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' nationally
Statement that Israel's.

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during the past. two’ weeks, :

Up: that's important," n ‘sald Warren,’ a:
‘Kelowna, B.C, lawyer and former, leader
of -the Bae Progressiye.’ Congervatlye
” party; after ‘only seven persons. showed up
~ Thureday. ata. hearing. in :thig” Fraser
". Valley commynity ‘enat OF ‘Vancouver, -- :
‘It’s the quality ofthe. briefs that counts,
and 20 far we've had some. very, very a
useful presentatatlons. Wee 7
Warren was appointed June 23 to study -
the need for -B.C;-electoral reform based
Mainly -on list year's - census, Public
‘hearings have been scheduled for 14
communities throughout the province.
Warren said he expects his commission -
‘will epend $75,000 by. the time he delivers
his report Sent 30, compared with the $2.5-

‘Indians fear Hydro. figures

VANCOUVER (CP) — Northeastern -
B.C. Indians fear supporters of B.C,
~ Hydro’s proposed Site C dam on the Peace .
- River could misuse figures on the number
of moose killed by Indians in the area; the
BC.. Utilities Commission ‘was told.

“Thursday.

Cambridge University researcher. Hugh
Brody, author of a book about the Indians,
told a hearing into the proposed
‘ development_that the . Indians find
themselves in a Catch-22 situation on the |

subjéct of moose. kills.

“Hf they report taking a small number of
moose, people will say the Indians don’t .
need many,’’ Brody said. “But if they
report a large number; then people will --
accuse them of slaughtering them.”

A Hydro representative failed Thursday.
for ‘the second straight day to obtain
definitive figures from Indian spokesmen

on moose kills in the area.

~The- proposed flooding of the ‘Peace ‘by
B.C; Hydro would cover an area from near .
Taylor, below Fort St. John, in a south-

curb, B, C. (cP) —
| commissioner. Derril Warren.
or not concerned t thata, total of

ple. have! turned ‘out. at
‘public =e Iwo ‘by: the: “conimission

‘milion 6oat Pa a a electoral etorm. :
- commision headed by: former: provincial
nogrt judge Lawrence Eckardt; pcp he.
Ours ia: -pirictly a: “no-frills “effort as
there's just: mmyaelf and. one apsistant,” ” .
said," The; Eckardt - ‘Sormmisaion ‘had’

‘Warren said. the. Eckardt ‘cominisaio
valeo had'small- turnouts for ita: hearings,
even though. ithads more time to udvestive:
the ‘imeatings: '
, He aaid. the coat of: putting. ‘more: tiem-.":

. bers ifita the legislature — about $100,000'a

‘year a member — is a “small price'to pay" -

- to preserve . our system of democracy, °

even though the province is experiencing
tough economic times,

.. “The MLA is the basic thrust of our -
democratic system,” he said. “How ean’
one MLA adequately serve, for example,

"90,000 people-n Richmond?” . -

i There now are 57 members in the BC,
leglslature,

westerly direction to a polnt hear Hudson 's”
Hope.

Stan Napolean, a resident of the ‘Moberly
Reserve area, told the commission that
Moose calves will find it more difficult. to
- survive in-the area if the flooding Boes
ahead because they'll be forced to move to
higher ground where the snow is deeper.

. Meanwhile, Hydro has begun taking a.
mew Icok at a possible 500-megawatt
hydroelectric project. near Squamish,
north of Vancouver. :

The scheme would invalve a dam on the
Elaho River and a 14-kilometre tunnel
_ diverting water to a powerhouse on Jervis

“Recent reductions in Hydro's load

- demand forecasts have placed increased
_ significance.on smaller hydra projects,
such as the Elaho,”” Hydro said.

Hydro’s engineering and environmental
staff will update information. acquired
-during studies conducted in. the early and
mid-19705" to. determine .whether the
project is still economically’ ‘and en-

Searig durlag.a.qolent storm ssiya'the storm. ‘waa :
“ - Mike it before,"

evacuation nf workers from. the’ Terslit artificial: .
* island.) oe"

. played by the book, went without a hitch.

- Tuktoyaktuk to transfer workers to the Explorer rT.

~ af ‘Tuktoyaktuk; 130 kilometres away..The Tarsiut
. well was plugged at a depth of 88 metres and blowout

_ Were pounding the caisson-retained island, anchored |

_ Ranger floating rig that-capsized in‘a viclent Atlantic

| Ocean Ranger, a rig with. steel pylons on: ‘pontoons,

- others returned by helicepter ‘to inspect it.

* pected to resume today.

‘evacuation. drills once a ‘week as standard

vironmentally practical.

| Manager tak ss |i |

storm nt warolig | |,

P) The, manager
whojordered 105 workers: evacuated from a Beaufort

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I had fever een anythin

“There! wae ‘ome’ rain and: waves were, two.
‘metres deep," Don Greenway, ‘drill rig 1 manager for:’.
Gulf” Catiada, “said In discussing’ thé: Tuesday”

“The wind wag blowing about 40 Kilometres an hour
and the weather. advisory said. it- was going to get °
worse, That's when'I gave the order to evacuate,”

The order.was issued at 11:30 a.m. The evacuation,

One helicopter had left with a crew a6 part of a
regular shift change.. Four others were called in from

drillship: 12 Kilometres away.

By 2:15 p.m. all workers had been safely tran-
sferred to the drillship or the company's. base camp

‘ preventers activated. °
‘By then three-metre waves and 50-kllometre winds .

atop a sand berm on the seabed.
Gulf’s Tarsiut rig’ is different from the Ocean .

storm Feb. 15. Eighty-four people died: when. the

was smashed by 15-metre waves and 145-kilometre-
an-hour wirids.

The Tarsiut rig sat: abandoned untit the weather |
‘calmed at3a.m. Wednesday when areeway and 11.

“We lost some sand around the west side. . . but
there Was no movement of the Island... . Same ‘of our
outer non-essential buildings shifted a bit, but nothing
serious,”*

The entire work force_was back at the rig and
mopping up -by Wednesday night. Drilling Was eX-

“Our personnel deserve a pat on the hack. There |
was no panic and in 40 minutes. we had the well
secured with the evacuation in progress,

“This reflects on our drills. We carry out. fire and

procedure. 7”

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PLO faces more Israel attacks |

if Israel maintained its

blockade of the guerrilla
enclave. :
Israeli Prime Minister “
Menachem Begin told. his
parliatent’S fiteigin aftales |
and security -commiltee if
there was no negoliated

solution soon, Israel would.
resume its bombing of PLO- |

held West Beirut or order an
assault on the city, armed
forces radio reported.

Lebanese Prime Minister

Shafik Wazzan -said in’'a
televised

blockade on electricity,
water, food and fuel to West.
Beirut was “one form of
military option that negates

’ the political. option and

makes us wonder why then
these. negotiations and why
carry ron

have laid down these

for the. outcome of his ef-

forts to take certain
positions on the domestic
and international levels,”
Wazzan is Lebanon's of-

ficial intermediary between —

Habib=and PLO chief
Yasser Arafat.

‘Israel's state radio quoted

~Begin' as saying the PLO.
~~ had.offered to withdraw to

- @astern. Lebanon’s Bekaa
Valley, from—where..:the.
organization’s

would later be evacuated to
several Arab countries.

The - state. radio quoted. *

Begin as saying that Habib

rejected the proposal and -

insisted .the PLO fighters

should go directly to Syria

and from. there — be
distributed among Arab
countries willing to take
‘them in.

Reports from, Beirut said

a Lebanese army official —
and PLO chairman Yasser -—
- Arafat’s political adviser,

had drawn up a. tentative
plan under which the PLO’s

} estimated. 8,000 troops in-. --
West. Beirut” would go to ~
Syria and then, be'‘divided | ~
among Syria,. Jordan, Iraq:”.

and Egypt. Habib ‘was

reported to. have received —
that plan, butitwas unclear | -#B
_ whether: it had been con-_ 4.

‘veyed. to Israel,

Begin said after meetings

Tuesday. and Wednesday.
with Habib that the U.S.
envoy promised_to seek. an

“unequivocal commitm-
ent’! fram the PLO to leave
Beirut and to give israel the
answer today... co

Earlier today, ‘ Foreign

Minister Yitzhak Shamir

fighters. . °

sald a reply to Israel's

aban pirpoaite yes eae:
bapa will hey
o)/B, Habtb, fram Beiywiceed

_hot from Jidda, Saudi
Arabia, where the Arab
‘League announced a plan
‘for the guerrilla with-
drawal.

"Arafat told a news con-

ference in West Beirut that.

the Jidda- declaration

means the Arab League has

approved “‘what- we have:

agreed upon, the Lebanese:
‘government and us.’ He.

was alluding to the PLO’s

written pledge to leave:

Lebanon, submitted to

Lebanon's prime. minister -

July 7,

Shamir flew to Swit-—

zerland today for a two-day
Stopover en

Washington, where he

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meets. ‘Sunday - with, US.
State Secretary George
; Shultz on the evacuation of
, the PLO guerrillas from’
West Beirut. The guerrillas
were surrounded a week.
after. Israel . ‘invaded:
Lebanon June 6 te crush the
PLO,

Lebanese government
sources, who requested
anonymity -in keeping with —
government : regulations,
said’ the estimated.” 8,000 -
PLO fighters in. West Beirut

‘would be taken ‘to Syria by .

land in “a few weeks” and.
then divided among the four
Arab:countries. There was
no immediate comment
from the countries involved.
_ The ‘sources: said the
agreement was reached at a
meeting ‘earlier this week
between Col. Johnny Abdo,
head of Lebanese army

intelligence, and ~Aratat' ‘Ss

~ political adviser, Hani El- ,

Hassan. Details were..not
made: public...

-*“fhe execution of’ the”

evacuation will take a few

- weeks,” one of the sources

said,

” ‘However, when Arafat
was asked ‘today whether -
the: time is coming when -.
there might be a way for the _
PLO’ to
honorably, he retorted: "I-—<]f
think you have no right to _
‘ask me this question....

‘ leave . Beirut,

lis.
something between me and

the Lebanese government,” '

Arafat's chief spokesman,
Mahmoud Labadi, told the

Same news conference that —

the Jidda. statement was
“the PLO’s reaffirmation it,
is ready to leave Lebanon...,
It is a resolution of the Arab
League and we have ac-

cepted it,”

Lebanese Prime Minister |
Shafik. ‘Wazzan-“yiresented .
the formula’ Thursday to
Habib, the sources said,

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP)
. ‘The’ Willeinson, - nd.) 5

Babes ‘group - ‘on: an nis

“Fourteen ° of “the: :

“i - _praduates and their spouses '
“ ‘arrived: ‘in’ Las : Vegas,
~ Thuraday to staréa five-day”
' :vaeation-courteay of Larry |
_ Parker, : who has- built a -

“ Hnancia}]; ‘empire. in
_.Houston, Tex., since his
high-school days. 9 *

-.“Most of ‘these people
“have never been on a plane

lass reunion nis

Wh Shot eo 1951 je |

)" haven't had a lot of worldly -
' experience. ‘Moat liv: jor within - .

“Wil ingon;!
| -expenie-paid . trip: to. ‘this
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of them:have been: to.Las

Vegas," sald Parkep.."They

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Parker,: whese: holdings
-Inelude-banks; ‘real -
Es development firms,

 Yecording. companies and .
oilfields, said hé got the idea ©
“of taking ‘the class: to’ Las”

Vegas after: talking with ‘a

. former clagsmate,. Richard .

Thomas, an Indlana truck
driver,. ."-

“We were saying we had

‘never gotten together’ and -

never ‘had a reunion,’

Towns evaculated

(CP) —
jing out of

" VANCOUVE
One of 12 fires

*-eontrol in northern British
~ Columbia -has forced the
.evacuation of residents of

-several isolated . com-
-Taurities along the Alaska
_. Highway, .
. About 25 persons were

- evacuated: Thursday from

the resart- communites of
Fireside and Coal River

', when’ a rampaging fire

‘jumped. the Liard _ River
heading: in their direction,

‘Terry Walker of the B.C,
- Forest Service said in a
’ telephone interview today,

The two communities are
about . 64 kilomtres
southeast of Watson Lake on
theeB.C.-Yukon boundary.
. The residents were taken
to the Fort Nelson and Fort
St., John areas. |

Walker said the .com- .

munities of Irons Creek and
Contact Creek just north of |
Fireside are currently

’ threatened by the blaze. —

He says the fire has
burned 30,000 ,. hectares
(74,131 acres) since the end
of June and likely will
merge with two other
smaller fires burning i in the
vicinity.

Walker says 60-kilometre-
an-hour winds, humidity of
15 per cenit and. .tem:.

Peralures. over 30 degrees -
Celcius are. hampering.*'].
. direfighting efforts.

The main blaze was less
than three kilometres fram
the Indian community of

Lower Post, near the Yukon |

boundary, but Walker said
‘the fire “appeared to be
heading away from the area -
and there were no im-
mediate plans to evacuate
residents.-  -

This fire has burned about
1,000 hectares (2,471 acres).

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| pacer sal “Thavéytseen oe
“high: sehool whlch: waa a : ca

Most of these people

wens ago,” ne

“much: ‘because: all his
‘Felatives” ‘now. are ‘dead...

‘Sveryone turned out.”

Parker, who says he has’
former
classmates “for some good

set up his
shows” and plans. to fly
them over the Grand

Canyon in his airplane, —

played down, the
significance of his ‘picking
up the tab for the class.

“The world has been —

pretty good to me, I've been

pretty Jucky,” he said. “I ;

don’t think this is that big a
deal. ci)

immediately.
Braduation for Michigan
where he attended General

Motors Institute. He later .
his own — steel.

bought
company: in Los Angeles
and about 10 years ago
moved to-Texas;- ~~

Wilkinson High School
was closed. and in 1970
merged into. Eastern
Hancock High School.

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Sale Conducted by
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