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POOR QUALITY ORIGINAL 1 1 1 rare Dear Mom, Having Canada's would-be southern shores ni 'Modern as it's applied to the home Dl Jy artists do their thing ci a Gl I I rib I I AWA wmm Weekend Edition TVTimes, Color Comics Saturday, April 4, 1987 75 per copy $1.75 weekly home delivered 2 wosps 1 -saps -mK 'tsr 4) NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CP) Four Sikhs were each sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for trying to kill a visiting Indian cabinet minister. Jaspal Singh Atwal, 31, Jasbir Singh Atwal, 26 (no relation), Sukhdial Singh Gill, 28, and Amarjit Singh Dhindsa, 25, committed "an act of terrorism in order to advance a cause," Mr. Justice Howard Callaghan said in B.C. Supreme Court.

They were found guilty in February of trying to kill Malkiat Singh Sidhu, the Punjab planning minister, on a secluded road near Gold River on Vancouver Island. "It was a cowardly and heinous attack," Callaghan said in prohibiting them from possessing firearms or explosives for an additional 25 years. "They had assumed the power of life and death over a visitor to Canadian soil," the judge said. "Every such act can only diminish Canada's image abroad. "Acts of violence of this kind cannot be tolerated on Canadian soil to advance a foreign cause." Radical Sikhs have, declared they want a separate state in India for their religious sect.

Crown counsel Jim Taylor said the sentencing is a clear message that "we don't want that kind of violence to resolve problems that don't occur in Canada." But lawyer David Gibbons, who represented Jaspal Atwal, said the judge's comments could form the grounds for an appeal. Gibbons said Friday he had no instructions on whether to file an appeal, but "the judge inferred a political motive in the shooting when no motive was proved at the trial. "Not only wasn't there any evidence of it (motive), he (Callaghan) told the jury that there was no evidence as to motive," Gibbons said. "The accused knew they were going to get a sentence that was fitting to the conviction but this (20 years) seems a bit on the high side," he said. Sidhu was visiting relatives on Vancouver Island last May 25 after attending a nephew's wedding in Vancouver when the car he was riding in was ambushed and forced off the road.

Sidhu was not travelling with any security, and federal External Affairs Department officials were unaware he was in Canada until he was shot. Sidhu said he did not inform the Canadian government because he was making a private visit. Sidhu was shot in the arm and chest but recovered from the attack in a Vancouver hospital and returned to India. He did not testify at the trial. it i 4 i i Paul Latour, Citizen Protester Ken Hancock has handle on focus of rallies Sunday as he toys with some well-known puppets No offence meant, we're Canadians By Christopher Neal Citizen staff writer Labor Congress, Assembly of First Nations, Canadian Federation of Students, National Action Committee on the Status of Women and National Farmers Union.

The council's chairman, Edmonton publisher Mel Hurtig, said the meeting was organized to express a feeling he says is widely-held among Canadians that "the Mulroney government is going to give away the country in its desperation to get a free trade deal." "It wouldn't be free trade at all," he said, "but a gigantic step towards economic union with the U.S." The Canada Summit will conclude with a dramatic march to Parliament Hill, where (Canadians, page A2) (Related stories, page A5, B1) Although no placard-waving and slogan-shouting is planned to coincide with Reagan's address Monday to MPs' and Senators, the variety and inventiveness of protesting that will precede it is impressive. On Saturday, the Council of Canadians, a group of Canadian nationalists founded in October 1985, will hold a "Canada dubbed "Maple Leaf in response to "Shamrock at the Chateau Laurier. The purpose of the anti-summit summit is to promulgate an "alternative policy" which organizers say is favored by a majority of Canadians. Beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the hotel's Adam Room, the Canada Summit will consist of declarations against free trade by representatives of 18 groups, including the Canadian Sometimes it seems Canadians are so polite they even dread giving offence when they are protesting.

One might think that is why rallies organized for U.S. President Ronald Reagan's visit are to end at 3 p.m. Sunday, a half-hour before Air Force One touches down at Uplands base. In fact, says Robert Fox, organizer of the Summit Response Coalition, the protest was organized before Reagan's schedule was made public. "It's not really his presence we're protesting," Fox said.

"We want to communicate to our government and the U.S. media our concerns." B.C. teenager dies after pill-popping party Chateau Laurier up for sale as CN puts hotel chain on block MLA calls time out on Liberal's claim to clock change Citizen staff and CP By Mark Kennedy Citizen staff writer victims, aged between 15 and 20, were admitted to hospital Thursday night, but all were released by Friday morning. Lewis said he and his friends gathered at a house Thursday evening and drugs were passed around. Ken McGarrigle, 17, -another survivor, said a person he would not identify distributed orange and white pills.

He said the orange pills were supposed to be codeine, but nobody knew what the white pills were. Propaphenone, used widely in Europe, but not yet generally available in Canada, is a white pill. "I started getting cold," said McGarrigle, who said he took about three dozen pills in total. "I could hardly see. I felt really weird.

I thought I was going to die." Propaphenone is being tested in Canada by some patients to determine whether it will be allowed (Party, page A2) NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) The 15 teenagers were out for a good time, but a pill-popping party Thursday night turned into tragedy. Stephen Morgan, 18, died of cardiac arrest in hospital early Friday after collapsing in his home late Thursday night. His 14 friends all were admitted to hospital, but later released. The teenagers weren't even sure what drugs they were taking.

As it turned out, one of the two kinds of pills they swallowed was Propaphenone, an experimental heart drug stolen earlier Thursday during a burglary at a private home. "We all wanted to have a good time," said Doug Lewis, 17, one of the survivors. "It turned out to be one hell of a night." Officials in this Vancouver Island city said Friday no inquest would be held, but the coroner would conduct an inquiry into Morgan's death. Police were still investigating the break-in. Hospital officials said the other TORONTO New Democrat Ross says he's the enlightened politician for Ontario's earlier shift this year to daylight savings.

"CN will being giving them away to some big American chain," McGrath said. The union represents clerical, food service, front desk, housekeeping and maintenance staff at the Chateau, which kicked off its 75th-anniversary celebrations this year. CN has been the hotel's only owner. CN will also offer for sale its management contracts for l'Hotel in Toronto, the Beause-jour in Moncton and the Hotel Newfoundland in St. John's.

The marketing contract for the Citadel Inn in Halifax also will go on the block. CN will invite bids publicly this summer on the management contracts and the five hotels it owns. The Crown corporation is willing to sell the hotels separately or as a chain, spokesman (Chateau, page A17) The ChSteau Laurier, one of Ottawa's most famous landmarks, will be sold along with Canadian National's other hotels, the crown corporation announced Friday. The union representing most CN hotel employees will fight the plan which includes the crown corporation's management contract for the Mont Ste-Marie ski-golf resort in the Ga-tineau Hills. The company assumed the contract only in the last six months.

Tom McGrath, an Ottawa vice-president of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers, said Friday night CN will be shortchanging the Canadian taxpayer who has poured more than $40 million in the last three years on hotel renovations, including an extensive modernization program at the Chateau Laurier. Spring forward McClellan, the NDP's house leader, was feeling a bit burned Friday when he learned Energy Minister Vince Kerrio was trying to grab some of the credit. It was McClellan who introduced a private member's bill in Questions surface about Gaspe copper mine's safety By Daniel Drolet Citizen staff writer October 1985 proposing Daylight Saving Time be moved up three weeks to the first Sunday in April. His bill sat idle in the legislature for a year until the minority Liberal government chose to follow the lead of the U.S. and move the date of the time change forward three weeks.

Friday, Kerrio's office distributed a press release reminding people to move their clocks ahead at 2 a.m. Sunday. Kerrio, who had nothing to do with the bill's creation and passage, was quoted at length on how the earlier-than-usual switchover will translate into about $2 million in savings. McClellan's name wasn't mentioned. Word of the minister's news release reached his office within minutes.

Quick as a flash, the (Time, page A2) in Murdochville, 700 kilometres east of Quebec City. It took 24 hours to bring the survivors to the surface. Ste-Croix, interviewed shortly after being released from medical observation Friday, said the mine was poorly organized for the emergency. "We were 19 (in the garage) and there was one air hose," he said, while some of his co-workers nodded in agreement. Ste-Croix said the workers had to continually fight for breath, and what they could breathe was lacking in oxygen.

He said there should have been better emergency facilities underground for the men. "We had nothing. There was supposed to be water. "They will have to be better organized before I go back down there." Depressed, crying, praying and vomiting in the chokingly-thin air, many thought the mine would be their tomb. "I thought of writing a farewell letter to my wife and children," said Jacques Lavoie, 31, trapped in an underground lunchroom at the 900-metre level.

"We felt we were dying a slow death," said Jean-Claude Belanger, 26. "It's difficult to remain calm. You get to a point where you want to cry, but you don't dare cry because you don't want to discourage your chums." "We all got pretty depressed," said Ste-Croix. "The air was so bad we were vomiting all over each other. "By the end we would all have rather just gone to sleep and died there." Michel Dallaire, a doctor who examined the men, said they are all doing well and he doesn't expect any will be permanently impaired.

Most of the miners were released Friday morning after being kept under (Mine, page A16) MURDOCHVILLE, Que. Some of the 56 miners who survived being trapped underground in a copper mine this week say they won't go back into the mine until safety measures are improved. "It was like being caught in a mousetrap," said Sylvain Ste-Croix, 33, who was caught in an underground garage 710 metres down and spent much of the time fighting for breath. One miner died and the others were trapped after an April 1 fire burned a conveyor belt at the Gaspe" Copper Mine Canada Business Inside Local Ottawa police are checking the possibility of bias in the charging of a parking control officer. A9 Crossword Davidson Gu Dear Abby H6 Editorials B2 Entertainment CI Ferguson E7 Fotherlngham B2 Grande Bt4 Qrenby E8 Homes Dl After a nosedive earlier in the week, the stock markets roared back Friday.

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