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.. ISLAMBAD AP-Deposed
‘Prime Minister Zulifikat Ali
Bhutto, already jailed in one
,political murder, has been
accused of ordering a
second, Pakistani federal
investigators said Monday.
Meanwhile Bhutton
through his lawyers accused
the military government of
making the charges for
political reasons.
Investigators said five
suspects in the second
killing-four police officers
and an alleged assassin they
were accused of hiring- have
told officials that Bhutto as
prime minister ordered the
murder of Dr. Nazir Ahmed,
an opposition national
assemble member, in 1972.

Ahmed was gunned down
in a clinic at Dera Ghazi
Khan in sounthern Punjab
province.

The investigators said the
order was transmitted
through Ghulam Mastafa
Khar, Punjab governor at
the time. They said they
intend to arrest Khar, who
later -became a special
assistant to Bhutto.

According to the in-
vestigators, the suspects
said Bhutto order the
Killing because Ahmed had
made a series of speeched
blaming the prime minister
for the loss of East Pakistan
_in the 1971 Indian-Pakistani
war. East Pakistan became

More honesty,
says leader

PEKING Reuter - One of
China’s most respected
soldiers, Marshal Nieh
Jung-chen, said Monday the
Communist party must
reshape itself into a more

honest and open
organization.
. Writing in the magazine

Nieh, 78,
reasserted the internal

: reform theme of last
> month’s ith
: congress,

party

His article, also published
pers, said

down-to-earth
terms and stop. using
meaningless slogans.

The marshal, a newly-
elected member of the
policy-making gholitbura,
said the 35 million party

members should admit

mistakes instead of boasting ©

and should not lie,

He admitted that the
party's prestige among
ordinary people has fallen
as a result of the political
turmoll of recent years. He
blamed this on the purged
“gang of four’’ radicals.

The article said it’

‘is understandable that
some people had to resort to
lies when the radicals were
riding high.

Now, he said,lies are not
permissible.

Nieh said decisions should
be made only after full
discussion and he attacked
arrogant officials with
dictatorial tendencies.

He also said the poy
should be Jess dogmatic.

~ “Angry’ man

shoots boys

TORONTO CP - A 14 year
old boy has described how
two friends sitting only feet
away were wounded at close
range Sunday night by man
who later shot and killed
himself in the city’s east

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Bruce Dack said his two
friends, Wayne Wallace
Groves, 15,and Russell Paul
Chico John, 14, both of
Toronto, were with him in
an alley near Queen Street
East and Broadview Avenue
when the man came up to
them.

He said the man was
“very mad’’ and didn’t
speak English very well.

“He was yelling, but Iam
not sure what he was
saying,” said Dack:

“He pulled a gun out of his
back pocket and = shot
Wayne. He was so close that

the gun was touching him.

Then he shot him again and

Igot upand started running.

“T didn't see him shoot
Chico, but I heard the shots
and I thought he was
shooting at me because I
was running.”

Police said the dead man,
Andrew Bodrog, 46, of
Toronto, a hospital orderly,
put a handgun in hia mouth
and shot and killed himself
when two police officers
trapped him in a dead-end
alley two blocks from the
scene of the original
shootings.

Aspokesman said both the
injured boys were in serious
condition in hospital. ‘

John was shot in the neck
and spinal area of the upper.
back. Groves was shot in
the left shoulder, neck and
through the hand.

Zoo keeper
lives nightmare

MIAMI AP - For 30 years
Bill Haast ran a tourist
attraction and he was
comfortable about what he
was doing. Now he lives in
the middle of a nightmare
filled with self-doubt.”

“T’ve created a monster,”
said a shaken Haast, who
has closed the serpetarium
where Cookie, a one-ton
crocodile, killed a little boy
Saturday.

Haast killed the crocodile
himself early Sunday behind
the serpetarium’s locked
doors.

The victim, six year old
David Mare Wasson of West
Palm Beach, had fallen
from a five-foot masonry
wall into the pit where the 12
foot Nile crocodile lived.

The normally sluggish
reptile moved “like light-
ning,” said oné game of-

ficer, and grabbed the boy. .

The father, bystanders and
Haast beat at Cookie but the
crocodile went into its un-
derwater hole with the boy
clamped in its jaws.

The youngs er’s body
floated to the surface after
Cookie was jabbed in the
eye,

Mrs. Karen Wasson said
Sunday that her son was a
boy who ‘“‘played with

friends and loved animals.”

She said a medical
examiner's report showed
the youngster died instantly
when crushed by the
crocodile.

“Thank God, there was no
pain,” Mrs, Wasson said.

Haast, a recongized ex-
pert on snakes and venom,
sat downSaturday night to
write the boy's parents, but
said he couldn't finish the
letter. He said he went to
bed telling himself: ‘I'l
have to kill Cookie.”

Early Sunday, he arose
and took from a desk drawer
a pisto] he had been given 32
years ago by a_ soldier
returning from the Second
World War, ‘‘I never
thought I'd have to use it,”
he said.

Haast fired more than 20
shots into the crocodile.

Haast said he wants out if
the tourist-attraction
business, which he built as a
side to his snake-serum
laboratory, but fears he
might be ‘stuck with it.”

He said killing the
crocodile was not an act of
revenge. sig.

“But what can you do with
such an animal, You can't
feed it, you can't show it.”

Bangladesh.

It was not known whether
formal charges would he
files against the ousted
prime minister in the Ah-

Bhutto was arrested
Saturday in the southern
. port of Karachi on charges
of murder, criminal con-

iracy and abetting in the

ooting death of the ‘father
of opposition legislator Ab-
med Raza Kasuri.

AS LEADER OF PAKISTAN
Bhutto accused of ordering a second

nation of Police officials allegedly
involved in that slaying are
reported to have said Bhutto
ordered Kasuri murdered -
but that he escaped and his
father was killed. Bhutto is
in policy custody in Lahore
in central Pakistan. A bail
proceeding is not expec
to be completed until at
least Saturday. No trial
date has been set.

Ina bail plea presented by —
Bhutto's lawyers at a
hearing Monday, the former

prime minister accused the
military regime, which
ousted him from office July
5, of “vindictiveness” in
filing the charges.

He said that there was no
evidence against him and
that the military wanted to
frustrate the efforts of his
Pakistan People’s party to
mount a campaign for the
national elections Oct. 18.

Since the coup, political

onents have accused
Bhutto of various offenses

murder

were tortured.

Monday sentenc
- Mahm

of court ¢

Kasuri case.

during his 5% year regime,
including corruption and the
establishment of camps
where political prisoners

The Lahore high court
* Masood
ood, director: of. the
40,000 man federal security
force under Bhutto, to six.
months in jail on a contempt
rge. Mahmood
is one of the police officials
allegedly involved in “the

AUGUST 29 - SEPTEMBER 13
NO,1 4621 LAKELSE

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Through September 1977

From the beginning of September all provin-
cial highways and most municipal signing will
be converted to the metric system as quickly
as possible. Signs designating distances in
miles will be changed to kilometres (km).
Speed zonesin miles-per-hour willbe changed
to kilometres-per-hour (km/h). New metric
speed signs will become legal when they are
posted. Overpass and bridge clearances will
be signed in both feet and metres.

WHY THE RUSH?
This is an important part of Canada’s nation-
wide metric programme to convert all stand-
ard measurements to the decimal system — the
simple arithmetic method used by most coun-
tries in the world.

We have already become accustomed to the
change in heat measurement from fahrenheit
to Celsius, Weights will change from ounces to
grams; pounds to kilograms. Fluid measure:
ments are already changing from pints, quarts

and gallons to standardized litres. Distances -

willbe measured in millimetres (1/1000 metre);
centimetres (1/100 metre); metres and kilo-
metres (1000 metres). ho
It has been found ‘in other countries that
phases of metric conversion introduced “cold
turkey” gain the quickest acceptance. Those
of us who laboured as schoolchildtgn to con-
vert feet to yards to miles may have a little
trouble at first, but metric is being taught in
our schools; it is the universal language of
scientists and engineers; and, in th@ near fu-
ture, will see full useage in the United States.
Let’s do it now!

DISTANCE

One kilometre (kim) is.621 ofa mile.One mile is
1.609 kilometres (km). However, the easiest
way to visualize a kilometre is as 3s of a mile.
Here’s'a simple example of conversion:

100 km x 5 _ 500 _
rr ier) 62.5 miles

or
100 mies x8_ am = 160 km

HERE’S HOW DISTANCE SIGNS WILL BE CHANGED: °
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SPEED

Remember, that as they are posted, new speed
zones in kilometres-per-hour (km/h) auto-
matically become legal, even though they
may not be a precise conversion from the pre-
vious speed limit in mph. Here are some you

should become familiar with as soon as pos-
sible,

On winding highways we urge extra caution
in approaching curves with advisory speed
signs converted to km/h. These signs warn
you what speed the curve or corner may be
safely negotiated at. Take it slowly until you
become thoroughly familiar with the metric

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road signs go metric!

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SPEEDOMETERS ;
Most 1977 and all1978 model. cars have speed-
ometers and odometers calibrated in km/h
and km. Some earlier model cars have speed-
ometers with dual calibrations. If your speed-
ometer indicates only mph, you may find this
conversion scale handy. Familiar speedsare in
large type.

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MPHo = =20 30 40 50 60
Always drive at the posted speed. You'll be

surprised at how little time you really save
when you exceed speed limits. :

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Here are some tips:

1. Think (and talk) kilometre. Make it family fun
while driving together.
2, When taking short, familiar trips mentally con-
vert your mileage to kilometres. Remember the:
58 formula,

3. On longer trips, make sure you have a current
“Beautiful British Columbia” road map (published
by Tourism British Columbia, Ministry of the Pro-
vincial Secretary and Travel Industry) available at
tourist inforthation centres. It has conversion
tables for most destinations in the province and
nearby.

4. Keep our metric folder in your vehicle.

Overhead clearances, Both advance and facia
signs for limited clearance overpasses will be in
metres, For a reasonable period of time, a sign in

feet will appear for a short distance in advance of |
the metric signs,

Fuel consumption, Gasoline will continue to b
sold by the gallon until January, 1979 when they

will commence conversion to litres. Kilometres
_ per gallon will be used to measure fuel consump-

tion until that time.

Province of British Columbia
Ministry of Highways and Public Works