The last CPR course for the 1982-1983 season was held June. 27-30 when the combined staffs of the Park Avenue Dental: : Clinic and the Kermodie Physiotherapy Clinic took aBasic | ‘Hl course. Pictured from left to right are Betty Stewart, — Aer Petrick,” care) Hagen, Brenda Cheer Elaine oo Duncan, tragy Ann Burtch,” ; Olson, Perry. Burtch, Karen LeeTom - ‘Nenniger, and Or. Missing are - Canple. Robinson’ and.. Orlo - Dean Burtch. Powell. The next CPR course swift rtin September. . Volume 77 No.. 136" Dennis. Fisher, Bonnie. -Centre in Burnaby. : » Harry - Wruck, a. VAN ANCOWVER: OP. _ Fedérai ; ating uno officials are iryivig urgently to find! "a Way to keep a fasting Doukhobor woman in a- | British Columbia prison alive while they seek a . Final court ruling on the case.” The B.C: Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld a B.C, Supreme Court decision not to order B.C. prison officials to‘force-feed 68-year-old Mary Astaforoff, who has been on a hanger strike for. _More than two weeks at Lakeside. Correctional federal government i “representative, silid. he will probably. ask Ottawa. to appeal to the: Suprene’ Court of. ; Canada for a-final decision. =. , The sUpreme, court has a system, to. ‘bande ; emergency appeals in cases: where: adelay could mean desth but‘even that could be-too. slow. because, doctors say, Astaforoff could die. _any,time, - Katatoroff, a member of the Sons of Freedom . “sect, has sperit, about 20 years in prison for ‘bombing and burning incidents in southeastern B. B.G., her:son Peter Astaforoff has said. ~ For. seven. of those ‘years she - fasted. in- termiitentiy but was force-fed through a tube in - her: nose, he sald, -but-. recently: prison _ authorities changed their policy so that hunger ‘strikers'would only be fed when they” requested , it or when they lost conscigusness,) i..% | > Déelora say, that because « ‘Astaforoff has’ fasted.so much in the past her rma ig’ ; deteriorating more quickly than. normal. for: ‘Tonths. court site ‘thaeing a fire"at “¢ education centre near Castlegar in ‘April. 1961. and had fasted a total of 208 days in ‘the last 18°- int rosy .’. She has said she is fasting to. disrupt the. corrections system and force release of two of . _her.sect sisters who are serving sentences in’ . Kingston penitentlary in Ontario. ‘ . The two women at the Kingston prison are’ ~ also on a hunger strike, A prison. official said: prison-authoritles won't order aiwced feeding. "| of the women, both serving sentences for arson, - ; ~ even: if'they face death from -their fasting: ' "gif the conditions of Mary Braun, 63, and Tina” ” , ZmaelEf,-50, severely’ deteriorate any decision. on their treatment would be left to doctors, the: spokesman said. Both have experienced welght ‘loss. and ‘are being monitored every eight hours by. prison “medical staff, They are. drinking water with lemon rind to prevent dehydration: Braun has been fasting “sporadically” since May 25. Zmaeff joined in the fast June 29. - ’ Appeal court justice Johin' Taggart ‘fuled “ Thursday there may be'eases in which the” force-feeding, . Astaforoff’s situation is not one,” “We are concerned here primarily with a. dispute between twa levels of government,” he - said. (But) behind the dispute exists a person, . |, Mary Astaforoff.".. — -- And: she had demonstrated by her conduct _ ~eould order ” oa ene DISAGREE: ‘1, Taggart, with’ Justices: William Esson and Henry Hutcheon agreeing, ‘told ‘Wruck and_ Richard Vogel, who represents B.C.'s attorney _ general, that authorities should have found a’ ‘solution a long’ time ago..,—- ~ “1 would hope: itis not now too late for them to _ but - . take: steps:and to avoid the eventuality | that . ’ Mary Astaforoff. will fast unto her death.” " Wruck said the federal government's first” ‘move to keep ‘Astaforoff alive'will be to take her from the provincial Lakeside prigon:. “But the “nearest * federal. penitentiary for’ “wont ig. In Kingston, Ont. and:doctors say. “Astaforoff: might not survive a transfer.. ' The. ‘length of the. sentence makes her ao federal.’ prisonef, but B.C. has beén letting Ottawa keep her in a B.C. Jail 60 he can be ’ closer.to:her home. |. Another option {s to place her in a hospital — a but the code of the-B.C. College. of Physicians -and- Surgeons restricts doctors from force- feeding against the patient’ 8 will: The Doukhobors emigrated to B.C. around: 1900, flecing religious. ‘persecution in Russia. - - They. cetiled in southeastern. B.C, The Sons of -Freedom sect represents only a fraction of the “- Doukhobor. community. ‘The sect believes that ‘ orthodox Doukhobors have strayed from the... - group's original philosophy and has engaged! in” _, arson and bombings in protest. - People killed in ‘Armenian. n bombing "PARIS {CP) —~ At least : three. amen were killed and “more than 30 people injured “when-a: bomb,” which an “ Armenian’ guerrilla group said it planted, blasted the south “terminal of . Orly Airport. 2 while ‘doctors. tended 165. of the more seriously wounded ~ “outside the south terminal. - People: were Ined up at the! Turkish desk for -an ._ Istanbul _ flight . = the ‘suitcase, exploded... -—__, Turkish Airlines desk in the Al caller speaking for the: Armenian. Secret Army for: the Liberation of Armenia : telephoned news agencies in. ~< {he French eapital claiming. ta ‘responsibility, for ‘the - blast. bomb, believed planted in a The terminal was closed 48 police and security forces feared a second bomb may - ‘have. been planted, Orly officials said. - The caller, ‘speaking in “strong foreign . accent, said the vattack had. been carried out. . French’ with: a: by ASALA agnirist what'he called: the* Turkish secret police.» He: ‘thed”® ‘sald ‘in English: . meriory’ of Armenians. a 2 ‘BLAMED FOR ‘KILLINGS : “Long. live . the Turkish > Bffices:. . and diplomats in’ many. coun- tries, including Canada, a been. the. targets: of WHY. Buy NEW? “WHEN. 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The. blast ‘occurred just after 2p8m. local time when the terminal at the airport | southwest, of Paris was crowded with summertime “ travellers... ~» Police said it dppeared “the bomb had been placed ; some baggage in the | main hall of the terminal. ‘The main. hall. was in ‘panic as people fled” the seene After the blast. Air- - “port offictals ‘departure of all flights was “buspended. oO. sald~ the. Ay spokésnian for . the aitpart sald two people died el the pat and: one, ded : later. : Orie witness said dhe Saw a pages 1 oad T . Secret Army — suitcase explode about four or. five metres from where he was standing. ~: Passengers at the Turkish Airlines: counter were checking in for Turkish Airlines Flight 928, a Boeing 727 jetliner due to leave on a non-stop flight. to Istanbul with .167 passengers. The explosion .came one day after a man-with a pistol shot -.and killed ‘a Tirkish diplomat in Brussels. The Armenian - for . the Liberation of Armenia, me dJuatice. . Commandos . Armenian Genocide and the Atmenian. . Revolutionary - ‘Army claimed --respon- sibility for shooting Duraun | ’ Aksoy, 99, an attache at the Turkish Embassy in, — Belgium as he sat in his car In- Ottawa on Aug. 27, 1962, Turkish. military at-— tache Atilla Altikat, 43, was alain when he was chot 10 _ times "in his car while. > .§walting a greén light at an intersection in the west end of. the Canadian capital. Armenian terrorists Claimed responsibility. “ ‘annpunced | “that. -legulatare, “fight back ° campaign:"” (90 -per.. cent’, of- membership in ‘Terrace, ; members’ “present.” “the ‘so-called. “building construction ° virtually. =~ ‘bringing ‘Democracy, Bpitiah’. Columbia civil ‘setvice, ‘firings - “continued | “Thursday as the director of 7 the. human ‘rights branch Labor Minister’: ‘Bob _MeClelland = i “dismissal olla the introductidn-in- the legelalre last’ ‘weal: of DRigh is A branch | ‘and: “the. "Hurnan Rights ‘Commission, and” establishes in their place a human rights council of not. more than five people ap- pointed by the cabinet to adjudicate disputes and refer ‘any. cases il cannot "solve to the minister: ; " McClelland indicated that she was fired. because she ' refused to co-operate with the changes: to the human , “rights legislation. — Meanwhile,” fired * civil. servants ..expanded "their, protests Thursday by" set- ting up -picket lines at government operations in at least*‘10. centres around the ’ province. ’ The “disgruntled worker's __are protesting the layoffs of. 500 workers. so far, the promises of more to come and the. introduction of - legislation that. will. allow | the government to lay off any or all ofB:C."§ 250,000 public-sector workers. The the same day i as the Social a- budget forecasting an _ estimated $1.6 billion deficit ‘In the 1983-84 fiscal year, '- Jensen, the highest profile civil servant to lose her job . yet in the restraint layoffs, said ‘the. . Herald statt Writer" ; TERRACE-It ia no: longer just: labor's .. fight against . the, untion . busting “moves "pending before the Socred dominated.B.C. . it” 48 everybody's fight. © That is. the: message of ‘Terrace-baged ” “BY C, Government. Employees, Union, staff. representative * ‘Dave™ ‘MacKitnon . after: _ Wednesday. night’s labor meeting...” _ With less than d work-day's. notice; over: “300 BCGEU~ ‘mémbers: attended: the . gathering. to ‘disciiss the strategy: ‘of the: .BCGEU members. - "represent over. . that The big. news “though, isthe largénumber of non-BCGEU — ‘Labor; like most groups these days, is > divided. There are two major national *suunion organizations. One covering most of ” workers: . encompasses most.other-workers, Some - * anions belong £o neither. All those groups were represented at the Terrace meeting. ‘There will betioré groups . added. “MacKinnon éxpects.a coalition to be formed by ‘today which will include not © only unions; but poverty groups, human — . - rigtits advocates, members. of the_legal. | ‘profession, womeri'’s:. groups, academics, +. andthe clergy. ‘Labor and the church will ‘" play a very big’ role in the upcoming, ”. struggle,” says MacKinoon. . . . Wednesday's ‘meeting was to, confirm the nature of the Socred attack. By tonight -a formal plan of action:is expected to be -. ‘adopted... With. the Wednesday meeting . representatives of every local union and _. with other groups set to join the coalition, ~ the response promises to be massive. The nature of the Socred attack Is such | ‘: . that it shifts the whole basis of due process. and democracy itself states MacKinnon. “ he ‘states, meansy that : legislation is- superior to regulations Those 3100 — ‘union's - terminated trades ‘or another =k gays. together this, move, . ‘says. Human: rights director fired Prince George, _ -On Wednesday, there were picket Lines in three centres -but by. Thursday government operations in. the Vancouver area, - Vic- . fotia,., Kamloops, George, Cranbrook, Fort St. James . and: Nelson ° “were . “picketed. wie ‘George Government Employees: - Union, said: What’ we are hearing fs that*the support for the pickets is’ pretty Solid, . “People are feeling ‘very - the emotional‘ about. layoffs," he said. We've’ got to fight. to ‘show the government we're. opposed to it and” hope “they'll back off,” he. said. « “TE we.take a position that there’ 's nothing we can do, : \ 1 f , ac ' * , | ilu ‘the laws are: sein a ‘people's - elected ‘represen “ ; + passage.: Not so, the latest'Socred aioe - on the, wage earner, Most of the. pending -, bills, MacKinnon gays,-make. ‘regulatior - superior to both: legislation and the'rule ‘comnion law that- Hoes back: to the: signing, of the: Magna | Carta.: : “The tmolleation of. the: hill intr ‘by Premier. Bennett's an ~ even if.a law Is in place, it can be “ripped pe dyes apart? by the B.C. Cabinet, ~ pee ote ° ” MacKinnon also charges the Socreds are: an Bee playing. word games, ° ‘While telling: the. press and thé: publi¢ that the government { has already laid off over 700 government = =~ - workers, the “layoffs” are really firings. A layoff implies the dismissed. employee | will be rehired once conditions improve. - __.These’ 700-plus _ workers have -been appeal and with no hope of being: recalled, . It is not: just: itnions’ that. are. being attacked, MacKinnon points out. Berinett,- riding high on what he perceives to be-a mandate to do anything he wants, has bills -in place that will mean all the directors cof - the board at Northwest ‘Community ‘College will. be’ political: appointments ; “" made out of Victoria, that: School: District ; _ 88'will have no authority over its own ‘budget; that there will be no watch dog, : _/ committee ; “corporations, no rentalsman, no human | Tights ‘commission, ete. . “Any place an ordinary person could go ‘for support, that door-has been slammed ~ shut,” MacKinnon says.. _! The BCGEU representative fully expects small business to support labor.on who ‘will _buy the goods? “8]t is a radical alteration of the way’ : parlimentary democracy works and it will scare anyone who thinks,” MacKinnon -Prince — _ beating. 4 : Brown. aid. ‘the -goverii- gal: spokesman for ‘the * BAC. iuced . government i ‘is.that ‘without notice or the right. of overseeing © Crown If nobody is making a salary the government . will walk allover-us.’’: In the legislature Thur- sday NDP MLA Rosemary | Brown said that — the government is planning to - ‘fire -human resource af- fleers who handle cases af child ‘abuse | and wife ‘tment has served notice that it's OK to abuse children, batter. | wives = and |. ‘discriminate against minorities, © , Health Minister Jim: Nielsen released figures to’ ‘show why the government introduced amendments to the Medical Services Act » that would give the province authority...to limit the ‘number of doctors who get billing numbers from the province to participate in the medicare system. Crops washed away. ' Heavy rains have clobbered British Columbia's Fraser Valley vegetable crops and washed away roads and railway » tracks, ey A variety of crops on more than 400 hectares In the Sumas ' Prairie region east of Abbotsford have been affected, Mark _ Sweeney, Provincial horticulturist - at Abbotsford, said Thursday, “Some of the corn, beans and Beas will be a write-off,” ” said Sweeney. Plants near harvest and those recently planted will be the hardest hit because the roots are sitting in water and rot- legislation was ‘intreduced ting, he said, and the next 10 days will be critical, — - Meanwhile work crews continued to repair dozens of Credit government handed highway and railway washouts that have closed major “transportation routes. The Trans Cariada Highway east of - Chilliwack, reopened Thursday. The ‘Rogers Pass section of the Trans-Canada Highway ‘connecting Revelstoke and Golden in eastern B.C. was: ‘still closed indefinitely — anywhere from four days to'a month, officials have suid and repairs continued on the CP Rail ..proposed main line in the pass area. The rail line is scheduled to open legislation ‘dilutes human this weekend, depending on weather. ; Raln continued for most of the Thursday east of the, _ Fraser Valley community of Langley, further aggravating “rights in B.C, COURAGE NEEDED “The checks and balances that made the system fair will be very shaky (in the new act), and it will take a Jot of: courage for an in- dual to bring forward a complaint, and: after. the. ‘farm conditions, Horticulturist Sweeney snid it is tao early to estimate the dollar loss to farmers but explained that if the wet weather continues for another week there could also be major Problems for cold crops such as cauliflower and broccoli, With wetness these vegetables are prone to club foot, which reduces yields and will cause the plant to die if hot damage that has now been’ weather returns. If the rain.continues most crops will be lost and if there is a sudden hot' spell plants will die. ‘The heavy rains have also flattened hay Crops ° par. more than courage to bring . ticularly some stands that are now overripe because far- mers decided not to cut in late May, opting instead for done to human rights in this province, it will take a lot ‘a complaint,’" she said. But McClelland insisted — better maturity in late June. B.C. will - have — the. strongest human rights legislation in Canada.” ~ “We've taken the loopholes out, and we've made it very clear what Is Columbia in terms of . Picket : stings grew. in number and effectiveness Thureday as, in one’ in- i Some predict that the price of bay, already up over last . Year, could cost 30 per cent more than th 1962. . Canadian Forces engineers had still not decided what t do about the washed-out. Woolsey Creek bridge, 35 kilometres west of the Rogers Pass summit, a ; Gordon Vance, disirict technician for the B.C. Highways not to be allowed in British _ Ministry in Chilliwack, said the cost of repairing several *. washouts on the Trans-Canada Highway between Hope and discrimination,” he said. Chilliwack was expected to be around $200,000. ° ‘Lose of revenue from tourism is also excessive. The Revelstoke-Golden area may prove to be the hardest hit... ‘With the vital Rogers Pass route closed, thotsands of “stance; «more than 400 potential tourists are: being diveriéd north to . the government workers stayed Yellowhead Highway between Kamloops and Jasper, Alta., out of government olfices in or south along Highway 3 near, the Canada-U. s. border, ’