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Israeli’s say
back to talks

JERUSALEM (AP) —
Most Israeli cabinet
ministers were reported
Sunday in favor of resuming
peace-treaty negotiations
with Egypt based on a U.S,-
proposed target date of late
1979 for moving toward
Palestinian autonomy in
Israelicccupied Arab lands.

The semi-official Israeli
radio said no formal decision
was made at Sunday's
cabinet meeting but mest
toward reopening talks. is

rs ng 8
Washington, The question of
linking an Egyptian-Israell
treaty to Palestinian self.
rule through some kind of
heer ar hing peen the

lor stum lock to a
settlement between the two
countries.

Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat has announced his
country’s acceptance of the
U.S. target date proposal in a
letter to President Carter,
But the Israelis have balked
at setting such firm
‘guidelines, saying it might
lead the Egyptians to
abrogate the entire treaty if
a timetable for Palestinian
autonomy is not met.

The U.S. proposal calls for
setting the end of 1979 as a
target date for moving
toward Palestinian self-rule
in the West Bank of the

Jordan River and the Gaza

Strip. It algo calls for
language in the treaty
preamble affirming the two
Middle East countries’
commitment to eventual
Palestinian autenomy. is-
rael has accepted the
preamble language but not
the target date idea,

Lake week Sadat sent’ a
secret letter to Israeli Prime
Minister Mehachem Begin
about the deadlocked talks.
Begin began drafting a letter
Sunday in response.

Though government of-
ficlals refused to say

60 INJURED

‘Tabsence of Egyptian

whether the letter would
reply directly to U.S. and
Egyptian calls for resuming
negotiations, Israeli tele-
vision saidit would reject the
latest demands by Sadat, de-
mands that have not been
made public.

In addition to the timetable
question, Israel objects to
Egyptian attempts to delete
a clause that gives the treaty
pelority over previous com-
mitments Egypt made with
other Arab countries. Israel
feels the treaty, as it stands
with the clause, voids a 20-
yearcld defence pact that
commits Egypt to help any
Arab country attacked by
Israel.

NOBEL
PRIZE
STILL
GOES

OSLO (Reuter) —
Presentation of the 1978
Nobel Peace Prize will go
ahead net Sunday
despite the expected

President Anwar Sadat,
the chairman of the Nobel
committee said Sunday.

:it was announced
Saturday that Sadat, co-
winner with Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem
Begin, will be
represented by an aide
-instead--6£- attending . the
ceremony in person,

Committee chairman
Aas Lionaes told
reporters the ceremony
has always been held on
Dee. 10—anniversary of
the death of Alfred Nobel,

Train crash

killed

SHIPMAN, Va, (AP) — A
passenger train jumped

tracks on a curve and,

erashed into a ravine in
mountainous southcentral

Loren,
Ponti
fines

ROME (AP) — A Rome
prosecutor Saturday
demanded fines of nearly $20
million against actress
Sophia Loren and about $35
million against her film-pro-
ducer husband, Carlo Ponti,
for allegedly transferring
money abroad illegally.
Ponti, 65, is the main
defendant in the year-long
trial, which involves movie
personalities, bank officials
and others. Pont, being tried
in absentia, and 28 others are
smuggling

currency through smail
companies handling Ponti's
business

Police have a warrant for
Ponti’s arrest. But neither he
nor Miss Loren has been in
Italy since she was stopped
by customs officials in
March, 1977, as she passed
through Rome’s airport.

NO THANKS

CAIRO .AP) — In an
4ge when most Western
women demand equality
with men, some Egyptian
women still belleve in the
principle of separate but
equal,

A meeting on women
and transportation has
asked the government to
restore the socalled
“harem compartments"
in Egypt's buses and
trains.

six

Virginia early Sunday,
killing six persons and in-
Juring at least 60 others.

Acook, Ned Haynes, of At-
lanta, Ga., was trapped for
11 hours in the debris of the
smashed Southern Railways
dining car. His legs were
pinned beneath a stove and
workers used bulldozers to
peel back the side of the car
and then lift the heavy stove.

Dr. Kenneth Wallenborn,
who helped treat Injured
passengers, said Haynes
suffered third-de burns
on his chest and stomach and
a broken ankle and leg.

At least five of the other in-
jured were reported in
critical condition.

At the scene, snow mixed
With rain was falling in near-
freezing temperatures.
Blood was smeared on
windows that’ had been
broken when passengers
escaped.

Twisters
attack

BOSSIER CTY, La. (AP)
~ A tornado ravaged this
northwest Louisiana city
Sunday and other twisters
touched down in Arkansas
and Mississippi, killing at
least four persons and ‘in-
juring more than 250.

Looting broke out and hun-
dreds of national guardsmen
were called in to patrol.

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Al Fabi, Northern Drugs manager, a

Winner’s drawn

Tanoos, the mall's Ker-
mode bear, drew the winning
tickets in the Northern
Drugs raffle in the Skeena
Mall in Terrace on Friday.
All persons, unless otherwise
listed, are from Terrace.

Beckie Maier won a $325
‘Ksan gold necklace; Myrtle
Laidlaw won Pentax
binoculars valued at $125;
Jo-Anne New won a slow
cooker v valued at $50 and
Claire Tooms won a Chanel
no. 5 gift set valued at $39.

A Brown won a stainless
steel thermos valued at $35:
T. Birch, of Kitimat, won a
Polaroid 1-step camera
valued at $35; Fern Capling
won a Mattel electronic
football game valued at $20
and Helen Appels won a
Tosca decanter valued at
$23.95,

Mayday
said hoax

HALIFAX CP - The
rescue ¢co-orldination centre
said early today areportof a
missing 10 metre fishing
vessel with 10 persons
aboard {s believed to be a
hoax.

A rescue centre
spokesman said ham radio
operators were reporting
calls from as far away as
Portland, Ore. of a missing

fishing vessel somewhere in
the eastern United States or
Canada.

He sald the calls had been
traced to within an 40
kilometre radius and were
coming from land, not from
sea,

However, he said the
reports of a missing vessel
will have to he treated as
authentic unti] proven
otherwise,

Paul Martin is
satisfactory condition but
remains in the Intensive
care ward in Mills
Memorial hospital with
shotgun wounds ap-
parently suffered in an
altercation over the
weekend.

Terrace RCMP, who

ONE SHOT
Two men jailed

{_have refused to release vestigating the incident,

any more information
until charges have been
laid, say they have two
suspects In custody.

The 20-year-old Martin,
was reported shot in a
flight at a Kalum Street

residence at about
6:30 a.m. Saturday.
Police are still in-

Brenda Nelson won a
Fisher Price lift and load
depot valued at $22.95:
Darlene Prins won a
Papermate gift set valued at
$22; G. Farina, of Kitimat,
won a Clairol skinvention
valued at §20 and Elnor
Knoddel, of Kamloops, won
assorted kitchen ware
valued at $20,

Nelda Orton won a Buxton
ladies wallet valued at $14;
E. Farina, of Kitimat, won a
Fidji gift .et valued at

nd Tanoot draw

$11.50; E, George won a
Jontue gift set valued at
$11.25; Pam Franson won an
Old Spice set valued at $7.99
and L, Vanderkwack won a
Brut 33 gift set valued at

99,

Isabelle Durand won
imported chocolate valued at
$7.95; Edith Leason won
Rowntree Black Magic no,2
valued at $8.95 and a Louise
Wingenback won a Rowntree
rd Box no, 2 valued at

95,

WITH MURDER |
Drug program
head charged

KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) —
Charles Dederich, who
turned his Synanon alcohol
and drug rehabilitation
program into a religious.
cult, was arraigned Sunday
in a hospital on charges
connected with attempted
murder, authorities said.

Dederich, 65, was too
drunk the previous day to be
taken to court, the
authorities said.

Dederich was formally
charged at Mohave County
General Hospital with

by Brian Gregg

Marion Knoerr, chairman
of Northwest Community
College Board, said Friday
that NCC would have to take
some responsibility for so-
ealled recreation courses if
the municipality does not.

There are about 38 courses
involving home skills, arts
and crafts and general in-
terest courses that are being
dropped by the college
because they are listed as
recreation courses, said
Frances Long, community
education co-oridinator.

Alderman David Pease,
representing himself, said
that Terrace district council
decided on June 12 the
municipality would not
assume responsibility for the

conspiracy and solicitation
to commit murder in a
bizarre rattlesnake attack on
Paul Morantz, 33, a Los
Angeles lawyer. He was held
in the hospital's jail ward in
liew of $500,000 bail.

Dederich was arrested on
a fugitive warrant Saturday
at his home in Lake Havasu
City by Mohave County
sheriff's deputies. Los
Angeles officials had sought
to have him arraigned im-
mediately.

IN IRAN

Army battles

TEHRAN (AP) — Im:
perial troops fired into the
air and used tear gas in
battles. with thousands of
anti-shah demonstrators
throughout the  [ranian
capital Sunday night.

Power went out in many
areas of Tehran after the
shooting started and the
fighting continued in
darkness, Power plant
employees had warned they
would cut off electricity if
the shah’s troops opened fire
on protesters.

There were no immediate
reports of new casualties,
Large groups of demon-
strators, many clad in white
shrouds signifying their
willingness to die, rallied in
as many as 25 locations in
the capital, officials
reported.

The officials said at least
14 demonstrators have been
killed in clashes since Friday
night, but opposition sources
claimed the toll is closer to
70. More than 250 persons
have been arrested.

Before the night-time
demonstrations began,
sporadic gunfire crackled:
across this nervous city
following a night of rioting in
which troops killed at least
five protesters and wounded
20 others. A general strike
called by Iran's exiled re-
ligious leader faltered.

‘ Anti-shah protesters circu-
lated through downtown
Tehran tying up traffic and

taunting . troops.” Soldiers.

firing into the air ard
swinging rifle butts chased
them down streets and
alleyways, injuring several,

Officials of the city’s
martiallaw government said
the deaths occurred
Saturday night when soldiers
fired on a crowd that was
leaving a mosque after the 9
p.m. curfew. Anti-
government slogans biaring
from loudspeakers on the
mosque’s roof incited the
crowd, which refused to
disperse, the officials sald.

The crowd had been
praying at services marking
Moharram, the emotional 29-
day Moslem mourning
period which began Satur-
day. The opposition has
called for stepped-up demon-
strations and strikes to make
the holy month a showdown
period between Shah
Mohammad Reza Palahvi
and his foes.

There were reports of

rioting in the southern city of
Isfahan, but no deaths were
reported, Iranian students in
Paris claimed at least two
students died in clashes with
police in Mashhad in nor-
theasiern Iran.
’ The military government
banned public religious
processions during
Moharram ard said it would
crack down ‘mercilessly’
on street disorders.

The government hopes to
keep the fervor of Moharram
from turning into the kind of
anti-shah riots that have

killed a reported 1,000 to
2,000 Iranians this year,
From his base in Paris, the
exiled Ayatullah Khomaini,
spiritual leader of Iran’s 32
Million Shiites and symbol of
the anti-shah movement, had
called for a general strike in
Iran beginning Saturday.
But the strike appeared to be

failing, Grocery stores,
pharmacies and other shops
were open Sunday, a normal
working day in Iran, Tanker
trucks driven by soldiers
instead of striking drivers
kept gasoline stations
supplied. Banks remained
closed, apparently in fear of
attack by rioters.

KUALA LUMPUR
(AP) — Two boats packed
with Vietnamese refugees
sank off Malaysia’s
northeast coast and in the
Gulf of Thailand on
Sunday, drowning at least
26 and sending the known
death tol) from such in-
cidents in the last two

refugees slipped through
. stepped-up Malaysian
coastal patrols. There
were more reports that
ethnic Chinese, who make
up most of the new
arrivals, are buying their
way out of Vietnam.

At least 19 refugees
were drowned when their
boat sank off the southern
Thai city of Narthiwat,
where they had been
refused permission to
land Saturday. More than
300 swan -ashore;: Police
sald they may have
scuttled their boat. to
avold having to sail on
and that the number of
dead may be higher since
no one is sure how many
the boat carried.

The other boat sank off

FLEEING VIET
REFUGEES DIE

Mechang on Malaysia’s'

northeast coast, where
hundreds of refugees land
daily. One body was
recovered and seven
other persons were feared
drowned. The 46 sur-
vivors were taken to reft-
gee centres..

On Saturday, 199
refugees were drowned or
were lost and feared dead
after a boat that was
refused permission to
land sank north of
Mechang, Four more
survivors from that
wreck were found Sun-

day.

At Kuala Trengganu, in
the same region, police
threw a rope to a refugee
boat in rough surf and
as
occupan' ely,
but police said one died of
a heart attack as he
reached shore. Nearly 200
refugees‘ died there Nov. |
22 when a boat turned

back by police and
villagers :

Growing hordes of
refugees drifting across
the South China Sea to
Malaysia are landing de-
spite government at-
tempts to stop them.

South African

blacks

WINDHOEK (AP) —
Blacks in South African-
administered Namibia
(South-West Africa) vote for
the first tinfe this week inan
election for a biracial leg-
islature but key opposition
groups have called for a
boycott of the polis.

Flye days of balloting
begin today,

Opposition groups contend
balloting is rigged to favor
white-dominated parties.

South Africa, meanwhile,
signalled it is ready to go
along with United Nations
demands for a later, UN-
supervised election.

UN Secretary-General
Kurt Waldheim said Sunday
in New York that South
African officials told him
they will retain authority in
the territory until a UN

‘COME BACK LATER’
No decisi

recreation courses,

reaffirmed on Oct, 23 that it
would not assume respon-
sibility for the courses after
rumours persisted that the
raunicipallity would take

em.

College Principal Dr. Val
George said, however, that
to his knowledge the
municipality will assume the
courses, He said that during
a recent meeting between
the college and the
municipality's recreation
department a decision was
made that the department
would be responsible for the

courses.

A delegation of nearly a
dozen concerned adult
education students turned
out to the meeting to express
their concern that the

courses were not going to be

taken on by the college,

- One woman said that a
few years ago complaints
were made that the local
school facilities were not
being used te their full
potential and now that they
are, through aduit education,
8 decision is made not to
continue using therm.

“We have been trying to
get some straight answers
from everyone involved but
we aren't getting any,'' she
sald. “It is very important
for us to see these courses
continue but sa far no one
has assumed responsibility
for the recreation courses.
More and more people are
coming to Terrace and they
want to get invaived in these
kinds of courses," she said.

Hans Wagner,
representing Kitimat on

the college board, said that
NCC does not want to
compete with recreation
organizations.

The board later had to turn
down a recommendation
from Val George that NCC
assume responsibility for all
adult education programs In
Prince Rupert, including the
recreation programs,
because the school board of
that city only recently in-
formed the college of its
decision to dump the courses
and there was no time to
discuss the matter with city
council.

Knoerr said that the
students and the instructors
of the recreation courses
should wait for three months
tosee if they were gaing to be
short changed and if they did
not receive satisfaction by

voting

election is held early next
year,

Sam Nujoma, head of the
South-West Africa People’s
Organization (SWAPO), has
ordered his followers to
disrupt the voting, claiming
the election will be rigged
elther directly by ' South
African government su-
pervisors or indirectly by the
intimidating presence at
polling booths of South
African troops, About 25,000
South African soldiers are
stationed in Namibla.

White-governed South
Africa insists the election
will be fair and invited about
200 Weatern correspondents
to observe it. The liberal,
biracial Namibia National
Front, like SWAPO, has
called on its followers not to
vote,

on on courses

then to come back to the
college board and express
their concerns.

Kitimat ie faced with the
same problem as Terrace
and many of the residents
there are as concerned about
the future of the recreation
type of courses as the
Terrace residents are, a
woman from that com-
munity said.

Frances Long sald that of
the 717 students involved in
academic, vocational, arts
and crafts, workshops and
lectures through community
education there will only be
230 students involved in the
NCC takeover of the adult
education programs, This
leaves 427 students who will
not be assimilated into the

program.

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