Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • 10

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Star-Phoenix Taylor now agent general in Hong Kong By Dave Traynor or the Star-Phoenix REGINA Another former cabinet minister has joined the exodus from Saskatchewan but he's not looking for work, either. Graham Taylor, who resigned from cabinet in October, is now Saskatchewan's agent general for Hong Kong and the Pacific Rim region, Deputy Premier Pat Smith announced Thursday. Last month, former justice minister Bob Andrew, who also resigned in October, became Saskatchewan's trade commissioner in Minneapolis. Taylor, 53, has officially resigned the Indian Head-Wolseley seat he has held since 1978, in the process becoming eligible for a healthy severance package and wan people would be "angry and disappointed" at news of Taylor's year contract but Smith won't release the details. If the NDP were the fiscal year ending March 31, 1988.

Taylor's duties will be to pursue further export opportunities in the Pacific Rim for Saskatchewan people, Smith said. As a former high school principal, Smith said Taylor has the administrative abilities to run the office. More importantly, he knows what Saskatchewan's needs and abilities are because of his experience in cabinet. She rejected the suggestion that Taylor's appointment was a patronage position, pointing out that he would have to work long hours, on a straight salary and only get the same holidays as any other civil servant. appointment.

"There's certainly a great many things that the money could have been used for" when people are suffering at home and leaving the province in droves, Bob Lyons (NDP Regina Rosemont) said Thursday. Coupled with Andrew's appointment last month, the announcement reminds Lyons of the last days of Pierre Trudeau's Liberals in 1984, "when one after another of the old Trudeau hacks, knowing they were going down to defeat, found themselves a cushy landing outside of the political arena." Taylor, like Andrew, has a five- to form the next government, Lyons says contracts like Taylor's and Andrew's would certainly be reviewed immediately. Any decision on whether to call byelections in either vacant riding will be up to Premier Grant De-vine, Smith said. Taylor replaces George Hazen, who resigned in August 1988. Since then, the duties nave been filled by one of two trade officers in the office, which also has a secretary, Smith said.

According to 1987-88 public accounts, Hazen received a payment of $92,667 from the Department of Trade and Investment for his MLA pension. He assumes his new duties immediately, at a salary somewhere between $76,000 and $98,000, Smith said. In addition, he receives two trips back to Canada each year and a housing allowance under which he pays housing costs equivalent to those in Regina and the government pays all costs above that, Smith said. Taylor was unavailable for comment Thursday, although Smith says he has not yet left the country. The NDP predicted Saskatche GRAHAM TAYLOR five-year contract A10 LOCdl Friday, January 19, 1990 Father 'very hopeful' Jozsa released soon Majority of waiting for of faculty facts on Slowpoke By Marg Ommanney of the Star-Phoenix University of Saskatchewan professors are not "taking sides" over a proposed Slowpoke nuclear reactor heat source for buildings on campus, says the chairman of the faculty association.

"It's quite clear some members have strong opinions on both sides of the issue," Arne Paus-Jenssen said Thursday. "However, the majority of faculty are simply sitting, waiting for information be ,2. 'A The judge also questioned Michael, said the priest, who moved to Senegal 20 years ago from Quebec. If the transfer is granted, Deslandes said the Regina youth will likely undergo a medical examination in Dakar before receiving final permission to return to Canada. However, he added, "the main thing is the departure from here." Although Deslandes reported the youth's Senegalese lawyer is also hopeful about the transfer, he expressed caution as well.

"If we anticipate the decision, (the Senegalese government) will not like that." Earlier, Deslandes had said the judge's favorable decision was almost assured. However, Prince Albert lawyer Clyne Harradence blasted the priest Tuesday for spreading rumors to the news media. Harradence is a friend of the Jozsa family. Slowpoke waste disposal questioned version costs modifying tunnels and piping to accommodate the hot water distribution system required by the SES-10 (10-mega-watt Slowpoke Energy System) "there is no assurance this would not take money from the educational function of the university." In an Oct. 17 memorandum to faculty and staff, of vice-president Blaine Holmlund said assurances had been received from the provincial government that if the project were to proceed, conversion costs would be covered and the university's capital funding program would not be affected.

But on Oct. 26 both Premier Grant Devine and Ray Meiklejohn, the education, science and technology minister, said they didn't know anything about a funding promise now estimated to be $50 million to put all campus buildings on stream, according to a preliminary design report. "There's been no commitment from the government as far as I'm concerned and I have certainly not been involved in any discussions," Meiklejohn said then. Devine hinted there might be some provincial help available if it was requested. However, he said no specific request had come before cabinet.

Paus-Jenssen said it's incredibly naive to believe the provincial government is going to cover the costs without it having an impact on the university's budget. "If Holmlund believes the government is going to pay for it, then he also believes in Santa Claus. From the Regina Leader-Post After meeting with a Senegalese judge on Wednesday, Joseph Jozsa is "very hopeful" his son will soon be released from jail, according to Rev. Jean Deslandes. "He is hoping the response will be favorable for Mike to transfer to Dakar, but we cannot presume yet," Deslandes said in a telephone interview from his seminary in Ziguinchor.

The judge is expected to render a decision Friday. Dakar, Senegal's capital city, is 400 kilometres from Ziguinchor, where Michael Jozsa, 18, has been in custody since Jan. 1. He was arrested in connection with the New Year's Eve stabbing death of schoolteacher Arsene Diatta, 32. A Canadian Embassy official, a Senegalese lawyer and Joseph Jozsa met with the judge in Ziguinchor for more than three hours Wednesday, Deslandes said.

BARGAINS ARE ARNE PAUS-JENSSEN no hasty decisions "I'd be really concerned if they did pick up the tab it sure would tell me about the government's priorities." Paus-Jenssen said some oppose the reactor for environmental reasons, some oppose it for economic reasons and some are opposed to nuclear power, period. "I think faculty want to be assured a decision is not made in haste and is not made without all the proper studies," he added. Roy Billinton, associate dean of engineering, said there is a very vocal Slowpoke opposition group. "It's important not to jump on a wave of hysteria associated with the word 'nuclear'," warned Billinton. "It's totally inappropriate to come to any decision about Slowpoke without looking at all the facts.

"There's a very large number of faculty who are staying quiet. They are waiting for the facts. "I'm personally not making any decision either one way or the other until all the information is presented." 13 Lb. Burger Fries and Softdrink Reg. $5.97 By Betty Ann Adam of the Star-Phoenix How will we get rid of the radioactive waste created by the proposed Slowpoke reactor? That was the question Anne Lindsey addressed at a meeting at the public library Thursday night.

Lindsey represents a Manitoba citizens' group which successfully lobbied its government to ban storage of nuclear waste in that province. The meeting was sponsored by the Pokebusters Citizens Coalition, which opposes the building of a nuclear reactor to heat University of Saskatchewan buildings. If Saskatoon develops nuclear technology, the community has to take responsibility for the waste it creates, Lindsey said. Saskatonians will have to ask where the waste will be dumped. Are they willing to accept temporary storage until a permanent site can be found? She said Chalk River, is being considered for the waste created here.

If the waste is to be stored in Ontario, it will have to be transported by truck or train. Lindsey I III II 4rtti AimiversarY JANUARY 22-28 OUR BUSINESS! $400 ileal ride laundry detergent 10L reg. 8.99 Limit 1 per family. fore making up their minds on the issue." Some 250 professors among 1,000 faculty have contributed to an advertisement which says the reactor should not be built until a number of questions are properly addressed. In a prepared release, law professor Tim Quigley called the proposal foolish and said it will only heighten campus tension.

He said if the provincial government is approached to fund con- said there could be an outcry from the people who live along the transport route. Lindsey questioned the credibility of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Its testing of underground storage sites in the Canadian shield is supposed to be finished by 1993 or 94, Lindsey said. But she said it is planning to defend findings from the tests at hearings, years before the testing is complete. She said the hearings into the safety of deep geological storage sites are slated for Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick.

Public pressure in Manitoba has forced the provincial government to call for preliminary hearings there as well. The hearings are supposed to examine the concept of deep underground storage for nuclear waste, Lindsey said. But discussing a concept is insidious because individual communities don't take the talks personally. If sites are chosen after the hearings end, it may be too late for members of those communities to voice opposition, she said. Lindsey will speak at Place Riel Theatre on campus today at noon.

Meiklejohn could not be reached for comment Thursday. Koenker said it's a sound idea for government to invest in universities that have a proven record in research. "If the money were applied in fields such as bio-technical research, geo-technical research, high tech, medical sciences, engineering or agriculture, the rewards in terms of research would be much greater" than the installation of a single heating system, he added. A preliminary design report, prepared by consultants for Local Energy Systems, which is trying to sell the reactor to the of found the installation cost to be five times higher than the previous estimate of $10 million. doesn't the newspaper offer this as a possible explanation to his disappearance?" Kabatoff was charged in April for assaulting a 28-year-old man after a disagreement over posters.

Kabatoff and the eventual victim happened to be putting up posters in the same part of downtown. Sim said Kabatoff became "very frustrated" when the other man started ripping her client's posters down. Kabatoff had gotten them printed at considerable expense, Sim said. When he first appeared in court in April, Kabatoff, who ran for mayor in 1982 under the name Clifford Faffard, ignored proceedings and lectured a judge about Satanism. Thursday at his sentencing, he was attentive and let his lawyer speak for him.

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