Smith sees Red menace behind refusal of blacks SALISBURY (CP) Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith conference Sunday. Moreover, the black leaders rejected Secretary Henry Kissinger who had warned Moscow to whites would be "tantamount to legalizing colonialist and charged today that Communists may be "calling the tune" Smith's demands for an immediate end to guerrilla warfare stay out of African affairs. racist structures of power." as the leaders of five African states rejected Smith's terms against Rhodesia whites. They said the fight would Rhodesian Foreign Minister P. K. Van der Byl maintained The presidents said the interim government must be for black majority rule and demanded Britain pave the continue until the blacks are firmly in control in this that "it would be totally unreasonable to expect us to dominated by blacks. way for blacks to take im mediate, transitional control over Rhodesian capital. change our stand." He said it was up to the U.S., Britain British Doreign Minister Anthony Crosland said in Rhodesia. But though the Rhodesian whites complained of the and other Western powers to sort out the confusion caused Blackpool, England, that Minister of State Edward Rowlands But Smith, who stated repeatedly in the past that he Lusaka results, Britain and the United States welcomed by the hardening of the black position after initial indications would fly to Botswana Tuesday and confer with the never would yield control to the blacks while he is alive, the summit communique. The U.S. said it would open the that the blacks would agree to the Kissinger plan. five presidents. said he would await reaction from Britain and the United door for further negotiations while Britain announced South African Prime Minister John Vorster, who played States. He stated last Friday he is ready to negotiate transfer readiness to hold the meeting the black leaders demanded The five black presidents "reaffirmed their commitment a major role in persuading Smith to accept the plan put of power but wanted an initial two-tiered government as the preliminary step to negotiate a transfer of power. to the cause of liberation in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) forward by U.S. State Secretary Henry Kissinger, said the with an equal number of blacks and whites in a supreme "It looks as though the Communists are calling the tune and the armed struggle" against Smith's white regime. stand of the five black leaders is difficult to understand. body headed by a white chairman. in these parts," Smith said. Both Mozambique and Angola All five leaders, whose approval is considered vital to a "The Rhodesian government has fully executed the agreement" This was rejected by the leaders of Zambia, Tanzania, are under direct Moscow influence. The Soviet Union nad successful settlement in Rhodesia, said Smith's proposal reached during talks he and Smith had with Kissinger Angola, Mozambique and Botswana at a Lusaka summit condemned the settlement proposal initiated by U.S. State for an interim government divided between blacks and last week, Vorster said in a statement. Monday, September 27, 1976 Vol. 20; No. 186 The Sex attack, man shot CHICAGO ( AP) - A 23-yearold woman who fired a gun at an intruder after he sexually attacked and threw her friend from a 15th floor window at her South Side apartment building was arrested Sunday and charged with firing a gun inside city limits. Police said Angela Winslow was placed on $1,000 bond and scheduled for a Circuit Court appearance Oct. 13 on charges of failing to have proper city and state registration on her gun and firing it within city Hmits. Officers said Miss Winslow fired at an unidentified man as he fled her high-rise apartment building after sexually attacking TODAY '...and I promise you a balanced budget if I have to spend every cent we have!' Denise Dozier, 22. Miss Dozier had gone to Miss Winslow's apartment to visit her and was beaten and sexually assaulted by the man, who was waiting inside, officers said. Miss Winslow was not at home at the time. The man threw Miss Dozjer from the 15th floor window, but her fall was broken by a canopy. She was admitted to hospital, where she was listed in serious condition with multiple injuries. Police said Miss Winslow returned to her apartment shortly after the attack and fired a shot at the man as he fled. Citizen FEATURED INSIDE) The wife of a wealthy Jacksonville, Fla. contractor is safe and well after a 91-hour kidnap ordeal in which she was bound to a post in a wooded area. Page 5. Opposition leader Joe Clark says the Trudeau wage and price controls have been in effect long enough. Page 2. Bee stings and poor weather didn't keep a Prince George man from producing prize-winning honey for the second year in a row. Page 25. Business, 8; Classified, 15-23; Comics, 30; Editorial, 4; Home and Family, 26, 27; Horoscopes, 32; International, 5; Local and Provincial, 3, 7, 25; National, 2; Sports, 13, 14; Television, 30. 9 Canadian Football League history and aworld football record were both made in Montreal Sunday. Page 13. the third day of testimony at the inquest into the 21-year-old pregnant Stoney Creek woman's death. The notebook showed in small print the words, "stated was playing chicken". Taylor said when questioned at the scene Patrick said Thomas was playing chicken. He said Marjorie Thomas, sister of Coreen, "didn't say much of anything" at the accident because she was emotional. Taylor testified when he questioned Patrick two days later she was calm and vocal and again said Thomas was playing chicken. He denied threatening her or saying she would be "sent away". Taylor described the interview with Marjorie Thomas as being calm. He said he did not threaten her. Taylor said Thomas appeared to be a "timid, shy girl" and he did not raise his voice when talking to her. On Sunday, Marjorie said the constable accused her of lying when she said Coreen was not playing chicken. "He made me say it because I was the last one to talk to him. The policeman was mean to SSSK, 15' Copy Prince George, British Columbia Kwrll&BUHH " vmmwmmmA Pm TIBfrnfff ' mmfmmmWmmmmmmmmmmmmmW:' i I Bglp gKI li vRI B m wm m W " f"'j mm Const. Taylor explains scene of accident to jury, lawyers Harry Rankin (mustache in foreground) and Murray Miller (glasses at right rear). Lawyer Sidney Simons and client Richard Redekop. Girls say RCMP forced 'story' by ELI SOPOW Citizen staff reporter VANDERHOOF - RCMP Const. Neil Taylor today denied earlier accusations by two Indian girls at the Coreen Thomas inquest that he forced them to say the 21-year-old native woman was "playing chicken" at the time of her death. Thomas was struck and killed by a car July 3 as she walked home with friends to the reserve about eight miles from here. Richard Redekop, 22, of Vanderhoof was driving the car that hit her. Fourteen-year-old Marjorie Thomas, Coreen's sister, and Donna Patrick, 16, rocked the inquest Sunday as they denied their previous statements to police saying Thomas was playing chicken. The girls were sobbing and barely audible as they hung their heads and said Taylor "forced" them to say Thomas stepped out into the middle of the road to see if an approaching car would stop, swerve off WOMAN CHARGED THOMAS the road or force her off the road. Seven witnesses testified Sunday that Thomas appeared to step into the path of the Redekop vehicle. See also page 3 A pocket notebook used by Taylor on the night of the Coreen Thomas death showed today 16-year-old Donna Patrick admitted a game of chicken was being played that night. Thomas family lawyer Harry Rankin asked Taylor to produce the notebook during me. He made me cry. I was scared," she said. Marjorie's voice was only a whisper in the microphone. Her answers were mostly either "yes" or "no". She was finally led off the witness stand in tears by her father after being excused by coroner Glen McDonald. Majorie is expected to testify again today. Patrick said Taylor forced her in an interview July 5 to say Thomas was playing chicken. "He forced me to say that. He said he could easily send me away. He said if you don't umbrella group headed by Yassar Arafat, denied that any PLO members were responsible. Arafat also heads Al Fatah, which is considered less radical than some Palestinian guerrilla units. "We will never go easy on such crimes," Syrian President Hafez Assad said in a statement issued Sunday night. "We shall hit back very hard. We denounce this criminal action committed by a gang that acted as if it were in Israel." tell me I'll send you away. I was forced to say those things," she said. Patrick said after she had given the statement to Taylor she told him the part about Coreen Thomas playing chicken was untrue. She too spoke lightly, barely audible on the public address system. Near the end of her statement she hung her head and sobbed quietly. Patrick's charge that she told the constable about changing her mind appears to be sub-See INQUEST page 2 Syrians hang Arab raiders DAMASCUS ( AP) - The Syrian government hanged three pro-Palestinian guerrillas at dawn today in swift retribution for a bloody raid on a Damascus hotel just 24 hours earlier. A fourth guerrilla and four hostages were killed and 34 hostages wounded in a seven-hour battle for the Semiramis Hotel. The three terrorists were hanged in a public square facing the luxury hotel. Their bodies, clad only in white tunics, were left dangling in nooses for hours as thousands of Syrians pressed around the gallows and climbed to rooftops to see the victims. The guerrillas called themselves the Black June group and apparently were protesting Syria's military intervention that began last June in the Lebanese civil war. More than 12,000 Syrian troops entered Lebanon to enforce a ceasefire, but they eventually joined with Lebanese Christian militiamen fighting the Pales tinians and their leftist Moslem allies. Before they were executed, the three went on Syrian state television and said they belonged to Al Fatah, the biggest Palestinian guerrilla group. They also said they had( been trained in Iraq, which has' supported radical Arab organizations and has denounced the Syrian role in Lebanon. But in Beirut, a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian A Syrian government statement said the four hostages who died Sunday were killed by the terrorists. Three of the slain hostages were women, and witnesses said all were Arabs. Accounts from witnesses and security officers indicated the four terrorists drove up to the hotel at about 5 a.m. Sunday. They asked for a room, were told none was available, left and returned with sub-machineguns and grenades. THE WEATH ER) ( NOW HEAR THIS Sunshine today was expected to be replaced by cloud Tuesday as a ridge of high pressure moves east. The five day forecast calls for clouds and sunny periods. The high today and Tuesday, 21 ; the low tonight, 6. Sunday's high was 22; the overnight low was 4. The high on Sept. 27, 1975 was 13; the low was 4. Temperatures, page 2 "No. Don't be silly, you're liable to forget!" was the appropriate response by Judge George Stewart in provincial court this morning to a forgetful 20-year-old Prince George youth's request for bail. The youth, who could not remember the name of his probation officer, was before the court for violating his probation by going two years without paying a cent of $550 restitution for damage to a truck that he caused when he stole a tape deck. The youth told the court he had been working steadily since the court order and Judge Stewart agreed to give him bail so he wouldn't lose his job. A local housewife had gradually been growing more impatient with her husband who had ordered a load of firewood that sat day-after-day, in the family driveway. Her frustration came to a head Sunday while her husband sat watching football games on television. Finally, handing him the axe, she said "Take this and split." He did.