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acM news roundup Police save Iranians from mob SAN ANTONIO Tex AP daylong dispute that teetered on the brink of violence ended when police whisked five Iranian protesters away from an angry mob that taunted and threatened them The San Antonio College students completing the second day of hunger strike on the steps of City Hall Tuesday night were hustled through the building out back door and into an unmarked police car at their own request They were taken to the police station for protection Leaders of the crowd which numbered more than 2th at times had vowed an open season on camel jockeys and promised to return today if the students began third day oti the steps Fiji Willing to take shah SUVA Fiji Reuteri Fiji is willing toprovidc sanctuary for the deposed shah of Iran Prime Minister Batu Sir Kamisese Mara said today The prime minister of the 320island country in the South Pacific was asked at news conference how his government would respond toa request that the outsted shalt undergoing medical treatment in the United States go to Fiji Personally think the man whatever wrong he Iias committed has been abandoned by everyone except the United States he replied Those of us who profess to be Christians should stand tip and be counted and wotild agree to him coming to Fiji Trespass regulations tightened TORONTO ili Tighter regulations to help owners col lect compensation for land damaged by trespassers were III troduced in the Ontario legislature Tuesday AttorneyGeneral Roy McMurtry presented two bills which also allow landowners to permit recreational ac tivities on their property without woriying about being sued for injuries which might occur Orillia firm in transaction EDMONTON itli Campbell Films Ltd of Orillia Ont has purchased so per cent of the combined operations of lerlund Plastics Ltd and IntcrPack Plastics of Ed monton Tom llollinghead comptroller for Me iund Plastics Ltd said the transaction will be followed by an expansion that will make lerlunil one of the largest plastic manufacturers in Western Canada Teachers board in agreement BRANIIOBI Ont itPi tentative agreement was reached Tuesday night by the Brant County boatd of educa Ministry in quandary about diseased coho TORONTO The On farm natural resources ministry ha 1i million disea id coho salmon and cant detitl what to do with them The fish scheduled to be placed in Lake Ontario this March are infected with IPN infectaous pancreatic necrosis Resources Minister James Auld said Tuesday in the legislature The ministry can either stock the lake with the fish and risk infect mg other species or dump the salmon and face the ire of fishermen Auld said salmon fishing in the west end of Lake Ontario was created by the ministrys stocking program If stocking were dropped for year it Escarpment would result in poor fishing in 1981 If we were the only agency planting coho salmon in Lake Ontario would have no prob lem deciding to destroy the iii fected stock to control the dis ease and protect our native fish and the other species in our planting programs he said However US states are put ting fish with the same disease into Lake Ontario So even if we decide not to plant we may have the prob lem in our waters anyway EXAMINE PROBLEM He said he will ask the fed eral government and Great Lakes Fishen Commission to bring together senior fisheries site out Oakville firm choice TORONTO ll ati trakon Ltd of Ottawa has to build luxury conference centre in Oakville Ont rather than its original site on the Niagara Escatpnient choice which had threatened provincial elect ion last year Housing Minister Claude Bennett delighted the op position Tuesday by an nouncing that the developer plans to build its Slfianillion centre on propel iy adjacent to Ilen Abbey golf cotirse and owned by ienstar Ltd The companys first site which Bennett had approved was located on one of the es carpment areas near Caledon about So kilometres northwest of Toronto Bennett told the legislature he was plcascd with the decision of the company which had threatened to cancel the project when opposition parties obicctcd to the original site CONTINUE YOUR COLLECTION OF CHRISTMAS PLATES I979 BUCKINGHAM PALACE étrrlra Qihina 9hin English China Sifts tOtiIIl IAllil ONIAIiO VII ITS The Liberals had put pressure oti Bennett by in troducing motion to reduce the housing ministrys ex peditures by $1800o ministers base salary because they believed Bennett was making mockery of preserving the escarpment only Picture Taken with Santa $275 Elected mayor San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein named mayor following the assassination of late Mayor George Moscone last year Tuesday won the of fice on her own right beating challenger Quen tin Kopp by large majority AP Laserphoto tion and its 340 elementary teachers who have been on strike since Nov In joint news release the board and teachers said ratifi cation votes by both parties are set for Thursday Details of the pact were withheld until ratification Interest rates may decrease HALIFAX li Interest rates in Canada have reached peak and will probably decrease to an average rate of around ll per cent by October 1980 Forrest Rogers eco nomic adviser to the Rank of Nova Scotia said Tuesday Rogers told press conference it was difficult to be pre cisc about the speed at which interest rates will decline but said the prime lending rate would likely decrease to 13 per cent by next spring and go lower through the summer Rogers said he believed business would slow over the year ahead with inflation and energy ill presenting problems He also warned of persistent uncertainty in the business climate due to world energy and political considerations llc predicttd growth in the economy would be in the range of zero to 11 per cent However he said the Canadian economy while still affected by the world situation grew by approximately three per cent despite weakness in auto production and housing the examiner wgdnesdgy Def 12 1979 rs Soames arrives to restore UK rule SALISBURY AP Lord Soames was arriving in Sa lisbury to restore British rule briefly over its former African colony after 14 years despite warnings from guerrilla leaders that the move was premature Although the soninlaw of the late Sir Winston Churchill was coming today as caretaker governor to arrange new elec tions and manage the transition to legal independence as soon as possible the Zimbabwe Rho desian government laid on full program of pomp and cere mony for his arrival The highlight of the airport ceremony was the playing of God Save the Queen and the raising of the Union Jack for the first time since Ian Smiths allwhite government unilate rally declared independence from Britain in 1965 to forestall black rule In preparation for the gover nors arrival Zimbabwe Rho desias first blackmajority Parliament met iuesaay and voted to dissolve itself and restore governmental power to BritainFEARS VOICED Although the vote was for mality ratifying agreements reached at the London peace talks the session stretched late into the night as black and white legislators took ad vantage of their last op portunity to voice fears and hopes for the future The British government de cided to send Soames to Sa Know nothing about talks with hostages Iranians TEHRAN AP The stu dents holding 50 hostages at the US Embassy say they know nothing about foreign observers interviewing their captives promised by Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and that Ghotbzadeh doesnt speak for them We are not here to confirm or deny anybodys statement student leader said of Ghotbzadehs pledge We have not been informed about any meeting arranged with the hos tages If anything comes up well announce it ourselves and nobody can be our spokesman The foreign minister made the promise at news confer ence Tuesday saying We are going to have international ob servers to go and visit the pris oners in hope very short time and afterward hope that visits will be made regu larly However he said he has not conferred with UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheims spe cial envoy Zuhair Yamin of Lebanon who arrived in Tehran Monday hoping to visit the hostages seized at the US Embassy Nov by students de manding that President Carter send the shah back to Iran for trial LETTER DENIED Tehran Radio said today that Senator Edward Kennedy critic of the shah sent letter to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini expressing support for his revolution and asking permission to visit Iran But spokesman for the senator denied he has had any contact whatsoever with the ayatollah or anyone in the Iranian government Meanwhile Khomeinis do mestic difficulties appeared to be increasing He announced that he was sending an investigative com mission to clamp down on what he called anarchic elements among his revolutionary guards who he said were seizing government land and buildings The ayatollah did not say where the land grabs were tak ing place There was no indication that peace mission Khomeini sent to northwest Iran was making any progress toward quieting the rebellion of the Azaris the ethnic Turks who seized control of Tabriz Irans thirdlargest city in revolt against Kho meinis oneman rule RIVALS LEADER The Turks and their spiritual leader Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem ShariatMadari are Shiite Moslems like Khomeini and his Persian Iranians and ShariatMadari is considered the sects secondranking rcpiescntativcs to examine the proliltlii ltick Morgan executive director of thc Ontario ltwlcralion of Anglers and lltinttrs said his group will fight the destruction of the fish Salmon only carry IIN al though it can kill trout less than siV months old he said in telcphoni interview from ietcrboiough Ont Sears CORRECTION In Sears Christmas is Circular on Page l7 the IO table saw is not exactly asilltistrated Seats regrets any inconvenience this may have caused our customers for you When you work hard for your money your money should work iust as hard II will in Royal Trust RRSP Come in and see us Paul 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