The Gazette du lieu suivant : Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 8

A 8 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1191 mil B.C. Premier Johnston trims cabinet by three Continues to distance herself from Vander Zalm by bringing in new faces Soviet woman's career takes off in Sudbury Panada after brine annmached in Bud Smith. In other cabinet changes, John Savage leaves Parks to become minister of native affairs. The Parks Ministry has been merged with Crown Lands to become the Ministry of Lands and Parks with Dave Parker at its head. Jack Weisgerber moves from Native Affairs to Energy.

Elwood Veitch leaves International Business to become provincial secretary. Veitch's old ministry has been amalgamated and becomes the Ministry of Development, Trade and Tourism with former provincial secretary Howard Dirks as minister. Lyall Hanson leaves Municipal Affairs to take on Transport, the ministry formerly held by Johnston. Carol Gran the only other woman in the Socred caucus besides Johnston and McCarthy remains in charge of Women's Programs and Government Services. The Socreds hold 42 seats in the B.C.

legislature, the NDP 26 and there is one vacancy. swearing-in, she made several promises that appear clearly an attempt to put her imprint on the government she inherited from the disgraced Vander Zalm just two weeks ago. In what sounded much like segments of a throne speech or election platform a provincial vote must be called this year Johnston outlined her planned fine-tuning and changes. Among her new initiatives are reviews of recommendations of the recent royal commission on education and all loans, grants and subsidy programs except in agriculture. Johnston reduced her cabinet to 19 ministers from 22.

She brought in Dave Mercier as environment minister, Graham Bruce to Municipal Affairs and Larry Chalmers to Agriculture. Bruce and Mercier were among four Socreds who quit caucus in November 1989 over Vander Zalm's leadership. They returned several months later. Leaving cabinet are Harry de Jong, Cliff Serwa, Cliff Michael and CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA B.C. Premier Rita Johnston took another step toward distancing herself from Bill Vander Zalm yesterday when she reduced the size of her cabinet by three ministers and brought in some new faces.

"I expect the very highest standards of personal and public conduct from all members of this executive council at all times," she told her new cabinet and some 200 invited guests and staff. "And there will be absolutely no deviations from this expectation for anyone at any time. The people of British Columbia demand and deserve no less." Longtime Socred Grace McCarthy, who quit cabinet in 1988 over differences with Vander Zalm, was not among Johnston's appointments. McCarthy is expected to run for the party leadership at the Social Credit Party convention July 18-20. Johnston has not confirmed whether she will be a leadership candidate, although most observers believe she will.

Johnston downplayed the significance of distancing herself from Vander Zalm, who was found by the provincial conflict-of-interest commissioner to have mixed politics with personal business. "I don't know when I was putting together the makeup of a new cabinet together whether I really thought a lot about distancing myself," said Johnston, who apologized a week ago for Vander Zalm's misuse of office. "I was looking at a number of aspects, capability, the regional aspects and by bringing in some of the new members we have a different makeup than Bill Vander Zalm did. Time will tell whether there has been distancing." NDP leader Mike Harcourt described the shuffle as "a last, tired attempt to cling to power." "You look to the bottom of the barrel and they don't even have any rotten apples left," said Harcourt. Johnston suggested that voters should judge her government on its performance and not its promises.

And during the 45-minutes CANADIAN PRESS SUDBURY, Ont. A beautiful Soviet emigre is making mountains of rubles peeling off her clothes every night in front of beer-drinking men. Just don't tell her mom back in Moscow. Stripping under the stage name Allisa Affins, the 23-year-old Moscow native has been performing since January at Sudbury strip joints like the Solid Gold Club and the Ledo Hotel. But unlike a group of 1 1 Soviet women who made headlines recently when they said they were forced to strip for their keep in southern Ontario after being promised modelling careers in Canada, Affins says she knew exactly what she was getting into when she left home.

"I would never do this in Russia," Affins said through an interpreter at her home in this Northern Ontario mining city of 90,000. "But in Moscow there were widespread food shortages and people were angry. I prepared for half a year morally before coming here." Affins asked that her real name not be published because she doesn't want her parents to discover the truth about her career in the West, which also includes wrestling other women while slathered in oil. She told them she's a professional dancer in Canada one who wears clothes. "They say, 'At least our daughter got away from here and will be able to live a normal Affins, who worked as a stewardess in the Soviet Union, came to Health-care system unresponsive to AIDS patients: study More than 650 people have registered for the four-day conference, which ends tomorrow.

Federal statistics to March 4 this year show that 4,768 people have been reported to ha ve AIDS in Canada, including 4,471 adult males, 241 adult females, 30 boys and 26 girls. Of the total, 2,859 have died. Moscow by Irena Mileevsky, a Toronto-based agent. Mileevsky arranged for a work permit and flight to Canada through her Russian Express agency. Under the law, foreign dancers who have contracts with a Cana dian agency.

can obtain a work permit without, officials checking to see if a Canadian can do the job. Federal Immi'gra-tion Minister Barbara McDougall said recently she Allisa Affins $1,100 a week plans on closing the loophole soon as possible." Affins says her contract with Mi leevsky paid her only $300 a week. Soon after her arrival in Sudbury, though, she switched to another agency and now earns up to $1,100 a week, huge money by Soviet standards. Mileevsky, also a Soviet emigre, says she started up Russian Express "to change the general opinion" in Canada of Russian women arid to change the opinion of stripping itself. "Many Canadians think Russian women are all big, fat and hairy.

But the girls I hired were beautiful and their acts were classy." Affins says she has the required working papers to strip in Canada, where she wants to remain and eventually return to being a stewardess. "Once I've learned English." psychological turmoil and distress which the client groups said they experienced practical problems relating to finances, work-related problems, housing and legal issues were paramount," said Nera. The lack of professional counselling services was cited by many people with AIDS as a major problem, she said. Young male patients are worried about being rejected by family and friends, said Nera. "The women were significantly more concerned with problems with their sexual lives.

Fears of rejection, concerns about disclosure and confidentiality," she said. Older people with AIDS are more concerned about having to cope with pain and with the side-effects of medication, says the preliminary report. And AIDS sufferers who work full-time report significantly fewer problems than those who are unemployed, it says. Other members of the panel on mental health are: Stephen Woo, a FRESH TOMATO! CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER People trying to live with AIDS face the additional stress of a health-care system that is unresponsive to the fatal disease, says a preliminary federal study. "These practical problems, they stated, affect their mental well-being," Nena Nera, a social services adviser at Health and Welfare Canada, said yesterday.

Some preliminary findings were released to about 75 delegates at the Canadian AIDS Conference. A final report by the five-person panel studying mental health issues for the Federal Centre for AIDS will be issued by the end of the summer. The panel contacted nearly 520 groups across Canada for its research, which began 18 months ago. They heard from dozens of AIDS patients, their families, doctors, nurses, counsellors and social workers. "In addition to the tremendous AND BE A YOUNG fT.2 For psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto; Lynn Petrie, a social worker from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg; Dianne MacDonald, a psychology professor from Dalhousie University in Halifax; and Debbie Bang, who works in the department of behav-iorial science at the University of Toronto.

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