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VANCOUVER (CP) —
British Columbia's
prolonged pulp dispute has
lost gome companies up to
SOper cent of their contracts
with U.S. newsprint
customers -and is costing
BC, Hydro §500,000.a day in
lost revenues, say industry
spokesman.

Talks in the dispute were
to continue today after a
weekend of meetings but
negotistors refused to say
whether the two pulp unions
and the 14 companies that
Jocked them out early last
month are any closer to a
settlement.

Don Saunders, president
of Forest Industrial
Relations, says some B.C.
companies have lost up to 50
per cent of their contracts
with U.S. newsprint

. customers and the losses

could be permanent. |
“Some of the companies

_ have been told that they will
- only be asked to supply half

of their (198% volume.

_ Newsprint is sold on long-

term contracts and so it will -

be difficult to get that
volume back,” he said.

Traditional buyers af B.C.
newsprint have been going
@ sources in eastern
Canada and Europe, he
.Baid, ;

Hydro executive vice-
‘president John Sheehan
said the loss of $500,000 a
_day represents about 12 per
cent of Hydro's revenues.
‘The losses, he sald, will not
‘be made up and will likely
lead to an increased debt
load Hydro will carry into
its 1984 fiscal year,

‘WILL COST MORE

Increased Interest
payments will ultimately be
Teflected in consumer bills,
che added. “It’s a fairly
major portion of our
revenue and It is not likely
to be made up now.”

Energy normally sold to
pulp mills, sawmills and
associated chemical plants
ig no longer being produced,
Sheehan sold. “Water is
flowing’ through our dams
unused. If you can’t sell it,
there is no point in
producing it.”

So far, the pulp lockout
has taken more than $17
million in anticipated
revenues, he sald. “It
wasn't half a million dollars
aday we were losing at firat

but now it’s at least that
much, w

Saunders said - the” in-
dustry has been warning for
some time that lost con-
time but it seems to fall on
deaf ears.”

It serves the companies
right, sald Art Gruntman,
president of the Canadian
Paperworkers Union, the
largest of the two locked-out
unions.

“That looks like more
tracts ‘are a natural con-
sequence of q lengthy pulp
dispute.

“That's what happens
when a customer depends
on a supply which is
essential to his business.
“We've been trying to get
that point across for a Jong

evidence that the lockout
was an absolutely crazy
decision.” *

WORKERS LOSE |
Gruntman said he
reckons his 7,000 members
and about 5,500 members of
the - Pulp, Paper and

. Woodworkers of Canada

have lost about $4,000 each
since the lockout began.
Both sides said the central
issue remains length of
contract.

_ The unions say they will
adopt a three-year contract,
which the companies want
butit must include a cost-of-
living adjustment, The
companies will not accept

‘this adjustment.

The industry wants the

unions to accept a contract |
similar to one ratified by the
35,000-member - Internati

‘onal. Woodworkers."
* America earlier this sean

The woodworkers’ con-
tract is a. three-year . pact
with a wage. freeze’ in the

first year and increases of |
.four per cent ‘and 4.5, per

cent in the succeeding two
yeara. Base rate now is

- $13.06 an ‘hour for both

woodworkers: and: “pulp
workers; .
About 10,000 woodworkers .

_Alsq have, been off the Job

since pulp ‘workers began
secondary. picketing” at
forest products companies
that operate both pulp: and
lumber operations. : .

Lebanon’ S rival leaders

LAUSANNE, Switzerland
(AP) — Sharp disputes over
political power-sharing
proposals were reported
today as Lebanon's rival

factional leaders entered

the second week of their

“national reconciliation

conference.

A formal session of the
conference broke up after 15
minutes - Sunday night,
followed by a round of in-
formal consultations in-
volving President Amin
Gemayel and chief
delegates of rival Moslem
and Christian factions.

A new plenary session
was planned for today,. but
there -were ~ conflicting
predictions about whether
the talks would stall or
produce at least the outlines
of an agreement.

Syria's observer to the.

talks, Vice-President Abdul

‘ Halim Khaddam, who is

sald to be playing a key role
in efforts to reshape the
Lebanese government, was
present.at most.of the in-

. formal consultations. -

The conference " was
reported to be stalled by the
reluctance of Christian
leaders to yleld to op-
position demands for
changes in the power-
sharing formula under

which public offices have

All
About

PEOPLE

Securlty staff at the Manitoba legislature weren't taking
any chances with a package that ‘arrived for Premier

Howard Pawley last week,

An electronic scan determined that the box bearing
Newsweek magazine's return addreas contained something

with wires attached.

Pawley's office sald he hadn't ordered anything from the
magazine go police bomb experts were called in and the
legislature's west corridor was evacuated before the
package was taken outside and destroyed.

What the security staff eventually found in the package
was a portable telephone, sent to Pawley as a gift for

renewing his subscription.

American pro-golfer Jan Stephenson, known not aaly for
herswing, but also for her sexy calendars and posters, says
she's been offered $50,000 to pose for Playboy magazine but
there's “not enough money in the world” to make her sirip

for the camera.

Stephenson, 32, told Parade Magazine that although some
of her magazine and calendar poses have been provocative,
there Is a limit to how far ehe will go to display her beauty,

“I wouldn't want to do anything that my parents would be
ashamed of,'’ sho sald in the interview. “You know, 2
never do anything where I'd really, truly expose myself, "

An Edmonton man is offering $5,000 to anyone willing to

give him one kidney.

Ike Bryldt, 40, a businessman, sald he Is fed up with.

dialysis treatments and wants a transplant. He haa been
kept alive by a kidney machine since 1990,
“It's sort of a last-ditch effort," he said of his cash offdr,
If it fails, Brytdt said he is ready to die. ‘
Doctors at Edmonton's University Hospital regard the
sale of organs for transplant as unethical, said Bryldt,
adding he will take the prospective donor to Europe for the

operation.

Top-seeded Chris Evert Llayd,who has ‘never lost on a

Florida clay-court surface in 90 ‘professional matches,

romped past third-seeded Gadusek 6-0, 6-1 in 47 minutes in

final of the season's first world champlonship series.
Lioydalio defeated Carling Bassett of Toronto 6-3, 6-3 Ina

semifinal match Saturday.

” Whee Randy Rosenau opened his mailbox the other day,
he found a letter with a three-cent stamp that was
discontinued in 1968 and the return address of a house that

was torn down years ago.

The Portland, Ore., man said Inside the envelope was a
birthday card dated May 1, 1049.

A spokesman for the consumer affairs office in Portland
sald it was doubtful the letier was in the post office’s
potsession for 35 years. More likely someone. found the
letter stashed away somewhere and stuck it in & mailbox.

Roseanau said he can’t understand why the post office
would even try to deliver a letter that was so old, “unless
maybe they wanted the 17 cents (in postage due).”

been allocated on a religious
basis since four decades
ago. » .

Pro-government and
opposition factions also are
at odds over proposed
reforms in the powers of the
presidency, | which
Gemayel’s opponents want
to limit in the future, said
conference sources. who
spoke on condition they not
be identified. Some Moslem
factions have been
suggesting creation of a
vice-presidentia) post.

The demands would cut
the influence of Maronite
Christians, who
dominated the government
under all unwritten
“national pact" since 153,
when Christians _out-
numbered. Moslems in
Lebanon. Since then, the
growth of the Moslem
population has outpaced
that of Christians,
_Khaddam spent hours
with both sides Sunday,

Shuttling between rooms at —

the Beau Rivage ‘Hotel,
where the . Conference is
being held,

Sources said Khaddam
was pressing for a com-
promise plan that would
contain at least- a broad
outline of institutional and
electoral reforms as well as
steps designed to con-
solidate a ceasefire
agreement reached shortly

have _

- militia

conflict at conference |

after the conference began
last Monday. - ence

Beirut was reported ‘guint
this morming except for
sporadic gunfire. During
the weekend however, : the
ceasefire was irene
strained by fighting™ -bet-
ween Christian and Moslem
militiamen that killed *at
least 15 clvilians ‘and
wounded 45. ;

Miche} Samaha,
Gemayel's political adviser,
told reporters Sunday in
Lausanne he expected: the
conference to wind up later
today with -a final text -
“much more positive” than
that predicted by other
sources,

Jn contrast, leftist Druse ~
leader Walid
Jumblatt told reporters he

doubted any breakthrough -

would occur in discussions
on a” new . power-sharing
formula. _— " me te

But he said the snectlif
might agree on some ob
Jectives to consolidate the
ceasefire and - ‘hinted he
would be willlag..to wall
until later for peltical

- reforms.

Headded, however, that if
“we do not ‘retum with

-something substantial, we

will be simply liquidated by
our own men.” y

Exhibition

__ baseball -

Oakland A’s manager
Steve Boros had barely
finished calling for stolen
bases, home runs and RBIs
when Rickey Henderson did
all three, .

Henderson collected three
hits Sunday, including a
homer, drove in three runs
and stole one base in the A's
7-2 exhibition victory over
San Franelsco Giants.

The speedster hit a 400-
foot homer in the third in-
ning, drove in two runs with
& single in the fourth and
singled during a two-run
sixth, -

Henderson, who stole 234
bases the last, two seasons,
is batting .400 in exhibition
play with nine RBI and
three homers in his last 16
at-bats.

Meanwhile, Mike Vail
doubled home one run and
Brad Mills added a two-run
single in a sixth-inning rally
that lifted Montreal Expos
over Kansas City Royals 4-
2,

DRIVE IN FIVE

George Bell drove in five
runs with a. homer, triple
and single to lead Toronto
Blue Jays to a 6-3 victory
over New York Mets in an
ll-inning game.

Atlanta Braves, who blew
& 644-game lead during the
last seven weeks of the 1983
season and finished three
games behind Los Angeles
in the Natisnal League
West, completed a three-
game sweep of the Dodgers.

Bob Watson's grand-alam

homer in the fifth inning off —

Trookie Rich Rodas broke a
tie and gave the Braves a 5-1
victory. ;

Houston's. Nolan Ryan
hurled no-hit ball for seven
innings against

Detroit, -

facing the minimum 2

batters, striking out four .
and allowing only one base .

Tunner — on an error hy
shortstop Dickle Thon. The
Tigers. pushed across two

runs.in the eighth off Joe-

Sambita and nipped the
Astros 2-1 in a battle of two-
hitters.

World Serles hero Mike
Hoddicker pitched six
scoreless innings ag

Baltimore Orioles defeated —
Cincinnati Reds 20, Bod: -

dicker. allowed three hits”
and retired the last is
batters he faced,

Al Cowens drove in five
runs and Bill Nahorodny
had four RBI as Seattle
Mariners’ outslugged °
Cleveland [ndians 15-13,
Cowens ‘hit a three-run
homer, a two-run triple and

‘a double. Nahorodny had a
two-run homer, two singles” :

and a sacrifice fly.
PROVIDES THE EDGE

Mickey Hatcher homered
and set up another run with
a blngle as Minnesota Twins
edged Boston Red Sox 4-3,

Ruppert Jonea, Doug -
Frobel, a Nepean, Ont.,
native, and Hedi Vargas
had two hits each as Pitt-,
sburgh Pirates defeated St.
Louis Cardinals 6-4,

Third baseman Toby
Harrah’s two-out, two-base
error in the seventh inning
on = Dave: Hoatetler's:
grounder allowed runners ti .
sere from first and third.
and helped Texas Rangers —
to a 6-3 victory over New”
York Yankees. a

Len Matuszek collected.
four hits, including three,

doubles, and drové in four *

runs as ~——Phitadelphia
Phillies beat Chicago White
Sox &1,

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the provincial midget hockey tournament.

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