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In a-country church in Italy the priest raised the host before the devout. In a tiny ‘town in. Turkey: they prepared for a wedding. Ina resort hotel in Japan elderly vacationers bathed and took the waters. Out of Sicily and out of Rome, passengers slept..on two. speeding trains..In Las Vegas the revellers slept late. In southern California hot’ desert winds blew the’ ‘smog out to sea. In minutes and hours _@ach benign scene dissolved into a storm of earth, steel ‘and firé — a week of violence that dealt wholesale death as randomly. as the spin of the. wheel, th turn of a card. Shared anguish . worlds apart left terrible vignettes: . — An aged Californian, dead, clutching a dead puppy. he had tried. to save from — Italian villagers aler-° ted “by knocking in the rubble, clawing at the debris to rescue a sobbing, injured woman trapped with her three dead children; ‘ — Aman plunging to his death from a Las Vegas hotel before he had reached the end of the makeshift rope he had fashioned; — The image ofa ‘tian with a shovel, his face lit by. . the flames, standing between his home and the raging fire. that threatened it; — And, ‘the happy en- gagement party in Turkey turned into a mass’ funeral, _ the teenage ‘bride-to-be dead. aes HAKES.... It was Sunday night in southern Italy. In the town of Balvano, Rev. Ettore Sanitor- * jello raised’ the host in ador- ation. The time was 7:35 p.m. “This is my body,” he in- toned. Suddenly, the altar shook and lifted from: the ground. First the plaster and cement, then the walls and the roof calved in on the sev- eral hundred, parishoners: — and also on the lives of more than’8,000 people from Na- ples to Sorrento. It was. Europe's deadili- est earthquake in 65 years, second only to the disaster in central Italy that took 30, 000 lives in 1915.” _? The Italian “boot” is in an; earthquake “belt. that ‘reaches through the Medit- erfanan. The people are poor. and tied. to” > land... They. build their homes of ‘stone. ‘and they're easy prey to the earthquake faults that criss- crpas the land. There were seven shocks in the “two hours the ion “of have fallen down like this.” But the poor were not alone in the grief. of this week. The rooms of the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas cost about $70 a night. The guests spend much more than’ that at ‘the gaming tables. a CASINO ABLAZE But Friday morning at 7:15 a.m. PST,: fire erupted into the lush casino, almost : the size of two football fields. . Billows of black smoke filled the. 26-storey hotel’ and its 2,100 rooms, =. “The 8,000 employees and guests scrambled for any avenue of escape. One elderly couple plunged to their death from the 17th floor, holding hands. © ; "Eighty four people ‘died in the fire and 706 ‘others were injured, While. rescues were be- ing.made, an Iowa doctor and father of eight. signed -a hurriedly scrawled will in his 18th-storey room withthe words: “Smoke is getting heavier.and wet towel on my face.” + He was rescued. WINDS CAUSE HAVOC About 300 kilometres to the west, the Santa Ana winds blow off the desert and usually relieve Los Angeles of its blanketing smog. But .; before the winter rains come, “+ the same winds spell trouble for the tinder-dry hillsides that have baked through the summer. : CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1980 AMY (ROLONIKOFE ‘and ‘Pilar “Alvarez taok advantage of yesterday's five-inch 10 build a tall Chances are, however, it will soon a mild + | eshewakate by Jorge Alvares ee wounded U.S. convict ‘is charged © TRAIL (CP) An escaped “convict from San’ Quentin penitentiary in California now faces two counts of at- ‘ tempted murder after a - shootout in which a man was - killed and an RCMP con- stable injured.” John Gordon Abbott, 26, was charged Thursday and is to appear Monday in Ross- land provincial court. RCMP said Abbott had been serving time for attempted murder; no other details of his back- ground or-escape were im- mediately available. A brawl broke out Wed- nesday when. four plain- clothes Mounties approached two men -at a transmission District shop where they were wait- ing to have their ‘ car re- paired, One of the men was shot in the ‘chest and killed after he shot’ and wounded Con- stable Jim Larke, a 10-year veteran of the force based in Nelson. Name of the RCMP member who shot the man was not released. BULLET REMOVED’ .Latke was reported in good condition after surgery to remove a bullet from his - left thigh. Another Mountie, Cpl. Rudy Linke, an 18-year veteran also from Nelson,’ was treated for a broken nose and bruises and 2 speilons (A&B) | been following the pair for several days, It was - not known when they entered Canada or which border~ crossing they used. An employee at the transmigsion. shop, who asked not to be identified, said police made sure’ no other customers were around before approaching the men. The police waited for a signal from the shop operator when the men returned to pick up their car. |. > “The guys walked in and they (the police)’.came in after them and ‘everything broke loose,” the employee at RCMP said they had said. 9 to name head. will, be Shae ae Officials el- ected at Monday’s inaugural meeting of the School Dis- trict No. 9 board at 9 p.m. District Superintendent John Holden will officiate at the meeting, swear in new The worst | in the canyons of San Bernar- dino County. Fires sprang up . sin the dry brush. Whipped by _winds of some 160 kilometres. .and hour, they raced through - foo! ng, ‘bs: leap-. Family proud, sad at trustees Pat Haley a former board chairman), Malcolm Scott and Area J's re-elected Vera Kanigan and, for. of Anne Jones’ one-year term Nov. 17. Jones said Friday she is willing to serve again, i nominated. Following the election of the chairman and vice-chair- man, the chairman will ap- ee trustees to the follow- lic relations, ‘and energy con-, servation. Appointments also will ” be made to the following ad hoe committees: policy, pro- fessional development, schol- arship, and student discip- line. t Trustees also will be appointed to represent the os call for iene. buildings and ‘grounds, a, and _safet: 4 ~ -. foothijls. and .suby frogging highways, defying the efforts of more than 2,000 firefighters. The winds were = ‘so high it:was days’ before -.. water tanker could take to the air to help dampen ‘the raging flames. In- all,..there were ‘10°: ‘ niajor fires in five countries. InSan Bernardino three fires caused more than $44 million damage. Thousands aban- doned their homes, at least four people were killed and more thar 700 injured. Near- ly 800 homes were byrned in “San Bernardino, a ity of 112,000. While the deeper strata of the Italian earth were shifting toward. cataclysm, two trains converged for an- other dirk rendezvous near “Vibo Balentia a. week ago Friday. : i PASSENGERS ASLEEP The 16-car Train 587 was dashing at 160-km-h speeds from Rome, bound for Sicily. Right on schedule, thé 15-car Train 588 had left Sicily for Rome. Neither train’ was ‘the’ mass in'Balvanb. By the - next ‘night, the men .in baggy pants and muddy boots and -- the shawled, dark-shrouded women counted 62 bodies pulled from the.Church of Santa Maria Assunta. Many * more were buried in the piles . of rubble. “It's becduse of pov- erty,” one villager said. “The , poor are forced to live in the oldest: houses.. The .villas on the.Amalfi coast would never » By CARL :MOLLINS WASHINGTON (CP) — More than a century after the original Ku Klux Klan’ was disbanded by its founders because ‘some factions used violence,“ descendent Klans- men are causing concern in* the U.S. and Canada by ‘ preaching white Protestant -racial supremacy and train- ing for. violent action; ‘oday, as in the last .. century, public debate cen- tres on whether -govern- ments should seek to sup- press the movement, even at « the expense of civil liberties. . fully ied, and their pas- sengers' were peacefully asleep. -How did it happen? The 28 freight cars had somehow broken off ‘a 41-car train earlier, and no one noticed them missing. In Kawaji, Japan, mean- time, fire destroyed the four- storey Kawafi-Prince Hotel, killing 34 guests, most of them elderly, the worst fire in Japan since the Second World) War. whether the Klan is a grow- ing threat to a free society or _ merely .a collection of pub- licity-seeking fanatics who will be undone — as in the past — by their own ex- tremism, ‘In Canada,, where the Klan is seeking to develop, dens from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, some pub- lic authorities say it should be outlawed. The city coun- cils of Kitchener, Ont., and Dartmouth, N.S., passed res- olutions opposing the Klan, while Vancouver has with- VALLEYFIELD, QUE. (CP) — It. was a proud and the former governor-general came home for the last time ‘ahd was buried in a family plot Friday. ‘Following a simple \cer- emony. in “the ‘Ste.. Cecile Cathedral, the coffin contain- ing the remains of Canada’s . lowered in a snow-covered cemetery. Only the six scarlet-clad RCMP officers who’ carried . the coffin removed their hats under a driving, icy rain, The widow, Gaby Leger, ‘.. who had requested the quiet funeral, smiled as the Can- adian flag which had draped the coffin was folded .and -handed to her along with her ~ husband's medals. “He has come back for his: final, sleep and his final _ dream,” Bishop Robert Lebel of the Valleyfield diocese said - earlier in th ‘h 1 to 800 life from 1974 to 1979, yet re- - tained ‘the simplicity of his sad moment for the family ‘and friends of Jules Leger as: humble origins. " ‘Also. at the graveside was -Leger’s: only brother,. once ‘a parish’ priest. here, who rose to prominence as archbishop -of Montreal and founder of an ‘international movement to bring,aid to the developing world. 21st governor-general was * ED TOGETHER - ae were such natural, down-to-earth ' people,”. said- Rose-Pearl Renaud, who grew.up across the street Mair delays visit to city. - ‘from the Leger home in the ~ shadow: of the St. putes ‘parish’ church. ° “We used’ to .play “to K gether as children. ‘They al- Paul-Emile .Cardinal’ Leger, . ways:came:back to visit us and they. never bragged - about all the places they'd been,” she'said as she stood in the cemetery. “There were just two brothers and they were sup- ermen,”. said her husband Alex. The Renauds’ “ald | the Leger brothers were -influ- enced by their father, who was “a very strong-minded man, very. severe, but; they appreciated | it. Look how they. turned out.” © Friday's simple cere- mony in the 125-year-old d with the A visit to C: uled: for Monday: by Health Minister Rafe Mair has been postponed because ‘Premier Bill Bennett, has called the legislature . into session on. Wednoniay, for the min- family members and friends. + “He who puts his life to the service of others, grows -himself. He enlarged his de- votion to include his country and even the world.”- RS PRAISE HIM Other priests and dig- nitaries, some of them former classmates of Leger, praised the man who held the highest Rosition in Canadian public held a business licence pend- ing an explanation of a local ‘den’s purpose. But the annual conven- tion of the Ontario Federa-* tion of Labor, while opposing the Klan, decided: last week against demanding a ban on the grounds that such action would’ violate civil liberties such as the right to free association — a cornerstone inte said He now. hopes to meet with health officials: -here ,on: Monday, Feb. 9, - before going on to Cranbrook next day. Because of the season and unsettled weather condi tions, Mair felt a visit now “would be cutting it too close in-view of the fact that he has to be in Victoria on Wednes- day,” the spokesman said. Tex., where a sched- © state: faneral:in Ottawa the day before. "Leger died in hospital last Saturday at the age of 67 following his second stroke. His first stroke occurred just . -months after he took office, but he recovered and finished his term although he had to learn tq speak and walk again. He hecame governor- general after serving as un- dersecretary of state for ex- ternal affairs and holding several ambassadorial posts. His only child, dsughter Helene Leger Frochette, also attended the funeral. who is a Bisneman trained General Civiletti by the Commission on : Heating foal 40. $2; 600? _ By ANGELIKA YOUNG . Federal’ ° and- provincial “governments‘should clean up their acts before asking Reg- -ional - District’ of : Central Kootenay to conserve ener- gy, say directors. Responding to a ‘half-hour presentation by Michael An- derson, a representative of the provincial ministry of energy, mines and conserva- tion, RDCK directors said r the provincial and board on Commission No. 1, Selkirk College board and West, ib; :; Kootenay Health Unit. the purpose of informing the public at all levels about con- servation, asked’ RDCK to use its bylaw and zoning powers to aid conservation. Anderson said RDCK should first “investigate what kinds and amounts of “energy go into your system. You would he able to see your hot spots.” An example of the type of action RDCK could, take is what was:doné in San Diego County in the U.S. Their local federal governments are sel- ling’ Canadian goods too cheaply. * Anderson, who is. travel- , - ling with a mobile van with made hot water heating datory in new Sea re Anderson said energy costs are going to use up more of people’s incomes ‘in the future. He said it is estimated that 900 gallons of heating fuel, which cost $680 in 1980, will cost $1,400 in 1985 and $2,600 in 1990. “Western Canada is one of the last remaining areas on . the planet’ where industrial development can continue at the rate we're used to.” ‘B.C. can choose to develop its resources rapidly to take of the demand but homes. This used an available energy source and avoided the need for a nuclear power plant. “we're not certain whether any growth of that type will insulate British Columbia from the rest of the world.” | 5 murder counts face driver after 6 killed RENO, NEV. (AP) — sixth person has ‘died from. injuries received when a car “.eareened down Reno's busi- est street during the, U.S. Thanksgiving.holiday Thurs- day. F Jean Kohler, 51, of Leb- anon, Ore., died Friday. Earlier in the day, author- ities arraigned Priscilla’ Ford, 51, on five counts of murder. year-old Louisianan desig- nated Imperial Wizard of the ys and other forms of armed and unarmed combat. SIX ACQUITTED Klansmen were among six. men acquitted by an all-white jury last week in Greensboro, N.C., after a five-month trial on charges of killing five members of the- of the'union There are reports of guerrilla training camps run *y the Klan in at least six U.S. southern states, includ- ing a place near Houston, party et an anti-Klan Rights luded that activi- ties in clandestine military ‘camps run by the Klan mean that “a clear danger of new Klan violence is more serious than ever before.” The investigation of the Klan, ‘carried out for the commission by the Anti-De- famation League of the B'nai B'rith Jewish organization, called for surveil- isihle Empire of the Ku Klux Klan — who has been charged with carrying a con- cealed weapon at a Septem- ber Klan meeting in Connec- ticut —_says the camps are - training Klansmen to defend themselves against ‘attack at parades and, rallies. The Greensboro’ six were ac- quitted on grounds they were year ago. This has fuelled fears of further trouble. ‘A report submitted last month to U.S. Attorney- lance of Klan activities by the FBI. Civiletti has not res- ponded. Bill Wilkinson, the 387- The founding of the first Klan ‘seemed innocent enough, even'high-minded. A group’ of veterans of the She also was charged with 26 counts of attempted murder and 26 counts of as- sault with a deadly weapon. Twenty-six people, including three Canadians, were hurt. Ford was being held on $500,000 bail pending a pre- Kminary hearing Dec. 12. The complaint said Ford acted “with .malice fore: thought, deliberation and "American civil war formed a social fraternity in May, 1866, in the Tennesse town of Pulaski. They called them- selves The Circle, using the Greek work Kyklos, and dedicated themselves to “all that is chivalric in conduct, premeditation .. . depravity of mind . . . and without apparent motive! Witnesses said the car- jumped the curb just before it reached the main down- town intersection, then ap- peared to accelerate through a crosswalk and down the sidewalk of the next block, mowing down people and: anyining in its way. K Klan just as active as ever The debate hinges in part on - men, hooded in sheets; ter- rorized freed slaves and northerners. The officers of the original group disbanded in 1869, but by then the movement had grown into the invisible empire of the south with an. estimated noble in in manhood and patriotic in purpose.” ATTACKED EX-SLAVES The idea spread through the defeated southern states and the name was corrupted to Ku Klux Klan. So was the purpose, as mounted Klans- bership of 550,000 at its peak. . The Klan, revived in 1915-in a fit of First World War patriotism and_ social upheaval, flourished -in the early 1920s when member- ship was estimated at more than four million across the US.