~ HALIFAX (CP) — With
bullets whieting all.
(i

around them, Pree
do adians
avin from Africa's
Cape of Good Hope to the
Arctic thought they
“were gone” when their
truck was ambushed in
rugged northern Kenya,

“We wanted a iittle
adventure but we didn’t
want to get es Ken
Langley sai an in-
terview Wednesday from
Addis Ababa, "It was the
scariest time of my life.

“The sound inside the
truck was like being in-
side a bomb between the
bullets coming in and the
bullets going out. We
were waiting to feel the

Cr een

Langley and Garry
Sowerby - escaped un-
acathed but for frayed
nerves and a bullet-
riddled wuck. They have
temporarily halted their
bid ta‘become the first
people to drive from the
southern Hp of Africa to
thenorthern tip of Norway
-to repair thelr damaged
vehicle in the
Ethioplancapital.

Untill Kenya, the two 33-
year-old Haligonians had
an easy time of it since
leaving Cape Agulhas,
South Africa, on April 4,
on their Guinness-record-
setting 20-day odyssey.

‘Mesh start‘to tear.a,

_ assigned ©

-record

came... when: "Kenya
ned four armed
soldiers to” ‘accom

them ‘in -thelr $100,000
truck-type atition wagon

from “Nairobi: to the -

was SLEEPING
werby, sleeping in
a back : of the.
aborately = equipped
GMC Suburban when the
shooting started about 200
Kilometres from — the
border, awoke to see his
artner ducking,

“T looked up and saw
Kenny was slumped down
In the seat, sort of looking
‘up between the top of the
steering wheel and the’

Recreational vehicle

CALGARY (CP) —
Sliding behind the wheel
of a recreational vehicle
for the first time can be
an intimidating ex-
perience, but Dwayne
Pilson says a little time to
consider RV safety is all
that's needed to make the
journey an enjoyable one.
“There is no such thing
ag a non-preventable RV
accident," Pilzon,
recreational vehicle
safety co-ordinator for
the Calgary Safety
Council, said in an in-

into difficulty, it's
becanse they left their
common sense at home.’

Whether it’s a tent-
trailer, house trailer,
truck-camper combin-
ation or self-propelled
unit such as a motor home
or camperized van,
Pilson advises drivers to
get used to the size and
weight of their unit before

tackling a busy highway.

“Become very familar
with overall length and
height," he said. "A lot of
Yidlewlous things can

happen if this isn’t done.
Like putting a camper on
the family truck and then
knocking the air con-

The first hint of danger’

-Setting. Ody

.-dashboard,'*- 7 paid

- Sowerby;:'a former test

pilot for the Canadian

lity.

“The smell in the truck,
the shells flying around, it
was wild,” Langley said,
“The guy sitting beside
me was in charge of the
squad and he was barking
out orders to his men and
telling me to step on it, He

. pikin’t have to tell me that

use I had alread
done it.” ¥

safety

ditioning unit off the top
by going . through an

piderpass that jis too
w.?? .

llya Gerol’s

E HOT SPOTS

Sterling News Service
Feature *

windows were ;

‘smashed,’ -

the two adventurers had |
relatives about the ®
possibility of ronning into ™.
trouble in northern Kenya
but were assuréd an”
ambush hadn't happened
in montha.

“When it: finally hap-
pened, | Jooked over and:
saw this guy shooting and
Isaid ‘I can’t belleve it,"”

said Langley, a lawyer,

TIRE FLATTENED

About three kilometres
down the road, . they
stopped to change a
bullet-flatteéned tire but

their jack waan’t high i ash

for deep] - e :
enough  ceeply “But they know what -
they are doing and Ihave: -
a lot of confidence in’
them.’

“The two, who’ form’ |
_ International -
Ltd., will ‘skirt any fur-’.

rutted trail. - .

“So we started fran-.
tically digging with our
fingers and a couple of
wrenches,” sald Langley.
“We finally got'a hole dug
deep enough so we could
get the tire on. We

. jumped up and took off as

* | A
2 re a
We sae oon cay st
wo gL

ath

‘ast “as we could:

depot, where. they
bolstered their: escort to
the Ethiopia border,

'“T hope the rest of the.

Langley. “But I hope it
isn’t as exciting as this.”

Back home, Sowerby’s.

family was worried,

- “I don't lke it,” his

mother, Edith, said from
Moncton, N.B.
taking quite a risk ‘and

I'm going to have to have -
along talk withhim when

he gets ‘home,”
His wife, Jane, also
“was not.too happy when

T heard about” the am-

Odyssey

ther —_ passible con-
frontation in Ethiopia by

| business directory

Total Business Services

interrupted. ...
“But it ing at
seemed to take an_eter- -
-. Before leaving ‘Canada, - Ten Kilometres’ later,

MO i f cthey arrived ‘at ap army
‘talked with friends and”. ere.

. southern end of the Red

.,North Yemen and head

“He's ’

terview. “If people run

Slings
and F
Arrows

By Nigel E. Hannaford

‘Priorities
mixed up

The speed with which John Turner backtracked
on his first comments about the bilingualism issue
in Manitoba {s surprising. Yet it confirms the
cynical predictions that were made then, that he
wouid in fact have to do so. ;

He did it smoothly of course. He was quoted then
as Saying that It was a provincial concern. Now he
is saying that what he meant was that implementa-
tion is a provincial concern, but the protection of
minority rights is a national one.

No doubt it will all blow over for him now so that
his seemingly unstoppable ascension to the mantle
of Mr. Trudeau will proceed. . ;

What is surprising though {s from whence came
the pressure to make this redeployment.

Turner is not in Parliament and can therefore
hardly be accused of living in an ivory ower,
unaware of the feelings of the people. He knows that
most of Ontario and all of western Canada rejects
the bilingual concept, Very, very few people ‘sup-
port the idea of providing full government services
in French for a tiny minority that might actually
benefit from them.

Right now, we have reached an extreme case in
the Yukon, where full French services are to be re-
quired because of the presence of 225‘people there
(out of 25,000) whose native tongue is French. If he

Yukon Is to be bilingual, It would make better sense

for the second language to be an Indian one; 9,000 of
those 25,000 are natives, .

Thus much of the country applauded his first com-
ments on the subject. He knows that.

Why then did he fee! the need to recant? What cli-
que or cabal has enough power in this country to not
only drive a wedge between the federal: and
Manitoba Tories, but to ensure that all candidates
for the leadership of the Liberal Party toe a par-
ticular line?

There has been too much of this kind of thing Z0-
ing on recently, We’ve seen how Stephen Stiles, an
Alberta MLA, was obliged to recant when he offered
a particular minority group. He was threatened
with expulsion from the provincial PC party. All he
did was to question that group’s view of history, a
mistake which Is also costing fellow Albertan Jim
Keegstra dearly. ;

There is an Incredible amount: of power ‘belng
brought to bear. We have embraced a sort of na-
onal paranaia. Many kinds of scandal or short-
coming may be tolerated, but you must not be
thought to be anti-Semitic and you must not oppose

bilingualism. Persons making tentative ‘allies

against these taboos are chased back into thelr cor-
her.

Nobody defends them, caroonists and columnists
bash away at them, their colleagues disassociate
themselves from them. Yet all the indications are:
that they speak for many, possibly even a majority
of Canadians, oy .

We have our priorities mixed up, Let us question
this assumption that you must never appear to Oop-.
pose the extension of French language rights. It is
not unimportant that minority rights are protected,
but common sense must enter into it. ;

What really is important is that voters’ wishes are’
represented. We need to generate in this country a

climate of opinion where a politician hastens to the

podium with a retraction if he Is shown to be out of
step with his constituents. When they do that as
quickly as they now do when somebody accuses
them of being too feeble in their support of bil-
Ingualism or any of the other unassailable tenets of
the eighties, we wil! be gelling somewhere asa
democracy.

Meanwhile, If Mr. Turner means to protect
French rights in English Canada, we hope thal le
will defend Anglophone rights as vigorously In
Quehee.

(AS : ‘ meg

key to Lebanon '

Nine Lebanese warlords returned from Lausanne
to their devastated homeland, They had to travel to
Lebanon via the Syrian capita! because Beirut:air-
port was shut down by the Shiite militia.

Nothing symbolizes the disintegration of Lebanon
better than the arrival of these nine men who share
the responsibility for what has happened to the
country they rule. —

They had nothing positive to report to their coun-
trymen. The Lausanne conference appears to have
been as much of a fallure as has been ali thelr
previous negotiations, The supervision of ‘Syrian
Foreign Minister Haled Haddam did not help much.
There are reasons to assume that it had never, in
fact, been Mr. Haddam’s intention to bring the war-
ring factions together. The. thing which Syria
wanted most.was to maintain the status quo which
gave ‘the Syrian ‘proxies domirtation int. Lebanon
while keeping the Christian community at bay,

Syria has proved-herself to be thhe most serious
force to deal with as far as any solution of elther

. Lebanese or Israeli-Arab conflicts are concerned.

‘ Having expelled the U.S. from any participation in
the developments in Lebanon and forced the’
Israelis to swallow the bitter pill of the cancellation
‘of the agreement with Lebanon signed a year ago,
Syrlats preparing a new policy toward Lebanon.

According to Middle East sources, including well-
informed Lebanese newspapers, a plan for a federa-
tion between Damascus and Beirut is being worked
out. According to this plan, the foreign affairs and
defence of such a federation will be In the hands of
the central government in Damascus, The Shiite,
Suni and Christian communities in Lebanon will
have broad autoriomy as far as their own areas are

concerned, — : Te,

The problem of southern Lebanon will then be ad-
fed to a list of those which can be solved only by

Damascus and Jerusalem, whether as a result of -
’ direct negotiations

or through the international
bodles. : .

It ls doubtful, however; that such a plan can

become a reality in the foreseeable future. The |

close tles between Damascus and Nabith Berri,
leader of the Shiites, or Walld Jumbiatt, leader of
the Druse, are not as permanent as they might
seem. Ce |
The Druse, for example, have always been
treated as second-class citizens in Syria. The
Lebanese Druse community had several serious
conflicts with the regime of Hafez Hasad. The
former leader of the community, Kamil Jumblatt
_{the father of Walid), was murdered by the Syrian
Secret poléceintg76.,
The Lebanese Druse have relatively close rela-
tions with their compatriots in Israel who have their
members of Parliament and serve In the Israell ar-
my. Even recently it was reported that Walid
Jumblatt and his associates held a two-day meeting
in Paris with representatives of the Israeli govern-
ment. Jn the long run it might appear that for the
Druse it would be more profitable to maintain good
relations with Jsrael rather than to be dominated by
Damascus. 7
Nabth Berri in his turn has every reason to be .
cautious, having’ only the Syrian card at his
disposal, The majority of Shiltes in Lebanon have.
not forgotten it was the Syrians who helped the PLO
to destroy Lebanon at the end of the '70s and depriv-
ed the leaders of the Shiite community of having
any say in Lebanese affairs. on ,
The three ruling families of the Lebanese Chri-
sian community — Gemayel, Shamoun, Franje —
have agreed to establish, logether with their
Mostem counterparts, a committee for constitu-
tlonal changes. ‘The trouble is no-one, including
themselves, believes the constitution can be chang-
ed peacefully. ‘ ot .
Not the the Christians are unwilling to give the
presidential position to a representative of the
Moslem majority. The problem is that none of the

’ Moslem groups gan agree on who such a represen-

tative should be. Despite the well-publicized fact
that the Christians are now Ina minority of no more
than 42 per cent of the population, they remain the
largest single cohesive group in Lebanon.
Therefore, whalever changes are suggested lo the
Constitutional commitlee, the presidential past .
most probably will remain with the Christians, and
that means with the Phalange. | oo .
There are no bright prospects for the future in
Lebanon. As each of the nine warlords said on their

 Feturn from Lausanne — they have only one definite

goal in mind: to keep the ceasefire for at least a
week. Te

“INTRODUCTORY. OFFER

Syrians hold the. .:

. RRs Johns Rd.
‘ace

‘PHOTO COPIES 10 each
rT TOLSEC
diagonally opposite the library ;
OFFICE MANAGEMENT SERVICES -

SATELLITE VINYL, FABRICS
& CANVAS WORKS
Boat Tops.

Let us repair your old boat top or make you a new
one ar ré-cover your seals. .

635-4348

ROLAND PUETZ

9238 Kalam.

‘

Norway.” _ Their race
against the clock ends at .
Nordcapp, ate en ty
kilometres.
. Skavasvag, reputed to be
the world’s most northern
fishing town.

“aking a train te Djibouti,
a ‘city-state at the

- Sea. From there, they will
be transported by boat to

‘north. - Le
Then they drive
through Saudia Arabla,
Kuwalt, Iraq, Turkey,
Bulgaria, ugostavis.
West German
Denwatk, Sweden and world, finishing in a little
Finland before reaching mere than 74 days.

. .

-No Loto numbers

The Western Canadian Lottery
Foundation will no longer advertise
-winning numbers of the Western
Express, Lotte 6-49, Super Loto and the
_Provincial.in most B.C. newspapers,
‘Including the Dally Herald. ;

We advise ticket holders to telephone
the loca] outlet where jickets are
bought for winning numbers, or to
. phone the Western Lattery Foundation |
in Vancouver at 273-1220 for a recorded
message of winning numbers.

made news in 1980 when
they shaved 28 days off
the record far an east:
west drive around the

FOR HIRE
‘John Deere 510 Backhoe

Water & sewer tines, trenching
and much more

THORNHILL EXCAVATING
688947

KERMODE SHAKE

HANDSPLIT RESAWN. CEDAR SHAKES.
-No.1-24", No.2-34" & No.1-18""_

also bundled cedar kindling
Bagged cedar sawdust
. RR . Robert Jesson
Old Remo Rd,
Terrace

638-1912 |

125-4741
Sheena Mall
Terrace, 8.6.

SchR Shoe

Phoae
635-6703

* REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS
— _ th CONSULTANTS

“STEVE R. CULLIS

GOK aal
TERRACE. BC

635-5211 YaG 4BI

on display

Energy Efficie

3689 Muller Ave.

NEW |
MOBILE HOMES

in Pine Park:

set up, skirted, ready for occupancy

nt & Affordable

635-9418

_- FOR LEASE
Commercial or Warehouse Space

At the corner of Keith, Kenney & Pohle

—three units, 1737 sq. ft. each with store fronts.
—aone unit, 1800 sq..f, with store front,
ane unit, 951 sq. tt., with 14x14 overhead door,

"Call DAVE McKEOWN
685-7459

Business
‘ \

For best. results
the.

Directory

Zenith

Stereos

4708 GRAHAM
TERRACE

RB ELECTRONICS

Warranty Work On
Sanyo, Fisher, Candle, York, Toshiba,

. Lloyds,

Repairs to all makes‘of

&T.V.'s -

638-0775

“D&D CATERING
| 635-9297
Weddings-Banquets-Parties

Book ‘now for that Spring
or Summer event.

DAVID J.

‘DEDILUKE

TERRACE, B.C. VEG
638-1449

BRITISH COLUMBIA LAND SURVEYOR
3305 KENNEY STREET, 7

363

tte ts,
pS

ae ©
ay : Sas

+

Oran

ast | OKA
MART TAN FEOE de
Leam the Art of the Samvrai |

Ai) instruction by carlified black
belt. 1772 Munroe Street,

"WI reduce stress
_ Will Increase sell conlidence
—Proven' affective in self defence

Tueway + Fridays 7:30pm 10:00pm
Clubphone No. 695 9555 oF 634 0453

Call 638-0463

SELF-DEFENCE KARATE

ICBC claims
Handled
‘Promptly

Windshield & Auto Glass”
Specialists

All- WEST)
GL a
ogra

TERRACE KITIMAT
i *6a2-atat

For information on running your-ad in the business

directory call 635-6357

’ Langley and Sowerby _