The record, 9 mai 1991, jeudi 9 mai 1991

THURSDAY X IT IS \ SUNNY DAY SHAWN Mt.U*)WAN SHhRBKCM)KI HTMhNlAKN SOHMM 40 cents .IrlH Mav 9, 1991 Surprise: Toronto’s latest Iraqi refugee By Warren Caragata and Gord McIntosh OTTAWA (CP) The former Iraqi ambassador in Washington received landed immigrant status — as a retiree in Canada without the knowledge of government ministers.Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt said Wednesday.Both opposition parties found this news unbelievable as did the minister himself, who says he onlv learned about it Tuesday.“I find it incredible, unacceptable that this could happen." Val court said, saying an inquiry has been ordered on how the slip-up occurred.Valcourt said Mohamed Al-Mashat.60.and his family were granted admission as legal immigrants to Canada on March 27.having met all requirements as an independent retired applicant.He arrived in Canada — Val- court wouldn't say where — three days later Mashat.who often appeared on American TV7 in the runup to the Gulf war to defend Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, applied for status at the Canadian embassy in Vienna in late February.Valcourt said.Mashat’s entry to Canada comes at a time when more than 100,000 people are stuck in a refugee backlog.Some have been waiting as long as four years for their deter- Freezing on the bench mination hearings.Mashat's application was fast-tracked because of concerns for Mashat's safety.Valcourt said.Immigration officials knew full well who Mashat was.Valcourt said Valcourt said the officials were satisfied that Mashat met all the requirements under the Immigration Act.But at a news conference, the minister did not seem comfortable with the decision NOT INFORMED "The minister of immigration, the then-minister, and the minister of state for external affairs, were not informed through memo or any alert system,” Valcourt told reporters ‘Tm as furious as you are." At the time.Joe Clark was external affairs minister and Barbara McDougall, now at External, was immigration minister.Valcourt said a procedure exists for informing ministers about such cases.But for some reason.Mashat fell through the cracks.Because officials followed the letter of the law and Mashat met the rules for admission under the See SURPRISE:, Page 2.Births, deaths .10 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .5 Living .6 Sports .H Townships .3 WEATHER Page 2 I Silting on the bench during the girl\' softball game between Galt and KCS turned out to be a chilling experience for this BCS student.But she was soon joined by teammates, who, unable to get enough hits to keep warm by running around the bases, were frozen out of the game 21-11.For the details turn to page II.RK'ORD/GRANT SIMFON Parizeau: Getty is not exactly my kind of guy By Daniel Sanger QUEBEC (CP) — Premier Don Getty’s refusal to meet him when he visiis Alberta later this spring has prompted Parti Québécois Leader Jacques Parizeau to question the ex-footballer's intelligence.Pari/.eau maintained Wednesday that he did not feel insulted by the Alberta premier s declaration that he does not meet Opposition leaders from other provinces.“No one can be insulted by Premier Getty.it's impossible.When someone is that atraid ot discussing basic issues you don t feel insulted, you rather pity the man ' He said he does not know how to make Getty change his mind."I don’t know how to convince a football player — it depends exactly what their level of intelligence is." he said, chuckling.And he said other premiers have not been reluctant to meet him, citing former Ontario premier David Peterson who 'might not have been a football player but he was a man.” Parizeau, calling himself “a well-mannered man,” made the hostile cracks after Getty said in Edmonton, “I Just don’t meet with Opposition leaders from other provinces.“Why would I make an exception with Mr.Parizeau?I’m sure he’s a wonderful man but I don’t meet writh Opposition leaders.” Getty admitted he met former Ontario opposition leader Larry Grossman but said it was because they were discussing Conservative party policy.He laughed at suggestions he is afraid to meet the portly economist who leads the Parti Québécois and sometimes fancies himself as an elder statesman.““Why would I think that?,” Getty said.Getty did not show any emotion w hen told that Parizeau had questioned the intelligence of a former football player.He said.“I never comment on second-hand reports.” Parizeau said Getty, a Montreal native who led the Edmonton Eskimos to the Grey Cup.is afraid of being taken to task for “blackmai- ling” Quebec when he met with Premier Robert Bourassa in Montreal.“When Mr.Getty comes to Quebec and exercises, with his hand on the shoulder of the Quebec premier, the sort of blackmail that he sent out two weeks ago, well, I think that in the nameof good manners he has to be confronted with it and has to comment.“But of course his answer is ‘No, no.no, I won’t meet Mr.Parizeau’.” WARNS QUEBEC After their meeting, Getty said he had been convinced that Bou rassa “wants Canada” and warned Quebec can’t expect to maintain economic union with the rest of Canada if it separates politi- cally.Portraying Bourassa as a wimp and Getty as a bully, Parizeau said the Alberta premier forced his Quebec counterpart to “make all sorts of reassuring noises to Canadians ” “It’s as clear as springwater” that he’s afraid of meeting, said Parizeau.He also said he doesn’t think that Getty's opinion are shared by many other Canadians.“You have to distinguish between politicians and the real country.” He added: “He knows very well that what he said in Quebec City is largely silly and that there is not a chance he can convince business people in the rest of Canada.” Parizeau will address a Chamber of Commerce meeting when he visits Alberta either in late May or June.He said he will try to set up other meetings in Vancouver and Winnipeg.“I don't know whether I’ll meet the Reform Party or who but I’ll try to schedule a certain number of meetings there — you’ve got to take advantage of these things.” Spicer: All that talk was not enough.By Portia Priegert OTTAWA (CP) — Canadians want to keep talking to each other about the country’s future even after a controversial citizens' forum reports on July 1, its chairman said Wednesday.“A lot of them have got hooked on this, the simple business of listening to each other in groups and just talking seriously about the country,” said Keith Spicer.Spicer, speaking after an all-day meeting behind closed doors with the 11 commissioners on theCitizens’ Forum on Canada ’s Future, said he has no idea what form such discussions could take.“It may just happen spontaneously, I honestly don’t know," he said.“There’s a big thrust for that.” But Spicer said he’s heard enough and has no desire to return for another round of cross country meetings with ordinary Canadians.See SPICER, Page 2.Letters: Some natives like Tom Siddon By Bob Cox OTTAWA (CP) A group of In dian chiefs lobbied to keep Tom Siddon as federal Indian affairs minister before a cabinet shuffle last month, according to a letter sent to the prime minister’s office.The group included about a dozen chiefs who have been advising the Department of Indian Affairs on land claims and other possible changes to legislation that affects natives.Two of the chiefs — Neil Sterritt and Bill Montour are running for the leadership of the Assembly of First Nations.The assembly has been highly critical of Siddon’s performance since he became mi- nister 14 months ago.An exchange of letters between Sterritt and the prime minister’s office was obtained by The Canadian Press on Wednesday.Siddon survived the April 21 shuffle, to the surprise and disappointment of many native groups.Shirley Martin, the junior Indian affairs minister, was replaced by Monique Landry.In a letter to Norman Spector, Mulroney’s chief of staff, Sterritt asked that both Siddon and Martin be left in their jobs.“This wish on our part may come as somewhat of a surprise to both you and the prime minister in light of the remarks often made in the media about Mr.Siddon’s alleged lack of performance,” said the letter.dated April 12.It urged Mulroney to keep Siddon and Martin.SOLVE GRIEVANCES “We feel that a movement is discernible towards redressing our grievances since those two ministers assumed their portfolios,” said the letter.“Chiefs feel that a trust is now developing between themselves and the ministers and their staffs.” It said shuffling the ministers would hurt work the chiefs are doing on self-government issues.Sterritt was travelling Wednesday and did not return a telephone message left at his Ottawa office.Sterritt, the Ottawa représenta live for the Gitksan-Wet’suwet’en Heriditary Chiefs of British Columbia, is considered a more conservative native leader.The group of chiefs, of which he is chairman, has faced criticism from some other natives for working with the Department of Indian Affairs.They say natives need more radical changes than simply amending the existing Indian Act to give them a few more powers.Sterritt and other members of the group have defended their work as a way of taking practical steps toward self government that will lead toward eventual entrenchment of a right to native self government in the Constitution.Other chiefs who signed the let ter to keep Siddon include: Dan Bellegarde, vice-chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Na tions; Harrison Bull of the Louis Bull Tribal Administration in Alberta; Strator Crowfoot, chief of the Siksika National Tribal Administration in Alberta; Harold Der- Mohawks: Someone should be blamed Montreal tcP) Two of the most prominent women in last summer’s 7H-day standoff between armed government forces and Mo hawks at Oka said Wednesday they were disappointed by a Commons committee report that refused to allocate blame.The report, issued Tuesday, called for a full .scale judicial inquiry into the events and said the federal government should "invite” Quo bee’s participation Linda Simon, who runs the food bank at Kahnesatake which is still a going concern eight months after the army left, said there are a lot ol unanswered questions.The questions, she said in a CBC Radio interview, relate to “The lack of loud, the lack of médecine, the lack of human rights, the abuses that we all felt in this community.FOOD BANK “Working at the food bank we know a lot of food didn't come through after th» government agreed to let it through," she said."Why did all that happen?“I want an inquiry that 's going to ((‘ll me that." Simon is not Mohawk herself.She married a Mohawk, has four children and lives in the community which she said has barely recovered from the crisis.About :!() families still rely on the food bank to get by Simon said the report does not address the issues that led to the crisis in the first place and added that she is very disappointed that the recommendations skirt the land issue.Ellen Gabriel, who spoke regularly on behalf of the Warriors and other people behind the lines at Oka during last summer's events, agreed.CONFEDERACY Gabriel, a member of the tradi tionalist Six Nations Confederacy, said the Commons report appeu red to be intended to appease all sides but that by refusing to allocate blame it failed to get to the root of the problem.She said all Canadians should be deeply concerned about last summer's events.“It seems last summer there was a dictatorship in Canada.” she said."You lost your democracy and an army took over a political situation.” Gabriel said she would willingly participate in any royal commission or judicial inquiry because she has nothing to bide But she said enough time has to be taken by any inquiry to “really deal with the issues.” rickson, president of the Intertribal Forestry Association of British Columbia; Manny Jules, chief of the Kamloops band in British Columbia; Harry Lafond.chief of the Muskeg Lake hand in Saskatchewan; Robert Louie, chief of the Westbank band in British Columbia; Joe Miskokomon.grand chief of the Union of Ontario Indians; Paul Stewart, chief of the Tobique band in New Brunswick.Report: In Oka it’s golf that needs help MONTREAL (CP) - A report commissioned by the prime minister's Quebec lieutenant urges Ottawa to help the town of Oka get back on its financial feet following last summer's Mohawk crisis, says Montreal La Presse.The newspaper obtained a copy of the report, which was submitted to Benoit Bouchard last week.Bouchard commissioned a committee led by Guy Belisle — a former mayor of St-Eustache — to prepare the report and recommend ways to restore social peace and the local economy in Oka.The report says the government should advance funds to the Oka golf club to mitigate the latter’s losses in the Oka crisis, which began with plans to expand the golf course onto land claimed by the Mohawks.La Presse said Wednesday the report also urges Ottawa to assume the costs of a lawsuit the golf club plans against an insurance company and to reimburse the club for costs incurred before the expansion project was halted.The commmittee report includes 26 recommendations concerned largely with the economic revival of the region and calling for a financial contribution from the federal government.As for re-establishing harmony between Mohawks and Oka residents.the report suggests an in-tercultural festival would allow both groups “to reclaim and develop their respective cultures, while rebuilding the links of solidarity and co-operation that can unite them.” 2—The RKC'OKD—Thursday.May 9.1991 Shopping: Ontario leads cross-border fight By Marilyn Ronald OTTAWA r ADVfcRTiSEMEN >4 50) $0 19 x words x-days S [multiply) X .07 GST TOTAL The Itl'XOKD—Thursday.May ».I»»l—II Sports 1__««1 mam This'll teach ya: Keep your eye on the hall.Use two hands at all times.And, never.hver.(live up.Nice catch.immtm «.tN.Ih r " V Ballplayers get out their woollies as Galt beats BCS 21-11 Amy Nourse of Bishop’s College School pops up to second hase in Wednesday's loss to Galt.kwokih’iiotosokant • ««*' ¦¦ V Galt’s Laurie Bradley hurled her team to a 21-11 victory By Mike Shahin LENNOXVILLE — Untortuna-tely for the teams from Alexander Galt and Bishop’s College School, high school softball doesn't provide players with the same creature comforts found in professional football: heated benches.Forced to improvise, in w'hat the BCS coach called “the worst softball weather I’ve seen in my 10 years here,” the girls from Galt and BCS used wool blankets and oversized, hooded sweatshirts to keep warm during Wednesday afternoon's game.The players from Galt must have done a better job raising their body temperatures.They beat BCS 21-11.BCS coach Grant Sherriffs said his charges “let the weather get to them." "They were too cold to play,” he said from a warm office in BCS’s athletic department."They didn’t want the ball hit to them." Whether or not the BCS players wanted the ball hit to them — they -got it.Galt pounded out 26 hits, scoring runs in all seven innings of the game.The inning that broke BCS’s back was the fourth, when Galt took u'hat was a close game, and ran away with it.Thirteen Galt batters came to the plate, turning a 3-3 tie into a 10-3 lead.BRADLEY DID WELL Galt pitcher Laurie Bradley was praised by both coaches for her outing."She’s got good ball sense," Sherriffs said."That’s what we don’t have.” Bradley showed “good ball sense” by keeping her composure on the mound while BCS tried to mount a comeback, scoring eight runs in the last three innings of the game."I was nervous because it was my first game pitching,” Bradley said.She didn't seem nervous at the plate, where she went 2-for-3 with a walk.Bradley probably best showed her stuff when she was on the base-paths.With no one in front of her.she never hesitated to steal, or jockey off the bag just enough to throw the BCS players — especially catcher Micheline Poirier — off their game.Poirier did a good job of holding Bradley near the bag by watching her closely and faking throws.But Poirier's arm was not strong enough to stop Bradley’s softball thievery.Bradley came around to score each of the three times she was on base.Galt coach Vicky Crook said the game was “a good learning experience for the kids.” REBUILDING “It's a rebuilding year for both teams,” Crook said at Darcy Bennett Park, where her son was playing Little League baseball."There is a lot of inexperience and a lot of switching positions.It’s tough." Thirty-six girls registered to play for Galt this year.Crook said she will •split them up into A and B teams.Galt and BCS have only five players each returning to play from last year.Crook said that inexperience adds up to high-scoring games.“And sometimes, whoever makes the last error wins," she added with a chuckle.Crook was worried about the departure of the Massey-Vanier team from the 3-team league.She said getting to play enough games will be a problem, and her team may be forced to seek games against teams in the United States.Massey-Vanier withdrew their girls softball team when its trans- portation budget ran short BCS coach Sherriffs said his team also needs to gather expe rienee to improve."In terms of attitude, this is pro bably the best I’ve seen on any of my teams." he said.“There’s not a lot in terms of talent, but they really want to learn." Sherriffs said what his team most needs is a “mental toughness that we (the coaches) can’t give them.” And.he said, a little sunshine.Jones pitches Yankees to win over Padres SHERBROOKE (MS)—Riding a superb pitching performance by Mike Jones, the Yankees beat the Padres 4-1 in a Sherbrooke-Lennoxville-Fleurimont Little League game Wednesday.Jones gave up a run to the Padres in the first inning before settling down to strike out the side.He struck out the side again in the second inning, and added another K to begin the third — for seven strikeouts in a row.Yankees interim coach Robbie Fisk said Jones may have warmed up a little too soon before the game, causing him to get off to a rocky start.PETITE LIGUE ; SHER-LENN SHER-MONT BASEBALL "We weren’t really in the game early,” said Fisk, who replaced Bob Halsall at the team’s helm.“But Jones pitched a heck of a game.” “The only sharp ball (the Padres) hit was a double in the first inning.” Fisk said by telephone.“After that it was just fun to watch him strike them all out." Jones struck out 13 batters in the game.The score was tied 1-1 in the third inning when the Padres literally threw the game away.“They threw the ball away trying to get a runner out at home,” Fisk said.The Yankees scored two runs on the play, taking a 3-1 lead that Jones wmuld not relinquish.Fisk, who goes to Champlain Col lege, said he found coaching for the first time “more difficult than 1 first thought it would be.” But he said he got all the help he needed from his assistant coaches — and classmates — Terry Smith and Jeff Grapes.Bob Halsall was in New Hampshire with the Alexander Galt baseball team.Little League’s next game is tonight at Darcy Bennett Park in Lennoxville.The Twins visit the Red Sox at 5:45.Get the glass slipper ready: Cinderella wins again North Stars out-class Oilers, are one game away from Stanley Cup final fey Reg Curren BLOOMINGTON.Minn.(CP)-The Minnesota North Stars crushed the defending Stanley Cup champion Edmonton Oilers 5-1 Wednesday to gain a stranglehold in the Campbell Conference final.The win gives the Cinderella North Stars a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series, which resumes in Edmonton Friday.Minnesota out-classed Edmonton in every facet of the game, ¦outhitting and intimidating a de-jnoralized-looking Oilers team The Oilers, winners of five Stanley - Cups in the last seven years, have overcome a 3-1 series deficit only once before, rallying to defeat the Winnipeg Jets in last year’s playoffs.The upstart North Stars, now 19-2-2 on home ice since Jan.17, scored twice in 18 seconds in a rugged first period.Edmonton had taken a 1- 0 lead at 8:40, but after that goal the Oilers rarely threatened North Stars goaltender Jon Casey.Centre Marc Bureau scored his first-ever NHL goal at 13:07 on a 2- on-l break.Mike Modano, with his sixth goal of the playoffs, picked up a rebound in front of Edmonton goalie Grant Fuhr and banged it home at 13:25, bringing the roaring sellout crowd of 15.378 to its feet.POWER PLAYS Dave Gagner and Neal Broten both scored on power plays in the second period.Defenceman Neil Wilkinson added another tor a 5-1 lead going into the third.Broten banged in his seventh of the playoffs while Edmonton was two men short.It was Minnesota’s 31st power-play goal — one short of the record held by the Oilers.Craig MacTavish scored for Edmonton.Referee Dan Marouelli disallowed an Edmonton goal at 4:06 of the first when Adam Graves kicked the puck into the net.The play was also clearly offside, but it was not called.Veteran North Stars centre Bobby Smith was ejected from the game at 15:32 of the first for a vi cious cross-check on Oiler Martin Gelinas, who lost his helmet earlier on the shift.Smith hit Geli- nas in the neck from behind during a pileup in front of the Minnesota net.Gelinas was unconscious for about a minute and had to be helped from the ice.He returned to play the second period Edmonton's Glenn Anderson was ejected at 4:17 of the third for high-sticking defenceman Jim Johnson.Oilers Notes: Oiler Mark Lamb returned to the lineup after missing Games 2 and 3 .North Star Dave Gagner became a father for the second time Tuesday, his wife Jo-Anne gave birth to a nine-pound baby girl.After scoring 11 goals in the first two playoff series, Esa Tikkanen has yet to score against Minnesota.Galt loses doubleheader with bad base running SHERBROOKE (MS) The Galt Pipers baseball team dropped their record below .500 Wednesday by losing two games in Littleton, New Hampshire.The Pipers lost game one of a doubleheader by a score of 9-4.and game two, 8-2.The losses brought their record to 3-4.The losing pitcher in game one was Mark Deboer, who was 3-0 before Wednesday’s game.Odell Lassenba, the third of three pitchers in game two.got Galt's second loss.The game was tied at two going into the sixth inning.Bad baserunning was a key to the losses, said Galt coach Bob Halsall.He said seven out of the 12 outs made in the first two innings of both games combined were caused by mistakes negotiating the bases.Halsall said some of the boys’ inexperience, plus bad weather here, showed in the game.“Because of the rain we haven’t had time to practise,” he said.loto quêbec RIS U LT S I o t o - q u é b e c m B Draw 91 05 08 You can play up to 9:00 P.M on draw days i 2 3 10 13 Next draw: 20 23 24 25 30 91-05-10 32 34 40 41 43 50 53 55 62 66 Claims: Sec back of tickets.In the event of discrepancy between this list and the official winning list, the latter shall prevail Calderon homer leads Expos to win over Giants by Terry Scott MONTREAL (CP) —- The back spasms that put starting pitcher Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd out of the game Wednesday night, almost did likewise to the Montreal Expos.But a seventh-inning, solo home run by Ivan Calderon, who had singled three straight times prior, .provided a quick fix and a 5-4 National League triumph over the San Francisco Giants.The victory, before an announced crowd of .15,107, gave the Expos a three game sweep of the Giants and itn proved their record to 12-15 as they left fora 10-game, West Coast road J rip, Calderon's homer, his fifth of the .season, came against reliever Francisco Oliveras, 0-1.with one