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A2 THE OTTAWA CITIZEN TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1989 1 The Ottawa Citizen Accu-Weather forecast Ottawa five-day forecast 1989 Accu-Weather, Inc. Canada and U.S. forecast Vancouver Regjna AV Partly cloudy nd cold. Low -12. Morning flurriat, than aunahkw.

High -3. Partly aunny and odd. High -5, low -12. Partly to moatly aunny. High -1, low -7.

Variable cloud, mildar. High 4, low -2. Partly aunny and ooolar. High 1, low -S. Regional outlook KEY Showers ESI Rai" FT7! Flurries ESS Snmv lce rOf Calgary -7 Winnipeg' Montreal AVTr tk 2 1 I Thunder Bay -3 ffOiallfax Denver Cjw itf 6 San Francisco i JfiS I ft V8 LasVegas Wind Flow FRONTS Ottawa almanac 24 HOURS ending 5 p.m.

yesterday) High (normal 2.1) Low. -11. 7 (normal Mean (normal Rah 0.0mm Snow 0.5cm Water equivalent 0.5mm Barometer at 5 p.m 101 .8 KPa falling Humidity at 5 p.m 64 PRECIPITATION Month dale 56.7mm Monrh to dale average 43.5mm Record high far month 1 37.2mm in 1 947 SNOWFALL Month ID dale 41.9cm Month Id date average 23.0cm Record high (or month 1 05.7cm in 1 947 TODAY'S RECORDS Record High 17.8 in 1946 Record Low 17.6 in 1986 WIND CHILL TEMPERATURE Based on temperature and wind speed TIME YESTERDAY TODAY 8am -17 -13 noon -13 -18 4pm -1 -18 27 Phoenix vvW -fT OTTAWA: Flurries will be around this morning, but sunshine will increase before noon, with a brisk wind picking up as well. The afternoon will be partly sunny. High -3.

Tonight will be partly cloudy and cold. Low -12. Wednesday will bring more cold weather, with partial sunshine and a chilly breeze. High -5. MONTREAL: A couple of flurries may fall this morning, but the majority of the day will be partly sunny with a cold wind.

High -3. Tonight will be partly cloudy and cold, with a diminishing wind. Low -12. The cold weather will continue Wednesday, with a mixture of clouds and sunshine. High -5.

TORONTO-HAMILTON: A couple of flurries will be around the area this morning, but the afternoon will bring a partly sunny sky and a cold wind. High -2. Tonight will be partly cloudy and cold, with light winds. Low -9. Wednesday will be partly sunny and cold.

High -2. Milder weather will arrive Thursday. Regional forecast for today 'Tmm -Cold fl Warm Shown are positions of weather systems and Stationary precipitation for noon today. City temperatures are today's forecast highs. HHigh I Low Pressure I Pressure 1989 Accu-Weather, Inc.

World Summary Road information Ontario 745-7040 Quebec 776-0059 Snow will tall in western and eastern Canada today. A weak Pacific storm system will spread moisture inland today, bringing snow to the Northwest Territories and northeastern British Columbia. Accumulations should be light, though. A storm system will also spread snow over extreme eastern Quebec and all of the Maritimes provinces today. The snow will be wet and heavy in some locations, with up to 1 0 centimetres possible.

A high pressure system will bring mostly sunny skies but cold weather to Manitoba and western Ontario; highs will struggle to break minus 15 in some locations. Canada -41-9 Quebec -5M2 North Bay ManiwaW DeepRivw PhWuST) -3M2 iSJiLjrn A i i Montreal I Jr; Renfrew OttawaHull I -SMI Co -3M0 KomptvlHa y-zg Smiths Falls XV Huntsvilla Brockvllle'S'" -4-10 -3-11 Peterborough Kingston' Belleville V7 New York -2r II aaat i Toronto 1 Temperatures are todays tor cast highs and tonight's Uk9 Ontario lorocast lows. Q19B9 Accu-Weather, Inc. 5 U.S. MON TUE WeD THU Athens 18I3pc I 17I2sh 1711sh I T611c Beijing 122s 133pc 122C 123pc Berlin 113s 93sh 103pc 81r Cairo 241 1s 261 1s 271 1s 271 2pc Copenhagen 82r 61 71 sh 50pc Dublin 73pc 94c 72sh 61 pc Hong Kong 2219pc 2117C 2118sh 221 9pc Jerusalem 166s 176s 177pc 167pc London 82pc 105c 93sh 72c Madrid 1413 162s 173pc 144sh Mexico City 237pc 298pc 298s 298s Moscow 31 sf 4-2pc 30sf 3-2pc Nairobi 2913s 2912pc 2813pc 2813pc New Delhi 2916S 2916pc 2916pc 2917pc Paris Ssh 82pc 94r 81 Rome 15IOpc 148sh 167pc 178pc Sydney 22'l8c 2218pc 24l9pc 2419pc Tokyo 136oc 166S 178pc- lyacation spots MON TUE WED THU Acapulco 3220S 3220S 3220S 3220s Barbados 2922sh 2922pc 2922pc 2922pc Bermuda 2419C 2418pc 2418pc 2418pc Honolulu 29I8C 2920pc 2919pc Kingston 3022S 3022S 3022pc 3022pc Las Vegas 211 2s 281 1pc 24103 238pc Los Angeles 2617pc 2714S 2412s 2312pc Miami 2720C 2320S 291 9pc 2821 pc MontegoBay 2921S 29 21s 2921DC 2921pc Nassau 271 8s 26'20pc 2720pc 2620sh San Juan 2922pc 29'22pc 2922pc 2921 pc MON TUE WED TtiU Calgary -2-14s 2-11sn 2-7pc 67-4 pc Charlottetown -4-16pc -3-12sn -3-9sn -2-11s Edmonton -6-18pc 0-12c 1-9sf 1-7pc Fredericton 1-22c -2-11sn -3-12pc -4-13pc Halifax -3-12pc -1-11sn -3-10pc -1-6S London 0-5sn -2-8sf -2-4s 3-3c Moncton -3-10pc -2-10sn -3-11pc -1-9s Montreal 0-9c 3M2c -5-13pc -2-8pc Prince George 4-6pc 7-6sf 2-2sn 2-2pc Quebec -3-16c -4-9pc -4-10s -1-8pc Regina -10V-25pc -7-14pc -6-11sf -2-7pc StJohn's -9-10C 1-12sn -1-9pc -2-11S Saskatoon -6-22C -8-15pc -6-10sf -3-7pc St.

Ste. Marie -3-16sn rg'-18sf -7-9s 1-12pc Sudbury -7-10sn -5-12pc -3-14pc -2-13c Sydney 1-11pc 1-11sn -1-7sn -3-12s Timmins -9-11sn -5-14pc -8-15s -7-14c Toronto 0-7sn -2-9pc -2-9pc 3-5pc Vancouver 107lpc 1l1sh 81 pc 72pc Victoria 12: 94sh 6V2pc 72pc Whitehorse -1-17pc 1-8c 1-8sn 2-7c Windsor 0-4sn -2-8sf -3-6s 2-3c Winnipeg -9-19s -6-20pc -4-13c -2-11s( Yellowknife -17-28S -14-23pc -9-21sn -9-18sf MON Tug WED THU Atlanta 131 0c I 207sh I 1272c 1983 Boston 7-3C 6-3r 3-4pc 6-1S Buffalo 4-6c 0-9sf 1-8s 5-1pc Chicago 31 sn 0-9s 3-3s 92pc Cincinnati 82r 3-5C 6V-3S 122pc Dallas 297c 62c 144s 261 3pc Denver -2-7sn 10-1S 181S 16-1pc Detroit 2-2sn 1-9pc 3-2S 81 pc Houston 26719c 164pc 271 8s Kansas City 42r 6-3s 133s 144pc Minneapolis -3-5pc -3-10s 3-8s 5-6pc New Orleans 271 8c 221 Osh 144c 241 4pc New York 4-1C 6-2r 7-2pc 90s Okla.City 215c 7-2sh 144pc 2310pc Pittsburgh 2-3sn 3-5sf 4-5pc 71pc San Francisco 21 9s 16V9pc 19V9S 199pc SlLouis 5-1r 3-4S 10-6pc 131pc Washington 70c 100r 8-2pc 123s Ottawa skies Full LastQ. First Q. New TODAYTOMORROW Sunrise 6:02 a.m. Sunset 6:18 p.m.

Moonrise 4:53 p.m. OQO(D Legend: c-cloudy, i-ice, pc-paniy cloudy, r-rain, s-sunny, sf-snow flurries, sh-showers, sn-snow, t-thunderstorms Moonset 5:54 a.m MAR 22 MAR 30 APR 5 APR 12 Bombs Getty pies Getty hts activist top the Department of Transport, dated Dec. 19 and including a color photograph of the device found in Germany, was mailed after the first of the year, the government has now admitted. In interviews over the weekend, Channon dismissed criticism of the handling of the second warning. He said that the document was "of no importance whatsoever" because it was virtually the same as the Nov.

22 telex. However, texts of classified documents published Monday by another newspaper, the Independent, showed that the second warning contained at least three items of new information that might have helped security authorities to identify a recorder containing a bomb. The mailed warning also included what seems to be an extraordinary recommendation: "Any item about which a searcher is unable to satisfy himself-herself must, if it is to be carried in the aircraft, be consigned to the aircraft hold." The new instructions order that all electronic devices be checked and taken aboard as carry-on cabin luggage. That is meant to help ensure that a saboteur cannot put a bomb on board a plane. From page A1 story: Cassette bombs still pose risk Britain issues third warning, urges extra security day by telex.

The spokesman said the latest warning differs from two previous messages in that it suggests "certain extra measures" that might be taken. He refused to elaborate on grounds of security. Transport Minister Paul Chan-non has been criticized in connection with the two previous warnings. One was telexed to British carriers and airport authorities Nov. 22.

It told them about a radio-cassette bomb that had been found by West German police in a raid the month before on the hide out of alleged Palestinian terrorists. A ministry spokesman confirmed Monday that British experts had received a detailed briefing on the finding by the West German Federal Crime Bureau Nov. 15. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration sent a similar warning to U.S.

airports and airlines Nov. 18. A more detailed warning from 'i vi J- I EDMONTON (CP) Percy Wickman once clambered up more than 100 wooden steps in Edmonton's river valley in his wheelchair just to prove it could be done. In Monday's Alberta election, Wickman did something even he didn't dare dream of. Wickman, 47, making his first try at a seat for the Liberals, toppled Conservative Premier Don Getty in the affluent riding of Edmonton Whitemud.

An activist for the disabled and a self-employed consultant, Wickman served as a voice of reason on Edmonton city council for nine years. "It's sinking in slowly," Wickman, a native of Thunder Bay, Ont, said amid a crush of ecstatic supporters chanting his name. "You have to give me a couple of hours to feel the full impact of it." Although he credited the win largely to "150 dedicated volunteers who simply refused to lie down and die," Wickman suggested Whitemud residents felt a former alderman with a solid record might represent their interests better than the leader of the giant Tory machine. Before the vote, Wickman said Getty's credibility was the premier's main weakness. "Sometimes when Getty appears on TV, my workers say, 'There's our best campaign When Getty refused to debate Wickman or Liberal Leader Laurence Decore during the campaign, Wickman called the premier a chicken.

At one point, he staged a mock debate with a large stuffed bird with Getty's name on it. A personable, sandy-haired From page A1 story: Getty loses despite Tory win New Democrats, they captured fewer seats: nine this time compared to four in 1986. Getty, premier since he succeeded Peter Lougheed in late 1985, must now decide what he will do. He has several options: He could arrange a byelection in a "safe seat" if one of his newly elected members would be willing to step down. He could also direct the party from the legislature's gallery.

Or he could step aside. Getty said he will take some time to thick about his future. "I'll do what's best for my government and my family, that's always what's guided me in the past." His downcast wife Margaret at his side, Getty tried to emphasize his Conservative party's majority victory rather than his own loss. "It's a large majority and I'm very proud of that," he told supporters. "I don't know what the future holds for Margaret and myself.

"We've got, of course, the government to run and the legislature to bring in very soon." Getty said he will consider all options. Decore said he's pleased to have the "giant killer" Wickman, a former Edmonton alderman, at his side. The dogfight for seats, predicted after the Tory campaign began to derail, never materialized. But the dramatic voter movement in Edmonton and area during the last election, spread to the rest of the province. Liberals made huge gains in popular vote in Calgary and several rural ridings.

However, television networks were predicting another Tory majority government less than 15 minutes after the polls closed. The Conservatives won their seventh consecutive majority after a campaign in which Getty said he wanted the support of the people to fight the federal government on issues of Senate reform, interest rate policy and the national sales tax. But Getty himself became an issue in the campaign, when he made expensive promises, and then seemed shy on details on his campaign pledges. China CP photo Wickman credited win to '150 dedicated volunteers' man who fights regular battles ing in disguise." with his weight, Wickman lost Ironically, Getty's personal the use of his legs in an acci- parking spot at the legislature dent years ago. In his autobiog- bears the recognized symbol raphy, Wheels in the Fast Lane, marking it for use by the disa- he called his disability a "bless- bled.

From page A1 story: China stalls reforms with major austerity drive than 2,000 delegates at the opening session of the annual meeting of China's legislature that "both government and people should be mentally prepared for a few years of austerity." As a result of rising prices for food and other basic goods, he said, living standards dropped for many consumers. Even in early 1988, when the government recognized that the economy had to be stabilized, those in charge "failed to take firm action and effective measures." Zhao sat impassively with other senior Chinese leaders. Deng, 84, did not attend the session. Li stressed that China would not abandon the reform program that Deng initiated. However, he said the government needed to provide stronger guidance on how to carry out the policies.

"Unless we take resolute measures to curb inflation, economic stability and development will be out of the question and reform in various quarters cannot be deepened." Last fall, Li and other Chinese officials announced a program of cooling down China's overheated economy by drastically reducing construction projects, tightening bank credit, curbing state spending and eliminating or merging thousands of the nation's most unproductive and wasteful state companies. Monday, Li reaffirmed that agenda, saying that China had begun the appropriate measures to lower inflation and regain control of the economy, including the screening of all major construction projects and the elimination of non-essential ones. He said it was urgent that the government continue to rein in the economy. To do so, he said, it would be necessary to reintroduce considerable centralization in planning and implementing economic decisions. That would mark a change of direction from Zhao's philosophy of decentralization.

Li said spending and purchases by government-run institutions would be cut by 20 per cent and wages and bonuses would be curtailed and a new program of individual income taxes would be inaugurated in 1989. Spending would be increased in agriculture, however, with prices paid to grain farmers being raised 18 per cent next month to encourage them to grow more grain. Li said that the austerity measures would not affect China's opening to the outside world and that foreign investment was still welcome, and efforts to expand China's export programs would accelerate. knows, apparently, the better. "If I think, then I make a mistake," she confides.

"So I don't hesitate. I just come out with the first thing that comes into my' mind." Devi lives off stipends from institutions where she performs. She plans to live to 92 and continue her public appearances. Will her arithmetic acuity wane with age? "Oh no If anything, I think it will get sharper." wisdom and knowledge. She has no formal training in mathematics and did not finish high school.

Her gift was evident when she was a toddler. Her father, a former circus performer, practised card tricks at home. By the time she was three years old, she stunned her family with a remarkable capacity to count and memorize the cards. Today, Devi can't describe what goes through her mind as it crunches numbers. The less she Numbers From page A1 story: Numbers enthral math wizard mulated as per the faw of numbers." It's sort of a religion for Devi, 46, who comes from a family of Hindu priests, or brahmin, and believes her talent is god given.

Every morning, she prays to Ganesha, the god of mathematics, Corrections A story in early editions Monday incorrectly quoted Richard Sanders of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade as saying that demonstrations planned against the ARMX '89 arms exhibition at Lansdowne Park in May might not be peaceful. In fact, the demonstrations are to be peaceful. A story and headline in early editions Monday incorrectly said a car used in the abduction of a Gloucester woman to Florida last week was the assailant's. In fact, the car is the victim's. The Citizen apologizes for the errors.

prepackaged doses of medication where the drug had a long time to react with the MBT. He said manufacturers are now discouraged from that practice. Notices are going out now as a precautionary measure. And Hinberg said they are a reaction to concerns raised recently by a London, radiologist. Dr.

Gavin Hamilton told the Citizen last week that over a three-year period he encountered "severe allergic MBT-induced reactions in which patients could have died." Hamilton said that 95 per cent of syringes used in Canada con there's been a rash of problems." He said it's up to manufacturers to make sure their product is safe. He said there's only been one recorded problem of an allergic reaction and that was in 1983. He said patients should not worry about getting injections or refuse injections from doctors. Hinberg said that since 1983, manufacturers have been warned to get the MBT out of their syringes and to avoid storing drugs in the syringe itself. Hinberg said about 40 per cent of syringes made five years ago used the chemical.

He said the real problem was in tain MBT and that he believes MBT reactions were a factor in some of the 36 infant deaths at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Mr. Justice Samuel Grange, who headed an inquiry into the deaths in 1984, concluded that eight of the babies were murdered with deliberate overdoses of the heart drug digoxin. Hamilto'i said MBT could have leached into a digoxin dose through the syringes in use at the hospital at the time. But Hinberg said the federal government has no evidence of widespread MBT reactions.

Syringes From page A1 story: Stop using MBT, govt. tells makers of syringes tion. Hinberg said a government survey in the last few days of all major syringe manufacturers in Canada found less than five per cent used MBT in their product. MBT is used to toughen rubber. "There's no need to be alarmist," Hinberg said late Monday.

"We're not telling them (the manufacturers) about this because.