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SECOND
SECTION

Thousands mourn Golda

JERUSALEM (AP) —
Tens of thousands of
mourners filed past the flag-
draped coffin of former
prime minister Golda Meir
on Monday, bidding her
farewell before her burial
among Israel's military and
political heroes.

Mrs. Meir's body lay in
state outside the ornately
carved doors of the main
entrance to Israel's
parliament, the Knesset.
President Yitzhak Navon led
the first mourners, a small
group of relatives and

MINEHEAD, England
(CP) — Jeremy Thorpe's
lawyer appealed to
magistrates Monday to
throw the murder-
conspiracy case against the
former Liberal leader out of
court on. the grounds of
inadmissible evidence.

Sir David Napley also
maintained that the case
against Thorpe, 49, is based
on the evidence of a liar and
a@ mental case. He argued
that Thorpe should not have
to stand trial.

The three magistrates are
to decide possibly by today
whether Thorpe should
appear before a judge and

Sir David also attacked the
British press, which has
offered key witnesses large
sums of money for their
stories, and asked: ‘How

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OTTAWA (CP) — The
Consumers Association of
Canada wants a list of every
person who obtained a free
ride on any Canadian airline
for the last year.

It made the request
Monday to the Canadian
transport commission, |

The association said
members of its organization
became concerned about the
matter alter it was disclosed
that some government
figures, including Alberta
Premier Peter Lougheed,
accepted free airline passes.

“It has been pointed out
that the practice of giving

friends, past the bler when
the gates to the Knesset were
opened Monday morning.
The 60-year-old Mrs. Meir
died Friday after a 1S-year
battle against lymphoma,
which she kept secret in her
years as prime minister
irom 1958 to 1974.
Thecrowd, with many per-
sons dabbing at tears, lined
up outside the Knesset under
avereast skies and oc-
casional rain. Women’s baga
were searched and the men

frisked before they were
allowed to enter the plaza

and view the coffin, raised on
a catafalque between two
fiery torches. She will be
buried today.

Lillian Carter, President
Carter's mother, lead the 42-
member U.S. funeral
delegation, which included
former U.S. state secretary
Henry Kissinger, govern-
ment officials and American
Jewish leaders. U.S. State
Secretary Cyrus Vance was
scheduled to attend the fu- .
neral before returning to

Cairo to resume Middle East
peace talks with Egyptian

THORPE LAWYERS SAY
Fair trial impossible

can there be a fair trial?”

He estimated that
prosecution witnesses
received about &250,-000
($575,000) so far for books,

-articles and interviews and

several may receive more,
bringing the total to about
&500,000 ($1.15 million).

The mental case, ac-
cording to Sir David, was
former male mode) Norman
Scott, 28, who claims he was
seduced by Thorpe in 1961
and that a homosexual affair
followed, The politician is
alleged to have plotted
Scott's death to avoid a
major public scandal,

Sir David compared Scott
to a man in a mental in
stitution who might say he
was “the king of Siam and
that he ‘had had a
homosexual relationship
with the kaiser.”

free transportation poten-
tially decreases the revenue
of a carrier and thereby
could shift the cost of
providing such tran:
sportation to other
passengers by way of fare
increases,” says the aszo-
ciation in a letter to the
transport commission.

Tt adds that the practice
“gould tend to bring the air
industry into disrepute
because some might in-
terpret the free passes as
attempts to favorab]
predispose certain public
figures in the carriers’
favors.” .

Body snatchers admit
guilt in bungled theft

VEVEY, Switzerland (AP}
— Two refugees testified
Monday that they acted
alone in stealing the body of
silent screen comedian
Charlie Chaplin, but a judge
hinted the body snatchers
might be protecting a third
person in the bungled ran-
som plot.

Roman Wardas, 24, of
Poland, and Bulgarian-born
Gancho Ganev, 38, admitted
their guilt in the scheme,

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doners to our recent Radio
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Special thanks goes to the
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and Mr. Powers classes at
Caledonia High School.

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March 1 theft would earn
them a share of the reported
$100 million the world-fa-
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family.

Wardas said he was the
man who called the Chaplin
family home and family
lawyers over a 10-week
period to negotiate a ran-
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The lar, Sir David said,

was the state’s star witness,
former Liberal member of
Parliament Peter Bessell,
who flew from California to
give evidence, ‘Mendacity
was oozing out of every pore
of his body,”
asserted.

the lawyer

Bessell was brought to
Minehead with immunity
from prosecution to tell the
court he once heard Thorpe
say that killing Scott would
be no worse than shooting a
sick dog. .

Scott also gave evidence
and described in graphic
detail his alleged seduction
by Thorpe. The politician has

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President Anwar Sadat,

Reading a message from
the president, Mrs. Carter.
quoted her son as saying:
“Mrs. Meir dreamed about
peace for Israel.

‘(This is what [ have been
struggling to achieve ... this
peace will be a wonderful
memorial,’

“She was as much an
American as an Israeli,"
said Rabbi Harry Epstein,
who recalled the former
Milwaukee ‘schoolteacher’s
visits to Atlanta, Ga., as a
fundraiser.

strongly denied the
allegations.
Scott had made allegations

of various kinds against
many people, the lawyer
said, “Mention a name to
Mr. Scott and he will make
an allegation.”

The state contends that
Thorpe and three other men
had plotted to kill Scott more
than nine years ago.

Thorpe, Liberal leader
during 1967-76, did not give
evidence, nor did his fellow
accused: David Holmes,
John Le Mesurier and
George Deakin.

The charges on conviction
earry prison sentences of up
to 10 years.

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Hundreds of police and sol-
diers armed with rifles lined
the streets and watched the
snaking line of mourners
from the Knesset rooftop.
Witnesses estimated 10,000
filed past in the first hour
when the gates opened at 10
a.m, Monday. The coffin was
to remain on view through
the night until 6 a.m. today.

Four Knesset guards stood
at attention near two
military chaplains who
softly chanted psalms.

Attendance at the
graveside was being
restricted to about 400
guests, but the ceremonies
were to be shown on Israeli
television.

Mrs. Meir, who led Israel
through its crisis of the 1973
Yom Kippur war with Egypt,
was to be buried in a section
of the national cemetery
called The Plot of the
Nation’s Great on Mount
Herzi. —

After a memorial service,
Mrs. Meir's coffin was to be
taken in a_ omnilitary
procession to the cemetery
for burial next to Levi
Eshkol, whom she succeeded
as prime minister upon
Eshkol’s death in 1969,

Theodor Herz), after whom
the site is named and
founder of the World Zionist
Organization, is buried there
along with Vladimir
Jabotinsky, who broke away
from standard Zionist

organizations to fight for the
creation of a Jewish state.

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
SUMMER SESSION COURSES 1979

The University of British Columbia is able to offer the following courses in the
summer of 1979 in Whitehorse.

However in order to secure the services of the relevant instructors the University
requires preliminary éstimates of enrollment by the end of 1978.

Department
English Educ.

English Educ.
Undergraduate
Studies

Undergraduate
Studies
Reading

Geography

Science Educ.
Reading -

Course No.
Ed 478

Description
Introduction to Teaching

English as a Second
Language (3)

Ed 489

Applied Linguistics for

Teachers (3)

Ed 487

Recent Developments in

Elementary Education (3)

Ed 479

Croas-Cultural Education

(Native Indians) (3)

Ed 305

Curriculum and instruction

in Developmental Reading
in the Elementary School (3)

Geo. 101

Ed 309
Ed 475-477

Geography (3)
General Science (3)
Diagnosis and Hemediation

in Elementary Reading (3)

University Study Skills — John Webb

Information regarding dates can be obtained from:
Mrs. Celia Dowding, 4 Nisutlin Drive, Whitehorse, Y.T., 667-5197

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