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erases fireman lifts Mrs Warren Vanderhotf after she was trapped in burning car when it crashed off highway overpass in New Rescued following spectacular crash Orleans Tuesday The womans child Melissa about died of in Bitter disa ointment admitted lurles she received when the car landed upside down and caught fire after it was hit by tractor trailer truck AP Laserphofo Opposition attacks PCs over Candu OTTAWA tCPi The Pro gressive Conservative govern nent stung by its failure to se rure second contract with Ar gentina for the sale of nuclear technology came under heavy fire Tuesday from opposition critics and industry spokesmen Economic Development Min ister Robert de otret acknowl edged bitter disappointment at Argentinas decision to award the contract to West Germany adding that he hopes future sales of Candu heavy water re actors will not be jeo ardized Canada submitt bid of close to $12 billion for the sale of the reactor heavy water plant and an exchange of nu clear technology Officials said the West German bid was about half billion dollars higher De Cotret suggested that Ar gentinian confusion over Cana dian nuclear safeguard require ments might have contributed to the decision and would have to be clarified Our position on nuclear safeguards has to be made very clear very plain he said We have to remove any kind of un certainty that exists External Affairs Minister Ottawa chalks up deficit of record $699 billion OTTAWA lt The federal government chalked up deficit of 3690 billion during the first five months of the current spending year tinpercent increase over last years five month deficit Figures released Tuesday show the government spent $115 billion more than it took iii during August pushing the fiveinoiith deficit to record level Finance Minister John tiosbie has said the govern ment be able to end the year with deficit $400000 smaller than last years $117 billion figure Because the deficit recorded in every month of the current fiscal year has been larger than The Onion and Potato harvests are in full swing on the Grand Bend marshes north of London Ont John Smlts to RR2 Grand Bend on the previous years monthly tally Crosbies plan will require either sharp spending cuts or substantial increase in revenues in the remaining seven months of the fiscal year ending March 31 During the first five months of the year the government spent $2082 billion and took in $1383 billion One month ago the gove nmeiit deficit was running 11 per cent higher than the pre vious years figure The gap widened by the end of August because the spending deficit for that month alone was 436 per cent higher than that of August 1978 RESPONSIBILITY SHARED Responsibility for the five month deficit is shared between the Liberals who were responr sible for spending until May 22 and the Conservatives who took over after winning the election The largest five areas of spending during the perier end ing Aug 31werc Interest charges on money the government has borrowed $33 billion Unemployment benefits$26 billion Oldage benefits $25 bil lion Defence $16 billion Welfare payments to the provinces $13 billion ITISUIEI ICC Flora MacDonald referred to human rights violations in Ar gentina at UN speech last week She later told reporters she would like to see new in ternational agreement stif fening nuclear safeguard regulations0ERNMENT BLAJIEI Ross Campbell president of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd the federal agency that tried to negotiate the deal said the con tract would have been clinched except for government in decision Campbells remarks were discussed at meeting of Prime Minister Clarks inner cabinet Tuesday but there was no comment by ministers following the session Campbell was not available for further comment The Liberal party nuclear critic Maurice Foster A1 gomai blasted the Con servatives saying lack of gov ernment support for the project during July and August swung the deal to West Germany midSeptember visit by In ternational Trade Minister Mi chael Wilson was too little too late Foster said Argentina now has West Germanbuilt reactor in oper ation and Candu reactor un der construction Sale of sec ond Canadian reactor was seen as crucial because of the South Onion potato harvests in full swing American countrys plans build three more COMPETITION STIFF Both de Cotret and Energy Minister Ray Hnatyshyn ad mitted that Canada now will face stiff competition from West Germany for the new contracts Hnatyshyn rejected sugges tions that Miss MacDonalds re marks last week had contrib uted to Argentinas decision The deal had been in the works for months he said Campbell said Monday the Argentine government had made it clear it preferred the Candu reactor but had wanted assurances that safety require ments would not be changed in the future That was reason able request but the govern ment was too slow in respond ing he said Foster said the deal would have resulted in 15000 man years of jobs for industry Fu ture sales now are in doubt he said To date Canada has sunk about $15 billion into develop ment of the Candu program There are 24 reactors operlt ating or planned in this country and five others have been sold to Pakistan India South Korea Argentina and Romania Negotiations are under way for sales with Romania and with Japan an onion harvester and his wife Rita who moves alongside pulling hopper wagon CP Laserphoto the ewfaminer Wodmsdangct 1979 Look for anniversary olour ms ert to days newspaper ecial ffer lt Save 59¢ per cassette Wltll coupon below 0N CASSETTE 0ct3Oct9 Ocl3Oct9 The Shadow Fibber McGee Death Molly romt eep he Id Jalopy pER SHOW WITH 50¢ Off Coupon 50¢ Off Coupon COUPON GEORGIAN MALI AND SIMCOE PLAIA DOMINION STORES WILL BE CLOSED THANKSGIVING DAY MONDAY OCT I979 60 years of dependability