The record, 10 mai 1984, jeudi 10 mai 1984

P I x ii LJ i ovict y Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .8 Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Thursday, May 10, 1984 35 cents 5555BEH5595559Efi5S5fi5555HMHi RAIN JOHN flNCARRh.At.il ' SAWVHRVIL1T PRIMARY SCHOOL Townshippers’conference features speakers, workshops “Gee, Eugene.I'd love to vote tor you but my wife likes Turner.” By Charles Bury SHERBROOKE — Finishing touches are all that’s left to do as organizers for the Townshippers Association prepare for an all-day fifth anniversary conference set for Saturday.Billed as ‘Our Community at the Crossroads: Planning for the future’, the conference agenda is loaded with events sure to be of interest to many Townshippers and friends.The association expects several hundred to attend the big event set for the Lennox-ville campus of Bishop’s University.Featured speakers will be 17-year- old Johanna Visser and slightly-older economist Dian Cohen, along with a host of Eastern Townships community specialists who will speak at audience-participation workshops on a variety of subjects.Dozens of workshop sessions are set for throughout the day: ‘The Family Farm Today and 1990’, with Warren Grapes, Doug Griffith, Steve Gruber, Linda Beland, Gary Caldwell, Royal Orr and Doug MacKinnon, will entertain such questions as the future orientation of the family farm, marketing produce, and funding possibilities (credit unions).‘Do we need More Small Business', with Jack Noble and Jack Castle, will try and answer several questions : are there impediments to development in the area of small business due to linguistic and/or legal restrictions: are See TOWNSHIPPERS page 3 Lortie pleads not guilty as Assembly re-opens QUEBEC (CP) — Tours for school-children and other visitors resumed Wednesday at the historic national assembly building where few traces remained of Tuesday’s rampage in which three people were killed and 13 wounded.Benches splintered by bullets from a submachine-gun, fired by the man bent on destroying the Parti Québécois government, were replaced.Bloodstained carpets were removed and bullet holes plastered over.Denis Lortie, 25, a Canadian Forces corporal and father of two, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting.Handcuffed to two guards and wearing a T-shirt and jeans borrowed from police the husky and bearded soldier was silent throughout the brief hearing except for a whispered exchange with one of his guards and another with defence counsel Andre Royer.First-degree murder, defined by the Criminal Code be “planned and deliberate,” carries a minimum 25-year prison term without parole.Lortie, a native of nearby Pont-Rouge who has been in the military since 1976, was remanded in custody Khadafy calls Reagan terrorist?TRIPOLI (AP) — Armed guards were stationed at roadblocks in Tripoli today after an unsuccessful attack against Col.Moammar Khadafy that the Libyan leader claims was supported by the United States.Details of the attack still were sketchy two days after it occurred, but Khadafy escaped unscathed.He was shown on Libyan television Wednesday, smiling and laughing as he toured a clothing store in downtown Tripoli.He joked in English that Britain had given up exporting clothing to Libya and instead was exporting terrorism.He also blamed the United States and Sudan for backing Tuesday’s attack.Khadafy called U.S.President Reagan “the worst terrorist in the world” and said American-trained Moslem Brotherhood extremists were responsible for the attack, said reports from the French newspaper Le Monde and the Italian news agency ANSA.U.S.State Department spokesman John Hughes had no direct comments on Khadafy’s allegations.Hughes noted there were varying reports about who was responsible for the attack.Another group, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack and vowed to continue to stalk Khadafy.The British Foreign Ministry in London rejected Libyan charges of British involvement.Britain broke diplomatic relations with Libya last month after a British policewoman was killed by gunfire which British officials said came from the Libyan diplomatic mission in London into a crowd of anti-Khadafy demonstrators.Today, Libyan soldiers and police with automatic weapons stopped cars and trucks and searched some vehicles.People’s Committees of civilians brandishing automatic weapons were posted at dozens of city intersections.In its dispatch from Tripoli.ANSA said Tuesday’s attack was launched against Khadafy’s headquarters barracks south of Tripoli by about 20 men armed with rocket grenades and automatic weapons.The attackers were driven into a nearby building where they were killed by tank and cannon fire, ANSA said.It said their bodies were later displayed in Green Square in downtown Tripoli.Western diplomatic sources and official U.S.sources in Washington said See ANTI-KHADAFY page 2 pending another appearance next Wednesday, when more charges are expected to be laid.Royer said he would ask the court to order a psychiatric examination for Lortie next week.The national assembly met for only 30 minutes Wednesday before adjourning for six days to mourn the deaths of the three killed Tuesday.Addressing his collègues, Premier Rene Levesque wondered aloud whether Quebec society hadn’t unconsciously developed a “tendency to value violence as way to settle conflicts, and even as a form of expression sometimes.” STAND IN SILENCE Members stood silent for a minute in memory of the three victims.Moments later they rose and applauded when Speaker Richard Guay praised Sergeant-at-Arms Rene Jal-bert for saying the lives of several government workers and later persuading the attacker to surrender.“Without his (J albert’s) remarkable intervention there’s reason to believe the toll would have been higher,” said Liberal Opposition Leader Gerard D.Levesque.Jalbert, 63, a retired army major, brushed off suggestions at a news conference that he had acted above and beyond the call of duty.“I don’t know any other sergeant-at-arms who wouldn’t have done the same thing,” he said.“I was just doing my job.“Someone told me in my office that someone with a gun was in the national assembly.I took the elevator up and carefully entered the assembly chamber.“When I saw he was dressed as a soldier, I introduced myself as a soldier and offered, if he allowed me to, to show him my veteran’s card, which he did.” MAJOR TAKES OVER A breakthrough in the fragile relationship came when Jalbert told the gunman: “I’m a major and from now on you are going to address me as major.I did not know that he had killed anyone.” When he learned of the deaths at home, “I had a couple of scotches.” A single funeral will be held Friday at 11 a m.for the victims.Guay will lead a group of national assembly members and civil servants in paying last respects to Georges Boyer, 59, Camille Lepage, 54, both assembly messengers, and Roger Lefrancois, 57, an employee of the chief electoral officer.The service will be held at Sacre-Coeur-de-Marie Roman Catholic Church on Grande Alice, down the street from the national assembly.One of the wounded, legislature hostess Jacinthe Richard, remained in critical condition in hospital but her life was not in danger.The provincial police investigation into the shooting is continuing.In Ottawa, Defence Minister Jean-Jacques Blais said his department will aid in the investigation.-'A Time to unlock the cottage Better weather is headed our way, despite the unseasonably cold temperatures, so cottage dwellers and water sports enthusiasts take heart.Quebec City sniper surrenders to Tac Squad QUEBEC (CP) — A man who barricaded himself in his home after two people were wounded with a shotgun surrendered today after holding police at bay for 24 hours.Jean-Claude Nadeau, 39, was unarmed as he calmly descended the rear steps of the upstairs tenement flat in Quebec City’s tough St-Sauveur district.Moments later he was taken to municipal police headquarters for questioning.“He looked like an early riser," said provincial police spokesman Aside Ottawa caused Killiniq mess—Quebec By Bob Dawson Although the Dept, of Indian Affairs has not yet issued a statement on the $44 million lawsuit filed by the Killiniq Inuit, three governments have in the past denied responsibility for the evacuation of the Killiniq people from Port Burwell in 1978.The Quebec Government says it was unaware that the Killiniq Inuit had been moved to Quebec until several weeks after the event.In a written statement, Eric Gourdeau of the Conseil exécutif, responsible to the Quebec cabinet for government relations with native people, said that “the federal government is entirely responsible for the evacuation of the village of Killiniq.Quebec was never consulted on the closing of this vilage and did not learn until several weeks later, from the Inuit themselves, that the Killiniq people had been dispersed to various Quebec villages.” He added that “the difficulties faced by the Inuit in northern Quebec was a situation created and maintained by the federal government and inherited by Quebec.” The federal government, however, has also denied responsibility for the “forced evacuation” of Port Burwell.In a federal cabinet document, the Dept, of Justice denies that the government violated the law, and the Dept, of Indian Affairs states that the responsibility for the closing of Port Burwell lies not with Ottawa, but with the government of the Northwest Territories.The government of the Northwest Territories has refused to comment on the matter, but one well-placed civil servant in Frobisher Bay said that the decision to evacuate Port Burwell was made by one government employee who had taken over the office when his boss was on holidays.He telephoned Port Burwell after midnight and announced that he had decided to rearrange the map.When his boss returned from holidays, the civil servant said that he had evacuated the village at the request of the Inuit themselves.The Inuit deny this.Norman Snowball said that his people were forced out of their homes “as if we were dogs ”.The Inuit maintain that they did not petition the government to strip them of their houses, jobs and land and dump them homeless and penniless hundreds of miles away.Moreover, the Inuit say that the destruction of their community was not an isolated act of one person.On the contrary, they insist that it was the final act of a three-year political struggle, in which both Ottawa and Frobisher progressively cut off services to the village and used “coercion and duress” to force the people off the island.The Inuit say that a decision of that magnitude could not have been made in Frobisher Bay without approval from Ottawa.They add that Ottawa was fully aware of their grievances even before the village was evacuated, as they had already accused Ottawa of violating the law in closing the nursing station Norman Snowball spoke to committee of the House of Commons about land claims of his people one year before the village was evacuated.The Inuit maintain that the destruction of their community was an illegal act committed by both Ottawa and the Northwest Territories.Lemay.“He came before the police tike someone who was expected to do exactly that ” Nadeau is suspected to firing shotgun blasts that wounded a pedestrian and a motorist on Charest Boulevard, a few blocks from the house, at daybreak Wednesday Both victims were slightly wounded, but news of the incident added to the shock felt in the provincial capital after three government employees were killed by a gunman in the national assembly Tuesday.The shotgun sniper was said to have been distressed by the killings in the legislature and by the recent loss of his job FEW WORDS SPOKEN The surrender ended a tense 24 hour seige during which police were fired on twice and few words were exchanged between Nadeau and the 50 or more policeman who surrounded him The only telephone contact was a call made at mid-day Wednesday by members of the provincial police tac tical squad, who had set up a command post in an unused school across the street from the house.Once in police hands, he was escor ted under the shadow of high powered rifles to the command post in the school, where provincial police for mally handed him over to their Que bec City colleagues.Canada singled out by IMF for incredibly high debt load OTTAWA (CP) — An International Monetary Fund report released this week shows the world is alarmed about Canada's financial state, John Crosbie, the Conservative finance critic, says.Canada was singled out in the report as one country facing major fiscal problems because of its debt load.The agency said that of the seven major industrialized countries, only Italy has higher debt servicing costs as a percentage of gross domestic product.Crosbie asked Finance Minister Marc Lalonde in the Commons on Wednesday whether he planned to reduce government spending, increase taxes or allow the situation to deteriorate by doing nothing.“The world is alarmed about this government,” he said.Lalonde said Crosbie was painting a darker picture than the report, which he said had some good things to say \about Canada.He also said the Cana- dian government is committed to reducing its deficit but must create jobs at the same time.“Just as we have been concerned about the size of the deficit, we also have to be concerned aboutthe unemployment in this country,” he said.Lalonde rejected the claim by Tory industry critic Michael Wilson that there is a link between high government debt and high unemployment.Wilson said the money the government was using to pay interest on its debt could be put to better use creating jobs or stimulating economic growth.Lalonde said he disagreed with this analysis.EQUALS SEVEN PEE CENT The IMF report showed Canada’s debt servicing costs equal seven per cent of gross domestic product.Italy pays nine per cent.In comparison, debt costs for the United States are between 4.5 and five per cent of gross domestic product, as they are for Japan and Britain France and West Germany are at three per cent.The Canadian gross domestic product is the value of goods and services produced in the economy by Canadians and non-residents.It does not include the returns from Canadian investment abroad, but does include returns on foreign capital invested in Canada.Earlier Wednesday.Lalonde said the government has run higher defi cits than other countries because it had to create more jobs.‘ When you have high unemployment, you need stimulation that you don’t need in other economies that have a higher rate of growth,” he said.There are currently 1.5-million people unemployed in Canada.Ottawa estimates net public debt is $150 billion or $6,000 for every Canadian Lalonde also said the economy has performed better than he expected in some areas.He told the House he anti cipated last year that spending requirements for this year would be more than $26 billion, but figures released by the Finance Department on Wednesday are $1.7 billion lower than that.“This we have achieved through ca reful management while caring for those who are in need,” he said The Finance Department figures also showed the deficit, previously estimated at $31.5 billion for this fiscal year, now is estimated at $29.3 billion.Final figures will be released in Au gust Lalonde repeated Wednesday that Canada is facing the same problems as many other industrialized nations and possible solutions will be discussed at a meeting of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development next week in Haris.Marc iMlonde .economic picture painted too dark. 2—The RKCORI)—Thursday.May 10.l!M4 In sniper’s Lower Town neighborhood ‘Everybody is out of a job QUEBEC (CP) It 's a sociological quantum leap between the quaint Ku ropean backstreets of historic Old Quebec and the working class neighborhoods that make up flower Town.A couple of kilometres southwest of the Quebec national assembly lies a world that the politicians and civil servants never venture into.Bland two and three story houses built in the Dirty Thirties, if not earlier, stand flush against the side walks, without the front balconies that distinguish similar neighbor hoods in Montreal.Pickup trucks and rusty clunkers line the curbs and there’s hardly a tree in sight "Out this way, everybody is out of a job," explains a storekeeper’s wife with only slight exaggeration."My (iod.it's awful." One Lower Town neighborhood, St Joseph, was immortalized by novelist cum newspaper publisher Roger Lemelin as the home of the fictional Plouffe family.UNDER SPOTLIGHT Another, St Sauveur, on Wednesday became centre stage for the second sensational violent crime story to take place in Quebec City in as ma ny days.In a brown faced house owned by his parents.Jean Claude Nadeau, suspected of sniping and wounding two pedestrians at dawn, holed himself up in a lengthy siege with police who had the place surrounded.Neighbors said Nadeau was not an untypical member of Lower Town society — a blue-collar worker and avid outdoorsman who, in his case, has been out of a job for two years.But as they stood on streetcorners, watching the police operation with almost a carnival liveliness, they were not drawing quick comparisons between him and the gunman who killed three government employees in a shooting rampage inside the national assembly on Tuesday.“Too bad he made a mistake,” said Marco Laplante cynically, referring to how the national assembly gunman was apparently bent on violently destroying the Parti Québécois government.SLAMS GOVERNMENT “Think of what the PQ has done for us — they’ve closed industries here and everywhere.People wonder why Quebecers are going elsewhere to work."Politicians are a gang of buffoons.” Andre Therrein, a roofing contractor who bitterly remembers being lai-doff by a Quebec-subsidized poultry plant six years ago, agreed.“That guy (in the assembly shoo- ting) was not nuts,” Therrein said.“He knew what he wanted.One government or another, they’re all a gang of thieves.Therrein peered down the street and offered a quick assessment of his own area.“It’s not because some guys are nuts that the whole neighborhood is nuts.In fact, there’s more scaredy-cats around here than toughs.If a woman yells at night you won’t see a light come on in any window on the street.” At another streetcorner, Maurice Royer sat with his dog and a transistor radio, watching the seige from the comfort of what used to be the front window of his old grocery store.NOT SO CYNICAL Royer, now retired, condemned the national assembly tragedy as “terrible and sad," but concurred that its instigator must have known what he was doing.But by comparison, Royer wondered if the early-morning sniper wanted to become an instant hero.Then the kindly ex-grocer offered some crackerbarrel philosophy: “The youth of today are a lot tougher than we could have been ip our time.But that’s not just only in Quebec.It’s everywhere in the world — drugs, drink.Security across Canada tightened after shooting OTTAWA (CP) — Commons securi tv directors were silent Wednesday about any changes to security routines after the shooting in the Quebec legislature the day before.Legislatures across Canada were placed on alert after three Quebec na tional assembly employees were kil led and 13 wounded in a one-man assault on the provincial legislature Tuesday.Canadian Forces Cpl.Denis Lortie pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder Wednesday.While Commons security staff were careful to follow up all copy-cat threats, security director Raymond Quintal was trying to keep publicity to a minimum, said Lilian Chatterjee, a spokesman in Commons Speaker Lloyd Francis’s office.Chatterjee said she was told by Quintal that security around Parliament Hill was being increased, but Quintal refused to say how that was being done.But, she added, security staff were treating all rumors and threats as serious.GRENADE THREAT Earlier in the day, CBC reporter Stephen Boissonneault answered a call to the parliamentary press gallery from an unidentified man claiming to be passing on information about someone planning to throw a grenade during the daily Commons question period.Boissonneault immediately told Quintal, passing along a description of the man provided by the caller.There was little evidence of stepped-up security precautions as the usual stream of tourists, schoolchildren and other visitors lined up for a chance to watch the Commons proceedings.Despite ownership dispute offshore tracts for sale WASHINGTON (API — Despite a jurisdiction dispute with Canada over half of the area, the Reagan administration is offering about 5.7 million hectares off the coasts of seven U S.northeastern states for oil and gas leasing.The sale, for next September, was announced Wednesday by Interior Secretary William Clark, who said more new offshore discoveries are "badly needed,’’ particularly in the Northeast where dependence on oif imports is heavier than any other region of the United States.Interior officials estimate that the sale area contains as much as 140 mil lion barrels of oil and 3.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.William Bettenberg, director of the department’s Minerals Management Service, said about half the area in the sale is claimed by Canada.The Canadian government already has let leases to five companies — Texaco, Mobil, Dome Petroleum, Standard Oil of California and Fair-holm Development — in the area but no drilling has begun, U.S.officials say.Bettenberg said the sale would be divided into two parts, with the dispu ted area omitted if the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands, has not resolved the competing jurisdiction claims of the two governments by then.Originally scheduled for last February, the sale had been put on hold" by Clark while he reviewed the controversial leasing policies of his predecessor, James Watt, and to consult more with officials of the seven affected states.Anti-Khadafy attackers want system destroyed Continued from page I preliminary intelligence reports also referred to an attack on the heavily fortified Bab al-Aziziya barracks, where Khadafy usually resides with his family.But the Libyan leader said Wednes day that “10 or so terrorists” launched an attack against a building in central Weather Today will he cloudy with a chance of showers, clearing later in the day.High 10.Outlook for Friday — cloudy with a chance of showers, high 12-14.Tripoli, not against his barracks home, “to destroy the political and social objectives” of Libya, ANSA reported.2 ATTACKERS SURVIVED Khadafy said only two of the attackers survived, and they were apprehended.ANSA reported.The official Libyan news media previously had said all were killed.Asked whether the attack was aimed at him personally.Khadafy reiterated that the “terrorists” wanted to destroy the Libyan social system “and maybe they calculated to make an attack against me,” ANSA said.A Le Monde correspondent, Eric Rouleau, interviewed Khadafy at his barracks headquarters after Tuesday’s fighting and said the building showed “absolutely no trace” of combat.flcrr mam George MacLaren, Publisher 569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor 569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager 569-9525 Mark Gulllette, Press Superintendent 569-9931 Richard Lessard, Production Manager 569-9931 Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room 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in connection with the 1979 slaying of the alleged operator of an illicit drug laboratory.At the conclusion of their preliminary hearing, Judge Claude Joncas ordered Georges Lemay, Serge Charron and Georges Lennens to appear in court in September for the setting of a trial date.All three are charged in connection with the death of Pierre Quintal, who was gunned down outside his lawyer’s office the night before he was scheduled to testify about the processing of illegal drugs.Mint issues Cartier dollar OTTAWA (CP) — The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a commemorative dollar to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier’s voyage to Canada.The coin features the French explorer, flanked by two of his men, standing on the shore before a large cross bearing three fleur-de-lis.The other side shows Queen Elizabeth.The coin, made of nickel, may be used to pay for goods and services in Canada.Population must be going down OTTAWA (CP) — The number of births in Canada didn’t change, the number of deaths increased slightly and the number of marriages dropped almost five per cent between 1982 and 1983, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.The agency estimated there were 372,920 births in 1983, “which represents virtually no change from the 1982 total.” And about 175,760 people died last year, up 0.8 per cent from 1982.Nfld.will not stand still OTTAWA (CP) — The Newfoundland government will move within a few weeks to try again to change its contract with Hydro-Quebec over Churchill Falls power.Premier Brian Peckford said Wednesday.“ We’ll, in the next week or so, take other initia tives that we think are appropriate,” he told reporters at the conclusion of a speech on the question of offshore ownership.“We will not just stand still.” Come to Canada contest criticized OTTAWA (CP) — New Democrat MP Neil Young blasted the government Wednesday for an “entirely offensive” advertising campaign to encourage young Japanese women to travel to Canada.Young.MP for Toronto’s Beaches riding, told the Commons the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo is running a “beauty contest” in which Japanese women are asked to submit a picture of themselves and their physical measurements.The winner is awarded a tour of Canada.“While it is a worthwhile endeavor to promote tourism, this approach is entirely offensive and hearkens back to the Dark Ages,” Young said.Acid rain worth a day’s pay TORONTO (CP) — Nearly 70 per cent of respondents interviewed for a March Gallup poll said they would be willing to donate one day’s pay per year for an acid rain cleanup, says the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain.The results, released by the coalition Wednesday, were distributed less than two weeks after it announced a similar Gallup poll found that 65 per cent of respondents were in favor of splitting the costs of reducing Inco’s acid rain emissions between the nickel producer and the provincial and federal governments.Second man sentenced in murder HAMPTON, N.B.(CP) — Paul Gregory Hines, 28, was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for helping killer Noel Winters cover up the murders of a Saint John father and son.Before sentence was passed Hines, his voice trembling, said he is reminded of the crime every night when he tries to sleep He said he has lost 20 pounds since the murders of James Richard Keenan, 64, and his son James Joseph, 32.“A lot of people think that people in trouble with the law don’t believe in God, but I do,” he told the hushed courtroom.“I’m sorry for the Keenan family.my family and for my girlfriend." Official guilty of extortion ST.JOHN’S, Nfld.(CP) — Immigration officer William Driscoll of St.John’s was convicted Wednesday of trying to extort money from a Thai immigrant hy threatening to reveal alleged false statements made to authorities.The jury of seven men and five women took less than three hours to find Driscoll, 35, guilty of threatening Dr.Michoke Krisdaphongs, a weal thy medical doctor born in Thailand who has lived in Canada since 1969 Driscoll will be sentenced May 18.Prisoner execution postponed STARKE, Fla.(AP) — A murder convict who faced execution today as the first black in 20 years to be electrocuted in Florida won a reprieve from two federal appeals judges who wanted to study whether death penalty laws discriminate by race.State attorneys went to the U.S.Supreme Court after Tuesday’s ruling in efforts to overturn the stay of execution before the death warrant for James Adams expires at noon EDT Thursday.B.C.looking to clean up streets VANCOUVER (CP) — Propelled by the fear that vigilante groups might take the law into their own hands, the provincial government announced Wednesday it will seek a British Columbia Supreme Court injunction to stop street prostitution.The civil injunction would prevent solicitation in the streets if “it is held by the courts to be a public nuisance,” said Attorney General Brian Smith in making the announcement.Smith said he recognizes that other solutions have been proposed, including amending the Criminal Code to prohibit street prostitution.But he said it would take too long.First of molesters to stand trial KENTVILLE, N.S.(CP) — One of 14 people facing a total of 150 sex charges involving children was committed Wednesday to stand trial on five charges.Charles Edward Golar of nearby Wolfville will appear at a second preliminary hearing in August on an additional eight charges.Golar was ordered Tuesday to stand trial before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on two charges of sexual intercourse with a female under 14 years of age, two charges of gross indecency and one of buggery.Another charge of buggery was dismissed.U.S.the biggest gunrunner WASHINGTON (Reuter) — The United States remained the primary arms supplier to the Third World in 1983 and has markedly increased shipments to Latin America since 1980, a congressional study released Wednesday said.However, the study, by the Library of Congress’ Congressional Research Service, also concluded that the value of all arms agreements with the Third World in 1983, even when inflation was discounted, was the lowest of any year since 1976.Both the Soviet Union and France, the second-and fourth-ranked arms suppliers, experienced a decline in their sharëS of the market, the study found.Bridge closed for bomb scare BRADENTON, Fla.(AP) — A bomb threat forced the closing of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on Wednesday, four years to the day after a freighter rammed a piling and collapsed a chunk of roadway, sending 35 people to their deaths in Tampa Bay.Toll booth supervisor Myrna Johnson received a telephone call at 6:53 a.m.from an anonymous male who said a bomb had been placed on the bridge and would go off between 7 a.m.and noon, said Holly Waggoner, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Transportation.The twin-span structure, linking St.Petersburg and the Bradenton-Sarasota area, was shutdown for five hours while teams of law enforcement officers searched the bridge above and below.No explosive device was found and the bridge was reopened to traffic at 12:15 p.m.Crossburner gets probation LEVITTOWN, Pa.(AP) — A black man who admitted burning crosses on the lawns of four interracial couples because he disapproved of mixed marriages was sentenced Wednesday to one year’s probation.Albert Dawson, who pleaded guilty to violating the state’s Ethnic Intimidation Law, told Bucks County President Judge Isaac Garb he did not mean to harm the couples, who live in Bensalem Township’s predominantly black Linconia neighborhood.“I like everybody as human beings, but I disapprove of mixed marriages,” said Dawson.But Garb told Dawson it was not his feelings about interracial couples that violated the law.Chilean president investigated SANTIAGO (AP) — A Chilean court Wednesday ordered President Augusto Pinochet investigated for possible fraud and conflict of interest in the expansion of his private weekend estate.Legal historians said it will be the first criminal investigation ever of a Chilean president by the courts.The decision, by a vote of 13-11, followed Monday's refusal by the Chilean high court to order an investigation.The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that it had no original jurisdiction and referred the case to the lower court.The lower court assigned one of its judges who voted with the majority, Alberto Echavarria, to study a series of complex real estate deals that passed two hectares of expropriated land to Chile’s military ruler for about $25,000 less than the state had paid for them.Debt freeing not legal — judge BUENOS AIRES (Reuter) — A federal judge ruled as unconstitutional Wednesday a decree freeing former president Isobel Peron from paying a debt to the state said to be $9 million.President Raul Alfonsin had signed the decree to clear the way for Peron s return to Argentina to lead the opposition Peronist party in talks with Alfonsin aimed at achieving a consensus for fighting severe economic problems.A spokesman for Alfonsin said the ruling "lacks any legal basis." Peron, 53, who has been living in Spain since 1981, is to arrive May 20.French dairymen protest cuts PARIS (Reuter) — French milk producers, angry about planned cuts in European milk output, blocked roads around Arras in northeastern France on Wednesday, police said.About 50 tractors blocked the main roads out of Arras from early morning until noon in what police described as a peaceful demonstration.An official of the milk producers federation in Paris said the farmers were protesting the planned reduction in French milk output.A peaceful use for nuclear energy BONN (Reuter) — China and West Germany agreed Wednesday to co-operate in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, marking another step in Peking’s ambitious industrial modernization program.Chinese Vice-Premier Li Peng and West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher signed a 15-year accord which government sources said would give West German companies equal status in bidding for contracts to build nuclear plants in China worth billions of dollars.The accord, which can be extended and specifically rules out the use of materials or technology for producing nuclear arms, comes just 10 days after U.S.and Chinese officials initialled a similar agreement in Peking.___ Soviets celebrate WWII victory MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet citizens danced in Moscow’s streets and visited the graves of war dead Wednesday to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War.The government marked Victory Day with a harsh attack by Defence Minister Dmitri Ustinov on the Reagan administration for what he called its “crusade against socialism.” In an article, printed in all Soviet newspapers, Ustinov accused the United States and its NATO allies of seeking military superiority.The 1941-45 campaign against the German invaders left 20 million Soviets dead.Irish death total rises again NEWRY (AP) — A booby-trap bomb exploded under a car in this Northern Irish town on Wednesday, killing a part-time soldier of Britain’s military reserve, police said.A police spokesman, Inspector Fred Campbell, said two other members of the reserve force, called the Territorial Army, also were in the car and were wounded.There was no immediate word on their condition.The bomb exploded outside the telephone exchange office of the predominantly Roman Catholic town on the border with the Irish republic.Lasers to measure earth tremors TEL AVIV (AP) — Israeli and American space agencies have agreed on a program to measure Earth tremors in the eastern Mediterranean using laser pulses, tracking stations and satellites, the Ministry of Science and Development said Wednesday.The Israel Space Agency is to build ground tracking stations that will beam laser pulses to orbiting American satellites.By measuring the time it takes for pulses to be reflected back to Earth, the tracking stations will be able to measure movements in the Earth’s crust, providing early warning of possible earthquakes, spokesman Shmuel Levine said.Levine said the program is to begin operation in mid-1985.U.S., Japan hold pre-talk talks TOKYO (Reuter) — The United States and Japan agreed Wednesday to try to resolve outstanding trade issues before the summit meeting of industrial democracies in London in June, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.The agreement was reached after U.S.Vice-President George Bush had talks with Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, the official said.Bush said earlier that progress has been achieved on some trade issues and called for more progress on remaining problems.Chinese premier to visit Europe PEKING (Reuter) — Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang will visit six European countries and the European Economic Community headquarters during a trip in late May, the government announced Wednesday.A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Zhao would visit France, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Italy.China is trying to build up ties with Western Europe, which it sees as an alternative source of advanced technology and trade to Japan and the United States.French set off nuclear bomb WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Reuter) — France has carried out another underground nuclear test in the South Pacific, this time a 20-kiloton blast near the Muroroa Atoll, New Zealand government seismologist Warwick Smith said Thursday.The explosion took place Tuesday, the day Pope John Paul was told of anger over the blasts in the South Pacific during his visit to the region.Smith said the test, the first recorded this year, was the largest since June last year.It was the 60th recorded since France began underground nuclear testing at the Muroroa Atoll in 1975.4 f ( The Townships Thf RECORD—Thursday, May 10.10H4-3 the< #1___ggl «ecara Defence wants Salvail gun charge dismissed François Doyon.Awaits motion.By Michael McDevitt SHERBROOKE — Defence attorney Michel Proulx filed motion at a preliminary hearing Wednesday that a charge of dangerous use of firearms be dropped against Sherbrooke detective Michel Salvail.Proulx claims that there are no grounds for the charge which stems from a bungled raid in a Rock Forest motel that resulted in the shooting death of one man and the wounding of another.Salvail, along with fellow detectives Roger Dion and André Caston-guay, faces charges in connection Hydro plans to cut path through MNA’s woods By Merritt Clifton BEDFORD — Just when Hydro Québec throught it had managed to please everyone with its proposed route for a power line between Ri-ceburg and Highgate, Vermont, it finds that a couple of Brome-Missisquoi’s most dynamic lawyers are offended: Denis Paradis and brother Pierre, MNA for the riding.“Instead of taking a direct route, they cut left just to get my farm because there was woods there,” Denis charges.What Hydro Québec didn't realize is that the Paradis woods are being cultivated under a five-year growth plan promoted by the Québec department of forestry, duly filed with the county registry office.“I am supposed to plant 5.000 trees there this spring,” Denis adds.“Wood is as important to Québec as farming land, but they do not seem to take this into consideration." Denis says he has no objection in principle to the power line coming over his land, if it comes where he is willing to have it.He also has no objection in principle to putting the line through woods where farmers wish to spare their fields.But in his case, his 80 acres of woods are as much cultivated land as his 50 acres of fields.MNA Pierre sums up the politics involved.“Hydro started from the premises that the only place they can go is through the woods,” he says, “because the Commission de la Protection de les Agricoles scares them a lot more than the environment department.They knew they would get a fight if they went through fields, but they did not distinguish between woodlots and tree plantations when they chose their other corridor.” Right now, Denis expects Hydro will accomodate him by redesigning its route so as to follow his property line.He ll still lose some trees, but deer yards and his primary growing area will be spared.If Hydro doesn’t accomodate him however, a fight can be expected.Denis has consulted with other landowners critical of the line path on the U.S.side of the border.They’re upset because the Hydro line will cross near benchmark 622, instead of following a corridor farther west of which the Vermont portion was already expropriated several years ago.Between the American impact hearings and the hearings necessary in Québec, critics will have half-a-dozen opportu-nities to delay approval and construction.Time is all-important to Hydro, because its contract with Vermont calls for delivering power by September, 1985.Pierre Paradis.Losing some forest?If it comes to that, Pierre says he doesn’t know what he’ll do.“I have a conflict of interest, because my brother is involved,” he acknowledges.“Before I intervene, I will declare my conflict of interest.” Right now he hopes that will not be necessary.But Pierre notes that Denis is not the only one of his constituents who is complaining.“Once again, a Hydro project has been designed in their offices,” he charges, “with no consultation of the public until it is all down on paper.This is very, very poor behavior on their part.They should restart their process now that the people are aware of what they are planning.They should sit down with the councils and land owners and ask them where they would like for the line to go, within the area that is possible.” Whether or not he gets satisfaction, Denis wants his case to establish a precedent for considering the importance of woods when designing power corridors.“It is funny Hydro consulted the UPA,” he notes, “but did not even seek representation from the Eastern Townships Forestry Association,” based in Sherbrooke, with several thousand landowning members.“Why didn’t the Eastern Townships Forestry Association intervene?” he asks.“Were they even informed about what was going on?” Bert Jones acquitted in Ogden murder attempt SHERBROOKE — A jury Wednesday found Bert Jones, 45, of Ogden, not guilty of the attempted murder of his neighbor Gilles Garant in 1983.Jones was also acquitted of illegal use of a firearm in connection with the same incident.Garant complained to police August 19, 1983 that Jones had shot him in the back of the head as he stood outside his house cleaning a rabbit he had just shot.He said he and another neighbor recognized Jones fleeing the scene on a motorbike as they went to the hospital minutes after the alleged shooting.Jones chose trial by judge and jury.According to defence lawyer Louis-Phillippe Galipeau, Jones came un with an air-tight alibi the jury couldn’t ignore: he was shown to have been somewhere else at the time of the alleged shooting.Animosity between the defendant and the accused stemmed from a long-standing intimate relationship between Jones and Garant’s wife, the jury was told.The trial included a visit to the scene Friday.During a rainstorm, judge, jury, lawyers and court officials piled into a chartered bus for the 35-mile trip to Ogden, near Rock Island.Final arguments were presented by Galipeau and Crown attorney Danielle Côté on Wednesday and Superior Court Judge Paul-M.Gervais gave the jury its instructions before lunch, reminding the 12 English-speaking members of the panel they were obliged to give the benefit of the doubt to the accused.After dinner the 12 jurors asked the judge for two documents, a doctor’s report on Garant and a police statement he made shortly after the incident.Judge Gervais refused the requests since neither document had been presented as evidence during the trial.The jury returned to its room and only half an hour later came back with a verdict.Jones was found not guilty on both charges.“It was the alibi, I’m sure of it,” said defence lawyer Galipeau.“Witnesses proved that Jones was somewhere else at the time of the alleged crime.You can’t be in two places at once.” with the shooting death of Serge Beaudoin and the wounding of his partner Jean-Paul Beaumont in a bungled raid on a Rock Forest motel room last December 23, following the murder of a Brink’s guard during a robbery of the Pascal hardware store at Sherbrooke’s Carrefour de l’Estrie.Castonguay faces a charge of manslaughter in the case and with Dion, charges of discharging a firearm with the intention of wounding.All three face charges of dangerous use of firearms.A publicity ban imposed by Judge Bernier prohibits publication of details of evidence presented before the hearing wrhich ends today.Proulx's motion is based on a claim that there are no grounds for the charge against Salvail.Crown attorney François Doyon disagrees, and both men spent approximately 45 minutes Wednesday presenting their arguments before the court.Judge Bernier will rule on the motion this morning.Carpet layer Serge Beaudoin, from the Quebec City area town of Ancienne Lorette was killed when a party of Sherbrooke police burst into the motel room he shared with Beaumont searching for two men they believed were involved in the Brink’s robbery-murder the day before.A burst from an Uzi 9 mm submachine gun sprayed 21 bullets into the room, killing Beaudoin, wounding Beaumont and narrowly missing an Alberta couple renting the neighboring room in Rock Forest’s Le Chatillon motel.Salvail was the leader of the raiding party.Besides ruling on Proulx’s motion today, Bernier is expected to set a date for the trial of the officers.Michel Proulx.charge.\o grounds for Bedford man given public work, fines for assault By John McCaghey SWEETSBURG WARD — Bedford resident Norman Bertrand was shown the clemency of the court and handed fines, ordered to 120 hours of community work, and bound over for three years.In addition he will have to indemnify certain victims within one year or face another charge of breach of a probation order.Bertrand, in his early 20’s, went on a rampage in the spring of 1983 which resulted in charges of four counts of assault, three causing bodily harm.He was allowed his provisional freedom pending sentencing on May 4, 1984, but was returned to jail after incidents in March 1984 resulted in additional charges.Defence lawyer Claude Hamann cited the pre-sentence report which said his client had personality problems but was not a structured criminal.He termed him a “primitive” who solved his frustrations through force.Hamann asked for the clemency of the court, citing his client had served 43 days in preventative detention.Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk said the law was there to prevent primitives from running amok and suggested the least the court could do would be hand down a one year jail term.Judge Claude Leveillé noted the crimes that resulted in Bertrand’s incarceration did not incur any violence and ruled the time spent was suffi- cient punishment and said rather than add additional time he would impose fines.Those charges included theft of a purse valued at $35, two of being drunk an disorderly in the Dunham Hotel, and two of breach of probation orders, all punishable by summary conviction.Leveillé fined him $25 and costs, in default to five days, additional, on each count, ordered him to effect $35 in restitution to Joyce Lorose within three months, and bound him over for three years.The earlier charges included a charge of simple assault on Karl Boomhower, breaking and entering and theft of a generator as well as $1,000 in property damage and assault causing bodily harm to Marguerite Blanchette, Lawrence Larose and Joyce Crandall Larose.Leveillé noted the charge against Boomhower as well as one of breach of a probation order were punishable by summary conviction and handed down five hours of community work in each case accompanied by a three year probation.He noted the generator had been recovered then handed him 60 hours and ordered him to effect $250 in restitution to Joseph Vanden Heuvel within six months.Bertrand was handed 20 hours of community work and ordered to repay Lawrence Larose $200 within nine months, 15 hours for the assault on Joyce Crandall Larose as well as $100 in damages payable within one year.He was handed 15 hours for the assault on Blanchette, but no restitution was ordered as she has since deceased.The assault had no bearing on her demise.Leveillé decided it was better to let him out of jail and give him the opportunity of rendering services to his fellow-man.“You will have to do some community work and you will have to reimburse vour victims to allow you to respect others and their property.They will not reflect the real value of the damages caused, but the population has to be informed that it may be preferable to think of about your victims rather than leaving you in jail where your situation will only worsen,” Leveillé concluded The fines and the indemnification of the victims will be through the hands of the court clerk Union squabbles may kill 2.5 million saplings SHERBROOKE — Over two-and-a-half million saplings may dry up and die and never be distributed to members of the Eastern Townships Wood Producers' Syndicate (ETWPS) who need them to replant their woodlots.A pressure tactic by the Syndicate’s employees, who are unionized and want to force management back to the negotiating table may mean the saplings never leave the Martinville distribution centre where they are waiting for delivery.The employees are responsible for the inspection and distribution of the saplings to wood producers who are ‘No intent’, assault charge dismissed By- John McCaghey SWEETSBURG WARD — Manson-ville resident Steven Farrell was acquitted on a charge of simple assault on a 13-year-old female in Knowlton on Sept.7, 1983.A 15-year-old girl said she and two friends were on their bicycles on Route 104 near the Lone Star Saloon about 8:30 p.m., when she said she heard a voice say, “Get out of the way,” looked back, saw a car, then her friend was hit and thrown from her bike.She described the car as large with tailights across the back.The victim said she was struck by what she thought was a car door and she hurt her leg.She said there was sufficient light to see and her bicycle was equipped with front and rear lights.Both said the car left the scene of the accident.Michael Harvey, also of Manson-ville, said he was the owner of the vehicle and he and Farrell, 21, had left the Lone Star and were going into Knowlton when he noticed the bikes on the side of the road.He recalled looking in his rear view mirror and seeing a bike on the ground when the driver was getting to her feet.Farrell, he said, was in the passenger’s seat.NOTICED BLACK MARK Harvey testified the car was equipped with power windows which he kept locked from his master control.He said he noticed a black markon the passenger door which could have been caused by friction from handle bar grips.Harvey said he was impaired, was concentrating on keeping the car in the road and was unaware of any of Farrell’s actions.He admitted his conviction for impaired driving following his arrest.QPF Const.Michel Laflamme said he met the victim about 25 minutes after the incident, arrested Harvey and Farrell about 20 minutes later and confirmed the marks on the car corresponded to abrasions on the handle bar grips.He said Harvey, who was then the passenger in his car, smelt heavily of alcohol.Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk then called for a voir dire hearing when Claude Hamann told the court his client’s declaration was free and voluntary when it was introduced in evidence.ADMITTED SEEING BIKE Farrell testified he and Harvey were going back to Knowlton and the ash tray was full so he opened the door to dispose of his cigarette.He admitted to having seen one bicycle and opened the door after they passed it.Farrell said they were arrested shortly after they left the parking lot of the Knowlton Pub.He said he hadn’t seen the victim before or after she was struck.The Crown then withdrew a charge of hit and run levied against Farrell.Hamann argued the definition of as- sault was the intentional use of force against a person without his or her consent, said there was no proof of assault, the driver was impaired, and the windows locked.He said it was true Farrell had seen one bicycle before he opened the door to dispose of his cigarette causing the incident.Keyserlingk then called for an adjournment telling the court of a fact which had slipped his mind which could allow the accused the benefit of a full and adequate defence, but the admission would not change the Crown’s theory.REMEMBERED CIGARETTE Following a brief adjournment Ha mann obtained permission to reopen the hearing when the victim was called back.She recalled having told the Crown she remembered seeing a ci garette near the bicycle after the impact.Hamann then concluded Farrell should be given the benefit of the doubt and acquitted.Keyserlingk argued the crime was intentional, otherwise the accused could not have recalled the details of the incident which he termed “a banal affair.” Hamann countered there was proof the radio was playing in the car, the use of the master lock on the windows, that the declaration given to the police immediately after the incident corresponded to his clients’ testimony, and said there was no intention of committing an assault.“The fact he opened the door to throw out a cigarette is plausible and he had no rational intent to hit anybody is proof there is no case and the charge is dismissed," Judge Guy Ge-nest ruled.members of the ETWPS While reego-nizing the importance of replanting, they want their employer to modify the contract offer it made May 7 and recommence negotiations with a bet ter attitude The employees voted in favor of the pressure tactic in a general assembly which immedialtely followed the May 7 contract talks.They will return to work as soon as there is a “change in management attitude," according to Hughues Rondeau of the CSN.“The major goal of our action is to force the employer to return to the negotiating table.” Ken Dube, secretary of the employees’ union, said.Dubé said the ETWPS, a union, refuses to recognize its employees' union.“They offer us very little freedom as a union.They tell us how important it is for us to have a job, but they also reserve the right to suspend us for thirty days for skipping a day’s work.And they have the option of not paying us during the suspension as well, saying it is a rupture in the cm ployee’s services.” Rondeau said the ETWPS also wants to cut back on vacation pay and work hours.All the saplings supplied by the Energy and Resources Department intended for members of the ETWPS and independant producers are sto red at the Martinville distribution centre.The saplings meant for inde pendent growers, which are distribu ted by department employees, are not affected by the pressure tactic.Townshippers offer a bit of everything Continued from page I there incentives from government: is there sufficient government funding; and what effect is there in he form of spin-off to small business from the requirements of small business in the Townships.‘Are we Wanted’ (career opportunities in the public sector), with Jane Pycock of the Office des ressources humaines and John Bertram will discuss how to apply for jobs in the civil service and explore whether there are employment possibilities in the provincial and federal civil services.‘Employment Opportunities in Large Enterprises’, with Peter Waddell of Berkley Wallpaper and John Flowers of Shermag furniture, will ask ‘Do we provide necessary skills to young people to enable them to remain in the Townships?’ THE MEDIA ‘Do we Know What’s Going On’, with Marc Chiasson of Radio Québec, Paul Camirand of Communication-Québec and Charles Bury of The He cord: is our information flow in dan ger?Should our access to governmnt information be dependent on adverti sing?EDUCATION ‘Small is Beautiful, The Future of the English School System’, with Joe McKercher and Robert McConna-chie: Do we expect quality education in a declining population?Also discussed will be the new teaching standards (régime pedagogique), school size and bussing, bilingualism at the expense of other learning, and frozen access to English-language schools.’How Relevant is Post-Secondary Education in the Townships?’, with Dean Dr Karl Kucpper Arc our college and university aware of the needs of the area?Do they provide unique services to the Townships?What role do they play in our lives?Are we educating students to stay here or to leave the Townships?AGING AND SOCIAL SERVICES The Matter of Aging’, with Janice Ransehousan of the Sher-Lenn Fifty-plus Club, Ruth Atto and Sue Haddon.How do we improve transportation, home care and social services for the aged?Are health care professionals themselves aware of services available and can they direct the aged to them?What is the responsibility of the family in preparing its elderly to cope with obtaining services in a French-language milieu?Do social clubs serve the needs of the elderly?Do the churches fill their role?Are there enough homes for the aged and how can they be improved?'Do we Know What is Available in Social Services’, with Atto.Ron Créa ry, Bette Napier, Jean-Pierre Du-plantie and Mike Caluori: Access to social services; social service for youth; participation in planning HERITAGE 'Our Living Heritage’, with Prof Robin Burns and Rev.Martyn Sadler: Cultural identity, cultural institutions, isolation, the churches; does a creative spirit exist in the Townships?Should we promote culture?Can we exploit the heritage of the past?Supper and an evening dance will top off the day.Registration is from 8:30 to 9:15 a m.Prices vary from a bring-your-own-lunch $3 for the day for those pre registering by Friday to $22 for the whole package, including dance, at the door.Students half price.FIRST AID TIP A St.John Ambulance TO CONTROL SEVERE BLEEDING • Apply hand pressure to stop bleed Ing, over a dressing If available • If one dressing becomes bloodsoaked.don't remove II — add another over It • Lie the casualty down and elevate the Injured pari above the level of (he head • Cover dressings with a pad of soft material and hold dressings and pad In place with a firm bandage • Foreign objects embedded In the wound should not be removed as this may cause more serious bleeding • Protect the object by padding around it with loose gauie and apply pressure around the object when bandaging Adults: 2.00 Children Under 12 FREE FRI.ASAT.MAY 11 A 12 i.JAMES BONDir [pg tj;: =rr;T O SUNDAY, MAY 13 Friday it Mulkin Night Stop in and sec Jim Mulkm about a Friday Night Past, compliments ol Mulkm Corporation.Newport.Vermont i V 4—The RECORD—Thursday, May 10.10M 1____fo-J Kccora The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Praise and thanks The two cases of gunmen gone berserk in normally tranquil Quebec City this week have raised critical questions concerning everything from a lack of security in our public buildings to the apparently easy access to firearms available to dangerous people, but they have also brought to the fore a positive observation that should perhaps be recognized.In both the case of Denis Lortie, who stormed the national assembly Tuesday, killing three employees, and that of Jean-Claude Nadeau, suspected of wounding two passersby in a sniping incident Wednesday, the violence stopped when Quebec Police Force officers arrived on the scene.At the same time, patience and fore-bearance on the part of those involved resulted in the release unharmed of hostages held by the gunmen and their own eventual surrender.This simple fact is easy to overlook, particularly in light of the outright heroism displayed by National Assembly Sergeant-at Arms René Jalbert in the Lortie incident, but it is nonetheless remarkable that police were able to disarm and apprehend two deranged and dangerous men with no further injury or loss of life.It is easy to forget the pressures that come to bear on police in hostage situations, where the attention of swarms of journalists drains every ounce of tension and suspense from incredibly delicate predicaments.Backed by heavily armed SWAT team commandos, the temptation to use this firepower as time drags on is very hard to resist, particularly when the suspect is isolated, frightened and more than likely ex-ceptionately confused.It is encouraging that the men who train our specialty police squads, as well as those who command them, are capable of maintaining their cool and restraining the men whose lives are on the line in our defence.Far too often around the world in similar circumstances, police resort to overwhelming force and the frequently successful results argue strongly for its acceptibility.When death or injury does result in such raids it is usually the perpetrator who suffers while the better armed, trained and equipped police almost invariably escape unharmed to the praise and gratitude of the population.Beyond a doubt the QPF could have adopted similar tactics in the Quebec City crises.In both cases they would probably have been successful.But they chose not to take the chance.Instead of risking the further shedding of blood even if only that of the ‘bad guys’ — the QPF chose the humane, albeit time-consuming, approach of patience, consideration and communication to coax the surrender of their suspects.They deserve our thanks.MICHAEL McDEVITT France fighting own language battle PARIS (Reutori Purists call it pollution of their language.Businessmen call it simple marketing strategy.The law calls it illegal in some areas.But to most Frenchmen it’s “Franglais” — the increasing use and misuse of English, especially in the commercial field France’s language purists, bent on warding off an Anglo-Saxon invasion of their vocabulary, have battled several companies in court recently over their use of English words.In a Paris court, the General Association for Users of the French Language accused a fast food restaurant chain of misleading its customers by selling items like “Fingfish,” "Big Cheese” and “Coffee Drink.” Magistrates agreed they went against a 1975 law governing public use of language that requires all consumer goods to be labelled and advertised in French.They ordered the company, France-Quick, to pay $370 in damages.GROUP VIGILANT The ruling was the latest victory for the association, a vigilant, government-backed grouping of politicians, scholars and consumers that has taken French and foreign companies to task “Nobody buying a Big Cheese’ could possibly know what it contains,” argues association spokesman Micheline Faure.“And as for ‘Coffee Drink,' our lawyers have proven that it is nothing other than coffee — though slightly weaker than what we are used to drinking in France.” The association has successfully fought about 30 similar cases.Foreign companies importing goods into France have had their knuckles rapped for failing to provide translations for their brochures, pamphlets and packaging materials.Well-established French institutions have been tackled for publicizing products using catchy English phrases.The movement against “Franglais" creeping into the vernacular has always had strong support from the French government since the French users association is subsidized by the office of Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy.HIT SHOW BIZ Last year, one arm of government, the Communica-tione Ministry, banned 127 terms of English origin used mainly in broadcasting and threatened theatres, cinemas and television and advertising companies with legal action if they used them.Officially, camera shots no longer use “close-ups,” but “gros plan cerre,” and cameramen are “les ca dreurs." But in everyday speech “Franglais” still has a strong hold.Businessmen talk of “1c cash flow.’' Long-distance travellers fly by “le jet," while a short walk involves “le footing." Sportsmen go in for “le jogging" or “le stretching" (calisthenics).And popular television programs feature “les hold-ups" and “les kidnappings.” Several language commissions have been created in France in the past, providing equivalents for English expressions, although no campaign has completely succeeded in replacing "le weekend” with "fin de semaine” or "1c window-shopping" with “leche-vitrine.” Lortie attack the latest of several in Canada Whether it’s verbal battles, philosophi cal skirmishes or political arm-twisting, Canadians arc accustomed to hearing political affairs described in the lexicon of violence.But m recent years, the imagery has sometimes been replaced with real gunfire, bloodshed and death in provincial legislatures and the House of Commons.The shooting Tuesday in the Quebec National Assembly, which killed three people and left a dozen injured, brought to six the number of violent deaths that have occurred in Canadian legislative buildings.The Alberta legislature in Edmonton was the site of a murder-suicide in 1977, the first fatal shooting in a political as sembly in Canada But before that, in 1955, a bomb in the Parliament buildings shattered a third-floor washroom and killed a Toronto man who had been in the public gallery mi- nutes earlier.Paul Chartier, 45, who lived in a downtown Toronto rooming house, was killed May 8, 1965, when the bomb exploded as he was leaving the washroom to return to the Commons.FOUND DYNAMITE Police who searched the man’s home found six sticks of dynamite and two more crude bombs.In notebooks found in the room, Chartier had written that he though everyone in Ottawa was rich and greedy.They suspected he planned to throw the bomb to the Commons’ floor from the public gallery, hut it exploded prematurely.In October 1977, Guenter Hummel, a 39-year old businessman and loner, strode through the main entrance of the Alberta legislature to a cabinet minister’s office where his former girlfriend was working as an executive assistant.With the high-powered rifle he had carried in a garment bag, he fired one shot to ward off a security guard, another that killed Vickie Breitkreuz and a third into his own chest.All members’ offices in the Alberta legislature now are equipped with an emergency buzzer to signal help and all entrances except for the main one, guarded by security officers, are closed and monitored by closed-circuit television.Most legislatures are reviewing their security systems after the Quebec City shooting Tuesday by a serviceman armed with a submachine-gun.DEMANDED JOBS The Quebec National Assembly was the scene of another tense confrontation in September 1981 when a man in an Arabian headdress and a woman wearing an oversized coat took over the offices of the Speaker and demanded jobs.The two held Speaker Claude Vaillan-court while brandishing weapons, inclu- ding two guns, a dagger, a pair of pliers and what he was told were explosives and bullets.Vaillancourt spent more than two hours trying to negotiate with the couple, but eventually police surrounded the building and arrested them.In Ottawa, there have been other confrontations that didn’t involve bombs.In 1966, farmers stormed the Parliament buildings, the doors of which were locked after windows in the Centre Block were broken during a violent demonstration outside.In 1974, a bitter clash with riot-trained RCMP squads led to several injuries during a demonstration by native Indians who had been kept outside the buildings by steel barricades.Other provincial legislatures report only scuffling and yelling as occasional protesters are removed from public galleries by security guards.BANQUE DU CANADA DUM DÜAA DE VUM, ^ TRA LA m LA.WHEN I FEEL