The Seallega Sun anta Claus and UFOs | BY BA BARA TANDORY Sun staft writer Hynck — who started out as an official. U.S. government while working for the ') There are those who believe hat when U.S. astronaut Neil Armatrong spoke the famous words on the moon, “Yes, Vir- ginia, there is a Santa Claus, he +Was sending a coded message to ‘mankind that said, in effect, “Yes, my fellow earthmen, there is such a thing as UFOs.” |. “This may be fact or it may be myth, but many of my friends in the field ‘of ufology believe it might also be truc that there are alien bases on the moon, ‘It wasn’t just Armstrong. The American astronauts have retumed to earth changed men, Overwhelmingly turing to mysti- cal-spiritual pursuits and/or UFO research. Astronomer and former astronaut Dr. Brian O'Leary, for example, has been a foremost UFO ‘authority and spokesman in recent years, Certainly, strange things have been seen on the surface of the moon by astronomers for as long as their telescopes have monitored that natural satellite of ours. Here's. what French writer Robert Charroux had to say on the subject: “Astronomers have noted, at diferent times, bright lights in the Aristarchus crater, the letter “X” ib the Eratosthenes crater, the Greek letter gamma in the Littrow. crater, anda checkered pattem in the Plato crater, and many bright lights.” Blue Book project and ended up devoting the rest of his life to serious UFO research — have gathered massive evidence of sightings and close encounters. "The evidence is there, in UFO annals; the only unresolved ques- tioned is, whether the mysterious bright lights in the sky are actual ‘extraterrestrial spacecraft or something more subtle than mat- ter composed of energies peculiar to this dimension. Something more like magic. Something more like the Santa Claus and the magic of Christmas. This is no joke, Starting with Hynek, the founder of the now renowned research Centre for UFO Studies (CUFOS) who pio- sense of home gets so blurred that you no-looger known where home was, if anywhere. In a note recorded in my calen- ‘dar diary I. wrote: “No; Virginia, there is no Santa Claus,” In explanation to myself I added:'“No ‘visitors, No contact... only’ pain.” (was suffering from one of the worst holiday migraines ever.) This note came back to my with strange relevance halfway the past five-year period — because it wasn't true, -. ‘There was a visit that Christmas night. ‘There. were. visitors— else ived . them —but I didn’t know it until I read, in April of 1988, Whitley - Strieber's Communion,. a true account story of the bestselling author's “visitation experience” neered the term “high factor’ and continuing with the French-bom astronomer and com- puter scientist Jacques Vallee, who drew astounding analogies between UFO accounts and fairy tales, we're led in this field of research along a path which might be leading as far as the Land of Oz. This is no joke, either. In fact, a top British UFO researcher, Jenny Randles, has employed a quaint, familiar term, the “Oz Factor,” to capture the sense of magic peculiar to close encoun- ters and, in particular, abductions. But let’s stay with Christmas in this story intended to explain to the reader why there is a columa called “Warp Report” i in this And certainly, according to i sources, else had been revealed to us unsus- pecting humans with the advent of sophisticated aerial surveillance — unidentified aerial objects parked in the equatorial orbit and -above the North and South Poles. So it seems that there are many Strange things on earth as well as on the moon that have eluded the brains of our best astronomers. Reputable scientists, as for example the late astronomer Allen spaper and how I b interested enough in the subject to write it. It began at Christmas five years ago, the last time I consid- ered the question of the Santa's existence, that is to say, I wisbed he existed. Tt was late at night, and a long, long time past my childhood. 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But for dreams they seem to match Strieber’s experi- cat a little too close for coinci- oethia is what happened to me. “As was the’ case with Strieber, | -: there was something in the waking . context of my Christmas 1985 to sezve as a starting point for imagi- nation, Strieber read a few pages. of “Jenny Randles’ book Abduction before retiring that night. .The starting point for my Santa Claus reverie was a book with the author's dedication reading, “See you in Home or along the way.” The book,:Far Journeys by, Robert Monroe, made references to visits and visitors from another reality — a plane of ‘existence we're said to enter in sleep, usual- ly with no conscious memory of the event— and the alleged con- tacts occurring in the course of a common quest for this unknown “Home.” Monroe was a highly success- during the night. When ‘be did, more than « week later, he wanted to believe it was a dream. In the meantime, in an attempt to dislodge the disturbing but hid- den memory of what happened that night, Dec. 26, he wrote a short story titled “Pain,” to express the sense of his experience. Its heroine was an “enigmatic woman” with magical powers whom Strieber came to associate with one of his visitors on that fateful night at the cottage in the woods, one who seemed to him closer. than his closest family rela- tions. Her alien face appears on the cover of Communion. Incredibly, Strieber believed he was visited by aliens. He called them “the visitors.” Tt took hypnosis and the writing of two bestselling books, Commu- nion and Transformation, for Strieber to convince himself that his experience was real. But I dis- agree with his critics who prefer such ful — first in advertising, then in network radio- — a real Mad Avenue and Fleet Street type, who went on to pioneer in the west lab- © oratory experimentation in out-of- the body travel at the Monroe Institute in W. Virginia. His book was recommended me by a friend, a respected profes- sional who vouched for the reality of its content. Thus I took it seriously enough to entertain doubts — because nothing like that happened to me. My skepticism was an expression of disappointment, and because my Christmas that year was bleak and lonely. On the morning of Dec. 26, 1985, I woke up with a memory of meeting some people i in an unfa- miliar forest on my way home — in Poland, where I left many years ago — and the friendly strangers insisting I stay with them the night. I was. wandering about in a fog when I ran into them in a clearing on the edge of the forest. Tt was very, ad dark and late, around midni; The next thing I knew — still in the same dream — it was mom- ing and I was returning home in Strieber’s Chri: “85 expe- tience continues to be often treat- ed with strange ambivalence, even within the UFO community. Many researchers prefer to view it as a one man’s experience. But I wonder. In fact, I’ve been wondering about it since I com- pared my journal entries against that he was a writer with active imagination to begin with and had a $1 million contract for the book — although Strieber was not the first to be visited, not by a long shot, or to describe the type of alien being with huge staring eyes and leathery wizened skin. T too had strange dreams imme- diately prior to.and after the night "Ss p d and publi- cized accounts. As mentioned above, the expe- rience left Strieber without clear memory. Then he remembered — flying over a wintertime forest at treetop level, twigs and branches brushing against his face, vu. He also recalled an improbable scene of being in a clearing in the woods with strange little people, Johnny's Grocery & Gas Wishes all our customers a safe and Happy New Year. May 1991 be good to you and your family. 2593 Broadwater Road Robson, B.C. 365-7944 the I aliens. And perhaps the most crucial memory, one that left physical marks and some pain, was of a surgery performed on him by aliens in a hospital setting. I don’t know whether I had blundered into his dreams or entered his reality, but I have simi- lar memories recorded as dreams. The following are selected highlights to convey the sense .of shared reality or unreality, as the case may be. a “coming to myself at is tumoff into town,” where I ran into a woman friend in a shocking pink jumpsuit, also returning home at dawn. I was still “partially dazed,” according to the dream transcript, and “my memory (was) oddly deficient.” Obviously, it was like going home for the holidays. I suppose I felt I should be home for Christ- mas, But there was no such forest there, as 1 din the Ta y Hh ee yy S = home tired and went to bed and dreamed that I was back in the computer lab serving as our pro: duction room. . It’s all like a real-life scene, set next to the typesetting equipment, “A group of us is’ ming toa meeting; I'm just following theni. But the'next moment I’m back in bed and the room is in complete, uneasy darkness. ‘There are people in the rooni and they must be small to fit so many bodies in the narrow between the bed and the wall. I'm standing between them, like all of us stacked standing up, and I’m enduring an excruciatingly annoy- ing tickling under my ribs inflict- ed by some sharp instruments. It felt like 1 was being poked with razor-sharp instruments, It’s sharp and deliberate and I’m helpless, actually. paralyzed:: All I can do is execute some wig- gling movement. Meanwhile, there's a faint sound of footsteps on the stairs; Someone is coming into the house, climbing the stairs to the dream,. deciding that, I, must have taken an unknown, shortcut path... Perhaps I had done so because a series of strange dreams contin- ued, - The next night, the night of Strieber’s visitation — even though I was sure my migraine kept me awake all night — I dreamed that I was in a hospital for surgery (nothing I needed then or later) and was left wandering about all day. There were nurses and doctors but the surgery didn’t take place. Nobody bothered to explain. But I was somehow left with the memo- ry of being reminded that the was di to coin- We are presently repairing damages from the recent fire. We hope to have all areas of the hotelopenverysoon. Thank you for your patience. PEN Beer & Wine Store New Year's Day. 11a.m.-1ip.m. Dec. 31. & Jan. 2 Reg. ou 9a.m.-11p.m, | Wishing cweryone a great New Year Sw usto you Sony, the lounge Is temporarily closed for.» repairs until further notice. Hours: cide with a publishing workshop. There were publishing and writing students in my dream, which . was understandable because I was then a writing stu- dent myself at Selkirk College. There was a publishing work- ‘shop planned for the new year, but no date was yet set. This real-life publishing work- shop ran from late .February to March: 1, 1986. ‘That day I came WILLIE'S DELI & DESSERT “HOMEMADE MEAT PIES ASSORTED PART Y TRAYS _, 365-3306 Another wave of: pal: chest. I can’t scream or even whisper, my vocal chords seem useless. I woke up feeling cataleptic but otherwise fine, but very bewildered that dreams could feel so real, ” And the next night I flew. . Belatedly, it seems,.I found myself going home to the place where my family still lives in Poland, flying nervously at first along railway tracks, hesitatantly, because I was walking along the railway tracks when I found myself airbome and floating. But the railway ties were not there, replaced with a checker- board pattem of exquisitely ‘light green grass. And the sky seemed’ supematurally bright blue. Flying with confidence now — finally I too can fly, I was think- ing to myself — I arrived-home, although home was not the big house I remembered but a little cottage and the people I took. for my mother, father and grand- mother were younger people, seen . at a distance from across the road as the scene inside presented ‘itself vividly like through a tele; Tt was a lucid dream and pery haps it hardly matters about its other details, except that it was, tq my memory, my first ever dream of flying, and that I flew home. .: One .other small fact has brought more strange relevance to this interrupted dream series: on ‘See, UFOs SSA ° the’ prop h ue ) pam, on:15th of 5 wary: 1991 at the Community “Complex with-members of the’ City’ 's Engineering and Public ‘Works Department on: hand to explain the UBLIC NOTICE "Traffic Control on Columbia Avenue 1 h ‘in 1991: ‘All are prop d for Col bi: -to.an open ‘house/meeting to hear about the details of of the public are invited The, ig willbe held at ty. Setvices 8 office aie Columbia ‘Ave.). at the Basinesting RLDWATCH WEDNESDAY; January 2,.1991 Allied firepower hoped to convince lraq By Robert Fox Ths Daily Telegra; yy Phe new buzz Syed among gr analysts watching the Gulf ower demonstration”, i gach a demonstration would ‘Fonsist of sudden and devastating air attacks should President Sad- lam Hussein not have moved his forces from Kuwait by midnight on January. 15, the deadline set by the Inited Nations Security Council. Allied commanders hope that firepower of their combined air forces would convince the Iraqi leader that discretion was the bet- ter part of valour, and that he gould not survive all-out war. Air force commanders believe ir aircraft and missiles are suffi- ient to achieve the objective in fall. Ground force chiefs are more il. They are ing for “a hint that he and his war machine might be even a shade less than invincible. ; The military commanders in Baghdad cannot plead ignorance about the capabilities of those who oppose them, Iraqi officer cadets have studied at Sandhurst, and staff officers were attending RAF, Army and combined Services courses in Britain until August. These officers will know that the previous experiences of Iraq’s forces in the eight years of the Gulf War are scant ine for what they face now - southern Iraq. The initial phases of the ar attacks will aim to 1973 Yom Kippur War. On the Sucz and Sinai front, Israeli air- ability of the ‘allies to Iaunch jest tn targets throughout Kuwait and the Red and Arabian Seas and the Gulf itself will launch strikes of up to 280 aircraft at a time - more than half the strike power of the entire Iraqi air force. Allied aircraft will fly from — h hb bases Saudi Arabia, from the air, Against Iran, the Iraqis fought a largely static and defensive war in which they enjoyed air superiority. Only once or twice did tank forces take part in major battles of big , grind” ~ to fight their way into Kuwait in a complex operation of combined artillery, armour, poe: airbome and amphibious The biggest tactical and’ strate- gic unknown remains Saddam lf. The commonest phrase i in the corridors of command in Saudi Arabia i is: “He isn’t getting the thessage.” * It is far from clear whether the iraqi dictator fully appreciates the Capabilities of the forces ranged against him and the terrible conse- quences for bis country and the tegion should all scale war erupt. | 5 The Israelis, Even so, they had difficulty against the “human wave" mass assaults by Iranian children armed with little more than Kalashnikov rifles, Khomeini-ite fervor and the symbolic keys to heaven round their necks as talismans. By the end of the war, the casu- alty figures for both sides were remarkably similar - somewhere between a third and half a million each. The focus of the Gulf crisis is now the gulf of und ‘The force of RAF GR1 Tornado bombers is about to be enhanced by a third squadron which will deploy from Bahrain this week. They will have the crucial role of taking out missile sites and air- fields. With their JP233 craft dropped 150 tons of explo- sives for or er Egyptian soldier killed, and 50 tons for each Egyp- tian injured, With an Iraqi occupy- ing force of half a million now in Kuwait, such Statistics are hardly encouraging. The allied army commanders believe that ground action is cer- tain to develop should hostilities break out. Since the terrain and the tactical doctrines of both sides are well known to each other, opera- tional surprise is paramount. The cat-and-mouse game of feint and and di attack, if and when it comes, will be launched in dozens of places and by dozens of means -artillery, armour, helicopter, airborne drop by parachute and helicopter, and from the sea. The principal allied military aims now appear to be twofold: liberate’ Kuwait and get Saddam. This makes it likely that the US and British tank forces will launch a two-pronged thrust at the borders of Kuwait and deep into Iraq towards Baghdad itself. By a bold sweep to the west, the allies hope to make Iraqi com- manders commit the elite divisions of the Republi Guard, with disinformation, it is now suspect- ed, is well under way. Force levels and capabilities, dispositions and timings are likely to be distorted and at an increas- bombs, they have been described by a US commander as “truly awe- some weapons”. 3 The first phase of the attacks wili demonstrate the allied air forces’ ability to fight at night and with precision laser guidance sys- tems. This, according to the latest RAF analysis, is likely to ensure that they achieve total dominance in the air in three days. A senior RAF officer said: “If be still doesn’t move, we can then start between Baghdad, Riyadh ‘and the capitals of the alliance, and this brings the day of the “firepower ” closer. Inasters in rhe intelligence: in the Middle East, say they do not know who briefs and advises Sad- dam on military matters, The diffi- Gulty is compounded by the fact that be is not a trained soldier, and that even the most expert coun- selors may be too frightened to Intelligence briefings in Riyadh this week have suggested that Sad- dam’s forces are showing no signs of leaving Kuwait - or thinking about it. On the contrary, the Americans believe the Iraqis are digging in further, and more men and munitions are pouring in from the medium-l carpet of his defences round Kuwait - 600 metres or a mile a day until he does change his mind.” Army commanders cautiously point out that no ing tempo. Even the aims are being heavily veiled. But it is evident that the Psychics celebrity By Henry Scarupa The Baltimore Sun The Persian Gulf crisis flashes bright and clear in the crystal balls of several psychics as they make their predictions for 1991. (So do increases in Jane Fonda’ 'S measurements and ever been won by air bombard- ment alone, and they believe ground forces will have to attack sooner or later. Ground force commanders point to the astonishing statistic produced by the Israelis after the That was a year, that was NEW YORK, Reuter - Spare a thought between sips of cham- pagne this New Year for Nigeri- ‘sitio Fer theif private parts ‘we being stolen. Ms © If that’s too sobering a subject; then how about the Norwegian who advertised in a lonely hearts ‘Solumn - and got a reply from his éx-wife? *, Or raise a glass to drought- ‘stricken Californians in Santa ‘Barbara who so love a green lawn they have resorted to paint. *% But perhaps the. bubbly will go ‘Getter with the tale of the Hong Kong smugglers who tried unsuc- itessfully to “export” a Mercedes to China by towing it under water in a rubber bag. c. Scanning 1990's news file is Hiot just an exercise in economics ‘and ethnic unrest. The year also Srought forth a bouillabaisse of the weird and wonderful. U_ Sex, of course, provided many ‘Of the ingredients. ¢ From Australia came the story ‘of a complaint to consumer affairs ‘Wfficials from women dissatisfied ‘that a male stripper had finished ‘his act in only 10 minutes, instead of the contracted half hour. The stripper defended himself #y arguing that the women had tom his clothes off, presumably ying his timing. ' New York, as ever, weighed i in \with a tale of bizarre crime. A ‘fan was arrested after a summer ‘Of blowing home-made darts at he behinds of women in business ‘attire. ¥% But the weird story of the year ‘ias undoubtedly the report from * Wagos, Nigeria, of disturbances 4riggered by people who claimed ‘4ghat their sexual organs disap- BRUSSELS, Belgium, Reuters “A woman, her 9-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old boy . lied in a fire at a shelter for bat- fered women early Saturday, police said. ,, Fifteen people were i ured, facluding a.woman who leapt. ‘from a first-floor window with her year-old child, Both are in seri- tus condition with broken legs ‘and other injuri Bt. Police said they suspected : arson at the Fernand:Philippe shelter.at Wanfercee-Baulet, 25 “miles south of Brussels. They said. had extinguished another fire. Which broke out in a shower room jgasticr in the night. The:.womao ‘who died 3 ‘was vercome by smoke. The two: Shildren suffered fatal bums. The helter normally housed 27: pco- .s MBABANE, peared after they shook hands with the alleged thieves. Millions of Nigerians, it seems, believe thar unholy poweérs' enable evil‘ folk to-snatch body parts for magical p in its aquarium, despite regular bottle-feeding. Elsewhere, decidedly buman se! created news, ~ Authorities in Califomia were that the of Police offered a less other- worldly explanation that rumors were often spread by criminals who looted and picked pockets during the ensuing chaos. Not all tales of the bizarre were so easily explained. To appease Pele, the volcano goddess, a shopkeeper in Hawaii placed three leaves and a bottle of gin in the path of molten lava flowing from Mount Kilauea. When the lava had worked its will, all that was left of the town of 300 was a church - and the man’s shop. Animals stories also added spice to the soup. , A man in pet-loving Britain was fined for cruelty after he left his tarantula without food and water for 10 days. Spiders have feelings, the mag- istrate said. Another Briton was fined in a classic case of man-bites-dog. The dog was a Doberman. Australian saved his moth- er’s life by poking a crocodile in the eye as it tried to drag her: away. In.Canada, a was: executions in San Quentin prison would cause traffic jams on a nearby highway. So they sched- uled a double-murderer’s date with the gas chamber for 3 a.m. sO as not to inconvenience com- muters. The event was put off anyway, but not before state air-quality officials had demanded assur- ances that gas-chamber execu- tions would not pollute. In a lighter vein, there were also a number of bizarre - but not fatal - accidents. A Swedish woman received what her doctor called the “ biggest lovebite” he had ever scen - when she became stuck in the suction system of a public whirlpool bath. Across the border in Norway, an undertaker tumed up for work so drunk that he drove his hearse into a ditch in front of horrified for two male sex symbols - but more on that later). Psychic Sonia Benser of Glen Bumie, Md., said that she foresees war with Iraq, possibly set off by a surprise attack by the Arab nation. “We're in grave danger tight now because their Soviet T-72 tanks, now held in a strategic reserve round Basra and a tactical reserve north of Kuwait City. _Once in the open, the T-72s will be hit by close air attack from Apache AH64 helicopters and d Al0 Th deep interdict raids from Tomados and US ground attack aircraft. If the Republican Guard decide to | stay in defence and not to play, they are still likely to be caught by * allied bombers, Tactically, they are damned if they do and damned if they don't. "Saddam and the Iraqis must realize they are bound to lose,” said an RAF analyst last week, “particularly if they wait until Jan- uary 15." The worst case for the allies, suggested the officer, would be if Iraq staged a partial withdrawal, provoking “a series of messy, small-scale engagements over a long period”. The immediate risk concentrat- ing the minds of commanders in Saudi Arabia, said the officer, was that Saddam would go for a sur- prise attack before the mid-Jan- uary deadline, “to inflict the or by damage as he goes”. predicting gulf war, baldness in 1991 strain and needs to watch his health,” she said, "I feel he's extremely tired and needs more rest than he’s getting.” Astrologer Jeane Dixon predicts that an all-out war with Iraq would end with U.S. victory, but at great cost to the Bush presidency. Interviewed by the National Enquirer, California seer Judy Hevenly predicts that Hussein will be vaporized by an accidental nuclear blast at a secret Iraqi base in February, giving Operation Desert Shield a thumbs-up finale. Two psychics call attention to could occur. I wouldn't underesti- ° mate (Iraqi President Saddam) Hussein," she said. "If there is a war I feel it won't be of great - duration, but there could be heav- ier losses than people expect. The war will bring many repercus- sions, with continued. problems. with oil." She said that she’ views the crisis as weighing heavily on President Bush and urges that he take care. “President Bush is under great the imp of a pair of prominent Hollywood stars. Cited by the National Examiner, Jeannette Greensboro, known for her work with police in fading Savalas hair style as the result of a stress-related ailment. In this case baldness will be temporary, says the National Enquirer. Ninety-one does not seem to be ~a good year for other show biz personalities either, according to the same publication. Cher will come down with ‘an infection from a new tattoo on ber backside and will wind up ina hospital, predicts New York psy- chic Shawn Robbins, best known for her economic forecasts. And Jane Fonda will take on.the Tammy Bakker look, adding 40 pounds to her weight after becom- ing obsessed with gourmet food, said St. Louis seer Beverly Jaegers, who has astounded Wall Street experts with her stock mar- ket fe enraged Bruce Willis will prise a Los Angeles dermatologist after .... losing his hair following an, EXPO iniental'cure. He will be arrested Los Angeles psychic Maria Graciette, who reportedly foresaw the Manson murders, said that she sees Tom Cruise adopting a Telly The person emerging from 1991. with the. widest grin of all mi ay. § be ‘Ivana Trump, recently from New York million- aie 2 Donald Trump. Ms. Graciette said that she sees Ivana marrying the world’s richest man, the Sultan of Brunei. South Africa to recruit 10,000 extra police The Daily Telegraph JOHANNESBURG - An extra 10,000 policemen are being recruited in South Africa - mostly for street patrols - to help combat the increase in violent crimes which has accompanied moves towards reform, Police statistics show that during 1990 there were 1,083 armed robberies and 7 mil- lion pounds in cash and goods was stolen. One of the main targets of the anti-crime drive will be the AK-47 automatic rifle, which is being used extensively in robberies and murders, as well as in the continu- ing factional violence in black He was d by police. And, as glasses are raised to welcome in the New Year, con- sider the 70-year-old Los Angeles man who failed his driving test - cleared of drug-trafficking’ charges after showing that she used marijuana solely. to feed ber.” pet iguana. | And in the Philippines, a. ‘woman said she had given birth to a mudfish, ber 12th child. A local. priest refused baptism, but hun-; dreds came to look anyway. The fish, called Jezebel, died ~. ‘World Briefs During the test, the man drove his car through the wall of a Department of Motor Vehicles building, coming to a halt 30 feet inside the office, causing $40,000 in damage and injuring six peo- ple. “He really flunked that one,” a police officer said. Perhaps he'll pass in 1991. Over the Christmas period, a businessman was shot dead as he walked into a restaurant that was being robbed; a motorist was shot dead when he stopped at a traffic est police forces per capita in the world with 75,000 members. More than 80 policemen, black and white, have been killed on duty in the past six months. Mr Adriaan Vlok, Law and Order Minister, said many more policemen would be put on the beat, particularly in areas hardest hit by the crime wave. Satellite police stations would also be established. Troops would be used to assist Mozambique, countries which are believed to be the source of many of the smuggled AK-47s. Within hours of the announce- ment, Swaziland police arrested a Sowetan attempting to cross into South Africa with 10 AK-47s, four pistols and 10,000 rounds of ammunition hidden in his car. An AK-47 fetches up to 2,000 rand (400 pounds) on the black market. But the price has shot up since the outbreak of hostilities the Zulu Inkatha move- police in par- ticularly on remote routes into South Africa from Swaziland and ment and the African National Congress. A message from the Prime Minister OTTAWA (SNS) - Prime Minis- ter Brian Mul said that Cana- light; and 12 people, i elderly couples living in remote areas, were d in their dians must come to grips with a _ on whether they 7 want homes. According to the police statis- tics 385 people were killed or injured in crimes not related to Political violence, and 170 banks and building societies were robbed. Contrary to popular belief, South Africa has one of the small- ple, but some were away for the weekend, d - Swazi and ammunition in the gas tank of another car. arriving from the police said Saturday they had found a cache of weapons appar- ently, being. smuggled, from Mozambique to trouble spots in ,, South Africa. A spokesman said police had discovered 10 AK-47 rifles, three Makarov handguns and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition in the gasoline tank of a car which was |. . searched at the Lomahasha border. gi iw Soweto black township, was being .:/ | held in jail and would be charged, i with ille ion of arms, Police earlicr this month dis- ‘ covered cight AK-47 rifles, pistols ; . with money 1 ; asked the Central silty to freeze any bank accounts capital of Maputo, only 50 miles from the border with Swaziland. The driver of that vehicle was quoted by police as saying the », AK-47. rifles:..were bought in Maputo for $47 cach and were to be sold in black townships around Johannesburg for $390 each. MADRID, Spain - A Spanish judge has asked Panama to investi- gate about 100 firms i in connection They were detained in police raids against drug traffickers oper- ating from Galicia in northwest Spain who have links with Colombia's drug barons, it said. + PARIS - A few hundred nation- alists from the Spanish and French Basque regions demonstrated out- side three Paris prisons Saturday to press their demands for an amnesty for jailed Basque guerillas. Police surrounded the La Sante, Fresnes and Fleury Mero- gis prisons but did not clash with who carried Basque by 20 suspected drug traffickers sin Spain, a Madrid news- paper reported Saturday. Judge'Baltasar Garzon also understanding needed in the com- ing year to keep the country together. Mulroney devoted much of his their country to remain Mulroney, speaking during an end-of-the-year interview with CTV, said he was confident that Canadians would come to the real- ization that they do want to see Canada remain a strong and united country. That realization, predict- to the problems facing Canada, particu- larly a growing movement withia Quebec for independence. He repeated his view that most Que- becers will ultimately decide that they wish to remain within Con- h the form of ed the prime minisier, will lead to the kind of compromise and that confederation may have to ~ change dramatically. Murderer seeking damages KITCHENER, Ont. (SNS) - The mother of a brutally mur- dered 15-year-girl is being sued for damages done by her daugh- ter’s murderer. Mary Corey, whose daughter Heather was raped, suffocated and then set on fire by a man on Nov. 5, 1987, is being sued for $25,000 worth of damages done to an apart- ment that Mary shared with the convicted killer. A non-profit housing association is seeking the the p flags and sang itional songs. The protesters said some 50 people belonging to the Spanish separatist group ETA (Basque d aod ) and the coun- held by the 20 suspects, El Pais French group Iparretarak (Those of the North), were being held in France. against Corey because it -contends that she should have known the killer, Murray Gartton, had a “propensity for setting fires.” Gartton was convicted of the time of the slaying, he was living common law with Corey after having been released from prison for the rape and attempted murder of another woman. Corey said she had no idea that. Gartton had a history of violence or © had been jail on such serious es! ‘ She said that she was “outraged” | when she learned that she was named as a co-defendant with Gan- ton in the lawsuit launched by the | housing association. t The president of, the housing association later conceded that the | damages to the unit could:not be blamed on Corey but's: mr ‘ murder and d to life imprisonment with no chance of parole for at least 15 years, At the had decided to pursue Bote sons for the damages. ~~: