CASTLEGAR NEWS, June 10, 1981

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CAREXPORTS

TOKYO (REUTER) — West Germany and Japan have reached an under- standing under which Jap- anese car exports to West Germany this year will not grow more than 10 per cent over last year's fig- ures, the West German economics minister said Wednesday.

Count Otto Lambsdorif told reporters that as a result there will be a sig- nificant slowdown in ex- ports during the rest of the year to West Germany be- cause of the high tevel al- ready shipped in the ear- lier part of this year.

The minister said that after talks in Tokyo with the Japanese government and car industry officials there was an understand- ing that Japanese’ car ex- ports to West Germany in 1981 “will stay in a growth rate of 10 per cont" com- pared ue 1980 levels.

SIGNS

TRHRAN (REUTER) — Ali Reza Nobari, governor of the Iranian central bank, resigned Tuesday, the of- ficial Pars news agency said ‘today. Nobari has been sharply ciritical of the -Jranian government's econ- omic policies.

Nobar''s resignation was submitted to President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who appointed the 33-year- old official last year.

The Majlis (parliament) recently approved legis- lation that would wrest contro! of the central bank post from the president and place it in the hands of the cabinet.

RECOVERING BODIES

BADLA GHAT, INDIA (REUTER) — Navy divers and other salvage workers today continued the grisly job of trying to find more bodies in the north Indian rail disaster that may have killed 800 people.

They now have located five of the seven cars that plunged off the 150-metre Badla Ghat bridge into the Bagmati River on Satur- day, and recovered 197 bodies. Frogmen may have to blow the doors open on the submerged cars to get the others out.

TERRORIST HUNG

ISTANBUL (AP) — Veysel Guney, a 24-year-

-old left-wing extremist convicted of killing a Tur- kish army officer, was hanged at dawn today, po- lice sources said.

He was the sixth con- victed terrorist hanged since the military com- manders overthrew the elected civilian govern-

First linking of Agca with

Palestinians

WASHINGTON (AP) — The young Turk accused of trying to kill Pope John Paul was trained in terrorist tac- tics at a Palestinian base in Syria, U.S. and foreign dip- omatic sources say.

The disclosure is the first linking of Mehmet Ali Agca with Palestinians, although it was known he told his Italian captors he was sympathetic to “Palestinian commandos.”

The sources said Agca was trained near Damacsus at the Hamuriyya camp operated by Al-Saiqa, a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organi- zation controlled by Syria. The foreign sources, who de- clined to be identified, said Agea also received training in the past at the PLO base al-Hilal in Libya.

“Whether they told him to go out and shoot the Pope, we don't know,” said a state department official. “But this type of. person is trained in |

ment in a bloodless coup last September. NO MOTIVE

MOSCOW (AP) — A By- rian military officer sta- tioned in Moscow has been stabbed to death near his downtown apartment, dip- lomatic sources report.

‘The sources said the of- ficer was believed to be with the military attache's office at the Syrian Em- bassy. They said he left his apartment last weekend after getting a telephone call and later his body was found.

The sources said no mo- tive for the killing was- known nor was it known whether anyone had been arrested.

CHARGED

SEOUL (REUTER) — The U.S. Army has charged a second soldier with murder following the rifle-range shooting last week in .which four ser- vicemen died, a U.S. mil- itary spokesman said to- day.

Pte. Lacy Harrington, of Baltimore, Md., was placed in detention after being charged with the qurdee of Sgt. James Elliott, the

spokesman said.

The 19-year-old Elliott had been listed as one of four soldiers shot to death last Friday by pte. Archie Bell, 21, of Long Branch, NJ., at Ingman Range near Camp Casey, 50 kil- ometres north of Seoul,

‘ SETTLEMENTS *

VIENNA (REUTER) — Romanian President Nic- olae Ceausescu, in a clear reference to Poland, said Tuesday military action

“should not be used to settle

disputes between coun- tries.

He did not name Poland, but said in a toast-speech following his arrival on a four-day official visit to Austria that it is essential to refrain from military and violent action and to ensure the settlement of all interstate questions by peaceful negotiations. _

MISSILES ..-. HAMBURG, WEST.

GERMANY (AP) — A West German fire is con- structing missiles capable of carrying nuclear war- heads for Libya, the West German magazine, Stern reported,

Ina story released Tues- day in advance of its Thursday edition, the mag- azine quoted a person

. identified only as a “high

Libyan government offi- cial” as saying the firm, Otrag, “promised to pro- duce rockets that are cap-

able of carrying nuclear warheads,” CONVICTED OF RAPE

BOSTON (AP) — Three doctors were convicted Tuesday of raping a nurse, but a jury found them not. guilty of charges that they kidnapped the woman for a party.

The jury of five men and seven women for eight hours before an- nouncing the verdict against Drs, Eugene Sher- ty, 27, of Boston; Arif Hussain, $0, of Waltham; and Alan Lefkowitz, 30, of Waterbury, Conn,

Each man was convicted of three rape counts and could be sentenced to a maximum of 60 years in prison.

The 28year-old woman charged the doctors ab- ducted her from a party in

. Boston last Sept. 6, drover her to Rockport — north of the city — and raped her.

Sherry and Hussain are anesthesiologists who worked with the nurse at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Lefko- witz was on the staff of the hospital at the time of the incident.

CHARTER YACHTS

Toronto ‘ businessmen are finding a new way to hold meetings without in- cessant interruptions — on chartered yachts on Lake Ontario. » “It cuts them off from the rest of the world,” says Sheila Bell, manager of Trans-Seas Yacht Char- ters, “No matter how pri- vate a meeting is in the of- fice, there are always in- terruptions but this gets them away from their sec- retaries and phones.”

A pleasurable advantage of “the floating board- room” is that the comple- tion of business allows the executives to unwind with ° an afternoon of fishing or partying.

ACCUSED OTTAWA (CP) — Soli- eitor-General Robert Kap- lan ‘was accused Tuesday of . “union --busting” with ~ threats to reduce ‘the-size.. of the © 22,000-member

RCMP if Mounties decide’

to form a union.

Svend Robinson, New Democrat justice critic, told the House that Kap- lan’'s comments would be considered an unfair labor practice if made by another employer.

Last week's announce- ment that the latest RCMP pay increases will be ret- roactive to April 1, rather than Jan. 1 as the Moun- ties expected, has resulted

Woe!

in union talk within the federal police force. HEADS PROJECT OTTAWA (CP) — A prominent former Tory cabinet minister has been hired to head a $1-million project designed to help this country turn its “col- lective psyche” to prob- lems of the Third World. But plana on how that will be done are only “half-baked,” siad one of the project's organizers. Partly funded with $500,000 from the Cana- dian International Devel- opment Agency, the Sec- retariat will help correct the “astounding” absence of information among Can- adians of world problems, the institute's - president told a news conference. CHARGES DROPPED KAMLOOPS (CP} — Charges against CP Rail of using pesticides without a permit have been dropped, rgional Crown prosecutor Robert Hunter said. He said he believes the com- pany used the pesticides — 2,4-D and ee unin- i

VICTORIA tc rslay Edu- estion Minister Brian Smith said there are no extra funds available this year for Cariboo College in Kamloops. Smith said the college will have to elim- inate some programs and lay off staff to make up for an $800,000 overrun in this yea's budget.

RUN AWAY 19 TIMES

VICTORIA (CP) .— A 14-year-old boy requiring psychiatric treatment, and who has run away from government snd private institutions 19 times since last fall will receive special treatment, says Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy. She refused fur- ther comment, noting the ease is before the courts.

VIETNAM VETS

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police evicted 36 Vietnam war veterans, including 12 hunger. -strikers,~-from_ a

aptent rally on the lawn of a veterans administration

hospital on Tuesday and -

arrested seven people sit- + ting in the lobby. The vet- erans began their vigil 18 days ago to protest against the treatment of James Hopkins, a veteran who died last month, appar- ently of an accidental over- dose of sleeping pills and alcohol. Hopkins had been trying to win certification for a hearing loss he said

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Investigating several DBA suggestions

Several suggestions made by the Downtown Business- men's Association to improve the downtown core are being investigated by the city.

The DBA's proposals called for improving the parking area along 2nd 8t., setting a two-hour parking limit on the parking Iot on 11th Ave, and ard St., put- ting up a sign at the inter- change indicating the down- town commercial area, and improving the traffic island at 18th Ave, and Columbia Ave,

The council accepted its works and services com- mittee’s recommendations that it investigate the cost of improving the 2nd St, park- ing lot with imposing the two-hour limit, and investi- gate the cost of landscaping the traffic island,

Supports Lower Arrow Lake raod

An effort to convinee the provinelal government .to build, a road along Lower

ww Lake from Castlegar to Fauquier has Castlegar city council support.

The Castlegar Chamber of Commerce fs lobbying the government to build the road, and it has ‘asked the eity for support.

The matter was briefly considered and approved during the council meeting Tuesday night, and the city

will be writing to the min- istry of highways and the ministry oft tourism,

One aldermen is pessimis- tic about the chances that anything will happen.

Ald. Jim Gouk told the meeting he favors building the road, but he doubts the efforts wil! produce.any re- sults. Nobody has been able

Complaints bring promise of action

A number of complaints about noise and vandalism has led the city council to promise a crackdown on the illegal use of motorcycles and

> off-road vehicles.

The council members de- cided Tuesday night to ask

the city solicitor for guide- © . lines on the best way to word

a bylaw limiting the use of the vehicles,

At Mayor Audrey Moore's urging, they also decided to look into the possibilities of developing an area outside the city where the drivers can use the vehicles.

‘The city’s present ‘noise

” tpylaw is ambiguously worded

and is impossible to enforce,

RCMP Staff Sgt. Henry Ste- vens told a joint meeting of the city’s parks and recre-

ation and protective services,

committees, the council was told.

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to persuade tho ministry of highways to upgrade the road to Deer Park, he re- minded the meeting, and he questioned how successful an effort aimed at lengthening the road will

The regional district also has gone on record as sup-

porting the road link, and has Tneluded it in the final draft of the Arrow Lakes Regional Plan.

‘Senators to sit as individuals

TORONTO (CP) — The Star says a group of rebel- Vous senators will break party ranks today and sit as independents during a vote on the constitutional resolu- tion.

Ina report from Ottawa, the newspaper says as many asa dozen senators, including a former Liberal provincial premier and at least one former Liberal federal. cab- inet minister, will cross the Moor of the upper chamber.

They will not form a new party or a bloc, it says. Instead, they will vote indi- vidually on each issue, such as the constitution.

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