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new 935 Ww¢ 13in amp the examiner Monday Apr 30 1979 xtra ment for their crimes area ton on May in Ecuadors expected to vote and social justice FAVORS CHANGE says solve the problem want to discuss Cambodia Ayatollah letter defends execution HAMPTON NS CP The Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho meini has sent letter to the Canadian branch of Amnesty International defending his governments political execu tions and labelling the prisoners as murderers who ha vc kill ed more than 50000 people during the last year Khomeini was replying to letter from Rev 11sborg national coordinator for Amnesty Internationals campaign against torture who had written in March appealing to him on humanitarian grounds to stop the executions to allow open trials and to allow just appeal procedures Father Osborg retired Catholic priest said in an inter view from his home in this Annapolis Valley village Sunday he is mailing reply to the Ayatollah today agreeing that criminals must be punished but opposing capital punish Charged after mail box explosions MISSISSAUGA Ont tCP day following five recent mail box explosions in the Toronto Insp Chris OToole of Peel Regional Police said the mailboxes were blown up between April 18 and April 25 in Mississauga Oakville and Caledon OToole said United States military explosive device about the size of role of quarters was used to blow up the mailboxes The device which has delayed fuse can be purchased legally in the US he said The four men are to appear in provincial court in liramp David Boileau 19 and William Norman McCormick 23 both of Mississauga are charged with four counts of using an explosive to damage property Brian James Hoffert 20 of Toronto is charged with three counts and Tibor Blank 23 of Mississauga is charged with two counts Mississauga is just west of Toronto MeKeough made director of railway TORONTO CP Darcy McKeough former treasurer of Ontario has been elected as director of the Algoma en tral Railway MeKeough was member of the Ontario legislature until his resignation on August 16 1978 He is chairman of MeKeough Sons Ltd Chatham Ont Roldos wins landslide in Ecuador QUITO AP Jaime Roldos centreleft po little national political experience won landslide victory presidential democratic change after nine years of military rule The national information office said Roldos 38yearold lawyer got 608056 votes or 665 per cent of those counted by 11 pm Sunday to 249877 or 273 per cent for his conser vative opponent Sixto Duran Ballen 57 The information office said 914297 votes had been counted including 56364 blank and null ballots There were 2088874 registered voters and about two million had been Roldos said in televised victory address that his govern ment will seek balance between economic development Ecuador has declared itself in favor of change he said wont delay until have achieved an authentic Ecuadorean democratic change Roldos supported by the Concentration of Popular Forces party has served as congressman Duran Ballcn an ar chitect was backed by the Constitutionalist Front Coalition Cambodia negotiations deadlocked PEKING AP UN SecretaryGeneral Kurt Waldheiin the VietnameseChinese deadlocked over Cambodia and it will be long process to Arriving in Peking Sunday from VietnamVialdheiiii told Chinese leaders at banquet Sunday that unless there is breakthrough in the talks and quick end to Vietnams war in Cambodia against troops loyal to ousted premier Pol Pot Four men were charged Sung puhst with election and promised peace negotiations are The Chinese want to introduce all the elements of the problem into the discussions including ambodia and border matters Waldheim said after the leaders in Hanoi rebuffed his offer to mediate But the Vietnamese do not Hydro officials upset over secret report TORONTO CP Lome McConnell Ontario Hydro pro duction vicepresident has demanded public hearing at Queens Park to rebut secret report which said serious nuclear accident is possible at the Bruce generating station Hydro officials said they are upset at the way the report was exaggerated and slipped to the legislatures select committee on llydro affairs by Ontario Liberal Leader Stuart Smith on Friday llydro experts had appeared before the same committee one week earlier to answer ques tions on the public utilitys operation Dr Smith said he only received the secret report one day earlier but it was dated April 16 more than 10 days ago McConnell said Satur day It has left ntario Hydro with serious stigma and my job now is to eliminate that stigma with the truth McConnell said he and Hydro team will go back before the select committee as soon as possible to answer the Liberal allegations chapter and verse The secret document was passed to Greyltruce MII IId Souris receding OXBUW Sask CF waters began receding in southeastern Saskatchewan Sunday as the Souris River flood crest worked its way to the US border The farming community of Glen Ewen about 10 kilometres from the border experienced the crest Sunday evening Harry Wilson whose farm is the last one on the river before the border said the Souris peaked about 10 centimetres front the top of his 125mctrc earth dike Glen MacDonald spokesman for the provincial environment department said the crest should pass out of the province today heading for Minot NI Wilson said this years runoff brought on by the heavy winter snowfall deS not seem as bad as in 1971 when water covered the main floor of his farm house to depth of 43 ccnr timctres The BLSIVIZSS IHNINIS ALMA in tII Iliin beef prices dont bother grocer Wayne Lewis whos doing booming business in raccoon meat He says he sells as many as 50 raccoons day at 79 cents pound to customers who come from as far away as Florida Lewis says the ment can be stewed baked or barbecued Antinuclear activists arrested in protest GOLDEN Colo IAP Volunteer lawyers circulated among antinuclear activists offering advice and helping to keep order as more than 280 persons were arrested in pro test at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant At least flit protesters were arrested Sunday in what organizers called deliberate act of Civil disobedience blocking access tothe plant the only producer of plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons Buses took the arrested demonstrators to west Denver suburb south of Rocky Flats where makeshift pro cessing centre was set up in warehouse used by the US Geological Survey to store rock samples The protesters were charged with trespassing under the L7 Atomic Energy Act of 1954 misdemeanor carrying max imum fine of $1000 They were released and ordered to appear in US District Court in Denver next month Many of the protesters spent weeks training in Denver to prepare for the demonstration at the plant operated by Rockwell International Corp under contract to the US energy department Former Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg was among those arrested at Rocky Flats He was arrested on railway spur leading to the plant near the spot where he was arrested one year ago Sunday lran reached agreement About noon Sunday more than 350 chanting protesters began walking toward Rocky Flats and split into three groups headed tor the main gate on the plants west side the cast gati and the railway tracks Passive resistance GOLDEN Colo Two of the 284 protesters ar rested at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant Sunday are helped to bus by Rockwell Interna tlonal security guards and US marshals The demonstration echoed another one exactly one year ago again In opposition to the plants con tlnued operation AP Photo on daily oil production TIJIIItAN MP The Na tional Iranian il To tNlOtfi says production of Iranian crude oil will average 35 million to four million barrels day for the rest of the year with total of 105 million bar rcls going to Exxon Texaco Gulf faltex and Shell daily Reza Azimi N1ts marketing director told news conference Sunday that nine month contracts have been agreed on with about 35 coun tries and oil companies He said the price was $1657 barrel for light crude and $1604 for heavy crude Azimi said all the buyers agreed not to sell any of the oil toSouthAfrica or Israel Before the revolution that drove Shah Mohammcd litlit Iahlavi from the throne Iran produced an average of six million barrels of crude oil dai ly and exported 515 million The head ol Nltlf llassaii Nalili told the news conference the goveriuncnl is limiting dai ly production to four million barrels for the time being and no foreign personnel will he needed to maintain that Before the revolution about 600 foreign technicians were employed in the industry by the lit Services 081 which was owned by 17 foreign oil companies and produced and maikt it iiiost o1 lran oil for the national comapny is finished Nazih Alimi said the company sold oil on the spot market in March for $1870 to $22 20 barrel and will continue to sell 200000 to 300000 barrels day on spot basis Industry Irans daily oil income to average $4 million to $50 million ltctorc the revolution although production was 30 pcr cent more it averaged $55 million to $60 million because the price was $3 to $4 barrel less That was tlopcr cent of the countrys foreign incomi said StlllS prtl die Sargent by an unidentified official working at the Bruce plant Flth WITII ACCIDENT It accused Hydro of flirting with nuclear accident at the plant about 150 kilometres nor thwest of Toronto that would be worse than recent events at the Three Mile Island Pa nuclear facility The unidentified official said there are enough design short falls in Hydros Candu reactors that radioactive releases would be more substantial than those encountered at Three Mile Island if similar acm dent occurred here The report listed seven separate accidents at the Bruce plant reported in detail by Hydro to the Atomic Energy Control Board AECB but at breviated in Hydros quarterly public reports Dissidents arrive to heros welcome TEL AVIV AP Eduard Kuznetsov and Mark Dymshits arrived in Israel to heroes welcome today They were the last of seven Soviet Jews freed by the Kremlin after nine years in prison for plotting to escape from the Soviet Union by hi jacked airliner Blessed be he who has sus tained us and brought us to this day said Prime Minister Menachem Begin quoting Jewish prayer celebrating joyous occasions Kumetsov and Dymshits pale and gaunt from their prison years but smiling broad ly arrived at BenGurion Air port on flight from New York On Friday they and three other Russian dissidents were swap ped for two convicted Soviet spies The men were welcomed by an emotional crowd of relatives friends and govern ment officials led by Begin himself former prisoner in Soviet labor camp Thanks to your efforts we have arrived to be with you said Dymshits1m happy that after nine years can join my country and my family in my homeland On Sunday Begin also head ed the crowd of relatives friends and officials at Ben Gurion Airport to greet five of the Jews who were freed last Tuesday and arrived from Vienna with 82 other Soviet Jewish immigrants We waited for you for 81 years but the day finally came Begin told Wolf Zalmanson 39 Anatoli Altman 36 Boris Penson 33 Leib Khnokh 35 and Hillel But man 46 Schoolchildren sang as relatives and friends hugged the arriving immigrants and showered them with flowers Begin greeted them in Russian and escorted them into the ter minal where they were given Israeli citizenship cards State of emergency as river level rises FREDERICTON Cl state of emergency was delcared today by Mayor Elbridge Wilkins as cc tacular turn in the level the flooding Saint John River forc ed an estimated 100 families from their homes People are being urged to stay home from work and schools and all but essential government offices are closed Many evacuees have been moved to residences at the Univerity of New Brunswick located 011 hill Others are staying with friends Most of those evacuated were from mobile home park located near the rivers edge on the citys outskirts The river at am AII am EDT stotxt at 256 feet above sea level at am AIl am EDT and was rising tenth of foot every hour The most serious recent flooding oc curred in 1973 when the river peaked at 284 feet here Ilenry Irwin provincial director of the Emergency Measures Organization said he had no reason to expect that this flood will be repeat of 19Zt but said he was graver concerned that the river had risen more than forecast Irwin said he hopes the river will ak on Wednesday pro VldLt there is little or no ad ditonal rainfall Irwin said the state of emcrency declared by Wilkins gives the mayor the authority to requisition food supplies ser vices and evacuate all areas that need to be by force it necessary The flood is being blamed on heavy rain 116 millimetres fell by this morning mild temperatures and melting snow Municpal affairs minister Horace Smith said early this morning it the heavy rains con tinue it may be necessary for me to issue delcaration of state of emergency to apply to areas along the Saint John River outside the city that are expected to be seriously flooded Volunteers arriving by busload to help fight swollen Red River WINNIIEG tPi As the Red River rises and the water gets closer to some residential areas volunteers arrive by the busload to pile thousands of sand bags around hundreds of homes The job isnt easy but the volunteers range from greybearded men who say they are doin the work because it needs to it done to school kids who are doing it because they sayitsfun Desmond Hcvis an ad ministrator for the University of Manitoba is doing it because he lives in the danger area and others have helped him Its job that must be done and the people of Winnipeg are doing it just look at them coming its simply splendid he said as light rain fell much to everyones consternation Gordon Swail was helping pile sand bags around his mothers home usually about 106 metres from the river but now about 15 metres away Ili did the same thing in 1950 This time his mother is in Florida but the house is in danger Ile figures is will take about 12000 sand bags to surround the house with wall about 24 metres high Just look at those kids slug ging those heavy bags he said as many youngsters kept arriv ing HAS IIItilI IltAISII Swail is one man who just cant say enough about what sarcastically used to be called Duffs Ditch the $63million Red River Floodway which former Progressive onscr vativc premier Duff Roblin had built in the 1960s It Duff Roblin never does another thing in his lifetime it wouldnt mat tcr that floodway has saved many dollars and likely lives Michael Robbie 14 came several kilometres by bus to help and was tossing the nine toltir kilogram sacks along the assembly line like nothing at all Well theres no school today and anyway somebody has to help he said And its kinda fun Michaels loymrold sister Laura says shes helping to have something to tell her grandchildren And we are honestly concerned about the flood and want to be 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