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THE GAZETTE. MONTREAL. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1997 TODAY Several hundred participants are expected for the first mother-daughter walk on He Ste.

Helena organized by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Quebec. The walk begins at 10:30 a.m. Ml CITY EDITOR: BRIAN KAPPLER 987-2505 A8 TCtEAL Unions talk common front Municipal workers tlireaten provincial walkout to fight rollbacks Oh, cruel temptress No sport can rob you of your dignity like golf buddy Bernie is the best all-around athlete- amateur working-stiff division, that is I've ever known. He stands a few hairs under 5 feet 6 inch- es tall. He can't weigh more than 150 pounds soaking wet.

And he is well into his middle-age. Yet these stats only strengthen his resolve to succeed. He's been the underdog all his life, and he has relished every moment of it. Few are more competitive than him inside the arena and few are more genteel than him outside the arena. When he was an underweight, undersized kid, he skated circles around opponents on the rink.

Hockey was the ultimate survival challenge for him. Marcoux said the 135 unions represented by the CNTU will probably join a common front with the Quebec Federation of Labour and other unions that represent 80,000 other workers. "We need the strength of numbers to defend ourselves from the attack workers currently face," Marcoux said in an interview. "We want the right to negotiate settlements with the municipalities without having them (the government-legislated wage cuts) imposed on us." The city of Montreal, which must find a way to slash an additional $47 million from its spending, is among the municipalities that are trying to find a way out of the fiscal crunch imposed by Quebec. The city is talking with unions representing all its employees with one exception, the powerful and militant blue collars.

The blue-collar union refuses to sit at the table and make any concessions, saying its contract with the city doesn't expire until Nov. 30. In a statement issued yesterday, the city it is ready to do its part to help Bouchard's government out of the financial mess, but wants to minimize the impact on Montrealers. Union leaders say the government got itself into the fiscal mess in the first place and therefore should find an imaginative way out of the hole with reaching further into workers' pockets. Marcoux said the CNTU and other unions will get together Wednesday in Montreal to kick around the common-front idea before taking it to the rank-and-file.

NOT PROTECTED The union leader, a member of the CNTU political-action arm, said the workers currently negotiating could still be hit with wage cuts if a special law is passed in the National Assembly. In the past such laws came with heavy fines, and even jail terms, for workers and union leader who refuse to comply. The workers have pledged to take the fight to the picket line. On Thursday, tens of thousands of municipal employees demonstrated across the province. EDDIE COLLISTER The Gazette Quebec's 90,000 municipal workers could form a common front for a walkout if the government doesn't drop its threat of using a special law to roll back wages by 6 per cent, a union leader said yesterday.

"Everything is on the table," Denis Marcoux, vice-president of the Confederation of National Trade Unions said when asked what pressure tactics were being discussed at a strategy-session yesterday at a Longueuil hotel. The CNTU represents 10,000 of the municipal employees in the government's sights. SPECIAL LAW PONDERED Premier Lucien Bouchard has indicated he might resort to special legislation if municipalities and their employees, including blue-collars, bus-drivers, police and firefighters, don't find a way to absorb $500 million in additional fiscal expenses downloaded by his government. Bouchard has given the parties until Sept. 15 to solve the dilemma.

r. I i As a teen, he was sheer poetry on a baseball diamond. A southpaw shortstop, he was a flamethrower on the field. Short oh power, he used his street smarts to get on base. A deadly combo of brains and BILL BROWNSTEIN IT'S IN THE BAG Sis ir- 1- -III ability resulted in a successful stint as a semi-pro ballplayer in the city When time would permit, he proved to be equally daunting on a football field or basketball court.

Later, he ran everyone ragged on a tennis court. No matter what kind of slams or junk you tossed his way, he returned everything, racing around the court like some elfish fiend. Ah, there wasn't a sport Bernie couldn't master. Until golf. Bernie would dearly love to follow the exploits of the pros this weekend at the Canadian Open at Royal Montreal.

But he insists the experience would leave him feeling even more inadequate. City man arrested in kidnapping Abducted daughter recovered in Mexico Golf has become Bernie's passion. But golf, like some cruel temptress, has simply discarded Bernie. Golf has humbled and crushed him. Five years ago, Bernie took up golf with the same zeal he used in other sports.

He figured he would be a natural. After countless lessons and winter golf excursions and de PAUL CHERRY The Gazette A Montreal man suspected of abducting his daughter is in a Mexican jail after police found him with the 5-year-old in Guadalajara. The discovery ended a 31-month search for the girl by her mother, Joanne Pearson of Grand Junction, Colo. Rejean Hardy was arrested on suspicion of violating Mexican immigration laws. He is wanted in Canada and the U.S.

for the parental abduction of 4w 7 i yi -Cr ilitliiililliif' 'iM'i'i-MMMMSi rl 'iptiiiilil their daughter, Emilie. The two met in California, got married and lived in Grand Junction, "but as soon as he got his green card he lost interest in the marriage," Pearson said last night from her Colorado home. Pearson said Hardy skipped town in 1995 with Emilie, who was 3. The mother said she visited Montreal four times after the abduction to work with the Missing Children's Network. It was a pamphlet from the Canadian organization that turned the case.

A golf-course manager in Guadalajara recognized Hardy and called authorities. When Emilie was reunited with her mother, "she turned to the woman who she was being told was her mother and asked 'Is this my Pearson recalled. "Rejean tried to tell her I was her mother from the snow." There are no laws against parental abductions in Mexico. vouring all manner of golf videos, magazines and books, Bernie finally broke 100 this year. Nothing to brag about for the avid, but according to the lore, 90 per cent of the world's golfers never break the mythical 100 mark.

Bernie was on a roll. He thought he finally had the game beat. There was no stopping him. A few weeks ago, buoyed by his best round ever, Bernie was ready to conquer the course at last. On the first hole, a long and narrow par 5, he hit a career drive, about 250 yards.

Following a five-wood smash down the middle of the fairway, he easily made the green in regulation with a nifty six-iron. He had a five-foot putt to make for birdie. Bernie three-putted for a bogey. But, worse, Bernie became unglued. Suddenly, he was beset by self-doubt.

His game went south. He subsequently regressed to his duffer days, squibbing drives 40 yards not even making the kiddie tees. He could do no right. He was losing his cool, swearing and tossing clubs. Golf can and does render some insane.

One day Bernie is ready to join the tour and the next he's contemplating suicide. He watches the young and the elderly play scratch golf, seemingly without effort, and he becomes rabid. No other sport robs you of your dignity like golf. You might lose accuracy and force, but you don't suddenly forget to throw a baseball. You don't forget how to hit a backhand in tennis or catch a football.

LOSING IT WITHOUT WARNING But even after playing the great game of golf for decades, many can lose it all without warning. Of course, golf is not a sport. It's a mind game. Friends of Bernie are trying to coax him'back to the links. It won't be easy.

He's finding it hard enough just to look at himself in the mirror. Bernie takes little solace from the fact that even the great Tiger Woods can collapse and miss the cut, at the Canadian Open, for the first time in his career. Fact is that the pacifist Bernie would kill and surrender valuable body parts just to shoot a 76- the second-round score that knocked Woods out. Pros and hackers alike have all done time in the golf purgatory Bernie now inhabits. Last year, I was ready to retire.

After years spent trying to tame the game, I just lost it. I rehabilitated myself this year. New stance. New attitude. The woods don't work.

No problem. Chuck 'em and play only irons instead. It worked. I got into a groove, scoring better than I had in years. After a round in the low 80s wh ich for this golfer is akin to climbing Everest or acing Pete Sampras -1, too, thought I had golf licked.

Bring on the Masters. I Next round out just last week -1 missed a hole-in-one by inches on the par-three second hole at a course I had never played before. On the par-four ninth hole, an awesome five-iron left me hanging on the lip of the cup. I was denied an eagle, but I had the magical touch. I was on top of the world.

Until the 10th hole. Then I got afflicted with the Bernie disease. It wasn't pretty I looked into the heavens and asked the golf gods why they had forsaken me. They ignored me. But I'll be back on the links shortly Just as soon as I get out of therapy Dill Brownstein can be reached by Email at bbrownstiiithegazette.southam.ca CORRECTION NOTICE In our "Travel Guide" insert in the Saturday, September 6th paper, please take note of the following corrections: on paRe 7: Nolitour Vacances Acapulco section SHOULD READ -Double Tree Resort, Aparthotel 1 intermediate category room with kitchenette and beach access (50 meters).

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