today in brief
 CRITICS of Canada’s jobless benefits are ignoring “the human face of unemployment,” according to a study done for three public service unions.
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A RESPECTED Italian chef has a mission to transform the traditional image of his country’s cuisine.	Page
 CLOSE, but no cigar was the way Maisie Minchin of Prince George described her finish at the senior women’s provincial curling championship. Page
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Sadrack says
 Mild and unsettled weather is expected during the next few days with cloudy and sunny periods mixed with a few rain showers. Temperatures today and Wednesday should reach highs of 7 and lows of 2 with a 40 per cent chance of precipitation Wednesday. On Monday the high was 8 and the low was 2 with .9 mm of rain and no sunshine. Last year on this date the high was 2 and the low was -5 with no precipitation and 5.9 hours of sunshine. Sunset
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Tuesday, February 25, 1986
MARCOS FLEES TO U.S. AIR BASE
Filipinos cheer liberation Day'
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Sheltered sheltie
 It’s been raining cats and dogs of late, but at least one dog is prepared for the puddles. Ben, a smart sheltie, has boots and brolly to ward against the downpour. Rain on top of ice made Prince George area streets slick this morning with fender-benders resulting. Story page 3.	citizen photo by Brock Gable
SUNDAY OPENING
Ribbon-cutting role declined by mayor
  The new Overwaitea store in Spruceland Shopping Centre will have to cut its opening ribbon without the help of Mayor Elmer Mer-cier on Sunday.
  Mercier said today when he accepted the invitation to participate in the store’s opening ceremonies. he didn’t realize the event had been set for Sunday.
   “I’m 'oing to have to cancel because I can't condone that,” he said referring to Sunday shopping being :ig; mst the city bylaw.
   Meanwhile, manager Wayne Kil-back says he’s expecting the mayor to participate in the ceremony along with Overwaitea personnel from Vancouver.
   The official opening of the 55,000-square-foot facility is scheduled prior to the doors opening at 8 a.m. Sunday.
   The Sunday shopping issue arose here last month when four Overwaitea stores along with Safeway and Extra Foods stores began opening on Sundays despite a city bylaw which forbids Sunday opening of large supermarkets. Woodward's food floor followed suit few weeks later.
   The stores decided to open after a provincial court judge in Chilliwack declared the province’s Holiday Shopping Regulation Act unconstitutional and threw out a case against four Overwaitea stores charged with illegal opening on a Sunday in 1984.
  Although local RCMP are responding to complaints of the store openings, no action has been taken against the stores pending the results of the Chilliwack case now being appealed in court.
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 ■ If you’ve delayed buying tickets for Anne of Green Gables, the current Prince George Theatre Workshop production at Prince George Playhouse — you’ve been out of luck since Friday. They’ve been sold out since then and the only chance to get in is to hang about the foyer in hopes someone has cancelled out. Curtain opens today at 8 p.m. with the last show on Saturday.
         From Reuters-AP MANILA (CP) - A defeated Ferdinand Marcos fled in a helicopter to a U.S. air base today after Corazon Aquino was sworn in as president of the Philippines, ending 20 years of dictatorship in the former American possession and touching off a frenzy of looting in the presidential palace.
    After Marcos resigned as president and he and his family left the palace grounds in helicopters, a radio announcer proclaimed “the long national nightmare is over.” Mobs thronged the streets of Manila in jubilation, singing, dancing, exploding firecrackers and setting bonfires.
    About 20,000 people chanting “Cory! Cory!” — for Corazon Aquino — surrounded the presidential palace while 200 marines and civilian supporters of Marcos held out inside.
    About 5,000 people swept through the wrought-iron gates of the palace grounds, pushed aside about 20 guards and forced their way into an administrative palace building, ransacking offices and tearing down pictures of Marcos. The guards made almost no attempt to stop the crowd in what looked like a repeat of the frenzy that followed the flight of another U.S.-backed dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, from Haiti on Feb. 7.
    Marcos, heading out of the country via the U.S. air force’s Clark Air Base, 80 kilometres from Manila, was brought down by a combination of a “people’s power” uprising, military revolt and U.S. pressure.
    The United States quickly recognized the Aquino government, saying it is “pleased by the peaceful transition” and paying special tribute to the new leader for her "commitment to non-violence.”
    The External Affairs Department in Ottawa said Canada’s ranking diplomat in the Philippines, charge d’affaires Pierre Ducharme, will seek an interview with Aquino as soon as possible to present his credentials. The Canadian embassy in Manila said the estimated 3,000 Canadians in the country are believed safe.
     First official word of his resignation came in Washington, where U.S. State Secretary George Shultz said the toppled Philippines leader would be “welcome to come to the United States.” But there was no immediate report on Marcos’s final destination.
    Marcos’s departure ended four days of uncertainty and political drama in Manila and 20 years of highly personal Marcos rule over the impoverished Pacific archipelago of 52 million people, an important U.S. ally in the Far East.
    Fourteen people were reported slain in violence sparked by the revolt against Marcos.
    The longtime president was given a final push Monday by the Reagan administration in Washington, which issued a statement calling for a peaceful transition to a new government because of what it said was widespread fraud in the Feb. 7 presidential election, in which the 68-year-old Marcos claimed victory over Aquino, widow of an assassinated political rival.
    Shultz said the United States has officially recognized the new Aquino government and he anticipates no immediate problem in maintaining the two major U.S. military bases in the Philippines — Clark and Subic Bay Naval Base.
  As word of Marcos’s departure flashed across this turbulent capital, jubilant throngs of Filipinos set bonfires outside the palace.
  “It’s liberation day! It’s liberation day!” chanted one group.
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 Jubilant crowd celebrates Cory Aquino’s presidency at palace in Manila.
BUDGET IN MARCH
Legislature recalled
  VICTORIA (CP) - The legislature will be recalled March 10, Premier Bill Bennett said Monday.
  Bennett said the legislature will sit only long enough to prorogue before resuming with the speech from the throne the next day.
  A budget will likely be introduced March 26 or 27 after 10 days of throne speech debate.
  The house has not been in session since Dec. 2.
  NDP leader Bob Skelly said Bennett had been trying to decide whether to call an election.
  “The calling of the house indicates that he wasn’t willing to risk
 an election at this point,” said Skelly.
   Skelly said the legislature should deal with lingering problems.
   “Deal with the problem of conflict of interest, the recent allegations that Labor Minister Terry Se-garty has been allocating money on a political basis. We also want to see what’s going to happen and what the government is going to do to deal with the predicted post-Expo recession.”
   Skelly said the opposition would like the government to deal with unemployment and the number of people on social assistance.
Gov't workers reach accord
  OTTAWA (CP) — The Treasury Board has negotiated a tentative contract settlement with the Public Service Alliance of Canada affecting 90,000 clerks, program administrators and general labor and trades workers.
   Details of the agreement, the first major break in the current round of bargaining between the government and its largest union, were to be announced later today.
   Key issues in the dispute were job security, technological change and wages.
   The three groups are the largest in the alliance, which represents 180,000 federal workers — two-thirds of whom are employeed outside the national capital region.
Cruise missile crashes
   COLD LAKE, Alta. (CP) — An unarmed cruise missile plummeted into the Beaufort Sea this morning, moments after it was launched from a United States Air Force B-52 bomber. It was the second consecutive failure of a cruise test over northwestern Canada.
   The last cruise missile launched over Canada crashed Jan. 22 near Cold Lake, Alta., when it ran out of fuel after encountering strong headwinds.
   Today’s unsuccessful launch would have been the sixth test of the cruise over Canadian soil.
   Martin Zeilig of the Winnipeg Co-ordinating Committee on Disarmament, said the crash should point out the danger cruise tests pose for Canadians.
   “I shouldn’t laugh but, I mean, it’s really funny,” Zeilig said. “They talk about all their superior technology and it’s really so fatally flawed, it seems.”
   “The crash occurred on launch,” said U.S. air force Maj. Fred Harrop, reading a prepared statement over the telephone from Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake in northeastern Alberta.
   Harrop said the cause of the crash will be determined by a board of qualified officers. He said the status of other tests scheduled under a five-year agreement Canada signed with the United States in 1983 remains to be determined.
   Asked when additional information would be available, Harrop said he could not say. “We will not conjecture as to the cause of the crash,” he said.
   The B-52 bomber carrying the missile had left Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Wash , about bVi hours earlier on its flight to the Beaufort, about 2,400 kilometres northwest of Edmonton
   The scheduled sixth test had drawn less reaction from peace groups and media outlets than any of the previous five. Maj. Luigi Rosetto, a public affairs officer for the Canadian Forces, said Monday some news outlets that covered past tests had decided not to send reporters to Cold Lake.