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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA; SUNDAY. JULY 4, 1982

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BEIRUT! ‘(CP) — :Palestine « L

o} rees

to peace plan

listic dut; “in interviewing the most important figure,

on ‘Saturday cicliig to discuss latest moves
‘the

Chairman Yasser Arafat had ‘agreed to‘a plan ‘that would
, eliminate obstacles’ to ending ‘the crisis tr this Israeli-
_ besteged capital, former ’ Lebsnese prime
Salam said Saturday: night.“ i
The state-run Lebanese radio said ‘Balam announced after
a meeting with ‘Arafat on Satt
plan would place West Beirut.

. Protection,);:°
{The radio added, that terms of the agreeme:
. known by telephone to U.S. presidential. envoy; Philip Habib,
who in turn, would inform Israeli officials; "The roadcaat did

nder. Dehanese government

je minister Saeb -.

ay evening that the agreed.

, were, made F

in Lebanon. It added that the prime

“minister. will brief his cabinet today. on his meeting with the

‘ambassador. 7
The’ Lebanese report ‘of ‘the new plan ¢ came. after Israeli
armor pounded PLO artillery near:Beirut airport and Israeli
forces sealed entrances fo the Palestinian enclave in West
*Beirut in an apparent drive ‘to starve out the} Palestinian:
guerrillas.
MET WITH ARAFAT. |

the leader of the other side, on whose decisions it depends
whether the war will go on or not, whether there will be a
solution or not, whether, people will be killed or. not.”

“"Avnery’s meeting with Arafat raised a storm of criticism

‘in Tarael, with both the governing Likud coalition and the
th

ie Some right-wing
‘politicians called for. his arrest on treason charges.

‘Avnery told the Israeli television that he, accompanied by

“In Tel, ‘Aviv, a-well-known Israeli publisher and

of Israel's | Fecognition ‘of the PLO, said -he: had’ met’ with
‘Arafat in West Beirut earlier Saturday and: that the PLO
lesder ‘appeared relaxed but “a little: fatalistic.” : a
Uri Avnery, who publishes: the ‘anti-government and
Hentay Hoalam Hazeh (This World), said he was seine his

ma anda of his had spent

five hours in'the bealeged West Beirut, two of which with
Arafat.

Ofthe Palestinian | leader, Avnery said: “He makes a much
different impression than the way he seems in his television
interviews.

. “He was very relaxed, perhaps a little fatalistic, thinking
what will be, will be.
DESCRIBED CITY

a)
Avnery described West Beirut as “a functioning city, not t

an abandoned city, and the, difference between East -and
West: Beirut is not as great'as-I’had expected.”

‘A. Palestinian spokesman. earlier saidAvnery ‘had a
four-hour meeting with Arafat, but declined to disclose what
was discussed.

The Christian Voice of Lebanon radio said earlier in the
day isracli tanks and armored personnel carriers’ were
moving up behind a furious bombardment of the Bourj el-.
Barajneh refugee camp near the airport toward guerrilla
lines on the camp's southern rim.

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2 Sections (A & B)

the: 4,250 Cominco workers laid off.
fill:out unem-

“TRAIL (oP) —
than 4,000

‘Ast more
insurance. ‘Friday, most

whole affair than when the

“down of five: weeks, but

says the Ow

ip.
ter’ for {unemployment
closure was ‘announced in’.

spokesman’. Jim ‘Cameron’

ce form in ‘the Cominco: gymnasium ‘Friday.

‘Trail takes shutdown calmly

Only, about /150 - of the
4,400 employees will be
working during the ‘shut-
down, ‘but: Jim \ Switzer, |
Canada Employment Cen-
‘tre manager,: estimates

/ that 80 per cent of the rest

‘are entitled ‘to at least.
three weeks vacation pay.
“The: potential loss of

*;Cominco's$10-million
ing about 8 minimum shut:

monthly payroll chad! mer-
chants worried at:first' but
vines Profili, Chamber ‘of

plans to be back in- oper-
ation in early “August.”
Low metal prices ‘and

giant ‘lead-zine

smelter
: oe a

says
ba one has comie into the’

chamber saying they: have

really suffered so far.”

‘An’ early-morning sride*
on one Of.the many co-op
buses shitttling ‘workers: to
the smelter on‘ hill:above

the town on the last day of
work. indicated that most
are looking at. the shut-
down as a holiday.

“Em going back East for-
a while,” said . one. pipe-
fitter whose: more than 20
years experience éntitles
him to four weeks vaca-"
tion.

“Most of the guys seem
to be going somewhere,
even ‘if it’s just over to
their cabin at the lake.”

Al/ Tognotti, a’ Trail
alderman and travel agent,

confirmed that travel i ison

many workers ‘minds.
“Peonla “on: shutdown
have’ been ‘coming ‘in’ to
book. trips,”.he said. ' “It
seems like a regular holi-

Trail Canada Employment Centre expects to handle-.10 normal
months worth of applications cee the shutdown.
-

day for everyone.” y
Most. other merchants
report that business has
slowed in anticipation of
the closure. But. “it’s sur-.
_ vivable,” said Brian Le
Rose, whose family owns
the largest hotel in town

CELGAR PULP MILL”

/. BC Timber's Celgar Pulp
‘Mill has permanently laid off
seven management employ-
ees this week, less than two
months before the planned
closure of its Celgar opera-
tions.

caused it,” Belton said, i

In May,’ B.C., Timber an.
nounced it would close down
its Celgar pulpmil! from Aug.
21 to Sept. 9 and its sawmill
from Aug. 28 to Sept. 23,
idling between 685 and 788

. employees.

Citing poor economic con-
[ditions as the reason for the
‘Sxeduction in staff, pulp mill
Findustrial relations manager
}Ron Belton told Castlegar
News. Friday that the effec-
tive date for the layoffs was
June 30,

“It was economics that

By HARRY ROSENTHAL
“CAPE CANAVERAL,
_FLA.'(AP) — Columbia's as-
tronauts carried out final test
manoeuvres ‘on “the best
spacecraft: ever flown” Sat-
urday as they prepared for

Day

“People are drinking
more beer. It’s not like the
old days “when two couples
would spend $20 a round
on fancy, fancy drinks. But
they're still coming in.”

While some operations
have trimmed staff, the
centre has

and two other. a

“Stable, conservative,
with a slight drop in sales:
that would just about sum
it up,” he'said. ©”

Le Rose said his room
business ‘has. dropped. in
the last four months be-
cause. not. as, many sales:
men have been doing busi-
ness with an increasingly
cost-conscious Cominco but
the locals still pack the
hotel: pub-

. arena,

..10 normal months worth of

imported workers from the
Nelson .and Pentieton of-
fices for a mass registra-
tion “Friday: in the local

During the shutdown,
Switzer ‘expects to handle

applications and even with
the extra help, 70 to 80:per
cent of the claims will have
to be shipped to Vancouver

today's

landing _ before President
Reagan and 400,000 flag-
waving Americans.

‘Touchdown at Edwards
Air Force Base was sched-
uled for 9:10 a.m. PDT (12:10
EDT). }

Ken Mattingly and Henry
‘Hartsfield were being dir-
ected to a 4,600-metre
stretch of California concrete
for the shuttle's first landing
ona paved runway. Flights
one, two and three ended
with landings on less confin-
ing runways of hard-packed
desert sand.

“The two things you can do
wrong is run off the side and
run off the end,” flight dir-
ector Harold Draughon said
of today's lahding. “We don't
plan. to do either.”

:/ The weather was forecast
; tobe ideal and the spacecraft
aa in‘ton shape for the
landing.

“In my opinion, it’s base

for processing.
iS

. ‘ BpRO RT WELLER |
JOHANNESBURG:

— Bight black" ‘miners have *

been killed'and hundreds ar
rested i in a major outbreak of
violence ,in. South: Africa’s

(AP) :

‘ake ‘miners in an accident last

Siinday.
Violence by black miners is

not, the only problem facing
-the owners of the western

world’s biggest gold. mines.

Despite. falling; world. gold
clals ” prices,” the... white, miners’

“Six. of the “eight: dead

miners were shot by police o or

mine guards’ ‘trying.to break :

rioting, mine offi
seventh: ‘miner was. stabbed
to ‘death, | while. ties eighth

union ig thréatening a strike
unless it getsa “15-per-cent |
pay raise. The mine qwners”

have offéred nine per cent.
‘The violence began: Thurs-
day. night | when thousands of

buildings ‘ ‘at the West’ Drief-.

ntein::;and..° Buffelsfontein

let's ‘was the site of last Sun

‘day's fatal accident.
“CLAIMS SELF-DEFENCE *
‘Police used helicopters’ ‘and
tear gas “to? “disperse -the ri-
oters, eaaa: ‘said they were
firing in self-defence. at. the
mniners they. killed.
‘A’’spokesman for’ Gold ©
Fields of South Africa, a mine -
owner, said’ one’ apparent
cause of black miners’ anger
-waa that-underground work-
ers were recently given 12.
per-cent pay. increases, while:
surface workers got only 11
per cent.
though the pay. increase
shigher than those. of-.
fered whites, thy.’ remained |

«below ? the ‘annual ’ inflation

rate of 16 per cent, and far:
Jast

crease ‘of. 26.

per. cent.

Although. black wages
have risen faster in recent
Ayears, black miners average
only. ‘about: $216 -a month
compared with the: average
paid to whites of $1,080 a
month: Only whites. are al-
lowed. to’ be .‘blasters, a
highly- aot specialty in mine
work,

White miners, already an-

igry that other job categories

once reserved for whites are
being opened to: blacks, are
also reported also upset over

=the alightly: higher percen-

“tage '.inerease’-given . the
blacks. ©

Sah CRUSHED STRIKE tee

Still, “economic. ‘journals
were predicting. that whites

would ‘not goon strike be-

rriot

cause their last walkout, in
1979, was crushed with sev-
ere: damage ‘to the union's
credibility.

Mining News, an industry
publication, carried a front-
page comment in its July
issue ‘headlined: “Don't Kill
The. Goose.” )

The article noted that the
falling gold price —. it had
dropped to below $800 last
month for the first time since
August,:1979, — had alresdy
forced’ some layoffs.” | “

“At least 12 gold mines,
employing more than 100,000
people, have production costs

higher: the current’ price of!
gold,” it said. “The only thing
propping them up. has ‘been «

the devaluation of the" rand
‘against the AUB dollar.

the'cleanest flight we've had
to: date,". Draughon said of
the flight, which included the
most extensive tests yet of.
the shuttle’s Canadian’ de-
signed and. built remote
manipulator arm. The 16-

But Belton said it would be

difficult to accurately predict -

how many employees will be
off work because many are
being encouraged to’ take
holidays at that timer:

BC. ‘Timber claims * the’
shutdown'is necessary be- :
cause of the growing’ inven:

tory, at ‘the mill, in. turn’
created by poor market ‘con-

ditions. The mill now is stock*:

piling pulp'in a holding area
adjacent to the highway... +

The sawmill shutdown will
coincide with ‘the pulp. mill.

water jfrom the pulpmiil.

Only a skelet t
ance staff will be se ataloed,
he said.

metre robot arm will even-

tually. be used on shuttle

flights to deploy and retrieve
satellites.

WATCHES LANDING

President Reagan will in-
terrupt his vacation at his
ranch nearby to watch
NASA's twin July 4th mile-
stones: Columbia's last land-
ing as a test ship, and the
first take off — piggyback
atop a Boeing 747 — of the
second billion-dollar ship in
America’s space fleet, Chal-
lenger.

Officials of the U.S. Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space
Administration had hoped
Reagan would pledge sup-
port for.a fifth shuttle and a
manned space station. But‘an
aide said Reagan merely will
praise the U.S. presence in

_ Space without proposing such
specifics,

There actually will be
three shuttles at Edwards.
Enterpirse, a non-flying test
ship that was the first shuttle
off: the ‘assembly line, was
brought out of a nearby
hangar: to serve .as.a‘back-
drop ‘for: the “president's ap-
pearance. - :

Reagan may ‘greet’ Mat-
tingly and Hartsfield as they
emerge from the shuttle —
after sniffing machines have
shown there are no danger-
ous fumes.

Thousands of sights=ers, in
cars, campers and recreation-

say -it- ‘isn’

worth it to run the sawmill: ;
when the pulp mill is down...

al vehicles, streamed into the

Antelope Valley on Saturday

to await Columbia’s-landing.
Air force officials said they
expected up to 400,000. Peo...
ple.

In its previous flights,
twice at Edwards and’ the
last time in New - Mexico,
Columbia landed-on almost:
unlimited desert surfaces,

with oil stripes marking the °-

sand runways.

Today commander Mat-
tingly expects to take Col-
umbia to Runway 22 at Ed-
wards — a. concrete strip:

4,600 metres Jong ‘and ‘91\"

metres wide, the same as the
one -the shuttle will even-

tually ‘use ‘at the Kennedy _

Space Centre at Cape Can-°
averal.

If there’ are crosswinds,.”
controllers would .prefer to
collect handling data on that,
and Columbia will be directed :
to the sand: runway. again.:-
The decision’ could be made-
minutes before landing, of-
ficials said.

“There are an awful lot of
people dowa there who put

“Every day we are more im-
pressed and we want to
thank all those responsible
for the magnificant technol-
ogy and design that makes-
this spacecraft work.”

“Our hats are off to you,”
said Hartsfield.

- Nova Scotia latest to

impose wage restraints

HALIFAX (CP) — Nova Conference Wednesday, none
Scotia has become the first . of the,10 p

‘found sthe limits fairly gen-"

province to follow in the fed- the federal government they
eral government's footsteps . would impose wage limits.
and impose limits on ‘salary ~~ In announcing the limits,
increases to six per cent this Buchanan said they will
year and five per cent next apply to all non-union civil
year for its 8,600 non-union- servants, including about 600
ized civil servants. cabinet appointees. Those af-
Premler. John: Buchanan fected are currently paid be-

afternoon fol- , annually.
lowing a cabinet meeting. One elvil servant. who de-
At. ‘the | Firit, Ministers’ clined to be identified said he

Tous, the wage
freezes that have. been im-
posed by. some employers ‘in
the private sector. He also

said neither he nor any of the” |

other civil servants he

made; the: announcement “in ‘: tween’ $19,000. ‘and: $52,000.’
Halifax