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Sources said the soldiers fired volleys in the streets and military-led mobs of loyalists reamed this central Iranian city in search of opponents of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who were beaten with clubs and wooden staves. crammed with 700 gunshot casualties and victims of savage street beatings, reported 44 dead since ri- oting began Monday night in connection with the Shiite Moslem holy period of Ashura. “This is unbelievable,” said Dr. Fiarwoosh Shhat, a U.S.trained surgeon. at Isfahan’s Soraya Hospital. “The soldiers have been shooting at people who came to donate blood for the wounded.” Turkey still the favorite TORONTO (CP) — Fora time itseemed the jump of 27 cents a pound in turkey prices in November was going to turn consumers lo duck, goose and pork for Christmas dinner. Prices went to $1.28 a pound for unbasted and $1.33 to $1.45 a pound for basted turkey in midNovember, causing a lot of ruffled feathers among consumers and farmers, But now, as they do traditionally befcre every Christmas, retailers are’ selling turkeys at cost or even slightly less, to bring customers into their stores. Unbasted turkeys are selling for as little as 98 cents ; pound and basted ones at 1.18. Hens ranging in size from — 10 to 16 pounds appear to be the best sellers. Last December, Canadians consumed almost 62 million pounds of turkey, including processed products such as turkey rolls. By far the biggest part of that ‘volume was table turkeys for Christmas, which then were selling on special for 87 cents a pound unbasted and 97 cents a pound basted. John Wyne, secretary- manager of the National Turkey Marketing Agency, which represents Canadian turkey farmers, is ap- prehensive about what the higher prices might do to consumption this Christmas. But because turkey prices also are high in the U.S, and the Canadian dollar buys less, there is Little incentive for importers to bring turkeys in, Wyne said. ° Lottery head fired VICTORIA (CP) -~— The provincial government has. ; fired the head of the British Columbia lotteries branch, the provincial “secretary's ministry said Wednesday. The dismissal of Jack Stewart came at the recommendation of the Western Canada Lottery Foundation. A statement from the provincial ministry said Stewart cashed seven unsold lottery tickets—each valued at $25— in order to finance a re- tirement party and gift for an employee. Stewart was suspended late in October. He has reimbursed the foundation for the $175. Idea is absurd OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau has ’ dismissed as absurd reports that he plans to quit politics and return to private life, possibly with his estranged wife Margaret. “Tt’s absurd,” he told his staff Wednesday after returning from Paris to learn that there was yet another round of speculation COSSETTES ARRESTED MONTREAL | (CP) Ending eight years and 10% days of exile, Jacques and Louise CossetteTrudel returned to Quebec on Wednesday to face charges arising from the 1970 kidnap- ping of a British diplomat. The couple smiled broadly as they and their (wo children, Alexis and Marie- Ange, arrived at nearby Mirabel International Airport aboard an Air Canada Boeing 747 from Paris. ; They were immediately arrested by two Montreal police detectives as prime suspects in-the 59-day kid- napping of former British trade commissioner James Cross that sparked the 1970 Oetober Crisis. ; Police led the coupleintoa waiting car, then whisked them to a downtown police station where they were detained for questioning. The Cossette-Trudels, both 91, were to be held overnight in separate cells and arraigned in sessions court today on charges of kid- napping, conspiracy, for- cible delention and ex- tortion, police said. The Cossetle-drudels were flown to Cuba Dee. 3. 1970, that he would step down as prime minister. When he was told of the ru- mors, carried Tuesday on the CBC radio program As It Happens, Trudeau shook his head and laughed. Later, when asked by a re- porter to comment, Trudeau simply shrugged, reminding his questioner that he has a news conference scheduled for today. Trudeau, prime minister since 1968, has said repeatedly he wants to fight and win one more election as Liberal party leader so he will be in power when citizens in the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec vote on the question of separation from the rest of Canada. Trudeau does not allow his staff to comment on his per- sonal life, but informants said there is ndthing new in the prime minister's relationship with Margaret. The two were separated in the spring of 1977 after six years of marriage. Marjorie Nichols and Allan Fotheringham, columnists for the Van- couver Sun, said on the CBC program that Trudeau and his wife would be “reaf- fleming their vows" in Vancouver during the Christmas season. Trudeau is expected to go to Vancouver during the Christmas holidays to let his three sons. visit their grandparents— Margaret's parents, the Sinclairs.- Trudeau returned ta Ot- tawa Wednesday following a weeklong visit lo London and Paris. During the tour, he discussed the appointment of a new Governor-General with the Queen. And he visited with his old friend Gerard Pelletier in Paris, ambassador to France. secretary's | man reported to have been shot Tuesday as he waited in the line outside Askarieh - Hospital to give blood, died in Soraya’s operating theatre. A large force of soldiers, with armored vehicles plastered with portraits of the 59-year-old shah, con- trolled the streets while helicopters patrolled above the city of one million. Officials have so far con- firmed nine dead and 65 Workshop has gifts when anti-shah protesters used satchel bombs in an attack against the Isfahan headquarters of SAVAK, the shah's secret police, and other government buildings. At Askarieh Hespital, a gynecological centre transformed into an emergency aid station for the casualties, doctors re- ported troops were dragging bodies away in an apparent effort to hide the size of the death toll. The violence in Isfahan, a ‘Dale. Brown, at Three » Rivers Workshop, completes one of the many pen holders that will be on sale today in the Skeena Mall. They are shaped as birds, whales, moose, porcupines, wolves and elephants. There will also be children’s toys, mosques and tree-lined boulevards 400 kilometres south of Tehran, is among the worst that has torn oil- rich Iran since opposition te the shah erupted in January. Ayatullah Khomaini, the selfexiled leader of the Shiite Moslem sect, has been en- couraging his followers to rebel against the shah’'s Westernization campaign. Hesaid Wednesday that oil supplies to countries sup- porting the shah would be cut off if his religious forces handicraft .items, knife racks, cutting boards, door swags and wreaths that are made at the workshop. Brown is one of 14 people who work year around at the workshop making items for sale. Crash blamed on the pilots VANCOUVER (CP) — The Boeing Co. has filed documents in California Superior Court which place the blame on the flight crew, not the thrust reverser, for the Feb. 11 crash of a Pacific Western Airlines Boeing 737 in Cranbrook, B.C. Charles H. Davies, a Boeing project engineer, filed an affidavit stating that if the pilot had [followed normal go-round procedures Feds threaten office shifts OTTAWA (CP) — Air Can- ada, Via Rail, Canadian Na- tional Railways and many other major transportation companies probably would move their head offices out of Quebec if the province separates from the rest of Canada, Justice Minister Mare Lalonde said Wed- nesday. “Quebec would be the losing partner,’ said Lalonde, as he released a federal study on the effect Quebec independence would have on transportalion, the latest in a series calied Un- derstanding Canada. Lalonde said it would not be in the Interests of Quebec or the rest of Canada to throw up rail and road blockades in the event Quebecers vole to separate. But, he asked, would com- panies with major operations and markets outside the province keep their head offices “In a foreign country?" “Just raising the question is answering it." and had not made an im- proper left-rudder input, the plane would not have crashed. Forty-three per- sons were killed, The plane crashed after the flight crew tried to abort a landing at the Cranbrook airport when it spotted a snowclearing machine on the runway, A coroner's inquest earlier this year was told that a thrust reverser remained open, ..° plans was announced remain in force ‘as long as these heads of state stay in power." Khomaimi, 78, singled out the United States, saying Congress “must take issue"’ with President Carter to stop backing the shah. ‘ The Iranian unrest, in- cluding a 10-day oil industry strike, has forced the government to begin im- porting kerosene to meet im- mediate needs for heating and lighting. Iran's crude oi} production, normally six reported at. 1.7 million barrels Wednesday. In Isfahan, processions of thousands of pro-shah demonstrators, chanting “Yavid shah’—long live the shah— toured the city, honking horns. Many ap- peared to be peasants trucked in from the coun- tryside. , Soldiers handed out por- traits of the shah to motorists ang any vehicle that did not have one on its windshield was stopped. | VANCE QUITS several drivers, suspected shah opponents, dragged from their autos by troops and beaten by squads of burly men, some of them wearing pistols under their jackets. Western diplomats said the army had used tear gas and opened fire Monday night after demonstrators began their rampage, but denied reports that the army used helicopter gunships to attack anti-shah forces in the street battles. Peace talk h i t JERUSALEM (AP) New snags clouded the future of an Egyptian-[sraeli peace treaty Wednesday. U.S. State Secretary Cyrus Vance, citing urgent business, said he would finish his shuttle talks with Prime Minister Menachem Eegin and return home earlier than scheduled. Israeli state radio said proposals fram Egyptian President Anwar Sadat carried by Vance to Begin were found to be unac- ceptable. . - The secretary's change of by a spokestian after Vance held two meetings with Israeli officials and talked with President Carter in Washington by telephone. The U.S. spokesman, George Sherman, said Vance would fly to Egypt today and then to the United States on Friday after a last talk with Sadat. He had planned to stay in Israel at least until Friday morning. Earlier, Vance indicated he had some hopes for his session in Israel. He told reporters on arrival from Cairo he believed-He was in the final stages of his Mideast shuttle. Sadat had also expressed ptimism, saying in Cairo he ‘as quite ready to sign a peace pact with [srael. - Vance ~ shittled to Jerusalem fram Cairo carrying Egypt's acceptance of a peace treaty— which the U.S. envoy and Sadat had worked out in several ses- sions in Cairo—conditional on the treaty being linked to a commitment for elections among the Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. Apparently with U.S. endorsement, Egypt pMBosed the treaty include ‘interpretive letters linking it to elections among the 450,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has refused to tie the peace treaty to steps toward self-government for the Palestinians. The new proposals Vance and Sadat worked cut also recognized Egypt's right to defend itself and act in defence of other Arab countries if they came under attack. Evidently, these two proposals nettled Begin and other Israeli officials. Begin contends Palestinian autonomy is to be negolialed separately. snag Fewer Canadians have . been killed'on the roads this year than last year, figures from safety councils and trans- portation ministries show. While officials couldn't Say why deaths decreased, one officcial in British Colambia gave _ credit to increased use of seatbelts, a crackdown on drinking drivers and lower speed limits, Whatever the reasons, only three provinces— Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan— recorded increased death tolls, latest available figures show. drop in traffic fatalities, with 465 persons killed by the end of September this year compared with 526 in the first nine months of 1977. . To the end of Sep- tember, Ontario counted 701 deaths, down from 713 in the same period last year. Fred Cederberg, a ‘ficer, attacked’ whal he called the popular myth that drunk drivers cause most traffic accidents. “Actually only 2.7 per cent of accidents are B.C. had the largest. safety information: of- ; ROAD DEATHS ON DECREASE caused by the drinking driver,” Cederberg said. “The cold, sober person causes 90 to 94 per cent of accidents,” He added that only one per cent of accidents result fram mechanical failure. The transportation safety branch of the Alberta government reported 369 deaths during the first nine months of 1978 compared with 415 to Sept, 30, 1977. Quebec had 107 by Oct. 31 and 115 at the same time last year. Of those provinces that showed increases in fatalities, Saskatchewan had 238 by the end of October and 236 by last October 31; Manitoba had 122 to the end of August and 107 in the same period last year; Nova Scotia 210 in the period Jan. 1 to Dec, 10, up from from 172 in the same time last year. Newfoundland reported the same number of fatalities to-date this year as last year—84. And New Brunswick reported 209 persons killed by the end of November this year compared with 212 by the. end of November, 1977. Merry Christmas but hold nose SOMERVILLE, 'N.J. (AP) — Park officials have a surprise for poachers who cul down evergreen trees and put them up in their homes this Christmas. They've sprayed them with a chemical that, once indoors, gives off an odor “somewhere between rotten eggs and a skunk.” “Anti-Christmas? Good heavens, no," said Jack Moody, secretary-director of the Somerset County Parks Commission, of the spraying project. “We are in the business of motherhood and nature and preserving all God's creations. We just don't want our trees to end up in someone's living room.” The commission spent more than $500 this year spraying 200 to 300 of its ornamental pine and spruce trees in the Colonial Park in East Millstone with a deer repellent. The mixture is disgusting to deer at any temperature, but humans begin te notice it when it is exposed to room temperature, says Rudolph van der Goot, senior hor- ticulturist for the parks. “When the tree gets in the house, it stinks," van der Goot said. “The odor is pretty sickening, ension benefits up OTTAWA (CP) — In- creases in the Canada Pension Plan and other ald- age social security benefits effective in January were announced Wednesday by Welfare Minister Monique Begin. Canada Pension Plan benefits will rise by nine per cent asa result of increased contributions and to com- pensate for increases in the cost of fiving measured through the consumer price index. The maximum retirement pension will be §218.06 a month, The maximum disability pension will be $216.06 a month, The maximum benefits for chil- dren and orphans of disabled contributors will be $52.51. The maximum monthly surviving spouse's pension will be $134.28 for persons under age 65 and $140.14 for spouses 65 and older. The basic old age security pension will rise to $167.21 monthly from the current $164.74. The maximum guaranteed income supplement, paid to poor pensioners on an in- come-tested scale, will rise to $137.28 from $115.65 for single persons and for married persons whoee hus- band or wife is nol a pen- sioner or receiving a spouse’s allowance. The maximum guaranteed income supplement for a married couple, both pen- sioners, will rise to $114.15 from $102.61 each. And the spouse's allowance will rise to $281.36 from $267.35. The allowance is paid to spouses, mostly women, between age 60 and 65 who are married to old age security pensioners.