Monday, June 16,1980 Vol. 25; No. 117
Prince George, British Columbia
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Outside Prince George - 25'
Cooling
off
 Fort George Park turned out to be a great place to beat the heat Saturday, courtesy of the park fountain. Donna Tong, left, and Marilyn Chow, both 12, toss some unsuspecting youngster into the fountain, cooling off
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 both the victim and themselves in the process. Others around the city sought a variety of ways to beat the heat as temperatures reached 28 degrees, one short of a record for June 14.
Bengalis butchered in attack
   MANDAI, India (AP) -Dogs paw at the earth, sniffing the rotting flesh and bones poking up from a shallow grave in the rubble and ashes of this village in northeastern India, ravaged in an attack by Tripura tribesmen.
    “I’ve never seen anything like it,” said an Indian army major, as he surveyed the village.
    Mandai had been home to 400 Bengali immigrants until the Tripura natives stormed out of the jungle June 8 and cut their way through the villagers with bows and arrows, spears and daos, the heavy scythes the natives use for chopping wood.
    “I saw a six-month-old child chopped into two with each piece lying on either side of his dead mother,” said Maj. Raja Mani, describing the scene when his army unit regained control of the area last Monday. Officials in the northeastern state of Tripura say 345 people were killed in the five days of state-wide bloodletting that began June 6.
    Tripura tribesmen went on a rampage, wiping out whole families of Bengalis who controlled much of the local economy, in one of the worst outbreaks of butchery since India gained independence 33 years ago.
    Foes of the state’s Marxist administration say the statewide death toll could exceed 10,000. The official reports say 212 died in Mandai alone, but police here put the number of villager dead at 350.
    Bengali survivors fled into the jungle, sought shelter in refugee camps, or were taken to hospitals.
 Mishap kills city driver
   MCBRIDE (Staff) - RCMP are looking for next of kin of a Prince George driver killed in a single vehicle accident Saturday.
   A police spokesman in McBride said the accident took place around 7 p.m. about 3.5 km east of the Dome Creek Bridge on Highway 16E.
  ‘‘It was a single car accident and only one person in the car. TTie car ran off the road," the spokesman said.
 The name will not be released until next of kin have been notified.
DRAPEAU ANSWERS CRITICISM
'Olympic scapegoat needed'
   MONTREAL (CP) — Mayor Jean Drapeau says the Malouf inquiry into theSl.6-billion cost of Montreal’s 1976 Summer Olympics pinned the blame for skyrocketing costs on him because it needed to have a scapegoat.
     The report, highly critical of Drapeau’s key role in leading the orgy of spending, was released June 5 but the mayor waited until Saturday before issuing his sharply-worded attack on the inquiry headed by Quebec Superior Court Justice Albert Malouf.
    The mayor said the report “contains so many errors of fact, law and deduction, and shows such great ignorance of the fundamental principals of the technology used in the Olympic installations, that it would have been desireable to have a real judgment that could be appealed in a higher court, rather than an opinion against which there is no recourse.”
    Drapeau said he has so many criticisms of the report that he will take the only avenue open for him - a direct appeal to the public — and will devote the next month to the prepara-
  tion of his own report.
   The 64-year-old mayor also said he would not give any interviews until he completes his report.
   The Malouf report — prepared after nine months of public hearings into each aspect of Olympic spending — said that Drapeau “must assume the greater part of the blame for the decisions made and initiatives undertaken with regard to the organization and construction of the Olympic installations.”
   Drapeau, who has been mayor since 1954 except for a three-year period, was described in the report as “the real project manager” until late 1975 when the Quebec government stepped in because of chaotic conditions on the worksite.
   “Not only was he entirely lacking in the aptitudes and knowledge required for this role, but also, as a politician and first magistrate of the city, he should have avoided placing himself in this position,” the report said.
   The inquiry also said Drapeau misled the public and the Quebec government about
  the sports facilities, including the 70,000-seat Olympic stadium which cost more than $615 million. The cost of the Games was estimated at $120 million in 1969, meaning that costs climbed by more than 1,300 per cent in reaching the $1.6-billion figure.
  In his statement Saturday, Drapeau also said the Malouf report reflected the attitude of' the inquiry since it began its work.
  “Nobody has forgotten that the commission decided without hesitation to continue its public hearings during the municipal election of 1978 while it held back the publica-' tion of the report until after the referendum (on sovereignty-association),” he said.
  Drapeau also said that the inquiry attacked his city administration, but it showed understanding of almost all other parties involved -except for Montreal’s Olympic organizing committee and Roger Taillibert, the Paris architect who designed the stadium and other facilities in Olympic Park.
 The determination by the inquiry to lay blame under-
SPRINKLING LIMITED
Hart area runs dry
by AL IRWIN Citizen Staff Reporter
    A serious fire could burn uncontrolled if residents ignore city sprinkling regulations, says the city assistant engineer.
   Excessive lawn watering caused some Hart Highland residents to go without water for about two hours Sunday when the one-million gallon Nechako reservoir, on Foothills Boulevard, went dry, says Colin Wright.
   Wright says city bowl reservoirs were also dangerously low Sunday, and the city is taking action to ensure sprinkling regulations are observed.
    Wright says the reservoirs provide not only peak-use storage, and a supply if pumps fail, but also an emergency supply for serious fire demands.
    He said today reservoir water levels are still low and residents must observe city sprinkling regulations.
   Throughout the city lawn watering is allowed only on alternate days, with odd numbered sides of the street restricted to
 odd calendar days, even sides to even days of the month.
   However, in the Nechako-Hart, College Heights, Starlane and Parkridge Heights, residents are further restricted to only morning and evening watering on their alternate days. In these areas all sprinkling is banned from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
   In Charella Gardens, residents may sprinkle only between 5 and 7 a.m., and 7 and 9 p.m. on alternate days.
   Wright said if the sprinkling regulations are observed, Nechako-Hart residents should have no problems.
   “The system just can’t meet the demand day and night,” he said.
   Tenders have been called for another water well to serve the Nechako-Hart area. That well, estimated to cost about WOO,000 would double the area’s water supply, but the well is not expected to be in operation until early next year.
   Temperatures have been in the mid-20s for the past week. There has been no measurable rainfall since June 10, when 8.6 mm of rain fell.
  mines the credibility of the report, he said.
   The report said the main reason for the discrepancy between initial estimates and the actual cost of the games and facilities lies in the administration’s and COJO’s “irresponsible” decision to choose an “unusual concept” and a “foreign architect.”
    But Drapeau asserted that the commision minimized the real causes of the cost of the project.
    After two and a half years of work and several million dollars, he said, the commission identified but did not weigh in its conclusion other causes such as spiralling inflation, the saturation of the construction market at the time, and strikes.
    The mayor found it disturbing that the commission insisted on comparing the actual cost of the Games in 1976 with 1972 and even 1969 estimates, ignoring a 1974 evaluation by a consulting engineering firm.
    This evaluation stated that the city’s 1972 estimates were correct at the time .
Good, bad fire news
   The good news is rain on maior forest fires and the bad news is lightning strikes causing 18 new fires since Friday.
   Dennis Hutcheson, forest service duty officer, reported the numer of fires had risen to 93, over the weekend,because of lightning strikes. However, rain in the northeastern portion of the province had kept the large fires in check, so that the overall fire situation was not dangerous.
   He said there were 235 men on firelines, with one skidder, three tractors and 18 helicopters being used. Air tankers were grounded because of overcast conditions, but three had been used Sunday.
   Fire hazard rating are for moderate, locally, but high in the northeastern areas of the region. Prince George region includes an area from Endako to Alberta and McBride and Valemount to the Yukon.
ANZAC LINE
B.C. to build
coal rail link
   RICHMOND, B.C. (CP) - A month ago it sounded like a poker player's bluff when Premier Bill Bennett said B.C. might build a spur line to its rich northeast coal fields alone, without federal aid.
    But Saturday Bennett laid his cards on the table and said the provincially-owned B.C. Railway, not the federally-owned Canadian National Railways, would build the 115-kilometre Anzac line vital to a 10-to-15 year coal deal with Japan.
    The announcement followed an emergency cabinet meeting called by the premier who balked at a federal-provincial agreement accepted by Economic Development Minister Don Phillips at a 10-hour meeting in Ottawa Friday.
    Bennett said one obstacle to an agreement with the CNR was that the national railway wanted to recover its estimated $300 million construction costs too quickly.
    Both the CNR and B.C. Rail plans call for recovery of capital construction costs under a formula anticipating big increases in the price of the metallurgical coal used in making steel.
    But Bennett indicated B.C. was willing to wait longer than the CNR to recover its costs, estimated by B.C. Rail to be only $215 million.
    “I didn’t want my national railway to act like the first national bank,” he said. “I expected them to show a little entreprenurial spirit to help our private sector.”
    The premier said revenue from B.C. natural gas exports will finance the Anzac rail line between the northeastern B.C. coal fields and the CNR’s line to Prince Rupert, an indication that B.C. plans a hard line against federal proposals for a new tax on natural gas exports. The Anzac line, which includes five tunnels through steep terrain, is the most costly of the three major projects needed to deliver coal from the rich Sukunka fields northeast of Prince George to
 'I'm free to speak/ says Clark
   NEW YORK (AP) - Declaring “I am a free person and I speak my mind freely,” Ramsey Clark has returned from Iran, challenging U.S. officials to prosecute him.
    At an airport news conference Sunday night, the former U.S. attorney-general said he was simply exercising his rights as an American when he violated President Carter’s ban on travel to Iran and went to Tehran to participate in a 54-country conference on U.S. “crimes" in Iran.
    Clark was to detail today nine steps the U.S. could take to gain freedom for the 53 American hostages held by Iranian militants since Nov. 4.
    Ihe plan was outlined under Clark’s name in today’s New York Times, which excerpted a copyright article from this week’s Nation magazine.
    In it, Clark urged that the U.S. stop harassing Iranian students in this country, end economic sanctions against Iran, give thanks that in 17 months no American has been “killed or injured in Iran by the Iranians,” and pray that no harm will befall the hostages and that Iran will “find a new fulfillment."
    He also urged the U.S. to renounce intervention by all countries in the affairs of others, announce support for international justice and the right to seek to extradite wrongdoers, enact a charter to assure control of the CIA, begin a congressional inquiry into U.S. actions in Iran, and repent for the violent deaths “of 70,000” people in Iran.
    President Carter said last week it was his “inclination" to prosecute Clark for violating the travel ban.
    However, the federal justice department has not made it clear whether Clark will be prosecuted and subject to a possible 10 years in jail and $50,000 fine. It has said Attorney-General Benjamin Civiletti will decide.
 the port at Prince Rupert.
   Bennett still expects Ottawa to finance the other two projects - an estimated $75-million upgrading of the CNR line to Prince Rupert and a $70-million coal port at Ridley Island near Prince Rupert.
   Ray Perrault, government leader in the Senate, maintains the two governments are still partners in the project. He said the federal government will be contributing about $180 million through the CNR and other Crown agencies.
   The Japanese companies had said they would wait only until Sunday for a firm price for the coal. The cost of the spur line is considered a major factor in setting the price fo the coal.
   The premier declined to tell reporters what price the Japanese would pay for the
  coal, except that it would be "a substantial price.”
   Perrault said representatives of both governments, CNR, the coal companies and the National Harbors Board, which is responsible for the Prince Rupert port, reached agreement in Ottawa on a development plan providing for a competitive price offer of a little more than $70 a tonne.
   Japanese buyers currently pay between $64 and $68 a tonne for southeastern B.C. coal but Perrault said they are willing to pay a premium price for development of a major new coal source.
    Provincial opposition leader Dave Barrett, interviewed briefly at Vancouver International Airport Saturday before boarding a plane to Japan, said it would be improper for him to comment on Bennett’s announcement until he knows all the details.
TODAY
 ‘I’ve been drafted! ”
FEATURED INSIDE
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 Kremlin unrepentant
  Russia has shrugged off Western and Islamic criticism of its intervention in Afghanistan and indicated its intention of ensuring continued Marxist rule there. Page 5.
 'Jack is back'
  The scoreboard at the U.S. Open golf championship read “Jack is Back" after Jack Nicklaus won the event Sunday. Nicklaus won his fourth title with a record score. Page 17.
Horoscopes.......................11
International......................5
Morberg column...............6
Movies...............................12
National..............................7
Rolling Stone...................13
Sports...........................17-19
Television.........................11
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THE WEATHER
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   Don’t be misled by morning fog. The sun is there, just waiting for an opportunity to shine.
   Tonight should be clear with early morning fog patches. Tuesday should be sunny in the morning with occasional showers and cloudy periods.
   The expected high today was 25, the low tonight 9. Tuesday’s forecast high is 25. The high Sunday was 22, the low 8. On this date last year the high was 17, the low 11.
   Sunset tonight and Tuesday is 9:45 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday is 4:38 a.m.
Details Page 2
  •	A city woman says she wants to do a commercial for the manufacturer of a certain china. When she accidently smashed the cupboard door with one of her favorite plates, the paint chipped, but the plate remained intact.
  • • Gordon Hatch has had his livelihood stolen. Gordon is a Citizen carrier and his bicycle, a gold and tan men’s Hustler 10-speed, was stolen from his house at 4205-22nd Ave. He bought the bike at Easter from his paper route earnings and needs it back. He can be contacted at 563-5173.
  •	A woman whose car was struck broadside earlier this week was relieved when a claims adjuster from ICBC told her, although she thought she’d had an accident, she’d had a ’’vehicular incident" instead. “That’s good,” she said, “because the accident would have almost killed me.”
  •	Overheard in.a provincial government office: “Our zero-base budgeting is successful. We’re getting closer to zero each year."
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