ape erie,

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to.

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| wastancon (AP)
Slate. Secretary |
* Shultz is: out. as se

med U: S. effort to topple the |

leftist, fandinisa ‘ govern-

ment A : Nicaragua,”
a ys -covert
Support i there :

region’s:problems..’ % ;
[nan appeararice Sunday

_ Meet: : the. Press,
called the recent vote by the
House of - Representatives

Nicaragua’ “a ‘very im-
portant thing . .
course’ we take it very
seriously,” _-

- But he said the Ragan

» administration hasn't ‘‘by
any. means accepted the

_, House verdict as the. final
| verdict” and is “working
hard’ to ‘make sure the
Senate doesn’t:go.along.-

He made elear the ad-»
- ministration. will continue
“-+ its efforts,

and
stop

covert
otherwise, to

: Nicaraguan support for.

rebel movemenia in El

Salvador: and elsewhere in -

Central America. .
"As long as there is a
government trying — to

overthrow . other’ govern- ,

ments in the region, it
presents a real problern ....

"Shultz said,
But as for suggestions the
administration will  in-

tervene id topple the San-
_dinista government, Shultz
sald: “I don’t see any. ar-
med U.S. effort to: over-
throw the government of
Nicaragua,
none.” La

‘Shultz. said the . ad-

ministration is “not trying

. about” an in-
against the

to bring . .
surrection,
Sandinista |
. either, although he said the
Nicaraguan people could do
that‘on their own: -
. He
rebels, known as contras, .

' could be offered asylum in
. the.

United States if

Page 10, The Herald, ‘Monday, August 8, tea

~—6US. ‘8H

Libyan “backed, rebel ‘wha.

negotiated solution” for the”

responsibilities - properly”!
‘on ‘the: NBC-TV.. ‘program,’
- Shultz,”

: warning electronic
: against covert’ aid: to’ anti-.”
government’ “guerrillas in

. and of -

absolutely -

‘ government —

said US.-backed

1 can mer as

agreement is reached that |

© stops ¢ the turmoil in Central ig

Ame riea.

Shull declined torctiticize
in a decision by the. French -
government notto interverie | \
directly - in Chad. to ‘stop!

they :will. exercise = their
Ina demonstration of U.S.

‘two | advance
sur-
veillance - aircraft — to
monitor, under-U.S. fighter
cover,
backed air. and - * ground’
attacks in Chad.
“President ° Reagan
personally approved — the
decision to - deploy. the
warplanes * Saturday —
morning,” State Depart-.
ment
Stockman said over the
weekend. .-

Shultz . seemed to place
increased emphasis on the
need ‘for .4.

‘sent -

including negotiations that
could help end the guerrilia

pports. fae

“guerrilla! ‘activity makes it 4
’ economic .

Nive. have’, fo. decide: what’ they’ a

“are going to. ‘do. ‘Tinvaure ig

“concern, the adminiatration »..
“has

1
4
i

a“

war in, EF} Salvador, _
- Referring’. to” -guerrilll

. movements and US. efforts

. to stop th thern, ‘Shultz said:
“The * existence ‘of: * this:

“difficult ~ toe!

development,” °:-:

:Nicaragian | governinerits

future. Libyan-—

“foreign —
spokesman Anita .

negotiated ©
solution in Central America,

are j to: ‘see “the.
point”’ of U.S. involvement.

in the region — as reflécted -
‘In recent statements by

Cuban . President . Fidel

_ Castro and~ Nicaraguan‘

leaders. supporting

, negotiations to halt the flow

of arms and. withdraw.
advisers, - Shultz
‘said.: ; :

. On the Middle East, -

Shultz said, the ad-
ministration Is Feceptive to
the idea of allowing existing
Israeli settlements on,
Jordan's West Bank’ ‘to
remain, but he said- new
Jewish settlements there
“are not constructive.”

Reactors down

PICKERING, Ont. (cP)
— Only two of five reactors
‘are in operation at Ontario
Hydro’s nuclear generating
station in this town just east
of Toronto, leaving officials
scrambling to get the three
shut-down reactors back in
action while depending on
reserve power sources. -
‘In the last of three
unrelated incidents at the.
plant in the past. week, the
station’s newest generating
unit, in full operation since
April, suddenly shut. itself,
down- Sunday afternoon

! during routine’ safety tests,

Company ‘ spokesman
Richard Furness said it was
an “unexplainable . elec-
trical. fault” in which the
computer governing Unit 5

” gota signal to shut down the

a

-It’'s not earthshaking. °

(SYNCHRONIZED
“TRAFFIC LIGHTS

By WALTER BLOCK

It has nothing to do with
- unemployment, inflation, war, or crime — the "big"

worries besetting madern clvillzation, .
But it is annoying, and whan multiplied countless

reactor and ‘acted’ ac-
cordingly. .

- “This kind of shutdown
has happened ~ before,’
‘Furness said. ''We have to

-leave the reactor off for.36

hours to try and figure out

Both: the : Cuban ° "and

why the electrical. circuit .

broke and the system shut °

off,

“But. it’s not a’. serious :

problem. "

The fault led to the rue):

turing of-a. pressure relief
disc and ‘a puff of steam —
not radioactive’ being
released over Pickering on

Sunday. However, the unit _-

is expected to be back in
service Tuesday, Furriess

. Said.

He said Hydro is “forced .

against a wall” because of

the shutdown-of the three ©
reactors ~~ which generate -.

enough power to light’ up

- half of Toronto during peak
energy needs — and “the

times throughout our sociely, it can add up to quite a
waste.

Every morning, | travel to work from my home’ in
heading wastward onto the Lions Gate Bridge. |, along

each intersection we pass. We arrive at Lonsdale Street

: )Just-as-the light turns red, for tha longest walt possible

~ (an agonizing minuté and-threa- -quarters), and then have
the entire process repeated at Westview 0 Orive—

~ of red lights. The trouble on this stretch of the road is

which is ensnared in this nat.
_particular case. And perhaps traffic may eventually ba

' citizens become outraged at-the ineptitude, and ragister
their displeasure forcefully enough.
But that is not.the point.” Aather, the issue ia to
contort’ the Institutional arrangaments: which make
such a flasco possible in the first place, and allow it to
continua for years.

can be immediately translated inta Incentives to change
matters. For the highways are run through the public

pay whether or not we are satisfied with services ran:

_ teason to, tailor thelractions to sult our needs.:
In contrast, those in charge of tha private sector,
the businessmen, must scurry around with thelr talls
between thair legs in an ongoing and. undying effort to

dissatiatied, we can take our business elsewhera — and
tha firm in question will bear the consequences, °
. The trouble with our sociaty is that 30 many, many
goods.and sdrvices ara now In the public sector. The
bureaucrats, are ‘thus shielded from the effects of
“ consumer soverelgnty. The suppiiers.of alr, rail and river
transportation, of mall sarvice, of automabite tual, of
Insurance, of schools and universities, or recreational
spas (Whistler), of natural resources, etc., etc., are now
in a,position to effectively ignore the wishes of the
_ paying customers. .And that Is because, while we the

(taxes) Which Is almost comptately divorced from the
quallty of the services render We must pay for the
post office, for example, whether ¥¢ Ike It or not.

Yes, the road to privatizationts.a complicated one.

. But If we are to bring any samblance)of rallonallty to our
economy, if we are to place the wishes of consumers at
central stage, if we are to rein Ip our civil servants, we
must move down “this path. Crown Corporations and

varieties must be. made accountable once again, by
subjecting: them to. the, profit and loss system of .the
private marketplace. sy

Foran authoritatlve accaunt of how this was Sone

geferred to a magnificent, Fraser’ Institute book,

Private and Pu bite En tetprisoa: The BCcRIC Case,

North Vancouver. along the Upper Levals Highway -

with perhaps 50 other motorists, stop for red lights. at -

Please don't get me wrong; I'm nat against traffic. |
lights. And L.realize that into every life must fall a share ~

And to add insult to Injury, It Is the rush hour ‘traffic:

Now It would be easy to set things aright in this ona...

speeded up on the-Upper Lavels Highway, If enough ..

| rafer, of course, to the fact. that “thare is no--
automatic way, In this case, that consumer displeasure -

seotor. They are financed through taxes which we must’

dered, Therefore, our bureaucratic masters have little |

Please us. The customer Is always right! -For if we are.

citizens most certainly foot the bill, we do so In.amanner ,

government departments of many sizes, shapes and.

_ once, and how It can be‘done again, ite ’reader is

Privatization: Theory ard Practice, Diatributing Shares in-

~ Test —

, and = development, .

driest July o record,”

_ which parched rivers also

,used as power sources.
While operators work

around the clock in an at-—

tempt toretrieve the needed

reactors, Hydro has had to
turn on coal-burning units at :

Nanticoke, south ‘of
Hamilton, Lakeview at Port
Credit and Lambton, south
of Sarnla, to reach the
required level of electricity
Tost’ because of the shut-
downs.

Furness sald ‘the coal-
burning units normally used
only for reserve are

“working “full out.”

The first and most serious
af the- incidents occurred
Monday - when (a
pressure tube: ruptured in
the Unit 2 reactor.

Bill Morrison, Ontario
Hydro's director of design
said
Friday during a reporters’
tour of the plant, that.if the

_ tube failure is a design

. Weakness.

“we have a

~ problem," . .
“We can't afford to have.

dn ‘time and turned into a”

plants that
problems of this nature

It costs about $200,000 a
- day in lost power for each

reactor thatishuts down, but
it is not known what the

_ final bill for ‘the. three
‘ reactors’ failures will be. ..
The Unit 2 problem is

similar to one that occurred
at the Three Mile Island

. Teactor ' near Harrisburg,

Pa., in 1979.
' However, unlike the U.S.
leak, which was not caught

nuclear nightmare and the
worst. commercial
nuclear power *s history, the

- Pickering operators have

-~been comniended for their
quick -reaction to the
problem,
While = érews
Sunday — night
electrical -

worked

faults that

developed in ‘a refuelling

. machine during the incident

te

— the first significant Loss |

“of Coolant accident in a

_ Candu reactor — 225 litres

of heavy water tach minute
were still Pouring from the
reactor. . :

would have -

to ‘repair

planta: must. wait: up’ ny five. oF: AX, ‘years: for’ ‘sutgery”

“Del Jolinston, ‘co-ordinator of the Lions Eye Bank -of

Mant said the bank someting bains s eye tssue from.

Skeena Broadcaster’ $s vice-president ‘of operations, Bryan Edwards
-checks out some of the new computer equipment for the soon to alr stereo
‘country music station CJFW. See pagea one for- story.

ls

It

Apout

PEOPLE

Elaine. and Bryan’ Brown “he’s not:
have -sailed back - into- billbdards, was one of the
featured guests when the
,8e0, jokingly. saying they Wisconsin -
_ only returned “ because opened its doors for the
“we're feeling guilty about
_ hot paying taxes.”
The Browns, aboard their number .
17-year-old, nine-meire-{ g anim
ed = parap
29,000 presented with a framed
_kilometres, travelling down copy. of the . state fair

the east coast of the United Promotion .

Toronto after five years at .

éallboat™ “Teiliunn, "6a
more- than .

States, aroud the Carib-
bean and - along Central
America.

And what did they eat.
while. on board? Fish, -of
_course.

“We ate. shark, -
barracuda, conehs, sting-
ray and especially lobster,”
Elaine sald. “We would

 aften catch 50 much fish

that we'd trade.it for other
food. Wé made a lot: of
friends that way."

Some of those friends
were . lighthouse. keepers,
she said. “We had to kick.
one lighthouse keeper off

our boat,-he was so lonely,”

' Sally Ride, the. first
American woman in space, |
says. her foray into the
cosmos was. easiér than’.
doing the: ‘Ghner-apeech
circuit, =:

.- Ride,. .. who recently
completed a trip in a space

shuttle, has been averaging ~ :

one speech a -day as she_

‘She is one ‘of the most’
sought-after astronauts on_
the circuit, and at a recent:

‘talk before the American —
frequently or regularly.”

Bar Association, Ride was’
asked if she- was scared —

‘while in space, §; .:'

. “1 was a lot more scared
getting up and giving ‘this
apeech, * she replied, : |

. Actress Shelley "Winters
may lose her New York City

apartment, if her Janda

_ gets his way.

The modern high-rise, in

the heart of the city, was: ee
converted to co-operative |

ownership in 1980, But ©

Winters still rents her |

League

apartment
McAfee. ;
-In a‘ complaint filed in

from Ralph

. travels across’ the United 7
~ States and Europe.

|

Manhattan Supreme Court,

McAfee contends Winters’
primary residence is in Los
Angeles, If lie wins the case,
McAfee ‘will not have to .
offer Winters a new lease ©
when’ the present Tease :
expires in twa years.
Harvey Kuen, manager
of the defending “Americar
_ - Chamipton. .
Milwatikee Brewers when

132nd time. - .
Kuenn appeared with.a

. slogan: “We're the Farm
Team, ”

appearing on

s

But Kuenn, whose ex.

State =- Fair

of barnyard
wearing. baseball
iernalla” dand = was

plug, of chewing tobacco: in.
‘the pouch. a

“Dm sure all of you know

on the field,”-he said,

sporting the

business

years, said she has established contacts with area in the
an ‘have: : ey

_ MUST BE SUITABLE,

- transplants done in Manitoba go far this year; anid the ‘eyes

pectorations have been the
subject of many television *
close-ups, left his familiar .

bees he has: ee a sted the eye

Tnaomnopartaof the US. !
‘a dead ‘person. after four hours:
_loested, said’, Dr, Marilyn?” E

: _ophthamologist. and medical ‘director: of 't

- “It's certainly: something -we'
_ Ekins, but it would involve changes

-right-to decide. what to de with the ‘ody: me

Ekins, who -has- performed’ more. than ball: ‘of the. 40

- must be removed frorn a body within sib hours — 12 hours if.
the body hag- been ‘Fefrigerated = and exathined for
suitability.-

Transplant surgery must ‘he performed quickly, usually |
within 4 day. As well, recipients and donors must, be
matched by age to within 10-years.—

Only one out of three eyes donated Is suitable for corneal
transplants, which use the cryalal-like part in the centre of
the cye. Those in which the cornea cannot be used are often.
utilized for eye reconstruction ¢ or in nasal, ear and gum
surgery. -

“The small child isoften more difficult to get a a opriate
tissue for, because deaths of” appropriate donors are few,
and unpredictable,” Ekins said, .°- -

It is cructal to have transplants done on younger children

as quickly as possible to ensure the highest chances of @.

success, she said,

At present; more than 120 Manitabans are waiting foreye |

transplants and the list:continues to grow a8‘advances in
medical: technology enable more. people to quality for the
surgery,
. ‘The transplant success rate now averages 85- per “cont.
The problem is that eye tissue is. difficult to get, a
- situation Johnston ‘partially attributes to lack-of awareness

by doctors and the public “about: eye donations and the’ a

problems Inherent in co-ordinating recipients'and donor's. ©
At the time of death, there i ‘often Ad one aréund to ask

- next of kin whether. the. deceased person's eyes can be |

removed. . a

“At the time of an accident, when people c come in; ‘the last
thing you think to ask is ‘is ‘this person an organ donor?
You're. more interested in if they’ re breathing and living,”
‘she said.

’ As well; ‘many people are uncomfortable about donating

their eyes.
‘'There’s more emotion attached to eyes than to ‘kid-
neys,"” Johnston said. -
“Tears: ‘come from the eyes. The eyes also laugh. "

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