Pane 2, The Herakf, Mondav. Sectember 10, 197° Flaming end to their holid MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — Nearing after a seven- day Caribbean cruise, 721 vacationers suddenly found themselves aboard Ilfaboata alter flames erupted on their ‘wrury liner, But officials said Sunday the engine-room fire By BILL LEVITT IGLOOLIK, N.W.T. (CP) tion. Responding to complaints from the! federal aveament that thelr position in the past has been vague, the Inult Ta- pitigat of Canada released the weekend a com- duriug _ prehensive political develop- produced much amoke but no panic. Passengers fled the Skyward, a Norwegian Lines Ip, to ite elster ship, the Starward, after a fire early Saturday that broke cut while the Skyward was about 48 kilometrea from Miami's port. ment scheme for the North. The discussion paper, which took two years to formulate, calls for the establishment of a new territory called Nunavul, an Inuit werd meaning Our Land, ; Nunavul's boundaries would roughly coincide with the federal riding of Nunatslaq where [nuit haye traditionally formed an overwh Majority. It would cover a. north and enst of the ; ae Bea aid dealership Contact: Safe-Pak Make our business yours... ‘PAK Safe-Pak Mobile first aid service Independent deater. Safe-Pak ‘is inviting suitable applicants to join us in owning their own mobile figst aidand safety service unils. We provide complete professional assistance insecuring qualified personal, administration and training skills, as well as catalogues and continuous joint assistance. For more information on the fastest growing mobile first P.O. Box 261 Port Moody, B.C., V3H 3V5 {Please include personal resume} the land | "Tt was so safe that moet of us didn’t even wear a life jacket,” sald passenger Patty Bryant of Nashville, Tenn., after the Saturday afternoon transfer. No ‘Injuries were reported in the seven-howr manoeuvre. Fire broke out In an auxillary engine of the treeline, approximately 15 million square miles, but not include the Mackenzie ‘Valley or Yellowknife, the capital of the Northweat Territories, A territorial government would be set up and provinclal status would be attained in 15 years. The Tapirisat is an Ottawabased national organization that represents 22,000 northern Inuit. The paper, which was vigorously _debated in private by delegates from the Northwest Territories, Quebec and Labrador, was released at the conclusion of the group's annual meeting. The timetable for political seli-determination depends on the completion of land- claim negotiations. These have been stalled for two years because the federal government has refused to . gf link political self-deter- mination to land-claim settlements. Neil Faulkner, head of the office of native land claims which represents the government at the negotiations, said his man- date does not cover political development. Faulkner, who attended the meeting, said the document is a positive step because it gives the government a framework to work with. “It has finally been clearly laid out,” he said. 18,000-ton Skyward while the ship was returning from a seven-day cruise in the Caribbean. Norwegian Lines spokesman Ric Widmer said the engine where the fire started powered the Skyward's electrical gener- ators. An automatic syatem Liberal he supports the Nunavut concept. *, Allmand, a former northern affaira minister, also said he will try to win support from the Liberal caucus for creation of the new territory. -New Democrat Peter Tttlnuar (Nunatelaq) sald he will meet soon with the NDP catcus, Earller in the week John Parker, commissioner of thé Northwest Territories, said he accepts the argument that aboriginal rights have to be settled, But there is opposition to a land-claim settlement based on political Belf- determination for the Inuit, “We are not opposed in principle to the desires of the Inuit people to exist as & ‘oup, but as part of a territorial structure,'' Parker told the delegates. “Tn the matter of land claim settlements, it's important that the people of the North all sit down together, because no solution will work unless we are all involved," Faulkner said discussion about political self. determination for the Inuit also would have implications for other peoples In the Northwest Territorles who are seeking control, The territories contains about 50,000 people. estinguished the fire, but also shut down the ship's main propulsion system. Without the auxiliary engine, the crew was unable, to restart the propulsion syatem and the ship was left adrift, Electrical power was restored using emergenc generators, Widmer said, Inuit move toward their freedom ral government's Inuit, with about 15,-000 non- northern affairs critic, said natives in and around Yellowknife and another 13,000 Indian and Metis {of mixed white-Indian blood) in the Mackenzle Valley. * The Dene, which means the majority of natives in the Valley, have also called for political responsibility based on majority rate in thelr Jand claim. But the Dene are squabbling with the Metis over this issue and the federal government does not want to negotlate a claim settlement until they patch _up their differences. Several northern affairs ministers have called the Dene’- Nation proposal ethnically based, separatist orlented and racist. And last week Northern Affairs Minister ‘Jake Epp said he rejecta the concept that landclaim settlements should lead to ethnically based governments, Native groups have dented this and stated that everyone would have equal rights. And while native groups talk about breaking up the North, the territorial government is trying to consolidate ita power over these groups by asking Ot- tawa for responsible govern- ment, Hostage takers in court ADAMSVILLE, Que. (CP) — Two men appeared In ay No damage estimate wan available on Sunday . Widmer sald the cause of the blaze has not been determined. “The cabin boya kept pounding on the doors saying, ‘Everyone to the boat deck,” said passenger Norm Milos of Boca Raton, Fis. Then we all went to the boat deck. There was no panic whatsoever. A lot of panle.” He the Starward, had ~—saalready which disembarked ite passengers, to aid the Skyward. When the -Starward _arrlved from Miami, passengers boarded . 110- passenger lifeboats for the short trip between the ships. The transfer of passengers and 2,000 pieces of luggage “was a very slow process,” Widmer sald. - “The ship's crew, they were very Impressive,” sald ‘ Margaret Ellis of Macon, Ga. “They knew what they were doing.” The Starward arrived at Miami late Saturday, Widmer said, causing many passengers to miss connecting flights home. Saturday's fire was not the first tlme the Skyward has had trouble while at sea. In ~1973, most of the 1,000 passengers and crew aboard the boat were hit by a form of dysentery called shigellosis. Health officials said the outbreak was caused by insufficlent chlorine in the water system. The Skyward fire was the second to hit a Miami-based crulse ship this year. On Aug, 11, fire broke out in the generator rom Commodore - Cruise Lines’ MS Boheme just price to its departure. 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The Cont'd Sesame 113 i Cont'd ‘Flintstones Coni'd Streat :30 Cont'd Mod Cont'd Cont'd ‘48 | Cont'd _ Squad Contd Cont'd court Sunday following 8 50- On Nov. 18, 1985, the cruise" hour hostage-taking which ship Yarmouth Castle ended sately Saturday. caught fire and sank 175 Gilles Gilbert, 26, and: kilometres east of Miami Frederick Ladrew,.19,. ere oo, ; being held by’ Quebee 22 fT Her win” provincial pollee ' on warrants in connection with theft with Violence cone a iracle spiracy to commit theft wi 44 violence, sequestration and " illegal possession of ATLANTIC CITY, N.J, firearms. (AP) — The new Miss They are to be formally America, Chery] Prewitt of charged Wednesday in Mississippi, saya she will nearby Granby, offer 10 per cent of her Police said they were earnings to God for her two taken Into custody after tvo miracles — walking. again men left. a:.crediti.tnim after a crippling “sitldhood building where nine:people accident and winning the: had been taken hostage Mise,America Pageant. during a foiled holdup at- *~ “God is the Instigator of tempt last Thursday, this ‘whole thing,” she said The men emerged from Sunday only hours after she the building early Saturday became, the Sand Miss afternoon and handed over America! “Hf lt wasn’t for revolvers after they were him I -wWould never have told repeatedly that police gotten outof that wheelchair would refuse any deala for and walked.” their escape, provincial Miss Prewitt, 22, of Acker- police spokesman Pierre man, Misa:, defeated 49 Lemarbre said. - other contestants Saturday - ‘When the drama ended, night to become Miss four male hostages, America 1900, 4 title that including credit union guarantees her'a §20,-000 manager Plerre Blanchette,* scholarahip and more than came out of the bungalow- $80,000 in ‘\, personal sized building unharmed, appearance bed during The rest of an ‘original her reign. ; group of five men and four = Miss Prewitt has blue women, had. already. been eyes; stands five feét, seven released one’ by: one’— inches; weighs 110 pounds, apparently in exchange for and measures 35-23-38, food, drink and’a television A recent piano and voice set —- during ithe itwoday graduate of Misslsslppi State ordeal, 7 se Ve University, the brunette The surrender took ‘place wed both talents for her at 1:15 p.m. EDT Saturday, performance of the song about 50 hours after’ police Don't Cry Out Loud during foiled an attempted robbery the competition, oo and drove two bandita back = Her faith goes back To'1068; into the credit union. when her left leg was _ ‘The final breakthrough in crushed in an automobile negotiations came In two accident, ; hours of face-to-face talks The Injury left her in a through a. window between caat and wheelchair for the hostage-takers and elght months. Although negotlaters Robert LaHaye, doctors said she would never a criminal defence lawyer walk again, Miss Prewitt with experience in such said her prayers allowed her cases, and provinclal pollee to walk. ; Cpl. Yvon Fauchon. Then on Oct, 21, 1974, she The hostage-takera were sald, she returned to prayer told:You can try to come ata Jackson, Miss,, revival out, but you'll never get meeting, where about $00 through” @ heavy security other bellevers joined to ask cordon of shotgun-toting that her shorter left leg grow policemen. to match her right, “Hostages will no louger ‘1 wan altting there very be promenaded arownd,'’ calmly; we prayed and we lice said they told the asked," she sald, “I sat and andits. ‘It's our firmer watched my leg grow out in- Polley." stantanieously two Loches," In a foiled bank fobbery Asked whether she th t inst month in aethusbec City people would belleve her suburb, a hostage-taker wad medical “miracle,” Mist allowed tu travel with two Prewitt said: ‘‘I’m nat captives to Montreal, where worried. If I worried about he was arrested, it, then I wouldn't believe It Lemarbre refused to tay happened, But I know it did whether the two men and if others don't..." arrested In thia village 90 Because of her experience, klometres east of Montreal she said she will donate 10 had been able to negotiate per cent of her Miss America special judicial treatment in earnings to church charities, exchange for thelr She declined to comment awrender, on any romance in ber life. - * LENNOXVILLE, Que. (CP) — Quebec Libera) Leador Claude Ryan called on party members Sunday to vote “no” in next spring's promised referendum, even the Part! Quebecois avoldg mentioning indeperidence tn the question, . Speaking to 500 members of the party's geperal council, Ryan anid the party must say no to independence or to whatever the PQ Proposes. “Tp a referendum ... there tsoneelmple queation, which is supposed to be anawered a yes or a no, There ls no place, as a result, for refinements or nuances. You're for it or against it. You vote yes or no — it’s ab simple as that.” * Ryan sald Quebecers should turn down the PQ option of soverelgnty- association because "no association is thinkable or possible if Quebec has not first taken the decision to become independent.” If the question avolds the independence issue completely, It would’ show the PQ Is afrald of showing ita real intentions. : Ryan said the Quebec Libera! party ia the natural leader of federalist forces and should have majority control of the umbrella committee which, will be formed to fight in the refer- endum campaign. TV viewers driven south — TORONTO (CP) — Canada is in peril of driving television viewers to new U.S, channels because of & doomed effort to protect Canadian broadcasters, says Pierre Camu, outgoing chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Tele- communications Commission. Orbiting TV satellites, receivable almost anywhere in Canada and having a total capacity of more channels, hava put this eountry “on the verge of another (communications) revolution, ag fundamental n 100 - as the one television created for radio audiences more’ than 25 years ago.” ; New cable TV systms heing built in U.S, eitles will offer their customers more . than 60 channela: The firat of the U.S. broad: cast Pay-TV services has reached Canada in Windsor, where a Detroit atatlon is beaming new movies and other specials to customers in that area. A new era of multiple- cholce TV has arrived in the U.S. and Canadians, who once led the world In this respect, are being left behind. He wants Ontario’s way - OTTAWA (CP) — Commons staffers who hav! not been given securit: clearance by the RCMP have access to confidential files and documents, leaving the , vernment open to poaalble recur ty breaches, says MP. Tom Cosaltt. ‘ : “Many men and women on the House payroll — including cleaning, secretarial and security staff — have access to, or could easily gain access to, ministers’ offices where secret documents are ofien filed,” he sald in a recent interview. _ The MP for Leeds- Grenville, Ont., said he had ‘information from a reliable source that few Common! staffers are screened for criminal of qubversive back- grounds when they are hired. _Coagitt alsosaidthata few — ‘years ago a Soviet diplomat recelve information from "Commons staff sources which he later passed on (oa Soviet intelligence officer, Privy Council President Walter Baker said later that although he knows of no complete check on all 3,000 Commons staffers, he does not believe things are as bad as Cosaltt has suggested. Petroleum costs rising.“ TORONTO (CP) — Premier William Davis has vowod to use every measure possible to get the kind of energy policy from the federal government that On- tarlo needs. Davia told a group of Ontario Progressive he,. P a Minnie Cheek and Alberta Premier Peter Loughéted share the same political affiliation, his government has taken the position it can to protect the interests of its realdenta. Clark ‘has said he plans to ralse the price of Canadian ol] — now $13.75 a barrel— to the world level of between $20 and $25.50 a barre). This could mean an Increase of about 21 cents a gallon at the Gasoline pump for Canadian vers, Davia said Saturday that a rush to world energy prices in Canada could raise Canada's Inflation rate by two per cent. “My government will not support a system that has some forelgn oll cartel, directly or indirectly, holding the people of this ’ Goutttry th ransom," he sald, Davis said that the challenge of oil prices, opportunlty of great dimen “] have every cofidence that he will seize It in the national interest, for all Canadians, and it will be the position of this government and my cabinet to do all that ‘we can to ensure: that is exactly what happens.” _ Smith returns to Britain LONDON (AP) — [an Smith came to Britaln on Sunday for the first time since his whiteminority régime in Sallbury decla Rhodesia unilaterally in- deperdent from British rule in 1985. About 100 = airport demonstrators chanted “Murderer” as the former ari ed fae the opening tnday ved for iy of a constitutional confer- ence on Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Smith, 60, was granted im- munity from posalble treason charges involving the Rhodesian independence move 80 ha could attend the taika, He is the last major to arrive for the red British-aponsored confer- ence, 6 ted to last two an weeks, Seeded Guringla: oucre on, the conference is almed at ending the black nationalist guerrilla warfare which so far has taken some 16,000 lives and bring about an * acceptable transfer of power to the African territory's black majority of. some seven million, compared with 290,000 whites. Mining officials meet. WINNIPEG (CP) — ining industry and ent officials from Canada gather here for the 36th annual exgnce of provincial miniaterepf mines at which Federal rey Mintster Ray Hna will be a quest speaker. aaa nars desi tne Brian Ransom deg: the conference a8 “a good Forum for the government and the mining industry to their common concerns,” Ransom ls chairman of the session, 4 discussion on the future of the conference, with comment: E.Peiar Guah of the Mining an Smelting Co, and £.G. Thompson cof Lancana Mining Corp. Thompeon, past president of the Prospector’ and Developers Association, Bays the. yearly conferences are ersential for ‘communication. with the . experiance,’ says, eer Not all minigrers of mines are attending Ge conference contacted feel aay. paralng contac any: laauen Will be rained. However, the conferance agenda Indicates that Industry and government are = concerned:.... about responding to current-and notential controversy” i —presents—Clark—with. an—_ _ 8