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iIIIIIIIIIKIIIIIIIIGDIfI1Ill1lllhlxyIKIlgitllfliall11171 news roundup Trade surplus for last month 79s smallest OTTAWA CP surge of importbuying in July tea to the smallest monthly trade surplus so far this year Preliminary trade figures released today by Statistics Canda showed the surplus of exports over imports last month dropped to $77 million from June total of $206 million The federal agency said imports increased by 102 per cent last month to $51 billion At the same time exports in creased by more modest 71 per cent to $517 billion Last months disappointing trade performance continues trend which began early this year During the first half of 1979 the countrys trade surplus was $970 million compared with $19 billion for the corresponding sixmonth period in 1978 Finance Minister John Crosbie predicted $21 billion trade surplus in his stateoftheeconomy address month ago Last year the country chalked up record $35billion margin of exports of over imports Foreign trade has traditionally been one of the brighter aspects of the countrys economic outlook Airline stops US lowfare sales MONTREAL CP Air Canada has decided to stop selling special lowfare tickets to the United States following the rejection of its fall seat sale program by the US Civil Aeronautics Board The federallyowned airline announced late Wednesday that it will no longer accept reservations for transborder seat sale tickets which offered passengers travelling to the if US this autumn savings of 46 to 68 per cent on regular fares Air Canada marketing director Ied Shetzen said the airline was distressed at having to cancel the program at this stage He said the application had been submitted in good faith to the US board with every reason to believe the fares would be accepted this time around Tornado damage loans subsidized TORONTO CP The if Ontario cabinet passed an orderincouncil Wednesday th assists Sentence for farmers and businessmen whose property was life terms damaged during tornado in RALEIGH NC AP The handcuffed Dr Jeffrey MacDonald is helped in to car by federal marshals Wednesday in Raleigh NC after being found guilty of the 1970 slayings of his wife and two daughters seven man fivewoman fury deliberated six hours and 35 minutes before returning with verdict US District Judge Franklin Dupree Jr sentenced Mac Donald 35 to three consecutive life terms Mac Donald is expected to appeal AP Photo southwestern Ontario earlier thismonth Environment Minister Harry Parrott said in an interview that banks will be asked to PFOCSS¢ loans deaths of Colette MacDonald quickly so rebUIldmg can and her two children turned the begin members of her family into bit The government plans to pay interest rates of more than six per cent With present bank rates at 13 per cent the government will likely pay the additional seven per cent Earlier this month Parrott said the provincial govern ments financial aid to the tornadoravaged areas could bemorethanSlOmillion ter adversaries We can rest in peace now her father said after Dr Jeffrey MacDonald was convicted of murder jury of seven men and five women deliberated for six hours Wednesday before convicting MacDonald former member of the US Army Special Forces Green Berets of one count of first degree murder and two counts of seconddegree murder in the deaths of his pregnant wife 26 and their daughters Kimberly and Kristen The deaths occurred in 1970 when the family was stationed at Fort Bragg have said before and will repeat again that never for one instant ever believed that 12 jurors would say he was in nocent said Albert Kassab Colettes father as MacDonald was led away to begin serving three consecutive life sen tences HARRY PARROTT banks asked Quebec sympathetic to Metis OTTAWA CP The Quebec government is sympathetic to the plight of Metis in the Kipawa area of western Quebec who fear eviction from their homes and will probably buy the land in question and lease it to families for token amount provincial official says About two weeks ago 20 families living on the southwest side of Lake Kipawa received individual notices in the mail offering to sell them the lots for $10000 each Metis spokesmen have said the asking price is beyond the means of the families and asked the Quebec and federal govern ments to intervene group of Metis set up roadblock near gake Kipawa for 31 hours last week to draw attention to the ispute PlRSLEI ASE Ruled out as legionnaire source KassabandhiswifeMildred TORONTO CPi construction site in northwestern of Cranbury NJ pursued Toronto has been ruled out as the source of legioniiaire prosecution am the us disease outbreak an Ontario health ministry spokesman Army found the Charges said Wednesday Diane Rimstead said blood tests last week on 25 construc tion workers employed at the excavation of an extension to Highway 400 near Highway 401 were negative Dr Sydney Shubert doctor of one of the two Toronto men whose deaths have been attributed to the disease had said the site which had been open since February could be the source No details released in Bell talks TORONTO CP No details are being released by either side concerning negotiations in MontrealTuesday between Bell Canada and the Communications Workers of Canada But Bell spokesman said Wednesday it appears progress is being made Jack Reid union national representative would not comment on what was discussed but said federal mediator Roland Doucet was to meet with company and union negotiators again Bells 15000 installers repairmen and technicians in Ontario and Quebec have been on strike since Aug 13 Gold rockets to $318 LONDON AP Gold prices rocketed to record highs today in hectic trading in London and Zurich Gold reached $31865 US an ounce in London the highest price ever for the precious metal In Zurich it traded at 3318625 slightly below the London mark The revious record price for gold $315625 was post during Hidays trading in Zurich against MacDonald not true taking their case to the justice department until grand jury indicted MacDonald in 1975 We feel vindicated we can rest in peace now Kassab said The jury returned verdicts of seconddegree murder in the deaths Of Mrs MacDonald and Kimberly MacDonald was con victed of firstdegree murder in the death of Kristen Prosecutors contended Mace Donald killed his wife in rage and may have hit his eldest daughter with the initial blow They argued he stabbed his youngest daughter and then himself in an effort to cover up his actions and invented his story that four drugcrazed in truders killed his family and stabbed him WAS FIRST RAILWAY Canadas first railway from La Prairie Que to St Jean Que was completed in 1838 Canadiana Curtains announces the opcning of ncw shop at 205 Dunlop St Barric store front fly 2w 57 Storm David lashes caribbean islands SAN JUAN AP Hurri cane David regained its strength and lashed the Virgin Islands and the south coast of Puerto Rico with galeforce winds and torrential rains early today after battering two of the Windward Islands Ham radio operators reported heavy property damage on the islands of Dominica and Martinique but there were no reports of casualties Moving westnorthwest at 25 kilometres an hour the centre of one of the most powerful hur ricanes to hit the Caribbean this century passed about 130 kilometres south of St Croix the southernmost of the US Virgin Islands at daybreak In its am EDT advisory the US National Weather Service pinpointed the centre or eye of the hurricane about 250 kilometres southeast of San Juan The weather service predicted it would be within 110 kilometres of Ponce Puerto Ricos second largest city on the southcentral coast about noon and then would move on to Cabo Beata the southernmost point of the Dominican Republic by late afternoon The storm is expected to stay on the same northwesterly track for the next 24 hours the service said With maximum winds back to 250 kmph David roared into the Caribbean between the Windward Islands of Dominica and 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