The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 71

THE GA7FTTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1900 An anti-apartheid writer sees hope emerging for South Africa But his new optimism is tempered by caution PRAYERS MOST Sacred Heart of Jetut may Thou be praised, adored and glorilied and loved and preserved throughout the whole world forever. Most Sacred Heart of Jetut pray for ut, Blessed Mary Mother ot God, St, Joseph Protector of the Holy family, St. Theresa Little Flower, St. jude Worker of Miracles pray for ut. Say Ihit praver tlx timet a day for nine davt and your prayer will be antwered.

THANKS to St. Jude for favour re-cieved. K.R. THANKS to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with prayers answered, promise to publish. M.M.

THANKS to most tacred heart of Jetut for favour received with promise to publish. C.A. THANK vou for favours granted. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may you be praised, adored, and glorified throughout the whole world forever and aver, Amen. EC.

THANK vou fo Most Sacred Heart of Jesut for favourt received. M.M.C.P. THANK vou to the Sacred Heart, the Holy Spirit, St. Ann, the Virgin Mary, especially St. Jude and all angelt and tainlt, for numerout favort received.

If ever In despair, pray and have faith in St. Jude, I did and obtained what teemed Impossible. A.B. LODGE NOTICES CARDS OF THANKS BROWN, David D. The family of the late David D.

Brown wish to express their most tincere gratitude to the stall of 5A therapists and volunteers of Ste. Anne't Veteran Hospital, to the Black Watch Association of Montreal for their visits, floral tributes and Piper and Atlantic Branch for cards and calls. A special thank you to Crawford Park, Branch 202 for Legion Service and to all friends. Please accept this as our personal lhank you, Bud and Marlon Buries. CYBULSKI, Alexander.

The family of the late Alexander Cybultkl, wish to express their gratitude and appreciation to relatives and friends for their expres-tlont of sympathy, mattes, charitable donations, flowert, cardt, and to thote who attended hit vititation and Funeral. Please accept (hit at our personal lhank-vou. LIBERMAN, Willie (Vevv). The family of the late Willie Llberman would like to exprest tincere thanks to relatives and friendt tor their kind expressions of sympathy received during their recent lott. Please consider this at a pertonal thank you.

NOUPUU, Peter. The parents of the late Peter, a beloved son, wish to express Iheir sincere thanks to relatives, friendt and nelghbourt for cardt of lhankt and for those who attended hit memorial tervlce. Thank you. SIMPSON, Melville E. The family of the late Melville Simpson wish to exprest their tincere appreciation to all relatives and friendt for their many actt of kindness, expressions of sympathy, and charitable donations made in his memory.

Please accept Ihlt at our pertonal thank you. IN MEMORIAM LECLAIR, Harold. In loving memory of my broiher-in-law who passed away April 22, 1 989. You're alwavt in our thought and heard. Lovingly remembered, Alex and Joan.

MAIN, John. In loving memory of my dear husband who passed away four years ago, today. I hold you clots within my heart, And there you will remain, To walk with me throughout my life Until we meet again, Forever loved, Pat. MAIN, John. In fond memory of a dear brother-in-law and uncle who left us on April 21, 1986.

Dearly loved In hit life, Treasured in his death, A beautiful memory of him, It all that we have left. Always remembered, Mary and family, MAIN, John. In loving memory of a dear broiher-ln-law and uncle who passed away April 21, 1966, Your name it otlen spoken And thoughts In silence fly To the day when you were with US, For memories never die. You would not wish for grieving. You would not wish for leart, But lust to be remembered Throughout the passing years.

Sadly missed and always remembered, Rose and Norma. STEWART, Donald B. In loving memory of a dear husband and father who passed away April 21, 1984. Peace be with you, we love you dad, for ever loved and remembered wife Florence, children Donald Jr, and ft 7 4 I author toils at his computer. He's now at work on a new novel, tentatively titled An Act of Terror, which he says "attempts to deal with this whole fluid situation of today against the background of 13 generations of Afrikaners." Brink is an Afrikaner, the descerv dant of 18th century Dutch settlers and, as such, a rarity in literature.

Afrikaners have -been the ruling elite in South Africa for decades, and it was the Afrikaner-based National Party that introduced apartheid in 1948, 4 1 years later, promises to dis- -mantle it. The author maintains an abiding fondness for his Afrikaner culture, especially Afrikaans, the Dutch-" based language born in South Africa three centuries ago but spoken now by only 10 million Brink wrote his early novels in Afrikaans, his first language. But he found himself silenced in that Ian-guage in 1974 when "Looking Into Darkness" was banned because of' its content. He remembers it as a horrifying experience. But I had to think of surviving.

So I started to write in English." Most of Brink's books today arc" published in both Afrikaans and English. Classmate of de Klerk Brink has been one of the most respected anti-apartheid novelists in South Africa for nearly 20 years. His own political awakening came after he graduated from Potchcf-stroom University for Christian Higher Education, a small, all-', white campus where he was a class mate of President de Klerk. He left for study in Paris in 1960 and watched the news from home with increasing concern. He traces his conversion to March I960, when South African police killed 67 black protesters in Sharpeville, a township 40 kilometres south of Johannesburg.

For the first time, Brink remembers, he saw apartheid South Africa as the rest of the world saw it. And like Ben du Toit, the schoolteacher in A Dry White Season, his eyes were opened to the injustice of the system. Brink wanted desperately to rc 1 main in Paris but was drawn back to his home country by forces he, may have best explained in the epilogue to A Dry While Season. Speaking as the story's narrator and du Toit's friend, Brink wrote: "Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to. is no more than this: to write it down.

To report what I know. So that it ill not be possible for any man ever to say -again: I knew nothing about it." Brink returned to South Africa, -and in 1973 won international ac- claim and his first government ban with Looking Into Darkness, the story of a mixed-race colored a.ctor awaiting execution for the murder of his white lover. SCOn KRAFT LOS ANGELES TIMES GRAHAMSTOWN, South Afri-ca The journey to Andre Brink's study begins with a flight to the very bottom of Africa, landing over the choppy meeting place of the warm Indian Ocean and the cold Atlantic. Then it's a two-hour drive on a narrow, winding road into the rural heart of the Eastern Cape, where some of the longest and bloodiest battles between anti-apartheid activists and the white-led government have been waged. Brink has been imprisoned in this remote hamlet by his craft.

And, in a way, by his readers. "When you're living 10,000 kilometres away in Europe, you can really say anything, criticize anything, attack anything and so what?" Brink said recently, sipping a cup of tea in his book-lined home. "But if you're here, and you know you're running risks, then a very special relationship between writer and reader comes into being." The number of North Americans familiar with Brink's stories of courage in the face of apartheid has increased substantially with the release last year of the film A Dry White Season, based on his novel. Controls off That talc of a white Afrikaner schoolteacher's political awakening after his black gardener dies in police custody was written 1 1 years ago, during a time when the dramatic lines could be clearly drawn between the injustices of South Africa's white minority government and the cause of the oppressed black majority. Now the challenge facing Brink and other anti-apartheid authors has changed virtually overnight.

President F.W. de Klerk has taken the controls off black political activity, invited black leaders to talk with him. As a result. Brink is cautiously optimistic about the future of his country for the first time in years. For writers with worldwide audiences, though, he said, that means "it's not so easy to distinguish the good from the bad any more, because the bad have now put on the face of good intentions.

Things easing up in the country has taken a certain weight of interest off the conscience of the world." The journey of the book and film of A Dry Unite Season in South Africa is a ready example of the government's changing attitude toward anti-apartheid fiction. The novel, which won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize in 1 980, was banned by South African censors for portraying the police in a bad light. That ban was lifted in 1981 when government censors, pressured internationally to end their grip on free expression, had a massive change of heart on many anti-apartheid books. MEMORIAL SERVICES GORDON, Arthur. Monday, February 19, 1990.

Born October 21, 1919, raised in Vancouver. Arthur was a graduate of UBC Chemical Engineering. After graduation he went to Cominco, In Trail, B.C. Quebec become hit home in the l9S0's, as he went to Alcan in Arvida to finally settle In Montreal. A pioneer In air pollution control, he opened a division for War-nock Hersev.

In 1975 he established Arthur Gordon Environmental Evalualort Arthur was an active member of the Air Waste Management Association (originally APCA) and one of the first membert of the Quebec Section. He was a member of the Order of Engineert of Quebec. Survived by son, David Gordon, Amhertt, daughter Deborah Fay and granddaughter Tiffany Fay, of Surrey, B.C., titter Kathleen Beatty and husband George, White Rock, B.C. A memorial service will be held In Montreal on April 24, 1990 at 4 00 p.m. at the McGill University Chapel, 3520 University Street.

Donations in Arth-ur't memory may be made to the Canadian Nature Federation, 453 Sussex Drive, Ottawa K1N-6Z4. In Memoriam Verse Booklets are Available FREE by Calling Gazette Classified 282-2311 Varses are numbered making placement of your In Memoriam easier. CARD OF THANKS The family of the late BEATRICE STEIN wishes to express their heartfelt appreciation to all their relatives and friends for their comforting messages of sympathy and charitable donations made in her memory. Please accept this as our sincere and personal thank you Andre Brink Author of 'A Dry White Season' But the film, directed by Euzhan Palcy and starring Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon and Marlon Brando, ran into major roadblocks when it was offered for release here last September. The censors declared the film, which graphically depicts police torturing and killing an innocent black man, "harmful to race relations and prejudicial to the safety of the state, the general welfare, and to peace and good order." "From the moment I first saw it," Brink said then, "I just had the feeling that it couldn't possibly be allowed in this country." On appeal, though, the movie was granted exemptions for several showings at film festivals, where it received ovations from full houses of predominantly white audiences.

And last month, in the wake of de Klerk's efforts to normalize political debate in the country, the appellate board of censors approved A Dry White Season for general release with no cuts but restricting audiences to those older than 21. It is expected to open in July. The appeals board concluded that the film "is directed at serious, discerning adult viewers, and they arc likely to see it for what it is: an intermingling of propaganda, cliche and one-sidedness with moments of sincerity." Although the author says he's fascinated with film as a medium, he had turned down Palcy's offer to work on the script. "I feel that once I've seen the novel through into print, if somebody's interested in filming it and I have confidence in that person, then I hand it over," he said. Brink added he was "very impressed" by the way his novel was translated to the screen.

The movie has increased the audience for Brink's books overseas, but it hasn't altered his quiet lifestyle. A divorced father of four grown children, he teaches Afrikaans at Rhodes University in this small South African village and will take a new job as English professor at the University of Cape Town next year. Between classes, the 54-year-old embassy officials were going to Patras, along with weapons specialists from Athens. In Britain, a spokesman for the company which made eight steel tubes seized by British customs last week on the grounds they would form a huge cannon, said he assumes the shipment was "ancillary equipment for the same Iraqi contract." Britain says Iraq planned to build a gun with a 40-mctre barrel. Iraq says the pipes were intended for a petrochemical complex.

In London this week, Nicholas Ridley, Britain's trade and industry secretary, told Parliament: "The government is entirely satisfied that these tubes form part of a gun." He said the weapon was to be based on designs by Gerald Bull, a Canadian-born U.S. citizen who was shot in Brussels last month. Michel Bull. Gerald Bull's son, said his father's now-defunct research company provided engineering services to Iraq but denied any involvement in the gun. ADDITIONAL REPORTING.

CP nuclear treaty France and West Germany called Thursday for a common EC foreign policy by 1993. Since Spain joined the EC in 1987, France is the only member not to have signed the non-proliferation treaty. France, which has the world's third largest nuclear arsenal, could signal its change in policy by agreeing for the first time to attend a review meeting of the treaty in Geneva this summer, the officials said. A total of 139 countries have joined the trcatv originally signed by Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union in 1968. French President Charles de Gaulle refused to sign it.

MONTREAL HADASSAH-WIZO mourns the of passing of FRED DERMER Z'L Husband of Immediate Past President RUTH DERMER ROYAL CANADIAN LIGION MORIN HIICHTS ii All Members are requested to attend the Legion Service for our departed COMM. F. EDMONDS, to be held al J.F. Wilson Son Funeral Home, 5784 Verdun Ave nue, at 1:00 p.m., on Monday, April 23. A ALBRICHTSON vict-Prttidtnt CARD OF THANKS The family of the late ROSE WIESELMAN wishes to express their heartfelt appreciation to Congregation Beth Tikvah Hebrew Foundation School, friends and associates for their overwhelming expressions of sympathy and donations made In her blessed memory.

Please accept this at our personal thank you. Charlotte Zeitz and Family. CARD OF THANKS The family of the late BETTY FOX wish to express their heartfelt appreciation to all relatives and friends for their thoughtfulness and comforting expressions of sympathy and charitable donations made In her memory following the loss of a dearly be-loved wife, mother, mother-in-law, sister and grandmother. Please accept this as our sincere and personal thank you. CARD OF THANKS The family of the late WILLIAM ROSENTHAL (WILLY) wishes to express it's heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to family and good friends for their many acts of kindness and the sympathy cards and charitable donations received following the recent loss of a dearly beloved husband, father, grandfather, father-in-law, brother and uncle.

A special thank you to the staff of Maimonides Geriatic Hospital, 6th floor north for the upmost care given to him during his illness. Please accept this as a pertonal thank you In Memoriam Verse Booklets are Available FREE by Calling Gazette Classified 282-2311 Verse are numbered making placement of your In Memoriam easier. Budget leak case adjourned until June 1 S0UTHAM Nf WS OTTAWA The defence law-vers in the budget leak case have failed to prove there was political interference in the RCMP's investigation, the crown prosecutor said yesterday. Murray Segal said it was up to the defence to prove that political considerations led to journalist Doug Small and two other men being charged and that their prosecution is an abuse of the judicial process. When the trial was to begin in November, the lawyers for the three men told provinciat court Judge James Fontana the charges should be dropped.

The hearing was adjourned yesterday until June 1 when Segal will finish presenting his final arguments against the motion. "What has to be demonstrated is hard evidence that an abuse of process exists," Segal said yesterday. And the defence's attempts have been an "absolute failure," he said. They have proven there was a "political atmosphere" during the time the RCMP was conducting its investigation, but that is a far cry from proving there was political interference, Segal said. UNVEIUNGS COHEN, Derit (Bogante).

A Monument will be unveiled In loving memory of the late Doris Cohen, beloved wife of the late Harry A. Cohen, devoted mother and mother-in-law of Allan and Dolores, Irwin, Mvrna and Brahm Boretsky. Cherished grandmother of Franceen, Sharl, Howard, Mark, Penny and Hal. Dearest sister and titier-ln-law of Eve and Dave Hvamt, Lil and Sam Kaushansky, Rae Bogante end Pearl Cohen, also a loving aunt. On Sunday, April 22, 1990 at 11:30 a.m.

at Tifereth Jerusalem al de la Savane. CARD OF THANKS The family of the late MORRIS FAINBLOOM wish to thank friends and neighbours for their thoughtfulness end comforting expressions of sympathy. He will be missed by ell CARD OF THANKS The family of the late ALICE LEVINE wishes to express their heartfelt appreciation to their relatives and friends for their numerous acts of kindness, caring expressions of sympathy, letters, cards and generous charitable contributions made in her memory. Please accept this as our sincerest personal thank you CARD OF THANKS The family of the late SEYMOUR GLENSE would like to thank family and friends for their acts of kindness shown upon his passing. All the generous donations to charities will help others.

And will perpetuate his memories to those of us who love, miss and cherish him. Mother, Doreen and Mona. Please accept this as our pertonal thank you. family. forever blasted ELLEN SMILEY President YWHA 'Weapons system' bound for Iraq held in Greek port We extend our sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to the May hit memory be CARDS OF THANKS The family of the late NAT (NECHEMIA) STOCK wish to express sincere and heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all relatives and friends for their many acts of kindness, expressions of sympathy and generous charitable donations made in his loving memory.

Please accept this as our sincere and personal thank you. Asia's jammed: and dirty cities face grief: UN ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK The already crowded and polluted cities of Asia face huge population increases that will exacerbate their problems in the decades ahead, a UN study said yesterday. Many of the world's largest cities will be in the Asia-Pacific region by the year 2000, said the report released in Bangkok. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific will hold its 46th annual meeting of 48 countries in the Thai capital June 4. Bombay, with 1 1.79 million and Shanghai, with 11.96 million, are among the region's largest cities, said Mohammed Rahmatullah, chief of the Human Settlement Pn-it of the commission.

And with urban population growth at between 3 per cent and 4 per cent a year in the Asia-Pacific region, several other cities will soon pass the IO-million mark, the report said. Jakarta. Manila. Karachi, Tehran and Bangkok are all expected to top that figure by the end of the century, Rahmatullah said. Bombay is projected to have 16 million people, Shanghai 1 3.26 million, Jakarta 13.25.

Karachi 12 million, Manila 11.07 million, Bangkok 10.71 million and Tehran 10 million. Rahmatullah said. "Migration to the metropolis will not case in the foreseeable the report said, pointing to higher salaries, more jobs, and better health and education facilities in urban areas. Migration is exacerbating already pressing urban problems such as: pollution, slums, housing shortages, excessive traffic, and shortages of water and electricity. Most Asian cities have slums.

In some cities, 50 per cent of the population lives in shanties, squatter settlements or illegally divided houses. Some slum communities are as big as cities, it said. CARD OF THANKS The family of the late SOLLY SCHACHTER wish to express their heartfelt appreciation to their family, friends, colleagues, staff and parents of Souvenir Elementary School for their overwhelming expressions of sympathy, acts of kindness and charitable donations made in his memory. Rhoda Kazdan and Allan Schachter Please accept this as our personal thank you. REUTER ATHENS A truck headed for Iraq with a 30-tonne "weapons system" has been detained in the western port of Patras, a Greek Finance Ministry statement said yesterday.

Police sources said the equipment is believed to be part of a so-called Doomsday Gun which Britain has accused Iraq of trying to assemble. The ministry statement said the driver's documents showed the cargo was a steel tube but it was in fact a weapons system which requires special documents. A police spokesman in Athens said the truck picked up the shipment in Britain and arrived in Greece via Italy Thursday night. He said the weapons system was concealed among large metal pipes used for transporting gasoline. Neither the Finance Ministry, which oversees customs agents in Greece, nor the police spokesman gave any further details on the weapons system or what it looked like.

Official sources said British France rethinks REUTER PARIS France is reconsidering its refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and may announce a change in policy this year, government officials said yesterday. If France were to sign, this would leave China as the only nuclear power still not among countries pledged to withhold nuclear weapons technology from the Third World. The off cials, who asked not to be identified, said France is considering the change to bring French policy into line with that of its 1 1 partners in the European Community. The Officers, Board of Directors, Board of Trustees, and Staff of the YM-YWHA mourn the passing of HARVEY GOLDEN Under whose professional guidance and inspiring leadership, over a forty year period prior to his retirement in 1969, the Montreal YM YWHA became the finest and largest agency of its kind In North America. Lionel Goldman, C.A.

Howard Cooper Maurice Nayer President Chairman Doard of Trustees Executive Director ill.