fi ' _ f ‘Vicronta (CP) — British ‘Cohunbia taxpayers: will save’ *. “milllona of dollars and most of their public schools now will. "ba insured hocause the jiroviricial' government décided to.” | swiltgh :the provincial: schools insurance package to the. +. private sector. fren: the, goverment’: own: insurapee oO “VICTORIA. (cry A decision by ‘the federal Fisheries Ministry, to: grant Sealand ‘of .the: Pacific permission ‘to. ~ - capture wo killer. whales has: prompted a new round of environmentalist’ protests ‘and vows ‘to stop the whales’ | Capture: «.. Fisheries: Minister Pierre De Bane. announced. (Sunday, that ‘Sealand would.-be granted the permits, which: in- ;tublost to certain ‘conditions it ‘remains "generally for two if we should " difficulties, corporate q number of regulat-1w for the protection of : whales and conditions of actual : ‘The overall issue -of the whales in captivity. jias beer addressed. and guidance has been given. by... Hon- governmental advisory committee whose, very mandate Is to reflect currerit public and Canadian scientific standards on. the issue,” De Bane told a news ¢onference. - “Based upon that and the obvious ‘popularity among hundreds and thousands of Canadlans,.I satisfied that. e will of. the: aterview that tranaferring his: ‘ministry 's $2 milllon-a-year siirance'package to Reed. Stehhouse of Torento from- -the o majority: that a limited nutaber of: ihe i apscnien of the species: should be continued: to. be made - available for education and. enjoyment display purposes.””... - : capture of the whales, He said bowing to Greén be giving in‘to-the will‘of a minority. and that: is tyranny: ‘> Patrick Moore, president of Greenpeace Canada, sald th permits amount to stening the death notices. for the whales’ to be captured. . “the same area (Oak Bay) where these whales are to be:. kept, has’ been - declared off. limits’ by the Fistories. - Biiatipd Anistee Bil ‘Vander Zalm' paid-in a recedt: Angurance Corp. of B.C., effective March 1, ensures: that. riearly all of the ‘1,600, schoolsin the: province a are covered ws instead of aly the. largest, a achools. i “will save up (o $4.5 million on eve De: Bane, who returned ta! “ottawa fattswing ‘thie a es _oancement, could inot he reached Tok: comment on Moore ot De Bane condemned the statements af the ecivirgnmental i charges. " group Greenpeace, which has sald it will try to’ prevent the ih peace would: be arrested if they were to harass or assault: the Sealand . taft acting under the. legal permits. wet Sealand manager Angus Matthews. declined. to ‘say ven - “or where the whales will be captured. The) permit ‘stipulates... * that the whales come from a pod known as Pod E, and he _ doesn’t know where the: pod might be at the present time. - However, he said, the pod usually moves along the.east Department to shellfish: harvesting’ due to sewage con- “;coast of Vancouver Island, and he expects the capture to be -tamination,”' said Moore, “In addition, the Sealand facilfty: is located in ‘the middle of a large public marina where: there are no sewage disposal regulations for pleasure oratt; Therefore large amounts of: sewage is entering. this water ~ Seattle suspect sought — SEATTLE (AP) —~ With the lone gurvivor too sedated to ” tell them more, the. mayor and police chief have asked this - city! ‘a. close-knit. Chinese community. to help them find. a third, suspect in the bloody massacre of 13 people. Two men were if custody and expected to. be. forinally ° charged Tuesday in the masg murders ata Chinatown high stakes gambling ‘club, authorities sald.. Mayor Charles Royer called the killings “on dutrageous,.” once-in-a-century crime” and told members of the Chong Wa Benevolent Association at a meeting Sunday that police : “need - ‘co-operation and information. ” ‘The meeting with 110 Chinese leaders, and. police chief Patrick. Fitzsimons ‘came. a day after’ 12 men and. ¢ne | : woman were found bound, robbed and shot in. the: fread at the’ Wah Mee Club, a private garabling organization in ‘Chinatown. Police theorize. that robbery of'a high-stakes gambling operation Jed fo the killings. Royer denied: that: illegal gambling: is tolerated In Chinatown. “When we. find evidence of gambling we move. Mo . The’ massacre was believed to be the worst: single-day mags homicide in ‘alate history and one of the worst across’ the 8.S., officials said. - Theonly survivor, Wai Chin; 61, was in nerious condition - ". Sunday with a gunshot wound to the neck and was expected ‘to be too sedated to talk to police until later in-the week, a spokesman at Harborview. Medical Centre said, Chin’s ability to survive, escape his bindings: and stagger 7 outside at 12:44 a.m. Saturday was what police called the ” ludky’ break” 3 ted wei wiles arrests bots later of . Btifainin yt ati 1 ie hth SpreaT - bern at Hid: aiid Tied Niles hott sla were Stow ; : st ‘Quebec teachers i back at work QUEBEC (CP) — Most of ‘Quebec’ 's schools: were’ func- _ tioning normally today as teachers suspended a an illegal _ four-week walkout. The teachers ‘voted overwhelmingly Sunday t to calla | three-week truce in their stormy contract dispute with the provincial government. However, there was at least one’ ‘rouble spot as students and support and professional staff from John Abbott junior college’ ina westem Montreal subuirh took ta. the picket. lines. union federation in suspending the strike, several hundred ’ students and non-teaching staff were _démonatrating in support of the strike and there were no classes. A spokesman for the €5,000-member ‘Centrale de l'en sejgnement du Quebec, the province's. largest’ teachers’ federation, said % per cent of teachers who votedon Sunday cast ballots in favor of suspending the strike until March'14, ATTENDS A MEETING: Federation spokesman Denis + Leclair said 95 union locals met:Sunday with 23 060, or: BL per cent of their. 56,124 members attending. ‘He; said a a total of 24,504 members; or. Sper cent, votsd in’ A * Tories ‘safe? - NORTH BAY, Ont, (cP) — The ‘Liberal, government -won't take advantage ‘of the Progressive Conservatives’ - leadership ‘problems by calling a snap election, Liberal ~ party” president Iona Campagnolo said Sunday. . “There’s a gentlemen's agreemerit in the convention of . politics that a party doesn't call an election when the other party Is leaderless,” ‘Campagholo. said in an interview.” : Campagnolo, in North Bay to meet witli the ‘executive of . the Nipissing Liberal. Association, said she. doubted very much her: ‘party would break the conyention “although Mr. (Joe) Clark threatened to do it when: the shoe was on the . other foot.” ‘Campagnolo was referring to a threat from the then- ruling Conservatives in 1979 to force an: election after Pierre" Trudeau resigned as Liberal leader. . However, Campagnolo said if an’ ‘election’ is called, the "Liberal. -party coffers are strong’ enough . fo’ finance it.” “We. always have a war ‘chest , ady ge an elestion, she sald, .. She admitted the national level of he ‘party is in poor financial shape, but blamed. the: “problem, ( dip iden ar she said. “We are constituency rich and ‘nationally poor Campagnola, who. has been, party months, eaid it will be al Jeant e months before’ she begins to assess her “success al f the job. . ; “At the first of May, I'll reassess (the job) and check it " across the various measurements, whether it's. working, Although the college’ s teacher had voted to” support their - daident ‘for; three, * Deputy King County Prosecutor Mary Kay Barhiedl| tain” : bail ashigh as $1 million would be sought. for bath suspects” ‘at today’s ball hearing. alae - Ng had been arrested two years ago isa shooting tn ‘whieh four young Chinese meni were admitted to hospital; one With -: serious injuries, juvenile court records ‘show: But: the’ _ assault: charge was. dismissed for Insufficlent evidence, . records show. Homicide Lieut. Robert Holter said others might be in- volved in additibn to the third man Bought, reported: to be a ‘young ‘Asian, 6) * The first. autopsy to be. completed showed. one of. th victims died of: multiple Qunshot wounds: to the headgivitt one ‘of the shots close enough to leave powder burnsi'said " Bill Haglund of the King County medical exaniiner's office,» Autopsies’ on. eight victims, were: completed Sunday. Haglund said results on the remaining autopsies would: ‘be released after all were complete. ° .-~ . Chong Wa Benevolent Association President ‘Nellie Woo: appealed for co-operation with the Police “so that we can _live here without fear,” . Her organization is an alliance of Chinese family and cumenunity ar groups uniting the 10 000 Chinese who live in the ty fey is Gambling. stakes at the club grew dramatically in recent : months as several: well-heeled Chinese put up $10,000 to $20,000 each to bankrolll the club, say accounts of a meeting - Saturday ~- of « members of | several Chinese family associations. : oo ‘ _As muchas $100,000 might have been. on hand at the tlme of the ‘altack, the associations were told. Police sald found very little cash either at the elub or onthe vWietin(: . andia to’ vay if aily monéy'had been re recovered - in the arrests. . " favor of suspending the strike, while 4,276, or 15 per cent, voted against, and 220 abstained, ; ‘Leaders of junior college teachers represented by the. Confederation of National Trade Unions‘ also. announced — Sunday their 8,300 members would return.to work as well. The truce is aimed at getting the government back to the - bargaining table to renegotiate workload and job security : clauses contained in a three-year contract imposed ‘ on the leachers leat’ December by the Parti , Quebecois: govern : ment, ; , . It also spares ‘the teachers stiff fines; seniority cuts ‘and firings which Quebec was threatening to levy with Bill 111, the controversial back-(o-work law adopted last ‘Thursday. Spot checks of a number of. schools indicated teachers ‘were on the job Monday. . ~ . ‘At Daniel Johnson comprehensive high school in east-end - Moritreal, ‘the principal’s: ‘secretary. said all the. teachers. * werd back and the atmosphere at the school ‘was “very | alm. i} '. A spokesman for the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal said the board's . schools “appeared ‘to’ be ‘ operating normally”. today, although not all the children ~ had got the message their schools were open. He added attendance : was: expected to increase at these achools during the day, ‘The coollng-off period does not mean that all 1.2 million Quebec’ students were back in the classroomis,today — " because niany school boards liad previously: scheduled this week as a midterm: holiday, . * r “e About 250 school boards across the province ~ “about 2 per cent of the total — are taking breaks this week." “Meanhwile, an emergency cabinet meeting. that was “supposed to have evaluated the situation regarding the ., leachers was cancelled Monday. ~ But Harvey Weiner, president of the independent 6,400- member Provincial Association of Protestant. Teachers, said he didn't know what Laurin, was talking about. . “it he’s got something to offer, all he has to do is give us & " phone call,” Weiner said. “We'll be there in Tess than five minutes flat." = « “But not all teachers were convinced that the truce ‘might ‘deliver results. 7 a, ro Clean up apd: 4 TEAWACE’ —oSkeena MLA. Frank Howard is ‘fending, a letter’ téday to the minister of lands urging him tolaunch a clean-up program at the Lakelse Hotsprings, — The project is intended not merely to clean up a site that Howiird says has become visually offensive, -but as a . preliminary step towards reopening it to public use. “The cleaning: up. will provide.us with a imuch’ needed “positive type of employment program, and. the recon- whethér it's maklag money, what it’s costing and how that” struction of the public facility will also provide jobs. and - . 1s to be balanced,” she said. On Saturday, she attended the annual meeting of the Timiskaming Liberal Association in Kirkland’ Lake, She - told the association that a tough new party, Organization is * needed to prepare policies for the 1980s. Campagnolo said the. Liberal party was, last reorganized in 1967. ; “It ia-time to do It again and we will, " she said, result in an incomia generating project,”.the MLA: states. “Tt will start to return ‘benefits to this area- immediately,” "che continues. Howard says the provincial government his ‘owned the hotsprings for four yeord and thus far has spent more than $100,000 on it.‘merely tokeep itina state of disrepair and ts discourage local ‘residents. from the opportunity to do something constructive with it.” Ie fa made in B.C.- - waters. X Sealand, shut down after the death of its last killer whale * Haida last October, will reopen about mid-May; Matthews sald. By that time, the whale pool will have been: almost . tripled in capacity,and new facilities for an. educational {Program for schoolchildren. will, have been. pul in, Place. . geatand does tiot havetopay anything | for the permit, and’ {De Bane said the ‘question of profit going to the owner of a rmit was not part of his deliberations. of. * Among the requirements stated-in the licence are: the | “svhales should be between six ‘and 10 years old; either. two” : Males ‘of one male and one femala. may be. taken; no : _ pregnant or nursing mothers may be captured; the whales “may not be sold, bartered" or-given away. ~~. The ministry's director © general will monitor the “i;procedures arid has the right to withdraw the permit at any — Sime if he thinks the whales aren't _being treated. well. , The whale controversy erupted in January, 1982,-when “the killer whale Miracle, which shared billing with Halda, ‘drowned after being caught in a hole cut by someone | bet- een the inner’ and outer nets of her cage. . On Oct.8, Haida, which was to have been released after 14. years in ‘captivity, ‘died i in her pool from, a bacterial ins fection. : At the same time, Sealand had been trying to capture two" - more killer whales in Pedder Bay ‘near Victoria, after ; reaching an agreement. with ‘the. Fisheries Minisiry to replace the whale. Under the agreement, Haida was to be released 90 days after the capture of the two new whales or. by Oct. 1, whichever came first. - - Greenpeace members set up canp at Pedder. Bay and: interfered: with Sesland’s attempt to capture the new - whales, by making noise toscare the whales away from, the nets. *. The. pathologist’ 3 findings: into Haida’s: death ignited a fierce debate between Sealand and Greenpeace, which - charged that the waters the whale was. being kept in were . unsanitary, with no water purification or treatment system, ‘However, the aquarium announced shortly after Haida's ‘death that it was closing its doors, At the times, Matthews - eine Houle’ Be Naty raed #1 Sa wis ‘\reopetied “The aquarium was a ‘popular tourist attraction in the suburb of Oak Bay, where more than 700,000 people flocked . each year to see-the whale shows. 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