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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1991 A3 V. jM i ifiJhnit iIiIi iinniwiftltii nil I- I Jn it stored next to fla mmables an defunct Point factory GRAEME HAMILTON THE GAZETTE waste is inside the cavernous building or why it is stored near flammable solvents and oils. Gaetan Morin, an Environment Department official, said electrical capacitors like the ones inside the building are considered hazardous waste under provincial regulations. Those regulations state that if PCB waste is stored in the same building as flammable haz--ardous waste, the PCBs must be sealed in snipping containers. A visit yesterday found at least 80 out-of-use capacitors in the dilapidated building, many labelled with black-and-white stickers saying, "Caution: Contains PCB, an environmental contaminant." They were not in shipping containers.

Close by were barrels of used oil and lubricants, plastic containers labelled "flammable liquid" and a mound of paint cans. It's up to SODIM to ensure the security of the building, another Environment Department official said. "PCBs should not be stored with flammable products," Gilles St. Amour said. "The problem with PCBs is fire." When burned, PCBs polychlorinated bi-phenyls release highly toxic dioxins and furans into the environment.

Local teenagers use the factory as a hangout, crawling in through broken windows, Murray said. Most windows along the football-field-length factory were covered with boards or caging yesterday, but in one place the board had been removed. "If I can get in there, imagine younger kids," Murray said. Gaetan Rainville, general manager of SODIM, re fused to comment on the PCBs yesterday, but said people have no right to enter the building. Windows get broken regularly, he acknowledged, but said they are boarded up as soon as possible.

SODIM has had trouble occupying the building because of a squatter who refused to leave, St. Amour said. The squatter, who reportedly kept a ferocious dog, also prevented environment inspectors from assessing how much waste was inside the building, he said. "We don't have the jurisdiction to break down doors," St. Amour said.

The city told the Environment Department in June it had bought a building containing PCBs, he added. SODIM has said it will act on the problem soon. "It's not the best situation," he said. "But there are PCBs everywhere." Robert Murray and some friends were looking for a sheltered place to play ball hockey last weekend when they stumbled upon a stock of PCB-filled electrical equipment in an abandoned Point St. Charles factory.

"There were PCBs all over the place," Murray, 22, "said yesterday. "I was freaking out." The former Northern Electric plant on St. Patrick St. has been closed for years. It now belongs to the city's Socicte de Developpement Industriel de Montreal But neither the Quebec Environment Department nor SODIM was able to say yesterday how much PCB CENTREPIECE CBC slashes hortwaue radio grmmm.

RCI loses 93 employees, French, English programs Citizen input helps police hit drug dens MIKE BOONE GAZETTE TV CRITIC Blue-collars end strike early, say they're ready to talk again Montreal blue-collar workers ended a planned 27-' hour strike six hours early yesterday, with leaders saying they're ready to return to talks before a mediator to nest management's willingness to show good faith. The strike, which began at 7 p.m. on Thursday, was expected to end at 10 p.m. yesterday. But workers were back on the job at 4 p.m.

Quebec's Essential Services Council had ruled the striking workers would have to salt and plow roads, maintain water and sewage plants and respond to emergencies. The union respected those requirements during the strike, the union's third brief work stoppage this year, a council spokesman said. The union's 5,200 members, employees of the Montreal Urban Community and the city of Montreal, want an 8-per-cent wage increase and a reduced "work week to 35 from 40 hours. The city has offered 5-per-cent pay hike. Snow storm set to hammer region A cold air mass from the U.S.

midwest is expected to arrive over Montreal this morning, dumping up to 20 of snow on the city and blowing wind gusts of up to 60 kmhour. The storm is to hit Montreal about 10 a.m. and leave the city about midnight, Dor-val airport weather specialist Guy Borne said. Body on expressway identified DAVID JOHNSTON THE GAZETTE A man found shot to death Thursday on the Greene Ave. access ramp to the eastbound Ville Marie expressway was identified yesterday as Fritz Dieujuste, 28, of Montreal.

He had been shot at least once in the head, police said. MUC Constable Marcel Allard said investigators still have not identified a motive for the slaying, or pinpointed a suspect. Thp clavino uac the I 3th in thf The CBC's budget-cutting axe has fallen on Radio Canada International. The Montreal-based shortwave service will lose six of its foreign-language services and its English and French productions. Of RCI's 193 employees, 93 will lose their jobs as the service's annual budget is reduced to 1 3.5 million from $2 1 million.

Now producing 232 hours a week of programs out of its studios on Rene Lvesque Blvd. RCI will cut back to 65 hours. RCI has cancelled broadcasts in German, Polish, Czech and Slovak, Hungarian, Portuguese (beamed to Brazil) and Japanese. It will continue to produce Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Arabic and Spanish shows. The shortwave service will continue to broadcast its own newscasts in Canada's official languages, but most of RCI's French and English schedules beamed to the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa will be filled by repackaged programs from CBC and Radio-Canada's AM and FM networks.

CBC executive vice-president Michael McEwen broke the news to RCI employees yesterday. "There was absolute silence as he spoke," said Woj-tek Gwiazda, a 10-yeaf RCI announcer-producer whose daily news broadcast to the U.S. has been cancelled. "It boggles the mind that RCI won't be producing its own programs in the languages of Canada." Immediately after the announcement, RCI began apologizing on air to millions of listeners around the world for funding cuts it said had been forced by the Mulroney government. A spokesman for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney expressed astonishment at the decision to trumpet such embarrassing news abroad on the federally funded service.

RCI executive director Andrew Simon praised the federal government for finding the funds to maintain the shortwave service. Simon called yesterday's announcement "a textbook case of a glass that is, depending on how you look at it, half empty or half full." Simon said the CBC has promised RCI budget stability for five years. The shortwave network becomes a distinct service, rather than a component of the CBC budget subject to cuts, because of revenue shortfalls in the corporation's other broadcasting networks. But the bookkeeping change was small solace to employees who could be out of a job next week when RCI begins sorting out layoff procedures according to the seniority provisions of its union contracts. Yesterday's announcement ended months of uncertainty about RCI's fate.

CBC president Gerard Veil-leux told RCI staff in December the corporation would no longer provide funding for them after April f. "Other CBC employees got cut in December," Gwiazda said, "but at least they found out right away. We've been going on the air every day not knowing if it's our last broadcast." In Hull yesterday, former CBC president Pierre Juneau said Canadians are losing the CBC due to years of funding cuts by the Conservative government. "The CBC has already been put on a steep, slippery slope downwards," Juneau told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission'. The federal broadcast regulator is probing the CBC's decision to slash 108 million from its spending budget.

ADDITIONAL REPORTING: CANADIAN PRESS, SOUTHAM NEWS GAZETTE. GORDON BECK Constable Normand Lussier, of MUC police Station 15, swims at city pool with youngsters living in down-at-the-heels area shown on map below. TP Police, kids are banking on the future WW XH After feeding police information which led to the largest raid ever on Montreal crack houses, residents ol Walkley Ave. in Notre Dame de Grace are now facing the consequences of their own brave actions. One consequence is plywood.

The other is fear. The plywood they can deal with. When 98 policeman raided six suspected crack houses on or neai Walkley on March 1 5, city building inspectors promptly condemned the apartment units and boarded them up with plywood. To the outside eye, it's not the prettiest of sights. But to residents, the plywood is sheer beauty, the ultimate symbol of their efforts to reclaim their street from the clutches of west-end crack gangs.

But as a group of residents met Thursday to review last week's events, it was clear from their worried faces that fear lives on. Residents fear reprisals Fear of reprisals from crack gangs. And fear, above all, of discussing publicly how they had put those crack houses under citizen surveillance, and passed on to police vital information that helped persuade a judge to issue the search warrants permitting the massive raid in the first place. "I'll tell you very frankly: everyone is very scared," one resident said. The Walkley raid was the fruit of three years of co-operation between police and residents.

In the spring of 1988, as a result of complaints from residents, Station 1 5 assigned Constable Nick Sobol to walk the street, get to know people and hope residents would open up to him with information. They did. The Walkley raid was the largest ever in Montreal in terms of the manpower. But the size of the seizure was small in comparison: only 20 rocks of crack cocaine, each weighing about 0. 1 gram, or enough for two hits.

In fact, it was an average seizure when measured against hauls from past raids. Police say they usually seize two to five rocks in each crack house they raid. A year of surprises Still, some policemen were surprised. They had expected more. But this has been a year full of surprises for detectives who work on crack cases and not the least of which has been the stunning decline in crack-related violence this year.

Last year was wicked. According to police, wars between competing crack gangs last year in Montreal's west end alone produced six murders, 24 attempted murders and 75 other shooting incidents. But it was the last of those six murders which police now say was the most significant. On New Year's Eve, Kenneth Gordon, 33, of V6zina was gunned down in his apartment lobby along with his ex-girlfriend Joanne Murray. VAA A 4 I THE GAZETTE FlitZ Dieujuste MUCin 1991.

There were 18 at this in head time last year. Montreal man arrested in Colombia A Montreal man wanted by Canadian police on murder, theft and drug-trafficking charges has been arrested in Colombia, the country's secret police an- nounced yesterday. The man was identified as Joseph-Charles Duclos, I the DAS police service said. The Colombian justice department will arrange for his extradition within the next few days. Laval police didn't confirm whether the arrested man is the same person for whom they have issued an arrest warrant.

In early March, the police force an- nounced it had issued a warrant for the arrest of a Jean-Pierre Duclos, whose family name and age match those of the suspect arrested in Colombia. He's wanted in the fatal shooting of Danielle Andre, 33, whose nude I body was found Jan. 17 in a field in Chomedey. I AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE, GAZETTE jjRaid on garage nets 28 vehicles A raid in Boucherville early yesterday brought police la step closer to the ring of con artists who bilked I Montreal-area automobile dealers and finance com-jpanies out of thousands of dollars. Montreal Urban Community police auto-theft in-" vestigators said a raid on a Boucherville garage netted them 28 late-model vehicles that the con men had used to pull off a $600,000 scam.

No arrests were made. All the cars found yesterday had been so badly da-Imaged in accidents, they had been written off by insurance companies, police said. The gang used the metal serial-number tags from the wrecks to register I phantom vehicles. Youth seeks corporate cash I Sun Youth executive director Sid Stevens appealed I to the business world yesterday as the organization launched a $1 -million fundraising campaign to renc-; vate its camp in the Laurentian community of L'An-" nonciation. Once the work is complete, the camp will I be able to accommodate year-round 2,000 underprivi-; leged children and seniors who are victims of crime.

Next month, few streets in Montreal will be able to boast as high a concentration of children with their own bank accounts as the underprivileged stretch of Walkley Ave. between Chester and Fielding Aves. Montreal Urban Community police Station 15 plans next month to open bank accounts for 30 Walkley children who are members of its Youth Club. "We're going to put $5 in each account," said Constable Richard" DiFoglio of Station 1 5. The police station, situated on Rosedale started the club last summer as part of its continuing effort to improve relations with neighborhood blacks.

It was in the parking lot of Station 1 5 in 1 987 that MUC police officer Allen Gosset killed black teenager Anthony Griffin, prompting angry denunciations of the force. Membership is restricted to children aged 6 to 1 3 who live on Walk-ley between Somerled Ave. and Cote St. Luc Rd. Most members are aged 9 to 12 and Ijve between Chester and Fielding Aves.

They include blacks and whites. The club meets on the first and third Thursdays of every month. Last Thursday, 15 club members went swimming with Constable Normand Lussier at the city swimming pool on Decarie Blvd. The club is funded by several sources, including the Fondation Jean Beliveau ($500 this year), the city of Hampstead ($250) and Edinburgh School According to Constable Pierre Marotte, an analyst with the MUC police's criminal-intelligence unit, Gordon was leader of the strongest crack gang in the city. "It was Gordon's gang that was the biggest," Marotte said.

"Since the Gordon killing, the degree of violence has gone way down. There hasn't been one (crack-related) murder this year, and the number of shootings is way down too." Eighteen people were arrested in the Walkley raid, which saw four apartments raided in the block between Fielding and Chester one between Chester and Cote St. Luc and one on Fielding near the corner of Walkley. Of the 18, nine were charged, nine released. Two others were arrested later.

All 1 1 have been charged with trafficking, possession for the purpose of trafficking and conspiracy to traffic. The raid was supervised by a special MUC police task force created Jan. 1 to fight rising crack-related crime. Price of booze goes up on April 1 The Societe des Alcools du Quebec yesterday uncorked its second price increase of the year, announcing that prices will go up an average of 3.6 per cent on April 1. In January, the provincial liquor corporation raised prices by an average of 1 .9 per cent.

The SAQ blames the latest increase on higher wholesale prices. Cognac, champagne and Chianti wine will be hardest hit, with average increases of 14.49 percent, 12.96 per cent and 10 per cent respectively. A bottle of Moet et Chandon champagne will jump in price to $42.54 from $36.75, while Martell's Fine Cognac will increase to $43.61 from $39.25. Lovers of domestic wines should take heart, however. The price of wines bottled in Quebec and Ontario will rise by only one per cent.

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"God knows enough administrators have quietly told me. 'Don't fight this, it's going to go through no matter what. he said. 2 7 16 4 0 2 I. 3 0 6 8 2 7 2 1 3 7 5 4 4 0 1 5 2 9 2 8 6 1 6 6 5 8 3 1 "18 4 6 8 3 0 1 9 9 5 7 9 6 2 114 2 8 5 2 6 10 3 19 2 6 12 7 99 2 7 6 9 8 4 5 "3122783 "3519237 3 7 1 2 2 2 1 Still, for every professor calling for Kenniffs head, another argues the rector does his job well enough, or says getting rid of him would further destabilize the university.

The latest uproar is over an interim report published March 6 by Concordia's Strategic Space Plan Committee, which proposed moving 19 arts and humanities departments and programs to Loyola. Faculty members were invited to attend information sessions and submit alternative proposals. It was the first time the committee, which had been sitting since November, revealed its existence. At a meeting last Friday, 101 students, staff and faculty members voted to adopt a resolution demanding that Kenniff disavow the report and disband the committee. Nine people voted against the resolution.

Six abstained. The resolution has only symbolic value, but it reflects widespread belief that the move would isolate humanities professors from their traditional clientele the multicultural downtown core and away from a $40-million downtown library nearing completion. Kenniff won't comment on the proposal until a final version lands on his desk, perhaps as much as six weeks from now. public relations director Ken Whittingham said. Charles Bertrand.

dean of arts and science, defended the committee's work and the university's administration. Committees should have the right to hammer out sensi It? ii A proposal to move Concordia University's humanities and social science departments from downtown to the west-end Loyola campus is facing mounting opposition. Several professors say the plan, hatched by a six-member committee during months of secret meetings, is symptomatic of a bloated administrative bureaucracy. And some say the situation's so bad, rector Patrick Kenniff. the university's top administrative official, must go.

Td be delighted if (Kenniff) would either change his ways of running this university or get out," English professor Ed Pechter said. $50,000 $50,000 $5,000 tt.OOff $5000 $5000 $5000 $5000 $5 000 $5 000 $5003 $5000 $5009 $5000 $5530 $5 000 $5300 $5000 $5000 la Quotidienw-4 7-8-8-4 (in order) La Ouotidienw-3 2-9-5 (m order) Banc 1-6-8-10-14-29-30 34-38-40-42-47-48 50-55-57-58-60-61-63 9 4 6 12 1 15 6 6 7 9 2 5 4 5 6 3 5 7 6 3 3 3 9 17 7 9 7 Patrick Kenniff Urged to resign.