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: JERUSALEM (AP) = ‘ariel Sharon i agieed today lo.
gnas Israel’ § defence minister next Monday, ylelding‘to _
py ure from. fellow cabinet members who voted to aecept’

a commlssion’ 8 finding that he bore. responsibility for last -
_ September's Beirut massacre of Palestinian civilians, _,

Prime. Minigler. Menachem Begin’s ‘spakesman : said.
- Sharon would leave the Defence Ministry on Monday, but”
Sharon said he-would stay on in the. cabinel. ea
The spokesman, Uri Porat, told reporters Sharon agreed
"hat oni Monday he’s gaing to say gopdbye. to Israeli arm
“commanders and Defence Ministry.

. Sharon, eppearing for’ a Seppe ‘in

“would, assiime. ann : 2

Ina speech to: ‘the Israeli Lawyer ‘Astoclatlon, ‘
_ said he would explain his. moves: later,. when, ‘things. eal
down. We a a

-. He was applauded by the lawyers when! he said jokingly.
“he might teturnto farming.““Even thotigh I'm wearing | atie'

“Israel radio said Moshe Atens, | fsrael’s arnbaseadio tol the -
: “United States, is Begins choice tume the Defénce portfolio.
temporarily. as he did In 1980 when Ezer Welzman: resigned.

‘broke with Begin,. might. be tapped, to take over. the: ‘key:
- defence post.”

telephone. conversation, that: he- would leave ‘the: petete :

weg ck

Only: Begin, his longtime ally,‘has the’ power. to’ remove’

‘ Sharon’-from the -cabinet altogether, and . ‘opposition
e politicians quickly, derianded outright dismissal.

a ultimatim to-resign or’ be tired when It accepted the | full
reconimiendations of the massacre: inquiry. commission.
The government-appointed’ panel had determined’ Sharon.
_-bord ‘personal: responsibility” . for » permitting: : ‘Asyaeli- .
: * backed ‘Lebanese oeik milidamen into’ Palestinian
refugee camps Sept. 16-18; when hundreds of civilians were"
“killed, ‘Its-final report sald the defence minister: should |

- There also. wag some: “speculation that Weizman, who

. “dissenters.
The einbattied Sharon; a former generail who! had. been” “
a aise ‘of his hard-nosed’ ‘Military policies, told Begin im ‘a

On. Thursday inight, Begin’s eabiivet in effet dave ‘Sharon’

__ the. report Tuesday, Begin Was: unwilling to. fire him; ‘but,
“cabinet sources said the prime minister spoke forcefully,
during ‘Thursday night's 54-hour. cabinet meeting In favo
of aecepting the commission’ 's full recommendations. /
The. cabinet’s vote, was’ 16. to 1. ah Sharon the lon

Although. “Gabinet ‘has ‘the power ta take’ the: defence =
‘from the cabinet:

-declsion to a¢cept ‘the commission's recommendations in-*
full meant Sharon had to quit. But Enetgy Minister Yitzhak.

- ‘s _Modai told reporters, Sharon’ wag. balking.

“. [praélarmy radio said: Sharon argued al. ienaih: againit:
‘the report, claiming that it branded “‘a mark of Cain” on.
“Israel by. saying it was. Andireetly ‘Tesponaible for. ‘the ”

a massacre, oo
While cabinet met a grenade exploded about 100. metres °

"away, killing one and wounding nine of about 400 demon:

_ Stators. demanding Sharon! 3 firing: ;.

- Hundreds of demonstrators outside the cabinet building .

- chanted support for Sharon and the | government, and

- mi isters a chance te to discuss his fate freely, -

“portfolio: away. from Sharon, only. Begin. can. remove. him. :

\.» dustice! Minister. Moshe: Niadim had. ‘said, the: eaten ri

"tours, of western

now, 1 may take it ‘off, even } though: there are (hose. ‘who resign, and if not, Begin should fire him:
would Tike to tighten it around my neck, ” he. eald.

- Sharon had been refusing to resign § sine publication or

"- hundreds.af others demanded Sharon quit.

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‘Sharon, architect of Israel's dune 6 invaston of Lebanon,

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Bush and Shultz both offer zero. ) plans -

"WASHINGTON: 4CP) —-

Like: two travelling. pit-.
chmen working ‘oppaaite

‘ gides. of - the world; ° “the:

Georges Bush and “Shultz:

"have -been “out - to -selk

nothing, in: more ways than
one.: |.

The product pushed by thé.
A US. vice-president. and the -.
US.. state secretary,” OD |
and
eaatern Asia resp tively, is
Washington’ 3 _arms-control ~.
proposal variously
described as the zero option

~ or the zero-zero plan.

It has been dismissed by

- Tobacco sales unhindered. by | recession |

‘When

TORONTO (CP) —
it comes right down to it,

. most people will, keep —
~ eating,
smoking regardless of what .
the economy is doing...

drinking ~ and

. And a quick look at how |
stocks of food, tobacco and
‘distilling companies have
fared during the last year of

the. Soviets as nothing new’
_and it's: given nil chance by
" experts of catching on in the

Geneva disarmameril talks,
While it thus seems to add

up ‘to. -nothing, gelling the:

_ Mie ‘was the inain purpose
the. ‘ seven-country
Durepesa tour by George

Buah and it was a prominent ©

tople at times during visits

by George Shultz.in: Japan,”

China and South Korea.

The ‘two: trips,:. which
ended together: ‘Thuraday,
encompassed countries that

contain half the population’
af a. world ‘increasingly

tainly lends credence to ‘that
theory... .

On the’ ‘Toronto: ‘Stock
Exchange, , the consumer
products group — which

"includes such companies as

Imaseo ‘Lid., ‘a diversified.
tobacco,” food and ‘drug

retail. . operation, ‘The ©
| Seagram. . Co. Ltd.
distilleries and The Molson

. economic: doldrums’ cer- ~~

Companies” Lid ‘breweries |
J fitreqme| Wy ‘yon tr er.’ My wer tea tye

aot hee

Shock e expressed |

TORONTO: CP) — As police continued their in-
vestigation: ‘today into. the murder Thursday morning of |
Metropolitan Toronto's deputy planning’ commissioner,
friends and co-workers expressed shock at his, death.

An autopsy, showed that Philip Rimmirigton, 42, ‘died of

cL ane

; gunshot \ wounds to. the head and neck, police sald Thursday

night. . : voce me .
- His body was found byt two women who heard shots early

inthe. ‘morning | in. the basemerit parking : ‘garage of the

midtown apariiient bullding where Rimmington lived.
" Pallce said several spent. D2-calibre shells were found in,

the Barage but there was no trace of a weapon.

Police said the body was found near. an “emergency. exit:
and not beside his car,’ which, indicated: Rimeninglon had:
been. trying to. flee from his: aoaallant, “|

‘Acting Metra Chairman Dennis Fiynn aald he had been’
told that Rimmington, who had been ‘separated from his’
-wife, Marion, and 12-year-old’ daughter, Sarah, for the last

year, had been “in movement as he was shot, but there’s no. ;
speculation as to why or what the elreumstances were;

Toronto Mayor Art Eggleton called Rimmington Mone’ of

the. bright lights in’ Metro planning”:Metro Chairman Paul: |

Godfrey, who. had encouraged Ritnmington to. joln_ the.

_ Metro staff, said he was “a kind person; an Interesting pal
te be with.” oe . : oe ;

\ ;
Rimmington Was responsible for all major transportation

_ studies lin metropolitan. Toronto and was a. member of'a
group- “working on plans fer Exhibition Plage: site of the -

Canadian National Exhibition. =

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anxloys about. the nuclear
| arms buildup. :

_En route, Bush read out a ;

letter to the people of
Europe from Ronald
Reagan’ offering” fo meet

Yuri . Andropov.: anywhere. -
+. Zero-zero, ‘the Americans.

anylime to sign a pact
“banning. U.S, and. Soviet
intermediate-range

‘to the Japanese and, in:
directly al least to the
Chinese and other Asians,

by Picking up, on the face-of- ws

— has: been on a tecord-

breaking. streak for almost |

two weeks, :

“The consumer products
index, which comprises *
almost nine per cent of the -
TSE 300 composite: index,
~hashit record highs in eight
of the -last nine. trading

. sessions, closing Thursday
at 2406.32, up more than 90 |
points | in the last two weeks. .-

For’ the’ 52: weeks ended
‘Feb.'4, the index showed a
jump of 44. 5 per ‘cent:

~ And some’ analysts’ say it
" doesn’ t look. as‘ if the
promising momentum is -

-about to.die out,
- “T believe they are going

to keep. vising because we ..

are still in the first stages of:

~ economic recovery,” Said -

: Roland Jones,. analyst ‘with’.
- Pitfield- Mackay Ross td.
in Toronto, |

o “Essentially the: move
thas been because of in-”
- dications of . an.“Improved’

: economic environment: afid

‘the fact that disinflation.(a
decline in the inflation rate).

-means lower. ‘costs ‘in |

manufacturing,” he added. -

Jones said the upward .

trend. of ‘the consumer
products group —Aa a leading

land-
hased nuclear missile -
weapons ‘from the face of.
the Earth.” | - :

. Shultz burnished the pitch m

“those ‘stocks for a week,

‘the-Barth: line. In no way,
promised Shultz, would U.S
arms negotlaters: accept 'a

simple shift of*misgiles. ‘to’.
Soviet Asia from Soviel -

Europe in pursuit af the zero
option. :

reiterated,” means: ‘aban-
doning plans to put 572.U.S.-

nuclear miseiles'in Western
Europe ‘il - the: Soviets
~ dismantle all their medlum- .
_ range missiles, some 600 in

all, in both Europe and Asia,
. Andropov’s offer is’ to -

reduce the Soviet: number to

mateh the 110-0r-80 British .

indicator of economic “ac: ;
tivity — is “in keeping with |
recovery” as" those’ com:

-panies are usually . ‘among

the-first to reapond. to signs |
of improvement: - we
People . start “eating :
better: and they’ go back, to
buyitig products’ they. “had:
deferred, earlier,” he said,
Although the group spans.
everything, from... fond

“processing” te, household

goods, cars, tobacco and
beer, there are five heavily
- weighted companies

sel the pace, says Richar
Anstett, assistant: “index”

manager. at the Toronto

Stock Exchange... -+.°+

Anstett sald Imasco Lid, .
‘Hirai Walker Resources
Ltd., Seagram, Molson and:
John Labatt make up about -
’ 80 -per cent of the. stock

_ value.

Pa 1 you “were to. track -:

they would jell you ihe’

. temperature of the’ market

in terms of consumer
products," he said, adding
that ‘Imasco-and Seagram
are the major ones to watch. |
Earlier’ this week,
Montreal-based Imasco,
with tobacco, retail, food

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‘and French thistle, _
Reagan's aidés and the,

7 ‘president himself. rubbed

‘the gloss off: the Bush-Shultz
pitch back” home by’ sub-

-tracting any suggestion-of -

anything «new: ‘I. was:
‘simply responding to their

" vast-propaganda effort that

-would try to discount: ‘our.

legitimate proposal. for

arms-reduction." *: |
Andrapov, the ‘Soviet
leader, smudged i further:

by summing it up for. the.

second time as “nothing
new.’ .
Observers of the: arms g0-

processing and. restaurant :
wings, reported'a 1882 profit

ended Dec. a1. That. -Was up

>: 28 per cent from the $98.7

faillion or $2.22 & share in

. the ‘same period. a year :
> earlier, - ° .

‘Common “shares of
Imasco hit a high of $302 i in

‘round conclude: that the zero’ .

slogan has "zero chance of

-becoming ; something. Nor ‘

‘has Andropov’ ‘a more-than-
zero option,

- The ‘hyphenated qualifiers e
‘in the Bust pitch andthe”

accompanying Shultz ©

‘assurances are keys to the

European disarmament -

‘difficulty... uf
Restricting ~ the pitch to.
the. _“intermediate-range N

land; baséd" missiles and .

trying to “treat _Europe in

isolation tends ‘to. detract |

. from” the " zero-arms” and.

face-of-the-Earth sweep of -

; os U.S. offer.
Phe. “‘zero-option offer io :
put no new.U.S., missiles in. .
: Europe, for example; would:
leave ‘the Saviets: and their. «.
allies exposed still to cruise: -}
~ missiles offshore or in ‘the
. air. Similarly,
‘Europeans
menaced’ as-- much from .

could be’®

Asia‘as from Europe it the
Saviets simply pull * back .
their missiles.

In a world: bristling with

‘missiles of many ranges, on.

land, at ea and in the air, ‘2

Western. qf

1982. and closed: at - $3374 -

Bwap of nothing for’ nothing

(0, the European. conlinent

pied. ‘Wine awe ne wer
Seagram reported a profit 2, add .up to nothing.

of $76.1 million or. $2.53 a-

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The Herald, Friday, February W 1983,. Page 7 ?.

Sharon agrees to resign over. Labanion™

drew a big cheer as she ‘arrived. for the meeting 80 minutes
late. Israel radio said he delayed his arrival 10 give ‘the

8: slayings ° ‘of the | ‘Palestinian refugees | ave been’.

4 blamed ‘an pro-Israeli Lebanese Christlan millage who.
“were ‘allowed to enter the camps. ‘by: the Israelis.

The cabinet. meeting. also was attended by the four army
-offi icers ‘who, were. castigated in: the ‘report: ‘Maj.-Gen;
Yehoshua. ‘Saguy,” Lt. “Gen: Raphael: Bytan, ‘Brig. Gen’:
Amos) Yaron and ‘Maj.iGen. Amir. Drory, bos

= The: Natlonal. Religious. party, Begin's' senior’ cat

-“ gabinet: pariner,: ¢unie out against. early. elections. ‘Interior ‘-
»Betretary: “Yosef. Burg, leader. of the: party,. ‘said he'd urge:

‘Begin to resign, and form a ‘new government in’ 4 hours, ho

which is conslitutionally. legal.
’* Former prime: iminister Yitzhak Rabin of the ‘opposition -
bor party: said, “Ht we want to’ ‘assure Israel's. political
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