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BELFAST (Reuter) — One of the most wanted members of the IRA is among eight guerrillas killed in an attack on a village police station in Northern Ireland, police said today.
James Lynagh is believed to have been leading the attack Friday night on Loughall police station in County Armagh. Security chiefs suspect he was involved in dozens of Irish Republican Army killings.
In the worst setback suffered by the outlawed IRA in its battle to oust the British from Northern Ireland, the gunmen were shot down by police and troops as they rammed the police station’s gates with a giant mechanical earth mover.
A civilian caught in the shootout was also killed and four other people injured.
. . .and in Monday's Citizen. . .
Monday’s Citizen introduces a regular business-section feature, Your Money, written by Toronto financial columnist Patrick Fellows.
Also planned:
■ What the future may hold for Air Canada.
■ A complete rundown of weekend NHL semi-final action.
POLISH AIRCRAFT BOUND FOR U.S.
All 183 on jet die in crash
a 'reverse' switch!"
FREER TRADE'S LOSERS PREDICTED
TORONTO (CP) — Many Canadian industries could suffer and jobs could be lost under a freer trade agreement with the United States, a government report says.
Industries that produce tires, food products, wine, beer, wood products, electrical products, household appliances, construction machinery, toys, games, toiletries, glass and buses are among those identified in confidential studies prepared for Canada’s freer trade negotiator Simon Reisman.
The studies, obtained by the Toronto Star, also show that some Canadian industries could benefit under freer trade. .
These include resource-based industries and
industries such as telecommunications with superior products that are the result of research and development, the newspaper said.
It said the key theme in the report is that many companies, workers and communities would face urgent problems of adjustment as businesses and jobs are threatened by the loss of tariff protection or government support, which would no longer be allowed.
The studies were prepared by the Department of Regional and Industrial Expansion. An earlier version of some of the documents was made public last year by the External Affairs Department, but with crucial sections blanked out.
From AP-Reuters
WARSAW (CP) - A Polish jetliner bound for New York caught fire and crashed into a wooded area shortly after takeoff from Warsaw’s Okecie Airport today, killing all 183 people aboard, authorities said.
It was one of the worst commercial air crashes ever in Poland.
An air traffic controller, contacted by telephone, said the LOT Polish Airlines plane, a Soviet-made Ilyushin-62, crashed about six kilometres from Warsaw.
State radio said the fully loaded plane had turned around and was attempting an emergency landing when it crashed.
The radio said 183 people — everyone aboard — died in the crash at 10:'20 a.m. (4:20 a.m. EDT) in the Kabaty Woods, on the capital’s southern outskirts.
One witness said she was standing in her garden when she heard the plane approaching and looked up to see it crash only a few hundred metres into trees in front of her.
Crying and shaken, she told Reuters news agency: “There was an enormous bang as it hit the ground ... I saw one body hanging from a tree.”
Other witnesses said bodies were scattered all around as the plane broke up. Only fragments of its cabin, cockpit and tail remained.
Polish radio said fire from the crash spread to surrounding forests but was extinguished.
The Associated Press said it was the worst commercial air accident in Poland since the Second World War.
The official PAP news agency said the plane carried 172 passengers and 11 crewmembers.
The identities and nationalities of those aboard were not immediately released by airline officials.
“We are trying to determine this (identities of the victims) on the basis of tickets,” said a LOT employee at Okecie Airport. “As far as we know all were killed.”
Charter flights operated by LOT to and from the United States normally are filled with Poles and Polish-Americans.
Reuters news agency said a spokesman for LOT said foreigners may have been on board the plane. But he said there was no precise information.
The plane was flight No. 5055, scheduled to arrive at Kennedy International Airport at 1:30 p.m., said Margarita Subiros. passenger service agent for Pan American World Airways in New York. Pan Am provides ground service for LOT in New York.
The Polish air traffic controller, who refused to give his name, said the plane was full. The aircraft is a four-engine jet. the largest in operation in the LOT commercial fleet.
An officer on duty at Warsaw police headquarters said, “Of course there is a rescue operation going on at the moment, but I can’t give you anything more.”
The last major crash of a jetliner in Poland was on March 14, 1980, when 87 people were killed when an Ilyushin-62 went down as it attempted to land in Warsaw.
State radio said the probable cause of the crash was the failure of two engines.
“Right after takeoff, a charter LOT plane IL-62 crashed in the area of the Kabaty Woods,” state radio said. “It happened after the plane was turning back from its route and was about to land.”
The radio report said: “The probable cause of the crash was failure of two engines. The plane caught fire. According to the information at our disposal, nobody survived."
Tannina Christine Macialek, 19, relaxes in the warm afternoon caught some sun Friday because temperatures are , ® sun Friday, working on her spring tan among the dande- expected to dip a little during the next few days. weather ij0ns in Fort George Park. Macialek will be glad she
Citizen photo by Brock Gable
Cadillac purchase: $2.7 billion
TORONTO (CP) — Cemp Investments, the holding company of the Montreal Bronfman family, has agreed to sell its 50-per-cent interest in Cadillac Fairview Corp. to JMB Realty, a Chicago-based investment company, for $2.7 billion.
The sale of Cadillac — Canada’s most profitable real estate development company, with prime downtown property in many Canadian and U.S. cities — is the first step in the dissolution of Cemp, undertaken to prevent the latest generation of Bronfmans from quarrelling among themselves.
Analysts call it a good deal for JMB because Cadillac’s assets are valued at $4 billion on the company’s books and the current replacement cost exceeds $5 billion.
“They’re getting really good value,” said Ira Katzin of Prudential-Bache Securities.
Katzin and Frank Mayer, a real estate analyst with Brown Baldwin and Nisker, say another bidder may emerge.
“It’s a good question, we’ll have to wait and see,” said Mayer.
Cadillac Fairview, Canada’s 27th-largest company by assets, owns 56 million square feet of commercial space, with 10 million more square feet under development.
Its holdings include the Eaton Centre in Toronto, Pacific Centre in Vancouver, Le Carrefour Laval in Montreal and the Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre in Edmonton.
'POLICE WERE WAITING'
Eight IRA raiders killed
A bomb carried on the front of the digger exploded, devastating the police station. Masked gunmen then burst out of a waiting van — only to be shot by security forces.
One senior source said, “this was a major setback. It’s obvious the police were tipped off and waiting.”
Police refused to say whether they had been tipped off.
Hours before the attack, Northern Ireland police chief Sir John Hermon had gone on television to say tougher tactics would be used against the IRA.
The IRA had killed nine policemen in an upsurge of violence this year. Last month, a massive car bomb on the Irish border killed a senior Northern Ireland judge and his wife.
Immediately after the bloody gunbattle, police and troops closed the village. Local hospitals were
put on full alert to deal with the wounded — two policemen, a soldier and a civilian.
Children in the village hall had to dive for cover as the force of the exploding bomb smashed windows and sent glass flying across the street.
A weeping teenager said: “I saw bodies littering the roadway. Police and troops were running everywhere. I grabbed my little brother and rushed back into the house.”
A woman said: “We could hear the bullets ricocheting off the walls. Windows were blown in and it must have been half an hour before we considered it safe enough to come out.”
Police said the attack was well planned and the raiders intended to kill anyone inside the station. The number of officers on duty was not revealed.
PTL bugs, workers gone
FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) - The PTL ministry has purged its executive offices of electronic bugs and its payroll of 200 employees.
Those fired include friends and relatives of the ministry’s former leaders.
Chief operating officer Harry Hargrave said an elaborate bugging system was found May 1 in PTL’s executive offices.
It allowed all room and telephone conversations to be moni-
tored either from a particular room or from outside.
Later, PTL security chief Don Hardister said the system was used by PTL founder Jim Bakker to talk from his office to staff throughout the building. Hardister, reached in California, said to his knowledge it was not used to monitor others’ conversations.
Hargrave said the ministry’s payroll was trimmed by 200 from
1,480 people to save $1.2 million a month.
B.C/s 'lost* jobs
bv GORDON CLARK Staff reporter Giving B.C. residents priority for tree-planting iobs violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, according to an official of the Canadian Bar Association.
Mike German, co-ordinator of the Prince George Unemployed Action Centre, said earlier this week it was “degrading” for unemployed people in Prince George to see many of the jobs going to people from out of the province, particularity- Quebec and Ontario.
Barbara Nelson, president of the B.C. branch of the Canadian Bar Association, said that any direct legislation to restrict people from out of the province from tree-planting jobs violates the Charter. “I think it would be a problem under the mobility rights section,” she said.
On Friday, German said he was not proposing direct legislation. realizing that would violate the Charter. He said the government could informally control hiring policy by placing a clause in the contract the government signs with tree-planting contractors urging them to hire B.C. residents first.
“Something like an extra clause in the agreement between the Ministry of Forests and the contractors,” he said. “If there was some kind of incentive on them to hire from B.C., they would.”
“These people came out from Quebec with job in hand, they didn’t have to stand in line with 400 to 500 other people to_ bid for those jobs. I don’t believe British Columbians had a fair shake at those jobs.”
But Nelson said that even a contractual arrangement would be illegal.
“I don’t think the government can do by contract what it can’t do by legislation,” she said. If it’s illegal in a statute, then it’s illegal in a contract.” But a federal Employment and Immigration Ministry spokesman said other provinces have had restrictive hiring polices.
Allen Sachmann, director of Labor Market Public Affairs for the ministry, said there is no federal law to restrict provincial governments from imposing hiring restrictions.
“I'm not aware of any law in place that would be broken by a provincial-first hiring policy. There are examples that I am aware of to give local people preference in hiring policy,” he said in a telephone interview from Ottawa.
“The Manitoba government has a hydro-electric project and they have a local hiring policy.”
Sachmann said that the Quebec government once gave preference to Quebec building contractors. He said, for example, if a contractor needed a bricklayer in Hull and all the Hull bricklayers were busy, he could not hire someone from Ottawa, just across the river. A Quebec contractor had to be hired, he said.
Sachmann said Victoria could adopt an informal policy that contracters hire B.C. residents first but suggested the government might run into problems under the Charter if it tried to legislate hiring policy.
He said he doesn’t understand why tree-planting firms don’t hire B.C. people. “I don’t know why B.C. has to hire people from Quebec to plant their trees.”
Mike Wilkins, head of forest operations in the north, said the provincial government doesn’t want to legislate who private companies hire. “The government has no jurisdiction on who a planting company hires for his contracts. I think it would be a dangerous principle to say who the private sector had to hire,” Wilkins said. “You’re into an area that transcends forest service policy . . . I’m not sure we want to be in that position.”
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