The record, 10 septembre 1986, mercredi 10 septembre 1986

Wednesday Births, deaths .8 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Education .5 Farm & Business .7 Living .6 Sports .13 Townships.3 TIM MATHESON, ACE 10 BURY PRIMARY Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Wednesday, September 10, 1986 40 cents Committee work may be salvaged in new parliamentary session “Before we try a transplant we’d better decide.Are we looking for a size 8 or size 13?” By Gord McIntosh OTTAW A (CP ) — There is a good chance all committees left in limbo when the Mulroney government ended the last session of Parliament can be resurrected, an aide to Deputy Prime Minister Don Ma-zankowski said Tuesday.But a final decision on the committees’ fate must wait until Mazankowski can meet the House leaders of the two opposition parties, said Tom Van Dusen, the minister’s press secretary.When the Conservatives announced Aug.28 that Parliament would be prorogued, all special committees and sub-committees were automatically disbanded unless the government agrees to a remedial order to allow them to resume in the new session beginning Oct.1.Parliament's 29 standing committees have the legal right to decide on their own to resume in the new session.But standing committees directed by the Commons to investigate a specific topic are disbanded along with the special committees and subcommittees.Last week.Liberal House Leader Herb Gray complained that millions of dollars of work already done stands to be wasted if the special committees are allowed to die.He pledged his party’s support for an order bringing them back to life.CHILD CARE CONCERN Particular concern has been voiced a bout t he specia 1 com mittee on child care.It had heard submissions across the country on the issue of daycare and had begun drafting a report when Parliament was prorogued.Margaret Mitchell, the Vancouver MP who represented the NDP on the child care committee, has said in a telegram to Mazankowski that any postponement of the committee’s work would be disastrous.Van Dusen said there aleady had been extensive discussions about the child care committee before Parliament was prorogued, and all sides were in agreement that its work should continue.As for the others, their fate will have to await the meeting of the three House leaders, he said.“There is a good chance all of those will be brought back intact.” Nelson Riis, the NDP’s newly-appointed House leader, said lie has yet to hear from Mazankowski.He said he wants to hear what the government has in mind for the committees before committing himself on the committees that should survive.LOBBYISTS STUDIED Other key committee work left in limbo includes some by the standing committee on elections, privileges and procedures, which had been specifically charged by the House to investgate a possible code of conduct for lobbyists.It was also was about to draft a report after hearing a long line of witnesses.‘Free and secret ballot’ to determine Bosley replacement By Robert Fife OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney could risk a caucus revolt if he tries to pressure Conservative MPs into voting for his choice as speaker of the House of Commons, says a veteran Tory MP.The 10 regional Tory caucus chairmen met Monday evening and agreed they would not stand for political interference in the election of a new speaker to replace John Bosley, B.C.caucus, said on Tuesday.There has been speculation Quebec MP Marcel Danis is Mulro-ney’s preferred choice as speaker, although the prime minister has not publicly said whom he wants to take over the $110,000-a-year job which Bosley resigned last week.S.African offices closed by Nov.1 OTTAWA (CP) — South Africa’s tourism and airline offices in Canada should be closed by Nov.1, External Affairs Minister Joe Clark says.Clark announced last week he would seek the closure “as soon as possible” of the Toronto offices of the South Africa Tourism Board because of an advertisement in The Globe and Mail promoting a package trip to the race-torn country.In a release Tuesday, he said the government has ordered the closure not only of those offices, but also of South African Airways’ operations in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.The closures will eliminate 14 jobs for Canadians.Clark said he regretted having to order the action, but had no choice because South Africa “chose to challenge” Canada’s policy of trying to curtail tourism to the country, in keeping with Commonwealth measures against apartheid.Clark said the advertisement was a clear attempt “to defy Canadian policy.” The advertisement touted a two-week tour to “see the real South Africa” with an opportunity to ‘‘freely converse with all racial groups” and “ask tough questions of anyone.” Lome Greenaway, chairman of the “All I can guarantee you is that it is going to be a free and secret ballot.It’s as simple as that,” Greenaway said.“There won’t be any political interference.I think that would probably be putting the hex on whomever (Mulroney) suggested.” The prime minister has traditionally appointed the speaker after consulting the two opposition leaders in the Commons, but new House rules now guarantee a secret ballot to elect a speaker.However, a government insider has said the government will privately make it known to the Conservative caucus that they should vote for Danis, who is the deputy Speaker.He was first elected to the Commons in 1984.Meanwhile, Bosley has been approached by some MPs who want him to reconsider his decision.But his press secretary, Jim Watson, said in an interview that Bosley, who was in his Toronto riding and could not be reached for comment, has no intention of allowing his name to stand for re-election as speaker when Parliament resumes Oct.1.At least five Conservative MPs, including Danis, and two opposition MPs are considering running for speaker.Three of the Conservatives — Doug Lewis (Simcoe North), Steve Paproski (Edmonton North) and Blaine Thacker (Lethbridge-Foothills) — are not bilingual.The other Tory MP interested in the job is Leo Duguay, a freshman MP from Manitoba who is the provincial caucus chairman and deputy whip.Montreal Liberal MP Marcel Prud’homme, a 23 year veteran of the Commons, also said he is willing to let his name stand for the job.And NDP House Leader Nelson Riis said his party is also considering putting forward a candidate.The most likely candidate would be Saskatchewan MP Lome Nystrom because he is bilingual and an 18 year veteran of the House, Riis said.Accident victim injected with unprescribed drugs TORONTO (CP) — Police are investigating an incident in which a Toronto hospital patient was injected with unprescribed drugs, but decided Tuesday not to re-open a probe into a similar case.Police began to investigate the attempted murder of Gerald Bas-nicki, 31, last June after he was injected with insulin and digoxin, a potent heart drug, at Toronto Western Hospital, where he was taken following an automobile accident.Some nurses on Basnicki’s ward have voluntarily submitted to lie detector tests, which police Supt.Charles Maywood called “strictly an investigative technique.” Maywood said Tuesday police decided after reviewing the file not to re-open the case of another man who died at the same hospital in August 1985.Pasquale Spiniello, 21, of nearby Mississauga died of head injuries but had been improperly injected with digoxin.An inquest last January concluded the injection was a medication error.Basnirki was injected with digoxin and insulin a drug prescribed only for diabetics, during the week of June 23.He is in hospital for treatment of injuries suffered in an accident which killed two children last March 23.Toronto Western officials asked police to investigate after a doctor noticed the patient exhibiting unusual symptoms, a hospital spokesman said.“He did have an adverse reaction but he has recovered completely from the drugs,” hospital spokesman Lucie Baistrocchi said The man’s father, John Bas-nicki, confirmed his son was the victim of the drug injections, although police and hospital officials have refused to reveal the patient's name.Basnicki said Tuesday police informed him of the suspected attempt on his son’s life shortly after it happened.He said the “game plan” was to keep quiet about the incident until police caught the person responsible.;¦ i -«h***» Æ RECORD PERRY BEATON Moonlight magic A break in the clouds T uesday night provided just the right conditions to show this sculpture in a Cowansville park at its best.________________ Chileans killed in apparent revenge SANTIAGO (AP) — Three men linked to the Marxist left were abducted and killed in what a civil rights activist called apparent death squad vengeance for an assassination attempt against Chile’s President Augusto Pinochet.The fatal shootings of a well-known journalist, a schoolteacher and a machinist were reported Tuesday as tens of thousands of marchers roared their approval for the 70-year-old Gen.Pinochet and for his vow of tougher laws against terrorism.Relatives said gunmen dragged all three victims from their homes within hours of the Sunday evening grenade and rocket ambush that killed five bodyguards in Pinochet’s motorcade.None was considered a suspect in the attack.“These seem to be revenge killings, except there is no apparent logic in the selection of the targets,” said Luis Hermosillo, a lawyer for the Roman Catholic rights agency Solidarity.“They are leftists who seem to have been chosen indiscriminately.“What is frightening is that we have not seen this kind of random death squad violence since the first few years after the coup.” Pinochet seized power from elected President Salvador Allende, who was a Marxist, in a coup 13 years ago Thursday.Allende died in the revolt.SHOT 13 TIMES Hermosillo spoke in an interview during a wake for Jose Carrasco, the foreign news editor of Analisis magazine, who was dragged from his home and shot 13 times in the back of the head.The other victims were identified as Gaston Vidarrauguzaga, a schoolteacher who was shot 16 times, and Felipe Segundo Rivera, a government-employed machinist shot eight times.Mulroney’s office satisfied with hospitality bills By Robert Fife OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s office is fully satisfied with the hospitality expense claims by one of his closest aides which were brought into question last week, Mulroney’s press chief says.But Michel Gratton — furious with The Canadian Press reporters who disclosed discrepancies in expense claims from Mulroney’s communications director, Bill Fox — refused to comment to the news agency about the affair.Gratton, who replaced Fox as Mulroney’s press secretary last year, told the Toronto Staron Tues- day that Mulroney’s office is satisfied with the claims and will not investigate them further.Asked by one of the CP reporters who wrote the original story for comment after his statement to The Star, G.atton brusquely replied.“I don’t want to talk to you.” and walked away.CP reported last week that Fox billed taxpayers for almost $600 for drinks he said he bought reporters covering Mulroney’s to the Commonwealth conference in the Bahamas last October.But at least seven of the 17 reporters cited in Fox’s expense claims — totalling $569.20 for six-day pe- riod — said they rarely saw Fox at the conference and could not remember him buying their drinks.When asked last week about his claims, Fox acknowledged his expense accounts may not be as exact as possible because he prepares them from memory after the fact.“If there is any question about anything, I will repay the money,” he said.Fox says he could have made at least one mistake, when trying to remember who was present when he was entertaining, while preparing his claims.A spokesman for Auditor General Kenneth Dye —the taxpayers’ independent watchdog over government spending — said Tuesday his office will not investigate Fox’s expense claims.‘‘We just haven’t got the resources to get down to that kind of detail,” said Morris Cutler, head of Dye’s public affairs office.Cutler says the agency directly involved, in this case the Privy Council Office, also has responsibility for ensuring that kind of spending is accounted for.As well, Dye’s office in some cases does not direct its resources to an issue already being studied by the media and the Commons opposition, Cutler says.Reporter fears case may hurt U.S.-Soviet relations MOSCOW ( AP) — Nicholas Dani-loff, theU.S.reporter charged with spying in the Soviet Union, fears his case is getting out of hand and that Soviet friends will be coerced into testifying against him, his wife says.“He thinks his case is escalating rather dangerously,” Ruth Dani-loff said Tuesday after visiting her husband for the third time at Moscow's Lefortovo Prison.Mrs.Daniloff said her husband would not like to see the case “torpedo the summit or torpedo U.S.-Soviet relations.” Daniloff.Moscow correspondent for U.S.News and World Report, was arrested Aug.30 by Soviet secret police agents after a Soviet acquaintance handed him a package that contained military photographs and maps marked secret.He was formally charged Sunday with espionage, which can carry a prison term of up to 15 years or the death penalty.Daniloff has denied the charge.Mrs.Daniloff has accused the Soviet government of framing the 51-year-old journalist and holding him hostage so an exchange can be arranged for Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet UN employee arrested Aug.23 in New York and indicted Tuesday on spy charges.After seeing her husband for an hour and 20 minutes, she told reporters he looked drawn.But she said he was composed and gave her a description of the 28 hours of interrogation by the KGB secret police.“He said this is getting out of hand,” she said, apparently referring to Soviet and U.S.moves to arrange a summit.“We have to resolve it fairly soon or it will jeopardize some important meetings.” Mrs.Daniloff said her husband feels isolated and finds it frightening “when you are alone in your cell and people are talking about death sentences.” She said Daniloff fears false evidence is being prepared against him and he is worried his Soviet friends arc being coerced into testifying against him.But Daniloff also said he believes the investigation is a formality, his wife said.“He said it clearly re- lates to the Zakharov case.” The U.S.administration says it is prepared to take steps if Daniloff is not released soon, but will not say what the steps might be.Gennady Gerasimov, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, told reporters Tuesday a solution to the Daniloff case could be found, but he declined to be specific.There has been no indication when Daniloff might be brought to trial.The government newspaper Iz-vestia accused Daniloff on Monday of trying to gather intelligence on Soviet forces in Afghanistan, where western officials say more than 115,000 Soviet troops have been deployed since the Soviet Union's intervention in 1979.I 2—The RECORD—Wednesday, September 10.1986 Doctor’s trial for abortion may force government to take stand MONTREAL (CP) — A Montreal doctor has become the first physi-• cian in Quebec to be committed to trial on abortion charges in more than a decade, a move that may force the provincial government to take a stand on the abortion issue.Dr.Yvan Machabee, charged with performing an illegal abortion, was committed to trial after a brief preliminary hearing on Tuesday.The charge was laid earlier this summer after anti-abortion crusader Reggie Chartrand convinced a judge at a pre-trial hearing that there was enough evidence to warrant a charge.However, a private lawyer — Gratien Duchesne — rather than a Crown counsel represented the prosecution at the preliminary hearing.Judge Roger Savard, who imposed a publication ban on evidence at the sessions court hearing Tuesday, said a trial will be held early in November.Previously, Justice Minister Herbert Marx had said he could not comment on the case while the preliminary hearing was pending.Now that a trial has been ordered, the onus is on Marx to decide whether to assign a Crown prosecutor to the case, withdraw or stay the prosecution, or allow the case to proceed without a Crown lawyer prosecuting.Defence lawyer Jean-Claude Hebert wrote to Marx two weeks ago asking him to drop the case because the issue now is before the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada in other cases.WANTS ANSWER “The minister said he couldn’t intervene while there was a preliminary hearing pending,” said Hebert.“Now the preliminary hearing is over, we're going to trial and 1 invite the minister to give me a response." Marx could not be reached for comment and his press secretary declined to say what position the government will take.Hebert said if Marx does not stay the prosecution or assign a Crown counsel to the case, Duchesne will not be able to proceed without written authorization from a Quebec Superior Court judge.“In the 15 years I have been practising law, I have never seen a case before judge and jury that has been pleaded by a private lawyer,” said Hebert.The Liberal government of Premier Robert Bourassa, elected last December, has continued the policy of the previous Parti Québécois government of not prosecuting doctors who perform abortions outside accredited hospitals.But a source close to the justice ministry who requested anonymity said last month that the government would not prosecute abor- tionists for fear of the political fallout that might occur with the reopening of an emotional debate over abortion.Dr.Henry Morgentaler, who was tried and acquitted three times during the 1970s, was the last doctor to be prosecuted in Quebec.Duchesne, who is not charging legal fees for pleading the case for Chartrand, is also representing another anti-abortion activist in Chicoutimi, Que., who has succeeded in laying a similar charge against Dr.Jean-Denis Berubé and a community health clinic.Waste sites may go 'News-in-brief ahead despite cracks WINNIPEG (CP) — Rock samples taken from the Canadian Shield indicate some forms of granite will crack due to heat and excavation, but scientists said Tuesday that doesn’t rule out the area as a nuclear waste disposal site.The results of a study into the strength of the rocks found near Lac du Bonnet, Man., where Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.has a nuclear waste research facility, were made public at an international conference on nuclear waste management.Researcher Alfred Annor said significant breaks in the rock occur when the granite is heated above 100 degrees Celsius.As well, a form of granite found at a depth of several hundred metres is prone to weakening if disturbed by excavation.AECL spokesman Robert Dixon said the findings by the Ottawa-based Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology are not significant.“Really, we’re not getting too many major surprises,” Dixon said.“This report is just another ‘little piece of information in our (overall research.” ; Tests are being conducted in the Lac du Bonnet and Pinawa areas of Manitoba to see if parts of the Canadian Shield are suited for longterm disposal of nuclear waste.AECL is researching ways to reduce the number of cracks which would occur during construction of a disposal vault.Annor’s findings suggest some way of excavating the repository bunker to minimize the effect of boring and blasting needs to be perfected before a vault can be built, Dixon said.WILL LEACH Preliminary research indicates a one-kilometre square bunker could be built one kilometre below ground where containers of spent nuclear fuel would occupy an area the size of an Olympic-size swimming pool.Containers holding the radioactive fuel would be spaced metres apart inside the vault so as not to generate excessive heat, Dixon said.Some areas of the vault near the waste containers could reach temperatures of 150 degrees but the overall temperature of the vault would be below that, he said.The vault would be backfilled with crushed grainite, bentonite and sand to eliminate the possibility of an underground collapse.However, some leaching of the radioactive waste would occur over a period of hundreds of years, Dixon said.Eventually, the containers will fail and radioactive isotopes will leach through the sand-filled vault into the natural and man-made mi-co-cracks in the granite, he said.A July, 1985, report by the technical advisory committee on AECL’s nuclear fuel waste management program suggested there are problems with the present vault design.Hilton funeral draws hundreds Charest hearing set for Oct.1 Amnesty knows about 272 PQ platform has higher regard for private sector MONTREAL (CP) — Hundreds of friends and family members gathered Tuesday to pay their last respects at the funeral of 17-year-old Stewart Hilton, the youngest of Montreal’s boxing Hilton brothers.Hilton, a talented boxer who had won four professional fights and lost none at the time of his death, was killed in a firey car crash last week.His brothers Dave, Jr., Matthew, Alex and Jimmy were among the pallbearers who carried the casket into St.Luke's Anglican church in Rosemont.Board in airport deadlock MONTREAL (CP) — The Montreal Airports Advisory Board, deadlocked over whether Dor-val or Mirabel should be the city’s main airport, tossed the political football into Ottawa’s lap Tuesday, but the minister of state for transport promptly punted it right back.Andre Bissonnette, dissatisfied with the report submitted by the 14-member board which studied the question for 14 months, told the group it must meet again to seek a consensus.Driver had trouble from start MONTREAL (CP) — A Montreal transit commission bus driver had trouble “from the start” with a 19-year-old who boarded his bus one night in August, a preliminary hearing was told Tuesday.Driver Daniel Bouillon, testifying at Serge Le-moyne’s preliminary hearing on a charge of using an offensive weapon, said Lemoyne “had been drinking and had three bottles of beer on him.” He said Lemoyne boarded the bus without paying outside a subway station in northeast Montreal.Bouillon said he went to telephone police after trying in vain to get Lemoyne to leave the bus.After making the phonq call, he said, he carrie back to the bus and realized Lemoyne, who was now outside the vehicle, had a knife in his hand.MONTREAL (CP) — The Parti Québécois is rethinking its political platform as part of the long march back from electoral oblivion and one of the first notions to be dropped is the party’s traditional suspicion of the private sector.“There are a few sentences in here which may surprise some people,” PQ Leader Pierre Marc Johnson said Tuesday as he made public the first of a series of working papers by the party’s national program committee.“For example, we are no longer equating the private sector with exploitation of the people,” he said.“There was a time in the party when the notion of profit necessarily meant exploitation, but I don’t think people believe that now.” Johnson said the PQ was also breaking new ground for itself by calling for co-operation between the public and private sectors in joint efforts to further social, cultural and economic aims rather than pitting the sectors against each pther.' Because of growing government deficits, chronic unemployment, find high tax rates that can scarcely be squeezed for more revenue, he said, it’s time to rethink the interventionist and all-providing foie of government.Presence felt During the PQ’s nine years in office, a provincial government pre- ff.itecora Georg* MacLaren, Publisher.Charles Bury, Editor.Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager.Mark Gulllette, Press Superintendent.Richard Lassard, Production Manager.Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room .CIRCULATION DEPT.— S69-952S 569-9511 569-6345 569-9525 569-9931 569-9931 569-4856 Subscriptions by Carrier: 1 year: $63.20 weekly: $1.60 Subscriptions by Mall: Canada: 1 year- $60.00 6 months- $35.50 3 months- $24.50 1 month- $14.00 U.S.8i Foreign: 1 year- $120.00 6 months- $72.00 3 months- $46.00 1 month- $24.00 Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of publication: 60e per copy.Copies ordered more than a month after publication: $1.10 per copy Established February 9, 1897, Incorporating the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879).Published Monday to Friday by Townships Communications Inc./Communications des Cantons Inc.Offices and plant located at 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1.Second class registration number 1064.Color separations by Prospect Litho, Rock Forest.Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation SOREL, Que.(CP) — A preliminary hearing has been set for Oct.1 for Andre Charest, charged with first-degree murder in the death of 11-year-old Steve Mandeville two weeks ago.During a brief hearing in sessions court Tuesday, the former hockey coach stared in silence at his shoes.Charest, 39, was watched intently by the dead boy’s parents who were in the courtroom in this industrial city 60 kilometres east of Montreal.Spectators watched as Charest was hustled from the building by provincial police officers as a handful of people shouted insults at him.sence was brought into everything from small business programs to automobile insurance.But Johnson said that the neoconservative approach of the Liberal government under Premier Robert Bourassa — which is cutting government services deemed inefficient and turning some of them over to the private sector —- is not the answer.“Judging services simply by the law of the marketplace .is wrong because it does not take into account the fact that we are a small society in terms of the rest of North America, that we want to remain distinct,” he said.“If you leave a small population to the law of the marketplace in the furnishing of services, some people will be starved, in the cultural area for example.: “The role of government must be efficient and judged in terms of performance, but in Quebec there always will be an interventionist role for government for social and cultural development and the growth of the economy and em ployment.” The difference should be in the way government intervenes, he said, with the accent now on collaboration with the private sector.The PQ was drubbed in the Dec.2 election last year, winning only 23 seats in the Quebec legislature to the Liberals’ 99.La Presse writer to Paris?MONTREAL (CP) — Jacques Bouchard, editorial writer at the Montreal daily La Presse, is about to be appointed press attache for Quebec's delegation in Paris, Le Devoir reported today.Le Devoir said it has learned from unofficial sources that the Montreal journalist has been selected over several other people who were interested in the job.Jean-Louis Roy, former publisher of Le Devoir, has been delegate-general since February.Second paper prospects look good MONTREAL (CP) — Ray mond Heard, former managing editor of the defunct Montreal Star, says that prospects for a second English-language newspaper in the city are “looking pretty good.” Heard, a senior executive with Global Television in Toronto, said in an interview Tuesday that he is acting as an adviser to a group of Montreal businessmen who are discussing the project with Donald Creighton, president of Toronto Sun Publishing Corp.“The people raising money (for the new paper) are pretty heavy hitters in Montreal,” said Heard.“Raising the money is no problem, but they haven’t made a decision yet.” He declined to name the members of the group, but said it includes both francophones and anglophones.La Presse writer to Paris?MONTREAL (CP) — Jacques Bouchard, editorial writer at the Montreal daily La Presse, is about to be appointed press attache for Quebec’s delegation in Paris, Le Devoir reported today.Le Devoir said it has learned from unofficial sources that the Montreal journalist has been selected over several other people who were interested in the job.Jean-Louis Roy, former publisher of Le Devoir, has been delegate-general since February.Tamils still fear deportation TORONTO (CP) — The Tamils who entered Canada after being abandoned in lifeboats off the coast of Newfoundland a month ago are still fearful of being sent back to Sri Lanka, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday.Sri Skandarajah, a member of the Tamil Eelam Society, said the 61 Tamils in Toronto and 94 in Montreal could be deported when their application for refugee status is heard next spring.Representatives of the Tamil community addressed a meeting of the City of Toronto’s committee on race relations Tuesday evening, though the newcomers themselves didn’t attend.AIDS top 35—44 year old killer TORONTO (CP) — AIDS was the top killer of Toronto residents between the ages of 35 and 44 last year, the city’s medical officer of health said in his annual report Tuesday.It is the first year that AIDS-related deaths have been numerous enough to warrant a separate category, Dr.Sandy Macpherson said.AIDS-related illnesses overtook suicides as the number one cause of death in the age group, he said.Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is an illness that destroys the body’s immune system, leaving the victim susceptible to a host of fatal infections.The AIDS virus is transmitted through bodily fluids such as semen and blood.Mom : transfusion caused death PEMBROKE, Ont.(CP) — A day-old baby born to Jehovah’s Witness parents died from an unwanted blood transfusion, the infant’s mother testified Tuesday at the second day of a coroner's inquest.“This is the treatment (blood transfusion) that caused our baby’s death,” a distraught Linda Turnbull told a tension-filled inquest into the death of her daughter, Leah Martha.The baby was made a ward of the Ottawa-Carleton Children’s Aid Society because her parents withheld consent for a blood transfusion on religious grounds.She died Feb.8 — in spite of finally receiving a transfusion at Ottawa’s Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario — about 19 hours after being born in the family’s Comber-mere, Ont., home, just south of Barry's Bay.Law translation costs $10 million WINNIPEG (CP) — The final cost of translating Manitoba’s English-only laws into French will be about $10 million.Attorney General Roland Penner said the translation, ordered last year by the Supreme Court of Canada, is on schedule and should be mostly completed before 1990, when the court-imposed deadline expires.He said Ottawa will contribute about $2 million of the costs.The province received about $400,000 from the federal government last year.“We expect a similar amount from Ottawa this year” and for each of the next three years, Penner said on Monday.“Support for other aspects of the plan is being discussed with the federal government.” Fonyo Sr.has inoperable cancer VANCOUVER (CP) — Steve Steve Fonyo Sr., who learned this week that he has inoperable cancer, said Tuesday he will probably not undergo chemotherapy to prolong his life.“There is still no (final) decision yet, but 1 think we re not going to go in for it (treatment),” he said in an interview.“It’s up to God’s will.“If I’m going to die, I’m going to die in di-gnity.” Fonyo, 58, said his son, Journey for Life cancer runner Steve Jr., was shaken by the news.OTTAWA (CP) — The international human rights group Amnesty International has documented 272 cases of “disappearances” of Sri Lankan citizens, most of them Tamils, during the last three years of civil strife in the former British colony.In a new, 96-page report released Tuesday, Amnesty International says the victims, mostly young men, were taken by security forces who were battling Tamil separatists agitating for an independent state apart from the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka.A Canadian missionary who recently returned from Sri Lanka after winning a celebrated case against the government for wrongful imprisonment, says security police are responsible for the arrests and that he believes most of the detainees were killed while in custody.Disinfectant poisons 5 patients SURREY, B.C.(CP)-— Five patients were poisoned at Surrey Memorial Hospital when they were accidentally fed disinfectant instead of juice.Hospital president Roger Bernatzki said one of the elderly patients, a 100-year-old man, is on a ventilator, while a 78-year-old man is being monitored on a “minute-by-minute basis.” Two younger victims are in the emergency ward in serious but stable condition and a fifth is being monitored every 30 minutes in the extended-care unit, he said.Weather Sunny with cloudy periods today and a high of 20.Rain this evening continuing until Thursday.Low tonight 13 and high tomorrow 21 Doonesbury Canadian arrested for attack BONN (AP) — Police arrested a 61-year-old Canadian after he used a hammer to smash several bullet-proof window panes at the entrance of the Bundestag, the West German parliament, Tuesday.The man told investigators he was protesting the government’s refusal to grant an unspecified financial claim, police said.They declined to identify him.Witnesses said the man had joined a large group of tourists visiting the building, pulled a .hammer out of his bag and started smashing the windows.A doorman called police, and the man was arrested.Cougar attacks seven-year-old VIVIAN, La.(AP) — A 140-pound cougar kept as a backyard pet attacked its owner’s seven-year-old son, tearing away most of the boy’s face, police and neighbors said Tuesday.James Michael Swearingen was in stable but guarded condition at Schumpert Medical Centre in Shreveport, hospital officials said.The boy was attacked about 6 p.m.Monday after the 18-month-old cougar got loose from its chain and pounced on him in his own backyard, said Police Chief Donice Jones.Mental patient surrenders CAIRO (Reuter) — A former mental patient demanding the equivalent of $14,000 Cdn held the Italian consul and three consular workers at gunpoint in their embassy for two hours Tuesday before surrendering to police.Egypt’s information minister said the gunman was a disgruntled cook seeking wages owed him by his Italian employers and stressed that there were no political motives behind the incident.Italian charge d’affaires Allesio Carissimo said the gunman had spent two years in a mental hospital in Italy.Gadhafi to overthrow Egypt KHARTOUM (AP) — Libyan leader Moam-mar Gadhafi vowed Tuesday to try to overthrow the government of Egypt and other African countries that have recognized Israel.Gadhafi spoke shortly after he arrived for a three-day visit in Sudan, Egypt’s southern neighbor.Four planeloads of officials, journalists and security men came with him, joining hundreds of other Libyan security men and officials who arrived Monday night.His visit came the same day the Sudan Times newspaper reported that Prime Minister Sadek el-Mahdi fired his top five military officers last week because they had urged him to distance himself from Gadhafi.BY GARRY TRUDEAU /5 7H/5 YOUR FIRST />; AfMtP FXPOSURB TOPER- SO.DIPI FORMANCB ART.ANYTHING * I WOULD KNOW?Mil c •u WUL.TTS NOT UK5 WHAT you've sm in mMov/es 6R£A1 AND ON MTV.IT'S MUCH WHAJ‘s MORE PART!- mj?ff, ' \CmORY., PLASTIC SHEETING.IT'S PARTOF J.J.'s CONCEPT.¦à)) GOSH, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS- \ I CAN IMAGINE.YOUR WIFE'S A GENIUS r T Vvj The Townships The RECORD—Wednesday.September 10, 1986—3 —_______tel recant Rock Forest shooting Commission refuses to comment on Sherbrooke’s decision SHERBROOKE (CP) — Dominique and Reinette Huard, who bought Le Chatillon motel in Rock Forest four months ago, say they would just as soon forget the incident that still brings gawkers to see room number five.On Dec.23, 1983, three Sherbrooke police detectives led a raid on the motel seeking suspects in the slaying of Brink's Canada Ltd.guard in a Sherbrooke shopping centre the day before.Serge Beaudoin, 33, died in a hail of sub-machinegun bullets when police stormed room five.His partner, Jean-Paul Beaumont, was wounded in the cheek.Both were asleep at the time of the raid.“A monumental mistake was made,'' Dominique says, adding however that Sherbrooke city council was wise not to demote Andre Castonguay, Michel Sal-vail and Roger Dion, the officers who led the raid.She said little would be accomplished by such a move.Castonguay and Dion were brought to trial on various charges and acquitted while charges against Salvail were dropped.Castonguay and Salvail were later promoted.Dion applied for a promotion but was turned down because he lacked seniority.BOTCHED RAID A Quebec Police Commission inquiry into the raid said Castonguay.Dion and Salvail gave little thought to planning the complica- ted and dangerous operation and that it was botched and improvised.The commission said the three men should be demoted and spend three years on patrol duty.Sherbrooke Mayor Jean-Paul Pelletier, a former police chief, said the city could not legally pursue the matter because of its collective agreement with the police force, which states that disciplinary actions against officers must be launched within six months of the event.The Quebec Police Commission declined all comment Tuesday on the decision, saying the commission never comments on reports brought down or on decisions by municipal councils on their contents.“You mustn’t forget that the commission is a quasi-judicial tribunal in disciplinary matters," commission spokesman Serge Fortin said."It is in the order of things that a judge does not comment on his judgment.” Reaction in and around Sherbrooke was mixed A hardware store cashier, who gave her first name as Carmen, said the policemen have already paid for what happened.“You can make a lot of mistakes in life without meaning to,” she said.But Louise Belhumeur, an accountant, disagreed.“If it had been anyone other than policemen, they would have paid for it,” she said.“They should have given them what they deserved.” IT'S DISGUSTING’ “It's disgusting,” said Jean-Louis Fabi, who operates a coffee stand.“If it were you or me.we'd be punished.Why not them?” Fabi suggested that Mayor Pelletier's stand in favor of the decision could threaten his lead in the Sherbrooke elections on Nov.2.Gerard Latulippe, Quebec solicitor general, said the Sherbrooke council was within its rights in rejecting the police commission recommendation.Latulippe, speaking at a news conference in Montreal, added that the government is considering reforms to the powers of the commission under the Quebec Police Act.One option would be to make its recommendations binding.The act has not been revised in 20 years.“I tell you frankly,” Latulippe said.“I still don’t know what we re going to do.“Everyone will be consulted.The problem is much more complex than we believed.We must move cautiously, step by step.” Police later captured the real killers of the Brink's guard Yvon Charland, nabbing Yves Lasalle, 31, and Mario Valiquette, 30, in Texas during another Brink’s robbery.Both were sentenced to life in prison.Lasalle later escaped with four other prisoners from the Laval maximum security penitentiary and is still at large.Lost their way in Thetford Mines bush School children found safe By Philip Authier THETFORD MINES — Four students who got lost in the bush here while learning how to use a compass wrere home in time for supper last night after a police search turned them up safe and sound.The students, all in Grade 6 at St-Gabriel school in Thetford Mines, were part of a nature outing which brought the group to Lac Rond, about four kilometres south of Thetford Mines.As part of the excursion, students Brigitte Fecteau, Annie Houle, René Fournier and Pascale Dubé were given a chance to use a compass, a spokesman for the Thetford Mines School Board said.But somehow they lost their way in the dense bush.When the four monitors who accompanied the 51-person group were unable to find them, the Quebec Police Force was called in.The group went missing at about 10 a m.but it took police, using helicopters and dogs, only about 45 minutes to find the band when they arrived on the scene at 2 p.m."They are safe and sound, there’s no problem,” Const.Maurice Briand of the Quebec City QPF said.School board director Raymond Couture said he was happy the students had been found.“It (the search) was done well,” he said.Police conducted the search on their own, fearing a big group of volunteers would throw their dogs off the scent.For that reason, parents and friends who descended on the scene were kept at bay by police.PLUCKED FROM WOODS Their fears were put to rest, however, after the word came from a small plane which had been combing the area that the children had been spotted on a bluff of land.A provincial police helicopter then moved in to pluck the children out of the woods and bring them to their relieved parents.In explaining the mistake the students made with the compasses they were carrying, Couture said, “They went in the direction they shouldn’t have.” The kids are having a ball in Sutton’s new bilingual school By Hilari Farrington SUTTON — It may be an experiment in linguistic relations, but the atmosphere at the open house for Sutton's “new school” on Friday felt like nothing less than a party.With its first day of classes scheduled for Sept.8, the Sutton school will become the first in Quebec to serve students from both Catholic and Protestant school boards under a single administrator.Despite the painting, hammering and unpacking which continued even as visitors filed into the as-yet-unnamed school, parents and students alike appeared pleased with recent renovations to the building and enthusiastic about the project as a whole.“My own children attend school on the French side,” said Annette Warwick, one of the school secretaries employed by the District of Bedford Regional School Board, “but they have friends on both sides.They’re very excited about this.” “I think that it’s beautiful,” said parent Ruth Ann Turbidy.“I’m happy tht all the children in Sutton will be in one school.” Although, with the exception of the bilingual kindergarten, each grade will have a separate French and English class, a floor plan of the school showed that there would clearly be no other physical separation of the language groups — a concern voiced by many parents at meetings last spring.Grade one in French is located across the hall from its English counterpart; grades five and six in English are next door to the 6th grade French class.“It’s really nice what they’ve done here.It makes you have a good feeling and I think that it will make the kids feel good.” said Michael Sheerer whose son Dustin will be attending kindergarten.“Last June my children were worried about leaving the French school, but now they're very excited about the new school,” Annette Domingue, a member of the school’s new kitchen staff remarked.“I think that it’s great that everyone will learn to speak both languages.” .The idea of the Sutton school project was initiated jointly by the Davignon and District of Bedford School boards for reasons which both admit were more pragmatic than altruistic.Sutton's French students had been crowded into two inadequate buildings, while English-speaking students inhabited a building far too large and expensive for the financially strapped District of Bedford to maintain.To Sandra Jewett.District of Bedford Board chairman, amalgamation “might he a way to keep a lot of small rural schools open.” Pauline Quinlan, the Sutton school’s newly appointed principal, believes that the Sutton community, with its strong tradition of bilingualism will easily meet the challenge of its unique place in the Quebec education system.Quinlan’s personal challenge, she believes, will be to help the students feel secure in their new environment and to ensure that each language will be respected.“We have a rare chance to bring both groups together,” she commented.Quinlan, herself a francophone, was raised in an English area near Cowansville and attended school in Cow'ansville, Granby and the University of Sherbrooke.For the past three years she has been in charge of the Ecole St-Edouard in Knowlton.“I was surprised to see how many children here are already bilin-glua,” said Quinlan, whose own four children have spoken both languages since the age of two.' Quinlan also seemed pleased with the atmosphere amongst the teachers and staff in the school.“The teachers have been working together for two weeks in a very positive way.We hold our meetings in both languages, with everyone speaking their own language.” The hesitancy expressed by teachers in the French schools last June appears to have evaporated.“This will be a wonderful experience for all of the community,” said Patricia Harvey, a second grade teacher on the French side.“I’m very happy.” Thus far.the new school’s major problem has been to complete the building renovations on time.With school already delayed a week, the library and gym still contain piles of unpacked boxes, and a number of areas are awaiting a new coat of paint.“First we had to move everything from all three schools into the gymnasium while the renovations were taking place.” Quinlan recounted “A new electrical system had to be installed, the ceilings were lowered and everything was repainted.We also made a cafeteria downstairs with a new' kitchen for serving hot lunches.” “Don Craig of the District of Bedford has been in charge of all the work and has done a wonderful job.People have been painting here night and day,” said Quinlan.“I stopped by the school when all of the work was going on,” said parent Bill Nunnelly.“People were talking away in both languages and helping each other with words they couldn’t translate.There was a really nice feeling,” he added.Children attending the Friday open house in Sutton were visibly enthusiastic, though not without their own concerns.“I don’t know what I think of it yet,” said third-grader Ian Bissonnette cautiously.“It smells like wet paint,” added classmate Jemmy Farrington.“The new changes are like nothing I ever expected,” said Kir-stin Freemantle, an English fifth-grader who attended the Country School in Richford, Vermont until this year.“It’s so big and different from what I’m used to.” Kirstin and two friends, Naomi Turbidy and Erin Boudreau stood in the hallway licking ice cream cones which were distributed to all of the children in the new cafeteria.“Now I can be with Kirstin at recess and on the bus,” said Naomi, who attends French classes.“And we realy like the ice cream cones,” Erin added enthusiastically.When asked what she thought of the new school, Jessica Jennings, a third grader on the French side smiled broadly and said, “I like it.” “I had three children who went to school here,” said Norman Jennings, Jessica’s grandmother, “and I think that this is a marvelous way to create understanding.The children are having a ball.” Identity of a mystery, SHERBROOKE (PCA) — Provincial police have still not identified a body which was found wrapped in orange garbage bags in the trunk of a parked car in Knowlton Monday.A Quebec Police Force spokesman said early Wednesday that there were no new developments in the case, although the investigation is continuing.The body was found by Brome Lake police in the back of a stolen Toyota which had been parked on Brandy Road, north of Knowlton.Provincial police were called to the scene to investigate what is being Mystery tomato cracks up barber Wayward seeds may explain brave sprout By Craig Pearson LENNOXVILLE — For one amused Lennoxville businessman — after becoming aware of a strange discovery on the sidewalk outside his store two weeks ago — gardening is no longer something he has to leave at home.Terry Beatie, the barber who owns and runs Beatie’s Barber Shop at 125 Queen St., said he was surprised when some passers-by pointed out a reasonably large tomato plant growing from a tiny crack between the sidewalk and his small, white building.“I came to work one morning and a couple of fellahs were waiting for me and said ‘Well you sure have a nice garden’ and 1 looked — and there was a tomato plant.So I pulled the weeds out from around it,” said Beatie smiling.Beatie said vegetable plants growing wild on the sidewalks of Lennoxville are, needless to ' j, a rare occurance.He said it’s “the first time I had greenery growing through the cement.” And Beatie should know: the Lennoxville native has been around the barber shop before most of the Bishop’s students he cuts hair for were born.His father started the store in 1948, and Terry’s been cropping there since 1967.Beatie, who has already pruned the plant and tied it with a string to the wall to give it more support, said he doesn’t have a clue how the plant got there — save a sort of Jack and the Bean Stock theory: “I don’t know if someone got mad at the haircut or what and threw a tomato or something and the seeds fell down the crack — I don’t know,” he said chuckling.And for a plant left alone for the first time in a bustling downtown — it’s doing pretty well.Beatie said even though he has only recently learned of its existence.Barber Terry Beatie prunes ‘a little off the top, not too much off the sides’ of a brash little tomato plant that is facing Lennoxville’s urban jungle these days.the 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Flintstone, Archie Andrews or the Green Hornet ever cross your mind?Probably not.You were too busy looking for the worst profanity you could find.Calling your math teacher Elmer Fudd was simply not enough of an insult.But today’s students have reached new creative plateaus.They aren't satisfied with the narrow range of broad language left behind from another generation.They have come up with a whole new set of insults, including cartoon characters.Last April in British Columbia, a high school student hit his teacher with a low blow and the teacher hit back.The 17-year old boy called his industrial arts instructor a ‘Papa Smurf and the teacher, who clearly did not appreciate the comment, slapped the teenager on the side of the head.In the parking lot of the school, the student, in a joking mood, hailed his teacher with "Hi, Papa Smurf.” Needless to say, the professor was not amused — he struck the student.The observant student said later, "He definitely wasn’t in a good mood.” The smurfs are those insipid little blue cartoon creatures who live in mushrooms and use their own language which includes substituting the word "smurf” for any adjective.They say things to each other like “That’s a smurfy good idea”.At the head of this little blue organization is a dude named Papa Smurf.But meanwhile, back in B.C., the teacher was suspended without pay for eight days and charged with assault.Recently, a provincial court judge ruled that under the Criminal Code a school teacher or any other person acting as a parent is justified in using force if it is warranted and reasonable.The instructor says the slap was intended to re-establish authority and to remind the student that he'd been very rude.He added he was happy with the judge’s decision because it showed that teachers are still afforded some dignity and respect.And the student?He hasn’t said anything yet.But you can be sure he’ll think twice before he decides his science teacher looks like Bugs Bunny.MELANIE GRUER Bruce Levett Some Canadians want the drinking age raised, even as others cry to have it lowered.Some venues cry for beer sales at the corner store, others already have it — and still others wouldn’t have it on a bet.There are places in this country where it’s legal to take a glass on one side of the street, but quite against the law to imbibe across the road.To advertise or not to advertise booze remains the contentious issue it has been down through the years.Our drinking laws are a real mixed-up mish-mash, right?Compared to what?You should have been around in the old days.Back in the early 1950s in British Columbia, when the Social Credit government came in and the old, restrictive laws went out, it suddenly became permissible to drink openly in cocktail lounges and night clubs.Deliverance Freedom unbounded.But there was a catch.Up to then, you had to sneak in your own supplies — a bottle of liquor in a brown paper bag or, if you couldn't afford liquor, then a few bottles of beer in a shopping bag, all to be consumed in the farthest, darkest corner.CARRIES BOOZE It was the height of sophistication — being led to your table clutching a paper valise marked “Safeway.” Only the most brazen left later with the empties for the deposit.Under the new laws, you could order from the wine list but consumption had to take place in a blaze of public scrutiny and liquor inspectors would show up now and then with photographic light-meters to take a reading on your face.If you were f-11 at 100, you were okay.It wasn't until 1965 that Saskatchewan permitted liquor advertising of any sort.At that time, Ontario advertisers had their copy checked for suitability by the liquor control board and even so, they were limited to 2,000 agate lines a week in a daily newspapers.Newfoundland was more liberal.All forms of advertising and sales promotion were permitted with only one stipulation — the line Not Inserted by the Board of Liquor Control appear beneath each ad.Today’s tippler probably never heard of the old liquor permit issued for each bottle sold.Quebec never did institute the permit system; New Brunswick and Saskatchewan used them only in wartime; British Columbia abolished theirs in 1947, Manitoba in 1956, Alberta in 1957 and Ontario in 1962.In Prince Edward Island, you had to get a doctor's certificate — a prescription, really — to buy liquor, but that ended about 1948.In some parts of the country during wartime drinkers were rationed to one 40-ounce bottle a month To pick u p the bottle, you produced proof of age and got a stamp on the back of your registration card.This led to violations — thirsty city editors dressed up tall, under-age copy boys in sombre garb and sent them out smoking pipes in search of myopic liquor store clerks Travelling across Canada was once was a drinker’s nightmare.Bars on trains opened and closed as you rushed through the night passing into various jurisdictions with varying regulations.To a certain extent, the same thing applied to commercial airliners If that was a nightmare, there was one place that was something else again.Send refugees back where they came from I’ve tried to write this one about three times so far.Everytime I get one page of so written I’m so angry I rip it out of the typewriter and file it under “T” for trash, kick the dog and beat my children.Then I justify keeping my mouth closed typewriter wise by saying there’s enough noise being made already and why stick my two cents worth into the fracas.Then I can proceed into a bit about earthworm cycles in Peru or something equably important.I’m angry about our latest arrivals — the refugee Tamils from India or Germany or Newfoundland or where ever.Now that the fuss has been labelled “racist” by the Globe & Mail (Canada’s self appointed mouth-piece) and some of the Tamil associations, it is hard to sit back and watch without chewing a piece off the corner of my desk.We all watched the story unfold from the first sightings ot the lifeboats through the devious story that has since been proven untrue, to watching their names being added to the “dole".We heard our soft-headed Prime Minister talking about world responsibility and Canada’s big heart.We’re about to watch the entire situation swept under the rug and forgotten although most members of parliament are reporting thousands of angry telephone calls from their voters.Now the fuss has been labelled "racist”.That means that anyone who says anything against the policy that has been adopted by our immigration department is automatically branded a "bad person" and his opinions unworthy of any further discussion.The Where the pavement ends ?JIM LAWRENCE implication is that “if these poor Sri Lankan refugees were white and from a northern European country nobody would be upset about their illegal entry.” What garbage! What a convenient way to muzzle any opposition.If you say anything you’re racist, a red-neck and a rat.Since I’ve already been called all of the above, let me expound on my racist, red-neck, rattish reputation, (rattish?) In a country that has such a high unemployment level and such high rates of government waste spending, what we really need are more people to help us spend more money.If each of these new arrivals are given $400 per month for the next year we will spend ($400 x 155 x 12) $744,000.I realize that this is only a drop in the bucket when you consider federal budgets but to me $744,000 is a pile of cold cash.I’d rather see that 3/4 of a million spent on Canadians to alleviate some of the farm problems, or native education, or even social assistance to needing Canadians (I’ll wager we could find 155 Canadians who need another $400 a month with little effort).What we have is a group of non-Canadians who put themselves in a laundry basket and left themselves at our front door.A group of prople who paid up to $3,000 each for the opportunity of avoiding the normal immigration channels.A group of illegal entrants.On the other hand we have the Canadian Immigration Department saying “Sure, we know you are illegal.We know you lied to us.We know you conspired to break Canadian law.We know we’ll have to pay you a living wage for the value of your presence.We know you don’t qualify for immigrant status.But you’re welcome to stay anyhow.” Our lantern-jawed baritone leader said “If we’re going to err, we will err on the side of compassion.Canada is a coutry of compassion .a country with a big heart.” Yes, and a country with a big hole where it’s brain should be.We’ve been deluded into thinking of these people as political refugees from Sri Lanka — people with no place to go, unable to return home, faced with imprisonment or death in their own country who are asking us for help and relief.In reality they seem to be a bunch of West German refugees (some have lived for up to three years in Germany) who thought that Canada promised a better life than the one they were currently enjoying in Germany.They were well enough off to afford $3,000 to get them into Canada (I can't afford $3,000 for anything right now .how many Canadians can?) and simply because they pulled the “Moses in the bul- Irushes" act they expected us to accept and support them.I don’t care if they are blue, green or purple.I don’t care it they come from Germany, England or France.I suggest that our only responsibility to these people is to provide them with a one-way ticket back to West Germany as quickly as possible.A one-way ticketand a huge sign that reads: “Canada is not a patsy.If you want to become a Canadian through the proper channels.Don’t start by cheating, lying and breaking the law.Anyone who tries to enter this coutry illegally will be fed (once) and returned from whence they came.” P S.This particular group of 155 Tamils has now blown it and if they apply for legal status will be refused.Let this be a warning to those who may be considered passage on the next freighter to the misty shores of Newfoundland.Do it right or don’t do it at all.” Of course this won’t happen.This group of people will be given the royal treatment and set up for life.The next group will be treated the same way too.Perhaps we might even change our laws to remove any need of qualification, or make it manditory for new-Canadians to arrive by life boat in St.John’s, (if you can’t paddle a life-raft you can’t get in).If you are not going to follow the laws already established you might as well have laws you intend to follow.In fact, if our government refuses to follow it’s own laws, why have any laws at all?Why should you and I be expected to obey the laws of the land if the people who make the laws break them whenever they wish?A big heart and no brains at all! Letters Cutting off Brome Lake debate shameful Dear Editor: At the Brome Lake council meeting of Sept.8 the mayor demonstrated his railroading skills in riding roughshod over citizen’s concerns of the new zoning by-laws.There have been approximately 79 public meetings on zoning over two years but the apartment complexes in three lakeshore zones were introdu- ced for the first time on Aug.29, 1986, and latest changes introduced Sept.8.Traditionally Brome Lake council meetings have allowed questions from the public throughout the meeting.Cutting off the municipal association and conservation association representatives was shameful and unprecedented.Several other questions from the public were accepted on zoning and other subjects.It is scandalous to authorise doubling the lakeshore population with neither public discussion nor professional analysis of the social and environmental aspects.NEIL McCUBAIN Brome Lake (on behalf of ^Municipal Associaiton and Conservation Association) ijrM CIW M&te !.NOBÆlYUKES NÆ, fHefcE-flfld -H/iey rc always Picking on me/.»me Kids' K.WoKto .SCHOOL-.-.KWll&OtÆ’l A crack in the egg Dear Editor: I am late but I want to tell you I have read your editorial: “Egg on his face.” (Philip Authier, Aug.29).I have learned many words and idiomatic expressions; — to have egg on one’s face — to seek its teeth into — to reconvene — to think things out — to backfire — to mull — hallowed — sagging — to drawback — hapless Thank you, MARCELLE STRATFORD, Sherbrooke On this day in history September 10, 1986 By The Canadian Press The Battle of Lake Erie, a War of 1812 engagement, was won when a U.S.naval force under Commodore Oliver Perry defeated the British 173 years ago today — in 1813.The victory, which Perry summed up in a report by saying, ”We have met the enemy and they are ours,” gave the United States control of Lake Erie.Also on this day in: 1937 — More than 1,500 cases of infantile paralysis with 58 deaths were reported in Canada in an epidemic that began in June.1713 — Scientist and cleric John Needham was born in London.1846 — The sewing machine was patented by Elias Howe of Spencer, Mass.Move to curb president’s term backfires WASHINGTON (CP) — Ronald Reagan is flattered.Nancy Reagan is not amused.The Democrats smell a rat.And Franklin Delano Roosevelt is probably chortling in his grave.The reason?A Republican-inspired campaign to change the U.S.constitution to give Reagan a shot at four more years in the White House.Of course none of this would be necessary if the Republicans had not led a successful campaign in the 1940s to amend the constitution to preclude presidents from sitting for more than two, four-year terms.Known as the 22nd amendment, it became the law of the land in 1951, six years after Roosevelt, the Democratic president who spurred the Republicans to action by winning four consecutive elections, had died in office.Before Roosevelt, U.S.presidents had followed the lead of their prede cessors and opted against seeking more than two terms even though the constitution contained no such restriction.The merits of the 22nd amendment have been debated on and off during Interpreting the News By Norma Greenaway the last 35 years.But the latest burst of interest, virtually all of which is coming from Republican circles, is clearly linked to the belief that the popular Republican president now occupying the Oval Office could score another victory if given the chance.LEADS CAMPAIGN The campaign to repeal the 22nd amendment is led by Max Hugel, a Reagan campaign adviser, and congressman Guy Vander Jagt of Michigan, chairman of the Republican campaign committee of the House of Representatives.‘ When Ronald Reagan raises his right hand and takes the oath of office .tor a third term .historians will look back and say it all began here,” Vander Jagt said as he kicked off the campaign.‘‘The 22nd amendment is an insult to American voters who are wise and well-informed.” Many Democrats, while saying they aren’t opposed in principle to repealing the 22nd amendment, write off the effort as a fund-raising gimmick by Republicans nervously eyeing a future without Reagan.The 75-year-old Reagan is reported to be flattered by the move.He favors repeal of the two-term limit but says he is sticking to his plan to retire to his mountain-top ranch in California when his second term ends in January 1989.Close aides say they believe him and make clear that talk of a possible third term leaves Nancy Reagan cold.“She’d kill him,” one aide was quoted as saying.LACKS ENTHUSIASM There also seems to be a lack of enthusiasm on the part of the public.A recent poll by Newsweek magazine said 60 per cent of 771 adults questio- ned opposed repealing the 22m amendment and 62 per cent said the; would not like to see Reagan eleetei for a third term Even taking account a margin a error of plus or minus four percentag points, repeal advocates can’t b heartened by the results.It seems ur likely, therefore, that the campaigi can pick up enough steam in time fo the 1988 presidential election.A chief constraint is the complies ted formula required for amendin the U.S.constitution.To be adopted, i would have to be approved by twe thirds of the 435-member House am the 100-member Senate and then rati fied by 38 state legislatures.It took four years to get the 22n amendment through the chain th first time round and few political ana lysts believe that things would b much different this time.All things considered, it’s hard t imagine Vice-President Georg Bush, congressman Jack Kemp o any other potential contenders for th Republican presidential nominatio losing sleep over the proposal. Education #¦___tel nccora Glasses won’t help these students Children with learning disabilities such as dyslexia cannot be treated with glasses or other corrections to vision, according to the Canadian Ophthalmological Society (COS).Dyslexia is not a defect in eyesight.It’s a defect in the processing of visual information by the brain.The eyes of a dyslexic child will see information correctly but the brain may scramble that information.Letters, words or numbers are reversed, inverted or scrambled so they are not read the u’ay they appear.“Dyslexic children are often thought to have eye problems but glasses are useless in the specific treatment of dyslexia or related learning disabilities,” says Dr.J.Donald Morin, a specialist in pediatric ophthalmology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.Tn fact, the use of glasses may-delay early diagnosis and remedial treatment, which are essential to prevent repetitive experiences of failure in spelling and reading." MOST IN MALES Dyslexia is usually first discovered in the early school years when a child is unable to read with understanding.A dyslexic child may write upside down, downhill, backwards or form letters of distorted sizes.They can also have trouble sounding out words or building words and the same words or numbers may be interpreted differently form time to time.Approximately 10 per cent of all children have a learning disability (their performance in school falls far below their estimated intellectual potential), and Vs to '/t of that group — or two to three per cent of all children — have dyslexia.Of each 10 cases of dyslexia discovered, nine occur in males.The condition remains a weakness throughout adult life but it can be greatly improved with proper therapy and reading practice.Dyslexic children are also often wrongly diagnosed as emotionally disabled or develop mentally delayed.‘“Children with dyslexia wdll often lose interest in school when they begin to fail,” says Morin.“That’s when the child begins to misbehave in order to compensate for his or her problem.That in turn causes a breakdowm in the parent-child relationship.The child is unable to meet parents’ expectations and the parents get anxious." “Parents of a child with undiscovered dyslexia come into my office all charged up, expecting to find a neat quick solution,” says Morin.“Some find it very difficult to accept the fact that their child has dyslexia.The dyslexic child does require special education in reading and writing.However, it’s also true that they are usually very skillful in one or more areas other than reading and writing.Some have a good ear for music, others are very adept at working with their hands.” POTENTIAL PROBLEMS Morin emphasizes that no particular eye defect is associated with dyslexia.Dyslexia sufferers have no higher or lower incidence of eye problems than non-sufferers.Therefore, glasses or other visual training are of no use in treatment.Recent studies suggest dyslexia and other associated learning disabilities may be related to genetic, biochemical or structural brain changes or a combination of the three.Children with potential problems include those with speech defects, emotional problems or a family history of learning disability.The COS has called for further scientific research into the condition and.in the meantime, recommends parents who have children with potential problems, arrange an examination by medical, psychological and educational specialists as early as possi-bile.“Teachers who have been trained to spot the condition in children lay an important role in the early diagnosis and treatment process,” says Morin.“Because it’s often believed to be a vision defect, they come to me and as an ophthalmologist it’s my job to make sure the child's eyes are healthy.If my tests and review of the child’s educational history point to a learning disability.I’ll refer them to the learning disability clinic or special educator.” The Canadian Ophthalmological Society is the national association of Canada’s eye physicians and surgeons.Founded in 1937, it is a non-profit organization with over 850 members representing approximately 80 per cent of all ophthalmologists in Canada.Work samples illustrating signs of dyslexia by children with learning disabilities A 7-year-old boy.A 10-year-old boy.C«ri c^i'9 ,t'^0 5oliisCei\ chug 't^o WCQ you \)0 \ ^ ID ffesr)} will Aanj mW 5