CONSTITUTION ISSUE
Indians lose U.K. court fight
    LONDON (CP) — Britain no longer has any obligations toward Canada’s Indians, three judges of the British Court of Appeal ruled today.
    All treaty or other obligations that may have been a British responsibility in colonial days have passed to Canada, the judges ruled in an action brought by Indians from Alberta. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
    "They are not obligations of the Crown in respect of the United Kingdom,” said Lord Denning, master of the rolls, or in other words chief justice of civil appeals.
    ‘‘It is therefore not permissible for the Indian peoples to bring an action in this country to enforce these obligations. Their only recourse is in the courts of Canada."
    Downhearted Indians indicated they will likely apply Friday for leave to appeal to the House of Lords.
    Today’s ruling may open the way for debate on the Canada bill in Parliament. The Conservative government has held up the date pending the appeal court ruling.
    A spokesman for the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians, which has launched a separate legal action, said it will be necessary to study the judgment before deciding whether to proceed.
    Labor MI' Bruce George, longtime champion of Indian rights, said outside the court that the disappointing ruling will probably cause the Indians to forsake the legal route and concentrate more on minority-rights and moral aspects of their case.
    For all three judges, who each gave separate opinions, the notion of the “divisibility" of the Crown was a crucial element which led to their unanimous conclusion.
    At the time of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 — a kind of “Indian bill of rights" — and the 19th-century treaties, the Crown of Great Britain was considered one and indivisible in constitutional law, Denning said.
    “But that law was changed in the first half of this century — not by statute—but by constitutional usage and practice."
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ANOTHER 10 MURDERS
Police deny Olson had more to
COMPUTERS AT WORK
  New age, new ills
  VANCOUVER (CP) — In almost any computing centre, long after normal operating hours are over, they are fiddling with programs.
  Psychologists call them cyberphiliacs, more commonly known as "hackers” or compulsive computer programmers.
  Then there are the cyberphobiacs — people who fear computers, and would rather switch jobs than face computerization of their workplace.
  One Atlanta policeman developed such a complex about thesmall computer console in his police cruiser that he shot it. Another cyberphobiac dumped pencil shavings and coffee into his computer console.
  Computers are having profound psychological effects on people who work with them, says Sanford Weinberg, a professor and administrator at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Weinberg has done research on both cyberphobia and cyberphilia.
  At least 30 per cent of business people who deal with computers on a daily basis experience some degree of cyberphobia, Weinberg said in a recent telephone interview. At the other end of the scale, about five per cent of computer programmers are “almost addicted” to computer use.
  Cyberphobiacs experience the same symptoms that plague sufferers of other phobias: nausea, sweaty palms and high blood pressure, Weinberg said.
  Although companies try to help their cyberphobiacs. there is httle effort made to cure the hackers, Weinberg said.
  The dictionary definition of the word hack — "to cut with repeated irregular or unskilful blows, to mangle or mutilate with cutting blows” — is a good description of what a compulsive programmer does. Programming requires skill and ingenuity, but the true hacker attacks his problems randomly with little regard for the final outcome.
  The resulting compulsion leaves the hacker isolated from the rest of the world, apart from friends and family.
  “They’re anti-social but not counter-productive.” Weinberg said. “They tend to be very popular employees.”
42-DAY KIDNAPPING
General rescued
   PADUA. Italy (AP) -Italian policc commandos burst into a Red Brigades terrorist hideout here today and rescued U.S. Army Brig. -Gen. James Dozier as a terrorist held the kidnapped general at gunpoint.
    “At the moment I was rescued, a gun was pointed at me and I did not know whether that was my last moment.” U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabl. quoted Dozier as saying. "You must realize how great was my feeling of relief when I was taken in hand by the Italian authorities."
    Dozier, reported in good condition after 42 days in captivity, was unharmed. Italian and U.S. officials said
DOZIER
   Five suspects — two women and three men — were arrested, police said.
    No shots were fired, but one terrorist was reported treated for cuts he suffered during the scuffle with the commandos.
    U.S. Embassy staffers in Rome cheered when they heard the news, and the Italian Parliament burst into applause.
    Ten anti-terrorist police broke into the apartment in this northern city and pounced on one of the terrorists who was holding a pistol with a silencer pointed at the 50-year-old general, Padua Police Chief Gianfranco Corrias told a news conference.
    A special commando unit of the Italian security police had located the apartment Wednesday night but held off the raid until daytime for fear a night attack might endanger the 50-year-old general’s life.
    OTTAWA (CP i - RCMP denied today that mass murderer Clifford Olson had offered to provide information on a total of 21 murders —including 10 for which he was never charged -r in exchange for cash and immunity from prosecution.
    Don Wilson, assistant RCMP commissioner for British Columbia, rejected a television report from Vancouver which maintained Olson had offered information last fall about 10 murders in addition to the 11 child killings to which he confessed.
     “No deal was offered or accepted by either side," Wilson said in a telephone interview from Vancouver.
     British Columbia Television reported Wednesday that Olson offered information on the additional 10 murder victims in exchange for money and immunity from prosecution. The report quoted sources in the RCMP and the B.C. government.
    The RCMP were said to have dismissed the offer as “airy-fairy” and did not follow it up.
     Wilson said police are continuing their discussions with Olson and although “in a vague and undefined way he has suggested he has more to reveal,” the information has not been detailed or credible enough for police to pursue, and no deals have been offered or accepted “by him on one side or us on the other."
     Wilson confirmed police are still investigating certain aspects of the Olson case and “anything he has to offer, we’re going to follow up on.”
     "What we’re really after is toclear the slate.”
    Police agreed last summer to place $100,000 in a trust account for Olson’s infant son in exchange for information about the first 10 of the 11 murders to which he confessed. All but $10,000 has since been removed from that account.
     Earlier today, a beleaguered Solicitor General Robert Kaplan had refused comment on the report by BCTV, and on allegations raised Wednesday in the Commons that a suspected accomplice of Olson’s may be roaming the streets in the Vancouver area.
     Kaplan told reporters on his way into a cabinet meeting the RCMP and the attorney general of B.C. are continuing their sensitive investigation into several unspecified aspects of the case.
     But he reiterated it is not in the public interest for him to comment further, and refused again to link the current investigation to reports of a possible accomplice.
    Progressive Conservative Benno Friesen told the Commons Wednesday a suspected accomplice is on the loose.
    He mentioned the name Randy Ludlow. said to be an acquaintance of Olson. Because his remarks were made in the Commons they are not subject to a lawsuit.
     The RCMP later said Ludlow. 18, of no fixed address, was not connected with the murders of 11 young persons to which Olson has admitted.
New heights
Cttixm photo by llrork Gobi?
 Sonny, a five-year-old poodle, always aspired to greater heights when he passed this stop sign near his home and, thanks to a record snowfall in January that’s approaching the 150-cm mark, he finally made it. Soon as he finished posing, word has it, he gave the upper reaches of the stop sign the old hydrant treatment.
SINTICH BLAMES 'POLITICS'
Sewage dumping to continue
by BILL McEACHERN Staff Reporter
   Despite a recent $200 fine, the owner of Sintich Trailer Park says he will continue dumping effluent into Bullock Creek and blames city politics for a lack of sewage facilities.
   “It’s political — the city just doesn't want this area to develop,” said Steve Sintich.
   The Prince George company pleaded guilty in provincial court. Jan. 19. after being charged Aug. 21.1981, for discharging sewage into Bullock Creek, south along Highway 97.
   Charges against Sintich, who is also a city alderman, were dropped.
   Saying his company can’t meet minimum environmental standards of a 20-to-one dilution. Sintich said he plans to continue dumping the effluent from the trailer park into the creek, which runs into the Fraser River, approximately three kilometres away.
BULLETIN
   Union negotiators representing inside and outside city workers have reached a tentative agreement with the city of Prince George it was announced at noon today.
   Representatives of the Canadian t’nion of Public Employees (CUPK) Local .{99 and 1048 will take the offer for a two-year agreement to the membership Sunday.
   No further details on the contract were available.
   CUPK was seeking an across-the-board wage increase of $2.26 an hour.
   The city had offered a 13-per-cent wage increase effective Jan. 1 with a further three per cent on July 1.
    Sintich said he has operated the trailer park since 1965 and emphasizes the operation was legal until 1975.
   “My problem has arisen through a change in the laws.”
    He says he has a letter from the city in 1975, saying he would have sewage facilities by 1980.
   Yet Colin Wright, assistant city engineer, said no such guarantee was ever given Sintich
    Sintich Trailer Park is located about five kilometres south of the city bowl area, along Highway 97. Sintich says GO residents live there.
   Paul Temoin from the waste nanage-ment branch of the Prince George ministry of environment said because the trailer park existed when new environmental laws came into effect. Sintich was given a "graceperiod" from May. 1976. until Oct. 1,1980. to upgrade his discharge system and find alternative methods of disposing of the waste.
    After the "grace period” expired. Temoin said discharges continued and on May 4, 1981. an order was issued forbidding further discharges, but the dumping continued and charges were laid Aug. 21, 1981.
    Sintich estimated he discharges approximately 1,000.000 gallons of effluent annually, at different times when his storage lagoons become full.
   The effluent is discharged into the creek which is dependent on seasonal water run-off for its How, said Temoin.
    "The problem is. one year it’s a torrent and the next year it's dry — but the sewage is still there.” said Temoin.
    Sintich emphasized the efiluent is treated in lagoons before it's discharged into the creek.
    Temoin added there is no fishery value to Bullock Creek but the open ditch could present a health hazard.
    Glen Timbers, the city’s chief public health inspector, said he has not been directly approached about a health problem but emphasizes if the discharge is not treated with chlorine and comes into human contact, it could "present a potential problem.”
    Temoin said the discharge is not chlorinated and runs openly through the BCR Industrial Site where it could come into human contact
   Saying it would cost him $500,000 to hook up to the existing sewage system at Danson Industrial Park, about two km away, he said he has hired Stanley and Associates to study the situation.
   Rick Lloyd, assistant branch manager of the company, said they are looking at several options.
    "We're looking at running treated sewage down to the Danson connection or we’re looking at running untreated sewage to the connection.”
   Environment officials say Sintich’s neighbor disposes of his sewage by "spray irrigation", but Lloyd said this was not one ol the options they were studying.
    Sintich said the hook-up would involve crossing public lands and rights-of-way. but doesn't know if the city would allow property crossing.
    Wright said such crossing are not un usual and certainly not insoluble.
   "I’m just a legitimate businessman, concerned about the environment, but a victim of a government that doesn't care about small business. I can't meet those discharge regulations and if I'm forced to. will have to shut down ” said Sintich.
HERMAN
 "That lifeguard said, 'Tell your wife to stay out of the shipping lanes.' "
FEATURED TODAY
 The cupboard is bare
 City agencies supported by the United Way campaign have received only about half the money they requested because of lower donations this year. Page 3.
 Solid representation
 One quarter of the starting field is from Prince George in the Interior men’s curling playoff, which started today in Nelson. Page 15.
 Index
Bridge............................19
Business.......................S, 9
 City, B.C.3,6, 7, 11,23,25,31
 Classified...................16-21
Comics...........................32
Crossword......................18
Editorial.........................4
 Kntertainment............32-34
Family...........................26
Horoscopes.....................34
 International ..................2
Movies......................32, 33
National.........................5
 Rolling Stone..................33
 Sports..............16-21, 28, 29
Television.......................18
THE WEATHER
   Folk who haven’t yet shovelled the roof should think it over: there’s a chance it’ll rain Saturday, say the weather people. That could weigh some snow-loaded roofs right into the basement. Today, however, the weather will be much the same as Wednesday with some cloudy periods, Friday might see some light snow. Saturday rain and snow mixed. The high today should reach -6 C and the low Friday morning, -20. The high Wednesday was -14 and the low early today. -27. The high and low this dav last vear was -2 and -8.
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NOW HEAR THIS
 • Strange companions? Driving to Prince George this morning a Vanderhoof resident saw two moose feeding with three horses All that was needed was a partridge in a pear tree.
 • Along comes the highway snow plow and seals off the streets, early in the morning in the Parkridge area. But people with hills of snow between them and their school or work place face a Catch-22 proposition when they complaining to authorities about it. Seems the plugged streets are on city land, so the Highway Department won’t clear them, and the city maintains that it’s not city snow, since the Highways Department put it there. Yet, says the Parkridge resident who called about the problem, somebody scooped out the snow plow leavings last year.
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