The record, 18 mars 1985, lundi 18 mars 1985

Monday Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .8.9 City .3 iHeupI w-ro SUNNY SCOTT BAILEY KNOWLTON ACADEMY SCHOOL Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Monday, March 18, 1985 35 cents Quebec going to abandon its provincial police force?>-re iPRE.PE*6.P| “Mine is taken,” MONTREAL (CP) — The Quebec government is considering disbanding the 4,300-member provincial police force unless the two sides soon solve the lengthy contract dispute with the officers, La Presse said Sunday.The French-language daily said in a published report that the government is considering decertifying the police union and assigning the officers to municipal police forces across the province as specialized squads.The newspaper, citing unnamed government and police sources, said Justice Minister Pierre Marc Johnson has discussed the measures with cabinet colleagues and police force directors.But Raymond Richard, president of the policemen’s union, said reports of the force’s break-up are probably part of an unofficial strategy to frighten the officers.The government has made no direct threat to the union and the idea itself is not new, having been rai- sed in a report prepared for the provincial justice department some years ago, Richard added.“It doesn’t worry us in the least,’ ’ he said in an interview from Quebec City.Johnson said Friday the latest round of contract talks between the two sides broke down because the police union continued to pursue the salary issue the government refuses to discuss.Premier René Lévesque said last week that the government would have to take steps to end the dispute unless it was soon settled.“What has been built up over the last 20 years is in the process of being demolished,” the paper quotes police director Jacques Beaudoin as saying in an interview.NOT IN CONTROL Beaudoin said earlier this month he could no longer control his men because union directives for a pressure campaign were being given priority over his orders.That prompted Johnson to withdraw provincial police from the security net around the summit that ends today in Quebec City between U.S.President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, The union refuses to call off a pressure campaign since last summer when the government rejected the wage recommendations of a Quebec Labor Department arbitrator and imposed a contract that will pay an average of $2,000 less a year.Leaders name acid rain ambassadors at summit Then there s the one.Irish jokes were the order of the day as Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan met Sunday at Quebec City airport.Canadian shows too expensive Mulroney, Reagan spend rest of time praising each other OTTAWA (CP) — The CBC cannot afford to replace its popular American television shows with more expensive Canadian productions, network president Pierre Juneau says.“You can buy an American program, one hour, for $35,000 to $50,000, like Dallas for instance, whereas these programs cost at least a million dollars now to produce per hour,’’ Juneau said in an interview broadcast Sunday by NewsRadio.“If we produce them in Canada we can manage to produce them at a lesser cost but it’s still much more than the cost of buying an American program off the shelf.” MEXICO CITY (AP)—Six police officers and a former police agent have been arraigned on charges of kidnapping and killing a U.S.drug agent.Some of the defendants claimed they had been tortured and forced to sign confessions.The men, six of them Jalisco state police officers, stood behind bars Sunday while officials read more than 380 pages of evidence against them.The accused said they had been beaten and given electric shocks, and had not been fed for a week.One other suspect died in police custody last week.Judge Gonzalo Ballesteros Tena said “all seven are charged to a greater or lesser degree” with the three most serious crimes — homicide, kidnapping and drug-related offences.He said the degree of each person’s charges would be determined later.He said he did not expect any of the defendants to be released on bail.Kidnapping carries a sentence ranging from six to 40 years in prison, murder from eight to 20 years, and narcotics violations seven to 15 years.Ballesteros Tena must decide by For those reasons, he said, the CBC “cannot afford to replace them.” He said the network will continue to try to satisfy the Canadian viewer’s demand for domestic productions such as Seeing Things, Charlie Grant’s War and Gentle Sinners.“We’ve had for all those programs better ratings than for most of the American programs we put on,” Juneau noted.He agreed Canadians need quality domestic productions.BRIDGE DISTANCES “There’s so many things that separate one part of the country from the other — languages, ethnic ori- late Tuesday whether the evidence is sufficient to consider the men “presumed responsible” for the crimes.If so, he has a year to hear more evidence and reach a verdict.If not, the case is thrown out of court.The defendants are among 13 people arrested last week in an investigation of the killing of Enrique Camarena Salazar, a U.S.Drug Enforcement Administration agent, and Alfredo Zavala Avelar, a pilot who worked with him.Camarena and Zavala were kidnapped Feb.7 in Guadalajara and their severely beaten bodies were found March 5 on a ranch 96 kilometres east of the city.Felipe Flores, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s office, said Saturday that authorities are still looking for six or seven other people in the case, including a reputed drug trafficker, Rafael Caro Quintero.Authorities say they have issued several more arrest warrants.Of the 13 people arrested so far, four were released after questioning, one was turned over to state authorities in Guadalajara on other charges and the other, gin, religion, distances.I think we must bridge those distances and stories can do that.“Unfortunately, we’re not telling Canadians enough stories about themselves.” An embargoed text of the interview was made available Friday — the same day federal Communications Minister Marcel Masse pledged to increase funds for Canadian drama, children’s and documentary TV programs.For a year beginning next month, Telefilm Canada, the federal agency which administers a five-year $200-million television program development fund established in 1983, will increase its commander Gabriel Gonzalez Gonzalez of the Jalisco homicide division, died in custody.Jose Guadalupe Munoz Villa-real, the former police agent, told the court Sunday he had heard sounds of Gonzalez Gonzalez being tortured to death.“We could hear his screams and we knew his voice," he said.“And at a certain time his screams stopped and we heard someone say, ‘This ox is gone.’” The Attorney General’s office said last week an autopsy showed the cause of death OTTAWA (CP) — Turkish Ambassador Coskun Kirca is in stable condition and recovering well from his injuries after last Tuesday’s attack on the Turkish embassy, an Ottawa General Hospital spokesman said Sunday.The 58-year-old diplomat’s condition is “definately stable”, said Claude Dufault.“It is impossible at this time to say how long he will be hospitalized,” he added.Kirca, who underwent surgery — Juneau funding of Canadian productions to 49 per cent from 33 per cent.The CBC will have access to up to half the fund.Private broadcasters will have access to no less than half.Juneau said in a statement issued Friday that the CBC “will do everything possible to make full use of the proposals in order to extend its co-operative partnership with the private sector.” He said the new regulations “will enable the corporation to continue working toward its most important objective of increasing the availability of distinctive Canadian programming.” was “acute bleeding of the pancreas” and indicated no signs of beating.Munoz Villareal showed the court a bruise on his shoulder and burns on his right ankle.He said that in addition to being beaten, his head had been forced into a toilet bowl, carbonated water was forced up his nose, and he was given electric shocks.Munoz Villareal said he had been forced to sign a confession, “a sheet of paper already written out.” for “serious fractures to his right leg, right arm and pelvis,” was also treated for bruises suffered when he jumped out a bedroom window to avoid being taken hostage, Dufault said.Three heavily-armed men, claiming to be members of the Armenian Revolutionary Army, stormed the Turkish Embassy last week, killing 31-year-old security guard Claude Brunelle, blowing open the front door with exlosives and taking 12 people hostage.QUEBEC (CP) — President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney kicked off their Shamrock Summit Sunday by agreeing to appoint high-level envoys to study the contentious acid rain issue.Mulroney, portraying the development as a significant step forward, named former Ontario premier William Davis as Canada’s special representative.Reagan said he “couldn’t be happier about getting this underway” and named Andrew Lewis, his former transportation secretary as the United States’ representative.The announcement of special envoys, expected since last week and immediately decried as inadquate by the leading Canadian acid rain lobby group, was announced by the two leaders after the first private meeting of their two-day summit.White House spokesman Larry Speakes made clear the envoys have no authority to implement action.They will make their recommendations to Reagan and Mulroney who will then decide what, if any, action should be taken.The United States has been repeatedly stalled Canadian demands for action on acid rain since Reagan promised his “best efforts” to solve the issue at his 1981 summit with former Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau.This summit began with a chilly, but colorful welcome ceremony at the Quebec City airport, during which both Reagan and Mulroney referred to their Irish heritage.FLASHY GREEN TIE Reagan, wearing a flashy green tie to mark St.Patrick’s Day, joked that he turns “green with envy” when he thinks of Mulroney’s majority in Parliament.Despite Reagan’s landslide re-election victory Nov.6, he faces an uphill battle to get many of his programs aproved by Congress.Reagan is accompanied by his wife Nancy and several members of his cabinet, a move designed to demonstrate U.S.desire to forge a “new partnership” with Canada, U.S.officials said.The mandate of the two envoys, as described by Canadian and U.S.officials, was vague and deals primarily with exploring ways the two countries can consult and enhance co-operation on issues related to acid rain.But officials from both sides stressed that the high-level appointments of Lewis and Davis guarantee them access to the president and prime minister.“The people who have been appointed today represent artists in politics,” one Canadian official said.“Acid rain resolution will require artistry in politics.” Davis and Lewis, who will hold their first meeting within the next two weeks, have been asked to report back to Mulroney and Reagan at their next annual meeting, expected sometime next spring.Canadian officials said they would be paid a token $1 a year for their services which are not expected to amount to full-time jobs.BELITTLES DEAL Michael Perley of the Canadian Acid Rain Coalition belittled the agreement as falling short of a the joint effort needed to clean up acid rain on both sides of the border.“It underlines the fact that the president is completely out of step — not only with Canada — but with the rest of the world,” he said.But Canadian officials briefing reporters characterized the decision as the strongest commitment so far from Reagan.“We’re talking action," one official said, attempting to squelch su-gestions that the move merely promised more study Acid rain dominated the leaders’ first meeting, although officials said they touched briefly on East-West relations.Speakes said Reagan was “very interested” in Mulroney’s views on Mikhail Gorbachev, the new Soviet leader with whom Mulroney spent 45 minutes last week after attending the funeral of Konstantin Chernenko in Moscow.Speakes said Mulroney and Reagan demonstrated “solid agreement” on almost every issue they discussed.U.S.Secretary of State George See REAGAN page 2.Six arrested in scuffles with police QUEBEC (CP) — President Ronald Reagan was smuggled into a side entrance of his hotel Sunday to avoid a noisy demonstration and a scuffle between police and six young men taunting them with black flags, sticks and insults.Several hundred demonstrators, protesting Reagan’s two-day sum-mitt meeting here with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, shouted “Yankee Go Home” and “Reagan Assassin” as the American president’s motorcade arrived at the Chateau Frontenac Hotel.Five young men were arrested in Place d’Armes Square facing the main entrance to the hotel courtyard, when police moved in.Reagan did not see the demonstration, although he was within shouting distance.The demonstrators — members of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), people with umbrellas protesting acid rain and others — broke their agreement with police to disperse as the Reagan party approached the hotel overlooking the St.Lawrence River.Police estimated about 4,000 protesters were in Quebec City for va rious events Sunday.About 1,500 of them, protesting a wide range of issues, staged a peaceful rally in the square after a march from the Quebec National Assembly through the streets of the Old City.Most of them then headed onto a cultural event in the basement of a nearby churchy The long line of marchers paraded under sunny skies in crisp subzero temperatures to protest U.S.military policy, nuclear radiation, acid rain and a variety of other causes.The demonstration was organized by a coalition of peace, ecological and left-wing organizations.The protesters, led by Central American refugees, chanted political slogans including: “A people united shall never be defeated.” Acid rain protesters, bearing a 10-metre inflatable smokestack, were joined by protesters calling for a Free Ireland, support for opposition parties in the Philippines and the overthrow of the Khomeini regime in Iran.Others yelled: “Arms are for Hugging” and “Jobs, not Bombs.” One sign referred to the so-called “Shamrock Summit” as the Sham Summit.John Harney, president of the Quebec wing of the New De-mocratic Party, echoed complaints last week by his federal counterparts that the Mulroney government is signing a major agreement with the U.S.to overhaul North American air defence "without first referring (it) to Parliament, the voice of the Canadian people.” Pictures page 2.Mexico murder suspects say they were tortured Turkish ambassador recovers 2—The RECORD—Monday, March 18, 1985 Reagan approaching acid rain with ‘open mind’ — U.Prime Minister Brian Mulroney greeting Ronald Reagan at the airport.With acid rain out of the way, the men can discuss friendlier topics today.Continued from page one Shultz and External Affairs Minister Joe Clark also met Sunday, discussing arms control as well as Clark’s visit to Moscow next month.Canadian officials said Shultz pressed Clark on whether the Mulroney government plans to ease up on a section of the national energy program that gives Petro-Canada, the federal oil company, a 25-per-cent share in all oil discoveries in the North and offshore before 1980.Clark made no commitment, they said.About 4,000 demonstrators, the majority calling for action to fight acid rain, were scattered across the city as the president’s entourage made its way from the airport.At least six were arrested after causing disturbances, but most of the protests were peaceful.The acid rain announcement had been in the works for weeks as officials from both sides agonized over how to prevent a stalemate on the issue.Mulroney raised the stakes by stating before Christmas that acid rain would be at the top of his agenda for the meeting with Reagan.Canada-U.S.negotiations on a joint acid rain program, initiated in 1980, collapsed in 1982.Those talks were initiated by the former Liberal government and the former U.S.administration of Jimmy Carter.Reagan has consistently said more research is needed before a costly cleanup program can be jus- S.official tified.Mulroney, echoing the former Liberal government, wanted some joint action taken now.The result, clearly less than what the Canadian government wanted, is designed to give the impression of some movement by Reagan without committing him to a change in his current position.Speakes told reporters that Reagan has not changed his view, but that he is approaching the subject “with an open mind.” Regardless, the decision to deal with the contentious issue Sunday was clearly aimed at clearing the agenda for friendlier topics today.The Reagans, accompanied by Mulroney and his wife Mila, were the guests of honor at a special gala performance Sunday night at the Grand Theatre of Quebec.Today, the Canadian and U.S.delegations settle in for two hours of talks on arms control, East-West relations, defence and trade issues.Reagan is anxious to have Mulroney publicly embrace the U.S.approach to arms control, including his pet Star Wars space defence project.The finale for the visit, Reagan’s first foreign jaunt since his re-election, is the signing of three accords.They include an agreement to split the $1.5 billion cost of updating the Distant Early Warning system in the North, a mutual assistance pact on crime fighting and a West Coast Pacific Salmon Treaty, the subject of 14 years of negotiations.Mulroney solos, dancers jig, puppets strip, Lévesque applauds QUEBEC (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and President Ronald Reagan stole their hearts away Sunday at a gala concert marking the end of the first day of their summit meeting.To a standing ovation from the 1,800 invited guests, the two leaders and their wives joined singers, dancers and the audience for a chorus of When Irish Eyes are Smiling.Mulroney even did a little solo at the end of the famous chorus when he warbled “(When Irish Eyes are smiling) sure they steal your heart away.” To encourage the audience to join in, concert organizers had included a printed sheet in the concert program with the words of the famous Irish ditty.Though fheir names weren’t on the program, the appearance of the two leaders on stage was not a complete surprise.Rumors had been circulating for days that they’d be capping the so-called Shamrock Summit with a blarney touch.Even Quebec Premier René Lévesque, sitting with his wife Corinne in the theatre box next to that of Mulroney and Reagan, joined the crowd for the rendition of the chorus.The concert was scripted, like the rest of the summit meeting, with a strong Irish touch throughout.Dancers from the Montreal-based Les Grands Ballets Canadiens opened the concert with a dance to a lively jig tune.GLITTERING AFFAIR It was a glittering affair from beginning to end.Mulroney and his wife Mila, in a glittering emerald gown with a jewelled brooch in a low-waisted sash, were greeted with trumpet fanfare at the door of the Grand Theatre in downtown Quebec City.They remained near the door to greet Reagan and his wife Nancy who was also wearing St.Patrick’s Day colors — a two-piece silver and green gown belted in gold.The concert was hosted by opera singer Maureen Forrester who gave the English introductions, opera singer Claude Corbeil who spoke in French and comedian Jean-Guy Moreau, who quipped that he was there to translate into American.Moreau, a well-known Quebec impersonator, did imitations of both Mulroney and Reagan.In the only political jokes of the evening he had Mulrioney talking on a blue phone to a senator in Ottawa warning he was going to turn the heat off in the Senate.He imitated Reagan talking to a NASA official who had just seen the dollar going out of sight.The artists who performed in the hour-long concert, came from around the country.Acadian singer Edith Butler sang a lively ode to her hometown Paquetville while the internationally acclaimed Ginette Reno performed her latest hit C’est beaucoup mieux comme ca (It’s Better That Way).After Reno’s number and a whispered consultation with Maureen Forrester, Reno congratulated Mi- PQ manages to snub U.S.The media often present some interesting contrasts when bilateral or international issues are involved.“Prime Minister Brian Mulro-ney’s decision to invite President Reagan to Quebec City was intended to signal to the world that Canada’s French separatist movement is no longer a threat,” reported The Associated Press, the main U.S.wire service.That may or may not be true.But the Parti Québécois government showed it still has the strength to at least snub its nose at the federal government.Just down the street from Reagan’s hotel, city workmen were busy Sunday evening hoisting Canadian flags on federal property.It seems there was a slight omission along Reagan’s route into town from the airport.The ceremonial rotunda outside the National Assembly was plastered with with the Stars and Stripes and Quebec’s blue-and-white flag.Nary a red-and-white Canadian pennant could be seen.• Then there’s the case of acid rain — highlight of Sunday’s opening talks after Mulroney and Reagan appointed special envoys to study the issue.“Some scientific evidence,” reported Reuter, a worldwide news agency, “suggests sulphur dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants in the central United States blow over Eastern Canada and damage lakes and streams.” Reagan, who’s been stalling action for years on the devastating airborne pollution, would have been happy to read that.But most Canadians, and their neighbors in the northeastern U.S., who have witnessed the destruction acid rain causes, don’t have many doubts that industrial emissions in both nations are killing lakes and fish and damaging forests.la Mulroney on her recently-announced pregnancy.The Famous People Players from Toronto got a warm reception for their puppets and props that are manipulated in darkness and made visible with fluorescent lighting.To a striptease tune, a dancer peels her garments until nothing is left but darkness.Other performers included dan- cer Jeff Hyslop and Quebec entertainer Michel Lemieux who creates sound and light performances with electronic wizardry.Marc Garneau, Canada’s first astronaut, made a brief appearance, rising from the middle of the stage in a cloud of smoke to the theme song from the movie Star Wars, which is also the popular name for Reagan’s space-based weapons research program.The finale took up the Irish theme again with a pub and a troupe of tap dancers from the National Tap Dance Company of Canada and the Quebec folkdance group Les Sortileges.When the curtain went down green and white balloons floated down from the ceiling to close the concert.Ronald and Nancy Reagan at the Quebec airport.From 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BY GARRY TRUDEAU SURE.SHOWTHE OFPtET BOTTLE WITH LOTS PERRIER?OF SWEAT ON IT \ \ x K Y Convoy outsmarts demonstrators BEATON Ronald Reagan and Brian Mulroney entered Quebec City’s Château Frontenac hotel by a rear driveway Sunday to avoid a confrontation with protestors waiting for them out front While the demonstratos chanted 'Reagan go home’, the two leaders chatted about acid rain on the r way The Townships The RECORD—Monday, March 18, 1985—3 —______ ueamx Low-cost housing for border elderly; Ottawa-Québec to help pay By Bobby Fisher ROCK ISLAND — A 10-tenement low-cost housing project for the elderly in the Three Villages area will become a reality if a place to build can be found, Richard Gro-leau said Friday.A three-member committee made up of police chief Groleau, Rock Island Mayor Jean Louis Dupont and town councillor Paul Du-rochers put together a proposal to erect a low-rent building.The idea has been accepted by the federal Central Mortgaga and Housing Corporation (CMHC).The go-ahead from the federal government means the group can count upon a $390,000 Ottawa subsidy and at least $10,000 from the pro-vincially-backed Société d’Habita-tion du Quebec (Quebec’s housing authority).“There are two pieces of land that are suitable,” Groleau said at a press conference Friday.“One of them meets all the requirements but we need the owner’s consent to buy it.That’s what we are working on.” MOVE QUICKLY The border area project falls under the name Live at Home or Vivre Chez Soi.Groleau said events will transpire quickly once land is purchased — construction should begin within four months and tenants will begin to move in four months after that.“We have to submit a site to the (CMHC) that is suitable,” Groleau explained.“It has to meet all the standards of the CMHC and when it’s finally accepted — and we have to send this to them by March 31 — then it’s a ‘go’.” Groleau called Friday’s press conference “phase one.” He said his committee has hired Pierre Morency and the Société de Restauration de Sherbrooke (SORES) and Fédération des Coopératives d'Habitation Populaires des Cantons de l’Est (GRTS) company “to take care of the technical apsects” of the project.The same group is involved in the similar Paton Mills housing project in Sherbrooke.“We are subsidized to do this," Groleau explained.PLENTY OF INPUT Tenants at the proposed building will have representatives on the board of directors and will have “a great deal of input” into the project, Groleau said.“It has to be acceptable to the community,” he said.“It has to be something that enhances the appearance of the villages, the environment.” "This is a program that not only gives the people low-cost housing but allows them to be active in the administration," Morency added.“In the coming weeks." Morency went on, "we will be consulting the public, searching out the people who can benefit from this." Groleau said he already has a short list of possible tenants but that “it is not full.” Both men balked at giving out rental figures but Groleau allowed that it might be something similar to the format at the Paton Mills site where tenants are charged a percentage of their income.He also said the committee had the choice of “either restoring something or building from the ground up.” “We decided to build,” Groleau said.“It’s going to be a flat concrete base and it will go very quickly.” Butterfield aftermath fading, says Mayor Jean-Louis Dupont ROCK ISLAND — Jean Louis Dupont says the Three Villages area is slowly getting back on its economic feet.At a press conference Friday to announce plans for a low-rent housing project for the elderly, the Rock Island mayor commented on the financial condition of the Rock Island-Stanstead-Beebe region.Thiriy-six-and-a-half months ago Butterfield Division of Litton Industries, at the time the area’s largest employer with about 200 factory and office workers, announced it would be permanently closing its doors on May 31 of the same year.At the time many people speculated it was the sounding of the death knoll for the border region.“The future looks much better than before,” Dupont said.“Especially with the new industry — International Cutting Tools — in Beebe.They have 55 or 60 people from the Three Villages area working there now and the owner of the company (Vincent Minicozzi) told me that in two or three years that may be 250 or 300 people.” MORE INDUSTRY?International Cutting Tools is a St.Leonard-based industrial cutting tool producing company that opened a division in Beebe.Dupont said the added jobs and prospects of more to come have greatly enhanced the region’s drawing ability for other industry.He said that he “has something” else in mind but that “it is not all set.” And Dupont said a tourist information bureau on Route 55 near the Canadian customs is another project he has been working on recently.“I had a meeting with a representative of the Quebec Tourist Mi- nistry two weeks ago and she came to see the land near the Canadian customs.She said the situation for getting a tourist information office is very good.” “She said she is going to make a report to Mr.Marcel Leger, the provincial minister, and she told me last week that I’m supposed to have some news from her this week or next week.” The primary problem, Dupont said, is that the land is owned by the Canadian government.He said that efforts are being made to get the two levels of government to come to some sort of leasing or purchase agreement.Dupont said he doesn’t know for sure how many permanent jobs might be created but that-“maybe for the summer, maybe four or five or six.” — Bobby Fisher Rock Island Mayor Jean-Louis Dupont and police chief Richard Groleau are part of the three member committee settin up a low-cost housing project for elderly residents of the Three Villages.éèAiS Windsor Save Domtar crew to Ottawa — appointments or not WINDSOR — Members of the Save Domtar committee say they can’t wait until next week to meet Prime Minister Brian Mulroney so they will head to Ottawa Tuesday for what they think is the next best thing : encounters with Opposition Leader John Turner and NDP leader Ed Broadbent.The Windsor survival group has been promised a meeting with the prime minister next week, following his summits with U.S.president Ronald Reagan and the nation’s economic leaders this week.But they say next week will be too late.Although no firm meetings have been set, five leaders of the committee will be in the capital Tuesday, hoping to hook up with Turner, Broadbent or both.“We don’t have an appointment with Prime Minister Mulroney," Windsor Mayor Adrien Péloquin said Saturday.“We gave (Sherbrooke Tory MP Jean) Mr.Charest a week to get us one.If we don’t get an answer Monday, we’ll go to Ottawa Tuesday.” “This has dragged on long enough,” Péloquin added.The mayor was speaking at a parish supper the survival committee organized for more than 500 supporters Saturday.MP Charest told the crowd the Domtar case “is one of the few files the prime minister has taken personal control of, and I think for that reason there is no reason to become anxious.” NOISE NOT NEEDED “I invite you to remain calm, and you don’t have to make a lot of noise because your demands have already been heard very clearly,” Charest added.The young MP’s remarks angered Johnson PQ MNA Carmen Juneau, a Windsor native and one of the survival committee leaders.“We have to start fighting,” Juneau said, “and continue all the means of pressiife already begun.We Truck enters Galt St.living room SHERBROOKE — Ginette Tru-deau-Maheu was beginning some housecleaning Friday morning when suddenly a truck crashed into the front of her home, spewing debris into the living room and causing an estimated $35,000 in damages.The truck, driven by René Breault of Waterloo, was travelling West along Galt Street East when it hit the small home on the corner of 7th Avenue.Breault was appently cut off, swerved to avoid hitting a car, and lost control of the vehicle.The sand-filled truck then went barreling through a fence, hit some trees, crashed through the verandah, smashed a large window and finally came to a stop after caving in the wall of the Maheu living room.“It was like an earthquake — the whole house was shaking,” said Maheu, who had walked from the living room into the adjacent bedroom only moments before the accident.“I remember mostly the sound of breaking branches.The first thing I did was dial ‘0’ to get the police and the fire department,” she said.Maheu’s husband, Nolin, had already left for work and her two children, seven and 10, were at school at the time of the accident.There were no injuries.According to Breault, a co-owner of Breault Excavation Inc.of Compton, he was crossing the intersection at 7th Avenue when the light turned yellow and a car from 7th avenue crossed in front of him.“I didn’t see the light turn red,” he said.“When saw the car in front of me I tried to turn quickly.” The Maheu home, which had been extensively renovated less than two years ago, is being emptied of furniture this week as the approximately $35,000 in repairs begin.yljLJi Sherbrooke fire fighters arrived at the home of Ginette and Nolin Maheu shortly after a truck crashed into the living room of the Galt Street home.record/perry bkaton have to join hands and stay together.” “In politics you can’t take anything for granted.” Richmond Liberal MP Alain Tardif was also distressed at Cha-rest’s plea for calm, blaming the Tories for the Domtar impasse.Michel Bousquet, president of the Save Domtar committee, warned that “we shouldn’t feel reassured” by the Conservative’s words.Saturday’s supper also featured a slide show vaunting the merits of the stalled $1.2-billion project, which would see the construction of a new mill above town to replace the ancient Windsor fine-paper plant.Meanwhile, committee members say they have finished delivering 450,000 letters of support to Quebec’s 192 MPs and MNAs.The letters, printed on Domtar stationery and enclosed in Domtar envelopes, were delivered by hand in Domtar boxes last week, they said.Highwater hotel destroyed in fire HIGHWATER — A fire of an undetermined cause completely destroyed the Highwater Hotel Saturday.Mansonville fire chief Fred Kor-man said the 12;man volunteer force received a call shortly before 3 a.m.and upon arrival at the scene found the two-storey wooden-frame building completely engulfed in flames.“The heat was so intense we couldn’t get near the building so we kept the trucks there to prevent any possible damage to adjacent structures,” he explained.Korman said it was impossible to determine where the fire broke out and added, “All the windows were out and it was burning from end to end and top to bottom.I don’t know how the owner got out but all he had on was à t-shirt and his trousers.” The firefighters, who had one pumper and a pumper-tanker with a 5,000 gallon reservoir, stayed at the scene until 5:30 a.m.Korman said the firemen could have used pumps and water from the Missis-quoi River had the fire spread.There was no call for assistance from other departments and there were no injuries.The fire chief wouln’t comment on the cost of the loss, stating simply that it was “a very old building”.Cowansville Quebec Police Force officers identified the owner as André Marchand and said the building was insured for a total of $75,000 — $65,000 for the structure and $10,000 for the inventory.The police spokesman said representatives of the Fire Underwriters Bureau and QPF arson squad investigators will open an investigation into the cause of the fire.Two died in Woburn Fire leaves summer cottage blaze 7 families WOBURN — André Pépin, 25, and Brigitte Turgeon, 23, died in a fire Sunday morning in a country chalet near this town 40 kilometres south of Lake Megantic.Both were local residents.Although police say they don’t suspect foul play in the deaths, autopsies will be performed today at police laboratories in Montreal.Smoke from the fatal fire was spotted by breakfast diners at the Woburn hotel who thought at first that a nearby sugarmaker had fired up his boiler.But resident Maurice Pépin, a cousin of one of the victims, realized that something else was burning.“I know this corner like my hand,” Pépin said “I understood right away that it was something else.” Pépin alerted police when he found out what was burning.Quebec Police Force investigators led by Dets.Thomas McConnell and Jacques Fréchette have few leads, said QPF spokesman René Côté, but they have already set aside the most obvious possibility, a malfunction in the cottage’s wood-stove.“There were no ashes in the stove,” Côté said.Police said the couple appeared to have been asphyxiated in their sleep.Man killed in icy crash BROMONT (JM) — Blinding snow and slippery road surfaces were the presumed cause of a head-on collision which resulted in the death of Gaétan Quirion, 32, of St.Paul d'Abbotsford, Friday.Quirion was driving a car which collided with another driven by 21-year-old Daniel Brunet of Granby on Boulevard Pierre Laporte about 250 metres south of the MATHIAS TYPEWRITER! 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In fairness to the ‘officials’, the false denial was a minor lapse; after all, who could blame the big shots for wanting to try a little sidestep on the demonstrators?But in fairness to the truth, it was still a lie, whether big and black or small and pastel.Fox, Doucet and company should know better.After all, they helped conceive the Conservative ‘guidelines’ for civil servants talking to the press.Simply put, the Tory guidelines instruct that every word a bureaucrat says to reporters must be considered ‘on the record’.As recently as last week, Fox told a reporter (Neil Macdonald of the Ottawa Citizen) that EVERYTHING he says should be attributable to him.EVERYTHING, he said.And what’s on-the-record for the civil service geese should be on-the-record for the prime minister’s ganders.Canada has a lot to learn from the Americans.But please, not this! CHARLES BURY From other papers Montreal Le Devoir : A recent opinion poll indicates the Parti Québécois is headed for a heavy defeat in the next provincial election, expected this summer, unless there is a change in leadership within the party.The poll states that had an election been held about three weeks ago, the Liberals, led by Robert Bourassa, would have captured 56 per cent of the vote, 20 percentage points more than the PQ.On a personal level, Bourassa and PQ Leader René Lévesque were about even.Almost two-thirds of the people polled were satisfied with them.But the poll also indicates that a PQ led by current Justice Minister Pierre-Marc Johnson would gain 46 per cent of the popular vote.Although this is three percentage points behind the Liberals' vote, it would be enough to allow the PQ to retain power because the Liberals would still be hurt by the electoral map.With such a control over his troops and the public, Lévesque could assure an orderly transition within the PQ.He certainly won’t be able to do this after an election defeat when the hardliners who left the party return to skin the party, show where it went wrong and blast those they consider responsible for the defeat.One explanation for Lévesque’s obstinacy is that he is plugging the gaps through which the dissidents would try to return, and that he would then launch a leadership campaign that would enable Johnson, who is more popular with the public than he is within the PQ, to carry the day.But this is not the case.Lévesque, who has repeatedly said he will lead the PQ in the next election, now works alone more than ever.Lévesque is hanking on his own popularity and the possibility of a quick constitutional agreement to steer him back into power.But Quebecers aren’t in as such a rush to have the constitutional agreement signed.At least with Johnson at the helm of the PQ, the election would be fought on a variety of issues affecting Quebec’s future and not just on the obsessions of one man.The public wants changes and it is up to Lévesque, who claims to know and love this public, to allow this wish to come true.Lise Rissonnette (March 11) QUEBEC (CP) — President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney avoided a stalemate over the thorny acid rain issue Sunday.But their decision to appoint two special envoys to study the issue represents a thinly-disguised political solution rather than a concrete plan for joint action to curb acid rain.“To a Canadian, I’m sorry,” a U.S.official close to the acid rain negotiations said last week after the finishing touches had been put on the proposal.Mulroney, who had said getting progress on acid rain was his top priority for the meeting, tried to make the best of the decision.He called it a significant step forward that would shift acid rain to the frontburner from the backburner where it has languished since Cana-da-U.S.negotiations for a joint program broke off in 1982.“We have managed to break a deadlock,” said Mulroney.Reagan was noticeably less enthusiastic in his comments.While he said he was happy to get things moving on the issue, he steered clear of calling the move a breakthrough.TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes was also quick to dampen expectations, saying the two envoys would have no authority beyond making recommendations to their respective bosses.The two men who have agreed to take on the job at a token $1 a year are former premier Bill Davis of Ontario and Andrew Lewis, U.S.transportation secretary from 1981-83 and now chairman of the board of Warner Amex Cable Communications.Canadian and American officials played up the high calibre of the two envoys and said their stature would guarantee them direct access to Reagan and Mulroney.But their mandate, which says they must report to the two leaders a year from now, was decidedly vague.They are to consult on regulations affecting acid rain pollution, enhance co-operation on research, pursue means to increase exchanges of scientific data and identify efforts to improve the U.S.and Canadian environments.None of those guides should cause Reagan or opponents of a control program for acid rain to loose sleep.However, the plan is a face-saver for Mulroney because he doesn’t come away from the meeting empty-handed as some officials feared only a few weeks ago might happen.STUCK LIKE GLUE Reagan has stuck like glue to his contention that more research into the causes and effects are needed before an expensive program to clean up emissions that cause acid rain can WASHINGTON (CP) — Four leading U.S.environmental groups reacted with disappointment to an announcement Sunday that envoys from Canada and the United States were appointed to study acid rain.Officials of the U.S.Clean Air Coalition, the Sierra Club and the National Audobon Society said they had hoped President Ronald Reagan would make a commitment to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for actual steps to reduce the pollution that causes acid rain.A fourth, David Hawkins of the Natural Resources Defence Council, said he is willing to give the envoys two or three months to prove “that this isn’t a sham.” They were reacting to an announcement in Quebec City earlier Sunday that former Ontario premier William Davis and former U.S.transportation be undertaken.Speakes told reporters the president “has not changed his mind,” but he is approaching the issue “with an open mind.” In a bid to put pressure on Reagan, the Mulroney government announced a federal-provincial deal earlier this month to cut emissions of sulphur dioxide by 50 per cent in Canada within the next decade.But experts generally concede that Canada cannot reach its target without action on the U.S.side of the border, the source of about 50 per cent of the acid rain falling in Ontario and Quebec, damaging forests and killing fish in lakes and rivers.Canadian and U.S.environmental groups quickly jumped on the envoy plan as a mockery.“President Reagan has found a way to package a do-nothing policy,” said secretary Drew Lewis were appointed to consult on acid rain laws, regulations and research to help settle the longstanding dispute over the trans-border pollution.NOT HAPPY Betsy Agle, co-ordinator of the Clean Air Coalition, which represents more than 24 environmental groups, said that “this is disappointing because there are measures of control mechanisms that the president could have pursued and that’s what we had looked forward to — from clear commitments to reduce acid rain.” “It’s less than a commitment to enforce the current U.S.law and it confines a pattern of far less on the U.S.side than the Canadian side.” Leslie Bach of the Audubon Society said “this isn’t progress — this is a continuation of an unacceptable status quo.The Canadians have acted Leslie Bach of the U.S.National Audobon Society.“This isn’t progress.” David Hawkins of the National Resources Defence Council was less critical, saying he would give Davis and Lewis two or three months to prove “this isn’t a sham.” Michael Perley of the Canadian Acid Rain Coalition accused Reagan of being out of step with Canada and the rest of the world on acid rain.He attributed Mulroney’s attempts to put a bright face on the results to the prime minister’s desire to “be a good host.” At the same time, Perley probably hit the nail on the head when he suggested Reagan will not budge on the issue until the pressure in the United States for a controls program is so great that he cannot afford to reject action.themselves and the time for research has passed.President Reagan has found a way to package a do-nothing policy.” David Gardiner of the Sierra Club said “it is very disappointing.The Canadians are doing an excellent job and I think it is unfortunate the agreement doesn’t call on the president to move forward with progress to curb acid rain.” Hawkins said he “gives them 60 to 90 days to talk to see if they are inten-ding to accomplish something otherwise they will prove this is a 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