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USconvoys ready to leave Beirut BEIRUT AP The United States embassy was ordered to day to organize convoys to evacuate any US citizens wan ting to leave Beirut following the slaying Wednesday of US Ambassador Francis Meloy his economic counsellor Robert Waring and their Lebanese driver But not many of the 1400 US citizens in the Lebanese capital were expected to flee mass exodus of US citi zens was not expected because fighting in Beirut has subsided and the population is feeling more secure There is talk of the airport reopening which would give safer exit route if evacuation became necessary And many of the US citizens for months have resisted the embass urging that they leave ecause they are of Lebanese birth have dual citi zenship and dont want to leave their native land The US state department announced early today in Wash ington that due to the contin uing uncertainty of the situation in Beirut President Ford has directed the US em bassy there to organize depar ture of an overland convoy of those US citizens who wish to depart at this time state department spokes man said the US embassy will remain open and only those embassy officials not essential to our continuing operations will leave The embassy staff has already been cut to 53 US citizens CUPE calls off hospital strike TORONTO CP The Cana dian Union of Public Em ployees CUPE complying with an Ontario Labor Relations Board order has called off threatened strike by about 20000 nonmedical workers at 59 Ontario hospitals The board ordered CUPE on Wednesday to end all threats of what would have been an illegal strike but at the same time it ruled that the Ontario Hospitals Association had not bargained in good faith The strike threatened for midnight Wednesday night would have been illegal under the provincial Hospital Labor Disputes Arbitration Act Bar gaining in good faith is com pISory under the provincial La bor Relations Act The hospitals had applied to the board to forbid the strike The union complained to the board that the hospitals had not bargained in good faith Both sides indicated willingness to continue bargaining and negotiations were underway Thursday Security bill moves forward OTTAWA CP The Com mons justice committee com pleted study of the con troversial peace and security bill Thursday after racing through series of clauses deal ing with dangerous offenders provincial crime probes and pa role board regulations The bill which also deals with gun controls and wiretaps has now been referred to the Commons for third reading The dangerous offenders sec tion of the bill alters the rules concerning indeterminate sen tences for persons convicted of personal injury crimes or sex ual offences and regarded as dangerous to society It also deals with those who are con sidered habitual criminals but not dangerous Gordon Fairweather PC FundyRoyal said the govern ment was overreacting in this part of the bill and ignoring civil liberties in not giving pris oners fixed sentences SolicitorGeneral Warren Al lmand said the bill which pro vides review of an in determinate sentence after the first three years and every two years after that allows the courts greater measure 0f flexibility It also provides parole review annually for those already ser ving indeterminate sentences One clause approved by the committee increased the size of the National Parole Board to 26 members from 19 to provide greater regional representation and ease growing work load Another clause added two community members to boards hearing parole cases to allow more community input in board decisions on temporary ab sence permits for dangerous of fenders Alternatives to jail sought by Basford VANCOUVER CP Fed eral AttorneyGeneral Ron Bas ford and his provincial counter parts achieved consensus Thur sday on sentencing proposals that would exclude jail terms or fines for many minor offenders Petty thieves might find themselves making restitution to their victims Vandals could be sentenced to do community Work Some violators might be fined on formula tied to their incomes Others might be re leased on condition they take treatment for alcoholism if that was strong factor behind commission of the offence Weve filled our jails at enormous cost to the taxpayer and dont think jail is work ing Mr Basford said after the first day of the closed confer ence Its essential we go forward with reforms to the criminal law The proposed sentencing al ternatives are based on recom mendations from report by the sixyearold Law Reform Commission of Canada body just coming into its OWn The re rts proposals for nofault ivorce law and uni fied family court system are to be put before the conference by Mr Basford today He in dicated it would be some time before the proposals become law even if they are well received by the provinces RON BASFORD jail not working commission proposal that would speed up procedure from arrest to trial received close at tention Under the proposal preliminary hearings would be replaced by pretrial disclosure of evidence against an accused Experiments in Montreal have indicated that the system saves time now at premium in courts clogged with cases as well as monev French want too much fisheries minister says OTTAWA CP The federal government thinks the French claim for 20000 square miles of continental shelf off its territory of St PierreMiquelon is out of proportion Fisheries Minister Romeo LeBlanc said Thursday He said in the Commons he agreed with Jack Marshall PCHumberSt GeorgesSt Barbe who said that Canada has taken the rightful poSition that the size of the claim of St PierreMiquelon is out of ro rtion to the size of the blo of and existing there The French government an nounced Wednesday it has ap proved draft bill which Will enable France to proclaim 200mile offshore isheries eco nomic zone that would also ap ply to its territories That includes St Pierre Miquelon which lies 15 miles off Newfoundlands south Coast Mr LeBlanc said discussions have already been held with French officials on the issues and there was agreement to speed up discussions and enter into formal negotiations There will likely be reciprocal and temporary arrangements until the issue of Offshore boundaries is settled Canada and France signed reciprocal fisheries agreement in 1972 that ensures St lierre Miquelon access to Canadian fisheries and recognizes Can adas right to control fish stocks once it declares 200 milelimit Canada has announced it will have 200mile limit by Jan YEAR ENDS AT EAST 0R0 Students of East Oro public school held their Grade closing exercises and din ner this week at the Guthrie Hall Valedictorian Marion Scott right looked over the program with fellow classmates Judy Oliver and Robert Bromley which included the names of the gradua tion class and award win ners Janey Wilkie and Grant Black were top boy and girl Lorie Davey and Stephen Arnold had the highest academic stan dings Examiner Photo Bringing constitution home wont tip power balancePM OTTAWA CP Prime Min ister Trudeau pledged Thur sday to maintain the current balance of federal and provin cial powers in reclaiming the Canadian constitution from the BritishParliament He told the Commons the fed eral government does not in tend to increase its power in bringing the British North America Act home Discussions with provincial premiers this week on how the constitution could be brought to Canada were not conclusive Mr Trudeau said The prime minister reaffir med his governments intention to make sure that every part of the Canadian constitution shall reside in Canada prior to the next federal general elec tion expected in 1978 The BNA Act is statute of the British Parliament and changes can only take place in parts of the document if the Westminster Parliament agrees Mr Trudeau said in reply to Andrew Brewin NDPToron to Greenwood that the Keep cost sharing MP tells Ottawa OTTAWA CP Veteran New Democrat TC Douglas made what he called last des perate plea to the government Thursday to continue paying half the cost of provincial medi cal care and hospital insurance programs Mr Douglas tNanaimoCow ichan and the lslandst and Paul Yewchuk Progressive Con servative health critic acknowledged that soaring health care costs had to be cur bed But they suggested Ottawa was jumping the gun with un warranted plans to dismantle the costsharing programs it has had with the provinces for years Their appeal in the Commons came after the Commons con cluded lengthy debate on the government bill to abolish capi tal punishment Seven retentionists spoke Thursday bringing the total of speeches on the bill to 119 MP3 vote on that bill Tuesday The health debate centred on government proposal to put ceiling on its annual share of provincial health spending However in the background is proposal Prime Minister Trudeau made to provincial premiers earlier this week to abolish the 5050 cost sharing agreement on health and post secondary education OFFERS TAXES In its place Mr Trudeau pro posed transfer of some tax points to the provinces and equalization grants in cash for provinces which need more money Although financial details of the alternative proposal have not been decided and althouth TOMMY DOUGLAS Iast desperate plea the provinces have not ac cepted it even in principle op position critics have assumed this scheme will cause undue hardship to the provinces with smaller tax bases than others The result will he that those areas of Canada which are al ready disadvantaged in many other respects will also have low0r standard 0f health care Mr Douglas said The medical care program was introduced in 1968 The Hospital Insurance and Diag nostic Services Act also shared 5050 was passed in 1957 and the government announced about year ago that it will end in l980 Municipalities plight gets Clarks support VANCOUVER CP Dc mands of municipalities for more money received some support Thursday from Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark but was criticized by Calgary Mayor RodSykes Their statements at the con vention of the Federation of Ca nadian Municipalities came af ter an FCM report saying munici alities are short chang in their share of public revenue was adopted at lenary session on municipal inance Mr Clark said he cannot pro pose specific formula for rev enue sharing but we must recognize the reality of the fi nancial problems of local gov ernment and recognize also the companion reality that local governments properly fi nanced can do many things better than senior governments can Earlier Thursday Urban Af fairs Minister Barney Danson said he would like to call con ference of all three levels of government to diseuss methods of providing more and cheaper serviced land for housing FCM president Paul Godfrey chairman of Metropolitan To ronto said the FCM is not pre arcd to take part in such con erence until further trilevel discussions are held on the gen eral subject of public finance He said conference on financ ing is being arranged for Octo ber Mayor Sykes said municipal ities should clean up their own houses before seeking federal aid In hallway news con ference he said delegates are discussin the same issues that came be ore the annual con ference five years ago when it was called the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities The name was changed Wednesday He said FCM demands on be half of its member municipal ities for federal aid are futile because the municipalities themselves have not demon strated any real willingness to make tough decisions on policy priorities at the local level We must perform on our own right before we attack the federal government he said premiers will discuss the con stitutional issue at their annual meeting in August and report the results Mr Brewin asked whether the prime minister had sug gested formula similar to one adopted at the Victoria meeting in 1971 which allowed certain provinces veto power over changes to the constitution The prime minister replied that the Victoria formula was one of three choices outlined to the premiers in letters made public some time ago second choice was unilateral action by the federal Parliament and third the Victoria formula with entrenched Frenchlanguage cultural rights In any case the federal gov ernment does not intend to use return of the constitution as means to increase the federal governments potential to act he said BAYFIELI MALL OVIINIOIII ODINWAM In More In JOHANNESBURG AP South Africas racial upheaval spread to at least seven black African townships and to other parts of the country today The threeday uprising by lacks has left at least 58 persons re ported dead and 788 wounded Reports of rioting and clashes with police over widening area suggested the casualty ig ures were much higher At least two persons were re ported killed by police gunfire today at Alexandra black set tlement on the northern fringes of Johannesburg Police Minister James Kruger banned on all outdoor public gatherings until June 29 under South Africas Riotous Assemblies Act Police said general calm was Sou th African restored in Soweto townshi the scene of rioting Wednes ay and Thursdaybut said spo radic outbreaks of violence and looting were continuing The worst violence today was in Alexandra where the South African Press Association re ported police opened fire on mob of blacks mostly juveniles Young Africans set up road blocks to prevent hundreds of riot police armed with auto matic rifles and tear gas from moving into the area COVERED WITH SMOKE blanket of acrid smoke from burning buildings and the tear gas covered the shanty town nine miles from the 10 hannesburg city centre The shooting began after riot The Barrie Examiner Frida June I8 19763 riots spread ers set fire to several build ingsincluding church and ii guor storesand at least ozen vehicles There was no immediate in dication however the rioting would spread to nearby white suburbs Heavily armed police cordoned off Alexandra About 3000 blacks went on rampa at Vosloorus town ship ut 15 miles southeast of Johannesburg and set four buses and beer hall ablaze At nearby Natalspruit rioters stoned passing cars and set fire to buses Two government employees were trapped inside brewery near the outskirts of the white city of Germiston also near Vosloorus Police armed with automatic rifles set up road blocks around Vosloorus and one police officer said the mood of the crowd was ugly STUDENTS GATHER The black University of the North at Pietermaritzburg was tense this morning as students gathered on football field wat ched by police Rioting students at the black University of Zululand on the east coast dispersed after burn ing down several buildings po lice said Firemen who rushed to the scene were forced back by rockthrowing students police official reported the situation in Soweto was com pletely under control but said there were still few pockets of resistance by small groups of blacks words 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