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Liv(MA7 ipisT cent ii 5 SECTION THE VANCOUVER SUN, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1987 so, roup By TERRY GLAVIN The U.S. state department is investigating the Vancouver- based Sea Shepherd Society as part of a multi-agency effort to determine how American authorities should cope with the group's plans to disrupt the deep-sea driftnet fishery in the North Pacific this summer. A state department official in RtUTEFT CHEERS: Ronald Reagan toasts the Queen Sunday at state dinner with Governor-General Jeanne Sauve and Brian Mulroney Queen's kin reported abandoned Agence France-Presse LONDON A cousin of the Queen has been in a psychiatric hospital for nearly 50 years, although she was thought to have died in 1961, The Sun tabloid newspaper said today. The paper hinted the Royal Family is responsible for a coverup of the case. The article said Katherine Bowes-Lyon, now 60, has been kept since 1941 in Royal Earlswood Hospital, a public psychiatric hospital in a London suburb.

A hospital spokesman confirmed the report Sunday evening, saying Bowes-Lyon is "severely mentally handicapped." The Sun said Bowes-Lyon had a sister Nerissa, who died last year at 67, after having spent the bulk of her life in the same hospital. It said her grave has been left neglected and marked with a number and family name but no first name. Burke's Peerage, the definitive book on the British aristocracy, lists Katherine Bowes-Lyon as having died in 1961 and Nerissa in 1940, The sisters are cousins of the Washington, D.C. confirmed that several agencies are engaged in an effort to investigate the Sea Shepherd Society and its plans to interfere with the controversial fishery and, if necessary, "provoke an international incident." Japanese, Taiwanese and South Korean driftnets in the North Pacific are responsible for the deaths of an estimated 50,000 Dall's porpoises and thousands more sea-birds and other marine mammals every year. Whatever vessel the Sea Shepherd dispatches to the fishing grounds may be boarded if the group carries through with its plans to interfere with the nets, U.S.

Coast Guard spokesman Verner Siems said. But Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson says the U.S. Coast Guard has already been informed that Coast Guard boarding parties will not be resisted, ho matter what the conditions. A state department cable obtained by The Vancouver Sun details a March 2 meeting to discuss Sea Shepherd's plans, attended by officials from the state department, the U.S. department of justice, the U.S.

Coast Guard and the National Oceanographic and Aeronautics Administration (NO AA). The cable was sent to participants in the meeting and to Canadian officials. The U.S. embassy in Ottawa has also been asked by the state depart 's ment to contact the department of Please see SHEPHERD, B2 Reagan mmt draws 4,000 to Mill protest if Will Central America and the Iran-gate affair. In about a dozen speeches and on placards, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney also came in for sharp criticism for Canada's free-trade negotiations with Americans, cruise missile testing over Canadian territory and Queen and nieces of the Queen mm lacnw action oh auu rauiwvt it defection rumored fil 1.1 (A Tory By WENDY SMITH Southam News OTTAWA Farmers, workers, feminists, punk rockers, yuppies and baby-toting grand-mothers'protested against -everything from free trade to-' acid rain on Parliament Hill on Sunday in anticipation of the arrival of U.S.

President Ronald i Reagan. The event, only hours before Reagan's plane touched down in Ottawa for his annual meeting with Mulroney, attracted more than 4,000 people from across eastern Canada. The largely festive demonstration featured larger-than-life puppets of Mulroney and Reagan crooning Singing in the Rain. The crowd howled as the Reagan puppet nominated tap-dancer Gene Kelly as American acid rain ambassador. Reagan, driven directly from a military air base to Governor-General Jeanne Sauve's official residence, did not see the Parliament Hill demonstration.

Police cut off traffic on the block in front of the U.S. embassy, directly across from Parliament Hill, while scores of police officers kept a close eye on the demonstration. Reagan was labelled a "war-dog" and "moron" by groups protesting American policy in Canadian Press CALGARY If Edmonton MP David Kilgour leaves the Progressive Conservatives, that might just be what the Tories need to shake them up, Calgary MP Alex Kindy said Sunday. Kindy said the defection of Kilgour would send a clear message to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that the West is unhappy with his government. The Edmonton Sun said in a copyright story Sunday that Kilgour has not decided whether he will cross the floor of the House of Commons to join another party sit as an independent or quit politics.

If Kilgour stays in politics, most expect he would go to the Liberal camp since leader John Turner is his brother-in-law. Kilgour, member of Parliament for Edmonton Strathcona, said he is upset about the Conservative government's string of scandals and stumbles since it took office in 1984. But he also said he was furious with what he called the government's preferential treatment of Ontario. "No to free trade!" demonstrators shouted. "Stop cruise missile tests!" Some chanted: "U.S., get your buns out of Nicaragua!" and called Reagan a terrorist.

Virtually every interest group in the country environmentalists, Communists, Palestinians, disarmament advocates, ists, natives, among others voiced their concerns. "In fingering Ronald Reagan as our common enemy we are also fingering his allies," Moma Ballantyne, spokesman for the Ottawa Summit Response Coalition that organized the rally, told the crowd, "Through our separate struggles whether they be for clean air, for the self-determination of peoples, for women's equality we have come to realize that among our common obstacles to progress are Ronald Reagan, the U.S. government and all other governments that refuse to pursue independent and progressive policies." iillllp'' si i GRANBOP NEW VICTORIA LOCATION IS NOW OPEN PROTESTER wearing Ronald Reagan mask has a quick word with puppet of Brian Mulroney during Sunday's protests in Ottawa. Poll heightens speculation Thatcher will call election a (L MRS. SUE WE OFFER: Exclusive new SURESTART accelerated weight loss program.

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Deputy Prime Minister Lord Whitelaw said he favors an October election, but insisted: "I don't think the prime minister herself knows (the date)." jority in "the 650-member House of Commons. The Labor party, for 60 years one of Britain's two major parties, appeared in deep trouble, tied at 29 per cent with the centrist Social Democratic-Liberal party alliance. The rating was Labor's lowest since Neil Kinnock took over as party leader in 1983, after Thatcher won a second five-year term with 42.5 per cent of the vote. The latest survey, conducted for the pro-Thatcher Sunday Times, was the fifth consecutive national opinion poll in the last two weeks which portrayed Labor as either trailing or level with the six-year-old centrist alliance. the Conservatives had support of 41 per cent of the voters.

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