13 EXPELLED FROM CANADA
Soviet Union denies its diplomats were spies
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union officially denied today that its diplomats expelled from Canada had been guilty of any ‘‘impermissible activities” and accused Canadian authorities of plotting to damage Soviet-Canadian relations.
  The Soviet denial came in an official statement by the news agency Tass.
  Tass accused opponents of detente in Canada of stepping lip in recent times an anti-Soviet campaign, backed by Canada’s “special services." presumably intelligence agencies.
  ‘‘The latest expression of this campaign was the demand by Canadian authorities that a number of staff members of Soviet institutions leave the country on absolutely groundless charges of impermissible activities," Tass said.
  External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson announced Thursday in Ottawa that the government had ordered 13 Soviet diplomats to cease their work in Canada as a result of an alleged attempt to recruit a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for espionage.
  “It is obvious that standing behind this action, that aims to damage Soviet-Canadian relations, are special services of Canada and the forces supporting them, which systemati-
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cally undertake hostile actions to complicate relations between the two countries,” Tass said.
"The insinuation by the Canadian special services apparently isexplained by the fact that their reputation, as reported by the Canadian press itself, has become quite tarnished “Tass is authorized to state that the actions of the appropriated Canadian authorities are regarded as unfriendly ones, and that they were taken with obviously provocative aims.” .Jamieson, addressing the Commons on Thursday, called the expulsions a serious setback to Canadian-Soviet relations.
He also threatened to expel more Soviet diplomats if the Soviet Union tried to retaliate for the expulsion by throwing out Canadian diplomats in Moscow.
  Canada's embassy in Moscow has more than 40 staff members. while the Soviet embassy in Ottawa had 64 prior to the latest expulsions.
  Four of the 13 Soviet officials in Ottawa were ordered to leave the country by next Monday, seven were given until Feb. 23 and two were already outside Canada when the expulsions were announced
  In other developments. Prime Minister Trudeau played down the impact of the spy case and dismissed suggestions that the timing of the announcement had political overtones.
  Trudeau said at his weekly news conference that relations with the Soviet Union “will be made more difficult by the discovery of the spy ring, but I don't see it as the end of our relations in any sense.”
  He also said that he could not be “other than amused by this cynical speculation” about the timing of the spy announcement to enhance the image of the RCMP in a federal election year.
  Trudeau was being questioned about the expulsion of 13 Soviet officials for attempting to recruit an RCMP officer to provide information on the force’s security service.
  In Toronto, the Globe and Mail said the spy ring represents only a portion of the Soviet agents operating in Canada.
  The newspaper quotes RCMP sources as saying there are hundreds of agents in Canada who are paid to provide information to Soviet agents.
  It also quotes RCMP sources as saying that the force is close to uncovering several other spies.
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   OTTAWA (CP) — Conservative Otto Jelinek in effect told the government Thursday: “I told you so.”
   The MP for High Park-Humber Valley in Toronto said he had warned the government a year ago of five of 13 Soviet citizens whose expulsion from Canada was announced earlier. And he said he is convinced other members of the embassy of the Soviet Union are involved in espionage.
    He was commenting in the Commons and in an interview on the announcement by External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson that the Soviets are being expelled for attempting to acquire the services of a member of the RCMP. Jelinek has often raised the issue of
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   VANCOUVER (CP) - A 17-year-old girl was sentenced Thursday to jail because of "despicable people in the drug scene.”
   “One shudders at the thought of what little chance such a girl as this has in a penal institution to which I must send her,” said Judge Ray Paris when he sentenced Carol Ann Tober to two years less one day for possession of two ounces of heroin for the purpose of trafficking.
    It was the second jail term in one day for the girl.
     In another court. Judge J. J. Anderson sentenced her to 12 months on a separate drug charge involving 21 caps of heroin. She has two previous heroin convictions.
   Defence counsel Kenneth Westlake told both judges that Tober was virtually forced on to the streets at 15 in Eastern Canada because of her a.family breakup.
     The girl believed at that time lhai neither of her estranged parents wanted her and that the street was all that was left.
   Westlake said she was picked up by a man in the drug trade who introduced her to heroin. She became an addict and he— as did other males who later picked her up—used her to promote theirown financial gain.
    During this time she became a prostitute.
  "This is a classic example of a child from a broken marriage being forced on to the streets and exploited in a despicable way by the people in the drug scene that she met there,” said Judge Paris.
  Soviet spies in the Commons.
    On Jelinek’s list was the name Igor Vartanian, the man Jamieson described as the principal agent in the Soviet attempt to infiltrate the RCMP by recruiting a member of the national police force.
    Jelinek said he knew when he submitted the list that Vartanian had no background in sports administration although he was the Soviet embassy’s first secretary responsible for sports and cultural affairs. He knew Vartanian had KGB—secret police—training and had received special permission from the government last year to travel 41 times outside the National Capital Region.
    Jamieson had said association with the KGB does not necessarily mean the individual is a spy and is not grounds enough for expulsion.
    Soviet embassy and related staff are not permitted to travel outside the Ottawa-Hull region without a travel permit granted by the government after the individual states his or her destination. Jelinek said he suspects these people enter the United States, the country he believes the Soviets are more interested in than Canada.
    Also on Jelinek’s list and among those expelled was Voldemar Veber, former second secretary in the Soviet embassy’s consular division, who received 88 travel permits between February, 197G, and January, 1977, according to figures Jelinek obtained from the government. The figures show