“Northwest - Thursday. Tely 29, 1982 | i LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY PARLIMENT BUILDINGS Victorja, BG. | V8V 124 \ Hot weather has returned and so has a high fire hazard. - Archambault convicts adpad MONTREAL {CP) Rampaging “Archambault Penitentiary convicts have. been gassed several times in their cellblocks since Sunday's bloody riot that left three guards and two _ prisoners dead, officials ‘paid Wednesday. | Warden Andre Lemarier * told reporters who toured part of the maximum- . Becurity prison: Wednesday tear gas was used several =. times Monday and Tuesday when inmates ‘began tearing up their cells. As the tour of the ax. 7 tensively damaged control sui Lemarier’ «said Ww, alleged participants in -the. - centre where the riot. broke. — out, preceeded, convicts in - - cellilocks howled: through | the: windows, ‘complaining ‘of having been gassed and ; starved. . four riot have been placed in . solitary confinement,. while « another prisoner was put in isolation as the result of an incident this week. : Mégnwhile, thousands of mourners were expected at today's funeral for the © _ Guards in Ste. Anne-des- ~ Plainea,’ ‘kllometres . north: of Mon-| treal where the prison is” ‘Convicts, in. all federal... _ penitentiaries’ were. to be.’ confined to their cells this - the town. 35 morming &0 . guards could attend their own, memorial: services for Denis: Rivard, 24, David Van Ben Abeele, , 4, and Leandre Leblanc, 60. During «the; .riot; -which "authorities say was sparked by ‘an: escape attempt, Rivard had — his crushéd and his. two colleagues bled to death from; numerous ere TK Tt Is still a mystery how the dead prisoners, - Yvon . Martin, Bt, and ¢ tian Perreault, 24; ‘describe as” ‘leaders of the escape bid, . got the cyanide they used to. commit suicide... - . ._Guards “contended the cyanide was smuggled in, elther by ‘a. visitor or a convict returning from a day pass. Lemarier ' ‘gaid. the law prevents guards from submitting ‘prisoners ‘to ~ thorough body ‘searches, unless a. prisoner gives written. permission A-few grains of cyanide . " are endugh to cause a quick. and - retatively Bainless death. . ‘Lemarier - said “ eell two of the homemade picks or knives used in the guard killings. Some'screwdrivers | and hammers - snatched from’ ransacked workshops are still ilssing, Lemarier said. “The - ‘unfon | represeriting _ federal prison. guards on ‘Wednesday denianded a royal commission of inquiry into the riot, the rein-_ statement of capital punish- ment and an end to privileges. such as conjugal visits. investigations are being ~ carried out by Archambault - authorities and: the ‘federal corrections - “service, and & bec coroner's - “inquest to the five. deaths is to * ‘open in. mid-August. ; searches: have ylelded only da in the House of Commons, a Prison, guards honored” Progressive Conservative MP Benno Friesen charged pornographic films, . in- cluding - spme ‘kiddie porn,” are ‘being shown at - - Archambault and at least one: prison in Canada, . But Solicitor General Robert’ Kaplan — said prisoners are allowed to see any film cleared by provincial censors, for general distribution, Western - although wardens can ban_ violent films. : He said Archambault convicts were treated to a striptease by a member of a musical group. two years "ago, but- that was an Im- -promptu ‘violation of prison - policy that. ought to have been stopped. - police and Joc hhead : Btab . STE. ANNE-DES. ‘PLAINES, Que. (CP) <= Federal: prison. guards’ from across | - Quebec converged mae busload on this rural community no of Montreal today to .pay. their’ last. crespects to threé Archambault penitentiary last Sunday, — * The 600 quarda, weanlng black mourning armbands on: t beige uniforms, joined the. berea' ed faniilies of. Leandre |: ‘Leblanc, David Van Den Abeele and Denis - ‘Rivard in: the local ‘Roman ‘Catholic. Church where: the funeral service waB 7 conducted ‘by Rev. Robert Lapointe, _ chaplain at the federal maximun-security an - penitentiary, ; _— The slain guards”’ coffins’ wera draped . with Canadian flags as they were carried into the grey stone church. . _- - Outside the ehureti, delegations | from the’ 7 "ROMP, the and Ontario provincial. . al municipal forces stood at attention, after.q slow march down the ~- - main Street of the town to a steady - drumbeat, - “Hundreds | ‘of townsfolk stood on > Bidewallas, “balconies, and roottops and ‘Donald . Yeomans, . Lstened to the service on a loudépeaker ° _ outside the door of the church. . Canadian flags outside the town hall and the fire station next door snapped at half- .-) ast swhile a cool wind blew under over- colleagues slain “in”.h -riot at nearby | cast skied. In the window of an insurance ” agent's office peross the street hung a sign : _ ena “Goodbye my friends. ” Mourners’ in’ ‘the. church included ~Ballcitor General: Robert’ Kaplan. and his "wife, federal’ penitentiaries commissioner directors . of other federal | prisons and elected represen talives, _ ~The bodies of Leblanc and Van - Den Abeéle were taken aiter the service for cremation in the nearby Montreal suburb, of Laval, where Rivard was to be interred, _ immediately. ‘Leblanc, who was working h his last shift at the prison-when the riot erupted -late.... _ Sunday, was a 30-year. veteran’ of the. _-» penitentlary service and was corrections + ‘Bupervisor at Archambault since 1975. He is survived by his wife and four children. % 25 cents Established 1908 PLO strikes ed “The Israeli military command said Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas fired mortar shells at Israeli positions in Beirut today, but Israet stilt was observing the latest ceasefire, The PLO said there was shooting because the Israelis’ were trying to advance. Meanwhile, PLO chief Yasser Arafat refused comment on a new drive 4o get him to declare he and his guerrillas will leave Lebanon. ‘The Israeli command in Tel Aviv said the PLO started shelling Israeli positions near Beirut’s international airport around 2 p.m. (§ a.m. EDT). “Israeli soldiers received strict orders to hold their fire and are Intensively observing the terrorists’ movements,” he added. Arafat, wearing military’ fatigues with a pistol on his hip and a desert cap on his head, talked briefly with reporters. in the-PLO enclave of West Beirut after meeting with for- - mer ‘Lebanese prime. minister Saeb Salam, who has been - the key go-between in talks with Lebanese government officials and U.S. presidential envoy Philip Habib. -Asked aboul Habib’s reported promise to Israeli Prime © Minister Menachem -Begin to let Israel know by Friday whether the PLO would leave. Beiriit peacefully, Arafat . said: -“I did not receive any official Proposals from Mr. ~ Habib... Ihave to deal officially with his excellency, not you (reporters).”" Salam said before meeting with Arafat that the PLO has repeatedly said it wanted to leave Beirut peacefully, “‘but it has to be arranged where to go, how to go, and (it must be) | ‘tied up with the international force coming in, all that has to- be scheduled. That's not in their hands,” _ . Arab countries have refused to take the estimated 8, 000 - guerrillas en masse, and officials of the Arab League, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria and the PLO met in Jidda,-Saudi Arabia, today to discuss ways to-combat Israel's invasion. of Lebanon which began June 6. Trapped in West Beirut along with the PLO are some | 500,000 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. The United. States has refysed to agree to have its portion of the international force move into the city before most of “the PLO. fighters ‘leave for -fear American troops would become involved in fighting. The PLO says it can't Jeave -without the international force in place. _ Moshe Yegar, assistant dire¢tor . general of. the Israeli Foreign Ministry, announced the ceasefire Wednesday - _ hight after a, week of air,land and sen bombardment, with:— Sat biel the Israelis triethtor force tHe PLO'to’ agres: to Teave™ Lebanon. The U.S. State Department, after a 34-hour Israeli attack” Tuesday and early Wednesday in which Lebanese police _reported 247-péople were killed, Said Habib was trying to restore the truce, and “the bloodshed ‘must stop.” The Palestinian news agéncy WAFA said 28 people were killed or wounded in Wednesday’s fighting. Yegar announced that Israel would abide by Habib’s request “if the other side holds its fire.” There was no announcement from the PLO, and its radio station made no. mention of a ceasefire before signing off as-usual at 9:45. p.m. Wednesday. In° Oltawa on Wednesday, the. House of ‘Commons unanimously praised Theodore. Arcand, Canadian am- bassador to Lebanen, and urged the government. to give “appropriate recognition’ to his. “unflinching devotion to duty.” Arcand isthe only western ambassdor who has not moved to Christian -held East Beirut, On Tuesday, Arcand's apartment was severely damaged in an Israeli air raid, At the’ United Nations, a French-Egyptian. resolution « ° calling for the disengagement of Israeli arid PLO forces in Beirut and laying the basis for-an overall Middle East seitlement was expected to bé introduced in the Security ;- Council today. A swift vote appeared unlikely. Despite its ceasefire announcement, Israel said nothing about turning on West Beirut’s water and electricity, The Israelis shut off the water and the Power Monday nahh aS a. 1 his ban WASHINGTON (Reuter) — President Reagan, seeking to play down a dispute with- allies over his ban on. U.S. equipment and technology for a Soviet natural- “gas pipeline to Western Europe, says he has had no second: thoughts _ &bout his move. * “Speaking at a news conference in the White House on Wednesday night; he also voiced optimism that the crisis in Lebanon would be settled while underlining his refusal to negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization unless the PLO recognizes Israel's right to exist. Oni ‘another major foreign policy issue, he signalled that. contacts ' with the Kremlin for. a summit with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev were at an impasse, saying: “'L next, ‘or at all. ” “It takes two to tango,” he said when rerninded he stated. several months ago that a summit was “in the works.” The presiderit rejected arguments by West European ‘leaders that he was following a double standard i in ee _exports ‘for- the.. Soviet. pipeline while. the United States Continues to sell grain to the Soviel Union. ee ' Reagaii sald selling-grain ta the ‘Soviet Union would drain . much needed Soviet currency but exporting equip: © - ment for the pipeline wo ive it hard currency which it could use to continue its military buildup. i ‘The president, who is about to decide whether to extend a ‘current grain-sale agreement with the Soviet Union, also- said the Kremlin could buy grain frem other countries so he. _ would not be ‘achieving very much by ‘denying it U. S. ‘sup. plies. France and Italy have announced. they will ignore hig. pipeling 6 sanctions, which affect U.S. subsidiaries overseas _ and-foreign firms manufacturing under U.S. licence, but © -Reagan sald the dispute is in the NATO family “and the -Fdnaily Is still a family" despite 2 the controversy. Bo-betweens tors) ~~ want” thie Earle tay “Reagan firm oe Pa don't know whether it's Boing. to take place this year, or warning to the sector's civilians to flee from. the threat of a final attack on the PLO. — Meanwhile, the UN Palestine relief agency said five armed PLO guerrillas were preventing it from delivering food from its warehouse in West Beirut to Palestinian refugees in the city and in southern Lebanon. “Volume 76 No.145__ _ Begin, ‘after: meetings with Habib in Jerusalem on Tuesday and Wednesday,’ said Israel would “bring about the disappearance of all térrorisis from Beirut and - Lebanon’ if Habib’s six-week mediation missidn fails. Begin said Habib promised to seek an “unegilvocal © commitment’ by the PLO to leave West Beirut and to give Israel the answer “within two days.” “Tt is still not clear if the terrorista have even really ‘decided to leave Beirut,” Begin told a group of university professors. “Habib will clarify this in the next two days, that he: promised us. He told us he had to have an. unequivocal commitment that they will leave:"' - Israel has been threatening that its 35,000 troops and 300 * tanks ‘surrounding the Lebanese capital's Moslem sector. would move in and wipe the PLO guerrillas out if they did not: agree to leave Lebanon. But Begin sald: “We are deliberating; we. are hesitating. First of all, we don’t want Wednesday night: “There are no deadlines that have been set of any kind.” _ “Until Ambassador Habib would tell me ‘there Is nothing more to’ be negotiated and he can't solve it, ’'m going to continue to be optimistic,” said Reagan. Habib's efforts. to arrange ‘the withdrawal have been blocked _by the PELO's. determination to prevent the ‘widespread dispersal af its troops and to move them: to countries from which they can resume their attack on - Israel;‘and by the refusal of other Arab governments in the area to admit any sizable number of the PLO guerrillas. Habib after-a week's shuttle honed Egypt, Syria, Saud! | Arabia and Jordan would each take some of the PLO guerrillas, Israeli newspapers reported, But one of Egypt's leading government-controlled papers, Al-Akhbar, said in, ah editorial that the Arab’ states would’ never agree to * ‘dispersal, of the PLO guerrillas, becaure this would only: : serve Israel's goals, .-. Former Lebanese prime minister Saeb Salam, ‘one ot the key, rand the. PLO, said: te: PLO . a apo Petreat “from” West “Bait” ‘simultaneously-with their evacuation. Earlier the PLO said its fightefs would: not leave: until after the Israelis with- drew. Lebanese police ‘said more than 3,000 people have been killed in Beirut since the Israelis invaded Lebanon on June 6. ‘to rout the PLO. It has been based there since 1970, when - King Hussein expelled it from Jordan in a civil wars | In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, high-level delegations from five Arab countries and the PLO began talks with Saudi Arabla’ “on Wednesday night to reconcile Lebanese and Palestinian views on how to resolve the crisis. in Lebanon.' The talks Were to continue today. . Company started NO! SMITHERS— Liberal Senator Ray’ Perrault has.an- | nounced a federal grant to a Smithers based company | that . Will support the local lumber industry and also encourage export of Canadian: ‘mamiifactured products, ’ Hudsons Bay: Wood Processors owned by Robert Bow, .Glen Christian and Peter Goumans has accepted a grant of $151,721 from the department of regional economic ex- pansion (DREE) which will enable it to compete in the high . ‘quality European and American furniture market. Seventeen jobs in Smithers are expected to be created. The DREE grants will be directed towards the purchase of machinery and equipment. Capital cost of the project is estimated at $375,000. Perrault added that it is the use wo “local wood species thal greatly enhances this venture. Initial production will. be concentrated on the manufacture of table tops and edge glued shelving boards made from Canadian lodge pole pine. Sixty per cent of the ‘finished products is to be exported to the German-American market. The DREE- incentive is provided under the Regional Development Incentive Act, which aims to. realized and the incentive is payable after a new facility is: brought into commercial creation. . Glen Christian, spokesman ‘for Hudsons Bay Wood - stimulate-manufacturing investment and the creation of . -‘jobs in northern B.C. The -potential-is- not belig fully . Processors; said, “We would have been unable to finance . _ the’ operation Without the ® grant from DREE,”- a “INSIDE. 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