The record, 18 février 1986, mardi 18 février 1986

Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .8-9 ANDREW WK — The Ministry of Justice announced today it had filed murder charges against a powerful political ally of President Ferdinand Marcos and six others in the slayings of seven opposition supporters on the eve of 1984 legislative elections.Ministry spokesman George Dee said the charges against assembly-man Arturo Pacificador and six men described as his bodyguards Federal Liberal soapie: Quebec ‘Bad Blood IP By Tim Naumetz OTTAWA (CP) — “Bad blood” is flowing in Quebec federal Liberal circles because of a perception that John Turner and a man who could be his budding strongman in the province, André Ouellet, are trying to keep old Liberal faces out of a bid to renew the party, a Liberal source says.The Liberal on Monday backed angry allegations by former leadership hopeful Jean Chretien last week that a malaise has gripped the Quebec wing because some Liberals believe they are being squeezed out.“I think that’s the feeling of the bad blood, that he wants to eliminate all the former Liberals," said the source, a well-connected former MP.“Rightly or wrongly, there is a perception that Turner is trying to push out those that were there before.” The former MP says a debacle resulting from Turner’s controversial intervention two weeks ago in party democracy involved camps of Liberals around three men — Jean Chrétien, Ouellet and former communications minister Francis Fox.Turner angered Liberals, including the once-powerful former finance minister Marc Lalonde, by asking Fox two weeks ago to drop out of a race for the Quebec wing’s presidency in favor of a Quebec City lawyer Turner supported.Chrétien had thrown his support behind Fox and it appeared as though a symbolic showdown was building up between Chrétien and Turner.Several Liberals have said privately Fox would have won the race.A Liberal source close to Fox said Monday that Fox was careful to try to avoid being attached to either Turner or Chrétien, to the point that he chose only organizers who had worked for him before.Fox also had the support of Lalonde, who sources say urged F’ox to run, and other formerly promi- nent Liberals in the province.BRIDGE THE GAP They believed Fox would have been an excellent bridge between old and new Liberals, would have been able to contribute organizing experience to the party and would have been a high-profile representative for the battle to be waged against Conservatives before the next federal election.Turner last fall apparently urged Fox to run, but Fox was indecisive.Turner, meanwhile, blessed the candidacy of Quebec lawyer Paul Routhier.By the time Fox decided to run.last January, it was too late.Ouellet and 10 other MPs had backed Routhier.After Chrétien jumped on the Fox bandwagon, Turner was trapped.“I think that once he called Routhier, and sought his candidacy, he was in a bind,” the Liberal source said.Another former Liberal MP said Monday that Turner’s decision to intervene and to ask Fox to drop his candidacy was a poor reflection on Turner’s leadership.“I was astonished,” the Liberal said.Ouellet, once second to Lalonde in Quebec, Liberal MP Jean La-pierre and Michele Tremblay, a former Quebec journalist Turner hired as one of his Quebec advisers, are said by other Liberals to be behind the push for party renewal in the province, but at the exclusion of many veterans.Lapierre last week complained that sore losers who backed Chré-tien’s 1984 leadership bid against Turner are suspected of conspiring to split party ranks in Quebec.“Some people are having a tough time accepting the result of the lea-dership a handful,” Lapierre said without naming names.Turner, taking a Jamaican break from Parliament Hill this week, has not commented publicly on Chrétien’s allegations of last Friday.were filed today with a regional court in Pacificador’s home province of Antique.Pacificador is assistant majority leader of Marcos’s New Society Movement in the National Assembly.Dee said prosecutors recommended bail the equivalent of about $5,000 U.S.for Pacificador and that no bail was recommended for the other six.He did not explain the reason for the differing treatment.Pacificador could not be contacted immediately for comment.Pacificador has denied any involvement in the 1984 ambush, as well as the slaying last week of Evelio Javier, his rival for Antique’s lone assembly seat in the 1984 elections.Javier had served as manager of Corazon Aquino’s campaign in the province for the Feb.7 presidential election.He was slain by masked men, and some Aquino supporters charged that the killers escaped in a car that belonged to Pacificador.Among those charged with Pacificador in the 1984 slayings were three Philippine Constabulary troopers, two policemen and an army soldier.The ministry announcement also described the soldier as a suspect in the Feb.11 killing of Javier in front of the Antique provincial capitol building, 435 kilometres southeast of Manila.Meanwhile, an opposition boycott protesting the declaration of President Ferdinand Marcos as winner of a special election appeared to be taking effect as banks reported a run of withdrawals and prices of stock in a major corporation fell.Opposition candidate Corazon Aquino called for a boycott of corporations run by friends or associates of Marcos at a rally Sunday, shortly after the National Assembly proclaimed Marcos the winner of the Feb.7 election.The 20-year incumbent called the election a year early as a test of his popularity.Aquino claims the voters rejected him, but that she was cheated out of the victory by widespread vote fraud.By Edison Stewart PARIS (CP) — Quebec has moved quickly to assert its new-found role on the international stage, promoting a novel foreign aid scheme among the world’s francophone leaders without first seeking federal approval.Premier Robert Bourassa on Monday urged support for a proposal to help the world's starving by giving away Europe’s “spectacular” food surpluses.Although federal Canadian officials said last week any provincial statement on areas of their jurisdiction — as foreign aid is — would need approval in advance, Bourassa said several times he never discussed it with any federal representative Federal External Relations Minister Monique Vezina declined to say whether the proposal has fede ral approval.Meanwhile, Gil Remillard, Bon rassa’s intergovernmental and external relations minister, was boasting the decision to make the premier “official reporter” for the conference, the first of world francophone leaders, makes him the most important player at the 39-eountry summit after French President Francois Mitterrand.Federal spokesmen played down both incidents.LAUGHS AT REMARK Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was unavailable after Bourassa called in reporters to announce what he had done, but just laughed and walked away when told about Remillard’s remark.Remillard also tried to leave the matter behind, refusing to repeat the remark for the television cameras and identifying himself as a proud Canadian, praising Mulroney’s speech at the summit opening at nearby Versailles.Bourassa readily admitted foreign aid “is not a question of pro vincial jurisdiction” but told reporters, “being invited to partici pate in that conference, I think I should contribute in a positive way.” He said he took for granted Ottawa would support the idea.The issue appeared to tarnish a good start for Canada at the summit.The leaders and representatives, in their only decision of the day, approved a Canadian text condemning South African apar- theid “without reservation.” The francophone leaders didn’t go as far as Commonwealth representatives did last fall, when they imposed a few limited economic sanctions, but Mulroney attributed that to the fact the francophone organization is just getting off the ground.COMMON GROUND “It was agreed that this was a minimum common statement that everybody could endorse immediately,” he said.The statement calls apartheid “an affront to human dignity” and says “the leaders of the francophone countries pledge ourselves to oppose if unceasingly and impla cably.” Speaking earlier at the summit’s opening session, Mulroney called for new measures to make French a language of science and technology.Other languages that "have failed to move with the times” have been largely abandoned, he said.“Let us ensure that French does not suffer this fate.” However, he was also careful to present the image of a bilingual country and was the only leader at the opening session to speak in another language.“All Canadians rejoice in this coming together in Baris today.All Canadians celebrate the strengthening of la francophonie (the francophone world), itself a vital and enriching dimension of our own nationhood,” he said in English.Libyan jet crashed PARIS (Reuter) — A Soviet-built Tu-22 supersonic aircraft that bombed Chad's principal a rport at N’Djamena on Monday ran into techncial problems on its return journey and may have crashed, a French radio station said today.France said the plane was Libyan, but Tripoli said it belonged to Chadian rebels.Europe 1 radio station, quoting intelligence sources, said U.S.early warning reconnaissance planes based in Sudan monitored distress calls sent by the pilot of the Tu-22.Soviet ship sinking subject of New Zealand study WELLINGTON (CP) - The government began an inquiry today into the sinking of a Soviet cruise ship carrying 739 passengers and crew, and officials rejected the Soviet skipper’s suggestion that map errors and a New Zealand pilot were to blame for the accident.The skipper, Vladislav Vorobyev, of the liner Mikhail Lermontov was not at the opening of the closed inquiry that will decide whether a full judiciary hearing should be held, but testified later after taking legal advice.In Moscow, the government newspaper Izvestia reported today the Soviet Union would set up a special commission to investigate the sinking and the Communist party newspaper Pravda said Soviet Merchant Marine Ministry officials would participate in the investigation in New Zealand.Meanwhile, a New Zealand naval officer who was involved in rescuing passengers and crew from the ship Sunday night said emergency equipment on the liner was in a dangerous state of repair that might have proved fatal had the ship been farther out to sea.The ship, on a 14-day Pacific cruise, went down in about 33 metres of water about two hours after it hit struck a reef in a channel near the northern tip of New Zealand’s South Island.Rescuers saved all of the 409 passengers and all but one of the Soviet crew members, an engineer who is presumed to have drowned.Experts said the ship probably could be salvaged.Prime Minister David Lange described the rescue as a “really remarkable achievement,” but said there were “disquieting aspects” about the sinking.The captain, Vladislav Vorobyev, said in an interview with Soviet television Monday night that New Zealand pilot Don Jamison “decided to take a route where there were no indications of depth on the map.” HANDS OVER CONTROL But New Zealand maritime officials said the charts were “more than adequate,” and that Jamison, an experienced navigator, had handed over control of the 20,000-tonne liner well before it hit the reef.Passengers who arrived in Wellington aboard rescue vessels early Monday said Jamison made an announcement to that effect over the ship's public address system well before they felt the jolt of the ship hitting rocks.The Royal New' Zealand Navy’s chief hydrographer, Cmdr.Ken Robertson, said today that charts clearly showed where the waters were less than 10 metres deep.The Leningrad-registered ship, named after a 19th century Russian writer, had a draught of eight metres.“If I were in command of a 20,000-tonne vessel I would have passed well to seaward of all rocks,” Robertson said.“I would have no good reason for attempting to go through there.” He said the channel between Cape Jackson and an offshore beacon was one local fishermen could use, but not bigger ships because the strong tides could affect its course.Welcome to the big leagues OTTAWA (CP) — Donald Lan der was on the job less than an hour Monday as president of Canada Post when the 22,000-member Letter Carriers Union of Canada announced a strike vote.Carriers across the country voted 86.9 per cent to walk off the job, if necessary, in their current round of contract talks with the giant $.'i-billion agency.Lander has been acting president of the post office since Mi chael Warren quit last summer.The carriers’ union says it will be five to six weeks, or longer, before they complete the mandatory bargaining steps required under the Canada Labor Code and acquire the legal right to strike.Even at that point, said union spokesman Bill Findley, the carriers are anxious to avoid a strike.“What we want is job security, that’s the big issue, and a wage settlement that at least keeps up with inflation,” Findley said.The carriers, traditionally among the least militant of the post office's 60,000 employees, earn $12.98 an hour.Inflation is running at about four per cent annually.The most immediate problem facing Lander is how to rescue Canada Post from the sea of red ink.- > 2—The RECORD—Tuesday, February 18.1986 Sluggish Manitoba Tories watch while Pawley’s comet shines By Scott Edmonds WINNIPEG (CP) — Premier Ho ward Pawley stole the election spotlight again Monday with a $100-million promise to clean up Manitoba rivers in the morning and a little diplomatic showmanship in the afternoon Progressive Conservative Leader Gary Filmon told Manitobans they must wait until next Sunday before seeing in detail the programs he will offer to improve the quality of life in the province.The following Sunday, March 2, they will find out what Conservatives want to do to improve the economy.So far the Tory campaign hasn't picked up much steam, but there is still plenty of road to travel before the March 18 election.Filmon said he believes it is better to offer voters a concise blueprint for the future than the “pro-mise-a-day” campaign Pawley is using to try to win support.“We believe we have the plan,” Filmon said.Pawley selected the Winnipeg Arts Club, located in the city’s historic warehouse district, for Monday’s promise.He said that if re-elected a New Democratic Party government would start a 10-year program to clean up the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.GO IT ALONE He asked for federal and municipal participation but said Manitoba would go it alone, if necessary, to improve water quality in the two rivers that flow through the most populated parts of the province After his announcement, Pawley boarded a plane to fly south to Thief River Falls, Minn., where he had a fast meeting with Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich before they headed back to Winnipeg to sign a provincial-state pact aimed at blocking proposals to dump nu clear watse in northern Minnesota.The U.S.energy department has decided eight out of 20 potential sites for an eastern underground nuclear waste repository are in Minnesota.Four are in the Red River Basin that drains into Manitoba.Pawley took centre stage, between Perpich and a stand-in for North Dakota Governor George Sinner, as they signed the agreement in front of the television cameras and a roomful of reporters.Assembly ball team losing first-sacker St-Laurent?QUEBEC (CP) — The Quebec National Assembly Press Gallery elected its first Eastern Townships president in memory Monday.The gallery also voted unanimously to refuse new accreditation to journalists working for media involved in a strike.The press gallery, made up of about 100 reporters and technicians who cover the provincial legislature, adopted the resolution at its annual meeting.A request for membership in the press gallery is approved or rejected by the president of the National Assembly on a recommendation by the press gallery.Although there are now no labor conflicts affecting gallery members, several news organizations are renegotiating contracts.The press gallery also elected a new executive at its meeting.Bernard St-Laurent, a CBC reporter and native of Compton, near Sherbrooke, became president ; Rudy Le Cours of La Presse Canadienne, the French-language service of The Cana- Keporter Bernard St-Laurent.Softball career in jeopardy?dian Press, and Marie Thompson, CBC, were elected vice-presidents; Daniel Drolet, of the Montreal Gazette is secretary and Michel Tremblay, Radio-Canada, was elected treasurer.As president, St-Laurent says he may have to give up his current role as popular first-baseman on the gallery softball team.France trying hard to dump Duvalier on U.S.PARIS (Reuter) — France, stung by a bungled plan to fly Jean-Claude Duvalier to the United States, urged Washington on Monday to take responsibility for the deposed Haitian dictator and give him refuge.Senior presidential aide Guy Penne told French radio that if efforts fail to find a permanent home in exile for Duvalier, dubbed Baby Doc after he succeeded his late father Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier.the U.S.should take Duvalier off French hands.“He came in an American plane and we would like the Americans to take charge of the Baby,” said Penne, adviser for African affairs to Socialist President Francois Mitterrand.“It was only because we thought of the Haitian people that Duvalier is here; his fate is of little interest to us.” French officials say no country-had been found to take the ousted president-for-life who fled Haiti, a former French colony, aboard a U.S.air force plane Feb.7 and has been since then in a luxury hotel in the French lakeside resort of Tal-loires.A French plan to get rid of its embarrassing guest by flying him to New York on Sunday came unstuck when Washington branded the former dictator an “undesirable alien” and barred him.The French External Relations Ministry refused Monday to comment on the reported foulup, saying only that Paris and Washington are working together to find a refuge.Search team may have shuttle mystery booster CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.(AP) — Engineers examined photos and debris retrieved from the ocean floor Monday to determine if a submarine has located parts of the booster rocket implicated in the explosion of space shuttle Challenger.Recovery of rocket sections could provide a vital clue to what caused the Jan.28 tragedy in which seven astronauts died.NASA launch photographs show a puff of black smoke bursting from the booster near a seal on liftoff and a tongue of flame spewing from the same area 59 seconds into the flight.Challenger’s fuel tank, holding nearly two million litres of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, exploded at 73 seconds, about 13 kilometres off the ground.A presidential commission in- vestigating the accident has focused on the right-hand booster as part of one of the leading theories for the explosion.The crew of the four-man research submarine Johnson Sea-Link 2 said Sunday it photographed objects believed to be sections of the 45-metre rocket 366 metres down in the Atlantic about 45 nautical miles northeast of Cape Canaveral.NASA said the submarine’s mechanical arm also recovered a few-small components that were being studied on the sub’s mother ship, the Seaward Johnson.Officials said the photographs and videotapes were brought back to the Kennedy Space Centre so the debris could be compared with pictures of the rocket taken before the launching.—_____ftgl ifccora George MecLeren, Publisher .569-9511 Cherlet Bury, Editor.569-6345 Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager.569-9525 Mark Gulllette, Press Superintendent.569-9931 Richard Lettard, Production Manager.569-9931 , Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room .569-4856 CIRCULATION DEPT.- 569-9528 Subscriptions by Carrier: 1 year: $83.20 weekly: ’ $1-60 Subscriptions by Mall: Canada: 1 year- $60.00 6 months- $35.50 3 months- $24.50 1 month- $14.00 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an $80,000 robbery from an armored truck in downtown Calgary last June.Daniel Pruneau, 34, Michel Pruneau, 36, and Jacques Bealieau, 38, are each charged with two counts of armed robbery.None of them speak English.Citing a recent Alberta Court of Queen s Bench decision which maintains all accused have the right to be tried by bilingual juries, the accused’s French-speaking ci- ty lawyers called the case a precedent.Lawyers André Ouellete, John Moreau and Alain Hepner, all of whom are bilingual, said they believe it is the first time a French-speaking judge has presided over a court case in Alberta at the request of the accused.They said they asked for a bilingual judge to ensure the judge understands all the testimony, without relying on translation, before deciding if the accused should stand trial.But Alberta’s Assistant Chief Judge Hubert Oliver, who arranged to have Dubé handle the preliminary hearing, said in an interview the decision was made “as a matter of convenience to the accused, not because of any conceded legal right.” TRANSLATOR PRESENT Oliver said the four-day hearing cannot be categorized as being conducted exclusively in French, since a translator is present for the benefit of court staff and Crown prosecutor Keith Groves.Since the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was proclaimed, there have been numerous test cases in several provinces concerning whether suspects have the right to trials in either official language.In 1982, Calgary Judge Tom McMeekin decided Yvon Lefebvre did not have the right to a French-language hearing involving a traffic ticket.The decision was upheld by Mr.Justice Peter Greschuk of Court of Queen’s Bench and now is before the Alberta Court of Appeal.More recently, Mr.Justice Wil- liam Sinclair in Edmonton ruled Luc Paquette, a French-Canadian from northeastern Ontario, had the right to a bilingual judge and bilingual court officers.Attorney General Neil Crawford said Monday that Alberta might consider a constitutional amendment against Sinclair’s decision.“It may be a matter for a constitutional amendment, which is a long process which nobody has tried yet,” Crawford told reporters.He said he is consulting members of his department regarding a possible appeal of Sinclair’s ruling on the basis the judge may have overstepped his bounds in ruling Alberta has had ample time to proclaim the federal Criminal Law Amendment Act, which allows trials in either English or French.News-in-brief Prison worker held hostage MONTREAL (CP) — An inmate in the maximum-security Archambault Institute held a workshop instructor hostage for 80 minutes Monday, then released his captive unharmed after discussions with prison negotiators.The Quebec office of Correctional Service Canada identified the inmate, in a statement issued after the incident, as Lesley Deke, 26.Deke is serving a 27-year term for manslaughter and armed robbery.No one was injured in the incident, which started at 9 a.m.and ended at 10:20, the statement said.Cigarette company to cut prices MONTREAL (CP) — Imperial Tobacco Ltd.said Monday it is cutting the price of Peter Jackson cigarettes to distributors by $4 a carton, 40 cents a pack of 20, and 50 cents for a pack of 25.The company said in a statement the discount is effective immediately in Quebec and Alberta and will take effect next Monday in the rest of the country.“We are entering this new market segment with the objective of increasing our share of the Canadian cigarette market,” company president Wilmat Tennyson said.Northern park proposal on hold OTTAWA (CP) — A proposal to establish a national park in the northern reaches of the Canadian Arctic is temporarily on hold while a land claims group disputes the federal Environment Department’s jurisdiction over wildlife management.Environment Minister Tom McMillan was to sign an agreement with the Northwest Territories government to establish the 39,000-square-kilometre park on Ellesmere Island, But the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut, which represents 15,000 Inuit in the eastern Arctic in their land claims negotiations with Ottawa, has withdrawn its support for the park.Regional airlines certified OTTAWA (CP) — Two regional airlines have received permission to serve several Quebec communities, the Canadian Transport Commission announced Monday.Nordair-Metro, partly owned by Nordair, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Air Lines, will be serving Bagotville.Baie Comeau, Gaspe, Gatineau, the Magdalen Islands, Mont Joli-Rimouski, Quebec City, Montreal, Rouyn, Val d’Or and Ottawa.National Express Aviation Ltd., owned by National, a Mirabel-based charter airline, will connect Mirabel, Quebec City, Saguenay-Bagotville, Mont Joli and Baie Comeau.Forces taken to Federal Court WINNIPEG (CP) — The mother of a teenage soldier killed more than two years ago in a militia convoy has taken her case against the Canadian Forces to Federal Court.In a statement of claim, Edna Krosney charged the militia with negligence in the death of her son, Darren, a member of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.Krosney’s son was killed Aug.21,1983, when the jeep in which he and another reservist were riding rolled over on the Trans-Canada Highway.Krosney and his partner, Rodney Laurendeau, both 17, died when the vehicle carrying a 218-kilogram gun and pulling a trailer, swerved and rolled, throwing them on the highway about 30 kilometres west of Moosomin, Sask.Sale of capsules reviewed NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.(CP) — Drug companies are reviewing their capsule medication marketing following Johnson and Johnson’s decision to halt all capsule sales after the second case of Tylenol poisonings in almost four years.Johnson and Johnson said Monday the move affecting the best-selling pain reliever in the United States would cost the firm $150 million.The company lost $100 million in 1982 when it recalled all Tylenol after seven people in Chicago died from cyanide-laced Tylenol.Canadians join mountain climb CALGARY (CP' — Canadian climbers are joining forces with mountaineers from the LTnited States and Poland in two separate attempts to scale K2, the world’s second-highest mountain.Dave Cheesmond and Choc Quinn, both of Calgary, are preparing to leave with an U.S.-based expedition attempting the north ridge of the remote peak this summer.The mountain lies in the Karakorum range on the border of China and Pakistan.Mother used ‘excessive force’ EDMONTON (CP) — A mother was sentenced Monday to one day in jail for using a belt to punish her disobedient six-year-old son.Carolyn Dianna McKenzie was also placed on probation for two years, with orders to report to authorities any future injuries to her children, no matter how they were caused.Ruling the force she used was excessive, Mr.Justice R.L.Berger of Court of Queen’s Bench said society had a duty to protect those who can’t protect themselves.Rivers declared heritage rivers OTTAWA (CP) —The historic French River in Ontario and the Alsek River in Kluane National Park in the Yukon have been declared heritage rivers, the first waterways to be so named.The program, set up by the federal government early in 1984, was designed to help protect important waterways from development.Six provinces and the two territorial governments have joined Ottawa in the program.Women protest munitions plant HALIFAX (CP) — Cape Breton desperately needs jobs, but not in exchange for blood, the Nova Scotia Voice of Women organization said Monday.The group was responding to Premier John Buchanan’s support for a proposed munitions plant on the island.Buchanan and provincial Culture Minister Billy Joe MacLean have both stated their support for the proposal by Thyssen.a West German conglomerate, to build the arms plant on the economically depressed island.Prince in Texas for celebration DALLAS (AP) — Pipers filled the air with the strains of The Yellow Rose of Texas as Prince Charles arrived for a whirlwind visit to help launch the state’s 15oth birthday party.The Prince of Wales, who arrived Monday without his wife Diana, has a crowded itinerary with stops in Houston, Austin and San Antonio before jetting off to Palm Springs, Calif., on Friday.He came primarily to present computer magnate H.Ross Perot with the Churchill Award, given to those who epitomize the spirit of Winston Churchill.But the celebration of (he 150th anniversary of Texas’ independence from Mexico piqued the prince’s interest.Five people killed in riots JOHANNESBURG (CP) — Residents of a black township set among affluent white suburbs of Johannesburg said five people were killed during a third day of rioting that began after the funerals of two blacks killed in previous protests.Police confirmed that a mob in Alexandra burned the home of a black policeman Monday, shot and killed him, and burned his body, but said they did not have complete casualty figures.Confirmation of the five deaths reported by residents would increase the death toll since the Saturday funerals to eight.Reuters has reported that 10 people have died since Saturday.Shiite ‘terrorists’ captured TEL AVIV (Reuter) — Israeli forces have captured two “terrorists” said to be involved in the seizing of two Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, Israel Radio said today.The radio said the Israelis also recovered some weapons used in the attack on the convoy in which Israeli solders and members of the pro-Israel South Lebanese Army were travelling.The attackers were apparently extremist Shiite Muslims, the radio said.Ancient tribe unearthed PEKING (AP) — Archeologists have unearthed the.remains of an ancient tribe, 107 tombs in which the skeletal remains indicate that all died before age 50, the Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.It said the site included a sacrificial altar.The report said a three-month dig on the capital city’s northern outskirts led to the discovery of the tombs and 1,000 artifacts of the Shanrong tribe, which lived near Peking 2,500 years ago.The altar of 15 large boulders in an oval shape around a taller rock may have been used for sacrifices honoring ancestors or neighboring mountains, the report said.It didn’t say what kinds of sacrifices were made.15 killed in Chilean crash SANTIAGO ( AP) — Two passenger trains carrying a total of about 300 people slammed head-on into each other on a bridge damaged last year by a terrorist bomb, the government news service said.At least 15 people were reported killed and 190 were injured.Five children were among those killed Monday night and at least 10 of the injured were in serious condition, the ORBE news agency quoted police sources as saying.The state rail company, Ferrocarriles del Es-tado, said the accident occurred on a bridge near the town of Limache where a bomb last year damaged one of the two sets of tracks, forcing east- and west-bound trains to use a single track.Iraqi troops report progress MANAMA.Bahrain (CP) — Iraqi President Saddam Hussein conferred with envoys of two of Baghdad's major Arab backers as his 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dead.ROAD SURFACE DRY Madore said there was a slight rise in the highway which could have obscured the vision for an eastbound motorist.The road surface was dry and at the time of the accident.Although there were no brake marks on the paved section of the road, there were on the shoulder of the road where the fa- tal impact occured.he said.Madore said he examined both vehicles involved in the crash and found nothing suspect in the Plouffe car.He said he found one capped full small bottle of beer, two half empty bottles of beer and debris from the rest of a case of 12 in the second automobile, owned and driven by Francis Boulanger of Farnham.He described Boulanger and his companion as being in a state of shock in the ambulance and added both reeked of alcohol.Madore said Boulanger and Jean Girard were taken to the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville for treatment when Dr.Jean Charles Gaudreau obtained a blood sample from Boulanger which revealed 106 mg of alcohol.The permissible limit for drivers is 0.08.SAW CARS COMING Thomas Jones.36, of Mistic, said he was heading eastbound on Route 202 when he noticed lights in his rearview mirror and saw signs of another pair of automobile headlights coming in the opposite direction.from ahead of him The car behind Jones overtook him and when he realized there was no way it could avoid the oncoming vehicle he pulled to the right and heard a “poof,” he said.He said he parked his car and went to the scene of the crash, then went to a nearby house where he called for additional ambulances.His wife had proceeded him and had called the police and a ambulance Jean Girard.21.of Farnham told of meeting Boulanger about noon the day of the crash, told how they had a couple of beers in Farnham then drove to Bedford where they bought the case of 12.He indicated the consumed two more each from the ease of 12.CHURCH PARKING LOT The pair then went to Phillip-sburg where Boulanger attemped to contact his girlfriend.They left Phillipsburg and stopped in the church parking lot in Pike River w here they consumed another beer each.Girard said the two left to go towards Bedford and he fell asleep and w as not even aware of the impact.Boulanger.19.also of Farham corroborated Girard's testimony and said he had just pulled out from behind the car he was following when he noticed the oncoming lights and pulled over to the left shoulder of the road in an attempt to avoid an accident.He said he too was knocked out during the impact.Both Boulanger and Girard testified w ith the protection of the Canada Evidence Act.after have been warned of the consequences of perjury by the coroner.Cecil Dougherty retired: Finding more time By Penny Nutbrown LENNOXVILLE — Cecil Dougherty had been in politics for 34 years before retiring as mayor of Lennoxville in November 1985.In fact, younger Lennoxville residents would be hard-pressed to remember a time when Mayor Dougherty was not a fixture in the Lennoxville Town Hall.Is there life after politics for Cecil Dougherty?“The complete reconstruction of a life is a bit difficult,” admits Dougherty, “especially at 74.My business was sold some years back and many of the things I used to do I haven’t done for years.I’ve got to get back into the stream of things.” “At the same time I do not want to become Lennoxville’s most famous canvasser.” LONG TERM Dougherty was first elected as an alderman on the Lennoxville town council in 1951 and remained in that position for the next decade.From 1961 until 1967, he was the federal Liberal candidate for the Compton-Frontenac riding.“I nearly won once and did a little worse the next time.Actually I won both times.Aman would have to be crazy to want to get into all that.” In 1967 Dougherty was elected mayor of Lennoxville, a position he held until retirement.- Retired Lennoxville mayor Cecil Dougherty: can handle anv situation.” PHOTO BY JIM DeCICCIO ‘The people on council “I wanted to leave eight years before,” Dougherty said in a recent iterview, “but circumstances just didn’t permit it.The same thing happened four years ago.The fellow who was supposed to replace me both times couldn’t for reasons of his own.I stayed at the council’s request.” FIND REPLAC EMENT In July 1985 Dougherty announced that he would retire regardless of the circumstances and the search was on for a new mayoral candidate.Of his successor, Duncan Bruce, Dougherty has only nice things to say.“Duncan Bruce served with me on the council for a number of years.He’s a fine fellow and I’m sure he'll do a good job.” Of his old mayorial nemesis, Léo-Paul Valcourt Dougherty was somewhat less complimentary.“At no time was Valcourt ever a threat to the council.However, he did create a lot of havoc.He got to every council meeting.People were hesitant to bring their problems to the council meetings because they didn’t want to get involved with this fellow.” “People solved their problems by phone.It would have been nicer if people cold have felt free to come out to the meetings.Valcourt spoiled many council meetings,but he was never a threat.The Record and La Tribune made a big deal of him.” So far Dougherty has not been called in to advise the new mayor or council the council, nor does he expect to be.“All the people on the council can handle any situation that might arise,” said Dougherty.Dougherty plans to spend some of his newly acquired leisure time pursuing his hobbies of woodworking and coin collecting.He also wants to spend more enjoying the outdoors at his cottage near Island Brook and with his young grandsons.Dougherty is still looking for that something special to occupy his ti me and is considering getting involved in some type of youth program.“There may be something there,” he says with a slight smile.After 32 years as an independent Sherbrooke city councillor, Antonio Pinard will be celebrated on his retirement.Weekend set to honor Tony Pinard By Claudia Villemaire SHERBROOKE — Sherbrooke City councillor Antonio Pinard is retiring, but not without the fanfare and celebration a veteran of 32 consecutive years at City Hall deserves.Hale and hearty in his eightieth year, ‘Tony’, as he is known to his friends, will be roasted and toasted during a special weekend reserved for the occasion.March 22 and 23 is already being publicized as Tony Pinard Weekend.A grand celebration Saturday evening at Le Sommet, the on-campus bar-restaurant of the University of Sherbrooke, a special mass at St-Jeanne d’Arc church March 23 followed by what organizers call Le Brunch Populaire ' arc all being organized by a group of friends who have formed an association.“We decided to become incorporated because of the apolitical nature of this event,” said André Collard, president of the organizing association, at Monday’s press conference announcing the events.“This tribute to our ‘dean’ of the city and especially the West Ward will bring together hundreds of people from all W'alks of life including family, members of religious orders and friends.” •IMPORTANT ROLE “We wish to truly honor Councillor Pinard, who has played such an important role as a city father for so long.” Included in the program March 22 is a ‘roast’ which organizer André Lachance of the University of Sherbrooke is putting together."We have undertaken a careful search for friends and family who will come forward for this part of the program and recount some of the high points of our friend’s life and career,” Lachance chuckled.Pinard, first elected to the West Ward seat March 23, 1954, has sat on council during the terms of five mayors.He was officially informed of the event at a council meeting Monday night “I’ll certainly do my best to be there,” he said.Tickets for the banquet and festivities are now on sale.With a 500-ticket limit, reservations well in advance are recommended.Tickets may be purchased individually, in groups of four or eight which would mean a complete table.For information call Dianne Laçasse at the Public Relations Office for thé City of Sherbrooke (819) 821-5574.Fluoridation coming to Sherbrooke water?SHERBROOKE — Users of city drinking water may soon get a dose of fluoride with every sip.At its meeting Monday city coun- Asbestos still a danger — health researchers Dr.Irving Selikoff.'You have to test with an electron microscope.’ Continued from page I croscopy, or PCM, to test for asbestos fibres in public buildings.The method involves microscopic examination of fibres and other particles taken from air samples.Charney said PCM was developed for large industrial sites and would not reveal tiny particles which penetrate cell walls and cause disease where fibres are large.In a letter to Charney dated last December, Thomas J.Boudreau, deputy minister of education, said a survey of all Quebec schools was conducted in 1979 and 1980.All necessary repairs were made and no further testing was needed, Boudreau wrote.But Charney said the government cannot declare the schools safe on the basis of PCM testing.“There’s a clear and present danger from the stuff,” he said.“And we’ll believe that until we have a thorough study using proper methods.” Several U.S.experts agree.DISCOUNT RESULTS Dr.Irving Selikoff, considered a leading expert on asbestos-related disease, said PCM results should be discounted.‘‘Most of the fibres — probably 99 per cent of them — can’t be seen,”he said in a telephone interview from his office at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.“You have to test with an electron microscope.“But anytime you have friable asbestos, asbestos that is breaking down and can get into the air, you’ve got a problem,” he said.“It’s a fraud,” said Joe Schir-mer, an occupational and public health official with Wisconsin’s Department of Health and Social Services.“They just shouldn’t be doing that in Quebec.“PCM is a waste of time and money — they’re going to get low or negative findings because of the limitations of the technology.It’s irresponsible,” added Schirmer.Most experts, including those at the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency, which has proposed a ban on the import of Canadian asbestos, use transmission electron micrograph testing, or TEM, to test public buildings for asbestos fibres.The technique is more time-consuming and costly than PCM, but measures all fibres which can cause disease.RECOMMENDED REPAIRS Teachers at the Norbert Morin school have been fighting for more than six years to have the problem resolved through their union, the Centrale de l'enseignement du Québec.The goverment’s health and safety commission recommended that repairs be made to the school on three separate occasions, said teacher Réjean Trudel.The Education Ministry granted a subsidy of $104,000 for repairs in January 1983, but the Laurentian School Board later withdrew the money saying there was no danger to students and staff.A final test was carried out by L Institut de recherche et de développement sur l’amiante, created by the government and the Association of Quebec Asbestos Mines to conduct research into asbestos.The institute concluded in May 1984 that the school was safe.It also used the PCM method.cil unanimously endorsed the fluoridation proposal of local Dr.Charles Tessier, who has led a long campaign in favor of the additive, which is said to prevent tooth decay.Highly toxic when pure, fluorides are diluted before minute quantities are added to drinking water in most North American cities.Sherbrooke’s drinking water is taken from Lake Memphremagog and pumped 20 miles underground to the J.M.Jeanson treatment plant in the city’s west ward.The fluoride will be added there before the water is distributed.Before the Sherbrooke plan becomes operational, some neighboring communities will have to give their approval.Rock Forest, Fleu-rimont and part of Ascot Township are supplied with water by the city.Man held for nudie romp Danville expansion, grant await boycott news DANVILLE — While the decades-old controversy over the use of asbestos rages on, a local company has taken the unusual step of at least temporarily turning down a federal subsidy for manufacturing with the fibre through fear of a proposed U.S.boycott.The federal Department of Regional Industrial Expansion (DRIE) announced in a press release at noon Monday that 3R In- dustries of Danville would get $41,250 in tax money to go with a company investment of over $400,000 to be spent to enlarge its plant, which makes a number of asbestos products.But later in the day company president Raymond Chainé said a proposed U S.banishment of asbestos-containing products has led 3R to “re-evaluate” its $471,000 expansion plan.“We aren't sure we re going to go ahead,” said Chainé, adding that if the project goes ahead at all it may be on a much smaller scale.The company had planned to buy new machinery, enlarge its Danville factory by 4,600 square feet, hire six additional employees and manufacture a new product — wo-ven-asbestos brake linings for all-terrain vehicles — to its line.3R would have become the only manufacturer of the new product, says the federal press release.The company makes brakes for industrial washers, fabric, gaskets, curtains and cable from the fireproof asbestos fibre.The planned expansion, which would have allowed 3R to expand its export business, will now await the outcome of the U.S.ban proposal, recently suggested by the po werful Environmental Protection Agency.SHERBROOKE — A Magog man facing public-nudity charges was remanded to custody Monday until a psychiatrist has a chance to Stanbridge E.man faces child -sex rap SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — A 20-year-old resident of Stanbridge East appeared before a justice of the peace here Monday and was charged with sexual assaulton his 10-year-old neice in Dunham on Feb.2.The man was remanded in custody and will be arraigned in Sessions Court Tuesday.Quebec Police Force corporal Marcel Grondin said three or four other males may be arraigned on the same charge involving the same juvenile.determine whether he is fit to stand trial.Michael Thompson, 35, of Magog was arrested and charged Friday after police found a man running naked through the corridors of city hall.Police say Thompson also flashed passers-by at the entrance of an apartment building and stole three pairs of girls’ running shoes from lockers at St-Patrice secondary school during his St.Valentine’s Day escapade.He will undergo examination by Sherbrooke Hospital forensic psychiatrist Pierre Gagné before returning to court.Wailing time is over.[13 ?.tter-noo” , s3°0 s20° Help your HEART nm POLBVSmtED 1 CintMA CAPITOL ses out t 59 KING »»t Sherbrooke Running Times Nights 6:45-9:00 Sun.S Tues.1:30-6:45-9:00 1 ilhii I ft 1 A 4—The RECORD—Tuesday, F’ebruarv 18, 198