on ot Jobless continue their struggle to get off
dhe | cam

es ae

“yproduce-a barrage: of angry words: over |
Ways: to solve the problem: :

= ‘seemingly magical solutions are bound 'to *
“fly acrosa:the legislative chamber's floor. .
oS inweeks' to come -+- in much thé same way...
. ‘they’ve flown for thé last two‘yeara:

; is “While -: . Progressive
“¢[Liberals-and.New Democrats agree jobs’ |
“mnust be the province’ 8 No. k priority, they

_p Ontario's sagging economy and restore ..
"thousands of lost jobs. ;
..4 As the majority Conservatipe govern.
~ ment today. tables “its document: of ° in My
condemn It. -

-. Liberals’. David Peterson, ‘said last week

~ and” “Secycled | pronilies, ” while NDP

‘ -phetorie.”.
WANT JOB PROMISES

wouldn't, contain concrete promises. for

“Baek to, work.

~ veduced this year," said ae as he listed a.
. -bkeakdowns, alcoholism, youth in trouble:

with ithe law =+: “Merming from unem-
: ‘Ployment. ° a

Ontario 1 fights unemployment

TORONTO (CP) —

As record numbers - "Peterson finds the ob. prospects for thé.

“province's young — where 230,000 between

unémployment.’ line, |, Ontario:
aislotors return today. for the start of a -
legislative session: that: promises - to

be”. the: ‘most ” “frightening aspect" of
Ontario's 3 TL.4-per-cent March’ jobleas rate.

the] brunt of opposition blame, found some

- Accusations, a blametaying ° “and

ut “towed the start of recovery.’.

Predictions that.the jobless rate tsn’t Key
> to fall significantly and promised’ to make
“: Job creation his major concern when he
“tables-his:- budget: in May. =. -
“Just how.to do it-1s thé problem j ag Miller
~ balances calls for massive spending on fob ©
o creation with his belief that: the private .
“sector should be the vehicle for “producing ~
“lasting jobs...
He appears “to be ‘leaning toward
; -_atiidating that sector, ‘although he hasn't -
_, ruled out the continuation of: some tem-:
porary employment programa, .
“Bul both Peterson and Raé are highly
Titical of what they say. ia. a meagre $150
“mnillion Ontario has pumped Into Job
‘. creation since last November.:
“~ “Tt nowheré measures up to the need, "
‘says Peterson, who insists the government
could find millions of dollars to tackle the -
problem. by selling. off ite interests: .in -
~» Milgaki_ Lodge, Suncor. Irie. and: massive
- Jeridbanks while cutting back on wasteful
‘ government spending. « .
‘He'd like to see Ontario embdtk oh. a
massive building 5 program that would put
. thousands to work while easing the current
Aousing shortage:
_* Rae says it’s time for an unprecedented
~ program of job Creation, training and
. Petraining, adding that he wouldn't. be. all
that bothered by a large increase ‘in the
provincial deficit. . .

‘Conservatives,

differ vaatly'on the’ ways in ‘which ' to shore’:

‘tentios, the ‘throne: speech, opposition .
pollttcians are busy formulating. words to |;

The leader of the officlal Opposition; th

he expected the:speech to contain nothing.
more than “pap” * :

Leader Bob Rae predicted “vague |

‘Both argued it ‘should, but. ‘probably
‘putting many of Ontario’ 3 569,000 jobless,
“There ls an army of. ‘unemployed out
there and I don't’ see any signs: that the _
numbers In that army are going to be”

litany “6f° spin-off. problems — -family .

Vietnam: protests shelling

"the ages ¢ of 15 and 4 already j are idle ~to

a » Treasurer, Frank Miller, likely to bear J.
‘optimiam in economic indicatora that point ff

But he said he must’ ‘agree’ with -”

* bombardment which China

the = Vietnamese frontier

says is: intended to warn

Sunday in response: to

~ all
About

PEOPLE -

“Diana, the Princess of Wales, had royal on-lookers

_ gasping when she and Prince Charles attended-a gala ball

in’Melbourne on Saturday, the last official function on their

‘tour of Australia.

The princess emerged from her limousine wearing a
clinging cream and silver sheath, bare at the left shoulder.

* The crowd of 1,500 outside the Hilton Hotel, who had .
waited several hours in cold, rainy weather, ‘applauded her
and cheered loudly.

“It’s the sexiest gown she’s ever worn, " sald a ‘female
journalist: from the- British . meilia, “It’s a movie. star's

oe dress. me .
_ As many as 900 browsers atan antique, gun show saw during
~ the weekend a shotgun used by legendary sharpshooter

"Annie Oakley — ~“but none anted to pay the $100,000 asking

price. ,

Bess Moses Edwards, 80, of Royal Oak, Mich, i is trying to

sell the firearm used by her great-aunt, star of Buffalo

Bill's travelling Wild West Show nearly a century ago.
“Gums of this nature don't just sell overnigh},"’ Edwards |

said. "There aren't really that many peuple Aonttng around

with that kind of money.” _

‘Dome Warwick, Frank Sinatra and composer "Marvin

Hanilisch were some of the celebrities who appeared at a:

“benefit concert in Boston’ last week- to help defray the.
' medical costs of Tony Conigilare, a Red Sox star in the 1960s

who. suffered a near-fatal heart attack 15 months ago.

Before the show,. a dozen sports ‘figures added thelr
support to. 38-year-old Conigliaro’a cause, including a
“dream outfield’’ of Willle Mays, Joe DiMaggio and Ted.

~ Willlama,

Warwick performed a medley of hits: tromnt the. 19608 and

. Was accompanied by Hamllsch as ahe sang his composition

+ The Way We Were,

‘Sinatra. drew an immediate. standing ovation ‘when he

appeared, before the full house and:did a brief version of

Your Fabulous Face, 1 Get t a Kick Out of You and New
York, New York.

C ' —h

I

A train bearing the chroniclers of romentie daydreams ‘is -

on, ils way across the United States fitted out with pink

- champagne and heart-shaped molds. for breakfaat pan-
_. cakes,

The Love Train pulled out of Las Angeles on Saturday
carrying romance writers, editors and agents on a crogs-

. country trip. ‘Their destination is the April 21-24 Romantic
- Book Lovers! Conference in New York, where writer's such

a8 Barbara Cartland, Phyllls Whitney, . Joan Dial and Jude

' Deveraux will meet to discuss their craft.

formed without accompaniment. —

Kathryn Falk, organizer of the conference and author of

‘How. to’ Write a Romance and Get it Published, has a
‘ compartmest on the train decorated with pink satin sheets,
ruffled pillows and Nowers. And there’s plak champagne te,

drink,
. Asked what she thought about people who sneer at

" pomince writing, Falk replied: “I'm appalled. 1 think it's
Important bo taake everyone feel more, romantic,” -

. “About, 50 members of The Loyal Order of Pessimiats held

": thelr annual gathering Saturday in an Iowa City reataurant

Sind, ‘ag they had ‘expected, they had a ‘lousy time.

Dwayne McKinney of Cedar County was voted Pessimist

‘of the Year ‘and received atrophy topped 'y a figure of part
- vof a horse, §
* 44Tt shows the endof the horse that doesn't. eat the sugir,’ ian
a “trophy originator Jack Duvall said. os

For entériainment, the song Slormy Wester was per-

poll

forceful . blow. to

“PEKING | (AP) — Viet- Hanoi not to bully its. “‘intolerable’’ © border
“protested. today Southeast As an neighbors. provocations. —
-“violent’’ artillery shelling - For the second day in-a The shelling was con-
Of its border by China - a row, China said. it shelled ducted. from... China’s.

"Yunnan province, the of-
ficial Chinese news agency. —
Xinhua’ said: It ‘followed .

artillery © bombardments

bands of brigands.

: seats reserved for T whites. —

Zimbab we celebrates
’ HARARE (AP) —- Zimbabwe celebrates the third .
' ‘anniversary of Independence today with its: black-.:
majority government ‘confronted. by rebel Bangs of.
‘/ apmy deserters and bkeptical whites. whose money =
--andcexpertise are’ vital to the ‘country’s economy... -
. * Many of Zimbabwe's 7.6 million blacks.are pleased.
{ by progress: made in. the Tast:three--years, . but .
- violence, political uncerta aty and racial uneasiness -{-
“persist ina country where. the shift of power to the’
- black majority. ‘from the, ‘white ° minority ‘drew :
_ Worldwide ‘ttentioni in 19009 -
“:" “So-much is going: wrong, so much is not ‘going
: #ight,” said Ean’ ‘Smith, the last white leader of the
: former-British colony of Rhodesia who once- vowed
there would never be black rule in his lifetime,
__ Smith blames his old guerrilla foe, Prime Minister _
- ‘Robert. Mugabe, for mismanagement and economic |
failures since Rhodesia became Zimbabwe on-April :
18, 1980, following: a’ Beven-year war thal claimed
27,000 lives, mostly blacks,
- “He also blames Mugabe for a wave of lawlessness
_ by what the government calls dissident armed gangs .
_ loyal to runaway opposition leader Joshua Nkomo in
. Mataheleland, the. country’ 8 western province.

_ Hundreds of “Ndebele-speaking - civilians, ‘who
traditionally. have supported Nkomo, have been killed
- in’ Matebelarid in a ‘campaign by Mugabe's forces to
' wipe out the gangs. Nkomo and Mugabe followers
: blame: each other for'the atrocities,
~ Nkomo, who led his own faction during the guerrilla,
_war, fled to’ London’ last month, claiming the Zim-. .
‘babwean government ordered troops to kill him.
Despite the violence ‘in « ‘Matabeleland, most of .
| _Zirababwe's 7.5 million blacks are. happy with what-
Mugabe's Socialist’ government promised’ and gave
. them: tripled minimum wages, more and better
houses, free health care far those earning under $160
4 month and free schooling for all.
But the 160,000 whites are at a crossroads, won-
_ dering if they have a: long-term future unider-the
‘blacks they. once fought and whether the govern- .
ment's soldiers can’ protect them against roaming.

_ “A red light is: flashing as far as my future is
concerned," said-Smith, whose all-white Republican _
_Front party lost 11 days ‘ago one of the parliamentary
~ ils fret, such lose. °

Saturday from Guangxi” :

province,. which, , neighbors
Yunnan. .

‘The People’s. Dally,’ ‘the
Chinese: ‘Communist party
newspaper, * gaid:
shellings were: “both a
the
arrogance. ofthe’ Viet-
nNamese authorities and a
serious warning against -
their ambitions of regional ©

- hegemonism," an apparent

reference to Vietnamese

military action in the
Indochinese. state of
Cambodia.

- China and Vietnam have.’
“ been at ‘odds since {he 1978
» invasion” of: | |
Cambodia, which toppled —

Vietnamese

the Chinese-backed Khmer
Rouge regime. China is 4
chief supporter of a three-.
partly. Cambodian coalition
formed last year to try to
drive out the estimated
180,000 Vietnamese soldiers.

The. leader of '” that
coalitién, Prince: Norddom
Sihanouk, plans to fly to
Thailand late. this : month

before visiting hid followers... .
on Cambodian soil, said a
‘report today in the English-

language Nation Review in
Bangkok. ~~ .
. The. newspaper, gave. no.

_further details of Sihanouk's
. trip,

‘which has.- been
rumored in Bangkok since
Vietnamese forces launched
drives “against the Cam-
bodian’ resistance groups
along ‘the ‘Thal-Cambodian

‘border March 31. ;
_: Sihanouk spends - most of
his time in North Korea and

China, The coalition he =.’
“heads includes his own:

followers, another non-

Communist faction and the

Communist. Khmer Rouge.

Xinhua, in itsreport about |
the Chinese: artillery ‘fire,
said: “The shelling (Sun-
day) destroyed the enemy's
surface . fortifications. The
Vietnamese pasition is in a
meas, yw

There -have | been no
casualty reports - on the .
weekend shellings. (—.

The. Vietham' ' News
Agency,

Ministry, sald’ Chiriese -
artillery’ shells fell on three
Vietnamese — provinces

. Saturday... It said : ‘nothing —

about Sunday's ‘assault:
, The People’s Daily. said.

- one. aim of: Vietnam's ©

border provocations waa to -
‘tie ‘up China”. and'divert

” World attention ‘to cover itp —
‘its crimes‘of aggression.”

“the.”

quoting, oa
’ spokesman for’ the Foreign

~ juring 70; ‘many’ of, them. have.” caused :the ‘blaze
:' teenagers. trampled. ina’

; - rescue crews ‘would recover — television ~ said"-Park In-~

_ Korea’s third Targest ‘city jammed in ‘the
320 kilometres. south of screaming for help, | arid

"women: “and: eight’ young

’ mid-moming, most of them

- second floor of a wooden

. led dipectly. down. a stair-

_ Koreans killed in fire |

raced. ‘throiigh. a: isco

“narrow exit door.

~ eritical . condition ‘at local”

‘club downstairs.

‘admitted | illegally. South °

been closed In January and

’ officials said,-

1

‘S ~ dette

SEOUL - (AP) ‘ a Fire’ haa been locked. ‘Tat ac.

count could not. be con- ;

club ; ‘and ' found ‘people |

/ jammed to; overcapacity. . firmed immediately.” ’ the exit, They were credited
| with 400 ‘people early today, - + Investigators believed : an. > with pulling 16 or ‘more free;
“| Killing’ at ‘least "25: and“in- ° electrical short cireult may - Officials sald flames soon.

because witnesses reported - -

seeing’ sparks and flames.

- shooting : fromthe ceiling.
South Korean“radio and

elub, : where | ihe manager,
Kina’ Chang-dae, 29, calmly
told the 50 patrons that ‘twé
are starting an emergency
fire exit” exercise: They

panicky stampede toward a | aL.
> Police* asid they, feared

more .. bodies “in ‘:the hyon, 30, a. civilian em- said he led the group outside
Smoldering ‘rubble of the . ployee at-a nearby police without casualties. -*

“House on the Praire disco in station, was the fifst' to Officials sald they were
downtown Taegu, South reach the scene, saw people having difficulty identifying

exit. the dead because. many

Seoul.

. ' _ yanked six to safety... .
The. bodies ‘of 17. young

Local news reporis said
two other men, who were
men-had been recovered by. not identified, rushed to the

though a number. ap-

inhalation: or were tram-
pled. . .

Hospital has’
new system

‘TORONTO (CP) — The Hospital for Sick Children is

badly burned, ‘police said.
Some of the Injured were in

hospitals.

City officials .said: about
400 people,:many of them
teenagers, were packed into
the disco, which Is on the

by the end of June, says Doug Saedden, ‘the hospital's
executive director. |<

The unit-dose system, under which all preseriptions are
dispensed from a central pharmacy. in individual doses
measured by pharmacists, was recommended by the U.S.
Centres for Disease Control in,Atlanta, Ga., after its in-
vestigation into 28 infant. deaths at the ernie se

The investigators” report concluded that al least seven

teenagers aan patrons dlyonin’ were the result of deliberate. overdoses of the drug
House on the Prairie had Under ‘the hospital’ 5 existing. ayntem, the nursing staff
prepares doses from drugs kept at’ dispensaries,

The hospital-already has hired 11 more pharmacists and

huilding: thal also houses a

Officials said the disco’s -
legal capacity was 300 and
that the teenagers. had been

Korean’ © Jaw. - forbids

March for violations, the ;

Police said there was one
exit,-15 metres, wide, that - instituted.
way. One radio . station
reported there also was an

emergency exit but that it Snedden sald.

“stacked up in layers” at —

spread’ tothe ‘first-floor :

parently dled of smoke

introducing a new drug dispensing system to go into effect

will expand the hospltal’s. pharmacy before the ayatem Is.

The unit-dose system will be introduced first in the
‘ hogpital’s intensive care, neo-natal and: ‘cardiac units, -
which aecount for more han half the Prescriptions ordered,

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