Yes, It’s true, we goofed In Tuesday’s paper
by saying that the Elks raft was the Irly Bird
raft, which It really isn’t. This Is the Irly Bird
raft and It finished last and we aplogize to the
crew of the Elks raft for their “apparent”
poor finish.

’ (left)

Bow paddlers Marco Bravo —

and Pierre Bravo (right) were
prepared to swim across the finish line If
necessary. Behind them are Steve Forrest
(right) and Simon Cammanzola (hidden),
and manning the tiller is Ed Mendes.

Strikes drain economy

FRANKFURT (AP) — Strikes; lockouts and assembly-
line shutdowns prompted by union demands for a 35-hour
work week have idled 250,000 workers and drained
hundreds of millions of dollars from the West German
economy.

The conflict, in its 10th day today, has halted
production at the Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW, Opel and.
Porsche car factories, and disrupted assembly lines at
IBM, Bosch, Triumph-Adler and other. major
metalworking enterprises in southern and central West
Germany.

The metal industry employers’ association estimated
that 250,000 workers were off the job Tuesday in strikes

and lockeuts, with thousands more threatened with

layoffs this week if the disputeian’t resolved.
Unions, want ite. Sut five hours fe fra, the

wéek without’ reducing pay; employ yers and the-govern-.

ment say the change would be an economic disaster.
Daimler-Benz, builder of Mercedes vehicles,

calculated its losses Tuesday at $230 million - 2,200 cars

and 600 trucks daily.

ESTIMATES LOSSES

“Jadustry-wide production losses ‘for today alone

amount to 250 million marks ($92.5 million U.S.),"" an
employers’ association spokesman, Werner Riek, told
The Associated Press by telephone from - ‘Cologne on
Tuesday.

The chief of West Germany's Central Bank, Kar] Otto

Poehl, said that if the labor dispute ends soon, the:
country could still achieve the government’s predicted”

growth of the gross national product by three to 8.5 per
cent.

There could still be more “satisfactory economic
growth,” Poehl said, adding that improved outlooks for

corporate profit and earnings brightened prospects for”

West Germany's recovery from a long recession.

However, a district leader in the 1G Metall union, Ernst
Eisenmann, said he wasn't “particularly optimistic"

-about a quick end to the dispute.

‘Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his pro-business Con-
servative government say a shorter work week without
pay cuts could ruin West Germany’s export-oriented
economy.

‘One-third of the country's jobs depend on exports, and
automakers have put non-strikers out of work by shutting
down operations they say were left short of parts by the
strikes, . ;

‘MEANS MORE JOBS’

Unemployment is running at a countrywide rate of 9.1

per cent. Union leaders say a 35-hour work week would

mean jobs.for one million of West Germany's 2.3 mpition ed!
noUE, HOEK 3 uniinployéd sworkers#2i/ vette sat teas
. Employérs ‘argue that:the. shorter week would: boost °;

‘labor costs by 14to 18 per cent, pricing West Germany out
of the competitive export market.

High-level talks were scheduled Thursday in Stuttgart
between the metal industry employers’ association and
the IG Metall, which claims to have 2,5 million members.

Labor Minister Norbert Bluem has said that if one
million workers went on strike for a month, the public
treasury. would lose $1.4 billion in revenue.

The left-wing opposition Social Democrats-and the anti-
establishment Greens are strong supporters of the
shorter work week.

Volkswagen, the country’s largest automaker, said
Tuesday it had enough parts to continue producing 5,000
cars daily through early next week.

Ford, a U.S. subsidiary, planned to keep producing

2,500 cars daily at its Cologne plant for the next: several

days, a spokesman said,
IG Metall union has a fund for strikers but cannot pay
benefits to workers idled by lockouts or layoffs,

Mondale challenges Hart

Walter Mondale, increasingly optimistic down the
home stretch of his race for the U.S, Democratic
presidential nomination, is attacking chief rival Gary
Hart while Jesse Jackson talks about challenging party
rules at the San Francisco convention.

Hart scored a psychological gain Tuesday by easily
winning over Mondale in Idaho’s presidential preference
primary, a contest with no delegates at stake. .

Mondale predicted he will have enough delegates to
secure the Democratic nomination by noon June 6, the
day after the climactic round of primaries in California,
New Jersey and three other states.

“About noon; 12 o'clock; June 6, 11:59," Mondale said
while in West Virginia. “That's firm.”

Mondale, who once was a picture of caution before each
primary, has been growing more optimistic as the final
round of primaries come closer. He predicted victory in

. California, New Jersey and West Virginia.

There are 496 delegates at stake on the final primary
day in California, New Jersey, West Virginia, New
Mexico and South Dakota, Mondale needs about 300 more
delegates to have the 1,987 needed to claim nomination,
PLAYING ‘HOOKEY' .

Mondale was in Illinois today after a tour of West
Virginia. He accused Hart of playing “hoekey” when
Congress passed the original bill to‘clean up toxic waste
dumps and called on him to repudiate support for the
“build-down"” proposal on nuclear arms, which Mondale
says isn't compatible with the nuclear freeze he backs.

But while Mondale kept up the attack, Hart mentioned
the former vice-president not once during a long cam-
paign swing through Colorado and New Mexico. —.

Hart, in a speech in Grand Junction, Colo., Tuesday,
called Yor broad reforms of thé U.S, voting ‘system to
sharply increase the number of Americans who. go to the
polls. Aides said he, planned“ nore’ speeches. on the
economy, military reform and. the'environnient. i:

Hart called - : pabier voter registration, Holding
elections on Sundays or perhaps 24-hour voting, and
public financing ‘of congressional candidates through
voluntary taxpayer checkoffs such as the one now used
for presidential campaigns.

Jackson planned to take today off in Washington,
where he met ‘Tuesday with the Democratic National

Committee chairman, Charles Manatt, to demand more

convention delegates.

WANTS RULES CHANGED

“The rules have had a negative impact upon our
campaign,” Jackson told reporters after the, session.
“That’s why, with about 21 per cent of the popular vote,
we have only nine per cent of the delegates. We want our
share of delegates.”

Jackson said failure to meet his demands would mean
a fight a at the convention in'Sdi Francisco.

“We're going to challenge that arrangement in San
Francisco,” he said, “‘Likewise, we shall appeat to that
convention and to the rules and credent als committees,
the idea of one-person, one-vote.”

Manatt pledged to continue to ask stale party chairmen
to allot a few more delegates to Jackson but otherwise
turned aside his complaints. However, the party chief
said Jackson's ideas for changing the rules may have
some merit — for 1988 and beyond.

In Washington, the latest federal campaign reports
showed Hart outspent Mondale in April.

Mondale raised $1,066,074 and spent $3.5 million as he
scored some of his biggest primary victories in New York
and Pennsylvania. Mondale owed almost 41. 8 million on
April 30, and had spent about $15 million since he started
campaigning last year,

Hart took in $1.49 million in April and spent $3.8 million.
His campaign, which was almost $3.5 million in-debt at
the end of April, has spent $9.2 million overall.

Cedillos speaks

TERRACE— Jose Pedro Cedillos, the Canadian
representative of the Spanish Revolutionary Democratic
Front (FDR), the diplomatic and political arnt of the
revolutionary opposition to the U.S,-backed . military
government of El Salvador, will be in Terrace tonight to
give a presentation on a number of subjects.

Cedilles will show .a 10 minute film entitled ‘In the
Name of Democracy", and will hold discussions In
analyzing the recent elections in El Salvador, explaining
the new proposals of the FDR for a negotiated settlement
to the conflict in El Salvador, and appealing for financial
support for medical aid to women and children in the

: liberated ‘zores. —

He will be meeting with residents in Terrace’ tonight
(Wednesday) at 7:30 p.m. at the-Carpenter's Hilal, 43312
Sparks Street.

The meeting in- Kiitmat will occur at the Kildala
Elementary School Library on Thursday, May 24, at 7:30
pm,

The Prince Rupert meeting will occur on Friday, May

_ 26, again. at 7:30 p.m. at the Fisherman’s Hall.

Be Water Wise. Play it Safe.

When boating follow the rules andiearn
-about local hazards such as tides and currents

aff The Canackan Red Cross Soriety

Bie cake,

The Harald, Wednesday, May 23, 1984, Page ?

Wife leaves after ‘beatings

WINNIPEG (CP) — t Was

Christmas i980, Bix yeas after Irene was beaten by her

husband for the first time. .
-’ When it happened again, Irene decided to go to the
police, Te

The next day, an RCMP officer came to Irene's home in
central Manitoba and talked with her husband, who she

said alivays seemed.to find a‘reason to abuse her no.

matter how she tried to change to please him.

But no charges were laid. :

In fact, the policeman’s visit put her husband into “one
of his ugly moods", and led to the worst beating of her l-
year marriage.

She took-her two children to.a relative’ ‘3s home and
virtually hid out for three weeks while her pride and
bruises healed,

But her husband tracked her down and, out of fear, she
went back home with him,

One beating later, Irene and her children fled by bus to
Winnipeg where she sought help, welfare, separation and
divorce.

And she took her husband to court where she was given

' protective custody of the children with her husband

denied visitation rights.

She is now in the process of getting the divorce.

Irene was prompted to tell her story to a reporter after
recent statements by judges and defence lawyers that
Manitoba's blanket policy of prosecuting wife-beaters is
wreaking havoc with vietimns, families and the judicial
system, -

CREATES CHAOS °

Winnipeg defence lawyer Jim MacDonald s said last
week that Attorney General Roland Penner’s policy of
pushing for prosecutions of men who mistreat their
spouses is honorable, “but the result has so far been
chaotic.”

Judges and lawyers have found that most vietims are

‘+ pecessarily be dealt with in the courts.”

unwiliiig to ‘tedtily against their spouses. They want the

charges dropped and feel pressured into proceeding with
the case, -

“In effect, the court becomes an appressor rather than
a protector,” MacDonald said.

Judge fan’ Dubienski says statistics compiled sined
Penner directed police to lay charges in all such cases
show “that the problem of wife abuse does not have ta

The courts “are probably beisig improperly used id
many eases," said Dubienski, a senior provincial court
judge.

In many cases, where the parties seem to have reached
a reconciliation, the Crown stays the charges, with at
least one judge -aying such people are “abusing the
public services of the police, the Crown and the courts.”

_Trene sees it differently.

“She feels many men who beat their spouses are not
aware that they are doing wrong. Only by being taken to
court will they realize that society does not accept such
conduct,

CHANGE LIVES

Hf the police had charged her husband after the
Christmas incident four years ago, things might have
been different in their lives, she said. :

“He might have realized what he was doing.”

it also would have made her realize that the problerh
was not of her making, but his.

- “By charging him, society is telling him he has done
something wrong.That is something he could nevey

"understand If it came from me.”

Irene has an ally in the Manitoba Committee on Wife
Abuse which says. that even if the crackdown isn't

‘working perfectly yet, it’s worth the effort.

Committee vice-president Victoria Lehman said
— diminating wife abuse is a long-term goal, and “‘to scrap.
the idea because we're having some isolated problems
will only tet husbands end up getting away.” ;

Police charge | Israeli terrorists

JERUSALEM (AP) — Police filed charges ‘today
ranging from murder to membership in a hostile
organization against 25 Israelis suspected of belonging to.
a Jewish underground group that waged a campaign of
terror against West Bank Palestinians.

Six Israelis were accused af premeditated murder in
the 1983 machine-gun and grenade attack that killed
_, three students and wounded 33 others at Hebron’s
* Islamic College.

Eleven were accused of attempted murder in a 1980
plot against prominent West Bank political leaders, in-
cluding car bombings that maimed two Palest nian
. mayors.

The others were accused of stealing weapons from the
Israeli army” and of membership in a - hostile
organization.

The suspects were brought from a nearby jail to hear
the charges read in Jerusalem District Court. Under the
Israeli system, formal court charges await the next court
appearance, set for May 31.

The Justice Ministry gave reporters an abridged
version that deleted the suspects’ names, in keeping with
a court ban on publishing the names.

“All. 25 will be ‘charged.next week when the trial
‘starts,’ Justice Ministry Yitzhak Feinberg said. ‘Until
today ‘they were only arrested: They were not accused,
Now they have been accused.”

Av

“3 Some.ofthe suspects ge singing, but. dthers: Tooked

eMofaiifhid their faces from photographers as bofice
brought them in a bus fron a nearby jail to the court j in
Arab East Jerusalem.
PRIVATE SESSION -

At the request of defence lawyer . David Rotem, Judge
Yehuda Weiss told reporters to leave the room during the

- 40-minute session.

Police began rounding up the suspects April 27 after

‘foiling a plot to blow up five Arab-owned buses in
‘Jerusalem. .

Israeli news reports have linked the group to a string of

‘attacks against Arabs, including the altack on the
Hebron Islamic College last July in which three students
were killed and 33 wounded, and attacks on Palestintah
mayors.

The only detainee named thus far is a prominent set:
tlement leader, Rabbi Moshe Levinger.

The conservative daily newspaper Maariv reported
today that the Israelis who planted the car bombs that
crippled two West Bank Palestinian mayors in 1980 alsg
planned to attack four other Palestinian leaders in
revenge for the murder of six Israeli settlers in Hebron.

Maariv said its report was based on jailhouse in+
terviews with some of the suspects, -

Season imapired:

VANCOUVER (CP) — Record rainfall and a saturated!
North American market are adding up to a disastrous:
season this year for British Columbia strawberry:
growers.

Continuous rain has caused severe root-rot problems,
compounding the already high winter crop damage, said:
Cornelius ‘Penner, secretary of the 210- member’
Strawberry Growers Association.

He expects yields to be dawn by as much as 50 per cent!

“from-last year, when | elght million, kilograms of’.

strawberries werg haryegted.

But despite the loss of production, Penner also expects: >

prices cauld be down by as much as 45 cents a kilogram
because ofa glut of berries on the market fram a bumper,
erop last year in Oregon, increased planting in Califor-
nia, and bigger exports from Mexico.

Helmut Sawatsky, president of the 280-member B. C.
Raspberry Growers Association, said the raspberry crop:
also wil] be hard hit.

The rain has delayed the season by at least two weeks,!
he said. ‘‘We should be in the middle of the blooming
season and they haven't started yet.”

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