today in brief
PRINCE GEORGE blood do-nors rolled up their sleeves in record numbers Tuesday. But more blood is urgently needed.
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PROSTITUTES were off the streets in Vancouver Tuesday as police began making arrests under new federal anti-soliciting legislation. Page
A FEUD is growing over whether to spend public money on studies into a $100 billion proposal to dam James Bay ana export water to the U.S.
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Sadrack says
It’s expected to be cloudy this afternoon with with a few sunny periods and occasional showers of rain or snow, followed by a few cloudy periods overnight. Thursday will have increasing cloud with snow or ; rain and snow by the afternoon.
The temperature should drop to -3 to -5 tonight, with a high of 3 Thursday.
The probability of snow is 60 per cent today, 10 per cent to-
night, and 70 per cent tomorrow.
Tuesday’s high was 4. The overnight low was 0. There were 4.1 cm of snow, a trace of rain and no sunshine in the past 24 hours.
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Two Prince George residents received minor injuries Slippery as a result of a two-car collision % km north of the roads Nechako bridge Tuesday evening. A sanding truck and a small car collided at the same location just prior to
the two-car collision. RCMP report road conditions were slippery at the time of the accidents. No names were released.
Citizen photo by Lisa Murdoch
PARK PLAN: JOB LOSSES FEARED
No mor@ 'us-and-them'
VANCOUVER (CP) - Foresters say establishing 24 wilderness areas in British Columbia will cost jobs and revenue but a government ministry suggests jobs can be created by carving thousands of hectares out of parks for mineral exploration.
The two opinions are contained in briefs to the provincial government’s wilderness advisory committee which was established by Environment Minister Austin Pel-ton to recommend ways to handle resource conflicts.
The-B.C. Council of Forest Industries says the proposed wilderness preserves would cost up to 3,000 jobs, reduce the provincial gross national product by $100 million and chop $13 million from provincial government revenues.
The Lands, Parks and Housing Ministry says jobs could be created by releasing up to 400,000 hectares of land from existing parks for mineral exploration.
The forest council, which represents the major forest companies, says timber resources are already under pressure and can not afford any more reductions in the land base.
It says the annual allowable cut of 75 million cubic metres is already insufficient for the industry when it is running at full capacity.
“At or near capacity, forest product manufacturing facilities can use in excess of 80 million cubic metres a year. Thus a shortfall of wood supply already exists.”
The council says the annual harvest will decline steadily during the next 100 years as mature timber is cut and there is nothing else to fall back on to offset additional forest land withdrawals.
by Canadian Press
VANCOUVER - Two British Columbia sawmills that closed for more than a year have reopened with the bankrupt employer’s former workers as the new owners.
The reopening of Sooke Forest Products’ mill in Sooke near Victoria and its Lamford Cedar subsidiary in nearby New Westminster was the culmination of a plan put together by the International Woodworkers of America.
About 80 former employees returned to work this week. Another 170 could return in the future.
Art Phillips, the province’s commissioner tor critical industries, hailed the reopenings.
“I think it’s probably the most important so far. Here were different points of view and the two locals decided to take the bull by the horns.
“It breaks down the barriers between the owner, managers and employees — the us-and-them attitude.”
The mills were reborn after a $14 million financing plan was assembled by the IWA, the company and Phillips.
Fifty Sooke sawmill production workers had happy faces Monday — and a few aching muscles after having little or no work for the best part of 18 months.
“You’re looking at history,” said mechanic Willy Stephens, pointing with pride to the first forklift load of newly sawn lumber in the Lamford yard at Sooke.
“That’s the first one of many. Yes, I’m confident. If we can’t make a go of it, who can? It’s a workmen-owned company. We’re a partnership. It’s the best thing that even happened.”
John Atterbury was working as a trimmer Monday. “Yes, the crew feels different — you don’t mind doing that bit extra.”
Two new companies, Lamford Holdings Ltd. and Lamford Forest Products Ltd., were created to
take over the operations of SFP Ltd.
The workers will own the companies and gradually pay for them through payroll deductions, said Terry Smith, president of the IWA’s New Westminster local.
“They (each) have to buy an equity position of about $12,000.”
Smith said that when the mills return to full production, a total of 250 laid-off workers will be back to work.
“I feel pretty good. It was 250 jobs in this province going down the tube and they didn’t.”
Smith said the lumber inventory at the two mills was valued at $2 million by the Toronto Dominion Bank late last year when the bank was preparing to auction off the assets.
Both mills were closed in September, 1984, and unemployment benefits for the laid-off workers expired a year later.
TARGET DATE: FEB. 1
Swim pool delay explained
The Four Seasons swim pool is scheduled to reopen to the public Feb. 1. barring further delays, says Bill Woycik, civic properties and recreation director.
A $1.12-million expansion of the pool, originally expected to be completed by November, has been delayed due to inclement weather and supply problems.
As a result, swimmers and aquatic clubs in the city have been without a facility for over three months. The Four Seasons is the only public pool in the city.
Woycik said heavy rains delayed completion of a roof for the enlarged facility. The unseasonably cold weather in November also delayed concrete pouring.
As well, some equipment from American suppliers, ordered six months ago. has yet to arrive. But Woycik is confident the city’s recreation de-
partment will be able to move into the pool next
week.
Neither the builder nor the architect is subject to penalty for the delay.
The enlarged building will include a leisure pool, plus tanning, sauna and weight room facilities.
Cleanup and preparatory work will be done before the pool is opened to the public at the beginning of next month, he said.
Although the delay has been an inconvenience for swimmers there may be a silver lining for taxpayers.
Since the pool will operate at a loss, the delay has saved the city some money.
“That wasn’t the intent, but it’s probably the result,” said Chester Jeffrey, city manager.
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Khadafy’s threat to launch suicide missions in the United States if Israel or the United States retaliates for the terrorist attacks, Reagan said:
“I wish he was planning to do that himself. I’d be happy to welcome him.
“How can you not take seriously a man that has been proven that he is as irrational as he is on things. I find he’s not only a barbarian but he’s flaky.”
While refusing to elaborate, Reagan revealed that U.S. authorities
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had thwarted 126 terrorist missions in the last year.
In Tehran, Tehran radio quoted Khameini as telling Khadafy:
“We are at your side and will consider any move against the brother country Libya as a move against the Islamic Republic of Iran. We are sure that our domineering enemies will receive a reply from us, you and all combatant Moslem nations.”
The radio quoted Khadafy as replying: “Our unity will surely break our enemies.”
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OTTAWA (CP)-The Canadian ambassador accredited to Libya will arrive in Tripoli today to interview some of the
1,300 Canadians there and “assess the situation” after new U.S. sanctions against that country, says External Affairs spokesman Sean Brady.
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney gave few hints earlier Tuesday, after a telephone conversation with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, about whether Canada would respond to Reagan’s call for an international boycott of Libya in retaliation for what Washington claims is Libyan backing of terrorism.
Mulroney told reporters minutes after his 10-minute talk with Reagan that the pair discussed a number of unspecified bilateral issues, as well as the Libyan situation.
However, he wouldn’t comment when asked if Reagan had sought Canadian backing of further U.S. sanctions, which ordered all Americans except journalists to leave Libya and all American companies to stop doing business with that country.
Brady, press aide to External Affairs Minister Joe Clark, ; said Reagan told Mulroney about the U.S. sanctions but didn’t ask for Canadian sup- I port.
“He was not asked to support the measures specifically,” Brady said.
A department official said Canada wasn’t asked for specific support because “we've already moved well beyond others in terms of what we've done in terms of restrictions on our trade.”
Canada has restricted trade with Libya since Moammar Khadafy came to power in a coup in 1969. The trade restrictions ban the sale of strategic goods and materials, like computer equipment, aircraft and aircraft parts, and military equipment to Libya.
Brady said Clark reached Ambassador Witold Weyner-owski at 4:30 a.m. Tunisian time and told him to proceed immediately after his breakfast to the Libyan capital to talk to Canadians and report back to Canada.
Reagan cuts ties with Libya
From AP-CP-Reuters WASHINGTON - Calling Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy “flaky” and “a barbarian,” President Ronald Reagan ordered all American companies and workers to quit doing business in Libya and get out by the end of the month to show that the United States won’t tolerate terrorism.
Addressing a national television audience at his first White House news conference in nearly four months, Reagan said Tuesday night there is “irrefutable evidence” of Khadafy’s involvement in the Dec. 27 airport massacres in Rome and Vienna and called on Canada and Western European allies “to join with us in isolating him.”
In other developments Tuesday:
■ Iran will consider every action taken against Libya as an action against itself, Tehran Radio quoted President Ali Khamenei as telling Khadafy.
■ In Canberra, a Soviet Embassy official said the United States’s dispute with Libya is an artificial crisis bringing the world closer to war.
Reagan said there were about 8,000 Americans in Libya when he asked them to leave in 1981, and there now are between 1,000 and 1,500.
He promised unspecified “further steps will be taken” if the latest round of U.S. sanctions fails to end Khadafy’s terrorist activities.
The president refused to disclose his evidence against the Libyan leader, saying: “There are things that should not be revealed.”
An administration official, speaking on condition he not be identified, said the evidence includes Tunisian passports that were said to have been confiscated by Libyan authorities.
The passports then “found their way into the hands of those who perpetrated these acts” in which 19 people, including five Americans and four Palestinian terrorists, died.
U.S. officials, however, acknowledged that the imposition of unilateral trade sanctions against Libya are unlikely to have much effect, and the prospects are slim that Libya’s major western trading partners such as Canada, Italy and West Germany will go along.
“Civilized nations cannot continue to tolerate in the name of material gain and self-interest the murder of innocents,” Reagan said in his statement at the start of his news conference. “Khadafy deserves to be treated as a pariah in the world community.”
Asked if the failure of the allies to go along wouldn’t severely curtail the impact of the sanctions, Reagan said: “It may be frustrating, but we’re going to go on with what we think has to be done.” “Americans will not understand other nations moving into Libya to take commercial advantage of our departure,” he said in his statement.
Acting under his emergency powers, Reagan ordered all U.S. companies to halt their Libyan operations. That would affect Occidental Petroleum, Oasis, Conoco, Amara-da Hess and the Houston-based Brown and Root construction firm that is building a giant irrigation system in the Libyan desert.
Spokesmen for several of the companies said the firms will comply with Reagan’s request and sever business ties with Libya but declined to assess any financial impact.
Except for journalists, who are specifically exempted from the order, all Americans must be out of the country by the end of the month or face criminal charges should they return to the United States. U.S. officials said they could, if convicted, be sentenced to 10 years in prison and be fined for disobeying Reagan’s order.
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