The record, 12 juin 1986, jeudi 12 juin 1986

Thursday Births, deaths .7 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Farm, Business .5 Living .6 Sports .12 Townships.3 HKAVY RAIN LYNDON DKMERS SUTTON Hi Mt.NT.MO SCHOOL / /l \ l m Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Thursday, June 12, 1986 40 cents “Can Billy come out to play?” Ste-Foy policeman involved in thefts, vandalism since 1969 By Lia Levesque QUEBEC (CP) - A suburban policeman who was convicted of murdering two Quebec City officers who were answering a burglar alarm last summer said Wednesday he was also involved in 300 robberies or cases of vandalism.Testifying before a Quebec Police Commission inquiry into the operations of the 151-man Ste-Foy police force, Serge Lefebvre said his career in crime started with a fellow officer in 1969 and continued until 1985.The fellow officer Lefebvre identified during his appearance at the inquiry was suspended later on Wednesday.“I stole only at night, only money, between $20 and $200, never merchandise," said Lefebvre, adding that one of the reasons he stole was out of frustration for not being promoted.“When 1 arrested someone, it excited me," he added, looking occasionally at his wife and former col- leagues.“1 felt like stealing again.“1 unwound by stealing, by pillaging and by breaking windows,” he told Judge Raymond Roily, his voice choking with sobs.“1 had my gun in my hands and 1 broke everything.1 was in a trance." Lefebvre has not been charged with any of the burglaries or vandalism although evidence at the inquiry indicated some fellow officers suspected him.He is serving a life sentence for the July 1985 murders of Consts.Yves Tetu and Jac- ques Giguere.Lefebvre’s appearance before the commission on Wednesday was unexpected because he refused to testify when he first appeared last month.He recalled that the officer who started him stealing handed him a $20 bill that a motorist gave him after being pulled over.“Take it,” the officer said.“All the guys (police) do it.” For three or four years after 1969, Lefebvre committed between 50 and 100 robberies with his colleague.“Sometimes I was the look-out and he entered the establishment," he testified."1 was scared of him.He was violent.” Lefebvre said that he later asked to be assigned a desk job because he was "fed up” with stealing.He was pulled off patrol for two years and the robberies ended.But when he returned to the streets, he began to steal again, but only while on-duty.On the road again rnv2'.'tj £pUC£ issii ^SSfst - rv.MS An even dozen Quebec Police force officers hit the road Wednesday hips.Their objective is Montreal, 225 kilometres away via Routes 143 and afternoon, led by world wheelchair marathon champion André Viger of 132.Their object is to raise money for research into cystic fibrosis.Rock Forest and a couple of young supporters.Estimated running time is 26 hours, with the runners spelling each other The cops weren 't running away from anything except the Eastern Towns- in shifts.Chrétien: Think ‘Canadian first’ in trade talks By Rob Bull MONTREAL (CP) — Former finance minister Jean Chrétien, introduced Wednesday night as “the former minister of just about everything,” scorns Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s approach to freer trade with the United States.The timing for the start of the talks was wrong, he said.“The Americans go out and they see all these Sonys and Toyotas for sale and they’re worried about their trade deficit with Japan.“They didn’t realize their deficit with Canada was much greater.They couldn't see our products.Nobody in the U.S.was aware they had a problem with Canada until JOHANNESBURG (AP) —South Africa’s white-minority government declared a state of emergency today, detaining hundreds of anti-apartheid activists ahead of Monday’s 10th anniversary of the Soweto riots.A spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ronelle Henning, said the emergency took effect at one minute past midnight Wednesday night and covers the entire country.The new state of emergency is the most drastic attempt yet by the government to quell black unrest that has claimed more than 1,600 lives in anti-apartheid violence since September 1984.our government suggested free trade talks.“In Chicago they buy their natural gas from Texas and from Alberta.When they turn on the stove it all smells just the same,” said Chrétien, who held several key cabinet portfolios under former prime ministers Pierre Trudeau and John Turner.“When they open their Chicago Tribune they don’t know the paper comes from Baie-Comeau.They don’t even know our prime minister comes from Baie-Comeau.“When you have a trade surplus of $21 billion with the United States you don’t run to the negotiating table to start free trade talks.You Apartheid is the official race policy that guarantees supremacy for South Africa’s five million whites and denies basic rights, including the vote, to 24 million blacks.A seven-month partial state of emergency lifted March 7 covered 23 magisterial districts, and less than half the country.During that emergency, 8,000 people were held without charge.IMPOSE CURFEWS The state of emergency empowers police to arrest anyone without warrants, impose curfews, seize property and ban journalists from areas of unrest.run away from the negotiating table.” Chrétien said that what the Conservative government is doing today is the reverse of what the federal government did when the separatist Parti Québécois was in power in Quebec.“The PQ tried to assume more and more power for Quebec bit by bit for the most logical of reasons.If the process had continued, eventually Ottawa would have been left with only the Post Office and the Department of National Defence.“They could have achieved independence that way.It was a mistake for them to hold a referendum.President P.W.Botha moved after failing to get legislation granting sweeping new security powers passed through the tricameral parliament because of objections by separate chambers for the Indian and mixed-race minorities.In the predawn swoops, police seized hundreds of anti-apartheid activists, clergymen and student and labor leaders.Leaders of the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front, together with church leaders bent on defying a government ban on June 16 gatherings, were hauled from their homes throughout the early morning hours.“But for a short-term gain we don't even know exists the Conservative government is starting to link us so closely to the United States that we may lose our privilege of belonging to an independent country.“The Americans are shrewd, tough, intelligent negotiators who think America first.We should be shrewd, tough, intelligent and think Canadian first.” Chrétien, with Gordon Capital Ltd.since he resigned in February from the House of Commons, told the meeting of the Montreal Financial Analysts that he could use some of his old jokes “because I’m out of politics now — at least some people say I’m out of politics.” But many of his jokes were political and relatively recent.Several dealt with the resignation of Tory regional and industrial expansion minister Sinclair Stevens pending an inquiry into reports his wife negotiated an interest free loan for family companies from a man connnected to firms doing business with the federal government.Stevens said before he resigned that he was unaware of his wife's dealings.“I just returned from Japan,” Chrétien said.“When I was there I told everyone I met, ‘don’t give any money to my wife without telling me about it.’ “When I got back to Canada I went to the bank and asked for a Sinclair Stevens loan.” S.Africa declares state of emergency .I— -—— A——, —- Welfare inspectors infringe on rights, say critics MONTREAL (CP) — The special inspectors who knock on the doors of Quebec welfare recipients to check on cheaters have been dubbed the “Boubou Macoutes” — an expression that reflects the alarm they arouse among their critics.“Boubou” has long been a nickname for Premier Robert Bourassa and the Tontons Macoutes were the dreaded secret police of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier.The expression may seem exaggerated but the concern is shared by some welfare rights advocates and politicians.The inspectors are part of a cost-cutting drive by the Liberal government.It believes spending $9 million for additional inspectors will lead to a reduction of fraudulent welfare claims by an estimated $68 million a year.They have already called at the homes of nearly 200 welfare recipients and, says Manpower Minister Pierre Paradis, they found 29 people defrauding the system, which supplies an income to about 411.000 households in the province.But the measure has raised a cry of anguish from human rights and service groups and the Parti Québécois opposition.“Who next?” asks critic Terry Jubinville, director of a welfare rights organization in Montreal.“The handicapped?The elderly?” Despite the protests from critics, Paradis insists the government will stick to its present course.He denies welfare inspectors have harassed recipients in their homes.COMES UP OFTEN The matter has come up in the legislature repeatedly since March 25 when Treasury Board President Paul Gobeil announced an overall program to cut back various government expendi tures by $1 billion.In a statement to a legislative committee on April 23, Paradis outlined plans to introduce major amendments to the welfare system thisfall to bring it up to date Welfare rights groups critici- zed the plan almost immediately and the criticism mounted as inspectors began making their house calls.Representatives of at least two groups say recipients should refuse to open the door to inspectors.RIGHTS ABUSED’ Therese Thiffault of the Common Front of Welfare Recipients says the calls are “an abuse of a person’s right to privacy.” The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Quebec Charter of Rights protect people from “abusive interventions of the state into our private lives,” she says.Secret documents obtained Indian Affairs dep’t could be cut in half By Robert Fife and Marilyn Ronald OTTAWA (CP) — Indian Affairs Minister David Cronibie has proposed massive reductions in the size of his department over the next three years in major policy recommendations to cabinet on native self-government.Secret documents obtained by The Canadian Press reveal that Crom-bie plans to reduce his department’s size by 50 per cent over the next three years.There are about 6,000 employees in the department.Although departmental staff will claims but will report to cabinet on be cut, Crombie says in the docu- the issue later this month, ments that current federal funding Several native groups want Otta- will not be reduced to native wa to drop demands that they give groups.He does not propose in- up aboriginal rights in return for creasing federal funding for native comprehenive land settlements, programs.But Crombie, who is to meet with provincial justice ministers and native leaders in Ottawa today, has rejected turning over responsi-blity for Indian programs to provincial governments.The documents show Crombie wants to hand over control of departmental programs to native bands while keeping firm control over the purse strings.Crombie proposes the gover-inent give top priority to negotiating separate self-goverment agreements with Indian bands that would essentially give them the same powers as municipal governments.LIKELY TO OBJECT Native leaders are likely to object to this proposal because they have consistently pressed for total self-government, including direct transfer payments from Ottawa similar to those now received by the provinces.The documents show Crombie is not optimistic that the provinces will agree to entrenching the concept of self-government in the Constitution until settlements have been negotiated at the community level.However, he says the government will continue to work toward a constitutional amendment on self-government at next year’s first ministers’ conference on aboriginal rights to demonstrate Ottawa’s commitment to the concept.Crombie has also rejected direct federal involvement in negotiating land claims with Metis and nonstatus Indians.The government believes the two groups are primarily a provincial responsibility but is willing continue some federal funding to them.Cabinet has approved funding of up to $16 million over each of the next two years to cover the cost of negotiating self-government.The documents also say the government plans to implement laws dealing with Indian education, housing and lands to replace the provisions of the antiquated Indian Act.Crombie has not yet developed a policy on comprehensive lands Policeman acquitted of assault back on the job MONTREAL (CP) — Montreal so filed a $97,000 civil suit against policeman Jacques Parent was the 19-ycar veteran police officer, back on the job Wednesday one day O’Carroll also complained Parent after he was found not guilty of as- was not wearing a name tag at the sault causing bodily harm and ille- time.gal confinement.The incident started when Smiling broadly and wearing a O’Carroll accused Parent of crisply-pressed shirt with his double-parking his police car out-name tag prominently displayed, side the store in the St-Laurent Parent refused to speak to repor- area of Montreal.The ensuing ters other than to joke that he had struggle between Parent and no trouble finding a police uniform O’Carroll was captured on the after six months of wearing civi- store’s videotape security system, lian clothes.Parent was acquitted on both Parent, 41, was suspended charges on Tuesday by a Quebec without pay last January after se- Superior Court jury, after a six-veral TV networks broadcast a vi- week trial, deotape showing him in a Jan.5, 1985, scuffle with a man in a conve- On Wednesday, reporters spot-nience store.ted Parent parking in a no parking Computer consultant Brian zone and near a downtown fire hy-O’Carroll, 53, who was involved in drant before he met with his lathe altercation with Parent, has al- wyer.Mulroney accused of racism OTTAWA (CP) — Liberal MPs attacked Brian Mulroney as “sleazy” and “lying” Wednesday in a furious Commons exchange.The bitter incident began when Liberals Sergio Marchi and Carlo Rossi challenged Mulroney over what they called racist name-calling by a Conservative backbench MP two months ago.It ended with Speaker John Bosley expelling Marchi from the House for refusing to retract an allegation that Mulroney had lied by saying he had apologized for the Tory MP’s actions.Tom Suluk, MP for the Northwest .Territories riding of Nu-natsiaq and an Inuk first elected to the Commons in 1984, called Rossi “Mafia, Mafiaso” during a Commons exchange in March, Rossi and Marchi said.Bosley said at the time that he did not hear Suluk’s comment, and it did not appear in Hansard, the official House record.Marchi said in the Commons that Suluk’s description of Rossi has insulted Italian-Canadians.He accused Mulroney of ignoring protests and demanded that the prime minister apologize.“I already have repudiated any statement that in any way casts aspersions on any group in this country,” Mulroney said.The Liberal backbenches exploded.“You’re sleazy,” shouted Cape Breton MP David Dingwall, who later withdrew the statement at Bosley’s request.“You’re lying,” yelled Marchi, who withdrew that statement but refused to back down later when he repeated it.i ( 2—The RECORD—Thursday, June 12, 1!IH« Taxpayers saved when Tories spent $360,000 on technical crew By Edison Stewart OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s office indicated Wednesday it has run up a $360,000 bill using armed forces aircraft over the last 16 months to transport Mulroney’s technical staff and their equipment across Canada and around the world.But Mulroney spokesman Michel Gratton said the practice has actually saved taxpayers more than $100,000 because commercial airlines weren’t used and the armed forces flights were part of the normal training budget.“Every single flight was for training purposes,” Gratton said in a telephone interview.He said that between February 1085 and April 1986 the Hercules transport was used on foreign trips to the Caribbean and Europe and several times in Canada, for a total of 168 hours in flight time.Subsequent trips, including one to Asia in May, would likely have pushed the total to around 200 hours.The propeller-driven aircraft is believed to cost $1,800 an hour to operate, so the total cost would be about $360,000.But “there were no incremental costs, meaning that they would have been done anyway.” Gratton said the savings over the 14-month period that ended in April are estimated at $94,280 — $59,400 in commercial air fare, $32,000 in excess baggage charges and $2,880 Crosbie says he’ll stake his career on pornography bill By Janet Steffenhagen OTTAWA (CP) — A testy Justice Minister John Crosbie defended his proposals for a broad and controversial new ban on adult pornography Wednesday, vowing to stake his political career on his reading of the public will.“Look, I’m quite willing to put my political skin on the line on this : The Canadian public does not want this monstrous material freely available,” he told reporters outside the Commons.“They want pornography stopped.“That's what we’re doing and we’ll stand or fall on it.” His four-pronged definition of pornography, contained in one of two government bills to control th^ sex trade, came under attack moments after it was outlined in the Commons on Tuesday.ine first three prongs have won general support from those who want controls on pornography.They would prohibit visual depictions of sexual acts that include real or simulated physical harm, degrading scenes such as one person urinating on another or violent sexual behavior.It is the fourth prong that has attracted controversy by banning “any visual matter showing vaginal, anal or oral intercourse, ejaculation, sexually violent behavior, bestiality, incest, necrophilia, masturbation or other sexual activity.” Crosbie acknowledged Wednesday that the phrase “other sexual activity” could be interpreted too broadly — possibly to include kissing, for example — and may need to be changed before the bill is passed.Quebec nurses will strike, but aren’t saying when QUEBEC (CP) — A union representing 18,000 Quebec nurses gave its executive an overwhelming strike mandate on Wednesday, sending a warning to the provincial government to increase its contract offers or be ready for trouble in Quebec hospitals.But no date has been set for a walkout, said Helene Pelletier, president of the nurses’ union, the Federation des syndicats profes-sionels d’infirmier et infirmières, the largest in Quebec.The union represents nurses in hospitals pri- marily outside of Montreal.Other nurses' unions still have to complete their strike vote.Among the issues in the dispute are working conditions, sick leave provisions and wages.A strike by nurses would be illegal under provincial legislation that slaps tight restrictions on strikes in health care institutions.Quebec’s 40,000 nurses are among more than 300,000 public servants negotiating contracts with the government.Mother Teresa says she never felt discouraged By Paul Mooney QUEBEC (CP) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mother Teresa thanked Canadians on Wednesday for their financial generosity to the poor in India and Africa.The 75-year-old nun, who founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with the poor of India.She was in Quebec City to speak to a conference on constitutional law and human rights and to re-cieve an honorary doctorate from Laval University.Dressed in a white sari with blue piping, she told reporters she is not disheartened by the poverty she faces in her work with the poor of Calcutta.“I’ve never felt discouraged,” she told reporters.“I don’t look at the numbers — I look at the individuals.” “Perhaps in the developed coun- tries people aren’t hungry for bread the way they are in India,” she said.“But in the West there are a lot of lonely people — a lot of people looking for love.” PRAYS FOR SOUTH AFRICA The tiny Yugoslavian-born nun said she prays for the people of South Africa and would like to go there, but her Indian passport could make it difficult for her to enter the country and speak out against apartheid.Mother Teresa was dwarfed by burly security guards as they hustled her through a tour of Quebec City hospitals earlier in the day.She chatted with patients and staff, telling reporters later that she was impressed by the dedication and patience of young people who work with the ill and handicapped.The order founded by Mother Teresa now has 800 members in 75 countries.They operate more than 50 homes and numerous clinics for the poor of developing countries.—____Ml ifecora G#org# MacUiran, Publisher .Charles Bury, Editor.Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager.Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent.Richard Leaaard, Production Manager.Debra Waite, Superintendent.Composing Room.CIRCULATION DEPT.- S69-9528 569-9511 569-6345 569-9525 569-9931 569-9931 569-4656 Subscriptions by Carrier: 1 year: $83.20 weekly: $1.60 Subscription* by Mali: Canada: 1 year- $60.00 6 months- $35.50 3 months- $24.50 1 month- $14.00 U.S.ft Foreign: 1 year- $120.00 6 months- $72.00 3 months- $48.00 1 month- 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rental fee was paid by the Bahamas but the cost of the flight itself was likely borne by Canada.Liberals and New Democrats have said the flights smack of “presidential-style” politics and the only reason for the large entou- rage is to feed the prime minister’s ego.They have especially ridiculed the practice of recording all Mulroney’s appearances on videotape.CALLED PROPAGANDA Deputy Prime Minister Erik Nielsen has said the tapes are for historical purposes.Opposition MPs call them “PC propaganda.” Mulroney — already under fire for using the aircraft to transport two equipment-filled vans and a seven-man sound and video team on his trip to the West in March — again declined to answer demands in the Commons that he end the practice.But Nielsen returned to the attack after being forced Tuesday to retract his i mpl ication that Liberal Leader John Turner indulged in the same practices when he was prime minister.“I.double-checked yesterday with respect to my response to the .leader of the Opposition and I am informed by officials that during the 1984 election campaign the PC (Privy Council) sound and lighting equipment was used by the PMO (prime minister’s office).“The equipment consisted of a PA system, including cable and microphones, press multi-feed, two podiums, additional PA and lighting systems.” “It was the taxpayer of Canada that paid those costs,” Nielsen said, adding later that he considers it “dreadfully wrong’ ' to use gover- nment facilities in an election campaign.There was no resinse from Turner, who left the Commons early for a visit to Montreal, but press secretary Brigitte Fortier said the sound and lighting system for the campaign had been rented locally in each location by the party.There was some government equipment aboard Turner’s campaign plane but that was required to keep in touch with the government in Ottawa, she said.NDP House Leader Ian Deans asked Nielsen if he was saying that because the Liberals had abused the system it is alright for the Conservatives to do so.“I don’t believe it is an abuse of public funds," Nielsen replied.News-in-brief Bike patrols prevent robberies MONTREAL (CP) — Police in Mascouche-Lachenaie, a sprawling community area east of Montreal Island, have started bicycle patrols.Two years ago the 22-man, two-woman force was caught off-guard by an outbreak of break-ins.Local foot patrols are considerd by many to be an effective deterrent to neighborhood robberies.Sgt.Jean-Pierre Legare, after much study, decided the bicycle patrols would be more effective in some circumstances than normal patrols in squad cars.Two women shot in Ste-Adele STE-ADELE (CP) — Two women were killed in a shooting early today in a night club in the Laurentian community of Ste-Adele, 50 kilometres northwest of Montreal, police reported.Ste-Adele police later arrested two men after a car chase that led them southeast towards St-Sauveur.Quotidien replaces Nouvelliste TROIS-RIVIERES, Que.(CP) — About 40,000 copies of the new daily newspaper Votre Quotidien will roll off the presses on Saturday to replace Le Nouvelliste which has not published for more than a week because of a labor dispute with printers.Claude Masson, editor and publisher of Le Nouvelliste, said Wednesday the new tabloid will service a similar area as Le Nouvelliste, which had a circulation of 58,000.One step closer OTTAWA (CP) — The income tax changes in last February’s budget came one step closer to becoming law Wednesday when a notice of ways and means motion was tabled in the Commons by Finance Minister Michael Wilson.The motion spells out in detail the amendments to the Income Tax Act made necessary by the budget and other previously announced changes, such as the minimum tax.PM discusses South Africa OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney refused Wednesday to rule out unilateral action by Canada to bring pressure on the South African government and “the evil of apartheid” it practices, but he stopped short of promising immediate sanctions.Mulroney told the Commons he has been in touch with other Commonwealth leaders since the apparent collapse of mediation efforts by the “eminent-persons” group, which attempted to establish a dialogue between Pretoria and the banned African National Congress.Military wants secrecy OTTAWA (CP) —The Department of National Defence complained Wednesday that public curiosity is destroying its ability to conduct internal investigations into matters such as aircraft accidents.Lt.-Gen.P.D.Manson asked MPs reviewing the federal Access to Information Act to propose amendments to the law that would allow his department to keep secret the testimony at investigative boards of inquiry.Keegstra seeks Socred leadership RED DEER, Alta.(CP) — Jim Keegstra and one of his strongest supporters will head to Toronto next week with both trying to capture the leadership of the federal Social Credit party.Retired grocer Jim Green of Bentley, Alta., said Tuesday he stands for the same beliefs as Keegstra but is running against him for the leadership out of loyalty to six supporters who asked him to run.Stewardess suit heard next week VANCOUVER (CP) — The grievance filed by flight attendant Toni Corrado following her suspension for criticizing the federal government won’t be heard until next week.Corrado was suspended May 29 for “unbecoming conduct” after Transport Minister Don Mazankowski received a complaint from a passenger travelling from Vancouver to a Conservative convention in Montreal.Thawed embryo a first VANCOUVER (CP) — A Vancouver-area woman is believed to be the first Canadian to become impregnated with an embryo which had been frozen, then thawed.And the procedure, done at the Swedish Hospital Medical Centre in Seattle, is believed to be only the fifth successful thawing and embryo transplant in the United States.Legion elects new president EDMONTON (CP) — Tony Stacey of West Hill, Ont., has been elected dominion president of the Royal Canadian Legion at its 31st biennial dominion convention.Stacey joined the legion’s Highland Creek, Ont., branch in 1946.After holding several posts in the Ontario command, Stacey was elected dominion first vice-president in 1984.Anxiety caused health problems?PINCHER CREEK, Alta.(CP) — Some residents were relieved after being told Wednesday night that health problems they had complained about for more than 25 years were mostly a product of fear.But others disagreed with the conclusions of a $3.7-million study which states that contagious anxiety, and not emissions from two nearby sour-gas plants, were largely to blame for a recurring list of ailments, including skin rashes, headaches and respiratory problems.Economy: Rural kids feel guilty REGINA (CP) — Rural children are more aware than ever of the economic stress facing their families and it can be as hard on them as it is on their parents, Jack Sailor, a Family Service Bureau representative, said Wednesday.While stress can be detrimental for anyone, he said, rural children shoulder some of the burden of tough times on the farm.And they feel guilt if their parents take out these frustrations on them.The future is bleak SACKVILLE, N.B.(CP) — The economic future of rural Canada is bleak, says a professor from the University of Western Ontario.“There is rural system breakdown,” geography professor Michael Troughton said Wednesday during a conference on rural economic development.Fathers want to see their tots HALIFAX (CP) — A group of divorced fathers will go before a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge Friday in an effort to gain equal access to their children.Mr.Justice Merlin Nunn has agreed to hear the application, which was filed Wednesday by 15 Nova Scotia fathers who want joint legal custody of their children, all of whom are in their mothers’ custody.Nuclear weapons blast in Nevada WASHINGTON (Reuter) — Radiation from a U.S.nuclear weapons blast that went wrong contaminated three workers — two of them twice — at a Nevada test site but they are in no danger, the Energy Department said Wednesday.The April 10 test also released some radioactivity into the atmosphere but the levels posed no health risk, said spokesman Jim Boyer.“There was no reason for an evacuation or anything else.There is no danger whatsoever,” he said in a telephone interview from his Nevada office.Army cracks down on smokers WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.army is mounting a strong crackdown on smoking that will include new controls on military and civilian offices alike and a ban on smoking in army vehicles or aircraft.Soviets fly over Nicaragua WASHINGTON (AP) — Soviet pilots are flying reconnaissance missions over Nicaragua for the first time, CIA Director William Casey was quoted Wednesday as telling congressional supporters of U.S.aid to Nicaraguan rebels.NASA engineer commits suicide TRINITY, Ala.(AP) — A NASA engineer who worked on projects related to the space shuttle Challenger shot himself dead, authorities said Wednesday.Mike Clemons, 46, died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head in a bedroom of his home on Monday afternoon, said Lawrence County Chief Deputy Richard Turner.The death was ruled an apparent suicide.Clemons’ death occurred about the time the Rogers commission report on the Jan.28 Challenger disaster was released in public broadcasts.Authorities said Clemons, who tested materials used in the critical O-rings of the shuttle’s rocket boosters, left no indication his death was job-related.Queen was assassins’ target LONDON (Reuter) — The Queen was the ultimate target of Irish nationalists convicted Wednesday of plotting a seaside bombing campaign in Britain, British newspapers said today, quoting police and security sources.The Daily Mirror and the newspaper Today said the Queen was marked for assassination in July.Princess Anne to be given head BRISTOL, England (Reuter) — Two British animal rights campaigners who plotted to dig up the grave of a dead aristocrat and mail his head to Princess Anne were jailed for two years Wednesday.Moby Dick crew arrested STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Norwegian Coast Guard arrested the 13-man crew of the Greenpeace ship Moby Dick on Wednesday after it followed a Norwegian ship hunting whales in the North Atlantic, a Greenpeace spokesman said.Libya says don’t push us TRIPOLI (AP) — Col.Moammar Gadhafi says further U.S.attacks on Libya could force his country fully into the Soviet camp.“We are seriously considering alliance with the Soviet Union and the socialist system so that balance is achieved,’’ Gadhafi said in a speech broadcast late Wednesday to mark the ouster of U.S.forces 16 years ago.Tutu wants South African talks JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Fighting for control of the Crossroads squatters camp has created a “nightmarish” situation, but Bishop Desmond Tutu said he hopes to arrange peace talks between the warring factions.Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, went to Crossroads on Wednesday with about 10 other clergymen, both black and white, to meet vigilante leaders.He had conferred with their foes, anti-apartheid militants who call themselves “comrades,” earlier in Cape Town.Korea will free hundreds SEOUL (Reuter) — South Korea’s government said Wednesday it would soon free hundreds of jailed dissidents, partially satisfying opposition demands for the release of 1,800 government opponents.The main opposition New Korea Democratic party has made release of political prisoners a precondition for helping to revise the constitution before President Chun Doo-hwan steps down in 1988.Forty die in Sri Lanka bombings COLOMBO (CP)—Time bombs believed planted by Tamil terrorists exploded Wednesday on two buses in Sri Lanka’s eastern district, killing as many as 40 people and injuring 73 others, officials said.A third bomb exploded later outside a movie theatre in the capital, Colombo, killing three people and seriously injuring seven others, police said.Official reports varied on the death toll in the bus bombings in Trincomalee, 248 kilometres northeast of Colombo.National Security Minister Lalith Athulathmudali said in a speech that 40 people were killed.He blamed the attacks on Tamil terrorists.Weather Mostly cloudy today with showers late in the day and a high of 18.Low overnight of 10.Cloudy with showers Friday and a possibility of thunder-storms.A high Friday of 20.Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU J DONTGETrr, ROOTS, MIKE! ZONK , MY ON BEJN6 FROM EARTH UJOULP CALIFORNIA, j YOU U1AKTA I'VE NEVER i TITLE* / HAP ANY! : i BUT ARISTOCRATS ARE DIFFERENT FROM YOU MP ME, Z.THEY'RE STUFFY, SeLF-SATIEFIEP.PRE- maous* taMi NO, NO, MIKE, THEY.UH.THEY., UN.DAMN! \ THAT PHONE-A- ’AU THON REALLY //w,/ CONTWRE, mrmFD'Kvi.ling; mvdpap RATTIEPYOU, P/PNTIT* \ MY PEAR CHAP1 ft 4 The Townships The KKCOHD—Thursday.June 12.1986—3 ths' #¦___ggl asecara Ascot Twp.experiment works: Block Parents moves into apartment buildings across Canada An Ascot township experiment placing Block Parents in apartment buildings is now part of the organization’s national program, local president Denise Groleau announced Wednesday.By Philip Authier ASCOT TOWNSHIP — Members of the Ascot Township Block Parents committee were all smiles Wednesday.A pilot project the group launched in a bid to prove the child safety program could be applied to multi-family dwellings has been given the unanimous support of the provincial association and is now a regular feature of the program.The approval came last week at the Quebec Block Parents committee annual meeting.“We're proud,” Ascot Block Parents committee past president Denise Groleau said.“There were challenges, and then it passed unanimously.” The approval means the Block Parents concept has entered an enirely new phase, fitting for a group which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, Groleau added.Instead of being applied only to single family dwellings, apartment buildings will soon be displaying the familiar signs of the group (depicting a child holding the hand of an adult).Of course, in Ascot Township, this is old news.The pilot program which the group undertook to prove it could be done has been in effect for six months and will now continue.In short, they helped prove it could be done.Under the approved set-up, only apartment dwellers who live on the ground floor will be eligible to ap- ply for Block Parents status.That means they are screened by the group to act as aides to children who are either lost or in trouble.By only allowing ground floor parents to participate, the group said it can avoid their biggest fear : that a child in trouble would enter a building looking for help and wind up lost in the corridors.Block Parents has even altered its sign — which is usually displayed in a window — so it can be used in an apartment set-up.The new sign slides over any apartment door.According to Block Parents president Huguette Poirier, everyone — including the Lennoxville-Ascot police force — helped make the pilot project a winner.At a news conference where the group announced that the provincial association was in favor of applying the idea across the province, the force was represented by Capt.Jacques Gagnon.Several other Block Parent groups in the province have already made inquiries into Ascot’s study so they can apply the idea in their communities.Meanwhile, there is talk of renewed interest in the program in.Sherbrooke, which has been without a Block Parents program due to lagging interest.Groleau will be trying to renew' interest in the idea in the autumn.There are now 240 Block Parent families in Ascot and, given that the average age of parents in the Where do the dyes go?Yamaska samples should show Environment Canada By Merritt Clifton WEST BROME — Five Environment Canada researchers descended on West Brome last week, looking for “the cleanest point on the Yamaska River." Dr.R.J.Maguire of the National Water Research Institute heads the Environment Canada team, whose mission is to determine the impact of hydrocarbon textile dyes on river plants and animals.They’re also looking for pesticide pollution.“We chose the Yamaska River to look at,” Maguire explains, “be-c ause really no other river in Canada has had a comparable history of dyes being discharged into it.Really, the Yamaska has had more of this than any river but the St.Lawrence, of which the Yamaska is of course a tributary.” The Yamaska received regular doses of dye from approximately 1830 until Environment Quebec cracked down on the textile indus- try circa 1981.Pesticide pollution is also quite heavy, especially from the miles of cornfields that begin around Farnham and stretch right across the Laurentian Plain.“There’s a lot of it,” Maguire states, "mainly of the atrazine class ** BEST CONTROL POINT Maguire says his team “came to West Brome because our study of the map and previous water sampling indicated that this would be the best place to use as a control point.” In other words, it’s probably the cleanest point on the river after it becomes a recognizable river.Not that the Yamaska hasn’t been badly polluted at West Brome from time to time, as Maguire well knows.A 19th century woollen mill just upstream at Call Mills dumped dyes into the river over 100 years ago.A foundry at Millar’s Falls, a mile above that, contributed heavy metals.Asbestos from track bal- last on the nearby CP Rail tracks has been a recognized pollution problem since 1978.In June, 1979, a massive train derailment dumped a tankcar load of ethyl hexanol into the Yamaska right at Environment Canada’s current sampling station.Then there was the big pig manure spill.Last fall a crew hired by CP Rail sprayed chemical herbicides directly into the river at several points nearby.“We were here, taking preliminary samples,” Maguire recalls, “when the spray crew came by.They lifted up their hoses as they passed us.” Finally, West Brome didn’t get sewage treatment until earlier this year.NORMAL’ PATTERN Maguire regards this dismal history as “normal” for rivers in long-settled parts of North America.He believes the types of dyes used in the 19th century were sufficiently bio-degradable that their residues should be gone now.Asbestos and septic discharges aren’t part of the study.Ethyl hexanol is used as a base for many commercial dyes, but dilutes so quickly with water that any trace of the 1979 train wreck should be long vanished.The herbicides sprayed last year should also be decomposed by now.Maguire’s team is taking water samples from the top of the Yamaska, the bottom, and the surface scum.Maguire emphasizes the latter, because it’s an unconventional place to check, yet may be the most significant part of the river.“This surface scum seems to be where the most pollutants accumulate,” Maguire explains.Maguire and chief assistant Richard Hatch acknowledge that they have already found some “astronomical” accumulations of dye chemicals and pesticides in surface scum at points downstream, where the main body of the water tested ‘safe.’ LIVELY LEVEL The surface scum is the part of the river where the most biological activity takes place — where insects live, where many fish feed, where the most microscopic plants and animals thrive.As the study continues, the Environment Canada team will work their way from Granby and Farnham, where recent dye pollution begins, right on down to the town of Yamaska where the river meets the St.Lawrence.So far, Maguire notes, his team hasn’t seen any of the “horror stories” they’re often heard about, such as dye discharges that color ducks and fish like Easter eggs, or change the whole hue of the river.The closest call was once when the river turned red, but Maguire eventually blamed that on blood dumped from a slaughterhouse.“I understand some aerial photographs exist that show these sorts of thing,” Maguire says.“I would like to get a look at those.” Environment Canada scientist R.J.Maguire is tracking pollutants in the Yamaska River.West Brome was chosen by Environment Canada as the cleanest accessible spot on the Yamaska River.“ : U WÂt' Waterville exhange goes well despite chicken pox By Melanie Gruer WATERVILLE — Forty-three students are participating in an exchange program with France and organizer Robert Gagné says the kids are having a great time, despite the chicken pox.Twenty-two students from Vil- Uers-le-Bâcle and St-Aubin, two small villages approximately 25 kilometers south west of Paris, arrived May 29 to meet twenty-one students attending Ecole Institutionnelle de Waterville.The two schools will spend three weeks together here, and the Waterville students will travel to France next year for three weeks.The French students are billitted with the families of the Waterville students in homes in Waterville, North Hatley and the surrounding areas.This way, says Gagné, they will get a better chance to expe- Yes, they7re nice.But can you eat them?Kindergarten pupils at an Ayer’s Cliff elementary the system Wednesday in a ceremony which also saw school ceremony seemed more interested in the nutri- Grade 6 students graduate out — towards Alexander tional qualities of their awards than the educational Galt Regional High School in September, values they represent.The youngsters graduated into rience the Canadian way of life.One of the students contracted chicken pox earlier in the week and now, a few students have also come down with it.Otherwise, says Gagné, the program is going very well and students from both countries are learning a great deal about each other.Students have been preparing for the program on both ends for about five months.Both schools had been taught about each other ’s countries and ways of life before meeting each other.Marie The-rese Cochard, one of the teachers from France says she was delighted to be able to be part of such an exchange and she has found the people here friendly.“When I arrived here, I found myself in a country with friends I already knew,” said Cochard.When she was originally approached with the idea for such an exchange she says she “didn’t hesitate, but I asked myself, how do I organize this?” The French students have received 61 per cent of the necessary funding from their municipality.Waterville students will be working hard over the next year raising money with various contests and concerts.The students range in age from nine to 11 and generally like the program despite the differences.Célie Frichet, from France is staying with Alice Gwyn, talked about the differences she sees between here and France.“In France, the houses are closer together and here there is more wide-open space," says Frichet.The French students will leave for home June 19 and Gagné says so far, the program is going well.The children, he says find it a “rich experience.” Deafening blast costs two injuries, $200,000 at Quénord MAGOG — About 50 workers went deaf for a while but only two were hurt Wednesday when an explosion shook the Quénord chemical plant near here.Hydrogen leaking from a pipeline into a storage reservoir was aparently the cause.The two injured workers were cut and bruised by objects falling on them.Fire fighters, ambu lances and emergency trucks sped to the scene hut were not needed.Damage was estimated at about $200,000, mostly to tanks and plumbing, Quénord plant manager Gyslain Bolduc said later.The blast was strong enough to lift the watchman’s guardhouse at the plant entrance off the ground.Bolduc said the cause of the blast is still unknown and the plant will remain idle until it is determined.Most of those on hand when the explosion came at just after 9 a.m.were construction workers enlarging the plant.“One thing is sure,” Bolduc concluded.“We were extremely lucky there weren’t more injuries.” Police find missing man seven years later — undrowned SHERBROOKE - A man thought to have drowned in British Columbia seven years ago was found by police wandering along Route 55 Wednesday evening.About 40 years of age, the man, whose name was withheld, was given shelter for the night after Quebec Police officers patrolling the hi ghway north of Sherbrooke found him, dressed in a heavy leather winter coat.The French-speaking man asked to be taken to a foster home.It was too late in the day for that so the patrolmen found him temporary lodgings for the night.When they began looking into his identity, they discovered that he was a native of the central Quebec area with no relatives in the Eastern Townships.They also found that he had been declared drowned by RCMP after he went missing on the west coast in 1979.Told about the case, the Moun-ties now want to have a talk with the man to solve the mystery of his death.City names designated sweeper SHERBROOKE — It’s a dirty job.There is an official Sherbrooke chimney sweep.Each year, city council awards one such licence.Its holder is the only sweep authorized to ply the trade within city limits.As of May 20, this year’s soon-to-be-soot covered handyman is Gilles Latulippe.Latulippe can be contacted at 1127 Woodward street, or at 567-0511 (office) or 875-3420 (home).“No person,” reads a city of Sherbrooke press release, “except the sweep chosen by city council and its employees, may clean a chimney.” 4—The RECORD—Thursday, June 12, 1!»M The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial More power to them Now they’re called the Boubou Macoutes — Premier Robert Bourassa’s secret police.They’re the inspectors hired by the povincial government to rid itselt of an estimated $G8 million in fraudulant welfare claims.According to numbers Employment Minister Pierre Paradis has provided, the welfare watchdogs appear to be doing the job rather well.Of 200 households visited, 29 were cheating.Doctors, who sometimes contribute to the ‘problem’ by issuing certificates stating a patient is unfit to work, thus upping their benefits, are also in the line of fire.Undercover cops, said a recent report in a Montreal newspaper, are entrapping physicians.Medical practitioners have complained about electronic eavesdropping.Canadians see their society as a social democracy.If you can’t find a job or can’t work for whatever reason, you can get enough money to survive on from the public purse.That system has been based on the assumption that people won’t cheat.That’s much too optimistic.No matter how well organized a system is, there will still be abuses.That’s expected, and should be accepted.But investigators showing up on one's doorstep is going too far.True, they don’t have the authority to kick the door down.But their modus operand! leaves much to be desired.Open your home to them, and they’ll snoop about, disrupting your private life.Keep them out, and they’ll assume you’re hiding something — and be back.Either way.civil rights are being violated.But hey, the system is working — 29 culprits were discovered.Except that Paradis didn’t elaborate on their crimes.‘Cheating’ could mean dog-walking for an extra couple of bucks a week — hardly systematic fraud.Those under 30 years of age receive approximately $160 a month.No one can survive on such a pittance.Some of those 29 were really ‘cheating’ — perhaps a false doctor’s certificate, or living with parents when they said they weren't.At least this way, a young welfare recipient has enough to pay rent and buy food.Yeah, some people are cheating the system.But if their survival depends on fraud, more power to them.ELEANOR BROWN Bruce Levett Dressing up the rat pack’s Copps Her smile, when it came, gleamed with all the kindness and warmth of an Arctic blizzard.“Have you read this?” she enquired.He had, indeed.The “this" in question was a story which alleged that a prominent Iranian clergyman, “defending his country’s harsh enforcement of strict female dress codes under Islamic rules of the veil,” had said: “Women have smaller brains than men.” The quote in question, one Hojatoleslam Akbar Has-hemi-Rafsanjani, parliamentary speaker and cleric, was further quoted as saying that Western countries that had given ‘'more and more liberty to women” were “in a mess.” She nodded in sympathy."I can understand, if not applaud, his point,” she gritted.“When you consider the mess HIS country is in under male leaders, he certainly wouldn’t want to make things worse by encouraging lesser beings such as women.“If he really feels this way, I'm surprised he hasn’t banned us altogether " Egad.Is there a message here for Canadians?Could be.Iran, presumably to keep women in their designated place befitting their small brains, insists that its females cover themselves from head to toe, leaving only face and hands to the bright rays of the sun.If we are to believe the news which filters out, Iran decrees sentences of up to 90 days for women who decline to veil or who go about badly veiled with a wisp of hair peeking from beneath head covering.The 90 days are spent in reform camps where clergymen lecture daily on how to dress properly.Thin stockings are also a no-no.(Question: If regulations call for head-to-toe coverage, how do the enforcers go about determining the thickness of such apparel?Somebody peeks, do you think?Of course not.What an unworthy thought.) Granted, it may be too late for Canada to recover from its liberalization of women.You can’t really turn back the clock, can you?Just for the heck of it though, let’s contemplate how things might be if wc gave it a shot.It’s Question Period in the House of Commons and Shiela Copps — under Iranian assessment possessed of a brain smaller than that of the men surrounding her — is holding forth Mr.Speaker rises in his wrath and demands to know why it is that this unworthy person has not taken the veil.Not only that, but —should he take the opportunity to look — he is certain that the thickness of her stockings would fall decidedly short.All this being the case, Ms.Copps would forthwith be hustled off for 90 days to shape up, as it were.And if you think I intend to carry this line of reasoning to its ultimate conclusion, then you have a brain even smaller than the one attributed to our sisters.» Hands Across America was mostly show ‘3?»a C.iy Rush worth M.Kidder The Christian Science Monitor Hands Across America was a puzzling event.In the end, it proved to be a solid, deserved, and essentially American success.Solid, because it lined up some five million people behind a charitable cause and raised an estimated 1150 million.Deserved, because the cause - the desire to help the nation’s two to three million homeless persons - is at bottom a selfless one.American, because the urge to aid the underdog stands squarely in the nation’s “melting pot” tradition of helping the disenfranchised - immigrants, women, blacks, native Americans, boat people, children in poverty - find a political voice.Yet the event raises profound questions about that very Americanism.What does it tell us about ourselves?Who are we, and what makes us tick?Students of popular culture, searching out the essential warp and woof of the American mentality in 1986, can find in Hands Across America a skein of self-definition that is at once intriguing and sobering.Two threads in particular stand out: the dramatic and the evangelical.Both have deep historical roots.Yet each is thoroughly modern.To understand them is to comprehend something of what the poet William Carlos Williams called “the American grain.” The dramatic Hands Across America, reported widely by the media, appeared to be a piece of news.It was, in fact, a piece of theatre.Part and parcel of America’s television age, it partook of the same strange blurring of news and theatre that characterizes so much of contemporary experience, from terrorist incidents to presidential news conferences.As a staged event, it fuzzed the line between actor and audience: It was a performance of ourselves for ourselves, in which we watched ourselves playing out roles created by ourselves.In the history of drama, that's nothing new: The Elizabethan masque, too, was performed by its own audience, with members of the royal court deriving a wonderfully childlike thrill from the make-believe.Hands Across America - updated for the Age of Video, ratcheted back from nobility to the middle class, set in streets instead of palaces, and played for millions instead of dozens - invoked the same thrills.In participating, we took on a larger-than-life importance, multiplying our image of ourselves onto millions of screens.But what were we actually saying on those screens?Very little - which, to their credit, the event’s show-business organizers recognized.They saw it more as a consciousness-raising device than as a solution to homelessness.Like an Ibsen play, it was suffused with symbolism : the human contact of hand-holding; the not-quite-unbroken line that knit the White House to the houseless ; the singing, the sunlight, the outdoorsy-ness.Unlike Ibsen, however, it had nothing to say.It simply was.It was an event of the feelings, not of the mind.Like so much of American television programming, it never set out to provide answers.All it could do was point to issues.The evangelical.Hands Across America also had something of the flavor of a tent-covered revival meeting.Like the Great Awakening of the 1740s, and the upsurges of Protestant fervor that followed the restless young nation westward in the 19th century, Hands Across America played upon quasi-religious feelings and symbolism.Like a tent meeting, it was an outdoor, itinerant phenomenon - fundamentally anti-institutional, marvelously democratic, and distinctly inter-denominational.And like the tent- meeting preachers themselves, locked in combat against the cold rationality of the Age of Reason, the organizers of Hands Across America had little to do with intellect.They reached out to those whose enthusiasm sprang more from inner urge than well-tuned logic.Not surprisingly, they found a response.Deep in the American grain, after all, lies an anti-elite populism that longs to find grass-roots solutions for grass-roots problems.Looking back to its frontier heritage, perhaps, that populism tends to distrust institutions - especially those institutions, comprising Washington’s best and brightest, that have not been able to rid one of the world’s richest nations of the scourge of homelessness.Today’s righteous gun-slinger longs to roam the ranges of social activism unhampered by the red tape of cumbersome orthodoxy - a freedom akin to that promised in the tent meetings of our ancestors.Hands Across America, then, drew its great mobilizing force from roots deep in drama and evangelism.Anything wrong with that?No, as long as this heritage is kept in perspective.The risk of the tent meeting was always the easy-come, easy-go conversion - the emotional high that salved the conscience without reforming the character.The risk of the videotape is that it exaggerates the importance of all it touches, flattering us that we have done something great when in fact all we have done is photograph ourselves.The risk of both is that they play down the importance of deep thought.Homelessness, as an agonizing personal challenge, needed to come feelingly to our attention.Now, as a highly complex social problem, it needs our steady, unflattered, deep thought.Letters BCS student story went overboard Dear Editor: I must say in all honesty .that after I read your article on the “Colombian Skidadler” (which appeared in your June 4 edition of The Record) I was thoroughly disgusted to say the least.The article you printed was more poli- ¦/'/ÿvfo tically orientated than anything else.It also portrayed the student as a fugitive “draft dodger,” who was afraid to return to his native Colombia.As a good friend of this student, I can personally discredit that claim.If you do not know all the reasons for his actions, then I suggest you do not structure your article on one insignificant point.If your article was to be read by this absent student, I truly do not think that it would encourage him to return to his friends or the authorities.The article should have information on the subject, and not drift off to the history of an entirely different subject.In the end, I feel that your article has caused more harm than enlight-ment.If you are to continue on about this student in further articles, I implore you to get your facts straight, and stay on the subject.The public does not care about the draft dodgers of the past, they want to help find this student.I remain, CHRISTOPHER NAKASH Bishop's College School Lennoxville Print the other side Dear Editor : I must take issue with your editorial by Eleanor Brown on the 30th of May.TheU.S.never signed SALT II, President Reagan has followed it up to this point to show the world that he is not the agressor.Only the Russian had agreed to it, yet they have not kept it.If you want to talk about propaganda, The Record editorials seem to fit the bill.Instead of giving a objective view of world events they seem to be written by the NDP.Instead of kowtowing to the lib-left media establishment I hope that in the future The Record will have the backbone to break free of such moral decay and at least print the other point of the issue.DAVID HODGE Cookshire 01386 PORT WORTH ^TAR-TEtBS^AM- Hulme HCA, or o, & L (/Y***-—'A Historical Society holds annual meeting MELBOURNE — The annual general meeting of Richmond County Historical Society was held at the Belleview Golf Club in Melbourne on May 22.Approximately one hundred people attended this 24th annual meeting, at which the new executive was elected.Mrs.Thel- Heber 1 Chartered Accountant* A.Jackson Noble, c.a.Réjean Desroeiers, c.a.Maurice Di Stéfano, c.a.James Crook, c.a.234 Dufferin Suite 400 Sherbrooke, Quebec J1H 4M2 819/563-2331 LAC MEGANTIC • ASBESTOS COWANSVILLE • COATICOOK ma Westman is the Society’s new president, replacing Miss Bernice McAdams, who has held the office for the last two years.Following the business meeting, the Society’s members and friends were treated to a very interesting and informative slide show and talk by Mr.Robert Lemire, Historian for the Canadian Center for Architecture in Canada.Mr.Lemire spoke about the architecture and history of Danville houses.The Society’s 1987 calendars were introduced at this meeting.These calendars are the first effort to recognize the upcoming silver anniversary of the organization.They are now available at the museum in Melbourne, also at Doyle’s and Richmond Hardware, Richmond, from Janet Element, Danville (839-2491) and Bernice McAdams (845-4223) in the Windsor area.Grace Chapel Fellowship The regular meeting of the Women’s Missionary Fellowship of Grace Chapel was held Monday evening May 5 with Mrs.Bea Stark presiding.The minutes of the February meeting were read, since the March meeting was cancelled due to icy road conditions, and the April meeting took the form of a CARRIERS WANTED TO DELIVER feconl The Record needs carriers for the following routes: Sher: Rte 28 Montreal, Elizabeth, Moore, Island, High, Court, Dufferin.(one week only June 9th to 13th).Lennoxville: Rte 65: Belvidere, Vaudry, Queen.(For 2 weeks: June 23rd to July 5th).Please apply to: Circulation Department 569-9528 weekend retreat held at Parkside Ranch in Cherry River.Before spending time in prayer for the spiritual needs of Grace Chapel and folk in the community including a number who are sick, or in hospital, or elderly, several letters were read from missionaries in various countries telling of their work, some of the joys and problems experienced in their particular field of service.Following a time of prayer Mrs.Clair Fisk and Mrs.Bea Stark gave a slide presentation of Grace Christian Home right from the turning of the sod ceremony to the present time.Clair told of how the Lord had enabled them not only to build and find dedicated staff, but also to expand, adding eventually an infirmary in Huntingville and the purchase of the Connaught Home in North Hatley, providing pleasant surroundings, good food with medical and spiritual care for senior citizens.Clair also expressed appreciation to all who had shared with them in the development of these homes by their prayers and gifts which ha ve made this possible.A few pictures were also shown of other activities which have been sponsored by Grace Chapel, such as the summer camp for boys and girls at Frontier Lodge on Lake Wallis and Bethel Bible Institute which is specifically aimed at training young French Canadians in Bible Study.Also a few pictures of Parkside Ranch were shown where boys and girls enjoy the wide open spaces in both summer and winter, as well as learning from the Scriptures of their need to know the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour.In conclusion Clair noted how the Lord had blessed through these years until the present time when they look forward to expanding even further in the building of several cottages.Light refreshments were served by the hostesses and the meeting adjourned Crossword ACROSS 1 Retreats 6 Stubborn one 10 Accelerates sharply 14 Bar sign 15 Khayyam 16 Isr.airline 17 Dictator’s aide 18 “Grand Ole —” 19 Display for short 20 Scholar of a kind 22 Devilkins 23 Will was a Walton 24 Tawdry 26 Winery employee 30 Poem type 32 Double curve 33 — -China 35 Metrical stress 39 Receiver 41 Kind of cheese 43 Arenose 44 Discharged 46 A Gardner 47 Jagged 49 .tired as — newspaper” 51 Mia of movies 54 Author Haley 56 Arabic letter 57 Creative writing 63 Eat well 64 Egress 65 Sophia of film 66 Being: Lat.67 Hair color 68 Abadan native 69 Let it stand 70 Droops 71 Thick DOWN 1 Deprivation 2 Front money, as it were 3 Entry 4 Rajah’s lady 5 Bath or cake 10 11 12 13 26 27 28 29 30 31 33 34 36 37 38 44 45 49 50 51 52 53 59 60 61 62 ®1986 Tribune Media Services, Inc.All Rights Reserved 6/12/86 Yesterday’s Puzzle Solved: eonHstat nnnn nnnn ¦ nnnn nnnn nnnnn CIHiJiauMi.innUiiminHH nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnnnn nnnn nnnnn nnnn nnnnn nnnn N SjAlSlQ 6/12/86 6 Roger played Simon 7 Arbitrated 8 Zhivago’s lady 9 Spiny plant 10 Detoured 11 Oily resin 12 Improvises a tune 13 Watery mire 21 Eagle’s nest 25 Mine entrance 26 Clothes 27 Uttar Pradesh city 28 Connery was Bond 29 Novices 31 Somewhat in music 34 Loch — 36 GWTW plantation 37 Repulsive 38 Regards 40 Beginner 42 Sea mammal 45 Central comfort 48 Little big-eyed birds 50 Wood sorrel 51 Grows dim 52 Tilting 53 Remove soap 55 Latvians 58 Plant with sword-shaped leaves 59 Bull: Sp.60 Soviet river 61 Painter Guido 62 Arthurian lady « i 12—The RECORD—Thursday, June 12, 1986 Sports Hccdnd Who are these guys, anyway?Morocco shocks the soccer world by advancing to round two MEXICO CITY (AP) — They came out of Africa without any rave notices.They were the longs-hots from Morocco with no soccer tradition and little respect from the rest of the World Cup community.Now, everyone knows about them.“Morocco has made world soccer history,” said Jose Faria, the team’s Brazilian coach, after his club beat Portugal 3-1 Wednesday to win Group F an become the first team from Africa to make it past the first round of the soccer championship.“For us, it is the same as if we had won the World Cup,” Faria said.They just might.“Morocco will be a sensation in this World Cup, just as Portugal was in 1966, and I send my congratulations,” Portuguese coach Jose Torres said.“They have players of great class.” Morocco now will play with the big boys in the single-elimination round of the 24-team event.In addi- tion to the Moroccans, England, Poland and Belgium advanced Wednesday.Belgium tied Paraguay 2-2 and England beat Poland 3-0.Previously, Mexico, Paraguay, the Soviet Union, France, Argentina, Italy, Brazil, Denmark and West Germany moved into the second portion of the month-long tournament.While Morocco was stunning the soccer community by eliminating Portugal at Monterrey, the citizens of Mexico’s capital city hit the streets in celebration of their national team’s 1-0 victory over Iraq.That win clinched Group B for the Mexicans.Thousands of fans listened, sang along with and danced to music at the Monument to Independence and other areas designated by police for revelling.But the celebrations seemed much more subdued than those last week, after the host country’s 2-1 win against Belgium.During those festivities, 200 people were reported injured and 81 were arrested.Canada’s conservative style will have to change By Grant Kerr There’s something to be learned from the whining of Branko Segota after Canada’s elimination from the World Cup in Mexico.Segota’s constant berating of national coach Tony Waiters wears a little thin, but he does have a point about the conservative style played by Canada at the tournament.The Canadian team’s idea of scoring a goal — Canada was blanked over 270 minutes in the Branko Segota.Has a good point.World Cup — was to loft long passes into the penalty area and hope someone would get a head to the ball.Usually it was a defender, however, because Canada does not have a big team on attack.Segota insists the Canadian team must become more adept at moving the ball along the ground, much like Denmark, the talk of the tournament with its short passing game.Segota claims it’s much more energy-conserving to keep the ball on the ground than to play the long balls and have forwards like himself constantly running down 60-yard passes.Strangely enough, Segota and Waiters are pushing for the same thing.They both want a new Canadian summer league to be esta-blished so that developing players can learn to play the game at a higher level.PLAYS EVENLY Canada was never really outplayed badly in the World Cup.Canadians played evenly with the French until surrendering a goal with 11 minutes left; Canada outplayed Hungary, but gave up a goal in the second minute and another late in the game when pressing for the equalizer; and even against the Soviet Union, Canada shared play for almost 60 minutes before bowing to the superior skill of second-half substitutes.In analysing the overall effort in Mexico — the first time Canada had qualified in 13 World Cups — the consensus is that the Canadians defended bravely, but lacked the imagination to threaten on attack.The goalkeeping was good enough to win, with young Paul Dolan playing the first game and veteran Tino Lettieri the last two.The back line is getting a little long in the tooth at fullback.Team captain Bruce Wilson will be 35 this month and wants to be the next national coach.Bob Le-narduzzi, 31, was exceptional at right fullback, especially against the Soviets, and already has a coaching job waiting with Vancouver 86ers in the proposed Canadian Soccer League next year.The central defenders, Ian Bridge and Randy Samuel, did their jobs.RISES ABOVE The Canadian midfielders were an unspectacular lot, although David Norman rose above the others.Norman was not pencilled into the starting lineup against France until just before game time when Gerry Gray came up with a muscle pull.Gray, Paul James, Randy Ragan, Mike Sweeney and Jamie Lowery did little to distinguish themselves.George Pakos, a midfielder-forward who scored two important goals in qualifying games, got only a few minutes playing time in the last game.The forwards did not stand out in the World Cup.Carl Valentine played three full games and looked out of place.He’s a natural winger miscast as a striker.Igor Vrablic played two full games and showed he needs more seasoning with his club team in Belgium.Segota played nine, 36 and 25 minutes as a substitute.He was fine when he was fresh, but after 15 or 20 minutes in the last two games, he was out of gas.Dale Mitchell, who played the last game at forward against the Soviets, was the most dangerous of the forwards.The bottom line to Canada’s World Cup effort is this: the Canadian Soccer Association must quickly establish a new summer league; there needs to be more emphasis on attacking soccer and the skills associated with scoring goals.Faria said his team is not through after tying Poland and England 0-0, then blasting the Portuguese as Abderrazak Khairi scored twice and Abdelkarim Merry scored once.“Now we can aim atcasuing new sensations in the second round,” Faria said.The Moroccans play the second-place team in Group E next Tuesday in Monterrey.England, which finished second to Morocco, plays Paraguay in Mexico City next Wednesday.The English scored three times in the first 36 minutes on goals by Gary Lineker.“It’s a case of keep trying and hope the chances come,” Lineker said after scoring from in front of the net in the eighth, 14th and 36th minutes.“We just needed a chance of luck.” Poland, third in Group F, will play the winner of Group D on Monday in Guadaljara.Mexico's Fernando Quirarte got behind the Iraqi defence to poke in a long free kick by Manuel Negrete for the goal, then took a phone call from Mexico’s president.Bora Milutinovic, Mexico’s Yugoslavian coach, said he was happy “because we passed to the next round in first place.” “We are also happy because president Miguel de la Madrid called and gave us his support,” added Milutinovic.Iraq lost all three of its games in its World Cup debut.Scoreboard SOCCER Argentina Italy Bulgaria South Korea Law’s clutch hit completes three-game sweep Montreal 4 St, Louis 3 ST.LOUIS (AP) — Add Vance Law’s batting expertise to the long list of reasons for a St.Louis Cardinals season that has developed into a nightmare.“I was trying to go to right,” Law said Wednesday night after setting up Montreal Expos' 4-3 National League baseball victory with a hit-and-run single."After I'd fouled that off, I noticed that the shortstop was moving, so I hit the other way.” Law’s perfectly-executed hit skipped into left field through St.Louis shortstop Jose Oquendo’s vacated spot, helping send the Cardinals to their fourth straight defeat.Tim Wallach, who had singled with one out, reached third on the hit in the 10th inning.One pitch la- ter, Jim Wohlford lifted a sacrifice fly to right field that capped Montreal’s three-game sweep.St.Louis manager Whitey Herzog, while lamenting another setback, tipped his cap to Law.“Law did a good job,” Herzog said.“(Second baseman) Tommy (Herr) thought he was going to go to right field like he did before and Oquendo was coming over.“We played good in the early innings.That’s the best we’ve played for a long time.” TAKES EARLY LEAD At the start, St.Louis used long-slumbering Jack Clark’s run-scoring double in the first, Oquendo’s double in the second and stellar fielding to grab a 2-0 lead.But Expos left-hander Joe Hesketh, the victim of the early battering, stiffened after Oquen- do's hit and at one point retired 14 straight batters.Montreal, meanwhile, bided its time until Cardinals starter Danny Cox wavered.Cox, after blanking the Expos on three hits through the fifth, walked A1 Newman on four pitches to start Montreal's sixth and also walked Mitch Webster.Tim Raines took advantage of the gifts to single home Newman, with Webster winding up at third.Hubie Brooks singled home the tying run and Andres Galarraga, after Cox hit Wallach with a pitch to load the bases, sent the Expos ahead 3-2 with a run-scoring grounder.Hesketh pitched strongly through the eighth but left for a pinch-hitter before Clark doubled to start St.Louis' ninth against ace Montreal reliever Jeff Reardon.6-3.Pinch-hitter Ozzie Smith’s grounder advanced Clark to third.Mike LaValliere, also a pinch-hitter, got the runner home with a suicide-squeeze bunt to create a 3-3 tie.“He had two strikes and Wallach hit a low slider," Herzog said of the scenario that did in Greg Bargar, 0-2, the Cardinals’ pitcher at the start of the 10th.WORLD CUP Group A Final W T L.2 10 1 12 0 1 021 ; 0 12.Saturday.May 31 Italy 1 Bulgaria 1 Monday, June 2 Argentina 3 South Korea 1 Thursday, June 5 Italy 1 Argentina 1 Bulgaria 1 South Korea 1 Tuesday.June 10 Italy 3 South Korea 2 Argentina 2 Bulgaria 0 Group B Final Mexico 2 1 0 Paraguay 1 2 0 Belgium t 1 1 Iraq 0 0 3 Wednesday Results Mexico I Iraq 0 Belgium 2 Paraguay 2 Tuesday.June 2 Mexico 2 Belgium 1 Wednesday, June 4 Paraguay 1 Iraq 0 Saturday, June 7 Mexico 1 Paraguay 1 Sunday, June 8 Belgium 2 Iraq 1 Group C Final Soviet Union 2 1 0 France 2 1 0 Hungary 1 0 2 Canada 003 Sunday, June 1 France 1 Canada 0 Monday, June 2 Soviet Union 6 Hungary 0 Thursday, June 5 France 1 Soviet Union 1 Friday.June 6 Hungary 2 Canada 0 Monday.June 9 France 3 Hungary 0 Soviet Union 2 Canada 0 Group D Brazil 2 0 0 Spain 1 0 1 N Ireland 0 1 1 Algeria 0 1 1 Today s Games Brazil vs.Northern Ireland Spam vs Algeria Sunday.June 1 Brazil 1 Spam 0 Tuesday, June 3 Algeria 1 Northern Ireland 1 Friday.June 6 Brazil 1 Algeria 0 Saturday, June 7 Spam 2 Northern Ireland 1 Group E Denmark 2 0 0 W Germany 1 1 0 Uruguay 0 1 1 Scotland 0 0 2 Friday Games West Germany vs Denmark Uruguay vs Scotland Wednesday, June 4 West Germany 1 Uruguay 1 Denmark 1 Scotland 0.1 5 1 5 9 2 5 0 Sunday, June 8 West Germany 2 Scotland 1 Denmark 6 Uruguay 1 Group F Final Morocco 1 2 0 3 1 4 England 111 3 13 Poland 111 1 33 Portugal 1 0 2 2 4 2 Wednesday Results Morocco 3 Portugal 1 England 3 Poland 0 Monday.June 2 Poland 0 Morocco 0 Tuesday, June 3 Portugal 1 England 0 Friday.June 6 Morocco 0 England 0 Saturday.June 7 Poland 1 Portugal 0 FOOTBALL CFL Exhibition At Hamilton Hamilton 21 Toronto 7 BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L.Pet GBL New York 39 16 709 Montreal 31 24 564 8 Philadelphia 26 29 473 13 Pittsburgh 24 30 444 141/2 Chicago 23 33 411 16V2 St.Louis 22 33 400 17 West Division Houston 33 24 .579 — San Fran 31 26 .544 2 Atlanta 29 28 .509 4 Los Angeles 29 31 483 S1^ San Diego 28 30 483 51/2 Cincinnati 22 33 400 10 Wednesday Results Atlanta 2 San Francisco 1 San Diego 11 Houston 7 New York 5 Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 5 Chicago 3 Montreal 4 St Louis 3 Los Angeles 5 Cincinnati 4 Tonight's Game San Francisco at Houston Friday's Games St Louis at Chicago 2 Pittsburgh at New York N Montreal at Philadelphia N Cincinnati at Atlanta N San Francisco at Houston N Los Angeles at San Diego N LINESCORES Montreal 000 003 000 1—, 4 9 1 St.Louis 110 000 001 0—.3.6 0 Hesketh, Reardon (W.6-3)(9).Roberge (S,1)(10) and Fitzgerald Cox Dayley(6i Worrell (7), Bargar (l,0-2)(101, Perry (10) and Heath LaValliere (10) Hernan, NY Leonard.SF Brown.SF Smith, StL 204 34 212 34 156 21 172 19 319 316 314 314 Hits Gwynn, San Diego.75; Sandberg, Chicago.72, Sax, Los Angeles,69 Doubles Reynolds Pittsburgh.19: Hayes.Philadelphia, 18; Dunston, Chicago 16 Triples Coleman.St Louis, 6: McGee, St Louis, 5; Moreno, Atlanta 5 Brooks, Montreal, 4, Milner, Cincinnati, 4; Raines, Montreal.4 Home runs Marshall.Los Angeles, 15.Brooks, Montreal, 13 Parker, Cincinnati, l3:Dawson.Montreal.12; Davis.Houston.12; Garvey, San Diego, 12.Runs batted in Brooks.Montreal, 43; Marshall.Los Angeles, 41, Schmidt, Philadelphia, 41: Parker, Cincinnati 41; C.Davis.San Francisco, 40: Carter, New York, 40.Runs Raines, Montreal.38: Carter.New York, 38, Reynolds, Pittsburgh, 37; Gwynn, San Diego, 37; 5 are tied wih 34 Stolen bases Coleman.St.Louis.35; Duncan.Los Angeles, 28; Raines, Montreal.25.Pitching (7 decisions): Gooden.New York, 8-2, 800,2 11; Darling, New York, 7-2, .778, 3 93: Ojeda.New York, 7-2, 778.2 53: Knep-per.Houston.10-3.769, 2 26; Fernandez.New York.6-2.750.3.44 Strikeouts Scott.Houston.115: Valenzuela Los Angeles.96.Welch, Los Angeles.79 Saves Smith.Houston.t5;Reardon, Montreal.14; Orosco.New York, 11 L.Pci.GBL .667 — 607 4 586 5 526 81?509 9V2 .475 11V2 473 II1/?569 — 500 4 500 4 421 S1/?417 9 390 10 .367 12 1 4 2 3 7 1 3 0 TOP TEN Knight.NY Gwynn.SD Brooks.Mtl Ray.Pgh Sax LA Garner.Hou Raines.Mtl 186 224 180 201 214 140 212 33 69 24 45 38 68 339 335 .333 .323 322 321 .321 AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W Boston 38 19 Baltimore 34 22 New York 34 24 Milwaukee 30 27 Cleveland 29 28 Toronto 28 31 Detroit 26 29 West Division Texas 33 25 California 29 29 Kansas City 29 29 Chicago 24 33 Oakland 25 35 Minnesota 23 36 Seattle 22 38 Wednesday Results Baltimore 4 Milwaukee 3 California 12 Chicago 11 Detroit 9 New York 3 Cleveland 7 Oakland 4 Seattle 12 Kansas City 2 Boston 3 Toronto 2 Texas 6 Minnesota 2 Tonight s Games Detroit at Toronto New York at Baltimore Milwaukee at Boston Chicago at Seattle Kansas City at California Friday Games Minnesota at Cleveland N Detroit at Toronto N Milwaukee at Boston N New York at Baltimore N Chicago at Seattle N Texas at Oakland N Kansas City at California N LINESCORES Boston 100 200 000-, 3 6 1 Toronto 100 000 001— 2 6 0 Clemens (W.11-0).Stanley (S.10)(9) and Sullivan Alexander (L.4-3) and Whitt HR Bos — Baylor (15).Father’s Day Gift Ideas Dépatie tourney set for June 30-July 6 By Craig Pearson One of the largest slow-pitch softball tournaments in Quebec will be held for the 11th year in a row in Sherbrooke with teams from across Canada and the United States.The president and founder of the Yvon ‘Pif’ Dépatie Slow-Pitch tournament, Gaston Grenier, spoke at a press conference Wednesday about the event, which runs from June 30 to July 6 at Parc Desranleau in Fleurimont.Grenier said the tournament is the most prestigious one of its kind in Canada and should be a historical event.This year it will include eight local teams, eight teams from other parts of Canada, and 10 teams from the United States Special attractions include a base-running competition iwith last year’s winner, Jean-Pierre Crevier, back to defend his title), a drawing for a trip for two to Walt Disney World, and a trip for two to Acapulco, and the presence of Youppi, the Montreal Expos' mascot (who will be at Parc Desranleau on Saturday July 5, between 4 p.m.and 3;30p.m ).A tournament all-star squad will also be selected, The winner of the local division will take home $1.500 and a trophy ; the runner-up, $700; and semifinalists, $300.The winner of the invitational division, which in eludes both Canadian and Amen can teams, will win $4,000 and a trophy; the runner-up, $1,500; se mi-finalists, $700; and quarter finalists, $300.Teams from the Eastern Towns- % Yvon Pif ¦ s, v Dépatie hips division are: last year’s champion, G.DoyonT.V.; Big Red Machine; Buzz Squad; Disco Bar Maltonnière; Fromagerie Maurice Dumas; Purina; Restaurant Montparnasse; and newcomer to the tournament, La Belle Auto.The Canadian invitational-class teams are: Diamond’s Lounge, the Ontario provincial winners in 1983 and 1984; Fromagerie Lemaire; La Brasserie le Dauphin; Les Loisirs de Sorel; Prestige; Red Sox Broue Lib ; Taverne du Boulevard ; and Windsor Welding Supply, which won a bronze medal in the all-Canadian tournament.U.S.teams are: AC Brothers; Bender Plumbing Supplies; Blan ton’s; County Sports Bombât; Im lay Real Estate-Bombats; Paris-seault Builders; Popalini; Powers Screen Printing; Sikorsky Club; and Simsbury Raiders.Slow-pitch follows all the regular rules of softball except the pitcher must throw the ball over six-feet in the air.This year, the tournament is also using a designated-hitter rule.Organizers predict this year’s event will inject aprroximately $1.5-million into the local economy.TKDEN “Le Jeu Elimination’’ now in 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