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HOCKEY FANS get a treat this weekend when the Penticton Knights meet the Prince George Spruce Kings in the Mowatt Cup B.C. championship series.	Page
KURT WALDHEIM, former UN secretary general, has been helped enormously in his bid to become Austrian president by revelations of his Nazi past.	Page
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 The forecast calls for cloudy skies with sunny periods, a few showers today and cloudy skies overnight. Cloudy skies with numerous showers are in the forecast over the Easter long weekend.
 Temperatures should reach highs near 9 today and Friday with an overnight low near 3 today. There is a 60-per-cent chance of precipitation today, falling to 20 per cent tonight and rising again to 70 per cent Friday.
 Wednesday’s high was
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 11, the low was 3, there was 1 nun of rain and no sunshine.
 Sunset today is at 6:36 p.m. and sunrise Friday is at 5:53 a.m.
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CONFLICT WITH LIBYA
U.S. navy to end Exercise' in gulf
 GAS PRICE CUT 3 CENTS
by DAVE PAULSON Staff reporter
 Perhaps the only thing falling faster than the Canadian dollar is the price of gasoline.
 And, as opposed to the fortunes of the beleaguered buck, the gas price reduction is causing the public a lot less pain.
  Motorists filling their tanks today are noticing another saving. The oil companies dropped their gas prices by another three cents per litre across the board Wednesday, bringing the price of a litre of regular leaded gas to 48.7 cents.
  It is the lowest price Prince George drivers have seen in about a year.
 Prices at the pumps have fallen nine cents a litre — 15.6 per cent — since the first price reduction Feb. 20.
 Bob McLean, Imperial Oil’s public affairs spokesman in Vancouver, explained the latest province-wide drop is in response to falling prices in the state of Washington.
 He said Lower Mainland consumers are opting for American gas at border stations “in great numbers” and dismissed theories that the decline is caused only by the world price of crude oil.
  “You’re deluded if you think the price of crude is the only factor,” said McLean.
  He said prices would be 3*/2 cents higher if the market was dictated only by what the companies are paying for crude. Although oil companies are reportedly now paying 50 per cent less per barrel, McLean said said any drop wouldn’t make its way to the pumps for 60 days.
 Petro-Canada also announced Wednesday it was dropping its prices by two cents a litre, but McLean said Imperial had planned its three-cent decline on Monday. He termed PetroCan’s timing coincidental.
Indian spouses lose court divorce ruling
by PETER CALAMAI Southam News
  OTTAWA — Divorced Indian spouses have no legal right to live in the family home or to a share of family property when the house or land is on a reserve, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday.
   The court unanimously ruled that provincial laws dealing with matrimonial property don’t extend onto reserves because that land falls under exclusive federal jurisdiction.
   Although the court was ruling on two specific B.C. cases, the decision applies across Canada because similar potential conflict exists with all provincial laws governing marriage assets.
    The ruling is also likely to most seriously affect Indian women since men hold the bulk of the property on Indian reserves.
   However, in one of the B.C. cases, the court’s decision was a victory for an Indian woman who had possession of the family home and some property. But in the second, an Indian woman was told that a court could not even order that she be allowed to live in the matrimonial home, because it was in her husband's name.
   The judges softened the impact of their decision somewhat by ruling that courts were free to order other payments as compensation for the reserve being off-limits to provincial laws.
   And the judges sent a clear signal to MPs by citing previous comments that constitutional validity was at stake, not whether such laws were wise or unwise.
   “I am not unmindful of the ensuing consequences for the spouses, arising out of the laws in question, according as real property is located on a reserve or not,” noted Mr. Justice Julien Chouinard. who wrote both rulings for the seven judges who heard the appeals.
Chouinard’s observation spotlights the legal anomaly that a
 house or land owned by an Indian off a reserve is subject to division under provincial laws while property or a home on a reserve isn’t.
   William Joseph Derrickson and Pauline Ester Paul were two B.C. Indians who discovered this legal imbalance the hard way.
   Derrickson and his wife, Rose, both Westbank Indians, were divorced in October 1979, but the B.C. judge said he couldn’t divide the family assets on a reserve. The B.C. court of appeal overturned the first ruling and ordered the original judge to make a division. Rose Derrickson, who had possession of the family home and some property, appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada and won Thursday.
   But Pauline Paul of the Tsartlip Indians, lost her fight for even interim occupancy of the family home, which is held by ex-husband Edward Gordon Paul.
   Teachers to hear proposal
  VANCOUVER (CP)- A proposal will be submitted by the middle of April to the 45,000 members of the Teachers’ Investment and Housing Co-operative which now is in receivership.
   Co-op president James A. Buchanan also announced Wednesday a creditors’ meeting to decide the co-op’s fate will be held about three weeks later.
   “The directors are aware that some members have an immediate need for funds,” Buchanan said in a letter to members. “The proposal will provide an option for members which will enable early access to a portion of their funds.”
   No amount was specified.
        by Associated Press WASHINGTON - The U.S. naval exercises in the disputed Gulf of Sidra will end later today, the Pentagon has announced.
   A spokesman, Maj. Fred Lash, said: “The exercise by the 6th Fleet in the Gulf of Sidra is ending today.”
   He would not be more specific.
   First word that the exercises were about to end came from the Italian government. In Rome, a spokesman said the United States had informed Premier Bettino Cra-xi’s office that the manoeuvres would soon be over.
   But a spokesman for the 6th Fleet in Naples shortly after said the operations were not yet over.
   “The ships are continuing to operate as scheduled,” said Capt. Douglas Strole, a navy joint information bureau spokesman for the U.S. European Command in Naples.
   “There haven’t been any incidents or things with the 6th Fleet ships. They’re continuing to operate in the same area of Sidra,” he said.
   The U.S. naval manoeuvres in the Mediterranean and the gulf, which Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy claims as his own ‘but the United States regards as international waters, began Saturday and had been scheduled to end April 1, although the Pentagon had been saying they might conclude earlier.
   On Monday morning, less than 24 hours after U.S. planes and ships first entered the gulf, Libya fired at least six surface-to-air missiles, according to the Pentagon. In retaliation, the Pentagon said, U.S. forces on Monday and early Tuesday sank three Libyan boats, damaged at least one other and twice attacked a radar-guided missile facility near the Libyan town of Sirte.
   But on Wednesday, U.S. Vice Admiral Frank Kelso, commander of the 6th Fleet, said he was not prepared yet to claim that any Libyan boats had been sunk, but said that “there were two definitely severely damaged patrol boats and we are continuing to evaluate the others.”
  U.S. Defence Department sources said that if the manoeuvres within the gulf do end today, the 6th Fleet vessels would remain nearby in the Mediterranean Sea.
   Word of the impending departure came as Libya vowed to retaliate with terrorism for the destruction wrought by the U.S. warships.
   It also followed a day on which the Pentagon reported that U.S. planes and ships operated without challenge inside the disputed gulf. The U.S. forces remained on what amounted to a war-time alert, officials said, primed for action against an enemy that didn’t appear.
   “We have demonstrated that we have the right to operate in international waters,” Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims said. “You have to do that periodically. There’s nothing unusual about a freedom-of-navigation exercise. What is unusual is that Mr. Khadafy chose to react to it with force.”
   Sims said no Libyan planes or patrol boats had ventured farther than 19 kilometes from the coastline since Tuesday.
   “There have been no new incidents to report; no hostile action from the Libyans,” Sims said.
   In the absence of military action Wednesday, the U.S. government ordered tightened security at its installations worldwide.
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High-tech firm packs
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by KEN BERNSOHN Staff reporter
   Northern Airborne Technology, one of Prince George’s few high-technology firms, is leaving town.
   The 15-man firm, praised by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney when he visited it March 8, has been in business here since 1979.
   “We’re out of sync with people here,” said company president Walter Shawlee.
   “We deal with companies in the Netherlands, Greenland. Brazil and the U.S. We’re better known 5,000 miles away than next door.”
   He said the visit by Mulroney had been ignored, and it was only news that the firm was leaving which caught the attention of the public.
   “That describes what we don’t like about Prince George in a nutshell.”
   According to Shawlee, Prince George has had several chances to move ahead in economic development but “those opportunities have come and gone.
   “They’re not interested in things that don’t involve trees,’’ Shawlee charged.
   The helicopter avionics company, which makes equipment used to link communications gear, deals largely with firms far away, so costs of operation are higher in the north. Moving to a building with the same rent further south would save about $3,000 a month. Shawlee estimated.
   The move would also save on shipping costs and improve cus-
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Time for youth to speak'
  OTTAWA (CP) — Senator Jacques Hebert, an escort on each arm, made a dramatic appearance at a noisy rally on Parliament Hill Wednesday to appeal for Canadian young people to stand up for their rights.
   “What am I doing?” the frail senator, in the 17th day of a hunger strike, shouted into a wind-whipped microphone.
   “Simply buying time to give you a voice,” he told several hundred placard-waving young people gathered in front of the Peace Tower.
   “It is time for youth to speak for themselves. Are you ready? Let me hear your voice!”
   He returned immedately afterward to the Senate foyer where he has been fasting since March 7 to
 protest the cancellation of Katimavik, a $20-million youth program, and draw attention to problems faced by young Canadians.
  No Citizen on Friday
  The Citizen won't publish Friday as staff observes the Good Friday holiday.
  The TV Times, a regular feature of our Friday editions, is included in today’s Citizen.
  The Citizen returns to homes and newsstands Saturday and will publish as usual on Monday.
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  The company was offered a $134,000 federal grant to expand its helicopter electronic: production but turned it down.
  The expansion .. *u 1 hav< created 17 jobs, bu! tj ■ irement of the grant, from the Department of Regional Industrial was that the company r main ir Prince George foi said Tom Turner. DRI^ spoke..-man in Vancouver According to Shawlee and Turner, the firm has moving for more than ! w<
   “There were discussion:, about transferring the grant to sai i Turner, din dustrial opei 1 er. the grant whicl had applied for was onh . aiiable in Northern B.C tv • id “Had the company nor- id with the pr<
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 to operate •‘All of our employ :< ■ . m amenable to moving t>> o.;: t\.o get cities,” Penticton at Shawlee said.
   “We're not disparaging the < ity My wife and I ha\ e lived hen 13 years. It’s a nic< a little sectarian Shawlee said one of his e ■ • ■ s is the need to provide t for young people.
   “We have to provide i -1 :u • for people so life (If • * :t it was 20 years i' >
Submerged in learning
 Students in Ghyslaine Courtney’s program cadre Kinder’ at King George V elementary get some first-hand in the ocean by donning masks and costumes and “sv : a classroom with fish hanging from the ceiling and decor;1::, walls. The petit pretend pieuvre, baleine, etoile de mer 1 (translation: octopus, whale, starfish and shark) were .uk!. a unit on oceans and ocean life.	citizen photo b> v,. m,i,u-