today in brief
AN AMERICAN woman whose love affair with a king nearly 50 year ago nearly destroyed the British monarchy, is dying at age 89. Many are waiting to write about the strange relationship.	Page
FIVE GOALS Thursday by Dave Andreychuk just missed tying the modern-day NHL record.	Page
 A BATTLE of words and writs has erupted in Canadian airports over how much freedom of speech is allowed in these “modern crossroads.”
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'She's got that diamond ring stuck on her finger. Got an ax?”
Index                         
Ann Landers.....              
                   ......30   
                   ... .22.23 
City. B.C......... ......3,9  
                   ....25-33  
Comics ..........  ......18   
Crossword.......   ......27   
Editorial......... .......4   
 Entertainment ... ....18-2!  
Family...........  ... .38,39 
 Horoscopes ...... ......30   
International..... .......2   
 Movies........... ....20,21  
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Sadrack says
 Prince George skies are expected to have low cloud cover with sunny breaks and morning fog patches today and Saturday. Highs both days should reach -5 and lows hit -15 with zero chances of precipitation. Thursday’s high was -3 and the low was -14 with zero precipitation and 6.8 hours of sunshine. Last year on this date the high -11 and the low was -20 with .2 cm. of snow and 1.6 hours of sunshine. The record low lor this date is r37 in 1949 and the re-
 cord high was 13 in 1954. Sunset today is at 5:03 p.rn and sunrise Saturday is at 7:44 a.m.
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The
Prince George
Citizen
50c Including
Friday, February 7, 1986
S£I£20
as pricing explained
by DIANE HAILEY Staff reporter
 .inadian consumers will have to wait until oil companies work th.''Utih their inventories before w; world oil prices will be re-• d at the pumps, says the • the B.C. division of madian Petroleum Association.
ev 'till have the high-priced
 • inventory in their systems. It anywhere from 45 to 60 days to work through the system." said Gordon Haight.
   H ,i- in the Prince George i i i -.sodation’s board of directs nt; tine Thursday.
       -.iid the perception that pump - change more quickly when Mf.vs rise is not correct.
   ••When prices were rising the federal government would not allow the price at the pump to rise until the lower-priced inventory had been worked through." he said.
  He said since the government deregulated the industry last June, competition has ruled consumer prices. He admitted, however, that Prince George might not provide the best example.
   "In Ontario and parts of Western Canada, the price competition has been fierce." he said.
  “I can guarantee that people aren't getting together to decide the price of gasoline. It’s a dynamic situation."
   The drop in world oil prices will force oil companies to cut back on
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URN 'EM, BRIAN SAYS
    \1< \TREAL i CP i — Canadians are paying higher interest rbecause the government wanted to "burn the speculators," r n< Minister Brian Mulroney told reporters today.
 •i ou know why interest rates have gone up. it's to burn the : itors.' the prime minister said when asked if the recent P rise in interest rates might not slow the economy and halt the drop in the unemployment rate, which fell to 9.8 per cent last r.onth. its lowest level in almost four years.
    Mulroney's terse and unusually frank comment followed a nent by Finance Minister Michael Wilson in the Commons on Thursday that the government would no longer tolerate specu-ators toying with the currency.
More on rates, dollar, page 5
 exploration in the West, said Haight. He said while the industry was expecting lower prices, nobody thought it would be "this quick and this severe.”
   "Obviously cash flow is going to be cut back from what we anticipated."
   He said there is no way to know how long the slide will last, although some experts are predicting it will continue for the next six to 18 months.
   "It is a very volatile situation and one that is very tough to guess at.”
   Although the world is now producing more oil than it needs, the situation will not last forever, he
 said
   The meeting in Prince George was part business, part public relations. Haight said there has been concern here about the cost of natural gas and the association came to tell its story.
   "Without those kinds of prices, and indeed higher prices, we can’t afford to explore for natural gas in B.C.”
   An afternoon meeting between the board of directors and members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Prince George Regional Development Corporation had to be cancelled because of a lack of local participation
   The Canadian Petroleum Association is made up of companies that explore for and produce natural gas and crude oil.
Haiti celebrates as dictator flees
       by DAVE TODD Southam News
  PORT-AU-PRINCE - Thousands of Haitians paraded wildly through the streets of Port-au-Prince today after dictator Jean-Claude Duvali-er fled the country in the middle of the night aboard a U.S. military aircraft.
  The U.S. State Department in Washington said Duvalier. whose family has ruled Haiti with an iron hand for 28 years, was bound for France with 23 others, mostly members of his family.
   In Paris, the French foreign ministry announced that "in co-operation with the United States," it would temporarily accept Duvalier in order to allow a "transition" to democracy.
  The French communique said
 the Haitian leader would go to an unnamed third country, possibly Morocco, but a later statement said that no third country had yet agreed to accept Duvalier.
   U.S. officials said the plane was provided at Duvalier’s request.
   In a taped television address played to the Haitian people four hours after his early morning departure, an emotional and drawn Duvalier said he was leaving his troubled nation in order to prevent more violence and a general bloodbath.
   Haiti has been wracked by dissension since last fall.
   Official announcements on state radio about his departure were followed by a Strauss waltz.
   A provisional five-man junta is already in place, made up of prominent military leaders and civil-
Dental
okayed
  The provincial government announced today the College of New Caledonia will be the site of the second college-based dental hy-gienist program in B.C.
   The program, to begin in September. will enrol 20 dental hygien-ists in a three-year program, including one year of study at the university level with the emphasis on sciences.
   “My concern is to address the shortage of dental hygienists in the northern half of the province," said Education Minister Jack Heinrich, who made the announcement jointly with Prince George-South MLA Bruce Strachan.
   "A dental hygienist centre at CNC will make it possible for the people here to enrol in the program and carry out their profession in the North."
   Dr. Richard Wilczek. president of the Prince George and District Dental Society, says he's delighted by the news.
   There are only 12 dental hygienists working in the area north of Kamloops, compared with more than 500 in the Lower Mainland, he said.
  Twenty hygienists graduate annually from the other program, offered at Vancouver City College, and the majority of them remain in the Lower Mainland, he said.
   Hygienists. unlike dental assistants. can work independently inside a patient's mouth performing many duties such as cleaning and descaling teeth, he said
   CNC principal Charles McCaf-fray says the new program will be given top priority at the college during the next two years.
program
for CNC
   "It is one of the most significant things to happen at CNC in the past five years ind fits in with our five-year pL;. io become the major health-scien training centre outside the Lower Mainland." he said.
  Heinrich said the government will provide sliO.OOO for the acquisition of n<,c<* »siry equipment and renovations to the college. The op rating budget will be provided by the usual Ministry of Education allocation process.
   Heinrich noted there are 38 dentists. three orthodontists and one oral surgeon in practice in Prince George, 13 dentists in the immediate surrounding area and 35 others practicing in an area from 100 Mile House to Mackenzie and Vale-mount to Vanderhoof.
 ians. Significantly, it includes Gerard Gourgue. the head of the Haitian Human Rights Federation.
   Gourgue told Southam News m an interview earlier this week that such a provisional arrangement under military leadership would be essential before any real steps towards democracy were even thinkable.
   The head of government is Henri Namphy, Duvalier’s chief of the armed "forces. Another junta member is Alex Cineas, who was demoted in a cabinet shuffle several weeks ago.
   Foreign embassies are advising their residents in Haiti to stay inside, although the Canadian Embassy has so far issued no official advice to any of the more than 2,000 Canadian citizens who are believed to live here.
   Embassy officials say there are less than 200 Canadian tourists in Haiti.
   The great fear now is that the joy at Duvalier's departure -- he has ruled the country since sue ceeding his father in* 1971 at the age of 19 — could spill over into a campaign of revenge against the hated members of the former dictator’s private paramilitary force, commonly known as the Tonton Macoutes.
   Last week, Duvalier declared a 30-day state of siege after several weeks of unrest stemming from the Nov. 27 killing of three students by the president's security forces.
   Duvalier’s flight came a week after the White House erroneously reported he had fled the country, prompting him to declare he was “as strong as a monkey's tail "
   Duvalier’s flight also comes a day after foreign journalists reported seeing more than 100 bodies. many of them children, that had been dumped in a pit at a burial ground near Port-au-Prince.
   The reporters were investigating allegations that victims of last week’s anti-government demonstrations were being buried in mass graves.
Violence mars voting
   MANILA (AP-Reutersi — President Ferdinand Marcos and opposition candidate Corazon Aquino both predicted victory Friday night on the basis of slow and conflicting returns from the Philippines presidential election.
   The government threatened to halt a citizen group’s count showing Aquino ahead Aquino, a political novice and 53-year-old widow of slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino, declared in a statement: “The trend is clear and irreversible. The people and I have won and we know it. The Marcos spell is broken."
   There was no overall tally from several agencies trying to count votes in an election marked bv nu-
 merous reports of voter fraud and violence. Police said at least 26 people were killed.
   Foreign observers watching the election criticized the slow count Marcos, who has ruled the coun try for 20 years, said earlier that the vote returns “indicate I probably have won these elections."
   The independent National Movement for Free Elections, or NAM-FREL, showed Aquino leading Marcos 883,220 votes to 614.432 with only a small fraction of unofficial returns in from among 26 million registered voters.
   But the government s national Commission on E1 e c‘t i o n s threatened to stop NAMFREL’s count.
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Jobless rate dips nationaliy
Citizen news services
   Prince George’s unemployment rate climbed to 16 8 per cent in January from 13.4 per cent in December. although national figures show the lowest rate in almost four years.
   Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemplovment rate fell below 10 per cent last month for the first time since April 1982.
   The national rate is now 9.8 per cent. Statistics Canada said today.
   In British Columbia as a whole, the seasonally adjusted rate also fell, dropping by 1.2 per cent to 12.9, though the actual rate climbed slightly, from 13.8 to 14 per cent
   “We’ve seen a slight increase in unemployment insurance claiments from 6.600 to 6.800 between Decem-
 ber and January,” said Larry Bell of the Canada Employment Centre in Prince George.
   The reasons for the local rise in the unemployment rate, according to Bell, includes lay-offs of seasonal workers hired for the Christmas season, warm weather affecting logging, and — for the early part of the month — shut downs by local pulp mills, which arc now over.
   The drop in the national seasonally-adjusted jobless rate is welcome news for the government, which has been battered by a falling dollar and rising interest rates.
   The last time the national jobless rate was lower was in March. 1982. when it was 9.3 per cent.
   However, without the seasonal adjustment which takes into
 account the fact that unemployment normally increases at this time of year, the unemployment rate was in fact 10.7 per cent, down from 12.2 a year earlier
   What the national figures show !■-that there was a “sharp increase' of 129,000 in the number of people working in January.
   But because of the large increase in the number of people who have entered the labor force seekin. work, the level of unemployme::' declined by only 17,000.
   There were also indications last month that the three years of steady economic expansion since the end of the 1981-82 recession may just be starting to reach into sonic of the regional pockets of severe chronic high unemployment
Strange
 visitors
 In the hall of Prince George Regional Hospital’s children’s ward, three-year-old Jeffrey Iwaskow shows no fear as he shakes tongue of the lead Hectroid, visiting from the planet Hector to take part in the Prince George Mardi Gras intergalacticallv-famous Snowgolf. Hectroids communicate with whirring sounds and whines, and swing their golf clubs with their tongues. Earth names for the four are Brett Serres. Maureen Bustin and Cathy and Bill Smith. Mardi Gras highlights, page 3.	Citizen photo by Dave Milne
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