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The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 3

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ClhfiMKUv. Montreal, Wednesday, October 25, 1989 i i Girl's grisly killing shocks schoolmates Claude Lachapelle, head of the Montreal Jack Todd "Valerie, Valerie, Valerie that's all anybody's talking about at school," one weeping friend said outside the home. Members of the slain girl's family declined to speak to reporters. "It's too horrible, it's too awful." said one grieving man, who identified himself as the girl's uncle. Dalpe's friends described the slain teenager as a well-liked girl who did little to attract attention and had no enemies.

"She'd never pull stunts to draw attention to herself. She was a quiet person well liked by everybody," Arseneault said. A funeral is to be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Rene Goupil Church, 4251 Pare Rene Goupil St in Montreal.

he "jumped on her." The man, in his 30s, had lured Dalpe into his automobile by saying he was upset because his girlfriend had left him, Arseneault said. He then asked Dalpe to be his girlfriend, and when she declined "he jumped on her she had to push the door open to escape," Arseneault added. Dalpe told friends that during their encounter, the man had shown her a piece of paper on which he had noted her name, address and phone number. Arseneault said Dalpe was shaken up by the incident. Meanwhile, about 20 sombre friends and family members gathered at a St.

Leonard funeral home. as hero after transplant vv rv Urban Community ponce nomiciuc sguau, "We're doing all we can," he said. Lachapelle said no suspect has been Identified in the slaying. And he refused to say whether police are trying to locate a man rumored to have harassed Dalpe sex- lloiM kkf APA she went missing. DAtrt Arseneault said yesterday in an interview that Dalp6 had told friends she escaped from a man's car on Monday after Boy returns By KATE DUNN of The Gazette There were training wheels on the new bike given 5-year-old Michael Vandctte yesterday when be arrived from Iowa City.

He was a little irked by the kiddie wheels. Michael figured if he's a big enough boy to donate bone marrow to help his sister Danielle battle leukemia, he's big enough to go without training wheels. On Friday, Michael was given a general anesthetic at the University of Iowa Hospital to have 60 needles inserted, 30 in each hip, to withdraw bone marrow. Then the two lints of marrow were pain-essly transfused into Danielle's body as she sat up and chatted with other leukemia patients in the hospital. Seven-year-old Danielle had exhausted all other possible remedies in her fight against leukemia.

She was diagnosed with that form of cancer in March 1988. A worldwide search for someone with exactly the same type of bone marrow as Danielle's had turned up no prospects; her brother was the closest candidate, with a half-match to his sister's. Relatives and the media met Michael on his arrival at Dorval Airport yesterday, his 12-year-old sister Christina crying when she saw her brother in her uncle Bob Hor-ton's arms. Grandparents Ruth and Albert Hebert brought the new red bicycle to Michael. Asked whether he had understood beforehand what he was going to do for his sister, Michael replied: "I helped her.

I gave her bone marrow." Then he grimaced as microphones were stuck in his face by television and radio reporters, saying he was tired of being interviewed. Only the Iowa hospital was willing to do the transplant. Others insist on perfect matches of marrow. The Quebec government has not decided whether it will pay for the transplant, which is said to be successful in 35 to 40 per cent of cases. So the family and their inlaws, the Hortons, raised $236,000 to pay for it.

Michael The Vandette, her daughter enough. ready to have equipped, everything." She said her first whether "It will are hers. Shocked schoolmates of a I Jy ear-old St Leonard girl whoso dismembered body was found in plastic bags at the Miron quarry dump last Thursday lay they've been afraid to walk the streets since. "We girls are all afraid." Nancy Arsen-eault, IS, said during lunch break at An-toine St. Exup6ry school yesterday.

"We don't want to go out any more." "It's horrible," agreed Melanie Vianna, 14. "How could anyone do such a thing?" Friends of Valerie Dalpe said she had been reported missing the evening before, after setting out for a corner store several blocks from her home. Six police Investigators were busy yesterday tracking down leads, said 3 St. Hubert woman given life sentence for murder Colette Petel was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for the second-degree murder of one of her daughter's friends. But the Quebec Superior Court jury also recommended she be eligible for parole in 10 years, the minimum allowed.

Petel, 41. killed Alain Raymond. 34. at her home in St. Hubert July 21.

She still faces charges of attempting to murder Serge Edsell, her daughter's boyfriend. Petel's daughter, Josee Desjardins, 19, was strangled with her own belt Aug. 7, five days after she testified for the Crown at her mother's preliminary hearing. Yves St. Germain, 36, described by police as a friend of Edsell and Raymond, is charged with her first-degree murder.

Yesterday, Petel appeared calm when the jury gave its verdict, and when she was sentenced by Justice Rejean Paul. Lawyer Gilles Richard conceded his client shot the men but argued Petel had acted in self-defence, believing Edsell and Raymond planned to kill her and her daughter because they knew about their drug deals. Dor6 nixes electoral map Montreal is refusing to adopt a new electoral map proposed by the province. Mayor Jean Dore told city council yesterday he has written chief electoral officer Pierre-F. Cote to say the city won't agree to the new map unless Quebec can justify it.

Cote, ruled there should be 50 city council seats eight fewer than now in the next municipal election in just over a year. Dore's Montreal Citizens' Movement administration had proposed to reduce the seats to 48. But Cote added back two seats and changed boundaries of some districts. Three years for abduction -An unemployed taxi driver who pleaded guilty this month to nine charges including kidnapping and pointing a firearm was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison. court was told the man used his own son as an accomplice in abducting his former common-law wife June 23.

The 14-year-old boy testified that he served as a decoy to get the woman to open the door of her LaSalle apartment. The man tried to drive her back to the family home in Rouyn-Noranda but she talked him into surrendering. Low-cost housing urged About a dozen demonstrators from community groups demanded at city hall yesterday that the city's executive committee adopt a housing policy that favors low- and middle-income residents. coalition, the Front d'action populate en reamenagement urbain, urged the city to build 50,000 low-cost housing units over 10 years and maintain the ban on conversion of rental units to condominiums. Fire roars through duplex Fire raced through a duplex under renovation on St.

Christophe St. between Ontario St. and de Maisonneuve Blvd. around 9 p.m. last night and then spread to two adjoining rooming houses and a private duplex.

One resident in an adjacent building was overcome by smoke and was carried from his home by ambulance attendants. Three firefighters also suffered smoke inhalation. About 15 residents huddled on a bus brought to the scene to shelter evacuees. Benard, 93, escaped in his slippers with his wife, Aline, 85, only after hearing fire trucks arrive. "We didn't even have time to put our pants on," he said.

The general-alarm fire was under control by 11 m. The cause was unknown. 1 Protest becomes rally: Replacing an annual protest at Montreal's Soviet consulate in prior years, a committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress plans a Simchat Torah rally of solidarity with Soviet Jews at 7:30 p.m. in Centennial Park, on Mackle Rd. behind Cavendish Mall in Cote St Luc.

Focus on environment: The Montreal Urban Community's environment committee holds a public hearing at 7 tonight in the Centre Pierre Charbonneau. Among the groups to present briefs are the Committee for the Closing of Urban Quarries and the Mouvement pour l'agriculture ecologique. 2 'Forum Four' should've won publicity prize i 'i They wuz robbed. On a day when Jim Bakker got what was coming to him and Zsa Zsa Gabor didn't, four Montreal stuntmcn became the victims of the biggest miscarriage of justice since the re-election of Brian Muldoon. Michel Chartier, Stephane Lcfebvre, and twin brothers Gilbert Larose and Glenn Larose Jr.

are the Montrealers who pulled off the cleverest stunt in that obnoxious CKMF do-something-outrageous contest. After two of the four Lefebvre and Gilbert Larose descended on cables from the roof of the Forum to the ice during the third period of the Canadiens' 2-1 victory over the Flames last Wednesday, it looked like they could start carving up CKMF's $25,000 prize. The idea, after all, was to plaster CKMF's call letters all over the place, to draw attention to the radio station even if it meant setting yourself on fire and running down the street, which is exactly what one melon-brain decided to do. CKMF at least had the good sense not to award the prize to the human fireball, but their winner was almost as bad. The award went to the Batman and Robin duo whose rope-dangling routine off the Jacques Cartier bridge went totally haywire.

Traffic was tied up for 1 Vi hours when one of the men got his ropes tangled. Motorists fumed, the fire department had to be called to the rescue but somehow Batman and Robin are splitting $25,000 today. A spokesman for CKMF said last night that the three-member jury (none of whom works for CKMF) which judged the contest gave the nod to Gilles Chartier's suspended Batman act because it brought the station more visibility. 'Incomprehensible' choice Presumably he was thinking of all those furious motorists on the Jacques Cartier who were watching the Batman routine and thinking about turning flamethrowers on CKMF. If it hadn't been for Batman, he was sure the Forum Four would have won cold comfort when you've just missed out on $25,000.

"It's a bit incomprehensible to us," Michel Chartier was saying yesterday. "We got them (CKMF) so much attention all over the world. "We were on CNN and TSN, a woman called us from a newspaper in Florida, we were interviewed by some radio station in California. The first thing they wanted was to put their name before the public, and we were able to do that." The 29-year-old Chartier described in detail yesterday how they put their plan, which was first dreamed up by Glenn Larose into action. "After we decided to do it we went to a few games to find out how to get through the guards," said Chartier.

"Finally we found a crack in the security system." The men noticed that Forum ushers were not as attentive in checking tickets after the second intermission as they were during the first two periods of the game. They decided that they could get out onto -the beams under the Forum roof through -the press box, and that if they wore white I shirts and ties it would look as if they were; reporters who had left their jackets in the press box. Blocked guard's way To get into the Forum with their gear -two 17-pound, 163-foot rolls of cable with grappling hooks to secure them to the beam Chartier simply put the equipment in a bag. The men bought -standing-room tickets and when they entered the Forum before the game, Chartier offered to let a security guard look in the bag. The guard waved him on through.

Just before the third period started, the -men made their way toward the press box. I While Chartier held their coats, Lefebvre and Gilbert Larose started out toward the -beam. Chartier waited until he saw Glenn 1 Larose starting to work his way out with the equipment, and when he saw that the security guard had spotted Larose, he dropped his coats in front of the guard, picked them up and dropped them again to block the guard's way. By this time it was five minutes into the third period. The Canadiens scored, making it 2-1, and Chartier saw the cables drop to the ice.

"As soon as I saw the cables drop, I knew we had it made," said Chartier. Glenn Larose stayed on the beam to watch the hooks while his brother and Lefebvre eased their way down to the ice with the CKMF banner between them and were immediately arrested and hustled off one of the Forum security guards allegedly -roughing up Lefebvre in the process. "The biggest surprise to us was the crowd," said Chartier. "We didn't expect a standing ovation." Even the cops at Station 25, Chartier said, treated them like heroes. -v Everybody, it seems, loved the stunt except Ronald Corey and CKMF but then, these are the same Radio Mutuelle people who pulled that famous Quebec City turkey drop.

Anyone who thinks that stunt was a winner obviously doesn't know the difference. Vandette, 5, tries out bicycle with training wheels yesterday. chael's. We're not out of the woods yet. "Rejection (of the marrow) can occur years after the transplant.

But if there's no rejection in the first year, chances of rejection decrease. They apparently can't pronounce you cured until two years have passed." Bob Horton, married to a sister of Danielle's father, Alan Hebert, said he hasn't given up on getting the Quebec government to pay for the children's mother, Debbie said in a telephone interview from Iowa was doing well "I'm just getting her go to school. They classrooms here, all with computers and Danielle will have test Nov. 4, to see the marrow is taking. show whose chromosomes growing, his or Hopefully, they'll be Mi Xw i transplant.

The Regie de l'as-surance maladie du Quebec wants Hebert to make application for compensation, with two supporting letters from Quebec doctors. The Iowa hospital demanded a deposit of $163,300 U.S., he said. "When Danielle returns, she has to be in a germ-free environment. That means spending a lot of money outfitting her room. We've invested all the money in her operation." yesterday, McDougall aide Ian Sadinsky said the decision will stand.

The department decided to lift the moratorium, adopted after an attempted coup in Haiti in April, after receiving word that the political climate in that country had returned to normal. Haitian groups in Canada dispute that claim, however, saying politically motivated killings occur regularly. At present, Lebanon and China are the only two countries with moratoriums on deportations in effect. saw a police officer on the ground. "Then I heard feet running and saw an officer running at me with his gun out.

When he reached the car he shot once." Robinson said the officer shot through the open passenger window of the car from a distance of about one metre. Later that year, Robinson, who was 17 at the time, was convicted in juvenile court of stealing a truck, breaking his parole conditions and dangerous driving. He was also charged with attempted murder and negligence but was acquitted. In June this year he filed an $80,000 lawsuit against MUC police. In his suit Robinson stated that he panicked when a police sergeant walked to his car apparently to investigate a stolen vehicle.

He said he tried to speed away and the officer was knocked down. Stephane Gagnon contradicted Robinson's testimony when he testified before the commission that it was Robinson who wanted to steal the truck but that he agreed to drive it because Robinson could not operate a standard transmission. The inquiry continues today. i Three Haitians deported, fourth lying low By DEBBIE PARKES of The Gazette Three Haitian nationals were the first to be sent back home yesterday following this month's lifting of a moratorium on deportations to that country. Richard Saint-Louis, an Immigration Department official, said the next deportations to Haiti will probably take place this weekend.

He said so far two individuals are to be flown out at that time. Saint-Louis added that a fourth person Man shot by police arrested again from Haiti, who was also to have been deported yesterday, did not show up. He said that person, who came to Canada before January and remained as an illegal, is now being sought by the department. Jean-Claude Icart, director of the Bureau de la communaute chretienne des haitiens de Montreal, said members of his community and local human-rights organizations will continue to press Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall to reverse the decision to resume deportations. But in a telephone interview from Hull Robinson testified that Renouf then stepped away from him, put his gun away and kicked him in the chest, which was bleeding profusely from the wound.

Robinson said he fell and hit his head. "The next thing I knew the officer was on top of me again. He had his knee on my chest and his gun out saying that now I was going to die," Robinson testified. Before the shooting, Robinson testified, he had been riding in his friend Stephane Gagnon's car when the two of them decided to steal a car or a truck. He said that after looking in several vehicles, he found a truck with the keys in the glove compartment.

He got back in the car and told his friend that if he wanted to steal the truck, to go ahead. Robinson said Gagnon got in the truck and he drove the car but they had only travelled a block when Robinson saw the flashing lights of a police car behind him. The police car passed and blocked the road in front of the stolen truck. Robinson decided to try to get away but as he began turning the corner, he heard a thump at the back right side of his car and By CATHERINE BUCKIE of The Gazette Less than 12 hours after testifying before the Quebec Police Commission about being shot and abused by police in June 1988, Wayne Robinson was arrested for stealing a car early yesterday. Yvon Briere of MUC police said in a telephone interview that Robinson was arrested on Clement St.

in LaSalle driving a stolen car. He was arrested at about 12:30 a.m. and released on a promise to appear in court in March. Briere said the car was reported stolen 13 days ago. Robinson was not charged with any other infractions.

Robinson is the main witness in an inquiry called to investigate his shooting by Const. Vital Renouf of Montreal Urban Community police. Robinson testified Monday that on June 14, 1988, as he was attempting to drive away from police, Renouf shot him in the chest, and when he got out of the car Renouf held the gun to his head and said: "Now you're going to die." Winning numbers Tuesday, 891024 Ouotidwmw-4 2-4-2-7 (in order) Quotiditnn-3 9-7-9 (in order).

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