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By
JOHN
R.WALKER
Southam
News
Services
PEKING
-
One
of
the
world's
most
severe
earthquakes
in
a
dozen
years
shook
Peking
in
the
early
hours
of
Wednesday
morning
and
triggered
a
city-wide
evacuation
system,
with
millions
taking
to
the
streets.
The
actual
centre
of
the
earthquake
was
about
90
miles
southeast
of
this
capital
city
of
six
million
people,
near
Tientsin
on
the
Gulf
of
Chihli.
But
there
was
little
hard
information
about
damage
in
that
city
of
over
five
million.
Here
in
Peking
however,
within
minutes
of
the
quake
striking
about
3:45a.m.,
thousands
of
Peking's
citizens
had
fled
into
the
dar
'TERRIFYING'
Major
quake
rocks
China
TODAY
FEATURED
INSIDE.)
kened
streets,
as
the
tallest
buildings
shook
and
swayed,
and
street
lights
went
out
on
many
roads.
This
correspondent
and
his
wife
had
just
moved
into
Peking's
tallest
new
building,
the
seventeen-storey
Peking
Hotel,
after
completing
packing
at
our
apartment,
when
the
quake
struck.
We
awoke
in
our
twelfth-floor
bedroom
in
the
dark
to
feel
the
room
shaking
and
swaying,
cupboard
doors
flung
open,
and
the
chandelier
in
the
sitting
room
hanging
at
an
angle
and
dislocated.
Outside
Changan
Avenue,
the
main
street
was
dark,
no
lights
on,
and
further
away
some
lights
seemed
to
be
swaying.
'With
the
fall
in
gold
prices.
could
you
make
it
a
silver?
Day
11,
pages
15
and
16.
1
ALERT
)
urgent
personal
message:
A
trip
to
Hawaii
for
some
top-rate
volleyball
is
upcoming
for
three
young
city
athletes.
Page
17.
Viking
I
has
successfully
scooped
up
a
sample
of
Mars
soil,
but
it
could
be
two
weeks
before
scientists
know
whether
there
is
life
on
the
"red
planet"..
Page
5.
A
transport
department
circular
allowing
limited
use
of
French
in
aircraft
cockpits
seems
to
have
restored
a
little
tranquillity
in
the
battle
over
bilingual
air
traffic
communications.
Page
2.
O
Business,
8;
Classified,
19-28;
Comics,
30;
Editorial,
4;
Home
and
Family,
34;
Horoscopes,
31;
Local
and
Provincial,
3,
7,
13;
National,
2;
Sports,
15-18;
Television,
30.
Cw3
The
Olympics
O
Full
coverage
of
events
on
THE
WEATHERJ
Cloudy
skies
and
periods
of
rain
with
a
gradual
clearing
this
evening
are
predicted
for
today.
Rainfall
recorded
for
Tuesday
was
2
mm.
The
high
Tuesday
was
20,
with
an
overnight
low
of
10.
Low
today,
5,
with
a
high
of
18
predicted.
On
July
28,
1975,
the
high
was
16;
the
low,
7.
A
few
sunny
periods
with
the
risk
of
showers
and
a
high
of
25
are
predicted
for
Thursday.
Temperatures
page
2
NOW
HEAR
THIS
During
this
week's
council
session
on
the
fate
of
the
PGARA
race
track,
the
relations
between
the
racing
club
and
the
city
were
compared
to
that
of
man
and
wife
with
the
honeymoon
over.
"Well
at
least
now
we're
talking,"
said
PGARA
president
John
Dean.
"And
you're
going
to
say
that
making
up
is
oh,
so
sweet?"
asked
a
smiling
Alderman
Lome
McCuish.
A
young
girl
was
looking
at
one
of
the
hang
gliders
on
display
at
the
Civic
Centre
Tuesday.
"Lookit
the
clothesline,"
the
girl
said
to
her
father.
The
owner
of
the
$900
"clothesline"
did
not
hear
the
comment.
All
is
not
what
it
appears
to
be.
A
woman
recently
pondered
a
selection
of
pottery
for
sale
at
the
Prince
George
Art
Gallery.
However,
she
was
told
the
item
selected
was
not
for
sale.
A
staff
member
had
forgotten
his
coffee
cup
on
the
display
shelf.
TOURIST
VANCOUVER
(CP)
Wednesday'sTourist
Alertissued
by
the
RCMP.
Following
are
requested
to
contact
the
near
est
RCMP
detachment
for
an
room
uonaia
Bowg,
fortiana,
ure,
David
Crosby,
Long
Beach,
Calif.
John
and
Edna
Crosch,
Coeur
d'Alene,
Idaho
Conrad
Desender,
Winnipeg
Keith
Draper,
Alberta
Donald
Raymond
McCleary,
Calgary
David
Renick,
Vancouver
Merv
and
Sonia
Street,
Unity,
Sask.
Harry
Walter
Sutcliffe,
Haney,
B.C.
Berton
Woodward,
Vancouver
NEWSMAN
EXPERIENCES
QUAKE
EFFECTS
IN
PEKING
was
shaking,
cu
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15'
Copy
Wednesday,
A
visiting
Canadian
couple
who
were
on
the
seventeenth
floor
said
later
they
had
seen
a
two-inch
crack
near
the
reception
desk
up
there.
Later
in
the
morning,
all
the
guests
in
rooms
above
the
fourth
floor
were
ordered
down
to
the
main
floor
because
of
PEKING
(CP)
-
Two
huge
earthquakes,
linked
Dy
a
series
ot
tremors,
shook
industrial
northeast
China
today.
Damage
was
reported
heavy
but
the
Chinese
government
declined
to
give
details.
Many
buildings
were
reported
in
ruins
in
the
port
city
of
Tientsin,
about
100
miles
southeast
of
Peking,
and
the
coal-and-aluminum
city
of
Tangshan,
about
90
miles
east
of
this
capital.
In
Peking,
millions
of
Chinese
were
driven
into
pouring
rain
as
officials
warned
that
buildings
were
unsafe.
Families
calmly
set
up
temporary
street
shelters
of
tents
and
tarpaulins.
In
Tientsin,
a
city
of
'
about
five
million,
the
Chinese
started
digging
into
debris
while
authorities
struggled
to
restore
shattered
communications,
electricity
and
water
'supplies.
Gough
Whitlam,
former
Australian
prime
minister
who
was
in
Tientsin,
said
there
was
"an
awful
lot
of
damage."
The
hotel
where
he
was
staying,
the
newly-built
Friendship
Hotel,
swayed
and
trembled
and
finally
split
in
two.
Mrs.
Whitlam
suffered
a
bad
cut
on
one
leg.
The
Whitlams,
accompanied
by
Australian
Ambassador
Stephen
Fitzgerald,
were
led
through
pitch-black
corridors
and
down
debris-strewn
staircases
to
safety.
It
was
"absolutely
terrifying,"
Mrs.
Whitlam
said.
The
foreign
ministry
said
the
first
quake's
epicentre,
near
Tangshan,
registered
7.3
on
the
Richter
scale
but
in
Golden,
Colo.,
the
U.S.
Geological
Survey
said
the
magnitude
was
8.2,
the
world's
most
severe
quake
in
12
years.
Observers
estimated
damage
probably
was
more
severe
than
the
Guatemala
quake
last
February
which
left
more
than
22,000
dead.
The
second
major
shock
of
7.9
on
the
Richter
scale
came
about
16
hours
later
following
a
series
of
tremors
felt
all
through
northeast
China
inhabited
by
about
20
million
people.
Canadian
Ambassador
C.
J.
Small
reported
that
all
Canadians
in
the
case
were
safe
and
that
24,
staying
at
a
Peking
hotel,
have
been
given
shelter
at
the
embassy.
One
news
agency
reported
a
Japanese
businessman
was
killed
in
Tientsin
and
others
seriously
injured.
Agence
France-Presse
said
dwellings
and
ether
buildings
crumpled
like
accordions.
Many
streets
appeared
to
be
in
ruins.
But
the
Chinese
people
remained
calm.
In
Peking,
the
Chinese
streamed
out
of
their
dwellings
and
built
temporary
shelters
in
the
streets.
Foreigners
in
high-rise
apartments
and
hotels
were
told
to
leave.
The
buildings
were
not
considered
safe.
Rail
lines
in
the
northeastern
region
were
knocked
out
by
the
first
quake,
followed
by
a
series
of
tremors
and
another
major
shock.
Telephone
communications
between
Peking
and
Tientsin
were
disrupted.
The
first
shock
registered
8.2
on
the
open-ended
Richter
scale,
making
it
the
biggest
since
the
Alaska
quake
of
1964
which
registered
8.6.
The
second
shock
of
7.9
also
was
capable
of
huge,
crushing
damage.
The
Chinese
did
not
issue
any
Immediate
official
reports
on
casualties,
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28,
1976
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146
the
fear
of
heavy
aftershocks.
By
dawn
the
streets
of
Peking
were
lined
with
millions
of
its
citizens,
sitting
on
the
curbs,
or
on
chairs
and
boxes,
huddled
under
their
umbrellas
and
makeshift
tents
against
the
pouring
rain.
Although
this
severe
nnn
Inn
in
to
uog
leg
pboards
flew
open'
LOGGING
ROAD
GOES
AHEAD
Nazko
by
ELI
SOPOW
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
Survey
crews
will
enter
the
Nazko
Valley
on
Thursday
despite
a
request
from
native
Indians
to
delay
work
on
a
logging
road
in
the
area.
A
similar
attempt
two
years
ago
to
build
a
road
into
the
area
was
stopped
after
Indians
blockaded
construction
crews.
The
moratorium
on
cutting
in
the
area
which
was
imposed
at
that
time
was
lifted
in
June.
Quesnel
sawmill
operators
Brain
loses
if
man
CHICAGO
(Reuter)
-
Medical
researchers
here
have
reported
the
first
clinical
evidence
that
chronic
alcoholism
causes
brain
deterioration.
Brain
scans
of
12
chronic
alcoholics
show
eight
or
67
per
cent
of
the
total
have
a
noticeable
loss
of
brain
cells,
and
four
of
these
or
33
per
Columbia
courtyard
the
populace
ran
quickly
forth,
with
stools
or
chairs,
umbrellas
and
thermos
flasks,
blankets
and
newspapers,
prepared
apparently
for
an
all-day
wait
if
necessary
until
the
all-clear.
At
noon
Wednesday
they
were
still
sitting
in
the
soaking
streets,
and
the
hotel
Waterland
said
actual
road
building,
will
take
place
in
about
one
month.
On
Tuesday,
Nazko
band
chief
Jerome
Patrick
sent
a
telegram
to
Waterland
asking
for
postponement
of
work
until
a
meeting
is
held
with
band
members.
Band
members
say
the
891,000
acres
of
timber
land
west
of
the
Michelle
River
in
the
Narcosli
PSVU
is
part
of
their
aboriginal
land
claim
and
intrusion
by
whites
will
harm
their
life
styles.
boozes
to
"photograph"
the
brain
in
layers.
A
computer
puts
the
images
together
to
produce
a
three-dimensional
picture.
The
four-doctor
research
team
of
Rush-Presbyterian-St
Luke's
Medical
Centre
bases
its
results
on
the
size
of
brain
ventricles,
natural
cavities
in
the
brain
which
enlarge
with
the
loss
of
brain
cells.
were
wounded
and
Keller's
'UNAPPRECIATED'
IN
JOB
Toy
designer
kills
co-workers
CHICAGO
(AP)
-
A
"stable,
friendly,
hard-working"
toy
designer
took
a
gun
to
work
Tuesday,
killed
three
persons,
shot
two
more
and
then
killed
himself.
Police
found
notes
on
his
body
indicating
he
thought
his
co-workers
were
plotting
to
destroy
him.
"Paranoia?"
read
one
note.
"No.
Now
you
will
know
why
I
am
doing
all
this."
Police
said
Albert
Keller,
33,
recently
complained
to
his
supervisor
that
he
felt
unappreciated
in
his
job.
The
supervisor
told
police
he
thought
he
had
convinced
Keller
his
work
was
valued.
In
addition
to
himself,
Keller
killed
two
partners
of
Marvin
Glass
Associates
and
another
designer.
Two
Prince
George,
British
quake
had
not
been
predicted
by
the
Chinese,
they
have
been
saying
there
would
be
a
major
earthquake
in
the
Tientsin
area
sometime
this
year.
But
their
well-publicized
evacuation
system
certainly
went
into
effect
quickly.From
every
apartment
building
and
ancient
Half-beast,
half-woman;
that's
the
way
it
looks
through
a
photographer's
telephoto
fha
U
ens
as
Suzie
Savoy,
21,
of
Montreal,
soaks
up
the
sun
beside
her
pet
Afgan,
Willie,
in
rne
ngnr
Barrie,
Ont.,
Tuesday.
Although
Willie
won't
be
competing,
Barrie
is
the
site
for
Ontario's
biggest
dog
show,
to
be
held
this
weekend.
confrontation
say
they
need
timber
from
the
Narcosli
Public
Sustained
Yield
Unit
60
miles
northwest
of
the
community
or
they
will
risk
shutdowns.
Forests
Minister
Tom
Waterland
said
in
a
telephone
interview
from
Victoria
today
Nazko
Indian
band
members
were
given
48
hours
notice
Monday
of
the
road
work.
He
said
survey
crews
will
put
up
stakes
for
a
logging
road
in
the
region
and
will
be
followed
by
slashing
crews
and
road
building
crews.
cent
have
significant
loss
of
brain
cells.
This
compares
with
results
of
brain
scans
of
a'
control
group
of
60
normal
individuals
that
show
16
or
27
per
cent
have
some
cell
loss
and
only
one
of
these
has
significant
loss.
The
brain
scan
instrument
uses
thousands
of
x-ray
beams
other
employees
taken
to
hospital.
Keller
was
a
husband
and
father.
Friends
and
employers
later
described
him
as
friendly
and
compassionate.
A
neighbor
said
he
"cared
about
people."
And
a
spokesman
for
the
firm
said
he
was
"a
well-liked,
stable,
friendly,
hardworking,
creative
designer,"
Police,
however,
said
Keller
was
"going
through
a
terrible
mental
process.
He
just
wrote
all
kinds
of
names
down
anyone
who
looked
at
him
wrong
and
licence
numbers."
A
note
hidden
in
the
designer's
sock
indicated
he
originally
intended
to
kill
14
persons,
authorities
said.
lobbies
were
packed
with
waiting
tourists.
Aquicktourofthecitydid
not
reveal
any
major
damage
but
many
foreigners
reported
damage
inside
their
apartments,
walls
cracking
and
lighting
fixtures
knocked
out.
But
in
the
early
morning
hour
of
the
first
quake,
there
were
some
unusual
happenings,
as
when
a
diplomat's
wife
ran
out
of
her
apartment
stark
naked
and
when
a
student
at
the
language
institute
jumped
out
of
a
fourth-storey
window
and
broke
his
leg.
Early
reports
from
Tientsin,
where
former
Australian
prime
minister
Gough
Whitlam
was
visiting,
were
that
damage
was
not
too
extensive,
despite
feared
Patrick
said
in
the
telegram
that
band
membersdonot
want
a
confrontation
with
loggers.
"No
party
involved
desires
confrontation
which
can
be
avoided
through
discussion.
'"We
request
you
immediately
set
meetingdates
and
issue
appropriate
delay
orders
re
construction
start,"
the
telegram
says...
Waterland
said
band
members
have
been
sent
a
telegram
saying
a
meeting
could
be
held
August
3
in
Victoria
but
also
said
the
road
must
be
built
because
Quesnel
mills
need
the
timber.
He
said
no
reply
has
been
heard
from
the
Indians'
on
the
meeting
date.
"There
is
no
way
that
we
can
defer
the
logging,"
he
said.
Waterland
said
any
confrontation
arising
from
road
building
will
have
to
be
dealt
with
by
Labor
Minister
Allan
Williams'
office
responsible
for
Indian
affairs
or
will
be
handled
as
a
civil
matter.
wife
apparently
told
police
her
husband
left
home
in
the
morning
with
a
9-mm
pistol
and
told
her:
"Someone
at
work
is
trying
to
kill
me,
but
everything
will
be
OK."
At
about
9:30
a.m.,
Keller
arrived
at
his
firm.
Thirty
minutes
later,
he
walked
into
the
office
of
Anson
Isaacson,
56,
senior
managing
partner,
and
shot
him
in
the
head.'
Isaacson
died.
He
then
shot
and
killed
Joseph
Callan,
54,
a
partner
also
in
the
office.
He
apparently
left
by
a
side
door,
walked
down
a
hallway
and
ducked
into
other
offices.
"He
shot
at
everybody
he
passed,"
a
police
official
said,
the
reported
8.2
intensity
of
the
quake
on
the
Richter
scale.
And
the
Chinese
said
Mr.
Whitlam
and
his
wife
were
safe
and
returning
to
Peking.
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(CP)
Walter
Lambertus,
20,
a
Romanian
Olympic
rower,
has
defected
to
Canada,
arriving
in
this
city
Tuesday
night
to
stay
with
relatives.
Lambertus,
who
placed
fourth
in
the
semi-finals
of
the
singles
rowing
Sunday,
said
he
made
the
decision
to
defect
last
week.
"I
left
for
freedom,"
Lambertus
said
in
an
interview.
"I
can
have
freedom
here."
Airliner
crashes;
75
dead
PRAGUE
(Reuter)
-
A
Czechoslovak
airliner
crashed
near
Bratislava
today
and
unofficial
reports
said
most
of
the
75
persons
aboard
were
feared
dead.
The
plane,
an
Ilyushin
18
on
a
regular
flight
from
Prague
to
Bratislava,
the
Slovak
capital,
tried
to
make
an
emergency
landing
near
its
destination
and
crashed
in
water,
an
official
source
said,
Bratislava,
about
150
miles
southeast
of
Prague,
lies
on
the
River
Danube.
There
are
several
reservoirs
around
the
city
as
well
as
natural
lagoons,
fed
by
the
Danube,
Rescue
teams
rushed
to
the
scene.
A
federal
transport
ministry
spokesman
said
there
were
a
few
survivors,
but
all
were
seriously
injured,
Ceteka
news
agency
said
the
plane
carried
70
passengers-plus
the
crew,
normally
five,
Official
news
of
the
accident
is
likely
only
when
an
inquiry
commission
publishes
its
first
findings
.later
today.