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“‘Machinegun Tonya’

“The: future of Québec: ‘will

be decided in the spring.of. .
the time Rene —

1980" =
Levesque has announced the
sovereigny:
referendum will be held.

G

national assembly,

wording of the referendum.

. The

April, he said.
Much

up with explanations of why
the referendum would not be

held in the fall.

He said. the Parti

Quebecois. government had

a number.of important issues
to settle before
referendum, and he also
mentioned the public service
negotiations that must - be
settled.

Claude Ryan, the Quebec ~
——~Liberal

leader expressed
disappointment over the fact

Quebecers will have to face |
almost another full year of |

uncertainty.

association

Levesque | ‘made the. an- eo
nouncement in the Quebec
Thur- ..
sday, but he did not give'a »
specific date or the ‘exact

‘referenduin™ wil. *
probably take. -place after. .
Easter, the first Sunday in’

of -Levesque’s: ...
speech Thursday was taken .

the |

However, the "dining is,

helpful for Ryan who was

planning‘ all along to release
his plans. for renewed .-
federalism, in the fall.

_ RENE LEVESQ '

:* - names the » season but not the day.

Russians execute

Most federal * politicians.
also. expressed: disap-
pointment over the ‘spring
date., -

‘granny’ executioner

MOSCOW (UPI) - For
months, Soviet investigators
had been hearing about a

woman executioner in
World War I} nicknamed
“Machinegun Tonya.”

When they finally tracked
her down in Byelorussia, she
turned out to be a Soviet
grandmother whose husband
of 32 years had no

, knowledge of her bloody

past.

The newspaper Pravda
says Antonina Makarova
was convicted recently for

the machinegun deaths of
scores of Soviet partisans

and prisoners during the

war. It was unclear how the
trial ended, but it appeared
she was given the death
sentence.

After the Nazis had
overrun parts of the Soviet
Union, Antonina had
volunteered to work for
them. ‘“‘She wanted
something special. to be
noticed,” Pravda said. “She

became a guard on a prison
tower with a machine gun.

Get high naturally -

Meditation and jogging

WINNIPEG (UPC) - A U.S.
expert who runs seven
alcohol- and drug-treatment
programs says addicts have
to be taught natural ways to
get high.

Tom Jadin, director of
Substance Abuse Services at

the Winnebago Mental
Health Institute in
Wisconsin, told ai con-

ference session of the Child
Welfare League of America
recently it’s possible to
duplicate feclings of an
alcohol- or drug-induced
high through healthy ways
like meditation or jogging.

“You don’t have to stop
peopic from getting high,”
Jadin said in an interview.
“All you have to do is teach

‘them different ways of doing

it.”

“There's such a thing as a
healthy escape. If you're
jogging that’s an okay way to
escape, but if you drink to
escape, that’s not okay.”

Jadin said teaching
healthy highs combined with
traditional educational and
medical approaches to
alcohol and drug treatment

has proven successful at

Winnebago where he treats
about 150 people.

i

From that job, she was
recruited as an executioner,
Pravda said.

“I normally took off my
trenchcoat, lay or knelt
down behind the machine
gun, and started shooting
until everyone was down,”
she was reported to have
testified.

After the Nazi rout,
Antonina melted back into

Soviet society and marricd a .

wounded soldier who knew
nothing of her past.

expert

He maintains everyone,
not just people with ad-
dictions, should learn to
have healthy highs because
they make pcople more
resilient to life’s problems
and improve mental
wellbeing.

“Mental health is not the
absence of problems,” he
said. “Meéntal health is the
ability to deal with these
problems.”

“I think we're all addicted
to certain things,” he said.
“I'm addicted to my
motorcycle. If it rains and I
can’t ride it, I go through
withdrawal symptoms and
feel bad,”

“Quebec referendum to be held in spring

t

- Trudeau,
work closely with other pro--

Prime Minister Joe > Clark
said he would have preferred .
the referendum ‘beheld in

the fall in order to relieve the
uncertainty in Quebec more

. rapidly.

But he said he i is s confident t
- that when the. referendum is

held the people of Quebec

. will opt for Canada. |

leader,
said he would

Opposition

_ federalist groups.

The referendum campaign

_ that is now-underway will be

conducted with the two sides
working under two umbrella
organizations; one _ that
supports sovereignty

“association, and the other

unified,

that opposes it.

- A recent polls shows 40
per
population still doesn’t know

_ what sovereignty association

is, so one of the main aims of
the PQ during the campaign

willbe to clarify the term. —

The main problem for the
federalist side, of which

: Ryan considers himself to be

the leader, will be to keep
the profederalist groups

cent of .the Quebec -

n “U.S. calls for

replacement of —
_ President Shmoxs

The U. Ss. has. called for the
replacement. -of the Somosa

regime - in‘ Nicaragua, ‘and |
_ Says “a-new: government of.

reconciliation should. be
backed by a peacekeeping
force from the Organization
of American States:

An emergency meeting of.

the OAS in Washington was
told by Uz. 5. Besretary, a .

In_ Indo-China -

Exile problem eae

The (federal government
has decided to allow a total
of 8,000 refugees from
south-east,s Asia to enter
Canada this year - under
government sponsorship.

The previous limit on
refugees from this area was

Another 4,000 refugees
enter

are expected to

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inews P. Al8

State Cyrus. Vance’ that the.
fighting in Nicaragua will
end only when a government

- is established which ‘clearly

‘breaks with the _Present
government.

The ™ statement was the
-first ever in which the. U.S.

“has publicly called forthe

‘Teplacement of ‘President

Somosa,,

Lae sw.

sre of fame,
organizations. oy

Ron Atkey, the minister of
immigration; in’ making the
announcement Thursday,
said he expects most of the

immigrants -will’ settle in
Alberta, Ontario, and
Quebec.

‘Atkey said he suppéris a
call from the U.N: for: an
international meeting -
examine the. political Prces
behind the 8 Food of refugees.

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