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A special wish is about to come true for Allison as she boards airplane with her mother, Liz.
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Marcoses charged in U.S.
 NEW YORK (AP) - Deposed Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, were indicted on federal racketeering charges Friday fpr allegedly looting more than $100 million US from their homeland to buy art and real estate in Manhattan.
  They also were charged with defrauding three lending institutions of more than $165 million in the purchase and financing of the real estate.
  “This case amounted to the Marcoses and their co-defendants using their position of trust to turn the Philippines treasury into their own treasury,” said James Fox of the FBI’s New York office.
 Saudi Arabian financier Adnan Khashoggi, a central figure in the secret sale of arms to Iran by the Reagan administration, also was indicted.	,
  Under the racketeering law, the government is seeking forfeiture of all illegally obtained property and holdings, including Swiss bank accounts, for restitution to the victims — the Philippines and the U.S. banks — if approved by the U.S. attorney general.
 The charges alleged that between 1972 and 1986, when they fled to the United States, the Marcoses amassed $103 million through embezzlement, theft, bribes and kickbacks.
 The indictment said the Marcoses illegally funnelled the money through secret bank accounts in Switzerland, Hong Kong and the United States and then used the money to buy valuable New York properties, including commercial buildings at Herald Square and on Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue and Wall Street.
  “This is a plan hatched and begun in the Philippines to move massive amounts of money illegally into the United States,” said U.S. attorney Rudolph Giuliani. “Then the Marcoses came to the United States and continued their illegal activities.”
  He said Marcos was the highest-ranking former foreign official indicted in the United States.
 President Ronald Reagan was saddened by the indictment, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said, because Marcos “is an old friend and a friend of the country.
  “But it’s clear that the Justice Department has a very strong
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  All of those charged with racketeering and racketeering conspiracy face a maximum of 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines on each count.
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■	If you want to step out in style at the Old Time Dance tonight get your tickets fast. The dance date was mistakenly advertised as Saturday, Sept. 24 but it’s actually tonight. Tickets are on sale at the AIMHI ticket centre at 1183-5th Ave., until 5 p.m.
The dance is from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Local musicians from the B.C. Old Time Fiddlers association will be entertaining with the tunes of yesteryear.
  Her dream
by BERNICE TRICK Staff reporter
     Wishes sometimes do come true.
     One of those special times is happening right now for a Prince George child.
     Courtesy of the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada, Allison Wells is off to see one of her “most favorite characters in the whole world” — Mickey Mouse.
     The five-year-old, who has a form of cancer called neuroblastoma, left this week with parents Lee and Liz and sister, Lucy, 7 for a week’s visit to Disneyland and Universal Studios in Cal-/ ifomia.
' Dad, Lee, said his two daughters “were bouncing off the wall” with excitement when the Wish Foundation’s package arrived with air tickets and accommodation reservations.
     He predicted it will be a great time for the whole family.
     Allison is a blonde, blue-eyed child who is keenly interested in art.
     “She loves to paint and draw and has a great time at kindergarten, “he said.
     She was diagnosed with cancer about two months ago when a tumor was discovered near her kidney, but since then the disease has spread.
Lee finds his daughter’s condition “a difficult thing to talk about” even though he’s optimistic
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six days of chemotherapy treatment every. month will set the disease on its heels and place the child into remission.
   Hie Children’s Wish Foundation is a federally chartered non-profit organization which attempts to realize the fondest wishes of children with life-threatening diseases.
  Since its inception in 1984, more than 400 wishes of Canadian children have been granted.
  “Every wish is as special and individual as the child,” said Melody Johnson, B.C. director.
  “Some are seemingly simple — taking the family to dinner, receiving a special doll or living like a princess in a castle. Whatever the wish, it represents a child’s dream.”
  Like chapters across the country, the B.C. Chapter, established last year, depends upon private and corporate donations to “grant wishes today for children with so few tomorrows.”
  But the public’s unawareness of the B.C. organization means flinds are very limited for our children, so the organization must depend on the rest of Canada to subsidize its wish-granting activities.
   Anyone who would like to help ai B.C. child realize a dream may send donations to Johnson at Suite 104,13340 70B Ave., Surrey, B.C. V3W 7Z1. Telephone 597-2216.
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by MALCOLM CURTIS Staff reporter
   PENTICTON — The Social Credit party overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution Friday to establish a northern B.C. university centred in Prince George.
   Only a handful of delegates at "the party’s annual convention opposed the motion, presented by Prince George South MLA Bruce Strachan.
   Don Chalmers, president of the Prince George South riding association, said he was “delighted” but not surprised at the result.
   “I think we worked the crowd at the wine and cheese reception Thursday and we really talked it up,” he said.
   Prince George delegates handed, out 1,500 “Northern U” buttons and wore bright orange ball caps to promote their cause.
   As well, they distributed hundreds of glossy brochures outlining the strong support of northern residents for the regional university.
   Chalmers said he expects the party’s motion will be binding on the government, although he admitted the delegates’ acceptance of another similar motion from the Okanagan could cause conflicts.
   The party supported legislation to allow “qualified educational institutions in the Interior areas of British Columbia to offer four-year degree programs.”
   Prince George delegate Bill Kor-dyban has no such concerns.
   “I think (party endorsement of a northern university) is very binding,” Kordyban said. “I am confident we will get a university of the north before long.”
In Prince George, Interior
    University Society spokesman Tom Steadman was uplifted by the resolution’s approval.
     “This is good news because it pushes the issue to the top of the party,” Steadman said.
     One lone delegate from the Kootenays spoke against the northern university concept because of concerns with the soaring costs of education.
      “We’re beginning to sound more and more like an NDP party,” he said, adding that no one has said how much such a university would cost.
      Steadman said that although the resolution forwarded to the convention was simply to support the university, delegates amended it to include all the recommendations included in Dr. Urban Dahllofs proposal for the university including that it be separate from B.C.’s existing universities, designed to serve all the regions in north-central B.C. and that it deliver courses relevant to the north.
      “In other words they’ve supported the form and very nature or the university recommended in the feasibility study insteady of offering us a third of a loaf,” Steadman said, referring to a competing Okanagan proposal for the government to permit third- and fourth-year courses to be offered by B.C.’s three universities through community colleges.
      The Okanagan resolution faced more opposition, with several delegates expressing concerns about watering down the quality of post-secondary education.
      The resolution was one of 84 considered by the party today and Friday.
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Premier pleased with 'fresh start'
            Staff reporter PENTICTON — After winning resounding support from Socreds Friday, Premier Bill Yander Zalm said the party’s convention has given his leadership a fresh start.
   While admitting that he has made mistakes, he pointed to the accomplishments or his government which he said “stands heads and shoulders above all others in the country.”
   But the premier acknowledged he still faces critics within the party and Vancouver-Little Mountain MLA Grace McCarthy suggested Vander Zalm had only “papered over the cracks” in the Social Credit organization.
   In a press conference the Socred leader said he would try to work with MLAs who had been critical and would not take action against them.
   “I’m sure we’ll soon again meet as caucus and we’ll have a chance to discuss it then,” he said when The Citizen asked him if had any commitment from the MLAs to work with him.
   “I’m convinced we’ll come together beautifully and there won’t be any problems.”
   Among Prince George delegates there was an attitude of “I told you so” about the outcome of the leadership review question.
   Dennis Jackson, Socred regional director for Prince George, said there was “never any doubt as to the outcome.”
   Independent Omineca MLA and former Socred cabinet minister Jack Kempf, who attended the convention as an observer, said delegates had made a “terrible mistake” in giving their leader a ringing endorsement with a show of hands.
   “I don’t think delegates realized by giving Vander Zalm a 90-percent endorsement they’re giving him carte blanche to do whatever he wants over the next three years,” he told The Citizen.
   “I think the delegates here are politically naive,” he said, suggesting that the convention has played into the hands of the NDP.
   Reg Tupper of the Vancouver-Point Grey riding association was one of two delegates who called for a secret ballot on the leadership.
   “We have got to communicate to those people who are not members of our party that we are aware of our problems and to keep them on-side,”) Tupper said However, it was evident before Vander Zalm spoke Friday morning that any movement against him had collapsed.
Former cabinet minister Brian
Smith sounded conciliatory when he told reporters his aim was to keep the “free enterprise coalition” alive.
  “We don’t want to see the Liberal party revived,” he said.
  Don Phillips, former Peace River MLA and Socred cabinet veteran, drew loud cheers when he spoke out against a secret ballot on vander Zalm.
  “We haven’t had a secret ballot in 36 years,” Phillips said.
  “I want to tell you this isn’t a labor union hall.”
  In Vander Zalm’s keynote speech to the convention, he told 1,400 delegates the province’s economy had never been better.
  “The boom has just begun,” he said, adding that the province’s deficit has almost been eliminated.
  “Our own crew of Social Credit has been buffeted by political storms before and we have always come out stronger and even more united.”'
  Asked by reporters what he feels his worst mistake in office was, he replied: “Probably not recognizing how some people felt about some of the views I had expressed or re-cognizing perhaps that some people might nave felt we were moving too quickly on certain issues.”
One whale feared dead
 BARROW, Alaska (AP) — One of three trapped whales disappeared under the ice and was presumed dead today, a biologist said hours after rescuers scored their greatest success in moving the animals closer to open water.
  The whale named Bone was last seen Friday evening, said Geoff Carroll, a North Slope Borough biologist helping lead the effort to rescue the three California grey whales.	’
  By midnight Friday night, Carroll and others on the ice near this small town on the Arctic Ocean had given up hope that Bone might rejoin the others. Bone, Crossbeak and Bonnet have stuck together since becoming trapped in unseasonably heavy ice more than two weeks ago during their annual migration southward.
  Inuit led the whales almost 800 metres closer to open water Friday by carving a string of 24 breathing holes in the ice away from the main hole the animals had been using.
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AIDS VACCINE HOPES DISTANT
  WASHINGTON (Reuter) - U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said Friday it is a “little fantastical” to expect a vaccine will be developed against AIDS in this century, if ever.
   Koop also questioned whether governments will be willing to carry indefinitely the financial burden of the disease.
   In an interview, Koop said teenagers are ignoring warnings about unsafe sex, threatening a boom in AIDS cases in five to eight years that will bring home the costs of dealing with the deadly illness.
   Koop said he is discouraged that despite the constant barrage of
ads, television shows and songs promoting safer sexual practices, teenagers aren’t getting the message.
He said although only one per cent of all AIDS cases involved teenagers, the figures are misleading since the virus takes five to eight years to incubate.
Koop cited statistics showing infectious syphillis and gonorrhea among 14- to 24-year-olds climbed at the steepest rate in 16 years in
1987,	foreshadowing a sharp climb in AIDS.
Asked how he thinks people will view the increasing costs of treating AIDS, Koop said it’s becoming a key issue.
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