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"Hstum it Iks (DM The Edmonton Flames 2 Oilers 5 i TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1986 25 Cents (Metro only) $108M shot for oil sands from Getty Weather Occasional rain mixed with snow. Highs near 5. Chance of rain 90 per cent Wednesday: showers. D7 By Journal Staff Writers Premier Don Getty revealed $108 million in aid Monday for Syncrude and Suncor but denied his government is bailing out the troubled oil sands giants. He also announced a new heart-transplant program for Edmonton but denied the timing has anything to do with the May 8 election.

Syncrude gets an interest-free $85-million loan to fund engineering and planning work on its proposed expansion. By CAM COLE Journal Staff Writer They were gone, dead, buried. Down two goals in the other team's building and all ready to drown in a Red Sea. The Edmonton Oilers should have recognized all those certainties maybe, deep in their hearts, they almost did. But an innocent little shot from the left-wing boards by rookie Esa Tikkanen somehow found its way past Calgary Flames goalie Mike Vernon, and suddenly the champs were breathing again.

Flames party ruined E1 Leafs win 5-3 E2 Suddenly, first-goal-wins didn't HAVE to be true. Hat-Trick Fever lives. That Tikkanen goal, the first sign of mortality from Vernon in quite a while, was the wedge the Oilers needed to force their way back into the game that could have perhaps should have ended their quest for a third straight Stanley Cup. It gave them the will to dig deeper, to find a championship effort left inside them, and they didn't stop digging until it was 5-2. "Just when things seem to be at their worst possible, you bounce back.

That's what great teams do," Lee Fogolin said prophetically, after Mark Messier's shorthanded, breakaway goal had tied it 2-2. "The guys were sky-high before the game," Fogolin said, "and they knew close wasn't good enough. That big goal by Messier seemed to turn things around for us." So the series is even at 3-3, and the Battle of Alberta is a best-of-one series, Wednesday night at Northlands Coliseum, where you'd better hang on to your hats. Throughout the series, the first goal had been crucial only Edmonton's overtime win in Game Two had gone against the flow. But this time, the Oilers had to fight off goals 82 seconds apart by Joey Mullen and John Tonelli.

The Oilers threw away a written invitation to take control early in the third period when Messier saw an open net and fired Jari Kurri's rebound high and wide. But then came The Goal an absolute Oiler goal, full of wind-bum, big names and fancy passing. Paul Coffey swooped in on the left side, Wayne Gretzky somehow found him with the puck, and Coffey laid a perfect pass in the slot to Glenn Anderson, who rifled it between Vernon's legs. Scalpers said they were getting $500 for seats in the Saddledome, as Calgarians were primed to celebrate their own Stanley Cup in April, but the Oilers wouldn't cooperate. Behind another brilliant night in the net by goalie Grant Fuhr, they checked the Flames relentlessly after the Anderson goal.

If the Oilers can remember as far back as Sunday, however, they should know the series is far from over. The Flames' only playoff loss at Northlands this spring has come in overtime. And Edmonton might not be able to stand another one of those. The cars that will put some zip In your spring. Inside.

April is Cancer Month Lotto Luck 52 weeks of 649 numbers E8 OUR OPINION: The real danger of terrorism is not violence itself but the hysteria and overreaction we allow it to create in our society. A6 FLAIR: Sun-tan weather will soon be here, and we have the swimwear to fit the season. C1 1 Today's numbers B2 Business reacts A8 Heart-lung program; election coverage D1 Suncor strike D4 Suncor's provincial royalties are slashed from 12 per cent to one per cent, from April 1 to Dec. 31, 1986. The move will cost taxpayers $23 million.

University Hospital gets $1.7 million to do 12 heart-lung transplants a year, along with $900,000 to establish the new program. Although the announcements came only 10 days before the election, Getty denied opposition charges they're election goodies. "Government responsibilities continue whether there is an election or not," he told reporters. The announcements were made Monday because cabinet approved the initiatives earlier in the day, Getty said. New Democrat Leader Ray Martin described the energy announcements as little more than electioneering.

He did, however, commend the move to establish a transplant program. Getty said Alberta will pay for the Syncrude expansion's engineering and basic planning to ensure the project isn't delayed by low oil prices. "The Syncrude owners have agreed to repay us from the proceeds of the expansion when the final construction is completed. The $85 million will be a loan investment from the heritage trust fund." However, Syncude hasn't guaranteed construction will go ahead when the planning is completed late in 1988, Getty acknowledged. And Alberta won't get its money back if the expansion is abandoned.

Representative Party Leader Ray Speaker was pleased with the announcements, noting that his party was urging a reduction in royalties for Suncor. But Speaker also called the moves "just another additional election announcement by the Tory party to gain power again." Getty denied Suncor is considering a plant closure, although company officials said last week the plant could shut down if oil prices stay depressed long enough. He has not asked for assurances that the Suncor plant will stay open if royalties are cut. Alberta had to act without help from the federal government, he said. Ann Landers C7 Bingos E8 Births D5 Bob E8 Bridge D9 Business A8-12 Canada A2.D2 City B1-3 Comics D10 Crossword D9 Deaths D4 Don Braid A7 Doonesbury A4 Dr.

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CN employees investigating the cause of the crash tested Smith's radio several times and could not find any major problems, a witness said Monday. Hudson underwent an operation to remove part of his bowel and was fitted with a colostomy bag. When Hudson left the hospital, he was diagnosed as a diabetic and told to control the condition by following a proper diet. Johnson said Hudson's recovery was "excellent" and there was no need for drugs to prevent alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Under questioning by James Scott, lawyer for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Johnson agreed that blurred vision can be a "byproduct" of high blood pressure and diabetes.

CN medical records show Hudson had high blood pressure as early as 1980. The inquiry has also heard the When admitted to the Royal Alexandra General Hospital in July 1985, Hudson was close to death, suffering from acute pancreatitis an inflammation of the pancreas Dr. Brian Johnson said Monday at the inquiry headed by Justice Rene Foisy. After Johnson examined the engineer, he found that Hudson's large bowel was dead and decided the pancreatitis attack was likely caused by alcoholism. "One intensive-care unit resident wrote he had a history of a binge of alcohol prior to his admission for approximately one week," Johnson said.

The doctor also warned the engineer last summer that if he didn't stop drinking he would die. By KIM McLEOD Journal Staff Writer The engineer of the freight train involved in the Hinton disaster went on a drinking binge before being admitted to hospital last summer, an inquiry heard Monday. The testimony, which came from a surgeon who treated Jack Hudson, contradicted statements by a Canadian National Railways witness, who told the inquiry last week that Hudson stopped drinking in January 1985. Dr. Geoffrey Pretty, CNR regional medical officer, had said the company's district medical officer in Jasper told him that Hudson, 48, gave up drinking after being admitted to an alcohol rehabilitation centre in January 1985.

"I see you having a big fight with your wife." Deaths feared after Soviet nuclear accident MOSCOW (AP) A nuclear accident damaged an atomic reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in the Ukraine, the Soviet Union said Monday. Radiation swept across Finland, Denmark and Sweden, more than 1,200 km away. A U.S. state department official said there probably were deaths because the radiation travelled so far. The official news agency, Tass, said people affected were being aided, but did not say whether there were injuries or Kiev water reservoir on the Dniepr (River) begins." It made no other reference to the water supply for Kiev, a city of 2.4 million.

Finland reported picking up increased radiation Sunday night, but neither it nor Sweden said the levels were dangerous. Edmonton's Ukrainian-Canadians with relatives in the Soviet Union will probably have to depend on letters to find out if loved ones are safe, said Yar Slavutych, a retired University of Alberta professor. Slavutych's mother and sister live about 500 km south of Kiev in a small village and do not have a telephone. He will send a letter to them today but it will take three weeks to arrive. "I am definitely worried It's a terrible thing," said Slavutych, who was in Chernobyl in 1941.

nuclear weapons' tests in the atmosphere during the 1970s. "I know of no earlier nuclear power plant accident which has lead to such high radiation levels in this area," he said. Picture A3 No fallout from the accident has been detected in Canada, said Ernest Letourneau, head of the federal government's Bureau of Radiation and Medical Devices. But the bureau, which tests for radiation in the air at weather stations across the country, is taking daily samples just in case, Letourneau said. "It would be very surprising if anything turned up." The Budapest Radio report noted Chernobyl is located at the junction of two rivers, Pripyat and Uzh, "where the deaths, when the accident occurred, nor the exact location of the plant.

However, government-run Hungarian radio reported early today that people were injured in the accident near Kiev. "There are injuries The injured are being medically treated," said the broadcast on Budapest Radio. "Steps are being taken to eliminate the consequences of the accident." Tass said it was the first nuclear accident in the Soviet Union and a government commission was appointed, an indication that it was serious. Lars Erik de Geer of Sweden's Defence Research Agency said: "It must have been a relatively big accident, since we have received such high levels of radiation from so far away." He said the radiation levels corresponded to those recorded after 1 NORWAY Jp Pf 1 SOVIET UNION Moscow Nuclear Plant iaflfifcfcjSiA Accident DENMARKf 7wtsrJtrT PCX.WO 4 Ukraine y-vuGOSUW -r 7 2 2 Published daily by the proprietor. Southam Inc at The Journal Building Edmonton, Alta TSJ 2S6 Second class mail registration number 0566.