wisumncrow (AP) — U. Pe Strategic nuclear arsenal in .1996,. ti “Prothising further comment: tay, | BOSTON (AP). . -—. Sipiokers probably don't cut: thelr Jintake of -tar ‘and nicatine . by switching to “Hight cigarettes because : ‘¥there-is no such thing as a “tess hazardous, safer > dlgarette,”. says a’ report _Peleased today, : :. Pegple absorb ” just AS oThueh Hiicotine fromthe 'low-:” tar, lownicotine cigarettes: ‘as from ‘regular.--brands;* ays the, study ins ithe: New: : gland © — leas. cigarette:! pb editorial. : The . -. © take fromthe : ‘smokes is woot probably: the same, as well. The research, ‘conducted : at. San, Francisco, General - - Hospital Medical . Centre, - ~ measured nicotine, levels in smokers’ blood: It* found there WAS no difference . advertising, Police shot a suspect in Sharon Bollivar's i ~of gun fire at-a Burnaby matel, a.jury » heard. Wednesday. Const. ‘David Finnien of Burnaby RCMP ; policemen. opened fire with their service revolvers an Theodore Speicher in a dawn & s ‘Bolivar was tiken from her home. - «Wounded : ‘in tite” tNeek= anil - the" arm; hospital. , f; "body was found, ‘a, bullet in the skull,.on @ : - Burnaby Mountain the next day. . Two other men, Merrill Kivell, 42; and Allan Rodney, 36, are also charged but will stand trial at_a later time... Finnen told a B.C. Supreme Court jury in. New Westminster how’ six. RCMP mem- .. known to police only-ags “Fred,” ” Spelcher's but police had come up with a. of firearms, “Speicher, along with ‘another RCMP of- ficer, in the motel office: oper RCMP. of there was an urgent phone message from. po Kivelt. 2 . Cpl. Liayd) Plante and another constable “the Suspect decided to go to a pay one on : “CALGARY. (CP) — The. day of the -computetized . ‘school, “with: desktop -ter- . minals replacing. Many — teachers, is ; coming, says Charles Hoppe, director of ; - Computer services for the Calgary ghoard:* of Education. - “The technology is there,” Hoppe sald in’: ’ ‘an-interview, noting that Calgary schoo] children aged. six and Up are _ blready “Working with terminals, ‘he -- Calgary Boaid’s computer : operating budget this year is $2.5 million. . Tt has: installed more: than 700 desktop, *. terminals in its schools, making'the board’ » one of the most Computer-commltted in . Canada.” ; -. Yet. Hoppe grimaces ahen he didcusises 1" «he prospect on totally’ compoterized © " Jearning institutions. <- + - - “I wouldn’t send. my child thére,” ‘said the Dutch-born administrator. Hoppe is is equally against trendy summer ‘com: °' puter camps” that have been popping up. "- “Td rather seé. kids take an art ap- .preciation course.”*: ‘ . It'snot that Hoppeis biting t the hand that feeds him. He. simply feels’ “too many people are jumping - 0 the. computer, " béndwagon.” - In the same way. that some teachers thought ‘overhead ‘projectors and films - weré the ultimate educational aids during. _ the audio-visual boom of the .early 19708, o Hoppe sald many today see computers ae : the final answer. -, Sdmne Irrespdnsible tenchers were quick 7 ‘to: ‘capitalize ‘on on the lait boom, he said, ” he MX. ‘missile, . battled by a-decade of debate over how to’ bade ity has’ © arrowly. cleared another hurdle on its t Way: to. dining thie : er a biliz of telephone ‘lobbying by President Reagan; : : House: of, Representatives kept. the . program alive Wednesilay night when it turned back, 220t0 207;an effort'to- trip froma 1994 deferice authorization bill alll $2.56 ‘billion ~ build’ the first’27 of a planned.100 MX ‘Peacekeepers, Seventy-three Democrats: joined 147 Republicans to form: -.the majority, while oily. 18 Republicans were allied with 189° a “Democrats in voting to prevent production, - ‘from. President . Reagan: - White ‘House: motemnen: ‘SHEILA Dixon. sald the . - Lentant: of the» ‘National Heart,” ‘Lg: ‘and Blood ‘Institute: wrote in a journal - Federal Trade +. Camumntaion uses a maching ;, l8Arettes they’ that, Bmokes. cigarettes “to measure ‘the nicotine’ levels in, various brands. The results are listed on cigarette ‘packs. and , in “tobacco company: _ Slecedkldnap-layng during a exchange _ described “: how three - plainclothes said Test - ‘November, - six days” after “Speicher was then. arrented. and taken to : _ Bpelcher, 40;18 charged with first-degree a murder in Bollivar’s slaying Nov, 2% Her. “bers went to the motel.to arrest Speicher --: * early Nov.-28, At that time, Speicher was: - i... Avhotgun andtwo flak vests had already. been’ stashed in: the: motel unit. next to "”plan-which. they hoped would avold the use -Finnen sald ‘he wan’ iythg In wait. “for. were in the unit: next to Speicher's in. cape™* * kilogram weapon: - September lee cigarettes are hagardous to when: “people used ‘Jow-yield cigarettes: — those. ad- -yertised as’ being low in tar. and nicotine. - “In short, it -is obvious.. that, despite ‘the seductive advertisements, there Is no. hazardous, - one ‘lite a minute, ‘but the ‘researchers said people can change their smoking habits ais they want. -gater:: ‘Dr. . Claude. ye sng”, ell Or a ade ‘Btudy. “Mey. think thet if -» they can't give up ‘smoking, then If they smoke low-yield-. something pod “ themsely © ipbaces’ companies would. like- them to believe that; but. that is fallacious.” ‘Tobacco — Institute: spokesman William Toohey tar “and: The machine smokes the --said ‘cigarette ads ‘list'the. 7. . cigarette ata steady pace of _ ‘Government: “Agures: - Bolivar suspect shot Cy NEW ‘WESTMINSTER, ‘BC. (CP) — Finnen - he: heard Plante. shout, ‘ ‘Fred, stop,” police," The’ _ command was followed by several gun: ; _ Shots, Finnen ran outside and saw Speicher |: running across the pavement. -. “I observed him firing in the direction of "Cpl. Plante,’ sald Finnen. “Speicher ran toa grass area and I observed him slip and . . ce tiill spicing his left knee on the ground, , az ‘turn and fire ‘once more.” L° Finnen said he fired’ his revolver at : Speicher, who spun to the ground and fell faee down. _ — Finnen picked up Speicher's revolver and thett went to the suspect's motel ‘unit _ Where he kicked the door in. inside a woman was in bed and in the next room a young boy had slept through ; ‘the 14-round exchange of gunfire, sald Finnen. Earlier, the « jury heard from ‘Tom : Wateon, a friend of Speicher. Watson told oe . the court Speicher called him on the day. - Bollivar - ‘wag kidnapped to: ask if: there“ were police evident near the supermarket. that Bollivar's husband managed. © _ Watson told him-he had seen a marked. », pollee cruiser and-two unmarked vehicles in the parking lot. and lane around the -store. - rie | told him there was (police) and he drop 6n- the. -alternoon Bollivar was 5 ab- ducted. oe . Computers replace teachers’ ~ showing their ‘etudents movies -every.: : Friday afternoon under the pretext of educating them. , “E wouldn't be surprised If somaine who | five-years ago used a movie will be using -com puters now in the same way | .. letting. kids play computer games on Friday af: 0 ternoons.” - But Hoppe is quick to defend computers “ > for the | way they can free instructors from _ the repetitious, time-consuming aspects of : classroom work such ‘as overseeing arith- metic drills, In his: ‘book, Gutenberg. Two, “David, Godfrey explained how computers have | also changed the way he, teaches gram." . in inger ‘teach’ punctuation in any of ‘my. clanees. Students “who haven't - “mastered: that particidar aspect of the “discipline ‘receive. an 90-page manual covering over 180 rules of punctuation and . an Introduction to the computer. “Then at their own’ speed they master ” the rules and demonstrate that mastery to “the computer program which is endlessly » patient, keeps track of exactly which rides - ; have been mastered and which have not, _ never asks them anything they already know and: polligiy refers them back to the manual if: they: mils a test: question too many times.” un : But there is a danger in this; sald IS. __Hrabl, Alberta's assoviate deputy ininister ef éducaf{on,’ ina speech last fall. th the Canadian Bewator A Association. ° presides’ was plese with: “the v vote... : moe ” ‘The vote marked a significant narrowing of the 2 239-t0-186 : .. Approval margin that the, House had given May. 24 in * releasing $625 million to flight-test ' the 10-warhead, By, 090-.. ‘The slippege | occurred. largely among “moderate.” "Deniocrats, led:by' Majority. Leader Jim ‘Wright of Texas, " whe-had voted with Reagan in May but ‘voiced ‘second: - _ thoughts about the president’s commitment bo arms contra) and the need. to restrain military. spending. : " * - Opponents ‘will have another chance ‘to ‘gl production’ oy plans: when the. House considers an. appropriation bil} sto | . provide | the actual oars for. the: - weae probably ‘in to draw in as much nicotine “0. Jevelof tar or: nicoting.. iy “People are developing: tae _ Tals sense of epcurity based: - misleading ‘should “be-: ad: U ; the _ heart | attacks and other” . anid he would stay away unt things cooled we had been sent to Speicher’s unit to tell him caer i Pag on 7 " Barllec in the trial the jury heard that : kidnappers had failed to call back to the. ‘victim’ 's husband with, details of aransom _ - Several o opponents said the eloseneas of of the vote led them “to believe they will succeed then unless there ia dramatic. ‘Progress - at. the. strategic. arms: ‘reduction talks with. the : ‘Hart has delayed calling up his amendments ‘because he: Soviet Union’ in the coming weeks: o epecta the -Republican-led Senate ta. oy to: kill. ther. ’: While the House planned to act on other MX matters When quickly. . - it resumes this mornirig, the Senate headed for 4 vote on gos - Aba hedge Wéinésday, he filed n more ethan 300 ‘additional ~Inotion today to-limit further debate on, {ts own-veraign of | “mostly technical, amendments: that he could employ during: the defence’ bill and force Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo;) to. - the'100 liours of debate. permitted by the clotire rufa. : 7 om. » bring up his package « of anti-Mx. amendments... 0°00). The. history of the MX has ‘been marked by. examinatior * a ~ Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. (R-Teny;) needed... and rejection of nearly three dozen. basing plans. sine the.” the votes of 60 of the: 100 senators’ ‘to ‘Approve a: cloture’ _ Weapon went on the drawing boards in.the early 1970s... - Motion thal. would speed completion of the chamber's work - The latest plan — suggested by a bipartisan presidential a: “on the $200biDilon bill, by Wile ag onthe floor for the’ 10th comsnission in. April and-quickly embraced by Reagan mae “day Be “revives a once-discarded:proposal'to place the MXs in.” 7 ; ay ee “)) underground silos in Wyoming and Nebraska now. home to.” a : _ Minuteman-3 imisailes. . ws Oppanenis’ contend that because. these silos are s believed yo rt iealt to be targeted: ‘by the Soviets, the: Super-accurate, MXs° - . : - would have to be launched minutes after: SenSOrs — perhaps :. “diseases, Although - matiy | The” ‘American Cancer om erroneously —- detected enemy missiles heading for them. : : believe the cigarettes’: tar, Society aleo‘has'found that “ But in the five-hour House debate; “much attention also “nicatine and’: carbon men who smoke low-vield was focused on the effect. a congressional decision, to: Monoxide are the. likely cigarettes are eight or-nine . prevent production of the- missiles would have on the arms: “culprits, the health’ effects times moreé likely than non- ‘talks in Geneva: - of low-yield cigarettes has - smokers to get lung cancer, MX advocates, Jed by Democrats Les Aspin of Wisconsin, ve Jong been controversial. - Those who amoke high-tars Albert. Gore’ of ‘Tennessee ‘and Norman ° Dicks ‘of’ | a Last February, Boston have 10or 11 times the usual. Washington, cited recent conciliatory moves by'the Soviets. . niversity researchers - risk.) Sees weve, Ot the bargaining. table and sald it was vital U.S, found.” that ‘amokers ‘fage:: °° The :-atudy:”. measured negotistars'not:-ba undercut at a crucial oe triple the usual risk of heart’ nicotine “levels “in the. Reagan: made the.same point in a lett Wednesday ton pegardless” of cigarettes. of 272 people who Representative Melvin -Price (D-Ill), chairman ‘of. the’ - they "use: clow- smoked 15 different brands, | House armed services committee, and in several telephone... nicotine brands. : . Most.of-ihem filtered, . calls to. wivering congressmen. ; 7 Pike “Saying that, thi: ‘decision to proceed 1 with ‘the MX is Fa ‘fateful one for the country and deservea lengthy discussion’ becauss:: ‘they are requivéd’ rto;. but” “the’ industry has ‘never claimed” dn ads or anywhere: else that anny. gafe-or unsafe.” . .. “Whoever thinks that ‘thie * numbers ° are wrong . or.. hid Conceim government, mo Most scientists agree s that. cigarettes. cause”. cancer, . a gt hn FF ae -. nen Se as le Oa te ee a, t Da Dnen aC ns Po re hn oe