The record, 25 septembre 1987, vendredi 25 septembre 1987

Weekend Townships week |>l»r Hand In Townships Week this week: a photo essay and article on artist Olaf Hand.Kaleidoscope makes a few suggestions, and author Hugh MacLennan is finally happy.Births, deaths .9 Classified .10-11-12 Comics .13 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .6-7 Living .0 Sports .14-15 Townships .3 Inside The Wales Home gets a new executive director.See page 2.Bernard Epps explores the mid-1800s fascination with phrenology in an article on page 5.and the Bishop’s Gaiters play their first away game of the year and it’s going to be a tough one.That story’s on page 15.Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, September 25, 1087 50 cents Ottawa hoping for last-minute free trade deal By Clyde Graham OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Thursday he is waiting for the United States to respond to Canada’s bottom line for a free trade agreement.And Bruce Phillips, Mulroney’s top communications advisor, said the government is still in contact with the Americans, at a “high level — but I wouldn’t want to characterize it beyond that.’’ Phillips said the government continues to hope for a last minute settlement following the decision Wednesday by Canadian trade negotiator Simon Reisman to break off the talks.Sources close to the negotiations said Reisman left the Americans a five-point set of Canadian condi lions necessary for the talks to resume.The conditions related to Canada’s demand for a binding system to settle trade disputes, the key sticking point.“In our judgment, there is an ur eent need of a response from the American side," Mulroney said in the Commons, reiterating that the ball has been in the American court since Canada broke off the talks after 16 months of negotiations.Mulroney ruled out an immediate summit with President Ronald Reagan to attempt a rescue of the trade deal.It would be “inappropriate at this time and perhaps unhelpful at this very moment for the president and myself or anyone else at that level to get involved,” he said.HOPES W ANE With just 11 days left before the Oct.5 deadline set by U.S.Congress, hopes for a breakthough waned among key free trade supporters in Canada."It would take a minor miracle to turn this around," said Thomas d'Aquino, president of the National Council on Business Issues.Reisman said the negotiations to reduce trade barriers between the countries were "terminated” as far as he was eoncerned.Kelleher: CSIS didn’t interfere with union OTTAWA (CP) — Solicitor General James Kelleher’s office denied today that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service tried to interfere to prevent the laying of criminal charges against a Quebec informer within the Confederation of National Trade Unions.But neither the minister nor his officials would comment on wider allegations that CSIS has infiltrated not only the CNTU, but also Quebec’s main teachers union the Centrale de l'enseignement du Quebec, the British Columbia Federation of Labor, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Canadian Auto Marc Boivin, a CNTU organizer for 14 years and an admitted informer for CSIS, faces sentencing next month after pleading guilty to conspiring to plant bombs at hotels in a bitter labor dispute.The English-language network of the CBC reported Wednesday that Boivin tipped his CSIS handler to the bomb plot and that the security service passed the information to Quebec provincial police and asked them not to charge Boivin.Kelleher, questioned outside a cabinet meeting today, said he was surprised by the allegations and had asked his officials to investigate.MAKES CHECKS Daryl Harker, an aide ot the minister, said later that after cheeks with CSIS “We are satisfied they in no way interfered or attempted to interfere in the police investigation or in the laying of charges against Mr.Boivin.“No one’s above the law,” said Harker.Radio-Canada, the CBC French network, reported that CSIS has infiltrated at least four unions in addition to the CNTU on the pretext that it was necessary to monitor communist cells within the labor movement.Kelleher would not comment except to repeat assurances that CSIS is prevented by law from formally selecting any labor union as a suspect group and investigating members just because they belong to the union.But the security service reserves the right to monitor individuals within a union if they are suspected of subversive activities.The Security Intelligence Review Committee, the civilian group headed by former Tory MP Ron Atkey that oversees CSIS operations, has complained repeatedly that such practices are vague and may lend themselves to abuses.Atkey’s committee has started an investigation of union infiltration in the wake of the Boivin case.DRAWS FIRE The Radio-Canada report drew quick fire from Ken Georgetti, president of the B.C.Federation of Labor, who demanded a meeting with Kelleher “to learn precisely why a federal agency would find it necessary to infiltrate us.” Bob White, president of the Canadian Auto Workers, said he hadn’t heard of any infiltration but “it wouldn’t surprise me.“If it’s true it’s a disgrace and Kelleher should come clean with the names,” said White.“We are an open, democratic organization.” There was no immediate comment from the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the nation’s largest union with more than 300,000 members.A moo-ving protest in Stan stead Rl-CORI) Ml l '/uslll- r.RUI k ^âiÉiîfP** t* A Brian Moo-lroney look-alike was pari of farmers' clone even took a few moments to milk his bovine demonstration against free trade at the Stanstead- friends and welcome them to Canada.Read more Newport border Thursday.The Prime Minister’s about the demonstration on page 3.Marx: No inquiry into sex charges MONTREAL (CP) — The Quebec Justice Department will not conduct an inquiry into why 250 charges of sexual abuse against 14 people connected to a Montreal child care centre were suddenly dropped, an aide to Justice Minister Herbert Marx said Thursday.Carole Richard said the matter was closed.Michel Clair, director general of an association representing the centres, had asked the minister to investigate why all charges alleging sexual abuse against 30 children between 1981 and 1986 were dropped.The children ranged in age from six to 13 years.“ It is not normal that 250 charges be put before the courts (in November) and.later be dropped like that,” Clair said.“The final decision to drop the charges was taken by high-level officials at the Justice Department, ’’ Richard said.“The question of dropping charges is closed.” Montreal Crown prosecutors Marie-Andree Trudeau and Helene Morin have been quoted as saying that it is possible the children were not subjected to sexual abuse.They said once the children be gan to testify in court they altered testimony given to the police, contradicted one another and in some cases refused to testify.Posties no closer to settlement By Dave Blaikie OTTAWA (CP) — Canada Post and its biggest union moved closer to a postal strike Thursday, talking over minor differences but addressing none of the major issues threatening to disrupt the mail nationally for the second time in three months.Harold Dunstan, top negotiator for Canada Post, said the two sides have done little since talks resumed Wednesday but review bargaining positions that have gathered dust since talks broke down in August.Neither side dealt with proposals for a settlement outlined in a conciliation report prepared by Montreal lawyer Claude Foisy, Dunstan said.The report was released by the Labor Department on Tuesday — starting a formal seven-day countdown to a legal strike by the 23,000-member Canadian Union of Postal Workers as of 12:01 a m.Wednesday, Sept.30.“We sort of danced around that,” Dunstan said of the report.“Nobody wants to lock themselves in just yet .we’ll get to that after we get the other issues out of the way," he told reporters.Union president Jean-Claude Parrot agreed that neither side had given ground, especially on the critical issue of franchising.Canada Post wants to convert up to 4,200 union jobs to cheap-wage private sector jobs through the sale of post office franchises to private business.Union postal workers earn $13.43 an hour compared to rates of about half that amount or less in comparable retail jobs.RCMP: LaSalle abused influence MONTREAL(CP)—RCMP investigators allege in a search warrant that former federal minister Roch LaSalle personally negotiated a deal worth $51,000 for his old friend Gervais DesRo-chers even though DesRochers did nothing to earn the money.In a court document, obtained Thursday, the RCMP says LaSalle used his position as public works minister in 1985 to bring DesRochers into an Ottawa office lease deal under which the government pays about $1 million in annual rent to Metropolitan Life i Insurance Co.HARARE (AP) — South Africa’s prisons are crowded with young people and many of them have been tortured, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe said Thursday.“The prisons of South Africa are today full of children who, under civilized conditions, should be in schools undergoing preparation for their future roles and responsi bilities as citizens of their country,” he said.“Alas, their prescribed lot is that of being murdered, tortured, brutalized and imprisoned,” Mugabe said at a conference on the plight of children in South Africa.About 500 civil rights activists from 30 countries are attending the conference, which opened Thursday in the Zimbabwean capital Mugabe said he hoped the conference would raise international awareness of children imprisoned without trial by South African authorities.LaSalle, who resigned from the cabinet under fire last February, has denied that he improperly pressured the giant U.S.insurance firm to retain his hometown friend and political associate as a real estate consultant.The former minister does acknowledge that he discussed government office rentals with DesRochers, who lives in LaSalle’s Joliette riding, 75 kilometres northeast of Montreal.The RCMP search warrant, filed in Joliette sessions court, alleges that DesRochers, through his company Inter Gestion GD The Geneva-based human rights group.Defence for Children International, said in June that 10,000 children had been detained under emergency regulations imposed in June 1986.NUMBER DENIED On Wednesday, South Africa’s law and order minister, Adriaan Vlok, said in Cape Town that 115 minors, none younger than 15, are detained under emergency regulations.In April, the government said there were 1.424 detainees under the age of 18.Among the delegates at the conference are Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress, the leading guerrilla group fighting to end apartheid; Lisbet Palme, widow of the late Swedish prime minister Olof Palme and Glenys Kinnock, wife of Neil Kinnock, the leader of the British Labor party.Organizers said several black teenagers who say they were tortu- Ltee, was paid $18,000 by the Ottawa building owner, Metropolitan Life, in three monthly payments of $6,000 between July and September 1985.Inter Gestion then received an additional $33,000, although the initial agreement had stipulated that the $18,000 in expenses would be deducted from the final fee, the sworn statement says.The $33,000 payment was based on the amount of office space eventually rented in the Ottawa building for the Canadian free-trade negotiating team headed by Simon Reisman.red in South African jails will testify about their ordeals before the conference ends Sunday.Tambo said South African security forces routinely shot and killed children in the crackdown on antiapartheid activists.“Children died with bullets through their heads and young bodies, hearts and brains stopped before maturity,” he said.Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the conference chairman, praised about 120 delegates who were attending the symposium from South Africa without their government's approval.“A state which is prepared to use its military and paramilitary forces against children is a state which must be outlawed from the world community,” he said.A report from the New York Lawyers Committee for Human Rights said more than 200 children have been killed and 703 wounded in state-sanctioned violence in South Africa.Parents of quintuplets ‘happy and elated’ OTTAWA (CP) — The father of Canada’s new quintuplets says the babies are doing as well as can be expected and he and his wife are looking forward to getting them home from hospital.“We're quite happy and elated and we will be more so when we can get them all home,” Kim For-gie, who lives near Orleans, Ont., east of Ottawa, told reporters on Thursday.The babies in order of birth are daughter Kiza, son Rhys, daughters Anya and Zuri and son Matthew.Kiza is a name the Forgies made up, Zuri is Swahili and the others are just names the couple liked.“Hopefully, they’ll like them as much as we do,” Forgie said.Forgie’s wife Lauren is recovering from the birth of the babies by caesarean section on Tuesday afternoon.Little information has been made public about the condition of the children at the request of the parents.Three of them are still at Ottawa General Hospital Kiza and Anya have been transferred to the nearby Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.HOPE FOR BEST “Understandably, you know, things are still in the air.It’s very precarious so we have to bide our time and hope for the best," Forgie said The quintuplets are the first born in Canada since the Dionne quintuplets were born in Northern Ontario in 1934.Zimbabwean president calls for justice Children imprisoned in South Africa fW * 71 KI< UttD/ THE WEATHER REPORT,.AREN'T YOU INTERESTEP?(p 1967 United Foaiuu» «dtcatr Inc I ALREAPYKN0U) ALL ABOUT IT.> when sou lose the last game of the SEASON IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG WINTER,.ARLO AND JANIS « by Jimmy Johnson honey, do sou know WHERE THE.MACHINE OIL IG1 YE6! 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