national Citizen Tuesday, October 12,1982 — 5 TORY LEADERSHIP N o fla g a to p Eve re s t Clark's future linked MONTREAL (CP)-No flags were planted atop Mount Everest by two to byelection results Canadian-led teams who reached the summit of the OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government is gritting Clark, in contrast to the conspicuously absent Prime world’s highest peak last its teeth — hoping for the best but preparing for theMinister Trudeau, who seems to have written off all week, a spokesman for the worst — in three byelections today in traditionally-three ridings, was out hunting for votes almost to the last expedition said Monday. hostile territory in Ontario. minute. But if the unpopular Liberals, trailing by 15 pointsHe spentin Friday campaigning with Jennifer Cossitt in Laurie Skreslet, who the latest Gallup poll, have virtually conceded defeat,Leeds-Grenville and Saturday with Bill Fatsis in Broad­ reached the summit with the outcome has important ramifications for the Prog­ view-Greenwood. two Sherpa guides last ressive Conservatives and New Democrats. The problem in Broadview-Greenwood, left vacant in Tuesday, tore an Air Cana­ the spring with the resignation of Bob Rae to head the da emblem from his jacket Conservative Leader Joe Clark, who faces a lead­ Ontario NDP, is Peter Worthington, a staunch Trudeau- and photographed it when ership test at the party’s annual meeting in January,hater and outspoken 55-year-old editor-in-chief of the he realized the team had no likely needs to win two of the three ridings if long- tabloid Toronto Sun. flags to plant on the moun­ dormant critics who have shown signs of resurfacing Worthington initially bowed out of the race after tain to mark their success, lately are to be sent back underground. losing the Conservative nomination in a bitter contest to expedition spokesman That may be tough, however. Fatsis, 33-year-old executive assistant to an Ontario Robin Palin said. Only one of the constituencies, nearby Leeds-cabinet minister. Last Thursday, the Grenville, has traditionally been Conservative. But he quickly jumped back in as an independent, second Canadian team, led As well, independent right-wing candidates threatenforcing Clark to denounce him publicly for indirectly by Patrick Morrow, also ar­ to seriously split the Tory vote there and in Broadview-aiding the NDP’s Lynn McDonald, a 42-year-old rived on top without flags. Greenwood riding in Toronto. sociologist, and Liberal David O’Connor, a 38-year-old Broadview-Greenwood and Timiskaming riding inlawyer. Skreslet said in an inter­ northeastern Ontario have usually gone NDP, althoughIn Leeds-Grenville, another right-wing candidate and view last week that the the a Liberal won in Timiskaming in 1980 by 474 votes. journalist has surged into the spotlight and threatens to marker he left on the sum­ There are 146 Liberals in the 282-seat Commons, 100 pull a significant number of votes away from the 34- mit was an "Air Canada, Tories, 32 New Democrats and one Independent in addi­year-old Cossitt in her bid to succeed husband Tom, who quasi-Canadian flag tion to the three vacancies. symbol." died in March of a heart attack. The Crown corporation was one of the sponsors of the climb. N.B. goes to polls today FREDERICTON (CP) — Voter turnout was reportedtrading promises of everything from universal kinder­ light this morning as polls in the provincial electiongarten to mortgage relief and job creation. The Tories Freedom opened across New Brunswick under clear skies. Tradi­pledged 35,000 new pay cheques by 1986, the Liberals tionally here, voting picks up in the afternoon20,000 after by the end of next year. of press work. Hatfield said his program would cost $70.5 million Progressive Conservatives won three preliminaryover three years. Young said his would cost $80 million. at issue bouts with Liberals in Atlantic Canada in the last 12Both suggested the other could use a good calculator. months but the main event has been the pitched battle Hatfield said Young’s program would cost more than WINNIPEG (CP)-Are- leading to today’s election. $200 million. Young said Fisheries Minister Jean Gauvin porter with the Winnipeg It’s been no-quarter for six weeks as ham-fisted Dougpromised $80 million just in his riding, Shippegan-Les- Sun is fighting a court order Colorful Chinese dancers entertain passers-by outsideYoung tried to beat his way through wily Richard Hat­Isles. that she must reveal her Dragon duel Toronto City Hall Sunday as they celebrate the Double field’s classy political parry-and-thrust. Then they got down to personalities. sources for a story on pros­ Ten or 10th day of the 10th month festivities. Hatfield’s Tories held 29 of the 58 legislature seats at Young’s description of Hatfield as a turkey was more titution. dissolution Sept. 2, the Liberals 26. There were three flattering than some of his less explicit characteriza­ Maureen Scurfield wrote vacancies. tions of the bachelor premier. three stories on prostitutionDAMAGE DURING WILDCAT In elections in Nova Scotia last fall, NewfoundlandYoung said he would have to eat turkey sparingly on in Winnipeg which this spring and Prince Edward Island last month, returnThanksgiving Day because he was going to devour appeared in the indepen­ of entrenched Tory governments had been widely anotherex­ today. dent daily tabloid and in one pected. At a bingo hall in Minto, Hatfield noted people would of the stories referred to a Here, for every prediction, there is an equally plausi­be playing for turkeys when he finished speaking. 25-year-old prostitute who Chrysler workers fired ble-sounding one in the opposite direction, reflecting"That’s a what Doug Young calls me — a turkey. Well, was a mother of three chil­ slugging match between the two main contenders andthe winner gets the turkey and, on Tuesday night, you'll dren. WINDSOR. Ont. (CP) — Employees walked off said none of the Windsor fir­to save the company. barroom brawling for individual seats. be the winners and I’ll be the turkey." Eighteen Chrysler Canadathe job to protest against a ings resulted from the walk­ Gatens said the Ajax In some ridings, New Democratic Party and Parti Scurfield was sub­Ltd. workers have been Nov. 5 strike deadline thatout itself and all would beworkers "went out through Liberals threw everything at Hatfield’s three govern­ poenaed to testify at a child Acadien candidates hopped in the ring, threateningments to since 1970, from the Bricklin car fiasco to cost fired as a result of destruc­they wanted moved up.grieved. their own frustration,” con­deck both old-liners or, at least, bloody some noses. overruns at the Point Lepreau nuclear plant. custody hearing in familytiveness during wildcat Five people were “Some of them may get trary to earlier reports that The 472,000 eligible voters have a record choice of 186 court which had been laun­strikes last week at Ontario arrested during the Wind­back to work eventually butthey walked out in supportcandidates in 10 hours of polling beginning at 10 a.m. They got got platform help from Senator Louis ched by the Children’s Aid plants in Ajax and Windsor.sor walkout and charged I couldn’t say when andof the Windsor workers. ADT in generally cool, sunny autumn weather.Robichaud, There white-haired but still breathing fire and Society. She refused to Chrysler spokesmanwith assaulting police, in­won’t comment on it,” he Contract negotiations are five more candidates than in 1978, includingsmoke 54 12 years after Hatfield ended his decade as Liber­ answer questions about Walther McCall said 15 Wind­ toxication and disorderlysaid Sunday. "I didn’t seebroke down in Toronto when NDPers, up from 36 last time, a record-low 10 for the al premier. sources. sor workers "have been dis­ conduct. A tractor-trailer any of the things they arethe walkouts began Parti Acadien, six independents and full slates of Liber­Hatfield said the Liberals were not fooling anybody by Provincial Court Judgecharged for incidents relat­ belonging to the companyaccused of but I have beenWednesday and resumedals and Tories. dragging up ghosts. Wesley Swail issued aning to illegal work stop­ had its tires slashed, win­ told certain things did go Friday night after the after- • "That’s where the Tories missed the boat," one ol The Liberals and Young, a former broadcaster, took order to compel Scurfield to pages” that began last dows smashedand strike on.” nooon shift at the van plantYoung’s Liberal aides said. "It’s not really betweenseveral shots at the news media. Young boasted of. and answer the questions. Wednesday and endedslogans painted on it. Tires "People have a right to in Windsor returned toYoung and Hatfield at all. It’s 58 mini-elections." Hatfield ridiculed, editorial support from three weekly Her lawyer is challeng­Friday. were also slashed on police get excited when they givework. It’s both, and more. Young and Hatfield began bynewspapers for Young and his Liberals. ing the order and original John Gatens, a Unitedandmedia vehicles. up $12,000 to helpsave a subpoena issued by SandraAuto Workers official in More than 300 cars were company and end up losing Harper, a justice of theAjax, said the three Ajax damaged in the Ajax em­their homes,” he said, re- peace, on the grounds thatfirings were for leading andployees parking lot. ferringto concessions made under a section of the Cana­inciting a walkout, which Ken Gerard, president ofby the union during pre­ dian Charter of Rights and began and ended Thursday.UAW Local 444 in Windsor, vious contracts inan elTort SEATTLE OR VANCOUVER Freedoms.