have been chara with igebeying a ‘awfal”
command, :
The three’. ‘members. of the Eighth

m Canadian: Hussars. said: they were afraid.

‘they would: be ‘injured! ‘Satubdey on ‘the | last-.,
day of eentetrd jumping exercise at CFR |

A veteran non-commissioned ottieer with’
150 jumps to: his credit ‘Tuesday. paid the:
‘maximum witid, velocity allowable for. safe”
jumping {s‘about'nine knots. |

Capt: Gary “Whiting, Canadian Airborne.’
‘Regiment: information ; officer, . said“ the
three meni charged could be penalized with. .

Joas of ‘their airborne: status ‘and. an ace. “

a companying $12)a-month: ‘pay Toss.

_ He ‘acknowledged thatas many as 36 men

“were injured Friday — one with a broken a
pelyis ‘and: another witha broken leg ~
“during the exercise, involving 500 officers‘
‘and imen. over ' Round ‘Lake, , about 140°"
‘kilometres west of Ottawa:

‘The two most seriously injured were hurt..

ames separate! mid-air coltisions with other.

to Jump onto a frozen Inke after they heard :-
dozens of men ‘had’ ‘been injured, earlier =

ae

nid soknots, {34 to 57 kilometres

_ fired in three of five routine tralning jurnps
from ‘between 275 ‘and ‘965 metres :
_ “The fact the lads landed on
_tell you sométhing,” Whiting said.
landing ) ; j

ct could be bad luck or an act ot God, or .

bath.” noe

> Col. Ian Douglas, . cooamndider ‘of. the ;
“airborne regiment ‘and ‘a ‘e7-year. veteran

, Who jumped Friday, said the injuries. were
. the results of freak accidents.

~ Butan internal inyestigation i is being held ,

“ini the .“exercise’ “and: Douglas. has
* scheduled ‘a hews “conference at‘ the-base

Thursday to counter charges: by several :

soldiers. that more than 6 injuries ‘were

" suifferéd and that the regiment.is irying to

Aide the dangers involved in the exercise,
‘The soldiers, including several non-

_ commissioned" officera, say. the exercise
‘: should have been cancelled because Of the. -

“wind and ice conditions.

» _.Members'of the regiment were warned

‘they faced disciplinary action for talking lo
“reporters about the exercise.

Rising. creeks: battled -

‘MISSION, B.C. (CP) — Residents of the

flood-ravaged Halzic Valley were battling .

rising creeks fed byt two days of rain when

Environment Minister. Tony. Brummet said.
Tuesday; they must bear - -some of the.
| financial burden for repairing damage’ to:

@ thelr homes and property. -
. ° Mifig timing is. just. great,” said Bill

Carlson, chairman of the Property Owners

Association of Cascade ‘Creek, which has

been fighting for years for adequate flood

protection, .
“There 'ia a lot of animosity in this area.

Surely, a: responsible: government will
understand our Problem and help us solve *

it. ny!
He anid in ah interview that a front-end
loader and..two other, machines’ were on

spots along the creek throughout the night:
' “About one or two o’clock (a.m.) the rain

subsided,” * he said today. “We were ab-

solute, fortunate the river didn’t flood its

" say-that we as government .
hand Tuesday night to shore up thé banks of |:
the ‘creek ‘fear this Fraser Valley com-
munity, Residents patrolled potential weak |

" watch on this situation today.”

“Fhe governnient has © rejected - com- ;

pensation for things such as out-buildings
and:.spolled food, set limits . on” com-
‘pensation’ - and imposed deductibles on
‘government aid to the residents, he sald.

Carlson’ ‘said . - the guidelines
homeowners must pay deductibles of $2,000
on personal effects, $10,000 on residence
damage, and $1,000 for removal of debris
from their land,

-Brummet told reporters he believes tlie
government has a responsibility to the
taxpayers of the province, as well as to ihe
people “who happen to five in flood plains.”

“The deductible item has been simply lo
. Will try lo
protect people from complete financial
“disasters, but we think that’ we-have ‘to
_ maintain the principle that there’s also an

’. individual responsibility attachéd.

. “I know it’s tough.-I know it’s ‘arbitrary

figures, but you have to have some
. guidelines to operate by.”’ ,

“Painting reviews mixed .

“LONDON (APH: 3 AZfulblerigth oak i Spudtedsionak painting. It seemsiitor me se apn
little hard that if you paint a pretty woman? i«

painting of the Princess of Wales has been

unveiled. to mixed reviews. The princess
says she likes it; one art critic calls it “the

pits”? n!

guilis in London's financial quarter.

The princess, who attended, told he

artist afterward: “T like it very much.”
Many others. agreed." But some.

professionals’ from the London art world |

assailed the portrait, which shows a
romantic-looking, serious-faced Diana -
wearing a deep pink satin ball gown with a
matching lace chemise top and diamond -
and pear] earrings. -

. “It's the pits, it's appalling,” said Brian .

Sewell, art critic of The Tatler, a magazine
that specializes in keeping socialites up to
date'on new trends, = * ¢ '

He said she tooked so thin in the portrait.
that she ‘appeared to be ill.

_ Sir: Hugh Casson, president of the Royal

Academy. of Arts, told reporters: ‘'I don't

like “using ‘the :word superficial, but.
something: Is lacking, in this picture, It”
catches -the princess’s fine-boned charm -

but not, -I think, her splendid strength of
character. "

' However, Michiel ‘Noakes, a member of
the. ‘Royal’ Society of Portrait Painters,
sald: or “ts avery

The “Lgihetre portrait by. Australian:
; born ‘artist June Mendoza was unveiled
. Tuesday night during 9 ceremony. at the”
banquet hall of the Worshipful Company of ;
Grocers, | one of the’ historic’ merchant '

accomplished, ,

you can. then be. accused , of painting a
rather sentimental picture.” moe,

The.artist, who has also: painted Diana 8
‘husband Prince Charles, the Queen, and

"other members of the Royal Family, is the
only woman member of the Royal Society.

of. Portrait Painters,

paint the princess in'an informal setting: 1-
- would love the freedorn it would give me,’"
The" portrait was painted ‘during’ six
sittings at Kensington Palace, ‘the London
home of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
-Thé picture was commissioned -by the
Worshipful Company of . Grocers to mark

- last’ year’s ceremony : when the princess.
was granted the freedom of the company,

an honorary digtinetlon awarded asa mark’
_ of esteem. 5 :

The picturé ‘was hung, in the’ company’ 5
banque hall alongside portraits of King
Charles II, ‘King ' William . II and King
George IIL...

It is only the third official portrait of.
Diana. The first was slashed by a knife-
wielding student from Northern freland as
it hung in the National Portrait Gallery in
London on Aug. 29, 1891, Paul Salmon, then
aged 20, was jailed for six months after
stating: “I did it for Ireland.”

‘The - portralt..was repaired and is
displayed at the gallery guarded bya clear
plastic shield. a

“Doctors. live on. welfare.

MONTREAL (CP) — At least 150-im--

migrant ‘doctors in’ Quebec are living on _

welfare ¢ or working as- mechanics, guards
and” arks. because of a provincial:

govermirient:quota-on the number of in-

ternghipe available to them.

sr the doctors are licensed to practise ;

me icine by the province and many would
villing to work in remote areas of
Queheo‘where certain medical apevialilles
ara lacking: .

Some would even be willing to pass up the.

$21,000 ‘salary paid ‘interns and work for
welfare - payments. instead ‘to have - the
opportunity: to serve the one-year in-
ternship: they need to become practising

allows inly . vitor a-year — half as.”
many a6 in 1880 — to go.to foreign-trained *

doctors, “and IS of those must. go to, °

Canadiana who trained outside the country."
"Some of us have been’ ‘waiting, to get -
interiships' for four years or more," said —

Dr, Bernal’ Blemur, head of an informal”

organization of 150 immigrant doctora who
pregented their plight to the media Tuesday

“in aii attempt to pressure the government

to inckease quotas.

Blefnur Bays he has been on welfare for
threes years. -

“We are all landed immigrants — some
of wi. are Canadian citizens already," he
sald. “We have all passed either. American
or “Canadian examinations aimed at

* evaluating foreign-trained doctors and we
have all received certificates of ad-

. missibility from the Quebec Corporation of

‘ Physicians, the province’ 's licensing body.

“But, instead of practising ‘medicine for
which we were trained,” he said, “we are.
working as mechanics, guards, ‘clerks - — or

_ drawing welfare,” .. ; po

MAY LOSE LICENCE
Some doctors fear they will lose their

-Ileences if they-don’t practise within, the’

five-year: limit jset- by ‘the licensing
‘authority, he said, adding that. the number
of immigrant doctors on Quebec's waiting
_ Hist could rise to 800. by 1988.

Blemur rt Quebad’s Social Affairs

Department for é¢ncouraging hospitals in -

 ontlying areas earlier this year ta recruit
“-epeéclallsts in Frahee and Belgium though:
- there were at least a dozen such specialists
available In his group.

‘hts criticism was echoed by Dr. Augustin .
‘ Roy, ‘ president of the physicians. cor-.

poration. |
“It? ip immoral for the governtient to

bring in medical people from France and.
Belgium whtn there are already qualified -

intinigrant doctors here in” miserable
* ‘sltuations,”” he said.

Roy said he would urge the corporation’ 8
26-member licensing council {o vete-ap-
plications from spécially-recruited French
and Belgian, doctors until there was a
‘coherent policy on immigrant dactars.

banks, We’ Te going to have to keep a ‘close:

Hawkins,

. iteelf."

“fence at any: ‘time... be

the wrong impresslon;"

Ministry, McMurtry said,

say

. “Necessarily, it is a formal painting," : aerobics.

she sald, ‘Now I would -Ilke the chance to -

- with people doing tdo much
too soon ahd maybe the 'E

” to stop if-it bothera ‘them,

‘people are cashing in at the

roe Coat a rie et Re

oné-to- -10 séale torfate t a rape’ case “dGes create the
‘wrong impression: ‘and I think i! was unfortunate,’ :
says: ‘Ontario Attorney: -General Roy MeMurtty...,
-But-MeMurtry ‘told reporters Tuesday after a
“speech toa Toronto conference on wife-battering that
«he doesn’t support ‘provincial NDP Leader Bob’ Rae's...
seal “for « a Canadian‘; Judicial Council’ ‘review “of: -
; “ commenis made last week. by Judge Bruce Hawkins
- “of Toronto: : ..
; ‘who- sentenced a Toronto | man, to: four
'-years in jail for the 1982 rape of an exotic dancer, said _
he. thought the’ jincident rated iwo on a seale of 10, -
" Theoffence “did viol, involve being terrorized or”
"victimized for a prolonged period of time,” the judge
said in passing sentence. “‘There was no sodomy and
it Wadnot unnecessarily humiliating beyond the rape’ °

. Asked by reporters about the commenis, MeMurtry ;

+ said he found it “difficult to undexstand the use of a
particular scale because. rape is a very serious # of- ;

.. “Obviously there | are degrees of violence in any. ,

case, but to talk about it. in those lerms does create .

: , MeMurtry said the appropriate course for his. ,
ministry i is to consider. an appeal of the case, nota 7
Judicial review, because the prosecutor believes the:
sentence was: too lenient... .
° ‘MeMurtry called “Hawkins “an experienced and.
‘ respected judge’ . and said he didn’t believe the .
: remarks were interided to diminish the seriousness of
- ‘Pape.
_. He has -not. discussed the matter’. with ‘Hawkins:
. because he does not answer to the Attorney General's

. Hawkins said'in court the worst case of rape would ;
_bea situation an, which “a, youfg woman was ‘ab- :
ductéd’s ‘and taken away. toa remote area and spent a
weekend or- a week of terror and is sodomized and
beaten by more than one assailant ..
.... In his ‘speech, MeMurtry said the justice sysiem
“has not ‘paid enough attention to the needs of crime .
victims or, wilneages and ‘that these people. are too
often made to feel like’ pawns, a

Bore et

end ike ' .
SD nh ays any eer a nae ae US

‘with. the

call thaia 10." —

Protection needed

EDMONTON. (CP) — The.
public needs to be protected .
from ‘untrained aerobics
instructo#s who don’t know
enough’ .about.. fitness .ard
human ‘anatomy, - says a
University: of Alberta ‘sports
therapist.

The damage being seen in
children and young :pesple
injured from.. dance in-
struction is of great. con-.

‘you ae isa fancy
- leotard, a. band around the:

“head and’ a few music tapes |

have been some problems i in
“the past, “things have
improved over the past few
- years. Most clubs, if they

:are credible, won'l hire

_Amtrained instructors.” |
. Coward said the govermi-

~ment's. plan to- bring in

‘fitness qualification atan-

“dards will algo i improve the

Jpituation.
“2 “¥ou can't. teach ‘inthe -

" gern, Bays.Ray Kelly, chief” “public schools. without
sports ‘therapist at the pay int qualificatene
velsity's® ¥ Athletic we « can: bff

Injar a Clinic a Annie

it what we want and get —
. away with it.” -

{to be an insttuctor)," he A

. said in an interview, “If you f

look the part, that’s all the
credibility you need to teach

“I’ve seen a lot ‘(of in-
juries) from aerobics and |
all types of dance. The
things we are seeing in the
foot and ankle are len-
donitis, stress fractures in
thelower leg and some knee
problems.”

Kelly, a sports therapist
for 28 years, said in-
structors should be trained.
to’ recognize problems
people. might have. Before

_BStarting an individual in an &

‘aerobics, class, the. in-
structor should ask about
their fitness.
“Some ‘of the things in-
structors can be doing is to
‘evaluate the people, their
age group, and look at them
historically, see. what kind
of fitness program, if any,

they have been on during §f
the last three to five years,” §

Kelly said, .
: “My: quarrel is’ not with
the aerobics concept, it’s

intensity. of the class js a
little ‘too ™uch for the in-

dividual. I think the level of &
the class should be matched ff

to“the level of the people

_ participating. "
HARD TO STOP

Although people are told
that’s a little tough to do

where there is a lot of peer §

pressure, he. said. ;

Kelly sald the only reason
the Jane Fonda’ Serobics
workouts have become so
popular “is because she
looks the part and is a film
star,
. “It's a
industry. dut there and

expense of the bodies of the
public.” -

Susan Coward, fitness co-
ordinator at the YWCA, said.
each instructor must attend
a 60-hour national - fitness
leadership certificate
program before being
allowed to inetruct. ,

The program gives the
basics of anatomy and
butrition and exerc se
precautions.

- While Coward said there-

million-dollar fl

. recent

oie: Saiereae nctbes not

(cp) =- Some “aboriginal

‘peoples’ are more aboriginal ;
. than others,
_; leadex suggested ' Tuesday’
prior to- high-level national °.

meetings” here on - ‘con-

"_ Btitutional: rights af. native”
~ peoples. :
» Dene, Nation President :

: Stephen. ‘Kakfwi cast. ont ;
"conference on ‘aboriginal

on * legitimacy :
abeiiginal clairns: by the

‘Western Arctic Inuit, or ..

Inuvialuit. ° .
- In an interview, Kakfwi
expressed deep frustratian

agreement- -in-principle
Initialed “before Christmas
between federal negolialors
and the Committee for
Original . People’s
Entitlement. ..
“ ‘The committee
represents 2,500 Inuvialuit
in the Mackenzie Delta and

_ Beaufort Sea region: .

The: agreement-in-pri-
neiple has not been made
public, but’ it is known to
give-Inuvialuit $45 million
and .. --: 96,000 square
kilometres -of land, in-

. cluding some traditionally

used by the Dene, or
Mackenzie Valley Indians.

What creates that whole’

feeling of revulsion (for the

' agreement-in-principle) ' is
- that thede guys (nuvialuit)

are encreachers,” Kakfwi
said. . ;
RECENT ARRIVALS -
The Inuvialuit are in fact
arrivals to the
Canadian Arctic, All but a
few original Western Arctic

Inuit died from epidemics in‘

the: last -century. and the
-ancestors of today’s
Inuvialult migrated . from

Alaska beginning around

1890,

“They (the inuvialuit)

said tothe government: ‘We’

moved in here, we're using

‘the land," Jet’s .make a

deal,””’ Kakfwi said.
Inuvialuit: genealozy is

almost never raised as ‘an
issue, the federal govern-:
‘ment having accepted the -

claim as legitimate.

ene tSpursié™
‘the point,
. But if nothing else, the

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“other ‘Indian leaders. feel’
’ ‘towards. the agreement: ‘in- ‘
principle, o

Indeed, the document and
"related issues threaten. to.

overshadow the two days of

vue meetings that begin today in

Preparation . for the first-
‘ministers’. constitutional

rights: in March.

-Harry Allen, president of
for . Yukon
Indians; said he especially
objects to. the  Inuvialuit
signing a clause’ ex-
linguishing -— aboriginal
rights in exchange for rights

and privileges outlined over -
300 pages — although both
“Allen and = Kakfwi. said
: Inuvialuit leaders refuse to

give them a copy.

WON'T. SIGN. |
Allen said Yukon Indians
will mot sign an ex-

tinguishment clause and
said he is worried. the
Inuvialuit move will set a
bad precedent. .
Kakfwi and leaders of the
Assembly of First Nations,
the .. national — Indian
organization, share the

VANCOUVER (CP) —

’ Indian

van nt SET VARS STP OMENS oh Aes tlbed aRTER|

no’. » consensus
negotiating parties on what

“an. extinguishment clause

means legally.
“It is a contradiction to
extinguish rights through

_ land claims and talk about

recognizing and extending
rights .
conference’, said - Allen,

who has arranged 4 private .

meeting today with Indian
Affairs § Minister John
Munro on the subject.

Allen and Kakfwi said
separately they will try to
slop .. the Tnuvialuit
agreement . going un-
changed to cabinet in’ two
weeks, a deadline suggested
by Munro. :

Munro is anxious to settle

the claims as the Liberal

Party appears on the verge
ofa leadership change and a
federal election might not
be far behind.

The main items on the
agenda at the meetings
were to be equality for
women - and
aboriginal. rights as they

* pertain to, the constitution.

Inuvialuit leaders were
unavailable for comment.

Levels to remain

The post office hopes to keep its,

rates at the same levels for the rest of this year, Canada

‘Post president Michael Warren said Tuesday.

He said it was-a business decision to maintain a rate
‘freeze started last October because the federal Crown
corporation “‘is at the edge of price tolerance for many’ ‘of its

products.”

Warren said half of the post office’ 5B revenue comes ‘frora
services that cdmpete. directly with private sector com-
panies such as couriers and those handling parcels and

electronic mail.

And first-class mail, on Which the post office is supyioved
tohavea monopoly, is becoming increasingly vulnerable to
processes such as electronic funds transfer and other new
technologies for moving messages by non-postal methods.

At the same time, Warren said i in an interview, Canada
Post's subsidy from the government is declining, and that
means the post office must reduce its costs of moving mail.

The post office is consulting with its unions on plans td

become more competitive and more customer-oriented in:

the next two years.

Already, costs have been reduced by cutting overtime,
hiring less temporary staff and in some cases moving firgt-
Ard Kak eee Tuedy og epéclass mail by road instead of. alr when. it does i, aftget

“Overall: ‘delivery time, he. said.

Warren said he hopes further staff feductions will ‘eon

tinue to be made through attrition. i

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