Singer-composer Ann
Mortifee is performing
again, at peace with her
music after a threeyear
sabbatical.

The 33-year-old Van-
couver native, who began
her music career at age 16
in the coffee houses of her
home lown, was recognized
across North America as a
singer, composer, lyricist
and performer when she
quit in 1976 to travel across
Europe and Asia.

She returned to per-
forming two years ago with
a onewoman show called
Journey to Kairos, based on
ber experiences in Greece
and wartorn Beirut. The
show, televised by TVOn-
tario, will be broadcast by
the CBC on Saturday.

Mortifee said her 1976
decision ‘to abandon her
music career grew out of a
serie of SARTO started
looking al my life and felt
hungry to move on to
something else,” she said in
a interview. ‘‘But 1 didn’t
have anything to move on
to, so I had a lot of inner
conflict and I just quit.”

Now, however, the
qualms are gone.

“I'm at ease with per-
forming sow because I've
realized it’s my work, no
moreor less important than
anyone else's,”

The 1980 Canada Council
Molson prizes, worth $20,000
: each, have been awarded to
historian Marcel Trudel of
Aylmer, Que., composer
. John Weinzweig of Toronto

and novelist and poet
Margaret Atwood, also of
Toronto, it was announced
Monday. — ;

The prizes have been
awarded annually since 1963
from a donation to the
council by the Molson
Foundation to retoghize
outstanding contributions to
the arts, humanities and
social sciences.

For Charlie Chevaller,
Monday was more than just
startup day at Ford of
Canada Ltd.’s engine plant
in Essex, Ont, near Wind-

SOF.

It was also a good excuse
for the 42-year-old
repairman to get a haircut.

The neatly-groamed
Chevalier had the distine-
tion of putting the final
touches on the first V-6 3.6
litre engine as it rolled
through the final section at
the new $533-million plant
early Monday.

Chevalier, a Ford em-
ployee since 1966, is
carrying on .a family
tradition in his new position
at the plant. His father
worked as a head repair-
man for the No. 2
automaker at several of the
company's Windsor plants.

It's appropriate that the
newly-formed Secret Cove
Yacht Club is plotting
Canada's first challenge in
100 years for fhe America’s
Cup at the Jolly Roger Inn
at a remote B.C. inlet.

Having set its course for
sailing's greatest prize, club
commodore Don Macdonald
admits that the three other
founding members —
Marvin McDill, Robert
Mur and William Neild —
live in landlocked Calgary
where the closest thing to
bluewater sailing is
knocking about in a dinghy
on Glenmore reservoir.

But =the
challenge for the trophy,
which has never been
wrested from the Ameti-
care, is not a quixotic
gesture, says Macdonald.

The keel was laid for the
challenge iast fall when
Macdonaidand McDill were
dining aboard the com-
modore's boat in Secret
Cove.

The talk turned to politics,
patriation of Canada's con-
stilution and to sailing. An
America's Cup challenge
was discussed as a vehicle
for national unity.

“The next morning, we
still thought it was a good
idea,”’ says Macdonald.

“It took the Second World
War to really pull my gener-
ation together. We think a
boat financed, designed and
built in Canada, crewed by
. the best Canadian sailors,
a can do the same thing for
; this generation without
having to fire a shot.”

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PEOPLE

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Paget, The Herald, Tuesday, April 14, 1991

‘They've named the
Canadian challenger Let’s
Do It. And they've even got

a name for a Canadian,

defender — Come And Get
It.

US. first lady Nancy
Reagan wouldn't “let

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herself go” and didn’t even
want to include her age in
her autobiography, says the
man who helped her write
the book, Nancy.

“She was a very nice,
decent woman, but she felt
very rigid about her public
image,” author Bill: Libby
says. “It’s not one. of my
best books because Nancy

wouldn't let herself go.

“It was very hard to get
her to include many topics

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in the book,” Libby said.
“But the interesting thing is
that when I showed her my
finished draft, she took out
things that made her look
good, and that's very
unusual.

“We got along just fine.

“and for about six months [
visited the Reagan home

once or twice a week and —

taped interviews with
“Nancy,” he said. “Her
busband was often around,
but he always wanted to get

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Soviet dissident:

his homeland is ''a deep

hole of totalitarianism" —
where people must listen to.
short-wave radios “for news’ ”

of their own country.”
Ginzburg, who hss been in
exile since last year, when
be and two other Soviet
political prisoners were

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wlie heard of bis release.
“the other drinks vodka. The
“Bbe heard of the px- latter is the majority.”

America," the 45-yeargid ; in Ottawa, four little
human rights activisit said.’ words by Agriculture
‘When the heard it, she Minister Eugene Whalen
Tainted." _ served for answers to three

Ginzburg told an audience different questions Monday,
at Bates College im but he won litlle for his
Lewiston, Me., ‘that the efforts besides a few laughs.
Soviet population “‘can be

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“In a few days” was Wha-

‘en's ‘answer to a query

about when the ;overnment
would announce payments
to: wheat farmers for losses

-last year during the Soviet

grain embargo.

His answer — offered
many times in the past —
was' greeted with laughter

which increased when

Whalen admitted the ac-

curacy of his remarks
depends ‘‘on what you
define as a few days.”

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