Payee, The Herata Thursday, ey 9, 1984

~ Canadian em bassy <

External .
’ Affairs ‘officials said in -
Oltawa. Jackson was not.

at rebel positions | in Syrian-
held eastern Lebanon even
when U.S. lives were not
directly threatened, . _ the
sources said.

Published reports’ said
today an array of Moslem
militias were trying to co-
ordinate their forces and

_ apartment = in

restore discipline i in western ;

Beirut, “

Canada’ 5)
David Jackson was con-
fronted by two armed
gunmen -Wednesday when
he was being driven to his
_ westérn
Beirut _ to. retrieve some

i A i ie Bik

Atmbassador .

i cea ate sah ee eee eee en et

personal items,

- injured but had to surrender
a two-way radio and his

_ driver had to turn over an -

identity card to the gunmen.
The ambassador, in a
Telex. interview from Beirut

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a heap :

told The Canadian Press
early today the: embasay in
Mostem-heid * western
‘Beirut was “continuing ta
operate normally and: ‘that
its 20. staffers | and | three
dependents were. ‘at.’ ‘the
embassy a9 well as in
nearby “helels for Safety

reasons, . :
Oltawa said - this “week

1,800 people'were registered '

with the Beirut embassy as

Canadian citizens, but that.

many -of ‘them: held dual
citizenship amd had. been in
Lebanon many years, «

The. Cypriot car ferry. Sol 4

McCandless turns somersaults

CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. (AP) ~- Astronaut
Bruce McCandless, again
floating free. and. turning
somersaults in space,
abandoned a plan, to dock
with a large slow-spinning
box today because of
trouble with the’ shuitle's

robot arm. But ‘he suc-.

cessfully linked: with a
stationary object in a test of
human ability to capture a
disabled satellite. —

“I've completed a hard
dock here,” he reported as
he clemped a tube-like
device on his jet-pack ontoa
decking pin at.a work

station. He did it several. .

times. oo.
_ The cancellation of the
rotating hookup ‘was a

. their

disappointment, hecause it
chad been the major goal of

the excursion for
Challenger’s darédevil
spacewalkers,

McCandless and Robert
Stewart glided outside the
shuttle. for a

techniques for
grappling, repairing and
refuelling crippled
payloads. Eager to repeat
exhilarating ex-
perience of Tuesday when
they became the _ first
humans to fly free in space,
they began 33° minutes
ahead of schedule.

The excursion was a dress
rehearsal for the - next

‘shuttle mission in April;;

when another crew is to

second -
tetherless trip in open space '
‘to - test

retrieve and repair a
crippled ‘scientific satellite
named Solar Max.
DONNED JET PACK

~ “Tt looks sunny again out”
here,’ McCandless’ com-
mented as he emerged into
the bay. He repositioned a
loose bracket. and. then

donned his rocket-powered

jet pack, discarded his 15-
metre safety life. and
. scooted about in the bay.
He turned slow somer-
saults as he tested several
‘of the 24 jet thrusters, then
moved to, a work station

where he completed several -

dockings with the metal pin,
just as another astronaut is
to doin April to secure the
Solar Max satellite. .

McCandless , earlier

- Manoeuvred .. straight. up,
_ about three metres above
the Challenger, and did a
slow roll. Televised pictures
showed a stiff-legged man,
‘upside down, in a white suit,
silhouetted against a
brilliant blue background of
sky and Earth,

Bundled in white pressure
suits and wearing bubble
helmets, the spacewalkers
unlatched an. airlock door
and floated with ease into

~ the open, .18-metre-long
cargo bay. They were. at-
tached to. a shuttle

guidewire by 15-metre
cords, which they :were to
wear as a safety. measure
when .not using. the back-
pack: ws
~-MeCandlesenoticed tht

Stewart «

bracket that held. one. of: the

slide wires was loose and he

put it back iy. place.”

“That was a liltle; star-
tling,"* “he commenited,
Mission control said that in

the loose position the.

bracket- could: have .- _in-
terfered with the closing: of
the cargo doors just. before
the end’ of the’ mission,

Officials said the slide wire

was not.loose:”
McCandless’ then moved
to a station where his: jet-
pack called- a |: Manned
Manoeuvring «. : Unit
stored. He began checking it
out for..the. day's ‘work.
While McCandless prepared

- to take: ‘the © first - “Spin,
:reinstalied oa

television camera the'e crew

Liberals needs. bigger lead in polls

OTTAWA (cP) —
Liberals still haye “some
way to go” to overcome the
substantial ead  Con-
servatives are enjoying in
public support, Finance
Minister Mare Lalonde-said
today.

Lalonde welcomed news
that support for the Liberal
party increased by two
percentage points in the
latest public opinion poll by
Gallup, but he was unable to
explain the difference’
between Gallup results and
earlier Liberal surveys that
-asuudl & bigger gain.

“T don’t know, maybe

you'd better ask someone

who takes those’ surveys,”
Lalonde told reporters as he
entered a cabinet meeting.

“The trend is in the right
direction as far as we're
concerned,”

The Gallup poll, con-’
ducted in early - January
during the height of Prime

Minister Trudeau’s peace
initiative, shows the Con-
Servatives have a 20-point
lead over the Liberals, down
from a record 39 points in
September. :

Of the decided . respon-
dents to the latest poll, 52
per cent supported the
Conservatives, a drop of one

‘percentage point-from the

previous month, while the

unchanged from December;

However, all the changes -

were within the poll's four-

' percentage-paint margin of

error, meaning the shifts
could be illusory. And 21 per
cent of respondents, were
undecided. .

. SHOWS LARGER GAIN

Private Liberal polls
leaked in January indicated
the margin between the two

. Major parties had shrunk to

15 or 16 percentage points
from September,

All
About

PEOPLE

Canadian soprano France Ginzer ‘has won glowing
critical acclaim for her interpretation of Margianu in the
premiere performance of Barber of Baghdad at the
Karlsruhe State Opera in Bonn, West Germany.

“It is unusual for an opera singer unknown to German -

audiences to play in such a distinguished theatre,” said

critic Dleter Koelman in Stuttgart Nachrichten, but “she ‘

did not disappoint anyone.

“Her soprano voice is interesting, very strong in the
higher octaves and it sounds cultivated, surprisingly 80 for

such a young opera singer.”

Calgary-born, Ginzer had been based i in Toronto in recent
years, performing with the Canadian Opera Company and

the Toronto Symphony.

Frances Grondin of Moncton; N. B., certainly stood out
among new lawyers introduced to the New Brunswick

branch of the Canadian Bar Association at a conference in '

Saint John last weekend.

She is a middle-aged grandmother.
She is also a surgeon’s wife and a mother whose two
youngest children still live at home.

' Spokesman said.

~ gunned

 edvjlidns

Over the years, she has been a pilot, a nurse, a reporter
and a candidate for Moncton city council.

As a youth in the United, States she had intended to
become a doctor, and was on her way to medical school
when she met Georges Grandin, who was studying medicine
in Massachussetts, The American gir! fell for the French-
Canadian from Moncton, dropped her own education plans.

for awhile and got married.

If he-survives the week, Canadian light- middleweight
Shawn O'Sullivan figures to be a much improved boxer.

The 21-year-old Toronto native, with 85 wins-and four
losses aa an amateur, is sparring with Sugar Ray Leonard
in Palmer Park, Md., as the former welterweight champion
prepares for his return to the ring on Feb. 25 against Kevin
Howard in Worcester, Mass.

Stepping into the ring with Leonard is an ‘education.

A nuclear attack alert spread panic among the population
of Coventry in the English Midlands early Wednesday after
a policeman accidentally set off warning sirens.

The 30-second alert at 6:30 a.m. led to. overloaded
telephone switchboards at police stations as ‘operators tried
to cope with inquiries,

Sirens were heard over a 1¢-kilometre radius around
Coventry after a policeman set off the system at police
headquarters while demonstrating how it worked, offictals
said,

John Parsons, who lives in the cily centre, said he im-

mediately switched on the radio after hearing the sirens, "1 .

heard them talking about President Reagan and I T thought
that was It.”

Senator Keith Davey, the -

Liberal election campaign

chairman, Said the latest —

Gallup is consistent with
Liberal findings’ that
Conservative support has
continued to slide. .

“Even by Gallup poll
Standings, the Tories in five
months have seen their lead
cut in half,” Davey said. He

Rebels

SAN SALVADOR (AP) —
Leftist rebels killed 29
soldiers who surrendered
after heavy fighting-- in
jfortheastern EI Salvador, a
‘Salvadoran army

There was no immediate
reaction to the report
Wednesday from guerrilla
forces fighting the U.S.-
backed Salvadoran
government.

Army spokesman Col.
Richard Cienfuegos said
leftist rebels shot 29 soldiers
and six civil defence
patrolmen in the head

, Wednesday after they had

given themselves up to

_ Buerrillas ata military post

56 kilometres northeast . of
San Salvador.

Reporters who travelled
to the area said six were
shot in the head and the
others were shot in the
torso. The reporters quoted
a residerit as saying the
rebels executed. “some of

the troops, bat not all.”

Civilian sources said five
helicopters and two. air
force planes machine-
‘and = bombed
‘suspected rebel ‘positions.
They said civilians in the
area were fleeing.

“Those whchave fled said

the situation is hard and

that there .are many
killed,” one
civilian source said in a
telephone interview,

The civilian sources said.
the rebels also attacked a

national guard posl Wed-

nesday in Talcualuya, about

10 kilometres south of the
military post.
- Ten soldiers died and two

‘elvilians were wounded in

that fighting, the sources

sald.
In Nicaragua, the state |

added that the poll also °
Liberals gained two points °. - : oe

to 32 per cent. The New. .
Democrats had 15 per cent, |

shows a “volatility” among .

yoters.

National Conservative
president Peter Elzinga,
however, said. he’ is “not
worried. that .the ' spread
between ‘the Tories and
Liberals might have been
reduced.

Conservative © House
Leader Erik Nielsen said he
doubts the slight drop in’ the

Gallup . “ yepresents 4
downward. trend. “It's not
significant,” he said. today
on his way ‘into, the. Com-
mons;:

“It's within the four-per-

cent margin of error, I read
nothing into it- and make

_ Nothing of it,"

And, he added, the Tories
“couldn't have gone much
further up. ”

killed ‘soldiers

radio’ quoted a captured
Honduran army sergeant as‘
saying senior Honduran ~
officers, including - the: fir-
med forces chief, have

"participated in rebel at-

tacks on Nicaraguans.

The ‘Voice of Nicaragua
also quoted . Sgt. Donald”
Carcamo Ramos as: saying
the anti-Nicaraguan attacks
are “co-ordinated by high-
level Honduran, American
and, Argentine officials.”

The sergeant said Gen.
Gustavo Alvarez Martinez,
chief of the’ Honduran ar-
med forces, has par-
ticipated in attacks against
Nicaragua, the radio said,
CAPTURED LAST MONTH

Careamo Ramos, 22, was
captured. in northern
Matagalpa province during
a rebel attack last month,
the radio said.

_ US. troops in Honduras,
meanwhile, ended — six
months - of _ military
manoeuvres with Honduran. ,
troops which President
Roberto Suazo Cordova said
were “of extraordinary
importance’ * to his country,

‘About 5,000 American
coldiers and 6,000 Honduran

troops took part in the Big.

Pine 2 manoeuvres at the -

height of the exercises, The.

Reagan administration has . ,

said U.S. presence in the

area is necessary to ward. -
-Off a leftist threat from |
Nicaragua, which borders .

Honduras.

The United States’ ‘and.
Honduras plan other joint.
military manoeuvres later’
this year,

Tensions have increased

- in recent months between

Honduras and Nicaragua:
About 8,000 troops of the
Nicaraguan Democratic
Force — with money and -

_- Therapy given

TACOMA, Wash, (AP) — Firefighters who battled a blaze
that killed nine children last, weekend in Tacoma, will

receive group therapy,

Fire Chief Tony Mitchell said everyone who fought the
fire will feel some sort of trautna, and “those with small,
Children will feel closer to it.”

The nine youngsters, aged one to ‘eight, were killed |
Saturday morning in a house fire apparently started by a

five-year-old playing with a

cigarette lighter.

’ The firefighters are to meet with d minister and other
counsellors today, Mitchell said the firemen “have to talk it
out,” and some may need further counselling.

Depuly Fire Marshal Ron Larkin said; “They know how it .
is to feet around In a smoking building and find a lifeless *
body and then have to bring that body out of the building. *

It's very tough. You never forget.”

training from the ‘United
States —- are using bases in

Honduras for their attacks :

on Nitaragua. ~

Nicaragua repeatedly has .

accused the Hondurans of
taking part in rebel attacks,
but Honduras has denied, the
charges.

McNair, were alert in. the

“for, a

wag

Lebanese porl of Jounieh

member Geidar “Alley” to”

visit Syria. to coordinate
Soviet-Syrian ‘military

‘eaily-: today to: evacuate’ > policy in the face of
British. nationals, the. BEC Lebanon's ' . escalating .-
“ reported, - . Narfare,

Meanwhile, the Soviet ° Syrian military
. ‘Union m armnouriced In Mosenyy " jpokesiban ‘in’ Damascus
“Ite. send Politburo” “aecused the: United States of .

__infleting scores of civilian

in ‘space »

Tuesday for repair, -
‘Once . ‘again, * Challenger -
commander Vance Brand,:.
pilot Robert, Gibson and the '
fifth crew ‘member, Ronald |

shuttle cabin to guide”
alongside the spacewalkers:
“rescue . « should,
something to wrong: .

‘Today’s spacewalk was | :
_ the last, major event. of the
”. scheduled. eight-day flight. °

On Saturday, the astronauts -

-plan. ‘to make the first: Znaround

shuttle - landing . in Florida,
returning ‘to . ‘a‘’

launch
Canaveral.

Bite. “at. Cape

MAY. DELAY LANDING .
. However, flight: director
Harold Draughon said there .-

was a: 6(-per-cent chance

. that bad. weather .might .

prevent a landing Saturday.
Draughon said Sunday
looks .more- promising’ and -
that there is plenty of fuel,
food and water aboard to -

CARPET

five." .
Kilometre runway near the

 Soyue,

had carried into the cabin portunities in Florida for

- several: days, so ‘the fight
would * be “diverted «to
‘Edwards ‘Air, Force Base,
{Callf:, "Just as: it, was-last

“July ‘when : fog and rain

‘cancelled -. the only

previously planned; ‘Florida
shuttle’ landing.

ihe ‘National’ ‘Aeronautics

and Space. Administration

"would like to. start“ landing’

“pave | nioney and cut -tur-
time - - between
“launches... |

“The five. Americans are
“not - the only humans or-
“biting the Earth today — the
Soviet Union launched: a
spacecraft Wed-
lesday carrying = three
costnonauts to its Salyut-7
space station. .

“For your information,
that’ makes an ‘all-time
‘record with elght folks in
space at one time," Mission
Control told. the Challenger
crew.

-extend the flight, ~ pe “It's | - peally ‘getting
After Sanday. there ai are no populated up here,”’ Brand
daylight - landing _ Fesponded,

operate |

. barrages Wednesday.

ding“
asualties, inclu
women and children, in @

" “peutal and heavy” bom-

bardment of populated
areas of eastern Lebanon. ..
Lebanese - security —
sources estimated at least ;
200 people have beer! killed
and 600 wounded in the
latest fighting since Mon-
day, This. does not include
those killed by U.S. naval -

Meanwhile, in Israel,
former defence minister ;
Ariel Sharon said in a
television interview the U.S.”
had been “outrageously.
misled” by former special :
envoy, Philip Habib, U.S. a
Defence Secretary Caspar. ’

Weinberger and -other*:
American Middle East .
experts.

“President Reagan -un-
derstood very well the -.
significance of Soviet Com
pansion (in Lebanon) ‘via
the Syrians and the

_terrorists,"’ said Sharon, .
-now a minister without .

portfolio.
Sharon said only . “an

_ immediate rescue i:
aperation” could save’:

- Gemayel. “The Americans a
“have to stop bargaining

over the future of Lebanon if
they are interested in its
survival as a state that is
part of the free world.” -°
Shamir faces increasing’
pressure to withdraw
Israeli troops from southern
Lebanon, where they have |
become almost daily
targets for attacks by Shiite;
and Palestinian guerrillas...

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