Mobile home
Ah! the romance of the open road. This house, formerly located beside the Second Avenue Parkade, was wheeled away to a new site on the Hart Highway today to make room for a commercial building. Movers cot up early to avoid traffic.
Cftiwn photo by Doug Wfllfr
The
 Vol. 25; No. 161 Tuesday, August 19.1980 Prince George. British Columbia
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ISRAELIS POUND PLO BASES
Mideast fi
heats up
   BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli officials claimed today that between 40 and 50 Palestinian guerrillas were killed in an overnight attack by helicopter-borne Israeli commandos against Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon. The Tel Aviv officials said three Israeli soldiers were killed.
   The Palestine Liberation Organization reported only 12 dead and 14 wounded among its fighters, while Lebanese provincial authorities put the PLO death toll at 20, with 25 other guerrillas wounded.
   The PLO said two Israeli commandos were killed and at least 28 wounded. The Israeli military command in Tel Aviv said later that three of its men were killed and and 12 wounded.
   It was the biggest Israeli raid on
 Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon in 2'i years.
   Both Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat inspected opposite sides of the border battlefield, coming within a few kilometres of each other.
    Lebanese authorities said the raids against four Palestinian strongholds touched off an artillary battle between Israeli backed Lebanese Christian forces and PLO guerrillas at Beaufort Castle,- an ancient fort built by French Crusaders about eight kilometres north of the Israeli border.
    The clifftop fortress has been used as a Palestinian artillery platform.
   Lebanese officials said the Christian forces advanced on the castle after four Israeli military planes
 attacked the ancient fortification with rockets and bombs. Lebanese radio said Israeli jet fighters flew over Beirut, the Lebanese capital 80 kilometres north of the border, apparently on reconnaissance missions.
   Arafat claimed his forces repelled the assault. PLO spokesman Majed Abu Shrar said the raid was a “prelude for an allout (Israeli) invasion of the whole of southern Lebanon to liquidate the Palestinian resistance movement,” and warned all Arab governments to ‘‘wise up about what is coming before it is too late."
   Israel said the raids were part of “preventive measures” to deter guerrilla strikes against the Jewish state.
   It was the biggest Israeli strike across the frontier since March 15,
SO THEY HIJACK PLANES
Refugees 'hate it' in U.S.
    by DAN SEWELL MIAMI (AP) - Many of the more than 118,000 Cuban refugees who landed here earlier this year in overcrowded boats stepped ashore chanting: “Long Live Freedom.”
   Now, some, with their hopes dashed, have resorted to hijacking airplanes as a way to return home.
   “We hate it here,” said one of three refugees arrested Sunday trying to smuggle gasoline aboard a flight at Miami International Airport. "We will try tohijack another airplane if we get a chance.”
   U.S. officials have blamed disenchanted refugees for the
 record six hijackings last week — three of them on Saturday.
   Federal officials say resettlement of the Cubans who have arrived on the Freedom Flotilla since April 20 has moved more quickly than expected. More than 100,000 refugees have been placed in homes of relatives or other sponsors.
   Still, many of the refugees have been disappointed in their search for jobs and a better life in the U.S.
   An estimated 60,000 of the refugees remain in south Florida’s Dade County, and a recent survey showed five of every six of working age remained jobless.
   More than 600 homeless refugees live in tents along the Miami River. They receive a breakfast of bread and coffee and a hot meal for supper.
   ”1 want to leave this country.” says refugee Israel Gonzalez. “If necessary, yes, I would hijack a plane. I would even hijack the president.”
   Like many refugees, Gonzalez, who arrived in Key West three months ago, has close relatives still in Cuba and had envisioned obtaining a high-paying job to pay his family’s way here.
   "There have been success stories, and there have been tragedies and hard-luck
 stories," said Larry Mahoney of the Cuban-Haitian Refugee Task Force. "That's the way it goes when you have a mass migration.”
   Some observers recall that Cuban-Americans allowed to visit Cuba during a special exile visitation program last year may have left false impressions.
   "They took back designer jeans and color televisions,” said the wife of a Cuban-American doctor. "The refugees thought they could come here and in one day buy a Sony TV and a Cadillac.” She said her now-prosperous husband’s first U.S. job was parking cars for $1 an hour.
   1978, when Israeli troops invaded all of southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, 32 kilometres north of the border, in an attempt to "root out terrorist bases.” They did not withdraw . completely until midJune 1978.
    An Israeli army spokesman said Israeli troops from three commands and the air force crossed the border Monday night and attacked Palestinian guerrilla positions about eight kilometres north of Metulla, Israel’s northernmost town .
     It was the third raid on guerrilla bases in Lebanon in a week. Israeli naval vessels fire rockets at Palestinian strongholds near the Mediterranean port of Tyre. 80 kilometres south of Beirut, last Wednesday. Seaborne Israeli commandos struck at the SidonTyre coastal highway two nights later.
Blockade lifted for day
  CHERBOURG, Franco (AP) — Striking F’rench fishermen decided today to lift their blockade of this northern coast port until midnight as a humanitarian gesture toward almost 6,000 British travellers, many of them women and children, stranded by the dispute.
   Talks aimed at halting the strike, which is beginning to hurt France’s international trade, are due to start later today in Caen between representatives of the trawler owners and the fishermen, protesting planned layoffs and lower prices for their catch.
   The strike has spread to other ports on France’s Atlantic coast and in the Mediterra-
BIGGER CONCERT PLANNED NEXT YEAR
Rock festival promoter answers critics
by LESLIE PERRY Citizen Staff Reporter "No matter what criticism we get, there were a lot of people who enjoyed the show.”
   That’s the word from rock festival promoter Lome Clifford in answer to a barrage of criticism from health district and medical officials who complained of inadequate facilities and poor organization at the past weekend’s rock festival near Giscome.
   "We delivered the talent — every band we said would be there showed up — and we pulled it off despite everything,” Clifford said today.
   He said two days of rain created a lot of problemson the site with failing power generators but “if it hadn’t been for the rain it would have been the most efficiently-run festival people have ever seen.”
   Medical and RCMP officials complained in a Citizen story Monday the parking lot and main road into the site area were not gravelled which created a "sea of mud.”
   But Clifford denied this, saying the main road into the area was "fine" and the parking lot wasn’t gravelled because “that’s agricultural land and you can’t ruin that by pouring gravel on top of it.”
   An estimated 12,000 people attended the two-day event on a 60-acre cleared farm site.
   Chief health inspector David Coombe said earlier, as of Friday, the main power generator for the site was "decrepid” and not working, only one water station instead of the promised two was set up, toilets were not distributed, four food concession operators cancelled their permits because they didn’t have any water supply and there was no parking lot lighting.
   Clifford dimissed these accusations. He said the power generator only failed Saturday "because of the rain, concession operators cancelled because they couldn't come up with the money promoters required and 40 of the 60 toilets were spread a-round.”
   He said, however, there was no lighting in the parking area.
   Medical personnel also complained a mobile trailer was “too small to cope with any emergency and had to be initially shared with food caterers.”
   Clifford said caterers were moved to a different trailer and added the four doctors on shift during the concert "had no complaints and could have handled any emergency.”
   He said promoters "expect to do a little bit better than break even” and said the festival has cost them about $450,000. That would require revenue from about 13,000 tickets.
   RCMP reported earlier "several counterfeit tickets’’ were circulating at the concert and Clifford said that could change the balance sheet.
   Clifford said 60 of the chemical toilets at the site were not cleared but were "overflowing” because the contractor complained he could not get into the site because of the rain.
   "That’s a feeble excuse,” Clifford
 said. "If we can get bands and people in there he should be able to.”
   Clifford said "Everybody tried really hard to stop this from happening.”
   "Every obstacle was in front of us even the weather was against us.”
   He denied accusations from Regional District, health district and medical officials that all the preparations for event had been left to the last minute.
   "The regional district’s bylaw for this event is impossible to comply with, within the 60-day time limit they want,” he said.
  Clifford said board members should "consult him” or other rock promoters if they draft a new bylaw.
   "I should be able to go at my earliest possible convenience and get permission for this, on the last day if I want, it should be at my discretion, not the regional district's.
   Clifford says he plans to stage an "even bigger rock festival” in this area next year and plans to find a permanent site for one.
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 Local pro-am winner
  One of the most promising young golfers on the Canadian pro tour won Monday's pro-am tournament in Prince George. Page 14.
 Polish strike spreads
  A strike by Polish workers is growing, with 149 major industrial plants now affected. Page 5.
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BuNinesrt..........................8, 9
 City, B.C....................2, 3, 25
 Classified.....................16-22
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Crossword........................18
Editorial..............................4
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Horoscope*......................27 Hockey great Gordie
 International......................5 Howe was in town during
National..............................7 the weekend and took a
 Sports.....................13-15,32 nostalgic look back at his
 Television.........................27 five decade- on ice. Page
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THE WEATHER
   Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it — especially today’s which should be sunny with cloudy periods and scattered showers. Wednesday should be mainly cloudy with showers or thunder showers.
   The expected high today is 19, the low 8. Wednesday’s forecast high is 16. The high Monday was 22, the low 5. On this date last year the high was 21, the low 9. Sunset today is 8:34 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday is 5:56 a.m. and sunset is 8:31 p.m.
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NOW HEAR THIS
 •	A local mother recently bought some Eddie Arnold tapes and while playing them heard her daughter (aged 15) say, "Hey! He’s good. Is he new?”
 •	For those who have a name for our new weather moose, the number is 562-2441 (a^k for Liz) between 2-4 p.m. until Friday. We’re offering prizes of $25, $15 and $10 with a framed print of a moose cartoon also going to the number one choice .. .
 Got a news tip? Call The Citizen’s 24-hour news line at 562-2111.
Carter
gaining
ground
   NEW YORK (AP) - President Jimmy Carter has dramatically cut into Ronald Reagan’s lead as the U.S. general election campaign prepares to start, an Associated Press-NBC News poll shows.
   In the opening days of this month. Reagan’s margin over Carter was 25 percentage points.
   However, in the poll taken Friday and Saturday, Reagan’s lead was only seven percentage points among likely voters, an 18 percentage point change.
   The poll was based on interviews with 2,000 adults, with 1,137 likely voters included in the total sample.
   The latest poll says Reagan is the choice of 39 per cent of the likely voters questioned. Carter is the pick of 32 per cent and Congressman John Anderson was mentioned by 13 per cent.
Panda cub
accidentally
smothered
   MEXICO CITY (AP) - The first giant panda born in captivity outside China was apparently smothered by its mother eight days after its birth, but the director of Mexico City’s Chapultepec Zoo hopes the parents will try again next year.
   Zoo director John Schoch said keepers discovered early Monday that the tiny cub had been dead for several hours. He said it was believed Ying Ying, the mother, accidentally suffocated it.
   "It may have been because this was Ying Ying’s first baby and she didn’t know what to do," he told a news conference.
'Pounding' quake hits Ecuador
  GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — A powerful earthquake pounded this Pacific port city early Monday, crumbling old buildings and terrifying its one million inhabitants.
   There was no official casualty count, but many houses were destroyed and hospital emergency rooms were packed with victims.
   The Quito Astronomical Observatory said the quake measured between seven and eight on the 12-point Mercalli scale at its epicentre, about 100 kilometres northeast of Guayaquil in Los Rios province.
   ‘‘It was an awful one, a pounding, noisy one," said Egbert Scott, proprietor of a bookstore in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city.