PAGE 8, THE HERALD, Wednesday, May 10, 1978

Kermode Theatre ’78 Workshops

Guy Robinson

. Guy Robinson grew up in Mission City, B.C., and attended Simon Fraser University
where he became a leading member of the SFU Theatre Company. He continued his
studies in Theatre Arts at Drame Sehoolin London, England.

. Since returning to Canada, Mr. Robinson has worked in all facets of professional
theatre. As an actor he has appeared at the Globe Theatre in Regina, The Vancouver
Playhouse, Pallsade Arts and the Alternative Theatre in Calgary and with the
Western Canada Theatre Company in Kamloops. He has also acted on radio, in
television and in motion pictures.
. .Guy has directed and given workshops In Vancouver, Dawson Creek, Ft. St. John,
Coquitlam, Terrace and William’s Lake.. His first play, The High Wire, will be
presented by Carousel Theatre Company at the International Children's Theatre
Festival to be held this June in Vancouver.
. In Terrace Guy Robinson will be holding a voice workshop.

3 killed in Florida crash

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP)
— Three persons were killed
and three others were
unaccounted for today after
a National Airlines jet
crashed in Escambia Bay,
forcing passengers to
scramble out emergency
doors into fog and a sea
slicked with jet fuel.

The plane, which was
carrying 53 passengers and a
crew of seven, settled in mud
10 feet below the bay's
surface.

Divers sent into the par-
tiallysubmerged plane said
everybody was out. But fog
and haze hampered rescue
efforts. A head count was
further confused because
passengers. were scattered
among six hospitals and
several rescue stations.

Many were injured in the
crash Monday night, but
dozens escaped safely when
a tugboat captain pulled his
barge to the plane, tied it up
and helped men, women and
children clamber aboard.

“Tf that barge hadn't been
there, there's no telling how
many would have drowned,"’
said Marine Patrol Sgt.
William Clenny. The identity
of the captain of the tugboat,
called the Little Joe, was not
immediately available.
CRASHED WHILE LAN-
DING

The plane, Flight 193 out of
Mobile, Ala., crashed on the

weatern tip of Florida's Pan- |
_ from, the water soaked with

handle, 32 kilometres from
the Alabama border and 80
kilometres from Mobile, as it
mate a final landing ap-

Public enemy No.1
escapes in France

PARIS (Reuter)
Jacques Mesrine, who once
boasted that prisons were
made to be broken out of,
was on the run again today
after escaping from Paris's
top-security La Sante prison.
He is wanted in Canada for
breaking out of jail in
Montreal and in connection
with the slaying of two
Quebec forest rangers.

Mesrine, known in France
as Public Enemy No. 1 for
his history of armed bank
robbery, kidnapping and
Jail-breaks, jumped over the
prison wall Monday with
another convict, himself an
expert at prison escapes.
They hijacked a car and
disappeared.

Mesrine, in a book
smuggled cut of prison in
1973, said he killed 15 persons
in his life of crime in Canada
and France, but police
believe the murder tales are
moatly myth.

Police said the well-
planned escape began a5
Mesrine, 43, discussed the
Canadian murder charges
against him in a prison
security wing with his
lawyer, Christine Giletti,
GUNS HIDDEN

He suddenly said there
were microphones hidden in
theroom, tore the grating off
a ventilator and removed
three pistols and some rope
which had been hidden there,
police snid.

Mesrine gave two pistols to
two fellow convicts. They
the: locked guards in an
adjacent cell and headed for
the prison wall.

Police shot and killed one
convict but Mesrine and
Francois Besse, 34, scaled
the wall with a ladder and
jumped clear, they said.

Mesrine’s lawyer was
belng held for questioning
today as police tried to
discover who hid the guns
and the well-placed ladder.

Mesrine fled here in 1972
after escaping from jail in
Montreal where he was
serving a 10-year term for
kidnapping a ‘wealthy
Quebec. industrialist, The
two forest rangers were al-
legedly killed while trying to
capture Mesrine,

In his book he wrote:

“Don't count on me to serve
time like a carpet, I will doit
like a man and if an occasion
presents itself, I won't
hesitate to take it and try to
escape because it is the duty
of every prisoner,”
ESCAPES FROM COURT

He was true to his word.
Sentenced to 20 years in jail
for attempted murder, ar-
med robbery and kid-
napping, he escaped at an
appeal court, taking the
judge hostage with a gun
hidden in the courthowe
toilet. He was recaptured
three months later,

Begse, convicted of armed
robbery, already has
escaped from jail three
times in seven years.

The French justice
minister sald the escape was
“a very serious incident, a
blunder,” .

“This escape makes one
think Jacques Mesrine must
have hed accomplices,’’

Mesrine was in the Paris
prison serving two 20-year
sentences for convictions on
charges of attempted
murder, armed robbery and
kidnapping In France,

At the request of the Cana-
dian government, France in
1977 opened a formal in-
vestigation into Canadian
government charges
Mesrine participated in the

Slayings of the game war-

dens. France does not rx-
tradite its nationals aco
Canada was seeking to have
Mesrine tried in France on
the murder charges.

News
Briefs

DEAD THREE DAYS

SANTIAGO (Reuter) — A
th. ce-day party in a suburb
of the Chilean capital was
noisy but didn’t disturb one
man sitting quietly In the
corner. He died on the first
day and none of his fellow
guests noticed. Police said
Jose Luls Huenchupan, 35,
arrived at the party drunk at
the start of the May Day
weekend, collapsed in a
chair and was left to sleep it
off.

proach at the Pensacola
airport, disappearing from
the radar screens five
kilometres from the runway,

The downed airliner, its
tail lights still shining hours
after the crash, was mired in
mud with at least one-third
of the fuselage above the
water. Rescue boats and
helicopters rushed to the
scene in calm seas.

“That plane skipped
across the water like a rock
ona pond and then settled
into the bay,” a witness said,
“There were two loud

reports ‘blam, blam’ as it -

skipped.
Many passengers emerged

jet fuel which leaked from
the plane when it went down
with 2,700 gallons of
kerosene left in its tanks.
Spectators were ordered out
of the area for fear a flame
might touch off the fuel.

Labor
Defeat

LONDON (Reuter)
Britain’s Labor government
has suffered the worst
parliamentary defeat since

it was formed four years

ago, prompting demands for
its resignation.

The party was defeated by
eight votes Monday night on
its taxation program, part of
the finance bill, which forms
the backbone of government
strategy.

Denis Healey, chancellor
of the exchequer, made it
clear that the government
will not resign. But the vote
will increase speculatior
that Labor, now with an
over-all minority of eight in
the House of Commons, will
call a general election this
autumn,

“A government unable to
decideits taxation policy hag
no right to stay in office,”
Geoffrey Howe, finance
spokesman for the Op-
position Conservative party,
said later. “Only a charlatan
would remain in office in the
face of this vote.”

The defeat came when the
18 Liberal members of
Parliament, in apite of a pact

- to support the Labor party

and thereby give it a
majority, voled with other
Opposition parties to forca
through a cut in the basic

_ Yate of income tax to 33 per

cent from 34.

Healey, who now must
make other proposals to
ralse the lost revenue, faces
another possible defeat
Wednesday when both
Conservatives and Liberals
are expected to preaa for
cuts in tax rates in higher-
Income brackets,

Current standings in the
635-seat House of Commons
are: Labor 307, Scottish
Labor 2, Conservatives 282,

Liberals 13, Scottish
Nationalists 11, Welsh
Nationalists 3, Ulster

Unionists 10, Ulster Social
Democrat-Laber 1, In-
dependent Demecrat-Unionist
1; Speaker and three
chairmen 4; vacant 1.

Kermode Theatre '78, this year’s B.C. Provinelal High
School Drama Festival held In Terrace beginning May 17,
will have a number of workshops for the participating

students.

Workshops will be available in acting, directing, mime,
movement, musical theatre, stage craft and volee and

speech

Each student will be able to choose a maximum of six two

hour workshops given by well-known professionals. _-
Along with the workshops and high school drama per-
fermances, will be three professional performances, The
Vancouver ‘Playhouse will perform “Loot,” May 17, Santo
Cervello will mime Franz Kafkal’s “Metamorphosis,” and
Iar¥Bvoth will perform his famous Mark Twain immitation,

NANCY HARRIS

Nancy Harris studied drama at the University of
Arizona and Portland State University and haa at-
tended and taught workshops all over B.C, She acted
as theatre co-ordinator of Notre Dame Ur'versity from
1975 to 1976, and has involved herseh as actress,
director and creator in community, women's, teens,
and children’s theatre. She is now an active member of
“Theatre Energy,” a Kootenay based professional
esnsemble touring company specializing In the
creation of original material. Nancy will be holding an

acting workshop,

JERUSALEM (AP) — A
frown crossed the face of Fe-
licia Langer, garbed in black
lawyers robes, as she argued
for her American client
before the Israeli Supreme
Court. She was about to lose
something like her 2,000th
case,

“T can count my acquittals
on the fingers of one hand,"’
Mrs. Langer said in an in-
terview later. “Sometimes I
fet terribly frustrated. It’s a
hard job to be the defence
lawyer in a security case."

Mrs. - Langer, q7,
specializes in defending
Palestinians charged under
Israel's stringent security
regulations, cases most
lawyers won't touch,

To the Arabs in the
territories oceupied by
Israel she is a champion of
human rights, Many Israelis
accuse her of being a pro-
Moscow Communist and
supporter of the Palestine
Liberation Organization.

“1 feel that somebody,

especially a Jew and an’

Israeli, should come to the
defence of the Palestinians,””
she says. “It is a humane
and patriotic task.”

DEFENDS AMERICANS

Mrs. Langer is defending
two Americans, Terry
Fleener, a young woman
from San Antonio, Tex., and
Sami Esmail, a University of
Michigan student, accused in
separate trials of working
for Palestinian terrorist
organizations,

The supreme court has re-
jected her appeal to reduce
Miss Fieéner’s five-year
sentence and she is
preparing a clemency plea to
the president, Esmail's trial
has been adjourned, but Mrs.
Langer has already lost a
battle to have his alleged
confession invalidated.

Respected jurists who
refuse to be named say Mrs.
Langer is a. good, but not
brilliant, lawyer. They say
her arguments occasionally
sink inte provocative
rhetoric,

Her ‘lactic is usually to
claim jMlegal practices by
her cllents’ interrogators,
and then to plead for
clamengy by having the de-
fendant, express remorae,
But hey‘ clients offen draw
lengthy jail terms,

However, she claims her

real guccess is in
dramatizing the Palestinian
tragedy,

The Esmail trial, for in-
stance, has attracted in-
terest tn the United States
and many support groups

Lawyer loses
2,000 cases. -

have formed to back the
accused. :
HAD LICENCE REVOKED

Mrs, Langer recently
suffered a professional
setback when her licence to
appear before military
courts was revoked on the
grounds that she was a
security risk,

‘The attitude prevailing in
Israel] is against the
Palestinians,” she says. ‘I
don’t think Israeli judges are
supermen, They are human
beings. The courts simply
reflect the atmosphere.’

Mrs. Langer, who was
born in Poland, spent five
years in the Soviet Unien
before immigrating to Israel

in 1950. She and her Israeli.

Arab partner work out of a
sparsely-furnished Je-
rusalem office decorated
with a poster inscribed:
‘With the PLO for Peace."

Mrs. Langer’s husband,
Moshe, works with an im-
portexport firm and he
provides most of the family's
Livelihood. She says most of
her clients are non-paying.
Their son, Michael, 23, is
studying theatre in Ejast
Berlin after completing
three years in the Israeli

army.

JOHN CRAWFORD
John Crawfird will be holding an acting workshop
beginning with voice and body warmups designed to
develop flexibility and expressiveness. Practical work
giving an introduction to some basic acting techniques

will also be involved,

Improvisiation and scene

analysis will be dealt with specifically as they retate to

atageing.

Rhodesian guerrillas
- open fire in hotel

SALISBURY (AP) — Two
black guerrillas burst into
the dining room of a
luxurious mountain hotel in
eastern Rhodesia and
opened fire with machine-
guns, killing two white
Rhodesian women and
wounding four other guests,
officials said.

One guest at the Montclair
Hotel was slain os she was
eating supper. The second
victim, a hotel employee,
was killed near the door,
firat reports said, wo

While . the :two. gunmen:
were inside the dining room,
other guerrillas fired rockets
and mortars at another part
of the building in the
Inayanga Mountains,
destroying 8 room, a witness

First reports said the
military closed the hotel, but
later the owner, Ann Lount,

reported by telephone:
“We're carrying on." She
said damage to the 5é-room
hotel was not extensive, and
a conference of the Rhode-
sian Law Society will be held
there Wednesday on
schedule.

The hotel is 130 kilometres
east of Salisbury and 32 kilo-
metres from Mozambique,
the base for most guerrilla
offensives in the war against
the white government of
Prime Minister Ian Smith.

RESORTS ATTACKED

Tourist resorts have
become prime guerrilla
targets in the last year. The
insurgents have destroyed
one hote] at the Victoria
Falls, attacked others there
with rockets and mortars,

and attacked hotels
elsewhere.

Mother jailed for

SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) —-
Carol O’Shea, a 38-year-old
mother of five, shuddered as
the huge cell door clanged
shut.

She had refused to pay $25
in fines for two parking
tickets and instead accepted
a day in jail—$25 worth of
time. She found the depths of
despair in the slow-moving
moments.

“I guess it was a matter of
principle,” she said Monday.
*“T eried for three days after
that. Its a humiliating,
degrading place.’

“Nobody cares,’’ she
scrawled on a piece of

colored paper as the hours’

ticked away. Her notes were
impressions of 10 houra,
beginning at noon, April 12.

Fugitive barred
from Costa Rica

SAN JOSE {AP)
President Rodrigo Carazo
fulfilled a major campaign
promise following his
inauguration Monday and
barred fugitive U.S.
financier Robert Veaco from
retuming to Costa Rica,

Vesco, wanted in the
United States on charges af
embezzling $224 million, left
Costa Rica April 30 for a
business trip around the
Caribbean, his lawyer said
at the time,

Carazo made an election
pledge to kick Vesco out and
fulfilled it at a session of hig
Government Council of nine
cabinet ministers  im-
mediately after he was
swornin as Costa Rica's 36th
president,

“Wherever he is, let it be
known that be cannot come
back to Costa Rica,” Presi-
dency Minister Jose Rafael
Cordero sald in announcing
the decision to reporters.
NO APPEAL ALLOWED

Although Vesco bas a
citizenship application
pending before one Costa

* The

Rican tribunal and the
government is appealing a
court ruling in his favor in
another case, the legal basis
for the ban was not an-
nounced. But officials said it
cannot be appealed. A
presidential spokesman said
all ports of entry have
received instructions to
refuse Vesco re-entry Lf he
attempts to return.

Government sources
would not say what might be-
done about Vesco's holdings
in Costa Rica, estimated at
$60 million. He is estimated
to have another §50 million
invested in the Bahamas.

The 43-year-old financier
fs accused in the United
States of looting Investors
Overseas Services, Bernard
Cornfeld's bankrupt mutual
fund which Vesco took over,
and of illegally contributing
$200,000 to President Nixon's
1972 re-election campaign.
e Internal Revenue
Service ls also seeking $1.1
million in taxes It says’ he
owes, |

PUT INTO CELL

She was given a sheet and
moved to a cell.

“D’ve been asking every 15
to 20 minutes to call my job
£0 I wouldn't lose it—they
keep telling me to wait. As
one young matron put it, ‘If
you keep bugging me, it'll
take that much longer,’

“Well, I'm getting ner-
yous, I'm afraid. I'll get fired
if I don’t call or show up.

“7 just knocked on the
door. The matron told me
she'd bust my head if \ didn't
quit knocking. I tcid her 1
had to call my job. 1 got so

‘mad I kicked the door. With
that the old lady came into
my cell and took me to a
padded cell,”

Later. “Here I am in a
padded cell, Kathy and Del,

mom understands you better job.

now. (They are two of her
teen-age children who have
been in homes for delinquent
children off and on.)

“Just now one of the young

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Revenue from tourists has.
been cut by half by the war. -
Most tourist areas now are
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forces.

The guerrillas are from.
two organizations fighting in
an uneasy alliance called the
Patrlotic Front for control of -
Rhodesia. Robert Mugabe's
Zimbabwe African National.
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Back in her cell. “I'm in
here alone, I’ve cried so
much I feel a little sleepy.
Nothing else to do but sit and
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Dinner came. The night
shift of matrons arrived. She
had had enough of jail. Her
husband Pat posted bail ang
she left, She did not lose her
jo

“I've pever been in

trouble,” she sald Monday, .
“I've never been In jail, [ °
never want to go through it :
again. ,

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