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is A Hurdler Mark McKoy wins at the World Indoor Track championships The Russ Howard rink of Midland hoists its second Labatt Brier tankard y' eftn l'iwiini THE OTTAWA WEATHER This newspaper contains i I 1 Sunset 607 pm. Sunrise 6 13 am. Today Tuesday High -9 High 3 Low 15 Low -7 Details F1 ecycled newsprint PLEASE RECYCLE TV, 5 i fj 11 XW ii a i AG 50 cents (ost) MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1993 FINAL- Tin i rri-rri ir. mi 111 ii ii iimnr-mir- tops toDTO to up ''i' III1 if nMHimitii mM I I iw I i I I -f i i if III J'' I A TWTJ 1 of the century' th Hisnintion? Well, no HUW uau newspapers were delivered to newsstands Saturday in the area where I was staying, less than 20 blocks from the New York Times offices. And at 6 p.m.

Saturday, 12 hours after the storm hit the section of Broadway in the theatre district was still waiting for its first snow plow. The fact I was in New York was a bit of a miscalculation on my part I'd heard the storm was due to hit Ottawa Saturday night and figured if I got to New York by 10 a I'd beat the storm. I forgot the blizzard was coming from the south. The storm gathered intensity during the final three hours of the drive to New York. But the roads were still passable.

The worst part was being out on the street when the storm was at its height The wind made snow flakes feel like razor blades slashing your face. But we all survived. I made the most of it adding a day to my weekend. Sorry, boss, blame the storm of the century. i 11 I 3 Barbara McDougall: "I've always gone for the gold." McDougall, Valcourt out of race By Louise Crosby Citizen foreign affairs writer Two more senior cabinet ministers touted as serious contenders to succeed Brian Mulroney as Conservative party leader bowed out of the race Sunday.

External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall announced she is quitting politics, while Employment Minister Bernard Valcourt said he won't seek the party leadership. Their decisions increased the likelihood that the June leadership convention in Ottawa will be a coronation for the acknowledged front-runner, Defence Minister Kim Campbell. Meanwhile, Montreal's La Presse quoted unnamed sources Sunday saying Environment Minister Jean Charest will announce he is seeking the Conservative leadership Tuesday night in his home town of Sherbrooke. McDougall, a 55-year-old MP from the Toronto riding of St. Paul, told CBC Newsworld Sunday she will not seek the Tory leadership or run again in the next election.

She did not elaborate on her plans but is expected to return to the private sector. "I've had quite a lot to think about over the past few weeks, but that's the decision I've chosen to make and I've chosen it essentially for personal reasons," McDougall said. "I have always kind of gone for the gold in whatever I've done. I've always gone for the top. So I gave that (a leadership run) a lot of very hard thought." But Markham MP Bill Attewell, who was to co-chair McDougall's leadership campaign, said she decided to stay out after realizing she couldn't win.

"The support ju.st wasn't there," he said in an interview. Despite two weeks of beating the Too' bushes, McDougall got a firm commitment from no more than a dozen MPs, less than half of what she needed to make a serious run, Attewell said. Valcourt, who felt he could have made "a convincing showing" at the leadership convention, said he doesn't believe there has to be an Atlantic candidate in the race. "We need national candidates and that bore a lot on my decision," he said. "If I thought it was necessary for Atlantic Canada to have a candidate, I would be that candidate." Since late February, when Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced his decision to resign, McDougall has been seen as a likely candidate to succeed him.

She did nothing to discourage that idea, cutting short a tour of Asia-Pacific to gauge her support and telling reporters she was weighing the financial and personal costs. But McDougall's spokesman, Scott Mul-lin, said she was pondering a change even before Mulroney made his announcement. "She's very content with her decision." he said. "It's not a negative reaction to anything. She feels positive about what she's decided to do with her life.

Politics is a demanding exercise and she's decided alter nearly a decade that it's time to do some thing new." (With files from CP and the Toronto Star) PROFILE: The eclipse of a former starA3 At issue The controversy: Disarmament activists say Peacekeeping '93 will help fuel the worldwide arms trade. But defence industry officials say such exhibitions play a minor role, if any, in selling military equipment. Military exports: Canadian exports to countries other than the U.S. totalled $189 million in 1991, the latest figures available. Most Canadian exports were classed as non-offensive items, such as radios and bomb-disposal suits, and were mainly delivered to NATO countries, according to External Affairs.

Worldwide arms sales, mainly by the Americans, Russians, French and British, were about S22 billion. ti A That's no snowblower. That's Tom Tanner of Glebe Avenue with an old-fashioned shovel. John Major, Citizen 4 Three New Yorkers try to hail a taxi at Times Square. Reuter photo This snowfall The eighth major storm this winter dumped 40 centimetres on the Ottawa area the heaviest this season.

The forecast Sunny with cloudy periods today. Winds out of the west at 20 kmh. High -9. Tuesday, another five to 10 centimetres is expected. Low -7.

High -3. Snow stats Total snowfall this season: (As of Sunday afternoon): 284.4 cm Biggest one-day snowfall this season: 34.4 cm (Feb. 13) Average winter snowfall: (Over 30 years): 221 .5 cm Most snowfall in a single winter: 444.1 cm (1970-71) Question of the week Spring may be just weeks away but what should people do to hang on? Send your responses to Question of the Week, The Citizen, 1101 Baxter Box 5020, Ottawa, Ont, K2C 3M4, (Fax number: 596-8458.) Or Dictate your views anytime up to midnight Tuesday by calling 721-1990 and selecting code 4005. A selection of responses will appear next Sunday. jyAAMMWMWMWA with Proiect Ploughshares, a peace coalition that investigates military activities of Canadian companies.

"The protests will get the news media out to cover the event" he says. "But the idea that this is (a shopping mart) to sell arms is just nuts." Regehr, who has been lobbying for tighter Canadian arms-export policies, says that talk is the only way government and the defence industry will listen. But Sanders says that without protests there would be no pressure on the government to monitor defence company officials and their arms exports. Those in Canada's military industry find the relationship between weapons trade shows and arms exports ridiculous. They say their attendance at trade shows in Canada is more to highlight defence products designed for Canada's armed forces.

It's also good public relations to show support for the Canadian military by Please see MILITARY A2 More snow coming Tuesday Citizen news services Heavy snow and fog blinded rescue workers searching for survivors of an ore-carrying ship with a crew of 33 that sank off Nova Scotia today. The 177-metre Gold Bond Conveyor listed badly and sank at 12:31 a.m., about 110 kilometres southeast of Cape Sable Island, off Nova Scotia's southwestern tip. It was the same general area where the Cape Aspey, a scallop dragger, sank in January, killing five. Whipped up by the storm, winds at the time were reported at 130 kilometres an hour, and the seas at about 20 metres. A full-scale air search began at daylight In the United States, rescuers searched for dozens of teenagers missing on a hiking trip in the mountains of North Carolina today.

Crews used helicopters, front-end loaders and snowplows to reach hundreds of others caught in the blizzard. As people from Florida to Newfoundland dug out of hills of snow, authorities reported a growing death toll, with many of the fatalities coming from heart attacks due to shovelling snow. And there's more snow on the way. Environment Canada says Ottawa-Carle-ton can expect another five to 10 centimetres Tuesday. The same storm tore through most of Central and Eastern Canada, twisting roofs off houses, stranding people and dumping up to 45 centimetres of snow.

Winds up to hurricane force toppled traffic lights, ripped siding from buildings, popped car windows, and strained winter-weary backs from Ontario to Newfoundland. "The shingles on the building are peeling off the roof and flying through the air like bullets," said one Halifax apartment dweller, who was afraid to go outside. Snow accumulations reached about 45 centimetres in Ottawa, Montreal and parts of northern New Brunswick while Nova Scotia received heavy snow, then driving rain. At least five confirmed deaths four in Quebec and one in Ontario were blamed on the storm, compared with at least 113 deaths in the United States and Cuba. The weekend storm couldnt have come at a worse time for the thousands of Canadians planning to head south for March break sun and fun.

Most were forced to stay home as roads were closed and flights cancelled to many U.S. destinations. Although some roads are now being cleared, the Canadian Automobile Association is advising motorists to stay off southbound highways along the U.S. eastern seaboard until at least Tuesday. Millions of people up and down the east coast had no electricity; many didn't have heat either.

Thousands more were stuck in airports and shelters. Tens of thousands of people remained in shelters after being evacuated from their homes over the weekend. A Red Cross spokesman said the agency opened more than 600 shelters in 20 states. U.S. officials said 15 people died in Pennsylvania, 26 in Florida, four in Virginia, four in Georgia, seven in Alabama, five in North Carolina, one in South Carolina, eight in Tennessee, 10 in New York state, one in Maryland, one in New Jersey and one in Connecticut BY THE NUMBERS: Storm factsA2 SNOWED IN: Okay winter, you winB1 Lotteries Action Line B2 Astrology F2 Bedtime Story C2 Births, deaths F4 Briog F' Business C4 Canada A3 61 Classified Comics 9 Community page B5 Crossword r3 Riley HI Dear Aboy B2 Editorials Main Citizen number Want ads Circulation A6 Entertainment C1 High Priority B4 Jumble E3 Letters A8 Macmrw B2 Mutual Funds C5 Official Circles Scoreboard 04 Sports 01 Sweetman B3 Television C2 Weather El Wonderword F4 World A5 Years Ahead B2 829 9100 8299321 WAIL.

The Ottawa Citizen, 1101 Baxter Box 5020, Ottawa, Ontario, K2C 3M4, is a daily publication and is registered under Publications Marl Registration No 0279 'I survived storm By Michael Prentice Citizen staff writer NEW YORK By Ottawa standards, it was nothing to get excited about. But as long as I live, I can tell people I survived the storm of the century in New York City. In Ottawa, we have at least one storm like this every winter. They're not pleasant. But they're forgotten quickly.

If they hit on the weekend, as this one did, we just stay home while the snow plows and salt trucks clear the streets. In the Big Apple, however, 26 centimetres of snow is Armageddon, chaos. Or so news accounts tell us. In real life, it's not quite that bad. At the height of the storm Saturday afternoon, the Metropolitan Opera was staging a matinee of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Matinees are for older people who don't like to venture out especially in New York City, at night. Even on this Saturday, with the storm raging, there were only about 1,000 no-shows in the sold-out theatre. Up in arms: By David Pugliese Citizen defence issues writer i It could be a warmonger's dream come true. A shopping mart for weapons cleverly masquerading as an exhibition to introduce peacekeepers to new equipment Or it might be a harmless industry trade show. A chance for Canadian soldiers and United Nations officials to come and kick the tires on the latest gear available to help them do their jobs.

It all depends on who's talking about Peacekeeping 3, the defence equipment trade exhibition to be held at the Ottawa Congress Centre Tuesday and Wednesday. To the several hundred peace protesters who plan to converge on the Congress Centre. Peacekeeping V3 is high-power fuel for the worldwide arms trade. Military attaches based in Ottawa will be able to cruise the exhibition making important industry contacts. Canadian and foreign companies can highlight their military wares that can be Critics call trade show a weapons bazaar Oo.otpninp Regehr, author of Arms Canada and a I I npacekeeDing.

Some peace activists complain that no controls exist on where military equipment ends up. "The potential for industry contacts to be made for exports to repressive regimes is very likely," says Richard Sanders, coordinator of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, the group organizing the protest against Peacekeeping 93. "Canadian military equipment ends up in repressive regimes. This show is one more event to help it happen. Defence industry officials find such statements laughable.

Even some peace activists question whether Peacekeeping ga the offshoot of the ARMX military trade shows of the 1990s, will have any impact on defence exports. Military trade shows in Ottawa have little to do with selling weapons overseas or even in Canada, says Ernie Regehr More practical and established government routes for procuring military equipment are well known both to defence firms and governments, says.