ae Castlégar avis April 5, 1989 Damage claims escalate VALDEZ, Alaska (AP-CP) Eason made final preparations tods TO TOMS STMETEURTE OMT tanike conany officials urnedto the bar Bast in search of a dry dock willing to accept the crippled leviathan Claims against Exxon for damages escalated into the millions of dollars as oil spread over gn area slightly smaller than Pringe Edward Island U.S. navy oil shimmers. were pressed into service, and Exxon accepted an offer of help fronr the Soviet Union Canadian equipment was.also sent to NTaska The fugitive captain of the tanker Exxon Valdez surrendered this mor ning to authorities, a spokesman for attortigy said in Haup: skipper Joseph Hazelwood himself in on Long Island, and was to appear in court later said spokesman John Williams elwood, 42, a 20-year veteran, ed by Exxon last week. He left age, Alaska, March 28 on a nd for New York. He lives in Huntington, on Long Island. Hazelwood is charged — with OPH WSN while winder the in Hucnce of alcohol, reckless endanger ment and negligent discharge of oil The charges catry a maximum penalty of Wo years in prison and a $10,000 US fine Exxon said it has changed its policy because of the spill and now requires crews to By aboard ship, drinking*is prohibited, four hours where before sailing ANIMALS DEAD Oilas thick as mayonnaise has soiled about 1,300 kilometres of beach, and thousands of animals aré known dead The Alyeska Pipelite Service co. said it would resume a normal daily flow- of 24 miltion~barrets~ot oil through the trans-Alaska pipeline today. The flow had been cut by 60 per cent bevause of restrictions on tanker traffic in Valdez harbor, but those restrictions have eased On Tuesday, crews finished tran Sferring about 160 million litres of crude from the crippled tanker to other ships in preparation for the refloating The $125-million vessel has been sit ting on Bligh Reef in Prince Wiliam Sound since cunning aground March 24 and spilling more than 38-miltion litres of crude. The company said crews would at tempt to pump air into the hold and refloat the ship at high tide late today Officials plan to tow the vessel about 50 kilometres to an already fouled bay Off Naked Island for temporary repairs After that, Exxon said its first choice for dry dock is Portland, Ore., but of ficials there said they weren't sure whether they'd allow that, even though the $12-million repair bill would provide about 200 jobs B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm wrote to Exxon's chief executive Lawrence Rawl seeking assurances that towing the tanker to Oregon won't damage the British Columbia coast Responding to requests from Exaon, the Beaufort Oil Spill Co: operative based’ in Tuktoyaktuk, Gorbachev calls for solution to conflict HAVANA (CP) Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet. leader ntry won't put military bases’ or nuctear weapons in Latin America and he urged a political solution to the con flict in Central America With Cuban President Fidel Castro sitting nearby, the Soviet president said in a speech to. the National Assembly that Moscow supports. the creation of a “zone of peace”’ in Latin and an end all outside aid to the region achev’s comments were made first diplomatic trip to Latin eemed Jirected largely at whose hemispheric as been based on con. Soviet influence in the The Soviet preside h 63-hour Cuban trip and leave for Lor don this morning fort s of talks ier Margaret f activities his late by Gor est and ources Man faces murder cha-ge STOCKHOLM (Re Swe up and having cinema es said had also seen him t he shooting, riot far fron er on one of Stockholm horoughfares, Sveavagen But neither Lisbet Palme nor the other witnesses have been able tc testify that the man was the actual killer, the sources said Re, NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Ootischenia Improvement District Sat., April 22 1 p.m. Ootischenia Hal) Election of 2 Trustees trustees repor! financial report reported the arfest of seven people who ad planned to lead @ pro-Gorbaghev demonstration at the Soviet Embassy janned demonstration, after the arrest Gorbachev's support liberalizing moves in Cuba like ones he is carrying out in the Soviety Unior FIERY ADDRESS Castro introduced Gorbachev to the National Assembly, delivering a fiery 50-minute address in which he blasted U.S policies Washington particularly support for anti-Com munist insurgencies He criticized westerti reporters for Gorbachev's reforms have produced a rift between the wo Castro pointed jout that the two countries have immense cultural, economic and historical differences and it is only natural that they would follow different ideological paths Still, Castro has indicated in the past that he was troubled that Gorbachev Would embrace some aspects of as’ part_of his sweeping news conference after his Gorbachev also’ dismissed as inventions’’ western. media por trayals of him and Castro ‘‘almost as enemies As proof of the durability of the Soviet-Cuban alliance, Gorbachev and Castro signed a 25-year Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation On hemispheric issues, Gorbachev insisted his country has limited am bitions. 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