Sa Cae _:Minister i the B.c: legislature. = Two Libyan air force / ighter-bombers attacked “Chadian — _ government _ ‘positions in and around today, . :Faya-Largeau ‘causing extensive civilian :casualiiés, _ Information - > Southaila 'Mahamat said. * Soumaila. told reporters ‘ithe . Libyans - dropped “fragmentation and napalm “bombs on the desert outpdst 780) kilometres ‘north of . ‘SN’Djamena, striking mostly Eresidential areas. 2 He said. “several hun-. jared” of Faya-Largeau's 7,000 civilian inhabitants Shave died in’ Libyan air ~ jattacks since government : “forces recaptured the oasis. ; s from Libyan-backed rebels gJuly 30, + The “raids were reported to have Jreeumed Monday after a. ve os . Page 4, The Herat, Tuma August % es os i —_ aa - | Vancouver expect chaos : ‘VANCOUVER: (CP); — Vials y . bis riders ; ean “expect. chaos ‘during a __massive rally Wednesday. afternoon, gays ._ . Bill Reid «SC = Surrey), board chairman. _ tot Metro:'Trangit Operating Co.-- He was: responding. to, union, plans. ia oe i ithe. area's ‘transit betwee 2 pam. itentioiis.! "pleco of ecllethe Canadian Tranalt, Union. VrHe'a’ entirely. ; The bus, compan a5 appenied | io. the BG, Labor. Relations Board for an order. © -agningt the. proposed walkout. The board «|. "had. refused . to grant an Anjunetién i, » requiring. transit and hospital, workers In: ’ Victoria to rematnl at work curing the rally Tegrouped “with Libyan air - Tepeatedly - shelled and the loyalists trapped there :. Libya’s government - has denied active military. in-. _yolvement: -BULency, heases’ accounts of Libyan ~ bomb Largeau and ‘western . -dn- ‘suggest a heavy Libyan role Ment . says 2,000. Libyan. . “troops are with the rebels |) Faya-Largeau has» been under siege since the end of, . _ when President. - reporters.Monday a Libyan . captured.over the weekend | when a-Soviet-bullt Sukhoi . ote ‘Abdasgalam Sharfaiine, . ., WAS betes ihey'te all ae Reid's a bus,” : ‘to be enshrined in law and. ‘effort to alter tt ust A stopped, farmers, rur ‘B ation od’ Rural Munielpaltti —AssinIbola) ‘there "la. hig group represen “30, the. committee he was concerned: that * municipalities and the province could get stue! "; tnuch as $150 million: in road costs.-He said j will increase because farmers. would: have to, tru "their grain farther to: elevators, 007 The proposed changes. would increase the t ‘farmers’ for grain’ shipments, with. the governm: the transportation system. * _Goukount's. ———inen “and have support bombed’ the oasis to foree - to surrender.: - inthe . : in-, -despite - . wit- runs on: Faya-.. telligence _ reports “that: - in.the fighting. The -US. ‘State. Dejert-- besieging . Faya-Largeau, CONDLICTING REPORTS: In: N'Djamena, Habre's . men. paraded _ before © western. diplomats and pilot they claimed was tighter-homber-was downed near Faya-Largeau, But the Lbyan news agency. JANA. claimed Habre's troops ‘had | seized the man two years . ago. The pilot; Mal. members of. the legislature said removing the Crow 7 rate ‘will further aggtavate'a serious Cees _feome crisis for. farmers, “ per cent this. year; : " gaid during the public hearing. Farmers Union: - serve all Canadians.:~ - : Wayne Easter, ‘a. Prince Edward ‘lend dairy” . farmer and president” ‘of the farmers union, : said. it: "insisting that the money will help, railways improve | | “A bilef presented by two New Democratic. Party | Agriculture critic ‘Allen Engel sald some para , have pretiicted farm incomé may drop. as muchas 60°} .“"Farmers just can't afford to pay any mere, ‘he | " ‘The committee agenda was so full meinbers’ iat | | - through lunch to. hear 18 briefs from the National | A common thread woven: into. the. day's j ‘presen: Le : tations: ‘was a demand cP Rail. be “natloriatized” to mF _ does not make sense for Ottawa. to provide an annual.’ - _ equity in CP Rall.:. ~ will provide little for. fa fallways. oe BS . evident next year... _ matter what kind of child " offering.” _ PROPOSED. CHAN GES, - - Blaves: of railways,” a -handeuffed .’ and “$651.6 ‘million rallway ‘subsidy. without: taking. anys. - During-three hours of testimony, he described the - - proposed legislation as a corpqrate welfare bill-that” Easter likened the ‘scheduled increase in: Irelght : rates to:'a lng. pregnancy. The Impact wort be “But by 1990, farmers: will have a much better Idea ; . of the monster that has been created: for them, no- Harold ‘Sinkingon, a Gravelbourg, ’ SASK., » ALSO CONDEMNED THE | af .. “It is the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on the . people of: Canada," he said. “Tt will make v us the . rmers and a ‘Tot. for the ; support the government is rural counelllor Trott q . guarded: ‘by soldiers” ‘With submachine-guns as he told | > Teporters he commafided a . aqua flew a ear three ritsslons re Sukhoi-228° and over Faya-Largeau.: JANA reported from the . Libyan capital, Tripoli, that Col. Moammar Khadafy’s | gunners would shoot down two U.S, AWACS radar . _ surveillance planes ‘sent to the, region’ “wherever they may. be," if they- “in any . way have effect over Arab -! Libyan territories.” The dispatch did nat elaborate. NEAR PARKSIDE Mink ““PORONTO (CP) is out and wool is in at CBC-: TV.~— and it has nothing to- do with austerity. - Reporters ‘for | The National news have been ordered not to cosy up to the * ' camera In fur coats because of the elitist.” ‘image “such ° garments project. °. - John Owen, - producer of The National, said in an interview Monday scHooL . Oa * Wests = SsTrreer |. Si vse 7 ae 1 oe . 1 4 i Cann ine of [scegon . SO1p ° ‘polaiar deJONG Cres. a? | | Hy _ an ae : Wilsons, AVENUE MCCONNELL 7 ' _olsraier of TERRACE “PROPERTY FoR, SALE Ave. -——— ary . KUN SET PRIC es ad 3 = $18,200.00 5 + $19,200.00 12 - $18,975.00 . - 13 $19,450.00 - excellent neighbourhoods. —Minimum. Jot size 8000 $c t ol eePully serviced i : 1 Close to schools and par! 8. : Ne ‘bullding time or’ re-sale limitations. Lo Lot _2-/$19,000.80 ] 3: $19,000. 00 oan 6 + §$20)500.00 with underground wiring and paved streets in ) feet. ° ef For further Information, call the Planning Départmeni, 635- 6311, 5 ‘Mink © is. ‘out. _ | seit ale. a irae ‘Canada, reporters. wearing fur: coats conveyed: - an image. to weathering a’ bad. economy : that ‘we're rich and, you re not." spring by - OQwea,. which ordered “the furs ~° into ‘storage, stated: : permanent. oan Owen said some reporters “Opposed the ban. But he said - journalists with fur‘ coats . are well-paid and can afford to buy. other coats, ° Most -reporters for the . ‘evening newscast earn ‘a ~ base pay: of about $35,000 a . year, With overiime. “pay, = heir salaries can be as high ; Las $80,000. ‘Karen Webb, ‘admitted getting fur off the air. But ‘Webb, whodoesn’town a fur . Coat, sald the dress code: _ was hypocritical since sorie ’ Jeather and suede sont, cast more than fur. ~ ’ Reporter Eve Sivory sald © she didn’t disagree with the, Themoa,: but ‘resented ie - severe tone, © ~ “Ttwas Ike slapping our _ wrists," she said, - .. Savory said she bought’ a * “raccoon, ‘eoat on’ sale last .. year for’$i,000 and had 4. ; $400 hood attached to do her » television‘. ftand-ups, Although- the fur gave her . “needed Warmth.” during : ininus-40-C weather. In the -Rowky ” mountains, she s New. York in’ a melee that left three - ae ‘admitted It “had if +. this gorgeous in’ this ‘fabulous “Savory... said. ‘Nobody. heard a ‘word he _ sald! - Peareal on ‘parka with fur ; hood, said if he was sent ta ‘the Arctic, “I would make ait argument that ° 5 should wear if.” - . cat .Newtoundiand = * and » Labtador reporter Barbara a YVafte, who recently bought | “a fut coat, sald it was , almost'& necessity because of the cold winters there. ‘that.’ despite bitterly. cold. winters .in some ‘areas: of . --vidWers ” A confidential ” “memo : -- . telexed to reporters. in the executive - “MNo vap- speals please. ‘The ban: is ' | The’ __.National’s Winnipeg, Man I .. correspondent, she was the instigator In TORONTO: By. home following’ ‘his: northern épnoe. i of fad as - + o- Rosseau summer home, 2 = om his | noe trip,. travelled Monday to’ * Toronto. Tnternational- Airport where he - "caught! a. regular flight back to. Britian, . ~. Msted on the passenger list as P. Stokes. On © * arTival in_London he drove himself to-an air foree base to ‘catch & special flight to’: “Scotland where he was expected to. join: ; “relatives on the royal yacht Britannia, ~ .. - During ‘the: weekend, Andrew was_ac-. os _ oman: by ‘Donald Grant, his former might. have been veeting . Kop Sta -fofmer adult-moyle actress With, hhas béen linked “Davie. said her. husbatid :p _ welcomed ‘Andrew, who Bat ‘in ai Tasale, who FUDB.. the R —Geiteral et “Nobody ide Fitness itiandée. Berezan " CALGARY (cP) — Vic Beretan: used to “find: afternoons at work long and’ tedious. The Esso. Resources ‘building services. Menage found -he wad lethargic and “worried about his blood pressure. . “Things have changed for Berezan in the 22 months since Imperial Oil “opened, its fitness centre. “ “] don't feel lethargic or drawn and tired : “in ‘the-afternoons after E work out at lun: a don't feel _ 80. ch,"": Berezan sald, “sluggish! woo ' ‘The company’s’ foray: into enipleyée——~ " fitnede. reveals its ‘workers: cheerful and lesg likely to be absent since -afe more the. centre, which occupies half ‘a floor af ~ the’. Esso ‘Tower, ‘in downtown Calgary, ° : opened. “The ann has. a jogging track, welght ° equipment, exercise bicycles and exercise ~“pooms ‘where $0 dancercise and serobica Glasses’ fre held each week: “Shiela Henry, the facility's co-ordinator, sald thé centre's 600 members pay a $17 “monthly,-fee, which entitles them :to a fitness” assessment, membership in any “classes offered and use of the equipment. - Canadian: oll companies are embracing © “‘corporaie fitness, ‘ Stéver! Duck, managing. director of. the ‘employe’ fitn *‘dald there’ is én Bet. at hte adioate research to in cate a. a. fitness centre: ould ‘benefit the company: > A 1977 federal government: on Employee Fitness and Lifestyle’ Project, correlates increased — _ fitness with productivity, he said. The study econdluded a fitness program would help. improve staff - morale, decrease days lost to sickneas % ‘Executive fitness programs® reduce - tims and have existed-in the United States for 10 years, . but' Canada is: ‘quickly catching up, Duck’ - said, - Henry sald American conipainieg ‘auch ag Bonnie Bell and ‘Kimberly ‘Clark © have - inducement : programs ° en-- | corporate | . Couraging employees to. ~UB8' fitness facilities, but no such. chen exists. in ; ‘Canada’ ” ‘Iniperial Oil, Petro-Canada’ ‘aid ‘Shell Resources have hired fitness: ‘consuliants ; to design and-implement staff programs. ” Stell: has also hired Concept: Health, a ‘health consultant, to assess the fitness of its executives. ; ~ Concept Health has 40 corporate’ clients, . > including. . porations, who send their exécutives for ‘tests. “and - .paxessment each year,” stress some Edmonton-area_— cor- cardiovascular . “Program co-ordinator “Cathy f McDonald , - Said the health assessment ‘centre also _ does a lifestyle: risk analysis. and. ‘makes recommendations: to cellent: corporations ~ for preventive medicine. © _ Dr. Dave Chism,, ; Shell's. ‘ wiedigal . dlcentar. ald £0 be ves uni or. cent, of: company detio. ‘the ‘edimprehenaive annual evaluation. Once they have the information, it’s up to them to take the . necessary steps to achieve fitness, he bald. Canadian. ‘student jailed. Pakistani. President Mohainmad ‘Zia ul- Haq, Canada ‘was critieized -In* some _OTTAWA (CP) — A Carleton University student has languished in.a Pakistani: jail © for.21 months on what his friends Say are “trumped up” sedition charges and-efforts _ are mounting toget him released so he can ‘return to Canada and continue his doctoral studies. Tariq Ahsan, 31, Is not Canadian and has “no relatives living here but Canada’s ambassador to:Pakistan has informally approached Pakistan’s ministry of foreign | affairs about his case. '. “The door of martiallaw court remaing closed on him,”’.his father said ina recent interview from Islamabad. “There are -many Jaws in Pakistan but no justice." | ~The ‘university has written. ta. the — in Canada, ' Pakistani ‘ambassador Amnesty. International :has sent a 300- _ and letters of support have “several: academics. and Ottawa ‘Mayor . ‘Marion Dewar. r . There. have. been. calls for- federal . «” amie petition tothe Pakistani government come from . government intervention but the External Affairs Department: says it will.make no | formal representation to Pakistan because nea Ahsan ‘ts'not ‘Canadian. ; CRITICIZES VISIT Puring a visit to. Ottawa last year. by _ Union: talks on hold Talks were. on ‘hold today’ as 675,000: - ‘tiahene workers in the United States: . entered the third day of a’ strike over a— proposed contract they say is full of wrong: numbers, but calld went through for most — . customers despite. egg-throwing on the. "picket line and service delays, Five strikers were arrested, three in - policemen injured and two in Florida who » allegedly pulled wires from a conmecti¢n' box. . Around the: Uns,, meanwhile, some _ , businesses and private customers com- Plalned of slower operator-handled calla, . -directoty . adsistance’ fervicd: ‘and 5 Hew, , “ phone initaliations, . Glenn Watts, président: ‘of ihe 525,000. member Communications Workers of America, said Monday he saw no end to the strike against American Telphore’ ‘and. Telegraph Co. and :its Phone corm-. panies,.The walkout, which began at 13: OL: 5 a.m. Sunday EDT over wages, job security and retrainitg: provisions, will lat “as ° "long as It takes’ to get an agreement, me Watts said, . Joining a picket line in” ‘Washington, DmC.; Watts told reporters he -hoped: “remarks w contract talks would resume’ soon,” “but “unfortunately,... 1.. can't. report .. any. quarters for ‘nof wringing some human rights concessions from him in return for | Ahsan’s trial by special inititary. court ended in April but no verdict hag been sentence ' annaunced, He fices a possible death ‘if convicted of printing, distributing _ and possessing - seditious _ Material. Ahsan had retumed to Pakistan in 1078 ’ after’ two years of study because of nagging il] health which had forced, him to frequently miss classes. At the time! he told Carleton officials he . was “eager to complete my program successfully,” ue He. was. arrested in ‘November, ‘1981, after’ a friend, who had borrowed: hi motoreycle,” was caught | distributing a “seditious pamphlet called “Democratic *Pakisi Ahsan has an undergraduate degree: in political science from. Punjab University, * B. masters’. relations degree: in’. Aotermational from the. ‘ University’ = Islamabad and'a masters’. degree: a _ political aclence from Drew University in New Jersey. ve, His specialty is. African polis, - progress.” AT and T spokesmai Pic’ Waginer » agreed: “There have been no- significant _developinents Binee the unions announced ‘their: strike, ..We ‘remain ‘In. touch*“with them, of course, and we are talking in- : formally but. there. has. been. NG” ‘forinal ten ' 7 ca 9 cotrinunlcation’ workers! union and - the International Brotherhood of" flee. ’ trical Worker’ as well ad the ‘Teleconi- . . plutiicallots International Union’ walked out at the deadiine for: negotiating:a ‘new three-year contract, the largest labar pact om for bargaining this year. - -- - Aptomatle,* ‘equipment routed © most '; Strike. Delays were encountered, however, by callers requesting directory assistance, ‘new service or " Fepaira, uellity’ otficlals: sald. * “Our network people told us there was - we eens at all” in completing direct-.. New York: Tel - bela th Quinn “aid: "eoeter made . by “Bell: officials Stound the country whose ctistomers have about 150 million telephones, or #8 j M per cent - of the UmS. total. ’ 5 _ direct-dial calls, about 97 per cent of all ” _ télephone traffic,’ without any: apparent ; - problems on the first business day of the -