wool *. Page 2) The Herald, Thuraday, April 14, 1989 \ Published every “weekday at 3010. alum Street, Terrace, | 8:C; by Sterling: Publishers: Ltd. \ Authorized: ‘as second - class mall; Number 1201. Postage Pee in cag retura ‘postage _buaranteed . - Agvtting Salen _ Nick Walten: "Sat triter-Potoprapers a “elite Alford - oe, Poca | " Reception-Clasililed: Circulation: _ Caralyn Gibson.” a "Marla Taylor NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT | The Herald retains full, complate and sola copyright | a, H " In any advertisement Produced andor any editorlal or photographic content published'In the Herald, -. . Reproduction Is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher, ; eS _ Editorial The greatest disappointment in the May 5 election Is the decision by Skeena Socreds not to ; participate In an all.candidates forum. Sut forums glve people who may not be famill with anew candidate an opportunity ty learn’ ssuas. | Political parties. can no longer rely onthe - what her. views -are -.on - the .polarization.of B.C. voters. The Issues in this election are-bread and butter issues, not ones about who is on the right or who Is on the left. ' Jobs are the most Important: factor and how willing a particutar party Is willing to stimulate ‘job-action. It |s true that forums are sometimes stacked with people who don’t represent a particular political view but.a candidate must be able‘to. _ face the electorate no matter who they are. “If” they can’t come out fighting in. an_all- candidates forum then how prepared are they — to fight for the people of the riding? Politics Is. tough business and when the going gets tough It — Is: the tough who must get golng. © Joanne Monaghan has. served Kitimat’s interests well as an alderman over the past few - years. She has‘proven: to.be a . sincere person whose main’ interests of her .electorate. | ‘an “goal-*ls:-the The. other communities in Skeena have not had the. - opportunity to assess her record first-hand. An ali-candidates forum would give voters .an- opportunity to get a first-hand look at her In action. Otherwise many voters may simply view her as an unknown quantity: ; The dramatic decline in corporate profits Been in the last few months finally began to show signs of easing in the final quarter of 1982, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday, The agency reported quarterly net after-tax” profits of: - industrial corporations were $25 billion in the last three . months of the year, down 23,7 (percent from $3.3 billion a year earlier. ut the drop wag. smaller than the declines of 51.2 per cent and 53,3 per cent in the previous two quarters. Meanwhile, pre-tax profit digures, which showed a decline of about 14 per cent in. each ‘quarter between mid- 1981 and mid-1982, increased 7.2 per cent in‘ the third ' quarter of 1982 and showed no change in the final quarter." Operating income of industrial corporations tose for the first time in two years. during the fourth quarter of 1962, increasing to 2.8 per’cent of sales alter falling for lat consecutive quarters. FIRA REJECTS FEWER ~ _ In another development, the Foreign investment Review Agency sald it boosted its caseload by more than 60 per cent. last year and rejected only eight per cent of the 991 proposals it handled from non-Canadlans wanting . to acquire or start businesses in this country... ‘ The federat agency faced 2,037 foreign: ‘investment proposals in 1962 and rendered decisions on 891 — ap- proving 820-and rejecting 71. Another 136 cases were - resolved without the need for a formal decision when proposals were withdrawn. That produced & total of 1,027 | cases resolved, for a rate of processing up more than 60 per cent from 1981. The agency approved 92 per cent: of the proposals it resolved in 1992, compared with, 96.9. per cent in 1981 and 89.3 per cent in ‘1900. : The latest figures reflect the easing’ of foreign investinent screening rules that ‘began last summer after a heated dispute with the U.S, government and other critics who said the system was too cumbersome and reatrictive, . FANDS NO EVIDENCE - . In other business news Wednesday: — The Ontario Securities: Commission faid it cannot find sufficient evidence to prosecute or take any action under the ‘provincial Securities Act hgainst Norcen Energy Resources Ltd., iis chairman, financier Conrad Black, or any directors in connection with [ast year's attempted — takeover of Hanna Mining Co, of Cleveland, Norcen had been facing ‘commission and police investigations into _. Whether it told the truth in a statement of material changes ‘enclosed In an bid ‘statement alled to its shareholders In October, 1961." a — Petro-Canada, the federal Crown olf and gas compaiiy; = reported a 1962 profit of $10.4 million, down from $64.9 . million the previous year. Earnings of $314.2 million before taxea were down by $114.8 million, or 26 per cent below tha. 1#81 total, the company said in its annual report. _ The Royal Bank of Canada said it is lowering. its con- sumer loan rate to 13.5 per cent from 14 per cent effective immediately, making it the lowest rate among Canadian: - banks. The bank said the reduction reflects declining Money costs and expectatioiis that Inflation and, tnterest rates will continue to- drop. - Registration. Sports: me Dr. ‘Subhas Maharaj, developer’ ‘of tte: ‘worl Pictogram:Ideogram | Commmunications System; will amtong 12 staff members losing tlieir jobs because of the Saskatchewan government's decision to cut. araj-is’. the: centre’ 8 ‘one-man speech pathology "Elementary students warned ie TORONTO (CP) — Grade 4 students at a Toronto pub) ‘school were given a lesson this week by a character fri outer space ‘on how to ‘Protect themselves: from seal abuse, an They are the first class ‘to take’ ‘pact ‘in an innovative. ’ program in the city that teaches youngsters through drama how to recognize and stop sexual’ abuse. . The play centres around Personnia,’ from | ‘the- ‘planet: ~“¥dob, who comes to Earth and meets a variety ‘of people. -: Each encounter teaches her the difference betweer touch +: . that is nurturing (a dad’s birthday kiss), touch that! is not ‘ * right (a father who wants to bathe his unwilling. daughter), .; Economy | improves cand touch: that makes her uneasy (a persistent male” _ babysitter who tickles her and wants a‘ kiss). - ‘ By the end of the play; Personnia learns she has the right “ to refuse-a person's touch, a message reinforced by the: _ "rousing theme song My Body is. My Own, to > which thes” children sang and clapped. ~ bomhe play's there of personal protection is followed. by two. “The production, written by Toronto: actress Nanel Rossov | yf and social worker Catherine Stewart, is the product of 1% | years of work by the Metro Toronto Chairman's ‘committee { on child abuse. The committee wanted to bring the message | of personal safety into the classroom and was 3 insplred by a ‘ ¥ ainilar { ra escbeer apirbved for ict public and separate . 5 8this spring’ end. for another’ six this fall, _ ; . thought the New. Democtats, who held 24 seats in the last begram An the U.S. eye! or™, Stewart hopes the. “program will improve co-operation ‘between child-wel fare agencles, the police and courts, all of ‘ which haye been criticized in Ontario for hot co-ordinating a “* standard, procedure for dealing with child dexuat abuse. - It's a widespread problem, but one shrouded in secrecy, One: In four girls-and-oneIn 10 boys will be- sexually “assaulted before thelr 18th birthday, Stewart told parents of © . the-students at a preview. of the play. : «We want to give children the necessary information and - "skills to protect themselves and to feel aafe enough to came : ‘forward and report:a. sexual abiise,’” she said. After the preview, parents could refuse to permit their children to take part In.the-program, which is aimed at students from Kindergarten to Grade 4. weeks of classroom discussion. Teachers were prepared for’ Children's Aid Society officials. -. B. C: safe from nuclear war? VANCOUVER (cP) — North America if there isa nuclear war, \S. defence industry and the: Some alumini.of both the.U.S, defence industry an e rifles, fishing gear, seeds’ for planting, food, radiation “detection equipment and other neceselties for life after a. -. Muclesr war.” ° European bomb shelter industry have quietly immigrated - * to BC. to awalt what they Bay is the Inevitable Third World: ‘War, government's: Emergency. Planning: Canada. “One of them drops by regularly. He lives near ar Victoria; “ _but that’s not where he would be in a War. There are’a lot of - reasons to:think’B.C. is.a-good place for survival.” ‘Adam Light is the pseudonym ‘of a.man who spent much ~ of his professional life working at.a major U.S. nuclear test: i jf thy ts who has retired t . centreln Nevada. He noneo eerner ° Cariada. ag .a source of food. So. we'd be An a mune B.C, to prepare for war. Light and others agree ‘wlth Cosper that B.C, residents’ have a good chance of survival. because the province lacks major military or industrial targets... Being on the western rim of North America where winds usually blow to the east, fallout from a massive attack’on North America would drift away from: coastal population centres, They say fallout trom a US. attack i on the Soviét Union would be considerably weakeried by the time di floated over”: B.C. and that the abundance of B. iC. sea life will provide a ae "wealth of food. ONLY PORT _ | After a war, Vancouver probably would be the only _ remaining West Coast deep-sea port. © “Forget San Diégo and San Francisco, becauée of the. bases in that area," Cooper says.’''You can forget about’ Seattle and its environs; considering (military targets of) Canada as a major asset because of Ita. ‘agricultural: capacities. B,C.’s marine life, a potential source of food-for' - reaidente; could also provide food for armies after 4 war.” Emergency planners and nuclear exiles alike believe, ‘Tnore people should begin planning for survival now.: They a disagree with those ‘who say all life would be destroyed by a nulpar war. ; Studies done of the effect of nuclear: “bombe: in. Japan during the Second World War and other research completed = In recent decades suggest man asa a species would survive, . - BC. may ‘be the safest, spot in ; Several are living in B, c. Interior towns or on Vancouver we - Island, says Fred Cooper, regional director of the federal Boeing (Corp.) and Trident (nuclear ‘base at Bangor).”: - ‘Light agrees, adding both superpowers ‘would view ~ Lightand Cooper say, although the standard af living would : be pre-industrial... Light’s basement shelter is stocked with. two’ hunting “He believes there will he time, before a “war, to have ~. people dig in.and hunker down, and expects. to be able to ~thelp'h his neighbors prepare. ‘Bo™™we can: be some type: of community after." whichever siiperpower wins, B.C, will-be a‘prixe. .- ‘Union and the'U.S. tried to go at each other, they would see wlio” : Doe. Talks wanted - Istael, at-a news conference Wednesday in Stockholm, [Last “Stinday, Hussein broke off his negotiations with, Arafat and blamed the PLO for breaking a tentative ; agrésment ta co- operate in negotiations based on 4 modified version of us. President Reagan's Mideast peace plan. -: Hussein-Arafat impasse, ‘of, the, Palestinian people." .«. - ' Arafat told reporters: “We are ready and we will do our » : best te continue these joint talks with the Jordanians. Some _Sijustments we offered are now being discussed with the _ Jordanians, not tirectly but indirectly."" " . personal reasons. | Therapists from Sweden to Callfornia to the “researchers. « ...dermines the foundation of therapy for the mentally ill, He also said if the provincial government had taken i a Closer .. 3: Jodk at the bureaucratic levelsin Social Services, culls in the ~” sécent budget would have been different, .~ - ". Evaluations il] be ‘earrled out to. see how effective the « . pity & has been, - The literature and his pateonal experience convines him . _ Raple- who are prepared could survive a war and: that, “1A glve you alittle ray of hope,” he says, If the Soviet » Hussein has not responded to Arafat's commienta, made ., ftich af constant fatigue or anxiety.) <: : Officials in Rabat said King Hdbsiin of Morocco post » “ poned an Arab summit ‘conference he: was: ‘Planting to. ~@onvene this weekend until” early May because “0F: the. A Jordanian official in Amman. told ‘The Amtoctated Presy ‘on Wednesday : “We never said we are not talking with the’ PLO any more. All we sald was that we leave it to the PLO - tochooge what is best for the achievement of the Sspirations ; aid. the hildren’ a program was phase gut a few ‘Community support systems have set up es. in ‘keeping ‘thelr’ children at hi home. " ecalse of “The ‘Saskatchewan. + Association for the ss ave applauded: the. tiny black-and-white. ‘plot implicity of. design, a feature making the sys éasler to: leah. than more. ‘compllcated designs of “Maharaj said the elimination of his departient ~ It’s the bureaucrats who are making the echelon and . When you put everything under one big heading called cutbacks you don’t get much public reaction because the noe saver nent. at only app to be saving rooney . a : Polls fried ’ ANCOUVER (cP) — ‘This spring, for the tirat dime ‘in * more than 40 years, British Columbipns won't be forced to consume election opinion polls with ketchup, relish da side order of fries; ; The hamburger poll; a verierable’* Vancouver tnsiitulian, circumvented legislation that since 1989 has outlawed the: talking of straw polls during an election period: Il alsa wold. a “-* Jot of hamburgers for enterprising restaurateur. Jolin: Dys, - who tame up with the bright idea in 1964 of naming butgers _ -" after the pollticiars of the day and then’ monitoring, tales in his Frying Dutchman restaurants. ne ; Dys has reaurrected his mealy survey for the Miy § ee election. ‘But amendments ‘to the B.C. Elections ‘Act in- -* trodved last summer mean more traditional methods of ‘gauging voter preference will also be allowed, =, | The Social Credit government, which held St of 87 seats in 2 the last legislature; dropped the ban after deciding It was too. ‘difficult. to enforce. - ~The Nelson News was fined f200in tore after It questioned 16. local ‘residents and published their opinions before. the ~ dast election. But the chief electoral officer for the pro - gays he recalle few recent prosecutions for po fractions, ; at week Vancouver television sation, axe eS nd freedom and: published an eplelon pollo n Was ca ed,-It showed most’ very ans ‘ne elec ope : a legislature, would be returned ta power alter elght years. In. opposition. re Campaign manager Joe: Denofreo says the use of polls won't make a - great déal. of difference . to the: NDP... “although it might shake: up the Socreds who are eX: tensively ‘into opinion polls." -. Denofreo said the ‘New. Deiocrats are running & . traditional campaign, which leans heavily on door-to-door - electloneering. It’s a little wearing on the shoe leather, but. Denofred says it gives him a better feel for the mood of: the - electorate: than most opinton polls...” “Now ‘that it’s legal, the party may conduct one ‘optaton, poll, he says. But he will have to dette. whether the expense is worthwhile; - _Denofreo's’ only concern: with the new law: is: ‘that . “everybody and his brother: will be out there conducting the program. in workshops: with ‘Stewart, the police and , surveys" and thereis no guarantee of their ACCUracy. Jerry Lampert, Socred campaigry manager, shid public polls give the: party: important information, but they are a double-edged sword in that they give the NDP the same information. ., . - The Socreds research continuously, he sald, ond will Probably conduct a series of polls. Gary Mauser, a Slmon Fraser University “business 7 ’ professor, -said published: polls keep politiclans': -honest because they can’t fake reaults if a hood poll has sireedy been’ Published. we . ‘Health. political. “OTTAWA: (cP) — ‘Some health - problems” aitecung “women can be traced back to social causes and dealt with moat successfully by self-help Broups, a Health | Department official said: : Wednesday, The government hag spent $2 million during the’ last five _ years on research into health problems relating specifically ‘ to: Women, sald Barbara: Naegele,: of the: ‘departnient's health promotion’ section. ; : Additional ‘grants support heilth care and’ education projects across the country and Naegele says the general _ trend in-the last few yeara has been toward self-help. "For whatever reasons, women have been linking yp with - other women and trying to take responsibility for theix:own ” health," ghe sald in an n interview: mares a seminar on ’ Palestine Liberation Organieation ehlef Yasser. Aratat : "says he wants to resume talks with King Hussein of Jordan : despite the monarch's abrupt reaction to the PLO refusal to : be represented by the Jordanians in) peace negotiations with _ women ‘and health. . on. isa emeelver and. try: to influence ‘decisions Which affect a Bulit also'stiins from the Je realization th that muaaiy -y problenia aré not strictly‘medical, but are “much more intangible, " ..?Ehe root of the problem often is social and can ‘relate to _ marriage breakup bringing up children aa a single parent or eémbining a Job with housework,‘ “However, many women come to realize that. ‘they're not . aaltting there suffering alone and a lot of other women are experiencing the same difficulties.” > *- Oneof the self-help groups funded by the givecninent has “beer set up in northern British Colunbid, It: rectived $3,290 ‘tb tun workshops for adult and teenage women on issues "sich as sex education, mental health and tress; -A humber of Ontario fartii woren received $18,000 to : publish | a study on the psychological effects: of floancial ___ Stress on farm familles. They hope to set ap walt sroune to discuss the Findings of the study,