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Rae is optimistie about NDP c.hances Opinion polis]te othecotrary, Bob Rae was net about te "coast' during the final week of the Ontario election campaiqn. The New Democratic Party leader was in Durham Région asat Friday lending support te, NDP candidates m tomorrow'e, élection. Rae and five Durham-area candidates shook hands with workers at the General. Motors plant in Oshawa. Desp ite last week's poils which indicat the NDP la either lead- ino a close second te the ias im voter preference, Ras was taking no chances. «I think we!re doing weil but w. have te keep rmndn people who in not- pangtxs SNE PAGE il de Thi candii TIh Le dates 9,12 ie St. John tradition See page 20 ONTARIO 14DP leader Bob Rae was Lu Durham Region on flday to lend support to local1NDP candidates Lu fliuruday provincial election. Fr.. PaiMaphoto Three 1 race ini Bftey Mihe Kowadl If her isanthing candidates i Durham Cnr can agree upon its that a three-way. race has deveiopedi the riding. A rapidly growing area and the probiems associated with growth have created a tight contesit for the Queen's Park seat now occu- C ld b Iibealincumbent Allan Elected i 1987 as the ridinges fret MPP, Furiong admits it'. a three-way r aceaong himef, Progressive Conservative Jun Fiaherty and New Democrat Drumxnond VWhite. "Mf you look around the riding Cyou'll seS that each candidate h is strong areas of support,' says Furiong. But corne election night, Fur- long says the outcome wiIl b. decided by votera who feel'the ridghould b. represented bya member of the government or the opposition. Furlong, of course, believes the former is more beneficial te the oiAl;u public opinion Poils taken durn;g the campaign appear toindicate thatsulr for the NDP je surging, Wite ridinig was not making predictions. "I don't know. if it's a three- way race or a two-way race.* rve seen the poil resuits, the reacion from voters at the door, Fin sure it will be a tight race," says White. Flaherty also feels the resulte will be close. «Each party has its core group of support' but these groups balance each other off;" says Fia- herty. "In the end the difference wil be the quality of the candidates for the three main parties.»' Also i* the running are candi- dates for three other parties. David Hubbeli is representing the Green Party of Ontario; Nino Maltese is candidate for the Family Coalition Party whiie Phil Wyatt is the Confederation ofREegions Party candidate. *Durham Contre includes the Town of Whitby south of Taun- ton Rd., plus that Mrton of Oshawa from Ritson d. west to the. Whitby border, and from King St. north to Tàunfon. FùrlonL won the newiy-created ridngthre-years ago with. SEE PAGE Il Brght light researches world's brghtestliglit Nick I-ggs hasn't seen much sun this summer - even though he's helping scientiste decipher what it's made of. The Anderson CVI graduate is worIcing in a Queen's University laboratory. He tests fibre optic cables te be used at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a deepi mine shaft where scientiste wil study neutrinos, the smailest energy reieased by the sun. Higgs, a fourth-year Queen's University student, won a natural sciences and engineering research council of Canada grant for summer researh. le tests fibre optic cables te be used, calibrating the 'electronic eyes that detect neutrinos. "We need te, have fibre optic cables that wiil transmit light at veryh'h timing frequencies," explains Hliggs, 21. The orecently pproved $61-mion Subuyneutrino experiment led by Queen's, four CN towers stacked on top of experience in iaboratory combining the expertise of each other. Scientiste wil study techniques. scientiEsefi-om several countries, neutrinos, one of the three basic "I know a lot mnore about takes place in an unused Inca building blocks of nuftte. But for Lirnited mine at a depth equal te Higgs the project provides SEE PAGE il F- -1 a See .1 j INICE HIGGS an AnderSn CVI gra- test fibre optic cables that wiflbe used duatç o 4wçu~ Jiverity, won *te "i dyeutinos, te smaietenergy aesah Uuclof Canada grant to ele e.,tgpjý iiiailii seedr 29 3y 9