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A 3 SI Swastikas painted on Jewish school THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL. SATURDAY, JUNE 30. 1990 JEFF HEINRICH THE GAZETTE ha- gr A night watchman who lives in the school basement woke at 6 a.m. to find the damage, alerting police and school administrators. The attack comes on the eve of a neo-Nazi rally this weekend near Ottawa, reported in Thursday's Gazelle.

White racist activists from Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, as well as from Britain and the U.S., are to attend the four-day event, which human-rights groups have condemned. People who live near the school said yesterday that skinheads had twice attacked students on their way home from the school about a month ago. In one case, a 20-year-old man was chased along nearby De Vimy Home but do not yet know how the vandals entered the building. There was no alarm system and police do not have any suspects. Sometime between midnight and 6 a.m., vandals spraypainted swastikas and the slogans Heil Hitler, Death to the Jews and K.K.K.

(Ku Klux Klan) on the outside walls of the school, school officials said. Inside, the vandals removed a plate glass window and jimmied the door to the main office, where they stole more than $2,000 in petty cash, the officials said. Cars along De Vimy.St. on the other side of the school were also spraypainted with neo-Nazi slogans. Some car windshields were smashed.

Ave. by three male skinheads and a female companion, armed with canes and umbrellas. The young man sought refuge in a friend's house. The attackers ran away when police showed up. i The following night, several skinheads armed with baseball' bats pulled up in their car in the same area and chased several students to their houses.

"It's a deplorable situation, what happened today," said Yechiel Glustein, 60, B'nai B'rith's Quebec director. "To us it only shows that neo-Nazi individuals and organizations, even though they are small in number, are really a threat to communities." Vandals spraypainted swastikas and neo-Nazi slogans and stole more than $2,000 from a Montreal school for Jewish men and boys yesterday, one month after skinheads chased students through the neighborhood with baseball bats, school officials said. The Quebec chapter of B'nai B'nth is now warning Montreal Jewish organizations to be on guard this holiday weekend against similar anti-Semitic attacks. MUC police investigators from Station 3 1 yesterday inspected the Yeshiva Gedola, a 200-student school on Deacon Road at Van i iWt'y GAZETTE, JOHN MAHONEY Vandals broke into Yeshiva Gedola and spraypainted outside wall. Judge facing reprimand for sexist remark CATHERINE BUCKIE THE GAZETTE White racist's comments spark request for probe The Canadian Jewish Congress yesterday asked the Quebec Human Rights Commission to look into comments made by a 20-year-old Montreal white racist leader that were published in Thursday's Gazelle.

The group wants the commission to determine whether the leader of the Aryan Resistance Movement can be charged under Quebec's Charter of Rights and Freedoms for inciting racism and hatred. John, the Montreal organizer for a neo-Nazi skinhead rally this weekend near Ottawa, said: "I don't hate niggers. I don't hate Chinese. I don't hate Jews. I just don't want them around anymore." He said he opposed random racist violence against ethnic minorities, but did not condemn violence itself against drug dealers, for example, who he said poison young, white people's minds.

In an interview yesterday, the Quebec Congress's executive director, Michael Crelinsten, said his organization does not blame the newspaper for publishing the interview, but would have preferred John's last name appear in print so that he could be traced. The young man, who works in an east-end Montreal meat-processing plant, agreed to have his photo taken, and it appeared with the story, along with a description of his headquarters. He would not give his last name. Crelinsten said his organization is trying to amass evidence to show local white racists are organized. Parade features Caribbean costume bands HORACE HOLLOWAY SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE More than 20 colorful costume bands will march along Sherbrooke St.

today in the Caribbean community's annual Carifete parade. The parade, which includes Five bands from Trinidad, departs from Sherbrooke and Atwater Avenue at noon, and winds its way east along Sherbrooke Street to Lafontaine Park. Carnival queen Norma Smith said Carifete is a time "to free-up and let one's inhibition run wild." The parade's political theme is high-, lighted by Agnes Charles, who will portray the figure of Winnie Mandela, wife of South African black leader Nelson Mandela. William Frank, executive vice-chair GEE Quebec Court Judge Denys Dionne will receive a severe reprimand at the hands of the chairman of the Quebec Judicial Council early next week, council secretary Judge Bernard Tellier said yesterday. Tellier made the comment after making public the report of a disciplinary committee charged with investigating Dionne's comment: "Rules are like women, they are made to be violated." The committee ruled that the comment was sexist, in extremely bad taste and unacceptable coming from a judge.

also said that the comments tarnished the image of justice and could lead people to believe that some judges are prejudiced and incapable of rendering impartial decisions. It also took into consideration the fact that Dionne apologized in April for the remark and noted the comment "is a common play on words used in masculine circles." Tellier said the goal of the reprimand is to make Sure that the judge realizes such statements are wrong and will not be tolerated and "the best person for that unfortunate task is the chairman of council, (Judge Albert Gobeil)." Dionne, 59, who has spent 20 years on the bench, made the comment Jan. 27, 1989 during a crirrrinal trial in Longueuil, but it only came to light a year later when a television reporter received an anonymous tip. Dionne testified that he made the remark because he wanted to demonstrate the absurdity and irrationality of an argument being made before him. Recommending Dionne's removal from the bench would have been a disproportionate punishment for his actions, the committee ruled.

Diane Lemieux, a spokesman for the Association Canadienne des Centres Contre le Viol, brought the matter to the judicial council. She had demanded Dionne's removal from the bench. Lemieux's lawyer, Michele Lefebvre, said she was satisfied. "It is saying that sexist remarks have no place in a court of law and other judges will be made aware that sexist or racist comment won't be Lefebvre said. Dionne, who stepped down from the bench in February to await the decision of the judicial council, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

lw'w Ira i 4 Ite man of the Carifete committee, said that for the first time in Carifete's 17-year history, all the main Caribbean community groups are working together on the carnival. Today's activities include: Jamaican reggae stars playing at the University de Montreal's Centre Sportif at 8 p.m. A feast of soca, calypso and reggae performed by Atlantik, from Trinidad, at 9 p.m. at Mary Mount Acadamie on Cote St. Luc Rd.

Volts Express Orchestra from Trinidad will play at Slovak Hall 2615 Jean Talon St. at 9 p.m. At the Belvedere Hotel, on St. Jacques St. Hawks International will play until 6 a.m.

At James Lyng High School, Notre Dame St. Blue Ventures Song Revolution play soca, calypso and 'roots rock' reggae. The show starts at 9 p.m. GAZETTE. GORDON BECK Junior queen Adama Romeo, 9 adjusts plumage of Carifete queen Norma Smith as Malika Skerritt, 8, checks shoulder feathers.

Police say man killed by train might have committed suicide A 28-year-old-man was killed by a freight train yesterday afternoon near the corner of St. Hubert and de Louvain Sts. in the Ahuntsic area. Police said last night they are not ruling out the possibility that it was a suicide. Lt.

Martin Demers said the man was walking with his back to the oncoming train along the tracks and did not respond to repeated blasts of the train's whistle. "The conductor could not stop the train in time," Demers said. Anjou resident wins award Anjou resident Louise Roy was one of 32 recipients of the new Merite Municipale award for outstanding community work yesterday. Roy was among twelve citizens, eight municipal employees and 12 community organizations from across the province to receive the award. She was the only winner from the Montreal area.

Roy is a founding member of the Regroupement des Artisans d'Anjou which helped exhibit and sell the work of local artists, was a member of the school committee for five years and co-ordinated Boy Scout and Girl Guide activities. She also established the crime prevention program, Operation Surveillance Anjou, in her community in 1986. He Notre Dams beach to open soon The new beach on He Notre Dame will open the first nice day after July 8, city officials said yesterday. The original June 23 opening of the $7-million project was delayed recently because of a strike by independent dump truck operators. Yesterday, city official Marc Campagna announced the facilities are nearly ready.

La Plage de Tile Notre Dame will provide the public with a beach-like setting in the heart of the city. It features a 600-metre-wide sandy beach, a chalet and natural filtered water. The cost of admission is 5 for adults and $2 for children. Residents of Montreal can purchase a rebate card for $5 for the season, giving them 50 per cent off the admission price. Beatty makes pitch for AIDS policy PAUL WELLS THE GAZETTE munodeficiency Virus)." The Canadian Association of French-Speaking Physicians will receive $25,000 to publish an introductory text for francophone doctors.

At the McGill University Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, Beatty introduced "Responding to HIVAIDS in Canada." The book is an overview of government, business, professional and volunteer groups' policies on AIDS and HIV, the virus linked to the syndrome. Norbert Gilmore, a Royal Victoria Hospital immunologist and co-author of the McGill book, welcomed the policy as "a demonstration of political will But the epidemic, which, had claimed 2,282 Canadian lives as of June 12, affects each area of the country differently, Beatty said. More women with AIDS live in Montreal than any other Canadian city, for instance, and the syndrome is more widespread among newborn babies and drug users here than elsewhere, he said. Beatty repeated his promise for $60,000 in funding for two manuals for francophone physicians. The Quebec Federation of General Practitioners will receive $35,000 to distribute 4,500 copies of a teaching manual, "L'Infection par le Virus d'lmmunodeTicience Hu-maine (Infection by the Human Im Federal Health Minister Perrin Beatty brought his promotional campaign for Ottawa's new AIDS policy to Montreal yesterday, announcing $60,000 in federal money for two AIDS manuals and presiding over the presentation of a third.

Beatty said he announced the new policy Thursday in Toronto and came to Montreal yesterday to sell it because the cities rank first and second nationwide in the number of people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. 20-year-old faces trial in $2-million blaze at McGill's Meredith house One of two men accused of setting a rash of fires, including a blaze last winter that gutted McGill University's Lady Meredith house, was ordered to stand trial yesterday. Andre Cassista, 20, of Berri was arrested following a two-month investigation into the $2-million fire at the historic building at the corner of Pine Ave. and Peel St. Evidence revealed the Jan.

7 fire was set by a toaster intentionally stuffed with paper. Electronic equipment was stolen and offices were sacked before the building was set ablaze. A police witness testified at the preliminary hearing, which ended yesterday, that he arrested Cassista and Sylvain St. Hilaire, 22, after checking bills from a stolen cellular telephone. The Crown's key witness, a teenager who said "he was a friend of Cassista, told court earlier he stored a stock of diskettes, computer accessories and other hardware at Cassista's request.

Police estimated the materials stolen from the building, which housed McGill's pulmonary research laboratory and its Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, were worth about 50,000. Quebec Court Judge Claude Vaillancourt said he will rule Wednesday in the case of co-accused St. Hilaire, of Desjardins who faces the same charges. A trial date will be set in September for Cassista, who faces 17 charges. Bail was refused for both men.

Daughter arrested after woman, 68, found bludgeoned to death A 31 -year-old woman is expected to be charged to The following roads will be closed this weekend: St. Catherine St. W. between Jeanne Mance St. and St.

Laurent Blvd. is closed to traffic until July 8, the end of the Jazz Festival. Two lanes in both directions on the Champlain Bridge will be closed at midnight tonight, until 5 a.m. tomorrow. The southbound exit from Metropolitan Blvd.

to the Decarie Expressway will be closed between 5 a.m. today and noon Sunday. Metropolitan Blvd. will be completely closed between St. Laurent Blvd.

and the Decarie Expressway from midnight Sunday until 2 a.m. Monday. Metropolitan Blvd. between the Anjou interchange and Langclier Blvd. will be closed today until tomorrow noon.

i '-V 1 Winning numbers Friday, 900629 day with second-degree murder in the death of her mother, who was bludgeoned with a hammer early yesterday in the east-end apartment they shared. The slain woman was identified as Irene Racette, 68, of 24 10 Logan St. Claude Lachapelle, the Montreal Urban Community police officer in charge of the investigation, said the women had argued earlier in the evening before going to bed. After a woman called the emergency 9 1 1 number to report the slaying, MUC police officers converged on the apartment building, near the Suret6 du Quebec headquarters, and found Racette lying in her blood-soaked bed shortly after 4 a.m. Her head had been bashed in, apparently with a blood-stained hammer found nearby, police said.

Claudette Racette is to be brought to Quebec Court at Montreal for arraignment today. The slaying was the 26th so far this year in the MUC, 20 less than during the same period last year. In another case, police say they've closed their file on the shooting Thursday of Nicole Tremblay, classifying the incident as a murder-suicide attempt. Tremblay, who was babysitting a 5-ycar-old boy in a house on Northcliffc was hit by a shotgun blast fired by her husband of 24 years, Rdal Michaud, 48. Moments later, Michaud killed himself with the same gun.

A suicide note was found in his car. Tremblay left her husband and filed for divorce last month, a few days after she complained to police that Michaud had threatened to kill her. Michaud denied the charge at his arraignment and was granted his freedom pending a hearing after promising to stay away from his estranged wife. A spokesman for Montreal General Hospital described Trcmblay's condition yesterday as serious. South Shore bus drivers protest lagging talks As many as 100 South Shore Transit Corporation bus drivers protested lagging contract talks yesterday morning outside the Longueuil Mdtro station, parking their vehicles instead of driving them to the St.

Hubert garage. The drivers picketed outside the Metro stop until 1 1 a.m., then drove in a convoy back to the garage. "It's not a strike, it's a protest. We used about 70 buses that were not supposed to be on the roads and drivers that were not working. We didn't disrupt any services," said Francinc Simoncau, a union representative.

Talks involving both sides and a government conciliator were in their third day yesterday. Simoncau said a bus drivers' strike is unlikely in the near future, but did not rule one out. "We won't be having a strike now. We'll see how the negotiations go before deciding if we will eventually strike or hold more protests," she said. Mini-Loto 2291 73 wins $50,000 29173 91 73 wins $250 173 wins $25 73 wins $5 2291 La Quotidienne-4 5-2 0 8 (in order) La Quotidienne-3 1-6-0 (in order) Banco 2-3-7-11-12-16-21 25 28-41-42-46-48 50 59-62 63-66 68 69 Provincial 1 627072 wins $1 .000,000 627072 27072 7072 072 wins $25 Inter Plus 507637 wins $250,000 07637 wins $2,500 7637 wins $250 637 wins $25 Movable numbers aro: 79928 ($2,500) 1625 ($250) 306 ($25) GAZETTE, JOHN KENNEY Jazzing it Up Michel Munn and his son, Julien, 2, joined the crowd at St.

Catherine St. near Place des Arts as the annual Jazz Festival kicked oft yesterday..