A2 - Wednesday, April 20, 1983 - North Shore News

OTTAWA - Prime Mini-
ster Pierre Trudeau has
promised an investigation
into allegations Canadair
Ltd. was involved in a
pay-off scheme that led to
the 1981 bribery con-
viction of former Alaska
State Senator George H.
Hohman.

NDP House leader Ian
Deans asked Trudeau in
the House of Commons
Monday if he was aware
of testimony at Hohman’s
trial which indicated the
senator had offered to
split a $20,000 bribe made
by Canadair Services
Ltd., an arm of the air-
craft manufacturer.

VANCOUVER - The
Crown prosecutor in the
case against five people
charged with the bom-
bing of a B.C. Hydro sub-
Station and attempted
sabotage of a military
base has indicated a trial
would proceed by direct
indictment without a
preliminary hearing.
James Jardine said
Monday the ‘whole
purpose” of a hearing
Wednesday in B.C.
Supreme Court would be
to set a tnal date. “My
best guess is that (the
trial) would be in the
fall.”

WASHINGTON - The
Supreme Court, in a case
growing from the Three
Mile Island = nuclear
accident, ruled
unanimously Tuesday the
government) does not
have to consider the
public's emotions in
licensing an
power plant

atomic

The justices, spurnming
arguments from a
Pennsylvania citizens
group, reversed a ruling

that for the = first me
would have forced the
Nuclear Regulatory

Commission to consider

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Trudeau promises
investigation

Trudeau said he had
not heard of the
allegations but they
could, if verified, lead to
a criminal investigation.

“I will have it looked
into,” the prime minister
said.

The issue raised by
Deans stems from the
1981 conviction of the
former Alaska state
senator on a charge he
agreed to accept and
share a bribe of between
$20,000 and $30,000
(U.S.) in a bid to get the
purchase of two CL 215
water bombers from
Canadiar into the state
budget.

No preliminary
for five accused

He termed it a “pretty
good guess’ that he would
file for a direct in-
dictment in the court in
New Westminster, B.C.

A. direct indictment
allows the crown to
bypass the preliminary

hearing with the written
consent of the B.C. at-
torney general. The
preliminary hearing was
to begin May 2.

“There's not going to
be any difference in this
case in any event,”
between a preliminary
hearing and the tral, he
said.

So much for
your emotions

“psychological stress” on
humans before letung a
nuclear plant to operate
The high court ruled 9-
O that the NRC, under the
National Environmental
Polhcy Act, must assess
only the nuclear plant's
effect on the “physical
environment), aet oon
human emotions
The incident at
Mile Island in) March
1979 was the nation’s
worst nuclear accident It

Three

crippled one of | two
reactors at the site near
Harnsburg, Pa and

prompted a shutdown of
its twin unil

‘No price war’
says OPEC

a price war” United Arab
emirates Onl Mananter
Mana Saced Al Otasba
said Monday dunng the
farst OPEC review of the
petroleum market since
the benchmark prec was
cut from $34 to 829 a
barrel last month

If anything happens to
the off market no one will

survive | said O)tarba

These are lyrics from an old Moody Blues song:

You can fly

High asa kite

If you want to.

Faster than light

If you want to.

Speeding through

The universe,

Thinking is the best way

To travel.

Much as I love travel —
physical travel through the
actual physical world — the
truth is I take trips every
night that are much more
amazing than anything that
happens to me when I'm
awake, no matter where I
go.
If you substitute the word
“dreaming” for “thinking” in
the Moody Blues song, I
have to agree. Dreaming is
the class way to go.

It's cheap. Very little wear
and tear on the body. And
very entertaining.

For anybody who says.

“Gee, I don't have any
dreams,” there’s an_ easy
cure.

We all dream. If you don't
remember them, you're
blocking them out.

And that’s silly. That's like
missing out on half your life.

Movie theatres and
television are feeble techno-
logical attempts to re-create
the natural dream state into
which we are catapulted
every night for another
fantastic adventure.

Why pay when you can get
the real goods for free?

Here's an exercise which
guarantees you more or less
complete recall of your
dreams within a week: Puta
notebook and pen beside the
bed. As soon as you wake
up, scribble down whatever
you can remember.

After just a couple of
days, bits and pieces will
start to appear in your mind.
Soon, you'll recall whole
sequences. It’s fun. Try it.

I used to keep a log of my
dreams. I don't any more. |
just savor them, remem-
bering some, not bothering
with others.

By way of comparing
notes with anybody out there
who's into dreaming, here
are capsules of a few of my

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

dreams in the last month:

® Sitting in a barnyard,
surrounded by domestic
animals, 1 write a 100-page
manuscript on the topic of
“Space Cathedrals.” Why
should space stations look
like frisbees anyway? Give
me an interstellar spaceship
built like a gothic cathedral,
complete with stained glass
windows and a choir, and I'll
impress whoever we meet
Out There in the galaxy.

@ 1 encounter a _ high
priest from ancient Egypt
who zaps me with a blast of
energy in the shoulder. I
wake up with my arm
tingling.

@ Later, I turn the tables,
utterly destroying a wall] with
a mere gesture of my hand.
But I am in a different world.
No trace of the priest.

@ I'm flying, using my
own natural ability to
levitate, guiding myself, as I
dive among the treetops, the
way a swimmer would, then
spreading my arms like a
hawk and drifting upward on
a thermal current.

@ I'm in a 747, along with
my family. The four-year-old
is playing on a rug on the

floor in front of a fireplace.
We're flying along above a
highway, so close to the
ground the pilot has to dodge
oncoming trucks and buses,
skipping over power lines.
Nobody seems worried.
Certainly not me. I love it.

@lIoam seated with a
friend of mine in an outdoor
cafe in a city that reminds
me vaguely of Bangkok,
except that it is a million
years old and everybody is
gigantic.

Now that's travel!

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what proportion of the tax
bill should be borne by each
sector of the community),
but the NDP won't make any
such promise until it sees the
tax rate legislation.

Loucks said that if the
NDP is elected and the City
can't’ proceed with the
variable rate in time, it will
have to quickly switch to
Tax Option C, which ts
considered by some unfair to
the commercial sector.

Council voted to send a
leer to NDP Leader Dave
Barrett, asking the party to
reconsider its stand on a
vanable tax rate.

The City’s vanable tax
formula has homeowners
paying 60 5 per cent of the
taxes, industry 12.8 per cent,
businesses 25.5 per cent and
utilhties about one per cent

The actual tax rate for
these various properties 1s
$6 04 per $1000 of assessed
value for residential
property, $7 10 per $1000 for
commercial, and $7 12 per
$1000 for vohties
Actual property tax for
homeowners will
this year, but once a $46
garbage bill ts added. the
average homwowner will pay
more, Alderman Stclla Jo
Dean sad = The garbage
collections Costs were part of
the general tax ballin
previous years

Loucks said the
was based on a council
directive calling for a freeze
in spending levels from the
1982 budget This has been
achieved “wth only some
shight modification”, he said
However, the City won't be
able to freeze the budget in
following

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having such services as fire
and pole
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drastically
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