ne Evén in'slippery Ice and snow people still take the over the | . hill, Short cut between the Sande Street overpass and the back oft the ne Skeena Malt: The path Is taken so often it lang ago wore-a rut in the hittside. Wouldn't it be nice to have some steps there? . eet a fares.: 0 f+ - Ina series. of private meetings Wednesday, , “American: authorities -also agreed to foster cloger. cross-border co-operation in- - transport mh ‘pattern, 6 said dn Axworthy aide. : a . The: meetings continue today, * As ‘Wednesday's sessions: -airtines' :announced steps toward increasing fares: ‘after five years of price cutting under | 80 galled. deregulation. "“Axworthy press aide Pat Preston sald American officjals: acknowledged problems in deregulation, These : include withdrawal of- service. from, smaller’ communities and the . collapse of companies sider a competitive cae free -for-all.. But; “they cubase that, the U.S. public Fe ise genlevally ines erview Wedn ie ’ ersential -. “isolated: communities:*. : Preston said there was some surprise that Axworthy was “ considering ‘deregulation because’ U.S; authorities had been shearing - previously - ‘about. Canadian Ottawa | Officials. « see ial eacribed. “U.S. subsidy systems designed to - “transport services ‘to. " Axworthy is preparing were. held, US. Helms, resistance from regulatory reform proposals for the’ federal cabinet in Ottawa. MEETS OFFICIALS. “ .. He diseyssed recent Us: ‘experience Wed- ~nesday: with: Matt Scocozza,. assistant U.S. transport secretary for policy and international. affairs; chairman Reese Taylor of the Inter-: ‘state Commerce Comtnission, which oversees | trucking;. Clinton: McKinnon, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board; and’ Graham Claytor, oy president. of Amtrak, the U.S. pasgenger : pailway equivalent, of Via Rail in Canada. . - _ Axworthy ‘scheduled meetings today with - Transport Secretary Elizabeth Dole and Lynn ; Aviation _Administration, before taking an Amtrak train to New York City for meetings with airline and transport financial authorities. oe head of the Federal. . fa U s. offictals agreed to set up an 1 inter-agency “group to advisea counterpart Canadian federal task, force established by Axworthy to devise | ation proposale. The: minister also has" ed the’ Cahadiari-Transport Commission to. suggest regulatory changes on air fares. ° _ _ Preston said the Americans welcomed offers « a by Axworthy for. closer co-operation in. CROSS-... border transport: 80 as to avoid such conflicts as . he “the ugly scene over seat sales"’ —a regulatory... clash early last year over cut rate air fares. that menaced winter-vacation plans hy th thousands of. Canadians. ‘provincial with ‘conflictin said. - 1 Transport t regulation reduction sees “y man U.S, tranisporiation : ‘of Canada’s air:and Jand transport systems in “” moves that could genérate more competition in - ‘That waa settled by some concessions on both ~ sides, but attempts to negotlate a new long- ; _ term air transport pact have been’ balked by disagreement for a°year, with some -Propased new transborder services stalled. - \ - The two governments also collided last year -about cross-border trucking, with Americans complaining that’ Canadian truckers were ' taking advantage ofveasier rules in the United States while their truckers were denied ‘access .* to routes in Canada. - That was resolved by Canadian | concessions toa US. trucking firm, but Canadian federal . _ authorities are. stymied by the legal fact that . “governments . regulate service limited to'an-individtal province: While Axworthy«conferred with American officials Wednesday, U.S. airlines grappled. ‘trends toward rising long-haul air’ fares in’ the’ long-term future and a short- - _ term cut in winter fares to Florida. -. United. Airlines :announced. in Chicago ‘it — would: iptartaraising long-distance: fares linking 1 000 US Stetitres beginning Feb. 1. The move ‘by the country’s biggest airline was expected to seta costlier trend for passengers, authorities TAL, the same time, competitors pondered a- . New. York announcement ‘by Northeastern: - International ‘Airways Inc. for one-way fares between $75 and $29 U.S, next month between the US. Northeast and Florida. , Maritime. fisheries needs free-enterprise . HALIFAX, MCP) _ Everybody aupeare to want, ‘the Nova Scotia fishery to remain: ae free enterprise, including. government, the — private -;;sector’. and a Lunenburg: trawler: captain who says the idea of a governin¢nt-run —_— fishery chills him to the bone. Brith: Columbia , Ministryrof Trahgportation and Highways: MIGHWAYS-TENDERS Eleciroal’ DistricfSkeena . Highway District Terrace Project: pr ‘Job’ Number | Supply “and Cleaning of © Coveralls Socks _ Tender, documents with élope.. Spee élfleations ‘ and conditions of tender ‘are ‘end-or . Shop avallable . free’ of charge ™ ONLY from . Ministry - of Transportation and “Highways, No,300-4546 Park Avenue, Terrace, B.C. V8G 1a,’ “Phone: 635- 6254 ‘betwen the hours of. 8:74 ath. and 4:30 p.m., Monday — to Friday, except Holidaya. “Tenders will be opendd at. Ministry af Transportation. and Highways No.300-4 Park Avenue, Terrace, icy ~ _ ¥eG.1VV4, ‘The .Tander. sum: : for thi roject |s ta” Include ral Sales Tax. . reenter opening ‘date: Jenvary'sth, 1984. 2:00 P, M. (File 0-23) > WEL Steniey ; ‘District Highways. coe Manager Deputy Minister (ace5-6fan) ~ But.the’bnly known free- . -plans,; ee , POLAR Rhodes,” - enterprise proposal for the ‘largest fish company on the East.” Coast: appeared : deatined . for failure Wed- ‘negday; rejected by bankers - . and dismissed as unrealistic - ~ by industry experts. Fisheries Minister John Leefe of Npva Scotla con- tinued to hold out hope for a’, ‘private rescue. of National. Sea. Products Ltd. and called the Bank -of- Nova - Scotia's rejection, | as equivocal as . it, sounded - ‘Tuesday, a ‘negotiating. . position. *' No one is hoping harder . “for a private-sector solutlon : ‘than’ Skipper Michael Pitt- man’ of the trawler Cape Brier. A: government takeover - would kill the only trade left ". where a, man’s initiative , “and. gumption.. accounts for ‘something, ” he said, Pittnian wrote. an’. open ’ letter -'to Deputy Prime - Minister Allan’ MacEachen asking him ‘to think of the captain of. the Bluenose in, his -consideration of the fishery's fate. : {You're a Nova Scotian and -you know what we mean; Pittman wrote. ooo EM And you' know as well as “| do that od Angus Walters - would roll over in his grave ithe ever thought thet:some day a bunch.of green Jan- diubbers | da” ~ Ottawa _ Awivelchaits © would be running “cours: “Atlantic. fishery." ‘PROSPECTS. SCARE, HIM. “In Invoking the name of - the” “Bluendse . captain, - Pittman sald.a way-of life © hangs’ in the balance ‘and prospects ‘of fishing for the government scare him -moré than any. Baie « “has - ‘done, - The’ “echooiier. Bluenose whe . supreme ‘in in- ternational racing in the “19208 and 19308, but through - National these years earned its keep on the fishing grounds of the “northwest Atlante, .. - The Bluenose died on a reef as a: freighter. And analysts say the same fate could befall the debt: ridden . fish processing industry if the government doesn’t step in or a better Private offer isn’t made, “1 would like to see ‘free enterprise: ‘take it over," "said Frank Covert, chalr- man, of a restructuring committee set up. by Sea... The provincial and federal governments. “would like to - see. free enterprise | but: free, . enterprise has not come up ; with a viable offer.” |. * Covert said the proposal; by a ‘group; of minority. . shareholders” iof-- National : - Sea, would. “not “ generate’ - enough new capital to work. " Formal consideration- will Monday by be. given - ‘National Sea directors, ~ . The ‘shareholders. ‘proposed last month that - the Bank: of Nova Scotia convert its $75 milllon.-in loans -to National Sea into prefered shares to be redeemed In stages between 1987 and 1989. ° In & statement released i | Tuesday. by . MacEachen, ~ ‘the bank | responiled:: by” threatentrig ‘to eal] its loans and sald it would. not accept - the proposal or anything lke it, The bank is ay party ina ; ‘Omillion, _federal-prov- Incial plan for Natlonal Sea’. which Ottawa agreed to put. _on hold in December to give the shareholders’ proposal a chance -to. eatch ‘on. The Nova Scotla government wanted all avenues’ for | private investment ex-. « plored first. ~~ op Ottawa reached agreement with — the ' investigations : are Newfoundland government inJate November to form a . giant processing _ company in that prevince ‘from the assets af several bankrupt "near bankrupt: précessors, The’ two Tevels of government and the Bank - .of Nova Scotia are partners in that deal. . - threatening. to contaminate alts beer . was. sentenced :physielan accused of trying to’extort $20 ‘million from Heineken » Breweries by today to five: years in prison - by-a Duteh Court. : ‘ Herman.. "Doerga, a Surinamese-born physician ‘living in the Netherlands, told the court he devised the. extortion’ plot to raise money for the regime: of the Surinamese ; “ military leader, ; “Ut. Cal. - Desi ” Lawyers. TORONTO (CP) — cases in which women have been imprisoned for refusing to testify against men accused of rape and -assault have raised the hopes of some Ontario ‘criniinal - lawyers - that. * judges will be curbed: in thelr power. to punish -wit- nesses ‘who won't talk.. -- ’ An “Orillia, Ont., judge sentenced a pregnant «woman to three months in jail. Tuesday because . she would .not give evidence - against her boyfriend, who was. . charged with assaulting her. . And five ‘weeks ago in Otlawa, a woman received a ‘seven-day * term for refusing to. testify against two'-men she accused of _Yaping her. She said she was afraid they would ‘take revenge. The cases, while unusual, ; have. stirred. controversy among the. public and debate in legal circles about . _ Canada's contempt of court. - “laws. “Contempt of: court. is a holdover from. age-old ’ English common law. that wets a judge define a * criminal offence and, in ‘most cases, impose any “sentence he wants. - . * “Attorney General - Roy McMurtry called the Orillia sentence against 22-year-old * Karen Mitchell severe. ; Earl. Levy, -president- of _themselves' to “Boutterse, oe . ‘He’ was found guilty: of, - adulterating at. least: two cans of Heineken beer and making threatening phone - calls to the brewery. : The- Surinamese govern- ment faced serious financial problems when ~ the Netherlands suspended foreiga aid ta its former colony after as many 45 bb opponents: of the regime were shot and killed in. Dec. 1982. -Doerga, 41, ‘paid he was hopeful major problem in United States, Ovigusly i is now-becoming a problem ‘here. because more, and more judges are talking of -sontempt.” Mitchell’s jailing could lead. to the “absurd” ~ possibility that she cauld be released, recalledhto court, : refuse to testify once more * and again be jailed, said her lawyer, Tim Lutes, . “That, is a possibility, as absurd as it may sound,” he said. Lutes said he ‘will appeal “only the sentence, not the conviction. Lutes acknowledged that witnesses should not be allowed to take it upon ‘whether they will testify. ' While the two cases have prompted | the recent con- ‘{roversy, provincial »court Judge Lorenzo Di -Cecco : . said he, has encountered only: two other cases in the’ last four years. - who: was reluctant to tell how her husband beat her, but was eventually - per- suaded -to testify by the judge. The other was a case ‘involving a, doctor who refused to discuss a patient. distinct ‘One inmolved a woman’ "Garo by Ye ‘a: porters. in the: ‘Netherlands ne to inject cans of beer witha -. 2. small amount of digitoxin, a cer “drug routinely adininistered . to redueé heart rates. Ttis potentially lethal in ex. cessive. doses. The: court. . -said-it had: found no. proof.” ~~ that Boutserse supporters had been involved in the plot. SENDS A DEMAND ‘During. the. trial, it on alleged that Doerga on Aug. - ‘4 sent-an extortion demand to-Heinekin, along with: a can of adulterated beer. There also. was evidence presented during the trial to - show that a week Jater a can of: adulterated beer was placed on the shelf of .a Rotterdam supermarket. The brewery, the largest in the Netherlands, was notified ‘of the tainted beer and the can was removed. " Doerga was arrested Aug. 31 after.-police traced his , telephone calls .to. the ‘ brewery from a phone booth — in The Hague. At the time of his arrest, Doerga was again calling the brewery to. . discuss a drop-off point for - . testimony. . the money, . showed, , ‘Two complices, of Doerga’s ace: Dielo Lach- manaingh, 34, and Edjo © Lachmansingh, 30;. were . Sentenced -to three-year jail decide terms. They had bought the cana of beer, and also made - several phone calls to the. brewery. It was not ‘the first: ‘time’ the Heineken | Brewery Was threatened with - the poisoning of its beer. Four years ago, three Dutch airline pilots ‘threatened to contaminate Heineken beer’ unless they ‘were paid $500,000. They were ap- prehended and imprisoned, ‘and no beer was poisoned, officials said. lor 2 bedrooms | piminal.—— Lawyers dc “lage stove’ EAlsociatlon, said. the. sen- . tence was very harsh and welcomed — _—- Mitchell’s decision to appeal. ~4Ehope the Court of Appeal will lay down some ‘guidelines for the judges in view of these tWo cages,” said Levy. JAILS VICTIM In the Ottawa case, he said: ception, right or wrong, is . that the alleged victim went to. jali, while the alleged perpetrators went free. — ‘ “Tt seems that the judges . care trying to send a "message that you can’t stop ~ Men charged — ROME (AP) — Police five men, including four Sardinian shepherds, with company heiress and her teenage spn whose ear. was cut off to terrify relatives into paying a ransom. ' The fifth man was from “the » southern. region of Puglia, authorities: aid. A. ‘said ¢ police © ‘spokesman | con- tinuing and two more people- “may: be involved in . the - abduction, ‘The five men arrested "Wednesday were accused in. _the ‘Nov. -19. “abduction of Anna Bulgari ‘Calissoni, 56, of the . Bulgari jewelry family, and. her. 16-year-old son. Giorglo. The two were — released | Christmas Eve after a tancom was paid. Offices. | * this position. ‘have. arrested and charged -* ‘the. kidnap of a jewelry . a LIFE INSURANCE . 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Vebs awa, The suspects were alse” legal’. possession of arms, causing serious bodily harm and: charged with theft: Police declined to release - the names of those arrested, ‘but said they were picked up’ Wednesday morning in an ’ area south of Rome. . ‘Italian officials say. they , believe Sardinian shepherds - form the most active kid- Tapping rings in Italy, where at least 39 persons were abducted last year. . ‘Family and “police have declined to say how much ransom was ‘paid for the release of. Mrs. Calissoni and: her son, who were abducted from the family’s - villa in Campo di Carne south of Rome by three gunmen posing as police. ‘the wheels of justice by “refusing to teatify,”’ said Levy. “With great respect, I fee] that is not the message ‘received by the com- munity.” Veteran criminal lawyer. 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