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Barrie Examiner, 7 Mar 1979, p. 2

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Wednesday Mar 1979 extra UN peace plan threatened by African raids JOHANNESBURG AP United Nations peace plan for SouthWest Africa was threatened today by South African raids on guerrilla bases in Angola and the South African governments rejection of alleged modifications favorable to the guerrillas South Africa has agreed to the UN proposal for ceasefire in the territory March 15 provided the SouthWest Africa Peoples Organization tSWAPOi undertakes to stop violence But the government ordered strikes against SWAlt guerilla bases Tuesday because it said the organization was stepping up raids and there were new interpretations to the UN plan for SouthWest Africa also known as Namibia Under the UN plan peacekeeping force of up to 7500 troops and administrators would supervise the ceasefire universal voter registration among the territorys one million inhabitants and establishment of an indetxndent government Plans appeal in Pink Triangle case llttllt Pl Ontario Attoriieylcneral Boy llc Murtry announced Tuesday that his office is appealing the acquittal of Pink Triangle Press publisher of The Body Politic and its three officers The newspaper directed at homosexual readership and its officers were acquitted Eel 11 on charges of using the mails to distribute indecent immoral or scurrilous material McMurtry said the appeal is based mainly on alleged errors in law by provincial court iudgc Sydney Harris the trialjudgc Judge Harris ruled that the rown failed to prove the Pink Triangle Press breached community standards in publishing and distributing through the mail an article describing sexual acts between men and young boys In letter to the judge McMurtry said he and his senior counsel had reviewed letters and telegram llarris received during the trial and were satisfied that the authors could not be prosecuted under the riminal ode Ilarris submitted the material after his judgment saying it was aimed at influencing his decision Airlines seat sale sold out MONIREAL Pi Air anadas great spring seat sale is sold out for longdistance flights spokesman said Monday and now the airline is looking for ways of warding off prosixictive passengers ierard Lareault said the airline has withdrawn advert isc ments for the cutrate fares but reservation phone lines are still swamped by people calling for seats which are no longer vailable Air Air anadas privatelyowned competitor says it still has lowrate seats left on some legs of its routes but not on all flights Conflict of interest declared TIMMINS Ont ttPl Pour Timmins aldermeii declared conflict of interest at council meeting on discussion of reduced fee for building permits for new high school Their declarations on Monday followed the suspension last week of two trustees of the Toronto board of education for voting on matter of teachers salaries The wives of both trustees re teachers Aldermen Hank Bielek Lou Battocliio Albert ltistimaki and ic Power all declared conflict of interest Aldermen Power and Battochio are teachers with the 53 Timmins board of education and the wives of aldermen Bit lek and Bistimaki are teachers with the board Another alderman lion Collins said if the scope of con flict of interest expands further There wont be anybody who can sit on council City hall workers back on job LONDON Ont Pi Inside workers at city hall are to return to work today after refusing Monday and Tuesday to cross picket line set up by other city employees Public utilities commission employees represented by Local Canadian Union of Public Employees ltPEn have been on strike since Monday seeking 12 month contract with illpercent wage increase The inside workers represented by tlE Local 101 had stayed out in sympathy but officials from both locals met Tuesday and decided inside workers would return to ork ity officials had threatened disciplinary action against any of the 273 inside workers who stayed off the job in sympathy with the strike Clark unveils platform details MONIREAI IPi Opposition Leader loe lark unveilr ed more of the Progressive Conservative election platform on energy Tuesday saying Tory government would build gas pipeline from here to Quebec ity to reduce Eastern anadas dependency on imported oil lark told news conference the projected frbillion price for the pipeline to be built over 10 years would also cover the cost for consumers to convert to gas from oil The goal of the Conservatives is to make Eastern anada selfsufficient in energy by 1090 he added the examiner Libya flying arms to Uganda tusms NAIROBI Kenya tAPi Libya is flying massive amounts of military equipment into Iganda in preparation for Tgandan counterattack against Tanzanian invaders that couldcomc in about week Western diplomats said flown to Enlebbe Victoria in mission planes are making daily flights The expected today the decisive phase of the four They said tanks fighters monthold war the diplomats planes heavy artillery and in said The next week or so fantry weapons have been should show whether the mili Ugandas international airport on Lake that began about week ago They said Libyan and Ugandan cargo l7gandan counterattack could open up tary balance has shifted in la vor of lganda one diplomat said gandan President Idi Ainm said counterstrike was in the off mg In ITganda ltadio broadcasts he said the time was coming to hit the enemy hard and called on his troops to light to the last man Marvins lawyer collapses Michelle Triola Marvin left cries as she leaves Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday as her attorney Marvin Mitchelson right is rushed to the hospital after he was stricken with coughing spasm dur ing the crossexamination of witness in the pro perty suit case against actor Lee Marvin Superior Court Judge Arthur Marshall said later that Mit chelson was in good shape AP Photo Voyager nears frozen moon PASAHIINA alit iAlI Voyager turned its cameras luesday to the rippled and cratcred jovian moon allisto body so cold that scientists think snow comes up instead of coming down The spacecraft already million miles past Jupiter soared close to Callisto froen moon larger than the planet Mercury The spacecrafts approach showed shining while craters and ridgelike lines against dark rough surface Scientists were surprised Monday when another of lupi ters moons lo showed few meteor craters They said that suggested complex series of erosion processes Snowmobiles alcohol don mix ALKEIIION Oiit itlr coroners jury in vestigating snowmobile accident lll not make number of obvious recommcndatIons one of which is that snowmobiles and alcohol do not mix the coroner said luesr day Ir littord James said he jury also could have considered lthIt closely the construction of snowmobile helmets and recommended that snowmobiles be used only on trails The jury was investigating the death last ice of Marc liayies it llis suffered fractured kllll after the snow mobile on which he as passenger struck mailbox near this community about too kilometres south of Owen Sound nt James said the jury made no reference to evidence that Davies had been drinkiiigon the night of his death The jury remmmcnded review of regulations con cerning the placement and marking of rural mailboxes and that snow plow operators tell municipalities of any mailboxes that are too far onto the road Detector revealed war plans BERLIN tAii East iciinuny says detector from the NAIO secretarial staff it Brussels brought the ommunists war plans ofthe North Allanl ic alliance spokesman at NATO headquarters in the Belgian capital confirnml that lrscl Lorenen West lcrman employed by NATO for 11 years detected on Monday He refused to say how much access she had to the alliances secrets but reported that she worked in the Office oftouncil Operations and oiiimumcatioii which he said helps prepare for military exercises Officials ill illttl this week to assess what damage she could do the spokesman said The East German news agency said Miss Lorenen decided to defect because of stepped up ll war prepara tions including plans for an atomic attack against the so cialisl camp during the bum Imex exercise now being held by NATO But the NATO spokesman said the exercise is paper exercise involves no troops at all and will conclude In about twowecks Against supplying arms to China OllAA Itlu Defence Minister Barney lianson op poses supplying arms to thina and says he has strong support from some NAlt defence ministers But he excuses Britiin plans to sell llarricr jct fighters to hma lianson said Tuesday at ommons defence com milletmeeting tliosc lightersartdefensiveonly dont think that in itself is di stabilimg but it carried further it begins to be he said referring to the llarrier pro posal But the liiiicse liltl1tll of Vietnam and limas touchy relations with the Soviet liiion contained the risk of broaderconflict EASE FORDMERCURY and tithegminine Bars Cavalcade FontMercury Sales ltd 6454438 Mung WA mom BHMJHHIDGI two days ago that mi tiling no1 It Jot For the best rug buys in town plus gr on the red carpet rfls March 17th I979 Mini Quantum Ian We rutn the rihllollmll Quailmu It MART CARPET SALE CELANESE MANOR rwusr 70 Triocetete 30 polypropylene amberlint IIa uwv 275 BAVHELD Si BARRIE ONT OPEN MON T0 PRIOR 10310 SATURDAYS SOHO Colors Bricktone camel chiffon red reutme deserve if is your savings place Reg 1395 per sq yd per Sale Convloto lnItolotlon Avoloblo Advertised Merchandi ePol 1me Ivrllrniirl Following his comments on wome Frum fires icy TORONTO CP Broad caster Barbara Frum fired stinging slapshot at the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs Tuesday night for his comlt ments on where he thinks womans place is Harold Ballard said Monday night on the CBC radio network program As It Happens that women on radio are joke and the best position for woman is horizontal He then hung up the tele phone ending what was sup posed to have been adiscussion on Ballards role in the quick firing and rehiring of Leaf coach Roger Neilson last week end On Tuesdays show Frum referring to that unfortunate incident read an open letter to Ballard in which she said she realized how tired he must have been as result of the Neilson incident However dear Harold cooed Frum many of your lis teners took less charitable view of your provocative re marks Many wanted to do naughty things to you Our more gener ous listeners thought you should be stoned in the public square Frum continued as the strains of melancholic tune called Goodbye Rodney played in the background Iranians execute six more convicted of morals counts TEHBAN AP The lra nian revolutionary regime an nounccd today the execution of six more men convicted of mor als charges Iehrans lslainic Revolution ary Tourt said the men were members of ring in Tehran who kidnapped young boys and supplied them to homosexuals This brought the number exe cuted by Ayatollah Buhollah Khomeinis forces to at least 40 13 on morals charges and 27 officials of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavis regime communique said the six were shot Tuesday night at Qa sar Prison after twoday trial Earlier luesday three men were shot in Shiraz 1000 kilo metres south of Tehran for sodomy and Monday night four men were executed in Tehran for raping male college stu dent The new regimes insistence on adherence to Islamic law was further underscorml by the public flogging of an adulterous couple in Jamshid Abad east of Tehran Press reports said the woman received 40 lashes with leather whip while her lover re ceived 80 number of other persons have been flogged publicly for drinking alcoholic beverages which is forbidden by Islamic law Meanwhile licputy Premier Seeks changes in housing act OlTAWA Pt Urban Affairs Minister Andre ucllet launched urgent behindthescenes negotiations Iuesday night in an effort to get amendments to the National Ilousing Act passed by the ommons by the end of this week He appeared to give the opposition virtual carte blanche to delete portions of the bill and to make amendments The bill introduced last December would streamline 10 separate housing programs worth Sims million last year iiilo one program worth $250 million this year PLAY RECORO AMEM STEREO 8Track TAPE RECORDER mikes Sensrtive RECEIVER Auto TURNTABLE 4way SPEAKERS STAND on casters nllJI Abbas Amir Entezam denied report in the Tehran Journal an Englislrlanguage newspaper that Premier Mehdi Bauirgan submitted his resignation to Khomeini The premier threatened last week to resign because his gov ernmcnts attempts to establish its authority were being ham pered by Khomeinis Islamic revolutionary committees which operate as separate government and are not respon sible to the premier and his ad ministration The Tehran iouriial said Ba Lirgan took his resignation Tuesday to tom the Shiite Moslem holy city 150 kilometres smith of Tehran where the ayatollah makes his headquarters Entczam said the report was an unfounded Homo Auto tho Business sarjeant insurance WI Farm Rd loulo Ont rumor and that Bazargan did not leave Tehran ABC the Us television net work broadcast an interview with the shah in Rabat Mo rocco in which the ruler told AB correspondent he has no plans to abdicate Why should abdicate he said left my couiitry to hpr straighten things out It ob viously has had the opposite ef fect Entezam announced on Tuesday that the shah and his family would be put on trial in absentia in few days lapshot at Ballard But we wouldnt wish such fate upon you You already suf fer enough by owning the To ronto Maple Leafs and the Hamilton Tigerfats People have asked me if was offended Course not dont care what you say as long as you keep your hands in your pockets Until we meet again on Jack Talk happy trails to you Youre such joker oull appreciate my signltoff ope Your favorite BROADcaster Barbara Ballard said in an interview with local newspaper Tuesday night that he didnt understand all the fuss resulting from his remarks but in case he was misunderstood be repeated them Most were judged unfit to print However in 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