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The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 3

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The Provincei
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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THE PROVINCE. Friday, May 21. 1871 31 Ontario Place Prov. pleasure palace opens pening at. any one time on the site it'll come in handy, with more than 2,000 entertainers scheduled to take part in opening ceremonies.

In addition to the Kuril entertain ment ill be offered from floating barges, various spots around the islands and from the roofs of the live "pods" of the Ontario Place Pavilion sticking out of Ihe water on stilts. Jim Ramsay, special projects director, says the government, expects to earn about $2.0 million from Ontario Place during Ihe first year of operation, including about $700,000 in sales taxes on admission tickets, restaurant meals and liquor. Ihealre called C'incsphrre built to give the illusion that it is a hall floating on water, and the Korum, an outdoor amphitheatre with a capacity of 8.000. Ontario Place will be open seven days a week lu a.m. to 1 a.m.

Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays. The main exhibits will close for the season Oct. 11, Thanksgiving weekend, and reopen next spring.

This weekend, visitors crossing the 300-foot long two-level bridge 27 feet above Lake Ontario will enter the Welcome Wall, a huge spider-like structure serving as an information centre. Closed-circuit television monitors in the Welcome Wall will show what's hap Canadian I'ress TORONTO Fewer tlian throe years ago, Ontario Place was an architectural pipe dream; Saturday at 10 a.m., the provincial government's $24 million Cinderella story becomes reality when Premier William Davis officially opens the lakefront showplace. Ontario Place is basically two man-made islands, acres in area, set down solidly in the open spread of Lake Ontario to the west of Totonlo harbor. The two main islands are chopped into chunks of land by canals and lagoons. The biggest eye-catchers are a domed 'tJ i lr 2 1 Jill- 1 111 I II I i-'' ---A I I '1 iH 4 il'ki 'ft.

f1 'BXSBEm Governor-General's Awards Activist refuses literary prize NKiUT LHJHTN OFF LAKE ONTAKIO inspired ly lhr province's successful purticipitf jun in Montreal's Expo (7, an X()-acn; dream pavilion is realized within 10 minutes of downtown Toronto. University of Mnnt-Quans Nous Serous philosophy at Hie real, for his play World Chess Soviet contender bounces back Wednesday, was adjourned on Ihe Mrd move. Canadian Press OTTAWA One of six Canadian authors selected to receive Governor-General literary awards refused to accept the honor at a presentation made by Governor-General Roland Michener. Fernand Ouelletle, 40, a CBC public affairs producer, gave political reasons for not accepting Ihe award, lie was selected for his collection of essays, I.cs Actres Rctrnuves. Writer -editor -publisher David Godfrey, received an award for his novel, The New Ancestors, hailed by critics as a major development in Canadian literature.

A third novel chosen for Ihe awards was La Fein me cle Loth by Monupie. Boseo, 43, a professor of French literature at. the University of Montreal. Other awards went to: Jacques liraidt, 'il, professor of -A Ileureux. H.

P. Nichol. 20, for three books of poems Beach Head, Slill Water, The True Eventual Story of Billy Ihe Kid-as well as an anthology edited by him, The Cosmic Chef; An Kvening in Concrete. Michael Ondaatje, 27, Ccylonese-horn English teacher at the University of Western Ontario, London, for his book of prose and poetry The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Robert.

Weaver of the CBC and editor of Tamarack Review was head of the selection committee's English language jury. Ottawa writer Claire Martin headed the French-language panel. Each recipient received a Canada Council cash prize of $2,500. The game opened the Sicilian Defence Ihe 10-game series lien! I.aiscn of with a variation of Korchnoi now leads 2 to Denmark won his By PAUL RAUGUS1 grandmaster Mark Taimanov did his homework well Tuesday night. Teetering on the brink of defeal in Ihe second game ol his world chess championship quarter -final match with American Hobby Fischer, Taimanov evened Ihe score Wednesday afternoon, forcing a second adjournment in the game on Ihe move.

More than H'u lioiuv. have been spent on Ihe game during the I days. Taiinauov had been down a pawn and the slrenglh of a bishop over a knight, but he quickly evened Ihe count when Fischer chose to leave a pawn unpro tecteil in favor of utili.ing his king in a king-side counter attack. Fischer's attack never materialized into anything ol ma jor consequence. Fischer leads the match by one victo ry, but with Taimanov gelling back Ihe advantage of while in Thursday's game, the Russian could lie jl up with a win today and with what looks like a certain draw when play resumes in the second game Friday.

The 28-year old Fischer stormed out of the University of B.C. Student Union Building auditorium at adjournment. During the course of play he had an angly exchange with chief arbiter Kaic of Yugoslavia about Taima-nov's habit of taking a walk alter each move. Fischer said Ibis distracted him liom his game. Kaic, however, declined lo take any action and tin; Russian continued his walking habits.

Meanwhile, Ihe fourth game between Soviet grandmasters Viktor Korchimi and Yelun Geller, played in Moscow fourth game in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, in his mutch against Wolfgang Uhlinaun of F.ast Germany, who gave up on the move, Larsen leads the series 2' a points to I'l- There was no play in Ihe Seville, Spain, series on Wednesday. The competition is being held lo decide who will meet world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in Moscow next year. The challengers qualified in a tournament held in Spain last year James SPEAKS POET IJ. P. MCOL ACCEPTS IMS AWAKO FKO.M A I) MHTIKNEIt standing with tin' majority.

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i-. i (). The Wednesday night broadcast of consumer advo -cale Ralph Nader's speech to Ihe llC AJiimni Association was a demonstratiim of adcasling at its best, and the station deserves lirst Some of some of them isn't much to "The vultures, got here them arc Canadians and are Americans, and there OHM I' I'-KM I' OM I' I N-UM ft-1. li Nsl' 1 1 i.r Is' 1 1 1 Is I' i l' I' II II lls'J IC II I i'l (Jl! om HI I' Oil I I- If Ol II II', I' I I' ij.i l(- II I' On I's I I. IM' II -Kill ii I I I sH 'J I' 111 Is I'M It II I- Ol i IM' ii rc in UN1' I INI Is' KM i r.i HOI Is II i i li-N I Is 111 II Mi-li II II li II Hi I Ksl' Ksl' Ii Ol i i II I i.V is i'ir' Is Ol I's-P i-1 II I is" n.i ti l) I' ItAi I' II i II Is'll I Ol II N-K Ii II Is i li'i r.

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AilJiiUlliril Spence reported was an prepared long in advance of Ihe man's (lealh. Born in educated at early signs of success when Spence just filled in the blanks, yet Ihe result, was informative and even entertaining. CBC radio producers should occasionally listen In such programs as part of a purification ritu.il. washing some fancy ideas down Ihe drain. But live broadcasting has ils minor drawbacks.

One of Ihe first sentences in Nader's speech was in praise of the ('lit', which he described as Ihe network thai r'il to broadcast his aulo salcly views before Ihe U.S. stations. NW's people are sensitive that way. And before Hie Hotel Van microphones were switched off for Ihe night, somebody mentioned in disapproving tones that NW insisted on exclusive live broadcast rights. That intervening hour of uninterrupted Nader was worth the trouble.

He's not Ihe world's best orator in the conventional sense, but it's easy to see why his environmental crusade has survived and grown. With Ihe radio Wasting away in Hie back garden (where I was weeding a pesticide free organically pure food plot) Ihe broadcast look on wartime characteristics. The call to mute against Ihe enemy, corporate irresponsibility, had the right tone. Urgent, responsible, believable. One had the feeling thai although Ihe speech may nol have affeclcd the people who paid $0 to see Nader ill pel sun, i was reallv Ihe radio llMi crs who counted niosl.

Such occasions are rare on radio, liming Ihe Queen's visit, I rcincmhcr leaving the live TV coverage of Ihe Queen's speech, jumping Into Ihe car and searching the radio dial to con llniie Ihe conversation There was none. Nol even on Ihe CIIC. Just music and coiumcri lids. ounjr arlors Canadian Press TORONTO The music industry is "responsible for the epidemic propur lions of drug abuse today" because it made drugs "fashionable" and "hip," sa.i Toronto composer (Icno Lees. "Anv (lummy who says It didn't, or that the other factors were important, hasn't done what I've done which is to listen lo popular music intensely for 10 years," says Lees.

Thai's jusl one kind of corruption, Lees says, that exists in the music pub lishing and recording industry ami one of the reasons he is becoming a music publisher mil record manufacturer himself. People "don'l understand the iower of popular inu.ic," be says. "A song is endlessly repeated and is nieiuoried "Jingles are coinmis.sioneil precisely because they have the power lo per suade One tune pushes soap, ami allolh er pushes ml Lees says he smoked pnl for a lime himself, but quit it because he found il caused severe and long lasting side cf feels A former Toronto new: paper man. lie was editor of Downbeat inarauic, and has been a well known inlie of both classical and pop music lie has both written and tiamhilcd I.M'ics lor lliailiau t-oiniHiMT Anlonio Carlos ii hi and has bad Ins lytic ic muled Flank Sinatra Shady upcialors in Hie iiiumc Iiiimiii i have cost bun "llioUMiiids nil thousand'" and he savs he's been as badly hull bv Canadians as by Auiei icmiis. choose between lliein." Some of his complaints about the music biiMiiess: Canadian publishers Mgn compos eis lo contracts which allow them lo pay only half Ihe royalties on foreign sales, including American royalties, at though Ihe clause will he removed if the song writer insists.

Recording companies manipulate books, sometimes changing serial numbers on records so it looks as if a com poser's records haven't sold and no royalty has lo be paid. Pcilormeis aren't paid royalties if a song they record is played on radio. Record companies ignore classical composers, such as American Charles hes, until llieir copyrights run out. Conglomerates own publishing hoii' cs, reeoi I companies ami broad casting slaloms in the United Stales Lees says lie's been told W) per cent of Ihe winks recorded are published by companies iclalcd to the iccordiiig com p. HIV "The links between leeordmg and pulili-lung -1 I I in ei have been al lowed by Ihe S.

justice department," sacs Lees "It a iiccping Ihing thai nobody's noticed, and li dclrowng Ihe Anuii i an culluic whn mi hides ours "But Ihe onlv way to ligbl (lie is wild lue, so I in going lulu the recoidliig and publishing business praise even if Ihe Canadian Radio-Television Commission happens to be meeting in town. Over two hours of live coverage of a public event, and nary a eonimer cial within range. It was a special event for the station, which itself has become a crusader in Ihe anti-pollution battle. Thanks to thorough advance publicity (including a whopping and effective ad in the preceding day's edition of The Province) it not only performed a public service but probably grabbed a reasonably big sine of the rat ings. In radio terms, 8 p.m.

to 10 p.m. Is definitely not prime time, and it takes shock taclics to convince siable por lions of lelcvisionlanil to temporarily forsake Ihe video portion of Its col led opium pipe. Coverage of the speech wis enhanced bv 30 niinule introduction by Art Kinley and newsman Terry Spence. Nol for inlcy or Spruce Ihe CBC radio slvle ming miles of audio tape, complete wilh sound cffecis, compressed into a few minutes. Ilnlli simply read from a typewritten Keripl, and managed to convey more infoi inalion about Ihe lasclualiug life of Nader than any TV program could do wilh a similar ainoiuil of lime.

In newspaper language, the slulf the awesome power ol pop music con-dolled liy Ihe ereepiii) menace of the manipulators. Anniversary irritation Madoc for rock festival rock Farmer's plans -W'WW Hill. s(nml'r iiiljiiilicalor aiiadian press PRIM GLllRGF-Tliusc who per foiiu play must coiiMder Hs relalioo-sliip lo ils iiuilieiiie, adjudicator Gil Hunch said al the opening night of the 1-ifHi Annual II ('. High Si hool Drama I i dual About :i.i0 slodinls ate alen(lmg Hie bun day slival and llu alie conleicncc Ihe Ihiee pas picscnliil Wcdncs d.iv weie Mm limcr's Dock Hint plaveil bv I'l nice George Senior See ood.iiy School, Sam Shcpanl's tow-boss No Mwo, played bv I'lili'iiiiia I. Coipiill.iin, and Heiirv lee D.ins.

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