today in brief
30c	Monday, August 8, 1983
 HOBOS may soon fade from the landscape, say vagabonds at the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa.	Page
 PROBLEMS CONTINUE at Ontario Hydro’s nuclear plant, with three of the five reactors malfunctioning during the weekend.	Page
 COMPACT DISCS, a new develop ment in the the recording field, are being heralded as the biggest ad vance in the industry since stereo sound.	Page
 BKITISH SPECTATORS watched in bemusement during the weekend, as football American-style unfolded in front of them.	Page
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Index
Bridge........................... I!'
 liuailtrnn....................... M-9
City, II.C......................3.7
 Classified.............. 16-21,24
Comics.......................... 12
Crogsword..................... IN
Fditnrial........................ 1
 Knlrrtninmrnl............... I-
Family........................... 6
Horoscopes.................... 12
 International.........*....... 2
Movie*.......................... 12
National......................... 5
Sports....................... 13-15
Television...................... 1#
 Sadrack says
   Saturday's downpour may be the last we'll see for some time as the weather ollice reports the outlook through until Friday is for sunny skies with a few cloudy periods.
    The probability of precipitation is 10 per cent today and near zero overnight and Tuesday Highs both days should be in the mid-20s and the overnight lows near 8 Sunday’s high was 22 and the overnight low was 5, we enjoyed 12.2 hours of sun and there was no precipitation A year ago the high
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 was 30, the overnight low was 9, we had 12.3 hours til sun and no measureablt* prccipita tion
POLICE SPRING TRAP
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   IUHLIN (AIM — Tulin- cap lured live ol hewn vvnuld-hc kill-iiap|M*rs in a hlood) k initial tic hi*
Ilie\ neared Ihe mansion ul llieir inleiiiled victim, a Toronto Inllion a ire Mho wan in Filmland plaviiiK |miIo with 1‘rinee Chat let al Ihe lime.
    The intended victim wan (ialen Went on, 12, ehairnian ol I lie 1.0-lilaws supermarket empire and vice-prenident ol Ihe exclusive Foi l mini and Marion gourmet looil More in London, poliee naltl.
    Two ol the annallaiiln, one ol whom wan hclicvcd to have In-ell wounded, eM'aped into tin- woodn on the !HI-hcclaic Itoundwood t'ark. entitle anti rcniHiiicd al large todii), poliee nald. The) naltl lour ot the raptured men were wounded m the crossfire, m whieh more than I INI nhotn were filed.
     None ol Ihe |Milieemeil w ho liatl nlaketl out Ihe enlate were hurl
    I'olire nourien Illumed the attempt on the outlawed I'rovision-al Irinh Uepulilit an \rni), I imIii mu to drive Ihe Itritinh out ol neigh-boring Northern Irelaml The ItltC nald Ihe lltA’n Marxint olfnhoot, Ihe Irinh National Liberation Army, wan In-hmd Ihe raid. An ol liiin 11101111111*, no group hail t laimcd renpoimihilit v lor Ihe attempted kidnapping
    Newnpa|M-rn nald Ihe lamilv ol one ol Canada's weallhient men apparcntl) had been warned lo ntav away Irom the enlate hv (loliee al ter being tipped alMiut Ihe ahdue lion allempt. Itul Wen ton mi id Inter: “I haven't lieen near Mound wood t'ark lor monlhn."
    \l Ihe time ol Ihe nhooloul, Went on wan plinmg polo at Wind nor, near Ihe ({uccn'n nummei re treat, on a leant that includes ( ha rles.
     \\ e.ntoii lell oil liln home dm ink Ihe match Suntlav anil nun-lainetl a hip hart me, hut wan Irealetl at honpital ami leleaned
    I'olire armed with nulmiaihmc-nuiin were at the enlate awaiting the wuuld-hc kitlnappem. Newnpa-pem reported lh.it police pul lights on in the cmpt) mansion overnight lo gite |he imprenniou Ihe Wenloim were al home.
     The IlltC nald |m>Iicc also plant ed a tleeov ear at the enlate lo lui Iher Ihe imprennion Ihe Wenloim were (here. I’olire tlct Illicit lo cum ment on Ihe re|Mirl,
    A poliee npokenman nald police agents challenged Ihe mankeil gun men im Ihe) approached Ihe park, tinte Ihe home ol lormer Irinh I'residcnl Sean O'hcll), loealetl I.* kilolllelren noutll of lluhllll
    Ihe Kunnien opened lire. IV liee In til haek, catching the gang in a crossfire. I'olire naltl mure than Iimi rounds were liretl in Ihe guntiallle, one ol Ihe hloodienl exchanges Int ween gunmen and po liee in Ihe repuhlie in Iwo veam.
    Three ol Ihe wounded gunmen were re|Htrled in serious tontlilinn al a himpilul near Dublin. The fourlli Kunnian wan nhot hi Ihe heatl anti underwent suigciv al a Ihihlin lumpital where official* naltl hin tontlil mn Him "critical.”
     \ I ill h man w an arrenled al the ncene.
    Ilelei liven with tracking dugs trailed the othei Iwo men, one IdeetliiiK badly, through the surrounding womllandn and recovered several automatic weapons.
    Weston In prenident ol t>corgc Weston Ltd., Ihe Tnruiiln-hnncd parent cnmpanv ul \ssocialcd lint inh Foods ('o., which operalen a mi perinarket chain in Itrilain and Ire land.
    The W enlon huniiienn empire, which sprawls across lout cun tinentn and in said to In- woilh >7..’* Inllion, includes l.ohlaw t o I.til., K.lt. Ftldv Forest Pioducl* and Itritinh Columbia Packers.
Alex llret-lilvn stand* in Ihe driveway til the home where Alma Slone, Stewart Sackner and Kon Slone lived.
DOUBLE SHOOTING
Miworth man faces charges in killings
     l>> llll.l. McEACIIEKN Staff re|Hirter Itonald Stone, 37, has been charged with two counts ol second degree murder in Ihe wake ol a dou bie shtHiting which rocked Ihe i|(iiet community of Miworth early Sunday morning
  Police have identified, Alma Stone, 4H and Stewart Sackner, 71 as the murder victims found in a Miw orth house at about ti a in Sunday Both were shot with a handgun which police have recovered Stone, au unemployed tradesman, lived in the Miworth home with Alma Stone and Sackner Police were called to the scene al ter neighbor Margaret llrcchka who lives about 200 metres away from the murder scene, said she was awa kened about 5 30 a in by the sound of a man outside sobbing, his hands clutching Ins head "There’s two dead 'there’s two dead ’ he was crying ” said llrech ka
 "He was in shock and trembling hard and I let him in and sat him down at the table,” she said in an .nterview today from her home on Otway Koad "I don't know what to do,” be sobbed
 llrcchka then asked him what happened
  •	I don’t know, " she said the man replied as he held Ins head in his hands
  "My son Ken called the police," said llrcchka Neither Margaret nor her husband Alex heard gunshots that morning and neither sint'llcil alcohol nor saw blood on the man He wore no shoes or socks, said Margaret llrcchka
This morning, curious drivers craned their necks as they passed the home Near the home, a small stream gurgles towards the Nechako Uiver,
a few metres down a bank A lush garden with a greenhouse is well tended, a stark contradiction to the cluttered yard beside it "Stewart used to keep that garden well," said Alex llrechka as lie points to where he would often see the old man toiling A stark "No Trespassing " sign marks the entrance of the driveway and another is nailed to a wooden door
  Eric Lovtvedt, 24, who lives about I(Kl metres from the murder scene, said "We were up, sitting outside at that tune 16 am Sundayi and we never heard anything "It just freaked me out when we found out about it from neighbors when all the police were around ” Neighbors say Alma and Hon moved into the home about four years ago to live with Sackner when the home’s previous owner died Miworth is 13 km west of Prince (Jeorge.
War games start today
 TKliUi'lliAM’A 'Keuten The biggest military manoeuvres held hi Central America are set to begin to day as the first of 5,600 ll S ground troops lands hi Honduras The so-called Big Pme II exercises, lasting from six lo eight months, will involve 11,600 ll S and Honduran ground troops and 16,000 military personnel aboard 19 wai ships cruising off Nicaragua’s I'acil ic and Caribbean coasts The manoeuvres, at first called
routine by Washington, are acknow ledged by Pentagon sources to be a display ot ll S rapid deployment ca liability and military might They have been sharply criticized by members ol Congress and Latin American diplomats who say the manoeuvres run counter to efforts for a peaceful dialogue to resolve the region’s conflicts Honduran armed forces spokes man Col Cesar Klvir Sierra told reporters Saturday the operations
Guatemalan ousted
 (iUATEMAt.A CITY 1AP1 De tence Minister Oscar Humberto Me jia Victores has replaced Klraiii Bios Moult as |>rcsidt-nt ol (iualeina la. the National Badio rejiorted lo day
  The radio said the decision to re place Bios Monti was announced by Ihe military command, including Ihe commanders nl Ihe land air and na val forces, who charged that a reli
gums and fanatic group was taking advantage ol Bios Monti's position
  Bios Monlt was a recent convert in a California based evangelical church
 Prior to the announcement more than a dozen air force planes and helicopters circled the National Palace. site ot the presidential ollice. ami military installations in the (lualemalan capital
were "a clear warning” to Nicara gua, which Washington accuses ol trying to export Marxist revolution to its ll S allied neighbors
 The Honduran government says Ihe aim of the exercises is to improve Honduras's self-defence capability But one military source told Bcuters news agency the United States would derive Ihe main benefit by gaming experience in conducting operations in the region
  All four branches of Ihe 11 S armed forces will participate in the war games, which are set to last until January or March
  C 141 transport planes will start bringing troops today to the coastal cities of San Pedro Sula and La Cei ba, where engineers will set up training camps, barracks and a pro visional 60-bed hospital, military sources said
  They ex|>octed the cost ot the manoeuvres to "far exceed” the $5 mil lion spent on the Big Pme I opera tion m February
 Neighbor Margaret llrechka shows how the man was clutching his head against her house early Sunday morning. cnueii |>ii..iii> i»\ him k <.,.i>i«-
Slick pushed to sea
 CAPE TOWN i lieuter> — Favorable winds blew a massive oil slick from a wrecked Spanish supertanker away from South Africa's Atlantic coast Monday, dispelling fears of a major jHillution disaster Pollution experts said it now is unlikely the 60-square-mile slick, at one time only about six nautical miles offshore, would move back toward Ihe coast It was reported Monday about 26 miles offshore Anton Moldan, head of South Africa’s marine pollution services, told Reuters news agency "The slick is
heading out to sea, spreading and thinning It will soon be caught in the mam Benguelii current and that will carry it further out even if the wind turns round again
 Molilan said it would eventually break up and disperse in Ihe Allan tic Ocean
 The slick was from the I3H.H22 tonne Spanish oil tanker Castillo de Bellvcr, which broke in two alter a fierce lire Saturday, fully loaded with Persian (Julf oil Cause of the blaze was not known
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