Yegislative Library Parliment Buildings Victoria, 8,C. V8V-124 Serving the Progressive Northwest : - Be comp. An accident on the old Skeena River bridge was one of the incldents that kept Terrace RCMP ‘busy early this morning. A vehicle collided with the rall, taking out Wednesday, May 2, 19840 about 10 feet of the barrier. Dennis Beaulach, assistant 25 cents bridge foreman from the department of highways, surveys the damage. He said work on the bridge should be completed: by this afternoon. # ae 7 No answers in baby. deaths ) i TORONTO (cP) Atter « quegtioning - key‘ witness Phyllis Trayner, for eight. days, a royal commission appears no closer to overing who — if anyone ~ ‘killed 36 babies at the Hospital for Sick Children, Lawyers now are faced with the cf: =o task of. Tra * “PeatehiaG again evidence from other nurses at the world-renowned _ Toronto hospital, — Despite hopes the former nursing team jeader on cardiac ward 4A would offer answers about the babies’ last hours, ‘Trayner’s testimony has only: deepened the mystery surrounding the deaths over a nine-month period, , Trayner’s sketchy recollections of the: ‘bables: frustrated. commission se atumes ot Mo og © HOC and the babies ' parerity;-and=* her version of several crucial events clashed with statements given by colleagues, Riots erupt in SANTIAGO (AP) — Chilean police carrying riot gear fired tear gas and shotgun pellets at rock-throwing youths during a huge May Day rally by foes of the military government. ‘ At least 80 people were arrested and injured. - The battle raged for three hours around the fringes of the rally in Santiago's O'Higgins Park. It was the first time President Augusto Pinochet has allowed his opponents to hold an international labor day rally since the armed forces seized — power In 1973. The National Workers Command, which organized the rally, said 260,000 people attended. Police pul the turnout at about 20,000, ang independent newspaper estimates ranged up to 100,000. About 4,000 people attended the officia) labor day rally, which wae addressed by Pinochet, at a dam construction site 270 kilometres south of Santiago. , He said a law to permit congressional elections at some future date would be drafted next year, But he also said his plans for a _ gradual return to democracy “are being undermined by labor groups infiltrated by Soviet communism, which seeka Violence to achieve its ends,” Pinochet, an army general, led the Another mystery is. Trayner herself. . Commission laywer Paul Lamek told Trayner on. Tuesday: “The picture we had of you before : you, arrived here was of a woman who reacted strongly and visibly to stress, - (to . whom). - tears ‘and emgtional Upset.were s common... oe "(and Who)? “datitbingly preoccupied with the deaths of the children.” - But . despite Chile coup that ousted the elected government of the late Marxist President Salvador Allende. He has said he will rule until at least 1989. Tuesday's clashes began when youths, chanting anti-Pinochet Slogans, headed for the park. from a being under subway station and became trapped’ between hostile subway guards and police. JOIN ‘THRONG As the demonstrators fled through a gate, they were joined by others * from inside the park and police began firing tear gas at a section of the crowd about 180 metres from the Speakers’ platform. Isreali arrests challenge — new Lebanese cabinet BEIRUT (CP) — Lebanon's ‘new cabinet, even before its first nieeting, faced a confrontation with Israel today because of the arrest of three Israeli diplomats in Syrlan-- controlled northern Lebanon. Whale trapped PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. (CPY — Fisheries officers were wat- ching a young grey whale seen tangled in a halibut line in Prince Rupert harbor on Sunday. The whale was located Tuesday alter officials had been searching for it since Sunday. Fisheries officials cut off the line which was tangled in. the whale’s mouth and cut off two hooks on the rope. The whale was left badly scarred and wag tired, sluggish and not looking goad, sald fisheries officer tan. Mann. quality used parts from .WHY BUY NEW? WHEN USEDWILL DO! Qo you wart parts to fix up your car but your budget . won't allow it? Beat the high cost of new parts with S.K.B. AUTO SALVAGE 635-2333 or 635-9095 2690 Duhan (lust off Hwy. 16 E)- ‘A Syrian military spokesman confirrned Israeli newspaper and radio station reports that the diplomats were being held by the Syrian army in Lebanon. | The reports said the diplomats lost — their way Tuesday while driving north of Beirut, The Syrian spokesman said. in Damascus that Syrian soldiers arrested ‘a group of three Israeli terrorisis who were attempting to enter a Syrian-controlled zone: in northern Lebanon” on Tuesday morning, He gave no further details: Israel's state radio said Israel asked the United States, France and the United Nations to intervene and secure the release of the three Israelis, who served with the Israeli liaison office ‘in the Christian- controlled suburb of Dbaye, north of * Beirut. The laraeli Foreign Ministry, in a brtef atalement Tuesday night, said the diplomats were stopped at a Lehanese atmy roadblock earlier in the day. + "represent The news reports did not name the diplomats, who as members of ‘the ‘Tsrael-Lebanon Liaison Committee, the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Lebanon. Christian-run Radio Free Lebanon said the diplomats passed two roadblocks manned by Christian Phalangist militiamen and by the Lebanese army,’ about half-way between Beirut and Tripoli, a nor- thern Lebanese port city. OPEN FIRE It said the car tried te turn around when the Israelis spotted a Syrian army: roadblock ahead, but the Syrians opened fire’ and the car overturned. The. occupants were reported to be unhurt. Israeli newspaper accounts said Lebanese army soldiers gave in to - Syrian threats and turned the Israelis over to Syrian soldiers, It was not known why the diplomats were found 25 kilometres north of the liaison office: |. The office was established as an _ Unofficial embassy soon after the invading Israeli army captured the southern outskirts of Beirut inJune. 1982. It was given official sanction in a- 1883 troop withdrawal accord between Israel and Lebanon. Bowing to Syrian pressure, Lebanon scrapped the pact this year, but the offlee was operating. The arrest of the diplomats oc- curred as Lebanese President Amin Gemayel and his Syrian-backed premier, Rashid Karam, tried today to convene the first meeting of the newly proclaimed national unity cabinet. allowed to keep. " tremendous stress at the inquiry, Lamek said Trayner was a “model of control” who showed- little . emotion of any kind. “Frankly, the discrepancy ‘is so : great. between what we heard about pyouand what.we've seen of you that - 3 this were .an. ‘oeay: ar revity be temp say: ‘Will'the-rea rh pple ‘pleade“atand tip?” “This is me,'’ Trayner replied. “This is what you're seeing. “My feeling is that myself and my behavior have been under a microscope for several weeks, for several months, and some. of the incidents may have — been exaggerated.” Calling nurse Susan Nelles “a friend" and “a member of my’ team,” Trayner said she was - astounded when Nelles was arrested and charged with murdering four infants, “I thought it just had to be a. terrible mistake, that this whole thing was just horrendous," . she. said, “It was unthinkable.” Summer vote Volume 78 No.86 possible after polling Liberal OTTAWA (€P) — - ‘The possibility of an election in late August or early September ‘appeared to grow significantly. y as Liberals rejoiced at a Gallup poll indicating they have pulled ahead of the Conservatives for the first time since August 1981. “Oh yeah, of course,” said Senator Keith Davey, Liberal campaign chairman, when asked if the odds would favor a summer vote if the accuracy of the Gallup survey — questioned strenuously by both opposition partles — is borne out by future polls. = *T don't think there’ sany question about that,” Liberal pollster Martin Goldfarb agreed, While, any decision on an election date will naturally be up to the new leader the party elects June 16, if the lead holds up “why would you want to wait?” Despite their jubiliation, some Liberals took the dramatic Gallup news with a heavy dose of caution. “We'll have to wait for a few more polis 1-think before we begin to establish a basis for action,” said Deputy Prime Minister Allan ‘ MacEachen. Finance Minister Mare Lalonde, another cabinet heavyweight, noted that ‘‘what can go up can go down and vice versa.” “T wouldn't pay too much at- tention to one poll, I really wouldn’- t," added Employment Minister. John Roberts, a 9: leadership. can :! “didate, though he agreed it’ would ‘be “hard tohold the party back” from a summer election if the numbers are confirmed. 14-POINT GAIN Gallup said its March 29-31 survey of 1,051 adults found Liberal support among decided respondents an astonishing 46 per cent — up 14 points from the March 1-3 survey. Tory support among decided Tespondents plummeted. to 40 per cent from 54 per cent. The NDP rose slightly to 13 per cent from 11 per cent. Prime Minister Trudeau, who announced his resignation Feb. 29, said he had “no idea” why the Liberals had rebounded so i Liberals ; shows gains dramatically from their record low of 23 per cent last September. Asked whether it might have anything to do with his departure, he replied: “Well, you've got the answer.” Quebec Liberal’ MP Pierre Deniger sald the poll gave him a “multiple orgasm” and even Gallup spokesman Clara: Hatton admitted the reversal was so stunning the company went back and checked its figures twice. “We think it’s correct,” she concluded, - But . Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Mulroney, speaking to reporters in Montreal, scoffed at the results and predicted that when an election is called the Tories. will form a majority government. “If it (the poll) encourages the Liberals to call an election, we will be very satisfied.” Results _ haven’t fazed Mulroney COATICOOK, . Que Undaunted by the latest Gallup’ poll showing, his, party: traillng - the edhe: tirst-time® in two" years, shaervailve Leader Brian ~Mulropey shrugged off his party's: drop in popular support Tuesday as “minor fluctuations. — “There is no Liberal resurgence except in the minds of certain pollsters,” Mulroney told newsmen as he began a two-day swing through the Eastern Townships where the Torles are hoping to win several seats now held by Liberals, Mulroney spent most of the day in :- Coaticook, Que., and earlier in’ Montreal fielding questions about Tuesday's Gallup poll, which suggested 46 per cent of decided voters support the Liberals com- pared io about 40 per cent for the Tories. aed Novelist Joan Weir, author of many children’s novels, held a group discussion at Cassle Hall Elementary School, Monday afternoon, with some of the students who have an interest in writing. Joan (holding Library. book) was in town May 1 and 2 to give students in the area an Idea of what It’s like to be an author, and to hold a creative writing workshop at the Terrace Public _ Author tells writing secrets by RALPH RESCHKE : Herald Staff Writer TERRACE— Elementary students In the Terrace area were given a first-hand look at what it’s like to be an author of children’s books, when they met Kamloops- based writer, Joan Weir. Weir is in Terrace under the Sponsorship of the Terrace Teacher- Librarian Association, which received a Canada Couneil grant to allow it to bring writers into the Schools to talk about their work, Weir met with children Monday and today to discuss her writing and give short readings from her novels. Born in Calgary, she began writing poetry at an early age and after receiving an education in Calgary and Winnipeg began scriptwriting for CBC radio in Winnipeg. From there she moved to a job writing children’s programs for television, short stories for children, and then novels. She has been writing novels for about 10 yeara and enjoys the work, mainly because the audience is such an attentive and interested one, she says. "I write for the nine to 14-year- olds because they are alert, and interested, but mostly because they are willing to think about what they are reading," she said. Weir also writes for adults. She is working on a major historical project that will be released next year. The advice she gives to young writers is simple. Be prepared to write and write, and write some More, because you can never be good enough. She also stresses that person must be well organized and highly motivated if they want to suceed as a writer. Weir is married and has four sons. Her husband is a surgeon in Kamloops.