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Beat the high cost tr new parts with quality used paris. irqm. _ ~S.K.B.: AUTO SALVAGE 7 "3690 Duhan, Clustoft Hwy, ee) Y. NEW? r 635- 9095 ‘today . by ‘the. Argentine - ‘ambassador to the Holy See, -Jose “Maria Alvares: de Toledo. - _ The riessage was ‘sent by Galtieri to: thank the Pope __» for bis just-conchuded visit - t) Buenos Aires, where he 4. repeated calls. :for..peace - " between’ Argentina and. ‘Britain in the- Falklands Conflict: 2 - “Argentina ‘ip still ‘ready, ,to accept an inimediate 1 ceasefire followed by a swift - |: and mutual ‘withdrawal of ~ 1. forces,’ the message said, > “This: would © bean _Ai- | ~ |: dispensable - ‘Step o ‘the Lf; establishment -: Jaa =" “honorable : ‘and jug peace. ~- which does more. than just = the guns, a8: ‘your, 2 holiness has urged. — “Argentina reiterates its support-for efforts carried © “ gut within the’. United . a Nations to reach’ a fair solution to the question,’’. the- Vatican. ‘quoted the’ message ‘as saying. ° The. ‘announcement did not mention who would administer the islands ‘under Galtieri’s. plan. or whether Argentina . would pull out . without British recognition of’ ‘Argentina . ' sovereignty over” disputed South: ‘Atlantic islands.” > ‘British’ infantry, : backed « _ by artillery, ‘pressed a’: “fierce three-pronged’ altack today'on.two Argentine-held ridges west of Stanley ‘in the “third, British assault in as INSIDE ‘Classifieds Letters’ to Editor _ ~ Happy: Gang news . Local: & world sports pages 4&5 page. 2 . page 3 ‘pages 6&7. a page 8. i, i Comics, horoscope . ‘assault: _-puriched; through the outer. . many days on the ‘besieged - Falklands capital, Argentina announced. © The. Buenos the shellfire and infantry “troops were ‘holding thelr: positions. The Defence Ministry iri Landon refused - “comment on the report. ’ The Argentine joint chiefs _ of staff said in-a- morning “communique | that “a great quantity”, of British forces - ‘charged from: high ground ’- “Jess than 16 kilometres west - of Stanley :. just: before. Thidnight Sunday. night after’ régrouping fron a pre-dawn “Saturday ” that : ‘Argentine defence . perimeter. ! The fighting has become generalizéd for possession .. _. o£ Mount tumbledown and .. Wireless Ridge,,.. with’ in- _fervention ‘of Infantry and, Fr artillery from both sides,” ~~ the high command sald. . Aires military command . said - _Argentine gunners returned - Established 1908 : ieee _ picnic for peace. " ‘TERRACE— Over 200 people turned out ~ to an anti-nuclear picnic at Lakelse Lake from Terrace and Kitimat on Sunday. “It wasn't time for a demonstration...we wanted to'get together socially - and also.to inark the UN: special session,” . says George Clark, one of the organizers. ‘ \The picnic gave the people who are - concerned by the world-destructive forces _ behind the threat of nuclear war ati op- - portunity to meet and become familiar‘ with common goals and issues, Skeena . MP Jim Fulton also attended the picnic. Meanwhile in New York hundreds of protesters were arrested today as they staged a massive civil disobedience - demonstration: by blockading the UN. “missions of the five nuclear arms powers. (See wire 546 2nd paragraph “The blockade..."") - The blockade of the UN missions of Britain, France, China, the Soviet Union” . and the United States came two days after ° _ ahuge disarmament rally in Central Park. - Both protests were aimed.at focussing attention on the special disarmament . session currently under way at the United Nations. "i... At the U.S. mission, across First Avenue from UN headquarters, oné man tried to break through police barricades but was i ‘quickly hauled down. About 12,000 Canadian’ demonstrators - gathered at Peace Arch Park on the border between Washington stale: and. White Rock, B.C., during the weekend and thousands’‘more paraded in Calgary, Edmonton,’ Winnipeg and Montreal to _ press for nuclear disarmament. . The Canadian demonstrations coincided with a huge rally Saturday in New York City attended by “upwards of 00,000 people. The rallies were peaceful and most, like the West Coast demonstration on Satur- ‘day, featured speeches, music, sunshine and ice cream vendors. Patrick ‘Lonergan, 88, of ‘Vancouver, wearing a beret’ and medals from two world wars, said there would be no sur- viving a third world war and ‘these kids here have got their whole llyes ahead." In Edmonton, a group ‘called Edmon- ’ tonlans for a Non-Nuclear Future, got 4,000 © out for a march from elty hall to anearby By iate morning police said 1,079 - park. demonstrators, at least two of them Canadians, had been arrested. Most ‘of fered only passive resistarice’ by. going ~ limp, forcing teams of helmeted palicemen to carried them to waiting city buses for the trip downtown for booking. — - The focus of this demonstration and " unother in Calgary by about 1,000 was on U.S. government bageet to. test” cruise missiles at Cold Lake, Alta. Demonstrators wore T-shirts which said “Refuse the cruise,” and, listened to Skelly The demonstrators sat quietly or sang © Douglas of the Washington state-based | while.police teams arrested each in turn. Many held flowers or banners with anti- nuke slogans. A few agreed to walk when arrested. Most refused and wete carried. Each demonstrator was photographed, "gently picked up by four officers, placed ori a canvas stretcher--and. carried: ‘to the buses, o- of. A small crowd of supporters cheered. :from the street and roars of en- couragement went up as each bus pulled out.- . small group blocked a door with a web of bri ghtly colored wool and then sat beneath it. At thé: French mission several including at least one priest, prayed at police barricades with loaves of bread'in their hands. = Among the last arrested were two Canadians blockading the French mission. Lorne Fox of.Toronto and Helen Durie of Ottawa had joined the San Franciseo to New York peace march in Buffalo, Along with thousands of* other Canadians, they marched in Saturday's: rally and then “after a lot of -soul- searching” decided to participate in the civil disobedience protest, a They admitted they were worried about “|; being denied future entry into the U.8. because of their arrests. * But “if you really believe in something _ Ata a side'el entrance to the U.S. mission a. youhave to change some of your priorities, ~ : .. you have to take some risks,” Fox sald. “Two people:suffered minor injuries at, the French misston. _A young woman had" - her foot run over by acar but stayed to be arrested and a man was hit in the mouth. Witnesses said a mounted pollee patrot had hears called in. pte Ground Zero Centre. For Non-Violent Action. , . a There were more than 15,000 people out. the “Mreets. in. Winnipeg Saturday dnd ““Prenti¢rtHoward Pawley told them from the steps of the Manitoba legislature that the demonstration is “going to be a clear ‘Message — not only this march, but similar marches that will be taking place throughout the world — that people have .. ‘had enough of the present.war talk.” _ Manitobanse, including 80 demonstrators in Brandon (the province's second largest _ city) carried placards with messages ° which read, “Gamma rays will.end your days” and “Remember Hiroshima.” In Montreal, about. 1,500 people armed. | with banners and picnic tunches:demon- | strated Saturday In an east-end park to press for nuclear disarmament. Among the Montreal demonstrators was Shoichi Tsuba, a 25-year-old resident of Japan. He said he waa shocked Into joining the peace movement last year by the _ testimony of a friend whom he described : as “‘one of the damaged” by atom bombs © ‘dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War._......- Tsuba was one of 42 Japanese citizens at the rally who were hoping to atterid the New York protest but were refused entry to the U.S, at the border, Yoshihiro Sawada,-a research scientist, said he believes the Japanese may feel ‘more strongly about disarmament than’ ° { people in other nations because of their experiences. ~"T have four children,” Sawada said, “That also.makes me feel T have to do . What T I can. " ‘Falkland’ 8 battle watched — Renter. correspondent Lealie Dowd was with .British front: line troops on the Falkland Islands who stormed Mount Longdon, one of three main objectives on - the outskirts of thé capital; Stanley, at the ‘weekend.. . Saturday and received Sunday. By Leslie Dowd MOUNT LONGDON, Falkland Islas” - (Reuter) ’— The long-awaited battle. for “Stanley began in darkness with.a furlous barrage by British forces against fn: . {renched Argenting defenders. — At the signal given by force’ Commander ‘ Maj. Gen. ‘Jeremy. Mocre;; BL veteran. Be marine commando, several thousand. - troops launched & mass offensive, on. the. ‘Argentine garrison. ~.. "Shelling from batteries of British guis to soften ‘up -the : Argentiniais was sup: ~ plemented by naval guntire from British’ ships. offshore. _The_battlé for Stanley came 10' weeks - after Argentina seized: the South Atlantic islands, and three weeks after: Britleh troops landed tere. - = Leaflets rel on the islands calling of -surrender had earlter brought no - ise from the Argeritine garrison. driving the Argentine soldiers and His: dispatch was written — ? “The, Britjsh force had the dual task of © marines into defeat, while minimizing: risk to the town of wooden houses and the . islanders whose gardens are honeycombed with Argentine trenches and gun positions, © ., Dowd, in a Tater separate dispatch, reported: . I spent the night with men of the British forces when they stormed and took a key - mountain in the Argentines’ defensive ring - around Stanley. © ‘For moat of the night, we were mortared’ by: Argentine troops ° with -mounting ‘ac. - euracy” while machine-gun fire added its. deadly ‘contribution te. “the defeniters’ - arserial.’ ‘Moat of ‘all: 1 remember. the: unknown” ~ Arigénline sniper who kept a British force “pinned down in the rocks atop niount . " Longdon, hitting four men, - od - For several hours; as a commanding ° : -ollicer and his officers tried totakeout the - "sniper with machine gun, rifle’ and ar- . tillery fire, bullets ricocheted off the rocks _above.our heads. Add to this the discomforts of the 15-hour Falkdard Islands night, bitingly cold in the - present midwinter, and -the gruelling — ‘march necessary to bring us to assault _ Stitions before the battle began. British troops took some heavy ° casualties in this battle.