SUNDAY
January 14, 1996

&& People should

go long on their
mortgages. PF
— North Vancouver real
estate consultant Ozzie

durrock predicts the
future: See Page 19.

@ Inquiring Reporter....8
@N. Shore Alert.......10
§% Taiking Personals....36
@ Travel. 18
BTV Listings 30
@ Vintage Years.

@ Weddings.

fashion
& The whimsical work
of Moje Stocker: 13

@ Park Roya! South's
Touch of Africa: 16

features

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Snowboarding: 22

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NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP officers will receive bravery awards for saving a man
trapped in a burning car. Left to right, Dick Walton, Terrance Trytten, Kim Ashford
and George Makowski surround Bruce Campbell, whom they saved. Story page 3.

investigate murder

THE WEST Vancouver Police say the body found on
Christmas Day near Cypress Bowl was that of murder victim
Ali Magedovich Aliev of Vancouver.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

Aliev, 30, was known to police in West Vancouver and other areas.

“IC would appear at this time that there may be some drug trade involve-
ment.” West Vancouver Police Sgt. Barry Nickerson said of the case.

Two snowboarders found the body near a creek beiow Cypress Bow]
road and about one kilometre south of the downhill ski area.

The police say that Aliev was a Russian refugee claimant who arrived in
Canada in (1991, He had jumped ship in Newfoundland.

Aliev bad fived in the Vancouver area for approximately (wo years,
according to the potice. He had ne relatives in the Vancouver area. His next
of kin outside of Canada ar: being sought with the help of Interpol.

NV couple want
surrogate mom

TWO NORTH Vancouver men
are seeking a surrogate mother to
bear a child for them.

By Michael Becker
News Editor

The “loving long-term couple ... want
to be Dads.” according to a classified
advertisement placed in the North Shore
News carlier this week.

But David Nelson declined to com-
ment on his search for a surrogate when
contacted by the News.

According to B.C. Ministry of the
Attorney General lawyer Michael Davies,
in a discussion with media lawyer David
Sutherland, an amendment to the provin-
cial Adoption Act is pending in the fall
that makes provision for same-sex adop-
tions. In the absence of the amendment,
present case law supports same-sex adop-
tion.

However it is an offence under Section
15.1 of the Adoption Act to “without
authorization of the court or the superin-
tendent™:
publish “by any means a notice or
advertisement for the adoption of a child”;
@ offer “money or consideration of any
kind to Induce a person to make a child
available for adoption";

NEWS photo Mike Wakefleid

See Sperm page 4

Tay
The cause of Aliev's death or
the length of time he had been
dead before his body was discov-
ered were not released by the
police last week.
But in an earlier News report.
the police said the frozen body dis-
played signs of mild decomposi-
Gon, Temperatures: had remiained
below freezing for about a week in’ ALE MAGEDOVICH  Aliev...
the area at the time the body body found on Christmas Day
found. The police said in the previ- near Cypress Bowl.
ous News report: that autopsy
results were inconclusive as to the cause of Aliev's death.
Nickerson said it was not Known whether Aliev had been killed at the
creek or whether his body had been taken to the area after being murdered.
The police investigation into Aliev’s death continues. Anyone with infor-
mation is asked to call the West Vancouver Police at 925-7300.