today in brief
ALBERTA’S POPULATION could drop by about two per cent if oil prices remain low, an economic forecasting firm says.	Page
 BUILDING the Site C hydroelectric project could turn out to be a costly mistake for the province, a professor says.
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BRAINWASHING experiments at McGill University in the early 1950s had the involvement of the Canadian government.	Page
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Index
Ann Landers............25
Bridge..................17
Business................23
City, B.C...........3,6,7,10
Classified ............14-19
Comics .................26
Crossword..............17
Editorial.................4
 Entertainment.......26,27
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Sadrack says
   The weather should re main cloudy with showers overnight with a few sunny breaks expected Thursday. Overnight the temperature should dip to near 2 and rise to near 10 Thursday.
   Tuesday’s high was 12, the overnight low was zero, there was 0.9 mm of rain and 7.6 hours of sunshine recorded at the airport weather office.
   A year ago on this date the high was 14, the overnight low was 1, there was no precipation and 8.5 hours of sunshine.
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  Sunset today is at 7:13 p.m. and sunrise Thursday is at 5:05 a.m.
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U.S. to be 'selective7 in attacks
WHERE'S MOAMMAR KHADAFY?
 Libyan television broadcast this view of Col. Moammar Khadafy meeting with Soviet ambassador after U.S. attack on Libya. There was no independent confirmation when the footage was taken.
   WASHINGTON (AP-Reuters)
  —	Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said today the United States has no late information on Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy’s whereabouts or condition following Tuesday’s U.S. air strike on Libya.
    Asked about an ABC report, aired at midday, that Khadafy is either dead or has left Libya, Speakes said: “I really wouldn’t go that far. I’m not sure it’s an accurate intelligence conclusion.”
    The network quoted unnamed American intelligence sources.
    Speakes said, on the other hand, he was not aware of any conclusive evidence Khadafy is alive. “We do not have anything” on Khadafy’s whereabouts or his condition, Speakes said.
   In Madrid, meanwhile, a Spanish union leader visiting Libya said today he saw Khadafy on the streets of Tripoli on Tuesday after the U.S. air strike.
  “I personally saw Khadafy yesterday not far from his residence,” Paco Casero told Spanish radio in a telephone interview.
  He said Khadafy, who had not been seen in public since the air raid, bore no sign of injury and was with members of his family-
  Casero. a leader of a farm workers’ union, has been touring farms in Libya with a group of Spanish workers as a guest of Khadafy for several weeks.
Nidal terrorists
will hit at U.S.
  BEIRUT (AP) - The Palestinian terrorist group of Abu Nidal threatened today to avenge the U.S. bombing raid on Libya as Syria, Iran and Libya called for punishment of the Reagan administration.
  A statement issued in Beirut by Abu Nidal’s Fatah-Revolutionary Council warned citizens in all Arab countries “to stay away from American institutions that will be the target of our retaliatory blows.”
  The United States has accused Abu Nidal’s group of carrying out last December’s bloody terrorist
Canadians promised protection
  OTTAWA (CP) — Senior Libyan officials have assured Ottawa that Canadians in Libya ‘‘will be protected,” and given help to leave the country if conditions deteriorate, Deputy Prime Minister Erik Nielsen said Tuesday.
  Nielsen, during a four-hour emergency debate Tuesday night, said Washington took into account the location of about 1,300 Canadians in Libya when it launched its air raid on the North African country early Tuesday morning.
  “Libyan authorities have assured us that Canadians are welcome in Libya and will be protected there,” he said.
  But Liberal Leader John Turner chastised the government for riot giving Canadians a clear warning to leave Libya as tensions increased in the days before the raid.
  Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. who did not attend the emergency debate, told said earlier Tuesday he was informed last Friday of the impending attack — the same day he said there was “no immediate cause for undue concern” for the safety of Canadians in Libya.
 New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent, who requested the emergency debate, warned attacks like the American raid were likely to accelerate violence backed by Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy.
  Meanwhile, an External Affairs official said no Canadians are trying to leave Libya.
  Reports from Canada’s diplomat in Tripoli, Michel Tessier. indicate “the Canadians are figuring on just lying low and waiting to see what the situation will be,” said Mike Richardson.
  During the debate NiHsen lashed out at Libyan support ot terrorism
attacks at Rome and Vienna airports, and Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy of supporting Abu Nidal, whose real name is Sabry al-Banna.
  Twenty people, including five Americans, died in those attacks.
  The foreign ministers of Syria, Iran and Libya, meeting in Tehran, issued a call Tuesday night for a diplomatic and economic boycott of the United States by all Arab and Islamic countrires.
  In a communique broadcast by Tehran radio, the foreign ministers also called for “the most stringent punishment” of the U.S. administration.
  “The three countries also deemed any assistance, concerted action and granting of facilities toward aggression, or support for aggression, as tantamount to participation in it,” the statement said.
  Fighter-bombers that participated in the bombing raids are based in Britain.
  Syria’s state radio said President Hafez Assad conferred with Khadafy by telephone for the second time in 24 hours Tuesday and discussed the U.S. attack.
  In Damascus, presidential spokesman Jibran Kourieh said the Syrian government has instructed its UN mission to call for a Security Council meeting to “discuss the U.S. aggression on Libya.”
  Kourieh said Assad consulted by telephone with Iranian President Ali Khamenei, and that the two agreed the Islamic world should “retaliate to American terrorism.” !ran’s officials Islamic Republic news agency said Khadafy told Khamanei in a telephone conversation Tuesday night that “the nose of the aggressors will be smashed.”
  Sudanese leader Maj.-Gen. Abdel-Rahman Swareddahab was reported to have telephoned Khadafy late Tuesday and offered military support.
  In Beirut, Prime Minister Rashid Karami said: “A superpower has behaved like a spoiled child. We denounce the American raid which is totally unjustified. You cannot deal with terrorism by terrorism.” In Jordan, the Interior Ministry banned a march on the U.S. Embassy in Amman planned for today by the professional associations representing about 30,000 engineers, physicians, geologists and writers.
  But about 30 people gathered despite the ban. and scores of police and soldiers with clubs and riot shields dispersed them.
  The associations planned the march to deliver petitions of protest to the U.S. and British embassies against the raids. They also declared a boycott of U.S. companies and products.
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration said today it plans a selective response to terrorist attacks and will not strike back after every act of terrorism.
  The policy was spelled out in the wake of the firing of two missiles Tuesday at a U.S. Coast Guard station about 300 kilometres off the coast of Libya and the shooting later in the day of a U.S. Embassy technician in Sudan.
  “We’re going to take our time, make assessments, respond where it will be appropriate, where it will have results, where it will do the most good,” said a senior administration official who refused to be identified.
  In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the United States could not independently confirm reports out of Libya that Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy’s infant daughter was killed in Tuesday’s U.S. attack and that two of his young sons were wounded.
  No Canadians were reported among the casualties.
  Libyan authorities said there were many casualties among civilians, but gave no figures.
  Speakes said the United States could not say where Khadafy is or whether he was injured, but added it is unusual that he has not been seen since the attack.
  Speakes confirmed that the French Embassy in Tripoli was damaged, and noted that news accounts said other embassies also were hit. He said it was unclear whether the damage resulted from U.S. forces or from Libyan antiaircraft fire and missiles that fell back on the city.
  In another development, the U.S. 6th Fleet gave up the search for two crew members of a U.S. air force F-lll bomber missing over the Mediterranean after the raid on Libya.
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Neighborhood
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Citizen photo by Lisa Murdoch
                          Residents in the First Avenue and Tabor Boulevard area clear a piece of provincial land in behind the Highland Park shopping centre for a neighborhood park. Adding .logs to a growing pile are, from the left, Rory Gibbs, Lee-Al Nelson, Lucie Nelson and Le-Roy Nelson. The local radio control car club has received authorization to build a dirt track for their model cars in the same location.
Strike at hospitals looms
  VICTORIA iCP) - The chief negotiator for British Columbia’s public hospitals said Tuesday that it is unlikely a strike by non-pro-fessional workers can be avoided.
  “At this point (the prospects) are not very good,” said Peter McAllister, president of the Health Labor Relations Association.
  “One would have to be ardently optimistic to see light at the end of the tunnel.”
  The Hospital Employees Union, representing 23,000 workers, served strike notice Monday on behalf of its 900-member unit at St. Paul’s Hospital, the closest hospital to Expo 86 and to the Vancouver business section
  Strike votes at other hospitals have shown majorities in favor of striking; voting at all B.C. hospitals is expected to be complete by early May.
  The union asked mediator Jim Toogood to book out Monday.
  McAllister said the hospitals want to get back to the bargaining table but are prepared for a strike.
  “Our health-care facilities have plans,” he said. “We aren’t going into this thing blind.”
  The union charges that the hospitals are seeking contract concessions that would amount to $4,000 a year for each worker, but McAllister called this figure “mythical."
  He described the union’s demand
for a seven-per-cent wage increase as “dramatic,” and said the current benefit package is generous. “The union is asking for a 62-percent increase in the payroll,” McAllister said.
  A strike would involve clerks, kitchen workers, laundry and cleaning staff and licensed practical nurses.
  Union spokesman Jack Gerow disputed McAllister’s claim that union demands would raise the total payroll cost by 62 per cent. Gerow added that the union is ready to resume bargaining if HLRA will withdraw its “more than 50" concession demands.
Powell River pulp workers reject pact
  POWELL RIVER, B.C. (CP) -Members of Local 76. Canadian Paperworkers Union, have rejected a tentative agreement reached earlier this month with the pulp and paper industry.
  The 1,350 workers voted 58 per cent against the two-year deal which would give them no pay raise in the first year and 40 cents an hour in the second year.
  Despite the narrow rejection announced Monday night, local president Terry Skilbeck said he expects the offer will be accepted in provincewide voting.
  The pulp and paper industry reached a tentative agreement on master contracts with its two major unions on April 6 — almost three months before the current contracts expire.
  Both the CPU and the Pulp. Paper and Woodworkers of Canada said they would recommend acceptance of the offer to their members. The contracts cover almost
13,000	workers at 13 mills.
  If the contracts are ratified, it would be only the second time in the past eight rounds of bargaining that settlements have been reached without a strike or lockout.
by Libya'
  MILDENHALL, England (Reuter) — Libya drove off a significant number of the U.S. bombers that attacked Tripoli, a British politician said Wednesday after a briefing from senior U.S. officers.
  Libyan ground defences forced them to abandon their mission and they returned to their bases in England with their bombs still aboard, said Sir Eldon Griffiths.
  Griffiths, a Conservative MP who supports the U.S. raid, was briefed by senior officers of the Lakenheath and Mildenhall U.S. air bases from which most of the strike force flew.
  The two bases are in Griffiths’s constituency.
  “A significant number of the aircraft from Lakenheath aborted their mission at considerable risk to the air crews themselves because of the nature of the SAM-3 missile fire rather than deliver their weapons,” he told a news conference.
  “There would have been more civilian damage if they had been released. They came back without releasing their ordnance.”
  Griffiths said he was breaking a U.S. news blackout on details of the raid because of his duty to keep his constituents informed
  “I am satisfied from what I have learned that the five targets selected were proper ones in the interests of suppressing (Libyan leader Moammar) Khadafy’s ability to mount terrorist attacks and that severe damage was done to all of them,” Griffiths said.
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