The record, 10 août 1990, vendredi 10 août 1990

'JMh im Weekend Births, deaths .8 Classified .12-13-14 Comics .15 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .7 Living .6 Sports .16-17 Townships .3 In Townships Week: We listen as Stanley (Jake) Kydd spins tales of his experiences owning, training and racing standardbred horses for over fifty years.Page 5.Inside Puppy breeder Léo Jean is going out of business fast after pleading guilty.See page 3.Sherbrooke is planning a city specially made for bicycles and buses.See page 3.Sher-Mont little leaguers head for Stoney Creek.See page 17.Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, August 10.1990 50 cents ProvigOI Grocers must clean up By Allan Swift MONTREAL iC'Pi — Grocery giant Provigo Inc.has called on competitors to join it tn finding ways to reduce the amount of garbage the grocery industry contributes to the environment.Claude Perrault, president of Provigo Distribution Inc , the company's main division, said Thursday he has already talked to executives at Steinberg.Metro Richelieu and the IGA foodstore chain to get their support for a "green food fable." Those companies have not yet gi ven their approval, but Perrault says he can't imagine that the grocery industry in general would not be in favor of reducing food waste Army: No surprise moves "If Chief Justice Gold finds in his discussions that there is a role for ¦ Jf By Jack Branswell MONTREAL (CP) — Soldiers will not move into position at Oka and outside the Kahnawake reserve until a federally appointed mediator decides what their role will be, an Armed Forces spokesman said Thursday.Lt.-Gen.Kent Foster told a news conference the army’s role in the month-old standoff between police and armed Mohawks will depend on mediator Alan B.Gold’s efforts to bring both sides to the negotiating table.us to play, and we can manage that role to help remove the potential for an exchange of fire between the two sides, we would do our best to react to that,” Foster said."Clearly we are going to continue to get ready to put our forces in place and so on for that eventuality,” he said.He said troop movements are still being planned but would not say when they might be moving towards Montreal from Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, just outside of Quebec City.The Mohawks issued a statement Thursday saying that any military presence at the barricade will be seen as negotiating in bad faith and might jeopardize a settlement to the conflict.Foster told reporters that when the army is ready to move the pu Sam Elkas.ISIew road to bypass Mercier Bridge.By Daniel Sanger QUEBEC (CP) — Martial Asse-lin, sworn in as Quebec’s 25th lieutenant-governor Thursday, began his new job doing what he says he must learn not to do: talking politics.“I’m not a separatist, I tell you that, I’m a federalist,” the burly former MP and senator said in an interview at a reception after his swearing-in ceremony.“But I think we should have a new formula between Quebec and the rest of Canada.“You know the Meech Lake accord failed.After that what do we do?Do we remain seated and look around?No, we find something else.” By his words the 66-year-old As-selin made it clear he will have a hard time learning what he calls the first lesson of being lieutenant-governor: steering clear of political debate “Even as lieutenant-governor I will still have some ideas and opinions but I’ll try to keep them to myself.That will not be easy," he said chuckling.Asselin is known as an outspoken nationalist who is nonetheless committed to Quebec remaining within Canada, and several politicians at the formal ceremony on !#• ^ tTH r * > Martial Asselin.‘Nobody in Quebec has anything against the Queen herself.’ character.“He’s a vibrant Quebecer,” said Liberal MP and longtime friend Marcel Prudhomme."He’s from the old school of Freneh-Canadian federalist-nationalists, and he will let you know that right away.” Asselin was named to the ceremonial post of lieutenant-governor in Quebec by Prime Minster Brian Mulroney in June after more than three decades in Parliament, first as a Conservative M P for his home and tnrow away garbage Household leftovers from food stores make up nine per cent of the more than six million tonnes of garbage disposed of in Quebec each year — about one tonne for each inhabitant Perrault said it w ill be up to a joint committee to find specific ways to reach the objective Tenta live approaches could include ha ving the grocery stores agree to re duce the size or frequency of their advertising flyers, eliminate “overpackaging" and set upa fund for environmental research specific to their industry."We all get an avalanche of flyers at our homes each week." Perrault said, without specifying a preferred method for reducing the volume Perrault said Provigo reduced the size of its own advertising cn culars last year, saving an estima ted 3.240 tonnes of paper He said the company would print the flyers on recycled paper if it could find a local supplier able to meet the de mund But Perrault said individual el forts are no longer enough "We realize we have common problems in the industry we have to address together " If the joint plan goes ahead, he claims it will be the first time in Canada that competing food companies have joined forces in such a project Pierre Paradis.Quetiec en» iron ment minister, joined PertauH at the news conference but said the Quebec go» eminent w ould not pi u vide funds, only moral and techm cal sup|H>rt Paradis said that all environ ment ministers m Canada have committed themselves to a 20 jh'i cent reduction in garbage by lfe.*2 and a 50 per cent reduction by the year 2UOU "We absolutely need the eo operation of the food companies to achieve this objective Paradis said, urging other industries to fol low Provigo's lead Provigo.Inr has annual sales of about 45 billion throughout North America blic will bo informed.NOT HIDING "It is not a question of hiding our activities now, we have no intention of doing that," Foster said at the cavernous hangar at the Canadian Forces Base Montreal at the St-Hubert airport south of the city.Premier Robert Bourassa asked the federal government for authorization to bring in the army.Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced Wednesday that the Forces would be at the province's disposal to help Quebec provincial police who have been facing armed Mohawks behind barricades since a July 11 gun fight in Oka, 30 kilometres west of Montreal.One Quebec Police Force officer was killed in the gun battle.Mohawks at Kahnawake set up barricades the same day, blocking the Mercier Bridge which links Montreal and the South Shore.Bourassa said in Quebec City that Gold, the chief justice of Quebec Superior Court, started working Thursday, talking with provincial government officials and the Mohawks See ARMY:, Page 2.Ë s Ml.Asselin: Learning to pipe down w bee City, and later as a senator ap pointed by Pierre Trudeau He succeeds former defence minister Gilles Lamontagne, who held the post since 19H4 In an interview, Asselin said he doesn’t think it will be difficult representing the Queen in Quebec at a time when the province appears keen on cutting its political connections to things English “Nobody in Quebec has anything against the Queen herself ; they have something against the institu tion.” He added: "But they don’t know how to replace the institution, and to change it they will have to change the constitution and that will take at least a few years.” But Asselin resisted answering whether he thinks he will be Que bee’s last lieutenant governor “(Parti Québécois Leader Jac ques) Parizeau just came up to me and said he liked my speech very much but would still try to wash me out of my job, but I don’t know if he’ll succeed.” Parizeau, as well as Premier Ro bert Bourassa, acting Environment Minister Robert De Cotret and a dozen other Quebec politicians, attended the swearing-in ceremony for Asselin, held in the ba roque Red Room of the Quebec Na- Recently returned from the land of her ancestors, Bishop's University sociologist Joanne Pocock says that discovering where she comes from has helped her know where she's going.For the full first-person story oj this Itownhomer s trip from Sherbrooke to Scotland' turn to Page 5.Arran Island, Sixty whales beached, two die CHETICAMP, N S (CP) - At least two pilot whales died Thur sday after about 60 of the animals beached themselves, prompting frantic rescue efforts by fisheries officials a.id hundreds of tourists and residents The surviving whales — which averaged about five metres in length — were pushed and dragged back into the water Many left the area during the day and were several kilometres off shore By early evening, however, the Thursday viewed his remarks as in riding of Charlevoix, east of Que- tional Assembly at Grand Etang, just south of Chc ticamp.Tom Kiely, acting regional ma nager for the federal Fisheries De partment.said efforts were continuing to take the whales out to sea once more, one at a time Workers in boats were tying ropes around the whales and dragging them out "If they come back again, nature will have to take its course," said Kiely, who added that dragging cf forts could be scratching and hnr whales returned and came ashore ming the w hales Earlier in the day, a boat drag ged the two dead whales out to sea and the other w hales followed, said eyewitness David Dowe Dowe said as many as 200people, many from a nearby campground, were involved in the day long at tempt to rescue the w hales, which travel in tight kmt groups called pods At one (Hunt, several small boats were being used to keep the inhales from returning tothet’heti-camp Island beach See WHAIJ-.S:.page 2 Immigration: Quebec close to special deal By Robert Russo OTTAWA (CP) — Quebec and Ottawa are close to agreement on a deal — the first post Meeeh Lake constitutional pact — that would give Quebec enhanced powers over immigration Spokesmen for Quebec and Ottawa said Thursday the agreement could be final by the end of summer.“Significant progress appears to have been made on the key issues under discussion," said Helga Win-tal, chief negotiator for the federal-provincial relations branch of the Immigration Department The normal summer holiday slowdown and the Quebec government’s preoccupation with Mohawk unrest are the only factors blocking a resolution on outstanding issues, said Marc Lacroix, spokesman for Quebec's Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities.' ‘The only outstanding issue is financial compensation,” said Lacroix."It’s now a question of how much money will be transferred from the federal to the provincial government." Wintal declined to discuss details of negotiations.The pact would be the first constitutional agreement since the death of the Meech Lake accord in June.With the death of that pact, Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa said he would not attend future first ministers conferences and would only negotiate »vith Ottawa SEEKS SAY Along with financial compensation, Quebec was seeking a minimum percentage of all immigrants entering Canada and a greater say in the criteria to admit immigrants to Quebec.These demands would have been addressed by the Meech Lake accord.Quebec was also seeking more power to set criteria for immigrants without relatives and family-assisted immigrants who hope to enter Canada with the sponsorship of family who are Canadian citizens, a source said There would be no change to family-class immigrants who en'er the country to be reunited with fa mily members and Ottawa would still control citizenship Quebec has long sought more control over immigration into the province because of its concerns over a declining birthrate and its linguistic and cultural security "There is a very special situation in Quebec with the declining birthrate and because French is the dominant language in Quebec there is a particular need to help immigrants integrate linguistically and culturally into the province," said Shirley Seward, an immigration expert at the Institute for Research on Public Policy.There is already a detailed separate deal between Ottawa and Quebec.negotiated in I97H.recognizing Quebec's demand for special immigration powers The 1978 Cullen Couture agree- ment, which takes its name from the federal and Quebec immigra tion ministers of the day, made it easier for Quebec to allow French speaking immigrants to come to the province The agreement also gave Quebec the right admit some immigrants rejected on the basis of fe deral criteria "This would be a re-enforcing and strengthening of the current agreement," said Seward MONEY INCLUDED The Meech laike accord incorpo rated the Cullen-Couture agreement into the Constitution It also called for Quebec to la ke over most of the federal government's immigration services in that province with financial compensation from Ottawa The accord also guaranteed Que bec a share of all immigrants comming to Canada proportionate with its share of Canada's popula Don along with the right to exceed that figure by five per cent Six other provinces have immi gration agreements with the fede ral government, but they are not as extensive as the deal currently being negotiated with Quebec But the other provinces will be watching the talks closely, Seward said."Quebec may be establishing a pattern that other provinces will be very interested in." she said British Columbia, which is also negotiating a new immigration deal with the federal government, will likely be most interested in the Quebec deal, she said f 2—Thr HK( OKI» h inlay.\uku\( 10.|5WO The Gulf: Saddam Hussein gets out the gas Prom Reuters ('l» AF-AFP Iraq said it will use rhcmiral weapons il attac ked, and Saddam Hussein's invasion troops were re ported diKKinii in Thursday for a "life and death hj*ht us U S ground, sea and air forces eonver Ked on the Persian (lulf region The United Nations declared Iraq's annexation of Kuwait null and void, and «xsi U S paratroo pers arrived in Saudi Arabia under the Pentagon's OiM-rution Desert Shield U S, officials said the* force, in eluding ground, air and naval forces, could swell to 50,000 weeks in As the troops took up positions Wednesday, Iraq annexed Kuwait Thursday the UN Security Council unanimously declared the annexation null and void and called on all countries and organizations to re fuse to recognize Baghdad swallowing its tiny neighbor As tensions in the gull area increased, Israel fired a test missile to warn the Iraqis Turkish villa gers said Iraqi tanks rumbled into position near the* Turkey Iraq border Iraq closed its frontiers for fom gners, heightening concerns about hundreds of foreigners stranded in Iraq and Kuwait Iraq has asked Canada and other countries to close their embassies in Kuwait by Aug 24.the External Affairs Department said WARSHIPS ON MOVE The Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow said the Kremlin would consider military action in the gulf if organized by the world body About SO warships, most of them American, are nearing the area President François Mitterrand said France is strengthening its air and naval forces in the Persian Gulf and is ready to act in case of "new aggression'' by Iraq But Mitterrand stressed that France will not join the U S.-led multina- tional force in Saudi Arabia.Saddam seemed more determined than ever The Xinhua news agency said in a dispatch from Kuwait City that Iraqi troops have been reinforced and increased their defences against possible air attacks "It seems Iraqi troops are assuming a posture for a life and death fight,” the official Chinese news agency's correspondent reported after driving around the city Thursday, The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait Aug 2 was rooted in grievances over oil, money and land.Saddam complained that Kuwai- Liberia: U.S.says don’t blame marines MONROVIA * A Pi The IS State Department denied allega lions by a Liberian presidential spokesman that U S marines in a helicopter fired at President Sa muel Doe on the (sireh of his execu live mansion Thursday in an at tempt to assassinate him Doe spokesman Selly Thompson, speaking in a radio telephone call with the BBC, said a Doe adviser, former justice minister Isaac Nya-plu, was hit in the chest and neck and taken to hospital The incident came as West Afri can peacekeeping troops headed for a showdown with rebel», who buttled Doe s troops near his man sion in a bid to take the capital Monrovia before the African task force arrives Rebels loyal to Charles Taylor pushed into eastern Congo Town suburb, where they ransacked the Nigerian Embassy ami attacked the Guinea Embassy Thousands of Mandingo refugee» at the Nigerian Embassy were forced into the streets, where battles raged The Mandingos were hiding from rebels who killed their fellow tnbespeople, accusing them of supporting Doc Nigerian Foreign Minister Kilwanu I.ukman said in Lagos his government sent word to Taylor "that we will hold him personally responsible for any harm done to Nigerians inside the embassy at the time of the attack " URGES PRESSURE Thompson asked the international community to put pressure on the United States to stop any at tempt to remove Doe Last month.Doe accused a U.S submarine of firing on his man sion The United States denied it.Since December, rebels have trying to oust Doe, whom they ac cuse of corruption On Tuesday, five West African countries pled ged troops to end the civil war, in which at least 500(1 people have been killed Until late Wednesday, gover riment soldiers held forces of rebel leader Charles Taylor in Paynes-villc, on the outskirts of Monrovia.But the rebels met little resistance in their overnight advance on the capital.Diplomats said Taylor wants to capture the city by the weekend Troops and tanks were reported massing across Liberia's northern border in Guinea and to the east on the Sierra Leone border, sources in Ghana and Sierra Leone reported.Report» said 5nn troops were on standby and may be airlifted into Monrovia Nigerian troop transports and warships were reported headed for Monrovia harbor WHALES: li overproduction of petroleum had driven down world oil prices and Iraq's oil revenues He also rejected Kuwait's demands that Iraq repay billions of dollars m loans And he reasserted longstanding claims on Kuwaiti territory CANCELS DEBT On Thursday, a day after "annexing" the wealthy emirate, the Iraqis announced they were "cancelling” their debt to Kuwait Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said in Washington that Iraqi troops in Kuwait number about 120,000, continue to move south intermittently and "in a general way.they are improving their air defences."They seem to be in a defensive posture, but nonetheless, Iraqi forces are still capable of offensive action, and at the same time, more Iraqi military units appear to be heading south from Iraq into Kuwait." The White House prodded other countries Thursday to join the United States' armed defence of Saudi Arabia and assured Turkey that NATO would provide protection from Iraq President George Bush, setting aside differences with longtime U.S.adversaries, ordered a high-level emissary to Syria to see whether Damascus would help pressure Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait.Iran also was sounded out but made no commitment U.S.intelligence reported Wed nesday that Baghdad may have already started deploying chemical arms to ward off any attack on its defences in Kuwait."We possess very destructive chemical weapons and we will use them if attacked." Iraq's envoy to Greece, Abdel Fetah Al-Khezreji, told a news conference in Athens Thursday.Arab leaders, who said before the U.S.troop deployment that they wanted to resolve the crisis themselves, were gathering for what King Hussein of Jordan called a "last-chance” summit to persuade Saddam to withdraw.The session was set for Thursday but later postponed to today, Egypt’s Middle East News Agency said.( '«ntinued from iHige one "A lot of them were bleeding from thrashing about with their tails ' said Dowe, who works for a whale watching cruise operation "They were bleeding a lot," Whale beachings are not uncom mon, but reasons remain unknown Some believe the beachings occur when a pod follows a sick leader ashore or when under sea geological faults hamper their navigation.Ginette Deveau, who works at the beach on the island just off the Gape Breton coast, said a couple of joggers first noticed the whales at about h a m.“They were almost on the shore close enough that they could not get back out," she said."So then people started gathering around and gathering around and thev'd be in the water, pushing them around out, and they'd keep coming back in." Their efforts appeared to pay off eventually.By mid afternoon, all but about 20 whales had disappea red into the Gulf of St.Lawrence, said Kiely Dowe said he was told by a man who first arrived at the beach at 8 a m that about 20 other whales swam for open water after being dragged off the sand.Shortly after noon another 20 left the area, Deveau said she believed this was the first beaching at Cheti camp.CLINGS TO COAST The small picturesque fishing village, home to mostly Acadians, clings to the northwest coast of Cape Breton Island.The beach where the pilot whales stranded themselves is on the island linked to Cheticamp by a causeway.Pilot whales, a toothed species also called blackfish, are among the smaller members of the whale family, growing up to six metres in length and weighing up to three tonnes.Andy Read, a marine biologist at the Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station in New Brunswick, said beached whales usually die from a combination of factors — stress, dehydration and their own enormous weight.“When they come ashore and their body is sitting on shore, all their organs tend to compress in on each other so often their organs get damaged by that.“Their ribs aren't very strong, not like ours We could lie around all day and it’s not eoine to hurt us.but the weight of a whale is going to hurt itself " Read said pilot whales sometimes live for more than 60 years.Travelling in pods for decades, they form close social ties among themselves, he said."Those social ties may be enough to make the members of the pod come ashore when one of their pod members is sick,” Read explained.Read said the sick whale often comes ashore because it can no longer stay afloat.“Probably this individual has to come up on the beach or die, and the only way it can stay on the surface is to come up somewhere where it's going to be supported.And for some reason the other animals come with it." ^ -HIclIS LUII1C Willi 11.Alan B.Gold! Chief judge has solid track record MONTREAL (UP! The man the prime minister has summoned to settle the dispute between the Quebec government and the Mo hawks at Kahncsatakc has been called a crusty old owl with the in tegrity of a saint He is honest and extremely trus tworthy, with the memory of an elephant, say those who know’ him and have dealt with him in the past But Chief Justice Alan H Gold, 73, of Quebec Superior Court, usually outspoken and eager to ex press his views to the media, wouldn t comment on his appointment "Please give me time to catch my breath, he told a reporter after picking up the telephone on the eighth ring Wednesday evening “I haven't seen anything and I haven't had time to study any pa per* "You know me.the best thing to do at this (Hunt is keep my mouth shut I have a lot of things to do and a lot of files to study " The former vice-chairman of the Quebec Labor Relations Hoard hasn't settled a major dispute since 1981 when he settled a strike involving 23,000 postal workers But former labor reporter Ray Doucet remembers Gold in his heyday as a labor arbitrator in the 1970s “when lalxir relations in this province were probably the worst in Canada " Doucet, currently a columnist at the Montreal Gazette, said Gold made his name as a mediator of the highest degree when he settled longshoremen disputes at the Port of Montreal in the 1970s.He also settled disputes with railway workers in 1973 and 1979.Doucet said its no accident that Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called on Gold to handle the dispute because the two often worked together when Mulroney was a labor negotiator and Gold an arbitrator during the 1970s "They didn't just pick his name out of a computer, they went to the guy they knew could do the job," Doucet said TALENT RECOGNIZED Gold's cousin, Sheldon Stein Sacks, vice-president of Sam the Record Man, said even at family functions Gold s sense of fairness shines through "You can tell just through family bantering that he takes in all as- Quarry’s stolen dynamite found SORKL Two tonnes of dynamite stolen last month at a quarry near Montreal have been recovered and two men charged with theft, provin ciul police said Thursday The dynamite and 400 metres of fuse, stolen July 3, were found in a wooded area cast of Montreal.Thieves used a cutting torch to cut hinges on the door of a metal storage shed, then a front^nd loader to lift the heavy door off Police in this city 100 kilometres east of Montreal said two suspects.Steevp Daratche, 21.and ( arl Larouche, 19, have been charged with It) counts of theft pects of what he hears.He has a very balanced approach to everything he does ' Gold's talents in human relations have been recognized by the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews who.in 1985 awarded him their human relations award for his contributions to understanding among Canadians.In that same year he was also one of two anglophones named offi ARMY: ( dntinueil from jiogc one."We re hoping everything is sorted out very quickly.Mr.Gold is not going to waste time.Tomorrow or the next day.we should have an idea.” ''If Mr.Gold doesn't get anywhere we ll have to look at something else.” Foster said the earliest the soldiers could be ready to move is Saturday.He downplayed the possibility of a battle with the Mohawks."The consequences are quite frankly unthinkable." he said Asked if he sees the army 's role as a peacekeeping force, Foster sidestepped the question saying only "the most important thing is to find a peaceful solution "The role I want to play here is one of helping both sides get things resolved.cers of the Order of Quebec.Gold was named chief justice of Quebec Superior Court in 1983, the first Jewish man to hold the post.Since being called to the Quebec Bar in 1941 Gold has had an outstanding number of legal accomplishments He established the province’s small claims court, an accomplishment he still holds dear to his heart.He also served as president of the Quebec Judicial Council.He lectured at McGill University’s law faculty from 1957 to 1971.He has held posts as governor and chairman of the board of governors of McGill University.He is currently chancellor of Concordia University Fluently bilingual although he still speaks French with a strong English accent, Gold was raised in the Outremont section of the city, the son of a Montreal clothing manufacturer He did his undergraduate degree at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., at a time when McGill was still setting quotas on the numbers of Jews it would admit.At age 22, he turned down a scholarship from the London School of Economics to study law at the Université de Montréal, where he lear ned French.“This is not a cast* of getting in a bulldozer and running down the road and knocking down a barricade; it goes much beyond that.” he said, noting that the Mohawks are heavily armed.Foster would not say how many soldiers might be involved, the equipment they would use or what their role would be on the sites He also gave few details on the division of responsibilities at Oka and Kahnawake between the police and the army."Those things that the police are expert in will be left to the police, we are not police and we are not negotiators.” He said he has talked with Gold."He understands that if there is anything I can do and he sees it as facilitating his discussions, perhaps we would be involved but only with the agreement on both.sides." As the conflict moved into its fifth week.Public Security Minis- ter Sam Elkas announced the government will build a section of highway to bypass the Mercier Bridge blocked by Mohawks from the nearby Kahnawake reserve.Two lanes of the road will be built this year at a cost of $10 million and it will be broadened next year, said Elkas, also Quebec transport minister.The road will allow residents of suburbs on the South Shore of the St.Lawrence River to bypass the blocked bridge and get to Montreal via other bridges.The government also announced that car pools, taxis and buses will be able to use a concrete ice barrier that runs alongside the Champlain Bridge and connects with downtown Montreal.The one-way lane will run into the city in the morning and away from it in the evening.Elkas also said a compensation package announced last week for «¦____toll iiecara Randy Klnntar.Publisher Charle» Bury, Lditor Lloyd G.Schelb.Advertising Manager Richard Leaaard, Production Manager Mark Gultlette, Press Superintendent Guy Renaud, Graphics Francine Thibault, Composition CIRCULATION DEPT 819 569 9528 KNOWLTON OFF 514-243-0088 FAX (819) 569-3945 Subscriptions by Carrier weekly $1 80 Subscriptions by Mail Canadu 1 year ' $78 00 6 monttu $47 00 3 montht $33 00 1 month $16 00 U S 6 Foreign 1 yaw- $159 00 6 months $97 00 3 months $65 00 1 month $34 00 569-9511 569-6345 569-9525 569-9931 569-9931 569-4656 569-9931 Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies orde red within a month of publications 60c per copy Copies ordered more than a month alter publication $1 10 per copy Established February 9.1897, Incorporating the Sherbrooke Gazette (est 1137) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est 1879) Published Monday to Friday by The Record Division.Groupe Québécor Inc Offices and plant located at 2850 Delorme Street.Sherbrooke.Quebec.JtK 1A1 Second clast registration number 1064 Member of Canadien Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Weather The weather is ex pec led to take a turn for the worse.Friday is expec ted to be cloudy.There’s a 40 per cent chance of scattered showers.High 24 More of the same tor Saturday and Sunday.Doonesbury .ANP Then HUNK RA TOOK om AGAIN! BOOP5W FflL DOWN ON All FOURS AND STARTED BARKING THAT'S WHEN1BOIWD people in Oka and Kahnawake will be extended to residents of about 10 municipalities affected by the blockade of the Mercier Bridge.It includes compensation for lodging of up to $150 a day per family if they've chosen to leave their homes, food, and for lost personal income or business revenue.Costs incurred by the municipalities as a result of the conflict will also be paid by the provincial government.The mayors of several of the municipalities welcomed the compensation package but said they want more money for transportation expenses and lower gasoline taxes in the area.Parti Québécois Leader Jacques Parizeau told reporters in Quebec City the provincial government has been “totally incompetent” during the Mohawk crisis and had no choice but to ask for help from the "federal Big Brother." BY GARRY TRUDEAU I JUST COUUTN700 THROUGH UirmiT1 1 MEAN, IU> Kndiis I».IW» -I The Townships #1 ft£l KBCOra Léo Jean: Plea puts dog breeder out of business Léo Jean is selling his dog-breeding equipment as part of his sentence for negligence.7 don't see how he could have had better,' said his lawyer Michel Dussault.kl 'Vl 1 '’MK ' By Dan Hawaleshka SHERBROOKE — Weedon do* breeder Léo Jean was sentenced to three years probation Thursday after pleading guilty to improperly caring for IT1 dogs Jean, 50, is also barred for two years from keeping any animals or operating a kennel Quebec Court Judge Jean Beaulieu also ordered Jean to make a $1000 donation to Montreal's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.On June 21 Jean's home about 45 kilometres northeast of Sher brooke was raided by animal health inspectors and Quebec Po lice Force officers SPCA inspectors were joined by those from Sherbrooke's Society for the Protection of Animals Together they seized Jean's dogs after they were discovered living in squalid conditions.Jean’s sentence came after testimony by SPCA volunteer veterinarian Claire Beaudry.After her graphic account of the dogs’ condition, court recessed NEGOTIATIONS Lengthy negotiations followed among SPCA lawyer Hélène Marcelin, Crown Attorney Paul Cré-peau and Jean's lawyer Michel Dussault.The outcome was that Jean re- versed his initial not-guilty plea to guilty He also agreed to sign over his right to the dogs, allowing the SPCA to dispose of them as it sees fit.In exchange the SPCA agreed to drop two of three charges against Jean Thus Jean was not tried under Article 446 of the Criminal Code, section l a.for wilfully causing unnecessary pain or suffering to an animal, or under section I c of the same article for failing to provide adequate food, water, shelter and care for an animal Jean pleaded guilty on the re maining charge of neglect The SPCA allowed Jean to keep his 13-year-old boxer as a compa nion.The animal welfare group also agreed to buy Jean's dog cages, houses, food and medication for $1500 Marcelin said this was done in order to make it more difficult for Jean to get back in business once his sentence is served $1000 The agreement also calls for Jean to donate to the SPCA $1000 of the money he receives for his pro perty He will receive two payments within 30 days; One of $500 and one of $1000.but he was orde red by the court to turn the $1000 cheque over to the SPCA They wanted my dogs and they got them'' was all Jean would sav after leaving court Defence lawyer Dussault said it was worth negotiating." since Jean faced a maximum sentence of months in prison and a $2000 fine “I don't see how he could have had botter," Dussault said Afterward Marcelin said the "oh jective of the SPCA w as to do the most good tor the animals With this judgment we can put the am mais up for adoption " To date about 100 of Jean's dogs have been temporarily adopted [lending Thursday's trial About 20 dogs were killed lor humanitarian reasons Crown Attorney Crepeau said the Criminal Code doesn't deal adequately with the seizure of am mais He said a negotiated settle ment was necessary Otherwise.Cropeau said, the most the court could havedone was order Jean to sell his dogs, in which case he would have pocketed the money "In that case there's only one sucker, and that’s the SPCA." Cré peau said During testimony from SPCA ve terinarian Beaudry, the court heard that most dogs suffered from a wide range of ailments Beaudry described how one dog she examined had its face blacke ned with flea excrement ' Other dogs had mites in their ears Dried blood from repeated bites could block the ears of dog she said She also said live English sheep dogs found in a rundown school bus .had to endure walking in their own ; accumulated excrement "There was hardly any ventila l tion.” Beaudry said, adding all windows were closed except one which was oj>en a crack She said a dog could easily suiter heat stroke if left in a hot car for more than |o minutes An annex to Jean s house contai mng about ton bitches and nursing pups was so poorly ventilated, Beaudry said, that the strong smell of ammonia ifrom urine slung our eyes and throat She said many dogs were raked in excrement and were suttering from skin, breathing and intestinal ailments In tutifi Jean was (mind guilty oi improperly caring lor IH5dogs He was sentenced to one y ear proha tion and hat red Irom keeping «logs (or two yeai s The SPCA recently submitted a legislative proposal to \gneulturv Minister Michel Page which would see Quebec's dog hreedet s closely regulated Planning: City hopes for a bicycle invasion b By Scott Verity Stevenson SHERBROOKE — City planners are currently designing a bicycle-friendly city.Sherbrooke city council has commissioned a comprehensive study of urban design, with a major focus on transport within and beyond city limits.Transport planner Michael Grayson said one of the goals of the Sherbrooke plan is to reduce the use of cars.“We will be offering alternatives ¦ ¦1 : ^ ; ^ § f * âfc.in terms of public transport and bi cycles,” Grayson said.Buses will be emphasized."We are looking at reserve lanes along King Street and priorities at traffic lights for public transport," Grayson said.“It’s hard to see reducing traffic, but if wc provide other means of transport, then maybe we can at least prevent the use of a second car,” he said."For example, the University of Sherbrooke could encourage walking and cycling to its campus."The bike should be seen as a functional vehicle," Grayson said “The study will include parallel corridors for bikes.A bicycle track should be integrated along Prospect, west of Jacques Cartier.” Monday council decided to restore a former bicycle path along St François Blvd.MOOD IS RIGHT "The mood is there,” Grayson said.“In the new plan nobody should be more than a kilometre away from a bicycle path in Sher brooke.” In Montreal’s master urban plan it’s no more than two kilometres that anyone will go to reach a hi cycle path, but Grayson attributes that limit to the larger size of the city."Sherbrooke is small enough that we can keep it at one kilo metre,” he said NETWORK "We are looking at a comprehen sive bike network," Grayson said, and it will go beyond the territory of Sherbrooke.He said discussions among the municipalities around Sherbrooke should give the bicycle network continuity.For example, the bike path along the south bank of the Magog River would continue through Rock Forest Grayson said the transport plan Look up: SHERBROOKE (SVS) August II and 12 are the days to have your head in the clouds.In fact, pray for clear skies because nightfall is scheduled to bring a feast of falling meteors Saturday and Sunday the Earth will be entering the orbit of a comet causing a shower of micro meteors.Astronomy experts say every year around August 12 the same comet makes its tour, shooting small rocks intothe Earth's atmosphere.Denis Campbell, president of the Société d'astronomie de l'Estrie.will include bike access to work, bicycle parking, and probably less parking space for curs He would not estimate how long the network would tie or how much it would cost, saying it's too early for that."The plan is subject to approval by council," he said The transport pian will form part of the larger Sherbrooke Plan d Urbanisme (hie next year The first stage should be tabled in early September AIR AND NOISE Grayson said bikes w ill make up only one element of the plan Air and noise pollution will also be stu died.Grayson called Galt Street between Belvedere and Alexander a bad spot for pollution, and King Street "a main thoroughfare tur said the micro meteors are olten no larger than a grain of sand We see them as shooting stars when they burn up in the atmosphere They vaporize before hitting the Earth's surface 40 PER HOUR Although shooting stars can be seen just about any time of year, this weekend's comet will send ux about 40 shooting stars per hour.Campbell said It's one of the lar gest meteor showers in the ten or so that hit our atmosphere each year Campbell said even if the sky is clear this year won't be the Iwst because the moon will be quite* iimg into a garbage Mrip We ll Ik* taking a hard look at the King corridor." be said In ad dit ion to réserve Unies for buses, he said it needs more* greenery and i* architectural fond bought Grayson's visions are part of a continent wide movement to re duce [Hillution from ears Automo biles account for 17 per cent of th« world output of carbon dioxide contributing to global warming and creating ozone which causes smog Automobile emissions add In acid lain and cars are the lat-,' gest consumer ot non renewable .• fossil fuels By reducing the use of ears, we will lie saving (hat much more ¦ wear and tear on the environ ment bright, detracting from the bur mng streak of a shooting star The shower of micro meteors *» will occur in the* north east sky ’ Campbell said The* best place to observe them is therefore east of Sherbrooke where the city Itglitv',/ won't dim the display Saturday night beginning at it,, p m.members ol the Eastery 'ii wnships astronomy association y will tie at the ('entre il interpréta* Uon ile l,i nature du lue Hon ni just east of Granby, where they vu,* been tor tin* last three or tom years, explaining the star show to observers Sherbrooke is looking at ways to let buses and bicycles replace the smoky car, says engineer Michael (i ray son.You’ll see a falling star the peace: it’s a long way up that hill For the leisure-class leaders of holes are not enough Keeping KANESATAKE — The nine-hole course is a perfect symbol for the current confrontation.It was built on Indian land, without even asking the Indians.It’s only about half a mile from downtown Oka to the Mohawk community on the sandy bluffs above.But the two are worlds apart.Oka, a typically-Quebee mixture of $200,000 preppy homes, dowdy shops, peeling tenement buildings, and trim dairy farms, fruit stands and orchards Most of the trees have long since disappeared.Kanesatake is a run-of-the mill Indian village, set in the tall trees for shelter from sun and wind, with its own gas station, dépanneur and restaurant, community buildings, park with lacrosse field and hockey rink, and rows of modest houses.•50S-TACKY In between, surrounded by towering white pines planted more than a hundred years ago to keep the sand hills from washing away, lies the notorious Oka Golf Club — its '50s-tacky clubhouse built as insensitively as possible, less than a hundred feet from the neatly-kept Pine Hill Cemetery, where for cen turies the Kanesatake Mohawks have buned their dead PmI « hr* On the other side By Charles Bury of Oka.nine holes are not enougn The golf club wants nine more And.consistent with the way authorities have dealt with the Mohawks for more than 300 years, the town wants to build a row of condominiums right on top of the Kane satake graveyard Though the Mohawks have been at Kanesatake for more than «00 years, they have never been given title — the white man's papers — for even one square foot of their land finding ways l was in Oka and Kanesatake for three days last week, speaking with some of the Mohawk leaders «*hoot the working conditions of news crews behind the barricades I was representing the Canadian Association of Journalists, trying to find ways the media could do their job better, with as little hin drance as possible — but without imposing themselves too much into the private lives of the residents of Kanesatake.and without getting hurt, something which could happen as easily as stepping off the beaten path and onto a lethal booby trap My mission was only partly a success.On the good side, the Kanesatake lionghouse, the community’s traditional government, named a couple of representatives to act as media relations co-ordinators The Mohawk Nation Office issued guidelines for the journalists, and agreed to do as much as they could to accomodate our needs On the bad side, the journalists still aren't allowed free access to the communities of Kanesatake and Kahnawake — the kind of access they would have down the hill in Oka.for example And the leaders insisted that the Gazette re mam banned from Mohawk turf But in the Mohawks' eyes Oka is 3 war zone, and wartime rules apply WORSE OUTSIDE Interestingly enough, the Oka, nine warzone atmosphere seems stron ger.more hostile, outside the bar ricades than it does within Perhaps because they lost the first skirmish, perhaps because they aren't trained for this type of work, perhaps because they feel their role is socially unacceptable, the hundreds of Quebec Police Force officers manning their own road blocks and barricades are visibly on edge Those carrying rifles, shotguns and sub machineguns nervously brandish them like dca dly new toys in the faces of pas sersby Inside the barricades, by contrast, members of the Mohawk Warrior Society seem at |ieace.within themselves and with the outside world As heavily armed as the police — and much more so if you believe the newspapers — the Warriors are nonetheless much more relaxed They are at home It's their people's home that they're defending But that is not to say that they aren't serious The Mn»i-«*'-b Warriors are deadly »# rions in every sense ot the wont It they feel they have to.they 'll light to the very end BIG STEP Soon the police outside the barri cades will Ik> supported, and one hopes replaced, by members of the Canadian Armed Forres This ts a big step forward in two ways First, it will allow the QPE to re turn to its normal functions, such us keeping the lid on highway s|H>r ding, catching criminals, and ho pefully even patrolling the province's lakes to tone down the rowdy behavior we've been hea ring about so much Second, and more important, the presence of the army will cut down the level of tension on both sides of the line Our soldiers are used to carrying their rifles and machine guns out in the open, and they have used them enough that they don't feel they have to wave them around More important, the sol diers are specifically trained to keep the peace in tones of war CANADIAN W \\ Whatever army units end up in » Mnhuw k country.they will include * many lormei members ol United j Nations peacekeeping and obsrr * ver teams, where going bark to | 1957 the Canadian way has earned • world renown and a solid chunk of ; a Nobel Prize s My brother Philip is in the Cana » dian Armed Forces He'» currently : in Nicaragua, part ol a U N team > which has Ih'cii attempting to de mobilize the Contra rebels Pretty much a typical Canadian soldier, ; he's also been to Cyprus, where the peacekeepers' job is to keep Greeks and Tui^s anarl The skills that come with that kind of work ran save a lot of trouble up the hill in Oka All they have to do is follow what my brother eatls the number one rule of keeping the peace Smile a lot, | and keep your guns pointing at the j | ground HKCOftn editor t'harles Hury K*' chairman of the t ‘anadian Associa tion of Journalists I—Thr HK( Oltli Kridiiy, Auku»! 10.lw*o kiecara Hu tin* KiiHtern Io\siihliipM Ninrt* 1897 Editorial Mr.Pagé are you listening?The weak sentence imposed on puppy mill owner Léo Jean Thursday was much too lenient and will not act as a deterent to Jean or other unscrupulous dog breeders Jean was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to improperly caring for 171 dogs The 50-year-old recidivist is also barred from keeping animals and operating a kennel for two years and he’s being forced to donate *1000 to the SPCA In 1985 the SPCA seized 185 dogs from Jean at the same place He pleaded guilty and received one year probation and was barred from keeping animals for two years Obviously the sentence didn't deter Jean.The question is will this new lenient sentence knock some sense into him and other breeders who care nothing about the health or safety of their "puppy machines".An unlikely prospect at best The root of the problem is inadequate legislation to protect the welfare of domestic animals.Jean faced a maximum sentence of six months m prison and/or a $2000 fine.That doesn't seem much for the suffering he has inflicted on dozens of defenseless living beings.Right now people like Jean, and there are plenty, must be prosecuted under the Criminal Code the SPCA’s unique and inefficient tool to protect animals Unfortunately, in order to use the Criminals Code the SPCA must wait until animals are dying or dead in order to build a strong enough case.In the meantime defenceless animals continue to suffer needlessly while allowing puppy mill owners to make big bucks off of animals' misery.The SPCA has submitted a legislative proposal to Agriculture Minister Michel Page which would govern kennels in the province preven ting the operation of puppy mills and other irresponsible breeders.If Page could only read the testimony of the SPCA veterinarian describing the squalid conditions in which the animals were found and the deteriorating state of their health, perhaps he wouldn’t be so hesitant about supporting some effective legislation The only postive thing about Léo Jean's case is the spotlight it has brought on the problem of adequately protecting domestic animals.Mr.Pagé — are you out there listening.RITA LEGAULT An historical look at changing workplaces By John Ward ITic Canadian Press The workplace in Canada was once a traplinc along a beaver pond, where the pioneers of New France collected lustrous pelts Hut change ha., always been a part of the land New France, the land that Voltaire dismissed as nothing hut "a few acres of snow," grew into today’s Canada As beaver became scarce and the colony's population grew, grandsons of fur trappers plowed the rich fields along the Si Lawrence By the start of the liith century, as the United Umpire Loyalists spread into what now is Ontario, farming became ever more important With the farms came infant industries cheese factories, small textile mills, vest-pocket foundries and farm machinery shops In the older settlements of the Maritimes, forests rang with axes and towns echoed with the whine of sawmills During the Napoleonic wars Britain's Royal Navy rigged its towering ships with masts and spars of straight, strong Canadian white pine.logs, pitch for caulking, turpentine and other naval stores became major Canadian exports The loggers and lumbermen moved west into Ontario and up the Ottawa River, driving huge rafts of logs down the spring swollen waters In turn, their sons and grandsons drove spikes on the railways The locomotives, built in the glow ing foundries of the Fast, opened the West to world scale agriculture and new opportunity SOCIAL PAIN Historian Michael Bliss, in his book Northern Knter prise Five Centuries of Canadian Business, describes this new bonania.' Kven in its beginnings, the western economy of Canada was too lug and too dynamic to lie dominated by established interests." This growth helped spur the building of the factories that, in the 20th century, made Canada a fully industrialised country But as the industries changed and adapted, there was upheaval and social pain In the harbors of Nova Scotia, shipwrights and foun drymen once swung hammers, forged fittings and sent clippers to sen as part of a great shipbuilding industry Today, a century later, trawlers chug across harbors once sliced by the prows of sleek sailing vessels The building docks and the jobs that went with them are long gone, forgotten by many The textile nulls of southern Ontario are mostly empty.or filled with boutiques and restaurants The looms have vanished, the spindles sold as rustic candle holders Change continues In Ontario and Quebec, the sprawling factories, workshops and mills that rose before and during the Second World War once poured billets of steel, rolled out cars and trucks by the millions and spun kilometres of cloth They drove the Canadian economy for dc cades Now.many have shut under the pressures of overseas competition and changing demand Others rut jobs or retool for automation On the East Coast, smaller catches have meant fish processing plants are closing Child killers: Abused, neglected and unwanted By Kim Pemberton Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER (CP) - Any child can kill, hut there's a disturbing trend among those who do They are often abused, neglected and unwanted Their homes are run more like hotels with parents not bothering if they check in or out They wander the streets and wind up stealing car stereos or burglarizing homes often because there's nothing better to do They don't ex press their feelings, they grow up seeing people as objects and they can t differentiate between right and wrong And then they kill."A lot of people are capable of murder, including children,” said Neil Boyd, a Simon Fraser University cri-minologist and author of The Last Dance Murder in Canada."There's an element of chance, of all the wrong elements coming together."That's what the randomness of some of these things tell us.When you start to look at the history of people who kill, there’s a background of abuse and neglect.These kids don’t have much going on " Since 19« Vrl and C hip Sansom WELL ?DID W EXPK1 ME ID HIT THAT POOR UTTLE SQUIRREL?ALLEY OOP® h> Daw ( irauc WHAT DO YOU ^ A couru Of Mt TAL ROC'S ! 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