CASTLEGAR NEWS, Febaury 28, 1982 ©

Mine closes

MERRITT (CP) — In the mining industry, you are
always working yourself out of a job.

With those words, Mike Witham said goodbye to the
empty ore train on the tracks at Craigmont Mines. For
five of his 12 years at the Interior B.C. mine, the
42-year-old motorman had shuttled the train through the
tunnels between the hillside mine entrance and the ore
reserve 2'/: kilometres away.

This trip was the last. After more than 20 years of
operation, the copper mine was closed down.

“The closure was due to the depletion of ore reserves,”.
said-mine manager Bill Diment. “There is nothing left.
The miners themselves know that.”"

About 85 workers will be laid off during March and
April. About 45° more will remain until the end of
November to process the stockpile of coarse black iron
ore, a byproduct of the copper mine.

For the town, the economie scars of the mine's
departure will be deep.

“It's going to have a terrible impact,” sald Linda Olson.
“It will just ruin the town. There will be no money coming
in.”
|. Olson’t husband doesn’t work at Craigmont, but has a

job at a local radio store,-However, with five children to

support, she said they're both worried about what

spin-off effect the closure will have on Merritt's economy.
LITTLE IMPACT

Last year the closure would have had Little impact, aid.
heavy duty mechanic Philip Lockie, a 20-year y

.or 80 days.
te 4

In Castlegar provincial
court Thursday Patrick Ray-
craft was fined $175 for being
a minor. in Possession ‘of
liquor. i

*. . *

Feb. 23. John ' Brewster
pleaded . guilty. to: driving
with a blood alcohol count
over .08, He was fined $350

. .
Donald Shaw has been
fined $800. or; 30 days: for

* causing mischief: to’ private
property. F;
: ee

Refusing to take a breath-

-Join forces

alyzer test resulted in a $850

fine or 30 days for ‘Willlam
Sherstabitott
s

Joseph Bes ‘was fined

$400 or 80 days for driving

while impaired.

V 2 *

. Gerald: Prive, after, being .
charged © under, the - Litter.

Act, was given a suspended

. sentence and placed on pro-

bation for, two months.
* s
In local court Feb. 16
‘Wayne Cochrane was’ fined
$460 or 30 anes for inane

‘ driving.

BE LEGAL. . . If you are one of the thousands of B. Cc.
drivers whose vehicle expires at mid
tonight také that minute foday to affix the current

, decal if you have not already done so. If you have yet °

to purchase our insurance for the February expiry
date, a word from the wise, park it. Castlegar residen
Bob Bennett sets: his decals in the required center por-

‘Will rival Beli»

TORONTO. pases Trans- - busiriess, industry’ and ‘gov-

tion of the licence plate.

‘ernment in major urban’ cen-

Craigmont. But the only other games in town are the
forest industry, which is sagging with the province-wide
slump; ranching, which offers few jobs; and the Bethle-
hem, Lornex and Highmont mines in the nearby Highland
Valley which are not hiring. i,

“The main part of this town is logging,” said Ron
Graham, a Merritt resident who was laid off last week,
along with about 15 of his fellow loggers when the M.L.
Brown Logging Co. shut its doors. “If logging goes, the
town goes.”

Linda Thompson, whose husband was laid off after five
‘years as a laborer at a local mill, said: “Without the mine

and the mills, it’s just hopeless here.”

But Bob Baird, of United of
America Local 6523, said the lack of business may just be
typical of many small-towns. “Right now Kamloops and
Kelowna are a hell of a lot more attractive, he said. “It's
just like a bloody caravan heading’ out on the highway
every weekend.” .

The mine was started in 1961 by Placer Development
Ltd. as the eer open pit operation in B.C. It was fully

in 1967.

LOTS OF ACTIVITY '

“There was a beehive of, activity here in the early
1960s," said Merritt mayor and businessman Jim Rabbitt,
who moved to the area 21 yeara ago to work at the mine.

é 's difficult to say what the long-term effects
of the mine's.closure will be. “But it sure as hell isn't

( going to be a surprise to anyone.” te J

Canada's attitude
baffles ambassador

SAN SALVADOR (CP) ~. ‘This apparent inconsisten-
The British ambassador to El cy has. everything

EDMONTON. (CP) —
Ton planned for years me

“bring his father, mother and

two sisters to Edmonton
from Vietnam.

But at Edmonton Interna-
tional Airport on Friday, his
smile of welcome changed to
shock when he saw his 74-
year-old father in a -wheel-
chair.

le looks so different, so,

old,” Ton said as he stared at
his father, whom he hadn't

seen for almost seven years,-

as well as his 71-year-old
mother,’ and sisters Minh
Nguyet, 28, and Minh Phung,
24

“The Vietnamese govern-
ment is letting the people
who can't work go,” Ton said.
“As my folks could not come
alone, my sisters were al-
lowed to accompany them.”

Although he intends to
keep his family with him in
his \rented. two-bedroam
he hasn't been

Salvador says Canada's at-. from bewilderment to indig-
titude towards this Central nation from both those sup-

American country is baffling.
Colum’ Sharkey says he
can not understand why
Canada claims to support the
timing of the March 28 elec-
tion but is refusing to send
observers to monitor the
fairness of the vote.

Winning
Provincial
number

The Feb. 26 Provincial

winning ticket number is
2385589. This ticket, with its
complete number, wins
$500,000,
Additional prizes are
+ $50,000 for the last six digits;
$1,000 for the last five digits;
$100 for the last four digits;

porting and opposing the
holding. of that election amid
armed conflict between the
military and left-wing guer-
rillas.

‘One western diplomat,
who asked not to be iden-

. tified, described Canada’s

stand as “traditional Can-
adian fence-sitting.”

Britain is sending two ob-
servers about a week before
the election because the fair-
ness of the vote will have a
big impact on the future dir-
ection of British-Salvadoran
relations,’ the ambassador
said.

The election results should
be even more important to
Canada “because, after all,
you share the same hemis-
phere.”

So far, Britain and several

: George region.
D

- -Reunion

_Change shocks son.

able to provide beds and
bedding for them all.

Since he arrived in Ed-
monton, he has been support-
ing his parents, sisters,
brother and sister-in-law and
their six children on the
$22,000 a year he earns, as &
counsellor with Canada’ Em-

ployment and Immigration.’

Ton, 31, was a high-school
teacher. until drafted into the
army in 1970. When Saigon
fell to the Communists in.

-1975, he was put in acon:

centration camp.
, SISTERS AFFECTED _

."Because of me, my sisters
were kicked out’ of | uni-
versity,” he said.

He was released after two
years in the camp and re-
turned to Saigon to continue
teaching. But his army réc-
ord make him unpopular with
the authorities.

So he joined 37 other ref-
ugees in an escape to the
Phillipines in a small fishing

7 new provincial
forests proposed |

PRINCE GEORGE (CP): bare
Proposals for the establish-
ments of seven new provin-
cial forests in northern Brit-
ish Columbia will go to pro-

vincial cabinet for approval in -

the next two months.

The proposals are for four
forests in the Fort Nelson
area and three in the Peace
River district, said a news

“release Friday from the Min-

istry of Forests’ Prince

,When the. Fort Nelson,
Koteho, Liard’ and Sikanni
provincial forests were prop-
osed in ‘July, 1981: by: the
Ministry of -Forests there

Lassie

boat. After a six-month wait
in a refugee camp, he was
accepted’ by Canada and
came to Edmonton.

Fluent in English, French
and Vietnamese, he slowly
began to build a new life for
himself and planned for his
family to join him,

““My brother will have dif-
ficulty getting out of Viet-
nam," Ton said.

“He was a medical doctor

TORONTO (CP) '— Most
Canadians no longer subs-
cribe to a traditional version
of Christianity, a-survey by
one of the country's leading.
investigators of religious
trends shows.

While 90 per cent of the
population’ still: claim .boime
Protestant, or Roman Catho-
lec affiliation, fewer than one’

third are weekly. ‘church- |
goers, says Professor Regie

and chief of an army hospital
in Saigon. He too was put ina
concentration camp. and
when he got out he was told
the only job he would be ‘al-
lowed to do was cleaning
toilets. He had to do it. That
was because he served in the
army: ,

“I'm willing to work day

and night to have him come’.
- equipment and systems to

here.”

tions giants ‘Ganeaten Na-
tional Railways and Canadian
Pacific Ltd. said Friday they
are getting. into the tele-
phone equipment business

. through a ‘jointly owned

- tres, It is offering equipment

produced by Northern Tele-
com, Mitel Inc. and ITT
Canada. and be. exclusive
Canadian distributors of the
Focus line of equipment de-.
signed by A can Telecom

ry, I
tions Terminal Systems...

The new firm hopes to be-,
come a major rival to Bell

| Inc. ‘and! Fujitsal of Japan.’ ”

Glenn Myers, general man-
ager of TTS, said at a news
a strong market

Inc., focusing its initial ef.
forts on the Ontario, Quebec
and British Columbia mar-
kets. -

Spokesmen said they ex-
pect to go through a couple of
unprofitable years’. before
building corporate revenues
up to $50 million: by, 1986.

The company’ will supply

Turning to science?

- Religious trends surveyed —

About 75 per ‘cent read
their horoscopes at least oc-
casionally; about 50 per cent

maintain the claims of as--

trology are plausible; nearly
be per cent claim belief in
7 perception; and
o per’ cent believe some
péople have psychic gifts by
which they can predict
events, .
About» half: of Canadian
adults bere ney. have ex-

ald Bibby, a U
Alta., sates

eres also reports about 80
per cent —. six in 10 church

members and nine.in 10 ad-*

herents — “Do not give evi-
dence embracitig the central
of. C be-

was concern ssed about
what the proposal would do
to the future availability of
agricultural land in the Fort.
Nelson area.

- Asaresult of that concern,
161,000 “hectares. of land
north of Fort. Nelson .were

Crown land.as a provincial.
forest means that the land
will be: managed for timber.
and forage production, forest
recreation and for water,

an’ area of\

luded from the p
forests for further planning
said the news release.

In the. Peace River area,
the Blueberry, Fontas and
Peace Provincial forests are

lief in. God, ‘the; divinity of
Jesus, life after death, ex-
perience pf God and prayer.”

He calls this new phenom-
enon “religionless” or “un-

focused” Christianity and:

says it has left the majority

of ‘Canadians without, an-'

swers to the meaning of life
and death. .

The survey, taken in late
1980 and in 1981, also reveals
most C: are

Bibby. has found.
Bibby said he surveyed

about 1,600 people and with

“appropriate weighing,” : re-

sults are “highly representa: |

tive” of. the Canadian popu-

lation and accurate ;within ©

about four percentage points
19.times out of 20.

. Other. findings:
'-@ Only about one per cent
of Canadians claim . strong
interest. in - groups: and’ ac-

‘tivities such as Transcenden-

tal Meditation, Hare Krishna,
or Scientology. and of these,
only. half belong to such or-

. ganizations.

@ Religious broadcast audi-
ences are about six per cent
of the 8 decline

by, or believe, in “supernat-

from nine per cent in 1975

in the mid-1960s. Only 28 per

cent of Canadians now attend
ona weekly basis, compared
to about 67 per cent 25 years
ago.

@ While two, ott three adults
say they went to church
regularly as children, only
one in three who now have
school age children of ‘their
own are exposing them to
religious instruction.

demand has developed since .

the Canadian Radio-televi-
sion and Telecommunications
Commission approved in
August, 1980, the intercon-
nection of subscriber-owned
telephone equipment.
About 150 new companies
have entered the market,
Myers said, but most are

“small, regional’ and under-

financed,

“Bibby ‘believes his current
study, together with a simi-
lar survey he conducted five

9
ingly secular-and that this. .

trend will. continue.
He’ discovered” that. only.
three out of 10 Canadians'see"

religion ‘gaining influence: in -

the future. In contrast, about,

nine out’ of -10 predict’ the. .
+ growing influence of science.

Won't return to.

plywood industry .

PORTLAND, ORE. (AP)
— An executive from one of
the United States’ largest
wood products firms says
half the people who have lost
their jobs in the depressed
Western plyweed industry in
recent months probably will
never return to work.

The plywood industry in
the West may never regain
its competitive market  be-
cause of plywood production

“It no longer is possible to
take a load of our lumber, put’
it on a freight train and take
it to Boston, Massachusetts,”
Kane said. “The market will

not allow it. It's «too ex. *

pensive.”

He said Southern pine ply:
wood production is beginning
to rival Oregon's Douglas fir
plywood production. ‘Alter-
native. forms of building

Cominco faces key decisions

“ahi tllseing utile loves

, printed from the Vancouver

+ Cominco Ltd. will be mak-
ing several key decisions fn *
the ‘near future’ that. wil]
shape the mining. ‘concern
through the 1980s.

Top of the list’ are pro-
duction decisions on twoma-
Jor’ mineral Properties Heat
the com:

latest for ‘which figures are
available), ‘Cominco. carried
long-term cht totalling $829
million,

‘The fate of the massive
“cop ' deposits» Of. Valley

pper’
:Copper should'be thie’ first to’

be decided. Last year, Com-
inco purchased 100. per cent
of the property — previously
controlled by Valley Copper
and Bethlehem Copper —and

pany owns.

“We've tog to decide what.
we're going 'to do with one,
Valley.. Copper” property
the Highland ‘Valley and the’

_Red Dog lead-zine property.

in northwest Alaska,” said
and chief

ed the corporate
groundwork for  develop-
ment, 3 “

‘The property contains an

in . estimated one billion ‘tons of

0.475 per cent copper. But

, the projected $800 million to

$900 «million costs, coupled.
with the in price of

*. Norman Anderson,

Both would involve major
capital expenditures at a
time when Cominco is about
half-way ‘through the $900
million dollar expansion and’
modernization of its Trail-
Kimberley operations, In ad-
dition, it has just finished de-
foloping the $160-million Po-

zinclead mine near.
REsolute Bay, NWT.
Attheend of fical 1980 (the

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copper, are the big stumbling
blocks, Such huge financing
would probably leave Com-
inco with no option but to tap
offshore’ capital markets, An-
derson said in. an -interview.

Historically, ; Cominco

hasn't shared |development of:
its ‘mineral’ properties with:

other concerns, Neither has
it sold properties which it cas
carefully amassed at”

expense, as with Valley Cop: :
the:

per.

“Tnupiat (Eakins) would re-
interest, ».
probably a patty Percentage, s

ceive ia

of new profit.

- But Anderson pointed ‘out’

that the cost of developing
Red Dog, which is one of the
world’s richest zinc deposits,
would be very high.” It’s a
long way north and 120 kil-
ometres from the coast,” he
said. “In many ways, it would
be more difficult than Pol-
aris.”

» Polaris is the world’s most

northerly ‘metal mine, but it”

is located right ‘on the: coast
of Little Cornwallis Island.

One positive factor: The
head of Cominco is optimistic
that the world ‘economy will
pick up in the second half of
this year. “I think we've hit
bottom now,” Anderson said.
“It's not quite-as bad as

people think and. ‘there are a:
few positive sings that are.

starting to pop “up.”
In addition, he is, confident

that the. mining industry in.
North America will be ‘more
active in the 1980s than what

“There was an over-all de-
celine in mineral output in '70s
as the few, new mines that
came‘on stream were more
than offset by closure of
other mines:as ore’ reserves

“were depleted,” he addes.

“The climate of the 1980s’
will be ‘differont from the
1970s,” he declared. -“Then
wo ‘had inflation; public opin-
fon moved’ against: develop-
ment, . regulation’ increased
and markets generally were
weak.”

He is also looking forward
to “more stability” on world
markets. The ‘high metals
prices in early 1980 bene-
fitted Cominco — gold hit
$800 an ounce and zine top-
ped.60 cents a pound — but
Anderson’ maintained that

“such “volatile: markets aren't’

generally good for business.”

KJSS honor roll

QUEBEC (CP) — Glaude

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Febaury 28, 1982

Charged with shoplifting

Claude Charron profile

asked Charron to write his’
name and telephone number

stories charing that he had

Charron was the y
member in Quebec national
assembly history when he
won the Montreal riding of
St. Jacques for. the~ Parti
Quebecois in 1970 at the age
of 28, :

Now, at 85, facing a shop-
lifting char;

on a piece of paper.

d with the manage-
ment of colebrations for Sue

“I never

tocome of it, but a week later :

he called me up.”

Within two years, Charron
was on the PQ executive and
in 1970 was elected to tho

bec's Fete

June, including getting dane
jobs for members of the St.
Jacques PQ riding associ-
ation.

-In November, a Quebec

ge in
municipal court, he has seen
his career staggered at: an
age when many make their
first political step.

“I started when I was toa
young,” Charron said Tues-
day in announcing his resig-

-nation as government house

leader. “There are days when
Tm fed up with: this pro-
fession.

“Some days I get'the im-
pression I've gone the round.
Some days I want to tell the
premier I'm leaving, andf
other days I say, ‘No, sov-
ereignty is‘ too ‘close and ‘I
have to give it one last shot.’

“Pm tired of going in cir-

decision on -Red Dog as
“touchy.” Earlier this month,
Cominco announced ‘it’ had
reached agreement with the
Northern . Alaskan © Native
Association Corp. under
whieh it would own and pay

all the development costs of .

the estimated 85 million tons

of 17.1 per cent zinc, five per.

cent lead and 2.4 ounces per
ton of silver, In return, the

alley landscape nursery

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iaaeete at’ Kinais! ‘Junior toa:

Secondary School’ named:to ”

the honor‘roll and those ‘who;
received honorable mention.
To make the honor list, stu-
dents must achieve ‘a mini-
mum “B" in aca-
demic subjects. - Honorable
mention is awarded to stu-
dents who have achieved a
high standing, but who have
not met all honor roll criteria,

Grade 7 honor roll:
Hedda Breckenridge, Car-

.tie Bristow, Jeanette Chan,

Lissa Chernenkoff, Mike
Cheveldave, Dians Churches,
Stacey Conkin, Theresa Grit-
chin, Leigh Halisheff, Garth
Johnson, Gary ; Kooznetsoff,
Teresa Lamb, Rishia Mc-
Dowell, Helaine Oleski, Pau-
line Orr, Dennis Peregrym,
Melanie Plotnikoff; Karen
Popoff, Sheryl Poznikoff, Jeff
Robert

CORRECTION —

Re: ; 1.44 Day Advi jsement

we do not have Toilat Bowl Fresheners or.
Woolcrest.-Humifiers. In. place .of these
items:_Dove, 1 litre size 1.44; Children's
Story Books, assorted, 4 for 1.44.
‘We apologize to our customers
for any inconvenlence

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- Braun, Lori Dawson, Glenda

Dooley, Graham Fleet, Bill

Gordon, Rob Gretchen, Ren- | #

Bak

‘ton, Debbie Cheveldave,
Brenda Grewcock, Rob Grit-
chin, Tammy Lakevold, Craig
Luker, Alun Miskell, Debbie
Popoff, Jesslyn Robinson,
Shauna Smith, Stan Strel-
oeff, Kim Tarasoff, Peter
Tischler.

Grade 8~Honorable men-
tion:

Gordon  Babseff, David
Goosen, Wendy, .Guymer,
Sheila -Hetu, Cathy John-
stone, Kevin’ ’Klein, Ken,
Markin, Selene May, Roch-
elis Morandini, Cathy Nixon,
Kevin North, Luby Ozeroff,
Derek Peregrym, Matt Plot-
nikoff, Kevin Proud, . Chris-
tine Rezansoff,, Warren
Shatz,. Calvin Sookachoff,
Phyllis _Soukeroff, Kathy.
Wong. 3

made me
do an act that I never would
have-thought of doing my-
self.”

Charron got involved in
politics at age 19, when he
joined the Rassemblement
pour l'Independance Nation-
ale, an ancestor of the Parti
Quebecois.

Then,
when he was covering a Lib-
eral party convention for Le
Quartier Latin, a now-de-
funct monthly, he met Rene
Levesque, his life-long hero.

WILLING SERVANT

When Levesque, a former
Liberal resources minister,
broke from tha Liberal party
and stormed out of the Que-
bec City Coliseum with about

cles. Now it’s ‘done,
“My

.100 .Quebec-nationalist . Lib-

erals in tow,’ Charron went
up to him and offered to work
for Quebec independence. —

Levesque impatiently

CROSSWORD 7;

_ All About Cars. answer in Wednesday's paper.

Gaye. Nixon, Steve Picton,

Shane -

Poznikoff, Sandra’. Sharp,

Seanagh Sloan, Donalie Soo- :

botin, Tami Sorenson, Cindy
Tamelin, Kerry Uchida, Lisa

. Vellar, Brian Voykin, David. -.
i Wilson.’ iad

ony Homes

$25 for the last three digits
and $10 for the last two
digits.

The next draw takes place

Latin American countries

have accepted invitations to

send observers. Canada,
tralia. D

fisheries: and wildlife pur-

ural” such as as-°

poses rather than for settle-

while the makers ‘and Wap-
ment, industry agriculture or

iti proviricial forests will wait

and

this Friday. Norway have refused.

other forest uses. Pri-

for planning to be done for
vate land is not affected.

Tumblere Ridge.

trology, extrasensory per-’ by 4 1957 Gallup poll.
ception, mental e Church
and =p i- bs n

ae 1970's following a deep: dive

tion,

and the 29 per cent reported,

— which can be manu-
factured closer to eastern
markets — have taken away
the state's competitive edge,
he added:

in other regions’' of ‘the
country, Harry J. Kane, ex-
ecutive vice president for fi-
nance of Georgia-Pacific
Corp.,. said Friday.

SUE LAWYERS

VANCOUVER (CP) — Two Vancouver lawyers are
being sued for alleged negligence in representing clients
who claim they lost money in a series of mortgage
transactions.

Peter W. Butler and Barry T. Gibson are named as
defendants in,a legal action filed by Freemont De-,
velopment Co. Ltd.

In an action in Le C. Supreme Court, Freemont is suing
Alvin Zi Arnold Si,
solicitor of te Vancouver, and UNAS Saviag
Investments Plan Ltd., Title Holdings Ltd. and Grand
Algo Investments Ltd. in which Gibson and ‘Butler are
the sole shareholders.

LRB RULING

VANCOUVER (CP) — Labor Minister Jack Heinrich -
acted unfairly by appointing a mediator quickly to avert
disruption of last year's B.C, Winter Games in his home
riding, the B.C. Labor Relations Board has ruled.

The board refrained from stating the appointment was
made simply to restrain a lawful strike by members of the
and College Employees at the

College of New Caledonia, in Prince George.

Many games’ events were scheduled tobe held at the
college the week after the strike was scheduled to begin.

The union had served 72-hour strike notice Feb. 21,
1981. The appointment, made Feb. me Taide the Feb. 24
strike illegal because a

WORLD NEWS BRIEFS . . .

would not come down, so the place circled the airport for
two- hours to burn .off its fuel in preparation -for © a
belly-landing.

With emergency vehicles standing - by, the pilot
brought the plane in, beginning of its remaining nose and ~
wing wheels before it leaned and spun 90 degrees on its
wheeless wing.

No one was hurt.

B.C. LIONS

VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C. Lions will hold a ‘high

school football development camp in Kelowna ~ ‘March
* 27-28, the team announced in a release.

The camp is the third the team has scheduled for this
year, with the others in Victoria March 6-7, and the
Empire Stadium here April 5-10.

The Kelowna and Victoria camps are open to high
school players in grades 10 to 12, while the Vancouver
event is for graduating seniors.

CHARGES

: LAID
PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — Charges were laid against
two pulp mills here Thursday in connection with the Dec.

EMERGENCY LANDING.
VANCOUVER (CP) — A. twin-engine airplane with
eight people aboard was forced to make an emergency
landing at Vancouver International Airport Friday when
it developed problems with its landing gear.
One of the landing wheels of the Powell Air Navaho

28 of effluent into.the Fraser River.
Ministry of Environment officials charged Prince
George Pulp and‘Paper Ltd. and Intercontinental Pulp
Company Ltd. with violating the Pollution Control Act by
discharging waste without a permit, and depositing ‘a
into water fr d by fish under
the Fisheries Act, said a news release.

: : : '
An estimated $80 million litres of pulp mill effluent
washed into the river when a holding pond dike broke.
A court date is set for March 18.

EXCHANGE PROGRAM
‘ PEKING (AP) — Canada and’ China. signed . an
agreement Saturday setting up a 1982-88 cultural ex-
shane program, the official Xinhua news agency'reports.

o

The violence broke out toward the end of an otherwise )
orderly march through the Dutch capital by an estimated
7,000 demonstrators.

A police spokesman said a group of the marchers threw
stones, paint and smoke bombs and tried to tear down the
fence surrounding the consulate, which was closed for the
weekend.

ANTI-NUCLEAR RALLY

- TOKYO (AP) —

ear rally at to mark the first
United States nuclear test on the Bikini Atoll in the -
Pacific Ocean on March 1, 1954,

At Yaizu, 20 kilometires west of Shizuoka and about 160 “|

kilometres southwest. of . Tokyo, about:.500. people. ,

covera in the arts,

film, | sports. and
humanities and social science,’ Xinhua" says. ,
CAR BOMBING °
BEIRUT (AP) — A car packed with plosives blew, oP

Beirut, -killing eight civilians and wounding 85,
said. s
It was the second car bombing in the area in five ‘dava

, and responsibility for the blast was claimed by the same

group, the Front: for the: Liberation of Lebanon, from-
Foreigners.

A double car-bomb blast ‘Tuesday killed 12 people and
wounded more than 30. °

— Police on horseback anda ‘riot

- warned that more jobs would be lost unless U.S. workers
"agree to contract concessons, says it will lay off 9,620

: domestic car production this week -trailed last year's

d before the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, radio
operator of the fishing trawler Fukuryu Maru. He died
Sept. 23, 1954, after being showered by radioactive dust -
.from the test. :

’ MORE LAYOFFS

DETROIT (AP) —- General Motors Corp., having

workers at four GM Fisher Body Division plants.
‘The plants will be closed in the spring.“for economic
reasons,” said Charles Katko, general manager of Fisher
‘and a GM vice-president. ~
And, as layoffs of U.S. autoworkers edged close to the
: quarter-million mark, the top U.S. carmakers said:

depressed output by 80.1 per cent,

squad charged several. hundred stc ‘dem-

Roger Smith predicted that

om

talks with the U.S. branch

onstrators at the U.S.’ Consulate on The *
were U.8. policy” on’ El

Salvador.

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board

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of the United Auto Workers union will resume before
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national along with
six other PQ NMAs.

His working-class, east-end
riding of. St.. Jacques .re-
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MONTREAL (CP) —
Claude Charron, who re-
* signed Tuesday as Quebec

difficult by
flecting just the right amount
of sorrow and anger.

When the PQ formed the
government in 1976, Charron
‘wasnamed minister of youth,
recreation ‘and sport, with

added responsibility for the qi

house leader
has plead guilty toa charge
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Tourangeau of municipal
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Charron had tried to walk
out of the T. Eaton Co.
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tweed jacket.

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Inquiry into price
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VANCOUVER (CP) —
University of B.C. anaes
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cabinet ministers, to ensure
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“When the premier threat-
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had been. under increasing
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La Presse ran a series of

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erie competition in the B.C,
brewing industry, Consumer
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man said Saturday.
Hyndman said that Mi-
chael Goldberg, associate
dean of the commarca fac-

ulty, will take. about six.

months on the inquiry. Hynd-
man expects the inquiry to
cost from $10,000 to $15,000.
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