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t

’ capital.

Author-historian T.W. Paterson dropped into Winterland General
Store Wednesday to sign coples of his latest popular history book,
Canadian Battles and Massacres.
Basque, Paterson, who lives in Cobble Hill near Victoria, tries to
write works that are entertaining first and informative second. So
. far, he’s written 11 books in five years, basing much of his
research of the nine years he spent freelancing for magazines,

With his publisher Garnet

mostly in the U.S., because Canadian magazines weren't in-

Somalia mad at Soviets and Cubans

attempt
rebellion in Ethiopia’s
Ogaden region by Somali
tribesmen who want to
join ‘the territory to
neighboring Somalia.
Somalia says that the
Marxist military regime
in Addis Ababa is also
being aided in the Ogaden
y Cuban troops, an
accusation that Cuba
denies.
WARNED OF DANGER
Neither Moscow nor
Havana had immediate
ith Cuba, comment on the Somali
‘' renouncing “the. 3974-~-action, But-Somali Pres-
“Mohammed Siad -
Barre had repeatedly
warned the Russians that
the Soviet-Somali
liance was in danger, and
the announcement

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP)
— Somalia, angry at the
Soviet Union's tilt toward
rival] Ethiopia, is ex-
pelling the Russian navy
from its chief bases on
the Horn of Africa and
ordering thousands of
Russian advisers out of
the East African country,
Radio Somalia has an--.
nounced.

The broadcast Sunday
said the Marxist
government also

Cuba,

war

is
relations with
friendship treaty with the “ident
Soviet Union and or-
dering a reduction in the

Russian embassy staff in
Mogadishu, the Somali

Somalia has been the
Soviet Union's chief ally
in East Africa since 1969.
But recently Moscow has
been pouring arms into
Ethiopia and denying
them. to Somalia in an

not

to end the

al-

Sunday was no surprise.
It haS appeared for
some time that the

Russians thought either
that the Somalis would
go so far or that
Ethiopia would prove a

more valuable ally, But
with much of Ethiopia in
revolt and the ruling’
military clique in Addis
Ababa a hotbed of

. dissension, the Kremlin

may have made a serious
miscalculation.

Information Minister
Abdulgadir Salad Hasan
announced that the
Russian military and
technical experts in
Somalia, believed to
number between 3,000
and 4,000, have seven
days to leave the country.

“He -8aid" the Cuban em-. :
bassy staff has to get out”

in 48 hours.

Abdulgadir said -
Russian use of Somali
facilities ‘fon land and
sea” would end imme-
diately.

The Russian navy’s
Indian Ocean fleet has
been using the port of
Berbera, on the Gulf of

New York dockworkers
almost ready to settle

NEW YORK (AP) —
Tentative settlement of a
44-day longshoremahi’s
strike in U.S. North
Atlantic ports is expected
to lead to settlements
along the South Atlahtic
and Gulf of Mexico
coasts. But no matter
what develops, dock-
workers are not expected
back on the job before
next weekend. -

Union and shipping
negotiators for striking
Gulf coast and South
Atlantic coast ports were .
to meet today on the
three-year ‘pact that was
reached Sunday between
the International Long-
shoremen’s Association
(ILA) and the New York
Shippers Association.

‘The accord covers
ports from Maine to
Virgina, but was eX:

cted to set the pattern
or the other ports. The
agreement calls for a 30- f

er-cent wage-benefit
ost over the length of

the contract, raising the

hourly wage to $10.40 by

that

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president, said . Sunday

no increase in

shipping costs would be
necessary because of the
pay increases because
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dockers in the various
ports also will be voting
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terested until recently. Paterson, who
home and clips
formation, writes a weekly celumn for the ‘Victoria Colonist,
mostly to keep his nanie in the public mind so people with stories to
tell will call on him. He says he hates stumping around the country
autographing books, however, but loves talking to people who
know local history.

we ot ew we ‘, 8 +
has a huge library at his
several daily newspapers as sources of in-

: a)

By GEOFF MEGGS

VANCOUVER (CP) —
The Liberal . Party’s
British Columbia election
machine, painstakingly
rebuilt from the shat-
tered ruins left by
Premier Bill Bennett's
sniashing 1975 election
victory, was pronounced
ready for-action during

the -weekend at the
party's annual con-
vention.

But while the

revitalized troops expect
to see action first in a
provincial byelection

. under B.C. leader Gordon

Gibson, it is the federal
arena they are really
training for.

Gibson acknowledged
as much Saturday in his
only major address to the
convention, when he
warned delegates they
face two critical tests in
the coming months.

The first will be the
provincial byelection to
replace former
Progressive Con- .
servative leader Scott
Wallace in Oak Bay. The
second and more im-
portant battle is an ex-
pected 1978 federal
election in which Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau
will seek a mandate to
keep Quebec in Con-
federation.

PRIME CONCERN -

“We, are fighting
provincially for the life of
our party and federally

THE HERALD, Monday, Navember 14, 1977, PAGE 3

B.C. Liberals get party

raising and. careful ac-
counting.

From his opening
address Friday morning
to his elosing remarks
Sunday afternoon
thanking the party’s
outgoing B.C. president,
federal Justice Minister
Ron Basford was a major
presence, attacking the
national Conservative
opposition, boos
Gibson’s leadership and
working to preserve the
harmony and good humor
that marked the con-
vention.

CAUCUS HEAD

Basford, member for
Vancouver-Centre, is the
head of the government’s
B.C. caucus and a virtual
shadow leader of the
provincial party.
. The next federal
election is important not
only because of the
Quebec question, he said,
but because of the op-
portunity to send a record
number of Liberals to
Parliament from B.C.

The Liberals hold eight
of the province's 23 seats
in the current Parliament

but hope to double that
number when  dis-
tribution gives the

pravinee 28 members.

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To meet the objective
part organizers urged
ocal associations to fill
campaign coffers now
and recruit good candi-
dates for an election that
could come early next
year. :

In the only strife of the
threeday convention,

_ Shaun Sullivan, seen as a

representative of. the
Basford-centred group in
the B.C. party, ousted
incumbent Evelyne
Rosborough from the
provincial presidency.

But Gibson said in an
interview Sunday that the
Oak Bay contest remains
a critical test, despite the
federal emphasis of the
convention.

“If we have a chance
anywhere in
province, it's in Oak
Bay,'’ he said, noting that
the riding voted Liberal
for many years and may
resent the nomination of
new Conservative leader
Vic Stephens.

The party to beat is
Social Credit, he said,
and a Liberal victory will
be a “serious indication
of what the people of the
province think of a third

party.”

ist and last

‘Soviet Union and Cuba

.government’s.

for the life of the nation,”’
Gibson said, but the fed-
eral battle was the first
concern of the 6538
delegates to the three-day
meeting. .

f 87 — resolutions
debated in the con-
vention, more than 60 per
cent related solely to pro-
posed federal initiatives
n the fieids of inter-
affairs

military advisers in the
country.

Somalia in turn denies
that its army is fighting
in the Ogaden desert of
southeast Ethiopia al-
though it admits to ar-
ming and aiding the
rebels, who are Somali
tribesmen. The rebels
now are believed to
control 90 per cent of the
territory and need only
the cities of Diredawa
and Harar to drive the-
Ethiopian army from the
region. But some foreign
military experts believe
the recent Russian aid

Somalia, and Kismayu,
on the southern coast,
Western’ experts say the
Russians also had missile
storage silos at Berbera.
Somalia exchanged these
facilities for Russian
weapons and training for
the Somali armed forces.

ATTACK FEARED
Abdulgadir said the

rovincial
sportation and the
national economy.
Saturday’s con-
stituency workshops
focussed exclusively on
new federal election
regulations and their
impact in
lumbia.

have ‘“‘brazenly  in-
terfered’’ in the Ogaden
war. He repeated his
charge.
that ‘the «supplies... of
“(military assistance and

personnel” to Ethiopia . may enable the
erald an attack against Ethiopians to regain perts went over every
Somalia in the future, | contrel, aspect of the new rules,

hammering home the
need for early fund-

RE-ELECT |

Somalia says between
7,000 and 15,000 Cuban
troops are in Ethiopia,
but both Ethiopia and
Cuba deny this. Western
diplomats in Ethiopia's
capital, Addis Ababa, say
they believe there are
only 200 to 400 Cuban

anguage rights, tran-

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