- amnall ind poh ‘and

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7 ~-solidating their positions"
in.a drive toward Tan-

’, taminated
’ storm sewers, two creeks

Moslem “arifited!"

NIAGARA ‘PALS, N.Y,
(AB) _ State and federal

‘goverameit officials an-

nounced ‘today another
cleanup project at the Love

Canal chemical dump even,

though . a controversial new

feport says the neigh-—

birhood now 1s safe for
‘residents. -

~The state Environmental
Conservation Department

aiid the U.S, Environmental

Protection Agency said they
have signed an agreement
for the cleariup of con-
‘sediment ‘in

arid in two other areas.
. The EPA said $7 million

. from the federal Superfund
program.

anti-pollution

‘nome to: be Tetronetive

would . be used for the
project. There was no
immediate word on how
much the state will con-
‘tribute. .

‘The’ EPA announced ;

. Wednesday that: its scten-
tists have determined that,
chemical levels in most
- parts of the Love Canal
neighborhood ‘now are no
higher than in other parts of
the elty of Niagara Falls,
The EPA report did
recommend, however, the
additional ‘cleanup - Project.
_detailed today.
_ The cleanup may begin as

- early as next month and is

‘expected to be completed by
October, 1983.
Current and former

- | from page 1
War continues

of the waterway “opposite
Basra. =

“Iran's interior minister,
Nategh: Nouri, ‘said in “an

‘Interview with ‘Tehran’s
Jomhburi Islami newspaper |

that Iran would fight Iraq
until Iranian cities are safe
from attacks and “‘as long
as our rights are not met
completely.”

“the ‘interview, seen in”

Nicosia, Cyprus, apparently
contradicted earlier
promiges to. fight until
Tran's PRP aligt

‘While. an estimated

200,000 Iranian and- Iraqi

soldieis “fought what was
reported to be -a bloody.
ground battle Wednesday in
the southeastern corner of

Iraq, Iran sent jets to attack .

Basra.

Traq sald -its. air force
retaliated. by bombing
Kharg Island, Iran's vital
Persian~Gulf oil ‘port, and
three western Iranian cities
where hundreds of

casualties were reported, .

Iraqi communiques
acknowledged losing four
planes in the attack on

‘Kharg Island.

Both sides claimed to
have inflicted heavy. enemy

losses and to have taken .
hundreds of prisoners in the.

clash on a narrow strip of

~ land between the Eraq-Iran
‘frontier and the east bank of
* the Shatt-al-Arah. opposite

Basra, 120 kilometres north
of the Persian Gulf.

‘Tehran radio ‘said in.:

broadcasts monitored in
London that its Operation
Ramadan invasion forces
pushed 20-kilometres into
Iraq. and were~ .“'con-

numah, on the east bank of
the. Shatt-al-Arab, opposite

the Iraqt oil centre. -

But the official Iraqi news

-agency Said Traq’s counter-

attack destroyed ‘“‘the

. Major part of the enemy
invading force". and ‘Was

: ‘continuing to strike at the

Iranians.

It acknowledged that the .
Islamic Republic’s forces’

crossed the lragi_border on

‘a! 10-kilometre frpnt,.; but
- said they were stopped ‘with

the aid of ‘helicopter’ gun-

ships after: a obteenetre

.. advance, fa
. +The lane: id
oe coal tra harro

r

border ‘nip, the. iraql

news agency, bald, ‘didding A

“The battlgground has been’

filled .with corpses | of the

enemy dead,” | .
The. conflicting ‘claims

-copild nat be independently ..:

vérified because foreign

beporters, are not. allowed ”
into the war zone, but the

combat clearly was isrge
scale,

US. intelligence : ‘sources, ;

“wT OAS

in’. Washington estimated
“Tran sent 100,000 soldiers
into Iraq in its drive to
‘diberate”’ its Moslem”
neighbor and topple
President Saddam Hussein,

and that Iraq has a force of — :

equal size in the battle zone.
“It looks like this may be
a blood bath," sald one
analyst, who asked not to be
_ named. —
‘ Tran's ‘invasion Tuesday,
‘code-named for the Moslem
holy month of Ramadan, |
intenslfied a war over rights
to the Shatt-al-Arab. - ae

pte, wiser ae oy Te) .
Brcirercetca tan pete eat’ ad he

southern end forms part of ©
the border between Arab

Moslem Iraq and Persian ~ |

Moslem Iran, two. of the
Middle “East's: oldest -
enemies. ,

The war: began in’ Sep:
tember, 1980, when the fraqi

army ‘invaded Iran along a”

500-kitometre front. [ran -
‘regained much of its lost
territory this spring and
refused to. accept Hussein's
subsequent declaration ala
ceasefire:

Tehran radio ‘said . the ;

invasion will topple the

“infidel” ‘Hussein govern-.

ment. Iran’s Persian Shiite
Moslem leader Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, in a
speech broadcast by Tehran—
radio and clearly aimed at.
_ the Arab Shiites who make
up about half of Iraq's
population, urged the Iragis
_to “rise-up and attack the
enemies of islam.”

But Iraql news agency
said... Iraq's defence
minister, Gen. Adnan |
Khayrallah,.sent a message
to Hussein at dawn today

assuring him the Iranian -

. invasion, was being con-,
tained.
“ipfistory wil recall duly ;
14, 1982, as a shining page in

Traqi military annals and - |-

the battle east of Basra will
take a prominent. place in
the life of our péople,” the
news agency quoted the
minister as saying. _

Planes attacked the cities of -
Khorramabad, ‘lam and
Bakhtaran — formerly -

‘erm

aa

t wounded The" tities are
deep insid it an‘ aren,

_Aabdut..260kitometres ea. | a

‘pf Basra...
at “The” Tags said
? jets. strafed
and —
: Nations” in. “Basra and”
Abu al-Kasib, Al- -Quriah .
casualty figures.

{n addition to the attempt
to destroy" Iraq's * Baath |
which Khomeini considers ©

said Iran’s immediate ;

objective-appears to:be to. \
_ Peripple - Iraq’, Ss oil- thawed =

economy.

out," ‘Bulloch sald a an.
interview’ From. Toronto. oe

. . Although the proposals may -
‘eventually prove: ‘very’
Bee more ‘Immediate -

Love Canal cleaned up? -

redevelopment “and. those

“Pesidenta of the Love Canal
neighborhood, where
thousands of
‘chemical wastes were
dumped, greeted with
Skepticism the ‘report that
’ said most of the area is safe
to live in.

~The findings announced :

Wednesday by the national
"Centres for Disease Control
in Atlanta, Ga., based on a
study by the EPA, came

nearly four years after a .

health emergency was
declared in the area.

At a bilefing Wednesday

“night at City Hall, shouting
matches broke out among
250 present aud former
residents of the neigh-
horhood, where— sharp

divisions have formed.

tonnes of ©

os _othing canies ori moh

thing staded before hd

who oppose if...
“We. have been
surrosaded by chemiis al

our lives; if it was: s0. bad,
there would be no Niagara
Falls," . said Loretta
Gambino, a canal-area
‘omeowner for. 21 years who
said she has suffered
cancer, eye infections and

four miscarriages. Her-

remark was typical:of those
from residents who stayed.
But Lois Gibbs, president
-of the Love Canal

Homeowners . Association " impatience.

and head of a Washington-
based hazardous waste
clearing house, said the
methods of analysing ata
were flawed and

cfnclusions could | be sately

“""MgaeWachen said the new

7 i Phe result is tliat, wa
‘ don't 2 seem (0 be buying aa. ac} - be
many new homies; he said

‘The propdaal, ‘which. calls

j T me create a riew pool ‘of jow-
ye ., ADOUE interest capital, ‘that can be

le Sandusky * ‘paid in.

Toronto, “They're: saying:

‘Well, you know we've had”

loaned to new-home:. ‘buyers’ :
‘and’ tarmers; fishermen and
small businessmen making.

. new: capital, investment, Is:
‘contained In a white paper

tabled with the budget.
Finance © Minister Allan

fund could: lower interest
rates for ellgible borrawers
by three to six per cent.
However, the proposal Is
not being implemented
igamediately because
Eachen has sent it toa
blueribbon committee for

-study. The 14-member:

committee, led by Montreal
Stock Exchange. President .
Pierre Lortie, is to report by

| Sept. 90,

Meanwhile, some Liberal
MPs say the measure that.
should be winning: them
support appears..to be.
creating only confusion and:

‘ Industry’ ‘Minister Herb
Gray, speaking Sunday toa
Liberal policy conference in

Kingston, Ont.,-said many |:

people have been asking the

‘program but Otlawe “cannst-

“be: retrosctive, Proll ‘that it.
will be,: he" replied: "Tf:
_-you're- telling. me what the |.
-situation’ ig, 1 ‘don't “think
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‘ program ‘and people should -

‘go. ahead and buy homes:
“now, ‘safe in the knowledge -
- that they will bé eligible for
the interest-rate relief later.”

- But - Prime “Minister. -
* ‘Trudeau told the Commons’:
on Monday it is too. early to
promise that the plan will be’
implemented, saying it
depends on the committee's ;
recommendations.

Cosgrove’ said Tuesday
that while the government

they (his constituents) know
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