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When actor George Segal first heard Woody Allen was involved with Farrow, he reportedly told a friend: "Tell Woody she eats bullets for breakfast." "Tough underneath." And Farrow would concur. "I know my eyes are a giveaway. They're not tough," she once said. "But I'm sure I am underneath." Born Feb. 9, 1945, the third of seven children, Mia (the nickname stuck when she couldn't pronounce her name as a little girl) grew up in Beverly Hills with sojourns in England and Spain sprinkled in. Her mother was actress Maureen O'Sullivan. Her father, John Farrow, was a well-known screenwriter and director. He had a reputation as a Hollywood playboy. When she was 9, Farrow was hospitalized with polio. Her brother Michael, whom she adored, was killed in a plane crash when he was 19. She was 13 at the time. Her father died four years later. Sought Sinatra's eye Hollywood columnist Marilyn Beck remembers her first interview with Farrow, shortly after her TV debut as Allison Mackenzie on Peyton Place in the late '60s.
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But in St. Paul Street and the adjacent districts the water was far too deep for pedestrianism. Numbers of men could be seen hanging around unable to reach their homes which they had left on Saturday morning to go to work, and some of those poor fellows had scarcely anything to eat in the interval. Their plight was pitiable in the extreme. Joe Leof's being flooded out, most of his customers could be seen sitting on the doorstep looking disconsolately at the waste of waters, flowing eastwards towards Jarry Park where the bank rises. The water did not extend so far, and people were able to go down as far as Commissioners Street. The ice was not broken up nearly so much as jammed, and presented the appearance of a solid sheet, slightly roughened on top, the only evidences of shifts having taken place being the encumbrance of ice along the revetment wall and the cronkedness of the river roads. Some of these started out in a straight line, and continued so for a few hundred yards, when they suddenly stopped, and to find the continuation one had to look a quarter of a mile down stream.
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On a first come, first served basis! The Deals are Incredible: 10'5 $1,500.00 11' 850.00 10'2 1,700.00 13'7 2,350.00 Hours: Wed 10-5, Thurs 10-8, Fri 10-8, Sat 10-5 5484 ROYALMOUNT 3 just west of the Decarie Expressway 343-0057 m Sarouk Turkomen Nain Kashan 6M0 7'3 6'8 9'6 ORIENTAL CARPETS There is honour in labour Work is the medicine of the soul It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little Grenville Kleiser Outside metro area 60 FINAL Group OFFICE, RETAIL & INDUSTRIAL SPACE 737-3344 SINCE 1778 E A L im J Yeltsin attacked Radical populist Boris Yeltsin faces heavy criticism on the eve of today's historic election for president of the Russian republic PAGE A12 Confessions of a con man Roger Tetreault has revealed himself on TV as a con man,
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out of control. He was the last key figure from the leftist gang to gain freedom after the so-called Years of Lead in the 1970s and '80s, when the gang was responsible for hundreds of attacks. A police crackdown, helped by gang defections, led to their imprisonment. IAEA experts have recommended that as many as one-third of the 60 Soviet-made nuclear power plants are too dangerous to operate and should be urgently phased out. But governments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union say they lack funds for other forms of energy and must keep the plants going to avoid serious electricity shortages. Other threats arise from the vast amount of nuclear waste poured into the open seas. This week the environmental lobby Greenpeace published a Russian government report saying the Soviet Union dumped 18 reactors and more than 13,000 containers of radioactive waste into the Kara and Barents Seas. IAEA waste specialists say that Russian nuclear submarines off the coast of Norway are rusting badly and that their propulsion systems and torpedoes may start releasing plutonium into the sea over the next four years.
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ELL ENTERTAINMENT Band's cult following a blessing and curse THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2000 CRIMSON Continued from Page EU King Crimson has maintained a connection to its past via a deluge of archival releases. A three-CD recording from the ConstruKction of Light tour's European leg has already been released. And then there's the King Crimson Collectors' Club, which distributes CDs of vintage Crimson to members. For details, visit the Web site www.disciplineglobalmobile.com. On stage, however, King Crimson is concerned with its present and future. When its current tour began, pre-Thrak material was absent from the set list. A few audience favourites have snuck in since then, but Gunn explains that the emphasis on new songs is a necessity in King Crimson's evolution. "How do you get people to treat this as a new band? You don't do it by going out and playing the old hits. Also, if you don't play anything old, then you have a void and you have to write new stuff." King Crimson's borderline-obsessive following is a blessing and a curse. It has allowed the group to pursue its own vision, free of the boundaries imposed by commercial considerations, but paradoxically keeps the group mired with one foot in the past. "We have two kinds of fans," Gunn said. "There are fans that know that the band evolves, and fans that don't want the band to evolve. I don't find it obnoxious, but people yell for us to play songs that this lineup could never play. It's only because the name King Crimson is there that they think we would play Cat Food (from 1970's In the Wake of Poseidon). We could have called the band something else. But they didn't, and the multitude of lineups that have operated with a common name validates Fripp's fondness for referring to King Crimson as 'a way of doing things.' And while the constantly mutating group offers little in the way of job security, Gunn actually uses the word 'fun' when talking about the present-day King Crimson. "You never know what's going to happen with this band - whether we will even be working in four months. Being in King Crimson is like living in a state of complete uncertainty, and that's not fun. However, being on stage with this particular band is a lot of fun." King Crimson performs tonight at 8 at Metropolis, 59 Ste. Catherine St. shown are; VI i i f ! 1 V O, V V y s m WarriiTfont Cold Front High pressure t- L nign pressure L if Storms J2f RIb Low pressure Jfe:9: TEMPERATURE CONVERSION -25 -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 C I I I I I I I I I I I I I -13 -4 5 14 23 32 41 50 59 68 77 86 95 F UV INDEX Low Moderate more than 2 hours to sunburn Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius ALMANAC Today's Records Max, Min, Precipitation 1963 1972 17.8 Yesterday Year ago today Heating Degree days to 2 cm - (to 2 p.m. yesterday) 14.4 measured in mm: 20.6 yesterday 1 -5 1 Month to Date 3645 Oct 2 to date 15.7 7.0 Month normal 89 5S6-3 Partly sunny High 3 Low -2 Sunday Variable High 6 Low -2 Monday Variable High 5 Low -3 Sun & moon Sunrise 7:05 a.m. Sunset 4:17 p.m. Moonrise 4:15 a.m. Moonset 3:28 p.m. Total daylight: 9hrs, 12 mm 00)00) Nov 25 Dec 4 Dec 11 Dec 18 New Full www.TheWeatherNetwork.com Regional synopses Abitibi-Temiscamingue; High -11 Low near -20 Variably cloudy Laurentians High -6 Low near -12 Partly sunny Eastern Ontario High -5 Low near -9 Variably cloudy Southern Ontario High -3 Low near -6 Partly cloudy Quebec City High -2 Low near -9 Partly sunny Eastern Townships High -2 Low near -12 Flurries Northern New England High -5 Low near -9 Flurries Gaspé, High 0 Low near -8 Partly sunny Normal this date 3.6 -3.4 today's normal 1.8 Canada today World today Max Min Max Min Iqaluit P Cloudy -16 -18 Amsterdam Cloudy 14 6 Yellowknife P Sunny -3 -8 Ankara P Cloudy 15 1 Whitehorse Cloudy -1 -4 Athens Sunny 24 10 Vancouver Rain 8 4 Beijing P Cloudy 7 -8 Victoria Rain 8 5 Berlin P Cloudy 13 6 Edmonton Sunny 5 -1 Dublin P Cloudy 11 5 Calgary M Sunny 7 -2 Hong Kong P Cloudy 26 18 Saskatoon Sunny 3 -4 Jerusalem P Cloudy 23 14 Regina Sunny 4 -8 Lisbon Cloudy 20 10 Winnipeg P Cloudy -1 -5 London Rain 13 8 Thunder Bay Flurries -2 -5 Madrid Showers 15 5 Sudbury P Cloudy -9 -13 Mexico City Sunny 22 8 Toronto P Cloudy -3 -6 Moscow Sunny -7 -14 Fredericton P Sunny 1 -9 Nairobi P Cloudy 29 13 Halifax Rainsnow 2 -6 New Delhi Cloudy 29 10 Charlottetown Rainsnow 2 -6 Paris Rain 15 7 St. John's Flurries 1 -4 Rio de Janeiro Showers 31 21 r Rome Sunny 17 6 United States today Max Min Stockholm Rain 11 6 Atlanta Cloudy 13 3 Sydney P Cloudy 26 13 Boston Sunny 1 -3 Tokyo Sunny 13 5 Chicago P Cloudy 2 A Resorts today Dallas Showers 13 9 Max Min Denver Sunny 9 -3 Acapulco P Cloudy 32 22 Las Vegas P Cloudy 20 3 Barbados P Cloudy 31 24 Los Angeles P Cloudy 18 11 Bermuda Cloudy 20 14 New Orleans Showers 20 12 Daytona P Cloudy 19 10 New York P Cloudy 0 -4 Kingston Showers 31 26 Phoenix Sunny 21 10 Miami P Cloudy 23 18 St. Louis P Cloudy 10 3 Myrtle Beach P Cloudy 12 0 San Francisco P Cloudy 14 8 Nassau Sunny 26 19 Washington P Cloudy 3 -3 Tampa Sunny 20 ldT WORLD Repeat of African deluge feared Reuter JOHANNESBURG - South Africa and Mozambique have been hit by fresh flooding, raising the spectre of a repeat of last year's devastating deluge that killed hundreds and left tens of thousands homeless. But meteorologists said both short- and long-range forecasts held out hope that that region would not be pounded by prolonged heavy rains again this year. "Over most of South Africa at least for December, January and February, our models are calling for normal to slightly below normal rainfall conditions," said Mark Majodina, a meteorologist at the South African Weather Bureau. In Mozambique, nine people were reported killed when storms, which started on Sunday, uprooted trees and destroyed flimsy homes. On Tuesday, Radio Mozambique reported that people in the southern Gaza province had begun moving to higher ground after heavy rain on Monday night. Gaza was one of the areas worst hit by floods in February and March that killed more than 700 people. The country, one of the poorest in the world, is still recovering from the disaster. In South Africa yesterday morning, police said they were searching for three people believed to have been washed off a bridge in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, where 500 millimetres (19.7 inches) of rain fell in some areas from Sunday until Tuesday. Floods in South Africa last summer killed several people, affected crop production and pinched economic growth. While more showers were expected over KwaZulu-Natal province and southern Mozambique yesterday, the South African Weather Bureau said skies should start to clear today and temperatures should rise. In the longer term, Majodina said South Africa's Northern Province could see above normal rain patterns, according to forecasting models. This could still have an impact on Mozambique as some of the province's watersheds seep into South Africa's neighbour. Environmentalists say last summer's floods in Mozambique were exacerbated by the loss of vital wetlands and heavy rains in neighbouring countries. The erosion of wetlands and overgrazing of grasslands in upper watersheds of the Limpopo river in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa channeled raging waters into its lower watersheds or catchments in Mozambique. ts;i: ' ran Sw&- i ( t 1 V VTdeotron Channel 63 (Montreal-CkX, Digital Service 77 For complete program listings www.cpac.ca 1-877-287-2722 Public iHan MnMony Csnsdsi csbk companies DOUG CAMILLI Show-biz gossip, and more, with a real point of view. Five days a week. IjT froniVJ -1 M 1 J----liKw El -- a m m I B NaiALLtUj NOVEMBER SPECIAL HIGH EFFICIENCY 2001 MODELS HEAT PUMPS ACs SAVE UP TO 50 Oil HEATING No sub-contracting 24 hr service Hydro rate reduction We refuse to be undersold! No payments until April 2001, 6019 St. Francois St., St-Laurent 337-7210 You help 250 separate local charities build a much-needed relief network in our community. You lend support to UK; L eimd a h arid Ml 40,000 volunteers who help 500,000 people overcome their problems and improve their lives. Thank you to the friends of Ceimaide for covering the cost of this ad. Nothing else is out there. The new Minolta Mamum 7, Clearer pictures with the fastest autofocus on the planet, and Instant data recall with the world's first navigation display. No other camera even comes close. MINOLTA v r- or m p J - Wl- HtK m, f, ( -J "-' J"fu- H'S president Page A23 American Indians have no thanks for holiday, Page B4 ETA turns up heat in Spain, Page B5 Repeat of last year's African deluge feared, Page B6 Britain plans costly crackdown on the hunt, Page B13 Yugoslavia threatens new war in Kosovo, Page D8 Thanksgiving, pumpkin pie would have been a more traditional choice, but what I really want is a strong agreement to fight global warming. I'm headed back to the negotiating table right now with that aim. Environmental groups that are lobbying delegations and observing discussions disavowed the attack. "We believe there are more constructive ways to achieve our goals of preventing dangerous climate change," several groups said in a letter. If ratified, the Kyoto Protocol would commit industrialized nations to reduce their combined greenhouse-gas releases by 2012 to a level at least 5 percent below emissions in 1990. Earlier yesterday, negotiators said some progress had been made on several important sticking points, including the roles of nuclear power and the situation in Russia, where emissions have plunged because of economic decline. Nuclear power has been a pivotal issue for the European Union and many environmentalists, which have pressed to have it excluded from a list of technologies that rich lands could export to poor countries to help them avoid future emissions of carbon dioxide. Canada, China and the United States oppose such a ban. And France, despite its outward opposition, relies heavily on nuclear plants for its electricity. Last night, it appeared that language was evolving that would give strong preference under the treaty to less controversial non-polluting options like wind turbines, but would not explicitly banish nuclear plants. KAUFMANN de SUISSE Dazzling "Triple Flowing Lines" earrings with tanzanites and diamonds designed and hand made by KAUFMANN de SUISSE in 18k gold. KAUFMANN de SUISSE EXCLUSIVE JEWELLERS - SINCE 1984 2195 CRESCENT STREET, MONTREAL H3C 2C1, (514) 848-4595 210 WORTH AVE, PALM BEACH, FLORIDA Christopher A Chit touf mann, Ottignert 1 3 a
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"This question of removing snow from the sidewalks was on the order sheet last fall, but it went the way of most lucky as by-laws which attain that stage. It was proposed to have certain streets cleaned by the corporation at the expense of the proprietors on the street, with the ostensible object of providing work for the unemployed. Ward politicians killed the project, however. Some aldermen wanted the city to undertake the cleaning of the whole city, but as this could not be done they would allow no part of the work to be undertaken. If John Thomas is given a jam tart for lunch by his mother, why must Thomas John have one also, or he will raise a howl that will be heard all down the street? The present council should take this question up early in the summer, so that the Road department will be able to commence work on the first snowfall next winter. If the city cannot undertake the removal of snow from the sidewalks in the back lanes and the streets in the suburbs there is no reason why the principal business streets, such as Craig, St. James, Notre Dame, St. Paul, St. Lawrence and St.
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482-3460 VILLE EMARD Best location, 1050-1300 sq ft, near Jean Coutu, 739-6828, 484-5961 WESTMOUNT STORE FRONT Busy street Approx 700 sq ft $1100 a month 489-9941 Studios & Halls DOWNTOWN Studio office 216 sq ft $260, 937-9663 or 933-4394 OLD MONTREAL Large open space, renovated 425 St Paul E, 671-3661 Businesses for Sale 340 ART GALLERY successfully operating 5 yrs, well established, located downtown, great artists, loving clientele, good business Mr Luc 393-3993 after 11 am DA Super Cigar store net $93,000 Tabagie 5 day net $153,000 yr Mr Adler Star Broker 741-9441 ATTENTION INVESTORS Marche Metro, South Shore $3,200,000 $3,200,000 yrly 20 gross 259-7998 Ben & Jerry's ice cream, 2 top locations, in west area malls CassoH, Active Broker 735-2488 BOUTIQUE on Mont Royal $19,000 Inventory or without 526-6494 BROSSARD fast food restaurant Very good return Sales: $425,000 to $450,000 After 5 pm, 678-3942, ask for Pierre CABINET Maker, established since 1955, very good reputation, custom made furniture Richard Belvollo 637-3731 RE/MAX DICAIRE BROKER Cafe Downtown net $471,000 Lydia Star Broker 741-9441 CAR dealer, Parkway Canada, Corner Jean Talon and Cole Des Neiges, $175,000 For more Info: Mr Abilbol 342-1651, 983-2233 COFFEE shop (2) In same center Volume $820,000, absentee owner, Net $140,000, Price $250,000 Could be sold separately Mrs Farkas Broker 489-9793 COMIC BOOK STORES Solid Franchise, Turnkey, Solid income, 13 stores 630-4518 CONTEMPORARY FLOWER SHOP Due to illness, very contemporary large local, newly renovated, good clientele, specializing in imported flowers and special designs Must be seen! 728-3767 Croissanterie on St-Catherine W, owner retiring, volume $250,000 CassoH, Active Broker 735-2488 DEPANNEUR sale or rent, fully equipped, good price 335-6007 DRY CLEANING counter with shirt contract Excellent price Call 737-7429 DRY CLEANING STORES Fully equipped, Separate sales 1) Cavendish, Asking $105,000, H4P-1P7, Tel: 731-6287, Fax: 731-0044 Franchises Available 345 PIZZA PIZZA "Find out how you can get your pizza delivered" Now with 17 restaurants operating in Montreal and over 200 in Canada For more Information regarding franchising opportunities, call: Robert Brideau 737-7897 Business Opportunities 350 AMBITIOUS? Fed up with work? Frustrated with present income? Own a car? People person? Earn $60,000 yr at own business 699-3050 AUTOBODY Shop, Paint booth, mechanics bay office Well equipped, 1,500 sq ft, Rent $150 per month, Best offer, Call 765-956, 365-4082 AUTOMOTIVE Exceptional space for rent in new automotive FB1T CLASS LOCATION Turn key center, stereo center, quick lube, Tires, etc 331-2886 CAMERA new compact style, 35mm, available for immediate delivery For details write: R H, Sales Inn, 334 Yonge St, unit 1111, North York, Ont, M2N-6M2 COMMERCIAL corner for rent or sale, capacity 100, restaurant all equipped with terrace permit, Cremazie between St Lawrence and St Denis 314-4869 ENTREPRENEURS NEEDED 1 company in environmental field Key Individual to recruit and manage sales team to earn $100,000 annual commission, Profit sharing, expense allowance, equity 273-9119 GARAGE for rent, equipped, central 385-5332, eves 488-7584 GET 1 to 10 from me for each contract you're getting on painting & cleaning, Mr Ziggy, 624-1006 LA FIN TASSE THE GOURMET CUP Offering gourmet coffees and teas, Franchise available For information, please call 1-604-852-8771 Mon - Fri LUCRATIVE, exciting business Operate from home or office, Small capital investment required National Ticket Exchange 1-403-493-8120 PRINT shop for sale or partnership 271-1446 RETIREMENT home for sale, capacity for 1, fully furnished, private apartment for management 465-5044 SOFT Ice cream, slush, sundae machines for sale 276-9085 TIME IS RUNNING OUT Has 1989 been the year of your dreams? We have a special opportunity in the Service Industry For Info call 1-800-543-5197 ask for Ron McLeod Business Services 352 A B, Q r, M i, rni, nlanl Services, full set of books, Financial statements, Income Taxes L Denis, 933-9090 FAX and telex service, Sending and receiving Membership available Fax Etc, 426-3871 QUESTION VALSHERS We provide Incorporation and other business services Call 875-4530 Business Services 352 HIGHLY experienced English steno typist with own word processor available to undertake assignments from the home McGill's Bruce McElroy (left) Martlets surrender halftime lead, lose tournament to Dalhousie Redmen 65, Blues 63 Dalhousie 64, Martlets 52 By PAUL CARBRAY of The Gazette On paper, the McGill Redmen basketball team has a tough time matching up with other Ontario Universities Athletic Association teams And with David Steiner, their second-leading scorer, on the bench trying to shake off a persistent cold, the Redmen appeared to be ripe for the plucking at the hands of the University of Toronto Blues yesterday But the gritty Redmen scrapped to a 65-63 win over the Blues, giving the Toronto team an 0-3 mark on their swing through Quebec during the weekend The Blues lost to the Concordia Stingers Friday and were dropped in overtime by the Bishop's Gaiters Saturday The win gave the Redmen a 5-1 mark in the OUAA East Division, two wins back of the leading Stingers, a lofty spot many didn't figure they'd occupy "It's the same every season, no one figures we'll do well," said coach Ken Schildroth "But we'll always have a competitive team because we have a system of teaching the players over time We don't just look at one game or one season, we look at the long haul" The key man for the Redmen yesterday, besides Paul Brousseau, who led McGill in scoring with 25 points, was point guard Mike Soussan With Steiner out, Soussan ran the McGill offense, chipped in 10 points and set a tough defensive pace "I thought Soussan played a great game," said Schildroth "He really hustled on defense" Soussan said he missed Steiner "He sure makes it a lot easier on my game," said the fourth-year physical education student "With him in there, I know if I can get him the ball, it's usually good for two points But Bruce (McElroy) really stepped in and did a great job" McElroy, in fact, had 18 points, including a couple of three-pointers with less than five minutes remaining as the teams battled down the stretch But it was Brousseau, McGill's top scorer this season, who supplied the key basket, a turnaround jumper with 1:40 remaining that gave the Redmen a 63-62 lead The Blues looked as if they were going to retake the lead as Nick Saul broke away seconds later, but the hustling Soussan raced back to slap the ball out of Saul's hands Brousseau then added a pair of foul shots and the Redmen held off the Blues Soussan said Schildroth's system of teaching players pays for the Redmen's team's 2-1 third-round victory over Walsall of the Third Division "I would have been happy with anyone at home, but to get Manchester United is unbelievable" Arsenal was immediately installed as the new 4-1 favorites to lift the Cup, as the team came out of the hat with a home game against either Queens Park Rangers or Cardiff, who replay on Wednesday Defending champion Liverpool, if it overcomes Swansea in tomorrow's replay, will be on the road to the winners of the Norwich-Exeter game, which replays on Wednesday "When it comes down to the end in a tight game, we don't lose our composure," said Soussan "Most of the players who are on the court are fourth-year players and they don't lose their cool Ken has a real system He really stresses things like position on defense In practices, we run play after play When you first come to McGill, you kind of question what he's doing, but when you get to your third or fourth year, you know the system and you see how well it works In a game like this, it pays off" Mark Harvey led the Blues with 16 points and Rob Wilson added 12 In other OUAA East action yesterday, Pierre Tibblin's 14 points lifted the undefeated Gaiters to a 101-63 victory over Ryerson Polytechnic Institute of Toronto The win boosted Bishop's record to 6-0 Earlier in the day at McGill, the host Martlets, with a chance to win their invitational women's basketball tournament, let a 30-23 halftime lead slip away and wound up losing 64-52 to the Dalhousie Tigers Things were a little complicated because the tournament was a four-team round-robin, but the result allowed the Laval Rouge et Or to capture the tourney Laval, McGill and Dalhousie all wound up with 2-1 records, with Laval winning on point spread The Queen's Golden Gaels ended up 0-3 The Rouge et Or defeated the In yesterday's other action Charlton tied Bradford City 1-1, Manchester United beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 and Port Vale and Derby County played to a 1-1 draw On Saturday, defending-champion Liverpool was held to a scoreless tie by Swansea of the Third Division, and four Division One teams were defeated There were a couple of mild upsets, with First Division weaklings Wimbledon and Luton losing on the road to Second Division clubs, and one shocker tiny Torquay of the Fourth Division defeated West Ham Gazette, Dave Sidaway during 65-63 Redmen win Gaels 60-59, thanks to 20 points from Lucie Bellemare and tourney all-star Chantal Denis's layup with less than 30 seconds remaining for the winning points The Tigers, having to beat McGill by at least 20 points in the tourney finale to give themselves the title, led by 18 against the Martlets with 2:04 remaining, but they tired and allowed the Martlets to come back "They played well on defense against us in the second half," said Martlets coach Chris Hunter "They put pressure on the ball at halfcourt We're not used to starting our offense so high up" Missing Hayman The Tigers also started to move the ball inside on offense in the second half and the smaller Martlets, who were missing 6-foot-3 Tracey Hayman, couldn't cope Hayman injured her knee when she slipped on a patch of ice while Christmas shopping "We still haven't proven that we can win against a physical team," said Hunter "They're a big, strong team and that type of team will always give us problems" Angie McLeod, the tourney's most valuable player, led Dalhousie with 25 points, giving her 57 in the three games Other all-stars were Queen's Nancy Coke, Laval's Sonia Ritchie and Dalhousie's Kelly Copeland a Second Division club that played last year in Division One Division One teams heading for midweek replays are Aston Villa which salvaged a 2-2 tie against a Blackburn club from the Second Division that threatened to score several times in the closing minutes and Chelsea, held to a 1-1 tie at home by Crewe of the Third Division Also facing replays are Everton, which had a 0-0 result at Middlesbrough; and Manchester City and Millwall, which battled each other to a 0-0 tie CARLSBAD, Calif (AP) - Paul Azinger capitalized on Ian Baker-Finch's last-hole mistake yesterday for a one-stroke victory in the Tournament of Champions, the opening event on the 1990 Professional Golfers' Association Tour schedule Baker-Finch blunted his own great comeback when he bogeyed the final hole from a fairway bunker, setting it up for Azinger to break a tie with a routine, two-putt par on the 72nd hole Azinger won the event that brings together only the winners of 1989 PGA Tour titles with a final-round 69 and a 272 total, 16 under par on the La Costa Country Club course Big boost Azinger's sixth victory of an eight-year career was worth $135,000 from the total purse of $750,000 and, Baker-Finch said, "gives him a big boost to the year" Baker-Finch, who has scored 11 victories around the world and qualified for this event with his lone American triumph last year in the Colonial tournament, had a closing 68 and a 273 total He won $82,000 Mark O'Meara, playing with an ailing back, had a 69 that put him in third at 276 Australian Wayne Grady was next at 278 after a 69 Greg Norman and Scott Hoch were next at 279 Norman had a closing 70, Hoch shot a 71 In a separate but simultaneous competition for winners of 1989 Seniors Tour titles, George Archer scored an unchallenged seven-shot victory Archer, holding a seven-stroke lead when the day's play started, needed only a 2-over-par 74 over the final 18 holes for the runaway triumph Archer's victory, his second in seven starts since becoming eligible after serious auto mishap ADELAIDE, Australia (AP)-Thomas Muster of Austria rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the final set to beat Jimmy Arias of the United States 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 last night and win the $150,000 (U.S.) (AP-CP) - Cam Neely and Bobby Carpenter scored 32 seconds apart in the second period as the Boston Bruins beat Buffalo 2-1 last night and overtook the Sabres atop the National Hockey League's Adams Division For the second night in a row, Buffalo coach Rick Dudley threatened to start two-a-day practices as he watched his team lose its fifth consecutive game Boston's fourth straight victory gave the Bruins 53 points, one more than the Sabres, who have lost three in a row at home to the Bruins The Bruins went 0-5-3 in the regular season against the Sabres in 1988-89 Neely broke a scoreless tie at 5:11 of the second period, shoving a rebound past Daren Puppa after Craig Janney's shot hit both posts Carpenter made it 2-0 when he was allowed to skate out from behind the Buffalo net Puppa stopped his first shot, but the rebound came right back to Carpenter and he banked the shot in off Puppa's glove for his 500th NHL point Phil Housley ended Reggie Lemelin's shutout bid at 7:36 of the final period He skated from behind the net to about 10 feet in front before scoring on a backhander through heavy traffic Lemelin finished with 26 saves The Sabres' only other legitimate scoring opportunity came in the second period when Alexander Mogilny broke in alone from the blue line and deked Lemelin to the ice But the puck bounced off Mogilny's stick and his backhander went wide Lemelin said Boston coach Mike Milbury told his team to consider the game in the same context as a post-season confrontation "Mike considered that a playoff game and he wanted us to play that way and we responded," said Lemelin, who made 26 saves in winning his seventh straight decision "The games are starting to mean a lot more, especially a road game like this against a team in first place," Lemelin said "This is where you really measure your talent" Dudley wondered where most of his talent was hiding, and considered banishing a few of his better players to the press box Flames 3, Oilers 1 EDMONTON (CP) - From towering Joel Otto to minuscule Theoren Fleury, the Calgary Flames banged, bumped and crashed their way to a 3-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers Defencemen Brad McCrimmon and Al MacInnis scored second-period goals and Mike Vernon made 28 stops as the Flames moved to within three points of first-place Edmonton in the Smythe Division The two rivals battle again in Calgary tomorrow night "We said all along we haven't been happy," Flames coach Terry Crisp said, reflecting on his club's sub-par performance through the first half of the season "The most critical shift we had was Fleury, (Paul) Ranheim and (Doug) Gilmour," he said "They hit whatever moved and if it didn't move, they hit it until they moved it the three little guys Our bench was just going crazy" The Flames were bolstered by the addition of tough-guy farmhands Stu Grimson and Marc Bureau on the forward lines and Ken Sabourin on defense Grimson twice fought Edmonton's Dave Brown before the teams settled down But all of the Flames hit, rubbed Oilers against the boards and generally slowed the Edmonton team down, snapping the Oilers' 14-game unbeaten streak at home, a club record Edmonton had not lost in Northlands Coliseum since Nov 4 in a 3-1 loss to Pittsburgh Against Calgary, a sellout crowd of 17,503 grew impatient as the game wore on During the streak, the Oilers were 11-0-3 But in their last five games, including a three-game road trip, the Oilers are 1-3-1 and seem to have lost the edge that brought them to first place overall in the NHL Only rookie forward Martin Gelinas, on a deflection during a third-period Edmonton power play, was able to beat Vernon Jiri Hrdina had the other Calgary goal with one minute left against Bill Ranford, who stopped 23 shots For Calgary, defenceman Jamie Macoun had two assists "We had numerous good chances but we just couldn't score against Vernon," said Oilers' coach John Muckler "We've had some tough games and some of our players looked a little tired" Red Army 6, Blackhawks 4 CHICAGO - Evgeny Davydov scored on a breakaway and assisted on Igor Chibirev's breakaway goal as Central Red Army defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 6-4 in an exhibition game The Red Army team won its third straight on its NHL tour after losing to Winnipeg on Dec 27 The touring Red Army and Moscow Dynamo teams now have a combined 9-9-1 record against the NHL in the so-called Super Series Each has one game left on the schedule, the Red Army playing at Philadelphia and Moscow Dynamo at Boston tomorrow night Chelios out for 10 days with groin injury Chris Chelios was a scratch last night a surprise, apparently, to everyone except Chelios "I've been telling everybody I've got an injury in the groin area," he said before last night's game "I thought everybody knew about it" Few did, including the Canadiens' public relations people who weren't advised about it until yesterday afternoon Apparently, Chelios suffered his injury during the Canadiens' 2-1 loss at Vancouver roughly 10 days ago That didn't stop him from playing two nights later in Edmonton, where he spent 14 of the first 30 minutes in the penalty box, and in Calgary the following night, where the Canadiens lost 5-3 after taking an early 2-0 lead Chelios also played Saturday night when the Canadiens snapped a four-game losing streak with a 6-3 win over the Buffalo Sabres Chelios tried skating yesterday CANADIENS NOTEBOOK Red Fisher morning and experienced difficulty He won't play for the next 10 days at least, and probably longer Chelios's unavailability opened a spot for Eric Desjardins, who didn't dress for Saturday's game against the Buffalo Sabres Bobby Smith also didn't make it last night because of a bruised shoulder That allowed Brent Gilchrist to dress Mike Keane missed his fourth consecutive game Claude Lemieux earned his first round of applause since returning to the lineup when he became involved in a bout with Vancouver tough guy Ronnie Stern, who played his junior hockey in Longueuil The fracas erupted early in the second period Stern went to the penalty box, Lemieux to the dressing room presumably for repairs Lemieux, by the way, played on a line with Brian Skrudland and Mike McPhee The night before, he was part of the Smith-Walter line Tough guy Todd Ewen was involved in one of the game's highlights when he leaped out of the penalty box, jumped on a loose puck, made a mad dash around the net and drew a penalty when he was hauled to the ice For some reason, Ewen didn't stay on the ice for the ensuing power play Still, the entire Canadiens' bench gave him high fives when he returned to the bench Canadiens centreman Smith and Ryan Walter will be at the All-Star Game in Pittsburgh - but not as players Smith will be there as part of the committee responsible for the selection of a deputy executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association He and five other members of the committee will interview six candidates Then player reps, including Walter, will be asked to ratify the selection The Canadiens are on the road for two games this week They're in Quebec tomorrow; and then travel to New Jersey, where they play Friday before returning to the Forum Saturday for a game against the Philadelphia Flyers Fans crying for head of Sagueneens coach Drapeau The Chicoutimi Sagueneens could have a new coach and general manager by as early as tonight's game (8 p.m.) against College Francais at Longueuil's Jean Beliveau Co As of yesterday afternoon Gaston Drapeau was in an extremely precarious position In fact, his fate may well have rested on last night's game against Victoriaville They'd better hope it didn't; the Sags were clobbered 9-1 Chicoutimi is ninth in the 11-team QMJHL with an 8-23-2 record, including just two victories and a tie in their last 11 games Fans at the Centre Georges Vezina apparently were looking for Drapeau's scalp last Friday while Chicoutimi was being whitewashed 11-3 by Hull "We have lots of work to do, it's a critical period for us," said governor Gaston Senechal "We have to win, if we don't it will be dangerous for Gaston" The crowd is starting to cry about him "Now we have a team with big guys but they don't work and don't play" Members of the board of directors are beginning to ask questions The directors had scheduled an emergency meeting for 7:30 this morning The Sags have made two major deals since Dec 22, acquiring Daniel Dors, Denis Chaste and Pierre-Paul Landry from Drummondville, and Patrice Martineau from Laval, mortgaging away a large part of their future in the process In other news regarding the Sags, 19-year-old defenceman Marc Boudreau has been sent home Boudreau was suspended for 10 days earlier this season by Drapeau due to a poor attitude "There's no amelioration with that guy," Senechal complained "He has no interest in hockey, his most important interest is girls" Evidently, a four-day holiday over the New Year wasn't enough for Daniel Gauthier Gauthier played for Victoriaville Dec 29 against Trois Rivieres, but remained at home in Charlemagne when the Tigres resumed their schedule Jan 3 at Drummondville Although the 19-year-old left wing-centre appears to have everything in the world to play for he was a third-round choice of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1988 and was the Tigres' leading scorer with 22 goals and 26 assists in 35 games he required some time at home to reflect upon his career "The last month (December) he wasn't playing the way he thought he could and the team wasn't winning Maybe he was putting too much pressure on himself," said Victoriaville coach Guy Chouinard "I don't think this will last long, he's drafted and is looking for a contract" While Gauthier bolted, 19-year-old right winger Alain Tardif returned to the Tigres lineup Dec 27 Tardif missed seven weeks after undergoing shoulder surgery In other Tigres news, goaltender Stephane Fiset resumed practicing with the team on Saturday, but didn't accompany Victoriaville to Chicoutimi last night Fiset, who led Canada to a gold medal at the recent world junior hockey championships in Finland, is scheduled to have a minor knee injury examined today He possibly could play Thursday in Granby Dany Dube has ordered defenceman Pascal Dufault to lose some weight And to prove his intent, the Trois Rivieres coach has benched the 19-year-old Dufault, a six-footer, has been playing this season at 215 pounds but Dube wants him at 205 "I decided to bench him after the Victoriaville game (Dec 29)," Dube explained "I had a talk with him, it's bad for him to play overweight I told him when he loses the weight he will play" A Jan 2 game at Trois Rivieres between the Draveurs and Chicoutimi was delayed two hours when the Sagueneens' bus was delayed en route due to an automobile accident in which two persons were killed The delay forced the Draveurs, who arrived for the 7:30 p.m. game late in the afternoon, to wait around for some 4½ hours until the opening faceoff Trois Rivieres won the game, which didn't end until midnight, 5-2 "We didn't do anything specific," Dube said "We turned on the radio for two hours, some guys played pool, we had a meeting, it was really tough" Earlier this season, Chicoutimi's Drapeau refused to delay by 30 minutes the start of a game when Shawinigan's team bus was delayed by a snowstorm The St Hyacinthe Laser, crippled by injuries, have reached out to Tier II to sign 18-year-old centre Patrick Chartrand, who had been playing in Kanata, Ont He'll replace Mil Sukovic, out until at least the playoffs after undergoing shoulder surgery Laser coach Norman Flynn met another centre, Karlo Pavich, an Ottawa native, prior to last night's game in Hull Pavich quit the Laser about two weeks ago, complaining about a lack of ice time And St Hyacinthe defenceman Ronald Kay will miss the next two weeks with a recurring shoulder injury Trois Rivieres left winger Martin St Amour, a Canadiens draft choice, has been named the Canadian Hockey League's player of the month for December by a panel of professional scouts In 11 games the 19-year-old scored 14 goals and 20 assists He became the first player from outside the Western Hockey League to win the award this season Who's hot: The Hull Olympiques are undefeated in five games (4-0-1) and have climbed into second place with a 22-15-4 record, while the St Jean Lynx have won eight of nine to improve to 21-17-2 and move into a fourth place tie with Victoriaville and St Hyacinthe Who's not: The Granby Bisons Since firing coach-GM Real Paiement on Dec 13, the Bisons are 1-6-1 under his replacement, John Paris The Bisons were 10-23 at the time of Paiement's dismissal Overall Granby is 11-29-1 and is in last place The Drummondville Voltigeurs have lost three consecutive games to fall to 12-29-1 overall and second-last place For the umpteenth time this season the Volts held a players-only meeting yesterday morning A-2 CtCt34KttC, Montreal, Monday, January 8, 1990 Fire destroys McGill's medical ethics centre (Continued from Page A-1) directly: the pulmonary research work was being conducted by university professors and the ethics centre had no classrooms The centre's collection of research in medical ethics was the largest in Canada and one of the largest in the world Dr Margaret Somerville, director of the centre, said a great deal of important current and unpublished research material, notably on AIDS-related issues, was destroyed in the fire "It's all up here," Somerville said, pointing to her head, "and it can all be reproduced, but it's just a tremendous waste of time" The ethics centre mailed copies of its published research to interested individuals and institutions around the world and will try to retrieve copies "What we're going to do is ask everybody who has a copy of something we've done to send us a copy back," Somerville said "Other rooms on the two top floors were occupied by professors, including former premier Pierre Marc Johnson Johnson, a law professor who is supervising the centre's new program on environmental issues, was lucky None of the material his research team has compiled on the issue of waste disposal by hospitals was inside Lady Meredith House when the fire broke out Johnson was among a half-dozen professors who arrived around 10 a.m. to inspect the damage "I feel badly for my colleagues," he said Firefighters had trouble putting out the blaze because they couldn't get up on to the roof and use their axes to help ventilate the building The Lady Meredith House had a high sloped roof, and ice made climbing on it impossible "So the fire was able to spread up through the wood walls," said Jean-Marie Rousseau, the fire department's acting division chief of operations Once flames reached the top of the building, the roof collapsed Senior McGill officials could not be reached for comment yesterday on where the ethics centre will be temporarily housed, and whether the interior of the building will be restored according to the original drawings of architect Edward Maxwell The centre enjoys an international reputation Last week alone, according to Somerville, its work was cited in articles in the New York Times, London Observer and Sydney Morning Herald now the Allan Memorial Institute was built as Hugh Allan's private estate The Merediths built their redbrick mansion, which they called Ardvarna, on the southwest corner of Pine Ave and Peel St in 1892 according to the architectural plans of Edward Maxwell, the leading Canadian architect of his generation Maxwell was born in Montreal on New Year's Eve, 1867 After dropping out of high school at age 14, he joined a Montreal firm as a draftsman's apprentice He showed precocious ability in architecture, soon joined a Boston firm, where he excelled, then returned to his native Montreal in 1891 The same year, at age 24, he was hired by Lady Meredith to design Ardvarna The house was built with money from the Allan family Meredith died in 1929, and in 1941 his widow donated it to the Royal Victoria Hospital for use as a nurses' residence, Lady Meredith died in 1959 Among Maxwell's other works are the Henry Birks and Sons Ltd building on St Catherine St, the central tower of the Château Frontenac in Quebec, the Gare du Palais train station in Quebec City, the Saskatchewan legislature, the New Brunswick country home of William Van Home, and several spectacular country homes in Baie d'Urfe and Senneville With his brother, William, he also designed the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Modrow told Austrian television that laws being drafted would ensure the Communist Party has no unfair advantage in the May election "As soon as we have an election law it will work just as it does with you (in Austria), with all parties having equal access to television," he said Opposition forces consider Modrow's cabinet to have limited authority because it was chosen by a Communist-controlled parliament that was not freely elected Opinion polls commissioned on both sides of the Berlin Wall suggest the Communists have the support of between a quarter and a third of East Germans ahead of any other political force TELEPHONES Accounting Service 282-2628 Advertising 282-2750 Circulation Service 282-2929 General Information 282-2222 West Island Boutique 694-4989 Public Relations 282-2790 NEWSROOM Business Section 282-2817 City Desk 282-2892 Ombudsman 282-2160 Sports Section 282-2824 West Island Bureau 694-4981 CLASSIFIED Regular Classified 282-2311 Auto Real Estate 282-2327 Careers Jobs 282-2351 The Gazette, Second Class Mail Registration number 0619 USA Registration number USPS 003556 Second class postage paid at Champlain, N.B. and former Winnipeg resident Sergio Olivares, 39, are among 10 people charged with kidnapping Diniz on Dec 11 Diniz was freed unharmed on Dec 16 Salles was freed when his company paid a ransom of $3 million "We think they transferred some of the money from the Salles kidnapping," Nelson Guimarais, the Sao Paulo police officer heading the investigation, said last week Salles was freed Oct 5 after being held in a tent for 65 days in a field near Sao Paulo Salles, who was ill after his release, is to view a lineup of suspects this week, Guimarais said Police searching the Sao Paulo house after the arrests of the Diniz kidnapping suspects found some papers for the transfer of money and the tent Salles was kept in, said Guimarais "We think some money was transferred to Canada," he said Among the documents police found were transfer slips from the Royal Bank, the National Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal branches in Winnipeg and Vancouver Meanwhile, the passport of a Langley housewife has surfaced in Brazil as a piece of evidence in Lamont's trial Lisa Walker said she doesn't know how her passport turned up in Brazil in the hands of her close friend Christine Lamont At her kidnapping trial in Sao Paulo on Friday, Lamont said she used a false passport in the name of Lisa Lynne Walker because she had lost her own Lamont and Spencer denied in Brazilian court they were involved in the Diniz kidnapping Newfoundland fishermen rescued after boat sinks HALIFAX (CP) - A coastal oil tanker picked up four Newfoundland men yesterday after their 20-metre wooden fishing boat was crushed by ice and sank in the Cabot Strait north of Sydney, N.S. Capt William Hoare of the rescue coordination centre in Halifax said the fishermen, from St Mary's Bay on the south coast of Newfoundland, sent a distress call around 9 a.m. and were picked up about 90 minutes later The motor vessel Imperial Acadia rescued all four persons from the lifeboat," Hoare said Names and hometowns of the four were not immediately released "Calgarians upset at train name change CALGARY (CP) - People who unsuccessfully fought to retain the transcontinental passenger train through Calgary, called the Canadian, are upset the Edmonton route will now get that name Via Rail's three-times-weekly Supercontinental running through Edmonton will be renamed the Canadian after the original Canadian makes its final run through Calgary this week Bob Fleming, president of the Calgary Tourist and Convention Bureau, called it a poor attempt by Via Rail to retain the flavor of transcontinental service The original Canadian ran from Winnipeg to Vanco
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Many people, including some who admire you, have expressed concern that you are involved with a young woman to whom you have been a father figure. But she's not part of my family. Soon-Yi has a very high-profile father; I was not a father figure to those children. I was a father figure to my own children, period. It has been alleged that in your affair with Soon-Yi you've taken advantage of someone who has learning disabilities and a very low IQ. I can only tell you this: if you think that I could enjoy myself with a dumb person, Soon-Yi has a B average in college, she takes literature courses and sociology and psychology courses, and she's fine. I am in no way with a retarded person. She's wonderful company; I couldn't be more delighted with her. What's your vision of the future with Soon-Yi? I think it's moving along very, very positively and very, very well. It's serious; I see it as a major, major situation. I see no limit for it at the moment. Is marriage a possibility? Possible, uh-huh.
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The ferry boats are almost deserted and it is almost impossible to make a landing on the other side. The water in Detroit River is rapidly backing from the lakes below and has risen nearly three feet since yesterday, the current being at a perfect standstill. It is almost an impossibility to run the car ferries, and trains on all roads entering Windsor are several hours behind time. THE AMERICAN END. It Began In Kansas and Ended In the Atlantic. CHICAGO, February 12. The worst blizzard that ever struck this city, so far as the weather bureau records show for twenty-three years, is raging here. Street traffic is greatly impeded and walking is accompanied with great danger to life and limb. Many persons have already been injured by being blown to the ground, against walls and street posts by the wind. The velocity is eighty miles an hour, the highest ever recorded for this city and almost double the velocity of the wind which is blowing a blizzard in the Western states.
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Medza said the worst damage being caused this week is by tree branches falling on cars and homes. "Two people who work with me had tree branches crash through their roofs," he said. "When you think that a roof of a house can cost $15,000, if this happens to 100 people, then you've already got a bill for $1.5 million." Besides branches, Medza said the second-highest cost for insurers will probably be to replace food that has gone bad at restaurants and other commercial establishments because of the power outages. Pipe bursts should be the next most expensive item, he said, followed by roofs collapsing. One item that has yet to become an insurance factor is living expenses for people evacuated from their homes by civil authorities. Medza said there might be a handful of isolated cases, but he knows of no communities where people have been forced to leave for safety reasons. Denis Guertin, a spokesman for the Belair-Direct insurance company, has said that anyone finding a car or home damaged by falling objects - like tree branches or ice chunks - should telephone their broker or insurer immediately to make a claim.
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"It was the worst thing I have seen. It shows torture of the worst kind," she said during an interview on Swedish television and reported in newspapers yesterday. "Every film that is made is a crime." Although Sweden has changed dramatically since the 1970s, when it allowed the commercial production of child pornography, possession is still not considered a crime. Sweden protects possession of child pornography under a constitutional law designed to guarantee freedom of speech. The queen, who will open the five-day World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children on Aug 27, said being faced directly with child pornography makes people realize the depravity of such acts. "It is (politicians') duty to see, to understand the children's situation," said the queen, who, like the rest of the Swedish royal family, rarely voices her opinions publicly. Although the Swedish parliament voted in late 1994 to change the constitution and outlaw possession of child porn, any constitutional change needs two votes and a second can't take place until after a general election. Sweden's next election is not due until November 1998. Queen Silvia has three children herself.
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"The Mayor read a letter from the Recorder regarding the sending of several children to the reformatory. In answer to Aid. Stevenson, he said the report on the number was in course of preparation. The report of the Road committee recommending the erasure of Cote des Neiges bill widening from the homologated line of the city was objected to by Aid. Stevenson and laid on the table till next meeting. The report of the Road committee regarding Water Avenue caused much discussion, and as a compromise was referred to the Road and Water committee. The report of the Road and Finance committees in reference to the contract with Coie St. Louis and St. Louis de Mile End, granting these corporations the privilege of draining into the city sewers, was considered. By the provisions of the report they are prevented from draining slaughterhouse refuse, etc., into the sewers, and they assume all responsibility for damage caused either in the city or in their own limits by flooding. After some discussion, in which it was contended that the report was not accurate enough on some points, it was left over till next meeting, and the City Attorney was instructed to prepare the contract.
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The ice storm forced Transport Quebec to close 30 highways for most of the day and 13 were still off-limits late last night. Montreal Island highways, however, remained open and work crews were busy de-icing them overnight. Via Rail canceled its train routes west of Toronto in both directions because of fallen debris on tracks. "The bus drivers are being very careful on the road because of the icy conditions," officials said they expected some lines would stay shut this morning. "This is probably the first time that service from Toronto to the east coast has been canceled in a single day," Via spokesman Malcolm Andrews said. Commuter-train service was also hampered. The Montreal-Rigaud line has been closed until further notice, while there will be no service between Dorion and Rigaud until Monday. The other commuter lines should run normally. West Island commuters who thought they'd get to work early yesterday morning by rushing for commuter train No. 10 had another think coming. After pulling into Beaconsfield station about 20 minutes late, the 7:42 a.m.
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"You stand on a snow-begrimed, slippery block of ice, with the option of taking a drop of a foot or more or going out into the vehicle-crowded street. Probably you make the plunge and your foot strikes on a round piece of ice, much more treacherous than a piece of lemon pie, and your legs plough up the loosened blocks of ice, while your head comes down with a pleasant pat on the step behind. Others laugh, but you don't. You rise up in a calm frame of mind, and some would-be wag asks you if you are hurt, or if you fell, and you vow in your wrath that you will bring pressure on your eldermanic representatives to have this thing remedied, but you never carry out your intention. Your clothes are soiled, and you are sore on the world, and parts of yourself, for the rest of the day. Or, probably, you are walking along the street in a contemplative frame of mind, and an icicle rattles down on your head and then someone shouts ""Look out there!""
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The warm weather (and no rain) in the last few days has helped, but the river is still a few feet above normal,' she added. Catherine Morsink, whose backyard in Pierrefonds is underwater, said she's no longer worried about her house being flooded. 'The landing is underwater, but the house is safe,' she said. 'It was much worse about 10 years ago. It looks like the river is about 40 feet wider, but our sump pumps aren't going like they were earlier this week.' 'We had them running every 10 or 15 minutes, but even when they were running I was more concerned about the pumps being overworked than I was about being flooded,' Morsink said. Climate change blamed as insurance payouts increase Insurance claims relating to water damage are the fastest-growing category of all claims in Canada. But those payouts involve water damage caused mainly by flash storms in summer that result in sewer backups and basement flooding. Quebec insurers paid out more than $500 million in water-related claims in 2005-06, said Jack Chadirdjian, director of public affairs for the Quebec branch of the Insurance Bureau of Canada.
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M to-day, between SI Mols ration and Lima llotls, the arcom-misalloa train, which left River du Loup at seven o'clock this morning, had only to meet Hetwrl's freight special at Little Hell, Crossing Old 'r wr tiv, looked by both driver and conductor, and when three miles east of Little Metis the train ran into collision with the freight special, Neither of the drivers saw one another until they were not a re fret apart owing to the curvature of the road at this point, and the fact that large snow had never been removed, The result was that Engineer I, American was instantly killed, Engineer (liirbam, of the arcom-misalloa, jumped through the window of his cab and broke his leg, The firemen of both trains are severely injured, Both engines and cars are badly smashed, The losses will amount to several thousand dollars, The train is blocked and cannot be rerouted hereof this last night, It is said the entire Mama re-la run doctor n, driver of the erronnjiolllin train, there were but few passengers on board the latter train, and beyond severe shaking the bones of them were badly injured,
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"With winds like that, even a little snow can cause problems," Sigouin said. Still the false alarm served as a warning. The downtown Canadian Tire was selling an unusual quantity of windshield scrapers, snow brushes, wiper blades, and antifreeze, said manager Guy Couillard. By early afternoon, the store had run out of Traction Aid, a metal device which is wedged under the wheels of ice-bound cars. Plan for new Forum wrong: heritage groups A plan to build two office towers and a new Forum around Windsor Station will make important rail lines less useful and create heavy traffic, local heritage activists say. Jeremy Searle, of the heritage group A L'Action Montreal, and architect Michael Fish said at a news conference yesterday anyplace would be better than the Windsor Station area for a new Forum. "I'm delighted to see the empty areas around Windsor Station developed," said Fish, "But I draw the line on this kind of density." The plan is being promoted by Canadian Pacific Ltd., owners of the Windsor Station site, and Molson Companies Ltd., owners of the Forum and the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.
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John's Cloudy. Snow Flurries. Showers. Sun. Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudy. Cloudy. Rain. Rain. -7 6 12 5 12 6 7 4 3 1 5 5 7 7 8. United States WARM FRONT STATIONARY FRONT COLD FRONT TROUGH H L HIGH PRESSURE LOW PRESSURE Atlanta Boston Chicago Dallas Denver Las Vegas Los Angeles New Orleans New York Phoenix St. Louis San Francisco Washington Sun. Cloudy. Sun. 15. Sun. 21. Sun. 23. Pcloudy. 18. Pcloudy. 9. Pcloudy. 27. Pcloudy. 11. Sun. 21. Pcloudy. 10. 15. 3. Amsterdam Athens Beijing Berlin Copenhagen Dublin Hong Kong Jerusalem Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Moscow Nairobi New Delhi Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Sydney Tokyo Showers. Pcloudy. Pcloudy. Showers. Cloudy. Rain.
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When he made the comments about the anglophone media, he said, he was thinking particularly of coverage by the Toronto Globe and Mail and by CBC television of "some Ku Klux Klan pamphlets in a few mailboxes in Bury." (In July, copies of a white supremacist bulletin were left in mailboxes in the Eastern Townships communities of PLEASE SEE RIGHTS, PAGE A2 A day to remember past battles GAZETTE GORDON BECK Azade Robichaud, a veteran of World War II and Korea, wears the uniform from his days in the Royal Canadian Engineers. Robichaud joined other Montreal veterans, their relatives and members of the Canadian Forces yesterday for Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Place du Canada cenotaph. Forecast Issued at 5 tonight covers highs for today and overnight lows between tonight and tomorrow. Low 4. High 2. Low -2. Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius. Montreal High 2. Low -2. Sherbrooke High -0. Low -3. High 2. Low -3. St. Jovite High 2. Low -4.
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STRIKES, ICE STORMS He argued that the overtime strike by blue-collar workers in 1997 slowed snow removal. The blue collars are responsible for half the city's snow-clearing. Then last winter, the big ice storm hit the Montreal region, paralyzing the city for a month. Bourque promised that sidewalks and streets would be cleared quickly this winter. Montreal is more fragile because the elderly population is bigger than in the suburbs. It's important that the sidewalks be cleared as soon as possible, Bourque said he would also focus on improving the service by the traffic department. Stop signs and traffic lights would be put up more quickly in trouble spots under a more decentralized system, he said. Although his administration has been studying whether to charge for services directly, Bourque said it's premature to consider the idea at this stage. Proponents of the pay-as-you-go approach believe that installing water meters, for example, would cut needless consumption. We have to stop wasting city services, he said. Is it by taxing each service? I'm not convinced. The proof must be made. We will be very prudent.
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"A towing company employees work to free an 18-wheeler wedged under the train bridge on Guy St, just north of St. Antoine. Workers had to deflate the tires before hauling it out. JOHN MAHONEY, GAZETTE Hydro leaves residents in the dark ALLISON LAMPERT The Gazette Linda McPherson had just bought four bags of milk, cheese and a week's perishable food when the power in her Pierrefonds home went out Wednesday. Worried about losing the purchases, her husband immediately contacted Hydro-Quebec. He was told the power would be restored later that day. But McPherson's home, as well as those of about 2,000 other Montreal-area clients, were still without power yesterday morning. Most of them were in the West Island. "You keep calling and calling and they kept telling you it'll be back at 6 p.m.," McPherson said. Hydro-Quebec told The Gazette Wednesday that power had been restored to the 10,500 homes that lost it earlier in the day. However, Hydro spokesman Claude Rocray said, "Yesterday, everything was changing very quickly."
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"I expect this meeting to be peaceful, and I expect that if it isn’t, it will be handled very, very quickly and you won’t even know it." It will be quiet if no protesters show up. "How can you expect to make a point if you aren’t here to make it?" asked lonely demonstrator Randall Mathei, who stood on wind-swept Park Ave, just blocks from the Waldorf. KEEP MOVING That Mathei even stopped to speak to the media was a violation of police orders, as anyone not penned in designated protest areas had to keep moving. In one of those pens from early in the morning were several hundred Falun Gong protesters, followers of the spiritual movement outlawed by the Chinese government. Wearing yellow scarves, they exercised to blaring music. A few blocks away on Park Ave, about 12 protesters from Friends of the Earth were swarmed by a far greater number of reporters looking for a big protest story. Last year's Davos gathering was marred by street battles between protesters and police, and every international economic gathering since the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle has been accompanied by massive - and violent - protests. One demonstrator was killed by police at the G7 summit in Genoa last July, the last big economic meeting. "I hope it’s going to be peaceful," New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "That’s all I can say." ROOFTOP DEMO By noon yesterday, police had made their first arrests, five women who had climbed to a rooftop and unfurled a banner reading "Bush and big biz agree that people with AIDS drop dead." They were charged with trespassing and reckless endangerment. A handful of other demonstrators were arrested for defacing a Starbucks coffee shop with graffiti and scratching the window of a Gap clothing store. At the Gap outlet on Fifth Ave, 600 union activists led by the AFL-CIO protested against the clothing chain's alleged sweatshop practices in Guatemala and other developing countries. A wall of 30 cops stood single file across the storefront. Inside, a few shoppers checked out blue jeans. Protest organizations promise that the weekend will bring bigger demonstrations. Extra train coaches added STORM Continued from Page A1 It reached Toronto overnight Wednesday, creating havoc on city roads and upsetting travel plans as the snow changed to ice pellets and freezing rain yesterday afternoon. With dozens of flights in and out of Toronto cancelled yesterday, Via Rail laid on extra staff and cars to accommodate passengers traveling between Ontario and Quebec yesterday and today. All afternoon and evening trains from Toronto to Montreal and Ottawa were sold out by early afternoon, said Catherine Kaloutsky, a spokesman at Via's offices in Toronto. The storm also disrupted air traffic in and out of Dorval airport yesterday, Aeroports de Montreal spokesman Jacqueline Richard said. "There were 26 or 27 cancellations on flights from Toronto, Boston, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia," she said. In addition, some flight departures from Dorval were delayed "because of aircraft not coming in or being late." Transport Quebec road crews were on alert yesterday as the storm slowly moved into the area. Planning to travel? For information on Via arrivals and departures today, check the Web site at www.viarail.ca. For information on flights at Dorval and Mirabel airports, consult www.admtl.com. "The salt trucks are out and they will be employed as needed," Yves Kirouac, a Transport Quebec technician, said yesterday. "It’s not a storm that will take us by surprise - it’s just a little late. We ask people to drive carefully, especially as it’s the first storm of the season." While winter’s first blast took a long time coming, Montrealers had to wait even longer for their first real snowfall in the winter of 1979-80, Lam of Environment Canada said. The first big snowstorm of that season dumped 20 centimetres on the city - on March 14. "That was also the season with the least snow on record," Lam noted. Only 93.1 centimetres of snow fell on Montreal that year, down from an average of 228.4 centimetres. Ann Carroll's Email address is [email protected]. i ' i?Z: "C rM 4rv- ' ' f Name; Address Or Postal Code: Phone ( ) Card Jxpiry Date: Subscription Start Date: Signature: re-authorized Monthly Payment Plan Just $12 per month! Debited automatically from your Visa, MasterCard, Amex or chequing account. Please return coupon to: More is Less - National Post, 300-1450 Don Mills Road, Don Mills, Ontario M3B 3R5 or Fax: 1877 301 7678. C system 22 Article written by Freud 25 They have low ranges 26 Deseret denizen: Var 27 It's often dressed 28 Philosopher Kierkegaard 29 Went undercover 30 Bel 31 Certain battery 32 Cry while holding a paper 33 Well-rehearsed 44 Sta-fabric softener 45 Cedar Rapids college 48 Kind of arch 49 Military assignment 50 Seat of ancient Irish kings 51 Do perfectly 52 Buchanan who wrote "The Corpse Had a Familiar Face" 53 Is on the bottom? 54 Sudden burst 55 Reverse 56 Alaska's first governor William A. TODAY'S FORECAST The Weather Network make the right call Montreal area 1-900-565-weather Weather On Demand $1.50/min Today's high -4 Tonight's low -12 Ice pellets, Winds northeasterly 35km/h, Windchill -12, Tonight, 100% chance of ice pellets, Forecast Issued at 5 p.m. yesterday covers highs for today and overnight lows between tonight and tomorrow. Quebec Snow -1147 Si Saint-Jovite Snow -7-17 of Rivieres 0 Snow -9-15 Montreal J" i , Jjjpe pellets -Af-Tgi I Sherbrooke " i&iif Freezing rain 0-18 Snow -2-12gy J 1 NORTH AMERICAN WEATHER SYSTEMS Xl sV JVf i'l J Weather T7T20 1 5 V DSnSi 'Vv '-'H - systems n -' V r siown are - i'ff , for 2 p.m. u tiwiu rrunx I UIU rrum niyi piesaum v' Ttough Low pressure tit TEMPERATURE CONVERSION 25 -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 C I I I I I I I I I I I I I -13 -4 5 14 23 32 41 50 59 68 77 86 95 F UV INDEX f Low Moderate High Extreme more than 2 hours to sunburn Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius ALMANAC Today's Records Max, Min, Precipitation Heating Degree days to 2 p.m. laB 10"i ' Co 2 p.m. yusterrjay Yesterday 1932 - -31.7 measures in rrnnj 27.5 Temperature Yesterday 0 Yesterday -5 -14 Month to date 29 Oct. 1 to date Year ago today -5 -9 Month normal 72 1853.4 Normal this date -6.7 -15.1 Today's normal 1.8 EXTENDED WEATHER: Tomorrow Mainly sunny High -7 low -13 Sunday Partly sunny High Low -3 -7 Monday 80% chance of light snow High 1 Low -7 Tuesday 80% chance of light snow High -3 Low -11 Sun & moon Sunrise 7:16 a.m. Sunset 6:01 p.m. Moonrise 9:54 p.m. Moonset 9:41 a Total daylight: 9hrs, 45 mm (DO Feb 4 Feb 12 Feb 20 Feb 27 New Full Canada today Max, Min, Iqaluit Sunny -24 -33 Yellowknife Flurries -22 -28 Whitehorse P Cloudy -6 -9 Vancouver Showers 6 6 Victoria Showers 7 7 Edmonton P Cloudy -8 -16 Calgary M Sunny -6 -12 Saskatoon P Cloudy -14 -22 Regina P Cloudy -12 -16 Winnipeg P Cloudy -17 -18 Thunder Bay P Sunny -10 -20 Sudbury Flurries -12 -19 Toronto Rain-snow 0 -8 Fredericton Snow -7 -16 Halifax Snow 0 -11 Charlottetown Snow -5 -14 St. John's M Sunny -9 -10 United States today Atlanta Showers 16 1 Boston Rain-snow 4 -1 Chicago Flurries 0 -10 Dallas P Cloudy 9 -2 Denver P Cloudy 3 -8 Las Vegas P Cloudy 11 -3 Los Angeles P Cloudy 16 7 New Orleans Showers 14 6 New York Showers 16 1 Phoenix P Cloudy 17 5 St. Louis Cloudy 3 -4 San Francisco P Cloudy 11 5 Washington Rain 21 2 pWeather tg Network www.TheWeatherNetwork.com Regional synopses Abitibi-Temiscamingue High -15, Low near -24, Light snow Laurentians High -7, Low near -17, Snow Eastern Ontario High -2, Low near -12, Snow Southern Ontario High 0, Low near -8, Rain-snow shwr Quebec City High -11, Low near -17, Snow Eastern Townships High 0, Low near -18, Freezing rain Northern New England High 0, Low near -10, Snow Gaspe High -13, Low near -18, Light snow World today, Max, Min, Amsterdam Rain 11 8 Ankara Cloudy 1 0 Athens Cloudy 18 9 Beijing Sunny 8 0 Berlin Rain 10 4 Dublin Rain 13 7 Hong Kong Cloudy 14 13 Jerusalem Sunny 19 9 Lisbon Sunny 16 9 London Rain 12 11 Madrid Sunny 12 -3 Mexico City Showers 21 9 Moscow Snow -11 -13 Nairobi P Cloudy 26 11 New Delhi Sunny 22 8 Paris Rain 11 9 Rio de Janeiro T Storms 32 27 Rome P Cloudy 14 10 Stockholm Rain-snow -1 -4 Sydney Rain 24 24 Tokyo P Sunny 5 5 Resorts today Max, Min, Acapulco P Cloudy 31 25 Barbados P Cloudy 29 24 Bermuda Sunny 23 19 Daytona P Cloudy 25 16 Kingston T Showers 31 23 Miami P Cloudy 26 20 Myrtle Beach P Cloudy 23 7 Nassau P Cloudy 28 21 Tampa P Cloudy 26 17 SPORTS Whelan's return boosts volleyball Martlets McGill volleyball player Wendy Whelan certainly has picked up where she left off. The 25-year-old from Beaconsfield, who returned to the court with the Martlets only a few weeks ago after a three-year sabbatical, is the Canadian Interuniversity Sports female athlete of the week. The 6-foot-1 middle blocker was MVP at the Ottawa Gee-Gees Invitational last weekend, with 79 digs, 68 kills, 16 stuff blocks, five aces and a 2.34 passing ratio (out of 3.0) in five matches to lead McGill to the tournament title. In league play, Whelan's performance, as well as that of other veterans like fifth-year setter Shauna Forster, along with middle-blocker Elizabeth Jamieson and power-hitter Joliane Allaire, both fourth-year players, has the Martlets in a tight end-of-season battle for first place with Université de Montreal and Laval. "What Wendy brings to the team in terms of performance on the court, experience and the maturity she gained during the three years she was away has been invaluable," said Rachele Beliveau, now in her 11th season as head coach of the Martlets. "Her presence has brought a lot of stability and more confidence to the team." Whelan played at McGill from 1995 to 1998, was a three-time Academic and CIS All-Canadian and graduated with a degree in physical and occupational therapy. Whelan, who is back at McGill as a special student studying psychology, French and computer technology, spent 18 months as a member of Canada's national team after graduating and went on to play professionally in Austria. COMPLIMENTS OTHERS "Wendy really compliments others on the team," Beliveau said. "Shauna, Elizabeth and Joliane have also gained in experience and demonstrate a lot of maturity on the court. The four are players who can make the difference between winning by two points and losing by two points." The Martlets, tied with U de M and Laval with identical 6-5 league records, are ranked seventh in the country. They entertain U de M tonight and fifth-ranked Laval on Sunday. HAPPY 125TH: McGill, the oldest organized hockey team in the world, marked its 125th anniversary yesterday. "How do we know we’re the oldest? Because there is no evidence of the existence of a hockey 'team' before McGill started playing," said Earl (The Pearl) Zukerman, sports information director at McGill and vice-president of the Society For International Hockey Research. "People may have played hockey at the time, but McGill had the first organized team," Zukerman said. McGill students, instrumental in the origins and development of the game, founded the world's first hockey club, according to an article that appeared in the McGill University Gazette on Feb. 1, 1877. The first game was a challenge between McGill and the Victorias, a team composed of members from Montreal's old Victoria Skating Rink, the Montreal Lacrosse Club and the Montreal Football Club. McGill won 2-1 in a game played at Victoria Rink in the heart of the city in an area bordered by Drummond St., de Maisonneuve Blvd. and Rene Levesque Blvd. (formerly Dorchester). A Tilden car-rental franchise now occupies the site. The game between McGill and the Victorias was played in accordance with a list of rules published the following month in The Gazette, on Feb. 27, 1877, and before another confrontation between the teams in early March. The list of rules included: The ball may be stopped, but not carried on by any part of the body. No player shall raise his stick above his shoulder. Charging from behind, tripping, collaring, kicking or shinning shall not be allowed. All disputes shall be settled by the umpires, or in the event of their disagreement, by the referee. Zukerman said the game was initially played with a hard rubber ball, but took on a puck-like, yet square shape, when an enterprising McGill student cut off the rounded sides of the ball. To mark the anniversary, McGill will play host to Queen's University tonight at 7:30 in a continuation of the second-oldest men's college hockey rivalry in North America. McGill and Queen's first met in 1895, 10 years after Queen's and the Royal Military College faced off in Kingston. McGill principal Dr. Bernard Shapiro and Queen's principal Dr. William Leggett, a former vice-principal at McGill, will take part in a pre-game ceremony. McGill entertains RMC tomorrow night at 7. Canadian spirits high Soccer team can still finish third at Gold Cup Canadian Press PASADENA, Calif. - Like an exhausted boxer, battered and bruised from a lopsided fight, the Canadian soccer team returned to practice yesterday after yet another dramatic finale at the Gold Cup. Players limped off the bus some 12 hours after their 4-2 loss on penalty kicks to the U.C. MONTREAL SPORTS FINAL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2002 65 (OUTSIDE METRO AREA 854) "CJH0! "I 1 C3C3 They say they’re allowed as little as 15 or 20 seconds to assess each visitor arriving at ports of entry. Arrivals are waved through even when their language isn't understood. WILLIAM MARSDEN The Gazette Call it the 15-second defence. Canada's front line against terrorists or other undesirables seeking entry to the country is basically a customs officer who has 15 to 20 seconds to check a traveler's story. The current system of assessing visitors arriving at our airports and other ports of entry still relies heavily on a thin line of often overworked customs officials whose main responsibility is checking for smugglers. Terrorists or other criminals are secondary. What's more, Canada Customs admits that nothing has changed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "The only thing we have changed is to make sure officers enter everybody's name into the computer," said Sgt. Andre Belleville of Canada Customs. "But we have been doing that really all along." In fact, harried customs agents, pushed to process hordes of visitors at busy airports across the country, are given little more than 15 to 20 seconds to decide whether a visitor is a possible security risk and should be detained for an immigration check, according to former immigration agents interviewed by The Gazette. Belleville says these are not official quotas and an agent can take longer. Nevertheless, that's the expected time at airports, the immigration agents say. And they are pushed to stick to it. So after the one-tier check, when customs waves a traveler through with a coded customs card, the person is free to grab his luggage and enter the country. Immigration agents play no part in this vetting. Please see CUSTOMS, Page A7 Refugee watched by CSIS, Page A7 NEW RULES Want to sue cop? Make it snappy GEORGE KALOGERAKIS Gazette Justice Reporter New rules for the merged city of Montreal make it harder to sue police for negligence or wrongful arrest. When the Montreal Urban Community police existed as the regional force, people had three years to sue. Since the MUC police became Montreal police on Jan. 1, the deadline dropped to six months. And those who want to sue must send a warning letter within 15 days of whatever incident they feel warrants a lawsuit. That warning letter wasn't necessary before. New rules and regulations for the amalgamated city, drafted by the Quebec government as part of the process of imposing municipal mergers, have raised the ire of some lawyers who specialize in suing police forces. Reevin Pearl said yesterday that the change erodes the rights of the public. "People don’t run to a lawyer immediately," he said. "It doesn’t hit them right away. They are still in shock. They have to think about it first." The new deadlines refer to all cases except those of personal injury or death, for which the delay remains three years. Here are some examples of what is affected: A man illegally detained in police cells or wrongfully arrested on insufficient evidence. A landlord who sees police damage one of his apartments during a raid. An improper police response worsens damage caused by a riot or a thief. Pearl gave an example in which he represented merchants who successfully sued police after the 1993 Stanley Cup riots. Police had reacted slowly when hordes of rioters looted stores along St. Catherine St. Please see LAWSUITS, Page A2 -WEATHER- o o o e o o o o o o e o e o e Stormy Today's high, -4 Tonight's low, -12 Details, Page C I I INDEX- Aubin B3 Auto Plus B6 Boone A 2 Bridge B9 Brownstein A 6 Business C I City Life A6 Classified B6 Comics C I 2 Comment B3 Crosswords B7, C1 1 Editorials B2 Horoscope B7 Lamey C I Landers B10 Legals Auctions B10 Movies D2 Nation All Needletrade B9 Obituaries B10, BU Phillips C11 Preview D 1 RSVP B5 Scoreboard C I O Sports C7 Stewart B3 Todd C7 TV Listings 09 What's On D10, D11 Wonderword B9 QUOTE It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. Arthur C. Clarke canada.com J' Make! Make The Gazette Black History Month revives memories 4- fcfc i-'" ; rf '-"t 1- ' II vtff I c J 1114111' fill , , ,? I f 1 Vy8WWW , r " wrnti i', 'iim,,', " ,r ' ,f - ' ", ' , i ; 1 I--: -"r' t V - i4 li fc,f n i i 1 7 vyiy ALLEN McINNIS, GAZETTE Former football star Ivan Livingstone checks out his boyhood haunts, along Coursol St. in Little Burgundy, during a visit Wednesday. At home in soul of the community IRWIN BLOCK The Gazette It was always a small downtown neighbourhood, tucked below the CPR tracks, but the importance of Little Burgundy to Montreal was far greater than its size. It nurtured the famous - like jazz stars Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones and Charlie Biddle - and the not-so-famous. Former Alouettes football star Ivan Livingstone remembers that part of the St. Henri district, just west of Mountain St., as the heart and soul of Montreal's black community well into the 1960s. "We went through some very difficult times," Livingstone recalled when interviewed about Black History Month, which starts today. His memories include living with his 11 brothers and sisters in a "cold Gat" heated by a kerosene stove. "I remember my dad couldn’t afford the $22 a month rent downtown in 1939 or 1940. We had to make sacrifices." Then there were the racist taunts that Livingstone faced while playing football at Macdonald College of McGill University. "I was called 'nigger' by my teammates. Once, we lost a game against the University of Ottawa and I had scored five touchdowns, yet they blamed the loss on me." Livingstone was part of a tough yet dynamic community that included the walk-up tenements between Mountain St. and Atwater Ave., and went south from the tracks to St. Jacques St. The people there didn't have much but they had dreams and a strong community to support them. Please see COMMUNITY, Page A4 Solace in Friends Page A4 Globalization protesters feel New York chill JOE LAURIA Southam News 1st storm finally here Road crews ready for heavy snow, freezing rain ANN CARROLL The Gazette NEW YORK - Anti-globalization protesters were sparse on the streets of midtown Manhattan for the opening day of the World Economic Forum, and the weather might have had as much to do with it as the presence of riot police. After three days of record-breaking warmth, yesterday's freezing rain and slicing winds drew only the most ardent anti-capitalists outdoors. The sight of cops in full riot gear mounted on horses and others toting submachine guns may have also been a deterrent. Television pictures of New York police rehearsing crowd-control tactics were beamed across the country all week. 'MEDIA STUNT' "It was a media stunt designed to scare people away," said Eric Laursen of Another World Is Possible, the coalition formed to organize protests for the first WEF meeting, which was held outside the Swiss alpine village Davos. At the opening press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani predicted police will maintain order. Please see GLOBALIZATION, Page A7 A storm blowing in from the southwestern US is expected to dump as much as 15 centimetres of snow and ice pellets on Montreal by tonight, snarling traffic and delaying or cancelling flights. "This is the first major storm of the season affecting southern Quebec and the St. Lawrence Valley," Environment Canada meteorologist Laura Lam said yesterday. Heavy-snow warnings are in effect for Montreal, the Laurentians, Quebec City and the lower St. Lawrence. Total accumulation in the Quebec City region is expected to reach 25 centimetres. The snow and ice pellets falling on Montreal this morning could change to freezing rain this afternoon as the temperature climbs to about minus-3C, Lam said. The weather is expected to be fine tomorrow, with a high of minus-8, followed by light snow Sunday and Monday, with highs of minus-1. The storm has been blamed for 16 deaths in the United States and three more in Ontario. Please see STORM, Page A7 U vUJ mm U0fllf ' Try fir, nr'wif(ifPt mi -O i iO - ' - ' "TM your home page: canada.com/unionmontreal
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: MacDonald, Page B3 Fruit-seller feels squeeze Strike by truckers means grocers are running short of imported delicacies ALLISON HANES The Gazette Michael Di Staullo craves Clementines. Normally at this time of year, the co-owner of Fruiterie Westmount sells as many as 100 crates a day of the succulent miniature oranges from Morocco for between $2.99 and $4.99 each. But because of an illegal strike by independent truckers who transport goods from the Port of Montreal, the shipment of Clementines Di Staullo is expecting is rotting on a pier. "That's a couple of hundred dollars a day for me in lost sales," he said yesterday as he unpacked produce at his fruit and vegetable market on Sherbrooke St.
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12-15. Braknis edged out Gary Anderson of Brampton, Ont., with a time of 56.99 seconds. Joanne Malar of Hamilton, Ont., and Marianne Limpert of North York, Ont., took the top two spots in the women's 200-metre freestyle. Those performances, together with an impressive third-place finish by Tara Fullbrandt, 15, of Edmonton, were enough to claim all three a berth in the 4x200-metre relay at the championships. Quebec women's under-19 team beat the Brooklyn Black Magic 104-54 to advance to the semi-finals of the eighth annual Quebec Basketball Federation summer festival. The under-19 team now faces Nova Scotia in the 67-team tournament being held at CEGEP Vieux Montreal and Champlain College in St. Lambert. Quebec's men's under-19 squad takes on the men's Brooklyn Black Magic team tonight, 7:45 p.m., at CEGEP Vieux Montreal. The Nike West Island Running Circuit resumes tomorrow with the 15th annual Ste. Anne de Bellevue Classic.
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1882 WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE PRODUCE AND FUEL MARKET Montreal, July 7 There has not been much warm seasonable weather in this part of the Province, and the experience, on the whole, has been unequal, and this applies to the midsummer month so far as it has gone. Rain fell here on nine days during the first part of June, and on six days of the latter half; and only on two or three occasions has the temperature been up to a fair summer heat. July came in with heavy rain, which continued with more or less frequency until the 3rd inst, showers coming on again on the 5th and 6th. The highest temperature (74) of the past six days occurred on the 4th and 5th inst; the lowest (53) was on the 4th inst, the average daily mean being 61. Inquiries respecting the season's prospects in the Eastern Townships and part of Vermont and Maine have elicited information as follows: Country looks backward; cold weather and too much rain; hay crop on new meadows good, but light on old land; Indian corn and potatoes very backward; oats looking well; wheat considerably damaged in some sections, by wire worm. Notwithstanding very unfavorable weather in some of the Western States, crop prospects are said to be fair. Business has been interrupted this past week by holidays, Dominion Day falling on Saturday, and the United States national holiday on Tuesday. Latest advice from Europe were by Atlantic cable to date; by mail per S.S. Peruvian and Parthia, dates from London, Liverpool and Glasgow being to 24th ult. Breadstuffs: Wheat quiet; flour steady; provisions: Butter dull; cheese unsettled; pork strong; ashes: Pots steady; pearls nominal. Flour: Local receipts by railway and canal for week ending 6th July, 11,202 brls. Total receipt from 1st January to 5th July, 308,012 brls, against 394,790 brls at corresponding date in 1881, being a decrease of 26,788 brls. Local shipments for the week ending 6th July, 17,801 brls. Total shipments from 1st January to 5th July, 219,600 brls, against 227,607 brls at corresponding date in 1881, being an increase of 11,933 brls. Business since the holidays has much improved, and a considerable quantity of flour has changed hands this week, some 2,000 brls being on lower ports account. Superiors have sold at $6.25, $6.22, $6.20 and $6.17; extra superior (which is specially in demand) at $6.05, $6.00 and $6.05; spring extra at $5.80, $5.90 and $5.96, and superfine at $5.25. Values, compared with last week's quotations, have ruled slightly in buyer's favor, but at the close are quite steady. Grain: Wheat: Local receipts by railway and canal for week ending 5th July, 101,264 bushels. Total receipts from 1st January to 6th July, 1,862,480 bushels, against 2,486,529 bushels at corresponding date in 1881, being a decrease of 624,083 bushels. Local shipments for week ending 5th July, 67,872 bush. Total shipments from 1st January to 5th July, 1,318,254 bushels, against 1,938,765 bushels at corresponding date in 1881, being a decrease of 615,511 bushels. There is scarcely any movement in wheat, the only reported transaction being a small lot of No. 2 Canada white winter at $1.30. Values are steady. Corn has sold at 84c in bond, but closed firm at 85c. Peas are very firm in consequence of scarcity, holders asking $1 and 98c bid. Oats also are firmly held at 44c. Rye and Barley nominal. Latest Western advices (By Telegraph): Chicago, 6th July. Close: No. 2 Spring wheat, $1.13 for July; No. 2 corn, 79c for July. Milwaukee, 6th July. Close: No. 2 spring wheat, $1.17 for August. Provisions: Butter: Local receipts by railway and canal, 2,982 packages; local shipments, 3,134 packages. Market dull and unchanged, only a dull business doing. Cheese: Local receipts by railway and canal, 23,158 boxes; local shipments, 44,287. A moderate business has been doing at steady values, but at the close there is an unsettled feeling. Ingersoll market report, 4th instant: Twenty-seven factories offered 6,277 boxes, last part of June make; 3,416 sold at 10c, 10c and 10½c. Pork: The still higher prices have farmer diminished the demand, Western mess bringing $25 and Canada short cut $25.00-$26.00. TRAIN SCHEDULE: The train for Portland, with Parlor Car attached, leaves for PORTLAND, with Parlor Car attached, local train for KNOWLTON and RICHFORD, and Intermediate stations. No. 6: 30 p.m. -Through Night Express, with Pullman Sleeping Car, for Boston and intermediate stations. Passengers taking the 9 a.m. train arrive at Portland at 8:10 and Old Orchard at the same evening, passing through the celebrated White Mountain Notch. Elegant Parlor Cars, Day Trains between Montreal and Portland and Montreal and Boston, and Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on Night trains between Montreal and Boston. No. 4 stops only at Chambly, Canton, Marieville, West Farnham and Cowansville, between Montreal and Richmond, except Saturdays, when it will stop at all stations. EXAMINER, July 7, 1 a.m. An area of depression is now central over Minnesota and the pressure is high from the lower lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. The weather has been fine and warmer in Ontario and generally cloudy and showery in Quebec and the Maritime provinces. PROBABILITIES: Lakes Fresh to strong southerly to southwesterly; increasing cloudiness and rain. Warm and clearing Saturday. St. Lawrence, upper: Fresh southerly; increasing cloudiness and warm; rain at night. Lower St. Lawrence Gulf, moderate to fresh westerly to southwesterly; fair and warm. Maritime: Moderate to fresh west to southwest; clearing and warmer. Washington, D.C., July 7, 1891.
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1900 C7 NATIONAL OUTDOORS Yellow perch restrictions necessary The day when Quebec anglers will be saddled with a limit and season on yellow perch is only a few years away. Yellow perch are among the most prolific and widespread of Quebec game fish, so much so that they've invaded and claimed many trout and walleye lakes. Until lately, they've been regarded as little more than nuisance fish which take a lure well and give a respectable account once hooked. Trouble is that yellow perch are also one of the best eating fish to be found in Quebec waters and their white, flavorful meat is sought by both angler and non-angler alike. And, in the absence of any restrictions, a surprising number of fishermen have turned professional and are supplying the demand for fresh perch fillets. It's a lucrative business, provided you know what you're doing. A good fisherman can usually fill three buckets with perch in a day; once filleted, each bucket is worth between $50 and $65. That comes to between $150 and $195 per day, no questions asked. The money is even better during the last two weeks of April and the first week of May, when the perch are massed into immense spawning schools. Peddling the fish is easy since the buyers make their rounds on a regular basis throughout the winter and spring, often visiting the fishermen at home to buy the day's catch. Most of the perch are being resold to restaurants and stores in eastern Ontario. The toll on Montreal-area perch populations is so great that sports fishermen have noticed not only a decline in the number of fish caught, but also in the average size. Montreal-area anglers noticed a change in the perch population as much as five years ago and, in response to their concern, the Montreal office of the provincial fish and game department initiated a perch tagging program on Lac St. Louis three years ago. The results so far, unfortunately, have been largely inconclusive; less than one percent of the 10,000 spaghetti-tags attached by biologists each spring have been returned, and that's not enough to draw concrete conclusions. Yet, while biologists look for proof of the decline in yellow perch locally, the fish are being caught faster than nature can replenish their numbers. Provincial authorities maintain that there are no plans for either a limit on yellow perch or a closure to protect them during the April spawning period. At the regional offices of the fish and game department, however, such a move is being discussed. Unless evidence surfaces to prove that local perch populations are in better shape than indicated, anglers in the Montreal area will see daily and season limits along with a spring closure within the next two years. And not a second too soon. According to Linda Tilden, one of the lucky souls who get to live on the shores of Lake Tremblant year-round, the ice on that lake is still about a foot and a half thick. As recently as a week ago, snowmobilers were able to cross the lake freely, though rain has put a damper on their activities. The latest bout of mild weather will no doubt start the spring thaw in earnest, but at this stage it's a case of too little, too late. It would take an equatorial heat wave to prepare the lake for next weekend's trout opener. Tremblant fishing guide Wayne Johnson estimates that breakup will happen somewhere around May 3, and that bodes well for the spring fishery. After guiding on Tremblant for better than six years, and fishing the lake when he's not guiding anglers, Johnson has noticed that the best landlocked salmon and lake-trout fishing takes place during those years when ice out comes late. Anglers headed for New Brunswick's Miramichi River this weekend to take advantage of the spring salmon fishery will find the river in a flood state. The ice went off the Miramichi last Sunday and since then, the river has been running about six feet above seasonable levels. Fortunately, the runoff abates quickly on this massive river system and, by the end of next week, the Miramichi should be at its prime for spring salmon. Bear in mind that these fish are spent salmon on their way back to salt water after spending the winter in the river. They're ravenous and will hit almost any large fly presented in front of them, but the fight is less spectacular than that of a fresh run summer salmon. ON SALE Monday & Tuesday Only - April 23rd and 24th Canadian Commercial is a government agency that contracts on behalf of Canadian suppliers with foreign governments. THE GAZETTE, ALLEN MCHENRY Martineau Walker partners Stephen Cheasley, Brigitte Gouin, Jean Lafleur and Francis Fox can look beyond the Montreal skyline for business. LAWYERS JAN RAVENSBERGEN THE GAZETTE ALTER CANADA'S LEGAL LANDSCAPE Law is now more a big business than a profession. The big-league law firms in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are going through a quiet revolution these days. Veteran law-firm partners have begun to peer out from behind their panelled doors to unleash a rapid-fire series of affiliations and mergers involving some of the most prestigious names in law in Quebec and across the country. Vancouver firms have made or are looking for alliances in the east. Montreal firms have made or are seeking allies in the west and elsewhere. And firms in Toronto, Canada's legal centre of gravity, have become part of law-firm networks extending into both Quebec and British Columbia. In addition, like their counterparts in almost every other business these days, the biggest wheels in the law business have started to think globally. In short, with the cementing of dozens of new alliances during the past six months, Canada's legal landscape is being transformed to an astonishing degree. ""Lawyers have seen more changes in the last five to seven years than ever before,"" Jean Lafleur, chairman of the executive committee of Martineau Walker in Montreal, mused this week. At the end of January, 114-lawyer Clarkson Tetrault of Montreal announced it was combining in a newly constituted partnership with McCarthy & McCarthy of Toronto, to create Canada's largest single law firm, with 450 lawyers among a total staff of 1,300. Now renamed McCarthy Tetrault, the old Toronto-based firm played the lead role in knocking down barriers of provincial jurisdiction that until about a year ago prevented precisely this kind of merger. The most recent of the changes was announced only last Wednesday when Lafleur, Brown, de Grandpre of Montreal and Kronstrom, McNicoll, Desjardins & Villeneuve of Quebec City announced a merger to create an 83-lawyer firm. It will be known as Lafleur, Brown, de Grandpre, Kronstrom. Along with the new matchmaking, the bigger law firms are focusing ever more strongly on the business aspects of their professional practices. That's not surprising, because the largest half-dozen Montreal law partnerships alone easily generate total annual revenue exceeding $200 million, according to Andre Gagnon, publisher of the Quebec-oriented legal periodical Le Monde Juridique. Just how big is the law business in Quebec? There are 12,502 members of the Barreau du Quebec of whom 3,809 are women and a total of 3,302 notaries in the province. Including support staff and public employees of the justice system, Gagnon figures there are at least 50,000 jobs in Quebec's legal sector. PLEASE SEE LAW MERGERS, PAGE C2 For Rent signs will soon flood downtown office buildings. Among the important questions in Montreal today such as whether the Canadiens will beat the Bruins or when spring will finally arrive is who will be renting all the new office space downtown? In case you haven't noticed, the skyline is dotted with construction cranes. Montreal developers, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to build a bunch of major projects at the same time, flooding the market with millions of square feet of unleased space. At least 11 office-development projects are coming on stream in 1990 and '91, adding about 4 million square feet of new space to the office market, according to an analysis by Devencore Realties Ltd. But only 40 percent of that space or 1.7 million square feet has been leased so far. Some projects such as The World Trade Centre near Old Montreal and the Bank of Nova Scotia tower on Sherbrooke St. have leased less than a quarter of their available space. The timing of development obviously isn't great. Interest rates are surging, the economy is slowing and political uncertainty about Meech Lake is thick. The result is that tenants are taking a ""wait-and-see"" attitude. Office relocations are often spurred by expansion, but there aren't many companies expanding right now. In an effort to lease space more quickly, developers have resorted to offering big financial inducements to prospective tenants. The value of these inducements, which can include building improvements, cash allowances and rent reductions, sometimes approaches $100 per square foot in the first year of a new lease, says Montreal broker Harry McKeague, president of Leonard, McKeague Realty Inc. ""There's a lot of space being built and people perceive the market as soft,"" explains McKeague. ""We are entering a tenant's market,"" adds Rodney Birrell, vice-president of marketing at Devencore, which is building the World Trade Centre and has so far leased only 18 percent of the space mostly to governments. Birrell argues that now is the best time for tenants to cut a deal because the market will get a bit tighter by autumn as tenants renew leases that come due this year and next. Right now, Birrell says, developers are willing to discount by 15 to 20 percent on rents, which typically range between $25 and $34 a square foot for class A space. The relative glut of new office space will push Montreal's vacancy rate up to 13.3 percent, Birrell figures, still lower than in Toronto but sharply higher than this city has seen in several years. The development industry moves in cycles of feast and famine. Last year was a lean year, with few new projects delivered and the vacancy rate on class A space tumbled to 4.8 percent by the end of December. But over the next two years, there will be more supply than the market can absorb. Another complicating factor is the rising cost of relocation. Rental rates on new office space have moved up considerably from those charged in the late 1980s. ""This is a factor that has affected virtually every major Canadian city during the past three years,"" says Birrell of Devencore. The increase is a direct result of higher land prices and the rising cost of construction and financing. And costs could move even higher once the goods-and-services tax takes effect next year. The tax will be applied not only to rent charged, but to any financial benefits included in the lease package. Companies moving into new premises will also have to pay the goods-and-services tax on design fees, furnishings, office equipment, telephone systems, etc. In the event of a continued business slowdown, companies may resist the higher rents being asked on new space and opt instead for space in existing buildings. And that could pose quite a problem for developers sitting on new space. They would have to become even more aggressive in ""moving the product."" After all, nobody wants to sit in a half-empty building. It's bad for business. Tire dumps The toxic fire which burned for 17 days at a Hagersville, Ont., tire dump could have happened in any one of the 123 tire dumps in Quebec. The fumes from the Ontario fire spewed poisonous smoke into the atmosphere, harming livestock, contaminating farmland and produce and causing the evacuation of nearby residents. In St. Amable alone, the rubber mountain contains between 4 million and 15 million discarded tires. Conservationists worry that security at tire sites is lax and provincial authorities admit that regulations concerning the storage of such potentially toxic material are still being drawn up. They've called for $5 million to improve security at 19 used-tire dumps and they're looking for ways to divide tire mounds into smaller piles to lessen the risk of large-scale fire. The Quebec firefighters' union says tires can be shredded and burned as fuel in cement plant incinerators and conservationists are urging that the proposal be studied. Recent visitors to La Verendrye Park describe certain sections of the once lush tree-filled reserve as desert-like. Yet Quebec is signing contracts some in effect until 2013 allowing companies to cut even more trees. The provincial government will not reveal how much will be cut as a result of its new forestry policy, which permits companies to cut trees on Crown land throughout Quebec. The Barrier Lake Algonquin Indians fear that the wholesale logging of trees in their area will not only seriously harm wildlife and flora of the region, but also their own way of life. Quebec's department of resources argues that the so-called clear-cutting of trees will be followed by extensive replanting and that little harm will be done. But conservationists say the resulting cultivated forest will be made up of trees of one species only and wildlife needs diversity to thrive. Toxic river Millions of litres of industrial waste are being unceremoniously dumped daily into the St. Lawrence River, the main artery of Quebec's ecosystem. The Cornwall area of the river, just west of the Quebec border, has been particularly fouled. Companies such as Alcoa, Reynolds, CIL, Domtar and Courtaulds are filling the system with a wide range of acids, metals and contaminants. More than 50,000 pollutants have been identified. The toxins have invaded fish, making them dangerous to eat, and corrupted the farmland and cattle of the region, destroying the traditional way of life of the native Mohawk Indians there. Meanwhile, environmentalists say that some companies are dragging their heels, ordering studies and denying responsibility for the problems while the river keeps filling up with poison. James Bay hazard Hydro-Quebec is performing radical surgery on the body of this province with the mammoth $50-billion hydroelectric project at James Bay, initiated 18 years ago and now in its second phase. Environmental experts charge that the utility is cutting with a dull spoon. Yet, even as Quebecers face increasing charges for electricity, it appears Hydro's proposed contract with the Vermont Public Utilities Board effective until the year 2020 and worth close to $8 billion will be ratified. Recognized environmental hazards attributed to the project include: Mercury poisoning: Caused by the release of bacteria after the flooding of land to create reservoirs in Phase I of the project, mercury now inundates the fish of the region and the Cree have been told to limit their fishing and fish intake. Their way of life is compromised as a result. Flooding: There are potential threats to every form of wildlife in the area freshwater seal, beluga whales, caribou, shore birds and others as flooding and drastically altered waterways tamper with the way these creatures breed and feed. As well, thousands of acres of forests will be razed to accommodate the development, contributing to the greenhouse effect. Conservationists and the local Cree warn industry is effectively sacrificing nature on the altar of commerce. Beluga whales are dying in the Saguenay River and with only 400 left, their survival as a species is in doubt. Industry is laying waste to the elegant white mammals by poisoning their food supply with chemicals and debris and by altering their habitat so drastically that they are mutating and developing cancers and ulcers. Autopsy reports on belugas read like a compendium of poisons: PCBs and more than 20 other chemicals have been found in their corpses. Dead belugas are so contaminated, in fact, that they are treated as toxic waste. In less than a year-and-a-half, 27 belugas have come to die on the shores of the Saguenay, victims of the effluents dumped in the river by pulp and paper plants, power companies and mining concerns. Ironically, the flourishing tourist industry which has sprung up around whale sighting is jeopardized as a result. 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In theory, the process allows governments to make objective decisions on development projects, in keeping with policies of environmental protection and social development. But the environment involves humans, and perspectives of various human groups. For aboriginal people, the land is not a wilderness, but their homeland. ""Understanding the impact of development means understanding human values and perspectives. The panel tried to get DND to see this. It told them the aboriginal perspective must be included in the study. Instead of asking that all low-level flights be cancelled, the panel asked for the number of flights to be frozen at the 1986 level. DND refused, and the number has increased every year since. The Innu were thus left to seek an injunction to end the flights entirely, one of their arguments being that no prior environmental clearance was given, as required by law. ""Now the environmental impact study has been released, the panel has found it seriously inadequate and in need of further work. They have again asked for the cap on flights, which DND has also rejected under the absurd pretext that this would close down Goose Bay. And the public is asking why a $6-million study is effectively worthless. ""The study has problems on every page. Its description of the proposal is inadequate, not even identifying the vast areas for bombing, target and supersonic flight practice, which effectively exempts them from assessment. Its use of existing scientific data, particularly on noise, is distorted. It has failed to cite a wide range of existing studies, or to conduct its own research where data are not yet available. It proposes 'avoidance' of people and sensitive wildlife by the military, without demonstrating that this is feasible. And the aboriginal perspectives are totally avoided. ""This is not just my opinion, but that of numerous specialists. The study's errors and distortions cannot be explained as poor research. They show a pattern of distortions which consistently minimizes the negative impacts of the project. ""A major problem with the present process is that DND had total control over who conducted the study and how it was done. It is common knowledge among the subcontractors that the results of many component studies were never included in the final report, while in other cases results were included only selectively. The consultants involved cannot legally complain publicly and if they did, would gain the unwanted reputation as troublemakers. ""The only checks against such distortions are the public interest groups who were allowed to criticize the report. However, the funding available to them was minuscule compared to that spent by DND. Due mainly to the ability of the Innu to find independent scientists who could critically examine the report, and to the independence shown by the panel, a sham has been exposed. ""But this is not a victory for environmental stewardship and social responsibility. Last Tuesday, for the 10th year, the low-level flights were due to start screaming over the heads of Innu hunters and the wildlife. The EARP process has yet to offer them any real protection. BLOCKADE Moscow accused of diverting food sent from Cuba CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 rioters planned to storm the building. The troops, some using their clubs and others using their feet and fists, forced the guards and 400 employees out of the building, the witnesses said. ""They threatened to kill us,"" said a civilian guard, Romouldas Sulio-kas, whose nose was bleeding and who said he had been beaten in the stomach and kicked in the back. ""Some of us threw ourselves down to the floor, but we were dragged along."" About 4,000 Vilnius residents, who heard radio reports of the clash, converged on the plant and began singing nationalist songs and jeering at the soldiers. Twelve people were injured and three were taken to hospital. It was not immediately clear whether the troops' movement into the building was ordered by Moscow or by the commander of the Vilnius garrison. About 15 unarmed Interior Ministry troops had been watching the building for three weeks without incident. Troops beat some Lithuanians last month as they forcibly rounded up army deserters. But in takeovers of about half a dozen Communist Party buildings in Vilnius since the Lithuanian parliament declared the republic independent March 11, there has been no violence. Gorbachev, however, has been increasing the pressure on the Baltic republic in the past week in an effort to persuade Lithuanian lawmakers to rescind pro-independence legislation. Moscow cut off all oil supplies and 84 percent of the republic's natural gas supplies. And yesterday, according to Deputy Prime Minister Romualdas Ozolas, the Lithuanian leadership received telegrams ""that confirm that not only oil and gas but also food products have been diverted from Lithuania."" Two ships from Cuba carrying raw sugar for Lithuania have been diverted from the Baltic republic's port of Klaipeda as have supplies of fish from neighboring Latvia, Ozolas told a news conference. ""We cannot speak about some misunderstanding,"" he said. ""I am sure this is a part of a complex of measures that can be called a blockade. I also fear that the range of these measures can be expanded."" In Norway, Lithuania's prime minister yesterday suggested a trade of farm products for oil to help the Baltic republic survive the Soviet blockade. Kazimiera Prunskicne visited the west-coast oil town of Stavanger to meet managers of the government Statoil company. The Norwegian government told the Lithuanians they are welcome to buy its North Sea crude, but it has given no promises of aid. In Moscow, Lithuania's permanent representative to the Soviet capital shot down a BBC report that Lithuania will offer to repeal its declaration in exchange for a two-year timetable for independence. Egidius Bickauskas was quoted on Radio Moscow's Interfax news service as dismissing ""rumors that Lithuanian leaders will be ready to rescind their decision"" if Moscow agrees to a two-year separation plan. The representative's office aides said a Lithuanian delegation is coming to Moscow on Monday for consultations with Soviet officials. But Bickauskas said the talks were not linked to Moscow's economic sanctions and had been scheduled before the energy embargo was imposed on Wednesday. ""I decided to give you my resignation,"" Leveille wrote. ""For the nine years that I sat on the bench, I achieved the objectives I had set myself. It is with regret that I now take this course of action."" At 5 p.m., Remillard's spokesman, Anne Lebel, said Remillard was in his courthouse office but had not yet seen the letter. She said he would have no comment in any case. Leveille had stepped down temporarily Feb. 21 pending the Judicial Council ruling on the two accusations of wrongdoing against him. He had continued to draw his $92,000 annual salary. Lapointe said yesterday that Leveille has also decided to withdraw his appeal of the massage parlor conviction. The appeal process was set to start in Quebec Superior Court April 25. ""We're turning the page,"" Lapointe said in an interview, ""My client is very shook up. He's going to try to get over all this."" Lapointe added his client is angered that all three complaints against him have surfaced anonymously, and always first in the media. ""The judge has come to the conclusion that obviously someone doesn't want him to sit as a judge,"" Lapointe said. ""We don't know who that person is."" Police arrested Leveille in the massage parlor in August, but did not charge him until after the story appeared in La Presse early this year. Lapointe said the drunkenness complaint came out Wednesday at the Judicial Council's monthly meeting. A committee appointed to examine Leveille's case was set to examine that charge next Tuesday. The Journal de Montreal reported yesterday that the crown prosecutor in the 1987 sexual assault case had complained to his superiors about Leveille's state during the hearing. The complaint was forwarded to the Justice Department in Quebec City but nothing was done, the newspaper said. POLLUTION Recycling drive instigated in PSBGM schools Continued from page A1 done with it. Most simply were glad that a drive they had instigated last fall has been recognized by their schools and put into action in a concrete way. This is how it works: A Laval fine paper collection firm, Carod Inc., distributes 3,084 blue boxes to the board's 67 schools. Into each box go about 15 kilograms of waste computer paper, looseleaf, note paper and photocopy paper. The schools use 50 million sheets of paper a year a total of 250,000 tonnes. Recycling one tonne saves 17 full-grown trees, Domtar says. Carod Inc. separates the paper by type and sends it to Domtar's Montreal East recycling centre, from there, Domtar ships the paper to its various mills throughout Canada to be recycled. The process costs the schools nothing; indeed, it saves some of them the cost of garbage disposal. The PSBGM is the only board in Montreal to institute such a program in all its schools. The Montreal Board of Trade provides free business advice and contacts. And it's all thanks to the students themselves. ""The impulse came from the kids, saying: We want to start recycling in our school; what are you going to do about it?"" said Gaby Ostro, the PSBGM consultant behind the project. ""I'm really into the environment,"" said Alex Tempier, 11, a Grade 6 student at Roslyn School in Westmount. ""When I see kids I want to show them the environment is precious and you shouldn't fool around with it."" The only problem, Domtar representative Dan Miller said, is finding a market for the finished product: colored recycled paper, which is 10 to 20 percent more expensive than regular white paper. ""In offices especially, there's been a lot of reluctance to use colored paper,"" Miller said. ""So how about lowering the price for a while, taking a cut in profits, to encourage consumption? That's one question the Domtar man wasn't able to answer."" ""I don't deny this is good public relations,"" he said. Outback floods strand thousands ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY An elderly woman drowned in flood waters, and 30,000 people in Outback areas remained isolated as heavy rain continued across much of eastern Australia, police said today. Ngari Roberts, 64, drowned at Mudgee in central western New South Wales state when her motorcycle was swept downstream as she tried to cross a swollen creek. The town of Charleville, in western Queensland state, was under water and officials said 4,000 people, many stranded on the roofs of the flooded homes, would have to be rescued by helicopter or boat. Queensland state Premier Wayne Goss declared the central and western areas of his state a disaster area and promised financial aid for victims of the flooding, caused by three weeks of heavy rain. Meteorologists said the rain was the heaviest in 40 years. 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A powerfully built man with skin weathered by a lifetime hunting and fishing, Petagumskum travelled 2,000 kilometres with fellow villagers from northern Quebec to press his case against Hydro-Quebec. The giant Quebec utility wants to build a project that would reduce Great Whale River to a trickle, and flood a land that Petagumskum reveres. ""God gave us that land. It's our garden,"" the 54-year-old says through an interpreter. ""White people wouldn't like us to destroy their garden. Please don't destroy ours."" As the world marks Earth Day tomorrow, the province's Cree and Inuit are asking Quebecers to turn their attention to a piece of the planet in their own backyards. Hydro-Quebec's colossal James Bay II would divert eight rivers and flood huge tracts of land in northern Quebec. The project marks the culmination of Premier Robert Bourassa's dream of tapping the power of Quebec's rivers for energy. In the process, the Cree's ""garden"" would be transformed into the biggest generating complex on earth. ""If this project is built, the Cree culture will cease to exist,"" says Grand Chief Matthew Coon-Come, leader of the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec. ""It will drive away the animals, and if you drive away the animals, you drive us away too."" After public pressure, Quebec decided to subject new hydro development to public scrutiny for the first time. Hearings are set to begin soon. ""Quebec has taken steps to protect the environment around James Bay in the past; and Hydro-Quebec says it can manage the impact of James Bay II. But the Cree are dubious. ""The original James Bay poisoned their fish, killed their caribou and threatened their birds with extinction, they say. ""Look what happened the first time,"" Petagumskum says. ""Why should we trust them any more? Our land will be underwater. The burial sites of our ancestors will be flooded."" It is 11 a.m. in New York's Battery Park and Mina and Billy Weetaltuk look bewildered. The elderly couple from Great River have never strayed far from their home of 2,000 souls before. Today, they saw a tangle of highways leading into New York that resembled a demonic snake; they saw towers reaching toward the heavens in a way they never dreamed possible. Now they are seated on a park bench with two homeless men sleeping beneath a blanket of newspapers nearby. ""This place is scary,"" 70-year-old Billy says through an interpreter. ""I would rather be home. But we have to be here. This is where we must fight."" For the past month, Billy and Mina have joined 60 Quebec natives in a battle on U.S. soil to protect their land from the Great Whale project, which they say amounts to its first step toward becoming a major energy exporter, long regarded as a vital component of Quebec's economic future. Robert Brunette, vice-president of Native and Inuit Affairs at Hydro-Quebec, says that flooding from Great Whale would affect only a fraction of the territory covered by the James Bay Agreement. ""For the Cree, I don't hide it: It will disturb some people, especially the trappers and people who live from traditional means,"" Brunette says. ""But it won't be disastrous for their lives. Their fears are exaggerated. There are ways of controlling and correcting the impacts."" Hydro-Quebec says its projects have respected the environment and provided health care, education and other benefits to Quebec natives. Brunette said the Cree from Great Whale could derive such new benefits as jobs at Hydro sites and a road to join their isolated community with the rest of the world. But the Cree say they don't want money. They don't want roads. ""We just want Hydro,"" Petagumskum says, ""to leave us in peace."""
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Rugby player Aviva Adelman, Your newspaper carries Beetle Bailey, a comic strip that has been getting some negative reaction from feminist readers. They claim women are demeaned by the creator's portrayal of Miss Buxley, a blond-haired secretary in the strip. They say the strip is consistently sexist. Other readers say the strip is funny and that Miss Buxley is not the butt of humor, but rather it is the lecherous old general who is made to look stupid. And the strip spends as much time with tanks and greasy sausages in the mess as it does with Miss Buxley's body. When does a comic step beyond the border of funny into sexist? And when does an editor start censoring the comics? I CONTINUE PRINTING COMIC STRIP READERS: 74 NEWSROOM: 25 KILL THE STRIP FOR GOOD READERS: 26 NEWSROOM: 75 Photo as it appeared in Sunday Gazette on July 21. A reporter writes a story about a group of overweight people who are proud of how they look and tired of being ridiculed. The group is seeking acceptance and understanding and wants to be appreciated for being people who don't fit the normal standard for beauty size 6 with a 24-inch waist. The leader of the group has posed in a swimsuit for this photograph. Should the photo be published? Should it be cropped to a head shot? If it is cropped, is the paper saying the photo is offensive? PRINT THE FULL PHOTO; READERS: 85 NEWSROOM: 100; PRINT A HEAD SHOT; READERS: 15 NEWSROOM: none Photo as it appeared in Sunday Gazette July 21. Montreal is sweating in a record heatwave. You've done a bunch of ""hot-weather"" pictures all week. Your photographer comes into the office on Saturday evening with a photograph of a break in a rugby game, a player having ice-cold water poured over his head by a young woman wearing a skimpy bikini top and shorts. Some editors say this photograph is clearly sexist and there can be no argument. We should crop the photo and just use the man getting a drenching. Others say the city is full of scantily clad women, and what's wrong with showing that from time to time as long as the pose is not overtly sexual or exploitive? PRINT THE PHOTO WITH THE WOMAN READERS: 83 NEWSROOM: 100; CROP THE WOMAN OUT READERS: 17 NEWSROOM: none A group representing handicapped people comes into the office and asks that in future your newspaper refer to them as ""differently abled"" rather than as ""handicapped."" Some editors say this is just another example of ""political correctness"" and that the change is as meaningless as calling handicapped people ""physically challenged."" Other editors say we willingly use words like ""senior"" to replace ""old"" and ""homemaker"" to replace ""housewife,"" so what's the big deal? CALL THEM DIFFERENTLY ABLED READERS: 30 NEWSROOM: none; MAKE NO CHANGE READERS: 70 NEWSROOM: 100 A leading Montreal hockey player who runs a summer sports camp is gay, a fact few people know. Queer Nation, a group of militant homosexuals, uses a press conference carried live on cable TV to ""out"" this athlete to make him come out of the closet by making public his homosexuality. Some editors say you should cover the story simply because people want to know these things. Others say a person's sexuality is no one else's business. Period. PRINT THE STORY READERS: 20 NEWSROOM: 17; DON'T PRINT THE STORY READERS: 80 NEWSROOM: 83 Highway 20 is closed by police during rush hour; a 17-year-old girl has climbed onto an overpass and is threatening to jump. Traffic is backed up for miles as a rescue squad stands with a blanket stretched out, hoping to catch the girl if she jumps. TV and radio go live with the story. The girl's mother tries to talk her daughter to safety. TV and radio both mention the mother's name which obviously identifies the girl. Some of your editors want the family name withheld; it will make matters worse for the girl. Others say the name is out now and the situation won't be made any worse by publishing the name along with everyone else. PRINT THE MOTHER'S NAME READERS: 29 NEWSROOM: 33; WITHHOLD THE NAME READERS: 71 NEWSROOM: 67."
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The vaccine can't save infected animals, but it protects the healthy ones that eat it. Similar campaigns in Switzerland, West Germany and the Netherlands have significantly eased the epidemic among foxes in those countries. Kilauea Flow A stream of molten lava from Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano continued to plow through an 82-home subdivision, destroying two houses and threatening several others. While most of the neighborhood's residents had evacuated before the house was lost, some of those remaining greeted the lava flow with a party-like spirit, cheering the explosions of methane within the lava. Wildfires The summer fire season is off to an early start in southwestern France where an extended drought has left forests and grasslands tinder-dry. About 1,200 firefighters, aided by water planes, brought a huge forest fire under control near Bordeaux, but not before 6,800 hectares had been destroyed. Three nearby villages were evacuated as the 32-km wide line of fire swept through the region. Execution Pollution Air quality officials in San Francisco threatened to deny San Quentin Prison a license to use its gas chamber unless they are convinced that there is no threat to the public health when the gas is discharged after executions.
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a naturally occurring fertilizer, is leaching into the water supply from huge sugar cane farms just south of Lake Okeechobee The fertilizer is feeding an invasion of cattails that, along with non-native trees and shrubs, are crowding out natural vegetation Scientists and some politicians now hope to restore a measure of ecological balance to South Florida's water management system Engineers are studying a number of steps such as breaching levees that now block water flows in large parts of the Everglades and creating huge artificial marshes to absorb pollution from the sugar cane fields re-create nature as to imitate it Using historical data and sophisticated computer models, the same engineers who helped build the drainage system hope to modify it in ways that reflect a better understanding of how the Everglades work The project, expected to carry an ultimate price tag in the hundreds of millions of dollars, is a joint effort of the corps and the South Florida Water Management District, the state agency that operates the system Last fall, Congress authorized a 43,000-hectare expansion of the park's eastern border,
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Louis Cloudy San Francisco Cloudy Washington Cloudy. Min, Max, 31 18 Weather network 40 chance of showers. Regional synopses Abitibi-T茅miscamingue High 17, Low near 3, Mainly sunny Laurentians High 18, Low near 4, Partly cloudy Eastern Ontario High 18, Low near 9, Mainly sunny Southern Ontario High 19, Low near 9, Sunny Quebec City High 15, Low near 6, Variable Eastern Townships High 17, Low near 5, Variable Northern New England High 18, Low near 8, Showers Gaspe High 14, Low near 6, Rain. World today Amsterdam Sunny Ankara Showers Athens Beijing Berlin Dublin Sunny Sunny Cloudy Cloudy. Hong Kong Cloudy Jerusalem Sunny Lisbon Sunny London Cloudy Madrid Cloudy Mexico City Sunny Moscow Cloudy Nairobi Cloudy New Delhi Cloudy Paris Cloudy Rio de Janeiro Sunny Rome Sunny Stockholm Clearing Sydney Sunny Tokyo Sunny.
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military compound, which the Canadians were patrolling. ""It may be certainly generally wrong to take self-help punishment against people who commit crimes against you. But where there is no other authority to deal with them, a little bit of rough justice may in certain circumstances not be inappropriate,"" McCann said senior officers were aware of the beating that night ""and apparently condoned it."" ""The problem here was not so much the fact that there was a little bit of self-help deterrence being imposed by the troops; the problem was that it wasn't being adequately controlled. Instead of overseeing it themselves, it would seem that the officers effectively gave permission to their troops and simply turned a blind eye. Having done so, it's not very surprising that a bully might get carried away."" Evidence presented at Brown's court martial supported McCann's contention. Several soldiers testified they had heard ""rumors"" of other prisoners being roughed up, though none actually witnessed it. Campbell said he had heard previous howls of pain coming from the detention bunker. The court martial was told the rules governing the use of deadly force against Somali intruders were changed several times during the mission. At one point, the soldiers were instructed to shoot intruders in the legs ""between the flip flops and the loin cloth."" The morning of the beating, a senior officer admitted he told his troops he wanted intruders captured, not simply chased out of the compound, and ""he didn't care"" if they were abused. ""I explained what we're after is a capture. If you have to abuse them to capture them, then go ahead,"" said the officer, who can't be named because he is facing charges. Although he claims he meant Somalis could be roughed up only to capture them and not when they were prisoners, that distinction may have become blurred by the time it worked its way down to the lower ranks. Something was going to happen. Several soldiers said they heard Capt. Michael Sox, the platoon commander, say ""if you have to, you can beat the s -out of them."" ""I had a bit of a feeling that something different might happen (that night),"" testified Sgt. Joseph Hillier. ""I had an idea from the terminology used that there was a good chance something different was going to happen."" Another NCO says he told the soldier who later beat the Somali that Sox had ordered that prisoners were to be abused. ""I've been in 13 years, I've never heard the like of it before,"" says the NCO, who himself faces charges. ""The conversation was getting kind of silly, so I said, 'I don't care what you just don't kill him.'"" And the soldier who inflicted the fatal beating was quoted as bragging as he struck the prisoner: ""We can't do that in Canada, but here they let us do it."" The NCO is aware of it and the officer is aware of it. There are six or eight people in line to give him the same treatment. DON MACPHERSON Touch of blarney National Assembly session won't be sitting for long. A new session of the National Assembly began yesterday, not in the snowstorm that Quebecers expect on St. Patrick's Day, but with a bit of a snow job by a premier of Irish descent. The speeches by the lieutenant-governor and the premier at the opening of a new session of the National Assembly are supposed to be the Quebec counterpart to the Speech From the Throne in the federal Parliament. They're supposed to describe the government's legislative program for the whole session. But everybody knows the session that began yesterday, only the third of the 4-year-old 34th legislature, won't see the adoption of more than a few of the measures Lt.-Gov. Martial Asselin (reading a text written for him by the premier's office) and Johnson announced over a total of an hour and 19 minutes yesterday afternoon. Because everybody knows that the Assembly will sit for only a little more than three months, at most, before Johnson calls a general election. And it will spend much of that time debating the spending estimates for the coming fiscal year, which the government will table this month. For all practical purposes, the campaigning for that election has already begun. Yesterday's speeches in the Assembly contained not Johnson's program for the new session, but his election platform. Wrapped in a new package, the opening of a new session was supposed to be another sign that Quebecers have not only a new premier but a new government. But the speeches consisted mostly of announcements and promises that Johnson has already made wrapped up in a new package. About all that was really new was Johnson's latest adjustment in his continuing search for what might be called his Goldilocks position on relations with Ottawa and the rest of Canada - one that's not too federalist and not too nationalist, but just right. Until now, Johnson has looked like Ottawa's doormat to French-speaking Quebecers, who like their premiers, even the federalists, to put Quebec's interests first and to stand up for their defense. So yesterday, he tried to sound more nationalist. While he said federalism has given Quebec the means to solve its own problems, he also emphasized Quebec's Frenchness. He said Quebec is a ""distinct society"" because it is ""majoritarily francophone"" and its government is the only one in Canada and North America that is ""elected by a francophone majority and answerable to it."" Quebec's government and premier had ""the responsibility of ensuring the perpetuation of French-speaking Quebec."" Position hasn't changed. There were still ""important problems to settle in the Canadian constitution"" that would have to be settled by negotiations ""one day."" The adoption of the new constitution in 1981 over Quebec's objections ""was unacceptable and should never happen again."" And Johnson tried to restore his nationalist credentials by recalling that he had voted in the Assembly in 1981 against the adoption of the new constitution, and saying his position hasn't changed. He said he would follow the same policy as his predecessors, PQ as well as Liberal, and would not sign the constitution without changes including giving Quebec ""full power over everything concerning the development of its identity, language and culture and the protection of its distinct character, as well as the (financial) means of assuming all its responsibilities."" He reiterated Quebec's traditional complaint about the federal government using its spending power to intervene in areas of provincial jurisdiction. And he called again for Ottawa to transfer control over manpower training to Quebec (while diplomatically blaming the resistance to such a transfer on unnamed civil servants instead of his political allies in the Chretien government). But in closing, he returned to his central theme of good government and bread-and-butter issues, especially jobs. ""Real independence, that of the citizens, comes from employment,"" he said. That sounded like an election slogan. The next two steps in the buildup to a possible spring election call will be the spending estimates and the budget, in which we'll find out how much money Johnson is willing to put where his mouth was yesterday. Schools strategy: accommodation beats confrontation. The Quebec Liberal Party's policy convention over the weekend was more about politics than policy. With an election uppermost in the minds of the leadership, delegates and media, controversial issues were kept as far from the floor microphones as possible. Those that did come up were treated as ""leaving the door open"" rather than as forcing the government into a new direction. Thus ""user fees"" as a ""last resort"" against spiraling health-care costs slipped back into resolutions adopted by the plenary session. Other political spine-stiffening counsel would make civil-service tenure more precarious and mandarins more accountable. Deficit reduction, too, was voted into several resolutions even though reducing unemployment, not debt, has become Daniel Johnson's electoral leitmotif. These policy statements widen rather than restrict the government's party-blessed action. They give the premier and his ministers an opportunity to emphasize what they believe people want to hear. Other controversial issues of a fundamental nature never arose. They weren't publicly discussed because they were expressly written out of the program. No changes to Bill 101 are envisaged in a new Liberal mandate. And the constitution will not be part of the party's next election platform. But putting language legislation and constitutional reform on hold does not change their nature. They remain nerve centers and yardsticks of Quebec politics. Johnson is not the first premier to qualify himself as a federalist. But he is the first in a long time to assume federalism without caveat or apology. He says, and he obviously believes, that it has helped, not prevented, Quebec from making progress. He does not defend federalism; he implies that federalism defends itself and that, within it, Quebec's best interests can be perfectly well defended by Quebecers from Quebec City. It is not what Quebecers have been accustomed to hear on the political home front where for years reinvented federalism has been the only kind deemed worthy of hawking. Whether Quebecers respond to the realism of Johnson's approach or feel threatened by the dismantling of the rhetorical barricades remains to be seen. But his refusal to let questions of real or apprehended national angst distract Quebecers from the serious economic and social problems his government has set out to solve marks a radical departure from the past. It is, however, already having some effect on the party's anglophone representation. As riding associations prepared resolutions to be debated at the policy convention, the constituency of Nelligan represented by Liberal Russ Williams drafted a proposal that access to English school be widened to include immigrants from English-speaking countries. Williams is the MNA designated by the government to ""look after"" the interests of the English-speaking community. When the time came to sift riding-sponsored resolutions into those to be put to the delegates and those to be left in abeyance for another day, the access question was negotiated into the second category. This was not because anglophones were bullied into fake solidarity; it was because they, too, chose to go for the economic jugular. The issue is important to them but the usefulness of starting a fight was outweighed by the disadvantages of generating a linguistic bloodletting that might blunt the thrust of Johnson's ""better-times-for-all"" program. Now that peace has been declared in the 15-year sign-law war, English-speaking Quebecers have shifted their language-rights sights onto public schools from which anglophone immigrants are excluded. The vast majority of English-speaking Quebecers feel this to be an unjust and unjustifiable ban on the most fundamental of their community's institutions. What they do not all agree about is how best to keep up pressure to have it lifted. A majority of francophone Quebecers still hold strongly to the notion of universal immigrant education in French. An access-to-English-school resolution on the floor of the Liberal convention would have been voted down after debate that would inevitably have been heated and divisive. For it to have any chance of passing, much more persuasive promotion of the concept as well as its consequences are needed. In this regard, English-speaking Quebecers at large and not just their designated political hitters have some responsibility. The question is whether to opt for confrontation or to seek accommodation. The first hardens attitudes because both sides take positions from which it is difficult to retreat into agreement. The second assumes that it is not despite francophone Quebecers, but with them on side, that the situation can be changed for the better. It comes down to the degree of faith one has in society. Feeling victimized comes easier to those who have less of a sense of belonging than to those who believe they have a fighting chance because they belong. D when he was 16. He later became a missionary bishop and although he is revered for giving the Irish a sense of identity, he thought they were a barbarous bunch. The first St. Patrick's Day parade in Montreal was held March 17, 1824. It was a rousing affair, ""a wine inspiring scene, untainted by either religious or national prejudice,"" according to The Gazette's coverage that year. Not much has changed. Tom Fitzgerald, this year's parade director, said he expects the atmosphere at Sunday's parade will be much the same as at the initial one. ""It's sure to be another fun day,"" he promised. This is the 15th parade Fitzgerald has organized and he's far more relaxed about this year's edition than the one in 1993. The night before last year's parade the city was hit by one of the worst snowstorms in decades. Still, the show went on. ""That surprised the hell out of me, the number of participants and spectators who showed up in the snow,"" Fitzgerald said. ""This year, the weather forecast is good, so who knows? Crowds could just keep on building and building."" The 2-hour parade - with 35 floats, 30 marching bands and five pipe bands - is scheduled to begin just outside the Forum at 1 p.m. The parade queen this year, the 39th, is McGill University student Colleen Murphy, 23. Ceremonial parade marshal is Don Pidgeon, official historian of the United Irish Societies of Montreal. The bill for the event is about $25,000. The federal government has chipped in $10,000, the city $5,000, and the rest of the tab is being picked up by corporate sponsors. Boston and New York claim their St. Patrick's Day parades, which date from 1737 and 1762 respectively, are older than Montreal's. However, Montreal organizers are proud this city has never cancelled a St. Patrick's Day parade. New York held its parade yesterday. Boston cancelled its march this year rather than abide by a court ruling that permits homosexuals to take part. Fitzgerald said that since the United Irish Societies took over Montreal's march in 1928 it has managed to avoid controversy. ""Our parade has always been a celebration, not a demonstration, and we hope to keep it that way."" The St. Patrick's Day parade starts Sunday at 1 p.m. at Atwater and Ste. Catherine Sts. It travels east down Ste. Catherine St. and finishes at the reviewing stand at City Councillors and Ste. Catherine St. between Atwater and Liguori will be closed between 12:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. The north side of Rene Levesque Blvd. between Crescent and Atwater, and the east side of Atwater between St. Antoine and Ste. Catherine Sts. will be closed to traffic 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday. Police advise people coming downtown to the parade to use public transit."
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The Australian has finished a close second here twice to Jack Nicklaus in 1986 and to Larry Mize's playoff chip-in in 1987 and he considers winning the Masters his No. 1 priority in golf. "If there was only one more tournament I could win, this is the one I'd want it to be," Norman said. This season, with a more compact swing and a slightly more conservative approach, he won at Doral and finished third and fourth in his last two starts. "I'm coming in more excited about my chances, more confident than I've been in a long time," Norman said. With Kite's prospects reduced, Norman's chief challengers appear to be Faldo, Price and Couples, who is involved in a bitter divorce case. "Even with all this other stuff going on, Freddie's still playing very well," Norman said. Couples has a victory and a runner-up finish this year, but said he's "not even close to playing as well" as he did in gaining player of the year honors the last two seasons.
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IS 1 The coldest weather ever known in Kentucky was recorded today. At Louisville the thermometer only reached 10 below, but the state suffered much more. Lebanon showed a temperature of 39 below; Carlisle, 30; Princeton, 30, and the lowest recorded in reports from 26 stations was 13 below. At Paducah a negro woman and her child were frozen to death in the field. In many towns business has been suspended and coal shortage is reported from all parts of the state. The Ohio River is fast freezing. Atlanta, Ga February 13 The temperature here today was 8 1-2 below, recorded officially. This was the lowest ever known here, the previous being 9 1-2 degrees. Street thermometers record 10 and 12 below, and this temperature, accompanied by a wind which showed a velocity of 13 miles an hour, made this cold almost unbearable. Great suffering was reported to the police early in the day and prompt measures were taken for relief. Fifteen and a half below is reported from Anniston, Alabama.
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29 minutes to burn Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius ALMANAC Today's Records Max, Min, Precipitation ' Cooling Degree Days to 2 p.m. yesterday Yesterday 1967 - 1.7 measured in mm) Temperature yesterday 25 Yesterday 23 12 Month to date 27.5 May 1 to date Year ago today 24.7 10.7 Month normal 69 20-2 Normal this date 20.8 9.5 Today's normal 20 40 chance of showers High 21 Low 11 Sun & moon sunrise at 5:27 a.m. NORTH AMERICAN WEATHER SYSTEMS Total daylight: 15hrg, 10 mm. Full Canada today 3L Iqaluit Yellowknife Whitehorse Vancouver Victoria, Edmonton Calgary Saskatoon Regina Winnipeg Thunder Bay Sudbury Toronto Fredericton Halifax Charlottetown St. John's. Clear, Cloudy, Showers, Sunny, Sunny, Cloudy, Showers, Sunny, Cloudy, Sunny, Sunny, Sunny, Rain, Showers, Cloudy.
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UP TO LESS THAN PRODUCTS. Weather systems forecast for 7 p.m. this evening. Temperatures are today's daytime highs. FREEZING RAIN PRESSURE LOW PRESSURE Canada World Max. Iqaluit Sunny 12 4 Amsterdam Cloudy 21 15 Yellowknife Sunny 21 9 Athens Sunny 35 23 Whitehorse Cloudy 17 7 Beijing Cloudy 31 24 Vancouver Sunny 27 17 Berlin Sunny 25 16 Victoria Sunny 28 16 Copenhagen Cloudy 22 15 Edmonton Sunny 29 10 Dublin PCloudy 17 15 Calgary Sunny 29 10 Hong Kong Sunny 31 26 Saskatoon Sunny 28 9 Jerusalem Sunny 33 18 Regina Sunny 28 9 Lisbon Sunny 27 16 Winnipeg Sunny 24 9 London Rain 19 16 Thunder Bay Sunny 21 6 Madrid Sunny 24 14 Sudbury PCloudy 20 8 Mexico City Cloudy 23 13 Toronto Cloudy 23 12 Moscow Rain 25 17 Fredericton Sunny 23 9 Nairobi PCloudy 23 10 Halifax Sunny 22 12 New Delhi Cloudy 34 28 Charlottetown Sunny 22 12 Paris Cloudy 23 16 St.
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There is no change in the situation. A Great Works, Chicago, May 6 The Union Steel Company today shut down its steel and rail mill. Seven hundred and fifty men were locked out. Minor Items The St. Louis Supplies Manufacturing Company has failed. Liabilities, $147,000. George in amateur honors has turned professional and has so far met with poor success. It is reported on the best authority that Dwyer Bros. have bought Egmont, the Nashville phenomenon, from the Auburn stables for $15,000 cash. Egmont sold as a yearling in 1881 for $275. London, May 6 This was the first day of the "Jubilee" race meeting at Kempton Park. The race for the Queen's Cup (handicap) of 1,000 sovereigns for three-year-olds and upwards, five furlongs, was won by Broderick Cloete's colt, Beauliou; Lambert's filly, Nora, 2nd; Renfrew's colt, Thunderstorm, 3rd; time, 1:15. Thirteen horses started. CANADA FIRST Rev.
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South, the storm has ravaged beaches and coastal highways, and has left more than a million people without power. The heaviest damage from the storm occurred along a stretch of the Florida Panhandle, from Pensacola east to Panama City. Roofs were torn off houses and boats were tossed up on highways where the storm surge - high water driven ashore by strong winds - left roadways buried beneath tonnes of sand. Early estimates put insurance-covered damage alone at $1.8 billion in Florida, and at another $1 billion in Alabama and Georgia. The damage estimates made Hurricane Opal the third most costly storm in terms of insurance losses after Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and Hurricane Hugo in 1989, insurance officials said. Opal weakened to a tropical depression by late morning, moving north after its Wednesday night landfall, down from peak sustained winds of more than 240 km/h. It headed for the Great Lakes. In Toronto, Environment Canada meteorologist Phil Chadwick said it's shaping up to be a big storm. Some areas along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario could receive up to 70 to 80 millimetres of rain by this morning. Opal was expected to deliver up to 50 millimetres of rain last night and this morning in the Montreal region, with most of the precipitation occurring at around 8 a.m. Environment Canada meteorologists also predicted winds of up to 70 km/h - almost half the speed of minimum hurricane force. ""That's quite a lot of rain within a 12-hour period,"" said Francois Gagnon of the Environment Canada office in St. Laurent. ""But everything should diminish and return to normal by the afternoon."" Hurricane Opal is the 15th storm this season to be named; it was downgraded to a tropical storm 10 hours after hitting land. The eye of the storm came ashore at Destin in Okaloosa County, Fla. Hurricane-force winds extended east and west, affecting a stretch of coast from Pensacola to Panama City. Emergency planners in Florida said early warnings and the evacuation of more than 100,000 people on Tuesday and Wednesday from vulnerable coastal areas had kept the death toll low. A 1990 1984 Temperature Yesterday 15.6 Year ago today 12.4 Normal this date 15.7 Degree days to 2 am Yesterday 7.1 July 1 to date 156.0 Dorval 24 hour observation to 5 p.m. yesterday Mm Precipitation (to 8 p.m. yesterday) -38 Rain (mm) Month 2.5 QQ Normal 11.7 9.8 Snow (cm) 4.6 Month 0.0 6.1 Normal 0.4 Moon Moonrise: Moonset: 5:21 p.m. 4:40 a.m. First quarter Full a O Showers High 17 Low 8 8 Oct. Last quarter New moon (Dt-0 23 Oct. Time Weather Temp. Hum. Winds C km/h 8 p.m.: Cloudy 11 93 WSW 7 P:m, 'Icjp'yd7ri7I12r""95 SW"" 2 a.m. ""'loudL I1 ?II"" 95 WSW 9' 5 a.m. Cloudy 96 tmW 8 a.m. Cloudy 11 92 ""NET"" 11 a.m. Cloudy 13 84 NET, 2 p.m. Cloudy 15 74 NE 7 5 p.m. Cloudy 15 66 NE 13 Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius 3530 25 20 15 10 5 0 -5-10-15-20-25C I I I I I I I I I I 'I I I-9586 77 68 59 50 41 32 23 14 5 -4-13F Regional synopses Abitibi-Témiscamingue High 11, Low near 8, Windy with periods of rain. Laurentians High 12, Low near 8, Rain and brisk winds. Eastern Ontario High 14, Low near 9, Morning rain, brisk winds. Southern Ontario High 19, Low near 12, Intervals of afternoon sunshine. Quebec City High 11, Low near 8, Rainy, windy and cool. Eastern Townships High 13, Low near 8, Rainy, windy and cool. Northern New England High 18, Low near 13, Rain tapering to afternoon showers. Gaspé High 11, Low near 6, Morning sunshine, afternoon clouds. North Shore High 11, Low near 4, Sunshine with a few clouds. Showers High 13 Low 6 4 6 6 Cloudy High 12 Low 5 Sunny 13 Low 2 Weather systems forecast for 9 p.m.; temperatures are today's minimum. Canada today World today Max. Mill Max. Iqaluit Cloudy -1 -6 Amsterdam Cloudy 17 9 Yellowknife Showers 5 2 Ankara Sunny 19 2 Whitehorse Cloudy 6 2 Athens Sunny 24 13 Vancouver Cloudy 14 7 Beijing Sunny 18 5 Victoria Cloudy 15 6 Berlin Cloudy 19 12 Edmonton Cloudy 10 2 Dublin Cloudy 17 9 Calgary Cloudy 11 2 Hong Kong Cloudy 28 23 Saskatoon Sunny 13 1 Jerusalem Sunny 19 6 Regina Sunny 14 2 Lisbon Cloudy 21 12 Winnipeg Cloudy 12 -1 London Cloudy 19 11 Thunder Bay Cloudy 9 2 Madrid Cloudy 22 12 Sudbury Rain 10 6 Mexico City Cloudy 25 12 Toronto Showers 19 12 Moscow Cloudy 13 7 Fredericton Rain 11 8 Nairobi Cloudy 28 14 Halifax Rain 12 9 New Delhi Sunny 37 24 Charlottetown Cloudy 11 6 Paris Cloudy 20 11 St. John's Cloudy 8 3 Rio de Janeiro Cloudy 28 21 Rome Cloudy 24 12 United States today Stockholm Cloudy 14 8 Max Mm, Sydney Sunny 22 9 Atlanta Cloudy 28 14 Tokyo Cloudy 23 16 Boston Showers 23 17 Chicago Showers 15 6 Resorts today Dallas Sunny 23 7 Denver Sunny 16 2 Barbados Cloudy 31 25 Las Vegas Sunny 29 12 Bermuda Sunny 27 23 Los Angeles Sunny 32 18 Honolulu Sunny 32 25 New Orleans Sunny 28 14 Kingston Cloudy 31 24 New York Cloudy 28 19 Miami Cloudy 32 26 Phoenix Sunny 34 19 Old Orchard Rain 15 10 St. Louis Cloudy 19 8 Nassau Cloudy 31 25 San Francisco Sunny 25 12 Tampa Cloudy 31 24 Washington Cloudy 29 19 Wildwood Cloudy 25 20 One In Series People are the ultimate assets at both BDM International and DMR Group. This is yet another reason why BDM's tender offer for DMR deserves careful consideration by all those who care about the future of DMR. The importance which both companies attach to their people assets can easily be seen in the two companies' most recent annual reports. See if you can guess which of the following quotations is from which company's report (answers below). Rain washed out first-round qualifying for the NASCAR Quality 500 for the second consecutive day. B IN BLACKBURN, England, Norwegian international Lars Bohinen completed a $1.1 million (U.S.) Dateline World: Ceasefire set for Bosnia Young boys in the front-line Sarajevo suburb of Dobrinja flash the V-sign. In Washington, President Bill Clinton announces a ceasefire is to take effect in Bosnia on Tuesday. PAGE Bl Pope packs Giants Stadium A rain-soaked but exuberant crowd of 83,000 squeezes into Giants Stadium to participate in a mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II. PAGE B8 Montreal MMFA director urged to resign Reports that the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is heading for a record deficit of about $2 million this fiscal year prompt a call for the resignation of director Pierre Theberge. PAGE A6 The Nation Cop ignored: lawyer One of Paul Bernardo's lawyers says the last part of Karla Homolka's plea bargain with the Crown was struck against the advice of the chief detective investigating her and Bernardo. PAGE A10 Business Banks hike service charges The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and the Royal Bank of Canada will increase their service charges Nov. 1 on commonly used services like withdrawals and fund transfers. PAGE CI Preview Comedy To Die For Actress Nicole Kidman is the astonishingly accomplished star of an astonishingly controlled Gus Van Sant movie, John Griffin writes. The movie is called To Die For. PAGE Dl Act on TV violence, CRTC told The CRTC brings its public consultation on television violence to Montreal and is told it's time for less talk and more action. PAGE D5 Rain Today's high 14 Tonight's low 11 A 0 Heavy rain at times early this morning, occasional light rain or drizzle this afternoon. The chance of a shower tonight. PAGE C7 For weather updates please call The Gazette INFO-LINE at C J 841-8600, code 6000 Automotive Plus D11 Births/Deaths E7 Boone D5 Bridge D14 Business CI Chambers B3 Classified B4, D11 Comics C8 Crosswords B5, C7 Curran A3 Dining Out D7 Editorials B2 Family Doctor A14 Fiorito A2 Horoscope B7 Johnson B3 Landers A1 Legal Notices 014 Letters B2 Living A14 Preview D1 Probe A14 Schnurmacher A14 Scoreboard E4 Sports E1 Todd El TV Listings D2 What's On 08 Wonderword D13 World Bl The demagogue, mounting the platform like a slave in the market, is the slave of 10,000 masters. Philo Check out our referendum coverage on our Worldwide Web page. Point your Web browser at: http://www.vlr.com/Gazette/index.html How much the players earn, from Gretzky on down E1 Season preview with team capsules, tips and stats Section F M O N-T REAL SINCE 1778 Outside metro area 65t ii i D fDDll piKl SOOISltDSt U
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In Bonn's Bundestag (lower house) 445 deputies backed the treaty, with 60 votes against. One abstained. The East German parliament also voted to recognize Poland's borders as final. West Germany's parliament was set to follow suit, after a debate in which Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Germans in both states should seize the historic opportunity to unite, accepting the permanent loss of territory to Poland as part of the price. "Germans in West Germany and East Germany are now once again inseparably bound together," Kohl declared. He appealed to West Germans to accept economic sacrifices to help East Germany's disintegrating economy. Formal recognition of the Oder-Neisse border, renouncing claims to land which Germany lost to Poland after World War II, was a key condition for international acceptance of German unification after 45 years of division. A potent symbol of the Cold War, the Checkpoint Charlie border post beside the Berlin Wall, is to disappear today in a ceremony attended by the foreign ministers of the four powers which divided Germany after the war the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France and the two Germanys.
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The Viau Bridge was one of the alternate routes to and from Laval that authorities suggested motorists take after the de la Concorde Blvd. overpass collapsed Sept. 30, closing Highway 19 for almost four weeks, Engineers with Transport Quebec yesterday took great pains to reassure the public that it was safe to drive across the span, which links Lajeunesse St. on the Montreal side to des Laurentides Blvd.
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H 31ILOKK Those who polled him his better luck than the early birds Tobokto, Out, May 2, a m The pres- tm r vtr AUuuU in the Northwest territory, and highest over the Lake region Generally cloudy, cold weather has prevailed from the lower lakes to the Atlantic attended by rain and snowfall In the Northwest it has been comparatively mild with local rains Hi Laurence Moderate winds generally fair and a little milder MONTREAL'S RECORD MONEY IN LONDON How the Presidential Elections Affect Financial Business London, April 20 The rate of discount during the past week was 1 for three months and 1 for short Money was stiffer owing to the efflux of gold to South America and Cape Colony, the large stock exchange settlement and the extensive withdrawal from the discount market by firms interested in foreign government loans A further gradual, but limited advance in the value of money is probable The Economist says We expect to hear little of American treasury accumulation if the American Government maintains the present rate of purchasing bonds There will be difficulty, however, which is likely to increase as the supply of bonds diminishes It is easy to skim the market of bonds loosely held, but it is difficult to reach those held for investment, which will only be surrendered on distinctly advantageous terms Commenting on the presidential election in America, the Economist says Vast business, financial and railway schemes hung upon the result of the election Even English business waits Europe has hardly realized that the growth of America has advanced the President's position to one of immense power and responsibility, so that it is now one of the first importance on earth American diplomacy is guided by the President's decisions and affects all countries The President is now resolving the fisheries question with England, the Samoa question with Germany, the emigration question with China, and the consular rights question with Morocco He may next week decide whether America shall produce financial ruin in Paris and shake the French Republic by its treatment of the De Lesseps canal scheme The market was quiet and prices were firm until the influence of the news of the German Emperor's improved condition and the absence of any further development of the Boulanger movement There was a strong demand for American railroad securities, both for the home and foreign account A comparatively small amount of American stocks and bonds is now held in Europe, but a large amount of European capital would be attracted to American interests on perceiving satisfactory indications of an improvement in American trade, which would be reflected in an advance of the value of railroad securities There are rumors that the tin syndicate has collapsed The present difference is 00 per ton for short and three months' delivery THE WEATHER AND CROPS The backwardness of the Spring further illustrated Washington, April 29 The following is the weather crop bulletin for the week ended Saturday, April 28: The average daily temperature for the week ended April 28 has ranged from three to six degrees lower than usual in the States on the Atlantic coast and it has been slightly warmer than usual in the Mississippi valley and then westward to the Pacific coast, the warmest region, where the daily excess of temperature ranged from two to five degrees above the normal being in Missouri and the adjoining States The season from January 1 to April 28 continues cold and backward throughout the Northern States, where the average daily temperature ranges from three to six degrees below the normal In the Upper Lake region, Minnesota, Dakota and Iowa, the season continues from two to three weeks late, while in the Ohio valley and on the Middle Atlantic coast it is from six to ten days late In the Southern States the season is well advanced and the average temperature differs but slightly from the normal The most marked feature in the rainfall for the week is the large deficiency which is reported in the winter wheat States of the Ohio and Central Mississippi Valleys At many stations within this region, extending northward to the Lake regions, no rain occurred, while very light showers are reported at other stations More than the usual amount of rainfall is reported from Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Western Kansas, Minnesota, Western Iowa and Northern Wisconsin, and well-distributed showers occurred on the Gulf coast, in the Middle Atlantic States and in Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas Owing to the general deficiency of rain the weather of the week has affected growing crops unfavorably Rain is especially needed in the winter wheat sections and in the northern portions of the Gulf states Frosts occurred in Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and the middle Atlantic states during the week, which probably injured vegetables and fruits Reports from Kansas, Minnesota and Western Missouri indicate that the weather has been favorable in those sections and that farm work is well advanced The weather is reported as favorable for corn in New England where ploughing and planting are in progress A Jailer growing: Family The jailer of Napannee jail has a rather curious experience at present No less than two pair of twins being added to his jail family in one week Two women who were committed for non-payment of Scott act fines, each having a pair of bouncing babies Pembroke Standard gntantl toriflation FOB O&italiiiii, Pictofl, BELLEVILLE, TRENTON AND ALL ports on BAY OF QUINTE The A 1 Passenger and Freight Steamer ALEXANDRIA, CAPT SMITH, LEAVES CANAL BASIN for Voniirallf Prescott, Harkhtam's landing JirttckeUler noutliantl, UauttnwnA, MmrUhurg, Af,tar, JivihoI Jt neruiUo Every THURSDAY at Noon, returning, leaves Trenton every MONDAY morning at 8 o'clock, running all Rapids, arriving in Montreal early on Tuesday afternoon The steamer passes through the beautiful scenery of the Thousand Islands and Bay of C'ulnte by daylight Cabin accommodation unsurpassed Parties wishing Return Tickets can have them at Reduced Rates No Freight received after 12 o'clock on Thursday For further particulars apply to JAMES WOODHOUSE, agent, 81 Common street, foot of Duke street, Canal Basin, or R. BATTERSBY, 174 St. James street, City and District 'lei Co Building, or R. SMART, Jr, iiiill St. James street Montreal, May, 1888 lol Quebec Steamship Co AWO CAKAI Fon TlAi, iioiJHin, Ont, May 1 Passed up He-heiemer J J nnmmoiKl, Toronto to Ashtabula, light; Ashtabula, light; propeller Acadia, Hamilton to Toledo, light; Enterprise, Port Dalhousie to Toledo, light; barge Ark, Port Dalhousie to Toledo, light; propeller City of Montreal Wellers buy to Thorold, with: schooner Aurora, Port Hope to Wind river, light; steamboat Glengarry and barges, Charlotte to Port Arthur, cewil FiiSMid down Hehoouer John Wslv, lolc-eHi to Oswego, wheat; J R Noyes, Toledo to Oswego, Oswego, wheat, Tug Sir John cleared for Ceibourg Steamboat Isaac May went on Muir's dock today for repairs Wind north Fout CoT, noiiNK1Ont, May 1 Passed up Steamboat Monteagle, Oswego to Chicago, e, ul; propeller Cuba, Toronto to Toledo, light; schooners Jessie ll llreck, Kingstein to Toledo, Toledo, light; Nassau, Oswego to Toledo, coal; Julia Willitrel, St. Catharines to Erie, light; Cainnanelie, Oswego to Sandusky, coal; gold hunter, Thorold to Ashtabula, light Nothing down The schooner Hylvester Nelson, which reloaded her cargo of B'ou heiu, left last night for Sandusky Wind north, fresh pout AKTinnt still blocked TonT Antiiiii, May L The weather still keeps cold and the opening of navigation is not looked for by the oldest inhabitant before the 12th to 16th of May, as the Kainaiistiiua river and lesser streams are still blocked with solid ice The fleet laid up here are almost ready awaiting the bay to open - ,: oi'KW a vAi,l,ivriBt, r Vam, ktkiki, i), Que, May 1 The steamer Anderson came from Coleau to-day, the canal is now open here Absolutely Pure This powder never varies A marvel of purity strength and wholesomeness More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be compared with the multitude of low test, short weight and phosphate brands Royal BAKING POWDER CO, 1011 Wall street COLE'S LAMP STORES, 1702 NOTRE DAME, 92 St. Catherine, 103 C ATAT? F? H ELY'S CREAM BALM Give Relief at once and Cures Cold In Head, CATARRH, HAY FEVER Not an Aquatic Snuff or Vapor Free from Injurious Drugs and Offensive Odors HAY-FEVER A particle is applied into each nostril and is agreeable Price 50 cents, at druggists; by mail, registered, cue B The Healthiest Place in Canada This favorite Summer Resort, on the line of the Intercolonial railway, opens JUNE 15th Beautiful scenery, good bathing, boating, fishing and driving, together with a good table and the other comforts of a city hotel The sanitary arrangements are perfect Pure water, thorough drainage, water closets of modern style on each floor, and bath rooms supplied with hot, cold and salt water Address, Address, CiGO
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automatic, good condition, $6,500, 484-4022, Private SAAB 900 1987, 5-speed, 74,000 km, Days, 634-6931 ext 305, Evenings 624-0511 private SCIROCCO 1984, sunroof, anti-theft radio, no rust, good mechanics, 277-9244 Private SHADOW turbo 1987, black, 4-door, 5-speed, 49,800 kms, am-fm cassette, excellent, Simple Car Rentals, 340-1676 SIDEKICK JA 1989, white, 14,000 km, $11,300, Marlene, 149-1916 private SPRINT Turbo 1989, red, 9,000 kms, am/fm cassette, $9,700, 430-5370 private STATION WAGON Ford Taurus LX 1988, fully equipped, 42,000 kms, 3 year balance warranty, Like new, 435-4665, Private SUBARU GL, 1996, Black, am/fm stereo 52,000 kms, good condition, $4,300,
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Ont. minimum wage to rise CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Ontario's minimum wage will rise to $6.70 from $6.35 an hour beginning Jan. 1, the Labor Ministry said yesterday. "This 5.5 per cent increase will help reduce poverty and will complement reforms of the social assistance system that are designed to help people on welfare to re-enter the job market," Labor Minister Bob Mackenzie said. Ontario Premier Bob Rae promised in the 1990 election campaign to increase the minimum wage to 60 per cent of the average industrial wage and to eliminate the lower rate for younger workers. The rate was raised last fall by 35 cents an hour to $6.35. "More than 60 per cent of Ontario's 294,000 minimum wage earners are women, many of whom work in small establishments not covered by pay equity. They will benefit from the increase," Mackenzie said. The student minimum wage will also increase by 35 cents an hour to $6.25. Quebec's minimum wage for adult workers will increase to $5.85 in October from $5.70.
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which once gathered here in enormous white clouds and were a major factor in the decision to establish the park in 1947 For example, artificial water fluctuations have forced wood storks to delay nesting until late winter, several months behind schedule, according to park officials As a result, the birds lack sufficient time to raise their young before the summer rains arrive, dispersing pools of small fish on which the nestlings depend The young birds then starve to death They actually are abandoned by the adults because of the difficulty of getting food, said John Ogden, a senior park service scientist Phosphorus from the prosperous sugar cane industry, which covers more than 160,000 hectares of drained swamp in the area immediately south of the lake, washes into drainage canals and into the Everglades in concentrations 10 to 20 times above normal Artificial marshes An estimated 222 tonnes of the natural fertilizer leave the agricultural area each year, spurring the growth of cattails Every time it rains, we'll get a slug of bad water, said Neely Scientists have suggested sugar cane farmers solve their wastewater problem by converting 16,000 hectares, about 10 per cent of their land,
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Buying in most lines continues very conservative and in some portions of the west there is a disposition to restrict credits until money is easier. The usual summer dullness is showing itself at several centers. Wheat and corn crop reports are generally favorable, raw and refined sugar are lower on decreased demand. There is less doing in dry goods at wholesale, and trade is only fair for the season. The fall demand is opening well for ginghams and wool dress goods. While stock speculation maintains a strong undertone on the crop prospects, the stock market is extremely well. The policy of the treasury regarding the maturity of the 4 per cent bonds, gold shipments, rumors of foreign financial trouble and European selling of stocks, all tend to discourage speculative activity. Money on call at New York is easy, but time loans are scarce and rates high. Bonds are in stock demand. The railroad situation is hopeful, but the announcement that the Rock Island will reduce its dividend rate one half had a bad effect.
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Helgeson, state commissioner of agriculture, has issued an address to the public explaining the situation in the drought-stricken counties and making an appeal for assistance. He says the suffering for want of provisions, clothing, fuel and feed for stock in several counties is unprecedented. The destitution is almost exclusively confined to the newer portion of the state. Foil Claimants to Earn Trusts, Chaminade, Aix, B1, February 11. Indiant Agent Anderson this morning received official notice of the President's proclamation, and the rush for the Bounty lands is under full headway. The landscape west of here is thickly dotted with buildings in course of erection. It is reported that each claim immediately west of here has about forty occupants. The Indian police are on the ground to prevent trouble. Near Resident to Kindred Souls, Corinth, Miss, February 11. Last Friday during a heavy rain, Jim Huals and his family, emigrants from Double Springs, Ala, attempted to cross Yellow Creek, Tishomingo County, in a wagon. The wagon capsized, drowning four children, aged from 3 to 10 years.
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10000 13 13 13 -2 Bluegld 3000 30 20 20 5 Dessirrs 33000 100 94 95 Blue gld w 20000 6 6 6 Deslronl 12600 6'i 6'' 4(4-1 Blue sky 13167 30 30 30 Diamel 25550 89 9' 9 Bookrgld 87500 55 50 52 2 Diamond 5500 65 44 44 Boswenintl 7500 43 55 43 10 Digger 2000 450 450 450 Bradsue 7500 25 25 25 2 Dimples 73227 87 44 i'l- Braiden 4000 41 41 41 Discvydisl 1500 108 105 108 -2 Braner 250000 18 II 18 -2 Doromin 3000 44 44 44 -4 Brenmrl 1000 13 13 13 Dragoon 5500 11 11 It Brerma 2000 151 150
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00 20 KM 45 8 67 Clour N 12 Save time, trouble and expense Non-freezing, will not heave with frost No digging for examination or repairs COFFIN WATER GATES Excel in Simplicity, Efficiency and Durability Send for Catalogue of Check Valves, Sluice Gates, Influent Gates, Sewer Gates, Water Cranes, Air Valves, Sewage Regulators, etc POSITION Sorel, May 16 The steamer GalHa is still in the same position After being completely unloaded, the full force of five powerful tugboats pulling together was unable to move her an inch The water has lowered by twenty-eight inches since Monday, and if it continues at such a rate, the GalHa will be expected to pass the summer where it is They are beginning to remove large machinery to further lighten A COAL BOAT SUNK, Sault Ste Marie, Mich, May 16 The schooner Nelson, deeply laden with a cargo of coal, foundered in Lake Superior, off Grand Marais, on Monday evening, and carried down all hands So far as known here no one escaped from this, the first disaster of the season, except the captain The crew consisted of the following: Captain Andrew Haughney, of Toledo; captain's wife; two-year-old child of Captain Haughney; Fred Haas, sailor, residence unknown; six sailors, names unknown The Nelson, which was owned by the Michigan Transportation Company of Bay City, Mich, was in tow of the steamer A Folsom, which had the schooner Mary R Mitchell as a consort The Folsom and Mitchell turned back and arrived here this afternoon without serious damage Captain A I White, master of the steamer, at once reported the disaster to the owners The Folsom, Mitchell and Nelson were laden with coal At the time of the disaster the wind was blowing a gale of fifty miles an hour, and freezing hard The sinking ship disappeared so suddenly that her crew had no time to even lower their yawl boat, which hung on the davits at the stern The Folsom and Mitchell show marks of the heavy weather through which they passed
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Lambert An inauguration ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m. City undecided on Olympic facilities Montreal has not yet decided whether it will assume ownership in 1995 of facilities built for the 1976 Olympic Games, Mayor Jean Dore said yesterday Dore said the city wants to set up a committee to analyze the options open to it in 1995 the year the debt for the Olympics is expected to be paid off Dore was commenting on a Le Devoir story in which he was quoted as saying the city could refuse to take the facilities from the Olympic Installations Board because it costs $6 million a year to maintain them Strike delays opening of beach The opening of a new beach on Ile Notre Dame has been delayed indefinitely by a strike of independent dump truck operators, city officials said yesterday The beach was to have opened Saturday While most of the work has been done, city official Marc Campagna said in a statement, a chalet and changing room have yet to be built and landscaping is incomplete Citizen critical of strip-club signs Downtown resident Valerie Shoffey, saying she's tired of walking past sexually explicit signs on St.
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Still, an experienced salesperson can often spot a spy. "They keep looking at their watches, to see how long it takes you to come over. Or they'll ask really stupid questions or insist on trying on 25 items." Given the flap over McDonald's workers fighting for better working conditions, the disgruntled saleswoman suggests it's time to give a thought to non-unionized retail personnel. Often middle-aged women who don't have other marketable skills, they can't afford to complain when the store manager raises their sales quota, cuts their hours or gives better shifts to young, inexperienced students who only plan to stay a couple of years and are prepared to do what they're told. As for herself, although she works for a mid-sized clothing chain, she shops in department stores. "There's no service, but at least nobody bothers you." Peggy Curran's email address is [email protected] Live RITOKTCIA for a mortgage-free contest in tomorrow's Weekender section. WEEKENDER CONTEST. Closing stock quotations Thursday in new pence unless pounds or US dollars are indicated.
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But nearly a year after the $700 million was promised, hardly any of the money has been released because the industrial powers could not agree on who should disburse the funds and manage the cleanup. Meanwhile, the Russian government, for reasons of security or national pride, has resisted the idea of granting Western experts unfettered access to examine aging or poorly designed plants. The explosion of a tank of radioactive waste at the Tomsk-7 nuclear weapons complex in Siberia on Tuesday is expected to catapult fears about the state of Russian nuclear plants onto the agenda for the next Group of Seven summit in Tokyo this July. But nuclear safety experts are pessimistic that any meaningful initiative will be taken. "This accident could not have come at a worse time," said David Kyd, spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. "We are looking at nuclear safety needs that will cost billions of dollars just when budgets are badly strained and many countries are in recession." out of control. He was the last key figure from the leftist gang to gain freedom after the so-called Years of Lead in the 1970s and '80s, when the gang was responsible for hundreds of attacks.
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Revetment wall for flood protection original estimated cost $179,071; all of which is borne by the city. Macadamizing wharves original estimated cost $146,250; all of which is borne by the Commissioners. Macadamizing Commissioners street original estimated cost $41,125; all of which is borne by the city. Contingencies original estimate $13,250; city's portion $8,214, and to be retained by the city $6,036. Total original estimated cost $2,843,622; Commissioners' portion $1,709,468; city's portion to be paid to the Harbor Commissioners $389,084; city's portion for works constructed by it $244,072. On the motion of the Mayor, seconded by Mr. Joseph Contant, the report was approved, and it was decided, in view of coming to a final agreement with the city about the works to be executed, that a delegation from the Harbor Commission, accompanied by the board's solicitor, have an interview with the civic Finance Committee, and that any agreement entered into between the city and the Commissioners be in proper form, so as to be binding upon each party in question. The Chief Harbor Engineer reported concerning the erection, without leave, of poles by the Bell Telephone Company, near the C P. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1830 LEGAL INTELLIGENCE SUPERIOR COURT - JUDGMENTS (Montreal, May 8) By Mr. Justice Pagnuelo, The Canada Jut Company v. The Olobort Mitchell Company, the company plaintiff claimed damages resulting from its establishment by water that escaped from automatic fire sprinklers, which had been replaced by the company defendant on the ceiling of plaintiff's factory as a protection against fire. A fire had occurred, and the company defendant had undertaken to replace the sprinklers. Subsequently, an escape of water occurred without fire. The company plaintiff alleged that the escape of water was due to the bad workmanship of the defendant; that the sprinklers were constructed to operate automatically on being subjected to a certain temperature, and in the event of a fire in a building and the temperature rising, to open automatically and allow water to flow, thus extinguishing the fire; that a gong was attached to the system of sprinklers, which was intended to give an alarm outside and inside the building of the fact of the flow of water from the pipe serving the sprinklers; that on the 6th February, 1917, one of the sprinkler heads burst and allowed the water to flood the factory, as the gong did not work and give the alarm of flooding, and it was only discovered on the Monday morning; that goods were destroyed to the value of $658.50, which amount plaintiff claimed from defendant. The defendant admitted the fact that it had replaced a large number of sprinkler heads, including the one which burst on the 6th February, 1917, and had placed the gong, but defendant pleaded absence of warranty as to the gong; that defendant's work to the sprinklers and the gong was performed in a workmanlike manner, and when completed, was examined and accepted by the plaintiff, and that, thereupon, defendant's responsibility terminated; that the electric gong was under the supervision and care of the plaintiff and his employees, who had the means of testing the same constantly, and who should have done so. It was further pleaded that the loss suffered was not due to any fault on the part of defendant, but was due to the plaintiff's fault and negligence; and finally, that the amount of damages asked was excessive. The court held that the damage was caused, according to the evidence, by the sprinkler head opening of itself without any heat to start it, one of the links soldered by defendant having broken without any apparent cause; that no such accident had ever happened to any of the old sprinkler heads, but only to those refitted and replaced by the defendant. The court was of the opinion that the defendant was responsible although no special warranty was given. Judgment was rendered in favor of the company plaintiff for $658.50, amount of the damages established. Brown vs. Torrance. The action was on a letter of guarantee given by defendant to plaintiff for the payment of goods sold by plaintiff to one W. FALL WHEAT. The weather during the winter and the early spring has been exceedingly unfavorable for fall wheat, and as a consequence the crop, which promised well before the snowfall, has been greatly injured by the inclemency of the season, and practically a failure in many localities. The want of snow in most places left the ground exposed to unusually severe and protracted frosts, and the heavy rains formed pools of water which froze and killed the young plants in the hollows and flooded lands. The dry weather which has prevailed in some neighborhoods since the opening of the growing season has also wrought some injury. A considerable percentage of the area sown to fall wheat is being ploughed up. As a rule, this crop appears to have wintered better on clay or heavy land than on light soils. In many cases, it has been observed that the partial protection afforded by accumulations of snow near the fences, the rest of the field being bare, has saved the wheat plants thus protected. It is worthy also of note that the reports from Algoma, where there was a good covering of snow during the winter, are more favorable than those from the older settled counties. There are slight losses from insect pests reported, wire-worms and the Hessian fly having appeared last fall in a few localities in the western part of the province. At the time correspondents wrote, rain was urgently needed at several points to ensure the remaining crops. CLOVER. A large proportion of the clover crop in every section of the province has been winter-killed, owing to the scarcity of snow, the plants being either heaved or frozen in the ground by exposure to the severity of the weather. The damage appears to have been greatest in the Lake Erie and Lake Ontario group, while the most favorable showing is made by northerly localities, where the snow remained on the ground to a later date. Where the crop survived the winter, the fields are generally in a healthy and flourishing condition, and promise well, although, in some quarters, clover is beginning to suffer for lack of moisture.
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Executive secretaries currently earn $32,378 a year, while engineers earn up to about $55,000 yearly. "I'm very happy, but the members will have to decide," union local president Claudette Gauthier said Tuesday. Workers were to meet last night to vote on the proposed new collective agreement. The workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, have been without a contract since December 1991. -Andy Riga Mayor awaits hiring of manager after librarians criticize project ANDY RIGA THE GAZETTE CAIT1E, MARIE-FRANCE COALLIER Passover treat Melissa Baum, 4, had her hands full of matzoh last Friday when the Snowdon YM-YWHA nursery school held a model seder, where children learn about the rituals of Passover. The Jewish holiday began at sundown Monday. WESTMOUNT - Responding to librarians who say plans for the $7.5-million expansion of the Westmount Public Library are misguided and require changes, Mayor Peter Trent this week put on hold all work on the design. "We have put on hold any further work on the layout of the library until a manager is hired," Trent said Tuesday.
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HI John City and Halifax City have cold storage facilities. CANADA & NEWFOUNDLAND LINE Regular fortnightly mailings between HALIFAX: W. Thomson Co. Dundee, MoothunL COLD STORAGE CLIMATE OF CUBA Perfectly stated, the climate may be said to depend upon altitude. The early day Spanish discoverers divided it into the Tierra Caliente, the hot or tropical climate of the coast; the Tierra Templada, or temperate climate of the tropics, and the Tierra Fria, or cold climate. In the coastal climate of Cuba, the average mean of the thermometer is 74 deg to 84 deg, the hottest months being June, July, and August. Their average is 82 deg. Cuba has 22 cities and 204 towns. The chief cities and towns are on the coast in her many deep-water harbors. The coasts of Cuba, owing to excessive heat and moisture, are unhealthy. Malarial diseases are very common, at times fatal. Under the old and excellent division of tropical climates into three, all between coast level and 2,000 feet upland was the Tierra Caliente or hot lands. This represents the most fertile agricultural zone in the tropics, as well as that in which tropical diseases make their chief role. The Tierra Templada consists of the hill country rising from 2,000 to 4,000 feet, the temperate climate of the tropics. In the island of Jamaica, many charming homes and several hotels are within that belt. The Tierra Fria, or cold climate, commences at 4,000 feet and extends upwards to the mountain tops; on the lower level of this belt, they cultivate the fruits and vegetables of a northern climate. On a Christmas day years ago, when in Guatemala at coast level, we had strawberries grown in the Altas or Highlands of Guatemala. Hence, the cold climate is only comparatively cold, or strawberries would not grow in the open air. The roads in Cuba are very poor. When Cuba reaches the high and excellent development of Jamaica, she will have macadamized roads, making it possible to get in and out of town at all seasons. In the future, the planters and merchants of Cuba at the coastal level may have villas in the hills during the "hot season." In India, during that season, the whites go to the hills. Cuba awaits development along this line as well as many others. Sanitaria in the hills will follow. Continued residence in the tropics enervates. In time, a change is imperative, even for the fully acclimated. Then it is that a northern climate acts as a tonic to body and brain. Regarding the unacclimated, they incur a risk by visiting Cuba. Having a fever of some kind is a mere question of time. Generally, it is a malarial fever; at times it may be a yellow fever. Acclimatization to a medical man means a tissue change, or the transition by which the human body is adapted to its new acquirements. Anyone who has had yellow fever is rendered immune. That means a perfect and final tissue change. Many escape yellow fever when the tissue change is very gradual. Nothing protects against yellow fever save to have had it. Many things should be avoided by the newcomer in the tropics: the hot midday sun, the heavy tropical dews, sitting in clothing damp with perspiration, liquors, and tropical fruits; they must be left alone. The eminently wise man must make haste slowly. Rush methods in the tropics mean an Irish dividend. Any Britisher will tell you, and I am one, that an Irish dividend is something that is loss and not profit. In Spanish America, the natives say that three animals will be found in sunshine: an Englishman, a fool, and a dog. They are keen observers and have a philosophy of their own. Cuba has two seasons, a wet and a dry, May to October being the wet season. The early wet season is the tropical spring. If the rains are late, the heat becomes intense, and that means an unhealthy season, conditions favoring epidemic diseases such as smallpox and yellow fever. June, July, and August are the months during which yellow fever makes its record in Havana. For over one hundred successive years, it has appeared in Cuba. When active in Havana, it is quiescent as a rule in Santiago de Cuba. In midwinter, one hears but little of it in Havana, when it takes on an epidemic tendency in Santiago de Cuba. A little rain falls during the dry season. The average rainfall at coast level is 70 inches per annum. November to April is the dry season. During it, the sky is cloudless. The sunshine and moonlight are simply perfect. The atmosphere is so clear that one sees down to the horizon. It is the season for tropical outings.
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Earth movements were also felt along the California-Nevada border, and in southwest Mexico, south-central Alaska, a remote island of southern Japan, Taiwan, northern New Zealand and eastern Romania. Catastrophic drought The lingering drought that has parched many parts of Iran in recent weeks has caused the country's agriculture sector an estimated $2.5 billion in damage, according to Construction Minister Mohammad Said Kya. He told the parliament that the current year will be catastrophic for our agriculture. The parliament agreed to consider a bill to tackle the drought, which has been described as the worst in the country for 40 years. Jellyfish invasion One thousand swimmers were attacked by schools of jellyfish along the French Riviera during a weekend when high heat had driven many people to popular beach resorts. The colourful jellyfish, Pelagia noctiluca, is the most common variety in the area and was responsible for the stinging attacks. It's believed the sudden increase in the number of jellyfish was due to climatic warming, which triggered an increase in plankton food in the Mediterranean. Sino floods The death toll from the recent flooding along China's Yangtze River now stands at 240 people.
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Justine's were also released, Sheahan said. One of them had gone home from the YMCA and then had been taken to the hospital. The children began to vomit at about 10:20 a.m. at the end of their 45-minute swimming lesson, Sheahan said. Three instructors and two lifeguards also swam in the pool but had suffered no ill effects. YMCA staff evacuated all 75 people in the building and called Gaz Metropolitan and the fire department, along with firms that maintain the building's equipment. But they found nothing abnormal. We don't know what the problem is, Sheahan said. The pool is fine. Before opening the pool today, a YMCA team will block off the area in the parking lot around the air intake vent, she said. Mild weather sets records WALTER BUCHIGNANI THE GAZETTE No, it's not your imagination. We have been getting warmer-than-usual temperatures for this time of year. Record-breaking temperatures, in fact. Yesterday's high of 13 degrees beat the record of 11 degrees set in 1983. Same thing Friday.
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"Y asked him to have a game of catch one night after dinner. Two days later, Hoff was pitching for Ossining against nearby Croton. He won. The next week, in Tarrytown, Hoff won again. Earned spot as reliever. The day after that, Hoff said, a friend of the family, a Wall Street broker (Al Buckhout) who was friends with Mr. Chase, went and told him he had a young ball player up in Ossining and wondered if he could get a tryout, Hoff said. So I went down and tried out. Chase, who died in 1947, was so impressed that he gave Hoff a spot on the New York staff as a reliever. He says, "See that locker over there? There's a uniform and that's for you," Hoff said. "Come out with our regular players today." So after only two semi-pro games, Hoff was a big-leaguer. But his time in the majors would be brief.
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F 845-7277, La Temps d'une Vie, by Roland Lepage, at 4 and 8:30 p.m. at Theatre du Rideau Vert, 4664 St Denis St 844-1793, Trots Dans le Des, Deux Dm b TStt, by Jason Snerman, at 8 p.m. at Theatre la Bcome, 4559 Papineau Ave, 523-2246, Des Hommes d'Ttoonew, by Aaron Sextan, at 4 and 8:30 p.m. at Theatre Jean Duceppe, Place des Arts, Last-minute tickets cost $20, 842-2112, at 8 p.m. at Theatre Espace la Vettee, 13710 Mano St L52&582, I'll Show Me the Funny from 10 p.m. (doors at 9 p.m.) at the Just for Laughs Museum, 2109 St Laurent Blvd, Admission: $15 486-4421 Scott Fautonbridges at 9 and 11:15 p.m. at Comedy Nest at Le Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Rene Levesque Blvd, Admission: $10; students $5 for the 11 p.m. show, 932-6371, Ron Vailliy at 9 and 11:15 p.m. at Comedyworks, 1238 Bishop St Admission: $10, 398-9661, DANCE Les Grands Ballets Canadiens presents La Mémoire Mémoire de l'eau, by choreographer Jean Grand-Martre, plus Désir and Duende, by James Kudelka and Nacho Duato at 4 and 8:30 p.m. at Theatre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts, Tickets range from $20 to $55, 842-2112, Bagne, presented by choreographers Pierre-Paul Savoie and Jeff Hal, at 8 p.m. at Agora de la Danse, 840 Chemin St E, Admission: $17; students $12, 525-1500, Les Ateliers de Danse Méderoe de Montreal, under the artistic direction of Tassy Teekman, at 8 p.m. at Maison de la Culture Frontenac, 2550 Ontario St E, Free admission, 729-1686, Dantal featuring Rock Becerril and Georgina Martinez at 8:30 p.m. at Espace Tangente, 840 Chemin St E, Admission: $10, Call 525-1500, REPERTORY CMrn rfeiHete, 3682 St Laurent Blvd, (843-6001) L'Homme Perché, 12:30, 6; Magical Flowers: The Secret Adventures of Thumbelina, 4, 7:30, 9:30; La Nuit du Déluge, 4, Cinematheque Quebecoise, 335 de Maisonneuve Blvd, Saul Gordon on the loss of his wife, Rose, David Hershon President The family of MATTHEW DRESHER wishes to express our heartfelt love and thanks to relatives and friends for your thoughtful expressions of sympathy and support and charitable donations made in his beloved name, We were especially touched by your wonderful memories of him, the ways he moved you, gave you strength and made you laugh, He will never be forgotten, CARD OF THANKS The family of the late FLORENCE GREENSPAN wishes to express their gratitude and appreciation to relatives and friends for their kind expressions of sympathy, cards, and generous donations made in her memory, Please accept this as our personal thank you, CARD OF THANKS The family of the late ANNE MILSTEIN wish to extend their heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to family and friends for their expressions of sympathy, support, and charitable donations made in memory of our beloved mother, Please accept this as our personal thank you, CARD OF THANKS The family of the late ROSANNA BERTOLDI Thank you to all of the Bertoldi family and friends who helped us through our time of sorrow, We would also wish to thank the Taylor-Thibodeau, Chalet d'Enfants Primavesi and the West Island Readaptation Center for your support, Please accept this as our personal thank you, CARD OF THANKS The family of the late NORBERT BUCHFUHRER wish to express their gratitude and appreciation to relatives and friends for their kind expressions of sympathy, cards and generous donations made in his memory, Please accept this as our personal thank you, CARD OF THANKS ELIZABETH CLARK She was a wonderful lady, loved by many people; she was caring, loving and fun to be with, We must remember she is no longer suffering and now is in Heaven living in peace, She will be missed dearly by her family and friends, but in our hearts and souls she will never be forgotten, Written by Jillian Clark, youngest granddaughter, Please accept this as our personal thank you, Curling rink becomes home for 400 natives Must wait 2 weeks before they can return to reserve NELLE OOSTEROM Canadian Press STE ANNE, Man - Colin Atkinson sat in a tiny makeshift room he shares with four family members and softly strummed his guitar, The shy young man with the ponytail and gentle eyes is among about 400 flood evacuees from the Roseau River Reserve who have made the Ste Anne curling rink their temporary home, For two weeks, they've been close, sometimes too close, with whole families living in areas the size of a small bathroom, the lines of privacy drawn with blankets, towels and free-standing room dividers, They eat side by side at long tables, line up for showers at the industrial trailer outside and sign up to do their laundry at the single, constantly churning washing machine, If there's a quarrel, everyone hears it If it rains, everyone's inside, They all try to get along, They have to, They have another two weeks to go before they can return to their reserve in the flooded Red River Valley It's not bad for me, Atkinson said with a shrug, his music blending with the chatter of a nearby television, where a group of children are watching the Ricki Lake talk show, They must wait for the repair of roads washed away by floodwaters, The houses within the ring-diked reserve 50 kilometres south of Winnipeg are OK except for a few with sewer backup in their basements, The natives are among about 20,000 people who remain out of their homes as water from Manitoba's worst flood in a century gradually recedes, Like most of the other evacuees, half of the reserve was put up in hotels or in homes of friends or relatives, The other half of the reserve is in this predominantly francophone community of 1,500 about 35 km east of Winnipeg, About 75 local people have pitched in to make meals, organize outings, obtain supplies and entertain the 125 children, They've just been there, they've been great, evacuee Susan Powers said of the Ste Anne community, Town councillor Guy Deschambault added: At first, there was a certain amount of uneasiness because we were all strangers, But as time went on, people seemed to accept more and more, We've created a new friendship, a new bond between two communities which will last for a long time, Deschambault was proud to help in collecting willow branches to build a sweat lodge behind the grounds of the town's graceful spired church and old monastery, In the evenings, a campfire blazes in front of the low, round sweat lodge hut, with sounds of drumming and chanting coming from within, Even though I was raised around native people when I was younger, we didn't learn much, Deschambault Winnipeg kids predicted deluge in February study SCOTT EDMONDS Canadian Press WINNIPEG - Forget the highly trained flood forecasters-Just ask the kids, Eighty-one per cent of Grade 7 students at Winnipeg's Sargent Park school who took part in a national study said months ago their city might be in danger of flooding this year That compares with just 69 per cent nationally who felt a flood might hit their neighbourhood, said Kate White, who conducted the federally funded research as part of the United Nations decade for natural disaster reduction, Even in Toronto, where flood warnings had been issued about the same time as the survey, only 70 per cent of children at North York schools felt a flood might hit their neighbourhood, White said 20 per cent of the Winnipeg children thought a flood was very likely, compared with just 6 per cent in Toronto, At first blush, the results appeared puzzling, White noted that in February, Winnipeg schoolkids weren't being bombarded with flood news as they have for the last month or more as the worst flood in almost 150 years submerged the Red River Valley, The survey was done when emergency officials were concerned about the possibility of flooding but by and large not when it was in general public discourse, White said, She spoke at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in downtown Winnipeg where high water still covers the docks and riverside paths, The children themselves said they just had to look out the window to know what was coming, There was lots of snow, we had a large amount of snow, said Heather Brereton, 13, taking a break from class in the library at Sargent Park, MANITOBA FLOOD, JOE BRYKSA, CP Grande Pointe resident Ed Hanna, the third generation on the homestead, returned home yesterday afternoon to find 100-year-old photographs of his grandparents damaged by the Red River floodwaters, said, Now we're learning by leaps and bounds, A volunteer security force of about 20 reserve residents and townspeople works around the clock to guard against vandalism and other problems, So far, there have been no incidents, Jackie Mourant, the town's evacuation coordinator, was walking about briskly with a cellular phone in hand, pointing out the features of the mini-village that was thrown up overnight The arena snack bar has become a TV and game room, the trophy room is a daycare centre, a drink refrigerator is full of medicine, including tetanus vaccines that every member must receive before returning home, One storage room is devoted entirely to diapers and infant formula, There's no way I could have done this without training from the EMO (Emergency Management Organization), Mourant said, We had staged mock disasters, so you get the feel for it, In Winnipeg, Mayor Susan Thompson announced the establishment of a special fund to help the city pay for the disaster, And 60 more families evacuated from their homes in Winnipeg will be going home today About 4,600 people in Winnipeg are out of their homes, But more are expected to return over the weekend, The city also began removing a few layers from the top of sandbag dikes in some neighbourhoods along the river to prevent riverbank erosion as water levels drop, At Emerson, near the border with the United States, essential-services personnel were allowed to return to help prepare for the re-entry of the rest of the town's 750 residents, Snow was certainly the villain in the drama, Winnipeg already had almost twice as much snow as usual when it got hit with a record April 5 blizzard that was the final straw for an overloaded river After watching almost nothing but flood on television for the last month, Brereton and three classmates who also took part in White's study are a walking library of facts and impressions, They know how many troops were fighting the flood-8,500, Which town got hit the hardest - Ste Agatha And they're certainly not shy when it comes to saying who deserves praise for the flood fight - the army and volunteers - and who doesn't - Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Here, I'll shake your hand, said a grinning Lara Farthing-Nichol, 12, referring to Chretien's awkward visit to the dikes the day before he called the June 2 election, He didn't make any sandbags or anything, added Angelito Panganiban, 13, who said if there's another flood next year, he might get to do a little sandbagging himself, Farthing-Nichol was more impressed with those army dudes, All four admitted the idea of another flood was just a bit scary, As for the chances, Brereton said that's easy, It depends on how much snow we get, Charles Quinit, 12, also has advice for those who want to prepare: Store a lot of sandbags, White is going to get the Winnipeg children to take the survey again now that they've gone through the flood and compare the results, It's a chance researchers don't often get, she said, Among other things, she said her study of risk and how it is perceived can be used to prepare course materials for schools to help students cope better with natural disasters, It involved 1,000 children nationwide.
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FEBRUARY 19, 1994 B3 Jansen pumps his arms in the air after setting world record, hmm finally gets his second gold medal Ends 10 years of Olympic frustration HAMAR - Dan Jansen was at the 700-metre mark of the men's 1,000-metre speed-skating event when he felt his left leg slip. His hand went down to the ice and he had a feeling of déjà vu. ""It was just like the 500 metres,"" said Jansen, recalling the slip which cost him a shot at the gold medal everyone expected to be his. That slip cost him precious time but it was different yesterday. ""This time, I recovered quickly. I had another small slip a few strides later and I concentrated on not pushing it. I was surprised that I came out of that corner with good speed."" Good speed? Make that great speed. Nobody was faster yesterday. There has never been anybody faster. Jansen ended 10 years of frustration at the Winter Olympics and set a world record of one minute, 12.43 seconds en route to a gold-medal performance. ""It's an incredible relief,"" said Jansen, who had never finished better than fourth in his previous Olympic races dating back to the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo. The drought included disastrous falls at the 1988 Games in Calgary where he competed in the 500 metres hours after learning that his older sister, Janes Beres, had died of leukemia. It appeared that Jansen would again go home empty-handed after he placed eighth in Monday's 500 metres. He was the world-record holder in that event but the slip proved costly. He wasn't expected to win the 1,000 metres. Seven skaters had faster times going into the race and, while he had won four World Cup races at the distance earlier this winter, he had been fourth in the two races immediately prior to the Olympics. And Jansen said he didn't feel good about his chances as he warmed up. ""I didn't feel comfortable,"" said Jansen. ""When we race the World Cup circuit, we skate a 500 before we race the 1,000 and you're loose. I had to get on the bike to warm up because I wanted to feel a little tired. I was having trouble gripping the ice. But once the race started, I felt better. I had a good start and I got my speed up. And the important thing is that I kept my speed after I had that slip."" The result was a world record that was more amazing because this was not a day marked by fast times. Jansen, who had never broken the 1:13 barrier, broke the mark of 1:12.54 set by Calgary's Kevin Scott earlier this winter. He was 29/100ths faster than runner-up Igor Zhelczosky of Belarus while Sergei Klevchanya of Russia was third in 1:12.85. They were the only skaters under 1:13 and Jansen was one of only three in the top 10 to establish a personal best. For most of the skaters, the record was far more impressive than the medal. That wasn't to say his rivals weren't happy to see Jansen win. ""He's a great guy and I'm happy for him,"" said Quebec City's Sylvain Bouchard, who was happy with his fifth-place finish at 1:13.56. ""I was hoping a Canadian could win but if that's not possible, Dan is the best guy to win."" ""I was overwhelmed by the crowd and by the Olympics,"" said the 23-year-old Scott. ""I'm happy for Dan and I hope to learn something from him. He was here four times before he won. I'll be back."" The standing-room-only crowd at the Viking Ship Olympic Hall was happy for Jansen but nobody in the stands was happier than his wife, Robin. She jumped out of her seat in the first row of the grandstand, threw her arms in the air and then ran to rinkside. ""It's finally over,"" she said to a television commentator. ""We got what we came for."" Later, as the gold medal was draped around her husband's neck, she broke into tears as she hugged the couple's eight-month-old daughter, named Jane Danielle after his sister. ""Daddy won the gold, Daddy won the gold,"" she said to the child who would never understand the torment and disappointment that led to the moment. Jansen admitted to shedding a few tears of his own. ""Right now, I have trouble explaining how I feel,"" said Jansen. ""I've always felt I was the best and it is a little bit ironic that I won the 1,000. Finally, I feel like I've made other people happy instead of having people feel sorry for me. In previous Olympics, I've gone home knowing that I'm the best but without a medal. Now, I'm the best and I have the medal. It's taken a while but at last we have a happy ending."" WAYNE SCAXLAN SOUTHAM OLYMPIC BUREAU HAMAR - American Dan Jansen carried the weight of the world to a world record and Olympic gold. Canada's Kevin Scott carried the weight of a world record to 10th place. The tale of two men in speed skating's 1,000 metres. Dan's Day was not Canada's day. With a legitimate medal hope in Scott, Canada's best was the fifth place of Sylvain Bouchard of Loretteville, Que. ""Awesome for my first Olympics,"" said Bouchard. Pat Kelly of Toronto was sixth. Sean Ireland of Winnipeg was 16th. There wasn't a soul at the Viking Ship oval yesterday who didn't feel a goosebump for Jansen, whose 10-year saga of Olympic anguish has been chronicled to death. Dan was on a deadline. He exorcised his Olympic demons in the final Olympic race of his career, going out in style by clocking in at one minute, 12.43 seconds. ""I feel unbelievable relief,"" said Jansen, 28, of Greenfield, Wis. ""Finally a happy ending. I'm so happy for so many people besides myself. The world record is the best part. Now I have the 500 and 1,000. I was the best without an Olympic medal. Now I'm the best and I have one."" Flip the coin and you get Scott, the 24-year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., who entered the race with the world's fastest official time in the 1,000 - 1:12.54 seconds. Scott had a fraction of Jansen's pressure, but wasn't up to it. In December, when Scott posted the world mark, the general reaction in Canada was, ""Kevin who?"" Suddenly, he was lining up for the 1,500 and especially the 1,000. LILLEHAMMER - For someone nobody but Myriam Bédard and her inner circle knows, her coach sure was a hot topic of conversation in these frigid parts yesterday. For the past three years, Bédard has been guided by a ""mystery coach,"" someone she refuses to identify who has managed to help her come up with a game plan that netted her an Olympic gold medal yesterday in the women's 15-kilometre biathlon event. Bédard said the mystery man wasn't at the Olympics, but that during the season she talks with her coach by telephone and receives faxes from him. Asked at her news conference whether she wouldn't like to reveal his identity now so he could share the limelight, Bédard didn't bite. ""He doesn't need the credit. I think he's very happy today,"" she said, adding he had asked her not to say anything. ""It's an arrangement I have with him and we won't say it. It's just between us two."" Bédard has talked in the past about getting help from European coaches, who no doubt would not want it spread around they might be helping an outside athlete. There is also speculation the mystery man is a former Olympic biathlon champion. But Canadian head coach Nikolay Kolitzerov, who professes to having no problems with Bédard's arrangement, said yesterday there is no mystery coach. ""It's not mystery,"" said Kolitzerov. ""Just most of the time she gives to one of the Italian wax technicians her skis. It's not mystery. This man has a lot of experience and she has good relations with the (Italian) team, and all the time he prepares her skis."" RAKOVY STARKMAN SOUTHAM OLYMPIC BUREAU - Bédard Difference between gold and silver was one shot CONTINUED FROM PAGE El The final difference between Bédard's winning time of 52 minutes, 6.6 seconds and that of runner-up Anne Briand of France was 46.7 seconds. Missing the final shot would have cost Bédard a one-minute penalty - and the gold. ""I could have missed two,"" a relieved Bédard said. ""My legs were too tired."" Ursula Disl of Germany won the bronze. Tonya Harding's press conference knows how to overhaul a transmission, fire a rifle and turn double axels around the FBI. For all this and continued speculation she played a major role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, Harding has become the biggest attraction at the world's biggest sporting event. And when she agreed to meet with the media yesterday, it sparked a journalistic frenzy not seen for at least what? Three days now? Wearing a fixed smile, a Team USA outfit and a silver crucifix, Harding jammed the auditorium of the Main Press Centre, a room built for 1,100 people, three dozen TV cameras and an extra assignment of Norwegian police. Not only was it a record-breaking turnout, shattering the previous attendance record, but it was also a chance for Harding to hit for the cycle. Sylvain Bouchard was the top Canadian, finishing in fifth place, as a serious medal contender. Despite having competed internationally since 1989, including three events at the Albertville Games, Scott found Norway to be a whole new ball game. ""My heart rate must have been 180 or 190 and that was before I did my race,"" he said. Myriam Bédard was on target yesterday in winning the gold medal in the biathlon. One longtime member of the biathlon circuit said Italian wax technician Fabio Cavagnet began preparing Bédard's skis about three years ago, when the Italians were barely fielding their own women's team. It is believed it was Cavagnet who came to Bédard's rescue in Albertville when Biathlon Canada officials botched her ski preparation the day before the race. Bédard said the most important thing for her is she has total faith in her coach. ""If he told me you won't feel good at this race, I believe him,"" she said. ""If he told me, you will feel good at the Olympics, I believe him. That's what is the most important."" Veteran Lise Meloche, 33, of Chelsea, Que., enjoyed a good race, finishing tied for 18th in 55:27. Kristin Berg of Calgary was 51st in 59:44. While she had an agonizing wait for the other competitors to finish before being confirmed an Olympic bronze medallist in Albertville two years before, Bédard didn't have to delay celebrations this time. Third last to start, there was no question she had become Olympic champion by the time she crossed the finish line. Kerrigan's news conference of a week ago, it was a pretty good indication people everywhere are still hot-wired into Tonya and her story. Journalists from China asked her questions. Journalists from Scandinavia wanted to know how she felt. One guy from Japan asked a question that defied interpretation. From Jere Longman of the New York Times: ""You lied to us about your smoking. You lied to the FBI. You've failed a polygraph test. Why should we believe anything you say?"" Diane Rawlinson: ""I think we're here to talk about Tonya's skating."" Harding: ""I agree with my coach."" A CP anything,"" said Scott, dead honest about his case of the yips. ""I have my best races when I'm relaxed. I wasn't and it did me in."" Scott was also out of sorts in Wednesday's 1,500. The crowd noise bothered him, he said. He had trouble focusing and finished 28th. Canadian team biathlon leader Mike Baker, an assistant coach with the team, said they weren't concerned by the fact their star athlete is working with a coach whose identity is kept secret from them. ""If that's what's going to work for her, then that's what's good for us,"" he said, adding they hope to put the past controversy between Bédard and the association behind them. ""I think everyone's going to bask in the gold medal and now we're going to see what happens. She's going to do well by this and I think it's going to be good for the sport."" Bédard said she hadn't decided about any future plans beyond the Olympics. Her first reaction was to look for her parents, who mercifully no longer had to remain mute. ""That's when I had the greatest moment in Albertville, is when I saw my parents,"" Bédard said. ""I think it's one of the greatest today, too."" Bédard may not be done here yet. She'll race Wednesday in the women's 7.5-kilometre biathlon sprint, an event she claimed gold in at last year's world championships. ""I was very stressed the last couple of days,"" she said. ""Now, the pressure is off. I might do well again. I don't know."" Things have certainly changed since Bédard's school days when she talked her teacher out of placing her in the advanced group for cross-country skiing. ""I told her I want to stay in the slow group because I wanted to enjoy it and look at the trees and have fun,"" she said. ""She could not believe that I did not choose to go with the fast group at the time."" Well, Bédard's keeping fast company now - and she's the fastest. CP Harding may have wanted to talk skating, but she spent much of her time going over familiar issues - what she knew, what she did, why she lied to the FBI. She was well-rehearsed in her responses and never once lost her composure. Every time she rearranged her smile it was serenaded by the clicks from 100 motor-driven cameras. The conference lasted 40 minutes and allowed Harding to hit for the cycle. She thanked God, her team, her teammates, her country and she even spoke sweetly about the media, saying she respected its job and wished only that other athletes could receive the same attention she was getting. CALGARY HERALD Buying clunkers to limit California's air pollution SCOTT THURM KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS SAN JOSE, Calif. - Think of it as clunkers for cash - and clean air to boot. San Francisco Bay area air-pollution officials are considering allowing businesses to buy and destroy old, high-polluting cars instead of meeting strict smokestack emission limits or tough new carpool rules. The proposal, which could become final by the end of the year, is modelled on a year-old program in Southern California, where businesses have been paying up to $700 per car. But the Bay area version, which would be the country's second, would be much broader, allowing businesses to gain credits for a wider variety of anti-pollution rules. Only cars built before 1975 are likely to qualify. That's the year that new cars were required to have catalytic converters, which reduce emissions by improving the combustion of what would otherwise be unburned fuel. Pre-1975 cars emit up to 50 times as much pollution as current models. Here's the idea, pioneered by the oil giant Unocal in a 1990 experiment: motor-vehicle emissions are the principal source of smog-forming compounds. These old cars spew so much pollution that taking them off the road - by steering motorists to newer, lower-polluting models - will reduce those emissions. If businesses buy and destroy the old cars, they should earn credits toward meeting other pollution rules. ""To the degree that they accelerate the retirement of older cars, they speed up our progress toward clean air,"" said Bill Sessa, spokesman for the state Air Resources Board, which supports the program. Businesses love the concept, because they sometimes find it cheaper to buy old cars than install expensive new pollution equipment. San Francisco Bay area ponders an experimental plan to clean up the roads. It would allow businesses that buy and destroy pre-1975 cars to earn credits toward meeting other pollution rules. The cost: $700 a car. Major Bay area companies are hoping to scrap old cars to reduce the impact of new rules that require them to increase carpooling and mass-transit ridership among their employees. Helene Sahadi York, vice-president of the Bay Area Council, a regional business group, called the proposal ""a terrific idea. It is an effective way to reduce emissions and improve air quality."" Some environmentalists have raised concerns about the impact on a factory's neighbors by allowing the company to essentially buy the right to emit more pollution. But the program generally has been welcomed as part of a growing trend to use financial incentives - rather than strict regulations - to reduce pollution. In Southern California, eight businesses have bought and destroyed about 2,500 cars in the last year. Most were oil companies seeking to avoid installing pollution-control devices on terminals for unloading oil tankers. But Warner Bros. bought a handful of cars so it could continue using a high-emission coating in special effects. ""This is probably one of the most cost-effective ways of reducing air pollution,"" said Barry Lane, spokesman for Los Angeles-based Unocal. Last year, the company spent about $300,000 buying and destroying 375 cars, earning enough credits to avoid spending millions on improvements at its marine terminal. If the Bay area begins a similar program, Lane said Unocal would look for ways to use it at its Rodeo refinery. The Southern California program includes elaborate rules to ensure that the cars being destroyed truly were being used and not sitting on blocks in a backyard. Cars had to have been continuously registered for two years, with insurance for one. Michael Murphy, a supervising environmental planner for the Bay area district, said the program will focus on about 200,000 cars built from 1972 to 1974 and still registered in the Bay area. Murphy said he would like to target cars that flunk the Smog Check test and don't have to be repaired; but this may not be practical because businesses generally can buy any older car to gain credit. Open 7 days, 7 evenings, every weekend: We reserve the right to limit quantities. Specials are valid for in-store shopping only. If one of our stores is short of an item, ask for ""Our Apologies"" raincheck, maximum 3 items valid from February 19 to 25, 1994. The text will always prevail over the picture which serves as a guide only. No sales to merchants. UN conference supports cuts in greenhouse gases REUTER GENEVA - Delegates from 130 countries have agreed that there must be new cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if global warming is to be halted, participants at a UN conference said yesterday. Officials from Argentina, Canada and Britain said there was no consensus on new universal targets beyond the current aim for developed countries to stabilize emissions at their 1990 level by the year 2000. The conference chairman, Raul Estrada-Oyuela of Argentina, said it had been widely accepted that the target ""will not be sufficient to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of these gases at levels that would prevent potentially dangerous interference with the climate system."" The two-week gathering of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee was called to discuss implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, agreed upon at the June 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Greenhouse emissions, including carbon dioxide and many gases used in the chemical industry worldwide, are blamed for the increase in droughts, flooding and other weather-related natural disasters. The Rio treaty, signed by 160 countries and ratified by 55, goes into effect March 21. The INC is due to be replaced by a permanent body, the Conference of Parties, which will hold its first session in March 1995 in Berlin. THE RSP MULTI-RATER GO FOR THE BEST RATE AND MAKE THE MOST OUT OF YOUR MONEY! With Laurentian Bank's RSP MULTI-RATER, you're guaranteed a great interest rate for the next 5 years - a rate that grows to reach 8 by the fifth year! Clearly an effective way to profit over the long term, and still have the flexibility to reinvest your money at the highest market rate available on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th anniversary date, with no penalty. The RSP MULTI-RATER works to your advantage from start to finish! This offer ends March 1, 1994, and cannot be combined with any other offer. The rates that apply include the rates posted until March 1, 1994 (inclusive). We are ready to answer any questions you may have. Simply call, or better yet, drop by and see us. RSP HOTLINE Montreal region: Elsewhere in Canada: (514) 284-RRSP 1-800-463-1110. LAURENTIAN BANK OF CANADA Drought in Africa: whitethroat warblers that breed in Britain but winter in Africa have declined by 75 per cent in 27 years. Forest loss: more than 20 per cent of the world's forests have been logged in 40 years. Fragmentation: parasitic birds driving others out. Irrigation: widespread loss of habitats in all areas. Pesticides: DDT, carbofuran and other sprays kill millions of birds each year in many countries. Lead shot: geese, swans, ducks, storks eat lead - and die. Hunting: more than 50 million birds killed each year in Italy alone. Urbanization: devastating for vulnerable species. THE GUARDIAN Mars exploration planned for 1996 NEW YORK - NASA is making plans for a new program of Mars exploration that will begin with the launching of two small unpiloted flights in November 1996. The program is an attempt to recover as quickly as possible from the failure of the Mars Observer mission last summer. The decade-long program would involve relatively low-cost spacecraft, including some designed to make scientific observations from orbit and others capable of landing on the Martian surface. The launchings would be scheduled every 25 months, taking advantage of each favorable launching opportunity that occurs as Mars comes into alignment with Earth. By the end of the flights, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration planners said, scientists should have a broad understanding of the annual climate cycles on Mars, the surface mineralogy and chemistry and the detailed topography of potential landing sites for humans. More immediately, they said, the surveys should set the stage for a robotic mission to Mars early in the next century to collect soil and rock samples and bring them back to Earth for study. NEW YORK TIMES Cave yields fossil teeth of both ape and man NEW YORK - Vietnamese and American anthropologists have discovered a jumble of fossils pointing to the likelihood that early humans and a surprising large number of other primate species lived in close touch with each other 250,000 years ago. The fossils, which include at least two previously unknown species, represent a period in human history long believed by many scientists to have coincided with a major decline in the diversity of hominoids, the primate group that includes apes as well as humans. Human beings themselves were suspected of having played a role in this supposed decline by helping to drive other hominoids to extinction. But the discovery that human beings of the species Homo erectus shared late-middle Pleistocene time with many other hominoid species might prompt a revision of this theory. The latest hominoid remains to come in tight consist entirely of disembodied teeth, were excavated from the Tuyet Muoi Cave, one of many similar caves in Lane Son Province in northern Vietnam. Initial results of the study were published last month by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The fossil teeth finds included: those of orangutans similar to those living today; those of a previously unknown species similar to orangutans; nine teeth from the human species Homo erectus; three from the extinct ape Gigantopithecus blacki and some that defied description. NEW YORK TIMES There's no evidence the Sahara is expanding, according to satellite studies. Instead, desert and drylands move back and forth, mainly as the result of climate. WILLIAM K. STEVENS NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK - Common wisdom has it that the deserts of the world are on the march, steadily expanding, permanently converting pastures and croplands to sand dunes, and that human mistreatment of the drylands that flank the deserts is responsible. But scientists using the most up-to-date investigative techniques have found no evidence that this is true, at least in the case of the Sahara and its immediate environs, everyone's favorite and most serious example of what is called ""desertification."" In view of the lack of evidence, many experts suspect that the threatening image of encroaching deserts may be more myth than fact. The findings, based largely on satellite measurements, are forcing a reassessment of just what is happening in the arid and semi-arid drylands along the desert's perimeter, which have turned out to be more resilient than once thought. Talks on a multinational treaty to deal with desertification continue next month in Geneva, with a global convention expected to be concluded in June. But some leaders of the international effort to halt drylands degradation have backed away from the idea that deserts are expanding. In fact, they and others say, the very term desertification confuses the issue and obscures what is really going on in the drylands. No one denies that what is taking place in the drylands is serious. As in much of the rest of the world, growing population and economic pressures are depleting the soil, damaging vegetation and natural ecosystems, depressing agricultural yields and threatening the future survival of those who live in the regions between deserts and more humid grasslands. Drylands' sparse rainfall and inevitable droughts make them more vulnerable than more humid regions. The degradation is serious enough to the 900 million people who live in these regions, which cover a quarter of the Earth's land mass. But are the drylands turning into permanent deserts? Not likely, according to the emerging scientific evidence. Images obtained by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from meteorological satellites show that from 1980 through 1990, the boundary between the Sahara and the Sahel drylands region on its southern border - actually a vegetative transition zone rather than a sharp line - did not move steadily south, as conventional wisdom would have it. Rather, the vegetation line moved back and forth in conjunction with rainfall patterns, creeping northward in wetter years and southward in drier ones. The shifts from one year to the next ranged from 30 to 150 miles along the border, but no overall trend could be discerned one way or the other. Swedish scientists at the University of Lund, combining a variety of data collected by satellites and aircraft with ground observations, examined the Sahara-Sahel border in the Sudan for the period 1962 to 1984, when the border was thought to be moving southward. The studies found this was not happening. The Swedish scientists also found, contrary to what some had argued, no evidence that patches of desert were spreading outward from villages and water holes within the drylands area of the Sahel. And they found no changes in vegetation cover and crop productivity that could not be explained by variations in rainfall. Major oscillations between extended dry and wet climate patterns are a normal and governing fact of life in the drylands, said James Ellis, an ecologist who heads the Centre for Environment and Sustainable Agriculture, a research group in Morrillton, Ark., run by the Winrock Corp., a private voluntary organization. Long-term rainfall records show that the climate in Africa's drylands has shifted back and forth between periods of extended drought and higher rainfall for at least the last 10,000 years. On the basis of long-term studies in Kenya, Ellis believes that climate keeps the drylands in a continual state of disequilibrium, and is a bigger influence on the dynamics of drylands ecology than people are. While the evidence taken together suggests that climate is the major influence on crops and natural ecosystems in the Sahel, it does not yet prove the case. The scientific record is too sparse and short at this point, says Compton Tucker of the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Centre, who conducted the 1980-1990 satellite studies. Forty to 50 years of observations might be necessary to determine for sure whether the desert is spreading and, if so, whether climate or human activity is most responsible. The evidence does not mean that deserts are not spreading, but simply that ""we can't find it,"" said Ulf Hellden, the leader of the Swedish team. Nevertheless, he said, ""our hypothesis is that climate is responsible for whatever land degradation is taking place"" in the Sahel. ""We know we can explain 70, perhaps 80 per cent of the food productivity variability with rainfall statistics, which leaves another 20 to 30 per cent we cannot explain,"" he said. THE prime candidate for explaining that 20 to 30 per cent is human activity, argues Franklin Cardy, a Canadian who directs the Nairobi-based desertification-control program of the United Nations Environment Program, which has led the struggle to halt drylands degradation. ""There is no doubt in my mind"" that excessive grazing and cultivation are causing serious land degradation in drylands, said David Hillel, an environmental scientist, hydrologist and soil expert at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. One problem, Cardy said, is that it is extremely difficult to measure land degradation scientifically. ""It's invisible, essentially,"" he said. ""The farmer knows he or she has less and less crop, knows that it's not going to be sustainable. The farmer will tell you, but not quantifiably."" The proposition that deserts are expanding dates to the early years of this century. The idea that regenerating drylands on the edge of the deserts would stop the spread emerged at about the same time. Over the years, anecdotal evidence convinced many scientists, development experts and much of the public that deserts were indeed advancing. By the 1970s, this view had long since moved into the mainstream; in 1972, the U.S. Agency for International Development asserted that the Sahara was moving southward at 30 miles a year. But many scientists in time came to see the anecdotal evidence as unconvincing. Go to the drylands in the dry season of a drought year, they pointed out, and the land will certainly look like a desert. But in many cases, they added, that same land would look different in a wet year. Cardy calls the concept of expanding deserts and advancing sand dunes ""largely invalid."" And he believes, along with Hillel and others, that the term ""desertification"" should be jettisoned. It persists, Cardy and others say, mainly as a political artifact, a way to call attention to one regional expression of the global problem of land degradation, and thereby attract financial assistance. African countries, in fact, extracted the promise of a desertification treaty at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro as the price of their support of other countries on other issues. And so the term desertification hangs on, though its definition was enlarged in Rio to encompass more than human activity as a cause of deterioration of drylands. The definition adopted by the Rio delegates reads: ""Desertification is land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities."" Definitions aside, Cardy said, the practical issue is what to do about human impact on the drylands, whatever the influence of climate and whether or not the desert is advancing. Some experts say that if the drylands are mostly hostage to climate, it might be best to concentrate resources and effort on improving wetter, more productive lands where the costs would be lower and the returns in terms of agricultural yields would be much greater. ""That's a good economic argument,"" Cardy said, ""but where are the people who live in the drylands going to go? As populations grow, are we going to say that because it's tough we'll turn our backs on them? It doesn't make sense. People have been making a living in those areas for millennia."" Egypt sets sights on developing the Sinai KIM MURPHY LOS ANGELES TIMES TAKADOM, Egypt - The peaked sands that fed and bewitched the chin their midst, clinging to a tenuous life, have sprung these few acres of new-sprouted olives, vegetables and tiny brick houses, battered by a chilly desert wind. The settlement is called Takadom, which means ""progress,"" and it is one of Egypt's tentative assertions of national possession over the vast northern Sinai, an empty desert roamed by invaders since the dawn of history and lost to Israel for 15 years, booty of the last two Arab-Israeli wars. Here, in the northern Sinai southwest of Al Arish, a few dozen Egyptian families have settled in the one-room houses, fenced sandy lots and five acres of planted fields that the Cairo government is offering all university graduates mortgage-free for five years. Then, each family will have 30 years to pay off the $3,283 they owe for the land. For Egypt, it is a way of easing the burden of population in the teeming Nile Valley - where 96 per cent of the country's 60 million people live on the fertile land, just 4 per cent of Egypt's territory, that straddles the river. And politically, development of the Sinai asserts, once and for all, Egypt's hold on the strategic peninsula. Twelve years after Israel returned the 23,622-square-mile Sinai to Egypt with the historic Camp David peace accords, Egypt is taking the most ambitious steps in its history to finally populate the vast, mountainous desert that is the most important land buffer between Arabs and Jews. Last month, digging began on the second phase of the Salaam (Peace) Canal, a $1.4 billion project to carry 12.5 million cubic metres a day of fresh water from the Nile into the northern Sinai, irrigating 400,000 acres of new farmland and opening the way for 3 million or more Egyptians to eventually populate a region that is now, despite 12 years of sporadic development, home to only about 250,000 Egyptians. It is the second-largest public works project in Egypt's history - second only to the Aswan High Dam on the Nile - and a crucial part of Egypt's plans not only to call the Sinai its own but to capitalize on $2.5 billion in investment envisioned as taking place in the neighboring Gaza Strip and West Bank when a peace agreement is signed between Palestinians and Israel. Eventually, Sinai development will guarantee Egypt's place in the emerging Middle East market and open a trade and travel corridor - possible only with a final peace between Arabs and Israel - that will link Libya on Egypt's western border, through the Sinai, to Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey and finally Europe. ""We are trying to make our plans, taking into consideration the changes that are happening in the area and internationally,"" said Hussein Gcbaly of Egypt's Ministry of Reconstruction. ""To the west we have the (North American Free Trade) Agreement, to the east we have the new tigers of Asia, and we have in our area the new Middle East market with its dimensions that are imposing change on us."" The Sinai development plan, which has the highest priority in Egypt's five-year development projections, envisions new links between Egypt proper and the peninsula, either via a bridge across the Suez Canal or two new tunnels beneath it, an industrial zone straddling the canal at the city of Suez, expanded airports and power plants, mining development in the Sinai interior and a vast new network of housing, farmland and tourism along the pristine beaches of the Gulf of Aqaba. For years, the Sinai foundered under Egyptian control, in part because the Israelis destroyed much of the infrastructure they laid down during their 15-year occupation. The Israeli settlement town of Yamit, near the northern city of Al Arish, still lies in bulldozed ruins as it was left by furious Israeli settlers when they were forced out by the Israeli army. In the early years, Israeli experimental farms near Nuweiba, taken over by Egyptian Bedouins, fell into decline, and tourist villages built in the Israeli era languished along the Sinai coastline. Bedouin fishermen damaged the coral reefs of the eastern coast by dynamiting their catch, and a massive land grab by both Egyptian and foreign investors for tourist hotel development near the peninsula's southern tip at Sharm el Sheik threatened to irreparably befoul the pristine environment of the southern Sinai, with its untouched mountain valleys, clear turquoise waters and colorful underwater marine life. But in recent years, Egypt, under massive pressure from international environmental groups, has set up a controlled development plan that is maximizing hotel construction along the eastern coast while imposing strict requirements on water desalination, garbage disposal and sewage-treatment systems. The system should guarantee protection of the natural wonders that attract tourist dollars. Now, about 750 square miles of southern Sinai - or 52 per cent of the Aqaba coast - have been set aside as part of a national protected area that joins the Ras Muhammad National Park on the tip of the peninsula. ""They were convinced by the economic argument that you needed to protect the resources if you were going to develop resource-based tourism, and now they're very serious about it,"" said Michael Pearson, project manager for the Ras Muhammad preserve."
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A18 HEATWAVE NIGEL RODDIS REUTERS Flood water in the main street in Catcliffe, near Sheffield, northern England, yesterday. Residents have been evacuated from their homes nearby as officials warn a dam could collapse. European sizzler notches 46th death as Bucharest swelters at 45C ANCA TEODORESCU AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Bucharest - The death toll from a searing heat wave across southern Europe reached at least 46 yesterday, while in Britain torrential rain that claimed three lives has forced hundreds to flee a creaking dam. Twenty-nine heat-related deaths were recorded in Romania, where temperatures yesterday hit 45 degrees Celsius. Four people have died in Greece, six in Italy, three in Albania and at least four in Bosnia, Croatia and Turkey. Three elderly people died in the Italian island of Sicily yesterday, taking the nationwide toll in the current heat wave to six. Two men, both over 80, died in the southern town of Calabria, while a 59-year-old woman was found dead in her home in Palermo. Italian firefighters have dropped tanks of water from aircraft to control more than 30 forest fires after temperatures in the south topped 45C. Bucharest was Europe's hottest capital yesterday with temperatures at 45C and a heat alert was sounded for much of the south of the country. Ambulance services were besieged with calls to help people fainting in the street, officials said. Fourteen people have died from the heat in the city over the past week, according to authorities, who have set up more than 30 first aid tents in Bucharest alone to cope with the casualties. Police have been handing out water in the street and the health ministry has warned the elderly and those with debilitating illnesses not to go out during the day. Temperatures hit 44C in Athens and central Greece, the hottest day this year, and the government urged the public to save power as electricity consumption hit new highs. The Greek military has suspended all exercises and public services were closed in the afternoon. Temperatures in Bulgaria beat the record for a second time this week with the mercury shooting up to 43C yesterday in the southeastern town of Radnevo. Authorities sprayed water on the tram rails to prevent them from buckling in the heat but no casualties have been reported. Trains ran at lower speeds, in some cases at 30 kilometres per hour as rails were buckling in the heat. Police also banned heavy trucks from the roads at the hottest hours. Authorities in seven Turkish provinces have given two or three days of leave to handicapped or pregnant civil servants, Anatolia news agency said. Northern Africa was also affected by the heat wave with temperatures of over 40C recorded in Tunisia, where several fires were fanned by the heat and strong Sirocco winds. There were power cuts across the country, notably in the seaside capital Tunis. Northern Europe meanwhile was drenched by torrential downpours. Three people have died in floods in England and hundreds have been evacuated from their homes because the rains threatened to cause a dam to burst. A bridge collapsed in western England. Authorities in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, told people living near Ulley Dam to leave their homes after receiving a warning the walls could collapse. A section of the nearby main M1 highway was also closed. In nearby Sheffield, Royal Air Force helicopters airlifted people in flooded areas to safety. A 14-year-old boy was swept to his death in a swollen river and a 68-year-old man was killed as he crossed a flooded road. In Hull, on the east coast, a man drowned after becoming trapped up to his neck in a drain on a flooded street. Pakistan's southern coast was lashed by a powerful cyclone yesterday, killing at least 18 people, leaving dozens more missing and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, officials said. Cyclone Yemyin made landfall over the southwestern province of Baluchistan with winds of up to 130 kilometres an hour. At least two Pakistani fishing boats were reported to have sunk in the Arabian Sea and several more were missing with their crews, sparking a desperate search by navy and coast guard helicopters and ships. Yemyin barrelled in three days after another violent storm killed at least 235 people in the southern port city of Karachi and sparsely populated Baluchistan. Forecasters said a 7.6-metre storm surge was feared. A 56-year-old woman and her 14-year-old grandson also died when they sought shelter under a corrugated iron roof, while two residents of Nanchang city were killed while they huddled under a tree, also on Sunday. In nearby Zhejiang province, five people building a tomb on a small hill were killed in a lightning storm on Monday, Xinhua added. China's extreme weather has killed at least 155 people in flooding this year, while about 2 million people were suffering from drought in the north, the government said. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WORLD TO US? Foreign editor: Raymond Beauchemin 514-987-2457 [email protected] WEATHER WATCH AND ST -Mi iS - 1; RIZWAN TABASSUM AFPGETTY IMAGES A Pakistani officer baton-charges youths on a beach in Karachi yesterday after a ban on water activity because of a powerful cyclone that lashed Pakistan's southern coast, killing at least 14 people and leaving dozens more missing. JUSTIN SULLIVAN GETTY IMAGES Missy Springer cries yesterday as she sits in the remains of a home she rented that was destroyed by fire in Meyers, Calif. Firefighters continue to battle a wildfire near Lake Tahoe, which has destroyed more than 200 structures and threatens two neighbourhoods. FATIH SARIBAS REUTERS Visitors at a pool cool themselves as they sit on ice blocks supplied by pool officials in Istanbul yesterday. Istanbul Governor Muammer Culer declared a two-day holiday for some public servants as temperatures are expected to soar this week. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2007 and it has it all. In the one-block strip that includes La-pointe's emporium, there's an organic veggie burrito stand, a Caribbean pattie shop, an African dry goods store, an Iranian video place and an outfit that sells orthopedics. Please see 'C IS FOR Page A4 A HOT ONE Summer's HERE - WITH A VENGEANCE Jul 3 JOHN KENNEY THE GAZETTE Sabrina Guiraud and her 8-month-old daughter, Rachel, beat yesterday's heat in the cooling spray at Mackenzie King Park in the Cote des Neiges district. Pedestrians jam underground city ANNE SUTHERLAND THE GAZETTE Montreal's first high heat and humidity warning of the summer was issued yesterday as the temperature climbed to 32 degrees Celsius and the all-important humidex peaked at 40 at 3 p.m. The temperature didn't break the record of 33.4C, set in 2003, but the heavy, humid air was a potential threat to those suffering from heart disease or respiratory ailments. Please see WEATHER, Page A2 Heatwave, storms wreak havoc, Page A18 PROCESS 'INADEQUACIES' CITED Onex and Caisse withdraw from rival takeover consortium ROBERTO ROCHA THE GAZETTE The prospect of a pan-Canadian wireless behemoth fizzled yesterday when Telus Corp. backed out of a bid to acquire its rival Bell Canada Inc. Telus, which last week promoted the idea of a national telecom champion by marrying both companies, said yesterday the inadequacies of BCE's bid process did not make it possible for Telus to submit an offer. A Telus spokesperson did not elaborate further, but analysts said the company was not given enough time to place a bid. The deadline was believed to be yesterday morning, but Bell did not confirm this. Bell Canada, formerly BCE Inc., put itself up for sale in March in response to shareholders irritated with its lagging stock."
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In short, Messrs. Dufresne & Mongenais have laid themselves out for the New Year's trade, and a visit to their store on St. James street will convince anyone of that fact. ITEMS BY THE WAY, The Blizzard, Yesterday's little snowstorm completely demoralized the M.
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"and the waves ran high, at some times reaching a majestic height So heavy was the sea that the big ferryboat, the Transit, had to abandon one of her regular trips The Spartan, of the R & O N company, west bound, arrived on time, but had to lie at the dock for several hours until the storm abated, and even then had considerable difficulty in getting around the end of the wharf During the afternoon the storm subsided No doubt there has been an immense amount of damage done to all outstanding crops in this district Grain in the shock will be badly hurt if not ruined, while the corn crop must have been nearly thrashed out or laid in the mud caused by such a rain, but still it will be fine for the high pasture lands where there has been a lack of rain all season, and so it is always, while others mourn others will rejoice Kingston, Ont, August 29 Shortly after midnight one of the greatest wind and rain storms this city has experienced in years burst over it and the surrounding districts In intensity and duration it has exceeded the greatest previous storm known in recent years Shade trees were stripped of their branches, signs blown down,
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A4 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1999 MONTREAL It was like Sarajevo without bullets A scary drive down to Washington calls to mind the horrors we lived through a year ago When the ice storm last January finally ended, the question everyone asked was: ""How long were you without power?"" Anyone who had the good fortune not to lose electricity was always quite sheepish about it, and quick to point out that family, friends and even total strangers had been invited over to share the warmth. Anyone who didn't lose power for a minimum of three days was later considered more a spectator than a survivor of the storm. It was a threshold of respectability. If you wanted to share in the experience, you had to have lived through it. At its worst moment, Black Friday, it seemed the infrastructure of Montreal was collapsing, even as the people of the city held themselves together. It was the fourth consecutive day of freezing rain and ice, and army trucks were rolling through the streets of the city. The airports were closed, the metro shut down and bridges off the island were somewhere between treacherous and dangerous. On Ste. Catherine St., merchants closed because they couldn't scan sales. For that matter, they didn't have burglar alarms. Yet there was an almost complete absence of looting, as if it would have been indecent, given the circumstances. It was nearly impossible to get cash, since most ATMs were shut down. Not that you could buy anything, except bottled water, in stores that let people in five at a time. Walking along Ste. Catherine in the icy gloom of that afternoon, I thought Montreal looked like Sarajevo without bullets. A radio station was even knocked off the air that day, when its transmitter buckled under the ice. I'll never forget the ashen look of CJAD program director Steve Kowch as he stood in his darkened master control at the end of a professional day from hell. His storm-central service was off the air, his morning man was on a cruise and his drive host had just quit because management refused to commandeer its FM sister station. Just another day at the office. Until that Friday, most Montrealers had made an attempt to carry on business as usual. On the Thursday, I was finishing chatting with a colleague, Anthony Wilson-Smith, national affairs columnist of Maclean's magazine in Toronto. ""How bad is it?"" he asked. ""Let's put it this way: I saw a driver help a passenger off the 24 bus on Sherbrooke St."" ""That sounds really serious,"" ""So what have you got on the cover next week?"" ""Alan Eagleson."" I burst out laughing. ""Of course, if this was happening in Toronto,"" said Wilson-Smith, a native Montrealer, ""we would be putting out a special issue."" In the end, Maclean's had the good sense to put the ice storm on the cover, with a picture taken on Wilson Ave., in Notre Dame de Grace, Tony's part of town, and gave him the assignment of writing it against a crazy deadline. There is a saying in golf, local knowledge. When the rain finally stopped on the Saturday morning, people came out of their darkened homes to marvel at the damage and destruction. You weren't even supposed to walk in midtown, a zone of yellow police tape, because of the danger of falling ice. There was the bizarre sight of pedestrians wearing hockey or bicycle helmets, as if they were protection against a sheet of ice falling off a 30-floor office building. For some reason, in my part of town, the lights didn't go off in Westmount Square. Like a lot of people in the neighbourhood, I stood in a darkened window, wondering why they had power and I didn't. It was almost like a scene from a movie. Out the train window, parts of New England looked just as Montreal did a year ago, with trees bent under ice. We finished a rewrite on the spot, as if it was a perfectly normal business day, and got the CEO's sign-off on her speech. We even managed to have a conference call with Toronto, the centre of the universe. Someone at the other end made some impossible demand in a Toronto sort of way, and the CEO barked into the phone: ""I don't think you realize the seriousness of the situation here."" VIP PARKING SCANDAL Union claims vindication as case dropped PAUL CHERRY and MICHELLE LALONDE The Gazette The union representing the city's Green Onions says its members implicated in the VIP parking scandal have been vindicated because the Crown has dropped its case against them. No fraud charges will be laid against the 75 parking-meter attendants who were suspended by the city last fall. Yesterday, the union's president accused the Bourque administration of blowing a situation city officials supposedly knew about for years out of proportion to generate publicity before the municipal election last November. ""It's what we knew all along,"" said Daniel Papillon Demers, head of the Montreal municipal employees' union, part of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. ""Our members were not responsible, in either a criminal way or in a way where they should have been disciplined."" The city handed three-month suspensions to 75 attendants last fall. Through an agreement, the employees were able to return after being off the job for a month. The suspensions are now under arbitration, which the union estimates will end in March. ""What remains is the arbitration concerning the disciplinary actions that were taken against our members,"" Papillon Demers said. ""We hope we'll come to the same result: that there was no basis for disciplinary action."" CITY'S OPINION UNCHANGED City executive committee chairman Jean Fortier said the Crown's decision does not change the city's opinion that its employees committed serious professional offences that merited the firings and suspensions. ""The Crown had to decide whether there were grounds for criminal proceedings, but that doesn't change the disciplinary actions we have taken. Regardless of the decision of the Crown, we think there has been a serious breach."" Vandalism is continuing, fire department contends Conciliation talks between the city of Montreal and its firefighters' union are to resume this morning amid more complaints by the fire department of ""irresponsible"" pressure tactics. Fuel filters on two fire trucks were punctured Wednesday night and another vehicle has to be repainted to cover graffiti that proved impossible to remove, said Martine Primeau, a spokesman for the fire department. ""These were acts of vandalism on the part of firefighters,"" she contended. Fire trucks that had been painted a variety of colours and daubed with graffiti as a pressure tactic in the dispute. We almost gave her a standing ovation. In this week for memories of the ice storm, mine were brought back by a scary drive down to Washington last weekend. Freezing rain had turned Interstate 95 between Baltimore and Washington into a skating rink, with dozens of cars in the ditch. Even worse weather was forecast for the next day, and the drive home, after dropping off my daughter with her mother, I remembered driving into the first day of the ice storm in northern New York. Interstate 87 between Pittsburgh and the border was one long parking lot, but I managed to get over to the soft shoulder and off at the last exit. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1999 A15 WORLD Will 'Sloaney Sophie' be the new Di? ALLIEEN McCAII Southam News LONDON - The British tabloid press is now seriously auditioning Sophie Rhys-Jones for the vacant role of royal superstar. Prince Edward's fiancée needed a police escort to push her way through the phalanx of photographers waiting for her yesterday outside her central London office. And she must have needed half the morning just to scan the reviews of her engagement announcement Wednesday. She made every tabloid front page, save one, and pictures of her and stories about her filled the next seven or eight pages, too. The Daily Mail outdid everyone, however, producing a 12-page ""special souvenir pullout."" In addition to four full pages of news and photo coverage of the engagement, tabloid circulation fell in Britain after Diana, princess of Wales, died. She was a cover girl whose picture sold newspapers and she has been missed sorely. It is not clear whether she can be replaced. Or whether Rhys-Jones has the ""royal jelly"" to do it. Royal writer Una-Mary Parker told the BBC that no one could replace Diana - no matter how much the media wanted another royal star. ""(Rhys-Jones) does emulate Diana in many ways with her clothes and her hair, but it is not going to work,"" Parker said. ""The public won't buy another Diana. There was only one."" Rhys-Jones doesn't have the young Diana's fairy-tale prospects, either. She's not going to be queen one day. 'Monty' submitted racist plan for Africa Reuter LONDON - Britain's most famous World War II commander, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, submitted a racist masterplan for Africa that so embarrassed the postwar government it kept watch on him to ensure he did not repeat his opinions in public. Public records released yesterday reveal that Montgomery - who was revered as a hero for leading British troops to victory over the Germans in North Africa - planned to turn the continent into a white supremacist bulwark against communism. A secret, two-month-long tour of 11 African countries in 1947 led him to conclude that the African ""is a complete savage and is quite unable of developing the country himself,"" the official papers revealed. His attitude to African independence movements was shown in a recommendation to the government that said, ""We should have no nonsense with the United Nations Organization about Tanganyika; it should be absorbed into the British bosom."" Tanganyika, which now makes up part of the nation of Tanzania, became independent from Britain in 1961. Montgomery, affectionately dubbed Monty by his troops, was particularly scathing about Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie, whom he called a pathetic figure. ""To give the emperor any more lands would be utterly absurd,"" he reported. His confidential report was rebuffed by the postwar British Labour government, whose official policy was to build self-government in Africa. TOUR KEPT SECRET Senior ministers were so concerned about the report that Montgomery's lectures were watched to ensure he did not repeat his racist views in public. His African tour was kept secret from all but a handful of top officials. The release of the secret papers under Britain's 50-year rule may tarnish Montgomery's image - glorified in numerous films - as a war hero. Lord Chalfont, a former Labour foreign minister and biographer of Montgomery, said an icon had tumbled. ""A lot of people will find it extremely surprising. His reputation is irredeemably damaged. I find it very disappointing and depressing,"" Chalfont said. Montgomery's official biographer, Neil Hamilton, said Britain would still remember him as a brilliant strategist, but conceded that in politics he was ""unbelievably naive."" Hamilton said that Montgomery's description of Africans as savages was ""the kind of schoolboy terminology that Monty used to rally his troops, the equivalent of urging them to hit Rommel for six."" Montgomery reacted stoically and with humour to the government's rebuttal of his plan, the records show. ""When I wrote my report I was fully aware that you would not agree with it; in fact I said so to my staff! It is obvious that we disagree fundamentally on the whole subject; time will show which of us is right,"" he said in a letter to the colonial secretary of state at the time, Arthur Creech Jones. Sophie Rhys-Jones is escorted by police as she arrived at work in Mayfair, London, yesterday. Indeed, as some of the less-gushing journalists pointed out, as wife of the queen's third son, she's going to be a rather minor royal. In its editorial, the Guardian commented: ""Numerous precedents suggest that it cannot be an easy thing to marry into the royal family, even at such an inconsequential level. The less she and Edward make of it the better."" It counseled: ""No pomp, circumstances or PR. No interviews, no street parties, no bunting, no fuss."" The cheeky tabloids are unlikely to let attitudes like that rain on their parade, particularly if they think they are on to a winner. Certainly the Daily Mail sees potential. Its 12-page pullout featured 49 pictures of Rhys-Jones. It did, however, note that her sense of style still needs work. It made quite a fuss about her fashion ""mistakes"" in a feature headlined, Can Sloaney Sophie Become a Style Queen? And it deemed the ""round-toed, dumpy-heeled"" shoes she wore for the engagement photos ""her usual fashion faux pas."" ""Sloaney"" is a uniquely British put-down. The reference is to Sloane Square where well-bred ladies who lunch from the horsey set shop in staid stores for timeless fashions. Diana was one of the early Sloane Rangers. She found Versace and grew out of it. Rhys-Jones, with her middle-class background, certainly wasn't born a Sloaney, but even the conservative Telegraph noted that she has adopted the style. It wrote that she sticks to ""Gucci-style pumps with snaffle chains across them, the true sign of the Sloane."" It is difficult to predict how Rhys-Jones, a sophisticated 33-year-old busy running her own public-relations business, will react to this kind of scrutiny. In the early years, it nearly did in Diana. But there may be sterner stuff at play here. Asked by reporters if she was looking forward to going under the media microscope, Rhys-Jones surprised everyone and replied: ""Yes, I am."" Mother gets 15 years A Dallas jury sentenced a woman to 15 years in prison for forcing her teenage daughter to have sex with her stepfather to produce a son for the couple. Karen Gay Iheduru, 42, pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexual assault. Her husband, 47-year-old Chris Ahamefule Iheduru, was convicted of the same charge in October and sentenced to three years in prison. Iheduru and the girl's mother signed a contract before their marriage agreeing that the girl would have sex with her stepfather in order to have a baby. Oregon plane crash kills 4 Investigators yesterday picked through the wreckage of a twin-engine plane that crashed about 50 kilometres southwest of Portland, Ore., killing all four people aboard and narrowly missing a farmhouse and barn. The six-seat Beechcraft Baron BE-58 went down in the wooded hills of Yamhill County about 6 p.m. Wednesday, said Debbie Taylor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman in Seattle. The cause of the crash wasn't known. Killer executed in Oklahoma A twice-convicted murderer who said he likely would have killed again had he remained free was executed by injection early yesterday. John Walter Castro Sr., 37, was declared dead at 12:22 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He was the third killer executed in Oklahoma in a month and the 14th since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977. Juries condemned Castro in the unrelated murders of two women, but one death penalty was later overturned. ENGLAND Child-porn suspects in court Eight men accused of distributing thousands of indecent images of children over the Internet appeared in a British court yesterday. The eight were brought before Hastings Magistrates in southern England and were released on bail on condition they return to the court for another hearing on March 5, police said. The men were among a group of more than 40 people arrested in 12 countries last September in what police called the biggest worldwide swoop on pedophiles operating on the Internet. REUTER, AP Union Jack burned South African Muslims protest against Blair visit London Times CAPE TOWN - Hundreds of South African Muslims burned the Union Jack outside the British High Commission in Cape Town yesterday and pledged to disrupt British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to the ""Mother City"" after being dispersed with stun grenades and tear gas. Protesting at the American and British air strikes against Iraq, the demonstrators waved banners and screamed ""One Blair, one bullet,"" an adaptation of the apartheid-era protest slogan ""One settler, one bullet."" Police fired tear gas and stun grenades to force the crowd away from the High Commission, which stands opposite the South African Parliament where Blair is due to speak today. The group behind the demonstration, Muslims Against Global Oppression, allegedly took responsibility for the bombing of the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1999 Amnesiac has bail hearing Several questions linger about the alleged memory loss of Honeycutt, aka Brighton today MONIQUE BEAUDIN Gazette Crime Reporter The case of Montreal's amnesiac man seems to hinge on one issue: Does he have amnesia, or doesn't he? According to his lawyer and people who befriended him in Montreal, Matthew Honeycutt - or James Edward Brighton, as he's been calling himself for the last three months - has amnesia and doesn't remember anything about his life in Tennessee or crimes he is alleged to have committed before turning up here in October. But Montreal police don't believe he has amnesia, and have charged him with mischief and obstruction of justice for using a false name. The only person who really knows for sure is behind bars at the Rivière des Prairies detention centre, waiting for a bail hearing to be held today. According to his family, Honeycutt has been treated for mental illness. Montreal police said he was treated for schizophrenia. The Montreal General Hospital psychiatry department, where Honeycutt was tested for more than a month and received outpatient treatment, refused for the second day to comment on the case, except for a terse three-sentence statement made public yesterday afternoon. ""Ever since the patient James Brighton, alias Matthew Honeycutt, arrived at the Montreal General Hospital, our purpose has been to provide him with the appropriate care for his clinical presentation,"" the hospital statement said. ""The recovery of his identity was the priority. We are pleased with the information that has come to light, which hopefully will help in his recovery."" Psychiatrist Richard Montoro, who treated Honeycutt, did not return calls left by The Gazette at his office yesterday and refused to talk about the case when contacted at home last night. ""I really don't want to speak to you at home,"" Montoro said, adding that he would discuss the case today. Before Honeycutt's arrest, Montoro told reporters his patient suffered from a rare condition called dissociative amnesia, perhaps caused by a robbery in which he was assaulted by two thieves in his home. Yesterday, Honeycutt's lawyer said Montoro told him Wednesday that Honeycutt's amnesia was not linked to schizophrenia. ""The psychiatry department laughed their heads off on Wednesday,"" Michel Lussier said. ""Dr. Montoro said Honeycutt did not behave like a schizophrenic."" A Montreal memory expert said Honeycutt's symptoms sound as if his memory loss is rooted in a psychological disturbance, as opposed to being caused by a brain injury. Someone who has amnesia because of a brain injury retains long-term memory and can remember such information as his own name and the names of his brothers and sisters, but loses short-term memory, cognitive neurologist Howard Chertkow said. ""To forget your own identity - which is something you've known since you were 3 years old - and to have a complete memory loss essentially never occurs due to brain damage,"" said Chertkow, co-director of the memory clinic at the Jewish General Hospital. Since he turned up in Montreal, Honeycutt, 28, said he believed his name was James Edward Brighton and he was from New Jersey, and began to remember other information: he smoked, he's gay and he had visited Niagara Falls on a family vacation. Honeycutt's case is like ""Hollywood amnesia"" - in which people wake up one day and can't remember who they are, or any details of their lives, Chertkow said. ""Unlike true amnesiacs, they're able to remember things they've learned since the amnesia began,"" he said. Honeycutt's memory loss could be a psychological disorder called hysterical paralysis, in which a person suddenly develops numbness, or paralysis. PIERREFONDS SCHOOL TORCHED PETER McCABE, GAZETTE About 500 students are out in the cold after a deliberately set fire destroyed or damaged three classrooms yesterday at École Primaire Murielle Dumont in Pierrefonds. Police said the fire started in three places at 4 a.m., and they are investigating to determine whether burglary was involved. The building is being checked for safety, and students were told to stay home today. FLASHBACK ICE STORM 1998 A YEAR AGO TODAY Over the next few days, The Gazette will run a daily feature on what was happening a year ago at this time. TEMPERATURE: High of minus-3C Low of minus-5 PRECIPITATION: 35.8 millimetres of drizzle and rain. The second round of freezing rain hits. The number of homes without electricity doubles to one million. Three more people - all elderly - die in their powerless homes. A fire kills two; the third dies of hypothermia. Premier Lucien Bouchard agrees to let the army get involved. All trains stop running through Montreal, and hundreds of flights into Dorval are canceled. About 150 shelters are open in ice-ravaged areas. Panic hits the city when the RDI French-language news station wrongly reports that Hydro-Quebec will shut down all power in Montreal at 3 p.m. Many companies send thousands of workers home early. QUOTE OF THE DAY ""We had a warm building and decided to share it with others,"" said Rev. Eric Maclean, president of Loyola High School in Notre Dame de Grace. like Sarajevo without bullets: MacDonald, Page A4 Ice and snow disasters: Chambers, Page B3 Galleries give best ice-storm shots, Page D1 Full bus service resumes Monday AMANDA JELOWICKI The Gazette The Montreal Urban Community Transit Corp. is ordering mechanical checks and small changes to its entire fleet of 360 low-floor Nova buses, meaning passengers will have to wait until Monday morning for a normal full-service bus schedule. Thirty of the controversial buses were put back into service for yesterday afternoon's rush hour after they underwent a one-hour maintenance inspection. More buses are to be on the road today, but the MUCTC could not specify how many. The 10 bus routes that were canceled are not expected to be operating again until Monday morning. ""We decided to integrate more frequent checks on our buses,"" said Serge Mathieu, chief of operations at the MUCTC. ""We are investigating every bus. Basically, the bus is a good bus, but it's a new bus, so we just have to check them more frequently."" The MUCTC said at a press conference yesterday that the low-floor buses would undergo a three-part cleaning before going back on the road. The transit corporation is also taking the added precaution of installing an extra spring to the throttle system to help reduce the buses' deceleration time. The Nova buses were pulled off the road Monday, after the MUCTC driver's union deemed them unsafe and insisted checks be made. On Dec. 31, one driver reported his gas pedal stuck to the floor. Six other incidents were related to deceleration problems, with drivers complaining their buses would not decelerate for about five or six seconds after pressure on the gas pedal was eased. Six buses were taken to a test site in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, where similar weather conditions were simulated to try to recreate the problems. After four days of testing, MUCTC director-general Jacques Fortin said yesterday, technicians said the incident involving a stuck gas pedal was an isolated event, but the deceleration flaw was resolved. ""The problem of the delay was fixed,"" Fortin said. ""The delay is very short; we're not talking about five seconds. Even with the deceleration problem, the buses are still safe. But we wanted the time reduced."" Dennis Tallon, president and chief executive officer of Nova Bus Corp., said the addition of the extra spring will reduce the decelerators' response time by about 0.2 seconds. He said in extreme weather conditions, response time will be reduced to 2.6 seconds from 2.8 (the time it takes to start slowing the bus), and in normal conditions to 0.6 seconds from 0.8. ""The added spring is being implemented at the MUCTC's discretion. It's something we're recommending to other transit authorities to do."" The three-part cleaning procedure includes cleaning the acceleration-deceleration linkage, checking the control valve's pressure and inspecting the pneumatic system. Tallon insisted the Nova buses are safe for passengers to use, and said that if there was a significant problem, ""they would not be on the road."" or amnesia with no physiological explanation. ""It's a defense,"" Chertkow said. ""It's a way of dealing with stress or anxiety or fears, usually seen in people with quite severe disturbances of personality."" Police investigators are trying to piece together what happened between Oct. 8, when Honeycutt was last seen in Tennessee, and Oct. 12, when he showed up at a Park Ave. hotel, telling a night clerk he had just woken up naked near an Old Montreal garbage bin. In Tennessee, police officials have been trying to find Honeycutt since he apparently sneaked out a back window of his mother's home on Oct. 8, after allegedly using his brother's ID to obtain a fake driver's license and buy a car. Detective Jim Albanese, a fraud investigator with the Knox County Sheriff's Department, said Kevin Honeycutt filed a police report contending his brother had used his credit cards, got a $1,221.80 loan from a credit company in his name, tried to rent an apartment under Kevin's name and got a fake driver's license that he used to buy a car in Kevin Honeycutt's name. ""(Kevin) got in touch with his brother, whose attitude was that some third person had committed the fraud,"" Albanese said, adding that the two men were supposed to go to the car dealership to straighten things out when Matthew Honeycutt disappeared. No doubt about it 'Fill-in Mom' absolutely believes mystery man Gisela Maier has never met Matthew Honeycutt. It was ""James Brighton"" she knew; or thought she knew - that engaging lost soul she befriended and welcomed into her Hudson home. On Wednesday, Montreal Urban Community police said her 28-year-old protege was an imposter, charged with mischief and wanted for fraud and forgery in his native Tennessee. Relatives, co-workers and former lovers who watched Tuesday's broadcast of Hard Copy identified him as Honeycutt, a gay man who suffers from schizophrenia and who vanished Oct. 8, after using his brother's social-security card to get a fake driver's license and buy a car. Yet Marler said yesterday she still believes ""absolutely"" the story he told when he was admitted to the Montreal General Hospital 12 weeks ago, apparently suffering from dissociative amnesia. ""He is no criminal. Whatever he did, he did in a state over which he had no control. Was it really necessary to have four police officers come in the middle of the night to put shackles on him? This guy is a good human being."" There was no sense ever that he was dangerous,"" said Bruce Walsh, co-ordinator of the Gay Line information service, who helped launch the international search to track down the mystery man's family. Like Marler, who first contacted The Gazette, and Gregg Blachford, a Gay Line volunteer who offered Honeycutt a place to stay when he was released from the hospital, Walsh says he believes the man they called James Brighton was ""too consistent"" to have been playing an elaborate con game. ""James allowed me to read parts of his journal,"" Walsh said. ""It's a horrible tale of no identity, desperation and loneliness."" At first, Walsh was understandably wary of Honeycutt, who claimed he had woken up naked beside a garbage bin in a downtown parking lot Oct. 12, yet had no idea how he had got there. He said he dressed in clothes he found strewn nearby and wandered the streets until he reached the Quality Hotel on Park Ave., where he told his story to night auditor Marc Dagenais. ""It was the first time I had seen somebody this lost. He was not faking,"" Hotel auditor Marc Dagenais PEGGY CURRAN ""He looked very nervous and his hands were shaking,"" Dagenais recalled in late November. ""He was white as a ghost."" Dagenais said Honeycutt asked the way to the hospital but didn't understand his directions. ""Then I asked his name. He responded nervously, 'Hap Hip I."""
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Both were drafted in June '94 - Powell in the fourth round and Vazquez in the fifth. Powell turned 20 last month, while Vazquez reaches that milestone tomorrow. Californian Powell, 9-5 with an earned-run average of 2.75, apparently has had the most to learn. Puerto Rican Vazquez, 11-2 with an ERA of 2.76 is more of a natural and has what those in the know call a quality feel for pitching. As members of the Delmarva Shorebirds they are tutored constantly by manager Doug Sisson and pitching coach Dean Treanor. While Treanor works on the physical end of the pitchers' development, Sisson drives the mental message home. "As a rule, you find young hitters at this level haven't seen very much good breaking-ball pitching because they're coming out of high school and collegiate ranks," Sisson, a former catcher in the Twins organization, said during a recent rain delay. "They have difficulty with breaking pitches. Young pitchers try to take advantage of that. In order to make their records look good they tend to feed the hitters a dose of curves and changes.
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