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rt Lm til i3 Li Military won't attack demonstrators Arms fair May 23, 1989 Victoria, B.C. 131st year, No. 159 protested 40 cents Carrier home delivery: $2.30 a week formation. It was the first reported case of jamming since before diplomatic relations were restored in 1979. Wan Li, head of the National People's Congress, told U.S.

Vice-President Dan Quayle while visiting Washington that the government agreed at the start of demonstrations not to use violence, a Bush administration official said. But Wan also said restoring order CHINA CLASH A2 The Associated Press BEIJING More than 100 Chinese military officers said Monday they would not send troops into Beijing to confront or suppress the masses of people demanding political and social change. While student leaders considered ending their 10-day occupation of Tiananmen Square, many Beijing students were leaving because of "squalid conditions," and the lack of clear-cut conditions. huge demonstrations. Sources said members of the National People's Congress, China's legislature, began gathering signatures needed to convene a special session on the legality of martial law, indicating a further erosion of Li's support.

In Washington, the Voice of America said Chinese authorities were jamming its broadcasts, apparently try-ing to cut off one of the demonstrators' main sources of in Others argued they should stay until they achieved victory in the struggle with the government. The student leaders said half their numbers were now students from outside the city. A brief clash between soldiers and protesters did occur Monday, but no shooting was reported. The promise not to attack demonstrators represented a serious blow to Prime Minister Li Peng and other hardliners who have tried to quell the WEATHER Cloudy with showers. Details A2 rift wi Same crude old-style tactics, thunders Thatcher In London, however, Foreign Office staff working in the Soviet Union," a figure might relate to all personnel, officials said they were unaware of Foreign Office spokesman said.

"We both Soviet and British, who work for any such quota and expressed confu- have no idea what he (Gerasimov) is British organizations or diplomatic sion over Gerasimov's figure of 375. talking about with 375." np nMATir Rnw A 9 "There are 78 registered British The spokesman speculated that the uirLuivin nuvv By Tyler Marshall Los Angeles Times LONDON A diplomatic row between Britain and the Soviet Union deepened Monday as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher accused the Soviets of reverting to crude, old-style diplomatic tactics and the Soviets ordered a sharply reduced British presence in Moscow. The dispute erupted over the weekend when Britain ordered the expulsion of eight Soviet diplomats and three journalists for alleged spy activities. While initial news of the expulsions was suppressed to avoid disturbing what has been acknowledged here as one of the warmest periods in Anglo-Soviet relations since the Second World War, Moscow quickly retaliated by announcing the expulsion of an identical list of 11 Britons. Then, in an additional move, Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen-nady Gerasimov told a news conference Monday that the number of Britons permitted to live in the Soviet Union would be reduced by 170 from a present level of 375 to 205, a figure he described as a quota agreed upon by the two countries.

"The quota, at 205, has been radically violated, and as a reciprocal measure, it is stated that now we establish the quota of personnel of British representation at the figure of 205 Gerasimov said. by peace activists By Janet Steffenhagen The Canadian Press OTTAWA Waving black flags and chanting anti-war slogans, about 1,500 peace activists marched Monday to protest ARMX '89, an international arms fair which opens today. The demonstrators, from tots to teenagers to seniors, halted holiday traffic as they marched to Lansdowne Park, site of the controversial trade show first organized in 1983. They gathered in a park area cordoned off by police and listened to speakers denounce Canada's involvement in the arms trade. Nearby, a dozen people involved in the exhibition stood quietly in the late afternoon sun and watched.

"MY MESSAGE is for the people in there," yelled Natalie Turner of the Student Christian Movement of Canada, pointing to the stadium. "We don't want to see our planet destroyed by bombs, by garbage and by hatred." Today, members of the Alliance for Non-Violent Action say they will block the entrance to Lansdowne Park. Richard Sanders, spokesman for the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, said Canada's reputation as a peacemaker is called into question by its involvement in ARMX. The demonstration will "show the world that the statement that Canada is a peacemaker is a myth," he told protesters before the march began. "Canada is anything but a peacekeeper." The three-day trade show, sponsored by Toronto-based Baxter Publishing is expected to draw as many as 15,000 buyers, sellers and soldiers from around the world, organizers say.

Some 400 companies from 16 countries are expected to set up booths to display their weapons, communications equipment, tents and computer simulators. THE EXHIBITION is held every two years. But this year, Ottawa city council decided it will no longer rent municipally-owned property for the show. In the Commons on Friday, Mary Collins, associate defence minister, said the exhibition was a cost-efficient way to bring the department up to date on the latest in training technology. But the demonstrators said ARMX promotes the arms trade, and thus, promotes killing.

They say Canadian weapons often end up in the hands of some of the world's worst human-rights U4 U.S.S.R.! Disband alliances CAVORTING CLOWN provides laughs during Monday's Victoria Day parade which entertained crowds along Douglas Street. Marching bands, colorful floats and baton-twirlers made the three-hour parade, described as the biggest in five years, a spectacular entertainment. Story, picturesD1 SPORTS Hextall hit Goaltender Ron Hextall is slapped with a 1 2-game suspension by the NHL for his part in a playoff incident involving Montreal's Chris CheliosB1 Pasquale returns National team veteran Eli Pasquale reconsiders his decision to retire from the basketball team in time to join the club for a European tourB2 NHL PLAYOFFS Calgary 4 Montreal 2 DetailsB1 INTERNATIONAL Dispute not settled With only a week to the NATO summit, the United States and some of its allies are still disagreeingA2 NATIONAL Diesel subs possible Diesel-electric submarines have not been ruled out as replacements for a fleet of Canadian nuclear submarines scuttled in the recent federal budget, says a Canadian rear-admiralA7 BUSINESS Dow Jones: 2502.02 0.92 Gold: $360.75 US $5.50 DetailsB6-B7 Riding high John Colville photo Sugar Crisp in Monday's competition at the Luxton Rodeo. Steve Holman of Quesnel shows what bareback riding is all about as he hits the ring with a fiery The Associated Press MOSCOW The Soviet Union suggested Monday that both NATO and the Warsaw Pact be disbanded. "The Warsaw Treaty states propose disbanding both military alliances at the same time, starting with disbanding of their military forces," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov.

Gerasimov said the full appeal to members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be published in Soviet newspapers today. It is not the first time East European officials have broached the idea, but Monday's statement comes one week before a NATO summit meeting that finds the 16-member alliance divided. West Germany advocates talks on the elimination of short-range nuclear weapons from Europe, while the United States and Britain have said no such talks are possible. West Germany is more concerned with eliminating the possibility of a destructive East-West conflict on its territory. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has offered the possibility of an undivided Europe free of nuclear threat.

Gerasimov said Monday the East European alliance is suggesting expanding arms-negotiations to all weapons systems, including navies. He said the appeal was being made because times have changed since the post-war era when the two alliances were formed. Gluttony feats no longer 'in' as book record Reuter LONDON Feel like devouring a whole ox or swallowing a kilogram of sheep's brains in less than three minutes? Don't bother, the Guinness Book of Records urged Monday. Editor Donald McFarlan said Guinness is dropping 43 great feats of gluttony from its next edition later this year because of health fears. Only one gluttony entry greatest omnivore will remain "for its historical and nostalgic value." For the record, the holder is Frenchman Michel Lotito whose diet since 1966 has included 10 bicycles, a supermarket cart, seven television sets, six chandeliers, a coffin complete with handles and a Cessna light aircraft.

Hospital bosses do the laundry as nurses stage partial strike work no longer performed includes housekeeping, cleaning instruments and equipment, doing substitute work on the telephone switchboard and pushing patients from one station to another. Chuck Rowe, spokesman for the Greater Victoria Hospital Society, NURSES' STRIKE A2 WHERE TO LOOK union of reneging on an earlier promise not to strike before talks resumed today. "We were given an undertaking that no withdrawal and no job action would be taken," said Annis. The 17,500 members of the BCNU stopped performing all non-nursing duties at 4 p.m. Sunday.

Union spokesman Jerry Miller said By Richard Watts Times-Colonist staff B.C. hospital administrators were doing laundry and taking out garbage Sunday and Monday in the wake of a partial strike by the B.C. Nurses Union. Hospital Labor Relations Association spokesman David Annis denounced the tactic and accused the Abby Births Bridge Classified Comics- Crossword Deaths Finance Living C2 D3 C2 J3 D2 C2 D3 B6 CI Bi C2 New cancer strategy may cut mastectomies Sports Your health killer of women in North America. The disease strikes one in 10 women at some time during their lives and caused 4:,000 deaths last year in the United States.

In Bonadonna's study, chemotherapy was given to women whose breast tumors were bigger than three centimetres. The drugs could bring them down below three centimetres in 87 per cent of the women. The largest tumor was more than 10 centimetres across and was reduced in size enough so doctors could perform a lumpectomy. The average size of the tumors before treatment was five centimetres. After the operations, the doctors treated the women with radiation therapy and additional "I think there is still a lot of place for mastectomy," because the chances of a cure may be better, commented Dr.

Hendre Falkson of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. While cautious, some other physicians said they found Bonadonna's findings intriguing. "This challenges the conventional treatment," said Dr. Nikolay Dimi-trov of Michigan State University. "It may provide a revolutionary change in the treatment of breast cancer." Added Dr.

Jules Harris of Rush Cancer in Chicago, "I think it's interesting and exciting and will give rise to a great deal of clinical investigation." Breast cancer is the leading cancer Surgeons frequently recommend against trying to spare breasts containing larger tumors because too little healthy tissue is left to save and because they fear the cancer will be more likely to spread to other parts of the body. So far, Bonadonna and colleagues in Italy have used the new procedure on 97 patients beginning in January 1988. Although none of their cancers have returned, other experts caution that much longer follow-up will be necessary to know whether this approach is as good as mastectomies ut saving lives. Despite recent studies showing that for small tumors, at least, breast-sparing surgery appears to be safe, some physicians remain skeptical. The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO By shrinking tumors with medicine before surgery, doctors may be able to eliminate most mastectomies as the standard treatment for breast cancer, a leading cancer researcher said Monday.

Dr. Gianni Bonadonna of the National Cancer Institute of Italy said his study showed that the new approach could eliminate the need for Gene joins cancer fightB8 mastectomies in 87 per cent of women who otherwise would have had this mutilating surgery. In recent years, doctors have slowly switched to removing just the lump, not the whole breast, when the tumor is small. However, this conservative surgery is not usually considered possible when tumors are large. The latest strategy involves shrinking big tumors first with chemotherapy so they are small enough to be taken out with a breast-saving operation called a lumpectomy, which generally leaves about three-quarters of the breast intact.

The chemotherapy is the same as that commonly used after surgery. The procedure was outlined by Bonadonna at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Bonadonna predicted that by 1994, the 100th anniversary of the radical mastectomy, this common operation "will be very, very rare. LotteriesA2 Circulation and delivery 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 7:00 a.m.

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