The record, 18 août 1983, jeudi 18 août 1983

Thursday Births, death*» .7 Business.5 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .10-11 t t4>U0V IMUOABI M tiNMM * IINNOWIIM t'KIM \KN Vi Mi MM Weather, page 2 SherhrtMike Thursday, August IK, 1983 30 cents France may triple number of troops involved in Chad "I like the look of you.When can you start?” ‘Piracy act’ condemned —Honduras Honduras protested what it called a foiled “act of piracy" by Nicaraguan gunboats, Honduras’s defence minister said he fears a Sandinist invasion, and a Nicaraguan leader accepted a senator’s invitation to visit the United States.The Honduran Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it filed an “energetic” protest with Nicaragua over what it claimed was an incident in which three Nicaraguan vessels tried to stop 12 Honduran fishing boats in Honduran waters.It said the incident took place Tuesday three nautical miles north of Cabo de Gracias a Dios in the Caribbean Sea, but was foiled by the appearance of Honduran warplanes.Relations between the two countries have worsened since Nicaragua’s Sandinistas came to power in July, 1979, overthrowing a rightist government.Protest notes are exchanged regularly, and both countries warn of war.The Sandinistas accuse Honduras of harboring and aiding U.S.-supported Nicaraguan insurgents, while the Honduran government charges that Nicaragua is trying to promote a leftist guerrilla movement in Honduras.DEMOCRACY FRAGILE Honduras has a fragile, two-year-old democracy after more than a decade of military rule.Honduran Defence Minister Col.Amilcar Castillo Suazo said Wednesday he is afraid of an invasion from Nicaragua.Castillo Suazo, speaking in the capital Tegucigalpa, also said Honduras wants to convene the Central American Defence Council, established in 1961 to fight what it called communist aggression.The organization has not operated since 1969, when Honduras and El Salvador waged a brief war.Though Castillo Suazo did not elaborate, sources in Tegucigalpa said his aim is to expel Nicaragua from the organization and form a front by Gua-tamala, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica against the Sandinistas.In Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, Senator Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) said Wednesday that junta leader Daniel Ortega accepted his invitation to visit the United States, but no date was set for the visit.Tsongas said he told Ortega the Sandinistas can force President Reagan to change his policy of isolating Nicaragua by influencing American public opinion.He suggested the Sandinistas pledge not to interfere with other Central American states, stop aligning themselves with the Soviet Union and Cuba and allow other political groups in Nicaragua to function freely.In San Jose, Costa Rica, Roman Catholic Church bishops and archbishops from Central America are meeting to discuss the problems of the turbulent region and their social and religious repercussions.WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.officials say a misunderstanding must have caused French President Francois Mitterrand’s complaint that President Reagan tried to force France into taking military action against Libyan-backed rebels in Chad.The French newspaper Le Monde reported that Mitterrand believes the rush of U.S.aid to Chad complicated the conflict between rebel and government forces.Le Monde said Mitterrand received letters from Reagan concerning Chad and was irritated by what he saw as efforts to pressure him.The story, apparently based on an N’DJAMENA (API French para troopers strengthened their northern desert defence line, and reports from Paris said France may triple its troops in Chad to help the government repel an advance south by Libyans and Chad rebels The French established two new strongpoints on the fringe of Chad's northern wastelands Wednesday, military sources in this former French African colony said interview, said Mitterrand resisted what he felt was a U.S.effort “to make him part of their preoccupation with the ambitions of Col.Khadafy,” referring to Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy.Alan Romberg, the State Department’s deputy spokesman, told reporters Wednesday that if the Le Monde story is true, “we regret this apparent misunderstanding." “We have consulted fully on a daily basis during the entirety of this pro blem, with numerous French civilian and military officials at the highest levels,” Romberg said.Deputy White House press secreta- The authoritative Paris newspaper Le Monde said the overall troop strength may soon exceed 3,000 men and include at least one fighter bomber squadron based in N'Djamena.Military sources in Chad said there are more than 1,000 French troops in Chad and they have been setting up strongpoints Libya would have to attack if it wanted to help the rebels get to N'Djamena, the capital, lx* Monde also said radar-equipped ry Larry Speakes issued an identically worded statement in California.Asked whether the administration had put pressure on the French, Speakes said, “I won’t address it in those terms.” He said the aim of the United States action has been “to stop a situation we regard as dangerous." NEEDED JETS But U.S.officials had made it clear they wanted France to send jet fighters to help defend Chadian government forces against attacks from Libyan aircraft, which were supporting the rebels.Officials let it be known they were disappointed when mobile ground-to-air Crotale missiles are installed at N'Djamena airport and cun shoot down supersonic aircraft for a radius of about 10 kilometres.The paratroopers moved into Bil-tine and Arada, located on the north-south road between Ouim Chaloubu and Abeche.640 kilometres east-northeast of N'Djamena.They have already moved troops into Abeche and Salai, 354 kilometres the French didn’t respond with aircraft to rebel attacks in northern Chad.France has sent troops which appear braced to stop any Libyan-rebel advance on key cities in southern Chad, including the capital of N'Djamena.The newspaper said the French president did not want to become associated with efforts to “overthrow the regime of Col.Khadafy, toward whom he harbors neither hostility nor surliness.” Mitterrand was also said to believe north of N'Djamena.The French also were said to be planning a fifth strongpomt at Ati, midway between Abeche and N’Djamena.Western military observers say Chad’s protracted civil war has entered a “perhaps temporary" stale mate with no reports of contact between the President Hissene Hubre’s loyalists and the rebels since Saturday.Le Monde quoted unidentified By Robert MacPherson THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL (CP) — Former premier Robert Bourassa says he will set up a committee to look into turning Quebec gove.nment corporations over to the private sector if he is reelected as Quebec Liberal leader.In a telephone interview from Quebec City, Bourassa said "privatizing" parts of the public sector will in some cases be necessary to improve the province’s economic standing.“I would form a committee of experts and businessmen to find a cost-effective approach to the whole thing,” he told The Canadian Press, adding he already has “some people willing to spend time” on the task.The committee would be one of several which Bourassa said he would create immediately if 3,000 party delegates re-elect him as leader at a convention in Quebec City this October.Another committee would look into the question of deregulation.“We want to be ready, when we take power, to make responsible decisions,” he said.In officially launching his leadership campaign Monday, Bourassa promised that "the role of the Crown corporation will be re-examined according to the criteria of profitability, economic growth and market demand.” Besides selling a Crown corporation outright, Bourassa — who was party leader from 1970 to 1976 — suggested that partnerships could be formed to operate government companies jointly with private interests.But aside from a little-known map- CINCINNATI (CP) — Air Canada management told a public inquiry Wednesday the crew members of a burning plane in which 23 people died acted with good judgment and were correct in not opening doors to let smoke escape during an emergency descent.But their testimony at hearings by the United States National Transportation Board conflicted with that of a top official from McDonnell Douglas Corp., manufacturer of the DC-9 in the June 2 incident, who suggested the smoke escape drill could have been used.Captain Ronald Clark, manager of Air Canada flying operations, said the company’s crews are specifically instructed during training not to use the McDonnell Douglas smoke escape drill — that includes opening two doors — unless the fire in the aircraft has been extinguished.The reason is that air that would come through the doors would fan the fire, Clark said.In the case under investigation, the fire was not extinguished until nearly an hour after an “things would have been much less complicated if the United States had not weighed so heavily in the balance.” In addition to encouraging France to become more involved, the United States approved $25 million in emergency military aid and dispatched a few U.S.advisers and two sophisticated aerial surveillance aircraft.While Reagan and other senior U.S.officials have denounced Libya as a threat to all of North Africa if Khadafy isn’t stopped in Chad, the French have not seen Khadafy and Libya as such a serious threat.sources as saying Libya has commit-ted 6.000 troops to support former president Uoukouni Oueddei’s drive to oust Hubrr and reinstall himself as leader of this impoverished country.Libya persists in denying its forces are involved in combat Hubre’s forces abandoned almost all the northern half of Chad to Libyan and rebel forces after the fall of the key northern oasis of Kaya-Largeau a week ago.making corporation which he said has run up a $700.(MN) deficit, he did not name particular crown corporations that he would like to see sold off.Nearly two-thirds of Quebec's gross national product is generated by both the federal and provincial civil service and public agencies, he said, yet only 40 per cent of their output is exported."The goal is to reduce the weight of the public sector.” Bourassa also said he had “a small smile” when he heard reports Wednesday that federal Finance Minister Marc Lalonde has told colleagues not to attack his campaign.•TENSION PAST’ But he stressed that tension between himself and federal Liberals is "a question of the past" which he refuses to comment furthur upon.He said he has "not recently" spoken with Lalonde, but acknowledged that “a lot of MPs” were backing him — including former defence minister Gilles Lamontange, who extended his support Wednesday.Three Quebec MPs, who asked not to be identified, said Lalonde told Energy Minister Jean Chretien and Labor Minister Andre Ouellet last June not to say anything that might undermine Bourrassa’s campaign.Bourassa has been a black sheep of several federal Liberals who accuse him of being lukewarm towards federalism and of delivering Quebec to the Parti Québécois in the 1976 election.Liberal national assembly members Daniel Johnson and Pierre Paradis are fighting Bourassa for the party leadership vacated last year by Claude Ryan.emergency landing.However, Paul Patten, director of flight test and operations for McDonnell Douglas Corp.said the manufacturer docs not stipulate the fire has to be out.“It is not the recommendation of the Douglas company that you wait until the fire is out before using that procedure.” However, Patten admitted the company had never tested the procedure with a live fire on board.It had only done so with smoke.And he admitted it is possible a fire could be fanned by opening the doors.STANDS BY DECISION An official of the United States Federal Aviation Administration testified the government agency had refused to adopt the McDonnell Douglas drill for use in the agency’s flight operations manual in 1976 and stands by that decision.Ernest Southerland said the FAA was concerned that flight attendants might not have enough time in an emergency landing to get passenger evacuation slides back in place after removing them to open the doors and let smoke out.E.J.D’Arcy, Air Canada’s director of in-flight planning and operations, told the inquiry how the three flight attendants had stationed themselves among passengers on the plane in a way that was “more than adequate” during the emergency landing.He said all the passengers were sitting in the first 12 rows of the aircraft that was filled with thick, acrid black smoke.One flight attendant was by the front door, another in the first row and the third in row seven, eight or nine Flight attendants Sergio Benetti, Judith Davidson and Laura Kayama each opened exits and shouted evacuation commands to passengers.When no one came forward in Davidson’s case, she went down the slide at her exit.«Ma ¦ m ¦ Before.After.During! RKCORD/CHARLES BURY Wednesday morning the St.Francis river was dry at Drummondville as police closed two dams to search for mussing Mélanie Decamps.They found no sign, (see story page 3) and the dams were opened again at lunch time.But there is so little water in the river that by five o’clock the level had only risen about two feet.Meanwhile upstream at Windsor, the Domtar paper mill was having its usual Wednesday afternoon spill.Police divers say that the St.Francis is dirtier than the St.Lawrence.France’s Mitterrand miffed over pressure from Reagan Bourassa wants to rid province of public firms Flight attendants right in keeping doors shut 2—Th«* HK( OKI» Thursday, AuruM IK, I «HI Montreal’s film festival becoming 1e must’ of the social season MONTREAL tCI’i — Over the years, Sertte Utsique's glumuruus, ultra euiimo|>ulitan creation, the Montreal World Film Festival, has incurred the vocal displeasure of Quebec's nationalists, experimental filmmakers, distributors and media As the (estival opens its seventh edi tion toniRht at IMace des Arts with such luminaries us Hollywood's Glenn Ford, and France's Jean-Louis Trintignant and Marie-l’hristine Barrault to lend star lustre, the displeased this year will be those not lucky or important enough to get tickets.For film addicts, social lions and Quebecers of all stripes, the festival is fast tiecoming "le must" of Montreal popular events "This is the year I lose all my friends," sighs the festival's longtime public relations director, David No-vek, hanging up his constantly ringing phone lie's just explained to a whining movie distributor that he can't possibly get him and his wife opening night tickets — they're all gone Tickets for festival movies are also going like hot cakes, with avid cinéphiles sometimes lining upoutside the downtown five theatre Cinema Bari-sien for three and four hours THIRST IS GREAT In a cosmopolitan city that is turning into a backwater for commercial movie releases —for instance, Woody Allen's Zelig and Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander still aren't here — the thirst for good movies is at fever pitch.This year's festival has them — lit) features and 50 short films — packed into five theatres and 10 days.Opening night is a classy package that combines the world premiere of Canadian animator Norman McLa-ren's short dance film Narcissus with the North American premiere of Vivement Dimanche, the latest film by France’s Francois Truffaut.Starring Trintigant and Fanny Ar-dant, it's a wickedly funny murder-comedy a la Hitchcock whose work has long been admired by the French director.A nice grace note is the festival's screening of Hitchcock's 1948 technicolor classic The Rope, rarely shown because of a rights dispute in the courts.The Rope stars James Stewart, John Dali and Farley Granger in the dark tale of two homosexual friends from university who kill a man as a purely intellectual exercise.In competition for the festival’s Grand Prize of the Americas are 21 features representing France, West Germany, Spain, Argentina, Australia.New Zealand, the Soviet Union, Italy.Yugoslovia, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States.NOTABLE ABSENTEES Notably absent from the competitive ranks is a Canadian or Quebec film.However, the festival's closing film will be The Tin Flute.Quebec director Claude Fournier's screen adaptation of Gabrielle Roy’s novel about working-class life in the Montreal of the 1940s.Irish terrorists hold IRA informer’s wife, in-laws BELFAST (AIM — Irish nationalist guerrillas holding the wife, sister and stepfather of a jailed former comrade who turned indice informer threatened today to kill the hostages “in the very near future." In a message released to news organizations in Belfast, the Irish National Liberation Army said: "Harry Kirkpatrick has decided to condemn his family to death.He has clearly decided that his own freedom is more important than the lives of his family." The statement did not mention any deadline for carrying out the threats.Kirkpatrick, 25, former operations director of the guerrilla group, was sentenced to life in prison in Belfast last June for killing three soldiers and two police officers and for eight attempted murders.Police informers have become a major weapon used by security forces to fight ther guerrillas.Unlike most informers, Kirkpatrick was not given immunity, but official sources said he is expected to get "generous parole after a few years." Published British reports said authorities are believed to be holding him in a jail in northern England.The reports said he is believed to have given police the names of 18 other guerrilla suspects.The liberation army, a Marxist offs-hoot of the mainly Roman Catholic Irish Republican Army, seized Kirkpatrick’s wife Elizabeth, 24, on May 18 and on Aug.3 snatched his stepfather Richard Hill and Kirkpatrick's 13-year-old sister Elizabeth.The outlawed IRA is fighting to drive the British from Northern Ireland.It wants to unite the predominantly Protestant region with the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish republic to the south.Linguistic minorities are becoming campaign issue MONTREAL (CP) — The role of Quebec's linguistic and ethnic minorities emerged as a theme in the provincial Liberal leadership race Wednesday.Commenting on a decision Tuesday by John Ciaccia, (Lib-Mount-Royal) not to run because his support came mainly from non French-Canadians, Eric Maldoff, president of Alliance-Quebec, said Quebecers are not prepared to vote for a leader whese mother tongue is not French.“At this stage,” Maldoff said, "it is neither surprising or disappointing to observe that Quebec’s evolution has reached such a point” although it may in the future."We all have to live together but it will take time for such an event to occur given the historic context of Quebec" said Maldoff, head of the largest English-language lobby group in the province.Meanwhile, in Hull, Pierre Paradis (Lib-Brome-Mississquoi) promised a group of about 100 supporters to purify Quebec’s controversial language law, Bill 101, of its “anti-English and anti-ethnic elements.” “There is no question of abolishing Bill 101,” Paradis said.“But it must be liberalized by removing those negative elements whilepreserving the parts of the law promoting French language and culture in Quebec."Quebecers are not a vindictive and vengeful people,” he said."We don’t get up in the morning with the idea of getting a two-by-four and hitting an Anglo over the head because we lost the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.” Paradis said he disliked those parts of the law restricting bilingual signs, imposing French exams on professionals and regulating access to the province’s schools.Airport officials aflutter over 150-year-old tourist LONDON (AP) — A Moslem holy man from Pakistan caused a sensation at London’s Heathrow Airport on Wednesday when he produced his passport, which gave his birthdate as Dec.13,1832 — making him 150 years old.Airline and immigration officials crowded around Sayed Abdul Ma-bood, who sat in a wheelchair, wea- Weathe Today cloudy with scattered showers and a high of 24.Friday variable cloudiness and a chance of showers.ring an Arab headdress, blue robes and a long, gray beard.His travelling companion on the Trans World Airline flight to Chicago, Amir Sultan Malik, told astonished onlookers, ‘ ‘There is no doubt about it.The date of birth is absolutely genuine.“I realize it must be difficult for people to accept but this is no fake.” “Mr.Mabood is a well respected holy man in Pakistan, known to all the government and religious leaders.The secret of his long life is in his faith.It has nothing to do with diet or exercise.” Malik said Mabood had 14 sons and more than 200 grandchildren and other descendants.The Guinness Book of Records lists the oldest living man as Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan, who turned 118 on June 29.—_____fogl JKecora George MacLaren, Publisher .569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor .569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager .569 9525 Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent.569-9931 Richard Lessard, Production Manager 569-9931 Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room.569-4856 CIRCULATION DEPT.—569 9528 Subscriptions by Carrier: 1 year - $65.00 weekly: $1.25 Subscriptions by Mail : Canada: 1 year $49.00 6 months $28.00 3 months $19 00 1 month $11.50 U.S.& Foreign: 1 year $88.00 6 months $51.00 3 months $32 00 Established Februaiy », 1897, incorporating the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879).Published Monday to Friday by Townships Communications Inc./Communi cations des Cantons, Inc., Offices and plant located at 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1.Second class registration number 1064.Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations Back copies of The Record are available at the followino prices: Copies ordered within a month of publica tion: .50c per copy.Copies ordered more than a month after publica tion : $1.00 per copy.News-in-brief Labatt launches new beer MONTREAUCP)— Labatt Brewery Ltd.launched a new beer in Quebec Wednesday with the usual five-per-cent alcohol content, but it costs 10 cents more than regular domestic brands and comes in a slender, green bottle.Marcel Boisvert, Labatt's vice-president of marketing, said the higher price for the lager-type beer, called the John Labatt Classic, isn’t due solely to the distinctive bottle but to the "total product." Boisvert said the company spent “a few million dollars” developing the product.Maislin gets two month reprieve MONTREAL (CP) — Creditors of Maislin Transport Ltd., teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, gave the trucking firm a two-month reprieve Wednesday to come up with a detailed restructuring plan.Creditors met to vote on a holding proposal filed under Canadian bankruptcy law by Maislin, a unit of Maislin Industries Ltd.of suburban LaSalle, asking for a delay until Oct.31 to pay its debts.About 500 creditors, including Maislin employees, adjourned the meeting until Oct.19 to give the company time to continue liquidating its assets and, for the time being, avoid bankruptcy.The reprieve came after a surprise announcement by Maislin lawyer Bram Gelfand who said the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce had seized and sold Maislin's Canadian trucking permits just one hour before the creditors meeting and dismissed remaining employees.Quebecers pay more in income tax MONTREAL (CP) — Quebecers in almost all salary brackets pay more and in many cases double provincial income tax than residents of Ontario, the Quebec Chamber of Commerce said Wednesday.The chamber released a Canadian Tax Foundation table comparing income taxes in the two provinces by way of comment on a threat by Quebec Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau to name Quebec MPs who avoid Quebec taxes by maintaining their principal residence in another province.“If everyone had the chance to declare their principal residence in Ontario there wouldn’t be many citizens paying (income) taxes to Quebec,” the chamber said.The table indicated that anyone making more than $12,500 a year pays more income tax if he lives in Quebec than if he lives in Ontario.100 more artillery shells found DRUMMONDVILLE, Que.(CP) — Another 100 artillery shells were discovered Wednesday in nearby St-Nicephore as a Canadian Forces search for the explosive devices continue, officials said.The search began last Saturday after local children found 123 shells in an abandoned scrapyard.Since then, 204 more shells, which date from the Second World War, have been unearthed.The shells were transported to Farnham, Que., to be destroyed.$996,000m investment for Quebec LA MALBAIE, Que.(CP) — Quebec will get all of the sub-contracts it was promised last June when a $3.85-billion deal to build six frigates for the Canadian forces was announced, says the new federal minister of Supply and Services.Charles Lapointe, appointed to the post in last week’s cabinet shuffle, assured the province Wednesday that Quebec firms would be awarded 40 per cent of the sub contracts on the deal.“Three frigates will be built in Quebec,” he said, adding that no contracts have been awarded to Quebec companies because the main contract has not yet been signed.“The promise of a $996-million investment (for Quebec) will be respected." U.S.Navy tracks Soviet ship WASHINGTON (CP) — A Soviet cargo ship believed to be carrying arms for Nicaragua is being tracked by the U.S.Navy through the Caribbean, Pentagon sources said Wednesday.The sources, who spoke on condition they remain anonymous, said there has been no word that any U.S.warships have attempted to hail the Soviet ship, as was done July 31 when the guided-missile destroyer McCormick queried a Soviet vessel concerning its identity, cargo and destination.That incident occurred off the Pacific coast of Central America.Glenn wants bold space program WASHINGTON (Reuter) — Democratic presidential candidate John Glenn, a former astronaut, called Wednesday for an expanded U.S.space program including a permanent manned station and an agreement with the Soviets to ban space weapons.The U.S.senator from Ohio was one of the original seven astronauts, and in 1962 became the first American to orbit the earth.He is one of the leading candidates for next year’s Democratic presidential nomination.“A bold space program can produce large-scale benefits for the American people in the form of new products, new services and increased productivity,” Glenn said in a statement to mark the 25th anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Argentina may buy heavy water WASHINGTON (AP) — Argentina may purchase 143 tonnes of "heavy water" from the United States even though it refuses to allow international inspection of its atomic plants, a published report says.The Washington Post reported today that the Reagan administration approved the $100-miliion sale after officials were assured that the heavy water would only be used in safeguarded nuclear power plants.The newspaper quoted deputy assistant State Secretary James Devine as saying the Argentine government promised “there would be no use of any items exported to Argentina in nuclear exolo-sives.” Gun-wielding 65-yr old lady let go NEW YORK (AP) — A 65-year-old woman who waved an unloaded .32-calibre pistol at eight people she accused of trying to mug her expressed relief at learning a grand jury has refused to issue a gun-possession indictment in the case.“Thank the Lord the charge is dropped,” Roberta Leonard of Sylacauga, Ala., said Tuesday.She could have received a year in prison if convicted.Charges also were dropped against four of the men after she said she drew the gun outside a bus terminal Monday before any robbery attempt was made.Two men were charged with possessing knives while two juveniles were referred to Family Court, officials said.Chief prosecutor assaults 10 yr old NASHVILLE, Tenn.( AP) — A former chief prosecutor who tried the Son of Sam murder cases in Brooklyn, N.Y., was charged Wednesday with the aggravated rape of a district attorney’s 10-year-old daughter, police said.Eugene Gold, a 59-year-old lawyer who helped send David Berkowitz to prison for the Son of Sam murders that terrorized New York City in 1976 and 1977, denied the charge.His bond was set at $100,000.Gold, who served as head prosecutor in Brooklyn, N.Y.,from 1968 to 1981, is accused of assaulting the girl after meeting her during a family excursion in Nashville.Mexican fugitive held for murder BROWNSVILLE, Tex.(AP) — A 22-year-old Mexican who was seized in Mexico by two American bounty hunters working on a car theft case and brought back to the United States is being held in Brownsville without bail on a murder warrant in the shooting of a supermarket owner.Authorities said Rogelio Castro Izaguirre was apprehended Tuesday by the two armed bounty hunters and driven to the U.S.across the Gateway Bridge from the Mexican border town of Matamores.U.S.Peace Justice Alex Perez, at a hearing Tuesday, ordered Izaguirre held without bail in the Cameron County jail in Brownsville.Police Lieut.Adam Marks said the Izaguirre case would be turned over to the district attorney for grand jury action.Alicia is flinging killer winds GALVESTON, Tex.(AP) — Hurricane Alicia crashed into the Texas coast today, “getting stronger by the hour,” flinging killer winds near 185 kilometres an hour that sent sheets of rain through doors and windows and hurling high tides at untested levees.An elderly woman died in Houston after a tree fell on her home, officials said.More than 10,000 residents from Corpus Christi, Tex., to Morgan City, La., left homes in low-lying areas for dozens of evacuation centres as Alicia, the first hurricane of the season, battered the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.Lyricist Ira Gershwin dies BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.(AP) — Ira Gershwin, the lyricist who collaborated with his brother, George, on dozens of songs, including I Got Rhythm and The Man I Love, died today at his Beverly Hills home.He was 86.Gershwin’s biographer, Robert Kimball, said in New York City that Leonore Gershwin called him this morning to say her husband had died peacefully in his sleep.Gershwin had been ill for several years.Gershwin wrote literate rhymes for the music of more than 20 Broadway stage productions and more than 10 movies and shared the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the show Of Thee I Sing, the first musical to win a Pulitzer for drama.Before the death of George Gershwin in 1937, most of Ira Gershwin’s work was done in collaboration with his brother.Palace is surrounded by fence LONDON (AP) — An Israeli-made security fence has been installed around Buckingham Palace following last summer’s break-in by an unemployed man, Michael Fagan, who got into Queen Elizabeth’s bedroom.The Daily Telegraph reported today.A palace spokeswoman refused comment on the newspaper’s report, saying: “We never discuss matters of security.” The T legraph said the &l-million ($1.86-million) fence is wired to a microcomputer and sets off an alarm even if someone brushes against it; its electronic sensors pinpoint the location of any attempted break-in.Australians find oldest rocks LONDON (AP) — Australian scientists said Wednesday they have found the world’s oldest rocks — more than four billion years old, or about 300 million years younger than the estimated age of the Earth.The rocks, found in western Australia, are at least 300 million years older than any other rocks known to geologists, says an article in the British scientific journal Nature.The rocks were found earlier this year in a sedimentary formation in the Mount Narryer region of western Australia.Radio broadcasts live love-making PA RIS ( Reuter)—An independent radio station which broadcast live love-making with a running commentary went off the air today when police seized equipment, a staff member said.One of the station’s announcers said 20 police and technicians arrived at the Carbon 14 studios in the Paris suburb of Bagneux, climbed on to the roof to dismantle the aerial and took away equipment.Carbon 14 was one of hundreds of radio stations which came into being after the Socialist administration of President Francois Mitterrand lifted the monopoly of state-run radio stations in May, 1981.Nkomo can remain in parliament HARARE (AP) — The government withdrew today a motion demanding opposition leader Joshua Nkomo’s ouster from the Zimbabwean parliament.The move came a day after Nkomo returned from five months’ self-imposed exile in Britain.The legal and parliamentary affairs minister, Eddison Zvobgo, withdrew the motion after an hour’s acrimonious debate and after Prime Minister Robert Mugabe called Nkomo “the father of dissidents” — a reference to armed rebels blamed for a wave of lawlessness in Nkomo’s home province of Matabeleland.Hundreds of Nkomo’s supporters cheered and danced behind police cordons as their leader entered parliament Journalists can set up in Harare HARARE (Reuter) — Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe expressed support Wednesday for a ban by black southern African states on foreign correspondents based in South Africa.Mugabe said his government would help news organizations wishing to set up in Zimbabwe.The six states—Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Botswana and Tanzania — last month banned journalists based in South Africa from covering their countries, saying their reports would be influenced by the country they lived in.Nigerians killed following election LAGOS ( AP) — Scores of Nigerians were killed and hundreds arrested in election clashes in two western Nigerian states, forcing officials to suspend balloting in one state and postpone it in the other, the government said today.Victor Ovie-Whiskey, chairman of the federal Electoral Commission, said commission offices in Akure, capital of Ondo State, had been gutted by fire during fighting between backers of President Shehu Shagari’s National Party of Nigeria and the opposition Unity party.He said “scores” had been killed in Ondo and Oyo states and several houses had been burned to the ground.The violence followed Saturday’s elections in which Shagari’s party won a sweeping victory.Final results released Wednesday night showed his National party winning 13 of the 19 state governorships.The Unity party won three states, the Nigerian People’s party two and the People’s Redemption party one.Emergency extended in Sri Lanka COLOMBO (Reuter)—Sri Lankan officials said today the country’s state of emergency has been extended for another month to prevent a resurgence of the recent riots that killed at least 385 people.Information Minister Anandatissa de Alwis said, however, that the cabinet reviewed the security today and ‘ ‘ noted with satisfaction there were no serious incidents to cause anxiety.” The government first declared the emergency on May 18, to deal with the violence that followed polling in parliamentary and local elections.It has extended the declaration twice.The government has used the emergency powers to curb the activities of an outlawed guerrilla movement in northern Jaffna province, and to deal with clashes between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils in other parts of the country.Despite the emergency, ethnic violence flared on the island last month, claiming at least 385 lives and destroying or damaging hundreds of properties belonging to Tamils.Soviets launch cargo spaceship MOSCOW (Reuter) — The Soviet Union has launched a cargo spaceship to resupply the Earth-orbiting Salyut-7 space station, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported Wednesday.It said the automatic cargo vessel, Progress-17, carried food and other items for cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and Alexander Alexdandrov who have been in space for 51 days.Tuesday, the cosmonauts left the main craft briefly to redock their Soyuz-9 transport ship at a different airlock, leaving a loading point clear for Progress-17./ I 4 Th»* HKCOItlt Thiintdiiy, AiikunI IK, l»>U—3 The Townships Hydro wins four-year battle with Farnham farmer for right-of-way John Herendsen fought the Hydro-Quebec 125-kilovolt years.The legal battle ended Wednesday and Hydro has line that would destroy an acre of his property for four secure final expropriation.«iCwi 'yjTl s' ; By Merritt Clifton PARNHAM — Farmer John Be-rendsen's four-year legal battle against Hydro Québec ended in defeat Wednesday afternoon in the Granby court house, as the utility gained final permission to take possession of a power line right-of-way through the edge of his best cornfield.Paralleling the Canadian National rail spur connecting Farnham with Granby, the new 125-kilovolt line won’t add a new division to Berend-sen's property, but it will widen the existing division, take about an acre out of production, destroy a portion of this year’s crop, and interfere with future aerial spraying.The line connects with a new Hydro substation now nearing completion on a lot between Berendsen's field and the Farnham industrial park Hydro began designing the project back in 1977.Berendsen didn’t learn of it until 1979, when he and other affected farmers were first asked to sell the right-of-way.Most agreed, but Berendsen, André Lampré, and Sylvain Gaudreau decided to fight.It became a matter of principle, as they contested Hydro’s policy of consulting organizations such as the UFA and the agricultural zoning commission, securing their go-ahead, before even notifying affected landowners.This procedure prevented the farmers from presenting testimony before the UFA.the zoning commission, and the Rainville municipal council gave their ver- dicts.By the time the farmers were able to testify, they were asking the various organizations to reverse esta blished positions, after Hydro had already committed considerable money and manpower to the project as originally outlined.Eventually Hydro did show the pu blic two possible alternative routes.The second, however, differed from the one chosen only in that the line came down the other side of the CN tracks.The third would have come through several smaller properties, including residences and a Scotch pine plantation across the Yamaska River.The only residence close to the original Hydro proposal has been built since the plans were announced.Berendsen argued that a fourth alternative route was possible, but Hydro never gave it public consideration.He appealed repeatedly to every board, council, commission, and court that could block Hydro, even temporarily.At a public information hearing held in the Rainville town hall last September, Hydro spokesman Jean-Marie Pelletier charged Berendsen and the other line opponents with having caused three years of needless delay.At first Pelletier claimed the new line, which doubles Farnham's municipal power supply, “is necessary to prevent blackouts" right in town.But the only blackouts Farnham has recently experienced were caused by damaged lines, not a power shortage.“Farnham doesn't need the electrici- ty," Berendsen retorted."Maybe way off in the future.Right now all the fac tories are shut down or operating at low production, and there are no new homes being built.No one is experiencing low voltage or having engines burn out.The line is going up for political reasons." Later, Pelletier claimed, "Wo need this project not for Farnham, but for the region served by the St-Cesaire substation." He maintained that Far-nham’s existing 125-kilovolt corridor could not be upgraded to carry the full 250 kilovolts, and that the new line couldn't be put underground either, because of expense.In the Netherlands, Berendsen’s original home, all new transmission lines must be buried wherever working farms are affected.Ironically, Berendsen emigrated to Québec over 25 years ago in hopes of finding less government meddling in his operations.Berendsen's last legal stand started last week.Having completed expropriation proceedings, including posting 70 per cent of the assessed value of the affected property with the Granby court.Hydro tried to move in a Harvex Inc.construction crew.Har-vex is a subcontractor specializing in building power lines.They got footings for several power towers prepared before Berendsen and Cowansville attorney Peter Turner secured an injunction forcing them back out.The injunction maintained that Hydro couldn’t move yet because the agricultural zoning commission still hadn't ruled on an amended petition for protection that Berendsen had filed after his original petition was denied.On Tuesday the amended petition was also denied.“They can really hur- ry when Hydro is held up," Berendsen noted.“We were told the final decision would have to come from Québec and would take a long time, but here it came from Longueuil overnight." Wednesday, Hydro met Berendsen in court to contest the now moot injunction and to secure final expropriation Both decisions were virtually automatic in their favor "I still feel they dealt with me unfairly,” Berendsen concluded Wednesday police and Hydro crews drained the missing Mêlante Decamps.It was the first time in St-Francis River at Drummondville to search for memory residents had seen the bottom.¦««¦«ip Km** i V ; ïV.v ' ^ .Townships talk SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Luc Beaudry, an inmate at the Waterloo Rehabilitation Centre, pleaded guilty to a charge of simple possession of half a gram of hashish.Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk said it was found in a routine search and said he would be satisfied with one week additional to all terms Beaudry is presently serving.Defence lawyer Daniel Giard said the request of the crown was justified and Judge Claude Le-veille imposed the suggested sentence.SWEETSBURG WARD ( JM)— Réal Lafleur, of Montreal entered no plea at his arraignment on a charge of theft of a vehicle valued in excess of $200 in Farnham on Sept.18,1980.Defence lawyer Daniel Giard chose jury trial and the preliminary hearing was set, for the form, to Oct.4.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Walter Crandall of Dunham pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of simple assault.Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk told the court the charge stemmed from an argument concerning the disposition of goods when Crandall slapped a male in the face.He then suggested a fine of $50 would be justified.Crandall then pleaded guilty to having failed to appear for fingerprinting.Don Bissonnette told the court Crandall had since complied with the order and suggested a minimum fine would be in order.Judge Leveillé fined Crandall $50 and costs on each count, in default to five days and allowed him two months to pay the fines and costs.• SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Mario Duhamel, of Sutton, renounced his right to trial and pleaded guilty to a charge of a simple theft of a bottle of cognac at the Café Terrasse in Cowansville, failure to report for identification, and one of breach of a probation order.He then pleaded guilty at his arraignment on two criminal charges of purse snatching at the Café Terrasse.Daniel Lavallee told the court his client had an alcohol problem, was awaiting sentencing in Granby on Sept.22 on other charges, and left sentencing to the discretion of the court.Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk reminded the court the accused was on probation at the time of the crimes.Judge Claude Leveille handed Duhamel one month, concurrent on each of the theft charges, and one week, concurrent, on the others.He was then bound over to keep the public peace for three years and prohibited from entering any establishments, save restaurants, where alcohol is served for consumption on premises during his probation.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Suzanne Ruel, of Cowansville, was shown the clemency of the court when she was handed 120 hours of community work instead of a jail term.Ruel was arrested by members of the QPF Morality Squad in Co-wansville’s Bree Bar last September and subsequently pleaded guilty to four counts of trafficking in hashish and cocaine, as well as two counts of possession of restricted drugs with intent to traffick.Garry Martin said his client had no prior record, was at the bottom end of the line as far as drug pushers were concerned, was gainfully employed and away from the group she used to frequent.He noted she hadn’t trafficked in PCP or morphine, stating that was a factor in her favor, cited the pre-sentence report and asked for the clemency of the court.“She remembers the few days she spent in jail before obtaining bail only too well,” Martin said before suggesting a sentence entailing community work.Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk said the court must consider the impact of the sentence as a deterrent to others.He noted trafficking carries a maximum term of life imprisonment and said the drug trade created many other crimes by users in order to finance their habit.“It is a serious problem here and across the province,” Keyserlingk explained before producing Ruel’s confession when she admitted to having trafficked from June 1982 until her arrest some three months later.“She had a steady job and didn’t need to traffick to survive”, Keyserlingk continued.“She netted about $125 per week from her sales to steady customers therefore it was not an isolated case.We have to consider the rehabilitation of the accused, but we also have to consider the protection of the public.It is not only the possibility of a jail term but the imposition of one which serves as a déterrant.What will the impact be on the public if she is handed a sentence of community work with the number of charges laid against her?” He then cited the case of first offender Danny King who was handed six months for simple possession of marijuana.Martin countered community work wasn’t against the public interest, then told of a client in Montreal who was fined $1,500 on her first appearance on a charge of trafficking on one pound of cocaine.Judge Claude Leveille noted the excellent presentence report, considered the time spent in jail awaiting bond, then handed down the maximum 120 hour sentence.Ruel will have to appear September 13, to learn the modalities and venue of the sentence, when the judge informed her she would also be put on probation.“If you ever repeat you can rest assured you will face a long jail term,” he informed the accused.St.Francis drained in fruitless search DRUMMONDVILLE — Police drained a portion of the St-Francis River Wednesday in their hunt for traces of Mé-lanie Decamps but they are no closer to finding her than they were before.Two Hydro-Québec dams were completely closed for several hours so police could get a closer look at the rocky river bottom but two divers and a helicopter brought in for the search failed to turn up “the smallest indication” that might help find the missing tot, said Québec Police Force spokesman Guy Ménard.Six-year-old Mélanie disappeared from the campground at Drummond-ville’s provincial Parc des Voltigeurs without a trace last Tuesday.In spite of a massive hunt by police and over 200 volunteers and a public plea for her safe return by her mother, no sign of her whereabouts has been found.“We are still getting lots of calls from citizens who think they can help," says Ménard, “and we check out every one.About 30 per cent of the tips require fur- ther investigation but not a single one has led us any closer to her." So far over 200 calls have been received, he says.As well, police have accepted offers of help from several hypnotists, clairvoyants, seers, parapsychologists and a ‘radiesthésiste’, who sought hints of the little girl using a pendulum, a map and a photo of her.“Voyants have tried too, and even a playing-card reader,” Ménard adds.“But still, we have nothing, nothing at all.” “Now we have to spread the net further, in distance and ideas," he says.“We have about 15 men here investigating, and four or five in Montreal (the Decamps live near Montreal).We have had great help from more than 200 volunteers and we are sure now that Mélanie is not in the woods.It was really a giant search and we kept at it for Vh days straight.The divers and helicopter found nothing in the river either.” Wednesday there were still groups of volunteers searching forest land near the campground, but to no avail.Ménard says this type of disappearance is nearly unheard-of in the area.“We have nothing in our files anything like this,” he says.“Known deviants” around Drummondville have been interrogated as well, also with no results.Police divers said the thick pollution prevented them from examining the river bottom."It's worse than the St-Lawrence,” said one.To search the bottom Hydro-Québec crews dosed the Hemming and Drummondville power dams Tuesday evening; by Wednesday morning the river was virtually empty.After searching the rocky bottom all morning they decided to let the water back in at noon.By five p m the water had risen only about two feet, indicating that 1983 is an exceptionally dry year.The divers said that there was little garbage on the bottom : “I was surprised after the quality of the water itself,” said one, "the bottom is quite clean." Mélanie’s mother is expected to make a second public appeal at a Drummondville press conference today.issue booth be created immediately, increasing up to 2000 over the following five years.A multi-million dollar building would have to be built to house this project," she adds.“Also, nearly 900 families would be relocating to our area, causing an incredible economic and social spinoff.” Others interested in the move are the Eastern Townships protestant school boards, which stand to see their enrollments rise after a long period of shrinkage when the governments make up their minds.Ottawa says it won’t move the mapping branch until the Supreme Court overturns the language-of-education clauses in Bill 101, Québec’s repressive Charter of the French Language which forbids Canadians moving to Québec from sending their children to English-language schools.Ottawa says the provision is unconstitutional; the public service unions say their members won’t come here unless a choice of French- and English language schooling is allowed.E.T.groups set up mapping SHERBROOKE — The fight to bring the federal government mapping branch and its 700-plus jobs to the Eastern Townships from Ottawa has hit the streets — or rather, the midway at the Sherbrooke fair.Representatives of the Sherbrooke-area chamber of commerce, the regional industrial association, the University of Sherbrooke, the Townshippers’ Association and other regional groups have combined efforts to set up a booth at the fair where interested citizens can find out more about the phantom move (first announced in 1977), and put their names down on a petition to be sent to Ottawa.“In 1977 the Trudeau government made a commitment to the population of the Eastern Townships that has yet to be realized,” says Townshippers’ spokesman Ann Louise Carson.“Now is every voter’s chance to do something about it.” Although the move to the Sherbrooke area was announced with noisy fanfare in 1977 by the federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, as part of a broad federal plan to decentralize government offices, “this has yet to happen,” Carson says in a communiqué.“Other moves by the federal government to decentralize, which did occur, saw part of the Department of Supply and Services move to Matane and part of the federal ‘fiscal centre’ go to Jonquière.” Carson says a committee formed by the Chambre de commerce de Sherbrooke, La Maison régionale de l’indus trie, the university and Townshippers’ “will be devoting much time and energy over the next few months in what we hope will be a successful lobbying exercise to have the government follow through” on its unkept promise.The bring-in-the-mappers group has set up a booth at the new Eugène Lalonde arena to give out information and bring in signatures.“Should the mapping branch relocate in the Sherbrooke area it would be a tremendous boost to our sagging economy,” Carson says.“Eight hundred jobs would Local peace groups gather this weekend BEDFORD (MC) — Jugglers, clowns and musicians will highlight ‘Children’s Peace Day’, to be held at Bedford's Butler Elementary School on Sunday, August 21.On the more serious side, Enosburg Falls pediatrician Dr.Jack Mayer will deliver a 2 p.m.lecture on Parental Responsibility In The Nuclear Age.’ Mayer was the prime mover behind the Peace Bells’ demonstrations held last Mother’s Day, has been an outspoken critic of the U.S.nuclear disaster relocation plans and is noted for research identifying a high incidence of stillbirths and miscarriages downwind of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.Mayer’s lecture will be followed by a 15-minute film entitled ‘Hiroshima-Nagasaki 1945’, spliced together by Columbia University technicians from Ja- panese footage confiscated by the U.S.Army shortly after the end of World War II.Local peace groups will raise funds at the Peace Day festivities by holding an auction of arts and crafts items and assorted white elephants.Scheduled performers include Hidiko clows performing ore-gami, the Japanese art of paper-folding; a clown named Peso who will instruct children in drawing; jugglers and musicians Jean Ginnus and A.Nicolet; François Boudreau, ‘The Norton Drive-In Theatre Rte.114 — Norton, Vt.Friday & Saturday, Aug.19 & 20 “0CT0PUSSY” James Bond pg Sunday, Aug.21 “GATES OF HELL” Horror movie B Tuesday & Wednesday, Aug.23 & 24 “ON WHITE SATIN” starring Seka [x] Unknown Musician'; musician Toby Kinsel la; and a choral group from St Jean-sur-Richelieu called ‘Youth For Peace & Justice’, whose presen tation will concern strife in Latin America.Admission to the events is $2 for children, $4 for adults, $10 for whole families.Attendees arc advised to bring their own lunches, although a canteen will sell health food snacks.For further information, call Marc Dussault, (514) 248-2524.Adults 2 00 Children Under 12 FREE MON TUI S Wl O I HI 1RS AUG 15, Ifc.17, A 18 “Movie Magic!” USA TODAY in; T BMOTIMlIVi IICHMSNTI)» I R! A SAT AUG 1‘IA 10 The Return of the Great Adventure.1 /UL'US i /•?/%/% | SUNDAY.AUG 21 lûVj' Uaprr (Hiiase I MOV, TUES .WED.IHURS AUG.22, 21, 2» A 25 Friday is Mulkin Night Slop in and see Jim Mulkin about a Friday Night Pass, compliments ol Mulkin Corporation, Newport, Vermont.ff.Rum 4—The KF.rORIV Thursday.AuKust IH, UMCt The Voice of the KaHtern T«>wnHhipN nince 1897 Editorial Not another province We learned this weekend that the Magog river and lake have been polluted by the acciden tal spillage of 9,000 gallons of caustic soda by Dominion Textle in Magog.And when it is not Dominion Textile it is the Lowney’s company or Pepsi-cola or even the painters that painted the Jacques Cartier bridge who spilled a certain amount of paint into the river saying afterwards that it was ‘accidental’.It is to be wondered when the environment minister will fulfill his responsabilities and bring lawsuits against those that pollute our waters.As of yet, the polluters are getting away with a lot.All they have to say is that the spill is accidental.They will never admit that the spill was caused by negligence and the Minister of Environment seems satisfied with hearing that the spill was accidental.The pollution caused to the Magog River does not only disturb the people that have riverside houses.The 9,000 gallons of caustic soda will also kill aquatic life and according to biologists, in a few days we will be able to evaluate the loss of aquatic life in the Magog river.There is not another province in Canada where industry gets away with pollutung our rivers and lakes as in Quebec.RÉAL HÉBERT Blessed In 1977 the federal government, under its scheme to decentralize the sprawling civil service, committed itself to moving the mapping division of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources to the city of Sherbrooke.Now, a mere six years later, our country’s mapma-kers have yet to find our economically depressed city.While other sectors earmarked for decentralization have already installed themselves in their new homes — some in Québec — the government has decided to use the promise of over 700 highly-paid civil-service jobs as bait in its continuous, childish war of words with the provincial government.The jobs cannot be transferred, we are told, until the so called ‘Canada Clause’ is inserted in Québec’s language law to allow some of the tranferred workers to enroll their children in English-language schools.While such a stated motive may sound noble, it does not in itself excuse the delay of a project that would so greatly benefit an area whose economy is in such dire need.Considering the fact that Sherbrooke’s MP is a long standing — albeit ineffectual — member of the present regime, it must surely be time for Sherbrooke to get its share of the bread and circuses in return for which the masses have traditionally elected governments.One has to wonder what hidden secrets of the federal government the mapmakers have uncovered to allow them such consideration from a government that is willing to alienate an entire country over metrification, force employees in Sakatchewan to learn French that will never be used, and destroy the economy of Alberta through a greedy and one-sided energy policy, while at the same time allowing other aspects of the language law to disrupt the lives of thousands of anglophone Québecers without interference from our federal overlords.Blessed, apparently, are the mapmakers, for theirs is the power.MICHAEL McDEVITT Freedom of the press: No news to Mounties BONNYVILLE, Alta.(CP) — RCMP have decided not to charge the editor of Bonny ville’s weekly newspaper, who was arrested while taking pictures of an armed standoff between police and a resident of the northeastern Alberta town.Sgt.Russ LaBelle said Wednesday police decided against charging Daniel Johns, 31, of the Bonnyville Nouvelle, after discussing the incident with the Attorney General’s Department.Johns, who said he spent 3V2 hours standing on newspaper property taking photographs of the action around an adjacent main-stn it house, was arrested an hour before the siege endet peacefully Tuesday.He had refused a Re Deer RCMP officer's request to leave the area because “it was my right to be there.! was just doing my job.” Johns, held by the RCMP for IVi hours, was later served with a court appearance notice.DEFENDS ACTION The editor defended his action by saying he had a right as a reporter to do his job anywhere in downtown Bonnyville without being arrested.The incident began after a suspect escaped from a police car about midnight Monday.Two hours later, police received a tip that someone was holed up in a Bonnyville home threatening to shoot police.Johns said he will complain to the Alberta Press Council and hopes to meet with members of the Alberta News Photographers Association to discuss the treatment he received.Journalists in rural areas rarely encounter events such as a siege, Johns said, but when they do they can be easily manipulated.“In the city there’s usually 20 (journalists) at something like this,” he said."It’s pretty hard to push 20 people around.” No known cure for U.S.killer drug spray By Al Colletti NEW YORK (CP) Using the herbicide paraquat to kill marijuana patches in national forests probably will cause the U.S.government more problems than it’s worth in the war against illegal drugs.Paraquat, a weedkiller, can be nasty stuff depending on its concentration.Highly toxic, strong doses kill people.There is no known antidote.In Georgia, agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration sprayed paraquat by air on a section of the Chattahoochee National Forest while the tourist season was still in bloom.The area is in the mountainous northern area of the state, where plenty of marijuana grows.It was a surprise spraying, the first aimed at marijuana on federal lands in the United States, Local and state authorities were furious.They said they hadn't been warned in advance and a citizens group sued the federal government for $15 million, claiming the spraying severely damaged more than KM) hectares of forested land.The spraying also hurt the tourist business.The federal government claimed that only the marijuana plants were des- troyed, not the surrounding vegetation.ORDERED TO STOP After a federal judge issued a temporary injunction against further spraying, the U.S.government said it had completed its program in Georgia for the present but may eventually expand it to