| | In Brief!

TORONTOCP-Canadian coffe prices are unlikely to
decrease in line with those in the Unites States, a
spokesman for a major Canadian coffee manufacturer said

londay.

', Alan Scrivener, a vice-president of General Food Ltd.,
said the Canadian industry is “still working off beans stock-
piled at high prices,”

' Several major coffee distributors wholesale price
reductions of up to 2 cents a pound for ground coffee and
three cents an ounce for instant coffee.

Scrivener said one of the reasons Canadian coffee
than in the U.S. is because of higher markups taken by
retailers in Canada,

Scrivener said coffee is being sold for $4.49 a pound in
‘most Toronto supermarkets while retail prices in New York
rarige as low as $3,389.

Well preserved

HONG KONG AP-A 70-year-old body found in China’s
-Kiangsu province isso well preserved that most of its joints
are still movable and the texture of its hair and skin is good,

‘a Hong Kong Communist news-paper reported today.
.. Ta Kung Pao said the body of Chow Yu, a scholar in the
“Han Dynasty, was found in a tomb in Ching Tan country
south of the Yangtze River. The body -was identified by
books and writings in the tomb, the report said,

Doctors ata Shaghai hospital examined the body and
determined that Chaw was about 40 when he died and had a
lung infection and intestinal worms, the paper said.

Dies hungry
" JOHANNESBURG RUETER-Black South African ac-
-tivist Steve Biko died in detention Monday in Pretoria after

maintaining a hunger strike since Sept. 5, Justice Minister :

Jimmy Kruger said today.

Bikohonarary president of the Black Peoples Convention,
ahd been in dentention since Aug.18, and had been regularly
supplied with his meals and water, Kruger said in a
statement. But since Sept.5, he had refused to eat or drink.’

Apost-mortem will be held by the chief state pathologist
in the presence of a private pathologist appointed by Biko’s
relatives, Kruger said.

- Within hours of Biko’s death, a prayer service was held
here attended by a multi-racial audience.

Speakers described Biko, who founded the South Aftican
Students Organization, as “the father of the black con-
sciousness movement,’’

- Death sentence

KINSHASA RUETER-Zalre’s former foreign minister,
Nguza Karl-I-Bond, was sentenced to death for high treasen
today by the State Security Court.

- Nguza, 39, was accused of failing to pass on to President
Mobutu Sese Seko information he recieved about plans to
invade Zaire. ;

” The ex-minister, once regarded as a likely successor to
the president, denied the charges.

The court was told of a meeting in' Brussels last January
between Nguza and an exiled opposition leader. .

President Mobotu ‘was likley to face nasty surprises in
Shaba ..."' the disgraced minister was alleged to have been

In March, eiled opponents of the president invaded
Zaire’s Shaba province from Angola. Zairean forces,
stiffened by 1,500 Moroccans flown in aboard French
Planes, routed the invaders in 80 days.

The Zaire news agency AZAP SAID Nguza may appeal
the death sentence to the Supreme Court or to the president.

Beatle baby

LONDON AP-Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney’s wife, Linda
gave birht ot a six-pound, one once boy in a London hospital

jay.

The baby was the couple's first son and has been named
James Louis, a spokesman for the pop singer said.

Both mother and ‘child were reported well.

The McCartneys have two other children, five-year-old
Stella and seven-year-old Mary. Also living with them is a
daughter from Linda's previous marriage, Heather, 14.

Linda, 36 and Paul, 35, when she came to London in 1969
as a professional photographer to take pictures of him. The
married in March of that year.

Since the breakup of the Beatles in 1969 McCartney had
teamed with Linda and the group, Wings.

Kudos for Toller

y JAMES NELSON

OTTAWA (CP) An enthusiastic crowd almost filling
Ottawa’s Civic Centre ice arena gave a standing ovation
Monday to the opening performance of Toller Cranston’s ice
show which is on a cross-country tour.

Cranston and his 13skaters gave a virtuoso performance
of dance onice which won praise from Ottawa critics.

Though the audience obviously enjoyed the show, it was
left wondering who most of the performers were.

There was no house program listing the participants and
their numbers, andthe announcement of their names on the
public address system ‘was so garbled as to be unin-
telligible. ;

A spokesman for the show said house programs will be
produced for future performances.

After a second performance here, the show tours Ontario —

and Western Canada, reaching Vancouver on Oct. 7, then
moves to the Atlantic provinces with performances in
Halifax starting Oct. 26, The tour ends in Saskatoon on Dec.

Bread profiteers

LONDON (AP)-The British government ordered regional
authorities and consumer protection agencies today to
monitor bread prices to prevent profiteering during’ the
bakers’ strike now in its fourth day.

One West London shop was selling 43 cent loaves for 70
cents Monday. Newspapers reported other stores were
putting on a 17 cent markup. Some customers were
five times the normal price. ot

The strikers have closed the major bakery chains that
normally produce 80 percent of the bread eaten in England
and Wales. Today, strike leaders urged piceting at flour
mills, trying to cut off supplies to the independent, non-
striking bakeries that normally turn out the other 20 percent
‘and now are producing as much as they can.
_ Reports from bakeries around the country indicated some
interruption of flour supplies but not a great deal yet.

The strikers also asked the dock workers to stop
wiloading grain. But the country’s largest grain terminal
at Tilbury was' working normally. |

from Alcan in Kitimat provide an easily accessible picnic spot for local back
packers.

Flood

leaves

18 dead

KANSAS CITY, Mo, (AP)-
A sudden flood fed by 24
hours of unprecidented
rainfall left at least 18
persons dead, hundreds
homeless and the city’s
fanciest shopping centre in
ruin Tuesday.

By nightfall, rescue
workers still were pumping
water out of underground
parking garages at the
city's Country Club Plaza,
fearing more bodies might
be found trapped in the
three caverns.

“We have no idea how
Many cars there are or if
there’s anybody in any of
them,” said Frank Spink,
director of emergancy
preparedness for the city,
discussing the pumping
operations at parking
garages. Most shops and
stores were closed when the
flood struck, but restaurants
and bars were open.

Missouri Gov. Joseph
Teasdale, a Kansas City
native, planned to ask
President Carter to declare
the area a disaster area,
making merchants and
homeowners eligible for
low-cost federal loans,

Up to 30 centimetres of
sof the metropholitan area
in the 24 hour period that
ended at midnight Monday
night. Small creeks swelled
to overflowirg .and fed the
rising Big B,ue River.

The water .n Brush Creek
had receded to near normal
late in the day, but the Bue
still worried officials.

. Homes along its flood plain
were evacuated.

The weather forecast was
encouraging: mostly sunny
and mild today, clear
Thursday. -

On Sunday the weat:er
bureau had forecast heavy
thundershowers, and they
came. The first rain began
pelting the clty at midnight
about 11 a.m. Monday after
dropping 10 te 15 cm. But it
began ralning again at 7:30
p.m., raising the total to 30

_e@m in some areas by mid-
night, ‘Then, with the

damage done in the early
morning hours, the rain quit
by noon. ;

The floods, spawned by
the heaviest. recorded
rainfall in the city’s history,
hit hardest at the shopping
centre in the southern part
of the Missouri city and at a
trailer park and industrial
district in the east.

The Red Cross reported
about 1,000 people homeless.

Bobbie Reid, a district fire
chief at Independence on the
east edge of Kansas City,
said at least 25 persons were
rescued from the tops of
cars, trees and house roofs
when. Rock Creek flowed
over .its banks,

Spink said there. were a
few reports of looting after
the water receded Monday
night, but he described the
incidents as minor. Ad-
ditional guards were posted
in flood-stricken areas.

The damage in the Plaza
was compounded early
Tuesday by an explosion,
apparently caused by
natural gas, that started a

_ fire anddestroyed six shops,

Satellite
blown up

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla
(AP)- A safety officer blew
up. a European Space
Agency communications
satellite shortly after lftoff
Tuesday night after a
structural defect caused a
fiery explosion on board,
space officials said. .

A National Aeronautics
and Space Administration
NASA spokesman said the
Delta rocket carrying the
Orbital Test Satellite was
breaking up because of a
structural failure when a
destruct signal was sent.

He said the destruct signal

is used when a problem
occurs aboard during a
launch to try to break large
chunks of debris into
smaller pieces.

THE HERALD, Wednesday, September 14, 1977, PAGE §

Don’t forget us, Canada
tells third world

UNITED NATIONS (CP)-

Government House Leader
| Allan MacEachen of Canada
7 told the UN | General

Assembly Tuesday that’ the

| developing countries, in
A their pursuit of a new in-
4 ternational economic order,

should not overlook the help

i the industrialized countries
i already have given them.

MacEachen was ¢o-

| chairman of the so-called

North-South dialogue bet-
ween rich and poor coun-
tries that ended in Paris last
June. Some observers have
said the year long Paris
conference did little to
further a new economic
order. —

The dialogue obviously is
winding up in a brief session
of the Assembly, which runs

Child
killer
caught

DERBY, England (AP)-
Escaped child-killer. Mary
Bell was captured Tuesday
in the Midlands city of
Derby a few hours after
officials released a recent
picture of her.

A police statement said:
“Mary Flora Bell was
arrested in Derby this af-
ternoon and is now in
custody. She was found in
the company of two men
who are also in custody, but
they have not been charged
with any offence.”

Annette Priest, a 21 year
old prostitute serving 18
months for mugging clients,
from a minimum security
prison with.Bell and has not
been found, the statement
said.

Bell, 20, was sentenced to
indefinite detention when
she was 11 years old for
strangling Martin Brown,
and Brian Howe, 3.

She vanished Sunday from
the Moor Court open prison
near . Stoke-on-Trent about
30 miles west of Derby.

until Friday. Technically, it
was a resumption of last
fall’s 31st session, which
suspended in December
rather than adjourning, to
await the outcome of the
Paris conference.

During a brief informal
news conference before
addressing the assembly,
MacEachen said he still
believes that generally, the
outcome in Paris was a

positive one.
Unfortunately, he said,
the good things which came

out of the 27 nation Con-
ference on International
Economic

Co-operation CIEC - such as
a billion dollar fund to help
poorer countries: and a

“common fund” designed
to stabilize the international
prices of 18 leading com-
modities by financing
creation of global buffer
stocks - were quickly
forgotten.

In his assembly address,
MacEachen said that in
future work on issues of
international economic and
social development, it would
be wrong to underestimate
the difficulties facing
developed countries.

“In Canada, cur people
are understandably con-
cerned. with domestic
economic problems such as
unemployment and_= in-
flation, problems which
directly affect their lives.

He said developing
countries are impatient for
change in the world, but
added:

“They are right to be so.
But there must be some
recognition, some ap-
preciation of the important
and difficult steps which
developed countries have
taken toward meeting
developing country con-
cerns.”

H. Shirley Amerasinghe of
Sri Lanka, president of the
assembly, said in his
opening speech that the
North-South dialogue hardly
could be labelled
progressive when some of
the most pressing problems
such as major debt relief for
developing countries,
remain unsolved,

Amerasighe warned that
the threat of recession and
of growing inflation can
never be removed if
overwhelming majority of
countries, comprising about
two-thirds of the world
population, are forced - to
live in continuing economic
trouble.

He said it would be unfair
to expect the oll-exporting
developing countries to

match the industrialized.

countries’ contributions to
the restructuring of the
international trading
system before the former
have had time to create the
infrastructure and the in-
dustrial development that
would ensure steady
self-sustaining economic
growth.

The group of 7 developing
countries introduced a
resolution in the assembly
calling for new action on &
new economic. order
expressing dissatisfaction
with the Paris talks.

The resolution, presented
by Pakistan, also urged the
industrial countries to fulfil
their commitment to
negotiate and. to reconsider
their attitudes on
unresolved issues.

- At his news conference,
MacEachen said the main
obstacle to the success of the
North-South dialogue was
that requests were made
which were not capable of
being met by the developed
countries. He noted that one
of the demands by the
developing countries was
for ms cancelling of thelr
e .

Secretary-General Kurt
Waldheim sald international
trade probably offered the
most promising means of
co-operation among
countries but resurgence of
protectionism had “cast a
shadow on the economic
horizon.”

After the debate, the
assembly adjourned its
plenary session on the world
economic situation until
Friday, when the Group of
77 Resolution is expected to
receive overwhelming

endorsement,

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