today in brief
VIDEO CASETTE RECORD-ERS are making an impact on movie theatre ticket sales and
pay television.
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MICHAEL CAINE has found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow which led him to the U.S. Page
ARSON and vandalism are costing Prince George sports
froups thousands of dollars in amage repairs. Page
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Sadrack says
Increasing cloud is forecast for today with periods of rain overnight. Sunday will be cloudy with showers and a few sunny breaks.
Temperatures will reach near 10 today and Sunday with an overnight low near 3. There is a 20-per-cent chance of precipitation today, rising to 80-per-cent tonight and falling again to 60-percent Sunday.
Friday’s high was 11 and the low was 1, with a trace of rain and snow and 6.5 hours of sunshine.
Details pajfe 3 A year ago today the high was 7, the low was zero with .8 mm of rain, 5.8 cm of snow and 3.5 hours of sunshine.
Sunset today is at 7:32 p.m. and sunrise Sunday is at 5:43 a.m.
"I don't trust those new-fangled battery-powered pacemakers."
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Five die in worldwide terrorist attacks
by Reuters
The latest terrorists attacks in western Europe and the Middle East have claimed the lives of a Briton and five Spanish civil guards, and injured a U.S. diplomat and nine other people.
An explosive charge went off outside the British Bank of the Middle East in Moslem-held western Beirut today, causing damage but no casualties, police said.
Earlier today, a bomb exploded in the building that houses the American Express offices in Lyon. France, and police said a passerby was slightly hurt by flying debris.
The Lyon explosion occurred at 4 a.m. local time, setting the upper floors of the building ablaze and shattering windows in surrounding buildings. No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion.
In San a, Yemen. U.S. Embassy official Arthur Pollick, was wounded in a hail of gunfire Friday as he was driving home from church, the State Department said in Washing ton
Pollick, 41, a communications officer from Bakersfield, Calif., was hit by at least two bullets, receiving a relatively minor head wound and a more serious shoulder injury. State Department officials said
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack on Pollick.
Also on Friday in Lyon. Kenneth Marston. 43. an executive with the U.S.-owned Black and Decker tools was killed by a hooded gunman — the third Briton slain outside of Britain since the April 15 U.S. bombing of Libya.
A caller to an international news agency in Lyon claimed responsibility and played a recorded message in French saying: “We will destroy all American and English imperialist interests in the world, wherever they are.”
The beginning of the message containing the name of the organi-
zation could not be heard, but the word “Arab" was audible. The caller hung up immediately after playing the tape.
Washington said the April 15 raid was in retaliation for what it claimed was Libyan involvement in the April 5 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub frequented by U.S.
military personnel. A U.S. soldier and a Turkish woman were killed in the blast.
Libya says the U.S. raid killed 37 people and injured 93 others.
In Madrid, a car bomb exploded outside a hospital Friday morning, killing five paramilitary civil guards in Spain’s worst guerrilla attack in two years.
The bomb was detonated by remote control as civil guards, relieved from sentry duty at the nearby Italian Embassy, drove by in the upper-class district of Salamanca. police said.
Basque separatists seeking independence in northern Spain are suspected in the attack.
In Vienna, an explosion ripped a hole in the door of the Saudi Arabian airline office during a visit to Austria by Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef, police said.
They said nobody was hurt in the explosion and no one has claimed responsibility.
Police said a grenade was found outside the door of the Kuwait Airways office on the floor below. The building was evacuated and two adjoining roads were closed as security officials searched the building.
at Harmac
NANAIMO (CP) — The large Harmac local of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada has voted 66 per cent to reject a two-year tentative pulp contract, a union official said Friday.
President Jim White of Local 8 of the 5,500-member union predicted the 7,000-member Canadian Paperworkers Union will narrowly accept the deal, but said his union’s vote is too close to call.
“The overall PPWC vote is fairly close; it’s going to be very, very tight.” said White. “The CPU looks like they’re going to accept, but by a slim margin ”
Move your clock ahead
The first sign of summer is upon us Sunday with the arrival of Daylight Saving Time.
The clock jumps ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, so people are reminded to set their clocks before going to bed.
Daylight Saving 1 ime permits people to start their work day earlier, preserving more daylight in the evening for outdoor or family activities.
The sun rises Sunday at 5:43 a.m and sets at 8:34 p.m.
Daylight continues to get longer until the first dav of summer. June 21.
Canada a future target
ST-JEAN, Que. (CPi — Canada will be hit with a series of assassinations by foreign-trained Canadian terrorists within five years. Peter Shoniker, a leading expert on international terrorism predicted Friday.
But deputy solicitor general Fred Gibson and another terrorist expert downplayed the supposed threat by the Direct Action terrorist group based in Toronto and Vancouver.
Shoniker. an Ontario assistant Crown attorney who has written three books on terrorism and has been consulted by 17 countries on the subject, said Direct Action members have closa links with West Germany’s Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang.
Members of both groups lave been trained by the same people in South Yemen. Libya and Lebanon and have the same techniques and motives said Shoniker. adding that Direct Action is now harboring an unknown number of Baader-Meinhof members in this country.
“Direct Action is as much linked with the Baader-Meinhof gang as Prince Charles is related to the
Queen." he told reporters after addressing a conference on terrorism at the College Militaire Royal here.
Shoniker. who declined to name his specific sources, said he has every reason to believe that Direct Action will follow Baader-Meinhofs pattern and move from bombings to killings within five years.
Direct Action leaders were convicted of the 1982 bombings of the Litton Systems Canada plant in Toronto. Ten people were injured in that attack. The group was also convicted of a 1982 bombing of a B.C. Hydro substation on Vancouver Island.
Shoniker said he bases his information on regular contacts with terrorist experts around the world.
He repeatedly insisted he was not inflating the threat imposed by Direct Action. “I’m not an alarmist. I usually have a reputation of being the opposite."
But Gibson, replacing Solicitor General Perrin Beatty who was in France to sign an international agreement to .fight terrorism, organized crime and drug smuggling, said he was surprised by Shoniker’s assertions.
Canada's lobbyist under fire
Southam News WASHINGTON - A storm of controversy is building around Michael K. Deaver, the former White House aide to President Ronald Reagan who has acted as a paid lobbyist for the government of Canada on the acid rain issue.
Deaver, who left his job as White House deputy chief of staff last May to form his own lobbying firm in Washington, is the subject of several official inquiries by Congress and the executive branch to determine whether his lobbying is permissible under U.S. law.
Federal law prohibits former government officials from lobbying on issues in which they were “personally and substantially” involved while in office.
Another aspect of the law prohibits officials from participating in decisions affecting outside interests with which the official is negotiating or has arranged for future employment.
The Deaver case involves the period before, during and after last year’s summit meeting in Quebec City involving Reagan and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
At that meeting, envoys Drew Lewis and William Davis were appointed to look at the acid rain issue. Their report, released earlier this year and endorsed in March by Reagan, has produced a changed attitude by the Reagan administration toward the issue, to Canada’s benefit.
Deaver and the government of Canada entered into an agreement last September calling for him to be paid $105,000 (U.S.) a year to represent Canadian interests.
Five Democratic members of the U.S. Senate wrote a letter this week to Attorney General Edwin Meese, himself a former White House aide, asking him “to determine whether or not to apply for an independent counsel to investigate allegations of possible violations of federal criminal statutes by Mr. Michael Deaver ”
The senators said news reports detailing Deaver’s activities were “sufficiently specific to trigger the statute.”
Ethics law requires that Meese either order a preliminary investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or tell the senators why such an inquiry is not necessary-
This classic Cadillac, on display at the Age of Wheels Car Show this weekend, was part of the State of California fleet when Ronald Reagan Classic Cadillac was governor. The 1937 Cadillac Fleetwood V12 was owned by the gover-at city car show nor’s residence from 1937 to 1973, when Leonard Esser of New Westminster bought it. Esser has ten other vintage cars and has been invited to show three of them, including this one, at Expo.
CIL's plan
◦ surprise
for the city
CIL Inc. has announced it will open a hydrogen peroxide bulk terminal in Prince George this spring, but city officials say they know nothing about it.
Mac McDougall, manager of CIL’s sulphur products plant in the BCR Industrial site, said in a press release Friday the terminal is being built to better serve the needs of the pulp and paper market in B.C. and Alberta.
The chemical is using as a bleaching agent in pulp plants.
The terminal will involve a rail siding storing hydrogen peroxide in jumbo tank cars transported from Ontario and, starting next year, from a chemical plant in Quebec.
“It’s the first I’ve heard of it,” said Graham Farstad, city planner, who said the company had not yet applied for a building permit or a business licence for the terminal.
Farstad said the company will probably not have to rezone land if the terminal is built on industrial land.
Although the terminal will not create any new jobs directly. Prince George-area trucking companies will be contracted to haul the chemical and new jobs may be created as markets expand.
Earlier this year, residents in Miworth. a rural community northwest of Prince George, successfully opposed a plan by Du Pont Canada Inc. to store hydrogen peroxide on a railway siding near the community.
The bleaching agent is not considered to be environmentally hazardous but in combination with other materials it can be highly combustible.
Du Pont saw the Prince George area as a natural distribution centre for mills in Northern B.C. and Alberta.
A spokesman for the company said later that Du Pont was still interested in establishing a terminal in the area for its product.
Scholarship fund reaches
$2.0,000 goal
“We actually did it.”
Those were the excited words of School District 57 accounting clerk Sandy Wilkinson after the Prince of Wales scholarship fund topped $20,000 late Friday.
By 4 p.m. Friday the total was $20,582 and Sandy and the other staff at the board office were still counting.
“I just can’t believe it,” she said.
• Tor weeks I’ve been writing up receipts for $5 and $10 and today people are just pouring the door with money.”
The final total won’t be known until Monday.
A donation of $3,500 by Central Interior Cablevision pushed the fund over the goal of $20,000.
The money will be used as the basis of a permanent scholarship which will be the city’s gift to the Prince and Princess of Wales during their visit to the city May 4.
The scholarship of at least $2,000 will be presented annually to a student graduating from Grade 12.
Pulp pact rejected
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