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[" Dave*s Transport Inc.Local and Long Distance Moving \u2014 Storage Sherbrooke, Quebec 819-562-8062 40 cents S.African sanctions stay for now By Heidi Kriz JOHANNESBURG (CP) \u2014 External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall arrived in South Africa Sunday to show support for the country\u2019s moves toward democracy, but she said Canada will maintain sanctions for now.\u201cI'm in South Africa to hold discussions at first hand with political leaders and parties involved in negotiations,\u201d she said on arrival in Johannesburg.McDougall is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Pik Botha and Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, in Johannesburg before flying to Cape Town Tuesday Frum memorial offbeat By Wendy McCann TORONTO (CP) \u2014 Hundreds of friends, colleagues and fans remembered Barbara Frum at an offbeat memorial service Sunday that one former co-worker said was intended to match the Canadian broadcaster's preference for the unpredictable.The unusual public wake at the downtown Massey Hall swung from maudlin to comic as a line-up of speakers ranging from the architect who helped Frum design her flower garden to the impersonator who mimicks her succinct interview style told an audience of about 1,500 how she touched their lives.\u201cOf all the people I've mocked and ridiculed .Barbara was the best.She was the best sport, the best fun,\u201d said comedian Greg Malone, who on occasion broke into Frum\u2019s distinctly emphatic voice.\u201cShe was fascinated by the hair and the makeup and how I got the whole look.\u201d Frum died March 26 from complications of chronic leukemia at the age of 54.RADIO, TV HOST The widely respected host, first of the CBC radio show As It Happens and later of CBC-TV\u2019s The Journal, was intensely private despite her public profile and had kept her illness quiet for 18 years.A private funeral was held the day after her death.Frum\u2019s husband Murray, her children, and her mother Florence Rosberg attended the public service.With Frum\u2019s larger-than-life image projected in her characteristic red suit on a screen above the stage, her brother Gerald Rosberg told those in attendance that Frum had kept her spirts high during the last 2% years des pite her deteriorating health.\u201cHer strength ebbed and the disease increased its assault upon her.Yet she never thought of herself as a victim, never indulged in self-pity,\u201d he said.Frum was remembered in a telegram as a journalist who \u201c- never let me get away with anything,\u201d by Ontario Premier Bob Rae.Prime Minister Brian Mulro- See FRUM:, page 2 for talks with President F.W.de Klerk.She is also scheduled to visit Canadian-supported projects in the black townships during her four-day visit.She said her government was encouraged by de Klerk\u2019s reforms and the resounding white endorsement of negotiated change in the March 17 referendum.She said her visit is a sign of support for the Congress for a Democratic South Africa, the vehicle for negotiations for a new constitution for the country.She said she\u2019ll explore the future of relations between South Africa and Canada.But she said Canada will maintain economic sanctions until an acceptable mechanism for transition to democracy is in place.MANY END PENALTIES Most countries have lifted so- called people-to-people sanctions such as academic and cultural embargoes and many, including the United States, Britain and Japan, have lifted most economic restrictions.Canada, always one of the harshest critics of apartheid, has refused to approve unrestricted trade with South Africa.Before leaving Canada, McDougall said he would be going to South Africa as a Cana- Former aerobic world champion Natalie Tomaro of Hull leads an enthusiastic group at Bishop\u2019s University\u2019s second annual Aerobic-a-thon Sunday.The event raised money for Camp Massawippi, For more, see page dian representative, not as a member of the Commonwealth committee which monitors sanctions against South Africa.Neil van Heerden, director general of the South African Department of Foreign Affairs, greeted McDougall on her arrival.He said he is optimistic that trade will be resumed between the two countries.\u201cWe desperately need economic expansion to create jobs and to make a bigger cake for all,\u201d he said.\u201cSanctions belong to yesterday\u2019s agenda.\u201d TOURS HOME Later in the day, McDougall RECORD/PERRY BEATON Pro-choice rally draws 3 From Reuters-AP-CP WASHINGTON (CP) \u2014 Half a million protesters, some pushing baby strollers and others visibly pregnant, marched around the White House and up to Capitol Hill Sunday to demonstrate against erosion of U.S.abortion rights.\u201cThe more we learned about the law at Harvard, the more we realize how fragile these rights are,\u201d said Julie Doyle, a Harvard Law School student.Demanding \u201cChoice! Now!\u201d the demonstrators were led by a vanguard that included feminists Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal, actresses Jane Fonda and Morgan Fairchild, singer Cyndi Lauper, former U.S.vice- presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro and Rev.Jesse Jackson, who Democratic presidential hopeful Jerry Brown says would be his running mate.The protest had a distinctly political cast, two days before the pivotal New York state primary.Democratic presidential rivals Brown and Bill Clinton attended the rally and had been scheduled to address the crowd, but neither \u2018I lost my best By Andrew Flynn OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 The 14 Canadian veterans, bent now with age, but still alert and .proud, sat under slate-grey skies at the cenotaph on Sunday morning to honor the comrades who fought beside them 75 years ago at Vimy Ridge, France.The ceremony, held in the teeth of a bitter spring wind, commemorated the decisive victory won by Canadian troops over a previously impregnable German position during the First World War.As Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn laid wreaths at the National War Memorial, the Vimy Ridge survivors remembered the heroism \u2014 and the sacrifices \u2014 that marked the first ever operation bysan all- Canadian military force.TREASURE MEMORY \u201cI treasure the memory of that battle,\u201d said Henry Hassal, 96, of Cookesville, Ont., who fought with the 26th Batallion New Brunswick Infantry.\u201cI lost my best friend at Vimy.I lost many friends there.But we knew we were fighting for future generations, and nothing was going to stop us.\u201d Vancouver native Henry Peters, still spry at 94, says the battle is still fresh in his mind.\u201cWe were very proud of ourselves when it was all over, very proud to be Canadian,\u201d he said.Peters served at Vimy as a ser- did.Even so, political posters for both candidates were seen among the throng.Organizers claimed more than 750,000 people attended the rally, but Washington authorities put the official tally at 500,000.Some 70,000 people participated in an anti-abortion march in January.Some marchers referred to U.S.President George Bush in faintly obscene placards, and one group of women wore gags, masks and carried signs reading Breeding Unit to protest the Bush administrations so-called \u201cgag rule\u201d which limits the mention of abortion at federally funded clinics.CHANGES STAND But Bush was at Camp David and not expected back at the White House until today.Formerly a supporter of abortion rights, Bush now favors abortion only in cases of rape, incest or when the mother\u2019s life is in danger, Some abortion rights protesters took note of the anti- geant with the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders.Mulroney told the crowd of about two hundred onlookers that Vimy was a battle of \u201csuch heroic proportions that it signalled to the world the coming if age of Canada as a promising and prosperous nation.\u201d He called for Canadians to recognize Vimy as a symbol of a united Canada and to honour the sacrifices of Canadian soldiers in our own troubled time.\u201cNow it is our turn to make our own infinitely more modest sacrifices to strenghten Canada\u2019s unity.\u201d MEMORIAL PARK The 14 veterans will accompany Mulroney to Vimy Memorial Park in Vimy, France, where abortion composition of the Reagan-Bush-appointed U.S.Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on the constitutionality of a restrictive Pennsylvania abortion statute on April 22.The court is expected to uphold at least some parts of the Pennsylvania law that requires a 24-hour waiting period for abortions, parental consent for minors, requires doctors to inform women of alternatives and requires the husband be notified before the abortion is performed.One pregnant woman wore a sign that read, Pregnant, Pro- child, Pro-choice, and a wheelchair-bound protester carried the sign, Disabled, But Able to Vote Pro-Choice.Before the march began, antiabortion protesters planted a forest of crosses in front of the Washington Monument, calling this the \u201ccemetery of the innocents.\u201d The high court ruled in 1973 that U.S.women are guaranteed the right to choose abortion as part of their constitutional right to privacy.friend at Vimy\u2019 another ceremony will be held on April 9, over which Mulroney and French president Francois Mitterrand will preside.Begun on April 9, 1917 the battle for Vimy Ridge is hailed by some as a landmark in Canadian unity and testimony to the resourcefulness and integrity of Canadians.It was fought by the Canadian Corps, which combined four Canadian divisions stationed in Europe at the time.British and French forces had tried unsuccessfully to take the heavily fortified German position earlier in the war.Of the approximately 100,000 Canadian troops that scaled the ridge, 3,598 were killed and about 7,000 wounded.00,000 visited the Takalani Home for the Mentally Handicapped in the Soweto township.McDougall held hands of some of the young patients and toured Takalani\u2019s cheerful, modern facilities.The institution is the only one of its kind for blacks in South Africa.It is partly supported by Canada.McDougall said Canada intends to stay in touch with the many problems in South Africa and one of the most important issues is health facilities.She said the difficulty with health care in South Africa is not just insufficient funds, but misalloca- tion of resources.MONDAY April 6, 1992 Births, deaths .Classified .c.Comics ceveervcirnrcnnnens Editorial Farm & Business .Living .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.cccsece Sports 10-11 Townships .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.3 Ne Au Ho CO A Page 20% Iranian embassy stormed, 3 hurt By Michael MacDonald OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 At least 30 people wielding sticks, mallets and a sledge hammer stormed the Iranian embassy in Ottawa on Sunday.The attack was part of a well-organized campaign that saw several other violent skirmishes inside Iranian diplomatic missions around the world.Twenty-six people were arrested in Ottawa minutes after protesters broke through the embassy\u2019s front door and began looting files, smashing windows and fighting with embass- staff.Three embassy employees were slightly injured in the melee, including Iranian ambassador Mohammad Hossein Lavassani, who suffered facial cuts.Several witnesses who said they knew the attackers suggested the violent protest was sparked by Iranian air attacks Sunday on a rebel base near Baghdad.NO GUARDS THERE The embassy, a small office building about a kilometre south of Parliament Hill, did not have any guards on duty when the protestors broke in, said RCMP spokesman Gerry Boucher.\u201cIt was kind of a hit-smash- and-grab sort of thing,\u201d he said, adding that the mob ransacked the building, but at no time were embassy staff taken hostage.Boucher refused to speculate on the identity of the attackers or what motivated them.Jim Purchase, who was visiting a friend in an apartment across the street from the embassy, said the chanting mob spilled out of the building as police arrived minutes after the break-in.Some protestors fled to waiting cars carrying boxes and bags of embassy files, he said.\u201cThey were running down the street, files were spilling all over the place,\u201d Purchase said.Police blocked at least two city blocks around the embassy and bomb experts were brought in to make sure the group did not \u201c- leave anything behind,\u201d Boucher said.Meanwile, Iranian nationals occupied the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York on Sunday afternoon.One employee at the mission was taken hostage, but released later in the afternoon when the occupiers surrendered to police.In Bonn, about 40 Iranian exiles wrecked their country\u2019s embassy.Police in the German capital said two officers were stabbed and at least three other people injured during an hour- long occupation.Protesters in the Hague and London also attacked Iranian embassies to protest the raid.In the Netherlands, demonstrators got into the mission and caused extensive damage, police said.Fighting hits Sarajevo From Reuter-CP SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia (CP) \u2014 Violence erupted in Sarajevo and other areas of Bosnia- Hercegovina Sunday, inflicting heavy casualties and fanning fears of civil war in the ethnically diverse Yugoslav republic.The fighting, the worst in Bosnia since the Second World War, prompted representatives of the republic\u2019s Muslim, Croat and Serb communities and federal army leaders to appeal for peace on television.\u201cFirst, stop all shooting in the republic, and bring about a total ceasefire in all parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina,\u201d they said in a statement.In Sarajevo gunmen opened ter, Ont.shifted.nwall, Ont.later by helicopter.piece of ice.\u201d 1 fire on a crowd calling for an end _state Ice fishermen go trolling OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 An ice-fishing party nearly turned into adventure on the high seas when a large chunk of ice carrying five men broke away from the shore of the St.Lawrence River near Lancas- Robert Sabourin, one of the fishermen, said they'd only been out on the ice about 10 minutes Saturday afternoon when the wind \u201cThe next thing we knew, there was about 20 feet of water between us and the shore,\u201d he said.Lancaster is about 80 kilometres southeast of Ottawa, near Cor- The floe only travelled several metres downriver, but there was no way for the men to get back on land.They were rescued an hour Onlookers on shore alerted Ontario provincial police, who called the coast guard from Valleyfield, near Montreal.Sabourin said none of the men were particularly worried.\u201cThere was about two feet of ice underneath us.It was a large The stranded fishermen caught about 25 fish, he said.to fighting in the republic, killing one demonstrator and injuring 10.Many people were reported killed in air and artillery strikes across Bosnia-Hercegovina where Muslims and Croats are pitted against minority Serbs opposed to the republic\u2019s drive to follow Slovenia and Croatia in breaking away from Yugoslavia.At least five towns declared a state of emergency and Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic ordered the mobilization of police reservists and local defence units to quell the unrest.The violence erupted on the eve of a meeting by European Community foreign ministers who may recognize Bosnia- Hercegovina as an independent ned e dF t dSEA 2\u2014The RECORD\u2014Monday, April 6, 1992 Auditor uncovers conflicts at Environment Canada By Kirk LaPointe .OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 An internal *federal audit found Environ- {ment Department employees \u2018were engaging in conflicts of sinterest, employees knew and \u2018suspected others were doing so, and \u201cdeficient, inefficient and ineffective\u201d measures to grapple with the problem.The June 1990 audit found a number of employees hadn't \u201c- disclosed potentially problematic situations,\u201d while others \u201c- did not view potentially problematic situations as a (conflict).\u201d The audit, obtained under the Access to Information Act, even found many employees \u201cwere not aware of the criminal implications of accepting gifts, entertainment and preferential treatment from suppliers.\u201d What's worse, it said employees \u201coften perceive and sometimes know that there is a (conflict-of-interest) situation but are cynical (about reporting it) because they believe management is not clearly and fairly addressing the situation.\u201d The audit team concluded that the federal government was lagging behind the private sector and at least one provincial government in business ethics training.The audit defines conflicts of interest as \u201creal, perceived or potential breaches by employees of ethical business standards or principles which places in doubt their objectivity or impartiality and jeopardizes their ability to act in the best interests of the Crown.\u201d The 35-page report didn\u2019t identify specific conflict cases.It calls \u201cdangerous\u201d the department\u2019s plan to reduce the layers of management dealing with the issue.FINDS VULNERABILITY \u201cThe department is now vulnerable to COI (conflict-of- interest) situations and should not be lulled into a sense of false security just because few COI cases have been uncovered,\u201d auditors found.\u201cThe lack of training for both employees and management staff on the topic of (conflict of interest) exposes the department to significantly increased levels of exposure to inappropriate decisions and actions by employees.\u201d Among the findings: \u2014There was evidence people hadn't properly disclosed conflicts and there was no evidence of penalties for failing to do so.\u2014Some didn\u2019t update their confidential disclosures when circumstances changed and the department said it didn\u2019t have the resources to chase them down.\u2014Immediate supervisors didn\u2019t know if their employees had declared conflicts-of-interest because disclosures were made confidentially to one branch only of the department.\u2014Most managers indicated that they have received little or no feedback on how reported conflicts are investigated or resolved.The declaration people sign when they're hired would be of limited value to the government in any legal action taken against employees on their conflicts, the audit found.A department spokesman said measures are being taken to address many of the audit\u2019s findings as part of a plan to toughen conflict guides for employees.Fish stocks not on agenda for Earth Summit By Ingrid Abramovitch UNITED NATIONS (CP) \u2014 After five weeks of intensive negotiations, the road to the Earth Summit in Rio de: Janeiro remains filled with environmental potholes.But the head of Canada\u2019s delegation to the June environmental conference said negotiators did \u201cremarkably well\u201d at their final preparatory meeting, which ended Saturday.John Bell said representatives «from more than 160 countries = managed to put together a \u201cco- \u2018herent package\u201d of proposals on a vast range of ecological issues.While the conference adopted sections of Agenda 21, a plan for cleaning up the world\u2019s environment in the 21st century, it failed to reach concensus on key Rosemere residents to decide if town maintains bilingual status ROSEMERE (CP) \u2014 This bedroom suburb of Montreal is pwnd Io.Où : bilingual status.being roused to do battle for its v2.Rosemere\u2019s residents are to » decide by a precedent-setting : ixeferendum whether their town .LS .4 should continue operating in English and French.Of the + {town\u2019s population of 11,500, : 24 «© - 5 rr, > -saaan\u2014cta