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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Iran's refusal to free the
American hostages led ta one
of the most humiliating epi-
sodes in U.S. military history’
— failure of a commando
mission sent to rescue them.

Khomeini distant, Ere ooding

By THEA /associaTED
RESS

Distant wa brooding, ‘Aya.
tollah"Ruhdllah' Khomeini re-
mains ‘the''paramount leader
of the newTrah)‘the one
revolution® 'y figure with vir-

anique tioned” author-
ity.

But "the B0:year: “old Mos-

,

What fo do in

2 Sueh in under. the

TORONTO (cP) —Torun,
or not to run — the question
guests in a high-rise ‘hotel
face when the fire alarm
sounds.

With the recent spate of
hotel fires, including Satur-
day's tragic blaze at Toron-
to's Inn.on the Park that
killed six people, the question
of what to do when the alarm
sounds is being asked -with
increasing regularity. But

there are no easy answers. —-

Willian Sproule,

CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 21, 1981

When that effort came toa
disastrous end in the Iranian
desert, the mighty -United
States looked like a clumsy

lant. x .
That failure stood in stark

contrast to little Israel's

lem patriarch isin frail health
and clearly éager to establish
a stable line of succession for
his political heirs, the clergy-

- dramatic success four years
earlier in saving some. of its
citizens from pro-Palestiriian
Lala holding them in

ce “United States, ‘which

" expertiagy was frustrated by
wmechai problems, ;

ac- ‘The ion was scrubbed
ain the; Ipsedawn darkness of

‘April 25ebecause: three: heli- .

ard bine been forced out

prides itself in

1978-79. He and. his Hew:
tenants engineered the mass
demonstrations and strikes
that’ finally brought down

men and lay
of the Islamic Republic. -

From exile, Khomeini's
words inspired discontented’
Tranians te rise up against
the Pahlavi dynasty in,

stairs unless smoke or fire
conditons outside the rooms
make it impossible.

Frank Orenstein, a Toron-
to hotel

Shah Reza Pah-
lavi in February, 1979, .
Since then, he has often

», This re-

add 30.7

duced the all spuporiant holl-
copters to five machines, one.

tateslon was’ dalled off, They.

were incinerated in a fiery,
collision bet a

“Tho cdmmnnndss and alr
crewmen never ‘got closer.
than 926 of. their

fewer than the
deomed essentiat for success,

Eight American service-
men died. Ironically, they
met their deaths alter: the

rightist, raliglouala and ecGular’ pushed 1g away ‘from the,

— clashed over the direction
of the new egime. By seldom
taking ‘sides, he has pre-
served his authority over all

leftist. alternative, and his *
endorsement of the U.S, Em=."
bassy hostage-taking was, for.
a long time, an insurmount,
abté”obstacle to- those Iran- |

leade

and 5 C-180 transport’ plane
as the expedition prepared to
take’ off, froma: x remote re.
oe si ieee

putas

ol
‘cut four. Specific’ condition: 8.0"
for the hostages’ »:release. ¢
This’: “paved: the '-way for
months of negotiations that
vee aaly, sate -the crisis.

rst

; fans seeking. to free the‘

stood by while the factions ~. ”

that ‘made up ‘the: revolu-
tionary front .—

‘

Ontario Hotel Fire Safety

Act, must be; protected’ by’:

tight-fitting doors ‘that close

says people should stay in
their reoms until they re-
ceive instructions to do

otherwise, and use wet tow--

els around the door to keep
smoke out,

Sproule, in an interview,
said his advice to leave by the

self-

deputy. chief responsible for
fire prevention with the
Toronto fire department, -

contained stairways. which: *
should provide snioke-free *'

escape routes even past the

. says people. should. leave -floor on which a fire is ~

thelr rooms and head for the

burning.

st was based on safety"

Ineoq
DOORS: PRORPED OPEN

However, sach regulations.

only .bor hotels: built

even,.on» thésg, - self-closing
doors camibeterop pet open,

~AN- ve Tnn-onthe -.
Park victimstwere found:on *

stairways; andiall died from

asphyxiatiangrand- carhon~

monoxide: poisoning caused
by smoke inhalation.
at

Kids work becau Ise

VANCOUVER (CP) —
. When they weren't outside
watching the cows, hauling
water or chopping wood,
North ‘America's children
used to be.inside cooking,
spinning and: cleaning.
. Their domestic contribu-
tions’ were taken for granted’
almost from the cradle“i
when they progressed from
the’ homestead to ‘factories
and.mines, their meagre sal-

varies bypassed their own
pocketbooks and were fun-
nelled directly into the family
kitty. .

Today's adolescent work-
force may not. have dimin-

‘ished in numbers, but the -

priorities of young laborers

kensian sdctishn they
hustle Behind the registers at
local fast food outlets and re-
tail shops. Wages have gone
up to dollars an hour:from
pennies a’ day. ¢

Statistics Canada reports
125,000 youths

~have taken: on‘a whole new:

mension, Most are workitis
not because they have to, but
‘because they want to.

Instead of toiling in Dic:

keep ‘the
entry. of sve to-a mini F

leftist and

hat

a Pon eli nal

“Amott? peabitha
“in the: Ais wasia’
tween ‘th

‘guests. -Orenstein’ said *in

would be; thet?best -way: to

y--be-,
* Sey be Mi
phoned: iistrdttions for hotelonarrdal?

room public-address: ay teas)

Attiericans.
Then, last September,

Khomeini unexpectedly | set.
: ah se earth

Pp e 2 mbit
pres isiton trea

Provittial

et

Moslem clergyman, Hokeron

religious®. tudies : that, even-
im

fori fully

objective, the city of Tehran *

where 58 ‘American men and”
women had been held hos- '
tage since the previcus Nov.
4 in the U.S. Embassy and’,
the Iranian foreign ministry.
Soon after the mission w:
aborted, Deferce’ Secretary
Harold’ Brown’ insisted ‘th:

” “we continue to keep all our

‘options open.” -

But it. was evident thal thi
United’ States” could hot
again, --
The Iranian militants hur.

rledly scattered their eo

can prisoners to a n of
‘Yocations around the gia
* By any logic, it would za

impossible to catch the Iran-:

ians by surprise in a nd.
foray. . :

The’ secrecy, | ‘80° success:
maintained . by”. the
United States during: six *

“months of planning and prep-

‘Mdletatorial™

rule. Reza Shah, ‘Pablavi's,

father. .Reza’ Shah‘-had . an-

tagonized: the: conservative

Modleth ‘clergy: with’ his af-

forts to: Westernize Tran’ and. a,
thelr

such’ information’ must “be
d on hotel. room

relay ii
gency.
Such systems are available

- but could be very coatly to

‘install’ -in- hotels. “without

‘proper, wiring,, said Oren-"

stein.

—-He_.also- auggested gome
“rethinking” about the way.
hotels ‘inform guests, about
fire “procedures. Signs in
rooms, giving © information

rf in ie emer.

doors, but do not specify the
size of the sign or the print-
ing on it.

“And as soon as an alarm
sounds, messages should be
transmitted that there is a
fire in the building and that
evacuation should proceed,
though I have to admit this

“doesn’t happen consistently,”
about alarms and exits:could - ~ > 2

he ‘said.

eth ey wa nt {oO

“youth” labor ‘force, in the’
country.:
-' YOUTHS PLACED,

Manpower's Career ‘Action

+ -for Youth program, said most
of the 40 to 50 job placements
‘she makes every: month'‘are>
18

ae ;
that age: vee po “and rep-
largest ~

resents: ‘the. thi

- Women will benefit

OTTAWA (CP) — About

been considered part of the
income for the

000 P mostly
women, who work’ for their
spouses will be able to collect

. Cariada Pension Plan benefits
when they: retire because of,
proposed amendments to a

wide-ranging income tax bill, |

Health Minister Monique
Begin said. the legislation
“acknowledges ‘in . concrete
dollar terms the contribution
of wives who work in small
enterprises, stich as family
farms or family stores in
cities.”

. ‘The proposed legislation,

year*and therefore reduced
the ‘amount of supplement
they could receive.
‘That will no longer be the
case if the bill passes.
Other. proposed changes
- would ensure that the federal ©
child tax credit is paid to. the

person actually looking after.

a child. - =
The annual tax credit of *
$298 per child is paid to fam-

ilies or guardians earni’.,, :

less than $21,380 a year and
now gees to the-person who
d the Di fam-

which would it a

variety of already
income..tax changes, would
also force owners: of unincor-
porated small businesses to
deduct Canada pension and
unemployment insurance
payments from the incomes
of their wives or husbands,
“Wives will now be able to
participate in their right in
the Canada Pension Plan,
just like other salaried work-
ers in Canada,” Begin said.

_ _ "They will be guaranteed a

. full pension on retirement
and they can protect their
families against the dangers
of disability or death.”

_ The bill would also benefit
pensioners who get the guar-
anteed income supplement in
addition to their basic old age
pension and who want to take
advantage of the federal
program offering up to $800
to people who convert their
home furnaces from oil to
natura! gas or other fuels.

Previously, the grants had

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However, if a child is.

adopted, taken under the.
custody of another parent or
tansferred home from an

institution in December, the
_ system. would not -reflect
“such a change even though it
occurred before the’ end of
the taxation year.

An estimated 8,600 chil-
dren, are involved in ‘such

‘incidents each year, Begin“
de 8

"The various. income « “tax

-changes in the bill were. ‘an

‘pounced in Finance Minister
‘Allan’ MacEachen’s. Oct... 28
budget and his. economic

were among the few provi-
sions retained by: the: Lib-
-eralg from the,ill-fated Pro-
gressive Conservative: bud-
get of Dec, 11, 1979.7"

‘Visions for spouses of small
businesses. affect’ “one:) Jin
couery ‘Six Canadian: ‘women.

statement of last’ April “or. -

* The- applicants are pl

2 economic, bul

-in warehousing, food pepars”
hieri rical and |:

of our senior students work-
“ing. part 2. It's partly
dt

WORK.
Secondary sehool principal

Nim: Sugimota said: some-..
wis

‘thing has to: give |
| dent stdrtsp

powers.)
Khomoint’s ‘opposition
‘flared into’. neay-revolt
1963, when he led'throngs of
faithful in’ massive anti-shah
.. protests in Tehran that were
put nats a the cost.of he

has been blown.

vrassing iia

to dotect-what turned out

be'an inexpected heavy ‘dust’

h contributed to,

President
Carter ’said that,. in his opin-
ion, “the operation hada very

”

But. the: special, ane
_ senior 3

“pears that the’ secrecy + i

which, American official
were’ so. proud may ‘have
contributed to the failure «
the mission, That was’ su;

gested by a’ special panel_of “shelped
tired: ion.

erals . mirals :
in. ‘Studied the mission from be-

ginning to end.::*

‘They, blamed zealousness .

fer tight security. for failure
to bring the entire ‘strike
ee together for a dress
hearsal . in.” the United

ae for. withholding .as- *

f at least two more

of his White Revolution ‘oa
program. :.°30'

“helicopters asa margin of
safety, and for not sending
. weather reconnaissan

(with). th of
: starting aw ein

LEADS PROTEST
The shah. had. Khomeini
arrested and ‘eventually ex-
iled, first to Turkey, Jater-to
Traq. In mid-1978, Khomeini's

‘. followers stepped: up their

anti-shah protests, exhorted
by tape-recorded. messages
from the Ayatollah nuggied

. The’ Iraqis, reportedly at :

iq
the ‘shah's ‘urging, ‘expelled
Khomeini ‘to:France, where”
he: spent the . final © four’
months of his 15-year. exile.
He... finally: returned to

job.
He aaid ‘schools tend be

lenient when‘ it. comes to! ite.
“and

ation,
factory work ° ‘where they'll

: dng ay
anyone between 15 and ah

of $2.85 an hour ($3.40' an
hour for those"18 and over).
Fast food outlets currently’
‘provide the. most. jobs: for
young workers, but Rosberg:
- said thosé openings often go
begging while students look

for work that provides higher _

wages and better hours,

“The kids don't want those
“Jobs,” she said, “When we do
have vacancies at McDo
ald’s or-.Wendy's, for
stance, we. have trouble’
filling them.”

dary school for 16

for’ the track team,:

“because the students are de-
‘veloping outside: experience
and friendships and helping
“to “alleviate - their ‘parents’

being dealt tra

found at. the: corner. paper .

shack where’ the: once, time-
honored’ -experience of
paper route: is fast dosing its
prestige.

Rick Sa

lem ‘state; with hi
jpreme overseer-for- life:
In a book written in-exile,

“Khomeini spelled out his

theory of mixing religion and
politics. Religious virtue, he
said; can- be exemplified in -
learned clergymen by a “per-
fect knowledge of ‘law and
” and if one clergyman”

rms an Islainic mornin *
_“it means that he has ‘bee:

‘is the- people's
absolute ¢ duty to follow hi

couver’ Sun’s
partment said it's next to im-
possible to find carriers these
days. He blames the lure‘ of
fast-food. chains and over.”
indulgent ‘parents. “

Peggy Tingley, a secon- ~ ri

years, said rising inflation
and the quest for indepen-

dence have many teenagers | .

looking for work.

Begin said the new. pro-:

unusual thing:to have a stu-
dent working. Now we have
re of 50 to 55 per cent *

a1
onan were:
tly.

"higher-income ‘areas where _

there is.a ‘dearth of paper ,

On our already low prices
_ on chalrs, coftee tables, |
room dividers baskets,

wall shelves, headboards.

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