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Letters to
| the Editor

| Thanks
: Toyota Jump.

; Asa participant in the recent
‘Toyota Jump, I would like to
} express my appreciation for the
co-operation of the people in-
volved who made this event
‘ possible; Mr. Onsteln, Tyota
:Dealer, and Miss Lee, co-
ordinator.

: I enjoyed this experience and
; would like to say that It helped
me in that 1 met new people, and
; that these events enabled me to

tbecome involved with the
: community,

; . Thank you,
\ Sharon Pratt,

Goodbye to the
‘rodeo business

: After 33 years of presenting a
‘rodeo each spring, the Kispiox
‘Vailey Community Association
has decided to sell the rodeo
‘assets, and get out of the rodeo
‘business.

: 1983 was therefore the last
‘community association-
‘sponsored rodeo.

- This step was taken due. to
increased costs, decreased
‘revenues, and the amount of
‘yolunteer labour necessary to
produce such a major event.

: We would like to gratefully
‘acknowledge your support. We
would like, especially. to thank
Hazélton <*:-and--—-Smithers -
businesses for their generous and
cheerful dinations of mer-
chandise and prize money.
Proceeds from our.rodeo helped
improve our community facilities
and allowed many of our
children's activities,

A new group of interested
people from the area is in the
process of forming a rodeo club.
We extend our sincere best
wishes to them in their spon-
sorship of the Kispiox Valley
rodeo and trust it will continue to
be an event enjoyed by all. .

. Sincerely,

Helen Roisum,:

Secretary,

Kispiox Valley Community
Association

Record high

for dollar

LONDON (AP) — The US.
dollar hit a new record high
against the British pound early
today and advanced against
other currencies in light holiday
trading. Gold prices edged
higher.

With most markets in Europe
closed for the May Day holiday,
dealers said the dollar benefited
from expectations, of firm or
higher American interest rates
and hints that Inflation in the
United States zas cooling.

Higher interest rates and lower
prices raise the dollar's value as
an investment.

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legislation?” sald Andy Rapoch,
Spokesman for the Ottawa-Hull
Coalition Against the Security Bill.

Security offences are already
covered by the Criminal Code, the
Official Secrets Act and the War
Measures Act, Rapoch said. The
coalition, one of three citizen groupa
appearing before. the Commens
justice committee today, says the
security legislation should be with-
drawn. - +

The legislation would replace the
RCMP security service with a
civilian agency to be known-as the
Canadian Security Intelligence
Service. . .

Separating security work from the
national police force was a key
recommendation of two royal
commissions and a special Senate
committee.

“The coalition is not prepared to
consider amendments to - the
legislation and does not believe
other citizens should, until the
requirement for a political police
agency is shown to be necessary to
our vital interests,” the coalition’s
brief says. .
BROAD POWERS

The coalition says the proposed
mandate of the new service is too
broad, the power's are too strong and

Lawyer

agency to obtain judicial warrants to
open mail, tap. telephones .and-

examine previously confidential
private and government records.
But the coalition says it has little:

confidence in the courts as.a control:
mechanism, given thelr record In ~

authorizing: . judicial . warrants.
Judges approved all 565 applications

for electronic bugging in 1982, the -
ast. year for which - figures: are
available, and all 160 applications .
-for renewals, , ca
The coalition 1s also annoyed that -

it has been scheduled to appear
before the committee on the same
morning as.two other citizen groups,

thie Vancouver Coalition Against the

Canadian Security Intelligence
Service ‘and the Montreal-based
Citizens ‘Against State Surveillance.

The tight scheduling means each
group will:have about one hour to

- make its presentation and answer

MPs’ questions.

“This is a sham," Rapoch said. -
“Our views will have litde or no _
effect on’ their pre-ordained “con- °

clusions.”’

The committee is also scheduled

to hear from. Sgt. -Yvon Gingras of

the RCMP security service and Staff. ~
Sgt. D. W. Gee, a-staff relations’:
_ representative. rey.

was a police trick °

TORONTO (CP) — Phyllis
Trayner is expected to conclude her
testimony today before a royal
commission investigating 36
mysterious baby deaths at Toronto’s
Hospital for Sick Children in the
wake of a lawyer's stunning
suggestion Monday that police may
have sent her a poison pen letter to
“trick her,”

Angry sparring erupted among
lawyers when Brent-Knazan, Jawyer
for nursing assistant Marianne
Christie, asked Trayner if it “‘ge-
curred to you. that police -sent the
letter to trick you or see what you

Trayner, the only nurse on duty
within a few hours of all of 29 infant
deaths considered suspicious by
medical investigators, received an
anonymous letter in September 1982
that suggested she was implicated in
the deaths. .

The typed letter, which appeared
to have been written. by a nurse at
the hospital, was turned over to her
lawyer and then to police.

Knazan’s question sent David
Young, a lawyer for Metropolitan
Toronto Police, jumping to his feet
to demand if Knazan had evidence to
back up the suggestion that police
had sent Trayner the letter.

Young called the allegation
“fanciful and very prejudicial," and
said police should enjoy the same
protection of their rights as wit-
nesses at the commission.

A shaky

BEIRUT (AP) — President Amin
Gemayel and his new prime
minister, Rashid Karami,' were
making urgent contacts with rival
Lebanese factions taday to try to
preserve a day-old national unit
cabinet, officials said. | ‘

The proposed cabinet — which
would consist of five Moslems and
five Christians — appeared in
Jeopardy almost as soon as it was
proclaimed Monday night when
Shiite Moslem opposition leader
Nabih Berri refused to serve on it.

Gemayel and Karami made
repeated telephone calls to Berri,
commander of the malin Shiite
militia, late Monday and early today:

Knazan,
ascribing improper conduct to police
in their investigation into the deaths,
defended the question as important
in determining what Trayner's
reaction was ‘to the letter.

He told the commission he was
trying to discover whether there was

any validity in a statement by the °

letter’s author that police had been
told ‘what Ihad seen you doing on at
least two times,”

Commission head Mr. Justice

Samuel Grange, who acted as —
referee in the dispute, brought a -

burst of laughter from the audience
wien he jokingly said: “I'd like to
defend the police now so that I can
abuse them later.” \

Grange was feferring: to the
second phase of the commission,
which will probe the ‘conduct of
police in their investigation of the
deaths and the subsequent arrest of
nurse Susan Nelles.

Nelles was charged with first-
degree murder in four of the baby
deaths which occurred hore than
hree years ago, but was discharged
at a preliminary hearing for lack of
evidence, - .

After heated arguments by other
lawyerspver the admissibility of the
question, Knazan told Grange he
would not press him to rule whether
the question should be permitted.

Outside the hearing room later, an

irate Young said Knazan's
allegation “is totally un-

substantiated.”

alliance. in

asking him to change his mind and

serve as minister of justice, elec--

tricity and water resources,
government officials said.
Berri said the portfolios offered to
him and other opposition leaders
“are far from any connection with
political decision-making.”
However, the state radio said
Berri’s initial rejection, “appears
negotiable’ following Syria's
declaration of support for the new
cabinet, which is intended to steer
Lebanon out of nine years of civil

’ war, Syria has backed the opposition

militias during the fighting.”
Gemayel) also talked by telephone
with his father, Phalange party

Former embassy returns. to

LONDON (AP) -- Police resumed
thelr centimetre-by-centimetre
‘search of the former Libyan
Embassy today, but Scotland Yard
reduced security around the
building after finding no signs of
explosives inside.

Ofticers removed most of the 2.4-
metre-high plastic sheeting erected
to sereen off St, Jamées’a Square
during the ll-day siege of the em-
bassy. The siege began April 17
When a gunman in the buitding fired
on demonatrating Libyan dissidents,
killing a British policewoman.

“We are satisfied that there is no
danger to members of the public
outside the premisas,"' a Scotland
Yard spokesman said.

The only part of the square —
usually one of the buslest parte of
London — still closed to traffic and
pedestrians is the northeast corner,
where the embassy bullding ts
situated,

But the press officer said officers
searching inside the five-storey, 70-
room building are “still proceeding

with caution,”

Police and troops blasted their
way into the building Monday,
blowing open a back door with a
remote-controlled shotgun, but
found no arma or explosives after
hours of searching, Scotland Yard.
announced. .

“We cannot declare it completely
safe as yet but checks so far indicate
no sign of explosives at all," the
spokesman said.

RECIPROCATE SEARCH

In Tripoli, the Libyan capital, the
British Embassy building was en-
tered and searched Monday ‘on a
reciprocal basis,” the official
Lityan news agency JANA repar-

The JANA report gave no details ¢

of the search of Britain's embassy, |
now flying the flag of Italy, its
“protecting power.’’ But the Libyan
Foreign Ministry claimed: Britain
had ‘violated all international
laws'’ by breaking into Libya's
embasay in London. .
British embassies around . the

world have been warned to be on
guard against possible Libyan
reprisala, Foreign Office sources
said, and The Times-reported that
Prime Minister Margaret That-
‘cher's government is pressing ahead
with measures to reduce the threat
from Libyan terrorist ‘squads in
Britain. .

The paper said Foreign Secretary
Sir Geoffrey Howe ‘is expected to
outline his hopea for international
cooperation .on the issue” in
Parliament today. —

"A process of consultation with
the United States and other NATO
allies has started,” it sald.
JUSTIFY ENTRY .

Justifying its entry of the former
Libyan embassy, Britain main.

tained that at midnight Sunday.

night, when it formally broke
diplomatic relations, the bullding
ceased to be inviolate from search
under the 1961 Vienna Con-
vention.The convention - stopped
Police from entering during the
slege,

saying he was not ~-

_ takeovers, 7

Nothing catches public attention like corporate

The takeover of small firm by large firm Is ‘often
portrayed and believed to be a kind of big-fish-eats-
little-fish predation and something which, in civilized ,
society, ought to be avoided. If, on the other hand, it's
big firm taking over big firm, then the concern is that
there will bea decline in the amount of competition in
the economy fo the detriment of consumers. gor

Inrecent years; a third concern has arisen andthat
is about the waste of capital involved. After all, what
does it'add to our ability to produce oil if one company. -
simply takes over another oll company and does a lot of
borrowing in the process. The onl
complishes is to raise interest rates.

Although widely believed, none of these views

ly. thing that’ ac-

of competition.
mind his enonom
firm might he taken

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competition policy

power to preven

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place tostart,

thing makes a business manager’ .
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over by another. co,
inister of consumer and corporate .

affairs, Judy Erola,

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power Lo preve t or dissolve them If they significantly.
lessen competition wi
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gives the trust-busters In Ott wa

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ay ley 7 comes much closer to a kind of trust.
legislation likely to serve the country’s interests.

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troduced a new bilt regarding
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SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Antonio
Lara recalls the day two years ago
when he had 38 murder victims

- “stacked up like firewood’ in his ;
Funerales:

funeral home,
Guadalupanos. . :

Each day at dawn, Lara, would .
send a pickup truck to garbage .:

dumps and other spots in outlying

an De : a ., 7 ; : working-class neighborhoods of the
asks if -
anonymous note ..

. meagerly furnished funeral home. :

capital to look for victims of political

Violence.

“Two years ago, there was an

average of 60 to 70 bodies a month in -

this funeral parlor alone,” Lara said
in an interview at his: smail,

-.. But those days are just a memory
now. .

During the first three months of
1934, Guadalupanos buried only 15
people — 12of them murder victims.
’ Lara has dismissed the half-dozen
employees he once had and now
works alone except for part-time
help from a teenage hoy.

“We don’t have any drivers now;
we don’t look for bodies,” said Lara,
a‘ portly 43-year-old former coffin-

maker who conducts husiness in a
baseball cap. “We were spending
money on gasoline and not finding
anything.”

The capital’s funeral parlors are a

bizarre baromoter of. organized

murder in this war-weary country.
And by that measure the notorious
death squads are killing fewer
people. . :

HIDING ‘EVIDENCE’

But the independent Human
Rights Commission says the killing
goes on. It contends that its own
Statistics, which also show a
decrease, are misleading because
tightist death squads and govern-
ment security forces are blowing up
many of their victims or burying the
bodies to prevent detection.

Human rights groups blame the
death squads and security forces for
more than 80-per cent of the
estimated 493,000 civilians deaths
during the 4%-year-old war.

The commission counts 875
civilians killed throughout El
Salvador in the first three months of
this year; 1,641 non-combatants

oA grisly business boom:

were reported killed in the last three
months of 1983. ke
The decrease came after a visit in
December by Vice-President
George Bush, whe joined a parade of
U.S. officials in denouncing the
death squads. oo
The Salvadoran government’s
failure to halt murders by rightist
groups has made it difficult for the
Reagan administration . to: win
congressional backing for military
aid to battle leftist guerrillas.
The rightist killings began in late
1979 as leftist political act|vity
mounted. os

Corpses, many of them mutllated,
began appearing daily around the
capital, sometimes by the dozens.
They were found most frequently’
along roads on the outskirts of the
city and in garbage dumps in
working-class neighborhoods.

The number of mortuaries
throughout the city quickly jumped:
from 12 to 25 in response to the new
business opportunity, Lara says,
None have yet closed.

Healthy car sales brighten

ithly
Economic recovery is expected to
keep chugging along through the
first half of this year at about the
same slower pace established by the
end of 1983, Statistics Canada
reported Monday, .
Despite a slight upturn. in
- January, the agency said all signs
continue to point to more maderate
growth than experienced during
most of last year.
Increased automobile
.manufacturing and healthy. car
sales were virtually the only bright
spots in the January’ figures, which
signalled a further weakening in

. consumer spending, as well as

continued unemployment problems.

Statistics Canada said its com- ~

‘posite index of leading economic
indicators rose by 1.21 per cent in

Lebanon

leader Pierre Gemayel, and with .

former president Camille Chamoun
to make sure those two. Christian
leaders would accept the ministries
assigned to them, officials said.

The ‘elder. Gemayel, 79,. and
_ Chamoun, 84, have been reluctant to
serve in the cabinet, although ‘they
pledged their partles, which led the
Christian sidein the civil war, would

foln. . : .
Pierre Gemayel was named
iminister of post, telecom-

;munciations, public health and
social affairs. Chamoun was given
the ministries of finance, housing
and government co-operatives.

normal

British officials believe the
gunman who fired the shots was
among the 30 Libyans — 19
diplomats and 11 others — who left
the building and were expelled
Friday. British officials suspect
arms were “smuggled out in
diplomatic bags that left with the
Libyans. uo
_ Monday's entry of the building at
No. 6& St. James's Square was

watched by a Saudi Arabian.

diplomat. Saudi Arabia has un-’
dertaken to look after Libya’s in-
terests in Britain, .

British radio reporta from Tripoli
said Italian diplomats there
reported the British embassy search
was “orderly,” .

On Monday, Libya stepped up its
anti-British rhetorle and threats of
retaliation. The BBC quoted Tripoli
Radio announcing that Libyan
“revolutionary committeea = in
Britain” pledged in a telegram te
Libyan leader Col. Moammar
Khadafy to ‘create the events
against the enemies of our peaple."

' ports’ in

fot Pattee

economic pictu re”

January, thanks primarily to strong
activity in the automobile industry.
Auto sales accounted for 54 per cent
of the growth in the January index.

But the agency warned that
preliminary figures for February
indicate the car-buying spree did not
continue.

Furniture and appliance sales,
which had already showed signa of
weakening in December, fell by 0.54
per cent, reflecting a “sluggishness
of real incomes,” and although the
residential construction index
decliried at a slower rate than in the
previous five months, housing starts
remained weak,

EMPLOYMENT DOWN |

Employment in goads-producing
industries declined 4 per cent in
the first three months of 1994, while
the average length of time workers
were jobless increased and the
number of people who had given up
looking for work remained high.

The auto component dominated
the manufacturing indicators in
January, but the drop in auto ex-
February and the
weakening of domestic sales raise
doubts about whether itwill continue
to be such a strong source of grawth

. in the coming’ months, StatsCan

said, :
It also noted growth in the index of
leading economle indicators in the
United States stabilized in January,
indicating economic expansion there
may continue at a more moderate
rate during the second quarter,
This reduces the prospects for

growth in Canada, considering -in-
creased demand for its products-in
the rapidly expanding U.S, economy
was a driving force of the recovery
in the first three months of the year.

However the renewed weakness in
the Canadian dollar should sustain
Some growth in the money earned
from exports, The dollar fell nearly
four-10ths of a cent Monday to 77.68
cents U.S., its lowest closing level
since July 1982.

FACES HARD TIMES’ ;
Meanwhile in Toronto, the Retail
Council of Canada was warned that
the industry faces difficult days
ahead as it is caught in a aqueeze
play between declining population
growth and little or no increase in
Consumers’ disposable income.

Mike McClew, a senior partner at
Woods Gordon management con-
sultants, told the council's annual
meeting that retallers will continue
to be buffeted by economic’ dif-
ficulties despite the end of the
recession,

“I'm afraid that I don’t think you
should throw away your lifejackets
just yet,” he aaid, :

He predicted Canada’s population
will only increase by 0.8 per cent
annually, half the rate that
prevailed in the 1970s. In addition,
real total personal disposable in-
come — ealculated after all
deductions such as tax — will in-

crease by two per cent per year in
the next decade, pry .

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