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the examlnor Monday Nov 14 1977 50 reported dead in fire in hotel MANILA AP Canadian guests were registered at ho tel in which as many as 50 people might have died in fire early today Philippine officials said Only one of the Victims Japanese had been identified as recovery efforts iiere hgmpered by typhoon The Red Cross reported 16 bodies recovered from the bur nedout shell of the downtown Hotel Filipinas and Fire Mar shal Francisco Agudon predicted toll at least 50dead Firemen fou ht winds of up to to 80 kilometres an hour to keep the blaze rom spreading to nearby hotels restaurants airline offices and shops The sevenstorey hotel caught fire shortly before am while many of the guests were asleep Armando Aquino 37 an employee said the blaze started on the fifth floor quickly engulfed the top three floors and then moved down Causeof the ire was not determined Police release names CALGARY CF Police Sunday released the names of four Calgary residents who were killed Saturday in do mestic dispute Heather Rank 28 of Calgary and her sons William and Timothy were stabbed in their home in the citys south west The woman was found dead at the scene while Wile iiam died later in hospital Timothy is in serious condition in hospital Police identified William Orchard 32 as the man who was later shot and killed at railway dispatch shed in the south east art of the city liam Robert Dymond 43 was the victim of self inflicted gunshot wound to the head police said He died several hours later in hospital Acclaimed as leader VANCOUVER CP Gordon Gibson was acclaimed British Columbia Liberal party leader for another term Sun day as the partys annual convention ended Gibson told delegates that forthcoming byeiection in the Victoria area riding of Oak Baynow the only Progresswe Conservative seat in the legislature and held by former Tory leader Scott Wallace is critical test of the eiectorates in terest in thirdparty politics Caouette said fundraising plea on the last day of the threeday con vention netted $2400 for the Oak Bay campaign Gibson now holds the only Liberal seat in the legislature Delegates voted on 87 policy resolutions during the last two days of the convention including one that rejected any form of special economic association with any region of the country that withdraws from Confederation New concept asked OTTAWA CP Gilles Caouette Social Credit party in terim leader said Sunday his party has called for new con cept in redrafting Canadian constitution Caouette said in statement following weekend meeting here of the partys national executive that the 10 provinces would sit around table and decide without federal inter ference what kind of constitution Canada should have The constitutional resolution is to be put before the partys national council when it meets in Winnipeg next March Strike end nearing NEW YORK AP Tentative settlement of day longshoremans strike in US North Atlantic rts is ex gfited to lead to settlements along the South Atlantic and of Mexxco coasts But no matter what develops dock workers are not expected back on the job before next Union and shipping negotiators for striking Gulf coast and South Atlantic coast ports were to meet today on the three year pact that was reached Sunday between the In ternational Longshoremens Association ILA and the New York Shippers Association The accord covers ports from Maine to Virgina but was expected to set the pattern for the other ports The agreement calls for 30percent wa ebenefit boost over the length of the contract raising the ourly wage to $1040 by the ird year from the current $8 an hour Realized position hopeless MUNICH Reuter former member of the Baader Meinhof gang was quoted today as saying that terrorist Ingrid Schubert found hanged in her prison cell on Satur dagé must have realized her position was hopeless hubert 32 was serving 13year sentence for attempted murder and bank robbery She was found hanged by her bed sheets in her cell on Saturday night and the authorities said they had no doubt she committed suicide KariHeinz Ruhland former member of the Baader Meinhof gang who served 4ayear jail sentence for his in volvement with the terrorists was quoted by the Bild newspaper as saying She must have been very desperate For years our con cept was Hold out in prison because we others will get you out But after Bonn the government did not free the BaaderMeinhof prisoners in return for Schleyers release her hopes of getting free were zero Inquest opens today PRETORIA Reuter Black Power salutes in crowded courtroom marked the opening today of the inquest into the death in detention of black leader Steve Biko The death Sept 12 led to an international uproar Minutes before the inquest ned black woman sitting near members of the Biko family stood and held up wreath in one hand and picture of Biko in the other What have we done she asked in the vernacular Then she shouted Amandla wer Amandla echoed aggut 30 other blacks in the court room The rallying cry and response were repeated three times Each time the blacks raised their right hands in the clen chedfist Black Power salute The demonstration lasted only about 10 seconds and ar med police standing by took no action More than 200 persons most of them black filled every pew in the former synagogue where the inquest is taking place along with observers from the embassies of countries including Britain the United States West Germany Aus tralia and Sweden Wants ties strengthened ORILLIA Ont CP The New Democratic Party must concentrate on economic issues and strengthen its relation ship with the iabor movement provincial leadership can didate Mike Cassidy member of the Ontario legislature for OttawaCentre told members of the Simcoe East NDP association Saturday During the last election what was lacking in the NDP campaign was credibility about economic issues the par tys treasury and economic critic told the meeting Russians get the boot as Somalia gets angry NAIROBI Kenya AP Somalia angry at the Soviet Unions tilt toward rival Ethiopia is expelling the Rus sian navy from its chief bases on the Horn of Africa and order ing thousands of Russian ad visers out of the East African country Radio Somalia has an munced The broadcast Sunday said the viarxist government is also breaking diplomatic relations with Uta renouncing the 1974 treaty with the and ordering 25 killed entreekend SL2 1711 214 e7 92 yvxsz was state 44 frees frorr pr Friday neigh 372 72 firm also your outer traffic fataxks and one drowning Eight yrsans died Quebec and eight mtario including the Brianna youth Four per sons were killed in traffic at cidents 2r Alberta The drownxg moaned in Prince Edward Island which reported noother fatalities Newfoundland New Brunswick Manitoba and British Columbia each reported one fatality None were reported in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan The survey excludes in dustrial deaths slayings and known suicides The Ontario dead FRIDAY Candice Counsell 25 and her son David Mort of Niagara Falls NY when their car was in collision with train at railway crossing at Niagara Fails0nt ltu rt Cameron 55 of Nor val nt in headon collision in Mississauga SATURDAY Roger Philip Denton 30 of Toronto when the van he was driving left Highway 401 and rolled over near Milton about 50 kilometres west of Toronto Regina Maria Shaw 48 of Detroit in cartruck accident on Highway just east of Sar nia Robert Kinahan 23 of Lucknow in twocar collision on Highway till two kilometres west of Win am 85 kilometres southwmto Owen Sound SUNDAY John Miltan 53 of Strathioy in il lWo car collision on township road near Struthroy kiioimtrcs wcst of london Bernard Joseph Roe 16 of Brighton when his car struck tree on main street in the town 30 kilometres west of Bellevilie reduction in the Russian em bassy staff in Mogadishu the Somali capital Somalia has been the Soviet Unions chief ally in East Africa since 1969 But recently Moscow has been pouring arms into Ethiopia and denying them to Somalia in an attempt to end the rebellion in Ethiopias Ogaden region by Somali tribesmen who want to oin the territory to neigh oring Somalia Somalia says that the Marx ist military regime in Addis Ababa is also being aided in the Ogaden war by Cuban troops an accusation that Cuba denies Neither Moscow nor Havana had immediate comment on the Somali action But Somali Preszdent Vlohammed Siad barre had repeatedly warned P1415153 that the Soviet Sorta alarm was in danger 37 the announcement Sunday EJTTJS has appeared for some tsrrx that the Humane thought rather that the Somalis Would rot go so far or that Ethiopia SPECIA Sot Doc 10 AEROSMITH Showbus Attractions Each show $2500 per person Contact MAILING lIST Your Ticket To The lost Entertainment upllomr rlr hate or 95 queen st barrio ontorio MM 114 7372952 would prove more valuable ally But with much of Ethiopia in revolt and the ruling military cli ue in Addis Ababa hotbed of dissension the Kremlin may have made serious mis calculation Information Minister Abdul qadir Salad Hasan announced that the Russian military and technical experts in Somalia believed to number between 3000 and 4000 have seven days to leave the country He said the Cuban embassy staff has to get out in 48 hours Abdulqadir said Russian use of Somali facilities on land and sea would end immediate ly The Russian navys Indian Ocean fleet has been using the port of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden in northern Somalia and Kisinayu on the southern coast Western experts say the Russians also had missile storage silos at Berbera Somalia exchanged these lalllll€S for Russian weapons and training for the Somali armed forces OFF VIENNA Reuter family which owns nation Austrian millionaire Walter wide chain of womens lingerie Michael Palmers was reunited shops told reporters that with his family early today Palmers 74 was picked up by after his son paid con his son Christian at hotel and ment to reporters waiting out hotel in Hietzing western side the family home but joked suburb of Vienna Palmers was that he would apologize to his dragged from his car outside wife for being 100 hours late histWostorey villa inaseciuded for the evening meal part of northwest Vienna four His son Christian Michael days ago Palmers 42 icked up POLICE CONFUSED Palmers who suf ers from The spokesman said the son weak heart and asthma at and other members of the fami siderable amount of $3 driven home ina taxi after the million ransom demanded by his three kidnappers spokesman for the Palmers son handed over the cash Palmers looking tired and pale declined to give state yaagt Wife Gunilla embraces Viennas millionaire stockings back home in taxi He was reported kidnapped Wednes klng 74yearold Walter Palmers Sunday after he arrived day by abductors who dragged him from car near his villa AP Photo well be party to anything And were party toinore parties every year than anyone else in Canada We know how to do it up right no matter SINGER Sewing Centres GEORGIAN Mlll IAVFIIID 51 Ill III79M We believe in the party system Office party engagement party team party social party Sm what the occasion or the budget Have your party at our place Hwy 400 on Fairview Rd Barrie Telephone 7286191 LL Kidnappers release victim ly were instructed by the kid nappers to fan out in different directions during the afternoon flitting police off the scent ore the son was led to the hotel Palmers is returned home in healthy condition following the handover of considerable amount of the demanded ran som the spokesman said It was not known exactly how much was handed over to the kidnappers The family had said they could not meet the full amount demanded from cash sources Mystery had shrouded the kidnapping since the family agreed on news blackout to protect the abducted millionaire The kidnappers had left note demanding the ransom be paid by noon on Saturday There were no clues to the identities or number of Palmerss kidnappers INIERRUPTED PLAY BRANSCOMBE England CP Football player An drew Wyeth was allowed another crack at penalty kick in Devon league match for Branscombe cow had wan dered across the goal as his fir st shot went in