The record, 12 janvier 1989, jeudi 12 janvier 1989

Births, deaths .7 Classified .8 Comics .y Editorial .4 Farm & Business .5 Ei'injj .0 Sports .lo-n Townships .3 Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Thursday, January 12.1989 40 cents Not enough clinic staff to go around Do you mind if I smoke' Red Cross blood shortage: E.T.donors will have to wait By Rossana Coriandoli SHERBKOOKE - Although the only two Red Cross laboratories in Quebec now have a serious shortage of blood.Eastern Townships residents won't be able to help.Canadian Red Cross labs in Montreal and Quebec City supply the province's hospitals’s blood banks.Because of the temporary shortage, many hospitals have had to postpone elective surgery until their blood inventory is replaced A few eases of emergency sum' ry have been postponed at Mon treal hospitals but not in the Townships, which is served by the Montreal lab B u t despite this s h o r t a g e Townships residents interested in donating their blood are meeting with closed doors.Outside of Montreal and Quebec City there is nowhere to go to do nate blood in Quebec Uthough there is a Red Cross office 111 Slier brooke, it does not have blood col lection or storage fascilities NOT \ It XNK "The Sherbrooke Red Cross is only an office, not a bank," said Ro bert Ouellet.Red Cross regional manager Ouellet said in at Sherbrooke office is of organizing blood help of techniciar from the Montreal i Ouellet said mos experience a short a of the year tor two i tmus blood drives poor results and ttu demand tor blood a back to work otter their Christmas breaks Ouellet said Townsluppers who want to help replenish the blood supply t an do so only by attending a blood donor elinie The uexl ones to be held in Sherbrooke will be at the end ol January at Bishop s I'm versity.I'niversity of Sherbrooke Sec Bl 001), Page v ‘Following the wind' ___ a?Parizeau: Bourassa faces political demise By Penny MacRae QUEBEC (CP) — Premier Robert Bourassa's flip-flops on Quebec's new signs policy show he is running scared over the volatile issue, Parti Québécois Leader Jacques Parizeau said Wednesday.Parizeau was commenting on Bourassa's announcement Tuesday that he would release regulations for posting bilingual signs before the legislature reconvenes March 14, instead of sticking to an earlier plan to wait until after a general election expected this year.Bourassa.whose first government was defeated in 1976 partly Quebec says no to medal for Premier QUEBEC (CP) — Quebec has politely declined an offer by France to present Premier Robert Bouras-sa with a Legion of Honor medal during his visit there this month and sources say it’s because the premier doesn’t want to cause a stir in English Canada.The sources say Bourassa doesn’t want to rock the linguistic boat further after the storm provoked by his legislation outlawing any language but French on outdoor commercial signs.“It’s obvious Bourassa would have accepted if the Meech Lake accord had been ratified." one source said, adding Quebec let it be known the honor would be appreciated but at a later date.Bourassa aide Ronald Poupart has confirmed the honor was discussed and said it was rejected by officials of Quebec’s international affairs department.But he said the premier's office was not involved and denied any consideration of an anglophone backlash.“There is nothing in that, no link at all,” Poupart said in an interview."The Legion of Honor was never formally offered to Mr.Bourassa although he would have accepted it w ith pleasure.“That was never brought up at his office.’ Jean-Louis Roy, Quebec’s delegate-general to France, confirmed a preliminary approach was made by France to decorate Bourassa.The Liberal premier would have been the second Quebec premier to receive the distinction since Rene Levesque was made Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1977 for his promotion of La Francophonie, the French equivalent of the British Commonwealth.Bourassa leaves today for a 22-day trip to promote Quebec business with France.Germany, Britain.Switzerland and Belgium.because ot language controversy, is following the wind; he is trying to improvise from day to day," Parizeau told a news conference.Such indecision is "usually the point of departure of political demise.That is what Mr Bourassa is facing," added Parizeau, whose party trails the Liberals by a hefty margin in opinion polls but sees the language issue as a chance to close the gap.Guy Rivard, minister responsible for language, denied the PQ’s allegations that government policy on language is incoherent.Rivard told reporters there had been a misunderstanding about Bourassa's plans.Parizeau said Bourassa never expected so much opposition to the government’s law passed in December that retained the province's F'rench only rule for outside signs but permitted bilingual signs inside, as long as French is predominant.OPPOSITION STRONG Parizeau said Bourassa is at a dead end : he cannot satisfy anglophones who want him to honor a 1985 electoral pledge to permit bilingual signs indoors and outdoors, and cannot please francophones opposed to any change in Bill 101, which in 1977 made French the official language of Quebec.Parizeau repeated a call for the government to hold a summit or parliamentary hearing on the signs policy, and denounced the Liberals for “stifling parliament." The government rushed through its new sign legislation in three days after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Quebec's old sign law in December as contrary to freedom of expression, Quebec justified its fast action by saying it needed to fill a legal void.Bourassa has refused opposition calls for a parliamentary hearing on the signs issue, saying that would only create “more confrontation than dialogue.” Parizeau said his party may hold a parliamentary hearing made up only of PQ members or it could convene its own language summit to which all interested groups would be invited.Rivard, accused by the opposition of fumbling the signs issue, said the government still is defining what “clear predominance" of French will mean where bilingual signs are posted.General guidelines for bilingual signs will be published within a few days, he said.But under the new law.businesses employing more than 50 workers and franchises must wait until the regulations spelling out the rules are published before putting up bilingual signs.The intent “is to make sure another language is used only when it is necessary, only when — for instance — customers do require it." Rivard said Charges dropped against Blaikie in Memotec case MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec's stock-market w atchdog has quietly dropped all legal action against four people it charged with insider trading in the purchase of Teleglobe Canada by Memotec Data Inc.in February 1987, The Quebec Securities Commission withdrew the charges shortly before Christmas.one of its lawyers said Wed nesday in an interview Richard Proulx attributed the move to the commission's failure to win convictions against two other people it had charged under the province’s Securities Act in the case.Peter Blaikie.a prominent Montreal lawyer and former federal Conservative party president.was acquitted last April, and Joseph Szaszkiewicz.a Memotec director, was acquitted in November.Proulx said it has proved impossible to demonstrate without reasonable doubt that know ledge of Memotec‘s offer to buy the then-Crown corporation could have affected the value of its shares.Daron West man.‘Concerns about the impact on our culture.’ The Answers: Valerie Lackie, Sherbrooke: “No I don’t! I don’t understand anything about it.I am not really into politics to begin with.The government should do something like send pamphlets door to door or make the information available through the post office.’’ ‘WHOSE GAIN IS IT?’ “All I know’ is what has been reported in the media.I would like to know what we as Cana dians are getting out of this deal.Like whose gain is it — the Americans’ or ours?” Daron Westman.Richmond: “I’ve seen very little from the government.Most of the informa tion that I have on free trade is obtained from anti-free trade or ganizations." “I don’t have questions about free trade.I have more concerns about the impact on our culture, such as the fabric of life, health care, our arts community and the Janice LaDuke.7 have questions hut I don't know where to start.' economic structure in Canada.” Jenny Jasper.Sherbrooke: “No I don’t.I think the government doesn’t inform us about anything.I have questions but I feel thaï 1 am not informed to really know what questions 1 should be asking.” "The questions that 1 do have are related to my life.They arc more culture questions that would pertain to me for my position in life.” Janice LaDuke, Lcnnoxville: "No! I don't think they have.” “1 have questions, but I don’t know where to start." Pamela Jouris, Sawyerville: "No, but then again 1 haven't been in direct contact with the go-vrenment.I do have questions, such as how will free trade affect social medicine and how’ will they balance the two ecomomic systems?” “Or will they?” ! f, L Pamela Jouris.‘How will free trade affect social medicine?' Valeric Lackie.7 don’t understand anything about it.’ Jenny Jasper.'The government doesn’t inform us about anything.’ KM mon: Let Court rule on Meech B\ loin Blackwell WINNIPEG iCP) The federal governtnenl should ask (he Su preme Court of Canada to rule on the meaning of the Meech Lake ae eord’s distincl society clause.Pro micr Gary Filmon said Wed nesday "My major concern is whether the distinct society clause has any effect to diminish minority rights or individual rights under the Constitution,” he said."That is something that has been thrown into question as a result of Quebec’s action." Filmon said most premiers had few concerns about the clause until last month.That's when Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa said he could have used the section to side-step a Supreme Court ruling and ban En glish signs outside buildings.In fact, Bourassa employed the notwithstanding clause in the Charleroi Rightsto implement the province's new language law.known as Bill 178.a move that Conservative government to with draw support for Meech Lake.ACCEPT REALITY “Other first ministers across the country indicated it (the clause) was nothing more or less than an acceptance of the reality of Que bec.’ the premier said."Now we have one premier and one government saying it would have given them the ability to pass a hill such as 17H .and I think that is obviously cause for concern The premier said changing the wording of the distinct society clause wouldn’t necessarily clarify it, as any law is open to interpréta tion.He refused to say whether he would put his support behind Meech Lake again if a positive ru ling Came back from the Supreme Court.Manitoba Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs said Wednesday she sup ports a reference to the Supreme Court, But she said a favorable ruling from the court would not he enough to w in back her party's support for Meech Lake, since the Liberals have a number of other concerns The inquiring photographer: SHERBROOKE Even though the deal went into force last week, many Eastern Townshippers say the federal government still hasn’t done enough to explain so-called free trade with the United States.At least that wras the finding of Grant Simeon, the Record s inquiring photographer, among readers polled on Wednesday.The Question: Do you think the Canadian Government has done enough to inform Canadians about free trade, and doyou still have questions about it?Smoking reached historic about the pact.low — Charest By Dennis Bueckert OTTAWA (CP) —Smoking in Canada has reached an all-time low says the latest survey of tobacco consumption, but children arc starting to smoke at an earlier age The Statistics Canada survey, released Wednesday to coinckh with National Non-Smoking Week, says the percentage of Canadians who are regular smokers has decli ned to 28 per cent from 43 per cent in 1966.Smoking among men '31 per cent ' and women (26 per cent ¦ is at its lowest ever, with a greater de cline among men than women, says the study, released at a news conference by Health and Fitness Minister Jean Charest."The health community now be lieves that a smoke-free society is within reach." said the Canadian Council on Smoking and Health in a statement.The report is based on a survey of 30,799 Canadians by Statistics Canada in December 1986.The survey has been conducted regularly since 1964.There is considerable variation in smoking rates by province, with Quebec (33.6 per cent) the highest, and British Columbia (21.9 per cent) the lowest.Charest noted that cigarette smoking has reached a historic low for each age group and declined to just 18 per cent among those aged 15 to 19.Children remain a big concern.Tw enty years ago.smokers started puffing at an average age of 16.The average age is now 14 and will be down to 12 for the children now entering school.SMOKES EARLY "Smoking is starting to occur at younger and younger ages, espe- cially among girls," said Elinor Wilson of the council on smoking and health, who attributed the trend to more effective tobacco ad vertising.‘ The ads present smoking as a healthy, attractive thing to do The whole message of emancipation and freedom aimed at young girls is a very dangerous thing.' This year’s anti-smoking cam paign will concentrate on children.Two Grade 1 children at the news conference kicked things off by tel ling Charest they don’t intend to smoke.The federal government has pas sed legislation to phase out all forms of tobacco advertising over the next few years, hut anti smoking groups say further measures are needed.They say the 1908 federal law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors is hopelessly outdated and unenforceable.The maximum fine under the law is $10.They say Canadian legislation outlawing the sale of tobacco dates from 1908 and is hopelessly outda ted and unenforceable The maxi mum line under the federal law is There have been no reported convictions under it.In January, Health Minister Jake Epp said he intended to bring in a law that would be effective in preventing tobacco sales to mi nors A recent Gallup poll sugges ted 82 per cent of Canadians favor such restrictions.Smokers form 33.1 per cent of the Newfoundland population, 30.6 per cent in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.29.1 in Alberta.27.7 in Manitoba.27.3 in Saskatchewan, 25.8 in Ontario and 25.4 in Prince Edward Island Liberals go cross-country to look into tree trade OTTAWA (CP) — A committee of Liberal MPs plans to tour the coun try this winter to hear from those who feel they are victims of theCa nada-lT S.free-trade agreement trade critic Lloyd Axworthy said Wednesday “Clearly there is a vacuum and void in the country right now as to what impact and repercussions the trade agreement is having on Canadians." he said.He said the government has not taken any steps to help Canadians who Axworthy says have already lost their jobs because of the trade deal He said the first session will be Feb.7 in Ottawa.Last year, a similar Liberal committee toured the country to hear from opponents of the agree ment Despite opposition attacks on the deal as a threat to sovereignty.Prime Minister Brian Mulroney -Conservatives were re-elected in the Nov.21 election The deal, which will took effect will phase out tariffs and other eommerical barriers he United States over the ) years.ics of the agreement say rids of workers have already aid off by industries reorga-iccause of greater competi-ith the United States. 2—The RECORD—Mondiiy, January Ifi, IMHh ‘It is inconceivable that Canada should have such restrictive refugee policies’ New immigration law intended to simplify is harshly criticized By Jim Coyle The Canadian Tress An elderly Nazi propagandist, an Ahmadiyya Muslim who apparen tly isn't and a teenaged Czechoslovakian hot key star are all part of Canada’s immigration and refugee story these days So are refugee kids kicked out of Toronto-area schools, a teenaged Honduran ushered to the U S.bor der Tuesday and an Indian Sikh to be sent home Friday.A dozen days into Canada’s new refugee laws, the fallout for depor ted individuals has begun and debate on the issue continues as appeals hit the courts and Canada is denounced abroad.This week, an 18-year old Honduran became the first refugee clai mant expelled under stricter laws that took effect Jan.1.Gelby Agm leira was handed over to U S.authorities after his claim for refugee status was judged unfounded by a two member panel For many, those panels are at the centre of the refugee dispute.Under the new system, an Immigration Canada adjudicator and a representative of the new Immigration and Refugee Hoard eva luate a claimant's story to assess his or her need for refuge.If they agree the claim is bogus they can order the claimant deported within 72 hours.Roger White, an Immigration Department spokesman, said Wednesday that mass deportations are not anticipated.LAWS CRITICIZED The new law drew international criticism at a recent conference in Oxford, England, where some said Canada was regressing toward a closed door policy for those fleeing persecution, "It is inconceivable that Canada should have such restrictive refugee policies,” said Zia Rizvi, secretary-general of a Geneva-based human rights organization.Ottawa said the changes were needed to stop abuses and replace a cumbersome, nine-step process that took up to five years to settle a claim.In its first week, the Immigration and Refugee Board held 73 initial hearings across Canada.Twenty-six applicants were sent to full hearings, two withdrew and 45 had hearings postponed or adjourned.Chhinder Pal, a 22-year-old Indian Sikh, became the first of the 2til claimants who applied for refugee status lust week to be ordered deported However, Melvin Weigel, a Montreal lawyer representing Pal, has sought permission to appeal Pal will be held in Montreal until Friday when he is to be put on a plane for India, An earlier lawsuit was filed in the Federal Court of Canada by the Canadian Council of Churches asking that several sections of the law be struck down because they are unconstitutional.A spokesman for the group says the law denies universal access to a full hearing, permits arbitrary detention and lacks a meaningful appeal process.Elaine Liebelt of Edmonton, responsible for five adjudicators in the Prairie region, has said "fairness will take precedence over efficiency” and adjudicators have been told to give claimants the benefit of ttio Houht STAYED BEHIND One Alberta case certain to be closely followed is that of Peter Nedved, a 17-year-old Czechoslovakian hockey player who did not return home with his team after a Christmas tournament and has told Canadian immigration officials he wants to defect.In York region, north of Toronto, children of refugee parents have been barred from schools because of crowded classrooms and a lack of government funding.Ontario Education Minister Chris Ward, saying the board was breaking the law, has promised to reopen the school to refugees.Elsewhere, two veteran anti-Nazi campaigners want the federal government to lay war-crimes charges against a former Yale University lecturer seeking refugee status in Montreal Sol Littman and David Matas argued this week that Vladimir Sokolov, 75, stripped of his American citizenship in 1986, should be charged for crimes because of his alleged collaboration during the Second World War with Nazi occupation forces in his Soviet hometown And in Toronto, the hearing fur a Pakistani refugee was adjourned Tuesday for a third time after a persecuted Muslim religious sect denied he was a member, Mustasam Iqbal Khan, 26, arrived in Toronto on Jan.1 after boarding a flight from West Germany with a false passport.The Canadian president of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam said the man has no connection with the group, although such claims are common among Pakistanis seeking refugee status Canadians battling to be next astronaut OTTAWA (CP) Two more candidates including the country's only female astronaut joined the race Wednesday to be the next Canadian in space.Roberta Bondar, a 43-year-old neurologist and former professor of medicine at Hamilton's McMaster University, will start training in the next few weeks in hope of winning a spot on the U.S.space shuttle by early 1991.Her competitor will be Ken Money, 54, a professor of physiology at the University of Toronto and a onetime air force pilot who is an expert in flight medicine.Both have been part of the six-member Canadian astronaut team since its inception in 1983.The only one in space so far has been Marc Garneau, the navy captain who flew aboard the shuttle in 1984.Lise Beaudoin, a spokesman for the Canadian space program, said it will be a year or so before officials decide whether Bondar or Money will get the nod to join a shuttle flight scheduled for February 1991.The flight will be the first in a series dubbed the International Microgravity Laboratory, in which teams of scientists will conduct experiments in zero-gravity lab conditions aboard the shuttle.Included in the first flight will be experiments designed by nearly two dozen researchers in Canadian government, universities and private industry, said Robert de Co-tret and Frank Oberle, the two ministers responsible for Canadian science.WEIGHTLESS RESEARC H Most of the research will centre on “space adaptation” — the process by which the body adapts to weightless conditions.A quirk of scheduling will make Bondar or Money the second Canadian in space.It had appeared the honor would go to Steve MacLean, a laser physicist who was scheduled to fly on the shuttle in March 1987.That mission was put on hold after the Challenger disaster killed seven U.S.astronauts, then rescheduled for late 1990, then postponed again until early 1992.The microgravity lab program had been planned as part of package of experiments leading up to the planned launching of an orbi ting space station in the late 1990s.Canada is one of 10 countries cooperating with the United States in the $23-billion program to create a permanently-staffed space station.Bondar, who has degrees in zoology, pathology, neurobiology and medicine, has conducted research on everything from the genetic makeup of the spruce budworm to multiple sclerosis.Money, who was a pilot in the RCAF and later a civilian researcher for the Defence Department, has specialized in problems of motion sickness and disorientation.He has collaborated since the early 1960s in research by the U.S.National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Racial tensions,brawls at Nova Scotia school i By Alan Jeffers DARTMOUTH, N.S.(CP) — A black and white working-class j tense lunch-hour standoff between communities throughout suburban blacks and whites at a high school Dartmouth, that was the site of a brawl this The skirmish, which ended week ended with only a few without injury, came as RCMP punches thrown on Wednesday.were investigating a brawl invol-But the battle isn't over yet.ving 40 to 50 people at the same "Come back tomorrow and see it parking lot on Tuesday, all again," said a frustrated tea- Staff Sgt.Harry Wheaton said cher at Cole Harbour District High two or three people will probably School who spent his lunch hour as be charged with assault today or a member of a peacekeeping force Friday.Not all of the people under of seven or eight school officials, investigation were students at the For 90 minutes, about 150 stu- school, located just outside Dar-dents and non-students in two tmouth’s city limits, groups stood staring at each other TwoRCMPofficers werebackat across the parking lot of the school, the school on Wednesday but re-whose students comes from white mained in a patrol car and left be-middle-class subdivisions and fore the fighting began.1________________tel itccora George MacLaren, Publisher.Randy Klnnear, Assistant Publisher.Charle* Bury, Editor.Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager .Richard Leaaard, Production Manager .Mark Gulllette, Press Superintendent .Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room ,.CIRCULATION DEPT.819-569-9528 KNOWLTON OFF.: 514-243-0088 FAX: (819) 569-3945 Subscriptions by Carrier: weekly: $1.80 Subscriptions by Mall: Canada: 1 year- $69 00 6 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North.It is the first time an MP has been defeated in a recount after taking his place in the Commons, said YvonTarte, a lawyer for Elections Canada.An Ontario Supreme Court judge overturned the election results Wednesday, declaring 28-year-old Liberal Maurizio Bevilacqua the winner by 77 votes.O'Brien was originally declared the winner in the riding near Toronto after he won by 66 votes.But a few days later, Elections Canada said an official addition made Bevilacqua the winner by the same 66-vote margin.After the first judicial recount Dec.5, O’Brien’s election-night victory was restored.Woman judge most activist OTTAWA (CPI — Madam Justice Bertha Wilson has emerged as the most activist judge on the Supreme Court of Canada and the most likely to rule in favor of the individual in constitutional disputes, a University of Calgary political scientist says.Professor F.L.(Ted) Morton, in a study of voting records on Charter of Rights cases, identifies Wilson, whose ruling in the Morgentaler abortion case last year caught national attention, as the main force in the court’s activist wing.When the court struck down the therapeutic abortion law a year ago in a 5-2 ruling, it did so on grounds that the law was too unfair in its application to survive the constitutional guarantee of fundamental justice.Wilson went farther, saying there was a constitutional right to abortion and it was a woman’s decision, at least in the initial stages of pregnancy, that the state shouldn't interfere with.Parents need training REGINA (CP) — Saskatchewan has become the first province to introduce mandatory training for foster parents and base their pay on the qualifications needed to handle different children."We needed this training to upgrade their skills." Social Services Minister Grant Schmidt said Wednesday after announcing a system of training and classifying foster parents into four categories."Over the years the foster parents system has changed from the care of children to really the correction of children."The most difficult children are going into the foster homes and you don't really have what you might call the ordinary children anymore.’’ Schmidt's department, along with the Saskatchewan Foster Parents Association, developed a program that requires foster parents to take 24 hours training before any children are placed with them.N.B.may get nuke FREDERICTON (CP) — Premier Frank McKenna seems to have had a change of heart about nuclear power and now is discussing the possible construction of a second reactor in New Brunswick.If the project goes ahead, it would mean new life for Canada’s troubled nuclear industry.McKenna told reporters on Wednesday there have been discussions about the project with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.since shortly after his Liberal government came to power in 1987.That came as a surprise since the Liberal election platform included a statement that a second reactor was "not a viable option, at this time" and McKenna promised to pursue other means of power generation.Black hole in Milky Way?BOSTON (AP) — A stream of gas about 145 trillion kilometres away is flowing toward the centre of the Milky Way, perhaps fuelling a massive black hole at the very heart of the Earth’s galaxy, astronomers reported Tuesday.Researchers said their discovery is the first evidence of a thin river of gas being sucked across the heavens by the awesome gravity of a black hole.The radio telescope observation, made by an international team, provides new support for the still-controversial idea that a massive black hole exists at the centre of the Milky Way.A black hole is what remains when stars collapse upon themselves, leaving only a speck of infinite density.Their gravitational pull is so strong that nothing escapes, not even light.Rape victim decides prison term MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 65-year-old woman who was raped in her home was allowed to decide the prison term of her attacker—54 months in jail.A judge said Tuesday she was allowed to chose because of her age, the viciousness of the assault and court delays.“I’m not advocating that the victims decide the penalty, but I thought it was the fairest thing to do in this case,” said Hennepin County Judge William Posten.The victim was given two choices Monday in the prosecution of James Halvorson, 25.She could accept conditions of a plea agreement for a 54-month prison sentence that would be effective immediately, or have the case go to trial and hope for a conviction.A trial might have resulted in a prison term of 108 months.Missile crisis neared war WASHINGTON (AP) — Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, enraged over President John Kennedy’s naval blockade of Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis, told Soviet ships to burst through the blockade, but the order was rescinded just hours before a confrontation, two Harvard University researchers said in a new book.“If this order had held, war between the superpowers would probably have commenced at sea, shortly after 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning, Oct.24,1962, several hundred miles off the coast of Cuba,” James Blight and David Welch of Harvard’s John F.Kennedy School of Government wrote in a book based on conferences and interviews with former U.S.and Soviet officials.Anastas Mikoyan, then Soviet first deputy premier, was the catalyst for the reversal of Khrushchev’s order, the authors said.Mikoyan “pre-empted Khrushchev’s order to run the blockade and ordered Soviet ships to stop just short of the quarantine line,” they wrote in the book.Nazi hunter accuses Syria PARIS (Reuter) — Nazi hunter Serge Klar-sfeld said today that France has asked Syria to extradite Alois Brunner, who he described as the most important Nazi war criminal still alive.Syria says it has no knowledge of Brunner.Klarsfeld told reporters the French government had presented an extradition request to Damascus for Brunner, who is accused of organizing deportations of Jews from France, Greece and Slovakia during the Second World War.French Foreign Ministry officials weren’t immediately available to confirm Klarsfeld’s comments.Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa, in Paris for an international chemical weapons conference, told journalists: “I have never heard of this man.” Syria has consistently said it has no knowledge about Brunner, who lives in Damascus under the name Georg Fischer.People drown on way to wake ISLAMABAD (Reuter) — About 90 people drowned on their way to a funeral when their boat broke up in a river in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the official APP news agency said Wednesday.Officials said only 35 of the 125 people aboard escaped by swimming to the banks of the Ravi in Punjab's Sahiwal district after the vessel overturned Tuesday, the agency reported.The boat hit a piece of iron laid across the river to make a temporary bridge, overturned and broke into pieces, APP said.The passengers were going to a relative’s funeral.Not all prisoners accounted for MOSCOW (AP) — A group of activists has rejected Soviet claims that all political prisoners have been freed, saying 20 or 30 remain in special psychiatric hospitals staffed by “sadists." To support their claim, the activists held a news conference Wednesday and named three people they say are political prisoners in psychiatrie hospitals.Two other men at the news conference said they are political prisoners released in the past six months.President Mikhail Gorbachev told the United Nations last month: “There are no persons convicted for their political or religious beliefs in places of confinement” in his country.A delegation of U.S.psychiatrists is expected to arrive in Moscow in late February to visit alleged political prisoners being held in psychiatric hospitals, said U.S.Embassy spokesman Mike Hurley.He said the group has requested Soviet response on 48 patients and it expects to be allowed to see 20 of them.Cocaine growers kill coppers LIMA (AP) — Shining Path rebels killed 11 policemen in a cocaine-producing jungle valley, and Lima police arrested 200 students in a protest instigated by the leftist guerrilla group, authorities said.The two weekend ambushes by the Shining Path in the Huallaga Valley, where about 60 per cent of the world’s coca crop is grown, also wounded 11 people, the government paper La Cronica reported Tuesday.The deaths brought the insurgency toll since Saturday to 28 killed.Aussies to inspect Libya plant MELBOURNE (Reuter) — A group of left-wing Australian politicians left for Libya today aiming to inspect a factory the United States says can produce chemical weapons.“My interest in going there is to represent the views of the peace and disarmament movement on chemical weapons,” said New South Wales independent state Senator Irina Dunn.The Libyan government is sponsoring the tour by five state politicians from Victoria and New South Wales.Opposition politicians and factions in the Australian Labor party have condemned the trip.Libyan sympathizers in Australia organized the visit after the Jan.4 shooting down of two Libyan MiG-23 fighters by U.S.jets amid rising tension over the chemical plant at Rabta.Tripoli says the factory will make only pharmaceuticals.Aussie assassinated CANBERRA (AP) — One of Australia’s most senior law enforcement officials was shot to death in the driveway of his home in an apparent execution-style slaying.Colin Winchester, the assistant federal police commissioner, was shot twice in the head at point-blank range Tuesday night.Federal Police Commissioner Peter McAulay said drug gangs were among possible suspects in the killing and newspapers speculated it was related to drug investigations.Weather Snow changing to rain today, a chance of freezing rain later in afternoon.Strong winds dying down late in the day and a high of 2.Friday will be cold and sunny, the high Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU fJUL THAT'S IT, 3A0Y PCe/ YOU CAN CARRY ON ALL YOU TUANT, 3UT "HERES MORE TO UFB THAN GERALPO ANP OPRAH ANP SALLY ANP PHIL ANP MORTON ANP GARY ANP REGIS ANP PEE-TUEE ' I____I INCREDIBLE AS IT 5 SUNOS, THERE'S A MOLE WORLD OUTSIDE OE TELEVISION.BABY DOE! 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NEKT, SHE FEDERAL EXPRESSED HER HUS-BANDS HEAD TO HIS LOVER.,.CUR' 3 The RKCOKD—Monday, January H>, Ifso The Townships #1___ttci irecom To continue as *a citizens watchdog group on nuclear effects on the environment* Coalition CHUS savors Slowpoke victory but struggles to find new battles By Rita Leguult SHERBROOKE - The battle against the Slowpoke may be over, but Atomic Energy of Canada tAECL» hasn't heard the last of the group which successfully fought the baby nuke, The Coalition CHUS (Coalition to Continue Hydro not Uranium for our Safety) met Tuesday night to sum up their successful campaign against the Slowpoke reactor and to talk about the future.But so far it is unclear what future, if any, is in store for the Coalition Successful in blocking the 10-megawatt nuclear reactor planned by the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), the group is now discussing how to channel its energies into fighting other nuclear or environmental issues, "The consensus is that it was quite a remarkable victory for people's democracy," said coalition spokesman Peter Weldon in an interview after the meeting "The population of the Eastern Townships has proved it is not willing to sit by idly and let others make decisions that affect their environment and their future." CONSENSUS TO CONTINUE T think there is a consensus that the Coalition should stay together and take advantage of the wide variety of talent and experience it has brought to bear on the question of a reactor at the hospital," Weldon said."We want to examine what collective energies are available to have a continuing presence as a citizens watchdog group on nuclear effects on the environment,” Weluon says this may include fighting AECL's proposal to dis pose of radioactive waste by bu rying it in the Canadian Shield.While he admits the Canadian Shield is far from the Townships, Weldon said Township peace groups were successful in fighting a similar U.S.proposal to bury radioactive nuclear wastes just across the border in Vermont."There is a lot of granite here in the Eastern Townships," he added Weldon and about two dozen other coalition members, who met for the first time since the Coalition's victory against the Slowpoke, all agree the group gained much experience in the fight against the Slowpoke — experience which can be used to fight future environmental battles.But members of the coalition, who come from various organiza lions, unions, environmental, peace and anti nuclear groups, fai led to come to a consensus on where they should direct their efforts Ironically, for the five months the loose coalition of citizens’ groups was fighting the Slowpoke everything went smoothly.Now that the battle has been won, the coalition is debating what its goals were and what they now are At Tuesday's two-hour meeting, which stretched into three hours, the topic of what issues the coalition will take on never came up.However the group spent more than an hour discussing what should go into their thank-you letters addressed to politicians and others who supported the Coali- tion's fight A struggle developed between those who wanted to de nounce all things nuclear and those w ho w ere against the Slow poke but not against all uses of nuclear tech oology The struggle over what should and should not be included in the letter foreshadows future strug gles about the goals of the Coalition.The group did how ever agree to put together a dossier on their battle, including press clippings and personal observations which they could make available to the next municipality which has a fight against AECl.s nuclear reactor.As for the future, the group will meet again next month to ham mer out where they will decide to focus their energies •t Peler Weldon.continuing pn sence os o citizens watchdog Vallieres: region did very well economically Regional development pilot project could mean economic boon for Asbestos Y von Vallieres.The economic pillars of Richmond did very well.By Ann McLaughlin SHERBROOKE — The Quebec government will choose five towns across the province as pilot projects for economic diversification, and Richmond MNA Yvon Vallieres wants Asbestos to be one them.“The Minister of Regional development plans to help five one-industry towns to diversify,” he said.“If Asbestos is one of those, it will have a contract from the Quebec government assuring its economic growth.Under the program financial funding will be provided to help businesses expand and to help others get off the ground, though the government has yet to specify any amounts."Funding will probably differ from region to region,” he said.Giving an update of his past year's work in the riding, Vallieres said the region did very well econo mically and because of this should be used as an example for the rest of the province to follow.“The economic pillars of the Richmond riding, agriculture, Cascades Paper.J.M.Asbestos, and H.H.Brown Shoes, which recently took on the challenge of free trade, are all doing well,” he said.In line with his 1985 election promise, major roadwork on 7.5 kilometres of Route 116 has been finished following investments of $7.5 million.In 1989 the Liberals plan to improve more of the road from Danville towards Richmond."One of the main priorities last year w as to improve the highways.The major throughways were in a pathetic state.Over $7.5 million was invested in upgrading them and I don't expect to have less than that invested next year," Vallieres said, explaining that some parts of Route 116, the main transport road, have never been paved.Vallieres said he also looks forward to sitting down with his newly elected Federal Liberal colleague Yvon Coté to elaborate an economic development plan on which the two can cooperate.He said he wants to get the federal and provincial Liberal caucuses together in order to collaborate on economic development "We are planning to meet with the federal Liberals in January," Vallieres said, adding that despite the Tory victory, now that the federal elections are over politicians can start moving on joint projects for the area."There is also a socio-economic summit coming up in the Townships in 1990 and I would like to see federal participation," he said.One of his main goals for 1989, a provincial election year, is to look towards the new sectors of the Richmond riding, more than 9,000 were recently added in a reworking of the electoral map.On the language front things were rather calm in the Richmond riding.Vallieres said he met wilh Townshipper’s Association and at ter Bill 178 he received lettei s from anglophone residents dissatisfied with the bill "It didn’t stir up the passion as m other regions where there is a lai ger concentration of anglophones.Vallieres said.With the economy doing well Richmond riding can now move to wards improving the cultural HU tourism and environment of the u gion, said Vallieres in what might be considered a pro election build up Also for 1989 Vallieres said.I will be preparing for an election in the spring or at the latest, the fall,".‘It’s not the role of the municipality to do this kind of thing’ Lennoxville unlikely to assist citizens who defy bill 178 with bilingual signs By Rossana Coriandoli SHERBROOKE — Although no formal discussion has taken place in Lennoxville’s town council on the possibility of helping local businesses brought to court for keeping their bilingual signs, some councillors have already spoken against the idea.Councillor Andrew Johnson says although he is sympathetic to what he called the “anglophone cause”, he is not in favor of civil disobedience.“Certainly there is the court ruling on this,” he said in an telephone interview Wednesday evening."But there is the notwithstanding clause and we have to respect it.” Premier Robert Bourassa passed bill 178, banning bilingual signs outside stores while allowing some inside after the Supreme Court ru led last month that Quebec’s language law violates fundamental rights to freedom of expression.WON’T TAKE IT DOWN Last week, Lennoxville entrepreneur Terry Winslow said he will not take down his commercial sign, which has a few English words on it, despite the new law.Winslow, an agricultural consultant, also said he would like Lennoxville town council to pass a motion to assist businesspeople taken to court for posting bilingual signs.He said he is prepared to go to jail to fight Bill 178.Other local businesspeople have also said they are going to fight signs-law and refuse to take downt their bilingual signs for as long as they can.However, they are not ready to go to jail for this cause as Winslow is.Mayor Duncan Bruce said the idea has not been formally brought to council, but it will be under discussion soon.“Right now we haven’t had the time to discuss it,” he said.“Maybe in the next couple of weeks we will.” But like Johnson, councillor Pierre Massé said he is completely against the idea.PUBLIC MONEY “It’s not the role of the municipality to do this kind of thing,” Massé said.“It’s not up to the municipality to pay for this.Public money isn't there for that.They would have to bring very strong arguments to change my mind ’’ But although both Johnson and Massé agree on their opposition to helping businesspeople with language court cases, they disagree on different principles.“I don’t think there’s anything to be gained by this,” Johnson said.“It’s just going to cause trouble.” Mayor Duncan Bruce.will he under discussion soon.Andrew Johnson.have to respect clause.3* JS, $ i.Æ Pierre Massé.completely against idea.¦ m m : ‘Ensures every member equal say’ — Alan Gauthier Knowlton business lobby would widen base as SIDAC—51 per cent must say OK Alan Gauthier.'Access to a tremendous resource pool.’ 3* * By John McCaghey COWANSVILLE — Crown attorney Henry Keiserlingk said Wednesday he has issued and served a new summons on Georges Tringle charging him with first degree murder.Tringle.20, of Sutton, had been cited to the next term following a preliminary hearing on the charge of second degree murder in the stabbing death of his former neighbor Frank Royea, 68.in Sutton on Nov.2.1988.Keiserlingk said after reviewing the proof at the preliminary hearing, he felt there was sufficient evidence to justify the first By Sharon McCully KNOWLTON — A provisional committee established to set up a SIDAC (Société d'initiative et de développement d’artere commerciale) is projecting an 80 per cent approval for the concept in the Knowlton business community.“A compulsory 51 per cent of Knowlton businesses must support the formation of a SIDAC before we can go ahead," explained Alan Gauthier, chairman of the 12 member provisional committee."We’re confident with an 80 per cent approval in theory,” Gauthier said, “we will have something to bring to (Brome Lake) council in February.” Membership in a SIDAC entitles merchants to the benefits and resources of the 54 member provin- degree charge.The presumed suspect and defence lawyer Donald Bissonnette were served with the warrants by Quebec Police Force Wednesday.Louis Lefebvre, 19, also of Sutton, was cited to jury trial following his preliminary hearing on charges of conspiracy to commit armed robberies and attempted armed robberies in Royea’s ap-partment last year.He was arraigned on a charge of first degree murder in Royea’s death when defence lawyer Thomas Walsh said he would attempt to present a bail hearing before Superior Court in Granby on Jan.25.cial ‘regroupement des SIDAC du Québec'.MORE MEMBERS The forty member Knowlton merchants association would be dissolved in favor of the broader based SIDAC which would represent all 116 businesses and professionals.According to the SIDAC constitution, approval of 51 per cent of the business community entitles merchants to form the association and authorizes the municipality to collect the membership fee from the entire business community.“This is not a business tax,” Gauthier stated emphatically.“Taxes collected by a municipality go for various things in the budget ; the money collected by the town for A 16-year-old male, 44-year-old Ron Carter, and 18-year-old Wendy Fuller, all of Sutton, are awaiting trial on charges of having unlawfully profitted from more than $1000 per person as a result of the alleged robbery to Royea’s home on Nov.2.A cross-Canada warrant was issued for their arrest and they were eventually arrested in Maple Creek, Sask., approximately 40 miles east of the Alberta border on the Trans Canada Highway.Wendy Fuller admitted in court she had been a casual friend of Lefebvre’s and had become his lover.SIDAC goes back into the organization.” Gauthier sees several advantages to forming a SIDAC in Knowlton “It would unify the business people and allow us to accumulate more human and financial resources,” Gauthier said.“We’ll improve our negotiating power for the purchase of common services, and we’ll have access to a tremendous resource pool." Gauthier said in the past some individual businessmen in town have promoted Knowlton to the be- Continued from page ! and CEGEP de Sherbrooke.Hospitals which actually need the blood are unable to collect it through their own blood banks.TEST BLOOD “It’s not that they can t collect it.” Alain Masson, director of the Montreal Red Cross’ laboratory, said in a telephone interview from Montreal “Hospitals don't have the personnel and equipment to test blood for possible diseases." Masson said only the Red Cross can do this, so even blood collected locally must go to Montreal and back before it can be used in local hospitals.In the meantime hospitals must do what they can with the supply of blood they keep in their own banks — which in most cases means cancelling any surgery not considered an emergency.Under the present shortage at the Montreal lab, however, even nefit of all merchants, while others rode the crest.EQUAL SAY "A SIDAC ensures every mem her equal say in the direction of the group,” he said.“Final approval for all decisions of the board will rest with the membership at large.” Gauthier says the membership fee — which ranges from $200 annually for businesses with four employees or less, to $800 for large corporations — is a business investment.With benefits such as reduced credit-card rates on transactions, that supply is quickly sinking.CRITICAL STATE “If the Red Cross can’t replace the hospital’s inventory, it diminishes,’ Masson said “It can take a couple of weeks to get to a critical state.Right now they have a weak inventory, with only enough to answer to emergency needs.” Masson said Montreal answers each demand for blood as it comes in and only the hospitals’ emergency needs are supplied.“In such a case we send the least amount we can.We stick to a strict minimum,” he added."We talk with each hospital to see what their minimum needs are.” Masson attributes blood shortages which have plagued Red Cross labs in recent years to a number of new developments.He said new sugical technology is making greater demands on blood supplies, and the aging population has meant more people needing hospital services.a 4 per cent discount on gas and repairs offered by Shell Canada, reduced rates for courrier service and a collective insurance pro gram, members of a SIDAC alrea dy have a good return on their in vestment, Gauthier said.The provisional committee is fo recasting a budget of $30,900 for village improvements, generic ad vertising, special events and admi nistration.Gauthier said SIDAC will work closely with the Chamber of Commerce and any other group working towards a common goal Masson also said less people are willing to give blood today than they did in the past.He would not explain the reason RECRUIT DONORS Masson said the only way to deal with the situation is new strategies for recruiting blood donors, parti cularly at times when there is a need for more blood.But he admitted the shortagi is also due to the lack of blood banks outside Montreal and Quebec City “We do need to be more available to donors,” he said."But we don’t have enough personnel to do this.Masson added that right now about four or five blood donor eh nies are taking place every da throughout the province with abois 50 touring Montreal nurses.All our personnel is out there.” But Masson added that without more funds from the provincial government it is impossible for th> Red Cross to create new bbod banks.Royea murder: New, first-degree charges for Tringle Blood supply stretched by high tech I Original microfilmed at varying intensities because the text is printed greyish or colour background {ir- 4~The HKCOHD—Mwntrty, January-W, M»8!( 1_____g«gl icecora The Voice of the Euwtern Townships since 1897 Editorial J \ CHARLES BURY Put up a message for the people next door As an ex bartender myself, I have quite some respect for the advice and opinions of those hallowed leaders of the service industry.So when Dale talked, 1 listened.“I haven’t heard from you on this latest lan-guage thing,” the veteran barkeep said.“What do you think?You've been in on this business for quite a while Maybe you could give the people some ideas.” 1 replied that 1 had been busily biting my tongue — or should that be my electronic keyboard — to avoid popping off and merely adding to the current confusion which surrounds this perpetual issue of Quebec life.Indeed sometimes, the frustration has been enough lately that I have _____________ felt more like chewing up that keyboard and spitting out the pieces than merely nibbling around its enamelled edges.CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE?The hottest buzzword in anglo-Quebec circles these days is ‘civil disobedience’.A noble concept perhaps, evoking images of Jesus, Martin Luther, Gandhi, Kiel, Martin Luther King and others who have martyred themselves for the perceived betterment of humanity.Somewhere inside themselves, almost everyone harbors a dream in which they struggle valiantly for a noble cause, against overwhelming odds.And in some of us, it seems, now is the time to seek punishment for the cause of English on commercial signs.But making yourself a martyr to the nitpicking bureaucrats of the provincial government hardly has the same aura to it as fasting in South Africa, getting shot in Memphis, or being nailed to a cross.The current injustice in Quebec simply isn't on the same scale.Still, frustration requires release.So there must be a better way something that better fits the time, the place and circumstances of today.BUT now?It’s a touchy question.No one wants to insult anyone.But how can English-speaking Quebecers convince their French-speaking neighbors that : a), they’re not out to put down the French language; and b), they too should have the right to their own language?How?Use Bill 101.Civil obedience, not the opposite.Quebec’s language law is tough and thorny; it restricts some rights in education, the workplace.the marketplace.In many ways it holds down languages other than French’.But Bill 101 wasn’t written in a vacuum.While it cuts back certain rights, it leaves others intact.One of these is freedom of personal expression.Nowhere does the Charter of the French Language restrict the individual’s right to free expression in any language.It is perfectly legal in Quebec for anyone to write, speak, or express in any other way anything that’s on their mind, in any language they want, as long as it is an individual effort.BOURASSA SUCKS’ In other words, if you wanted to put a sign on your lawn or roof that said ‘Go, Canadiens, go’.‘Bourassa sucks’, or Your mother-in-law talks too much’, Bill 101 would allow it.Indeed as Dale suggested, it would also be perfectly legal for anyone not receiving money to do so —to take the law to its extreme and trumpet T drink at the Golden Lion', or even ‘You should drink at the Golden Lion’, if that’s what takes their fancy.But what's needed here is something a little more to the point.It’s not the hockey team or bar that needs support.It's you, the English-speaking Quebecer.And it’s not on Ste-Catherine Street or King or Queen or Lakeside, that that support is needed.It’s from your neighbors, the French-speaking Quebecers right next door.So my suggestion to people who want to act out their frustration, and at the same time gain support over the language of signs is to simply put up a message for the people next door: ‘Hello.I’m your English neighbor’.French-speaking Quebecers have to decide If problem is not faced, Quebec could pay the price The current uproar over English language rights in this province is not so much about the language of signs as about the legitimacy of the English-language community and its language.While upsetting to many, it is not necessarily a bad thing for us to undertake an examination of the future of our community in Quebec, and the future of Quebec within Canada.It is perhaps time that we begin answering the question posed by cartoonist Girerd on the front page of La Presse of Dec.2:1, lilHH: “C'a s'ruit tu possible d’imaginer un Quebec 101 n'anglophone?" Us it possible to imagine a Quebec without a single anglophone?) The present debate brought on by the Supreme Court decision and Bill 178 was inevitable.Only the timing was in doubt.Events since the Meech Lake agreement make such an examination necessary.Clause 1 of the schedule to the Meech Lake Constitutional Accord adds a new section to the Constitutional Act, 18(17.Paragraph 1 of Section 2 of the Act reads as follows: 2(1) The Constitution of Canada shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with (a) the recognition that the existence of French-speaking Canadians, centered in Quebec but also present elsewhere in Canada, and English speaking Canadians concentrated outside Quebec but also present in Quebec, constitutes a fundamental characteristic of Canada; and (b) The recognition that Quebec constitutes within Canada a distinct society.— Meech Lake Accord While there’s nothing revolutionary in this clause, in view of the fact that the provisions of the British North America Act acknowledged the reality that Quebec was a distinct society, adoption of the Meech Lake Accord raised legitimate concerns in the English-language community of Quebec that judicial interpretation of this clause would gradually erode English-language rights in the province.It’s important to keep in mind that the distinct society clause is overwhelmingly approved by the French-language majority in the province.To a large extent this approval arises from the historic failure of the federal government and the gover nments of the other nine provinces to sufficiently protect the French-language minorities in other provinces.\ mz" Commentary By George MacLaren Publisher, The Record, Montreal Daily News Hostility to the French fact in Canada by the English-speaking majority is a historic fact which cannot be denied.This, combined with the reality of North America and the declining birthrate, has led French-speaking Quebecers to conclude that only the Quebec government will protect their linguistic and cultural integrity.This situation is unlikely to change in the near term, a view Premier Bou-rasa reiterated at a news conference this week.DECLINE It is true that the linguistic minorities in Canada are in a state of decline.It’s well-known that the English-language community in Quebec tends to vote with its feet, leaving the province, and the French language minority elsewhere tends to assimilate.It's difficult at the present time to predict this situation will change soon.It is an uncomfortable truth that the future of the English-language community in Quebec lies to a large extent in the hands of our French-speaking compatriots.No amount of lobbying by Alliance Quebec or other groups, and no level of protest, is likely to change this, French-speaking Quebecers have to decide whether or not they want the English-speaking minority to stay in Quebec, and in the longer term they will hve to decide once again if they realy want to stay in Canada.That question was not answered once and for all by the 1980 referendum.For a number of years, both sides have avoided these fundamental questions.It's time they were faced.In recent years, English-language moderates have repeatedly acknowledged the primacy of French in Quebec, while calling for the protection of English-language rights, It is now time to define the bottom line.GOES BEYOND I find it hard to believe that the fundamental issue is the language of signs.The genuine anguish felt by many English-speaking Quebecers goes much beyond this superficial issue.Living here will obviously continue to demand concessions from English-speakers.The choice as to whether or not the concessions are worthwhile will, of course, be made on an individual basis.However English-language associations must give some guidance to their members and the larger English community.The questions go much deeper than the language of commer cial signs.Protests are relatively simple.Formulating concrete alter natives is much more difficult.On the other hand, it’s important that French-speaking Quebec decide what it really wants from our community.So it’s also time that francophones stop propagating old myths — for example, that all anglophones live in upper Westmount, that it’s difficult to be served in French in downtown Montreal, that we are the best-treated minority in the world, and that the English language is going to be the majority language of Quebec in 10 or 15 years.RIDICULOUS Aside from being ridiculous, some of these are offensive.That the English language minority is the best treated minority in Canada, thanks to the munificence and tolerance of the French-language majority is not based on historical fact.This particular myth completely denies the evolution of the role of the state in North American society in general.and Quebec society in particular.Anglophone institutions such as McGill Unviersity and the Royal Vic- toria Hospital are the result of indivi dual effort and philanthropy at a time when such institutions were private, not public, and the Quebec state had a very limited role in social institutions.Their existence reflects less the tolerance of the French-Canadian majority than the fact that at the time of their creation, Montreal was the commercial centre of Canada, and the Montreal business community was largely English-speaking As elsewhere in Canada, these are now state institutions, and their survival is of particular concern to the English-speaking population of Quebec.THE LONG TERM There has been enough debate in the French-language community over the last few years on the role of these institutions for Anglo-Quebecers to be concerned about their survival in the long term Undoubtedly, French-speaking Quebecers are concerned about their future, in a largely English-speaking North America, and in a world where the English language seems to be ta king an ever-larger role.However, it is important to reflect that no one chooses his or her mater nal tongue.We as a community are sick of being convenient whipping-boys for problems which are beyond our control.Anglophones in Quebec are not concerned about the role of the language elsewhere in the world, but about what place it is to be permitted in Quebec society.Such concern is not arrogant, but natural and human.EXODUS?A further exodus of young, bilingual anglophone Quebecers has implications for all Quebec society, and its economic and social future.It's time the French-language majority declares what it really wants.It’s very unlikely that protests by English-speakers in this province will disturb the social peace.However, an exodus of vital elements of the community over the next generation is likely unless the majority makes clear that it wants this community to continue to exist.If this problem is not squarely faced, Quebec could very well find itself paying the price in the years to come of expensive health and social ser vices for an aging anglophone population, without a young, active commu nity creating revenues to pay for these services.Like it or not, the solution to this dilemma lies more in the hands of the French-language majority than in the hands of the English-language protest groups.Both communities would be well advised to keep this in mind.'Qr FWD 6 Elaine Kurtenhach TOKYO lAPt Japan’s economy roared ahead in 1988 with few signs of a slowdown, but econo mists say regulations stifling do mestie growth must be slashed to maintain momentum for further expansion.Strong eonsumer and corporate spending, low inflation and unemployment and double digit increases in productivity have kept the pace of économie growth at an estimated 4.5 per cent in 1988 well ahead of the rest of the industrialized world In fiscal 1987, a 4.9-per-cent growth rate pulled the economy out of a slump that had raised Japan's jobless rate to a postwar high of 3.2 per cent early in the year.Unemployment now hovers at about 2.6 per cent.Since 1986, when the powerful yen battered Japanese exports, corporate streamlining, cheaper import prices and lower lending rates have enabled Japan to boost domestic demand The yen has nearly doubled in value against the U.S.dollar since late 1985, when monetary authorities allowed the dollar's value to fall to improve the competitiveness of American cx ports and trim Washington's massive trade deficit.STOCKS BOOM Japan's stock markets also are booming, despite the crash of October 1987.The Tokyo market's key indicator, the Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues, ended 1988 at a record 30,159.00.An inflow of funds from overseas and from the abolishment of tax-free savings accounts gradually is making available 430 trillion yen, or about $3.55 trillion US.of extra cash, boosting investment and consumer spending.The ballooning value of assets, including land and stocks, and lower prices have made the once-frugal Japanese more aggressive spenders.Personal spending, up an estimated 4.5 per cent in 1988, accounts for more than half of Ju pan’s gross national product, or the total output of its goods and services.Exports also continue to feed the economy.After falling for 15 months from year-earlier levels, Japan’s trade surplus reversed direction in July ’88 and began to rise.The latest GNP figures show the economy grew- at a 9.3 per cent annual rate from July to September, following a 3.9-per-cent contraction in the previous quarter.EXPORTS HIGH The expansion stemmed main ly from strong domestic demand and from exports, which are growing 20 per cent a year, outpacing imports, which grew at a 13-per-cent annual rate.Finance Ministry officials predict the trend will continue.Reports by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry show that Japan will not meet its target in 1989 for cutting its trade surplus by $11 billion from $79.83 billion in 1987, despite projections that imports from the United States will grow 90.7 per cent and those from Europe 107.4 per cent.There is little danger of the economy overheating, however, be- cause Japan is almost inflation-proof, says Richard Koo, senior economist at Nomura Research Institute Prices rose a scant 0.1 per cent in 1987 and stayed almost flat in 1988.The yen’s strength and lower oil prices should help keep prices relatively stable into the for seeable future, Bank of Japan go vernor Satoshi Sumita says But he has expressed concern a labor shortage could cause problems later.SKILLED NEEDED The ratio of job offers to applicants hit 1.05 last June, reflecting intensifying employer eompeti tion for a shrinking pool of skilled workers, labor economist Eiko Shinotsuka says."The low jobless rate is frustrating expansion minded executives,” Shinotsuka wrote in an ar tide.“Many manufacturing companies would like to augment output to meet surplus demand but cannot recruit enough skilled workers.” Labor shortages are pinching construction and service compa nies, but overtime and high pro ductivity rising about 10 per cent per year are helping to insulate manufacturers from wage related inflation, says Su sumu Kato, chief economist at the Tokyo offices of the British b a n k i n g e o n e e r n C o u n I y Nat West.But there is the rest of the world to cause potential problems.Global economic integration has made Japan more vulnerable to shocks from overseas, says Johsen Takahashi, director of Mitsubishi Research Institute.Japan accounted for 39 per cent, or $9.5 trillion US, of the combined capital of the London, New York, Tokyo and Frankfurt financial markets in 1987.That figure is likely to have grown in 1988 us funds flowed into Tokyo’s stock exchange, attracted by its phenomenal post-crash performance.While economic fundamentals point to a continuation of Tokyo’s bull market, another shock like Black Monday in New York would pull Tokyo’s market down, Takahashi says.“One lesson of last year is thal all markets move together,” says Koo.Some economists warn Japan needs a new source of economic energy.Housing starts, which led the economic recovery in 1987, have declined since their peak in July, and increased reliance on export growth would worsen trade friction.Kato predicts higher wages will fuel a 6.5 per-cent increase in consumer spending this year, but says the economy needs a further boost from deregulation to achieve continued five-per-cent growth.A government advisory council said in a recent report that overregulation has stifled Japan’s retail sector, agriculture, transportation, telecommunications, finance and energy.“Government regulations should be limited to regulations needed to deal with emergencies or other abnormal situations,” the renort said LEASING 304S plus tax No.5633 89 Chevrolet Corsica 2.8 litre V-6, multi-port fuel injection, automatic, AM/FM stereo, reclinable bucket-seats.Based on a 48-month lease.eg É] 01 Brouillard AUTOMOBILE LIÉE 2700 King St.West, Sherbrooke, QC 569-9941 Original microfilmed at varying intensities because the text is printed on greyish or colour background. il, a- 6—The RECORD—•Mmnhiy.lainiury-W.!!»«» Living —____ssi txeasm From politicians to master chefs Down the Pike Well, lltKK wont out bearing a message (in French only» that regardless of any court decision, the Quebec Government was more interested in listening to extremists than those of the silent majority who support moderation.Moments later, I9«t> staggered in, to be singed by the flames at Alliance Quebec, It looks like an interesting year.I particularly loved the way M.Bourassa rushed homo from his vacation (almost a day early) to first deny that his government had acted unjustly, then confirmed that there was an “absolute right” to protest, without fear of violence.I’d always thought that entrenched constitutional rights were “absolute" too, that is until M.Bourassa skated by.Moving from the politically ridiculous to the culinary divine, there are a few social stirrings in the Pike River Basin.First and foremost is a Fish Chowder party that will be held at the Philipsburg Legion Hall this Saturday.The way this one works is that people start coming at4:00 a.m., and after paying their $3.00 entry fee, the food starts coming.I’m told that it keeps coming until there’s no food left to put into the bowls, or people to empty the bowls.Please come, bring friends and eat hearty.The price makes this first Legion event of 1989 one of the bestdine-out deals in Quebec.Unless you are a light eater (GE 60-watt bulbs are delicious baked), there is no full meal to be had at the Missisquoi Historical Society’s June in January evening on the 17th.There wil be hot weather refreshments to make you think warm thoughts, funny hats to amuse you.and a slide show of pictures that feature the By Ashley Sheltus landscape of Arizona.“Sunshine & Shadows” may be the hottest event of the month.The pictures were taken by Cynthia Chalk, who also had two photographs selected for the Canadian Church Calendar this year.To find out more about how to feel warm in January, come to the Anglican Church Hall in Stan-bridge East before 7:30 on the 17th.Bring your own warm weather hat.Bring your own warm friend.If you feel lucky, bring a big bag for the door prize you may win.Above all, bring enough room for the refreshments that always follow any Stanbridge East event.Last year 1 mentioned a talk on poetry to be given in Montreal by Catherine Bates.This is a real event, despite its location at Con-U.The address is 1455 DeMaison-neuve, West, the Hall Building on January 23rd.It all happens between 7:30 and 9:00 p.m.and the cost is a mere $3.00, not including your gas.On Friday the 27th, there will be another Legion cribbagc tournament in Philipsburg.The usual rules apply: bring your own board or you’re skunked before you start, bring $5.00 or you won’t get in, and bring a sense of humour in case it’s not your lucky night.The 27th also starts the week of the FABULOUS annual Stanbridge East Winter Carnival! 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Pointe Claire and Mr.and Mrs.Malcolm Learned and family of Cookshire.Callers at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Leslie Wilkin over the holidays were Duncan McLeod, Milan, Mrs.Ruby Waldron, Lennoxville and Bradley Beattie, Prescott, Ont.Mr.and Mrs.Rodger Heathe-rington called on Miss Fay Martin in Ayer’s Cliff on the Saturday before Christmas.Guests of Mr.and Mrs.John Cruickshank during the holidays were William Rowland and Miss Madelaine Godbout, Brossard, Que., and Mr.and Mrs.Edward Rowland, Pickering, Ont.Mr.and Mrs.Rodger Heathe-rington were dinner guests of Mr.and Mrs.Howard Kennedy in Sherbrooke.Mrs.Elizabeth Martyn, George Marchant and Mrs.Margaret Ann and daughter Amanda were holiday guests of Mrs.Emily Calder and Mrs.Frank Howard in Deux Montagnes, and Mr.and Mrs.Richard Martyn of St.Laurent.Callers at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Murray Labonté on Christmas eve were Mr.and Mrs.Paul Taylor, Birchton, Mrs.Gordon Sims, Sand Hill, William Judge and daughter Shelley of Waterloo.Que., Mrs.Ian 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Mrs.Evelyn Sims, Mrs.Kathleen Labonté and Paul Taylor.Lunch was served after the card games by Mrs.Heatherington and daughter Randi.Boxing Day guests of Mrs.Helen Hayes were Mr.and Mrs.Ian Gregory and son Robert of St.Lambert.Richard Parsons and son Danny and Mrs.Hilda Lawrence were Christmas Day guests of Mr.and Mrs.William Jones in Tomifobia.Holiday guests of Mr.and Mrs.Gerald Gaulin were Ronald Gaulin and Jeffrey Waterman, Ingersoll, Ont.and Mr.and Mrs.William Walker, North Bay, Ont.Miss Audrey Hall spent the .Christmas holidays with her brother and sister-in-law Mr.and Mrs.Elwin Hall in Kingston, Ont.Visitors at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Walter Thorneloe over the Christmas holiday were Mr.and Mrs.James Cook, Graham and Sandra of Greenfield Park.Mr.and Mrs.Edward Rowland, Pickering, Ont., and Mr.and Mrs.Richard Thorneloe of Silver Lake.Christmas day guests of Miss Linda Therrian were June Ther-rian and Janna Therrian, Montreal, Mr.and Mrs.Victor Therrian and family, Sherbrooke, Mr.and Mrs.Jacques Belisle and family, Mr.and Mrs.Douglas Bell and family and John Handy, Perth, Ont.Mrs.Thomas Rowland, Miss Margaret Rowland and Mrs.Fred Webb of Sherbrooke called on Mr.and Mrs.Alden Clark.Mrs.Violet Hall.Miss Esther Farnsworth, Mr.Fred Webb and Mrs.S.Bishop at the Wales Home, Richmond, on Thursday, December 22nd.Christmas eve guests of Mr.and Mrs.Rodger Heatherington were Richard Parsons and son Danny, Mrs.Hilda Lawrence and William Judge and daughter Shelley of Waterloo.Mr.and Mrs.Rodger Heatherington and family were dinner guests of Mr.and Mrs.Donald Standish in Cookshire.Hatley Mrs.Wm.Cutler The Hatley Municipal Association held their Christmas get-together in the Anglican Church hall on Thursday evening, Dec.19.Attendance was smaller than usual due to various reasons.All met at the hall at 6:30 p.m.for dessert and coffee.A large table was set up at the end of the hall and laden with an assortment of goodies which were enjoyed by all.Following dessert the evening was spent playing bingo and several played cards.Prizes were given to the winners and a pleasant evening was spent.The next social gathering will be held in February.Mr.and Mrs.George Jobel spent several days over Christmas with relatives in Concord, New Hampshire.Mr.and Mrs.J.Comeau, Brunswick, Maine spent the New Year’s weekend with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs.Madison Bowen and little Joshua.Lisa Jensen, Montreal, spent the holidays with her parents, Mr.and Mrs.Lyn Jensen and family.Mr.and Mrs.Christian Lavoie and Raphael spent several days over Christmas with his parents, Dr.and Mrs.H.Lavoie in Montreal.The Cowlings and Diemands of Montreal spent the holidays at their homes here.Mr.and Mrs.Paul Stone and family of the Burlington.Ont.area spent the holidays with her parents, Mr.and Mrs.Ben Cun-nington.Mrs.Roy McIntyre entertained her family for Christmas at her home.Mr.and Mrs.Blodgett and Ivan from New Hampshire spent several days during the holidays with Mr.and Mrs.Ivan 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?A ?K J 4 3 ?A tj 9 Vulnerable: North-South Dealer: South West North East South 1 ?Pass 2 ?Pass 4 ?Pass 4 ?Pass 6 ?Pass Pass Pass Opening lead ?2 WEST ?A ?K y 10 9 ?8 7 5 2 ?5 4 3 2 Try to get the picture By James Jacoby The West hand might well be used to show beginners the proper opening lead against a six-spade contract — obviously the king of hearts.But the Bols bridge tip by Matt Granovetter, "Picture the original shape," leads to a conclusion different from the norm, based upon listening to the opponents' bidding.Even when you hold a terrible hand, you should pay careful attention to the bidding to try to construct the shape of the opponents' hands.The rewards for your hard work can come as early as the opening lead The automatic "wooden" lead of the king of hearts scores up the slam for the declarer in today's deal, since a later lead of another high heart can be ruffed.But a defender on opening lead who not only has his hearing but can also draw a logical conclusion regarding the shape in the opposing hands should show a profit What the bidding should absolutely convey is that North and South have an eight- or nine-card fit in diamonds between their two hands, even though they have landed in six spades.So West should lead a diamond.Even if the opening lead is not ruffed.West will quickly come on lead with the spade ace to lead a second diamond That will be trumped by East and the slam will be set James Jacoby's books “Jacoby on Bridge’' and “Jacoby on Card Games”(written with his father, the late Oswald Jacoby) are now available at bookstores Both are published by Pharos Books.© 1989 NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN ASTRO •GRAPH Stanbridge East Bernice Bede Osol n ARLO