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COURTENAY: (CP)

Several hundred residents of
a rural ares’ south of this
Vancouver Island community. .
were allowed to return’ to:
their homes Friday night

- after the danger : posed by a
leaking propane tanker truck
was subdued. = -

An estimated 300 people
had been evacuated from a
one-kilometre area earlier in
the day when: the. north:
bound tanker ‘truck’ flipped
over while swerving to avoid
a van on the Island Highway.

Trudeau to:

“By Fed vei, Sina
ites’ declared the area: safo
after the tanker was towed .
away from the accident site.

The tanker leak had been
plugged. Friday . afternoon.
when fire.crewa doused tho.
truck and the highway with
non-flammable foam.’ The re-
mainder of the 38,000 litres of '
propane from the damaged
vehicle was then arated into
other, tankers, :

‘A: gas’ cloud which “had
hovered over the area for
several hours also dispersed.

visit

Indonesian lear

JAKARTO (AP) — Prime
Minister Trudeau wants to
discuss world p with

Overall economic relations
between Canada and Indo- ,

Indonesian President’ Sub-
arto and enhance: bilateral
reltaions, says Earl, Drake,
Canadian ambassador to Is
donesia. r

Drake made the statement

nesia ily
‘over the last’ decade with

one Utre'a minute,
ALERTED PO

The aceldent

about 8 a.m. PST. The. aver
of the tanker/ William Clin:

ton Burnham, 83, of nearby |

Qualicum Beach, 4

‘the ‘accident |

Shortly; after th ecldeht,
Mi

ROMP, Sgt. Ph

ly alerted’ ' police, who:'as-

sisted fire department offi-. ar

clals in the evacuation. ,

. Burnham was taken: to
. hospital in’ Comox where he
was treated for ‘minor cuts
and bruises, and, later re-’.
leased.

Courtenay,
“dian Bay. were on a the

total strade. progressing’ to - prévinces. and 38 in the At: ‘h

$181 million Canadian in 1981
from $3: million’ in- 1970,

Saturday. at. a. news’ con=

ference in connection. wit
Trudeau's three-day visit to’
Indonesia next Tuesday.

The prime minister, who is
visiting Singapore, is on
tour of the countries of the
A i of

reached 148.4 | million, up 53

lantic region, were. awarded
s Fri

per .cent ‘over’ the same ~

a period in 1981. u
Canada's main oxpors | Je

Asian Nations and Japan.
Drake said Trudeau's tour
was part of a campaign to
diversify Canada's trade
from Europe to the Pacific
Rim, particularly. Japan and
ASEAN.

“During a Canadian - :for-
eign policy review in 1969-70,
the importance of countries
of the Pacific Rim was em-
phasized and, in particular,
the place of Indonesia within
that context,” said Drake.

He said Trudeau.wants to
discuss world problems with
Suharto because both leaders
are moderates from their
respective groups.

The North-South dialogue,
the Middle East, the role of
China and the Soviet Union
and the Cambodianissues are:
some of the ‘problems that
may be discussed by the two
leaders, Drake said.:

Tories

TORONTO (CP) — A Gal-
lup poll taken ‘early last
-month suggests .the federal

materials or basic products.”
including aluminum, .man-
made fibres, sulphur, asbes-..
tos, ee Bper, wood:

exports, has attracted ‘the in- ~
terest of Canadian expor*ers

as large Canadian invest-
ments.

Canada’s investments in
Indonesia are well over $1
billion, ranking third after
Japan and Hong Kong. There

are 16 major Canadian firms °

and’thréé Canadian banks ff
Indonesia.

undisclosed
released F

voted 49 per cent

wage iricreases of eight and .

-six per cent, along with ‘con-
tract’ change: th call:

HSA‘
Jack Ca
offer was made after $70

remain ahead

Progressive Conservatives
have maintained their lead’
over the Liberals in voter

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property taxes:to pay for
services like schools and hos-

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the. value of the house,“

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‘Spread over a lerge
area.
“But the Soviet: announce:
ment Friday said:
“According to Sempitent

Soviet organizations, the sat- -

ellite ceased active existence
on Dee. 28, 1982 and, | ‘under
the flight program, was’ div-
ided inte separate freqments
by. commands from ‘Earth in
order to isolate the. active
part of the reactor, which en-
sured its subsequent com-
plete combustion in the densa’
atmospheric. strata.'"The: ra-
dioactivity level will femain
within the natural,” back-

‘ground limits.”

Pentagon officials said
earller that separation of the
reactor was;the normal pro-
cedure. But they. said the

Pocket boosters should have
Propelled. it 660 kilometres

farther into space to orbit the
Earth indefinitely ' at. the

800-kilometre level.

SINGAPORE (cP) =

Prime Minister. Teidesu; stross-

ing that Canada’s reaction to the Warsaw Pact’s, proposal

-for a non-aggression: treaty

with’ NATO*.{s’ “cautiously

guarded,” says fhe otter if sincere’ is “worthy ‘of: conaid,

eration.”

“I hope that’s progress over the outright: rejection of.
Mr, Audroneys ’s proposal,” Trudeau told a news conforence o

in Si

‘But Trudeau sald he would be wary 7 of ‘Andropov It he’
were a negotiator. “I:think that it was a very clever move
‘on the’ Soviets’ part, the; prime ‘minister added.

+ Western governments have / promised: to ‘study

Warsaw Pact proposal. UL 8.
worth considering. 5
* Trudeau, ‘begal

tothe treaty

by Soviet Communist party chief Yuri ‘Andropov. and other
Warsaw Pact leaders: who met. in Prague,’ Czechoslovakia,

last week.

‘Trudeau, who leaves for Malaysia today on nthe third eg!
ofhis seven-country Asian tour, said Andropov has hit upon
“some very technically sound avenues.” The prime’ mlbiater

added:

“The question for us is whether they’ re smérely téchiteal i

or whether they will result in a real will to, nogotlate on. the’.

part of the Soviets.

“I-guess the most we can say is these! proposals’ of

Andropov are worthy: of consideration and th y: should be
prougnt to the negotiating table.” :

Dump Joe
delegates:
‘paid’ .

TORONTO* (CP) — The
national’ secretary of ‘the
Progressive Conservative
Association. of Canada’ says
she resigned last. month be-
cause some delegates to the
party's national convention in
Winnipeg. next ‘month ‘ are
being ‘paid to vote ‘fora
review of Joe Clar " leader-
ship. :

Diane Stratas, former MP
for ‘the. suburban. Toronto.
riding. of Scarborough : Ce

tre, said. in ‘an “interview
Friday she resigned Dec. 15

cafter learning that ‘an anti-
Clar!

‘k delegate frem Toronto-

expense money: fe voting. to

‘dump the party. leader.

However, the. four -con-
vention delegates in Willow-
dale. deny they have been of-

‘fered money to vote for a

leadership. review although:
one, Elizabeth Hinder, said:
she. knows: offers have -been:
made. elsewhere. She refused

toname anyone involved and
osaid

:Stratas said she first heard.
of. payoffs: through a female
friend .~- «who. wishes to
remain unidentified -— who’
heard someone: approach : a”
newly. elected delegate: and
say:“your cheque will be in‘
the mail Monday morning.” :
\. Stratas said her friend told
her it was implicit in the con- -

versation that the person ap- - [i

proached’‘was voting for a
leadership review.
FIGHTS FOR FOSITION
“Clark is in a fierce: battle
for support from delegates to
and

arrived: in’

President Reagan anid

is tase in' ‘Thailand: last ‘tuoaday’ and
ré.on' Friday. He leaves’Malaysia for
» Indonesia next Tuesday, goes on to Brunei on Thuraday, the'

Philippines.on’ 'Friday'and winds up the oe in Japa

he is ‘due noxt “Sunday. »~
- Canadain busi

pa : S ,
are hoping his tour will help thom win is age slices of ‘the

international, contracts:

“In ‘Singapore, ‘nrddead told ‘hia news ‘eontesenes tha

. Canadian businessmen hoping to land a piece of the acti

the’ island “ropublic' 's. planned taultibillion-dollar subway
system should “sharpen their pencils and put forward a gpod'
offer" and not worry” now about official financing help. trom

; Ottawa:

VARIETY cup... Cathy Lafortune of Hobbit Hill
Preschool Development Centre reads to five-yeqy-old
Jamie Johnston of Raspberry who will represent the
Kootenays at the Variety Club Telethon to be.broad-

If Canadians eppear. to ‘eine a good shot at the subway

ntract, Canada will then consider getting into “tho mug’s
e” of offering eut-rate loans to seal the deal, the prime .
minister told reporters after meeting his Binenpers ‘

3. counterpart, Eset Kuan Yew.

ae

. UNDERCUTTING HURTS

s “Trudeau noted: that, Canada and its Export Develop-
‘ment. Corp. |. have: ‘offered | backing in the past to: win
important deals, adding that he wishes competing countries

ould §

trying to undercut each other's financing because

p |
it. hurts: them/all‘in the.long run.
Asked how much.his current tour hélpsi in winning deals
‘for ‘Canada,’ Trudeau said it’s hard to say but added that he is

a how miich i

Canadian in;

‘ori countries Attach to his visits.
‘Trudeau also tuld the’ businessmen he has no intention
hi

deficit to help them

is -!
4 varticipate in the construction of Singapore's rapid transit

system,

* Canadian officials say its hard to pin down exactly how
‘much’ Trudeau's: visit: will help Canadian bidders.

Canadian arrested
in bomb scare

TOKYO (CP-(AP) — A
passenger identified as a
Hong Kong-born Canadian of
Chinese ancestry, was ar-

rested aboard a South Kor-

ean jumbo jetliner ‘in. Tokyo

@ on Saturday by Japanese

: police who said he claimed a

bomb may have, been placed
aboard the aircraft by a man
who was trying to kill him.
No bomb was found.

‘Police questioned Kwok
Wing Ming, 31, believed to be
from the Toronto area, for
‘five hours and said they

planned more questioning.

Kwok, who. was earlier

if identified as Kwok Young,

Ming, was charged with “dis-
rupting flight operations,"
and could face a prison term

Wa. if.found quilty of hijacking.

and 13, Last year, the Variety

to the centre.

in BCT!
. Club donated $4 500 worth of” playgi

Police were‘also trying to de-

“termine whether he is men-

tally iL: ,
The crew of' the Korean

Air Lines Boeing 747 jumbo

jet, carrying 213 pi t

* and a. crew. of,

jew. Yo
formed of a,bom!

Sovi ets

- WASHINGTON (REUT-

-ER) — U.S. Defence sources

say the Soviet Union is
showing no signs of. giving up_
‘its attempt to subjugate
Afghanistan despite three
years of Moslem guerrilla

—contiew Photo by Dione Strondbsrg

the Winnipeg
avoid the possibility of being
ousted, At the same time, A
Toronto-based movement ‘is
doing. everything it can to

push for a-leadership: con- _

vention to replace him. *
».John Morrison, head of PC
Metro, said he knows nothing.
about. outside. money being
used to subsidize the travel
and accommodation ‘of dele-
gates as a means of getting
them to vote for a review.
But a Tory official from’ Ot-
tawa said delegates on both
sides.of the leadership issue
are being subsidized . from
outside sources to attend the
convention. ie:

She added she’ has 1 no in-
tention of seeking re-election
in the next federal contest.

“I'm ‘trying. to make. a
statement but I'm not trying

_ to cause a- revolution,” she

said, “I feel symbolically my
resignation may cause people
tobe aware that the most.

important thing is the con-
vention be as full of integrity
as possible.”

OTTAWA (CP) — Indi-
cations are that former Na-
tional Hockey League all-star
Ken Dryden has the inside

track for appointment to the
$70,000-a-year post of federal

WHITEHORSE (CP) —
lurid’ West German news-,
paper account of murderous
wolf packs eating defenceless’
children’ has’ angered’ local
tourism officials and left the
son of one German family
tied to his telephone..

Horst Mueller. wants his
mother to know he isn’t going
to get eaten by a wolf and so
does the Yukon government.

In an attempt to counter
the: bad- press, tourism ‘offi-

cials are launching a publicity .

campaign ‘to assure German

travellers they won't be bit-;

ten by wolves when they get
off the plane.

Mueller has been telephon-.

ing home to his worried
mother in Wuppertal, near
the West German city of Col-
“ogne, trying to convince her
there are no packs of hungry.

. wolves outside his door.

sitting Jan. 17.
The seven-year position
was created under the ‘Ac-

. She still ‘thinks he should .

carry @ gun.
“Twas trying hard to con-

vince her. everything is all -
‘right but I don't know if I

succeeded,” Mueller said
Thursday after yet another
long-distance call,

Mueller lives ‘in’ White:
horse, the Yukon capital, and
his. problems started. this

week when one of Germany's __

biggest newspapers — Bild-
Zeitung, with a circulation of
8°. million. —' carried’ an
article about the Yukon’s
murderous wolf population.
TWO CHIDLREN EATEN
The paper reported - that
two children had been eaten
by wolves near Whitehorse
this winter. The story. was

.inaccurate since no one has

ever been eaten by wolves in
the Yukon, officiais say.
“A couple of free-roaming

‘ringer for new job

Nepean-Carleton and Privy
Council president in the 1979
Conservative government,

cess. to ‘ion Act pass-
ed last year and scheduled to
come into force April 1. But
tl

A Toronto lawyer, the for-
mer. Montreal Canadiens
goalie has worked previously
for the Department of Con-
sumer and Corporate Affairs
and appears favored by the
Liberals and the Progressive
Conservatives for the post,
expected to be announced
before Parliament resumes

also says any
nominee must be confirmed
by the Senate-and the Com-

edged Dryden “was
the kind of person . I would
have looked for.”
“He is certainly one that
would strike me as capable of
doing the job, ? Baker added.

mons before becoming offi-
cial. .
The-Conservatives are be-
lieved to have considered him
for the job when they were in
power in 1979 and last week
Walter Baker, MP for the
Ottawa-area riding of

The '3 job is

seen as that of an ombuds-
man who would receive com- -

plaints from those refused
access to federal information
and judge whether or not
they should be given access
to the material they seek,

_ Wolves getting bad press

horses have tae taken here

- but. that's nothing to be al-

armed about,” said Mueller.
When his mother picked up

the newspaper and read the .

account of wolves forroriing
Whitehorse; she ran for the
telephone. i

:“She was quite upset about
it,” said Mueller,

Feds would not
-relent to Sovieis.

- OTTAWA (cP) — The
federal government refused
to buckle ‘under 'p

“ erninent released ‘the infor-
mation ‘through ‘its regular
‘channels, the Si

from the ‘Soviet Union in
1978 when,13 Russian Em-
bassy staff, members were
obdersd out of Canada, - The
Citizen says today.

Two days after the expul:
sions were ordered, the
newspaper says, the Soviet

Embassy sent an official to‘

Prime Minister Trudeau's of-
fice Feb. 11,:1978 with the
threat it would make public
clandestine RCMP ‘activities
that included attempts in'the
USSR to recruit Soviet trade
official Anatoly Maximov as a,
double agent. .

‘The official also threatened
to reveal that the RCMP had
used, false Canadian pass-
ports, had forged the signa-
ture of then solicitor general
Warren Allmand to docu-
ments and had undertaken
clandestine foreign oper-
ations as early as 1973 with-
out the knowledge of the fed-
eral government.

When Canadian officials
refused to relent, the news-
paper says the Soviet gov-

says, only: to have Canadian

journalists treat it as prop--

aganda . and: give jit. little
credence...

. But the newspaper adds,
the Soviet allegations. were
true: and ‘the first -contact
with Maximov had been
made at Expo’67 in Montreal
when'he was there as an of-

ficial of a Soviet trade maga-

zine.

The contact, the news-
paper says, ‘was made by
Jeffrey. - Williams, : Quebec
representative of the plastics
firm Barnett J. Danson Asso-
ciates headed by the future
Canadian defence minister.

Their friendship flourished
and grew when Maximov re-
turned to Canada a short
time later with the Soviet
trade mission in Montreal.

ion arid Soviet losses
totalling nearly 5,000 dead.
In fact, the sources said,
recent reports suggest the

- Soviet Union is planning for a

long stay in Afghanistan,

‘Future plans could involve
annexation of key parts of
the country, including major
cities such as: Kabul, the
capital, and the gas-rich
north, the sources told re-
_ porters.

They said ‘the signs include
improving the Soviet logis-
. tics base, such as rail lines up
to the northern Afghan Bor-
der to bring in supplies for
some 100,000 Soviet troops it in
the country. :

Butthe sources, who asked”
not to be identified, said the
Soviet’ Union . would’ have
trouble subduing the country
unless the Moslem» insur-
gents numbering about
710,000 were stopped from
using: neighboring Pakistan
as a haven and supply point
for arms.

Poles to
emigrate

WARSAW (REUTER) —
More than 1,000 of the 4,000
men and women who were
interned under martial law in
Poland have since applied to
emigrate te the West, the

t PIERRE TRUDEAU
... worth considering

headed to Seoul after a re-
fuelling stop in Anthorage,
Alaska, The airlines’ Toronto
office had received.a letter
warning that a bomb might

be on board.
The crew, telling passen-
gers the detour was for
” di-

under watch after receiving
word of the threat.’

Kwok was reported to
have told police he had gone
to Toronto on Dee. 3 “to get
away” from “the man (Hay)
whoalways threatened to kill
me.” Hay was not further ;

verted the jet to Tokyo's
Narita international airport
where it landed at 5:20 a.m.
local time Saturday (3:20
p.m, EST Friday). Police
searched the plane and fourid
no bomb. ,
LEFT FCR SEOUL

Six hours later, the jumbo
jetliner departed for Seoul,
without. Kwok and two pas-
sengers who claimed they
were ill.

Police said Kwok wrote to

.Korean Air Lines’ Canada of-

fice in Toronto that “a bomb
may be placed on the plane”
by.8 a man who was chasing

ie Sue
ad;

- receiv

The official said Kwok's
home town in Canada was not
immediately confirmed, but
that it is believed to be in the
Toronto area because Kwok's
passport was issued in Tor-
onto'and the bomb threat
was'received at KAL's Tor-
onto office.

KAL officials said no de-
mands were made against
the airline and the Japanese
said there was no attempt to
take over the South Korea-
bound jetliner.

A Canadian Embassy
source said Ottawa has been
informed of the incident, but
that the. embassy.has so far
instructions from
the.. External. Affairs .De-
partment.

will stay awhile

“The border with Pakistan,
as long as it stays open, is
going to cause nothing but
grief to, the’ Soviets,” one
source said. .

The Soviet Union mounted
its intervention in Afghan-
istan in December, 1979, to
prop up the pro-Soviet gov-

ernment there, but its forces

still control many key places
only in daylight. hours and
only within range of their
guns, the sources said.

One source described the
fighting in. Afghanistan . this
past. year as a stalemate.

HIT-AND-RUN BAIDS

He said the country's
mountainous terrain had en-
abled the insurgents to
thwart. Soviet efforts by
using hilly hideouts to launch
hit-and-run raids on move-
nients of troops and supplies.

; In’ addition, #the sources

ne insurge! iat aon jcan move
Through the ldrgely desolate
countryside almost unhinder-
ed and flee. to refuge in
friendly- Pakistan: if neces-

»Supporting ‘them there,
they said, are about 2.5 mil-

lion refugees in Pakistan's

+Northwest Territory and

about 600,000 to a million in
Baluchistan in extreme west-
ern Pakistan.
iblished’ reports say
iy of thd arms used by the
insurgents are funnelled
through Pakistan, but the
sources did not comment on
the.origins of the insurgents’
weapons.

The sources said the Soviet
Union is trying to end the
insurgents’ freedom of move-
ment by incresed use of air
power so that Soviet forces
could drive deep into the
insurgents’ mountain and val-
ley strongholds.

They said there are re-
peated reports of use of non-
lethal chemical agents by the
Soviet forces to flush out in-
surgents from mountain hide-
aways or caves.

They reported no fresh use
of lethal gas by the Soviet
forces. There were allega-
tions by the United States
last March that Soviet forces
had killed up to 3,000 people
with poison gas and other
chemical weapons.

Thatcher visits.
the Falklands

LONDON (REUTER) —
British Prime Minister Mar-
garet Thatcher arrived in the

Ikland Islands on

_ of naval staff, Sir John Field-

house, and a small group of
officials.

for a surprise visit, an official
spokesman repor'
The k said she

Cc party pap

Trybuna Ludu reported Sat-
urday. Passports have been
issued to 500 of those reg-
istered but only 144 have so
far received visas from west-

d home to
stay in 1978, the newspaper
says, at which time efforts to
recruit him shifted to the
Soviet Union through the
United States and Switzer-
land with the compliance of
‘officials, of both countries.

em it said. More
than 10,000 people, most of
them officials and activists of
the banned Solidarity trade
union, spent some time in
camps until the internment
system was abolished last
month.

would be there “just a short
time,” but could give no de-
tails of her visit to the South
Atlantic British colony which
Britain recaptured from Ar-
gentina last year.

He said she arrived at
Stanley airfield at 2:54 p.m.
EST and was due to be met
by the islands’ civil com-
missioner, Sir Rex Hunt.

She was accompanied by
her husband, Denis; the chief

The said That-
cher left Britain on Friday,
flew to Ascension Island in
the mid-Atlantic in a VC-10
jetliner and then on to the
Falkland Islands in a Her-
cules transport plane.

Britain defeated Argentina
in a conflict that lasted from
April to June last year over
the Falkland Islands, which
Argentina claims as part of
the South American country
and calls the Malvinas Is-
lands. The archipelago is
some 350 nautical miles from
the Argentine mianland,