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MOAMMAR Khadafy has enraged his neighbors and the rest of the world during his 16-year reign. The Libyan commander is profiled. Page
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 Sadrack says
  It will be increasingly cloudy today and tonight with clear periods and a low near -7.
  Saturday is expected to be sunny with clear periods and a high near zero.
  The probability of precipitation today and tonight is 10 per cent, rising to 20 per cent Saturday.
  Thursday’s high was 2, the low was -5, there was 0.4 cm of snow and no sunshine recorded.
  Last year on this date the high was -2, the low
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 was -8, there was a trace of snow and six minutes of sunshine.
 Sunset today is at 4:36 p.m. and sunrise Saturday is at 8:08 a.m.
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MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION 'RILBty
Morality bylaw forum sought
 LOCKOUT NOTICE SERVED
  Placer Development Ltd. has served lockout notice on 22 union employees at its Endako molybdenum mine in an attempt to get workers to accept contract concessions.
   The mine, which in its heyday employed 550 people, was mothballed 3>/2 years ago because of slumping molybdenum prices.
  The few remaining employees have been working without a contract since the last one lapsed in 1982. They have been involved in processing molybdenum ore shipped to Endako, 150 km west of Prince George, from other mines in the province.
   The company made what it calls its “final” contract offer last May, asking for concessions, including the elimination of seniority rights, without any firm promise that the mine would re-open.
   The Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers, representing the workers, refused to vote on the proposed contract.
   “We issued a lockout notice to CAIMAW Thursday,” said company spokesman Jay Taylor. “We’ve requested a meeting with the union and we’d like to get some positive action going on the stalemated situation.”
  The mine’s 20 management employees would be unaffected by the lockout, scheduled for Feb. 20.
  Taylor said that labor is the "largest single constituent” of the mine’s operating costs and that the company has sustained heavy losses while the mine has been mothballed.
  CAIMAW representative Cathy Walker said news of the lockout notice is “a bit of a surprise to the union.”
   She noted the company has refused to negotiate with the union since last May and the lockout is typical of Placer’s “bullying tactics.”
   “It is yet another chapter in the history of Endako in which their real goal is to get rid of the union,” said Walker. “They’re a very anti-union employer.”
   She said the company’s proposed elimination of seniority rights would likely mean some employees still working at the mine would lose their jobs, even though they have worked there for more than 20 years.
 The union represesentative said although moly prices have dropped to about $2.50 a pound from more than $4 last spring, she believes the mine can operate profitably. The lockout notice likely means the company wants to re-open the mine this summer. Walker said.
 Moms 'n babes
 Sometimes there’s not a minute’s peace for a new mother, but Edith Palumbo believes where there’s a will, there’s a way to keep up with post-natal exercises at the YM-YWCA even when her son, two-
 month-old Sean, demands her attention. Mothers are encouraged to bring infants to classes at 11 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday so a close watch can be
kept.	Citizen photo by Dave Milne
Builders want 25-per-cent cut in wages
  The Construction Labor Relations Association has asked for a 25-per-cent wage cut in a new contract to replace the current one which expires May 1.
  Previously, the CRLA had sent notice of termination of contract to all afficiates of the B.C. and Yukon Building and Construction and Trades Council.
  “We don’t want to terminate our agreement, our relationship with the unions,” said Chuck McVey, head of the employer’s bargaining group.
  “Our object is not to operate non-union, but to get a union agreement we can compete (with nonunion contractors) with.
  The Ministry of Labor in Victoria has not responded to the question whether the notice of termination is a legal one yet, according to the trades council.
  However, “bargaining in good faith” is required under the provincial labor code.
  Representatives of the unions involved refused to comment on the issue when they were contacted today.
Pulp record set
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 MONTREAL — Canada’s pulp and paper mills shipped a record 21.6 million tonnes in 1985 and shipments should increase slightly in 1986. David Wilson of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association said Thursday.
  Wilson, director of economic and forest policy for the association, predicted total shipments from the country’s biggest manufacturing industry will reach 22.2 million tonnes this year.
  In Prince George, where mill capacity could turn out almost
900.000	tonnes of pulp a year, the three pulp mills have been operating at abut 85 per cent capacity.
 Newsprint shipments, which declined slightly in 1985, will likely grow by less than one per cent in 1986 and pulp may rise by about two per cent. There will be stronger demand for printing, writing and sanitary papers.
  The popularity of catalogues and newspaper inserts for advertising has boosted demand for printing papers by 10 per cent a year for the last three years.
Pulp and paper directly employs
150.000	people in Canada, and its $9 billion in exports makes a large contribution to Canada’s balance of payments.
While the low value of the Cana-
dian dollar compared with its U.S. counterpart is generally considered to have helped Canadian newsprint sales in the United States, Wilson said it has also made it hard for Canadian mills to compete with traditional rivals Sweden and Finland in foreign markets.
    At a news conference, Wilson noted Canada’s economy is still tied to the United States, the market for more than half of the association members’ output.
    “The most important factor for the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association is economic conditions in the U.S.”
 Dollar plunges to all-time low
   TORONTO (CP) - The Canadian dollar tumbled to 70.72 cents U.S. today, an all-time trading low against the American currency, just one day after the Bank of Canada rate declined to 10.33 per cent, ending five consecutive weeks of increases.
    The Canadian dollar opened trading today at 70.97 U.S. cents, down from its Thursday close of 71.10. The previous all-time trading low of 70.87 was recorded last week.
 buI letins
 GREAT YARMOUTH, Eng-land (AP) — A Greek tanker loaded with crude oil collided with a Dutch fishing trawler and burst into flames in the stormy North Sea today, spilling burning oil within a few nautical miles of gas rigs, British government spokesmen said.
  No deaths were reported.
  All but three of 31 crew members from the 76,000-tonne Orleans abandoned ship and were plucked to safety from rafts by Royal Navy helicopters in an operation initially hampered by high winds and smoke, Defence Ministry spokesman Nigel Gillies said.
  The captain and two others stayed aboard.
  The Transport Department said 160 men were evacuated from two gas rigs.
  The collision occurred about 80 nautical miles off the east coast of England in an area where there are both oil and gas platforms.
  Coast Guard spokesman Tim Pickard said the leaking oil appeared to be burning quickly on the water, and two Coast Guard firefighting vessels were sent to the area.
SELLS PULP INTEREST
Waterland eyes comeback
  VANCOUVER (CP) - Tom Waterland. saying he isn’t bitter and hasn’t ruled out a return to the B.C. cabinet, revealed Thursday he had sold his controversial $20,000 interest in Western Pulp Limited Partnership.
  The former forests minister who resigned last week over his forest industry holding, is back in his riding of Yale-Lillooet talking to constituents and carrying out his duties as legislative member.
  He indicated he lost money selling his interest and said he has checked his investment portfolio to ensure there won’t be any further conflicts of interest.
  In a telephone interview from Hope, the veteran legislative member said he still has the confidence of the premier and hopes to return to cabinet soon.
  “Until then, I’ve certainly got lots of time to service my riding. If the premier does appoint me to another portfolio, I can assaure
him that I have no conflicts anywhere."
 Waterland has said he has no intention of leaving politics because of his forced resignation over conflict of interest.
  “It’s all part of the political game. You win some, you lose some. These things are traumatic and you wouldn’t want to go through them too often but it’s not the end of the world."
Waterland resigned Jan. 17 af-
ter it was discovered he owned 20 $1,000 units in the partnership which is composed of three companies — B.C. Forest Products, Whonnock Industries Ltd. and Doman Industries Ltd. — and has stated it needs timber from the South Moresby area of the Queen Charlotte Islands for pulp production.
 The Haida Indians have attempted to stop logging in the Queen Charlottes while their aboriginal claims are negotiated.
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Actor Gordon MacRae, best known as the lovesick cowboy in the movie musical Oklahoma!, died Friday at Bryan Memorial Hospital, a hospital spokesman said.
  MacRae, 64, had been undergoing treatment for several weeks for cancer of the mouth and jaw as well as pneumonia.
  MacRae, the son of radio singer, inventor and manufacturer Wee Willie MacRae, was born in East Orange, N.J., on March 12, 1921.
  His credits include. The Big Punch, 1918; Look for the Silver Lining, 1919; Backfire, 1919, and Return of the Frontiersman,
1950.	He was also in Tea for Two, 1950; West Point Story,
1951.	and Oklahoma! 1955.
     by BERNICE TRICK Staff reporter The Prince George Ministerial Association has requested a public forum on a proposed amendment to the city’s business licence bylaw dealing with escort services, body rub parlors and nude performances.
  Hans Kouwenberg, vice-chairman of ministerial association, says local church ministers “are riled” over the amendment because of the “true nature” of the businesses involved.
  The amended bylaw, which passed first and second reading during the Jan. 13 council meeting, provides tough restrictions, but still allows operation of such businesses.
  Kouwenberg and about 40 members of the ministerial association met with Mayor Elmer Mercier and city solicitor Roy Stewart Thursday to request city council defer adoption of Bylaw 4696 until a public forum “hearing all sides” can be held.
   “As representatives of a signifi-gant cross-section of our city’s population, we believe most people in Prince George would be opposed to the kinds of business the bylaw allows if they understood its true nature,” said Kouwenberg.
   In a written statement, the ministerial association “stands strongly opposed to the proposed bylaw as it is presently phrased” because it’s “concerned about the effect it will have on the spiritual life and moral integrity of our community.”
  The amended bylaw sets licence fees for such businesses at $3,000. restricts employees to those 19 years and older, requires the identification of all employees, controls lighting, restricts use of locks on inside doors and dictates a dress code for employees.
  Council doesn’t have the power to prohibit such businesses — only regulate them. The federal government has exclusive jurisdiction to deal with criminal laws and morality issues, says city solicitor Roy Stewart.
  Kouwenberg said his organization understands the bylaw seeks to restrict and discourage such businesses from operating, but members “are not convinced council has made it difficult enough.
  “We’re in dilemma. We understand council’s intention to be restrictive, but we’re not in favor of a bylaw which seems to give legi-tamacy to operations which go against everything we believe in terms of family life and human dignity.”
   What would the ministerial association have council do?
   “We propose a public forum, further restrictions on the bylaw and that representation be made to the federal goverment regarding its authority to disallow establishments of this kind,” said Kouwenberg.
   “We also want to raise the question of council being able to do more under the Municipal Act’s section 932 (n) which allows councils to provide for the prevention of “vice or other immorality and indecency.”
  In a related development, a separate group of concerned citizens has scheduled a public forum on the issue for 7 p.m. Monday at the auditorium of Sacred Heart Church on Patricia Boulevard.
Special
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  How to keep more of your money away from the taxman, while assuring a healthy retirement income, is the subject of a special 16-page RRSP supplement in today’s Citizen.