| M4 Castlégar News ‘orn. 1909 Briefly ‘ENMITY TOASLAM* Iranian newspaper Propane prices plummet _ KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — A propane war in the city has brought Prices down to 2.5 cénts a litre at some outlets from the normal price of between 15 cents and 20 cents. ““All our staff went over to Super-Save on Monday-and filled up,”” Ted Smith of Premier Propane, which is selling propane for 15.9 cents a litre, said. Prices at the six Super-Save outlets in the Kamloops area hit rock bottom Monday in a war with ICG Propane, which is selling its product for five centsa litre. Luitjens ruling imminent VANCOUVER (CP) — A court hearing over whether to strip Jacob Luitjens of his Canadian citizenship was adjoured until April 3 at which time Luitjens is expected to take the stand The federal government wants to take away Luitjens’ citizenship, contending he lied about his background when he applied from Paraguay Luitjens subsequently became @ to immigrate t6 Canada in 1961 Canadian citizen in 1971. Luitjens, 69, was given a life sentence in absentia in 1948 by a Dutch court after he was convicted of collaborating with the Nazis during their _ Second World War occupation of the Netherlands. If stripped of his citizenship, Luitjens would be deported to Paraguay. CBC talks continue TORONTO (CP) — Negotiations to get a new contract for 2,600 production and office workers at the CBC including some television and radio personalities are continuing. CBC spokesman Richard Chambers said talks between the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Public Employees are trying to get a contract hammered out before 12:01 a.m. Thursday, when the union =_isinalegal strike position. : Chambers said it is too soon to say what impact a strike would have on CBC’s programming because the union has not said whether it would calla national or local strike. Police find weapons LONDON (AP) — Police found guns and plastic explosives hidden ina forest near a building where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is to NICOSIA (AP) — Iran must cut economic ties to Britain and threaten other countries with the same action unless they suppress the Salman Rusdhie novel The Satanic Verses, a Tehran newspaper said. The Farsi-langudge Abrar, in an 3 editorial ‘carried by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency, called for an end to economic links just one day after Iran said it was severing diplomatic relations with Britain. Iran imported $528 million US wor- th of goods from Britain in 1987, the latest year for which figures are com- plete. Iran's 1987 exports to Britain totalled $321 million. Britain's 11 European Economic Community partners, as well, as Canada and Norway, recalled their diplomats from Iran after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered Muslims on Feb. 14 to-kill Rushdie for The Satanic Vérses, which many Muslims consider blasphemous. A trade ban would block lucrative contracts in Iranian reconstruction, expected to cost up to $500 billion, af- ter the eight-year war with Iraq. *‘ENMITY TOISLAM’ “It is now up to the country’s EASTERN AIRLINES address a Conservative party conference next week, authorities said The weapons, were found near the northeast England village of Scalby, about three kilometres from Scarborough, where the governing Conservatives are to gather MIAMI (AP-CP) Eastern Airlines was appealing a judge's refusal to force its pilots to cross CHINOOK SALMON RUN ON THE’ ROGUE RIVER! Fishing at its best at JOT’S RESORT, Gold Beach on the OREGON COAST Book Now for the Spring Run! the S great! Comfortable rooms and suites. Swimming poo! Beachcombing Magnificent seascapes. owas SSBO* Tuble occupancy 3 aghes “ON THE OREGON COAST GOLD 0. Box J, Gold Beach, Oregon (503) 247-6676 1-800-FOR-JOTS (1-800-367-5687) Toll-free in U.S. The big ones are heading up the Rogue River. 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Muslims say The Satanic Verses blasphemes by suggesting that the prophet Mohammed made up the Koran rather than receiving it directly from God. More than a dozen countries have banned the novel. At least 19 people have been killed in India and Pakistan in riots against the book Judge upholds ~ picket line pickets, shouting “We want our pilots back!”” On Tuesday, about 60 per cent of the 40,000-member Air Pilots Association followed its request that rulé books be stringently observed, said Capt. Roger Hall, a union spokesman The job action began Tuesday and could cause major flight delays around the U.S., but Hall said, “the reports we have are that there has been no ef- fect on operations.”’ The safety action would continue, the union said. Meanwhile, the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association decided not to join its U.S. counterpart in. the work-to- rule slowdown Canadians stranded in the United States because of the strike were repor- ted to be spending hundreds of ad- ditional dollars and enduring long delays in returning home A spokesman for Eastern, which serves Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto, said 40,000 Canadians flew on the airline amonth before the strike. Line Selling MOVING SERVICES? ... Try a classified ad in MAPLE RIDGE MISSION | MERRITT... and 87 more BC. newspapers. All for just 159 You can get blanket coverage of BC. with a classified ad in 90 newspapers, for as little as $159. That’s nearly 3,000,000 readers. If you're BUYING, SELLING or simply TELLING, IT PAYS TO SPREAD THE WORD. For more information sk Castlegar News 365-7266 -— Linda or Burt Provinces — Alberta $125; Manitoba $85; Saik $100; Ontario $275; Atlantic Provinces $99.) Teenage recipient of admirer's heart dies SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Donna Ashiock, the teenager who received a dead admirer's-heart when her own failed, died unexpectedly in her sleep Tuesday while awaiting.a second tran- splant. Ashlock, 17, died around noon at her home in the central California town of Patterson, said Jim Cullen, a for Pacific P i Medical Centre in San Francisco, where the first transplant was perfor- med. “Her death today comes as a severe shock,”* said Dr. Andrew Fryer, the girl’s pediatric cardiologist. “Donna was seen by us last week, and was in pretty good shape,”’ Fryer said at a news conference. he said her condition recently was ‘‘very stable’’ and described the girl as being cheerful and in good spirits. 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ALL STYLES OF oN DISCONTINUED LEATHER FURNITURE 10° Due to the nature of this sale, we are Sy, cs March 8, 1989 Pr) Johnson fastest:Francis TORONTO (CP) — Despite seven years of cheating, Ben Johnson can still claim he is the world’s fastest man, hii says. “He is the best sprinter of all time - n convinced of that,"? Charlie Fran: cis told a federal inquiry sparked by Johnson's di i from last Francis charged *that Jean-Guy Ouellette, chairman of the Canadian Track and Field Association, had of- fered to tip him and his athletes off if officials decided to spring=surprise drug tests, The suspended national sprint coach has testified that the performance- enhancing benefits of steroids peak 20 to $0 days after sprinters stop using the drugs. That made it: easy for his athletes to use them only during training and to foil the urine tests at competitions. Year-round surprise tests, though, could have exposed the cheating. “He (Ouelette) was determined ran- dom testing not occur before the (Seoul) Olympic Games,” said. Castlegar News as DYSHHCSE fall’s Seoul Olympics. But the coach of American sprinter Carl Lewis, Johnson's arch rival, said in.an interview Johnson would never have beaten Lewis without the help of the drugs. “Carl's just a much better runner,"” Tom Tellez said from his office at the University of Houston **Just based on all the sprinters I’ve seen over the years and knowing Carl, ; dan't think Ben would have won if he was clean."’ Francis, who concluded direct testimony Tuesday after four days on the stand, dropped one last bombshell before being cross-examined by a spate of lawyers. ‘Mr. X’ EDMONTON (CP) — A-Ed- monton businessman has offered $10,000 to the person he believes spiked Ben Johnson's drink in Seoul provided the person testifies at the Dubin inquiry Hugh Burgess, 46, said he believes a story by coach Charlie Francis that a ‘Mr. X"" slipped steroids into Johnson's drink aftet his run in the Summer Olympics, “I'm saying it’s not contrived and I'm willing to put my money offered $10,000 where my mouth is,"’ the financial consultant said in his downtown office. “I'm saying the mystery man at the Olympics or whoever he was that would have had access to Ben’s drinking substances should make himself available to the inquiry and give his side of the story **It would prove that on that day Ben was the fastest man in the world. 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