The record, 23 juin 1992, mardi 23 juin 1992

[" 40 cents IRAM ALI GRADE I R SHERBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUNNY There will be no Record Wednesday, St-Jean Baptiste Day.Urban natives split on self-government By Julia Necheff EDMONTON (CP)\u2014 Natives living in cities must have their own governments to tackle problems such as unemployment, substance abuse, violence and homelessless, a conference organized by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples heard Monday.But delegates were divided on how aboriginal self- government would work at the municipal level or whether it could work at all.The royal commission invited about 150 people \u2014 native and non-native \u2014 to the two- day conference described as a round table on urban aboriginal issues.Delegates included representatives from a wide variety of aboriginal groups and social agencies, civic and municipal leaders and other government Wa vr hatkwéea Z Turn the page for more.- EJ So, what do we do now that we\u2019ve finished school?Kindergarten veterans Emily Fowler, Raphaél Pommier and Christopher Bell seemed to have major plans for the dip served after their graduation which took place Monday at North Hatley Elementary School.RECORD/KATHY MERCIER - =.officials.The main stumbling block identified in one workshop on self-government was the diversity of natives living in urban centres, and how to represent all their interests.There are status Indians, non-status Indians, Inuit and Metis to be found in cities, said one delegate.\u201cThe basic idea is that we want to control our own af- AJ A U fairs,\u201d he said.\u201cBut we\u2019ve all got different ideas on what we want in self-government.\u201d It was suggested that elected representatives on an aboriginal council could oversee all the agencies dealing with natives.Others, like Ron Rivard of the Métis National Council, said having different aboriginal groups on one council would never work.brad) xd ir food Spider-Man spins his way to the rescue MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 Spider- Man is coming to Montreal to help police fight street crime.The crimebuster is the star in the fifth comic book of a series commissioned by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.The story line brings the cartoon hero to Montreal for the city\u2019s 350th anniversary celebrations.His alter ego, photojournalist Peter Parker, is in town for the opening parade.During the celebration.Parker stumbles on rival gangs fighting for control of a drug-trafficking operation.Parker becomes Spider-Man to help one of the young gang members go straight.Eric Conroy, program coordinator for the police chiefs\u2019 association, said the series started in January 1991 to \u201cpromote positive lifestyles \u2014 to teach kids about the dangers of drugs, alcohol, to teach them things like bicycle safety, streetproofing.\u201d Barry Kaplan, executive vice-president of Marvel Comics in New York, said market research has shown that comic books are effective in getting the message across.\u201cKids read comics, they reread them, and they collect them,\u201d said Kaplan.\u201cThey\u2019re tired of being lectured to by role models who later turn out to be hypocrites.They can rely on cartoon characters to be consistent in their approach to life.\u201cThey think of Spider-Man as a real human being.\u201d Conroy said the police chiefs\u2019 association has received more than 4,000 letters in the past year from schoolchildren who have written to Spider-Man.\u201cThe letters are about everything.We\u2019ve had kids write to Spider-Man asking how to deal with an abusive parent, and we\u2019ve had kids who just want to know how he keeps his red tights clean.\u201d The biggest criticism of the series is that parents sometimes think the strips are too violent.\u201cOur response to that is that violence in Spider-Man is what we call non-creatable violence,\u201d said Conroy.\u201cThat is, it is silly things, like the violence you see in television cartoons.\u201d Spider-Man\u2019s illustrator, Jim Craig, of Mississauga, Ont., came to Montreal earlier this year to work on the story idea with city and provincial police.Craig will soon return and go undercover with police \u2014 to make certain his characters are authentic.\u201cSince the story is about street gangs, it would be nice to \u201cThe issue of jurisdiction must be dealt with,\u201d agreed Sharon Ironstar of the Regina Friendship Centre.\u201cWe're dealing with second- and third-generation urban natives who have no desire to return to reserves.How do we get people in the aboriginal community talking about and understanding self- government?How can we get See NATIVES Page 2 Joe Clark: June 23, 1992 fMecotd Brome County News June 23, 1992 Births, deaths .10 Classified .8 Comics .evvvveernrnnennes 9 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .5 Living ose 6 Sports c.cossecscenecss Il Townships .3 WEATHER 1 3278 2 = | Getting closer but not close enough OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 The federal government is losing patience with the delay in reaching a constitutional settlement with the provinces and may act alone, Constitutional Affairs Minister Joe Clark indicated Monday.Clark said there has been some movement toward a deal, but \u201cI need more than that \u2014 I need to have some sense that we can come to an agreement.\u201d He also suggested, in comments outside the Commons, that a tentative deal on native self-government may have to be re-worked.Although Clark said he hopes the native deal can be kept intact, he mentioned in virtually the same breath that it may have to be better defined.Federal emissaries, led by the government\u2019s top constitutional adviser Paul Tellier, spread across the country Monday for meetings with provincial officials.Those meetings were to wrap up today, and Clark said he may then meet Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to figure out what happens next.One of the options to be explored by Clark and Mulroney when they confer \u2014 possibly as early as tonight \u2014 would be for the federal government to act know what they wear, what they do, how they pass the time,\u201d\u2019 Craig said.\u201cSo I'm coming back to do that.\u201d About 1.5 million copies are expected to be distributed to \u2018schoolchildren free of charge in September.Although the books are free in Canada, mint copies of the first three issues in the series \u2014 Skating on Thin Ice (Edmonton), Double Trouble (Winnipeg), and Hit and Run (Toronto) \u2014 are being offered for sale for $160 by one dealer in San Francisco, Calif.The fourth in the series, published this spring, is called Chaos in Calgary.Sarajevo mission slowed by shooting on By Stephen Ward The Canadian Press As mortar fire killed and mutilated civilians in central Sarajevo.a Canadian general said Monday a crucial truce had crumbled, frustrating his mission to reopen the airport in the capital of Bosnia- Herzegovina.Maj.-Gen.Lewis MacKenzie, the United Nations comman- derin Sarajevo, said he had failed to persuade warring factions to maintain a ceasefire essential to the UN plan to open the airstrip to desperately needed relief flights.\u201cThe ceasefire isn\u2019t holding and certainly tank fire and artillery fire don\u2019t qualify as a ceasefire,\u201d MacKenzie said from Sarajevo.\u201cWe condemn in the strongest possible terms this attack on innocent civilians.\u201d \u201cFour Serbian tanks are driving around inside Dobrinja shooting at flats.At least 10 apartments are burning,\u201d radio editor Zoran Pirolic said by telephone.One of the shells landed on a group attending the opening of a local cartoonist\u2019s exhibit in the capital of Bosnia- Herzegovina.One hit outside the national bank.Another exploded beside a tank truck where people stood in line for drinking water.Television footage showed the victims writhing in pain.One man left a trail of blood as he was dragged from Marshal Tito Street.\u201cDisaster is going on all over town,\u201d said Gordana Knezevic,- a journalist.Reports varied on the number of people killed Monday in Sarajevo.Doctors, local media and Western journalists who visited hospitals said eight people were killed and 80 injured.Bosnia\u2019s Crisis Centre for Health and Social Care said 21 were killed and 135 wounded.In open spaces, people ran for cover, many trying desperately to flag down passing cars that screeched around corners to avoid being hit.The shelling appeared to come from Serb positions in the hills in response to fire by Bosnia\u2019s Muslim-led defence.MacKenzie had asked Serbian and Bosnian forces to observe a ceasefire beginning Saturday night, after both sides had signed an agreement to reopen the airport.The truce collapsed Monday when Serb forces bombarded crowded streets in central Sarajevo.MacKenzie said he had just arrived for ceasefire talks at the Bosnian presidential office in downtown Sarajevo when the shells started falling.\u201cI don't want to overdrama- tize it, but unfortunately my arrival at the presidential palace was concurrent with the 11 o'clock shelling, which was an absolutely atrocious act,\u201d MacKenzie said.\u201cIwas in the area at the time, but I was not under any direct threat.\u201d | MacKenzie said the ethnic fighting means the plan to reopen the airport is suspended.The first stage of the plan \u2014 withdrawal of Serb tanks, artillery and anti-aircraft batteries from the airport \u2014 was to have begun Saturday but fell.through after renewed fighting.The UN intends to send 800 Canadian peacekeepers from Croatia to Sarajevo to secure the airport if a ceasefire lasts as long as 48 hours and seems stable.\u201cWe\u2019re working our butts off fine-tuning the plan, but we just don\u2019t have a ceasefire to move people out into the hills,\u201d MacKenzie said.\u201cConsidering the history of (abortive) ceasefires here in Sarajevo, it's difficult to be optimistic.\u201cHowever, we have not given up our task to open Sarajevo airport.I do not think it\u2019s too much to ask for 48 hours of peace or relative peace to be able to start performing that task.\u201d The 800 Canadians based-in the eastern Croatian town of Daruvar remain ready to leave for Sarajevo within 24 hours.Maj.Mario Albert, deputy commander of the infantry, said from Daruvar that the waiting is tough on his soldiers, mostly from the Royal 22nd Regiment and the Royal Canadian Regiment.\u201cIt\u2019s very hard; it\u2019s a leadership problem to keep everyone busy because you're waiting and listening to the news,\u201d said the native of Chicoutimi.\u201cThe danger in Sarajevo of attacks is part of our military job,\u201d he added.\u201cWe don\u2019t like to talk about it, but in the back of everyone's minds they know it\u2019s something that could happen.\u201d Three Canadian soldiers to recover from injuries received Saturday.Cpl.Jim Gordon, 28, of Aurora, Ont., left Sarajevo on Sunday for a hospital in the Yugoslav capital Belgrade to un- k alone.Everyone would prefer an agreement between \u2018Ottawa and the provinces, Clark told the Commons.But he added that \u201cone way or the other, the government of Canada has to prepare a Canadian position.\u201cIf necessary, the government of Canada, the Parliament of Canada, must act.\u201d There has been a growing See CLARK Page 2 So what did you do in the House, Dad?OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 MPs head ome today to face their onstituents, in what would rdinarily be a long summer f political fence-mending in nticipation of the next elec- ion.But despite a parliamentary session dominated by Ca- Inada\u2019s unity squabbles, no solution to the country\u2019s constitutional problem is on the horizon.And the summer holiday that officially begins today may be cut short if the politicians are called back to Ottawa to vote on a federal constitutional offer to Quebec.In the meantime, it will be especially difficult for Que- See HOUSE Page 2 dergo surgery to remove shrapnel from his leg.$ Gordon, along with Maj.Peter Devlin, 32, of London, Ont., and Lieut.Patrick Dray, 26, were injured Saturday as two =.mortar rounds landed near their jeep.Devlin and Dray received superficial shrapnel = wounds.3 The three were riding in a = MacKenzie-led convoy through Dobrinja, returning to UN = headquarters from the airport.The fighting began in April.+ Ethnic Serbs, supported by the Yugoslav army, have been - trying to crush Muslims and * Croats who voted for independence from Yugoslavia on Feb.29.\u2018 There is little to eat in the besieged city.Bread production has been cut by more than half, and some people have resorted .to eating boiled nettles and © weeds.vi In Belgrade, the Serbian and Yugoslav capital, Yugoslav \u2026 DEER A lr A AB > salt AA High school science teachers get back to basics at Bishop's University.RECORD/ALAN ECHENBERG 4\u2014The RECORD\u2014Tuesday, June 23, 1992 the The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial No real losers in Magog decision , Proponents of nice sandy beaches in Magog may have lost their fight, but much -was learned by everyone in the lengthy, :costly battle.And the fight to save Lake Memphremagog may save other lakes and rivers throughout Quebec from ecological harm.Late last week, a Quebec environment assessment panel released its report sta- \u2018ting that it opposed the beach plan, which would have seen 30,000 tonnes of sand dumped onto the beach and into the water in Magog Bay.The town\u2019s impact study, performed by «the same engineering firm which did the initial plans, claimed the sand would have \u2018minimal impact on the lake.Town leaders, merchants and tourism industry spokesmen stood behind the plan, insisting a nice- \u2018looking, comfortable beach was essential to ensure the area\u2019s success as a four- season tourist resort.However, local environmentalists, boaters, fishermen and other concerned users of the lake saw it differently.All of them feared the sand plan would have a negative .impact on the ecology, killing off aquatic plants and wildlife and causing further degradation of water quality in the already fragile northern basin of the lake.Those who opposed the beach plan spent months of hard work researching and preparing their arguments for seven days of public hearings by the Bureau d\u2019audiences publiques sur l\u2019environment.They faced off against an army of well-paid, well- prepared specialists defending the town\u2019s - project and its severely-flawed impact study.Finally, the BAPE found in favor of the opponents of the plan.Of course, the BAPE'\u2019s recomendation remains to be approved by Environment Minister Pierre Paradis and passed by cabinet.As both sides of the issue await a final decision with bated breath, it seems there is only one possible way for Paradis and his colleagues to go.Even if environmentalists win the final decision, there will be no real losers.beach and the environment of the lake, will be able to keep tourists by offering them not only a better looking beach, but also one which offers users clean water in a natural environment.They have been given a blueprint \u2014 let\u2019s hope they follow through one way or another.The only possible loser is Lake Mem- phremagog.All the experts agree that it\u2019s not nice to fool with Mother Nature and the best way to protect lakes is to leave shorelines as natural as possible.Provincial, re- ' gional and municipal laws ensure that pri- , vate citizens cannot play with shorelines and a decision in favor of the beach plan would set a dangerous precedent by allowing municipalities to do what is absolutely forbidden to private citizens.Now, cabinet is left to decide on the fate of Lake Memphremagog and the fates of similar lakes where municipal councils eyeing more tourism will be tempted by similar plans.In the short run sandy beaches may bring tourist dollars into the economy of towns like Magog.But if Quebec risks destroying the ecology of lakes and rivers, it risks losing an important resource which cannot be replaced.Short-term gain for the tourism industry may end up meaning long-term pain for the environment.RITA LEGAULT Letter Two kinds of Christians: Sheep and goats Dear sir, Mrs.Dix continues to be just as confused as ever and this is quite easy to understand.Later translators of the Bible must have been influenced by the pagan religions around them which had triads of deities.Since the trinity doctrine does not appear in the original scriptures, they apparently took it upon themselves to insert the verse at I John 5:7, \u201cFor there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one\u201d.Since this is something that has been added at a later date by non-scriptural writers and which contradicts sound scriptural teaching, it can be very confusing, but it obviously is spurious.The translators of the King James Bible also took it upon themselves to replace the divine name \u201cJehovah\u201d with the world \u201cLord\u201d in thousands of places where it appears in the original scriptures.In only four places was it allowed to remain: e \u201cAnd I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them.\u201d (Exodus 6:3); e \u201cThat men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.\u201d (Psalm 83:18); ® \u201cBehold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation.\u201d (Isaiah 12:2); ® \u201cTrust ye in the Lord Forever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength\u201d.(Isaiah 26:4).In prayer to his Father Jehovah, Jesus said, \u201cAnd I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.(St.John 17:26) Jesus Christ was no part of any trinity.The scriptures make it very piain that Satan the devil is the false god and ruler of the present world system of things.Anyone can see the effect of this from all the fighting and trouble that is going on in different parts of the Earth caused by nationalism, politics and false religion.There is also the greed for money which in the Bible is given the name Mammon, the god of money .The town, which received a number of recommendations on how to improve the Q NR \u2019 pA N LÉ j SNS NN 7 nds pe CW oar qu 9 = \u201c- ep A@9z - - getting.The effect of this can be seen from the number of big, long- established businesses that have gone bankrupt or are in financial trouble.Jesus gave up his position in heaven as a super angel to become a perfect man on Earth for the specific purpose of providing the ransom sacrifice necessary to make it possible for humans to receive everlasting life in the New World of righteousness which will replace Satan\u2019s present system of things.Regardless of what some misguided sects may teach, he will never leave his present exalted position to return to this Earth in human form.Anyone who says that \u201cGod loves sinners\u201d should specify what god they are talking about.Satan has a name and Jehovah has a name.Jehovah does not love wickedness, dishonesty or immortality.Mrs.Dix must belong to some sect that teaches that people are saved by faith alone and that works are not necessary.But she should not overlook what the scriptures have to tell us.\u201cYe see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.\u201d (James 2:24,26) Speaking to his apostles in the 10 chapter of St.Matthew, Jesus made it clear to them that they would not be very popular with Satan\u2019s worldlings.\u201cAnd you shall be hated of all men for my name\u2019s sake: but he that endu- reth to the end shall be saved.\u201d (Matthew 10:22) Jesus also foretold that there would be two kinds of Christians, sheep and goats.What did he have to say about the goats who persist in unscriptural doctrine?\u201cAnd these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal\u201d (St.Matthew 25:46).George Hall LED 14 Lu Dunham oie Did you know that.GOLD LEGEND Lost Lemon Mine is a legendary gold deposit reputedly somewhere between the Crowsnest Pass and the Highwood River in southwest Alberta.IN SPACE Marc Garneau was the first Canadian astronaut to enter space, during the mission of the American space shuttle Challenger, Oct.5-13, 1984.BURIAL MOUNDS The Linear Mounds along the Souris River of southwest Manitoba contain the greatest concentration of long prehistoric burial mounds in Canada \u2014 believed to date back to AD 900-1400.TOOTH FAIRY The tooth fairy legend evolved from the German folk tradition of placing a child\u2019s lost tooth by a mouse hole to magically transfer the rodent\u2019s \u2018\u2018superior\u2019\u2019 dental qualities to the child.FISH TALE Fish don\u2019t drink.The water they take in passes through their gills, where oxygen is extracted.Cree visitors It was recently my privilege to be associated, during an extended Friendship Weekend in Lennox- ville, with some exceptionally fine people: 12 Cree visitors from Nemaska, Quebec, and eight host families from Lennoxville.These people have strengthened my Unitarian idea of what religion really is: something that unites us with all that is admirable in human beings and helps us to keep sight of the possibility of a better world, which each one of us may help to achieve.Five of the six Cree elders were in their 70s, the other was in her late 60s, and all spoke only Cree.Their escorts, who were mostly in their 30s, spoke Cree, English and some French, and were wonderfully able and willing translators.Coming to the Eastern Townships was a first for most of them, as was living with a white family.Most had been hunting or trapping just a day or two before they left, and they were still having snowstorms up there, so our lush green area with trees and bushes covered with leaves and flowers made a dramatic change.For a people used to a diet of mainly were game, our vegetables, pizza, Chinese food and hot dogs were also a pretty new experience.In spite of these and many, many other differences, our visitors were delightfully adventurous \u2014 wanting to take part in absolutely everything that their hosts suggested.They were warm, good- humored and seemingly tireles, Commentary By Joyce Booth obviously doing their full part in making of this visit what it was intended to be: a meeting of two cultures for the purpose of learning about and making friends with each other.We had the feeling that the 12 chosen to visit us were leaders in their community.Certainly the Lennoxville families who agreed to be their hosts are the kind of people any community can be proud of and should be grateful for.During a period of four days, they devoted all their time and energy to giving their visitors a happy and memorable experience.All of them are nor- delightfully adventurous mally very busy people who juggle so many activities within their families that any one of them could justifiably have told me that they were just too busy to take the time involved in such a project.Not these people.They immediately recognized the value of such a cultural exchange and were delighted to find ways to rearrange their own schedules so that they could be a part of it.These people \u2014 the Cree visitors and their host families \u2014 are people worth knowing, the kind of people we don\u2019t hear about often enough.Let me tell you their names: e Louise Jimikin and Beatrice Trapper stayed with Rina Kam- peas,.Jonathan Rittenhouse and daughter Kathleen; ® Dinah Duffield, Tim Doherty, Tristan and Kira hosted Kitty Jolly, Mary and Ellen Tanoush; ® John Tent and Thomas Jolly shared the home of Ghislaine Royer and son Mathieu; ® Cheryl Stroud, David Dutton, and sons Bruce and Philip received George Cheezo and Stephen Neeposh; ® George and Kenny Jolly stayed first of all with Colleen Servant, John Max and son Ned, and then with Jennifer and Mike Sudlow and sons Andrew and David.® Betty and Dale Stout and daughters Kim and Melanie Har- tzell were especially happy to have Freddy Jolly staying with them, as Melanie had stayed with his family when she visited Ne- maska last November; ® Another family that helped make the Crees\u2019 visit a memorable one was Vicki and Brian Herring and children.Not only did they invite the whole gang to view their afternoon milking process, but they also invited everybody to have a huge picnic and cook-out in their pasture.Also, Brian scurried around and borrowed a wagon and, accompanied by son Charles, drove the tractor that pulled it, so that the Crees could have their own float in the parade.Wonderful people, all.I'm so glad to know them and to have been a part of this project with them.Joyce Booth is a retired school teacher living in Lennoxville.Police infiltrated Manitoba KKK, By Brian Pardoe WINNIPEG (CP) \u2014 A pair of undercover police officers helped distribute racist pamphlets after they infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in Manitoba, one of the officers testifed Monday.Sgt.Doug Zaporzan said he and his partner, Shirley Hooker, became confidants of Bill Harkus and spent almost two months \u201changing out\u201d with him and his friends.Harkus is charged with promoting hatred for distributing the pamphlets.Harkus, Theron Skry- ba and Joseph Lockhart are also accused of tampering with a gay telephone hotline.Skryba, 27, also faces firearms offences.The trial is expected to take a week.Other counts against the three, including advocating genocide, are set to go to trial in September in Court of Queen\u2019s Bench.TOOK NOTES Harkus carried a well-worn copy of the Bible into court, and, along with the other defendants, sat with spectators in the front row of the public gallery, taking notes during Zaporzan\u2019s testimony.Security staff at the court are using metal detectors to ensure no one brings any weapons in the courtroom, although attendance was light as the trial started.The three are represented by Doug Christie of Victoria, who represented former Eckville, Alta., schoolteacher Jim Keegstra and Toronto publisher Ernst Zundel on hate charges.Christie sent a buzz throught the courtroom, and a jolt through the three defendants, when he mistakenly entered guilty pleas on their behalf at the start of their hearing Monday.\u201cI mean not guilty,\u201d Christie said quickly, after realizing his mistake.WHITE RACE Zaporzan, the first witness, said he and Hooker accompanied Harkus to the Garden City Shopping Centre in north Winnipeg in December 1991 and placed pamphlets titled Death of the White Race on the windshields of parked cars.The pamphlets featured a picture of a black man and a white woman described as \u201cthe ultimate abomination.\u201d Zaporzan said Harkus told them he often distributed similar pamphlets.Harkus, 21, told them to only put the pamphlets on less expensive cars and \u201cnot the yuppie vehicles,\u201d\u201d Zaporzan said.\u201cPut it on the driver\u2019s side so court told they see it,\u201d he said he was told by Harkus.Harkus also warned them to watch for security in the area.Za- porzan said.Police retrieved the pamphlets after the trio was finished.Zaporzan said Hooker, who used the alias Lindsay, expressed her concerns to Harkus about the operation.Harkus said there would be no problem, telling Hooker \u201cin a year and a half, we haven\u2019t ended up in jail.\u201d He said the term Jews media, a play on the words news media, were altered by blocking out the letter J \u201cso you don\u2019t get «into trouble.\u201d Harkus also said that even if they were prosecuted, they would only face a $50 fine and could deal with the matter in court with a legal aid lawyer, the police officer said. 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