Times Colonist from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • 1

in i ii miim i ii twifcii a ip i tiiiiwiin Kim wiVi iiitii trn-itf rTmriirnie mi mrifr-'ii rM! Cloudy tonight, showery on Friday mm L3 30 cents 125th year, No. 233 Victoria, British Columbia, Thursday. ScDtcmbcr 15. 1983 Beautiful B.C. peddled off Sniffing of spray suspect in death of youth but it will be up to the employees to decide who they want to represent them," Sleeman said.

The magazine will continue to be published In Victoria, and confirmed his company plans to continue the present format, which excludes advertising. Ken Gibbs, business manager for 10 years at the magazine, forecast revenues for the 19H3-84 fiscal year at A special one-time-only publication planned for later this year should boost income, but Gibbs did not say how much. Sleeman expressed confidence he can make a profit on the magazine, though certainly not In the first year of Sublication. He said no guarantees ave been made on how long Mainland will continue to publish the magazine. "The conclusion of this agreement supports our contention private industry in B.C.

is both capable and pre- Sared to carry out many functions we avc come to think of as government Richmond told a press conference. "If there is a lesson to be learned from this experience, it is that we can provide many of the same services people have come to expect by tapping the resources of a capable private sector rather than the taxpayer's pocket." He gave no further details of the agreement with Mainland, other than to describe it as "a clean deal." The Credit government announced its intention to sell the magazine in the July 7 budget. Since then, some 16 proposals have been considered on financial grounds as well as nonmonetary concerns such as subscriber liability, content and staff employment. Richmond said the magazine always has lost money for the government. While a number of steps could have been taken to improve that situation, the government felt the private sector could do a better job at no cost to taxpayers.

"I am convinced the decision we Tim Colonltt IwUlaturt staff Tourism Minister Claude Richmond said Wednesday agreement has been reached to sell Beautiful British Columbia magazine to Mainland Magazine Ltd. of Vancouver. The government is selling the flagship of its publishing fleet for $760,000, plus agreement by the new publisher to maintain editorial direction of the magazine as well as jobs for 20 employees. The agreement, effective immediately, also guarantees continued service to an estimated 370,000 subscribers when the new publisher produces its first edition in mid-October. have made will see the continued success of Beautiful British Columbia magazine as our provincial flagship magazine." Bill Sleeman, vice-chairman of the Jim Pattison Group, which owns Mainland Magazine, said all employees have agreed to stay on at current wages except for "a couple" who took early retirement.

A B.C. Government Employees' Union contract will be honored until its expiry date Oct. 31, when the staff will have the option of remaining with the bargaining unit. "We will negotiate with the BCGEU, Pam, a spray-on coating for cook-ware, is suspected in the death of a 15 year-old Saanich youth. Saanich police are waiting for results of laboratory tests to determine how Ricky Lawrence Colwell died.

The boy, son of Lawrence and Teresa Colwell, 1163 Timber Lane, was found unconscious at home Sept. 6 and rushed to hospital, where he was ft (o! to 21 lDQLS pronounced dead. The police spokesman said he suspected the death was ac-cidental but an investigation has not been I -If' I mJ pD3 completed and cause of death will not be firmly established until the result of laboratory tests are known. Victoria coroner Darryl Stephens said the results should be available in about two weeks. The youth was a student at Claremont secondary school.

Pam, available on grocery shelves, is advertised as a low-calorie, pure vegetable coating for cookware. Sprayed on frying pans or other utensils, it stops food from sticking. But several cases of abuse have been reported in which young people inhale the spray for its intoxicating effect. A warning on the can reads: "Deliberate abuse of this product by intentionally sniffing or inhaling the concentrated vapors (spray) may be fatal." The spray is mostly lecithin, a vegetable product, but propellants in the can include isobutane, trichlorofluorometh-ane and propane. PENTICTON (CP) After a two-year respite from property tax increases, home and business property owners in British Columbia can expect their taxes to jump in 1984, George Thorn, president of the Union of B.C.

Municipalities, said Wednesday. The provincial government has opened the door to property tax increases because it is planning to "substantially" reduce the grants it gives to municipalities next year and at the same time it is removing the five-percent limit that was set on municipal spending in the last two years, said Thorn, the mayor of Kitimat. But Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Ritchie denied the provincial government is giving the green light to tax increases. "I am dismayed when I hear people that property taxation may have to increase in response to some hypothetical declines in revenue sharing," he said. "I completely reject this sort of defeatist attitude that assumes the inevitability of higher property taxes and so I urge all of you to examine every possibility of cost cutting before you contemplate any increases in property taxation.

"What we have to do is take a strong lead in restraint and manage our affairs to get the greatest value for the dollar spent," Ritchie told delegates to the three-day convention. Ritchie made no mention that last year B.C.'s municipalities managed to restrain their spending increases to between zero and five per cent while the provincial government increased its spending by 12 per cent. Asked later about the disparity, he said that the province has to supply essential services such as hospitals and schools that are more essential than the sewers and sidewalks that municipalities supply. Ritchie, the first municipal affairs minister in B.C. in more than a decade without previous experience in local government, didn't have good news for the more than 809 delegates at the union's 80th annual convention.

As Thorn predicted earlier, Ritchie announced that municipalities are likely going to get less money in 1984 from the provincial government than they did this year when the revenue sharing grants were substantially reduced from the year before. Earlier, in the opening address to the convention Thorn warned that municipalities would not stand for any attempts by the provincial government to restrict tax increases, thereby forcing municipalities to cut what they consider necessary programs. I 1 1 fI I I rob I Bill Halkett photo THIS IS ART, in case you wondered, and it can be seen in Beacon Hill Park, sioned by Open Space Gallery as part of a project that will formally be in case you are interested. The huge, skeletal steel arm was commis- unveiled next week. Demolition is October 9.

Story, B-1) Section A CHEK and BCTV complete deal for unfinished CBC building Mulroney new top choice for PM: Poll TORONTO (CP) Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Mulroney is the top choice of Canadians for prime minister, a Gallup poll released today indicates. The poll, conducted in early August, showed 32 per cent of those interviewed think Mulroney would make the best prime minister, while Pierre Trudeau was the choice of 23 per cent, the first time since 1976 he has not been first. Gallup said 14 per cent of those polled picked NDP Leader Ed Broadbent as their first choice, 16 per cent opted for "none of the above" and 15 per cent said they didn't know who would make the best prime minister. meaning the city would receive an annual grant instead of taxes. Smith would not say how much he paid for the studio, which was to have been in operation as a CBC production centre by Nov.

30, 1978. However, last month BCTV vice-president Roy Gardner said the CBC wanted more than $4 million for the building, although BCTV thought it was worth considerably less. He estimated it would cost $2 million to complete the building. CBC started preliminary plans for a Victoria station in 1973 when costs for building the station were put at $1.6 million and a $500,000 operating budget. Delays put construction costs up to $1 million and operating costs to $1.6 million.

Three years ago CBC refused to sell the building to CHEK, and instead leased it to the University of Victoria. The lease expired March 31 this year. CBC then put the building up for sale, but refused a BCTV bid of $4 million. CBC television service in English and French to residents of Victoria and Vancouver Island now is provided from Vancouver. B.C.

Television Broadcasting Systems Ltd, operators of CHEK and BCTV, have bought the unfinished CBC studio building on Kings Road, president Donald Smith announced Wednesday. The deal, which has been expected for some time, is subject to federal Treasury Board approval. Last month CHEK television won city approval to rezone the building to limited commercial, meaning the company will pay taxes based on the assessed value of the land and structure. The CBC, a Crown corporation had the land zoned for public buildings, rncia HUMAN Resources Minister Grace McCarthy is using "Soviet-style politics" when she labels as emotionally unstable civil servants who criticize the provincial government, the NDP says. A-2 Section FINGERPRINTS found at the scene of the murder of Suzanna Seto in Duncan match those of the suspect.

B-1 AUSTRALIA'S secret keel failed to do the job as the U.S. won the first race in the America's Cup yachting series. B-2 Section THE CLASSIC maternity dress comes blessed with a Peter Pan collar, puffed sleeves and pussycat bow. Style is seeping into fashions for the pregnant, but progress is slow. C-1 Section DRUSE shelling fails to dislodge the Lebanon army's hold on a key mountaintop town.

D-13 INDEX Abby C-2 Births D-5 Bombeck C-3 Bridge C-2 Bulletin Board C-3 Classified D-5 Comics D-4 Courts B-1 2 Crossword C-2, D-4 Deaths D-5 Entertainment C-7 Finance B-6 Gardening C-2 Horoscope C-3 Living C-1 Metro B-1 Sports B-2 Television D- Your Health C-2 Western Express, A-6 ersion sure By T. Edward Eskelson and Tom Bernard Special to the Denver Post plane crew say ex-spy A T. Edward Eskelson and Tom Bernard, are former U.S. Air Force communications intelligence specialists who flew on RC-135 reconnaissance missions out of Okinawa. Obscured by what will surely be claimed as legitimate national security matters, the U.S.

government possessed the capability to directly intercede during the entire sweep of events culminating in the annihilation of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Few facts concerning that capability have been brought to public attention. Based on the information disclosed by the Reagan administration during the last two weeks, it is clear that a major effort has been undertaken to bewilder the American public concerning the capabilities of the U.S. Air Force RC-135 and, more importantly, the National Security Agency. As former crewmembers on an RC-135 aircraft, we find official statements concerning the extent of its involvement prior to and following the KAL shootdown incompatible with our experience.

Official sources have attempted to minimize the capability of the RC-135 by alleging that its mission off the coast of the Soviet Union was for the purpose of "verifying compliance with arms control agreements." Other sources have portrayed the RC-135 as a passive listening device. The president stated that the there are several electronic warfare officers assigned to the platform. AH of the personnel aboard the RC-135 are under the operational authority of the National Security Agency (NSA). The RC-135 has the ability to stay aloft for missions of 18 to 20 hours, demanding but a single midair refueling within that period. The aircraft are assigned "orbit" areas near target nations by NSA.

The "orbit" is a flight path resembling a figure eight so as to never permit the intercept platform to turn directly toward the target nation 's airspace or land mass. It has been our experience that, on occasion, NSA adjusts the orbits of RC-135S so that they will intentionally penetrate the airspace of a target nation. This is ordered for the purpose of bringing a target country's air defence systems into a state of alert. This allows NSA to analyze these fully activated systems for potential flaws and weaknesses. The RC-135 is a primary intercept platform for the NSA, meaning that it is a prime receptor of signals emanating from a surveillance target.

It also performs functions that simply cannot be Page A-2 SPY aircraft was back at its base in Alaska for a full hour prior to the actual Soviet attack on KAL Flight 007, implying that no RC-135s were in the vicinity during that timeframe. The RC-135 is a Strategic Air Command (SAC) long-range reconnaissance aircraft that carries an electronic and communications intercept platform. It is flown by a SAC crew, but the intercept platform is manned by some 30 U.S. Air Force Security Service personnel. In addition.

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