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if WV Tw gaffW the examiner FridayJan 27 1978 Troops occupy city of Tunis in strike crisis TUNIS Reuter Troops today occupied the Tunisian capital clamped under curfew after bitter fightin during Thursdays general strike left dead and injurt in the streets Unofficial reports said at least 10 persons were killed and many injured in battles between police and rioters which went on until nightfall Tanks were sent in to break up the fighting as police fired bullets and tear gas at stonethrowing groups ant President Habib Bourguiba declared national state of emergency Thursday night Tunis had the appearance of deserted battlefield with rubblestrewn streets filled with smashed glass and overturned cars The oneday general strike Tunisias first since gaining independence from France in 1956 also caused trouble in the provinces PROTEST ATTACKS It was called by the General Workers Union tUGTli to protest recent attacks on trade union offices and the arrest trade unionists Troops took up positions to guard important installations including power stations and railway stations ready to pre vent any further violence Many of the rioters were identified as youths from the citys poorest districts where some of the worst fighting was reported The government news agency Tap blamed the UGTT for the violence while appearing to acknowledge that many of the rioters were too young to be trade unionists The agency accused vandals of opening fire in the capital causing dead and injured among the security forces and their assailants The strike call seemed forgotten as the government tried to maintain public services in the face of widespread disorder Most industrial production in Tunis was halted by the one day stoppage many shops were shut but water gas and electricity supplies were functioning as usual UK early with loan payment LONDON Reuter Britain shortly will repay $1 billion to the International Monetary Fund IMF ahead of schedule Denis Healey chancellor of the exchequer told Parliament on Thursday Britain owes the IMF nearly $5 billion dollars due for repayment between 1979 and 1983 and faces overall foreign debts of about $20 billion to be repaid between 1979 and 1984 The repayment move will spread the burden of these debts and put funds back into the hardpressed IMF The repayment reflects Britains growing financial con fidence with its reserves standing at record $20 billion Too many passengers fined KAPUSKASING Ont CP Kapuskasing man has been fined $50 for carrying more than the fixed number of passengers in taxi Ronald Froelish 23 pleaded not guilty in provincial court to the charge which was laid following threevehicle collision Nov in which one teenaged girl was killed and another died later Court was told Froelichs taxi contained eight passengers The legal limit is five The widow of Dennis Onofray the 27yearold RCMP officer slain Monday in irden Man is helped by companions at funeral held in Winnipeg Thursday for the threeyear RCMP veteran Photo Slain constable buried WINNIPEG CPI About 800 mourners gathered at St Marys Cathedral for Thursdays funeral of Dennis Onofrey the 27yearold RCMP constable killed in shootout Monday in Virden Man The six uniformed RCMP officers who served as pallbearers wept openly as they carried the casket into the church The casket was draped with Canadian flag with wide brimmed Mountie hat on top Onofrey native of Winnipeg was threeyear veteran of the force assigned to the Virden detachment He died in an archange of gunfire at Virden motel early Monday The gunman involved in the shootout escaped and was holding hostages in doctors house in nearby Oak Lake Man Onofrey is survived by his wife and son Msgr JH Larrabee described Onofrey at the funeral mass as man who had laid down his life serving his fellow man and he called the shooting senseless cruel deed TORONTO iCPi The low est barometric pressure in 108 years caused more than 20 win dows to break in downtown sky scrapers Thursday At least 20 windows were bro ken In the Stirstorey Toronto Do minion entre and streets in the area were closed for short time because of falling glass The barometnc reading was 90 the lowest SIDCQ 1870 when pressure of 28 was recorded Weather offimals said the mmbinationii of low pressure and gurus of wind up to 120 into metres an hour caused the win dow topop Windows were also broken at Skyscraper windows break as barometric pressure dips Commerce Court and First Canada Place and ropes were strung across open spaces in withtbewind MEILUNDT DENIUREJITERAPIST front of the Commerce building to aid Complete Denture Service Hows pm Mon thru Sat NH Doiilop St 801 ie Mtfllkitf DcHIUfIMQrfiviy Someone call These California sea lions in the Kansas ity Zoo gather at hole in the ice where they catch ii breath of air The zoo cir culates water through the pool which slows ice foriiiniion but Thursday the sea lions had to rinse their way out of the ice themselves as temperatures in the pool dropped and ice formed more quickly AP Photo Workers hope to take over plant NORTH BAY Ont Cli An official from an employee controlled company in Ieiiiiscaiiiing One has become an adviser to employees at the Canadian JohnsManvrllc Ltd plant here The employees hope to take over the plant by Aprili Frank Dottori executive vicepresident of Ienibec Ltd said he will go to the JohnsMaiiville office in Mississauga Ont late next week to make bid on behalf of 55 the employees for the plant Tembec paper mill formerly owned by Canadian In temational Paper Products Co Ltd became an employee controlled company in 1973 The US parent company of JohnsManvillc has said it is closing the North Bay plant in an attempt to divest itself of all its interests Dottori said that although JohiisManville has set Feb decline for bidding on the plant he believes the company might extend the deadline if the workers present viable alternative New drivers licence system TORONTO iCPi Ontarios new drivers licorice classi fication system comes into effect Feb and the ministry of transportation issued reminder Thursday saying that persons holding operators or chauffeurs licences will auto matically become holders of Gclass licences Feb That licence allows the holder to drive regular automobile small van or pickup or any combination of vehicles up to 18000 pounds gross weight provided the towed vehicle does not exceed 10000 pounds Drivers 157Twith seating capacity of loor more will need class or licence the ministry said It suggested for ex ample that school teacher driving students in 12scat van should get class licence allowing that person to operate school purposes vehicle However daycamp operator driving 12seat van would need class licence good for transporting passengers Oncedaily for Northlander NORTH BAY Ont Railway will offer only oncedaily service between Tim mins Ont and Toronto beginning Jan 31 railway official said Thursday Wayne Antler railway director of tourism development said the earlymoniing service to Toronto from North Bay and the pm run to North Bay from Toronto will be dis continued Antler said the railway dccidcd to discontinue the local service after the federal anadian transport commission re jected an appeal from the Northlarid Trarismrtation Com mission to underwrite so per cent of the operating losses for the North HayToronto runs Northern Affairs Minister Leo Bernier met with the Northland commission Wednesday and said he would continue to press for federal assistance for the passenger service Homesick family returns BELFAST Reutcri Northern Irelands homesick Maguire family returned from New Zealand on Thursday ti this bulletscarred town where guerrilla war took three of their children and inspired the Irish womens peace movement Wejust couldnt stay away it were so homesick Aniic Maguire said at Helfasts ldcrgroe Airport after loin mile flight with her husband Jackie and children Mark and Joanne six months The Maguircs emigrated seven months ago after the 1976 tragedy Their children Joanne it John and Andrew four months were killed when they were hit by an outof control car its Irish guerrilla driver dead from British Army bullet Mrs Maguircs sister Maired arrigair witnessed the tragedy Two months ago she and Betty Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize for the work of the peace movement thcy founded Chretien predicts growth rate OTTAWA Pr day predicted an average annual growth rate of Pi The Ontario Northland Finance Minister Jean Chretien Thurs it per cent in the economy over the next few years but added that this year will fall slightly short of the target Chretien sepaking to federalprovincial finance minis ters conference also said significantly improved cooper ation will be requiredd among all governments and the private sector to reach the goal In discussion paper given to the provinces but not yet re leased publicly the federal government has set targets for 15132 of 35 per cent for inflation and five per cent for unemployment The unemployment rate in December was per cent and the 12month inflation rate was per cent Listening device brings sentence PRESCOTT Ont itPi r7 man who claimed he used small microphone only to record the calls of birds in their nets was sentenced Thursday to three months in jail for possessing an illegal listening device Robert John Mitchell 39 was also given onemonth con secutive jail term for having possession of stolen camera and onemonth concurrent term for possession of mari juana Mitchell was convicted on the charges at trial Jan 12 The charges were laid following raid by 18 policemen from four departments on Mitchells home on july 12 pedestrians struggling 50 can Leroy to Antigenuranium 7286810 BETTER wso 7123 4gtPUCOI Throughout Ontario Stormblamed for nine deaths undetermined amountdamage Hy THE ANADIAN PRESS Hundreds of Ontario residents took refuge in schools and of ices overnight Thursday as the most severe storm in recent memory battered the province with hurricaneforce winds and blinding snow The bliuard was blamed for lentils of at least nine persons and an undetcrniintxl amount of pro rlydnmugc lircc persons who were identified died of carbon mon oxide poisoning in car on Highway 401 about ten kilo metres wesl of Woodstock po lice said Maurice Raymond 63 of In gcrsoll was found dead of ex posture on county road near liugeistilliilioiit 25 kilometres southwest of Woodstock Elva llcnc Rynard 64 of Ux bridgc was killed by transport truck while standing on the highway after her car was in volved in multicar crash James Ward of Wingham was found dead from asphyxiation in his car near St Thomas Charles McNally of Caledon died apparently of heart at tack while shovelling snow in hisdriveway FALLS UNDER TRUCK Gordon Hermon Muegger 61 of Seaforth was killed about 40 kilometres northwest of Strat ford when he fell under the wheels of atruck during the storm An elderly woman whose name was not released col lapsed while walking in To Pain intense during storm TORONTO CP Migraine suffers who encounter more in tense pain when the barometer goes below 2995 as it did in the storm Thursday just have to ride out the pain in such situ ations spokesman for the Mi graine Foundation in Toronto said Rosemary Dudley vice president of the foundation said her office received flood of calls Thursday from persons sufferingscvereheadac es Some complained they had brain tumor and their head was going to burst she said All could tell them was to hang on until the barometer rises She said the high winds that occurred during the storm also affected the migraine suffers ronto An autopsy will be held The Toronto weather office said the storm was spinoff from another disturbance caused by the collision of warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and mass of old Arctic air from Northern On tario The storm which was ex pected to move northeastward out of Ontario by ttmight forced officials in Sudbury and Timmins to deciure emergencies in those cities One hardhit area was Sud bury which received more than 30 centimetres of new snow Fifteen to 20 cm more were ex pected today with strong north erly winds gusting to 80 kilo metres an hour Sudbury Star announced that its Thursda edition would not bedeliver untiltoday HIGHWAYS CLOSED Sections of Highways 17 144 and 69 were closed and several accidents were reported al though there were no injuries Air Canada cancelled flights in Saut Ste Marie Timmins andNorthBay Mayor Michael Doddy of Timmins declared an emergency after about nine cm snow and winds up to 95 kilometres an hour shut down the city In the Sault Ste Marie area eight ships in the St Marys River were stopped by the weather Although schools were open in North Bay there was no schoolbus service in the east Parry Sound district tothe south Conditions in northwestern Ontario were less severe Thun der Bay re orted cloud but no snowor hi winds SEEK SHELTER In Kitchener about 450 per sons took shelter in shop ing plaza and 250 employees the Dcilcraft division of Elec trohome Ltd remained at the plant overnight City bus serv ice was cancelled Thursday and today Members of team from Lin say and their Wrenls were stranded near oodstock when their bus hit transport truck There were no injuries The team was taken to gas station but the truck and bus drivers remained with their vehicles In London still reeling under its fourth major storm of the winter The Free Press can celled its Thursday evening and Friday morning editions The weather office at London airport recorded wind gust of 128 kmh early Thursday sur passing the previous record of 106 set Jan 23 1965 The storm hit London seven years to the day after blizzard during which 70 cm about 28 inches of snow fell and winds were recorded up to 92 kmh RESCUE OTORISTS CFB London used old person nel carriers and other surplus heavyduty equipment to rescue stranded motorists The bases more modern equipment was not available because the First Royal Canadian Regiment had taken it ail to Petawawa near Ottawa for winter manoeuvres Many power disruptions in London were not expected to be fixed until the weekend In Windsor weather office fikosmen said the storm was worst that city had ever ex perienced City officials ad vised residents to stay home The PUC said about 12000 homes in Windsor were without power for varying periods On tario Hydro vehicles on trouble calls became stranded in drift ing snow The Toronto weather office said that before the snow began NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING Barrie District United Appeal Blue Flame Room Consumers Gas Co 165 Ferris lune Barrie 800 pm Wed Feb 8th Public Welcome ewee hockey much of southern Ontario re ceived rain and high winds Wednesday night The rain caused flooding in some communities In Fort Eric section of the Niagara River Parkway west of the Peace Bridge was closed after high winds pushed waters of Lake Erie over breakwall Some roads in Cornwall were flooded or had icy patches Many school bus runs in the area were cancelled as were school examinations TEMPERATURES DROP Temperatures dropped quickly in several com rnunities In Guelph the temperature plummeted within three hours to 11 from one degree causing treacherous driving conditions Several sports events were cancelled including harness racing at Windsor Orangeville and Greenwood race tracks In Toronto section of Queen Street was closed when shingles fmm the roof of Greean racetrack blew into the street One wall of sports lounge on Iakeshore Boulevard collapsed in heavy winds City hall in the provinces capital and most other govern ment offices and businesses closed early to allow workers to get home The subway system jammed with peo le was shut down briefly ter fire broke out No in uries were reported estrians were kept away from skyscrapers in the finan cial district because of window breakage TOWER SWAYS Willman manager of the Toronto Dominion Centre said the 56storey tower which swayed up to one foot in the wind had at least 22 windows blown out 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