B2 Bjorn Borg Still a few am By Gwen Dambrofsky EDMONTON (CP) — Slumped on a massive couch, casually picking lint off a fluorescent red sweat-suit, Bjorn Borg d almost CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 11, 1981 every waking moment of Borg’s life since he was a child. He started out playing ta- ble tennis in his parents’ A childhood dedi- as stoic in front of the glare of television lights as he docs on the tennis court. At 25, the Swedish star is taking a pragmatic look at what many proclaim to be the greatest career in tennis his- tory — five consecutive Wim- bledon championships, 60 Grand Prix tournament wins, the 1979 Masters and the 1980 Grand Masters titles, to name a few. Borg competed during the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend in the Edmonton Tennis Challenge, a small tournament originally sched- uled for England but trans- ferred to Edmonton at the last moment. “I still have a few ambi- tions before I stop playing competitive tennis,” he said: inan interivew. “I'm going to lay a few more years. It might be three, five or seven, but I think I'm going to be around a long time.” He woudl especially like to be around long enough to win the United States Open, the only major title which has eluded him. Tennis has occupied almost cated to honing his skills won him a berth on the Swedish Davis Cup team at age 165, and the Wimbledon junior title at 16. Nine years later constant training is still a necessity. “You practise, and you seat, and you play, and you sleep.” OTHER JOYS But for the first time, Borg is seeking out other joys in like. With his wife of one year, Mariana, he will soon leave North. America for a four- month vacation. “My first tournament will be April 6 in Montre Carlo. I'm not going to play any tennis at all. For two months, T'm not even going to touch a racket.” World-class tennis stars can't afford the luxury of total relaxation, and Borg, ever-conscious of advancing years, won't emerge from his respite with any extra flesh on his tanned frame. The rise of younger competitors, no- tably John McEnroe, have prompted him to concoct a daily regime of exercise for his time off. i “I'm going to run every day and keep my body in pretty good shape.” Borg, coolly confident in, his work, isn't certain how he will occupy himself for four months away . from the courts. “For the last 10 years, the most I've ever had off was six weeks when I was injured. This will be a new experience for me and I really don't know what I'm going to do. I mean I’m going to stay with my wife, but other than that I have no idea. I look forward to it, to see what I'm going to FIRST PRIZE BEST Borg, first player to earn more than $1 million in a sea- son, says his motivation is love for the game, not money. “I like to win. It doesn’t matter what the prize is as long as it's first prize. It's a great feeling.” He puts off questions about . the financial aspects of his career. “That's why I have an agent, sol can concentrate on my tennis.” Borg’s unruffled off-the- court persona has earned him the nickname “Iceborg” on the courts. Even the antics of bad-boy opponents such as Bombers need a victory By The Canadian Press Defensive back Ron Meeks of Toronto Argonauts has no delusions a jumbled Toronto seconary will shut down the red hot passing arm, of Win- | nipeg quarterback’ Dieter rock. i An “With the changes we've made, it woudin't surprise | me at all to see Brock com- plete 40 passes,” Meeks said as the Argos prepared to meet the Blue Bombers in a Canadian Football League game in Winnipeg this after- noon. “If Brock is having a good day, like he’s had the last two weeks, there's not much you can do about it. “You just have to hope a lot.” The Argos, 1-11 — the worst record in the ‘CFL — not only must contend With Brock’s passing but also Will be lining up against 'a ‘club® needing a victory to imiprove’ its playoff chances. The Bombers are 7-5, the same record as Saskatche- wan Roughriders while the teams battle for the third and final playoff spot in the West. Saskatchewan has a tough- er test this weekend — the Roughriders travel to Ham- ilton to play the Tiger-Cats, who already have clinched first place in the East. In on other game, Monday, Ottawa Rough Riders are at Ed- monton Eskimos. .,Brock set a league record in hig previous outing by compting 41 of 47 passes in a 42-24 triumph over Ottawa. The previous week, ina 46-10 rout of B.C. Lions, he was 28 for 41. “I think a secondary must play together to play well,” Brock said when asked to as- sess the Argos’ oft-changing pass defence. “They ‘have. to know each other's moves back there. “In some respects, it might be: harder for me against Toronto's new people be- cause we don’t know what they can do. I can see myself throwing 35 or 40 times to test them, though.” EXPECTS PASS RUSH Hedd coach Frank Kush of the Ticats, 10-2, said he ex- pects the Roughriders will attempt to get to quarter- back Tom Clements as quick- ly and often as possible in hopes of shutting down Ham- ilton’s potent passing game. The Tiger-Cats beat the Roughriders 30-26 a week ago and Clements passed for 835 yards in the first half. “I think they will make some adjustments to try and stop whatever success we had last wee,” said Kush. “I'm sure they'll blitz a lot more because they did have a lot of success with it in the second half.” Saskatchewan's biggest of- fensive threat continues to be Joey Walters, the CFL's leading receiver. He caught eight passes for 127 yards against the Ticats last week. Kush said he doubts his players, jwith first, placg jn the East sewn up, will be- come apathetic. “They should be up for the game. We're in our own back yard and we didn't play that well out there (in Regina), so we have something to prove to ourselves.” Edmonton, 11-1-1, should it defeat Ottawa, 4-9-0, and also win its final two games, would become the first team in CFL history to collect 29 points in a single season. - "Going for the records could keep us sharp,” said defensive tackle Dave Fen- nell of the Eskimos. Edmonton, with 460 points, is likely to break the. single-season scoring record of 505 points, which the Es- kimos established last year. bitions McEnroe and Ilie Nastase can't shake his controlled calm. “Everybody's different on the court and in one way I think it's good. I think people like to see it. “For me, it doesn’t really bother me what the guy on the other side is doing. I'm taking care of myself and it doesn't bother me if the other guy is getting upset. He's going to lose on that in te long run.” Times have changed, Borg said, in what was once a “gentleman's sport.” “You have so much pres- sure, you're nervous and there's tension. Sometimes you react when you get a bad call.” “He admits to getting riled occasionally, “but I don't show it.” Borg, mindful of the rela- tively young retirement age in tennis, plans someday to open a tennis school. He is mentally prepared for the over-30 years when the star begins to fade. “There's nothing you can do about it when it comes to that point. When you're get- ting slower you just have to accept it. But to just say I'm not going to touch a racket anymore, well, that’s impos- sible.” Student games will cost more EDMONTON (CP) — Inflation and the addition of cultural programs has pushed th ecost of the 1983 World Student Games in Edmonton to $88 million from $52 million, and the federal government is re- luctant to provide more money. mitted funds to is no longer the budget; they-are work- ;ing with,” said'Abbie Hoff- man, director of Sport Canada, after receiving a revised budget from Uni- versiude 83 Corp., the body created to stage the Games. Hoffman said there is no guarantee the extra money will be available. Federal, provincial and municipal officials had ag- reed to each provide $3.1 million of the $52 million the Edmonton group had originally estimated it would need. Now they are being asked. to increase their share to $9.7 million each to cover a deficit in a $46-million operating bud- get. “The budget we com- | = ie ‘ hries Secondary School GIRLS of West Kootenay elementary and junior high held Thursday at Stanley Hump! sation? schools took part in field hockey clinics this week, and the elementary one Friday Shen Ayes aa ae taught by Jenny John, B.C. Field Hockey Association tary School. Shown above is — Chery Wishlow development co-ordinator. The junior high clinic was elementary school participant. —-CasNewsFoto by Chery’ Not a game for weak hearts backs. Seattle, 1-4, is in the AFC West cellar, while the Oilers, 3-2, are tied for AFC Central lead with the Steelers and Bengals, who play at 1-4 Baltimore. Washington, 0-5, is the only winless team left, while the Bears have one vic- tory to show for their first five weeks. MOnday night, the Bills, already 11/2 games behind the 4-0-1 Dolphins, are placed ina virtual must-win situation. pointed their fans playing for a tie in overtime against the Dolphins. Jets have four in- jured running backs and signed ex-Giant Billy Taylor during the week. Taylor probably will play against New England. The Rams and Falcons are tied for NFC West lead at 8-2, The ‘46ers, with Joe Montana, and the Cowboys, with Danny White, come to- gether in a matchup of the NFC’s top-rated quarter- the only unbeaten and untied team left in the NFL, is at stay home. . New Orleans Saints; New When Cleveland Browns York Jets are home to New and Pittsburgh Steelers England Patriots; Minnesota meet, strange things happen, Vikings are at San Diego usually with the game's best Chargers; Detroit Lions are action packed into the final at Denver Broncos; Los An- minutes. . geles Rams visit Atlanta Fal- Sunday, the 23 Browns cons; Dallas Cowboys are at travel to Pittsburgh, where San Francisco ‘49ers; oakland they have not won since 1969, Raiders travel to Kansas City to meet the suddenly red- Chiefs; St. Louis Cardinals hot Steelers, who have won visit New York Giants; Sea- three straight after dropping ttle Seahawks are at Houston their opening two of the Na- Oilers; Cincinnati Bengals go tional Football League sea- to Baltimore Colts; Washing- son. ton Redskin visit Chicago Last year, the Browns sur- Bear: and, Monday night, vived 27-26 ona frigid day in Miami Dolphins are in Buf- Cleveland. The Steelers re- falo to play the Bills. turned the favor a few weeks later when Terry Bradshaw SELDON OUT 3 hit Lynn Swann with a Tampa Bay may be with- three-yard touchdown pass out star defensive end Lee with 11 seconds remaining Roy Selmon, who strained a for a 16-13 victory. knee last week in Detroit. ‘The Browns are off to their Bombs away in Green Bay. customary slow start and, The Eagles, meanwhile, with the other three teamsin return to the Superdome, the American Football Con- scene of their Super Bowl ference's Central Division all disaster against Oakland. at 3-2, they can’t afford to Philadelphia is coming off a lose this game. It's tough to tough Monday night victory call a game in the sixth week over Atlanta while the Saints of the season crucial, but are still without quarterback Cleveland needs this victory Archie Manning and are for'the standings and'for its’ worried about rookie George confidence. Rat 2 Rogers's (490° yards, third Elsewhere Sunday, the 2-3 best in NFL) chronic kg Green Bay Packers host the cramps. 3-2 Tampa Bay Buccaneers in The Patriots broke a four- an important National Foot- game losing streak last week ball Conference Central with a victory over Kansas game; Philadelphia Eagles, City, while the Jets disap- By The Associated Press — Those with weak hearts, Classes Start. Oct. 15th iwsrrucror YONG Wo. CHUN 8TH OAN BLK BcLY Located in Selkirk College Gym REGISTER AT: Changs Nursery 2601 - 9th Ave., Castlegar 365-7312 World chess match halted MERANO, ITALY (CP) — to victory in 12 moves after Viktor Korchnoi, reeling the game resumed. Leading 3 from his third defeat in the to 0 with one draw, he needs world chess championship only three more victories to against titleholder Anatoly retain his title. Under match i Karpov, called. a timeout rules a competitor must win ATTENTION Juvenile and p d:the six games. Draws do not fifth game of the tournament. count. : The game, which’ was sup- Korchnoi, who will have ay Ea AFTER THE BALL is a member of the Stanley Humphries sda: Secondary School senior boys soccer team, who in the West K ss s. are at Ly ta For the record y afternoon. The Castlegar team is in second place d to start at 5 p.m. (9 the white advantage, be- a.m. PDT) Saturday, was re-_ lieves the only way to forget scheduled for Monday at the a loss is to keep on playing, same hour. his aides said. A It was the first timeout — Korchnoi’s aides have said used by either player. Each is they believe his play is being allowed three in the first 24 affected by anxiety about the mes. family he left behind in the “Viktor should do-what Soviet Union when he de- feels best for him,” Ameri- fected in 1976. He is based in can-born' Victoria Shepherd, Switzerland. . ae a yogi in Korchnoi’s dele- In their 1978 duel in the gation, said.’ Philippines, Korchnoi trailed Karpov won games one, Kaprov by three defeats be- twoand four. The third game fore rallying to tie the match as drawn. at 5 to 5. However, experts The first player to win six said there is a great psy- games takes the champion- chological difference this + ship. Draws don't count. , time because of the swiftness The winner gets $260,000, of Karpov's opening wins. Hockey Players Castlegar Minor Hockey Association will be hosting the Bi-Tournament for the representative to the 1981 - 1982 Winter Games. IF YOU ARE AN INTERESTED PLAYER PLEASE REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. CURLERS Korchnoi, a 50-year-old So- Anyone interested in curling viet exile, gave up in the fourth game Friday on the for information or registration please contact: 58rd move. MEN'S CLUB. ODS FAVOR CHAMP" “Karpov is at least a 2-to-l * DENNIS JOHNSON — 365-2332 OR 365-3812 LADIES’ CLUS favorite,” U.S. grandmaster Lev Alburt said after game four. About 100 people had arrived in the hall in this Tyrolean resort to watch the resumption of the game. per rend or MIXED CLUB CATHY HORCOFF — 365-6744 4 OR 365-7252 CURLING CLUB OFFICE — 365-6666 NEW CURLERS WELCOME GENERAL MEETINGS Karpov, 30 and world champion since 1975, swept LADIES’ - OCT. 15, MEN'S - OCT. 14, MIXED - OCT. 22 MAIN - OCT. 20 All held at 7:30 in Curling Club Lounge. In the coverage of the Castlegar Rebel's second lea- gue game, the photograph of © Dean MacKinnon was run in place of Dean Keller's. the Castlegar News apologizes fe this defeated its opponent, J. L. Crowe of Trail, 3-1 Thur- League. lor any may have caused. To fight government Homeowner group forms By CasNews Staff A 27-year-old Oasis man has been chosen to head a new West Kootenay chapter of a Vi ‘based consu- Ken Denis of Salmo told the meeting his hoarse voice is a result of the UFFI gas and said his doctor has signed mer group representing homeowners with urea for- maldehyde foam insulation. Al Kassian was elected president of the local chapter of the: Urea Formaldehyde ‘Foam Insulation Action As- sociation at a meeting Wed- nesday at Castlegar's Selkirk College. More than 50 residents from 23 area homes turned out, and the mood was one of concern as 17 of the 23 homes reported household members suffering medical problems from the gas emitted by the foam insulation. a to that effect. Scott Leyland, who first loms as rojated to the foam Mortgage and Housing Corp. an other homeowners with sim- ilar problems to get signed statements from their physi- cians to use in grants, He warned the federal government may try to ex- clude some homeowners from for ion should the started or area homeowners last June and federal government decide to who chaired meeting, was elected vice- president. Leyland told the group other medical com- plaints attributed to the for- maldehyde gas are: eye, nose and throat irritation, cough- - ing and asthma-like sym- ptoms, skin irritation, head- aches, dizziness, nausea, and loss of memory. Leyland and Kassian said their doctors had also di- agnosed their medical prob- Leyland suggested area homeowners join the UFFIAA because “there is better safety in i any “I don't think they (the gov- ernment) are ‘going to be handing out money very eas- ily,” he said. Leyland said the federal government is considering for hi He added the Vancouver group provides independent information on urea formal- dehyde insulation and is ap- proaching legal counsel about a class action suit against the federal g which ers with the insulation, but won't make a decision until “late November.” He added a federal review board is still holding hearings on banning UFFI as insulation and is also approved the insulation and promoted it through Canada Replot plan hits snag By RON NORMAN Staff Reporter Castlegar council's plan to replot 61 lots in the south end has hit a snag over funding. Consultants. hired by the city report the plan to con- vert the 61 oddly-shaped lots into some 240 convention- ally-shaped parcels will cost an additional $87,000 to com- plete. The snag comes in council's demand that the provincial Lands, Parks and Housing Ministry pick up the bill for the extra costs. But the min- istry hasn't committed itself — yet. Mayor Audrey Moore said this week the deputy min- ister of lands, parks and housing is taking a look at the cequest and will be returning to council with an answer. Council raised the issue with the deputy minister at the recent Union of B.C. Mu- nicipalities convention in Vancouver. “He seemed to recognize and sympathize with our presentation,” she said. She added council still stands firm in its resolution not to pay the additional costs. “We will not be com- promised,” she said. The replot plan was first raised in talks with the min- istry in 1976 and an agree- were also received 90 per cent support. Homeowners also signed a consent form allowing the replotting, but under the condition it wouldn't cost them anything. Moore said the replot was necessary because some of the lots in the area were very narrow and up to 700-feet long. City planner Bill Hadikin added that highways officials d about ment b the and city was inked in 1977. “It’s a long, lengthy process,” said Moore, noting it has been four years since the agreement was signed. The plan involves 49 land- owners and 61 lots between 28th and 33rd streets and Columbia Ave. and 10th Ave., excluding seven lots off 9th Ave. Council needed 70 Per cent approval from own- ers before going ahead and Work resumes at e ex sTim PRINCE RUPERT (CP) — Operations resumed Satur- day at B.C. Timber's Watson Island pulp mill near this north coast ¢ommunity after workers agreed to remove a picket line which shut the mill Thursday and Friday. The Prince Rupert local of the Pulp, Paper and Wood- workers of Canada also has agreed to hold a ratification vote today on the forestry ber mill industry contract. The union local’s 700 mem- bers are some of the few B.C. forest workers who have not. yet accepted the two-year agreement, containing pay increases of 15 per cent and 13 per cent. The picket line came after employees in the pulp mill demanded a wage premium to reflect the mill's recent increase in productivity. lots, but everyone subdivides to the full potential of the area, there will be more than 240 lots available — an average of four lots for every existing lot. traffic from the number of individual driveways front- ing the highway. Under the new plan, there will only be three major accesses to the highway, Hadikin pointed out. Once finished, the replot plan will still include just 61 in said if Hadikin added owners will get back the same proportion ‘of property’ they:had before the replot — les any road dedications. shared evenly on it,” he said. “Everybody But former Ald. Jim Gouk is convinced council isn't tell- ing owners the whole story. He says the terms of agree- ment have changed and council hasn't told the own- ers. “Why aren't they going back to the people and ex- plaining it to them?” he asked. 17 CHARGED IN KENT RIOT CHILLLIWACK (CP) — Seventeen prisoners were charged with arson and mis- chief in provincial court Fri- day in the riot June 7 at nearby Kent Institution, a maximum-security prison. The charges bring to 38 the number of charges resulting from the riot that is esti- mated to have caused about $100,000 in damage. The maximum penalty for each charge is 14 years. Included in those seven- teen are Thomas Dean Elton, Terrance Lee O'Hern and Oliver Lawrence Patton who earlier were charged with attempting to murder Kent prisoner Steven LeClair. Le- Clair is serving four life sen- tences for the murders of four people, including RCMP Const. Thomas Agar of Rich- mond, B.C. O'Hern was also charged with attempted murder in the death of fellow convict Herbert Bruce Archer. No court date has yet been set for on any of tests in some 2,400 homes ‘vith UFFI across the countvy. A Rossland man, Garth Collins, is the only West Kootenay homeowner to be included in the testing pro- gram. Leyland said there are at least 40 homes in the West Kootenays known to have UFFI. He said some homeowners are hesitant to join and group because they feel their homes will be made public and they may have trouble reselling them with the insulation. However, Leyland sajd confidentiality will be kept for those who request it. Meanwhile, Kassian told the meeting he has recently removed the insulation from his Oasis home and showed slides to how he did it. He said he spent $7,000 remov- ing the insultation, from this 700-square-foot home, includ- ing 300 hours of labor — and he expects 'to spend another $3,000-$4,000. Kassian removed the foam from the outside stripping away the outer layer of chip- board, two layers of tarpaper andacedar i After WASHINGTON (AP) — The loss of topsoil in coun- tries such as Canada and the United States is so severe it could lead to food shortages in the 1980s surpassing the impact of oil shortages dur- ing the 1970s, concludes a new study released Satur- day. The study, by ‘Lester Brown, head of the World- wide Institute, said a doubl- ing in world food output since 1950 was achieved at the ex- pense of severe land abuse. “Perhaps the most serious single threat humanity now faces is the widespread loss of topsoil,” Brown, an agri- PEACE PROCESS | TO CONTINUE TEL AVIV AND CAIRO (REUTER-AP) — Isrzeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Hosni Mubarak, expected to succeed Anwar Sadat as president of Egypt, have agreed to hold a summit meeting in three ‘weeks, Israel Radio said Saturday. The radio did not quote any source for its report. It said the Israeli dele- gation to President Sadat’s funeral in Cairo, headed by Begin, agreed with Egyptian leaders to continue the Mid- dle East peace process. Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali is to visit Israel for three days two weeks from now, the radio said. Earlier Vice-President Mubarak, reassured Begin he will pursue the legacy’ of peace left by slain President Anwar Sadat, a high-ranking Israeli source says. “Mubarak was very close to President Sadat, and shares his views on many issues that affect i The meeting was seen as a gesture of good will by the president-designate. The Israeli leader, who ar- rived amid tight security, also visited Sadat's widow Jihan, and after they kissed she burst into tears, Israeli sources said. The visit lasted 45 minutes but the sources declined to give other details. Begin denies summit TEL AVIV (AP) — Prime Minister Menachem Begin, returning Saturday from the funeral of slain President Anwar Sadat, said Egypt has a “strong g and ' CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 11, 1981 EDD Expert predicts topsoil loss will ‘lead to severe- food shortage cultural specialist said in the study, which is being pub- lished as a book entitled Building a Sustainable Soci- ety. g “Civilization cannot sur- vive this continuing loss of topsoil,” Brown said. “If not. arrested, this loss of soil could cause the food problem to unfold during the 80s as the energy problem did dur- ing the 70s. Just as the world has:come to depend heavily on the Middle East for oil, so it now depends on North America for grain. And just as the Middle Eastern ‘oil is being depleted, so too are . North American soils.” 4 The productivity of 84 per cent of American cropland is declining because of an ex- cessive loss of topsoil each year, Brown said. Nov., 4 launch: date WASHINGTON (AP) — Nov. 4 is the new launch ‘date for the second flight of the space shuttle Columbia, dam- aged last month by a caustic fyel spill, $ The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced the new date after the peace process will con- tinue. Begin’s spokesman, Uri Porat, said the Israeli leader officals d repairs be- ing made to the spaceship, the first ever to Losses in productivity can be masked for a time by an increased use of fertilizer, the use of which has gone from 14 million tonnes in 1950 to 118 million tonnes in 1980. But, Brown warned, use of fertilizer can combat the problem for only so long. He said governments in the U.S. and other countries must step in to promote solutions such as terracing, contour farming and minimum tillage. He called on the U.S. gov- ernment to commit to a $103- billion progam over the next 50 years, more than doubling current soil erosion efforts. ° Nixon ee visits Saudis CAIRO (AP) — Former U.S. president Richard Nixon made an unannounced trip to Saudi Arabia after the fu- neral in Cairo on Saturday of slain President Anwar Sadat and met in Riyadh with Saudi King Khaled. : The Saudi state radio, monitored in Nicosia, Cyrus, said Nixon and Khaled later dined together, along with Crown Prince Fahd. It said the visit was private and gave: no details on the former president’s talks with make a return trip into orbit. The flight will be a major test of its d between Egypt and Israel,” said the source who did not want to be identified. Begin, in the Egyptian capital for Sadat’s funeral Saturday, was the first head pulling out the foam and vacuuming, scraping, and spraying, the outside he was forced to wash all the inside walls, his rugs, drapes, cloth- ing and linen. wn hits Kassian said he tackled the job after contacting six West Kootenay insulation compan- ies and none would remove the insulation for him. “They don't want a thing to do with it,” he said. Members of the group's executive include: John Ste- laeff of Castlegar, Garth Col- lins of Rossland, Ken Denis of Salmo, Neil Jarvie of War- field, and Margaret Raymond and G. Coupland of Nelson. of gi to meet Mu- barak since the assassination. Hosni Mubarak, to visit Is- rael, but Mubarak gave no immediate reply and no date was set. Porat denied an Israel Radio report that the two . had agreed to meet in two or three months. “Talks delayed: - Continued from page Al Lougheed said: “We all want the constitution back in Canada, but we want it worked out in Canada.” DESCRIBES ROLE Bennett himself est.” “Today, we are charged with the responsibility of de- fending the integrity of a de- cision of the Supreme Court of Canada, which said it is in patriotism in describing the role of the eight prov- inces opposed to Trudeau's patriation plans. A year ago, they might have been ac- cused of “narrow self-inter- Lougheed and Bennett also warned that the constitution has to either be settled or abandoned for the moment to give Parli time to deal to make j into space. Astronauts: Jée Engle and Richard Truly‘ Will pilot the five-day mission? The Sept. 22 fuel spill had forced postponement ‘of’ & planned Oct. 9 launching, dne* of several delays since Col- umbia’s maiden flight last April. The accident occurred on the launch pad at Cape Can- aveéral,'Fla:,'as crew were; pumping nitrogen‘ tetroxide’ into the spaceship. A faulty valve stuck open: and about three gallons of the fuel poured over part of the nose the Saudi leaders. In hs Reagan's chief spokesman, David Gergen, said Nixon was on a private tour and was not carrying any official messages or travelling on U.S. government aircraft. Gergen, who served as a speechwriter for Nixon, said he . understood the { president had received invi- tations to visit Saudi Arabia | and other Middle Eastern countries before the Sadat assassination and “decided to take a private trip after the funn es ..Nixon, plans to, visit. Jor- dan, Tunisia and Morocco before returning to the United States on Oct. 19, the White House spokesman section, reacting chemically said. with material that bonds heat-resistent. tiles to the ship’s aluminum skin. | . ¢ The tiles, which Protect the craft from heat generated during re-entry through the atomosphere, are being de-" with economic matters. rboard markets for the lay- offs. Linerboard production will be shut and layoff notices will be given to between 100 and 120 people before the end of the year, he said. This will increase total MacMillan Bloedel layoffs in the Alberni Valley to 725 workers. TANKER EXPLOSION SARNIA IN SARNIA, ONT. (CP) — A railway tank car containing a highly volatile p i did not raised the issue of human rights rather than spending all his time trying to sell Candu reactors. Wilson, who was in South Korea for the General As- sembly of the Presbyterian Church of South Korea — a sister of the “We have no indication there's any such plot or con- spiracy and we don't have any investigation in that area,” Hartwig said. FBI spokesman Bernie Wang said he had no know- ledge of the report. The White House d that United Church, says many South Koreans fully expected Trudeau to raise the problem of widespread repression. Wilson asks why Trudeau exploded Friday night at Petrosar Ltd. at Corunna, 10 kilometres south of Sarnia. Petrosar spokesman Tom Royal said the fire was quickly extinguished, and the area surrounding the blast has been sealed off and rail- way shipping suspended. He said one employee was in the area at the time of the ex- plsion but was not injured. The explosion, which could be heard clearly as far away as Sarnia, occurred at Petro- sar's loading area, adjacent to Highway 40 about three the charges, as some of the prisoners will have to be re- turned from institutions in eastern Canada where they were transferred after the riot. MORE LAYOFFS IN PORT ALBERNI PORT ALBERNI (CP) — MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. has announced new layoffs which mean one in seven of its workers in the Alberni Val- ley will be out of work before Christmas. Alberni Pulp and Paper division general manager Bob Findlay blamed a con- tinuing slump in export line- east of Corunna. a fl bl hall the regi- me's human rights violations. “Is it not important for, Canada in its international relations to raise those‘ques- tions of human rights, which are so central to our, own understanding and_ practice of democratic institutions? she asks. Wilson says under Presi- dent Chun Doo-hwan there is “persistent, brutal and sys- tematic use of torture.” GREEN BERET DEATH SQUAD NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service is deny- ing an NBC report it is in- Prop. gaseous hydrocarbon, was being piped into a tank car. The car was ruptured and another one neaby was knocked to its side by the blast. TRUDEAU VISIT QUESTIONED TORONTO (CP) — Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's visit to South Korea has left millions of South Koreans with a sense of despair and sorrow, says the moderator of the United Church of Can- ada. Rev. Lois Wilson says in an open letter to the prime min- that Libyan leader 2 Khadafy hired assassination teams, trained and manned by former U.S. Green Berets, to kill President Reagan. the Reagan and Bush would not attend the funeral for secur- ity reasons. The U.S. govern- ment was represented by a contingent of past and pres- ent officials including State Secretary Alexander Haig and former i im- ecutors described White and Matthews as major partici- pants in a scheme to ‘over- throw the island’s govern- ment. They were charged with providing $58,000 to ad- mitted coup ringleader Mi- chael Perdue to carry out the plot. - ‘The defence accused prose- cutors of using the case to further their professional ambitions, and contended the money was to be used to pay for antiques. the plot by capturing 10 men, Jim: my Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. NBC said federal agents are investigating reports that former members of the Green Berets, the army's elite special forces, were hired by Khadafy to train assassination teams and par- ticipate in “a plot to kill the president.” CIA agents were quoted as saying that Khadafy became “so incensed” after two Lib- yan jets were shot down by U.S. Navy planes last sum- mer that “... he ordered Mr. A report on NBC Mag- azine on Friday night said it is because of this possibility that Reagan and Vice-Presi- dent George Bush did not travel to Cairo to attend the funeral of slain Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat. NBC said the FBI was also in- vestigating the matter. In Washington, Secret Ser- vice spokesman Dick Hrtwig denied the report. Reagan's two Canad: on April 27 as they prepared to leave for Dominica from a marina near New Orleans. Nine of the 10 have been convicted or pleaded guilty to reduced charges. . CAR BLOWN OFF CLIFF PORTSMOUTH, ' ENG- LAND (AP) — A gale bat- tered the southern coast of England overnight, injuring at least 10 people, smashing beach houses and ripping boats from their moorings, Officials said. A ferry from the Channel Islands to Portsmouth hit heavy! seas off the Isle of Wight, hurling passengers and cars across the decks. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal jury acquitted two men Friday of charges they helped finance a planned in- vasion of the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica. The verdigt was returned three hours after U.S. Dis- trict Judge Jack Gordon handed the case of James White, 30, of Longview, Tex., and Lodrich Matthews, 58, of Florence, Miss., to the jury. In closing arguments, pros- Ambulances took the injured to Portsmouth's Queen Alex- andra Hospital, spokesman said none was seriously hurt. where ‘a A 27-year-old oyster fisher- man, Rodney Wignall, nar- rowly escaped injury when his car was blown from a clifftop Friday night near Freshwater, on the south- west coast of the Isle of Wight. The quoted him as saying he jumped out from his car only local press By ete te eR ee NEWS AROUND THE WORLD ister Friday he should have treated and reglued to the craft. seconds before tt plunged 60 .bestos Corp.'s provincial as- metres down to the beach. PEKING EXTENDS INVITATION PEKING (REUTER) — based parent, General Dyn- China urged Taiwan Presi- dent Chiang Ghing-kuo Sat- urday to come to the Chinese mainland to visit the graves of his mother and grand- parents. It was the latest step in a new Chinese initiative aimed at achieving peaceful rec- onciliation with Taiwan,.the island province to which Chi- ang’s father, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, withdrew in 1949 after his defeat on the mainland by the Communi- sts. Chairman Hu Yaobang said Friday that the ashes of Chiang Kai-shek, now in what is officially described as a temporary resting place of Taiwan, could be buried in the family cemetery on the mainland if his som would ac- cept a reconciliation. The People's Daily said to- day that the tombs of Chiang Kai-shek’s parents and first wife Mao Fumei had been renovated. The graves are in the Xikou district of Fenghua county in the eastern prov- ince of Zhejiang. “This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mao Fumei,” Communist Party newspaper said. “The people of Xikou are waiting for Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo to return to pay respects to his ancestors and sweep their graves.” the official ASBESTOS TAKEOVER LOOMIN IG QUEBEC (CP) — The Quebec government says it make Quebec's goverament- owned asbestos agency, La Societe Nationale de I'Ami- ante, 3 Corp.'s installations in Thet- ford Mines, about 100 kil- ometres' south of Quebec City. er Yves Duhaime told a news conference Friday that talks with General Dynamics, owns 54.6 per cent of As- bestos Corp.'s shares, never really got off the ground this spring after the government got legal ‘clearance to go ahead with i called delaying tactics, for example offering to sell the (government some of its hold- ings in other areas if it could keep control of Asbestos West Germany's anti-war rally. of slain U.S. leader Martin Luther King, told the crowd that “millions will expropriate most of As- of Americans stand by your amics Ltd. The expropriation would owner of Asbestos Quebec Resources Minist- reports that Haig go to Saudi Arabia and was discouraged from doing so by the Saudis. her to Riyad| in a plane provided by the Baudis. Fischer denied wanted to 8 side” in the struggle “against sets Nov. 30 if no purchase militarism.” ‘ agreement is reached by then with the company’s U.S.- ma. Police said the crowd had, come from all over West Germany. Delegations joined from the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, the United States and elsewhere to protect the arms race and plans to deploy U.S.-built nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Police said the protestors had come before dawn aboard 41 special trains, buses, a 2, Rhine River steamer and on bicycles. 3 ASKS FOR EXPANSIO! VICTORIA (CP) — B.C. Housing Minister Jim Chabot has calle led for expansion of an income-tax break: to encour- age investors, mostly pro- fessional people, to put mon- The company used what he | y into e tion. Chabot said Saturday expansion of the Multiple Use Residential Building tax break would spur construc- tion of rental accommodation. He said he has written to the Tp. federal ministers of finance When the government re- alized this, he said, it decided ~ to set a deadline in the hopes of reaching an amicable ag- estimated by police at 2! 50,000 jammed a garden at Bonn university and heard calls for a Europe free of nuclear weapons and super- power domination. Organizers said it was biggest Coretta Scott King, widow civil rights and housing urging them to extend the concession past its. scheduled expiry this year. GETS WAGE INCREASE VANCOUVER (CP) — A- bout 600 professors and in- structors at Simon Fraser University will receive a salary increase of about 13.8 per cent in a binding settle- ment handed down Saturday by arbitrator Irwin Nathan- son. Under the one-year contract between the faculty association and the admin- istration an assistant pro- fessor will receive $33,500, an associate professor will re- ceive $41,000 and full pro- fessors will receive $47,000.