CitvfeK ScuOtacb > W&&ST The Prince George Citizen Liow tonight: -12 High Tuesday: -2 TOc&tAcr dctai&i. fiaqt 2 mmmmammaatasmB MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1989 50 CENTS City's forgotten people 3 Bundy's pleas rejected 7 Super victory for 49ers 11 Ann Landers...............19 Horoscope...............17 Bridge....................17 International ...........7 Business...................8 Lifestyles..............19 City, B.C................2,3 Lotteries................7 Classified.............14-17 Movies ..................6 Comics.....................6 National.................5 Crossword.................16 Neighborhoods...........19 Entertainment 6 Sports..11-13 Family....................19 Television .............16 TELEPHONE: 562-2441 SCHOOL DISTRICT TELLS TEACHERS: 'No pay talks during walkout MERGER 'CRISIS' SEEN OTTAWA (CP) — Parliament should be recalled immediately to deal with mergers in the oil, air and beer industries last week, NDP House Leader Nelson Riis said today. “We’ve got a real crisis. . .on our hands,” Riis said at a news conference. Riis said thousands of people stand to lose jobs as a result of the takeovers and partnerships announced last week and consumers could face higher prices. Instead of resuming March 6 as scheduled, Riis said Parliament should sit as soon as possible. Riis called the Competition Act as it now stands abysmal and said he wants the rules toughened to better protect consumers and affected workers. Calvin Goldman, head of the Bureau of Competition Policy, has announced an investigation of Mol-son’s merger with Carling O’Keefe, the Canadian Airlines purchase of Wardair and the Imperial Oil buyout of Texaco Canada. But Riis said the rules now require the competition watchdog to take a “friendly poodle” approach, not always in the best interest of Canadians. Armed forces cut promised EAST BERLIN (Reuter) - East German leader Erich Honecker said today his country will cut its armed forces by 10,000 men and reduce defence spending by 10 per cent by the end of 1990. Honecker, in a speech prepared for delivery at a banquet for visiting Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, said the move would involve 600 tanks in six tank regiments and one aircraft squadron comprising 50 fighter planes. Honecker, the East German Communist party general secretary and head of state, said the aim of the cuts was to give East Germany’s armed forces an “even more defensive character.” He said East Germany’s National Defence Council has agreed on the reductions, to be completed by 1990, in the hope of giving other European countries “an impulse worth reflecting on.” Honecker also said the first Soviet tank divisions and other troops would leave East Germany this year and the rest would depart in 1990. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev told the United Nations last month that 50,000 Soviet troops and 5,000 tanks would be withdrawn from East Germany, Czechoslova-kia and Hungary over two years. East Germany’s armed forces total 176,000 men, including 94,500 conscripts, according to western defence estimates. The army has 120,000 men and, among other units, two tank divisions. The air force has 40,000 men and 334 combat aircraft. About 380,000 Soviet troops are based in East Germany, Moscow’s largest military contingent outside the Soviet Union. HERMAN’ "I got them both during mating season." 58307 00100 Janet Billion, chief technologist at the Prince George Medical Laboratory, rolls up her sleeve Gift of life without batting an eye to give blood while technical assistant Sylvia Burkinshaw demonstrates the l-2-3s of donating blood. About 1,700 donors are needed to reach a goal of 1,550 units of blood at this year’s first Red Cross blood donor clinic at the Civic Centre. Doors open from 2-8 p.m. Tuesday and 1:30-8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Citizen photo by Lisa Murdoch MUD BURIES SOVIET VILLAGE 1,000 feared dead after quake by Associated Press MOSCOW — An earthquake buried a mountain village under a 14-metre wall of dirt and mud in Tadzhikistan today and destroyed several other communities, killing up to 1,000 people, officials said. “Almost everybody died,” said Zainiddin Nasreddinov, editor-in-chief of the official Tadzhikistan news agency, who visited the buried village of Sharora in the Soviet central Asian republic. A torrent of dirt and mud slid from a nearby hill and buried Sharora after the earthquake hit, Nasreddinov said. “Everything is destroyed — all the homes, the schools, the hospit- hehmmmheh* als and clinics, the stores,” he said. Communications, electricity and water were disrupted and many injured were rushed to hospitals in Dushanbe and other large cities. A preliminary estimate indicated about 600 people died there, he said in a telephone interview from Dushanbe, capital of Tadzhikistan about 15 kilometres northeast of Sharora. The population of the village was not known, but Nasreddinov said about 70 families lived there. An official at the Dushanbe seismic station said families are large in the area and one dwelling often houses eight to 10 people. “The total number of deaths is now evaluated at up to 1,000,” the official Tass news agency said. It said hundreds died in Sharora but did not give an exact figure. The tremor struck an area about 3.000 kilometres southeast of Moscow, north of Afghanistan and bordering China, at 2:02 a.m. (6:02 p.m. EST Sunday). It was the strongest quake to hit the Soviet Union since the Dec. 7 quake that struck Armenia and killed about 25.000 people. "Rescue teams searched for survivors and soldiers were rushed to the area to keep order and to restore communications, power and water to buildings left standing, Nasreddinov said. Roads into the area were damaged and thousands of head of catfie were killed, Tass said. Bulldozers and cranes were being sent into the area to help rescuers, the report said. The magnitude of the earthquake was uncertain. The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo, said the quake measured 6.0 on the Richter scale. The survey office in Menlo Park, Calif., put the magnitude at 5.4. Tass said the quake caused “destruction and casualties.” “Small buildings made from earth were hit especially hard,” Tass said. “The quake caused a serious landslide, some two kilometres long, from a hill near the village.” It said Sharora was buried be- neath 14 metres of mud and rocks. Nasreddinov said the buildings destroyed were all one-storey structures made of brick. He said Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev called Tadzhikistan officials to promise help from the national government. In addition to the deaths in Sharora, 70 more people were estimated to have aied in the villages of Akulibolo and Akulipoyen, near the quake’s epicentre, Nasreddinov said. He said several other villages were damaged. by BEV CHRISTENSEN and BERNICE TRICK Staff reporters Picket lines went up around Prince George schools this morning after teachers and school district negotiators reached a stalemate in their attempts to negotiate a first contract. After talks broke down early today, school district spokesman said they will refuse to return to the bargaining table until teachers return to the classroom. Bob Steventon, president of the Prince George and District Teachers’ Association, said he’s angry about the breakdown in talks because he believes the two sides were close to an agreement on the seven contract issues on which agreement has yet to be reached. “I think we’d got to the point where an agreement was in reach. At the time discussions broke down, teachers were working on a proposal with the mediator. But when we phoned the board’s room to tell them they could expect a call within minutes their response was, ‘Don’t bother, we’re going home,”’ he said. School district spokesmen acknowledged today they’d received the midnight phone call but no time was given for the next meeting and because they’d waited for two hours to hear from the teachers they wanted to go home and meet again this morning. “We had no intention of breaking off talks and expected to meet again this morning,” board chairman Gordon Ingalls said today. Instead, picket lines went up this morning and no further talks are scheduled. All community events scheduled to take place in district schools have been cancelled, Ingalls said. “The board is prepared to meet with them if services are resumed,” he said. Ingalls also said talks were going well and agreement seemed within reach when they broke off last night. Teacher and district negotiators met with mediator Allan Hope on Thursday and Friday then continued negotiations on their own Saturday and Sunday when Hope had to return to the Lower Mainland. Steventon said they continued to talk with Hope by telephone as they worked out the proposals they planned to present early today. With one exception, the picket lines will remain up until an agreement is reached, Steventon said. The exception will be at the four district high schools, College Heights, Duchess Park, D.P. Todd and Prince George secondary, where Grade 12 students are scheduled to begin writing provincial exams Wednesday. “We will open the picket lines so students can enter these schools to write their exams. At this time they’ve had enough preparation time to allow them to do well on these exams and they now have some extra study time,” he said. They’ll be supervised by principals and vice-principals. The outstanding issues are: B Class size where an agreement or near-agreement has been reached on all issues except for secondary Grades 8 to 12 where the board is proposing there be an See TEACHERS, page 2 Surrealist Dali dies at 84 FIGUERAS, Spain (AP) — Surrealist painter Salvador Dali, the last of a generation of superlative Spanish artists, died today from heart failure complicated by persistent pneumonia, his doctor said. Dali, 84, who died in Figueras Hospital, was known for his fantastic dreamscapes as well as his eccentric and flamboyant behavior. His Persistence of Memory — with its melting clocks and barren landscape — is perhaps the world’s most celebrated Surrealist painting: a vivid image that became an indelible part of 20th century culture. The Divine Dali, as he liked to call himself, also was instantly recognizable: his pointed, waxed mustache curling up like a bull’s horns, his long hair falling over his neck and one of his more than 30 walking sticks draped over an arm. DALI What Dali called his sublime craziness, began early — he was suspended from art school and briefly jailed for political activities as a youth. He said later: “The only difference between a crazy person and me is the fact that I am not crazy.” Few critics faulted Dali’s technical virtuosity, although his work was not held in the highest esteem. But he was overwhelmingly popular. In 1979 and 1980, a major retrospective — 168 paintings, 219 drawings, 38 objects and 2,000 documents — drew more than a million visitors in Paris. The exhibit later moved to London, where it was seen by 250,000 people. A founder of the surrealist movement, Dali is the last of an outstanding generation of Spanish painters that included Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. To most critics, Dali was a flawed talent — sometimes managing to ably balance realistic technique and irrational content, but all too often caught up in his own role as a poseur-painter. He completed most of his critically successful works before he was 35. 058307001008