The record, 13 juillet 1987, lundi 13 juillet 1987

Monday Births, deaths .7 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Farm & Business.5 Living .6 Sports .10-11 Townships.3 f'Az HOT DAY SOPH IF PINARD MARY MOI NT SCHOOL o Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Monday* July 13, 1987 40 cents “Oh, no, not another foreign policy statement from President Reagan!” Postal union president denounces ‘vindictive’ suspensions TORONTO (CP) — Letter carriers aren’t likely to return to the picket line even though Canada Post has suspended 567 workers, says Bob McGarry, president of the Letter Carriers Union of Canada.But McGarry said Saturday that the “vindictive” suspensions — some running for a year — will make it more difficult to get members to ratify a tentative settlement.He said the union risks losing too much if it rejects the agreement, reached after a series of rotating strikes over 19 days.A membership vote on the contract is scheduled for July 20.“We have a victory on our side,” McGarry said in an interview.“We’ve got to make sure there is a contract in place in order to look after the people who have been suspended.” The union has asked the post of- fice to withdraw the suspensions, McGarry said.The union will also appeal the suspensions to the Canada Labor Relations Board and, in the meantime, pay the workers their wages and benefits.SEEKS BETTER DEAL McGarry said Canada Post handed out the suspensions to force the 20,000 letter carriers to scuttle the agreement, hoping to win a more favorable deal with government intervention.A spokesman for the post office in Ottawa said McGarry’s allegation was “irresponsible.“If we didn't want it (the agreement) ratified, why would we have signed it?” John Caines said.Although Canada Post has lived up to its promise not to fire anyone as a result of actions during the strike, it caught the union by surprise when it delivered its list of suspended workers last week.Caines denied the post office was being vindictive and said the union knew when it agreed to the tentative settlement that Canada Post would take disciplinary action short of firing.“Some of these people committed serious acts against people and property," he said.“That has to be dealt with.You can’t just turn your back and say.Let’s forget it.’” Coast guard chases ship after refugees appear on east coast By Maggie Marwah HALIFAX (CP) — Immigration officials today began piecing together the mysterious stories of 174 refugees who crept ashore at a sleepy Nova Scotia fishing village Sunday, telling startled residents they had come from India.While the refugees slept at a military base in Halifax, the coast guard ship William was chasing a small freighter believed to be the vessel that left 173 men and one woman in tiny Charlesville under a cover of darkness and fog.A source told The Canadian Press the freighter was first spotted south-southeast of Halifax travelling at eight or nine knots.The William was chasing at 13 knots and was expected to intercept the freighter early this morning.Immigration Canada officials, who denied rumors of the refugees Friday and Saturday and continued to provide little information as the drama unfolded Sunday, refused to comment on the location or identity of the suspect ship.Charlesville is about three hours from Halifax on the province’s South Shore.Hours after the refugees arrived, RCMP arrested two men in connection with the landing.An East Indian and a Swede were picked up after they returned a rented car at Halifax International Airport.Immigration Minister Benoit Bouchard in Ottawa said one was believed to be the captain of the ship that bought the refugees to Canada.In a terse statement, he said the captain was co-operating with police but did not provide details.A THIRD MAN The Canadian Press was told authorities were looking for a third man, believed to be another East Indian.Sources said the man stayed at two Yarmouth motels for several days last week, registered at The Manor Inn under the name of N.Singh of 10 Stanford Rd., Wo-verhampton, England.The refugees, who arrived in Charlesville at about 4 a.m., told authorities they left India on May 20 for the voyage to Canada.A number are believed to be Sikhs, identified by their turbans and bracelets.Some of the refugees, who appeared happy but confused, immediately asked residents if they could get a taxi to Toronto.“Someone told them, I think, that it was about 1,700 miles or so to go,” said resident Vern Malone."They just looked at each other as if they didn’t know where they were, you know.They didn’t know they were in Nova Scotia.” RCMP loaded the refugees on to five school buses and took them to Canadian Forces Base Stadacona in Halifax, about 300 kilometres to the northeast.As reporters watched from behind a base fence, RCMP escorted the refugees one by one into a gymnasium, where they were fed and given sleeping quarters for the night.The Halifax Chronicle-Herald, quoting unnamed sources, said Stadacona personnel had been told to clear barracks and expect 100 women and children believed to be accompanying the first group of refugees.Officials would neither confirm nor deny the possibility of more refugees.Immigration officials also said reports of a second freighter carrying refugees were unconfirmed rumors.QUESTIONS BEGIN Immigration spokesman Bill Marks said officials will be questioning the refugees in Punjabi and Urdu to try to determine exactly See REFUGEES, page 2 Refugee claims could take years to process By Jim Brown OTTAWA (CP) — It will likely be several days before the legal status of the 174 people who came ashore in Nova Scotia on Sunday is officially clarified.But if they claim, as expected, to be refugees who fear persecution in their homeland, they will be allowed to remain in Canada while their claims inch through a bureaucratic and judicial process that could take years.Immigration Minister Benoit Bouchard would not commit himself to a policy course Sunday, telling reporters the first thing to do is check the backgrounds of the 173 men and one woman who landed near Charlesville, N.S., at 4 a.m.on a foggy morning.“They claim to have come from India,” said Bouchard.“Until further investigation and until we have precise information, I am not in a position at all to confirm what nationality they are, where they came from or what they are seeking exactly.” Bouchard stressed that national or ethnic origin in themselves will not be the determining factor.“Each one must be judged individually.” But aside from some administrative tinkering, the law remains the same as it was last summer when 157 Tamils were found adrift in small boats off Newfoundland.They claimed refugee status and were issued special permits that allowed them to live and work in Canada while their claims were processed.The government has since introduced legislation that would allow officials to reject would-be refugees within three days of landing if their claims are judged to be obviously unfounded.But the bill, which has yet to pass the Commons, has been slammed by church and refugee aid groups who fear it would keep out legitimate refugees along with bogus claimants.For the time being, said Bouchard, the government’s hands are tied by the present law, which essentially says that anybody who manages to set foot on Canadian soil and claim refugee status cannot be removed from the country while the claim is under investigation.Gerry Maffre, a spokesman for the Immigration Department, said it will likely take three or four day s to conduct medical examinations and preliminary interviews with Sunday’s group.After that will come a formal hearing during which people can claim refugee status if they choose.If they make a claim, they are normally issued work permits so they can be self-supporting while awaiting a final judgment.¦ Riding the heat wave RkoRP/JACK BRANSWELL When you’re this small, a supportive hand is always welcome when to heat the heat over the weekend as the temperatures soared to record braving the waters of Lake Memphremagog.These youngsters were highs of 31 degrees Celsius (about 89 Farenheit) in the Townships, among the hordes that resorted to the beach at the head of the lake as a way Mulroney: Canada is about freedom, democracy By Tim Naumetz KELOWNA, B.C.(CP) - As his government pondered what to do with more than 150 Asians who landed on Canada’s East Coast this weekend, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was at the other end of the country praising Canada as a land of tolerance, civility and freedom.Mulroney would not comment in detail Sunday on the Asians who landed near Charlesville, N.S., saying only that Ottawa will take action.The government could expel the boat people if it determines they were trying to enter the country illegally.As he strolled through a festive crowd on the shore of Okanagan Lake near downtown Kelowna, Mulroney unexpectedly came face-to-face with Danylo Shumuk, the Ukrainian dissident who recently emigrated to Canada after spending most of his life in Soviet Union jails.Mulroney shook Shumuk’s hand vigorously, and moments later used the Ukrainian expatriot’s presence as inspiration for brief remarks to the crowd.“Today is about families and friendship and it’s about freedom,” Mulroney said.“What Canada is about, above everything else, is freedom — freedom and democracy,” he added, drawing a loud “amen” from a supportive man in the crowd.GREETS SHUMUK One of Mulroney’s aides then ushered Shumuk through the packed throng and the elderly Ukrainian stood smiling beside the prime mi nister.“We have in our presence today, and I didn’t even realize it until he came over, this gentleman, Danylo Shumuk, who was freed from a Soviet jail and who some weeks ago came to Canada to enjoy what he was fighting for all of his life, namely freedom and democracy.“Perhaps his presence here today, with us on a family occasion, indicates how much we in Canada have to be truly thankful for.Things we take for granted, freedom and tolerance and democracy and respect for one another, this we assume exists everywhere else and it doesn’t, it exists in our beloved Canada and let us cherish it at all times.” Earlier, in the central B.C.mining and logging town of Quesnel, Mulroney had similar words for a crowd of several hundred people who turned out for a pancake breakfast in the bright morning sunlight.“Your contribution to our citizenship, that’s what Canada’s all about, tolerance, civility and respect for other people,” Mulroney told them.DRUMS BEAT As he spoke, a quiet band of demonstrating natives stood in a circle behind the picnic crowd, softly beating a tribal drum and waving placards calling for the settlement of fishing and land disputes with Ottawa.The Carrier-Sekani tribesmen, women and children had flown to Quesnel from their homes further north to protest low water levels on the Nechako River, prime salmon spawning ground.The Aluminum Co.of Canada controls the river flow, and Ottawa recently agreed to postpone court action in an attempt to get the company to increase the river’s level.Mulroney strolled over to meet the protesters and spoke briefly with tribal leader Edward John, promising to look into the situation.After Mulroney’s Quesnel speech, a group of Sikhs who were there to see him told reporters that Ottawa should expel the Asians who landed on Nova Scotia if they were trying to get into the country illegally.“The government’s step, actually, should be to take a tougher stand on it, maybe even send them back to the country they came from,” said Gian Singh Sandhu of Williams Lake, B.C., who is Canadian president of the World Sikh Organization.U.S.pushed Contras into alliance — memo WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicaragua’s fractious rebel leadersmade a show of unity in opposition to the Nicaraguan government principally to impress Congress and garner support at home, says a memo by U.S.marine Lt.-Col.Oliver North.They preferred a peace plan which Adolfo Calero, head of the largest rebel armed unit, agreed to sign only because he knew the Nicaraguan government would not agree to its provisions, North wrote in an April 1,1985, message to his then-boss, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane.The memorandum attests to what the Reagan administration has never publicly acknowledged -T- that U.S.officials pressed the rebel factions into forging an alliance to make their movement more saleable to a Congress considering the administration’s request to help Nicaraguan rebels known as Contras.North’s memo was released by congressional investigating committees on Friday.It and other testimony and documents released in the Iran-Contra hearings show the administration spent considerable effort trying to unite the factions headed by Calero and other rebel leaders, a challenging task given the personal antagonisms and ideological differences among the groups and leaders.In reference to the March 1985 Contra manifesto known as the San Jose Declaration, North wrote to McFarlane: “It is significant that this is the first time in any resistance movement in which we have achieved unity among the diverse factions opposing a Communist-supported central government.” URGE DIALOGUE The document called on the Nicaraguan government to enter a peace dialogue with the Contras.In an effort to counter criticisms that the goal of the Contra leadership was to replace the left-leaning San-dinistas who lead the Nicaraguan government with remnants of the oppressive, U.S.-backed regime of deposed dictator Anastasio Somo-za, which the Sandinistas had toppled, the document also stated commitment to such goals as a demilitarized society, human rights and agrarian reform."The only reason Calero agreed to sign was because the criteria established for the Sandinistas were, he knew, impossible for them to meet,” North wrote.Two U.S.polls: Americans still think Oliver North is patriotic, honest man NEW YORK (AP) — Two poUs indicate many Americans perceive Lt.-Col.Oliver North as a hero and an honest man after a week of testimony before a congressional panel.A poll by Newsweek magazine says 44 per cent of Americans see North as “a patriot and a hero.” But a Time magazine poll indicates only 29 per cent see North as “a national hero,” with 61 per cent disputing that characterization.However, when Time asked if North was “ a true patriot, ’ ’ 67 per cent said yes.The polls are reported in the July 20 editions of both magazines.Time says no more than 51 per cent judged North to be totally truthful.Newsweek says 19 per cent responded that North was telling the whole truth, 15 per cent said he was withholding information to protect himself and 53 per cent said he was holding back information to protect others.The Newsweek poll was conducted by the Gallup Organization, which interviewed 620 adults by telephone July 9-10 and has a margin of error of five percentage points.The Time poll of 612 adults July 9 was carried out by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman and has a margin of error of four percentage points.« VC*.-* 2—The RECORD—Monday, July 13, 1987 CRTC may take phone company to Supreme By Marlene Orton OTTAWA (CP) — The federal telecommunications regulator will decide soon whether to take a $206 million rebate battle against Bell Canada to the Supreme Court of Canada, an agency spokesman said Sunday.The Federal Court of Canada overturned an order by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that said the telephone company earned too much money in 1985 and 1986.The commission ordered Bell last October to return $206 million to consumers in the form of two months basic free service.The decision by federal court judges, who ruled 2-1 in Bell’s favor, was handed down Friday in Montreal and announced Saturday by Bell Canada in a brief statement.Bell, a subsidiary of the giant Montreal-based Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., serves Quebec, Ontario and parts of the Northwest Territories.The ruling does not affect a commission-ordered 20-per-cent cut in long-distance rates effective last Jan.1 or a further eight-percent drop in long-distance rates that took effect July 1.“We expect to release the decision on whether to appeal the deci- Gazette publishes as usual despite picketers MONTREAL (CP) — With Montreal police helping to escort delivery trucks through a cordon of 150 picketting pressmen, The Gazette published today without the violence that slowed distribution of the paper on Saturday.Pickets went up Friday after The Gazette, Montreal’s only English-language daily, locked out 150 pressmen and maintenance workers and vowed to continue publishing by using management personnel.“We’ve heard all sorts of dire warnings but they’re all rumors,” said Gazette publisher Clark W.Davey in a telephone interview Sunday.“I can’t imagine that they’re (the pressmen) going to let us go quietly.“But my understanding is the police have laid down some fairly strict rules with them about where they can go and what they can and can’t do.I don’t think we’re going to have a repetition of the Friday night damage, for instance.” About 10 Montreal policemen cleared a path for rental trucks through the placard-carrying pressmen, who picketed peacefully around the Gazette building.As the trucks prepared to drive past the picketers, a Gazette official shone a spotlight on them and a pair of video cameramen panned their cameras over the workers.Major Montreal hotels faced with strike threat MONTREAL (CP) — More than half of the major hotels in the greater Montreal area are facing pressure from workers poised to strike during the peak tourist season.Eight of the 15 hotels in the heart of the city are in a legal strike position, and a union spokesman said “the situation is very tense.” “We know that and the employers know that too,” said Gilles Duceppe.He added that the unions, affiliates of the powerful Confederation of National Trade Unions, would like to avoid a strike and have adopted “a negotiation strategy and not a strike strategy” for the time being.Fourteen unions, with 2,940 members representing chambermaids, porters, and restaurant workers, are still without new collective agreements.Settlements have been reached at five hotels, but Duceppe said talks have been “very tough” at five others, including the city’s largest, the CN-owned Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where 300 of its 850 workers staged a noon-hour protest last Friday.Refugee claimants held 48 hours for questioning Continued from page 1 who they are and where they are from.Punjabi is a language spoken in the northern Indian state of Punjab and Urdu is the official language of Pakistan.“They’re not under armed guard but they are on a military base and, therefore, access is restricted,” said Marks.“We are questioning them to find out who they are, and until then we don’t want them to depart the base.” “We have the legal right to keep these people for 48 hours for the examination process,” added Wayne Piercey, who fielded questions with Marks at a crowded news conference.First believed to be Tamils from war-torn Sri Lanka, the refugees arrived just 11 months after 155 Tamils were dropped off the coast of Newfoundland in two open lifeboats.The Tamils first said they came directly from their homeland, but police later discovered they boarded a vessel in West Germany for the voyage.The latest group of refugees left a pile of torn photographs on the side of the road at Charles ville.The photos showed a man posing in front of an apartment building that appeared to be in Europe.In the photos the man, who acted as a leader for the group, was wearing a silver bracelet on his right wrist.The mas was also wearing a saffron-colored turban.Singh Gur-charan, president of the Federation of Sikhs of Canada, said the bracelet indicates the man is a Sikh while the turban shows he is a person who is undergoing or has undergone persecution.“As a community, we are quite willing to adopt them, to bear any financial commitments," such as bonds or security, said Gurcharan.He added that the federation will be talking to lawyers today about what they can do to help the refugees.Gursharan Toor, vice-president of the Maritime Sikh Society who watched the refugees enter Stada-cona, said some were Sikhs but others didn’t appear to be.WEARING TURBANS “They’re wearing turbans, but not in a way that anyone from the Punjab would,” said Toor, who came to Canada 23 years ago, “I would not be surprised if they weren’t coming from India, but from somewhere else.“Who in India wears that kind of jeans?Not too many I’ve seen.” *1___ttgl Kccora Qaorg* MacLaran, Publisher_____________________________ 569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor____________________________________ 569-6345 Uoyd G.Schalb, Advertising Manager_____________________ 569-9525 Mark Gulllette, Press Superintendent ___________________ 569-9931 Richard Lessard, Production Manager__________________ 569-9931 Debra Walta, Superintendent.Composing Room_____________ 569-4656 CIRCULATION DEPT.— 569-9526 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he added.HAS 60 DAYS The commission has 60 days to file an appeal which would put the case before the Supreme Court.The telephone company is subject to regulation and close scrutiny by the commission because of its monopoly on service.Bell spokesman Linda Gervais said company officials would pore through the document as well.Janet Yale, legal counsel for the Consumers Association of Canada, had little comment not having seen the court ruling, especially reasons given by the dissenting judge.Copies of the document were not immediately available.“Obviously, we’re extremely disappointed with the outcome,” she said.Yale was among a string of consumer advocate lawyers who supported the commission’s landmark decision before the Federal Court in a two-day hearing last month.They argued that Bell, which was granted an interim rate increase subject to a rate review to be held later, knew a rollback was possible.Bell contended the commission was outside its jurisdiction in effectively rolling back telephone rates retroactively.It argued the agency can consider company revenues when setting rates but not tamper with revenues already earned.Yale looks at the decision in term s of a major public hearing by the commission this fall involving Bell’s plan to restructure telephone billing.Bell and several other major telephone companies argue longdistance rates have been artificially high to help subsidize the cost of the more expensive local services.Bell has long sought approval of its so-called rate rebalancing plan.Yet the commission has consistently ordered Bell to cut longdistance rates because the company’s financial picture is healthier than expected, said Yale.“All these excess earnings show that Bell doesn’t need rate rebalancing because they’ve lowered longdistance rates so much already without having to have any offsetting increases to local rates.” Bell should even be cutting regular local service rates, she added.“If in fact they’re making that much money, then residential subscribers should get a break in terms of lower local rates.They (Bell) should be reducing rates across the board.” News-in-brief Would-be robber killed MONTREAL (CP) — Police identified Sunday a man who died following a scuffle Saturday night in an east-end convenience store.Const.Bruno Vaillancourt of the Montreal police said the dead man, Stéphane Richards, believed to be in his mid-20s, entered the store with another man and attempted to rob it.The dead man pulled a knife and walked to the back of the store where he got involved in a fight with the store-owner’s son who was there eating lunch.Police arrived quickly and found Richards still alive but bleeding on the floor of the store and his companion a few steps outside it.Free trade has until fall OTTAWA (CP) — Trade Minister Pat Carney says the free trade negotiators have until October to come up with an agreement for both the Canadian and United States governments to consider.“The time table would call for it to be signed off by about Christmas time by the prime minister and by the president,” Carney said on CTV’s Question Period, taped in advance for broadcast Sunday.Carney said a bad deal is “not in the cards,” repeating Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s argument that “if it’s not a good deal, there will not be a deal.” Tax-payers support visit OTTAWA (CP) — Associate Defence Minister Paul Dick and his entourage spent five days in Paris at Easter largely at taxpayers’ expense with only two meetings on the official agenda.Dick says the visit was worth while because two other meetings—not on the agenda and held at the end of his stay — could result in an arms deal worth more than $100 million with a French business consortium called OFEMA.The minister said he went to Paris at the end of a two-week tour of Canadian Forces in Europe and the Middle East to “confirm mutual interest (in the deal) at a higher level.” He refused to elaborate.Liberal dissenters warned OTTAWA (CP) — Liberal MPs who refuse to toe the party line after positions have been taken won’t fare well if the Liberals come to power, party leader John Turner warned Sunday.Turner was interviewed following a two-day national executive meeting here.Party president Michel Robert warned dissident MPs during the meeting that they should keep quiet or resign once issues have been debated and positions taken.Turner said there are few things he can do to discipline renegade MPs while the Liberals are in Opposition, but warned he has “a long memory.Vets demand compensation TORONTO (CP) — The federal government would be creating an “injustice” by compensating Japanese Canadians for being interned during the Second World War, says the president of a Canadian veterans’ group whose members were tortured by the Japanese during the war.Kenneth Gaudin, president of the Hong Kong Veterans Association of Canada, said his group opposes compensating the Japanese Canadians until the Japanese government agrees to pay a $13-million claim the association has filed.The government shouldn’t consider “settling a claim with the Japanese Canadians before our claim is dealt with,” Gaudin said in an interview at the association’s national convention on the weekend.All-male tourney successful CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) — A charity golf tournament hosted by Toronto Maple Leaf forward Rick Vaive raised over $30,000 on the weekend, despite a controversy over a ban on women players.The celebrity tournament raised money for the children’s ward of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown and for spina bifida and cerebral palsy research.The tournament was criticized last week by Rose Ellen Ghiz, the wife of Island Premier Joe Ghiz, when Vaive refused to let her play in the all-male tournament.Vaive said the tournament raised $8,000 more than last year.Weather Doonesbury Mainly sunny today with a 20% chance of rain.Low tonight 20.Cloudy Tuesday, with a 60% risk of thundershowers later in the day.High both days 32./*OMTH£ FIRST, H£ S£JZeS 5V- 1 BRY OPPORTUNITY FOR eXPOStM | TOTTMSiSOT' ney, BATTER, m, B-B-BATTER! , ;.t 9 * ».> » A r g 7-!3 Talks may fall through WINNIPEG (CP) — Negotiations to compensate Japanese-Canadians interned during the Second World War have reached a crisis and are in danger of breaking off, the president of the National Association of Japanese-Canadians said Sunday.“It’s leading up to that,” Art Miki said after meeting on the weekend with Multiculturalism Minister David Crombie.Miki said he would not elaborate until he holds a news conference on the matter today.He would only say there’s “a major crisis” in the negotiations.Mulroney harassed over subs NANAIMO, B.C.(CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, dogged by a noisy band of protesters Saturday, launched into a spirited defence of his government’s plan to buy nuclear-powered submarines.“We’re going to have a prouder country that will be properly defended,” Mulroney told one determined demonstrator who harassed him throughout a public stroll in this Vancouver Island city.Jabbing the roof of a nearby car with his finger for emphasis, Mulroney rejected the protester’s demands that Ottawa drop the military plans outlined in a recent white paper on defence.B.C.gets new park VICTORIA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Premier Bill Vander Zalm ended a 13-year battle by Indians and environmentalists Saturday afternoon by formally signing an agreement creating Canada’s newest national park.The agreement sets aside 140,000 hectares in the South Moresby region of the Queen Charlotte Islands.Under the deal, Ottawa will pay British Columbia $106 million over eight years.Of that, up to $23 million will go to compensation determined by an independent review for loggers and forest companies displaced by the park.The province will pay up to $8 million.Japan has richest man NEW YORK (Reuter) — Japan now has more billionaires than the United States, including the world’s wealthiest man, Forbes magazine said today.The magazine said the United States has 21 billionaires, the richest being Sam Moore Walton, founder of Wal-Mart Stores, who is worth $4.5 billion US.In contrast, Japan has 22 billionaires, three of whom are worth more than Walton.The richest man in Japan, and in the world, is Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, with an estimated net worth of $21 billion, said Forbes.Tsutsumi controls the giant Seibu Railway Group, Japan’s largest private land owner, whose assets include rail lines, resorts, 24 golf courses, ski slopes, a professional baseball team and Prince Hotels, one of the world’s largest hotel chains.Riots expected in N.Ireland PORTADOWN (Reuter) — Three policemen were injured in overnight rioting in Northern Ireland where thousands of Protestants take to the streets today to mark a 300-year-old victory over Roman Catholics.A police spokesman, reporting on trouble across Northern Ireland, said 10 people were arrested.Police had to use plastic bullets to disperse rioters in Belfast.Northern Ireland police launched a huge security operation amid fears the outlawed Irish Republican Army could launch a bomb attack on one of the 19 scheduled parades.Italian breaks record ANCONA, Italy (Reuter)—An Italian who has lived alone in a cave for seven months learned Sunday he has broken the world record for complete isolation.But he was convinced it was still March and thought the news was a joke.Organizers said Maurizio Montalbini had lost track of time.He went down into the Frassasi caves near the town of Ancona 210 days ago on Dec.14.When he was told by a Morse code signal that it was July 12, Montalbini, 33, wrote the words "thrilling but a debatable joke” on a piece of paper and held it up to a television camera that has been monitoring his attempt.Papers depict real Einstein JERUSALEM (AP) — Stacks of letters and notebooks left by Albert Einstein offer a rare glimpse of the personality of the scientific genius, his often troubled personal life and behind-the-scenes involvement in world politics.The 43,000 documents, stored in a basement library after his death in 1955, depict a sensitive man who was beset by divisive family problems.Thousands of the documents will be published during the next few years.Unpublished letters that Einstein exchanged with Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, show Einstein was a committed Zionist, although he often displayed an ambivalence toward Judaism.Five billionth born Saturday ZAGREB, Yugoslavia (AP) — UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar took newborn Matej Caspar in his arms Saturday and proclaimed him the world’s five billionth person in a symbolic ceremony to emphasize global population growth.“It’s a beautiful baby and I want to congratulate you,” he told parents Sanja and Dragutin Gaspar shortly after Matej was born.He said he hopes the birth would “mark a new generation of peace.” No one knows for sure who the world’s five billionth person really is, but the United Nations Fund for Population Activities had predicted the global population would reach five billion at about the time Matej, a blond, eight-pound boy, was born.Iranian diplomat beaten NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Iran says French police severely beat one of its diplomats at the Geneva airport.In a statement carried by Iranian television, radio and the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Sunday, the Foreign Ministry described the beating as barbaric and said documents were stolen from the diplomat.The reports, monitored in Cyprus, said an “appropriate response” would be taken depending upon the French reaction.They said France’s chief envoy at the French Embassy in Tehran, the Iranian capital, was summoned to receive a protest.Kuwait offered more protection KUWAIT (AP) — London will let Kuwaiti tankers fly the British flag as a protection against Iranian attack if the Persian Gulf country requests the move, Britain’s ambassador was quoted as saying Sunday.“We in Britain say that any Kuwaiti application to reflag Kuwaiti tankers will be considered, taking into account the strong friendly relations binding Kuwait and Britain,” the newspaper Al-Anbaa quoted Ambassador Peter Hinch-clife as saying in an interview.“So far, we did not receive any official request by the Kuwaiti government in this respect,” Hinchclife added.The United States and the Soviet Union have already offered to shield Kuwaiti shipping.Anti-Aquino feelings fly MANILA (AP) — Soldiers linked to deposed president Ferdinand Marcos plotted to oust President Corazon Aquino after taking over the Manila airport and a military base, said a Philippine intelligence report released on Sunday.But sources told The Associated Press that the soldiers never got more than 100 people to join the conspiracy.Hundreds of Marcos supporters marched quietly through the streets of Manila on Sunday shouting, “We want Marcos back!”.Roman Catholic bishops asked Aquino to investigate alleged human-rights abuses by anticommunist vigilantes organized with military support throughout the country.S.Korea gets new minister SEOUL (AP) — President Chun Doo-hwan accepted the resignation of his prime minister and eight ministers today in a shakeup apparently aimed at installing a broader-based government in South Korea before presidential elections.Officials said Chun had named Kim Chung-yul, a former air force commander and defence minister, to replace outgoing prime minister Lee Han-key.Lee cited bad health in submitting his resignation.BY GARRY TRUDEAU THE STRATEGY PAYS OFF.TH5 MEDIA PICKUP W Pm BEAT.¦ ¦¦FROM THE EXECUTIVE SUTTEE OF CBS NEWS.TO THE NEWSROOM] OF "USA TODAY" THIS GUY COVERS HIMSELF1 PI RE TEN MOPE CORRESPONDENTS! NEWS MFNUG6ETS, 81* OF US COPY DESK i L0VEH5AP- ^ REST! r 1 The RECORD—Monday.July 13.1 The Townships —___ iHsmra Two drown; one electrocuted Holiday has grim beginning: Five die in Eastern Townships weekend SHERBROOKE — Five Eastern Townships residents were among at least 18 people who died accidentally on the first weekend of Quebec’s annual vacation period.One motorcyclist died on the highway, a child was killed on a three-wheeled all-terrain vehicle, a welder was electrocuted, and two drownings were reported, although police are still searching for the body of one of the victims.ST-DENIS DE BROMPTON Welder Michel Noël was electrocuted in St-Denis de Brompton Saturday morning while lying on his back attempting to repair a farm trailer.Noël died instantly, police said.ST-THEODORE D'ACTON Eight-year old Sylvain Larivière died instantly Sunday afternoon when the three-wheeler he was driving flipped over and crushed him.ST-ROMAIN Paul Fortier, 23, of St-Romain, was killed late Staurday afternoon in a motorcycle accident near his home.Fortier’s bike went out of control, left the roadway and hit a pole beside Route 161, police said.BALDWIN MILLS An unidentified scuba diver was believed drowned Sunday afternoon after he failed to surface following a group dive on Lake Lyster near Baldwin Mills.Polce have not released the name of the diver, whose body was nor recovered.Quebec Police Force divers will begin a search this morning.SUTTON TOWNSHIP A 19-year-old man drowned while swimming in Kelly Lake in Sutton Township Saturday evening.Michel Mireault of Sutton had gone for an evening swim to cool off with his sister and a friend when he apparently suffered cramps and panicked, police said.By the time his companions returned with a boat his body had sunk.After an all-night search by volunteer divers his body was recovered from the tiny pond (about 20 metres by 60) the next morning.Montreal woman to face court — prosecutor Charges set in Brome Lake hit-and-run: Drowning was criminal, violated rights COWANSVILLE (JM) — Crown prosecutor Henry Keyserlingk confirmed Friday that charges will be laid in connection with a fatal hit and run boating accident on Brome Lake May 30.A 24 year old Montreal woman will be arraigned Aug.18 on charges of hit-and-run in the operation of a motor boat, by ‘failing to stop and assist someone who was injured or appeared to require aid’.The woman will also be charged with criminal negligence causing the death of Réjean Foisy after the boating accident.Foisy, 49 and his son Michel, 22, both of Ville d’Anjou, were fishing on the lake about 11 p.m.when the accident occured.They had shouted and waved a light trying to alert the other boat as it sped towards them.Both Foisys jumped into the water just before the speedboat crashed into their fishing skiff.COULDN’T SWIM The father was a non-swimmer and was not wearing his life jacket.Witnesses managed to pull the son from the water.Other local residents who had heard the impact and saw the boat speeding away in the direction of a marina managed to get to the marina and follow the suspects to their home.The witnesses were questioned by Brome Lake public safety chief Jean Grenier and constable Denis Brazeau on June 1.The case was then handed over to the Quebec Police Force and detective Robert Lapointe of the Cowansville detachment completed the investigation.Prosecutor Keyserlingk said that in addition to charges under the Criminal Code, he will invoke sections of the Canada Shipping Act, as well as the “good Samaritan” section of the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.Two fires in one block within 20 minutes Police suspect pair of downtown fires were work of a Sunday-night arsonist Diminutive dipper .V'- à ' * ^sij- Rl < T)RD/JACK BR ANS WELL pyr :mi V » What better way to beat the heat than to Jake a dip in the waters of one of the local lakes?This wee wader was sighted on Merry Beach in Magog.SHERBROOKE — Police say arson is suspected in a pair of downtown fires which broke out within 20 minutes Sunday.Firemen were first called to an alarm at 100 Meadow Street, just off Wellington north, at 9:54 p.m.A fire appeared to have been set deliberately in piles of garbage waiting for pickup today.The small blaze was quickly put out.Exactly 20 minutes later, at 11:14, another alarm was sounded.This time firemen, who had barely returned to the Marquette Street station, were sent to 67 Wellington north — just around the corner from the first call.This time flames could be seen for some distance and firemen fea- red the worst.The fire was discovered in a warehouse under construction behind the building.Again the fire was extinguished quickly, although it caused serious damage.Both fires are suspect, police say.They both began in alleys out of sight from the street and both had no apparent other cause.66 votes block $3.2-million plan Referendum vetoes water park project in Fleurimont residential neighborhood FLEURIMONT — A water park planned for this town has become the latest victim of Quebec’s peculiar mechanism for amending municipal zoning bylaws.The $3.2-million project was intended by private developers for a site near Duplessis Road which was zoned for homes and cottages.Although the land in question was already the property of promoter Renald Bourque and family, some local residents didn’t like the idea so they took legal steps to block it.According to the Quebec Cities and Towns Act a referendum would be required if a certain number of residents of the same zone opposed the change by signing a register at the town hall.The register was signed, notice was given, and a referendum was held Thursday and Friday.Some 142 citizens had the right to vote.They were the residents of the zone to be changed and other zones next to it.Ill VOTERS One-hundred-and-eleven citizens took the time to vote.Of the 111, some 66 were opposed to the change while only 42 voted in favor.Three ballots were spoiled.While the 66 voters on the winning side were able to prevent the water park in their own neighb *r-hood, promoter Bourque says he now has another site in mind.Lawyer Jean-Pierre Rancourt said his client Bourque is now looking at a piece of land near the Fleurimont municipal arena for the park, which would consist of water slides, wave pools and all the rest.Costs would go up because the land would have to be bought, Rancourt said, but Bourque wants to go ahead because his project has been well received by local merchants.As well, Rancourt said, on the site near the arena a bar and video arcade could be added to the plans.If the project is refused again, Rancourt added, it would seek a home in nearby Sherbrooke, Rock Forest or Magog.Mayor Julien Ducharme said democracy had spoken.PHOTO SHERBROOKE HUSSARS SBP» Sherbrooke militiamen win shooting prize Don’t mess with these guys! Last May members of The Sherbrooke Hussars travelled to Canadian Forces Base Wainwright (Alberta) to participate in the annual “Rams Head” tank gunnery competition.When the scores for crew tests, static firing and live fire battle runs were added up, the Hussars proved to be the top armored reserve troop in Canada.At present the team and the rest of the Reeiment are training at CFB Valcartier (Quebec) and will be moving to CFB Gagetown (New Brunswick) in A ugust to put their training to practical use in major field exercises and a further tank competition.Left to right: CpI Carroll, Mcpl Lamoureux, Lt R.Côté (troop leader), Sgt Fong, Mcpl Tofts, Cpl Czer-cowicz, MajJ.Murray (team captain), Cpl Beaulac, Cpl Marcoux, Sgt Desourdy, Mcpl Imbeault, Mcpl Perreautl.Cat NarmamiHo StrHnjf.pmmx V^-r- fp' r.[ c ^ Hr?lteWl(HES