmond.The article also said Mr.Nichol served as mayor of Lennoxville from 1953 to 1957 but he was actually mayor of Ascot during that period.The Record regrets any in-convience.tS.A Brome-Misxisquoi MNA Pierre Paradis says hospital unions can choose not to strike or have that right legislated away.4*1 >l Pelletier estimated that over half the construction jobs lost in the area during the recession years of 1980-83 have now been recovered.Another 2,500 jobs were created in the professional, service and commercial industries, according to the SDIS report.These jobs were carried along with the recovery in the manufacturing sector, according to Réal Patry, who prepared the report.Only the public sector remained stable in 1984, due to “restrictions at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.” Pelletier said the good results were the result of goverment grants and loans, a spirit of cooperation and “dynamic” businessmen.He also managed to lay some credit on his “More Than A City” promotion of Sherbrooke and the “promotional support" offered by local media.“This isn’t just the result of the economic recovery," said the mayor.“If that were so we’d see the same results in all regions of Quebec.Our results have been much better than in other regions.” Pelletier refused to make any predictions about 1985, except for one.“We’re going to work as hard as we did in 1984,” he said.a ‘package’ deal, says commissioner He said he covered 12 midwest states searching for possible investors for the province.He even has a briefcase-full of files concering projects that may be interesting for Sherbrooke.“I see my job as selling a city, selling a way of life,” he said.“The Sherbrooke region is fascinating.Americans want a good quality of life and a competent workforce.Sherbrooke has it all.” Before going to Chicago with the government, Bouchard worked at Crane Canada in Montreal and for his family business.He is originally from the Saguenay., Bouchard replaces Daniel Mi-gnault as industrial commissioner.JJWA jp)> ^MtomaticaUy .eaxnB.the holder the title of vice-president of president in the interim until Bou- Serge Bouchard.‘Selling a the Société de développement in- chard took over last Monday.city’.I M* -1 , u 4,'* -, CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) Try to arrange a reunion today with an old friend you haven’t seen mufch of lately.It will be nice to get together again.so logically, not just optimistically.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Before getting yourself involved In new projects or ventures at this time, check out every ramification so you know exactly what to expect.CANCER (June 21-July 22) You might be tempted to take risks or buck odds today that you normally wouldn't.It's best that you be cautious instead of capricious.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) In important family matters today, be sure to Include your mate in the decision-making process.Unless you're both in accord, problems may result.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) Today you may spend more time and effort figuring out ways to dodge your responsibilities than doing something constructive about them.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Strive to be as open and generous with friends today as they are with you.When the tabs are presented, volunteer to pay your fair share.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) Although you'll make every effort today to be a nice guy, you may still encounter someone impossible to please.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) Be a good listener today and ask questions if you want something clarified.Don't pretend you understand what is being said If you really don’t.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) Be wary of catering to extravagant fancies today.If you let your guard down, it's likely you'll spend funds in a foolish fashion.Monday, Feb.18 Wales Home News cfour ‘Birthday Sunday, Feb.17 «Your Wrfhday Feb.17,1985 In the year ahead you can derive substantial benefits by gaining more knowledge about your chosen field Expand upon your education and take advantage of any new courses offered you.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) Extra effort will be required today if you expect to achieve your objectives.Take your setbacks in stride and continue to push on.Looking for Mr.Right?The Astro-Graph Matchmaker can show you who you are best suited to romatically.To get yours mail $2 to Astro-Graph, Box 489, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10019.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Uncharacteristically, you may be tempted to do something out of spite to one who has wronged you in the past.Forgive, don’t try to get even.ARIES (March 21-April 19) Even if you are doing business today with people you know and trust, be sure to spell everything out so there won't be any misunderstandings later TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You may not find easy answers to tough questions today so when assessing situations, do By Joan Bush RICHMOND — With all the excitement of Christmas in the past, January was a quiet month.We started out with movies shown by Mr.George Skilling.These will be shown every two weeks.We had our Friday teas and get-together, thanks to the kind ladies who come every week.The monthly birthday party was given by the Eastern Star of Richmond.Bingo was played, and for prizes, a large dish filled with every kind of fruit was placed on the table and each winner chose a fruit, this was a delightful and novel idea, and very much appreciated.Welcomed into the Home this month were Mrs.Cook, Mr.Nichol, Mrs.Byers, Mrs.Webb and Mrs.Prowse.On Jan.30 a party was held for Miss Jean Bell on the occasion of her retirement.From 5:30 to6:30p.m.the Residents all assembled in the main sitting room to visit with her, they were all sad to see her go.At 6:30, the Administration Nurses Arthritis can be controlled.James Jacoby Fab.18,1985 New channels will open for you in the year ahead that will lead to advancement in your field.These breaks will come in an unexpected manner.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) Be duty conscious today and do what's expected of you, but also leave yourself some time to participate in pleasurable pursuits.Major changes are in store for Aquarians in the coming year.Send for your Astro-Graph predictions today.Mail $1 to Astro-Graph, Box 489, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10019.Be sure to state your zodiac sign.PISCES (Fab.20-March 20) Trends and tides will be shifting in your favor today.You may be able to achieve an objective you previously thought was unattainable.ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your greatest benefits today will come through your more progressive contacts.Avoid involvements with people who think "status quo." TAURUS (April 20-May 20) A unique idea may dominate your thinking today.Don't discount it just because it’s a departure from your normal way of operating.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Listen attentively when smart people speak today.Someone you’ll be talking to may furnish you with a brilliant point of view you haven't yet considered.CANCER (June 21-July 22) Don't be hesitant to experiment with new procedures today at work.You could develop some step-savers that will enhance your NORTH 21685 NORTH 2-15-85 ?10 5 3 4 7 4 3 2 V A K 7 6 2 ¥ Q J 10 7 4 ?532 ?J ?A 6 4 Q 8 4 WEST EAST WEST EAST ?-.- 4J982 4 8 4 J 10 6 ¥ 1054 ¥ J 9 8 3 ¥98632 ¥5 ?J 8 7 6 44 ?9852 4 A K 10 7 6 3 ?QJ 108 53 ?K 9 4 2 4952 4KJ10 SOUTH SOUTH ?A K Q 7 6 4 4AKQ95 ¥ Q ¥ A K ?A K Q 10 9 ?Q 4 ?7 4 A 7 6 3 Vulnerable: Both Vulnerable: Neither Dealer: North Dealer: East West North East South West North East South l¥ Pass 24 14 Dbl.Pass 3¥ Pass 44 24 2¥ 44 44 Pass 44 Pass 64 Pass Pass 54 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass 54 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: +Q Opening lead: 42 LEO (July 23-Aug.22) You have the ability today to analyze situations on the spot and come up with the right answers while your associates are still trying to understand the problem.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) Today you may have a tendency to let duties go until the last minute.However, you’ll still be ingenious enough to squeeze things in under the wire.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Try to keep your schedule as flexible as possible today.There's a chance something fun may pop up that you'll want to do.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) Chance and circumstances tend to favor you today where material interests are concerned.Something financially opportune could come through a loving friend.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) It will be easy for you to gain the support of others today for ventures in which you truly believe.Associates will respect your judgment.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) Keep a weather eye peeled for opportunities today because you might be able to pick up something of personal value that's been overlooked by others.(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN ) The hand of the master By James Jacoby Harry Fishbein, one of the great experts in American bridge, was known as “Master of the Mayfair.” That he owned the Mayfair Bridge Club in New York explains one part of his nickname.Today’s deal shows the aptness of the other part.At rubber bridge, even odds-on grand slams are not always bid.After all, if something devilishly unlucky occurs, you have lost the points for making a small slam.When dumciy-comes down in today’s deal, you wonder why you didn’t reach seven spades instead of six.That's fine, but meanwhile you want to be sure of making six.Fishbein won the ace of clubs.Instead of immediately playing trumps, he ruffed a club at trick two.Now he played the ace of spades and got the bad news that there was a trump loser.How fortunate that he had ruffed a club! He cashed the heart queen and played out his high diamonds.If East ruffed any high diamond, his exit card would let declarer get to the dummy sooner or later.If East held off until the fourth round of diamonds, at which time declarer would trump in dummy and East would overruff, declarer would then be able to pick up the remaining trumps and his hand would be good.A simple little play, trumping the club.And who would ever have thought that spades would break 4-0?But the Master of the Mayfair knew that it is worthwhile to have some insurance in a rubber bridge game.(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN ) And then there were none By James Jacoby The unusual theme of today’s deal is preventing the defenders from shortening dummy’s trump holding when the last trump may be needed as an entry.Since five diamonds would have been down only one, it wai right for North to bid on to five spades.In fact, six spikes .would.make if,,.trumps were divided ,2-2.Today’s declaret-might have done better had He remembered that he was in five spades, not six.East won the king of diamonds and continued with the ace.Declarer ruffed in dummy and played the A-K of spades.When West showed out, South realized that the contract was in danger.He cashed his A-K of hearts.Had East ruffed the second heart, declarer's problems would have been over, but East simply discarded a diamond.South picked up the last trump and led a club to the queen, hoping that West had the king.No such luck.He had to go down a trick.Declarer has a simple play to allow the contract to make.When East plays the second high diamond, South should simply play a low club from dummy.Whatever happens next, he will be able to play A-K-Q of spades and the A-K of hearts, and be able to reach dummy by overtaking his spade five with dummy’s seven to make the contract.(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN ) HOUSE OF COMMONS CANADA STANDING COMMITTEE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC HEARINGS Standing Committee on Regional Development of the House of Commons will be holding meetings on Bill C-15.An Act respecting investment in Canada.Individuals, provincial and municipal governments, organizations, financial and banking institutions, and the industrial and business sector appearing before the Committee will be selected from among those who submit a written brief before Friday.March I.1985.Briefs may be submitted in English, in French or in both official languages.It is recommended that submissions be typed on 22cm by 28cm paper with respeclive margins of 2cm by 3cm Public distribution of all submissions is left to the discretion of the Committee, unless otherwise requested.All briefs, correspondence and inquiries pertaining to substance and format of the submissions should be addressed to: Clerk Standing Committee on Regional Development House of Commons Ottawa.Ontario K IA 0A6 (613)996-1549 GI Y RICARD.M.P.I M \IKW \\ COME TO NEW LOW PRICE FOR COMMODORE 64 Keyboard Monitor 1702 *259" *359” Printer 801 Printer 802 Disk Drive *259” 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