The record, 25 juin 1986, mercredi 25 juin 1986

Wednesday Births, deaths .8 Classified .10 Comics .II Editorial .4 Education .§ Farm, Business .7 Living .6 Sports .15 Townships.3 y Is '¦«lûx .QOXJ SUNNY PAUUNI- SAMBhRGKR Ÿ tifi^ f) u Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Wednesday, June 25, 1986 40 cents “Welcome to Nofrill Airlines.Now hear this!" Unions pleased with near-miss on asbestos ban SHERBROOKE (CBI — Reaction was swift and positive Tuesday after it was learned that the International Labor Organization had given its strictly-limited blessing to the continued use of some types of asbestos.The decision came in Geneva, where only one delegate abstained from an otherwise unanimous vote Tuesday when the ILO voted in favor of severely limiting the use of asbestos, while allowing some uses under strict controls.Representatives of workers and employers groups and the governments of about 150 countries took the non-binding vote during the ILO’s annual convention.The vote followed weeks of heavy lobbying by members of the Canadian delegation.The ILO wants a ban on the use of 'crocidolite' a common and particularly dangerous type of asbestos fibre, and on any use of any type of the fibre which requires that asbestos be crushed or pulverized.CHRYSOTILE NOT BANNED Left un banned is the strictly limited use of ‘chrysotile’ asbestos, some of which is mined in the Eastern Townships.Both types of asbestos are known to cause several types of cancer but the crocidolite form is thought to be more dangerous.The ILO convetion declared that asbestos is a double-edged sword, providing safety through its many uses as a heat insulator and in fireproofing, but also noting it is a dangerous substance known to have killed thousands of workers.The ILO also said all uses of asbestos must protect workers from any exposure to the substance.As well, it said other materials should be substituted for asbestos wherever possible.The Geneva vote was 394 to 0, with the four delegates of Cyprus abstaining.In Montreal, Gérald Larose, president of the Confederation of National Trade Unions, called on the federal and Quebec governments Monday to ratify the ILO agreement as soon as possible.WILL MAKE IT SAFE’ Adoption of the agreement “will for the first time make it safe to use See ILO, page 3.Second windstorm destroys hangar • si RECORD/CHARLES BURY The second heavy windstorm in a week caused heavy damage at the Sherbrooke airport near East Angus.Story, pictures, page Strangle us economically: Mandela Baby survives car accident MONTREAL (CP) — A pregnant woman was killed Tuesday in a road accident on an expressway in nearby La val, but the baby she was carrying survived.Helene Blair, 28, was struck by a truck after her body was hurled from her car during the accident on the Laurentian Autoroute.When an ambulance arrived, the emergency medical team decided on a caesarean delivery to save the child.The baby was reported to be in stable condition in Ste-Justine Hospital.Itwasn’timmediately known how many months pregnant Blair was.Quebec must sign too says Turner MONTREAL (CP) — Liberal Leader John Turner, on a fencetending visit to nearby Laval, said Tuesday he hopes Quebec will sign the new Canadian Constitution as soon as possible.The constitutional position taken by the Quebec wing of the Liberals at a general council meeting last week is compatible with, even similar to, what the government of Premier Robert Bourassa wants, Turner said.Drapeau’s career plans public Friday MONTREAL (CP) — Mayor Jean Drapeau, the longest-serving mayor of any large North American city, is scheduled to announce Friday whether or not he will run in the November municipal election.Drapeau’s Civic party said in a brief statement Monday that the mayor will hold a news conference Friday at 11 a.m.to make public his decision.Numberous published reports have said the ailing 70-year-old mayor may retire from the job he has held for all but three of the last 29 years.LONDON (AP) — In an unauthorized television interview that could bring her a prison term.Winnie Mandela said South African blacks regard the government's state of emergency as a “total declaration of war" that blacks plan to fight to the bitter end.In the interview broadcast Monday, the wife of imprisoned black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela also called on the world “to strangle our country" economically to force an end to South Africa's apartheid policy of racial separation.“We know of no other peaceful measure we could use to prevent the violence that is the order of the day in our country,” she told Independent Television’s World in Action program.The interview, broadcast Monday night in Britan, was taped Sunday at Mrs.Mandela’s home in Soweto, a huge black township outside Johannesburg.The government had banned journalists from entering black townships after it imposed a countrywide state of emergency June 12, but lifted the ban Saturday.The commentator said Mandela’s decision to speak to journalists could bring up to 10 years in prison.The government imposed a state of emergency June 12 that makes “subversive statements” illegal, but left the identification of such statements vague.“The oppressed people have regarded the present state of emergency as a challenge to the people and a total declaration of war,” she said.DATE MARKED The state of emergency was imposed four days before the 10th anniversary of the Soweto uprising, when large anti-government demonstrations were expected.Mandela said security forces were occupying the townships, the government was interfering with telephone communication between the townships and the rest of the world, and that the country was covered v ith roadblocks.Blacks stayed indoors June 16 because the government would have used the emergency rules against public gatherings “as an excuse to kill indiscriminately innocent.unarmed men and women and children,” she said.Prime Minister P.W.Botha’s government, she maintained, “will fight to the last man” rather than accept black majority rule.Mandela sharply criticized British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and U S.President Ronald Reagan for opposing tough economic sanctions.Both leaders have said sanctions will hurt South Africa’s 24 million blacks.And she said “the African National Congress is the future government of South Africa, and that is God’s foregone conclusion.” The outlawed African National Congress, of which Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo are cofounders, is the main guerrilla group fighting to end apartheid, which maintains privliges for South Africa’s five million whites and denies them to the black population.Plan will clean up contaminated Ontario water TORONTO (CP) — The Ontario government has outlined a three-year plan to ‘ ‘turn the tide” against toxic contamination of provincial waterways by reducing chemical discharges.A policy paper tabled Tuesday by Environment Minister Jim Bradley would require monitoring and place strict effluent limits for both industrial and municipal dischargers of toxic materials.Under current pollution regulations, only a limited number of conventional contaminants are limited, but the new program — called the Municipal-Industrial Strategy for Abatement — would set limits for scores of persistent toxic organics such as dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls and chlorinated benzenes which are thought to cause cancer and birth defects.Bradley said key features of the proposed program are: — Pollution reductions by “virtually every” major toxic polluter of Ontario waterways, including eight key industrial sectors that comprise about 200 of the 300 direct dischargers in the province.— Reductions by the 11,700 industries that discharge wastewater into Ontario’s 400 municipal sewer systems.— A cap on the absolute amount of contamination each source may discharge as opposed to the current system, which allows large discharges as long as contami- nants are diluted.The program will be implemented through regulations that will limit effluents and set monitoring requirements.Each industry will be required to monitor its own effluent for contaminants and the program will be policed by the ministry with spot testing to ensure industry results are accurate.STAGED CONTROLS Bradley said the first monitoring regulations — for the petroleum and organic chemical industries — will be in effect by mid-1988 and new effluent regulations for municipal sewer discharges will be introduced by 1989.Bradley told reporters later the program would cost the ministry about $2.5 million, but said it is not known how much it will cost industry and municipalities.But while acknowledging there will be considerable cost, Bradley said he is confident industry will co-operate.New Democrat Ruth Grier, her party’s environment critic, said she welcomed the crackdown but was disappointed at the delay in implementation and concerned funds may not be forthcoming to help municipalities.The eight industrial sectors, which are all to be regulated within three years, are electric power generation, industrial minerals, inorganic chemicals, iron and steel, metal mining and refining, organic chemicals, petroleum refining, and pulp and paper.Public submissions on the white paper will be received over the next 60 days, said Bradley, who called the proposals the government’s long-term response to spills last year from Dow Chemical Canada Inc.near Sarnia that resulted in discovery of dioxin and the so-called toxic blob in the St.Clair River.He admitted that ministry investigations made it clear “we did not know precisely what our industries were putting into the river nor were we adequately controlling it.” But since the petroleum refining and organic chemical manufacturing industries are to be the first regulated under the proposed plan.“all the rrtajor polluters in the Chemical Valley will be covered early on,” he said Sensitive environmental areas will likely require more stringent reduction programs, he said, and pilot studies have been ordered to set specific standards for six key areas — the St.Clair River, Kami-nistikwia River near Thunder Bay, St.Mary’s River in SaultSte.Marie, Toronto Harbor, St.Lawrence River at Cornwall and the Grand River in southcentral Ontario.Ronald McDonald found DOVER TOWNSHIP, N.J.(AP) — Police found a two-metre plastic statue of Ronald McDonald on Tuesday that had been held for the ransom of 8,891 chicken McNuggets, authorities said.“He was standing by himself in the middle of the field,” said police Sgt.Edward McDowell.Attached to him was a note saying the kidnappers “freed me from McDonaldland to see if Wendy’s has more beef." Officer Mick Leone said a radio station received an anonymous tip about the statue’s whereabouts and told police.The statue was taken June 6.Nine days later, restaurant manager Alvena Baeli found a note attached to the restaurant’s back door.The note read: “Don’t you wish your Ronald McDonald was replaced?“If so place 8,891 nuggets at 886 3rd Ave., New York, N.Y.Don’t forget the sauce, or he gets it.” There is no such address Employees later found a photograph of Ronald, with a gag around its mouth.No arrests have been made.Group revamps language bill By Linda Drouin MONTREAL (CP) —The Quebec government has named a seven-member study group to make recommendations on how to streamline the administration of the province’s French-language law, Bill 101.The group’s report, to be delivered in September, will be the first step in a two-stage process aimed at putting the Liberal government’s stamp on the much-contested nine-year-old law adopted by the former Parti Québécois government.Lise Bacon, the minister responsible for the law, announced Monday that the group will be headed by Gilles Lalande, a former member of the Royal Commission on Bi-lingualism and Biculturalism (1966-70) and currently an assistant to the federal Official Languages Commissioner.The announcement came as no surprise.Shortly after Bacon took over the job following the Liberals’ December election win, she declared that she wanted to revamp the language bureaucracy.The Liberals have made no secret of the tensions between the government and the largely PQ-appointed bureaucrats who run the five agencies that administer the law.Last April, Bacon had a series of run-ins with Gaston Cholette.head of the agency responsible for tracking violations of the law.The widely-reported spats culminated in the dismissal of Cholette, who was closely associated with the former PQ government.DEFLECT ATTACK In an apparent attempt to fend off criticism from Quebec nationalists that changes will weaken the law, the statement issued Monday said “the fundamental principle of the French-language charter will not be affected by the work of the study group.” “The French language is the distinctive language of the French majority of Quebec and it is this language, more than any other at- tribute, that permits the citizens of Quebec to express their identity,1’ the statement says.After news of the study group leaked out last week, Bacon said the second phase in the changes to Bill 101 — those affecting its contents — will come after a Quebec Court of Appeal judgment on the legality of the law’s French-only provisions on commeicial signs.Premier Robert Bourassa has been under fire from both sides in the debate for not spelling out his government’s language policies.Quebec nationalists have slammed him for weakening the law by grantingamnesty to children illegally enrolled in English schools, and for not prosecuting illegal commercial signs.URGE CHANGES On the other hand, the English-rights lobby group, Alliance Quebec, has been urging the government to make good on its election promises to ease the French-only law on commercial signs.Other members of the task force include Rene Dussault, for many years head of the Liberal party’s political policy committee; Andre Escojido.an administrator in Bacon’s department; Marcel Cote, from the firm Secor; Ludmila de Fougeroles from the Centre de linguistique de l entreprise, a nonprofit group that advises business on the application of the language law; Michel Laporte, Liberal member for the riding of Ste-Marie; and Jean-Claude Rondeau, a special advisor to the minister of education.The five agencies connected with Bill 101 employ 419 people and have a total budget of $20.4 million.The largest body, the Office de la langue française, spends $15.2 million mainly on developing and encouraging the use of correct French terminology.The agency responsible for enforcing the law, the Commission de protection de la langue française, sometimes dubbed the language police, has a yearly budget of $1.5 million.Cancer treatment under investigation TORONTO (CP) — A cancer-treatment device produced in Canada that injured four patients by giving them excessive radiation is under investigation by U.S.officials and its manufacturer.The lawyer for a Georgia woman says a radiation overdose from the Therac 25, a $l-million linear accelerator.made a hole in her skin and caused nerve damage that made her arm useless.The Therac 25, which is no longer being produced by its manufacturer, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., has been reported as the cause of injuries in other patients in Texas and Hamilton.However, the device is still used by six cancer treatment centres in Canada and five in the United States, said Denis St-Jean, a spokesman for Atomic Energy Canada, which continues to make similar medical equipment.Competition from U.S.and German manufacturers, not the accidents.was the reason for the agency’s medical products division to halt production.St-Jean said.Princess Margaret Hospital, a cancer treatment centre in Toronto, received a Therac 25 in March and is conducting tests before beginning its use on patients, probably later this summer, spokesman Leslie Dutton said Tuesday.An accident occurred with the Therac 25 last July at the Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre when a woman being treated received more radiation than was required because a switch on the machine failed.The woman later died when the disease spread through her body., NO QUALMS Alan Rawlinson, a senior staff physicist at Princess Margaret, said the centre has no qualm?' about using its Therac 25.“We re satisfied that that parti* cular episode (in Hamilton) is not going to happen again,” he said.Katie Yarborough, 61, received an overdose of radiation from a Therac 25 accelerator while being treated for breast cancer in June 1985 at the Kennestone Regional Oncology Centre in Marietta, Ga.Dr.Kenneth Haile, director of the centre, said the accident was caused by a software glitch involving an unforeseen sequence of computer commands.Yarborough felt pain and irritation below the collarbone and developed a hole in her skin about the size of a quarter, said her lawyer, Bill Bird.She is suing Atomic Energy Canada and the cancer centre, which has reprogrammed is Therac 25 and is still using it.At the East Texas Cancer Centre in Tyler, Tex., two men treated with the machine in March and April received much larger doses of radiation than intended because of a computer malfunction, investigators have found. 2—The RECORD—Wednesday, June 25, 19X6 MPs look forward to resting their brains during summer recess By Alan Bass OTTAWA (CP) — No more Commons, no more spats, no more questions from angry Rats.It’s summertime .and politicians will find the livin’ is easier.Parliament adjourns for a two-month summer recess this week after a long and sometimes nasty session, and most of the nation’s leaders can hardly wait to escape Ottawa for some good old-fashioned rest and relaxation.Most will keep working for much of the summer, but at a more relaxed pace than when the Commons sits.They’ll spend a lot less time in Ottawa and more time at home with their families and constituents.Many are looking forward to summer vacations that range from wilderness canoe trips to bicycle tours in Europe to a few quiet weeks at a family cottage.And, like a lot of other Canadians, several MPs plan to visit Expo in Vancouver.Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, whose big expense accounts for official travel have stirred a lot of controversy, hasn’t made plans to vacation outside the country, aide Michel Gratton said.Instead, Mulroney is likely to spend some time at the prime minister’s summer residence on Harrington Lake, just north of Ottawa in Quebec’s Gatineau Hills.Commons or no Commons, M ulroney still has lots of work to do this summer, including planning an expected mid-term cabinet shuffle.Mulroney will also head occasional summer cabinet meetings, beginning next week with a meeting in Saskatoon of the cabinet’s priorities and planning committee, the group of powerful ministers who set government policy.In August, Mulroney will attend a Commonwealth heads of government meeting in London to discuss economic sanctions against South Africa.Liberal Leader John Turner, facing a possible challenge to his leadership at a critical party convention next fall, will travel the country during the first three weeks of July to press the flesh at Liberal party picnics and barbecues.Then he’ll spend a week or two on a family canoeing expedition on the remote Coppermine River in the Northwest Territories.Turner is an expert canoeist who likes to make at least one wilderness trip a year.Turner also plans to spend some time at his family cottage on Lake of the Woods near Kenora, Ont.New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent will spend a few weeks touring rural Quebec with his wife and daughter in the relative comfort of a 22-foot camper van.‘He’s been talking for years about doing this,” said Broadbent aide Tim Woods.“A few years ago, he went camping.I don’t think it was quite to his taste.” Broadbent also hopes to spend a few days taking in the sea air at a favorite hideaway in Maine.Although most MPs won’t hang around Ottawa much this summer, Liberal Sheila Copps and several other MPs will stay in town for a few weeks to work on a Commons committee holding hearings into sanctions against South Africa.Copps, a member of the so-called Rat Pack of Liberal MPs who make torturing ministers their speciality, then plans to spend a few weeks relaxing at her family’s cottage on Lake Erie “with the phone pulled out, and do nothing but rest my brain.” Trade Minister Jim Kelleher, according to an aide, plans to spend his summer doing “a four-letter word.” But don't get excited.Apparently, the word is “work" because Kelleher has to keep on top of freer-trade negotiations with the United States.He’ll also take a two-week French immersion course.External Affairs Minister Joe Clark, on the other hand, plans to spend three weeks relaxing at a top-secret spot in Europe.Employment Minister Flora MacDonald says her vacation plans aren’t firm yet, but she's eyeing a 10-day bicycle tour of the Brittany region of France.Solicitor General Perrin Beatty, meanwhile, will spend two weeks travelling through Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong to discuss with local officials how to stem the flow of heroin to Canada.Opposition MPs say the trip’s a junket, but aides insist it’s all work.Beatty will also attend a French immersion course and spend some time at his Ontario cottage.Among those who must be delighted to get away from the Commons for a while is Speaker John Bosley.He expects to spend a couple of weeks in Australia, along with three other MPs, at the invitation of the Australian government.He'll also play lots of golf.Energy Minister Pat Carney will spend most of the summer in her Vancouver riding and will represent the government at Expo functions.She also plans to while away two or three weeks at her mother’s Saturna Island home off the B.C.coast, where she will unwind by participating in her favorite sport, sailing.Liberal MP John Nunziata, another Rat Packer, says he will spend most of the summer working in his Toronto constituency, but hopes to get out to Vancouver for a few days to visit Expo.Conservative MP Don Blenkarn, the independent-minded Tory who chairs the maverick Commons finance committee, also plans to visit Expo.Otherwise, he’ll catch up on constituency work and take some weekends off.Blenkarn says he doesn’t mind working during the summer.He says it feels like a vacation because “you only work for 40 hours a week or so.” World faces nuclear terrorism, says study WASHINGTON (AP) — The world faces a growing risk that terrorists will arm themselves with nuclear devices or take over and threaten to sabotage atomic reactors, said an international study released today.“The probability of nuclear terrorism is increasing,” said the report by the International Task Force on the Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism.“Terrorists could go nuclear in a variety of ways,” said the panel, which was headed by retired U.S.navy rear-admiral Thomas Davies and Bernard O’Keefe, chairmen of EGG Inc., and included former CIA director Stansfield Turner.The most serious threat is the possible theft of a nuclear weapon, which might be detonated “with the most catastrophic consequences” in a densely populated area, the report said.The next most risky prospect, it said, was the “theft of nuclear materials and their use or threatened use in a crude, homemade bomb.” POSE DANGER Terrorists could also pose a danger through the “sabotage or threatened sabotage of a reactor, fuel facility or fuel shipment,” it said.To discourage such terrorism, the report suggested: — Equipping nuclear weapons with devices that would prevent detonation by terrorists.— Installing electronic devices in weapons and fuel containers to track them if stolen.— Providing civilian nuclear reactors, including those at universities, with the same security protection as government facilities.— Assuring that truck bombs couldn't enter nuclear power plants.— Designing reactors to use low-grade nuclear fuel rather than highly enriched fuel that can also be used in weapons.— Intensifying efforts by intelligence services to detect and prevent nuclear terrorism, with increased co-operation between the agencies of the United States and Soviet Union.The task force studied the issue for a year and issued a 30-page report, summarizing findings that were to be published later in two volumes.The effort was launched by the Nuclear Control Institute in cooperation with the Institute for Studies in International Terrorism of the State University of New York and was supported in part by the Carnegie Corp.of New York and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.Olson deal faces more challenges OTTAWA (CP) — Parents of the children murdered by Clifford Olson are trying to second guess a British Columbia decision to pay him $100,000 to lead RCM P to the 11 bodies in the summer of 1981, the Supreme Court of Canada was told Monday.John T.Steeves, lawyer for Robert Shantz, who was Olson’s lawyer, justified the decision to set up a 1981 trust fund for Joan Olson, the killer’s wife, as having been made to get a mass murderer behind bars and to recover the bodies.Steeves said an object of the agreement with Olson had been to bring solace to the parents by finding the bodies of the children and imprisoning Olson, who is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder.He was opposing a motion by the parents for leave to appeal a B.C.Court of Appeal ruling that they have no claim on the money paid to Olson.Steeves said the parents were making an attempt to second-guess an executive decision by the B.C.attorney-general in 1981.RESERVES DECISION Three Supreme Court justices reserved decision on the motion.A ruling is expected later this summer.Thomas G.Heintzman, lawyer for the parents, said the case raises a fundamental issue of the relationship between law and morality.Although the $100,000 was supposed to go to Joan Olson, a good deal of it had gone to Olson himself as a result of a secret agreement the RCMP didn’t know about when the deal was negotiated, Heintzman said.He said $10,000 had been used to pay Shantz’s legal bill; $8,000 had been paid to Ken Hale, Olson’s father-in-law, for a debt owed by Olson; $3,000 had been paid to Olson’s brother-in-law for a debt; $2,000 had been paid to E.J.McNe-ney, a lawyer who set up the trust fund.—____ttgl record Gaorgs MacLaren, Publisher .569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor.569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager.569-9525 Mark Gulllatta, Press Superintendent.569-9931 Richard Laasard, Production Manager.569-9931 Debra Waite, Superintendent.Composing Room.569-4656 CIRCULATION DEPT.— 569-9528 Subscription* by Carrier: 1 year: $83.20 weekly: $1.60 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origin to recognize the essential part that French-speaking culture plays in the growth of Canada.Speaking on a tour of cities in the Abitibi-Temiscamingue region, Mulroney stressed the importance of French and the spirit of the settlers who had the courage to establish their culture in the remote areas of Quebec and other parts of Canada.Kidney patients on vacation HALIFAX (CP) — A bit of summer freedom has been bought for 17 kidney-dialysis patients at the Victoria General Hospital.For the first time in the history of the hospital, its kidney dialysis program has established a summer facility on Prince Edward Island for vacationing patients.N.B.MDs won’t support Ontario FREDERICTON (CP) — The New Brunswick Medical Society has recommended its members not honor the Canadian Medical Association’s request that Ontario patients be forced to pay cash for out-of-province health care.The recommendation was made in response to the medical association’s request that doctors across Canada show support for their striking Ontario colleagues by refusing to accept Ontario Health Insurance Plan cards as payment when treating Ontario residents.Ex-cop threatened Mulroney?OTTAWA (CP) — A former U.S.police officer is in custody in Montreal after being charged with threatening to kill the prime minister, an RCMP spokesman said Tuesday.Lester Plumer, 39, was arrested Friday evening as he attempted to cross the border at Blackpool, Que., Cpl.Pierre Belanger said.Give employees another hearing OTTAWA (CP) — The Public Service Staff Relations Board has been ordered to give two high-ranking federal employees, both fired for “giving the appearance” of being in conflict of interest, another hearing.With two other federal employees, Jack G.Threader and John Hugh Spinks formed a company called Mystl Management Inc.In accordance with public service conflict-of-interest guidelines, they sent memos to their superiors disclosing formation of the company, their involvement, and a company resolution that no business would be done directly with the federal government.Atomic Energy finds 25 pellets PORT HOPE, Ont.(CP) — The Atomic Energy Control Board will investigate the theft of an undetermined number of radioactive uranium pellets from a strike-bound Westinghouse Canada Inc.plant.About 25 of the pellets were found Saturday morning after an intensive search of a street in the north end of Port Hope.The first pellet was discovered by an 11-year-old boy who told his father that other kids on the street were playing with them.Striking doctors to decide TORONTO (CP) — After two weeks on strike, Ontario doctors are assessing battle plans and a peace offering from the provincial government.The Ontario Medical Association’s governing council meets today to decide whether to ask its 17,000 members to carry on, scale down or escalate the strike.Many of them began the strike June 12 to protest legislation barring doctors from charging above medicare rates.The bill became law last Friday.Groundhogs gassed for Anne TORONTO (CP) — An undetermined number of groundhogs were gassed to death to provide sure footing for Princess Anne’s appearance Monday in a grassy field in Canada’s self-proclaimed Royal City.A crowd of about 1,000 people watched Anne dedicate a $2.5-million equine research station in Guelph on the third day of her Ontario tour.Last week, in the field near the University of Guelph’s veterinary college, small cylinders of poison gas were rolled into groundhog holes and dirt was smoothed over the entrances.The result was a field fit for a princess, smooth and level, with nary a hole to snag the heel of a wayward dress shoe.Sunoco influenced gas prices TORONTO (CP) — Sunoco Inc.has been convicted of attempting to influence a dealer to increase gasoline prices at the pump.District court Judge Patricia German ruled Sunoco violated a section of the Combines Investigation Act when it wouldn’t allow a gas station to lower its prices to compete with a station across the street.Beef up terrorism protection KITCHENER, Ont.(CP) — Canada may not have a serious problem with “home-grown” terrorism, but it must continue to beef up its protec-tion from international attacks, says the commander of Britain’s New Scotland Yard.“Terrorism is a worldwide problem these days,” Sir Kenneth Newman told the 35th annual convention of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police on Tuesday.“Every country is at risk from international terrorism.” Union members disciplined?FORT MCMURRAY, Alta.(CP) — Disciplinary action will be taken against union members who may have attacked buses carrying nonunion workers to the Suncqr Inc.oil-sands plant in Fort McMurray, company spokesman Ryan Moore said Tuesday.RCMP said between 20 and 25 unidentified people threw rocks at the buses Monday as they headed to pick up non-union workers.One bus window was smashed, but no one was injured.Roller-coaster dislodged EDMONTON (CP) — The train involved in a fatal roller-coaster accident at West Edmonton Mali’s Fantasyland was removed from the indoor amusement park Tuesday.Construction work crews pulled the four-car train from the third and final loop of the $6-million Mindbender ride.Gainers gains support EDMONTON (CP) — A coalition representing thousands of Alberta union members and other activists filed court documents Monday claiming injunctions against striking workers at Gainers Inc.are unconstitutional.The action includes 19 affidavits signed by church committees, women's groups, labor unions and farmers, said Dave Werlin, president of the 100,000-member Alberta Federation of Labor._________ Fox leg to stand on its own?VANCOUVER (CP) — An Expo official and architects are considering the proprietry of using one of Terry Fox’s artificial legs as part of the huge sculptured Highway 86 at the fair.Expo creative director Ron Woodall has been pondering it ever since an Ontario prosthesis engineer gave him one of the artifical legs used by Fox during his run to raise money for cancer research.Keep video cameras out VANCOUVER (CP) — Privacy is “the grease that keeps democracy working,” so there must be strict controls over police use of video equipment to conduct secret surveillance, the B.C.Civil Liberties Association told a public hearing Tuesday.__________ Arms talk progress needed GENEVA (Reuter) — Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev will take part in a second U.S.-Soviet summit only if substantial progress is made in nuclear arms talks, the Soviet deputy foreign •minister said Tuesday._____ Peru must prevent excesses LIMA (Reuter) — Peruvian President Alan Garcia said government forces may have executed up to 40 imprisoned leftist rebels who had surrendered during prison riots last week.He said he has ordered the arrest of paramilitary republican guards believed responsible for the action.In a speech broadcast on national television Tuesday, Garcia backed the military action to put down riots at three Lima prisons but said his government had to prevent excesses.Chernobyl sheep banned LONDON (AP) — The British government ordered a three-week ban on the movement and slaughter of sheep in parts of Scotland on Tuesday because of radioactive fallout from the Soviet Chernobyl nuclear accident nearly two ^months ago._____ New marrow helped patient PARIS (AP) — American researchers reported Tuesday that an AIDS patient was back at work, apparently healthy, after treatment including a bone marrow graft and the transfusion of immunity cells from his healthy twin.Dr.Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., reported the case, but pointed out that two other AIDS patients who underwent the same treatment with identical twins did not respond.The report was one of several delivered to the second international AIDS congress on progress in treatment of the fatal disease called acquired immune deficiency syndrome.Weather Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU Partial clearing, sunny this afternoon with occasional 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Ik SO.HOWS THE REVOLUTION GOING?THE WHAT9 1 The Townships The RECORD—Wednesday, June 25.1986—3.: the* #¦___g«i uecura Storm hits airport: Hangar destroyed, planes and buildings damaged By Charles Bury WESTBURY — The Sherbrooke airport was the main target Tuesday as the second heavy windstorm within a week knocked down a hangar, damaged several private planes, and gave Jacques Leblanc the fright of his life.Elsewhere, damage was widespread but slight as the wind hit hard in Compton, North Hatley, Sherbrooke, Disraeli and Tingwick.It was 4:04 in the afternoon when winds gusted to 50 knots (about 100 kilometres) per hour for a period of six minutes, as recorded on the anemometer above the airport’s Flight Service Station.Transport Canada flight service specialist Gaétan Lavallée, alone on duty in the tower, was an eyewitness to what happened.“It got very dark, the wind came up, and suddenly the hangar went.At first it came apart piece by piece, then suddenly it was gone.” “The hangar moved once, twice, then up and over.It happened all at once,” Lavallée added.“One second there was a hangar there, the next there was only the little aircraft that had been inside, standing there by itself.Then it started to roll away and take off on its own.” Checking his weather recorder, Lavallée said only one big gust of wind went above the 20-39 knot average for the afternoon.“It went up to 50 knots, or about 100 kilometres an hour, he said.“The storm came from the southwest to the northeast, travelling at about 25 miles (40 km) an hour." Lavallée, back at Sherbrooke airport after a three-year stint “up north," said the 100-km-hr gust was “the worst we’ve seen here.” “It was quite an experience,” he said.“I was afraid.” I Heave Ho! A group of volunteers helped Jacques Leblanc (extreme left) remove part of of a flying roof \ from his airport maintenance hangar after Tuesday's storm.V “Everything happened like slow motion in a movie.” Another witness to the disappearing-hangar act was Rita Dion, who with her husband operates the airport’s food-and-drink concession.“I had seen the storm coming," she said later.“At the airport, we learn to recognize these things.I was going to go home, but when I saw the storm I decided to stay until it passed.” “I was standing here by the window,” Dion said.“Jacques (Leblanc, owner of Leblanc Aviatech) was pumping gas.It started to get wet, then everything got fuzzy like in a snowstorm.” “Then I saw the hangar start to move and Poof, there went the hangar.“It went up in the air, flew over and broke the roof of the next one.” “The little plane came out, flew by itself and crashed where the tractor is (about 75 feet from where the hangar was).” “I was so afraid especially for Jacques Leblanc,” Dion recalled.“I was with Charlie Bergeron, the flight instructor.We knew he was over there.We called over to Jacques; the line was busy.Charlie went over.” “I called Hydro and the police.” The airport terminal building was undamaged.“We’re OK,” Dion said.“We’re made of concrete.” Jacques Leblanc’s maintenance hangar, like most of the municipal airport’s structures, is made of lesser materials like sheet metal and softwood lumber.A piece of the roof of the hangar which was demolished flew’ about 75 feet through the air, pierced the wall of Leblanc’s building and ended up reaching about 25 feet inside.“It just nicked my hip,” he said later.“I was pretty lucky.” “I was outside when the wind came up and it started to rain hard,” he said.“I went into the office.” Looking out his office window, Leblanc saw the wind take the roof off the other hangar; then the whole thing went.”1 went back into the maintenance section, trying to get away from the flying debris," he said.“Then about 20 feet of the roof of the other hangar came right in through the wall." “It just nicked my hip." By about 8 p.m.Leblanc, and Aviatech vice-president Kevin Lessard, aided by a group of customers, aircraft owners and friends, had made temporary repairs to his building, which houses repair and inspection facilities and offices for his fuel franchise."For me it’s just a set-back.If we can get our Hydro back, airport activities should be back to normal by tomorrow (this) morning.” “I’d appreciate it if you mentioned all the help we got," he said.“It was quite something the way people just began appearing and pitched in.” Aside trom the hangar that was destroyed, three others were damaged by the wind.One ultra-light’ plane was demolished and ,, four aircraft were damaged, indu- ‘ ding the one which tookoff by itself and crashed into Leblanc’s buil- .ding His car parked outside was \ damaged as well.Several planes were torn from their moorings.“The wind even , ripped some tiedowns out of the ground," Leblanc said.“They’re , sunk in concrete! 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