The record, 6 février 1992, jeudi 6 février 1992

[" 40 cents Premier: Europe loves Hydro plans By Frederic Tremblay BRUSSELS (CP) \u2014 The campaign against Quebec's Great Whale hydroelectric project has had little impact in Europe.Premier Robert Bourassa maintained Wednesday.Bourassa said that\u2019s what he concluded after meeting with several business leaders since he began his visit to Europe on Saturday.The subject of the $12.6-billion project just didn't come up during the discussions, he said.He said the protest by Quebec Cree and environmentalists, which has received prominent media play in the United States, has not been taken up by the European media.\u2018There was much talk in Bourassa.Parti Québécois leader Jacques Parizeau was in the Sherbrooke area Wednesday to meet Eastern Townships party members and raise money at a gala supper.The chief was greeted by PQ regional president Henri Quebec about European protests against Great Whale.\u201d Bourassa told a news conference.\u2018I've asked for information about this from the Quebec delegate in Brussels, one of whose functions is to examine the impact of these protests on the media.\u2018\u2019He told me he saw no sign of any protest whatsoever.\u2019 Bourassa said Hydro-Quebec was reconsidering a proposed $10-million publicity campaign aimed at polishing Quebec\u2019s image on energy and environmental policies abroad.\u201cIt\u2019s a matter of evaluating the cost benefits.Is it advantageous to spend millions in public funds on a promotional campaign?Could we find Parizeau predicted that Quebec will become an independent country within three years \u2014 without harming the province's 800,000 English-speaking citizens.For the full story, turn the page.other, cheaper, ways of getting Quebec's point of view across?\u201d One of those means was the opening of a permanent Hydro- Quebec office in Brussels last fall.Another may be Bourassa\u2019s meeting with about 20 Green party members of the European Parliament who oppose the massive northern project.NEED SOLUTIONS The premier said he'll tell them that energy conservation \u201ccan\u2019t be an absolute solution.Other solutions must be found.Hydroelectricity is the only ecological energy there is and we Quebecers believe it is the most effective solution.\u201d Bourassa maintained his po- # RECORD/GRANT SIMEON Montrealers die BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CP) \u2014 A helicopter carrying three tourists from Montreal crashed in Barbados on Wednesday.killing all aboard, police in Barbados said.A police spokesman said the copter crashed about 10 kilometres inland from the capital of the small Caribbean island at 9:50 a.m.He said the bodies of the three Canadians.a U.S.woman and the Barbadian pilot were recovered and returned to Bridgetown.A police sergeant identified the three Cana- in copter cras dians as Edith Dunlop, 41.Barry Dunlop.75, and Steven Murville, 28, all of Montreal.The police spokesman said the two others were Noreen Speidel, a U.S.national, and Alan Heath, of Barbados, the pilot.The craft was owned by Bajan helicopters.À man who answered the phone at the company said the crash may have been caused by heavy cloud cover.He said he had no further information.sition on proposed changes to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade accords, while lambasting Parti Québécois Leader Jacques Parizeau.**l understand that to get some attention.Mr.Parizeau is ready to say anything.\" the premier said.Parizeau reiterated his criticism Tuesday and again Wednesday that Quebec would lose almost its ability to aid industries if the GATT agreement is amended as recommended by GATT director Arthur Dunkel.Dunkel wants the definition of subsidies to industry and agriculture in the GATT accord to be tightened to prevent provincial governments from giving grants to companies.Dunkel wants only national governments to provide such funding.Bourassa repeated his belief that the proposals would improve \u2018\u2018certain points\u2019 but emphasized that improvements might still come.\u201cI think we should continue (Canadian representations to GATT).I'm not going to give a final judgment because the text is not finished.The text must be improved \u2014 I\u2019 ve said it before and I'm repeating it, that's not new.\u201d On Sunday.Bourassa said there was a limit on the number of improvements that could be made, noting that it would be difficult to completely please all 108 members of GATT.\u2018Health reform\u2019.THURSDAY February 6, 1992 Births, deaths .10 Classified .ccceceeeee 8 Comics 9 Editorial .ccceoeeeeee 4 Farm & Business .§ Living 0e 6 Sports .\u2026.\u2026.Lll Townships .sasceacss 3 WEATHER A Hospitals want sick to pay for treatment By Daniel Sanger QUEBEC (CP) \u2014 Quebec must take drastic action to find new money for its soaring health care costs, the province\u2019s hospitals said Wednesday, supporting proposals for modest user fees and room-and-board charges for patients.\u201cIf we don\u2019t do something, the consumer you are worried about might not have health services soon,\u201d Jacques Na- deau, of the Quebec Hospital Association, told a National Assembly committee studying health care costs.Representing 200 institutions that gobble up more than half of Quebec's $12-billion health care budget, Nadeau said hospitals could save millions if there were less government and union bureaucracy.But he also lined up firmly behind proposals to impose a $5 or $10 user fee for each visit toa doctor, to tax citizens on medical services they consume and charge hospital patients a minimal amount for room and board.\u201cPeople would prefer to pay user fees than have their taxes raised \u2014 we polled them and that\u2019s what a majority told us,\u201d Nadeau said, adding that room-and-board fees of $10 or so per day are fully justified.\u201cPeople should pay for those services because they are not medical services.They\u2019re services they would use if they were at home.\u201d But such charges should only be imposed on people who can afford them, he said.*\u201cIt should in no way compromise accessibility.\u201d The hospitals\u2019 support for the dramatic measures.proposed in a government discussion paper in December, pleased Health Minister Marc-Yvan Cote.\u201cThank you for an exceptional contribution,\u201d he said at the end of the 90-minute presentation.\u2018Your ideas will carry considerable weight.\u2019 BLAMED OTTAWA Coté was also pleased that Nadeau blamed the province's health care woes on the federal government.Calling cuts in federal transfer payments \u2018\u2018odious and unilateral.\u201d Nadeau said Quebec wouldn\u2019t have a problem if Ottawa had kept up its payments.For that reason, he suggested, Ottawa should change the Canada Health Act to allow provinces to impose user fees and other charges on patients who can afford them.Under the Canada Health Act the federal government can take $1 away from payments to a province for every $1 it charges in user fees.\u201cYou can\u2019t lose $1.2 billion per year and not consider drastic measures,\u2019 Nadeau said.\u201cThe federal government can\u2019t pull out unilaterally and not allow the provinces a way to make up the shortfall.\u201d He added: \u2018By 1997 the federal government won't be paying hardly anything for health care in Quebec so what would they take away.The federal government will have to budge.\u201d Testifying before a standing- room-only crowd, rare for committee hearings, Nadeau also proposed a variety of other measures to keep health care costs down.One which interested both Liberal and Parti Québécois members was having Quebec hospitals perform more outpatient operations.At present, less than 30 per cent of people who undergo surgery come and go from the hospital the day of the operation.In British Columbia, however, the figure is 43 per cent while in the U.S.about half the people who undergo surgery don't spend any nights in hospital.Nadeau said between 500 and 1500 hospital beds could be freed up if there was an increase in out-patient opera: tions \u2014 a savings of $170 mil: lion annually.He also called for more flexibility for hospitals, saying many institutions are crippled by union and government rules.\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to measure but there are very important financial and human savings that could be made if we had more room to manoeuvre.\u2019 Haiti democrats slam U.S.\u201clip service\u201d From AP-Reuter PORT-AU-PRINCE (CP) \u2014 A U.S.government decision to ease its trade embargo against Haiti prompted outery from backers of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Wednesday.Joseph Fignole Jean-Louis, a member of the Haitian House of Deputies, said the U.S.action shows Washington does not really support the effort to reinstate Aristide.\u2018President Bush has paid lip service to the defence of democracy.\u2019hesaidinaninterview.\u2018The United States has done everything it can to get around the embargo.\u201d He said easing the sanctions will only encourage military coups elsewhere.citing the attempted takeover Tuesday in Venezuela.On Tuesday.the U.S.State Department announced plans to make it possible for assembly plants in Haiti to sell their products to the United States.The decision represents a clear step back from the sweeping sanctions they imposed after a bloody army coup ousted Aristide on Sept.30.The 34- country Organization of American States unanimously recommended a hemispheric embargo to press for Aristide's reinstatement.The sanctions were aimed at a wealthy conservative elite that supports the military- backed provisional government installed after the coup.Aristide said he hoped the measures would \u2018\u2019asphyxiate\u201d the coup's supporters but U.S.officials said applying the embargo to assembly plants put about 35.000 Haitians out of work.HURTS POOR Despite the embargo.store shelves in Port-au-Prince remain stocked with consumer goods and gasoline is readily availahle horance nf three cnn.cially arranged tanker shipments.Many businessmen complain of lost profits but the rich appear to be living comfortably.The Caribbean country's poor masses seem hardest hit.\u2018*The embargo has not worked.politically speaking.\u201d the president of the Haitian Senate, Dejean Belizaire, said in an interview.Belizaire and others involved in OAS-sponsored negotiations to create a compromise government complained the international community is using undue pressure.He said easing the embargo \u201cwill facilitate finding a national solution to the crisis.\" He asked it be extended to gasoline.Before the coup.Haiti received its petroleum products from Venezuela and Mexico, which have abided by the OAS embargo.Aristide\u2019s backers have insisted pressure should be increased, not eased.Belizaire said he expects Congress to seek reparations for the embargo's damaging effects.À senate resolution calls for bringing suit against the OAS in international tribunals.Businessmen said Haiti's assembly sector might never fully recover from the effects of the embargo.This sector includes the manufacture of baseballs and electronic goods.MOVES PLANTS They said the owners of several assembly plants moved their operations elsewhere.while some buyers in the United States found new producers and would be reluctant to deal again with Haitian manufacturers.Raymond Lafontant.executive director of Haiti's association of assembly-plant owners.said some plants could reopen in two to three weeks but pre- coup production and employment levels probably will not be reached for at least two years.Meanwhile, Haiti's interim government refused to receive a second group of returning Haitian boat people Wednesday, leaving two U.S.coast guard cutters circling at sea with 508 refugees aboard.U.S.officials said.The U.S.coast guard attache in Port-au-Prince, Cmdr.Larry Mizell.said the reason given by Haitian authorities for holding up the landing was *\u2018logistic problems.\u201d Although Haitian police and immigration officials processed the first 381 arriving refugees without a hitch Monday.Mizell said authorities are now saying they need more time to prepare.\u201cIt doesn't look like they will be brought in until tomorrow,\" he added.The refugees were among the more 10,000 Haitians inter-: cepted at sea and housed at a.U.S.internment camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.In Washington, the White House said it is studying a Hai:: tian government request that the United States slow the pace of its forced repatriation of the boat people to ease their return to their native land.\u201cThey want incremental arrivals that allow them to process them in a reasonable way, and we're discussing that with them.\u201d White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said.Haitian Foreign Minister Jean-Robert Simonise declined to explain the reason for the delay but said: \u2018Things will go off well tomorrow.\" The U.S.coast guard in Miami said 250 refugees aboard the cutter Bear and 258 aboard the cutter Northland were waiting in the Windward Passage between Haiti and Cuba. 3\u2014The RECORD\u2014Thursday.February 6, 1992 The Townships Record Farmers plan demonstrations against GATT deal \u2018Claude Lafleur.Ouawa will have a problem on its hands.By Mike Shahin ST-FRANCOIS-XAVIER- DE-BROMPTON \u2014 After getting a lesson on the status of world trade talks Wednesday.local farmers unhappy with current proposals talked about staging a national demonstration to show the federal government they mean business.And if that doesn\u2019t force Ottawa to fight for their interests in negotiating the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the farmers say they may consider more serious measures.\u201cThe agriculture movement may become more militant\u201d if the Canadian government doesn\u2019t show it is willing to control imports of dairy and poultry products, said local UPA member John Boerson.\u201cWhat we'll do is not exactly civildisobedience, but demonstrations and maybe withholding payments on our farm loans.\u201d OPPOSES PLAN Claude Lafleur, chief economist for the provincial Union des Producteurs Agricoles (UPA), told an estimated 250 Eastern Townships farmers that the proposal released in Sur prise ! Local Quebec Police Force officers uncovered a 13.6 kilogram cache of marijuana Wednesday while on a routine search of the home of a man arrested earlier this week.QPF spokesman Tom charges.McConnell said the four garbages bags full of cannabis has a street value of about $95,000.The suspect will appear in court by subpoena to face drug-related RECORD MIKE SHAHIN December by GATT director- general Arthur Dunkel is unacceptable.The UPA, along with most farm groups in Eastern Canada, has been firmly opposed to Dunkel's plan since it came out.Farmers producing poultry, egg and dairy goods are afraid the opening up of protected markets to more foreign competition would devastate an already ailing industry.\u201cWe can\u2019t accept the idea ot solving one crisis by creating another one,\u201d Lafleur saidinan interview.\u201cThe government has promi- Top guns SHERBROOKE \u2014 Range officer Jean-Claude Brochu explained the use of a police- issue, double-action Ruger .38 special - .357 Magnum to reporters Wednesday, as they took part in the Quebec Police Force\u2019s annual shooting competition.The idea was to familiarize reporters with police weapons and to select the top-gun local officers who will participate in the upcoming provincial firing championships in Montreal.Inthe officer\u2019s class, Commander Rhéaume Ringuette came in first followed by Lt.Yvon Champagne and Capt.Bertrand Bilodeau.In the junior-rank class, Yves St.Jacques took the honors followed by Dominique Martin and Robert Theoret, who tied and were to decide on who would go to Montreal in a shootout.Heading the media class was the Record\u2019s own Mike Shahin.QPF officers must go for firearm testing at least once a year.RECORD MIKE SHAHIN sed to deliver for us the four pillars of agriculture: crop insurance, credit, marketing and stabilization.These things are threatened by the Dunkel paper.\u201d OTTAWA RALLY \u201cIf Ottawa doesn't deliver.and abandons us, they'll havea big problem on their hands.\u201d Lafleur said farmers from across the nation may stage a rally in Ottawa on Feb.21 to remind the government of what is at stake.Boerson said a contingent from the 4300- member UPA in the Townships will hold a demonstration in front of Sherbrooke MP Jean Charest's office this Friday.In its current form, Dunkel's GATT plan would replace border controls that protect farm marketing boards from an overflow of imports with new tariffs that would gradually be reduced.Many producers complain the tariffs wouldn't be high enough to protect them.The United States and the European Community favor such a proposal, which would bring a kind of free trade for food.The ongoing trade talks are to end by late April.on target at QPF Pd Li EY J Another trial in Lévesque sisters\u2019 affair?By Donald McKenzie MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 A Quebec woman sought by Italy on heroin-trafficking charges was dealt a major blow Wednesday when a Belgian court paved the way for herextraditionto Italy.Sylvie Roy.31.has been in a Brussels prison since her arrest last November.Italian authorities want her extradited so they can charge her with trafficking 6.6 kilograms of heroin six years ago.A Belgian magistrate said Wednesday that three Belgian judges reached a decision on the extradition request.\u2018From what Pve heard.I believe the recommendation says she can be extradited.\u201d Raymond Bossuyt, who handled Roy's case after her arrest, saidin an interview from Brussels.But the final decision on whether the extradition goes ahead still has to be made by the Belgian Justice Department, Bossuyt said.He added, however.that the department rarely overturns such court recommendations.\u2018\u201cGenerally.it rubber- stamps the court's recommendation although it isn't obliged to.\u201d Roy was detained by authorities as she arrived in Belgium after her debut trip as a flight attendant with Nationair.Police were acting on an Interpol warrant issued in January 1986 and renewed in 1990.Roy's mother and aunt were arrested at a Rome airport in January 1986 after 6.6 kilograms of heroin was found in their red suitcases.They were returning to Quebec from a trip to India.SISTERS ACQUITTED The middle-aged sisters.Micheline and Laurence Léves- que, pleaded not guilty and claimed they were victims of an international conspiracy.They were eventually acquitted.Evidence at their trial revealed that Roy had given the sisters the suitcases as a gift.Roy Becord CIRCULATION DEPT.819-569-9528 FAX: (819) 569-3945 KNOWLTON OFF.: 514-243-0088 Randy Kinnear, Publisher Charles Bury, Editor Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager .Richard Lessard, Production Manager Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent Guy Renaud, Graphics Francine Thibault, Composition Subscriptions by Carrier: weekly $180 FAX: 514-243-5155 569-9511 \u2026 569-6345 \u2026 569-9525 \u2014\u2026 569-9931 | \u2014 569-9931 569-4856 569-9931 Back copies of The Record testified at a magistrate's hearing in Montreal that she bought the luggage from a man identified as André, a convicted heroin smuggler who was never found.Micheline Lévesque, Roy\u2019s mother.was downcast Wednesday when she heard about Bossuyt\u2019s comments.\u201cEven if you don't want to get your hopes up too high, I'm an optimist and I had thought about Sylvie possibly getting Florida makes exception for Quebec man | By Jim Brown OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 The state of Florida has bowed to Canadian authorities and promised not to execute an Abenaki Indian from Quebec if he is convicted of first-degree murder.Lee Robert O'Bomsawin, 43, is currently in detention in Montreal awaiting extradition.He faces trial on two counts of first-degree murder in the 1987 shootings of his estranged wife and her lover in Jacksonville.Fla.Justice Minister Kim Camp- .bell demanded assurances from Florida prosecutors in .December that O'Bomsawin would not be executed if he is found guilty.Under the Canada-U.S.extradition treaty, the federal government can refuse to return a suspect to the U.S.unless American authorities agree to such a deal.But no minister had ever exercised the power and made a formal request.off,\u201d she said in a telephone interview.Lévesque let it be known she believes her daughter is being framed.\u2018Somebody, somewhere, is stirring things up.There\u2019s somebody out there with vengeance on their mind.\u201d Roy did not speak to Léves- que on Wednesday and the two women last spoke to one another on Sunday.\u201cWhen we chatted then, she terse news release Wednesday saying Florida had agreed to her conditions.But George Bateh, a state attorney in Jacksonville, made it clear that he acted under duress and was unhappy with the precedent.\u201cIt appeared that frankly we had no other options,\u2019 Bateh said in a telephone interview.\u201cThe minister of justice seemed intent on holding onto O\u2019'Bomsawin unless we agreed to the condition that we wouldn't seek the death penalty.\"\u201d\u2019 Michel Vien, an official with the Canadian Justice Department, said some paperwork remains to be completed before the extradition is official.but O'Bomsawin should be returned to Florida soon.\u201cI'd say a week or two max.\" said Vien.Bateh said prosecutors will seek two consecutive sentences of life in prison if they win a was ready for any news \u2014 good or bad.\u201d Lévesque said that she probably won't go to Italy if her daughter is extradited.\u201cI'd like to go but we're going to put our money aside to get Sylvie the best legal help possible.\u201d Roy has already hired Italian lawyer Francesco Saraca.who defended the Lévesque sisters in 1986.\u2018Mr.Saraca is reasonable that would mean no parole for at least 25 years on each sentence \u2014 a combined 50 years behind bars.Nevertheless, Bateh said he was \u2018\u2018concerned about the precedent this whole affair has created.\u201d He suggested that other Canadians who kill in the United States may get the idea they can dodge the death penalty by fleeing across the border.The case may even send a message to organized crime: \u201cIf they want to commit a murder in Florida, hire a Canadian hit man to come down and commit it, and provide him with speedy transportation back to Canada.\u201d Owen Lippert, a spokesman for Campbell, rejected that interpretation and said the decision was based solely on the merits of the O'Bomsawin case.**Each one gets looked at se- from a financial point of view but he still has to be paid and the justice system over there is slow.\u201d Lévesque acknowledged she may have to return to Italy if she is called to testify as a defence witness.I'm not ruling out that possibility but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.\u201d An official with the Canadian Embassy was to visit Roy today.Lévesque said.done lightly.\u201d Melvin Weigel, a lawyer for O\u2019Bomsawin, also dismissed the Florida prosecutor's fears, saying the case set no sweeping precedents.*O'Bomsawin is not a Mafia hit man,\u201d said 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The Townships Uhe RECORD- Thursday.February 6, 19923 Record Questions linger after Stanstead East deaths By Rita Legault SHERBROOKE \u2014 A day after the decomposing bodies of three elderly residents were discovered by police.the community of Stanstead East 1S In shock.The bodies of twin brothers Abel and Elie Plouffe.77, and sister Lorraine.74.were discovered Tuesday evening in their rundown farmhouse on Route 143 in Stanstead East.After police broke down the door.several cats escaped.Inside the filthy house, which smelled of death, police found the three bodies partially eaten by cats.They also found two dead cats.While the cause of death is not yet known, police suspect the trio died of exposure or dehydration.There was little heat and no running water in the house and there were no tracks leading from the house to the stream where the three bachelors got their water.QUESTION BEING ASKED The question many people in this tiny border community are asking is: How was this allowed to happen?Some blame local health officials for failing to intervene.The Plouffe's niece Simone, neighbors and Mayor Harvey Lothrop say they repeatedly contacted officials at the local community health clinic warning them that the elderly trio was in trouble, and asking for some action.Rosaire Provencher.director of the Albert Samson CLSC, insists there is nothing he could have donc to prevent the deaths.0 2 x \u2018build so- Jacques Parizeau.mething for ourselves.\u2019 City criticized for \u201c1 don't have the judicial tools needed to go in and force medical attention on people who don't want to be treated.\u201cThis is not the situation of ordinary seniors.This is exceptional and we must treat it as such.\u201d he said.\u201cWhen people don\u2019t want to be helped it's hard for friends.family and neighbors to get through to them.\u201d Provencher said he told family and neighbors that something could be done if there was a serious doubt about the health or sanity of the three siblings.He said he told them where to go for help.BLAME CLSC But some people in the town still blame the CLSC for not taking action.One close neighbor who called and visited the CLSC demanding they do something said she\u2019s upset nothing was done.She said the CLSC turned her away refusing to help.\u201cThey told me it was none of my business.\u201d she said.asking for her name to be withheld.Simone Plouffe also went to the CLSC repeatedly to ask for help.\u201cThey told me there was nothing they could do,\u201d she said in an interview just hours after the corpses were discovered.Despite the criticism and some angry phone calls, Pro- vencher maintains he couldn't act.\u201cWe're in a society where people can make their own decisions.\u201d he said.\u201cIf people see their doctor and go against his wishes they live with the consequences.\u201d 1 By Rita Legault SHERBROOKE \u2014 One way or another Quebec will be sovereign within the next three years.Parti Québécois leader Jacques Parizeau predicted Wednesday.He also said the goal will be reached without hurting the province's anglophone minority.Speaking to about 500 PQ supporters in Sherbrooke.Pa- rizeau said Premier Robert Bourassa has painted himself into a corner with law 150, which forces the province to on beeping traffic BEGAN TO WORRY With no help forthcoming.members of the community began to worry as they saw no sign of the Plouffes.Abel Plouffe.who trekked into nearby Rock Island every day for food, hadn't been seen there in more than three weeks.Richard Eryou.who runs Richard's Restaurant in the village.said Abel visited the restaurant every cay for the past 11 years before going to get groceries at the Iccal Provigo.\u201cHe came in for dinner and took home sardwiches and homemade muf'ins.\u201d he said.But Eryou said he hadn't seen Abel Plouffe for the past three weeks and the last time he saw him Le was really sick.\u201cLast month he started fading.\u201d Eryou said, adding that he didn\u2019t shcw up for a week, a couple of months ago.The Plouffes\u2019 family doctor confirmed that Abel was sick in December, although he wouldn't say what the ailment was.\u201cHe did pick up his prescription though,\u201d said Dr.Marcel Bonin.\"I checked.\u201d HADN'T BEEN SEEN Neighbors also hadn\u2019t seen the Plouffes since mid- January.Mayor Lothrop, who was also worried about the Plouffes.drove by every night.\u201cThe light was on every night.\u201d he said.\u201cGod knows how long they were dead.\u201d On Jan.16 the Plouffe's niece.a concerned neighbor.the mavor.the local Catholic hold a referendum on sovereignty before the end of October.He said if Quebecers vote for sovereignty this fall, a clause built into law 150 will make Quebec a sovereign state one year after the referendum vote.The PQ leader said he's convinced Quebecers will vote for sovereignty unless Bourassa \u201cfabricates a complicated question where if you're for it you have to vote no.\u201d Parizeau said Bourassa is trying to get out of holding the referendum.But if he does, Pa- Inaction signals SHERBROOKE \u2014 The administration at city hall has not kept its promise of installing beeping traffic lights in the city's intersections, a spokesman for a blind people's group complained this week.Hughes Mailloux of the Association des Handicapés Visuels de I'Estrie Inc.(AHVE) predicted at a news conference Tuesday that the traffic lights won't be installed until the year 2000.The city promised in 1990 to install them.City counsellor Serge Cardin said Mailloux was exaggerating and that the special traffic lights will be installed long before the end of the century.\u201cI am not campaigning for elections so I have nothing to hide.\u201d he said at the conference.\u201cBut at least I can promise that the traffic lights will be up by the year 2000.\" It\u2019s White Cane week in Sherbrooke.a period designed to raise public awareness of the problems faced by visually impaired people.Among the activities planned for the week are visits to city schools by visually-impaired people to talk to kids about blindness.Hughes Mailloux.not until the yaer 2000?Riv art s AtON priest and two QPF oftticers visited the house.\u201cThey reported back to us without opening the door that they were alright.\u201d said Mayor Lothrop.The Plouffes\u2019 nearest neighbor has known the family for more than 45 years.She said the family is well-liked and has lived there since 1909, NOT HERMITS They weren't hermits,\u201d she said.\"They were just different.\u201d The neighbor said she's sure Lorraine had Alzheimer'\u2019s, a disease which affects people's memories and beha- vior.\u201cFor the last couple of months the more it went.the worse it got.\u201d she said.adding that Lorraine had completely lost the notion of time.Niece Simone also said her aunt had memory problems.\u201cShe couldn't remember things and asked the same questions again and again.\u201d The neighbor added that Elie Plouffe had rheumatism.and could barely walk even with the aid of canes.She said the Plouffes\u2019 death could have been avoided if the CLSC had acted sooner.She eo + ve a - kr & A a te ro .Ÿ 3 è Er pe 2 2 à = The decomposing bodies were found in this house on Route 144.Parizeau: Sovereignty won°\u2019t hurt anglophones rizeau said, the backlash will pave the way for a Parti Québécois victory in the next election and fulfill the PQ\u2019's ultimate goal of sovereignty.Quoting from a recent party poll.Parizeau said the PQ is ahead by 15 points in the Sherbrooke riding and by 10 points in St.Francois.Parizeau also said he\u2019s pleased the debate this time around is more serene.\u201cOur goal is not to demolish others but to build something for ourselves,\u201d he said.\u201cIt\u2019s not against others but for us, for us and for our children.\u201d In his speech at the PQ fundraiser, Parizeau repeated his criticism of proposed changes to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.saying Quebec would almost lose its ability to help industries.Parizeay said the definition of subsidies to industry and agriculture in the GATT accord would prevent provincial governments like Quebec from giving grants to companies.He said it also wouldn't allow provincial governments to buy shares in Quebec corporations or to provide tax incentives or exemptions.The new regula- said she hopes that inthe future it will listen to the concerns of tamily and neighbors.\u201cI want the CLSC to wake up.to act quickly and not wait until Ils too late.\u201d Meanwhile, she said.the Plouffes\u2019 suffering is over \u201cThey were terribly alone.deprived and scared,\u201d she said.\u201cThey are probably happier today.\" The mystery surrounding the deaths of the three Plouffe family members may be cleared up this week as the results of autopsies on the three victims are known.FECORD GRANT SIMEON tion would allow only national governments to provide such funding.Parizeau said that because the provincial and federal governments have accepted the GATT proposals, he is counting on the Americans to stop it.He said certain states are against the proposal because it will stop them from helping bu- SINESsses.\u201cQuebec has thrown in the towel, Canada has thrown in the towel and we sit here and pray that the U.S.will listen to its states and defeat the proposal.\u201d Parizeau said.Sherbrooke recycling plant starts mechanized SHERBROOKE (AC) \u2014 The only recycling plant in the Eastern Townships will no longer rely on Montreal to process its material.Rosaire Baillargeon, owner of the Centre de valorisation de I'Estrie (CVE), announced at an inauguration ceremony Wednesday that the plant, which receives 20 tons of reusable material every week, has mechanized its sorting system.\u201cBefore, the reusable material we collected in the Eastern Townships was sent to a company in Montreal to be processed, and we sorted the material manually.\u201d Baillargeon said.\u201cNow with the mechanized system we can do that ourselves.\u201d Baillargeon said the decision to mechanize was also a question of economics.He said it is less expensive to treat the materials here than to send it to a plant out of town.\u201cI created this sorting and processing plant because 1 wanted to improve on the recycling program started by the town of Sherbrooke last April.\u201d he said.Treated metal will be sent SIDBEC DOSCO and glass to Robert Pellequin et Fils, both in Montreal.Plastic will be sent to a company in St- Dalmien a la Beauce.In addition to helping the environment the piant has created 16 new jobs and Sherbrooke Mayor Paul Gervais said he expects the number to increase.\u201cI believe the centre will be able to hire more people as a result of the mechamzation.\u201d sorting he said.Starting Monday the public will be able to bring recyclable materials to the plant at 1050 Queen Street N.in Sherbrooke.Plant owner Rosaire Baillargeon ays it's cheaper to process the material here than send it to Montreal.+ RECORD GRANT SIMEON * RECORD\u2014Thursday.February 6.1962 the e e The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Ed itoria J Sand as an alternative to salt Winter driving in Quebec can be hazardous, especially during snowstorms.And that\u2019s mainly caused by Transport- Quebec.The minute there is a small accumulation of snow, the road patrol, armed with plows and salt, start making its run.That gives drivers a feeling of safety because in their minds, salt means clean pavement.Wrong.When the salt is mixed with snow, it melts, creating a sort of soapy mixture.And braking on this soapy substance is sometimes tricky and must be done very carefully.Salt is also very controversial.During the past few years there have been numerous reports stating that road salt is not environmentally friendly.It gets into streams, polluting everything in its path.It also infiltrates over- and underpasses, eating away steel and cement, and creating the bumpy roads we know.Then there\u2019s what road salt \u2014 usually a mixture of calcium chloride \u2014 does to the metal parts of cars and trucks.It eats them away like some kind of industrial cancer.Together, the damage to Canadian roads and automobiles must run into the billions every year.The use of other less potent abrasive on roads is one solution, although it\u2019s costly too.But then nothing is free.Instead of using salt or other less corrosive products, why don\u2019t more municipalities choose sand?Sand is cheaper, cleaner, and works much better.On assignment during Tuesday's storm, I had to travel a number of small back roads near Stanbridge East.The roads had been sanded and the driving was just great.Unlike the salted main roads, there was no sliding around in curves or at stop signs.And best of all, there was no environmental damage.How can sand, which is a part of the Earth, hurt?It's also much cleaner.No dirty snowbanks on the side of the road.So why is it that only small municipalities use sand?Larger communities should consider sand as an alternative to salt.SYLVIE D.NELSON By Stephen Ward LONDON (CP) \u2014 Forty years ago today.King George VI died at his north England estate of San- dringham, and his 25-year-old daughter became Queen and head of the Commonwealth.Elizabeth cut short her tour of Kenya and flew home to London.Ashen but composed, she met her first prime minister, Winston Churchill, standing on the tarmac in tears.A television documentary -\u2014 Elizabeth R \u2014 includes the Queen reflecting on the shock of her sudden accession to the throne.\u201cIt\u2019s a job for life,\u201d she says in the BBC program previewed Wednesday.Today will be an ordinary working day for the Queen and she will spend it at Sandringham.The only public event is a visit to a nearby cancer hospice.It will be a poignant visit, as her father died from lung cancer.Ît will also mark a brief lull in a growing, noisy debate on the monarchy after months of misadventures and frivolous behavior by the Royal Family.The criticism now is reaching her: critics say the Queen should pay income tax.Others say her staff doesn\u2019t have enough members of ethnic minorities.Some people wonder if she should allow Charles, her 43-year- old son, to become king.Charles has raised eyebrows with strong statements on architecture and a penchant for non-mainstream trends like holistic medicine.She has never given any indication that she will step down and I don't think she will,\u2019 said Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke\u2019s Peerage.Assessments of her reign vary widely.She is a dutiful, conscientious and dignified sovereign \u2014 if perhaps never an inspiring one \u2014 who has failed to control her family.\u201d said Michael Thornton, an author of several books on the Royal Family.Author and royal chronicler Philip Norman thinks the Queen has put on an impeccable 40-year performance of seamless propriety.\u201cQueen Elizabeth II has been, complete with hat and handbag, a force for stability and focus of national self-esteem,\u201d Norman said.At the heart of the turmoil is how to maintain an institution of medieval origin in an increasingly egalitarian society approaching the 21st century.Preserving the royal mystique is difficult when popular British tabloids treat the foibles of the Royal Family as scandal-sheet entertainment.\u2018*Mystique is what matters most to the Royal Family,\u201d said Eddie Mirzoeff, producer of a BBC television documentary on the Queen, called Elizabeth R, to be broadcast today.TV SEEKS BALANCE \u201cThe hardest point about making this film was slightly pushing back the frontiers, which was acceptable, without destroying the mystique.\u201d Royal anniversary reactions mixed The latest royal rumpus has Diana, wife of Charles.as the villain of the piece after she chose a German Mercedes car instead of buying British.Last month it was her sister-in- law.the Duchess of York.known to tabloids as Fergie, who was in trouble with the popular press for living it up on the royal payroll and going on vacation with a Texan millionaire.Although the Queen opposes any large outlay of taxpayers\u2019 money to celebrate her anniversary, the event won't go unnoticed.An anniversary trust has her 34 race horses.She has a large extended family from her marriage to Prince Philip.who has increasingly receded into the background.Still attending over 400 engagements a year.she'll visit Ottawa this summer to help Canada celebrate its 125th birthday.Gov.Gen.Ray Hnatyshyn said the Queen \"has graced Canadians with her wisdom and enduring optimism about the potential of our great nation.**As head of the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth has served as a model of the virtues and dialogue of goodwill between peoples of differing cultural backgrounds and political persuasions.\u2019 Hnatyshyn said in a state- scheduled a year of public events culminating in an October pageant.On a personal level.the Queen is known for her love of dogs and ment.Regal facts and figures LONDON (CP) \u2014 Today is the 40th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne.Facts and figures on the monarch and head of the Commonwealth.MAIN DATES: Born April 21, 1926: accedes to throne Feb.6, 1952; coronation June 2, 1953.STATUS: Head of state.constitutional monarch.supreme governor of Church of England, head of Commonwealth.MAIN POWERS: In consultation with government: can summon, prorogue and dissolve Parliament.give royal ascent to laws, appoint Church of England bishops and other high officers.IMMEDIATE FAMILY: Queen Mother, 91: one sister, Princess Margaret, 61; husband: Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 71; four Children: Charles, Prince of Wales.43: Anne.Princess Royal.41; Andrew, Duke of York, 31: Prince Edward.27.REIGN: Fourth sovereign of House of Windsor, 42nd sovereign since William the Conqueror.Since 1066.only 14 monarchs have reigned for 25 years or more.HEIRS TO THRONE: 1.Charles, Prince of Wales: 2.Prince William of Wales, eldest son of Charles: 3.Prince Henry of Wales.second eldest son of Charles.4.Andrew, Duke of York.By Stephen Ward LONDON (CP) \u2014 Critics of the Royal Family hope they're closing in on what they consider to be Britain's biggest and most artful tax dodger \u2014 the monarchy.When it comes to paying tax, the Queen has nothing to declare.But as the recession bites deeper, that royal exemption has caused a debate as the Queen marks the 40th anniversary today of becoming monarch.\u2018\u2019The basis for the Queen's immunity from taxation is unfoun- Bush flack next envoy to Canada?WASHINGTON (CP) \u2014 Peter Teeley.a longtime adviser to President George Bush.is expected to be nominated as the next U.S.ambassador to Canada.The Associated Press news agency and the Washington Post newspaper reported Wednesday that Teeley, 52, is likely to have his name put forward by Bush for Senate confirmation.Teeley, who operates a Washington consulting firm.was Bush's press secretary in the 1980 presidential campaign and served as his vice- presidential spokesman when Ronald Reagan was president.The Post said Teeley coined the term ** voodoo economics\u201d for Bush to use against Reagan when they were contesting the Republican party presidential nomination in 1980.The phrase has remained one of Bush's most- memorable lines despite the fact he only used it once and denied saying it until proof was produced on film, the Post said.Teeley would replace Edward Ney.who became ambassador in 1989.A spokesman for the U.S.Embassy in Ottawa said he was not surprised by the reports because many U.S.ambassadors leave their posts after about three years.Teeley is completing chemotherapy after surgery for colon cancer last year but is back to fulltime work.Bush and his wife Barbara attended a birthday party on Capitol Hill for Teeley on Jan.23.He served briefly as Bush's press secretary in the 1988 campaign and more recently developed an interest in children\u2019s issues.In September 1990, he led the U.S.delegation at the world summit for children.co-chaired by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney at the United Nations.A spokesman for the Canadian Embassy in Washington said Ottawa has not yet been approached about a new ambassador.Under diplomatic protocol, a nominee's name and biography are submitted to the host country for its approval some time before the name is announced.ded.even though it has been agreed to by government,\u201d says Phillip Hall.author of the recently published book.Royal Fortune.\u201cNobody likes paying tax.however.she manages not to pay any.\" In the weeks leading up to the anniversary, Hall's book and a spate of newspaper and magazine articles have joined the issue.The controversy comes less than a year since legislation requiring the monarch to pay taxes failed in Parliament last year.At that time, polls indicated 79 per cent of Britons believed the Queen should pay tax.Charles Anson, a spokesman for the Queen.said Wednesday that the Queen has a logical claim to avoiding taxes on her personal income.UP TO PARLIAMENT \u201cTaxes are raised in the name of the sovereign and therefore she is not taxed.\u201d said Anson.\u2018But she\u2019s always agreed to pay taxes if Parliament so wished.\u201d The tax exemption is the result of many years of royal pressure on government.When income tax was introduced in 1842, Queen Victoria grumbled but paid up.In 1910.George V persuaded Pr Sr pW Grrr oasasemas Did you know that.LARGEST FORTRESS The largest fortress ever built in North Amer ca was Louisburg.named in honor of Louis X\\ of France and erected in 1713 near the tip ol Cape Breton Island.N.S.to house 1.000 soldiers ow CE PAM CAE The Queen has nothing to declare.then-prime minister Lloyd George to lift taxation on the civil list \u2014 government money for the Royal Family.Sometime between 1937 and 1952 \u2014 the date is unknown because the relevant file has been destroyed \u2014 the government agreed that King George VI didn\u2019t have to pay tax on his private investments.In 1952, the year the Queen came to the throne, the government publicly confirmed that the monarch didn\u2019t pay any tax.Like Hall, John Griffiths, emeritus professor at London University, believes the Queen's private earnings are taxable because they're not received on behalf of the Crown.And even if the Queen has Crown immunity from taxation, she should disclose her private wealth \u2014 a move she refuses to do as a private person.\u201cIt\u2019s inconsistent.Faced with taxation, she is the Crown,\u201d said Griffiths.\u2018Faced with disclosure, she is a private person.\u201d How much money the Queen Royal fortune totals $14 billion earns is unclear.to maintain palaces.Estimates vary widely but most experts put the royal fortune at about the equivalent of $14 billion Cdn and the Queen's personal wealth at over $2 billion.QUEEN OWNS CASTLES The monarch\u2019s public resources include Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and the Crown jewels.Her private properties are the Balmoral and San- dringham country estates.her 34 race horses and investments.Late last month, the Economist magazine said the media have overestimated the Queen's wealth and arguments over her tax exemption are \u2018\u2018small beer.\u201d The magazine said her investments are worth only about $110 million, producing an annual income of between $2.2 million Cdn and $11 million Cdn.Those earnings would result in a tax bill of $4.4 million at most.Tax or no tax, the monarchy costs the British taxpayer over $100 million a year.That includes $17 million from the civil list for public duties and over $44 million Royal supporters say the Queen is a priceless national treasure and, in strict business terms, generates millions of dollars for British tourism.\u201cDespite the criticism, there is an abiding interest in royalty.\u201d said Charles Kidd.editor of De- brett\u2019s Peerage.**Most people think the Queen is a great leader with marvellous dignity and is worth every penny.\u201d Elizabeth 11.\u2018It's a job for life.\u2019 ar 7 a CS 2 rem \u2014 rat LONDON (CP) \u2014 Critics of the Royal Family are suggesting the Queen should pay income taxes.Here are facts and figures on the Queen's wealth, using Canadian dollar equivalents: ROYAL FORTUNE: About $14 billion: Queen's personal wealth, about $2 billion.MAJOR PUBLIC ASSETS: Windsor Castle.Buckingham Palace, Crown jewels.art collection.MAJOR PRIVATE ASSETS: Business investments, 34 race horses and two country estates in Sandringham and Balmoral, the latter worth over $80 million.ANNUAL EXPENSES FOR TAXPAYER: Over $100 million.\u2014 $14 million allowance for public duties and staff.ds or i\u201c anid wr pl LUS pr THE MIKE WILSON ECONOMIC COMMISSION HOW CAN CANADA BECOME MIKE COMPE gontinved on next fimo \u2014> ARE re SA HI rr + \u2014 $44 muliion for maintaining palaces and staff.\u2014 $16.5 million for royal yacht Britannia.\u2014 $20 million for Queen's planes and helicopters.\u2014 $4 million for royal train.\u2014 Unspecified but heavy cost of security.TAXES: Pays none.HISTORY OF TAX EXEMPTION: 1910: George V gets first significant tax exemption.Between 1937- 52: George VI gets approval to have tax waived on his investments.1952: Government confirms that monarch pays no taxes.CIVIL LIST: Government money for cight members of Royal Family for public duties and staff.totalling $22 million in 1992.Top three: Queen \u2014 $18 million; Queen Mother \u2014 $1.4 million.Prince Philip \u2014 $792,000.tepad 09; Les AN Farm and Business The RECORD\u2014 Thursdas.February 6.1982\u20145 Record New Teleglobe boss scares some people By John Davidson MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 Charles \u2018Charlie\u2019 Sirois loves fast cars and diamond-studded watches.At the age of 37.he's worth more than $100 million.As the recently appointed president of Teleglobe Canada.Sirois is also into outer space: he now runs the satellite- communications company which has a monopoly on over- FINANCIAL PLANNING By Frank Cameron Chartered Financial Planner Registered Retirement Savings Plans have become popular across Canada as a tax- sheltered means of amassing a pool of capital to be used in retirement as a supplement to your pension income.However.although most Canadians know at least something about the benefits of an RRSP, far too few of them realize that it's an ideal way to achieve income-splitting between spouses.Income-splitting means that a spouse in a higher tax bracket transfers some of his income to the spouse in a lower tax bracket.(We use \u201che\u201d advisedly.It's a sad but true fact that men still earn more income than women, as a general rule.) The way to do this income- splitting is to invest in a spousal RR3P.You may invest some or all of your maximum allowable contribution to a RRSP which is in your wife's name \u2014 and you claim the tax deduction from your income, when you make out your 1991 income tax return.LEGAL PROPERTY An important point to remember is that the money you put into the spousal plan immediately becomes the legal property of your spouse.Your spouse can benefit in another way, as well.The money you put into a plan in her name does not affect her own personal RRSP contribution limit for the year.She may claim a tax deduction from her earned income for the amount she invests in her own RRSP.The advantages of contributing to a spousal RRSP are twofold.First, it shows your spouse that you are confident the marriage will be a lasting one.That should enhance feelings of mutual trust within the marriage.Secondly, both of you will be able to reap tax savings at retirement through income splitting.THINK TWICE There are some special rules about cash withdrawals from a spousal RRSP.These should make you and your spouse think twice before making a withdrawal.RRSPs ideal way to split spousal income If you withdraw money from a spousal plan in a year during which a contribution was made \u2014 or in either of the two following years \u2014 the funds withdrawn will be added to the contributor\u2019s taxable income for the tax year the withdrawal occurs.This rule also means the funds withdrawn up to the total contributed during the year of withdrawal and the two preceding years will be added to the contributor\u2019s income.However, if the amount withdrawn is greater than the amount contributed, the excess will be taxable to your spouse, not to you the contributor.COLLAPSE RRSP The Income Tax Act requires you to collapse your personal RRSP by the end of the calendar year in which youreach age 71.But you may continue to contribute to a spousal RRSP and claim a tax deduction if your spouse is younger than you are.You can keep up spousal plan contributions until your spouse reaches age 71.The sooner you start contributing to a spousal RRSP the better, of course.The end result will be spectacular.For example, if you start at age 28 to contribute $2000 a year in a spousal plan at a 12 per cent per annum growth rate \u2014 by the time you are 65 the plan will be worth more than $1.3 million.And that\u2019s not counting any tax refunds you may have received over the years by claiming the tax deduction for your RRSP contributions.A lot of Canadians seem to think that tax shelters are just for the rich.That is not so.Middle-income Canadians should take full advantage of the RRSP tax shelter.It is a means of paying less tax today and ensuring a more comfortable retirement.when you start to draw out those accumulated RRSP funds.Frank Cameron is a chartered financial planner with Investors Group.7 seas telephone calls from Canada.Teleglobe's board voted this week to demote William McKenzie as president and replace him with Sirois.who owns 12 per cent of Teleglobe's shares.The gregarious but unpredictable McKenzie has battled with his board ever since he bought Teleglobe from the federal government in 1987.His sudden removal still came as a shock.\u2018People here are scared of Charlie Sirois.\u201d said Carlos Saldanha.president of the Te- leglobe employees\u2019 union.\u201cWe're concerned he's going to tear this company apart and lay off a lot of people.\u201d In person.the curly-haired Sirois \u2014 who resembles Mad Magazine's Alfred E.Neuman \u2014 is frank about his driving ambition.He's extremely proud of his 12-cylinder Jaguar and his dia- mond-studded Faberge watch.But he also points out he's a \u201cclassical Quebecois who was born in rural Chicoutimi, married at 19 years of age and has two children.\u201d SPEEDY ASCENT In a recent interview at the exclusive Club St-Denis on Sherbrooke Street, Sirois talked about his career which has been almost as speedy as the satellites he now controls.\u2018When I graduated from Laval University with an MBA in 1978.1 went into business with my father in Chicoutimi.We ran a small telephone pager business called Setelco which had 70 customers.\u2018However.I'd studied the pager market in the United States and could see that smaller companies were quickly being bought up by larger firms.\u2018Canada was well behind that kind of concentration.so I decided to buy a few companies myself.\u201d Sirois was the king of Canada\u2019s pager market seven years later after buying National Pa- gette.National Mobile Radio Communications Ltd.and T.A.S.Pagette.In 1987.he merged with Bell Cellular to create BCE Mobile Communications.He was given a sizeable portion of the new company\u2019s stock and agreed to run the firm for two years.In 1990.Sirois quit BCE Mobile and put together his own telecommunications company called National Telesystem.He also showed his wizardry at raising money when he formed his own merchant bank.Corporation Financiere Inter- media.which has $100 million in capital and is designed to put Sirois into the telecommunications big leagues.BOUGHT SHARES Last November.Sirois bought eight per cent of Tele- globe shares from BCE \u2014 in exchange for cash and 1.4 million of his BCE Mobile shares.He then converted some debentures into shares and ended up with a 12 per cent stake in Tele- globe.Because of his previous relationship with BCE.many analysts believe Sirois is under the thumb of the giant holding company which controls Bell Canada and owns 22 per cent of Teleglobe.However, Sirois vigorously denies he's working for anyone other than himself.\u2018\u2019l\u2019m an entrepreneur, not a corporation man,\u2018 he said.\u2018I left BCE because 1 wanted to run my own company.My vision for Teleglobe is to build it.not destroy it.\u2018\u2019And ! have no deals with BCE whatsoever.\u201d While some analysts have doubts about that last statement.they do admire his ability to shake things up.\u2018\u2019Charlie Sirois is a very sharp guy.\u2019 said Doug Cunningham.vice-president of BBN James Capel in Toronto.\u2018But Charlie works for Charlie.which is either the best or the worst thing that could happen to Teleglob~ right now.\u2019 Sirois worth $100 million at 37 By The Canadian Press Charles Sirois has just been named president of Teleglobe Canada in a controversial move by the telecommunications company\u2019s board of directors.A sketch: BORN: May 22.1954 in Chi- coutimi, Que.OWNS: National Telesys- tem Ltd.and Corporation Fi- nanciere Intermedia in partnership with the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec; COM2i.a French communications company in partnership with Time Warner; 25 per cent of Radiomu- tuel Inc.; and 12 per cent of Teleglobe Canada.WORTH: More than $100 Don\u2019t hold breath for cut By Clyde Graham OTTAWA (CP)\u2014 The federal government has no room to cut the GST in the budget despite reports that such a move is being considered, senior government officials said Wednesday.Officials said that with the deficit already up to $1 billion over the $30.5-billion target for this fiscal year, the government can't afford that kind of tax cut.\u201cThere is just no room.\u2019 said one top official who did not wish to be identified.A one percentage point cut in the seven per cent GST would cost the government more than $2 billion in lost revenues over the next year.Finance Minister Don Ma- zankowski dismissed the report Wednesday as speculation.\u201cWe are having difficulty achieving our fiscal targets .Farm notes we are trying very desperately to come as close as we possibly can,\u201d he said.As recently as last week, Ma- zankowski said he was not considering any major tax cut in the budget expected in the next few weeks.The Consumers Association of Canada has been among the groups that have called for a cut in the rate of the GST.which took effect Jan.1.1991.But the Canadian Chamber of Commerce urged Mazan- kowski on Wednesday to \u201cstick by his guns\u201d and hold the deficit to $24 billion in the coming budget even if it means more belt tightening.President Tim Reid said the government should resist the temptation to cut taxes or spend money on job creation if it would increase the debt.\u2018You don't get out of a hole by digging it deeper.\u201d Reid said WINNIPEG (CP) \u2014 This city\u2019s grain industry is getting ready for its annual Great Grain Relay.\u2018When you're in the middle of winter, as we are now, there's a tremendous need to get out of the doldrums and recharge the old emotional batteries,\u201d says race director Mike McAndless.MANAGING OVER $160 BILLION ON FOUR CONTINENTS Fidelity \u2018s Worldwide Expertise for Your RRSP Today's Investor Knows the Fidelity Funds For Your RRSP The relay race, which attracts about 300 competitors and 200 volunteers, raises money for charities.LY Soin an interview.Mazankowski has already said he won't be able to meet a target of holding the deficit under $25 billion in 1992-93.But Reid said he should work harder toward that target.Liberal finance critic Paul Martin was skeptical about the benefits of just a one per cent cut in the GST \u2018A one per cent cut is not going to give anybody confi- million, primarily invested in merchant bank Corporation Financiere Intermedia.PLANS: To be active in telecommunications in North America.Europe.Asia.Mexico and South America.QUOTE: \"I'm a builder of companies, but | see myself as more of a strategic investor than an operator.\u201d in GST dence.\u201d said Martin.\u201cPeople have really lost hope.\u201d He said moves to bring down the dollar and interest rates would go further to get the economy moving.But NDP leader Audrey Mclaughlin liked the idea.\u201cReducing the GST would be a positive thing,\u201d she said.\u201cGetting rid of it would be a very positive thing.\u201d Le Groupe Mallette Maheu Consumer taxes VISION .makes all the difference ! 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Call (819) 569-9525 or (514) 243-0088.NOW AVAILABLE in Canada.Never change another light bulb using this amazing diode microchip.Over 20 million sold in the U.S.A.Guaranteed 8 years.Special introductory offer: 3 for $7.50.1-800-568-9268.05184 | ow Public Works CT) Travaux publics Canada Canada SHOW OF INTEREST If you are interested in supplying space, duly identified, please respond to the Regional Manager, Contract Policy & Administration, Public Works Canada, Quebec Region, Guy-Favreau Complex, 200 René-Lévesque Blvd.West, East Tower, 6th floor (mail: Suite 702-14), MONTREAL (Quebec) H2Z 1X4.Responses will be accepted up to 15:00 on the specified - closing date.NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SALE Notice is hereby given in accordance with article 1979i of the Civil Code, that PROTEAU, COTE & ASS., auctioneers, at 862 Belve- dere Stree! South, will proceed with a public auction sale of the good hereafter described provided by the 121543 Canado Ltée company in favor of same, by virtue of an act of commercial security signed on July 18, 1991 and registered with the Sherbrooke registration office on July 24, 1991 under number 403507.DESCRIPTION OF GOODS Restaurant equipment used for the exploitation of a chinese restaurant.OWNER OF GOODS: RESTAURANT L'ONCLE HO LTÉE 60 St.Francis Blvd.North The sale is scheduled for February - N,1992 at 10 a.m.at 60 St.Francis Blvd.North, Sherbrooke.TERMS OF SALE: SALE EN BLOC.CASH OR CERTIFIED CHEQUE - 7% + 9% taxes.Proteau, Côté & Ass.Auctioneers Tel.569-8259 Offer No.: Project No.: Area: 3921-208-1 521240 (A4-642745) 600 usable square metres for office accommodation and three (3) reserved parking spaces February 12th, 1992 SHERBROOKE (Quebec) May 1st, 1992 Eighteen months (18) term plus two (2) options of six (6) months each Closing date: Location: Occupancy: INSTRUCTIONS Only buildings located within the following perimeters will be considered: 1 North: South: East: West: 2 Belvédère Street between King West Street and McManamy Street.Unless otherwise indicated, sites on both sides of the street are included.Only office buildings will be considered.Buildings having industrial use will not be retained for analysis.Accommodation shall be located ideally, on one floor or divided on a maximum of two (2) contiguous floors.Ground floor and basements will not be considered.NOTE: Accessto and use of buildings by physically disabled people.For information: Alain Lecerf Phone: (514) 283-2797 This is only an inquiry.It does not bind the Department in any way.Portland, Belvédére and Marquette Streets; King West Street; Peel Street: Industriel Blvd.(Highway 410).564-0424 | A i.i.; i ive ADVERTISER'S I \u2018 13¢ d.Minimum charge $3.25 per day for 25 words or less.Discounts for prepaid consecutive : CLASSIFIED AD: PRINT insertions without copy change: 3 insertions - less 10%, 6 insertions - less 15%, 21 insertions - less NAME \u2014\u2014 _ ! | TELEPHONE: (819) 569-9525 CLEARLY 20%.STREET ADDRESS I | | (514) 243-0088 CATEGORYNAME ___________ __ CATEGORY NUMBER ____ PROVINCE ___ _ ___ POSTAL CODE A | BY MAIL: Use his coupon LL drame | ! 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THE RECORD (mutpbi x 07 GST \u2014 Toke ¢ dense ad for 6 comecutive dy ord Q à RESERVES TNE RIGHT TO REJECT OR TOTAL eT ge You comectlive dems more FREE I i EDIT ANY ADVERTISEMENT.FFUNDS i A 0 C0 2 nD ED 5 5 DD HD GA SC HD CR SD SU CH CA NS CUS ES CE CS CS CE SF A SD AD 5 SD SPD SU AD AD HD FS DG CLD GH SE EL SD SH SE 0 CU CS ED SG em 2 2 nm a PLEASE Call for Tenders UNIVERSITY Campus renovations to Bishop\u2019s University Campus PROJECT #17 BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY College Street Lennoxville, Qc JIM 1Z7 Paul-André Caouette 570, Notre Dame North Thetford Mines, Qc G6G 2S4 (Structural, mechanical, electrical) CIMA-LNR & Ass.3385, King West Sherbrooke, Qc JIL 1P8 The owner, Bishop\u2019s University, invites tenders for renovation, restoration and conversion of its Johnson Building located on its Campus in Lennoxville, Que.Only construction contractors qualified under Quebec Legislation (L.R.Q., Chapter Q-1) and who have their main place of business in the Province of Quebec are authorized to bid.Owners: Architect: Engineers: The plans, specifications and contractual documents and other information may be obtained from the office of Mr.Peter Kam- bour, Director of Buildings & Grounds from Feb.11th with a non-refundable deposit of one hundred dollars ($100).The afternoon of Feb.14th has been set aside to allow the tendering contractors to visit the site.The tenders must be accompanied by a certified cheque to the order of Bishop's University or a bid bond valid for a period of 45 days after the date of opening the tenders, for 10% of the tender.On signature of the contract, this bid bond will have to be exchanged for a performance bond and a guarantee of responsibility for salaries, materials and services.When these guarantees are in bor.d form, they must correspond to 50% of the price of the contract and when in certified cheque form, to 10% of the price of the contract.Tenders in sealed envelopes, addressed to the undersigned, will be accepted until 2:00 p.m.local time on March 11th, 1992 and will be opened in public the same day, at the same hour and in the same place.Contractors who are bidding will be responsible for the choice of sub-trades, their solvency and the content of their tenders.All tenders must be drawn up in accordance with the provisions of the regulations regarding grants for construction purposes (R.R.Q., 1981, c.A-6,r,29) of September 21st, 1982.The owner does not undertake to accept any of the bids received.Jean-Luc Grégoire Vice-Principal Administration Bishop's University College Street Lennoxville, Qc J1M 127 Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada JIM 1Z7 TO PLACE YOUR PREPAID 7 IODE members hold coffee party STANSTEAD \u2014 The first coffee party in the new year was held on Friday January 24 at the home of Thelma Dustin with Ivy Hatch co-hostess.In spite of it being a very cold and stormy morning, many members and three guests attended: Helen Little, Gaby Paine and Geraldine Harvey.With the gracious CARRIERS WANTED TO DELIVER Record Please apply to: The Record needs carriers for the following routes: URGENT Magog Rte 524: Bullard, Hatley, Bellvue, Tarrant, Wilcox, Merry South Circulation Department 569-9528 Record Jo-Ann Hovey Advertising Consultant Tel: 819-569-9525 Fax: 819-569-3945 Crossword help of George Hatch and Erwin Taylor all the ladies arrived safely at Thelma\u2019s.As January 25 would be Halifax at Cape Breton tndiana + 2 383 21 Minnesota 22 24 4 164 176 48 Oates.St Fredericton at Baltimore Charlotte 13 33 283 252 Toronto 1631 5141 192 37 Roenick.Ch 22027 8 Capital Dist at Adirondack ton Hawerchuk But 15 49 64 Hershey at Binghamton Divis Leetch.NYR 12 52 64 Utica at Rochester WESTERN CONFERENCE Vancouver 30 14 @ 186 149 68 Recchi.Pgh mn 206 New Haven at Springfield Winnipeg 22 22 11 160 165 55 Robitarlie.LA n »% 6 Midwest Division Los Ang 20 21 11 182 195 51 Mutien.Pgh 2 33 62 Utan 31 17 646 \u2014 Calgary 2124 7 194 187 49 Fedorov Det 20 41 et San Antonio 27 18 600 2'% Edmonton 21 28 7 196 208 49 Burridge.Wash 19 42 61 Houston 2 20 55% a San Jose 1237 4135200 28 Lafontaine Buf 30 30 60 SCORING LEADERS Denver wv 2 Te 1219 1 2% 35 60 allas \u201d WALES CONFERENCE Turgaon Nv 7 % © SPRINGFIELD Mass (CP) \u2014 AH Minnesota 8 37 178 212 n 9 51 60 statistical leaders released Division Coffey Pg! 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» Games ancouver $ Montrest 3 WLT FAP Seattie at New Jersey 8 ; Tancill Adi 6 2 5 oston 3 Winnipeg 3 , Cleveland at Philadelphia NY lei Angeles 1 Fredrctn 28.20 8205 82 0 Evans Spg 985 Golden State at Miami slanders 2 Los Angeles St Johns 2522 9 227 200 59 Johnston StJ 21 30041 : ° San J 8 Harttord 5 Miwaukee at Detroit an Jose Hartford * Hatten 18 24 11 194 219 49 Loach Ad: 0 st u Ruttaio 7 Washington 3 Caireton 20 21 7 197 198 47 McRae Mix oon Houston at Boston New Jersey 3 Philadelphia 1 Moncton 1926 7 179 197 45 © \u201c Orlando at Minnesota w \u2018s Gomes ?° Chicago at Phoenix Pittaburgh at NY rs Division LA Chippers at LA Lakers Waar mae Springfield 25 21 7 193 198 47 er Utah at Sacramento ington M Detror Capital D 219 8172 171 54 ' ) innæsota at Toronto Adirondack 25 25 2 214 208 52 odey's Games Montreal at Edmonton Houston at New York 7 30 p m New Haven 20 24 3 165 178 43 EEE nC Maine 17 20 7?200 714 41 New Jersey at Washington 7 0pm Chicago at San Jose Southern Division EASTERN CONFERENCE Gotaen State at Chartotte 70pm hursday s Games Orlando at Atianta pm Roston at Philadelphia 7 35 p m Binghamton 27 14 8 200 164 #2 Atlantic oon pet OBL Detroit at Cleveland ?30 p m New Jersey at St Louss, 6 38 p M Utica 224 5 181 254 89 2 16 6d Denver at Milwaukee 830 pm NY lstanders at Vancouver 1035 Rochester 2120 9 177 183 51 New York 7 18 #00 2 Porttand at Dallas 8 30 p m om Baltimore 22 21 6 188 174 50 Boston ?.\u201c indiana at San Antonio 8 30 pm Hartford at Los Angeles.10 35 p m Hershey 202 9188 197 49 Phitadelphia 73 23 500 6 SHERBROOKE (LSR)\u2014 The Tournoi National Atome Mous- quiri de Richmond.which began its 29th edition Tuesday.continued with four exciting games Wednesday.In Class C.the home town Richmond Islanders shutout the Asbestos Lougamis 2-0.The Yamaska-Missisquoi Vics took anovertime period to get by the Richelieu Express 2-1 in Class AA.In Class Invitational CC, the Repentigny Olympiques squeaked by the Asbestos- Warwick Aigles 3-2.In the only lopsided game of the day.the Caravelles of I'Erable defeated the St.Eustache Patriotes 6-2 in Class CC action.The tournament continues Thursday with four more games.In Class C there are two matches.Pharmacie Lavi- gueur Acton meet Caisse Pop.Vikings defeat Crusaders again Mousquiri continues NATIONAL Oo Z &œ = Oo - RICHMOND HOCKEY ATOME of Coaticook and R.Bolduc of Drummondville faceoff against the hometown Richmond Olympiques.In Class AA there are also two games.The Laval Sena- teurs meet Sherbrooke Metro (FWS) and the Drummondville JRD meet the Bois-Francs Cascades.In all, 47 different teams are competing for trophies in five classes: Class AA.BB, CC, C and Invitation CC.The tournament runs until Feb.16, when all five final matches will be played.Nords accuse other teams of tampering MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 The Quebec Nordiques\u2019 accusations of tampering against six NHL clubs in the Eric Lindros affair remain unresolved at league president John Ziegler\u2019s office, Le Journal de Montreal reported Wednesday.The newspaper said Ziegler considered the initial file presented by the Nordiques last autumn to be insufficient proof of tampering and asked for more information.\u201cIt\u2019s been three months but you must understand that it usually takes more time than that to put all the pieces together to settle a case like this,\u201d said Nordiques vice- president Jean-D.Legault.\u201cWe're not allowed to discuss the case publicly.\u201cIt might put the continuation of the inquiry in jeopardy.\u2019\u201d The Nordiques have accused the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers.Los Angeles Kings and Chicago Blackhawks of tampering with Lindros, the 18-year-old prodi- 8Y Quebec drafted first overall last June.ZIEGLER DECIDES League bylaws call for fines\u2019 of up to $500,000 against clubs found guilty.Draft choices may also be awarded.The league president has final say in determining whether tampering took place.The clubs were accused of contacting Lindros or his representatives with information \u2018 about how much money he could make by playing for them.Lindros has refused to sign with Quebec and demanded his rights be traded because he wants to play in a larger city with greater commercial opportunities.A league spokesman said tampering cases are an internal league matter and refused to comment.The Nordiques were fined $10,000 in 1982 for tampering.A Nordiques employee had met with Wilf Paiement just before the Toronto Maple Leafs forward was traded to Quebec for Miroslav Frycer.Gretzky shouldn\u2019t retire MONTREAL (CP)\u2014 Veteran defenceman Larry Robinson says teammate Wayne Gretzky should be careful not to make the mistake that Guy Lafleur made by retiring too early from hockey.\u2018Personally, I hope Wayne doesn\u2019t do what Lafleur did, retire too soon and then feel the need to make a comeback after being out for four years,\u201d Robinson told Le Journal de Montreal.\u201cI've thought many times -about retiring and I can tell you that at 40 years old.I'm about ready for it.\u201d Robinson Gretzky.who turned 31 on Jan.26, expressed concern \u2019 about his falling points produc- - tion with the Los Angeles Kings.He said this week he may retire at the end of next season because he can't accept playing at anything other than the level that made him the National Hockey League's all- time scoring leader in only 13 seasons.\u201cLafleur and I both went through that at 31 years old,\u201d said Robinson.\u201cYou reach a point where you notice you can\u2019t do things you used to do.Happ te 0000000000.$ £5 Compliments of ° BOUTIQUE .: Fleuri-Moi ® florist 10% discount Linda Gagnon Proprietor 6618 Bourque Blvd.Rock Forest, Quebec JIN 1N3 (819) 864-9771 Delivery Carnival Rock Forest January 31 to February 3 an February 7 to February 9 J.& M.Grégoire inc.© BATHROOM ACCESSORY CENTRE © WHIRLPOOL BATHS \u2014 SPA © PLUMBING MATERIALS delivery service 4135 Bertrand-Fabi 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10.What do you lead at trick three?South's opening bid was strong, artificial and forcing.If North-South were going to end in no-trump, it would be best for West to pass.But the overcall was normal.Perhaps a good sacrifice could be found.The rest of the auction was natural.At the table, West switched to the club nine at trick three.Declarer won and led the spade jack.The contract could no longer be defeated.Hoping that East was holding the club ace (and playing to get the contract two down with a club ruff) was optimism in the extreme.How could East hold the club ace?South had to have the top minor-suit cards for his strong opening bid.West should have realized that his only chance to win four tricks was to find East with nine (or jack) doubleton in spades.West should have continued with a third round of hearts.True, it concedes a ruff-and-discard, but South couldn't have a useful discard to make.Suppose declarer ruffs in hand ana leads the spade jack.West puts on the ace immediately 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1-900-740-1010 Access Code 100 95 cents per minute.Touch-tone phones only.ASTRO-GRAPH BERNICE BEDE OSOL HHEKKLIAA Social notes from Bury Herbert and Nina Rowell were Sunday luncheon guests at the home of Allan and Nancy Rowell in Lennoxville.The occasion was in celebration ot three January birthdays.Allan and Barbara Rowell and Jori Baldwin; Allan's on the 22nd.Barbara's 10th birthday on the 14th.and Joris 10th on the 31st.Mrs.Lillian Thompson accompanied them to Lennoxville.where she was the guest of her friend, Mrs.Dorothy Davidson.Herbert and Nina Rowell spent a day in Gorham.N.H.accompanied by their sister.Mrs.Lillian Thompson.who had been their guest for the past three weeks.While here.she also visited other members of her family.Mr.and Mrs.Lyle Rand in Lennoxville.Mr.and Mrs.Lynn Parsons and Mr.and Mrs.Stuart Dougher- ty.She attended the card parties in Sawyerville where she had the pleasure of meeting several old friends and neighbours.Mrs.Hettie Clark was the guest of honor at a Sunday dinner at the home of her nephew and niecce.Oswald Clark.Elwylder and her husband Thornley Tostevin, to celebrate her 84th birthday.Other guests were Omer and Reta Drouin of Rock Forest and Re- ta Ross of Sherbrooke.Friends of Suzanne Clark are sorry to learn that she is a patient in hospital undergoing treatment.Surprise birthday party On Tuesday afternoon.January 21.Stuart Dougherty was taken by surprise when he opened his door to find several people there with their arms laden with the makings of a pot luck supper.in observance of his birthday on January 29.but held a week early to catch him off guard.Guests present were Archie and Isabel Nelson.Hatley.Mickie Povey.Lennoxville.al LLLLK What's a cool way to earn hard cash ?Eric and Irene Fisher.Har- dwuod Flat.Jimmy and Betty Dougherty.Mavis Buckland.Herbert and Nina Rowell.all of Jury.and Lillian Thompson.Gorham.N H.After a sumptuous supper.an enjovable evening was spent ploving cards.?p=, .ZS» ANew kæE Spirit of Giving 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