The record, 14 juillet 1986, lundi 14 juillet 1986

Monday Births, deaths .7 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Farm, Business .5 Living .6 Sports .11-12 Townships.3 Truth must be a precious commodity, the way people use it so sparingly.“Okay, here’s my final offer, Eighteen hours a day and one day off a year.” PHI NDtRSTORM DARLENE SUNNYSIDE ElEMI Nl *RY SCHOOL Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Monday, July 14, 1986 40 cents Nationalist Hurtig sparks trade debate among Liberals By Paul Woods CALGARY (CP) — Liberals from Western Canada and the North have voted to oppose Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s freer-trade initiative following an emotional appeal from nationalist Mel Hurtig.Unlike most other issues discussed during a three-day policy conference that ended Sunday, the freer-trade debate produced a wide range of opinions, and even featured a clash between two Liberal senators.Canada’s social programs such as medicare would inevitably be dismantled under a freer-trade agreement, Hurtig argued.While the Mulroney government would not be “stupid enough” to put social programs on the negotiating table, the taxes that support the programs would have to be lowered to allow Canada to compete evenly with the United States, the Edmonton publisher told 200 delegates who gave him a standing ovation.Hurtig described a conversation he had with an employee of a bone- marrow treatment centre in California.Clinic staff regularly see parents and children crying because they can’t afford the expensive treatments, he said.IGNITES DEBATE The impassioned speech ignited the liveliest debate of the conference.which until then had been characterized by support for traditional Liberal policies and regular rounds of back patting and Tory bashing.As delegates were debating a final proposition opposing Mulro- ney’s freer-trade approach and calling for strengthened multilateral trade.Senator George Van Roggen of Vancouver complained that only one side of the issue had been presented.Hurtig's speech was “‘an emotio nal appeal to your baser instincts .(by) one man who is very much in the minority,” Van Roggen ar gued "I don’t think it’s our job to be a wrecking crew and try to run it off the rails.” Senator Hazen Argue of Regina disagreed.“We have so much to lose, and we re going to gain, if anything, so very little," he said about Mulro-ney’s initiative.“On balance, we re going to lose and lose greatly.” The 200 party members from the four western provinces, the Yukon and Northwest Territories, largely supported policies proposed at a kickoff speech Friday night by Liberal Leader John Turner.The propositions adopted are not binding on the party but are likely to be discussed at the Liberals’ national convention in November.That’s old-fashioned SWORD I’LRRV HI.MON 0^0- s§.- ilitll sisisi 4PP ’‘ssutiai |pii .¦*.?#$!*> * : ilfilf ¦ i -:.*• ' There’s nothing like old-fashioned enthusiasm on the old-fashioned For an old-fashioned report on the Sher-Lenn all star squad’s exciting faces of old-fashioned kids playing old-fashioned little league baseball.3-2 win over Sher-M ont, turn to old-fashioned page 12.Paraplegic pilot rests after bucking storms TORONTO (CP) — Carl Hiebert was snoozing instead of cruising Sunday.The paraplegic pilot rested after an 11-hour flight Saturday in his ultralight plane from Ottawa to But-tonville Airport, just north of Toronto, the latest stop on his trip across Canada for the Canadian Paraplegic Association.The day was one of the toughest for Hiebert, who hopes to raise $1 million for spinal cord research on the 8,000 kilometre journey that is expected to take two months.Crawling from the open cockpit into his aluminum wheelchair, Hiebert, 38, of Kitchener, Ont., announced he was “ready for about 48 hours sleep.” After taking off early Saturday, Hiebert encountered rain and winds and was forced to fly at low altitude to see where he was going.At one point, the rain forced him to land the float-equipped plane, called Gift of Wings, on a lake about halfway through the trip.RISKS FROM RAIN Hiebert, who was paralysed five years ago in a hand-gliding accident, said the flight from Ottawa had been “touch and go all the way.” However, showing no hesitation about continuing, he said: “It’s a treat every time 1 take off.I look down and my wheelchair is still on the ground.” Association spokesman Lise Desrochers said several thousand dollars has been raised so far.Explorer views lost Titanic first hand WOODS HOLE, Mass.(AP) — The leader of an expedition to the sunken wreck of the luxury ocean liner Titanic, rode a midget submarine to a depth of nearly four kilometres Sunday to see the ship’s hull first-hand.Robert Ballard, leader of the U.S.Navy-financed exploration and of the expedition that located the ship last year, and two crew members made a six-hour dive in the submarine Alvin in preparation for an 11-day examination of the ship, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said."He described seeing a huge black wall with his own eyes,” said Woods Hole spokesman Shelley Lauzon.The Titanic struck an iceberg April 14,1912, four days after leaving England for New York.It sank with 1,513 people, but 704 people, mostly women and children, escaped in lifeboats.Fifty-six scientists and sailors on the Atlantis II arrived at the target area, 450 nautical miles southeast of Newfoundland, late Saturday.Ballard began the 214-hour dive to a depth of almost 4,000 metres Suhday morning, Lauzon said While riding the Alvin, Ballard anchored three sonar reflectors around the Titanic to aid navigation to and around the wreck Meets PM Thatcher firm on sanctions By Linda Drouin MIRABEL, Que.(CP) — British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stood firm Sunday in her opposition to economic sanctions against South Africa despite a plea from Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that the Commonwealth is committed to act against the country's apartheid regime.After a 90-minute meeting between the two leaders at an airport hotel north of Montreal, Mulroney told a news conference Canada stands by the Nassau accord hammered out by Common wealth leaders last October and is ready to impose tougher sanctions on South Africa.“Canada will follow through,” Mulroney said.“We won’t hesitate to act on our own initiative.“What we are dealing with here is fundamentally an evil regime.” He did not say what action Canada would be prepared to take against South Africa.Sanctions by Ottawa so far have been considered largely symbolic.The Eminent Persons Group, set up under the Nassau accord to urge South Africa into discussions with black opposition groups, concluded that tough economic measures against Pretoria may be the only way to avert a bloodbath in the country.OPENLY DISAGREED Mulroney openly disagreed with Thatcher’s earlier statement to reporters that the group had not recommended economic sanctions.“If you read carefully, the report is clearly supportive of action by the Commonwealth in the absence of movement by South Africa, whether or not the word ‘sanction’ is used,” he said.Thatcher, who argues sanctions have never been effective and will only lead to starvation and poverty among South Africa’s blacks, appeared unmoved.“I have not made any changes in my own position on South Africa,” she told reporters.A mini-summit of seven Commonwealth leaders, scheduled for Aug.3-5 in London, is to discuss what further action should be taken given South Africa’s refusal to start dismantling the apartheid system, under which five million whites rule 24 million voteless blacks.Mulroney warned that if Thatcher cannot be swayed before the meeting, “the absence of unanimity will be a bonanza for South Africa.” Britain is the largest foreign investor in South Africa Thatcher met reporters briefly before boarding her plane for a flight back to London after a three-day visit to Canada, but refused to comment on her disagreement with Mulroney.“It was an excellent preliminary discussion and we will keep in touch,” she said.WANTS NEGOTIATIONS “The problem is how best to get rid of apartheid in South Africa.I wish to do it by negotiation.That’s what I’m doing and that’s what Mr.Howe is doing.” She was referring to British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe, who returned to Britain Saturday from a mission to Africa that was described by Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe as “futile” and “an idea to divert us from a program of sanctions.” Mugabe said he rejects Britain's argument that economic sanctions would hurt blacks in South Africa and neighboring countries.Black tension grows.Day of Action called JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s 7,()